Ryan (Chumba Casino Narrator)
Appearances
Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
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Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition
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Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition
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Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition
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Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
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Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's Ryan Seacrest here, looking for ways to feel your best in 2025. I want to share one of my biggest and best tips. When I want to feel my best, I make sure to check my gut health. That's so important. It's why I drink HealthAid Kombucha daily.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 170
It's powered with probiotics, which helps me feel less bloated and more refreshed, with so many delicious flavors like Pink Lady Apple, Passion Fruit Tangerine, and Ginger Lemon. It's such an easy way to support my health. Look for the brown bottle with an anchor on it. Find it now at Pavilions.
Behind the Bastards
Bonus: The Bastards of Oprah
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Bonus: The Bastards of Oprah
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CreepCast
Best of Creep Cast 2024
An old boy used to come play this game in my basement. Well, it doesn't mean that he doesn't live here anymore.
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Best of Creep Cast 2024
Yeah, sorry, I can't. Someone took my spleen is what you're going to say. And I'm like, what happened? Ah, yeah, I don't know. This guy was just following me, but it seemed normal.
CreepCast
Best of Creep Cast 2024
Also, like, she's just like, excuse me, I have to go take a shit. She's like, have a good return trip. Oh, yes, the children tunnels. Not me. The children tunnels?
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Best of Creep Cast 2024
Granted. Far place to be from your home there in Pennsylvania. We'll bring you down here.
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Best of Creep Cast 2024
And Clyde's just like, I don't know why you guys are being so weird to my sister. Stop being so weird to my sister. She's fine. She's like trying to eat her own face in the backseat of the car.
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Best of Creep Cast 2024
You're just like, how did you know that? Actually, how did you know that that was going to happen? Like the title says been drowned.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: The AI models invading our feeds
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How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Okay. Yeah, that's helpful.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah. It's a bit submissive.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Noted. Yeah. So I think, yeah, so, so that's the one thing. And then I've kind of explored with different ways of, um, going about it and I have some notes here that I was kind of, um, okay. Taking, I think there's kind of two. Okay. So I think there's two ways that I've been, I've been playing around with like direct and direct different types of stuff.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Um, and during the day I feel I always go direct and I feel very comfortable going direct and I think it works pretty well actually.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Um, Not that, you know, just girls are, like... Because maybe they're not, like, super on guard. But at night, you know, there's, like, a really attractive girl that's kind of getting hit on, like, all the time and stuff. My mindset is, like, go less... Go less direct. But either way, it's tough.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Because sometimes I go too direct, and I just, like, kind of, like, act super flirty and, like, try to put on this, like, kind of, like...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
i don't know not like douchey but like this persona that i perceive would be like kind of attractive but then you know like sometimes or sometimes you just say hi sometimes you just like try to flirt a little bit and you immediately get shot down because this girl with her friend she's been getting hit on all the time so she's just like you know her shield's super high up or um so that's kind of one option is you know go super direct um and
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Too Anxious to Approach? Use these 5 Steps to Boldly Meet and Date Wonderful Women (Live Coaching with Ryan)
You know, I also, like, have read the game. I know the idea in bars of, like, negging, which I don't, like, I think, you know, from the wrong angle, like, I don't try to do that. But I think, you know, with, like, an attractive girl, like, teasing her a bit or doing these things as opposed to just, you know, telling her that she's beautiful, like, every other guy is, like...
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Um, I'll try to do that kind of like, you know, either direct or teasing or telling her she's cute or some sort of, or I'll just be indirect and try to start a conversation. And I feel like either one of them fails at different points. Like, I think the direct one is failing because, um,
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her shields up and maybe it can work but i mean maybe if her shields up then it like has a lower it just doesn't work as often but then the indirect one it's like transitioning from that it feels like inauthentic because it's like oh i'm going from like this point of, oh, I want to meet friends and be cool with everyone to the bar.
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I have one indirect story, and then I can think of... Yeah, I have an indirect story, then an indirect story. So the indirect story...
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Okay, yeah. So an indirect example, and this is me not expressing interest right away, and there was a girl and her friend, so two set, I guess, in terms of game speed. Did you isolate the target? I was trying to. Sorry. Go ahead.
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Yeah, this was nighttime. This was at a bar. It was out. It was late at night. It was 1.30 in the night or something. It was a girl with her friends, and I made some joke about some silly outfit they were wearing, something that was very non... Uh, very indirect, like not, uh, I don't remember exactly, but it was something about it.
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It was, I think it was a common, like they, they looked the same and they were wearing like this kind of silly, um, outfit and baseball cap or something.
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So I, I joked around and they were joking back and we were talking about this and, you know, it's like this very well, like friendly conversation that like they're seem interested in having, like they're, you know, it's, oh, there's this, like, it's non-threatening, like there's, you know, we're having this friendly conversation. And then I,
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there's several thoughts that kind of are going through my mind at that point. I'm like, you know, I have the girl that I have my eyes on that I want to, you know, like get to know her better, get her number, take her home, you know, whatever, depending on like how things progress.
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But then I, you know, her friends and I'm like, this is, so I guess this, this, I know you're joking about isolate the target, but that is kind of, ultimately necessary.
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Yeah. So, um, what I tried to do is that, and I, I guess I was like, should I try to like, um, express my interest before I isolate or after, and what I ended up doing, and this wasn't like a good, I don't really know how I could have done better, but this wasn't a good thing to do. I don't think, cause I basically were talking and super friendly and,
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seems like you know interested in talking not sure what else you know might just be totally platonic but i said i saw a picture of like a guy on her screen and i was like thinking like and i mentioned i was like oh like is that your boyfriend she's like oh no but she's my girlfriend like you know pointing to the uh girl she was with and you know i'm like damn like maybe i said that too fast like out of the blue i was kind of trying to turn it more you know from platonic into like
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you know, like romantic, sexual, and it feels like it kind of just couldn't bridge the gap. Or isolator. I guess those were kind of the two things I wanted to do and kind of just... So what's your question?
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Yeah, how could I have... How could I have slowly start to turn the conversation around into more of expressing my interests into her in less of a zero to a hundred way where it goes, where it goes from, Oh, he's just being friendly to he's completely hitting on me. Like, how do I slowly to make, make it clear both to her and her friend that she's the one I'm interested in.
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And you know, the person I'm like, okay.
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It was me and these two women. And my friend was talking to some other people in the backgrounds.
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Okay.
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Lexi.
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Maybe that would have been less like threatening than just asking it, like not really showing any like signs of interest in any of them, just asking all of a sudden if, you know, she had a, that probably would have been a much better way to play it.
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Yeah. Like out of the blue, like kind of looking at that.
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Yeah. I have a follow-up, which is, let's say, because I could ask this either as a hypothetical of this situation or another real one situation, but it's happened in the past for me. I can think of one specific example where I'm talking to a girl, I am expressing interest, flirting with her, and she tells me she has a boyfriend, which is very...
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typical or you know the case we're talking about let's say you know this lexi girl i'm like oh sexy lexi and she just laughs and she's like i have a boyfriend is should i be ejecting immediately or do i like is there you know because again like it might be short like yeah yeah uh
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Yeah.
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That's just funny. Those are both really good.
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Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah, those are, those are great lines.
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You can say that.
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Okay. Yeah. I think that makes sense.
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I think the other thing that I'm worried about a little here is I think when I'm in a really good state, I think I naturally have pretty good social skills and awareness where I can kind of tell like if I'm, you know, actually annoying somebody by being too persistent.
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Or also, the other thing is if you're joking and laughing around about it and persisting in that type of way, then at least in my experience, people don't usually get, like, too upset. Like, if you, you know, joke and persist and joke and persist, then, you know, eventually you leave it.
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But, you know, if I'm in a bad mood and I'm kind of doing this and I'm persisting in this kind of, like, more logical, less, like, fun way, then I've had it happen where it's...
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where i've you know it's like kind of uh i guess like annoyed um girls there and this hasn't really happened like this is actually a massive anomaly for me um but there was a case um a few uh this is like a few months ago and this was this is really weird this is kind of Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Um, yeah, I think we went from, or we're working on, I should say, going from the previous belief from Ryan, like, the insecure, I guess we could say, to Ryan, the bold, who has swagger, is emotionally intelligent, and has a good sense of humor. And yeah, I've already felt like some, yeah, I've already been coming back to that and kind of reminding myself of that call.
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I think it does make sense. Yeah. Yeah. I need to completely change the way that I'm in like overhaul my night.
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It's, yeah, cool, cool mindset steps.
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Yeah. Yeah. It makes sense. It's a very like fundamentally different in terms of like, I don't know. Um, yeah. So it's a less negative view in terms of like, you know, throwing out negs or something or whatever, you know, like that's, um,
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Yeah, I definitely will focus on something that I can try to put into action. Yeah, could I, I have another question, which happened on New Year's, and this is also kind of similar to, I think this might fall into the category of what we were saying, but there was this girl that I, like, there's this one girl I approached, and She seemed pretty receptive. She smiled.
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She asked me what my name was. She introduced me. And then she did all that. And then she's like, oh, I'm walking over to get my friend. So it's kind of like, on the one hand, it's like an ejecting thing because it's like she needs to go. But it seems like she's smiling. At least not terribly disinterested.
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So maybe based on what you said, is it maybe I let her go, I'm super nice, and then I catch her later or something when it's more...
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Yeah, she was walking. She was walking. So like, I think she probably was trying to get back to her friends or something. Okay.
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No, I wasn't. I kind of was just like standing, um, Yeah. I usually try to avoid. Tell me exactly what happened.
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Okay. I'm at the bar with my three friends. She's walking around the bar, like to go to her friends, like by herself. She's walking around the bar. I stop her and I say, hi. And I made some joke again about like, like opens a pretty injured, like made some joke or something. She's like, Oh, like, you know, it was like smiling. She's like, And she's like, what's your name?
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And I told her what my name was. And I made some joke. I didn't really know. That comes up all the time, so I have to have something to say. But she asked me what my name was, and I made some stupid joke. I was like, oh, the government doesn't let me say that. Okay, I like that.
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Yeah. Something like that.
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she really stopped and was enough. Like, I think she was, had some degree of, you know, wanting to have a conversation at least in terms of even if it was a small one.
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Wow, that's super interesting. I would have never thought about that, actually.
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Creepy, yeah, is the thing. I feel like I want to give the... woman away out is like, this is always kind of on my mind. Like when I, even when I like approach women on the street and stuff, I'm like, if I'm approached, like I actually feel a little bit better if I approach a girl and there's like at least some other people around because there's at least some semblance of like safety there.
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There's like, um, this is at least like my own logic. I'm like, you know, if it's on a night, like on a side street by herself and, you know, she's going to be thinking like, what is, is there a safety concern? This is a different situation like in the bar, but, um, you know, I'm like, Oh, am I walking with her? She's like, Oh, how do I get rid of this guy?
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You know, like, how do I not drag him along?
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In which case, okay.
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Yeah, I think within the context of night game and going out at night, like talking to girls in bars and... Eventually, I don't go out to clubs too much, but same thing applies. Some techniques and logistical things and within that.
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Yeah. That's a, that's a good way of putting it. And then she says, no, it's basically the mind says, all right, have a good night. And then if I see her again, try, you know, see if I catch her in a better mood.
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Yeah. This, this whole thing is really like about, Oh, she's in a bad, like it's, it's a really different way of looking. Like I remember there's this, you know, cause my brain is like super binary. It's like, she either is in the, you know, we talked about this last time and this is obviously gonna, it's gonna, you know, I'm starting to work with it and it's, it's a process.
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It's like, you know, she's attracted to me. She wants to have sex with me or she doesn't, you know? And it's, Like, I remember this time in college where there was this girl that... you know, one, one night she had kind of seemed interested, like flirty.
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She asked me, like, she started asking me about like my dating history, just like, so seeming like super touchy, just like seem pretty interested. But then another night, like, you know, she was in a really bad mood and I was kind of like, Oh, Hey, how's it going? And I don't think it had anything to do with me. Um, and she was like really not wanting to talk.
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And I kind of was persisting a little bit and I felt, but then I, you know, I felt terrible and I apologized the next day and she was a little, you know, nothing. And then she's like, yeah, it's, you know, we were still friends after that.
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I didn't do anything like crazy, but I was persisting and not really picking up on the social queue because I had my own like story in my head of, Oh, you know, she, she's interested or, Oh, she's not interested. And, you know, I think that's probably not good.
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So I guess my first thing, and this is kind of a place to start, is my biggest, I think, one of the things that's kind of causing me to get a little bit in my head with approaching, and we touched on this a little last time, but I kind of want to, like,
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yeah or like looking for like waiting for oh is she you know oh i'm not getting high like that's also probably yeah um yeah uh okay yeah and i guess this is really where the state comes into because if you're pulling off really bold moves like you know even that like i'm gonna walk you back to your friends like you know then once you meet them you make jokes you introduce
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yourself like all those things like that's probably where warming up comes i mean you have to be in a pretty good state to or yeah i mean sometimes is this is this something that i can like put into play the next time i go out because i'm so anxious and so worried and like sometimes i'm not in the best state and you know i want to start opening often and seeing if i can get my state better but what happens if i just feel like oh man i just am not confident like i've been a bad state and i'm like well that's how you're gonna start the night
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go a little bit more into depth about this, is I had this idea in my head about, like, within, you know, the game or various, like, that type of stuff, like, IOIs, like, indicators of interest. And I think I'm maybe not, in Knight, getting as many of these as, like...
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Yeah, that's a very different way of looking at it than I've been doing in the past.
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want and I think I'm using that as a reason to like stop myself and I think that might be I mean it's it's a little like yeah it's it's frustrating because like I don't necessarily think that should be a good reason to let it stop myself but you know like all
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Yeah, it's a really interesting analogy. It's more, uh, gives you more permission to have fun too. It's more fun flying a plane at, uh, you know, 10,000 or 20,000 feet. Yeah.
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Um, you know, like, I kind of have this idea of, like, a woman will, like, see a guy from across the room and smile and, like, you know, like, look away and look towards. And I've seen this. Like, one of my friends that I... Even, like, for New Year's, one of my good friends is, you know, exceptionally attractive. When he goes out, it's, like, all the time.
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Yeah, that's a good idea.
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Yeah, I want to... Let's say you're talking to a girl and you see things are... Or, I mean, so we already talked back to that, like, two-set situation where I'm talking to those, well, official game lingo, those two girls. Like, if, you know, I'm talking, I start flirting with her and her friend, it's all going well. Determining, something that I have trouble with is determining, like,
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Like, these girls are making extremely, like, blatant, like, just, like...
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you know, like she's interested, like the girl's flirting with me, like, but her friends there, like, do I ask her a number? Do I try to take her home? Like, how can I figure that out? I have another, like more concrete situation if that helps, but I think this is pretty like, uh, you know, repeated type stuff that will happen.
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Yeah, if she's with friends, like basically figuring out, can I take like, you know, like her friends want to leave, her friends are going to another bar.
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Let's say it's like, usually when I have this thought, it's been like at least five minutes.
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invitation to approach like all the time so that was even approaching him you know so it's like i was giving him the advice to basically like look around and pick one of those attractive girls it's you know making like eye contact with you and seems like she really wants you to approach but for me i think in i think this probably applies to others um as well i'm assuming but i don't like i think if i limited myself to that then it wouldn't
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It's at least a number, right? Exactly. Yeah. Okay.
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Yeah, is it logistically possible to take her home that night?
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Middle of the night.
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No, she was in a group of four, let's say five or six, and two of them were split off, and I was talking to two of them.
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Yeah. Yeah, that totally makes sense.
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really get me anywhere and especially with like more attractive like women because i'll have like occasionally of course there's like you know rare exceptions but it's like the girls that'll i'll have occasionally girls that'll blatantly hit on me but those girls are typically people that i have like zero interest in or not attracted to um but the girls that i'm like oh she's super hot like you know i'm not going to be getting like eye contact or that type of stuff
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being like a positive, friendly, charismatic person. It makes sense.
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I think mainly just looking whether to approach. I guess it's just approach every... Yeah, this might be a more simple start to the conversation, but it's just like...
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that shouldn't like impact your decision to approach or not right like whether like you're looking and somebody like or maybe even they make eye contact with you and they look away but it's like not a sign of oh like it might just be like uh you know that'll happen like i'll look maybe and maybe i should stop looking and stop thinking about that in the first place or maybe i'll look i'll catch someone's eye and look kind of walk away and be like oh i can't approach them because they didn't like lock eyes with me and seem interested they seem disinterested i think i know what's going on here you ever seen terminator any of the terminator movies
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Yeah, I have.
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Yeah, that's exactly, that's basically exactly. And I'll even hear like the reason that I've kind of enforced some of these. I remember when I was out with these, two girls, uh, like friends of like distant, like not people I'm really friends with.
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Um, and I wasn't really like, uh, particularly interested in them, but I remember hearing them talking to each other about like, Oh, like there's this guy that's really cute. And they were both talking to them. They're like, make, make eye contact with them. That was kind of their advice. Like, you know, try to look, you know, so I'm like, Oh my gosh.
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Like, you know, the story I'm saying is like, this is basically what we want. Is there, if they want you, they're going to make eye contact with you. And if, um,
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they don't and they're not and there's no point approaching otherwise basically like they'll already have their mind made up like so you know that that's kind of like the sometimes the mindset i'll go in with the terminator yeah i mean that's uh that's a good analogy honestly yeah i'm a big movie nerd so i the world i see the world through the lens of beatle songs or 80s 90s action movies
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feels um yeah the current mindset is pretty exhausting um so uh yeah i have another question do you want to talk about because because you mentioned the two minutes like giving something more yeah do you how do you want to um go about that yeah i want to give you
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And I think recently, like I'm kind of starting to notice a slight change in terms of things. But this is also like something that I have a lot of work to do. And, you know, and in terms of like approaching women, whether it's like kind of in the context of, you know, just everyday life or like going out, you know, these are things that kind of come to my mind and kind of can affect my vibe.
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Yeah, one of the things that I kind of do to try to break this belief, and this just further reinforces my point, is I'll see a guy that's kind of goofy-looking, and I'll be like, oh, this is kind of proof that... looks don't entirely, um, matter, but then I'll just like realize like, Oh, actually women find them incredibly attractive. Like if he had a Tinder profile, he'd do really well.
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Um, so even though like, even in those cases where you're like, Oh, like, you know, this person's like unconventionally like, or weird looking, it's still kind of further proves that, Oh yeah, it looks kind of matter a ton, you know, like, um, And, you know, just subtle body cues.
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Like if somebody is kind of like engaged with you and talking and smiling and like, you know, playing with their hair versus kind of looking around or on their phone and they're just like, oh, like this weird dude just came up to me. He's like kind of beneath me and stuff.
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Yeah, I've definitely experienced that with some like more attractive women or like, you know, there are times where like I'd kind of be like, oh, maybe I'm treated in a bit of a different way than this gorgeous person.
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Yeah, so, like... I remember like in high school, like with my like really good looking friends, um, there'd be girls where like, you know, we'd both be Snapchatting them and she would disappear, like, or just not respond. And she'd be sending him like nudes out of the blue and stuff.
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And I'm like, all right, like there's a massive, uh, you know, like, you know, not saying a word to her or just like, there's a massive kind of difference. Like he's just getting these opportunities by existing basically without any sense of games.
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Yeah. I'm going to that. I'm also like sometimes like in the bar or the club, like I had a moment, um, I've had a few like kind of like blowouts or rejections like, um, and you know, uh, sometimes I'm like, this is entirely a look space. Like, you know, recently I was out at the bar and there's this girl and she didn't want to dance with me and my friends ended up dancing and making out with her.
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So I'm like, you know, uh, she probably like more is physically attracted to him. Um, okay.
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And yeah, I would also say like, the other thing that I'll see that really reinforces this is there's like, this is kind of depressing. So it's hard for me to like fully buy into this. But yeah, the other thing that I see is I'll go on, like, these... Like, I'll look at this dating stuff sometimes. Like, these shows, there's, like, you know, these things online.
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There's, like, a show called Updating or these, like, various things. And, like, so much of the time, like... I feel like especially with these young, like really attractive women, it basically comes at least in these more like bar like type of situations.
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But also, you know, in everyday life, it just comes down to looks like you'll see these people kind of set up on a blind date and then the blindfolds will come off and, you know, they'll want the really good looking guys, like kind of regardless of how their personalities combine or, you know, media and stuff like a lot of it will come down to the decision for.
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Yeah, that's that's the answer I would support.
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I think it's rare that firsthand I've seen somebody that has a ton of struggle in online dating in terms of situations where you would show a picture of them and girls would say, oh yeah.
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I think various – so yeah, there's the bar situations. There's – yeah, various times where kind of I've been rejected and I've seen the girl like go and like make out with another dude or dance with him.
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Yeah, it's a pretty – I mean like there's other stories like that, but that's kind of a –
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Not a ton. How many have said it? Very, um, in a day situation, honestly, I don't know if anyone said it. I have gotten blowouts where like, like even like a few days ago, this girl kind of gave me like a disgusted, like type of look. Um, but she didn't say anything. Um, I think at, at night I've had, um, how many women have said, um, I'm not interested.
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I would say maybe like, and that includes if a girl's like, oh yeah, like I'm not attracted to like short guys or stuff, or I'm not attracted to like bald. Like if a girl says something like that, like that, we're counting that as evidence.
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Yeah, I'd say like probably a dozen times. Not like to me, like to me personally though, like, I mean, cause again.
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Maybe 10. A dozen times.
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Like to my face.
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I think, yeah, man, my case maybe is solid in terms of this. But I think just like, okay, there was, yeah, there was a time where a girl basically said like, yeah, you're, She was like, oh, you're really sweet. You're a bit too short for me.
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very i would not say i would modify my original estimate i mean i want to say more um and i feel like a lot of it is more um sub or it's like how many women have said it to you you have to pick a number if you would i can't remember any like right now i can't remember any actually oh so zero women have said you're not good looking enough with those words with those words i would say zero actually oh okay
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Yeah, I kind of can't. I mean, verbatim, it's pretty difficult to remember those exact words, yeah.
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I don't really think there, nothing comes to mind. I'm sure there are times because I've done approaching and I, you know, again, where it's like a vibe thing, but in terms of explicit, like saying that, like I, yeah, I don't, yeah, I think so.
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Yeah. Let's say I'm like in the grocery store and I see a super, uh, attractive woman, like, uh, you know, a nine or something that's, uh, you know, wearing like, like athletic and, you know, beautiful and everything. I think, oh man, like this girl is so hot, but she, she gets hit on all the time. She's, um, you know, way out of my league. I'm kind of like
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yeah basically um i mean lowest moments um i think like kind of worst case of everything situation is like i'm out at night like i'm a little drunk which you know and i'm already like a pretty anxious wreck and not feeling good about myself i'm like damn like i just got like a ton of blowouts like these girls are you know making out and dancing with other guys she kind of gives me that disgusted vibe when i'm like talking to her and stuff there's just like no way that this is gonna
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work out and maybe it's not explicit like this is probably it's it's tough if i'm presenting this to the jury like maybe it's not explicit but my evidence is she rejected me and then she came on to somebody else uh in a very like you know we're moving away from the evidence part now we're talking about how this belief makes you feel about yourself or how you feel about yourself in these in the context of approaching and seeing other guys succeed and you fail i'll use myself as an
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Yeah, it's, it's similar. I mean, like also, you know, comparison with others, like, oh, like I'm just, you know, not attractive enough. I'm not, I don't measure up to some of these other good looking guys that just, you know, objectively are like just more, um, attractive than I am. Um, like I feel like shit, you know, there's no point in approaching these girls that are out of my league.
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There's, yeah, it'd be kind of like that.
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I feel less attractive. Yeah.
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I feel like shit. I feel very low confidence. Terrible.
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Yeah, I know I'm giving off kind of a negative view as well.
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Um, there's, there's a little, there's not too much point in approaching her cause she's, yeah, she's like so far out of my league and, um, it probably just, um, won't go anywhere basically.
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Okay. Okay.
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Other guys are much better looking than me.
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Why even bother approaching? It won't work.
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I get lesser girls into me, but I can't get hot girls.
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I saw my friend make out with a girl who rejected me, and it sucked.
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It's not fair.
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I feel like shit sometimes.
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Really low.
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Maybe I'm just a bald, average-looking guy that's going to have to settle for a job.
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Connell means well, but nothing's going to, nothing's going to help. I'm stuck.
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I'm just not good looking enough. That's the reality.
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Like a 2.
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I think really like the main thing is just appearance. Like I feel in terms of like the rest of my life and I'm at the point where I've, you know, over the course of years of getting to where I want to be, I feel pretty good about my career, my life experiences, you know, which would travel and, you friends and social skills and stuff in terms of getting to a place where I want to be with that.
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Yeah. And I have this feeling like quite a bit. I feel like embarrassed even like I'll have this feeling and even I was kind of trying to talk in this way, but sometimes I'll have these convert, like I'll kind of like have these things and I'll like almost feel like embarrassed to go out or I'll be like, you know, I talk in this like quiet voice and like shift, shifty eye contact kind of that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, yes. I still sometimes kind of force myself to do it, but it kind of further reinforces like, or sometimes if I do that, I mean, usually it doesn't go well. Okay. Or I just won't do it. You know, one of the two.
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I would argue I couldn't have succeeded with them, but yeah.
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Yeah, of course, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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In terms of going up or in terms of actually talking?
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No, definitely. I mean, if I'm already insecure about my looks and I'm telling myself that I'm shitty, it definitely makes everything worse, like 100%.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it affects my vibe.
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It does. Yeah.
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Probably not. Maybe, uh, people that are, you know, like hitting on me, but even then, I mean, they probably will lose interest. So probably nobody, you know, here's the question.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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And even just like talking to random people, like whether it's in a romantic or just friendly context. So it's, it's, it's more just like, Oh, like, you know, this girl is a lot more physically attractive than I am. Like that's the main thing.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Maybe like a five or something. Um, or maybe it ranges maybe from like a four to a seven or something. Um, yeah. So maybe like a four on those days, I think realistically, like if I look at it logically, um, it's probably higher than that, but on my worst days, it's a four, maybe even like a three, to be honest.
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Um, where I'm like, Oh, I'm just like, you know, I don't like the way I look in the mirror and stuff. And,
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Thank you.
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Hey, how's it going? Yeah, excited for the weekend. And yeah, I'm going back home. So it'll be good to like see friends and everything. How are you doing?
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Okay, yeah, I would say, yeah, I would say there are these evidence, you know, I've seen examples on YouTube where there's these, like, another example is, like, Travis Barker, like, he has, like, head tattoo and stuff, like, kind of a, like, strange, like, looking guy, and I'll see, like, these comments for him and for Selena Gomez, like, oh, I didn't see what, um,
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I think it's – and this is something that's kind of changed throughout my life. Like, I've been insecure about multiple things. I think it's kind of a combination. At this point, it's probably more my hair than just my face. Like, I don't think I'm – At least, you know, I don't think I'm hideous looking, at least not, like, typically.
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like these YouTube comments or woman will say like, Oh, I didn't really see at first, like what was special about him. But after watching this video of him talk, like I really like see it now. I see what she sees in him.
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Do you think just like their personality or getting after a video to, you know, get to know them. They'll see like, um, they'll see like, Oh, like I actually do. Um, Yeah, they're saying, like, basically, I'm not, like, attracted to him at first, but after listening to a video of him, like, I basically see why, like, I get it, basically.
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He has kind of a weird maybe five at best or something. I don't know.
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Yeah, I would say so. And even in a lot of these, Jay-Z and Beyonce is another one. I mean, that's, like, I've actually even heard for Beyonce, like, I, again, like, you know, I've done my research and tried to find counter arguments.
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And I've even seen things where Beyonce said, like, in an interview, like, oh, I was, like, basically, like, her friends and everyone was saying, like, at first, like, oh, she wasn't into him. Like, she just saw him. She's like, yeah, I'm not into him and stuff. And obviously, like, it ended up.
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There's holes there for sure.
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That these guys, maybe if you just saw a picture of them facially with no other context, these women would not be attracted to them.
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Yeah, I would, yeah, definitely. I mean, this is counter evidence.
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Although I do when I get into those kind of dark moments, then I'm like, oh, like, I look kind of grotesque. But, yeah, just, like, having a normal, like, you know, nice guy type of face, but not, like, this swagger, like Brad Pitt or, like... You know, type of I'm like, oh, like my face is kind of weird looking and stuff.
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chicago and we went out and oh i kissed her and um that was yeah then she disappeared after but um okay uh she was like i remember showing up on the date and she was like uh dressed up and i was like holy shit like this girl is really attractive on your one to ten scale what number was she like a nine all right so you kissed a nine Yeah, I mean.
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Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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Somewhat. Okay. I don't know how much somewhat at least.
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Yeah, okay. For this, yeah, yeah, she was. Thank you.
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Um, yeah, I was in, uh, I was out of the country and, uh, Latin America recently. And there was this girl that I approached on the street, um, that was, yeah, really nice body, like very attractive. Um, and she showed up in like a pretty form fitting, like dress to like the date. And I was like, Holy crap. Like this girl was pretty, pretty hot.
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Yeah.
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There wasn't, no. It was, you know, I was kind of getting used to, I hadn't gone on a ton of dates before. Yeah.
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Yeah, and I would say she was at least somewhat interested.
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Um, no, I mean, unless you're like holding, I mean, you could say like, it's all luck or whatever, but I mean, I, I don't necessarily think it's all luck if it's happened.
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Yeah. Yep.
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Yeah, they're a figment of my met. No, I think the belief that I'm not attractive, I have success with any attractive woman is not true.
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It's more of that because, you know, there's some ball like there's some short ball guys with these gorgeous faces. And I'm like, oh, yeah, they're they're killing it. So that's kind of where my mindset's at right now, at least.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, it's definitely not. Yeah, it's not true.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I get numbers. I mean, again, like a lot of the time, like might not go anywhere. But if I'm thinking like evidence, like... Great. Maybe... Yeah. Like there was this time in college and again, like doesn't, but yeah, there's, I guess that would kind of be a counter evidence. Yeah. That would, that would also be counter evidence. Like there is, should I say? Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah. I mean, there was a time in college, like there was,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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um yeah there was a girl on another sports team that was you know popular and like it kind of hooked up with a lot of the like pretty attractive like guys on my team and stuff and it kind of ignored me up until um and there was one night where she was kind of like flirting out of the blue and was like yeah saying super forward and like flirty stuff like like
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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That I just can't take... It's depressing I can't take any wins. I mean, even at the point where I'm starting to, like recently, like starting to have success or the various like rare, I mean, times that I've had it that I just can't let it... That I can't focus on those times and I'm focusing instead on the... That's cool.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yep.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I'm not 100% certain.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, especially with the girls. If I'm not getting... Maybe a girl, there's a possibility, but she's not like, if a girl's like, you know, smiling and like right off the bat, I'm like, all right, then, you know, but if a girl is maybe in more of that gray area where maybe at first she doesn't do it, then I have to kind of work for it a bit.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Like maybe in those situations, there, there is a bit of possibility that maybe if I had worked for it and had self-esteem, maybe she didn't like notice me and she's like, Oh, this is like super attractive guy came up, but I could have potentially won her over. Yeah. If I had been confident.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, it's fair to say. Definitely would be taking shots with some really hot women if I was able to feel better about that.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I would say so.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I would say some of them. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I think – Stay in character.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I'm playing the role of the – Well, no big deal.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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It's possible, yes.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, yep.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, there's more nuance, I would say.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, you probably have. I mean, You probably have a lot going for you in other areas.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Probably, uh, I think charisma. I mean, even like from the conversation, you seem like you're a good conversationalist and you live well as well. Like you, that's something that, yeah. Like, That's something as well that I'm learning. If you can kind of lead and do all those things. And even in the structure, you're kind of leading the conversation.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I would agree with that based on this conversation.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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No, it's not.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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You'd say we're more physically attractive?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I think if there was a, especially if there's a group of people that don't have an agenda, that like we're kind of viewing the situation neutrally. Yeah, yes. Because obviously, you know, a lot of people are stuck, including me are, you know, stuck in your beliefs.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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But if there was a neutral jury that like didn't have anything going into the court case, then yeah, some of them would be, it definitely wouldn't be a unanimous decision. There'd be some doubt. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, it wouldn't be unanimous at all, 100%.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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No, I want to give myself all the chances I can.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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It's happened. It has happened, but it's definitely more rare than I would.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Permission to butter myself up?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I would say I'm a catch for a lot of women out there because I Um, I'm a good conversationalist. I'm emotionally intelligent. I have a good sense of humor and I have instincts around flirting, even if it's not polished. Um, I have my life together and I, you know, have a good job. I travel a lot. I'm athletic. Um, I, you pretty fit. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I have a six pack. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah. I don't, you know, like you said, I've learned this. I don't think muscles are the end all like there's, there's more to that. But yeah, I would say that's, yeah, that's not even the main thing for me. I, I, I, yeah, I think I,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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um dress well um i have friends and i'm like pretty good at like forming connections with people quickly like i've never had an issue making friends really quickly in new locations and it's different but at the same time like a lot of the social ability um can kind of carry over especially when you kind of combine it with a good sense of humor and uh nice so i think there's some uh
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, I would say all that stuff.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I'm adventurous.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I think naturally, and again, this part of me is suppressed when I get into that other state, but I think I'm naturally pretty ballsy and bold when I'm able to get into that state more.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I would say number one is like ballsy and bold.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Uh, I would say ballsy. Yeah, it's probably the first one I would say. Um, like good social instinct and ability to connect with people is probably number two. Um, great. And I think, um, Emotionally intelligent is probably number three.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Nice.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, I definitely think it wouldn't hurt.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
100%.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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If I asked a rational person who wasn't. If you kind of serve a similar purpose.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah, it's a reasonable assumption.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Um, I like, yeah, I would say probably like, like, uh, right. Like Ryan swagger. And then, uh, my last name or, uh, Ryan, the bold, let's go Ryan, the bold.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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A lot of really attractive women love ballsy and bold men.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Lots of tens love ballsy, bold men.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
The Latin American girl I approached loved my ballsy side.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I can't say this one without laughing, man.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Selena Gomez, she'd leave her man if she saw me. Not if she saw me, she'd leave her man if she got to know me.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I am a rugged outdoor adventurer. I'm a rugged outdoor adventurer.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Lots of women love guys like me.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I don't want to say it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Say it. I have a six pack, unlike Connell.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Did I mention I have a six-pack?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I'm not good-looking enough to approach women.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I'm not a model, so I have to marry some woman I'm not attracted to.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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No girls like me, except that one girl.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
And the girl in Latin America.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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And all the phone numbers I got.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I'm deeply intelligent and refined. I have a good sense of humor.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Oh, ladies, I got a six-pack. Do you want a drink?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I'm ballsy, I'm adventurous, and I'm so good at emotionally connecting.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah. Not bad, eh?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, it feels much better. Hell yeah. Underneath all this, I would love to believe that.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, no problem.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, I feel like I watch – I don't know if you watch like Conor McGregor with the strut, like kind of the – I love it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I think if I had to summarize it, it would basically be, yeah, I'm not good looking enough. Like my face isn't like, you know, good looking enough. And my, you know, height and hair probably don't help either. But, you know, date these super hot women that are out of my league physically. I think that's probably all I had to summarize it.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Thank you. Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, definitely. I think I'm like, at least, uh, on a good day, like in this depends for sure. Cause there are days where socially I don't feel as confident. And then on those days it's like, you know, I'm going to make a fool out of myself. I'm going to be weird. I'm going to be creepy. Like that can a hundred percent play a role. Um, I think generally speaking and like maybe, uh,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah, I think... I've traditionally throughout my life struggled with anxiety and self-esteem. And getting older, this has a massive part in terms of day-to-day success I've realized in terms of anecdotal experience. And I think self-image things. I'm relatively short and bald. And I'm also younger. I'm like 24. And these things for a long time were kind of things I was pretty insecure about.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
neutral or positive um day like i think i'm pretty well socially calibrated to situations um but but you know that can come up as well if it's like oh i'm feeling crappy today i'm probably going to give out this weird creepy like type of vibe um yeah okay so i'm going to write this sentence down tell me if this is pretty close to what you feel i am just not good looking enough to approach and attract quality women they want better looking guys than me that's basically it right
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yep, yeah, 100%.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Oh, yeah, 100%. Me too.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah. Women want guys that are super physically attractive. just like attractive. Um, and yeah, and unfortunately like I'm a pretty, uh, maybe because of like my career, just, um, the way I soft, you're a software guy, right? Yeah. Yep. I'm a pretty logical person.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
And so I do kind of see it a little bit in the gray area because I'll again, like I think confirmation bias can kind of play a role here. But, you know, on like a bad day, like it's like I'll see this evidence and I'll like kind of, you know, like convince myself that like logically that I'm kind of some of the things are right. Right.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
I don't entirely fall into like, I would say more than not, like those are my beliefs. There are times where I'll see things and I'm like, all right, like maybe this is a little bit of something that, you know, is eye opening or maybe doesn't entirely fit into my worldview.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
But yeah, like typically speaking, I'll, you know, use all this logic and kind of the things that I apply to my job to kind of like, you know, reinforce this belief.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Man. Okay. Um, yeah, I'm a little, uh, hopefully this doesn't get too dark and, uh, depressing. Um, Yeah, it sounds like you're telling me don't hold back with my viewer. Okay, yeah, I think basically what I would say is... Yeah, I think more often than not...
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
people in the world are relatively looks matched or on certain platforms, like online dating, like the women are, you know, typically more attractive. You know, how you look can play a massive kind of role in the way you're treated. Like I had this, my best friend in high school was,
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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tall really good looking um and would just get hit on like all the time like um not like good looking and like kind of the brad pitt way but kind of like more of the tall like shy guy um type of way and you know throughout my life i've kind of just like seen the different ways that you're um, treated.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
And when I'm out at night, like there are times where like these girls will like come on to me and they're girls that I'm just like not interested in at all.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
From ‘I’m Too Short’ to ‘I Feel Amazing!’ How to Transform Your Dating Confidence NOW (Live Coaching with Ryan)
Yeah. I mean, I've like throughout my life I've had interest. Um, and yeah, it's pretty rare that the types of girls that express interest are the types of girls that I'm interested in. It's, it's happened a few times throughout my life. Like is anomalies like, Oh wow, like she's actually pretty cute. But let me jump in.
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So it's – they will say, you know, this is how it is. This is what it was. There's no challenging it. And then two days later, nope, now it's this. It's this. And it's – if you live your life like – or you approach history or even live your life like that with this is how it's going to be now and forever every single day, like you're closing your mind off to it and it's –
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I mean, it's just, it's sad. And going back to this, you can go back throughout history and how many things were, all right, this is the best practice. This is what we know that it was. And it can be completely different. You can go all the way back until the earth was the center of the universe and go to the fifties.
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When a woman's, you know, a couple of months pregnant, the doctor's like, I would switch to Marlboro lights. we thought smoking was okay for a woman that was pregnant. Now we know that that's different. So you just, in my opinion, at least you just got to be open. You've got to be open to things.
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And look, there are some things the first time you hear it, you're like, yeah, that's like a 0.99999% chance being true. Still going to listen. Still going to hear you out because you know what?
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Uh, that one, I still don't know how I, I'm so excited to get to that episode. Let's not go there yet.
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And, and Ben being the humble and kind person that he is, he's like, yeah, I kind of want to see some bases. I'm tired of seeing them behind locked behind glass and things like that. I want to see him in person. And, and Matt seems like a really cool guy and yeah, sure. I'll go on a. And record an episode for a channel that technically did not exist. Right.
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But, and that's the thing where I'm going to jump in because you've seen it so many times. well, that's not my field. And then something that is clearly not their field, they sure as hell have a comment, an opinion on. So you're not comfortable speaking outside of your field here, but your comfortable case in point, the vase is over here. It's a challenge. It's a challenge.
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The Carolina Bays are, and just to be clear for those that are listening that haven't seen the episode, go check it out because we're not talking about bays as in one or two that happen to be in North Carolina. Right. We're talking about hundreds, even thousands of geographical... I mean, they're just...
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So for him to come down here and, you know, I say this, not half-ass it. I mean, he really came down and put his intensity into the episode. And it was so much fun getting to meet him and getting to experience in person for the first time, you know, that wealth of knowledge that he has. There's no other, I mean, we started off the podcast together. with one of the biggest guests in the community.
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Right now it looks like a hole filled with water, but they're all up and down the eastern seaboard. So this wasn't some one-time thing or there's one or two laying around. It's up and down the entire seaboard.
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And I know there's LIDAR out there that you can go look at it. And when you start to look at that, you just can't dismiss it. It's something...
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major happened when it's i still think up for debate and that's healthy but you cannot deny that something i'm not going to say disastrous something major happened that caused all of those to occur on the eastern seaboard and some in the midwest kind of on that on that opposite side there talk to people about billy carson behind the scenes what are your thoughts on billy
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Um, I've shared this with you before in private, but, and, and I'm a transparent person. So, you know, I'll, I'll share it out there. I, when I first heard we had, uh, reserved Billy car, excuse me, booked Billy Carson as a guest on the show. Um, I did some research and, and he is a very successful businessman. Um, very, you know, um, proper, um, sharp on his podcasts.
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And I transparently made an assumption. I thought he was going to be this individual that, you know, since I'm not the headliner, I'm, I'm the help behind the scenes that I would immediately be diminished, uh, dismissed. And as soon as he walked in the building, he took his sunglasses off and he introduced himself, asked for my name.
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And as I'm sharing who I am and kind of what we're going to do today, he is nothing else exists in the world except for me. And in that moment, I felt like an asshole. I did because I was like, great, this is the guy coming in. We're going to have to treat him like royalty and yada, yada, yada. And I built up this whole scenario in my head, unfair to Billy.
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And he walked in and, man, he just popped that bubble and was like, Ryan, nice to meet you. How long have you been doing this? He wasn't even concerned about getting to you, yet getting to the vases. He just wanted to talk to me and have a conversation with me. And then he got to meet Joe, who kind of helped organize the flights and everything, talk to her for five minutes.
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And then when we got back into discussing the vases and things like that, the limited knowledge that I had at that point, I've got much more now, but I was contributing to the conversation and he was engaging with me and giving me his thoughts. So you see this, you see Billy on our episode, you see Billy all over YouTube and things like that.
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um outside of that he is just one of the nice again one of the nicest and and and most genuine people i've met and i could not have been more wrong and i'm proud to say that just a hell of a guy a really really nice guy should teach you something about assumptions more than anything I, I, you know, I learned hard that day. I learned hard that day.
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I, and I think I told you right afterwards, I was like, man, I got to talk to you real quick. Cause you asked me how it went. And I was very transparent with it of like, Hey, this is, this is what I thought. And this is how I walked into it. And good for you. Boy, was I wrong. And I don't do that anymore.
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I'm I, you know, I'll research our guests and kind of understand what their shtick is, but I don't, I don't read anything else outside of kind of their content. And now I walk into it open.
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And I think I can speak for you and I will forever be grateful for Ben for that. Not just all the vase talk and everything, but really taking a chance on limitless. Um, we'll always be grateful for that.
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That's why I made the distinction of my interaction before we recorded and then afterwards.
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To be honest with you, from my limited experience with him, I have no doubt in my mind that he's lost zero sleep of it.
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It's already behind him. Yeah. He's looking forward. He's looking that way. And he's going to continue to move. And what people need to understand is that we're talking about Billy Carson like he's a monolith. her name eludes me, but his wife, Elizabeth, Elizabeth is another superstar. So Billy isn't on his own.
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They are a team power couple. And yeah, he's, he's not going anywhere at all. I'm not going anywhere at all. No, not at all.
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So I think I, I'm not sure the exact steps, but I, I think you had sent me an email and we're like, Hey, we should, what do you think about reaching out to this guy? And, and I'd read some grand, you know, grandmaster, nice Templar stuff about him. And, and I mean, he was number 13, you know, so we found his email and we're like, this shit, let's send an email, see what he does.
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Responded back maybe a day or two later. He's like, yeah, I'd love to. And then, you know, logistically started working it all out. And we, we, we knew about him, but boy, we didn't know about him. Yeah. And to kind of pick up where you left off, it started at dinner.
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Yeah, we're outside too. Yeah, yeah. Around other people. So they got a show about some of the stuff that we were talking about. And it was, I just remember sitting at that dinner, and I'm a talker, you know this. I just remember sitting there the entire time like, And he, he just, he kept going on and on and on while he was eating his ginormous ass fish. But, uh, on the drive home.
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So we get done with dinner. We're like, all right, we're gonna meet up the next morning. We're gonna do the recording. I remember you texting me and you were, it was, that shit was fire. Tomorrow's going to be great. And I was like, I don't, I don't, I don't have any words.
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So that episode was, so going back to that one is that our studio setup is my production desk. I used to be in the room with you and the guest. I no longer am. I'm in an office next door. And there was a point and it was,
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dead quiet in the room and he's talking about the the bones of jesus mary magdalene john the baptist and their kids and that you know they went and found them and they moved him to a vault location and and there's two in the united states and when i'm on native american land and just dropping all of this knowledge and you're like have you seen him and he's like i have i have and you very deadpan went i'll trade you a couple of vases for the bones
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I lost my shit in the corner. Yeah, you did. And I'd been like, we had, we were 12 episodes deep at that point. I, I had never talked on the podcast obvious. Well, except for our episode, but it never really talked, made a noise in the corner. That was the first time where I couldn't, I was going to have myself. It was the fun, like this very serious, intense, like world changing news. Yeah.
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And Matt's like, how can I? I'll trade you a couple of vases. Right, right. And then episode 14, Jesus boats.
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I stopped trying to hide it, authentic self. But you talk about if you come down and record an episode with us, we'll show you the vases. Imagine who we get with Jesus' bones.
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I think is, uh, yeah, I won't comment much more on those. Cause they'll, in my opinion, um, they'll, they'll find a way to find you.
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Well, he gets, and it already has been big a thousand percent agree. And, and he, what makes him so unique is look, we've, we've met people that just talk to talk. They just love to hear themselves talk where Randall's could not be anything farther from that.
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Like if you show even the remotest remote interest in learning, he is going to stop everything that he is doing to educate and discuss with you. And you, you mentioned earlier, you know, we were getting ready to release this episode and I needed to verify some information. So I set up a quick call. I had a calendar invite out there, 15 minutes. Yeah.
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And I was on the phone with him for two hours because he was, you know, and we got to what I needed in the first 10 minutes. And then he's like, were you familiar with this? And I'm a curious person. Between the two of you, I'm surprised it didn't go longer. So, but I was like, I was like, no, I'm not familiar with this. He's like, well, hold on, hold on.
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And he's pulling books down and he's opening up different files. His wife's bringing him tea. And like, he's pushing back appointments that he had just to talk with me. I ran into him at Cosmic Summit and it's the same thing.
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Him, his wife, their son, they genuinely love people and they genuinely love interacting with people that like to talk about the things that they know about and that they're familiar with or willing to learn and be open to it. And I tell you, you get the opportunity to hear Randall speak, whether it's on a podcast or in person. I mean, it's a great time. And you walk away... learning something.
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And I still love the moon, for example. Hold on, let me pull up some images. And he already has an entire PowerPoint filled with images. And that's the thing about Randall is obviously, yes, he can recall a lot of this from memory. And he does. But he also is like, you don't believe me? Look. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you the documentation.
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I'm going to show you the research that we're not pulling these things out of our ass. This is what happened. And again, he likes to teach and he likes to educate people. And if you're curious and open to listen, he's willing to spend the time with you.
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But if I could share something from behind the scenes, I vividly remember that conversation of Ben asking, are you comfortable if I, I share that? And, and you were like, no, not, not at this time, not at this time. And, and, and me being an outside observer, I'm like, Okay. Vases. I don't know what that means. Cause I hadn't had the opportunity to even see one yet.
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Well, I think that's what the stark difference is between kind of when I say that the alternative history community and the mainstream community is that you're very transparent as, hey, I don't think it's that. But I listened. I was open to what he talked about.
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And I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong because that's just another advancement forward where I think a lot in the mainstream community would be like, wrong, moving on, where you're open to it.
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Um, so it's so funny going from that conversation of, I don't want to be known or associated with them. Cause I don't know what the pathway is that I'm going to select to now.
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Oh, me too. And the first time you see the guy, you're like, the construction site's over there, dude. Come on now.
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This is an assumption and judgment again. It is. It is. I know. I'm getting better about it. But he's even said it himself, you know, but he's one of those people that, again, you underestimate because... He doesn't have this steeped academic background being in a classroom. He's self-educated.
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And what Dan does better than anyone on the planet, in my opinion, is that he just doesn't disagree or say that, no, you've gotten that wrong. He does his research and he finds the papers and he just doesn't take someone's word for it. He checks their sources and really pulls that thread together. To go down that rabbit hole and find the true answer.
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The other thing about Dan too is when he gets it wrong, he'll be the first to tell you that he got it wrong.
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Yeah. And it was going back to Dan. It was just so much fun to see him just the breakneck speed in which he rose in popularity and he changed nothing. He was just himself doing his research and, and he goes, uh, I'm excited for the fact that one, he's an amazing human being. We got to hang out with him and everything. And then to see him sit here.
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And then a couple of months later, he's on the biggest podcast in the world. And if you listen to ours and you listen to Joe's Dan is the same person, same exact person. Cause that's just, that's who he is.
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He, um, and, and well, so you always have those, I'll just share a personal story. So, you know, 14 plus years ago, my mother passed away unexpectedly. And I, I still remember about 30 minutes before I got the phone call that I walked outside and I was like, there is something different here. about the sky color, the wind, the temperature.
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Like I, in my, in the core of my being, I knew something was different. Couldn't tell what it was, but something was different. And then about 20 minutes later, you know, I get a call from my sister and, you know, our mother had passed away unexpectedly at 42 years old. And it's always been a core memory for me.
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And it wasn't until Stefan's episode, he talked about Schumann resonances and, you know, for years, Those that haven't seen that episode, I highly suggest you go watch it and come back to this immediate point. But that helped on a personal level, explain that event so much for me. And it kind of put me at ease of that was something occurred in, in the world.
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And my, you know, temporal lobes, my, my brain had the ability to pick up on it. And then there's something else he said, and we weren't recording. We were in my office at the time and, and, I kind of made the complaint about I was born too late to explore the world and I'm born too early to explore the stars. So, you know, boohoo me.
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And without skipping a beat, Stefan's like, well, maybe it's time you explore yourself. And that's one of those statements. You're like, shit, he's right. I need to shut up. But that, so those two things out of Stefan's episode are,
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And it's harder, it's more stressful, and it's more challenging to... And I say hide just because I can't think of another word, but to hide those things where you're just like... You've been very transparent from the start just about the vases. This is why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because they need to be studied. They need to be examined. We need to get the information to more people.
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I've taken away a lot of things from a lot of different episodes, but just on a personal level, those were the two biggest things that I took away from Stefan and, and everything you said about him being a genuine person, nice guy, trying to make the world a better place and educate people is a hundred percent right.
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You know, and what he knows, but. he knows a lot and not just surface level. We're talking about details and he's able to connect kind of all of these religions, you know, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and, and kind of explain not in a judgment way or saying you're a bad person for believing this, but just kind of explaining some of the orange oranges origins of those religions.
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And I think it's, I think it's really cool. He did an amazing job. Apples.
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And I mean, in terms of energy level, like he, he gets, so I, I'm, I'm so glad we got to this point. Cause I've got a question for you. I know that you read Chris Dunn's book when you were younger. You read Graham Hancock's book when you were younger. Did you ever think,
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when you read those books, even back when we started this podcast that you would be sitting, having dinner and then sitting across from Graham Hancock. I mean, did that ever even watch an ancient apocalypse season one? Did that ever cross your mind that he'd be sitting in the studio talking to you?
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And they aren't doing anyone any good sitting behind museum glass. And I think that's been the key. And everybody understands that. Even if they think... that they're not real. They understand the fact of, I understand why he's doing it. And I applaud why he's doing it so that we together, whether you believe they're real or not, that we can all learn together at the same time.
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is very strong very intelligent very kind very funny very you know um quick quick-witted and and sharp and isn't she a world-renowned photographer she is yeah yeah like as i understood it he would go do his site exploration and education and and she's the one that's that's i mean taking a lot of the photos that you see associated with with graham's work so but yeah both of them were just the nicest people nicest people they were yeah
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But from a production standpoint, Jimmy Corsetti was here on that Wednesday and Graham was scheduled to be here that Friday. And after we finished recording, Jimmy was kind of like, well, you know, when when do you think about releasing this? And and you said that, well, we have Graham in here on Friday and we're going to prioritize his. You know, I hope you're OK with that. And.
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Jimmy goes, the hell are you talking about? You get grams out before you get mine. Like you get his out. Like he was just even the, even the large following that Jimmy has over a million, you know, he was like, you get grams out there because he is. It's like a million eight or something.
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ridiculous amount of people. It's like Graham's one of those people. He's at the top. You get his message out there. You get his word out there and his thoughts way before you do mine.
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And I think that's, that has been the takeaway in all the communities, you know, that we, that you operate in with the vases.
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We have different opinions, and that's healthy. That's what's needed. And hats off to Jimmy. I know a lot of people don't give him the same respect of keeping their attacks not personal, but in my experience, Jimmy doesn't.
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I think it's what he said at dinner, that that was like his... He had made videos before, but that was his one that just went straight up.
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Why the hell are we building olive trees there? And I mean, brought a lot, uh, a lot of attention to just all of that. And I think what he does really well is that he asks questions and he just doesn't stop when he gets an answer because that'll lead into another question. And he's just, he really moves quick, crowdsources a lot of thoughts and ideas from X and online, which I think is important.
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And for those of you who've been following him on X recently, One of the things that he is pushing with President-elect Trump and Elon Musk is to get a Department of Archaeology.
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And for the life of me, and I would love to hear everybody's opinions in the comments, I've been trying to think of a really neat acronym for Department of Archaeology to spell something, like DOG, you know, Department of Government Efficiency spells DOGE, or DOG, DOGE. Trying to think of something unique that I can share with Jimmy to kind of help move that along a little bit.
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Because if we value archaeology and the sciences and things like that, they need to have their own standalone department to really develop those out and, you know, continue to move them forward.
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So look, I, I'm a confident person and I can generally pick things up very, very quickly. Yeah. I remember during that dinner and he is talking and he is pulling things out. And I look over at you and you're like, yeah. And I'm like, I'm the dumbest bastard to this day. I have no idea what anybody's talking about. And then he tries to help poor little Orion, you know, Bob's up here.
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He's going to come down here and try to help move me along. And he goes, What happens if you leave your food on your plate for a couple of months? What happens? I was like, it breaks down. He's like, well, why? Time? Well, what is time?
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uh like i felt like a neanderthal which we know aren't dumb from from kaylee's episode but i just felt like i remember leaving that dinner and i was like shit i guess i'm gonna learn tomorrow like this is gonna be news for me made total sense once the episode was fully done but that first dinner i was just like okay yeah yeah cool i don't even know if i'm breathing right
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I don't see how you did it because when I'm watching from a YouTuber, I could pause it and be like, I got to go look some stuff up. I don't know what he's saying where you, you, you're in the trenches in here. Like, yeah.
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Well, that was another piece of the episode where Bob was like, do you know how gravity works? And I'm like, shit, I never thought about it. And then he proceeds to, you know, share some of the reasons, you know, kind of the scientific explanation behind gravity. And I was like... Yeah, I this one's going to be tough to to edit and go through. Right.
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They're easy when you know what they're talking about. But like with the ones where I'm not familiar with the content or it's so heady and up here and high level, you know, those take a little bit. The funnest part of that episode, though, is I think myself and others kind of channeled through you, Matt, towards the part of the episode. You just said, you know what?
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Bob is going to be like, okay, great. I'm going to fix that. And cause he wants to move it forward. He wants to bring that technology forward and get it right. So, I mean, just as you mentioned earlier, he's, he's open to it and he's, he's going to continue to move forward with it and get his end goal is to get cheap, limitless energy to everyone. And I, I think that scares a lot of people.
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And that was one of the first ones, you know, I've, um, So the things that you get to experience that you don't really ever think about or run through your head, but like culturally, right? So Praveen comes in and I was like, hey, I'm going to get you some ice water. And he looked at me like, why would I want ice water?
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So you and your damn Americans with ice water, he's like, just give me room temperature water. And I don't think he quite said it like that. No, God, no, that's hyperbole on my end. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm emphasizing or, uh, kind of, it's in my head. It's, it was much more crazier, but it was one of those things to where you're just like, Oh,
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Like we're the Americans, you know, we're really one of the only countries that drinks ice water. But Praveen... Coming in all the way from India was really cool.
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He flew in, recorded with us, flew out a day later, right? Yeah. And that was, I mean, that's one day of travel. I mean, he's 15, 16 hours. Yeah. And... was just excited to be here, excited to be on the show. And then he said it was 24 hours.
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And we're so grateful that they came over and he, like I said, Praveen's just, just such a cool human. No doubt.
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Outside of Danny Jones, that was one of the first times that you've kind of been on someone else's channel talking about the vases and things like that. So even then, that was kind of a new experience for you as well.
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I'm so glad you're addressing this. like on the podcast versus in the comments. I'm so happy you're talking about this.
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Yeah. I, I told you very early on, you asked my opinion. So Ryan, do you think these videos are real or fake? And I subscribe to the, you know, the same thought process that you do that I'm never going to go a hundred or zero. You know, I, I think that they have a high percentage chance of being true, but I told what I said to you, and this applies to a lot of things.
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Just because a video, a situation, looks like it was created via CGI doesn't mean that it was, right? You can take so many situations today and recreate them with CGI. That doesn't mean that they're fake. Just because you can recreate it doesn't diminish what actually occurred. And then the other piece of it is, number one, the videos are fake. The videos are fake.
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Then number two, how could our military do that to civilians? have you not paid attention to government experiments going back as long as our country has been around the Tuskegee government has been killing civilians since the beginning of government, the Tuskegee. Um, what is the name of the Island where Lyme disease started? Same thing.
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Like we have no qualms about experimenting on our own people's disease, by the way, fuck the government. I wasn't going to bring that up before you did, but like we pretend in that situation, like, Oh, our government would never do that. look at what they'll do to our own citizens. Look what they'll do to people who aren't citizens.
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Like, so I firmly believe looking at those two things, there's a high probability that that occurred. do the videos, and then I know firsthand what the government's capable of and what they are comfortable doing.
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Right, right. It actually landed. We didn't know that. We lost some serial numbers. Our bad.
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Yeah, I, you know, I... I walked into it, I'm not going to say with a healthy amount of skepticism, but always open to what could occur and what we could see. And we got out there to the property, and it was a beautiful night. It was cold. The sun went down, obviously, at its normal time. But we really started to see the stars and everything. And then...
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Look, I won't go into all the detail, you know, go watch the episode to find all of it. But I personally saw something that was not a plane, that was not a satellite, that was, in my opinion, in that moment and still now, was not a man-made object. Now, am I outright going to say, oh, I saw an orb?
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So we had been watching for different things that evening, and we had seen things going in straight lines, which at the time, in my opinion, was a satellite. But then we saw one, I don't even know what you would call it. We experienced one event to where they were in a triangle formation, and we know that satellites don't do that. That was weird. That was weird. That was weird.
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And then if you look back at some of the other events... They looked like satellites.
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And then when you start to look at some of the other events, like Chris Bledsoe and Ron, they've seen those triangles before. And then, you know, obviously during the episode, one of the big hallmarks of Chris's experience was the triangle. So that was the first thing that we saw that really got me, okay, all right, this is different. And then...
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About 30 minutes later, right directly overhead, I see a star moving, but it's not moving in a straight line. It's starting to zigzag, and not zigzag over long periods of time, but a very tight zigzag. And then it starts spiraling. Spiraling? Kind of like that, like a corkscrew. And I immediately, I got goosebumps.
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He's the absolute best person ever. Yeah. Like just the nicest human being, one of the nicest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. And I just transparently prior to getting into this, you know, my only experience with YouTube was watching car crashes. Right. It's relaxing to me. It's cathartic. I don't, I don't really know why, but I just know that it does.
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Because there's this realization, I'm a science fiction nerd, you can tell by just spending five minutes with me, Matt knows this, that I love all things space. So I'm very familiar with it. I know what a satellite looks like. I know what a plane looks like. I also know how they move. There was, in that moment, I realized... I that's, that's, that's not a satellite, whatever that is.
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It's not manmade. And in that moment, you, you, like I shared on the podcast and I shared that night, you get that fear, that realization of I'm looking at something that in, in my immediate opinion, didn't come from this planet, didn't originate from this planet. Sure as hell didn't originate by man. And, and you almost like you, you have that in like that instant fear and then it disappeared.
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And as soon as it disappeared, the best way that I could have described it was you get this longing because once you get over that initial fear that I'm looking at something that's not from this planet, you want to see more of it. At least in my situation, you understand the opportunity of I'm seeing something that's not from this, that we didn't make, that's in space.
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So you miss it instantly and you kind of get that longing. And yeah, it was a... That's wild. It's wild to me.
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But when I found out that Luke was going to, you know, be coming on limitless again, we had, I think maybe a hundred subscribers at that point. And he's still willing to come down and, Luke gets here, and he's just giving us advice, giving us guidance.
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So it 100% could. But at the time it didn't. And let me tell you why. So we looked at, I think it was Mars was one of the planets that was the way we were sitting was, was off to my left, your right. But I kept looking at it and I was like, that's Mars. And I kept, I was watching it swirl, you know, not, not the same swirl or zigzag pattern, but it was moving. I was like, oh, that's weird.
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So I stepped, and then at the time, the way the fire and the smoke, or excuse me, the heat and the smoke were coming up was right across my line of sight. So I walked over to the other side, and I looked up, and it's like, it's no longer moving. I'm like, okay, I get that. But I remember vividly the way that I was looking I was at such an angle to where the heat of the fire wasn't impacting it.
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Then the smoke was moving in a direction that was away from my line of sight. So totally understand. We've all seen fire kind of do crazy things with heat and stuff like that. Uh, but in that moment, uh, In my best recollection, the fire, the heat, the smoke, all of that was not an impact. And I agree with you with some of the stuff that we saw at the horizon.
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There's a chance it could have been a plane. There's a chance it could have been an orb. I think when we do this again in the future, we're going to bring a lot more technology with us to, in the moment, as best as we can, try to verify some of those things. And I think that's healthy to do. But I walked away from it. I think everyone in the Bledsoe family
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Has some sort of connection that I just, you know, I can't currently explain. I think a whole lot of other people can't explain. And that's what that's what makes them kind of so unique.
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He's so excited to be here, not just to see the vases, but to talk and interact with someone who's as passionate about Egypt and ancient Mesoamerica and ancient civilizations as he is. And kind of what you see on the episodes, what you see on his channel, that's not a show. That's who he is. He is just the nicest, kindest person, one of the nicest, kindest people I've ever met in my entire life.
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Yep. Yep. Timothy's will be out the week of Christmas. Cool. And then obviously this will come out to ring in the new year.
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Yeah. So we've, um, we've purchased, you know, so when we did, uh, Ryan Bledsoe's episode, we had, um, iPhones, uh, That's it. So, you know, we actually got a lot of great feedback on X from people about, hey, if you're going to do it, it's what we recommend the equipment to be. So we've got a telescope.
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We are going to have a low light and I forget the model number right now, but Canon DSLR camera that we're going to be able to hook up to it.
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and record and then we're going to have some technology flight tracker 24 which is an amazing app in which you know in real time you can check out flights and things like that and then we're also going to have something similar to called night sky where it's a point and shoot so if you see something in the night sky or even during the day
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You can hold your phone up to it and through virtual reality VR in the phone, it'll tell you that's satellite. Here's type satellite it is. So it'll give us... Again, we're not getting this equipment to go out there and say, you're wrong or this isn't real. We're... doing it as we should. We're trying to say, Hey, you know, it's this, it's that we sure as hell don't know what that is.
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And all of our, our technology, we aren't able to say what it is. And I think that's important to have that.
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sphere i and and i've been very transparent with you and i think other people um i appreciate ancient history you know whether it's it's mesoamerica or ancient egypt but i my fascination on a personal level has always been at the stars and ufos and uaps so timothy uh up next week nick pope i don't know if i could pick a favorite between the two honestly i love ancient civs
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I don't think it's picking a favorite per se, but it's like, that's like, if you ask me, Hey Ryan, what do you want to talk about? You know what I'm going to say. Sci-fi. Exactly. And I think your first thing is going to be, I'm going to talk ancient Civ. Yeah. That doesn't mean you, you dislike or like one or the other more. It's just, it's, it's also a knowledge level too.
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I think you're, you're very, you're, very have a very deep knowledge when it comes to ancient civilizations egypt and all like you can rattle off dates like i i cannot believe um where i just make shit up
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Where I can, I can more so, you know, when it comes to space and space travel and UFOs and stuff like that, like I am, I am, I am neck deep into it. So Timothy Albarino, hopefully all of you have seen this episode by now.
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I was actually doing it right before we recorded this episode. Holy shit. That's going to be fun. Face peelers. Yeah. And just, just go on from there, but also a very nice individual, very cool guy. And Nick Pope will, will be great within that too.
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Well, the first one he looked at, correct me if I'm wrong, but he was like, that shouldn't be there. That doesn't make sense.
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And he was kind enough to share the initial scan from it, and I remember...
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looking at it and i'm like i don't know what any of that means but he's excited so i'm excited yeah yeah but he i mean to your point he just examining him just by hand and he was like this doesn't make sense right but i think it's going to be a big step forward in terms of these vases is is getting it down to that granular molecular level but the other thing i i like what he's going to do and he was very upfront about this is he's like we are going to document this
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Where the end goal is a scientific paper. Yeah. Not just, we're going to make some YouTube videos. Right. That's a byproduct.
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But his end goal is to scientifically publish a paper. And that's... Again, I think that's one of the things we all need to strive for, where you have this alternative history kind of background, or alternative science history, whatever you want to call it, and he's a little bit more mainstream.
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I mean, he's a PhD and all of that, but I think that's an example of how people can come together and get answers.
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And in our store and, and there'll be, um, you'll see them as you're watching right now, you're going to see them, uh, pop up and, um, we're exploring, like Matt said, we're going to do the vases. We're obviously, uh, we're doing the cups, you know, here, hopefully in the very near future, we're going to start expanding into apparel and, and other things like that.
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I think we leave it on that. And, um, I'll say this to you being your, you know, on the production side of it, Matt, I've had a hell of a year. I look back in, in, in what we've done. And, and I think you as a interviewer and, and being in here talking to these guests, you've grown. I mean, I, I have seen the progress and stuff like that.
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And then even, you know, from a production level, I think we've grown and, and somebody that's not on screen that we talk about a lot is Joe. you know, even, even the way that she's communicating and getting everything scheduled behind the scenes.
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It's when I look back of what we, where we were a year ago and where we are now, it just, it gives me so much, so much excitement about where we're going to be in a year and a year after that. So it's been a hell of a lot of fun.
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And it's like, and then there were some comments where it was like hard pass and it's like, Hey, you know, if that's what you want to do, I'll support it. Amazing. But like meeting, and I know we'll get to Kaylee's episode here in a minute, but just another one of those individuals that's genuine and wants to talk about those things that excite her with people who may or may not agree with
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That's an afterthought, whether they agree or not. She just wants to talk about the subjects, whether it's Neanderthals, the Hobbit people. She wants to engage with the community and talk about that, and that's one of the reasons you brought her on.
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To clarify, we had zero subscribers. We didn't even have a channel yet. We recorded with Ben, and then the creation, the official creation on YouTube and Spotify and all the other platforms came after we recorded the episode. So our number one thing was, hey, you know what?
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Let's shoot for the stars and get one of the biggest names in ancient civilizations, ancient Egypt, obviously an expert on the vase. let's reach out and see what he says.
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I agree. And going back to something that was said on the Snake Brothers episode really resonated with me. And it was kind of said in jest, but to me, it was really, it's super reflective of, I think everything today is that In terms of mainstream science, archaeology, ancient history, history and things like that, the final edition is written every day.
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We did not think there'd be a near bear market down 18.9%. We also didn't think that Liberation Day would be as aggressive as it was, but it is what it is. So that's some things that I think people can think about and do is to diversify themselves. And the other thing, I've done this a long time. Some of the best investors I've ever met are the people that set it and forget it.
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By that, I mean every two weeks in a 401k or every two weeks in somewhere else, an IRA or something, they just put money in. And I know it's hard, but they close their eyes and you wait. And 10 to 15 years later, if you were buying dollar costs, averaging in, following a plan when it's red out there and everybody tells you how bad everything is on TV, that's when you want to hunker down, right?
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The time to plan for the storm is not during the eye of the storm. I mean, we have to plan for the eye of the storm way before it comes. And you mentioned the uncertainty. I mean, unfortunately, 2025 is not the first year in history where every day is green and there's no uncertainty. We've had uncertainty throughout history. I mean, just last August. All right. That was a great year.
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Last year was a great year. Stocks gained 25 percent, give or take. You know, we had that yin carry trade on wine that I know hopefully most people remember what I'm talking about. But trust me, that first week of August was really uncomfortable market conditions.
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i mean didn't crash but market pulled back a lot in three days and there was a lot of fear most years are going to have those scary headlines you can do yourself a big favor by coming into the year just expecting a 15 correction at some point during the year you know bear markets happen every three and a half years we had two bear markets started this decade and believe me a very very close bear market just a couple weeks ago so so those things do happen but sure enough now we blink and we've come well off those lows and i get the negative sentiment i get the negative calls that people have made
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There's always some bulls. There's always some bears. But I think when we look at the entire picture and backdrop, there's still an economy that likely avoids a recession. It slows down. We just got a negative GDP print, right? Just last week, got a negative GDP print in the first quarter. Well, that's not great. But then you peel back the onion.
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it's because a lot of companies bought a lot of stuff ahead of time ahead of tariffs inventory sword trade exports imports exports took out like five percent of gdp so if you look at something called final demand which is like spending from households and businesses it was like 2.3 i'm not saying 2.3 is great but i'm saying that's fairly that's a fairly solid economy heading into all this tariff stuff is it slowing down absolutely the economy is slowing down but it doesn't mean you have to go into a recession
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is really, really rare. Went back to 1950. It's happened 10 other times, only 10. Six months later, S&P has higher nine out of those 10 times. And a year later, higher 10 out of 10 times. So never lower a year later after three straight days of one and a half percent gains. And the average returns like up over 20%. Now I'll just layer one more on here.
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And in recession is when you tend to get those really big 4,000 number that I figured who you said said it, but whoever said 4,000 on the SP, I mean, that's calling for a recession, right? I guess I'm not in that camp quite yet.
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No, it sure is. And listen, we have something called home country bias, which, like the name would suggest, where you live is what you tend to invest in. The good news for most people, well, I guess you've got international listeners. You definitely have international listeners. But for people in the U.S., you know, if you've been overweight in the U.S.
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the last 10, 15, 5 years, last 2, 3 years, you've done really well, really, really well relative to the rest of the world. You know, the easiest way is through ETFs, right? We really like developed international ETFs. I'm not technically allowed to mention any ETFs by name, but there are some very easy to find developed international ETFs. I mean, Germany is doing well.
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There's lots of other countries are doing well that you can add a little bit like in our models that we run. You know, we've got like 10, 15 percent developed international in the models. You know, that's that's a decent amount. That's probably a lot more than a lot of RIAs have. A lot of other places have.
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So we we clearly have some exposure to those parts of the world, which were this time a year or two ago, we were more all in U.S. And that obviously worked really well. But now it's just like, you know, OK, the lifeblood of a bull market is passing the baton around. And, you know, I still think we're in a bull market. I know what's happened in the U.S. But again, look around the globe.
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There's like different ways you look at this, but like the globe X U.S. So take the U.S. stock market out, which honestly, I think it's like half the entire market cap of the globe. If you take that out. You're up almost double digits this year. And the U.S. is down, yes. But there really are some other parts doing well.
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So I think a diversified portfolio with a little bit of development international makes sense. With emerging markets, we're not too warm and fuzzy on China right now. Or on emerging markets, that's because we're not too crazy about what's going on in China still. The Chinese stock market's doing okay. We've seen this before.
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Like Lucy in the football, where Charlie Brown tries to kick the football, she pulls the football back. We've seen these fits and starts with China before. So to us, just the sentiment got way too negative regarding Europe. And rightfully so, Europe's underperformed the U.S., it feels like, for two decades in a row. But all of a sudden, they're starting to do better, and this is why you diversify.
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There's an old saying, I've done this for a while, an old saying that... Yeah. Being diversified is always having to say you're sorry. All right. And it felt like that the last couple of years, because all you needed to do is be on the mag seven and boy, oh boy, you were doing pretty good. Why in the world would I, I work with financial advisors every day, like
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you know their clients say why in the world would i go buy a utility stock or a healthcare stock what all i need to do is go buy the mag 7. well then you come into this year where those stocks are down 30 for another probably up you know a little bit lately but down 30 40 that is why you diversify that's why you don't chase the shiny object all the time the shiny object is the top performing group the last year or two or growth is the top performing sector the last two years
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During those three days on the NYSE, more than 70% of all the stocks on the NYSE also were higher. So that's three straight days of a When I took a look at that, take a wild guess, that's only happened eight times. One year later, this might sound familiar, higher every single time with well over 20% average return. So there's lots of stuff.
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How is growth doing this year? Not very good. Right now, I'm not saying it can't come back. I'm just saying these first four months have been a big, big black eye, whereas value was actually up in the first quarter. I mean, value was up in the first quarter. Financials are up on the year. You know, there's other groups that do well, and that's why, again, you don't want to go all in one group.
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You don't always want to chase shiny objects. Stick with your plan, diversify, follow your investment plan. And of course, I work with financial advisors, so I would say work with a financial advisor, but you don't always have to do that, but that can obviously help as well.
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But again, you know, when everyone loves it, that's when maybe you got to look around and wonder what's going on. And sure enough, I mean, everybody said the dollar had one way to go. And that was up this year when President Trump won. We looked around.
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We disagreed because, again, if everybody's thinking alike, somebody's thinking everyone was talking about one thing, the opportunities to the other side. And when the dollar goes lower, gold is better. When the dollar does goes a little bit lower, you know, also does better. The rest of the globe, right? International stocks tend to do better when the dollar is weak.
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So that's what we've clearly seen this year. And also, I'm with you on gold. We actually added gold for the first time in some of our models back in March of 2023. So a really long time ago. Oh, Barron's. I'm a big fan of Barron's. I mean, Barron's literally this weekend had gold bars on their magazine cover.
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If you're a contrarian and you see Barron's with gold bars on their magazine cover, that tells you a lot of people have realized gold's done really... really, really well. So maybe it's time for a well-deserved pause. But the reality is we also, I'm with you, we added some gold back in November after the election when dollars soared, gold was crushed.
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I like to buy things in bull markets with violent short pullbacks. And sure enough, that's what gold obviously did back in November. So good trade there.
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Exactly. You need new gold stocks. We personally don't own any gold stocks or gold ETFs. We're sticking with simply ETFs based on the price of the metal. But trust me, if somebody wanted to be more aggressive and they had a stomach for it, then yes, some of those gold stocks obviously will do a lot better because they're more leveraged than the actual metal.
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Don't ever blindly invest in just one stat or one statistic. People see a lot of the stuff I share and say, well, you said this. Well, you have to layer these things on top of each other.
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But hey, the metal is doing pretty darn good on its own.
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Yeah, there are. That's clearly the big one. I mean, that's the gold. You like this one? That's the gold standard. I can't believe I just said that. That's the gold standard for ETFs with gold. There are some others. Honest to goodness, off the top of my head, I'm not 100% sure, but there are. But that's the safest one that if you just want some gold exposure...
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It's been around the block once or twice. Funny thing about that one, GLD, I think it was 2011, maybe 2012. That's when there were more assets in that GLD ETF than there were in SPY, the S&P 500 ETF. It had to have been 2011. That's when gold peaked. And that was, looking back, a major, major peak in gold. And that was one of those anecdotal sentiment things that looking back, oh, it's obvious.
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But I mean, that was a little over the top. We're you know, we're not quite seeing that yet with gold. One other thing on gold. I mean, gold went up from 2009 until about 2011, so about 12 years. Then look at the chart. Gold went sideways for about 12 years. Now, when I say sideways, I mean, it didn't go up. It went down to sideways for about 12 years. So now it's broken out.
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We're a couple years into this thing. By no means am I like some huge gold bug. I think stocks are going to do pretty good. I don't think there's going to be a recession. But for a diversified portfolio, if someone wants to own something, if you think about a 60-40 portfolio, what is that? 60% stocks, 40% other stuff, usually bonds. Usually bonds, the other 40.
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To us, it makes some sense to own some gold in that other 40%. And maybe gold's going to pull back because it's had such a historic run. Perfectly, perfectly normal. If gold pulled back 15%, that'd be perfectly normal with the incredible rally that it's had. And that's maybe an actual good buying opportunity.
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But like we're going to talk about here, we really think that there's multiple buying thrusts that we've just recently seen that are not the hallmark of a bear market rally, not the hallmark of just a bear market. They're the hallmark, honestly, of the end of week phases and likely higher prices and better returns. And I get the headlines. We get the concern.
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So for longer-term investors out there, have some stocks, yes, have a little bit of bond, sure. But honestly, having a little bit of gold makes sense because, again, these cycles last a lot longer than you think. If 12 years it went up the one time, 12 years went sideways, now we're two or three years into this one. Who knows? Who knows what's going to happen? But I would be open to the idea.
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that gold might continue to do pretty well here over the next five to 10 years, honestly.
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No, that's exactly right. And even 2023, I mean, mag seven did well. So people were conditioned for a couple of years to just be in the large cap tech names and then, you know, then they dropped like they did. So it's, it just still makes sense.
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I mean, this is some old stuff that people way before my time were talking about, but stay diversified, stick with your plan, you know, continue to buy when you're supposed to buy and then don't, don't make an irrational decision. If you can help it at the worst time, you know, I'll do another quick little story if we've got time.
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Lawrence of Arabia, the movie Lawrence of Arabia, there's a scene called the candlestick scene. And this guy goes up to the candlestick and pinches it and takes it out. The second guy looks at it, goes up to the he wants to try it, goes up to a candlestick, pinches a candlestick, screams in pain. And he looks at the first guy and goes, how in the world did you do that?
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The first guy looks at him, just says, you just got to know it's going to hurt. Right. That is investing. It's going to hurt.
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Your strategy is not going to work at all times. I don't care what it is. It's not going to work at all times. And the cost of admission, we like to say on our team, volatility is the toll we pay to invest. Every year, well, on average, you see a 10% correction once a year. Doesn't mean every year has to have it, but on average, you see that. You see like eight different 3% corrections a year.
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You see like five different 5% corrections a year, bear market every two and a half years. But then you look at a longer term chart and you're like, wow, that usually goes up. You know, 50 years ago right now was the fall of Saigon. And listen, I'm no expert on this at all. I just know it was a very, very big deal. Like April 30th was the fall of Saigon.
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But you look at history, and it's just like a small blip on the map in 1975 now. And stocks have gone up. And we've had world wars. We've had pandemics. We've had inflation, deflation, all this terrible stuff that's happened since May 26, 1896. Why did I pick that date? That's when Charlie Dow started the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was a bunch of railroad stocks back then.
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But the market's going to tell us what it wants to do. And honestly, what we've seen is a really positive sign in our view.
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It's not so much now. But the reality is we've seen a lot of bad stuff. But for the investors and the listeners out there, Just remember, we've also seen a lot of good stuff throughout history. We've had bad news. We've also had a stock market that came back to new highs every single time. I'm not saying it's going to happen quickly. Sometimes it takes a while.
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You know, 2022 took a long time to get back above those January 22 peak that we just saw. But a lot of people that were investing and adding to their exposure in 2022, 2023 were really, really happy. When in the first quarter of 24, we broke out to new highs again, another 20% last year. So I think those are just some real important concepts to remember.
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And as a market strategist that works with financial advisors every single day all over the United States and 50, I think we're 51,000 households now. These are things that we try to preach every day. And it's fun. We don't take it lightly. But it's very, very rewarding to try to help people reach their long-term goals and to put a cherry on top of some of the worst.
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The most negative thing we have is our own brain, our own selves, ourselves. We kick ourselves in the shin more than we should, right, as investors because we get all worked up and all upset or the opposite, too excited when your neighbor's getting rich. And I'm going to paraphrase it. I'm going to butcher it. But J.P.
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Morgan said, you know, the worst thing to see is your neighbor getting rich because you're going to make bad decisions. And I'm paraphrasing it. But that's the worst thing to see because then you're going to want to do what they're doing. And they're probably full of you-know-what anyway.
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So, again, stick with these plans and invest for the long term, and you'll do really, really well, I'm pretty confident to say.
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tariffs that's the biggest story in the news right now i'm sure there's other stuff going on that we're just not following what's one of the biggest things that you're watching that's not so much in the headlines right now that maybe we should be focusing on more yeah i guess i kind of cheated and gave some of these away i think the fact that europe is doing so so well people still aren't even talking about that at least i see i mean that's really not out there you know that that's one that stands out to me i'll try to say something else i haven't said yet
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Here's one that I was talking about three weeks ago, okay, when the market was looking pretty dour. The credit markets continue to function just fine. I said, if there's a monster under the bed, we would have had more stress in the credit markets. When the S&P 500 was flirting with a bear market just a couple weeks ago, I'm going to get a little geeky, but you can look this up, listeners.
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It's free data. Spreads, like investment-grade corporate spreads, BBB spreads, were not blowing out. Well, it's just... Keep it real simple. When those things blow out, that's the credit markets way of saying we're worried about the monster under the bed. We didn't see that earlier this month. And sure enough, here we are now with the market come off the mat in a big, big way.
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And the credit markets are still quite calm. You know, the VIX, the volatility gauge, it's a function. Hopefully people have heard of the VIX. And when it spikes, it shows fear out there. It's what the options market thinks volatility will do. in 30 days in the future. So that's a mouthful, but just real simple. About three weeks ago, the VIX spiked above 60 on a Monday.
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It was one of those Mondays a couple weeks ago when things were just a bloodbath. And that is extremely rare to see the VIX spike that high. It's consistent with you're in the ballpark of a load. I mean, you're at the load, but in a ballpark. The trigger is when you go from above 50, And then close beneath 25.
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That just happened, oh, maybe a week or so ago, or maybe just this week, maybe last week. Last week, the stock market closed beneath 25. So the options markets calming down. We get the headlines. We get the uncertainty. We get the, I mean, manufacturing slowing down. Consumer confidence is lower now than it was in the middle of a 100-year pandemic. We understand all of these things.
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But sometimes there are smarter functions out there that we follow. And like the credit markets and the VIX calming down are some that again to us suggest the worst is over and the lows are in. That doesn't mean we're going to go straight up. That doesn't mean it's going to be off to the races. It'll be very clear. But do we violate the April 8th lows? At this point, I mean, we're saying no.
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Good point. It's usually put it this way. If I hear it, it's like a backhanded compliment to the bulls is the way I view that when I hear that. But, you know, most people buy a stock, right? Well, if you buy a stock, someone also on the other side of that had to sell it.
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There's been too many things that have taken place. We think we're well off those lows, by the way, that those lows are in. It might still be choppy. It might be frustrating. But that's how we're seeing the world here. And the two things, to answer your question, the two things no one's really talking about, I guess, would be credit markets hanging in there and the VIX has really come back.
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Those are two things we like to see.
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And there are something called short sellers, which are people who, in essence, sell a stock first in essence, wanting to buy it back at a lower price. If you hear someone shorting a stock, that simply means they're betting against it. They want it to go lower. Now there will be a certain time when they can't take it anymore, and the market starts bouncing a little bit.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Those shorts get scared, and they'll cover, in essence. They'll buy back those shares they already sold. So you think about it, that's like more buying pressure. I say it's like a beach ball.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
you put a beach ball way under the water once you let go it really gets moving and if there's a lot of bearishness out there and a lot of negative sentiments like we've seen obviously the last well really all year to be honest but specifically with a lot of the shorts and things Those shorts cover and that can rally the market.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Now, what I'm getting at when I say just a short covering rally, the view is that's just a short term bounce. Like they cover, then you're just going to roll back over. So again, it's kind of like a backhanded compliment to a strong day. So again, we think all this negativity has been a positive, but that's what we mean when we say short covering rally.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yeah, it's confusing to say, I guess. There's a guy, an old school guy, and people can Google him and look him up. I'd highly recommend it. Named Marty Zweig or Martin Zweig, a famous trader from a long time ago. And he discovered some of this stuff. I mean, he discovered this like 40 years ago, right? This Zweig breath thrust. We'll keep it real simple. You can Google it and look up more details.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
But he looked at the NYSE, so New York Stock Exchange, and he looked at how many stocks are going up versus down. And we look at a 10-day EMA, exponential moving average. And again, keep it simple. What we're looking for when this triggers is extremely oversold conditions. So again, think where we were just a couple weeks ago when this market was getting crushed.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
And then within a 10-trading-day period, so a short time period, you go from extremely oversold, most stocks being down, to extremely overbought, most stocks being up. That's kind of, again, maybe that beach ball effect or a pure flush out, right?
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking, General Patton, it's like everybody's bearish, everything's terrible, there's only one way to go. We were hearing that on April 8th. April 8th, we were hearing that because the market was down 19% from the peak, everybody was bearish. And then April 9th happened. They got some good news. I don't know if it was really even that good of news.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Got some news on trade. We had a 9% rally, and it's kind of been honestly off to the races since then. But the Zweig breath thrust triggered just recently. Now, what does that mean to the listeners? Well, again, looking at data, and I've got data going back really far from our friends over at Ned Davis Research on this.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
According to Ned Davis Research, 19 times since World War II, the Zweig breath thrust has triggered. And again, it just triggered recently. One year later, you ready? I know, sounds familiar. One year later, higher 19 times. Six months later, you're higher most of the time. Strong outperformance is consistent after a Zweig breath thrust.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Then you lay on top of what we started the conversation with. Three days in a row, 1.5%. 70% of the stocks higher. You know, we just had a six-day rally in the S&P 500 where the S&P gained 7% over those six days, okay? That's another one. It's only happened a handful of times. I think eight times off the top of my head. Once again, higher a year later, eight times.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
When you stack a lot of these, Nicole, on top of each other, not just one by themselves, but on top of each other with the other things we're going to get into in this conversation, we're of the opinion the lows are in for this year, and the bulls are hopefully going to have some more fun, clearly, than they had the first four and a half months of this year.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here and I hope we have something to talk about. It's been boring out there.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yeah, in essence, the downward trend is over, in essence, is what it is saying. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what it's saying. You know, on, I guess it was April 9th was one of the first big, that was the 9.5% gain, big, huge up day. But on April 22nd, we had a huge, huge day also in terms of most stocks up, most stocks volume up. So I took a look again. I call this the rule of 89.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
There were 89% of all the stocks that were up on both of those days and 89% of all the volume that were up on both of those days. When you have two days like that, that close to each other, that extremely strong, and that's extremely rare to have that. I found five times we've seen something like that.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Tell me about it. But only once did we see something like that, and did the market go on to make new lows? Okay, it's very, very rare to see these signals that we're seeing. I can get into more, and I know it's kind of geeky, I understand. But these are the things that move markets, right? I'm an old school, I have a CMT behind my name, means chartered market technician.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yes, I look at fundamentals. Yes, I look at valuations, I look at trade. You're a chart guy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's how I was brought up. I can, I can talk any game you want to talk, but I think what matters more are buyers and sellers. What is the market doing? What is the, you know, the attitude of the market? What's happening underneath the surface? What's sentiment telling us?
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
What is momentum telling us? What's the overbought oversold indicators. When you stack those things, those to me are what tend to matter more. I This time is different. I get it. This time is different because we've got a we've got a Fed that can't cut. We've got potential higher, higher inflation coming because of the tariffs. We've got drama out of Washington.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
But what we don't really know what all that stuff means. I mean, that's the honest answer. We don't really know what that stuff means. What we do know. are these signals that I've been talking about are consistent going out in history, going out generations, that again suggests likely be open to the idea that better times could be ahead.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yeah, I guess with markets, it's not giving it to us, but I hear you. And at least, you know, if we would have done this a few weeks ago, we'd have one thing to talk about. Now we've got maybe some positive things to talk about. So that's a nice change from that point of view.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
And that's how we're, we manage billions of dollars at the Carson Group, and my team does. And that's how we're positioning ourselves. Yes, we're overweight equities coming into this year, clearly that has not been a fun year, but I know we're going to talk a little more about it. We've been diversified. We've had some other areas.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
I mean, literally the time we're doing this, Germany's hitting an all-time high. It's hard to get super bearish when other parts of the globe are doing well. Yes, the US has struggled. India has struggled. US and India led the last two years. So it kind of gave the baton back and forth. But there's some real positive things that are really taking place.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
And I get the headlines, but listen, we're about making money and there are still some positives out there.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Well, I love hearing that. I think it tells a story, right? I mean, I'm a market technician, not that different than a lot of other market strategists, market technicians you see out there. But, you know, people gravitate to stories. And I'm not just about telling stories. I'm about looking at history, right? History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I love that quote, Mark Twain.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
We can show a lot of times in history what's happened before and not necessarily what's going to happen because nobody knows what's going to happen. But what happened before, what did happen after that? And when you do some of these things, it's incredible.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
I mean, listen, when Liberation Day took place on April 2nd and those next two days, the S&P 500 fell more than 10 percent for one of the worst two day drops in history. Everybody was looking around trying to figure out what was going on, because what we knew when President Trump held up that, you know, that piece of paper or that sheet that had all those reciprocal tariffs ago, going to be.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
It was shockingly higher than anybody. I don't care if you were bearish. Nobody thought 25% effective tariffs were going to happen. And then you see it. And that's why the market just sold off. And then the bond market started freaking out that next week. And then they dialed things back a little bit. But what's not going to change is everything under the sun. We've seen emotion, right?
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
There's trading, there's this or that. There's still emotion. Emotion moves markets. When everybody's bullish, that's when you probably want to look around and worry a little bit. But when everybody's bearish, I know it sounds crazy to say, but that's when especially I know a lot of younger listeners and a lot of people who might have decades potentially to invest.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Those are when you're going to make your money. That's when you're going to do really, really well, because when everybody else is freaking out, panicking, if you've got time to invest, it's an old saying, it's not about time in the market. It's not about timing the market. Sorry. It's about time in the market.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
That is the edge that longer term investors have is let the hedge funds, let the algorithms try to fight over pennies in front of a steamroller or nickels in front of steamroller. For the rest of us that have time and a lot of listeners to this podcast have time, it's a beautiful thing. I hate to say a bear market's a good thing because I don't want to come off and say that.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
But honestly, if you're young and you've got time to buy things when it's cheaper, to buy things when they're lower is a wonderful thing. The last little kind of cheeky. quote that I like to use, the stock market's the only place where things go on sale, but everyone runs out of the store screaming. You know, remember that.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
And when you want to buy some shoes on sale or a jacket or, listen, you want to go to a steakhouse and it's on sale, sure, we do that. For whatever reason, the way our brains are wired, most people that might have loved a stock at 100 hate it at 75. Why do they hate it at 75? Because TV told them it's scary because there's this happening, that happening, and that's how our brains are wired.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
We can't help it. That's back to caveman times, right? There's a saber-toothed tiger, go hide. That's how we're wired, and it works that way with markets, too, thousands of years later, but that's why we have to rewire ourselves and learn some of these things. And honestly, you learn by making mistakes.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
I've made tons and tons of mistakes, but I've seen throughout my career so many times people panic when they can't take it anymore. I can't tell you how many people got out of the market those two days after Liberation Day because it was terrible what was happening. And then you blink and now we're above where we were on Liberation Day just a month later.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
I mean, kind of wild, but that's how history works.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yeah, we think it is. Now, let me start like this. You know, I've done this for over 25 years, I guess.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Yeah, they shared it on like, look at this. It gets out there first. But yeah, I mean, because remember that day, the market popped because President Trump said something like, oh, 10 percent. Oh, 10 percent across the board. Good. And then we zoom in and look. And then, yeah, it was wasn't too fun after that.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
and it feels like every time we start a new bullish phase those first couple days everybody comes out of the woodwork and says well it's just a short covering rally well it's just a bear market rally it's going to roll over and what we're going to talk about now and maybe even a couple more rare breath thrusts that we've seen so just know the lows are likely in i mean that's our base case and one of them like you just said is up three days in a row one and a half percent you can have one day two days of big moves but to see three
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
Right. Well, I hear I made a joke. I mean, they don't need that much drama with the market, but I see what you're saying. So what we're doing with with our models, right, the money we run. I mean, if someone's really worried about things, there's things you can do. You don't have to just be in like mag seven. Right. The large technology names, which is obviously struggled so far this year.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
You can diversify. We say when in doubt, diversify it out. That's what we're doing. I mean, we have more international exposure right now than we've had in a long time. Because, again, the issues with the U.S., you look around the globe. I mean, listen, Germany's about 23%, 24%. China's up double digits. Lots of countries in Africa are up double digits this year.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Some Good News on the Stock Market
There's a lot of other opportunities. So you can diversify. You don't have to just be in 100% stocks. I mean, you can be in bonds. Now, bonds haven't done all that great this year. But look at gold. I mean, gold has done incredibly. Now, listen, gold's awfully, awfully overstretched, I think, in the near term. So those are all some things that we've done in some of the models.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Some Good News on the Stock Market
Like, we made a name for ourselves at Carson Group this time two, two and a half years ago.
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
early 23 most of 23 saying there'd be no recession say there'd be a bull market i know it's like oh okay you said that trust me when i say this that wasn't popular people hated that i mean i don't know why people hated that call because they were promised a bear market promised a recession we went against it we had like 91 to 92 overweight equities or equities in our unconstrained tactical models that we run i know it's a mouthful that's just saying we had a lot of stock exposure because we thought stocks do really well the last couple years
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
have dialed that back a little bit we're like 74 75 equities right now we do have some gold this is like all year this is like all year you know something we just did we did this coming into this year we added some international exposure we added some treasuries for the first time in a while because again if you're a little after just after a 70 rally like we saw in the s p 500 from october 22 to the february 19th peak this year
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Some Good News on the Stock Market
You got to say to yourself, that was awfully, that was nice. That was great for investors, but it might not always be that way. It might be rocky, right? We didn't have a 10% correction last year. The odds of a 10% correction this year were very high. We were on record as saying we probably have a 10 to 15% correction at some point this year. No.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Call Him Daddy... At Work?
You know, now that you ask, I may have picked up on something. How is this brought to your attention?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Call Him Daddy... At Work?
So to the first question of what did I think, I think I was, like, good for Jared. You know, that's lofty standards to be entitled such, to be given such a nice title within a relationship. What I did next was I did think to myself... On a scale of one to the most awkward thing ever, how awkward would it be if I reached out to Nicole to let her know and had an internal debate about that?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Call Him Daddy... At Work?
Yes, we're going to put you on the main stage and have you tell the story with screenshots and everything.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Call Him Daddy... At Work?
So since you are recording, I just want to let the record state that I don't believe that story for a second. I can't lie.
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Call Him Daddy... At Work?
And so the best part about this is, since that is how he was introduced to me, when he emails me now, that is also how he comes out just on his own.
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Call Him Daddy... At Work?
Well, I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I'm sure we'll chat soon.
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To a murderer. What did you call me? Don't think I don't know what you did to the pool boy, Diego. I did what I had to do, you hear me? Fine.
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Don't you dare walk out on me.
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Who is this?
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all right you know what to do you know no hands hey guys uh it's me anthony i was i'm a guest uh sundaycool.com you can get custom stuff uh beanies but you don't i'm not here to talk about that i'm here to talk about this this uh podcast this podcast is brought to you by sunday brought to you empowered by sunday so uh watch this out Or listen to the ad. Or feel the ad. Or the whole podcast.
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That was perfect.
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It's so weird. You said Lily wasn't on for a couple episodes. Yeah. With this, I don't know why she wouldn't have wanted to be here for this.
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You sounded like the beginning of that Bruce Springsteen song. It is kind of a crazy thing.
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They always include his intro, and it sounds like he has been drinking for days.
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So this is Christmas.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
It drives me crazy. You just be driving along and someone's whispering at you.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dude, I'm literally a producer. I know how to do my job. That's why you're in there. I was into Eminem a lot when I was a kid. I don't know if this is a safe space for me to share that. Take that halo down. But he had one where his classic, I have no snare. I have no snare in my headphones, is at the beginning of his song. And I was always like, did they talk? Or was that like an accident?
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That then they were like, oh, it's cool, you left that. And the guy that was supposed to cut it out was like, yeah. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was.
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I'm sorry, Lily. You asked a question before I started going on that.
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Anthony. Yeah. I want headphones for the gym.
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How can you possibly work out?
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I feel like I'm going to be shorted out. I'm a catastrophe. I have corded headphones that run from my phone, and so I'm constantly pulling my own earphones out by working out so much. You know it's not 2007 anymore, right?
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Andy... It's real and it's embarrassing. Every time I'm in there, I'm like, I should bring a record player and set it next to the bench. That's how I feel right now.
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Yeah. They're doing... It's very cool. It's cool.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
They still do. You have to get a special adapter. You spent more money and lost dongles.
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Every time I have this moment before I walk in, like, what am I doing with this? But then the alternative is to listen to the terrible gym music. I know. I can't do that.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
It really is interesting. A lot of people have stories of a mom-child connection, too, that has always sort of lived. The amount of people that are like, I got a call from my mom or I got a call from my dad. Some of us haven't gotten calls from our dad, but others of us will get a rant.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
You get a call from your mom or whatever at like a time, like where you didn't say anything, but you were having a really, really bad day. And then your mom, particularly with moms, they'll reach out and they'll be like, I just knew I had to call my kid at that point.
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And it's like, it's funny because you're like, Oh, like intuition, a telepathic connection sounds crazy, but then you're like, okay, but like, It's very common knowledge that that is not an uncommon thing, that your mom has a sense that you're not okay, even if there's no reason she should have that sense.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
So to me, it's kind of like, yeah, it wouldn't shock me if there was something very real to that connective and that dads are completely removed from it. What does the kid want? Can I make this next drive without pooping or should I poop now? I can't read your mind, okay? That's what's going on in Dad's mind.
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Something bad will happen to that person?
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Oh no, Bruno.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
There's even higher context verbal communication cultures. They just don't talk as much. So Americans, we talk a lot. We express verbally the most.
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And they say you pick up, you just are picking up so much more from everybody if you're not so reliant on words all the time. Yeah. Because they say less in even just other cultures and you pick up more from body language.
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Say less.
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I wonder how we would all do on that.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
I always feel like I take all the tests on Instagram, and I'm like, I don't know what I get from this, but there's a challenge I can't pass up every time.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
The timing of that cup drop. Probably the greatest magician of all time. You couldn't have paid that cup to drop at a better time. Oh, you think that was unplanned?
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If they're like, I don't know, see if you've got a higher IQ than average. I'm like, it's stupid. We should do it, though. We should do it, just so I know.
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I want to download it. Help them out.
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That's it. You just introduce a puzzling context.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Because we've been holding a spot for a new battery. B battery. We've got A's. We've got double A's. Triple A's. You can have B batteries. It sounds like you're stuttering.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
And how is that not going to get the- Made out of diamonds and nuclear fusion, you said? Is the guy who made it missing?
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Whoa!
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Yeah, they're lab-grown diamonds now.
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Can you yank it and keep all the stuff on the table? Yeah, we'll try that at the very end of the pod.
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palatable this Christmas season.
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One serious doctor looks at another. His spaghetti levels are off the charts. I love what you said.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
You had spaghetti really up in the chamber. I got to come up with something. Spaghetti. Spaghetti.
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Spaghetti.
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What would be nice with... I would want one of these new batteries for my remote, for my TV.
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You know what I mean? I'm trying to think of what I would want to never run out. And my kids' toys and stuff, that would be a problem. I'd probably still be using... Is this new battery what's been powering the Energizer, Bunny?
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Very interesting. This whole time. It never dies, right? Energizer had this technology, and they were keeping it from us. I think you're onto something. That's how that bunny gets around.
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That is a Tesseract.
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Someone called Tony. From Avengers.
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Somebody made the joke.
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For some reason, though, those, because the other one that gets me is the Peloton instructors. Have you ever seen them? Oh, yeah. They're in the middle of a ride and they'll read some like, hey, congratulations. This is, we're talking fourth grade level.
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And if you can pull it off on that scale where the pill. All right. Fifteenth hundred ride for Seymour Buds. You got me.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
I just, Lily's original point of not trusting nuclear energy, I've just always thought about this, is like, you think about, look at us. First of all, look at us. Look at us. Second of all, what's the worst thing that can happen at your job? You know what I mean? Yeah. What is the worst day of work? And there are other jobs where it's not great. But if you work at a nuclear power plant...
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Your range is very wide as to what a bad day at work could be. I know.
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This is what I'm saying.
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There's a version of this where I'm doing a mundane task and things go horribly wrong forever. So yeah, I'm not keen on the nuclear power plants either. I'm spooked.
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I want, I really, after this talk, I'm going back to watch that special he shot in Clearwater of him in a, were you in here when we were talking about that? No. He was in a motel or a hotel or something, like condemned, and they were like, Criss Angel's going to lock himself in while they destroy this motel, and it was like the cheesiest spectacle of all time. Wasn't he on the roof or something?
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He was on the roof at one point, and then like I said, they were like, oh, it went wrong. He's not where he's supposed to be. What are we going to do? And then he emerges from the dust coughing. It was... The angel has risen.
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It's Christmas time.
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That's what I noticed, too, is nobody was out there filming. And it was really funny because I brought my kids. You guys let me bring my kids to say hi, which was super cool. And they were really pumped to see you guys from the game release show. And then they saw Andy like that, and they were like, we can just go ahead. They didn't engage me at all. We can leave. Stranger danger.
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You're going to have to order a shirt, but the tickets will come. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Have you been contacted by Logan Paul's team about boxing him, Chris Angel? All the time.
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You're a logical next opponent. Yeah.
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Please, someone make it happen. We need videos of your interpretation of Chris Higgins. I want you getting kicked out of a theater watching Wicked. This isn't how magic works. Show you guys.
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Yeah.
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yeah yeah the the the magician like range is so interesting you have yeah emo chris angel right like you if he was like for the emotional side and then you had like david blaine which is on some very weird stuff and then you have like the vegas ones that are like penn and teller yeah and stuff i have a residency in las vegas by the way
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I wanted to say WB right away. Or Syfy. Or whatever that turned into. Syfy was always a weird channel. Could have been Syfy. Yeah. It was one of those cable specific. Couldn't remember. It didn't really survive. CW18? CW. That's what I was thinking of.
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Six months?
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I would eat 12 spiders in front of me right now. Which level is federal prison? Is that like a pretty intense prison? Yeah. It's pretty like a serious one? Yeah, federal prison is the serious one.
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Good question.
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I don't last in prison. Six weeks?
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You could do the whole podcast too. Right. That's how I do it. Watch every one.
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Oh, I wanted you to hit it. Chris Angel tweaks the show to just punch lines. Okay, are we all answering? Do we go around and answer? How do we do this segment? I do spiders.
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You're just going to get the rhythm of outside time and then you'll be out.
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Hey, did you watch the documentary?
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Did you watch it? Yes, I did.
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I am. I'm not anti-documentary. I would like there to be enough content and story for the amount of content you create and deliver. And Martha.
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What a story. Martha delivers.
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She really, truly is like a mind freak.
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Yeah, it's crazy. Come up with five words to call your next huge mistake. Downplay it. Oh, my little trip up. Oh, you mean my little goopsie daisy?
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Yeah, she went to a real one.
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Yeah. It was a federal crime. That's what the whole doc was about. Did you watch it?
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Prison. Do you think who knew what?
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Oh, 100%. Oh, okay. I definitely think she was targeted for clout, though.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. Essentially, what she went to prison for was she got a call from somebody that an FDA approval was not going to go through, so she sold her shares in the company, and then the FDA approved it, and they didn't get it, so of course the company tanked. I think that happens every single day.
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Like, there's no way your person on the inside is not calling you. So I think they definitely were like, we're going to take Martha down. And she walked out in a crocheted scarf.
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Andrew, can I look on with you or do I need to grab my phone?
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No, talk to me. Okay.
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That's a good tradition. Because people get sick on their birthday, you know? Yeah. And you're like, you should be able to pocket it. You should be able to, like, declare, I'm not taking my birthday right now. I'm going to use it later. Yeah. Yeah. Like PTO. Like... Yeah.
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Well, it's not the typical, the other reported alien aircraft or potentially alien aircraft. It's never loud. It's usually like making a low hum. Or like making no noise at all.
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Just like PTO. And it rolls over, so you could wait, and that 40...
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Hey, that's okay. It's okay. This is the last time you'll ever be on, but it's okay. I was doing a pronunciation bit. You have a battle? Battle? Or was it like a bat-battle? Batille.
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a different month that was less expensive just be like and then like 18 be like hey joke's on you yeah it's a prank you're actually born in december congratulations so i that's a really father i don't even know your name i have a january birthday so that's a really sensitive subject for me yeah because on my end it's like everybody spent money everybody ate like crazy everybody's like so they're all it comes to my birthday and they're like
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Like, it's... It's so... People are freaking out, and it's like... The ocean and space. You're just like... What's up with that? I think more so like having kids now and they're like right at the age where they ask a lot of questions and you just quickly start to come to like, yeah, we don't really know a lot. You're like, okay, great white sharks. We can talk about those for a while.
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But then you're like, what else is down there? You're like, we don't really know anything.
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Hopefully you imagine nice stuff because I imagine scary stuff down there, son.
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There's so... And a partridge.
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uh yeah so it's like because even like you talked about the government stuff and i got into that podcast that i talked about the time i was here that i loved the the guy did um i'm not gonna know uh lindsey pain or whatever yeah well i remember the name of his pain hi strange hi strange thank you and he talked like because like for the for the person because i i love talking about alien stuff especially and there's it's such a range of how people feel about it
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But even if you look at what the government's answer, so if you just deal with what they say, it's like, there's stuff up there we don't know what it is. They've acknowledged. That's what they say. So you're left with two thoughts. One, either they do know what it is and they don't want to say what it is, which doesn't feel great. Chilling. Or they legit don't know what it is.
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Also doesn't feel great. So I think it's like there's just so much space. What can we possibly say? Like, oh, we feel great about having our head around what is all up there. Yeah.
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it's literally about lying to yourself like what are you choosing to believe right yeah right when you break it down because i got i was like really on one after that podcast i was talking like everybody about it and most people i totally get this the response is like i can't think about it because it's too it's too vast like it hurts my brain to think about but when you like actually do the like okay but here's what we know is there's this much space and then you're like yeah that's wild
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what's your opinion but the thing about the algorithm that it's introduced is like every thing is a is a big black hole right so any subject that you would like casually discuss before instagram has so much content on it like that if once they find out you like monarch butterflies they're like oh buckle up buckle up
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and it's just like there how is there this much monarch butterfly content and then that person ends up at some thing like you you didn't hear about the migrational shifts they went like and they're like no i'm not deep in the monarch butterfly algorithm it's wild times yeah what's up with that
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We're not spending money or eating any junk. Yeah. Happy birthday to me. Afterthought, Anthony. Here's some carrots and a Christmas present we didn't want.
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It's got a single... A B-drill?
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Just paranoid. I'm always walking the dog, and I hear the helicopter, and I'm like, cool, someone escaped from jail, and they're in my neighborhood.
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You're like Kevin in Home Alone talking to that furnace.
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I'm protecting our family. They got my in-laws had somebody that was on the run and they were chasing with a helicopter and they hid in their next door neighbor's backyard. They were like right on the other side of the fence. They were hiding behind a shed.
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The helicopter.
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I'm sitting here thinking to myself, how did you find them dogs? Hey, hey, look at them dogs.
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I also had a similar to the experience you just had. I may have told you guys this already, but it was, um, we, I was out in my backyard and I saw like these lights and then they started to do, they, they like met each other and they started to do a circle. And I was like in the middle of that podcast and I was just like, it is happening. I am living it.
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And I didn't bring my I had just made this commitment to not have my phone on me all the time to like be present. And I'm like, shoot, I'm out there and I'm just like, this is crazy. I'm ready to tell everybody. And the next day it just reminded me because you talked about the planets. It was a star net.
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It was still cool. I still stand by. What a cool thing to get to witness. They're working together. They're in unison. When you don't know... They're forming an assembly line.
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That's the secret.
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I don't believe.
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Like a real haunted house.
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Yeah.
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I don't miss it.
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It was a bitch.
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Come on.
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TikTok gets banned like Tom Brady retires. It's true. Hey, true that. This one's legit though. Is it? Yeah. Maybe. Maybe this one's real.
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I don't know either.
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Somebody needs help in the state of... Oh, yeah. One of the... I don't know. South Korea. Martial law?
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Yeah, I heard that was wild.
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I'm not deep on that one. I don't know much. I just saw that they declared martial law.
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Because it's a joke.
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It's a callback.
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One of my running gags. One of my classic running gags I do with you guys.
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Yeah, I would just make that part of your get ready with me in the morning routine. Am I a mind freak?
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I was about to go on about beanies.
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I mean, like, obviously, this is sounding like he... It's really weird. Yeah, it's strange. Well, it was from the jump it was weird, because it happened, like, on the street of New York City, and dude just ran away? Yeah.
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Like, an e-bike. Yeah.
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Oh, I didn't see that.
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I'm not that... No.
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But just from the jump, it was odd. I saw a lot of like, how did he know? This guy was in a weird spot for like a 5 a.m. meeting or something. It's such an odd story.
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Gun maker. Hot take. I know it's going to lose its followers. I'm not going to say. I don't love that people can 3D print their own guns.
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prove it i don't like was that a thing of duct tape he was right we were looking at getting a 3d printer to make guns and i i was like it's just when you say that you can 3d print i'm like oh yeah i guess you could and my brain went to like it's like a raccoon that sits in a garbage can That's immediately what my plans were for the printer. So the range of people buying 3D printers is very wide.
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Did you ever watch the guy that was doing the David Blaine YouTube videos? So funny. I used to weep. The Cheez-Its. Is that what you're talking about? You're a demon, David Blaine.
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I'm telling you, I used to cry. They're still good. Cry real tears. Well, Merry Christmas, everyone.
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That's right.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, guys. I am working somewhere new. You can follow along my stuff, per usual, at The Bible is Funny on Instagram. And as long as we have TikTok here with us, we do a podcast, The Bible is Funny podcast. You guys got to come back on. We just... This is exciting. It's been four years. That's not true. We did a whole show together like last year. Sure.
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We just got a way to do guests, like a cool new way to do guests. Excellent. We need to figure that out. Okay. ASAP. So we have a podcast, The Bible's Funny Podcast. And next year- 2025? It's happening. 2025, the new card game's coming out. Volume 2.
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The card game is so excited about that. Let's go. You're going to be so rich. People have been asking because it's kind of a small game, if I'm being honest. There's not like a lot of cards. The feedback's been great.
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Cool. And there's like, what I'm really excited about is we, so the first game, we all played it together. It's like quotes from the Bible and like putting them in kind of fun context and and this new version has Bible nouns placed into context. Perfect. It truly is a fun game. It makes me giggle. Lighthearted. I'm very excited about this game. Very fun. And they can get that on Amazon?
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They can get it on Amazon. They can get it on my Instagram link, on my Etsy shop, and then they get a little special gift.
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you do like greeting cards as well holiday cards funny ones we do greeting cards yeah that's true check them out I wanted to yes and that I was really trying hard we do that we do that as well we got all of those things going on thanks for asking alright guys we'll see you on Patreon love you Merry Christmas Merry Christmas
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Oh, with the 12 Days of Christmas?
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Goodness. Let's just spend this whole podcast talking about all the fun next year. Next Lily's birthday. Next Christmas.
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Somebody do this podcast.
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Really hope I'm saying that right.
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Mogadishu.
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Oh! I'm smarter than Lily! Lily!
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Oh, so some crazy stuff's been happening in this world. Barely.
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Yeah, which is like a, they use that in.
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No, this video, what's his name? You know Cancel This Clothing? He's a guy on TikTok. He does a lot of conspiracy stuff. Cancel, if he saw his face, Cancel This. Cancel This. Yeah, this guy. Him?
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He did a great video, though, talking about, like, which we've talked about multiple times on this podcast. Don't just trust a narrative that is put out. Yeah. either side. True. And he gave a lot of stuff to think about saying that, is there a possibility that this could be a move from the deep state to start the role towards moving towards a new war and IE with China? Yeah.
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But the way that they're doing it would be a very smart way is that they're now using podcasters as the new mainstream media as opposed to pumping it through like CNN, ABC, Fox News.
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But not like Sean Ryan and the guy that was on. They probably are not aware.
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But they're getting fed information to where it's just like, oh, well, this could be. So it's because you think about like the. They're smarter. They're so smart. And they've been doing this since forever.
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That whole Mossad on 60 Minutes thing, it's just weird. It makes no sense. It's like the CIA coming out and being like, hey, we formed this coup in Somalia. This is what we did. And it's like, whoa, they would never do that.
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For those who don't know what we're talking about, we've got to give some context. So this guy who runs a social media account, and he does a lot of interference with whistleblowers and putting stories out of war crimes, different stuff that's happening in the intelligence, military, just kind of publicizes it.
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And he was on Sean Ryan because he received an email from the man who supposedly blew up the Tesla truck at the Trump Tower or Trump Hotel.
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It was December 29th. The 30th. Yeah, I think it was the 30th. And basically the guy was like, I need to get in front of Fox News, Joe Rogan, Sean Ryan, whoever, because I have this information that will just change everything. And he's like, one, he has a bunch of reports on these war crimes that happened in... 2019. Was it Afghanistan? Yeah.
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Yeah. Um, and then he's like, and regarding the drones, he's like, they are Chinese drones sent from submarines in the Atlantic. They have this technology, this, he called it gravitic technology, which is basically an anti-gravity technology. And he said that China and the U S are the only countries in the world that have this technology.
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And China is now using it and flying over the U S and you can't,
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interfere with this technology like you can't shoot them down like there's no limit to the payload yeah no limit to the payload they said that they could literally fly over the white house and it'd be a checkmate and so instantly that's like well that's terrifying yeah but then it's like well then is that real you know because it's there's a lot of wait i have more questions
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Yeah, then could it carry anything?
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No, it was Sean Ryan's producer that told him to redact.
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We can't say his name or their name, whatever. But the Tesla truck guy was weird, which they said on the Sean Ryan show, everyone should just go watch it and come out with your own conclusions, but watch it not at full face value.
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But supposedly this man unalived himself with a, was it a Desert Eagle 50 or whatever? I don't know. I don't know. Which is a very, very powerful handgun. But they said that you would have been able to see the recoil within the Tesla truck. But they're saying that it's a self-driving, so he could have done it before and it drove up.
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But he purposely chose the Tesla truck because he knew that there wouldn't be any casualties. but then his body was completely burnt. And so the only way they were, they couldn't look at him and identify him. They only found his ID and passport, which were not burnt.
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Well, yeah, and that's what's confusing, right? But he also said that he, in that email, that he was making his way to the southern border to try to... Yeah, he was trying to get... But I don't think I'll get across. Yeah.
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Yeah. He also said that, or whoever did the investigation said that the DNA samples did not match his newborn son. And they're saying that his motive was that he was so mad that he found out his son was not his that he decided to do this whole thing. Just had to break down.
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Could it be the fact that it was not the guy?
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Yeah, that'd be a wild twist. But apparently this guy, it was Green Beret, super high up in ranks. Like, I mean, he was like so many know by respectable people that vouch for him.
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But I love that cancel this clothing guy on TikTok. He really is just like, don't trust. He's like, like if you're buying into this narrative, even like, dude, it makes so much sense for like the CIA or deep state, whatever they are to start using conspiracy theorists.
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to push another narrative that they want to be pushed because they're seeing, oh, people, you can look at any stat that people are losing faith in mainstream media. Why not start targeting people that are like, well, we don't trust mainstream media. We trust these guys. We trust ninjas or butterflies. Yeah, the amount of
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Tim Kennedy's also been on Sean Ryan, who's also a Green Beret, right?
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Either way, the whole stuff is super weird. Way out of my realm of... I don't want to speak into it too much because I don't know too much about it.
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Yeah, let's start getting back to Nephilim and stuff.
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I literally can't get Sam Tripoli out of my head now when he talked about- Yes.
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JetBlue.
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No, we can talk about it right now.
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They're in the landing gear.
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We don't know. Weird. That's a weird accident. There was a flight from New York to Florida and they were found when they landed, when they went to like survey or whatever. Like, oh, there's two unalived people in the landing gear.
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But I bring up all the Sean Ryan stuff because I really did respect the one guy on TikTok. It's just like, we should never just trust something at face value and always understand that the U.S. is built off the military complex. So the deep state, they want to go to war constantly. Yeah.
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And if there's something that is provoking something or provoking the U S to go to war, just balance it, you know, like because, or no, was it military industrial complex? That's what it's called, right? Did I say that?
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Yeah, did you hear that part?
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And then he started going into like... Yeah, apparently they, if I'm remembering it right, they have stopped two missiles going off within the United States that were Iranian missiles that were snuck over the border, but supposedly there's hundreds, if not thousands of missiles that were smuggled into the U.S. that are Iranian missiles.
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Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank is wanting to buy TikTok. Really? For $300 billion. $300 billion? $300 billion. That's what it's worth in the U.S. Don't doubt it. That'd be crazy.
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Oh, I got the tweet right here. Go ahead. America.
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Wait, this is a Canada thing.
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Yeah. This came out, uh, January 6th.
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Yeah. Yeah. He said many people in Canada love being the 51st, uh, in Canada. He says love like it's already happened. Many people in Canada love being the 51st state. The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned.
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If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be totally secure.
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You should have dubbed the whole tweet.
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Totally secure from the threat of Russia and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great nation it would be. Dude.
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We should ask our fellow Canadians that watch, would you guys want to be the 51st state? Or are you just guys, just you, no.
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Yeah, everyone's... We don't want to be. Because there's people that are like, oh, I'm Canadian, I would love to be on the 51st state. But I'm sure there's a lot of Canadians that would be like, no.
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That's like Canada being like, hey, do you guys want to be a new territory in Canada? Like... Well, actually, it depends.
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They wouldn't care.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should call it the Gulf of Friendship. The Gulf of Love.
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The gulf of love is deep and chilly. Yeah, dude.
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Hawaii? Oh, Hawaii? I thought you just meant Alaska.
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Wasn't it Russia? It's just a little northeast.
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East. Alaska and Japan?
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No, they are. I mean, Japan, no. It's from Russia, right? Yes. Yeah, okay. Whatever.
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150,000.
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That's so clever. No, when the Spanish explorers landed there, They're asking the natives, what is this land called? And they kept on saying Yucatan, Yucatan. And Yucatan means I don't know what you're saying. That's so funny. So they're like, this is called the Yucatan Peninsula, which literally means I don't know what you're saying. I heard that in a sermon one time.
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No, the original Blippi sold. How much did original, original?
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Oh, speaking of Indians, though, did you know that we got an
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He's not really dead.
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Don't wrap them around your neck. Just for your feet. Unless you want them as a scarf. Choke your ankle out.
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Yeah, but guess how much he made by selling his image. I have no idea. $120 million. Dude, we're in the wrong field. He sold it after pooping on a person. He said, I'm going to sell it. And he made $120 million. That's wild, man.
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This is actually true because me and Lily took it last night and I went just like, but like so peacefully. I left so peacefully in his sleep. Yeah, it was great.
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yeah and then literally did not wake up groggy even though the girls woke me up like the door that opens when it opens it goes yeah i go scared the crap out of me i don't know what sound i was expecting it literally sounds like i've done it just like Yeah. Yeah. Magic Mind, their whole month of January, they're focusing on mental wealth. Yes. Yes. Which we talked about on the last episode.
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And if you do magicmind.com forward slash ninja Jan, ninja J-A-N. Yes. You get 45% off your bundle. Try it. And this product, I truly do love. It's amazing. It's amazing. I had coffee this morning and then took this. I'm not going to drink again because I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to drink two in a day or otherwise your brain will explode.
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I know. Magic Mind, if you see this, send us some more. of your stuff and your gummies, dude. I freaking love the gummies.
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Um, here's the magic mine.
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Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, brother. Pinkies out. I just accidentally drank the sleepy one. Oh no. Oh no. Guys, I think we should wrap it up.
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I did, too.
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Magic Mine. Awaken your third eye. Ooh. Enter the third realm. No, no, no. Thank you. Don't do that.
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We got to memorize the whole thing. Every time it blows like dark and blowy outside.
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Blowy? Windy.
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Oh, girl. It's very blowy and windy today.
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Complete cold jacket I put on today for this weather blows.
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So good. But you know what time it is. It's...
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She mumbles constantly.
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The Taliban.
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Hey, they're divorced. They do a lot of humanitarian stuff, too, though.
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I don't know. You just took away a lot of meals and resources for people that need them. See?
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Whoa. Whoa. That's interesting.
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I think they purchased something. It was somewhere in Asia, maybe India or something. They purchased the land and the right to this village's water, and they're using it for their Nestle water, and now the village can't get their own water. They get the runoff stuff that has a bunch of chemicals, all this bad stuff in it. That's terrible. That's horrible. They took away their water.
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You look like a doctor. One of those hip doctors?
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That's a pretty good answer. I'll probably do that.
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He's got too many cars. Deep state. What? That's who I would want to bankrupt. The Deep State. That's a good one. They print their own money, so never mind.
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He's getting that confidence. Hey, everybody's a child of God.
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Bill Gates? Yes.
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I apologize.
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We should add when we do that like little kid show noises. I don't know what they are called.
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We can do that.
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Oh, I hate. I've seen this.
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Dude, 23 contacts. That's like. Dude.
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Speaking of the sins of the father and the mother.
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Have you ever heard of the man named Pieri Reyes?
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From the late 1400s, early 1500s? Pieri or is it Pier? Pieri. P-I-R-I. Reyes. Reyes. Pieri. Piri Reis was an admiral in the Ottoman Empire's Turkish naval fleet. And he made a map, which we've shown the map on here before, but I know the story behind it now. Okay. He made a map in the early 1500s. He drew it in 1513. And it was discovered recently that What was the year?
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Oh, they found it, this map in... Where the freak did I put it?
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What the flip? I think it was 1818? Hold on, are you freaking kidding me? Uncovered? Yeah, 1818. Or was it 1918? Dang it. I swear it was the 1900s.
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P-I-R-I... space R-E-I-S map discovered. Let's just get the right date.
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The Great Depression. They're saying it's one of the most accurate maps, and they're saying this map actually has Antarctica on it. Wow. And Antarctica wasn't discovered. I wrote these notes down terribly, and I apologize. It wasn't discovered until 1820. Wow. Antarctica wasn't, supposedly. Wow.
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But they're saying that this map, so this man who was in the Turkish naval fleet, and he was actually brought up by his uncle who was in the Turkish naval fleet. But before that, he was trained with his uncle as a pirate. A trained pirate. Pirates for the Ottoman Empire.
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And so this dude sailed like all over the world and he composed this map and they're speculating that he composed this map based off of ancient maps dating over 4,000 years old, showing Antarctica had life on it.
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Vegetation, animals, life.
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And if you line up Antarctica and this map that he made, the Piri Rise map. Yeah. it shows the coastline of Antarctica almost perfectly that they're saying the way that they did this map making, you could only really do it from an aerial point of view. To have that type of accuracy.
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They're speculating that the maps that he had to reference to make his own map were ancient maps where they had this technology of map making that we have no idea what it was. That is so crazy.
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Yeah. And they're saying what Antarctica looked like. That could potentially be what it looked like 10,000 years ago with no ice, all this stuff.
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I said 4,000.
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And a lot of people have speculated that this guy was just a kook and he was just making up a map, but he created this, um, this Atlas. Um, one of the earliest composed met, what was it? Um, I did a terrible job writing notes. I apologize. Oh, here you go. He made the most accurate atlas navigating the Mediterranean. Wow.
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Like today, it's still one of the most accurate maps that you could have made in the 1500s. And it was used by everyone, his atlas. So the dude knew what he was doing. Right. And so he made this map. He composed this map and then gave it to the... What do you call him? The sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Oh, wow. Okay. And the sultan just stashed it away in his archives.
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So no one ever used it and it wasn't discovered until 1929. Dude.
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I don't know, but... Oh, I mean, we could just base theories off of... They don't say anything?
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And, like, the full map, it's, like, only a section of the map as well, so it doesn't show the full map. But he, like...
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the the u.s coast south american coast i mean it's like dead on it's so almost perfect yeah and my thought is like you know turkey has a lot of mysteries behind it as the gobekli tepe and like who knows what he could have come in contact with because he was also sailing all around the world talking to different people um that's so true but what was he gonna say that's crazy
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A theory is, this is a crazy theory, that Antarctica is actually Atlantis.
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There's maps showing the continent of Atlantis. Some people theorize that it was literally smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. And 4,000 years ago, there was this cataclysm that happened, a flood or a meteor or the pole shift or all three. Yeah. And that it actually moved all the continents and stuff and Atlantis actually shifted to the bottom of the earth.
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What are you saying?
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But yeah, people theorize that it could be Atlantis because of, and it's kind of weird if you think about people visiting Antarctica, like Buzz Aldrin saying that there's pyramids and them discovering just different terrain under the ice, soil, plants, lakes, riverbeds.
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Easy. Here's that part of the map where he draws like so you can see like Brazil and then Antarctica at the bottom. So it looks like it was like attached to South America.
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But yeah, I don't know. I thought that was a very fascinating story. I did a terrible job of explaining it and I apologize. You did great. But the fact that this dude compiled this map that showed Antarctica and that it had vegetation, it had animals, it had life on it. Yeah, that's weird. And the coast matches almost dead on to our modern day depiction of the coast without ice on it.
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It's just, it's so fascinating to me.
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Yeah. Well, yeah, I think so. Because they're saying that this map, it looks like it could have been based off of a map or other maps 4,000 years prior, which 4,000 years from us would be the flood. And so is there a potential that these land masses were all connected in different ways and then the flood happened and then that's where all this separation happened?
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Or could have the animals been on the ark, been the exact genetic makeup to make all the other animals today.
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Probably with any golden retrievers on the ark.
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Did you know they have that in the Ark Museum? Dinosaurs? Dinosaurs. Yeah, that's awesome.
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We did that one Carl video. Yeah.
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I feel like the movie definitely ruined the potential historic...
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Story of it.
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Because Atlantis, was it Plato that wrote about Atlantis? I don't know.
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Yeah, well, Plato talks about, it's like this story goes way back to where ancient Egyptians talked about it. Basically, all these, and he talks about how they were just so technologically advanced. So let's just theorize. Let's just have fun for a second. Yeah. Antarctica, what if that was Atlantis? And Atlantis was an empire that was waging war on all the other empires.
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They're technically the bad guys. And the god or gods decided to flood it, strike it down because of their evilness, and then they were no more. So could it be that Atlantis... was occupied or they had the technology of the watchers where they were technologically advanced and God said, no more like in Genesis, like the seed wars, all that stuff.
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So wiped them out, put them on the bottom of the earth. But could there still be remnants like the Gobekli Tepe, but like more preserved because it's been under ice for thousands and thousands of years. And then they discovered it. And so that's why Antarctica is so secretive. That's why no one can name claim to it. Because if you do, you have all the control.
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Countries that are at war with one another.
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He says, what did he say? Humanity is not ready for this. There's things that humanity is not ready to see or something like that. Let's do another little speculative. Let's have fun with it.
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Let's make a little story out of this. What if there are actual ancient civilizations still living on Antarctica that are still technologically advanced and the countries around the world don't name claim to Antarctica but are given permission to be there? That's why no country has taken possession of Antarctica.
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All right.
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Didn't we think... The Babel happened after the flood.
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It would seem like the flood would have been... From people talking about the pole shift, the Adam and Eve theory and stuff. Mm-hmm. the pole shift causes plates to shift and these massive floods all over the world. That seems like a more reasonable thing to me.
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Saying that Atlantis was in the Atlantic Ocean, potentially the poles switched, which caused a worldwide flood, which shifted the tectonic plate that Atlantis was on to the bottom of the earth and all the countries moved around.
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Get out?
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They were imprisoned. They took out the Nephilim. They're spawned. They're spawned.
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Potentially. I don't know. I feel like we...
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Also, the Bible does not say everything that has ever happened in the world. Yeah. It was very specific to- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It was specific to a people group and what needed to be said. And the whole point of scripture was to show the fall of man in needing of a savior and then the savior coming to where we can one day be with the savior.
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You don't need to talk about, oh, this civilization was lost because of the flood. Oh, this civilization was Atlantis and they had all this technology. That doesn't do anything to the overall picture, meaning God wants us to be with him.
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Yeah. The story of redemption.
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The Bible. Should I narrate the whole Bible like that?
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I'm a method actor. I'll have to save my other story for next week because it's a long one.
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So next week we'll talk about The Mothman.
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Tuesday. We'll see.
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Miss Rachel's Net Worth. Rachel getting that bagged.
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In so many words.
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But they didn't.
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I think your questions are great.
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Even your cereal milk one, which obviously you're a psychopath if you put in milk first and then cereal.
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I don't know.
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I love a rainbow. That's terrible lyrics.
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I love that one specific rainbow.
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Right after this, a continuation.
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Yep. And guess what? Go to sundaycoolswag.com and get yourself some new NAB ninjas are butterflies. Socks.
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Don't say it like that. A little pink on it. It's fun.
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We just lost sales. What? What are you talking about? Company's crashing. No, let me do it. Crap, I'm getting a call. Hold on, it's my dad. Dad? This isn't good. It's over? What's over? Because Andy was making fun of our new socks? With the pink? No. Yeah, men can wear them too. I wear them too. Pink can kind of be a cool color sometimes for men.
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Yeah, because there's also a really cool color because they're like an off-white, like a vintage white with orange, pink, red, and orange.
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And he says hey. No? Ooh, okay. Yeah, I won't say that to him. Okay. All right. I'll leave you. Bye. What do you say? We're done. Company's done. Closing the doors.
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I didn't cut you off.
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After she found out that the credits are not free, they have to pay for credits.
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She downloaded like 20 books after she found out that we had to pay for them, including Llama Llama Red Pajama, which is a child's book.
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Well, then afterwards, you at least downloaded four.
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Spotify, they're a rigged system. What do you mean? We pay for the dual family membership. Ours is the dual one, so it's just two accounts. But only the account manager can listen to audiobooks. Not the other person.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
That's not true.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Why is life so hard? Hey, comment your least favorite subscription and let's get them. Should we bring cable back? But it shouldn't be Patreon because it's really good and you get actual benefits from it. Right? Right! All right, guys. We love you. We love you. Bye. Bye. Bye.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Lily hates the Libby. Hates libraries. She wants them all to burn.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
That was fun. You killed it.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Do you know what song it's based off of?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Really awesome.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Speaking of the Beastie Boys, everyone be quiet. Because we have a question today. You know, the world has seen a lot. America has seen a lot this past year. It's interesting to see what is going to happen this coming year in 2025. You know, in a couple of days, President Trump is going to be inaugurated.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
And who knows what the world's going to be like this year, the year after, like what's going to happen next. It could be scary. It could be exciting. We don't know. So today's question is sent in by a viewer. Should we storm the Capitol? Should we storm the Capitol?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
I mean, Lily, who's probably the most patriotic person, should probably answer first, right?
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Andy yeah I trust him I think yeah yeah of course I mean yeah I'd follow him for the cause yeah for the cause Lily should we storm the Capitol no I mean I'm not surprised I don't know why you guys are surprised oh gosh I didn't I did not think that would make me physically ill
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
And of course, Lily, we're talking about sending a storm to the capital of Mogadishu, Somalia. The capital of Somalia? The capital of Somalia, because they're currently experiencing a major drought and famine. And along with a lot of other Eastern African countries... And I think if we've talked about weather manipulation before, Andy.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Gosh, all they want to do is take, take, take, keep, keep, keep, not give.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Look at her in her little Hollywood glasses, just wanting to keep everything for herself.
Serialously with Annie Elise
223: The Truth About Hannah Kobayashi: Love Triangle Scam, She's Refusing to Leave Mexico & The Shocking Twist
You know, just love all the love and support she has. Everybody's praying for her safe return. And, you know, we're just grateful for everything that everybody's been outpouring. It's been overwhelming. Yeah.
Serialously with Annie Elise
223: The Truth About Hannah Kobayashi: Love Triangle Scam, She's Refusing to Leave Mexico & The Shocking Twist
Oh, she's the kindest heart, you know. And everything about her was just beautiful, you know.
Serialously with Annie Elise
223: The Truth About Hannah Kobayashi: Love Triangle Scam, She's Refusing to Leave Mexico & The Shocking Twist
I just wish that I could have been there more for her, you know. And now you are. Yeah, trying, you know. You know, it's just, yeah. Trying to get closer to her, trying to find her is everything.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Down by Sears on the right-hand side, across the borders. Magical Gardens.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
Was it a conversation where she was trying to convince you to not leave? And that's why you guys made this pact?
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
No. Can you think of why he would do that? Is there any significance to that particular action by him? I don't know. Because we have all these other body parts that are buried or thrown off in vacuums or whatever, not easily found, maybe by animals, but certainly not people.
Sword and Scale
Episode 285
And then we find a torched car with a head. If you had to speculate, why did Eric do that? I don't know why. There's no religious reason? No. Nothing like that? No.
The Bulwark Podcast
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The Daily Show: Ears Edition
GOP Shills for Tesla, Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | Peter Wolf
That's a good point. Right? Yeah, taking a chance. Have you thought about that, dude? But, you know, at a certain point, it's just like, you know, you got to prepare for this.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
GOP Shills for Tesla, Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | Peter Wolf
It is what it is.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
GOP Shills for Tesla, Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | Peter Wolf
You don't give me right-wing prepper vibe. No, I'm not a right-winger at all. I have no idea how to, you know, if you drop me off in a mountain somewhere, like, I'd survive for a few days. What do you think...
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
GOP Shills for Tesla, Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | Peter Wolf
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The Daily Show: Ears Edition
GOP Shills for Tesla, Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | Peter Wolf
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
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The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
PTFO - We Fact-Checked Stephen A.'s LeBron and Kobe Story — and Polled 1,000+ Voters on His Presidential Campaign
Now, I got something written down. You know, they asked me to kind of stay on course or whatever the case may be, but... Laker Nation, man, I would be selling y'all short if I read off this , so I'm gonna go straight from the heart.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I'm trying to save my marriage after finding out that my wife had a three-month affair with her boss. Oh, man. And I don't know what to do.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. I've told a couple of close friends.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, it went well. They're supportive. I don't think they fully understand why I want to try to save it.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I've been more okay with that lately. Good, awesome. I think I've gotten to the point where I am I know I'm going to be okay if this ends.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Oh yeah. That would take time. There you go. There you go.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, over the past year or so, uh, we've been married about three years now. And this last year has been really hard dealing with, um, my wife has been dealing with a lack of attraction towards me over the last year.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, She says that I am overwhelming in my desire. She says that I give her too much and that she instinctively pulls back. We've been dealing with that for the last year. And honestly, we got to the point where we were wondering if she was asexual or trying to figure that out. And at work, she... A sexual what? She just lacked desire? She lacked desire.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
And I was trying everything to reboot it, and nothing was working. And then at work, she felt attraction towards this other man, and she explored it and turned into a three-month affair.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. Um, I mean, they were friends for a while at work. Um, but, and I, I found out in stages, she, she lied to me about pretty severely. Um, right before Christmas, she told me that she had feelings for him. And she basically told me that it was an emotional affair. And then I found notes that they'd written back and forth that were pretty explicit.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
And then I found more details and eventually it all came out. And I, at this point, I am confident that, that I know everything, but it was a battle to drag it out. Um, I think that it was genuinely that they were good friends. They were working together really closely, and then right around August of last year, I think she found out that he found her attractive.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
She felt something, and she pursued it. That continued until early November. Um, and then I found out about it around Christmas and we've been really struggling. We're basically taking our marriage a week at a time right now. Okay. Um, she's therapy. She's gone to two appointments as a third appointment today. I just got my insurance back and I am about to start looking for a good therapist.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I'm trying to save my marriage after finding out that my wife had a three-month affair with her boss. Oh, man. And I don't know what to do. My wife has been dealing with a lack of attraction towards me. She says that I am overwhelming in my desire. Why do you want to save this marriage?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Both of us love each other a lot. There's a lot of love between us. We care about each other deeply, but we're dealing with the lack of attraction on her side. We're dealing with the fact that I want more than she does. We're dealing with the fact that... it seems like we want different things, but we both love each other deeply. And I want to save this marriage.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I love her more than I've loved anyone else in my life. But I don't know if those differences and things that we are dealing with can be overcome or if it's worth fighting for. So I need someone to tell me if it's worth fighting for or if I should try to find happiness elsewhere.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I'm a little bit on the messy side. I am extremely empathetic and that I think causes me to appear unconfident a lot. I also have been through three job losses in the last year. So this is about, this is about a bad job. I, I got laid off.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
What's up, dude? Well, I don't blame you. It's okay. We're a long way from there.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
All right, so what's up? So my question today is, how can I overcome bitterness and resentment towards my wife's career choice?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
No. What does she do for a living? It's not what you think, Dr. John.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Right now, she's currently an administrator at our church and oversees a nonprofit organization.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Basically, in a sense, and it's been a slow evolution over the past kind of 12 years into that. It started out as a kind of an eight to five job or whatever, and it's turned into something totally different.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yeah. Yeah. So what does she get?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yeah. Well, yeah, there are seasons that are really heavy and stuff. Right. But yeah, like, and it just seems to get more and tighter all the time. And just, it used to be one fire every once in a while. Now it's everything's on fire all the time. Yeah. So what does she get? I mean, I don't know. Like she, she has been diagnosed with ADHD.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Uh, probably fulfillment, I would think. And just, and yeah, And just purpose, I guess. She loves people. She loves caring for people and just trying to help people out, right? So what about you? So what about me what?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
It's lack of focus on... things at home and it just seems like every time that there's I say yes and agree to something or whatever to try and help her out and it just gets put on me forever kind of thing and it's even just we have a daughter as well And it's just the time that, and I'm self-employed, so I don't have an eight to five job either.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
So it's trying to be at home for her, get her to school on time. Just, I don't want to do this alone at times either.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Uh, we've discussed about, we've talked about it.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Uh, we've talked about schedule and. Yeah, that's, those are distractions. Yeah. Yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
I can say that we've talked, maybe not to the depth of that, right? But it's more the fact that I'm scared that I will let my emotions or my tone or my resentment kind of bubble up. And if I really told her the truth, that it would destroy her too.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Probably in a roundabout way, yeah. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
I would say you're spot on there.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yeah, and I would say even that she's out emotionally too because she gets purpose or fulfilled in that role and emotionally in a part from outside, right, or from what she's doing.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yep. Yeah, I know it totally does.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
She is, but I know what my words can do too, right?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yeah, no, no. Yeah, I just struggle with how to say it. All right, let's role play.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Basically what you said, basically, like that she's not present, she's not there. No, no. Like we're last place, basically.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
I miss the life that we planned together. I miss her being present when I'm there.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Suddenly Wants a Divorce After 23 Years
Yeah, those are definitely things that are coming up now too as she's getting older.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Hey, Rachel. Hey, George. Hope you guys are doing good. Stoked to talk to you all today.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yeah, so I'm 27 years old. I'm an aircraft mechanic. I make about $70,000 a year, give or take. We get overtime and stuff. But I just had a baby about 30 days ago.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
And thank you. Thank you. Um, so me and my fiance, we're getting married in October. We're not currently married. Um, so I bought a house back in 2023 and she has a house and her house is bigger. So we moved into our house. And, um, in the meantime, I have my house being rented and I just wanted to know, like, um, it was always the goal of ours to get into real estate.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
I just wanted to get a clear picture if we're doing this the right way and get a little advice on what you guys will do as far as my situation.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yes, sir. They're about probably like 10, 15 minutes apart.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Um, yeah. So luckily we have no consumer debt. Um, just our mortgages.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So on my home, I owe 177 and on her home shows 270. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
She makes 80 as well. She'll be getting a promotion next year. She'll be making, I'm sorry, she'll be making 80 next year and they'll creep up from there.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So it's renting out for $1,750, and the mortgage is $1,160. Okay. About $7,000 a year, give or take. Yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
That was the goal after we get married. We were going to combine everything.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
That was actually a segue into, so I have like 80 grand in a high yield savings. And so I didn't know if it would have been smart to like throw it at my mortgage now and then recast it towards a smaller payment. But so based off what y'all are saying, it would make sense to sell and then just throw that entire lump.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Well, luckily, yeah, we're blessed in that area. Her dad is in a position to help us out with that.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
The house is – so she just bought it like not too long ago. It's worth like $308 or something like that.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Hi. I am struggling to get on top of my debt. I feel like every time I get, you know, or I see a light at the end of the tunnel, I'm just, you know, there's something else that piles on on top of it. And I would just like some advice on how I can, you know, continue to see the light at the end of the tunnel and just continue to work to try and get on top of my debt.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
So I would say about 15 to 16,000 of that is in credit cards. Okay. And then the other, you know, five to six would probably be just stuck in medical right now.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
I'm making about 55,000 for my base salary.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
And then I get paid commission. That would take me to about 65 to 70,000. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
I'm bringing in about $4,300 a month right now.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
I really throw everything that I can at my debt. So between my rent and my groceries and paying child support and everything that I've got, And I'm really sitting at a hundred bucks at the end of the month. Okay. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Yeah. Um, I'm, I'm just sitting down and going through all of the minimal, basically have everything. I'm following the baby step about, you know, having, I've got about two grand in savings right now. Okay. Um, And I'm just throwing everything possible that I can at one debt.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Um, and just the thing that's hard for me is between my, I would say one of my biggest expenses right now is my attorney fees. Um, just because I'm still actively going through, um, my son and everything. And yeah, just throwing, um, money that way.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Um, I mean, last month I just spent, or I just paid him 1200 bucks. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Um, I'm hoping this year, I mean, um, My ex, she and I were never married. Okay. Um, so it's just been, you know, luckily I haven't had to deal with the divorce side of it. Just battling.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Correct, yeah. We should just have one more hearing left.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Well, they're actually relatively low because I've had these credit cards for a while now. So I was able to stay on top of them. I was doing really, really well about, you know, just paying them off. I mean, only putting, you know, like putting gas and groceries on the credit cards and then just paying them off.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
So I've got an American express card that I just do the minimum payment, which right now is about, you know, $250. I've got a capital one. That's about the same $250. Um, my visa, um, pretty low. But my visa, other than my attorney fees, is the lowest amount. So I'm throwing probably $500 towards that.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
Probably $300 right now, as much as I can.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Time to Stop Surviving and Start Taking Control
It's almost been every single month at this point.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
I've got two. Well, I've got a main point and a question for you. My main point is my wife and I got married in May. And we are debt-free. We paid off $65,000 in less than 12 months.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah. Super happy about that. God is good, and FPU definitely helped us.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah, so we're just a bit concerned about my mother. She's 69. She has about $4,000 in retirement. So, you know, not a whole lot. And we're just a bit concerned about, you know, doing things the biblical way, honoring the Lord, honoring her. You know, when my grandparents pass, she's not going to really have a whole lot left from them.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
So, you know, we are kind of preparing ourselves for the financial burden of maybe having to take care of her and, you know, It's not that we don't want to. We definitely want to help her out. But what exactly advice would you give to us? We try to get her FPU. She doesn't really seem too interested in that. So what advice would you give us?
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Luckily, she does not have debt. I think maybe she has maybe like one credit card. It's got like maybe $300 on it. Uh, other than that, no.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah. So she, um, she has social security, uh, And then she takes that, and then she also substitute teaches. But a recent kind of job event has maybe ruled that out. So we're trying to encourage her to just get any job. She has a college degree. She could go be a bank teller, but she's very picky about what she wants to do.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
and you know so she's not very encouraged to go find a new job um what's her social security benefit payment uh i think it's between 12 and 16. is that enough to cover her bills barely did she ask you for your help your advice Not really. So, you know, every now and then she'll ask me for money. Do you give it to her? Yeah, it's my mom, man. Yeah, I do.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
I would say probably once a month and, you know, anything I can do, whether it's an extra 20 or... Why would I get a job when I have Ryan? Yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah, she's actually, no medications, you know, great health.
The Ramsey Show
Your Income Is Your Greatest Wealth Building Tool
Yeah, we've talked about it. She definitely doesn't like it at all, and so that's why I'm trying to figure out.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
Season 6 Trailer
We are back. Here's what you can expect from this season of the Ryan League podcast. Simplicity. Each episode is going to be short and sweet. This could easily be the best year of your life. It's not about knowing better. It's not about learning anything new. It's about applying what we already know. Knowing better isn't the same as doing better. And that gap is where the magic happens.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
Season 6 Trailer
So stop second guessing yourself because the world doesn't need a perfect version. It just needs you to show up with what you've got. And you've just got to trust that it's enough to make a difference. And guess what? You are going to be just fine. You have handled hard before. So you can handle this too. Keep going, my friend. You asked for this. Thanks for listening to the Ryan Leak Podcast.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
Welcome to the Ryan Leak Podcast, the podcast formerly known as Followership with Ryan Leak. Now, it has been over 18 months since we have recorded an episode, and I am very excited to say these words. We are back. Now, before I can tell you exactly what you can expect, in the future from the Ryan Leak Podcast, allow me to tell you the story of how we got where we are right now.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
But essentially, the feedback that we've gotten from our listeners is that people would hear me speak at their job, at an event, at their church, wherever. And then they would come to this podcast to hear more of what they heard on the stage. And they simply weren't getting what they came for. So that was something we definitely took note of. Secondly, I hit a wall about 18 months ago.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
I was doing too much. I had a little bit of a health scare. I was overweight by about 35 pounds. And I was just running and gunning and had so many things going on in my life that I had to make a decision to cut something.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
And as much as I love podcasts and believe they can add value to people's lives, I believe when it comes to priorities, you do need to know what comes first, but you also need to know what comes last. And inevitably, I had to come to the realization that two podcasts definitely were actually a distraction for me.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
It was actually taking me away from my actual business, which is writing books and speaking around the world. It also was taking away from my family. And so for 18 months, I put a pause on recording my own podcast. I also put a pause on going on other people's podcasts. I think over the last 18 months, I maybe was on one
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
or two podcasts that were really connected to events I was already speaking at, but I had to create some margin in my schedule to get a healthier rhythm. And so here we are, 18 months later, I am 35 pounds lighter, and I have a much healthier rhythm. A rhythm where I actually feel like I'm in a really good place to be able to record a new podcast that we're just calling the Ryan Leak Podcast.
The Ryan Leak Podcast
We're Back
And this time, it feels like it fits into my life rather than competing with it. And I have found a format that I believe is going to serve you extremely well. And I believe that this format aligns with my ability to show up and deliver on a consistent basis. So... Yes, we're back. And I believe it's going to be better than ever.
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We're Back
So here's what you can expect from this season of the Ryan League Podcast. Simplicity. Each episode is going to be short and sweet. Probably less than 10 minutes. I'm here to give you a thought, a nugget. What I've learned over the last couple of years is the impact... that anybody can have on somebody's life in 60 seconds on social media in one reel.
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We're Back
You can share one thought that can absolutely change somebody's life. I wanna double click on some of the nuggets, some of the thoughts that I've had on social media and record some longer episodes for you right here. They're longer than social media, but they're shorter than most podcasts. So I'm here to focus on one nugget. One idea that will encourage you. One idea that will inspire you.
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Something to make you think. Something to help you live with a little bit more intentionality. Perhaps it'll be a thought that can give you some bravery to take that next step. Perhaps it's an episode that can give you some hope to keep going. Or the faith to believe that tomorrow can be better than today.
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We're Back
Now, for those of you who've been on this podcast journey with me before, number one, thank you for your patience. You stuck around, and I appreciate you more than you know. Secondly, for those of you who are brand new to the podcast, hey. I'm glad you're here. My hope is that this space becomes a place where we can grow together. So buckle up because we're just getting started. Let's grow.
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We're Back
So during COVID, like a lot of other people, I found myself in an unfamiliar territory of absolute boredom and decided to start a podcast. I don't know if you know this, but in the year 2020, over 900,000 people decided to start a podcast. I didn't just think, oh, let me start one podcast. I had the grand idea to say, you know what, let's start two.
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Let's be intentional. And let's look for ways to add value to the world around us. Thanks for listening. And I can't wait for the next episode where we're going to dive into something that I think is going to have a significant impact on how you approach 2025.
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We're Back
The first one was called Life Cast with Ryan Leak, where I got to talk about all things life. Now, the second one was called Followership with Ryan Leak, where I explored the other side of leadership, the art of following. Now, here's the funny thing about followership. Number one, most people don't even know how to say it.
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In fact, our guests would get on episodes and say, Ryan, I'm just so honored to be here on followership. I'm like, no, it's called followership. It is a little bit difficult to say, so that's not bad on them. But nevertheless, people couldn't wrap their mind fully around it. They kept steering towards leadership conversations. And it was a good idea, and we had some grand conversations.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast where we keep things short and sweet, where we offer nuggets of inspiration that can simply add value to your week, to the way that you live, the way that you lead, the way that you show up at work, the way that you show up at home. And today I wanna talk to you about something that I think holds us back more than anything else. And it is this idea of,
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
So I've got a couple of practical things that I want to take you through that I think is going to add value to your life. The first thing is this. Who is they? Yeah, who is in the group of people that you fear what they think about you or what they would think about you if you got outside of your comfort zone? Who's that group of people? Is it your family members? Are we talking siblings?
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Is there a little sibling rivalry there that we need to address? Is it parents, grandparents? Is there a family legacy on the line that maybe has added a little bit of pressure? Is it your spouse? Is it your kids? I don't know. Is it in-laws that you're afraid of what they're going to think about you if you decide to make a move? Is it your friends? Is it your old friends? Is it an ex?
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Is it people you went to college with? Is it people you were in elementary with, in middle school with, or early? afraid of what they are going to think about us? Is it colleagues? Is it a boss? Is it people on social media? Is it strangers on the internet? If you put yourself out there, you're going to open yourself up to public criticism. And who knows?
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Because people can get violent in the comments. Who knows what could happen to you if you dare hit post? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who is the group of people? One of the practical things you could do right now is write down the group of people or the person that you go, man, I'm actually afraid of or I care deeply about what this person or these people think about me.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
of caring so very much about what other people think about us. It's interesting. I perhaps should be making an entire episode about quit caring about what other people think about you. But I think that's somewhat impractical on a couple of levels. First, If it was that easy, you would have done it already, right? Just quit caring about what people think about you.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And at some point, you have to ask yourself, do you really want to give them that much power over your life? Do you really want to give them that much power over your voice? Do you really want to give them that much power over your creativity? Do you really want to give them that much power over your future? Who's the they? Who are these people? And...
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I don't think that those people are bad, evil, and that you shouldn't care about what they think about you. No, that's not the message. The message is, do you want to give them that much power? It's one thing to say, hey, I value your perspective and I get that you might think something about me if I were to put myself out there, quote unquote. But it's another thing to give them that much power.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And so now that we're identifying who the people are, I would argue that for most people, it's strangers on the internet. It's not actually people they actually know. They're afraid of being exposed to randoms, to the peanut gallery that can open fire on anybody and cancel people for very, very little. Now I want us to break down, what is it that we're afraid of them thinking?
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Not saying, thinking. Is it they're not even that good? Is it they think they're better than everyone else now? Is it they're trying too hard? They've changed. They're so full of themselves. They're being way too self-promotional. They're not qualified for this. Who do they think they are? I mean, I think this rears its head mostly on social media.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Perhaps you want to post that video, but you're scared of looking, I don't know, cringy. You want to talk about your business, but you don't want people to think you're salesy. You want to encourage people, but you don't want, I guess, people from high school to think that you've changed. See, I don't think you're scared of posting. I think you're scared of judgment.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And here's what I'd like to submit to you today. I want to submit a thought. I want to insert a thought into all of your thoughts. And I think this is a game changer. I think this is going to change your life. I think it's going to help you take a step towards who you actually want to be. And it's a question. It's a question that I think can absolutely shape this conversation.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
What if they, your proverbial they, what if they are not thinking about you at all? What if they're not thinking about you at all? And oh, and guess what? And the thought that they are has been holding you back for a decade. What if they aren't thinking about you at all?
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And the reason that I want to submit this thought to you is because I get to work with a lot of people in a position where I'm the middleman as an executive coach, as a consultant, and kind of just the way my life works. I find myself in between two sides and trying to build bridges between people.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And I am amazed, utterly shocked by how many people believe that the other side is thinking something about them that they're not thinking at all. But yet they have filled in the blank an entire story of what this other person is thinking about them. And I'm like, hey, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're not that big of a deal in their world. And it's not that they think less of you.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
It's that they think more of themselves because here's what's interesting. The reason that I believe that people aren't thinking about you nearly as much as you are afraid that they would be is because they're just too busy thinking about themselves. They're thinking about their own bills. They're thinking about, oh, is my job secure? They're thinking about their own health, man.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
I don't know, man, my knee, man. Especially in their 40s. Listen, in your 40s, your body just start falling apart for no reason. I turned my ankle the other day. Somebody said, what happened? I said, I woke up. That's what I did. I wasn't even playing back. I just woke up. I was like, why am I limping? I don't know what happened. Why? I'm just getting closer to 40.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
I'm not thinking about other people. I'm selfish. The reason I'm selfish is because I'm in pain. People are thinking about their own stuff. They're thinking about their own family. They're thinking about their own goals. They're thinking about, man, why did I eat that? And does this outfit look good? Oh, I don't feel like texting that person back. And oh man, my inbox is out of control.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And you would already be posting. You'd already be writing. You'd already be recording. You'd already be doing that thing. But I don't think it's that easy. And the reason I don't think it's that easy is because I think you and I are wired for a human connection. I think that you and I are wired to care a little bit. And so I do not want you to shut off emotionally from the world around you.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And I forgot to pick up the kids. I mean, they got so much stuff going on. I would argue that They ain't got time to think about you. They're not sitting around analyzing your video and your caption and your idea. They're busy scrolling through their own problems. I really don't believe the goal is to never care what people think. I think that sounds cute. It's just not realistic.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
I think the key is being the kind of person that just says, you know what? I wonder if they're thinking about me at all. And here's the deal. You should assume that they're not and just move on with your life anyways. You're not trying to give those people that much power. And you don't want to give those thoughts too much power. All of these what if scenarios of what if they think this...
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Now, I can talk to some people who are like doing some things and they're facing criticism on a daily basis. I'm going to do a whole episode on that. But I want to talk to the person today that's just afraid to put themselves out there a little bit because of some what if scenarios that I think are actually a little bit more unlikely than we would ever truly know.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
My friend, what if they're not thinking about you at all? And if they're not, then you can move forward with your life. That's the beauty of that question to me. You know, sure, I know we have the what if scenario of, man, what if people think I'm being too self-promotional? Here's the deal.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Honestly, most people who think that about other people are the ones who've gotten really good at talking themselves out of being brave. They're not frustrated with you. They're frustrated with themselves and that they're not moving forward. You doing something bold shines a light on their decision to stay comfortable. So don't let that be your responsibility. No, you do something with your life.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
And if somebody else thinks you're being too self-promotional, they'll probably never tell you anyways. And at that point, you'll be too busy to even know if they're thinking it at all. You know, the thought of, who do you think you are to start a podcast, to write a book, to chase that dream? Well, let me answer that. I think I'm someone who refuses to settle for mediocrity.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Not because I think I'm better than anyone else, but because I believe life is too short to spend it playing small. I believe we've all been given gifts, ideas, and dreams, not just to admire from a distance, but to actually pursue. I don't want to get to the end of my life wondering what could have happened if I would have just had the courage to try.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
I would rather take my shot and fail than live with the regret of never knowing what was possible. I think that I'm someone who wants to reach my potential before I die, not because it's easy, but because it's worth it. And I've come to learn that the only permission slip I need is the one I give myself. If I wait for everybody else to co-sign my dreams, I'll be waiting forever.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
I don't even think that's healthy. But I do think that there are some practical things that we can talk about in regards to the mindset that we should have around what people do think about us. And it's kind of a funny thought if you think about it. Because we have thoughts about what other people's thoughts are about us in an imaginary situation.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
So I've decided I'm not waiting for approval. I'm not waiting for the perfect time. I'm not waiting until I feel ready. No, no, no. I'm moving forward. Because greatness doesn't come to those who wait. It comes to those who try. So you, my friend, might as well live your life. Because you would hate to wake up 10 years from now realizing you gave strangers power over your dreams.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
So yeah, you might as well speak up. You might as well record and post and write the book and start the podcast and launch the business and take the trip and make the call and tell your story and share your work and show your face. And yes, you should indeed try because what if they're not thinking about you at all? And let's just say they are. Give them a good show.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
Yeah, if they're going to think about you, why don't you fill in the blank for them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to give you a good show. I'm going to give you something to hate on. I'm going to give you something to criticize. Why? Because I made a decision to do something with my My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan Lee Podcast.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you would take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. I also send out an encouraging text each and every week. If you want to text the word podcast to 469-809-1201. I would be happy to keep you encouraged and inspired each and every week.
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What If They’re Not Thinking About You At All?
This is what I'm afraid they will think if I do X, if I start a podcast, if I... apply for this job, if I go back to school, if I write a book. But it's imaginary because you didn't do it yet. And so we're just thinking about what they could be thinking. And that alone keeps us from ever actually getting started.
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Look Who's Talking
What's going on, my friends? Welcome to the Ryan League Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet and always try and give you something practical to add value to your week. Over the past few months, been doing a book campaign and book marketing and podcasts and tons of speaking and it can be very life-giving and it can also be life-draining.
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Look Who's Talking
Because when you're tired, Well, tired doesn't think clearly. Tired doesn't believe fully. Tired sees life through a foggy windshield. But it made me wonder, how often do I let something else do my talking? Think about it. Sometimes it's our insecurity doing the talking.
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Look Who's Talking
Have you ever looked at a conversation in the past and you just realized your insecurity says some things that you wish you could take back? You started comparing your motherhood to other moms on the internet. You started comparing your fatherhood to other dads at a sporting event. You walk into a room and you're like, do I belong here?
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Look Who's Talking
Have you ever let your insecurity tell you that people don't value you even before they even meet you? You over-explain. You shrink. You second-guess. Why? Because it's your insecurity that's really loud. Your insecurity is doing the talking. Have you ever let your anxiety do some talking? Anxiety? Well, anxiety is loud.
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Oh, when it grabs the mic, it can make you take a downward spiral you did not mean to go down. Anxiety will have you rewriting your whole life based on one bad week. Oh, you'll start doom scrolling your whole future. You'll overanalyze text and tone and pauses. You'll plan a breakup for a problem that hasn't even happened yet. When anxiety does your talking, Peace is really hard to find.
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Look Who's Talking
Have you ever let your anger do your talking? Sometimes your mad takes the wheel. You yell at your kids over the dishes, but it's really about your boss. You snap at your spouse, but it's not even about them. It's just been simmering. When anger does your talking, people you love can feel like they're on strike too. When they didn't even know they were on strike once,
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Look Who's Talking
When insecurity grabs the mic, you might downplay your own success. But when jealousy grabs the mic and starts doing your talking, you start looking for flaws in friends. She not even that great. He had help. They used a ghostwriter. Uh-huh. Yeah, the parents gave him a loan. Oh, they using ChatGPT. Bruh. Can I pull you to the side and just say, look who's talking. Look who's talking.
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Look Who's Talking
And interestingly enough, I was having a rather deep conversation with my wife at the end of a very long day, about a month ago. And I just kind of got into a rant. Yeah, I was just going on and on about some of the draining, exhausting, frustrating, dare I say, complicated things that go along with a book campaign. And, you know, I just kind of got into this thing.
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Look Who's Talking
Your jealousy has grabbed the mic. Do you know what it looks like when pride grabs the mic? Oh, you might even tell yourself, I'm just confident. They're the problem. But man, when pride starts doing your talking, it's really hard to admit when you're wrong. It's really hard to apologize. It's really hard to ask for help. Pride doesn't just talk. It talks over people.
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Look Who's Talking
You want to know what's really hard when it takes over? Disappointment. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't even feel like a loud emotion. It's a quiet one. Disappointment. Whispers. You're sad, but sometimes it comes out as sarcasm. You're hurt, but it sounds like shade. You mask unmet expectations with fake indifference. You say things like, well, whatever, I don't even care. The problem is you do care.
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Look Who's Talking
You just don't know if it's safe to say that you care. And so today I just, I want you to pause and begin to Do a check within yourself and begin to wonder, to begin to take inventory of the words that are coming out of your mouth and begin to wonder who's doing the talking. I want you to look for who's talking before you make a decision. Look who's talking.
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Look Who's Talking
Before you come to a conclusion about a friendship, look who's talking. Before you text your boss at midnight to quit, look who's talking. Before you ghost someone who hurt you, look who's talking. Before you say, we need to talk to your spouse at 11 p.m. when they're trying to go to bed, I want you to begin to wonder who in the world is talking in that moment.
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Look Who's Talking
before you exaggerate that story in a meeting to look better, look who's talking. Before you reply to that comment online, before you go off in that group chat, before you quit something you once prayed for, I want you to look who's talking. Because when you slow down and get honest with yourself,
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Look Who's Talking
You realize that some of the worst decisions you've ever made in your life were made by your loudest emotion, not the clearest you. So the next time something needs to be said, I want you to check your heart. I want you to check your motives. And I want you to check the mic and make sure it's you talking.
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Look Who's Talking
Not your tired, not your trauma, not your pressure, not your pride, not your insecurity, not your jealousy, not your disappointment. Now that when you begin to open up your mouth, you've just taken a pause to consider who's actually talking. And you want to make sure that it's actually you. My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan Lee Podcast today.
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If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you'd take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. I also send out an encouraging text every single week to about 20 something thousand friends.
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If you want to subscribe to that text, you can text podcast at the number 469-809-1201 and you'll start getting encouraging text messages from me at the beginning of each week. Hey, thanks for being a part of the journey and we'll catch you next time.
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Look Who's Talking
It's like, I don't know if I really want to do this anymore. And I just, I just kind of just got on this like passionate rant. And I'm talking, I'm ready to pivot careers. I'm ready to change my whole life. I'm ready to move to a cabin in Montana and start doing stuff outdoors. I don't even do stuff outdoors. So you know something was up.
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And then in that moment, I paused and I said something that I think was interesting. I said, babe, you know what? Scratch all that. I think that's just my tired talking. And we both just laughed. She's like, yeah, I just think you're tired. I said, yeah, I think my tired is talking. And I just began to think, man, the worst time in the world to make any kind of major decision is when you're tired.
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Lifequakes
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast, wherever you are, whatever it is that you are doing right in this very moment. I just wanted to say I am so honored that you would spend a few minutes of your week, your day with me. This podcast is dedicated to providing short and sweet nuggets of inspiration that I believe can add value to your life. to your life. We're not going to keep you here all day.
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Lifequakes
Maybe it was infertility or a job that gave you purpose and then it was taken away. Maybe your mental health unraveled. and you found yourself in a darkness that you could not explain to another human being. Maybe your faith was cracked in half. Maybe someone broke your trust. Maybe someone broke your heart. The interesting thing about life quakes is they don't announce themselves.
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Lifequakes
They don't give a warning. They just show up and suddenly everything that you thought was solid starts shaking. And when that happens, in that moment, you often don't know where to turn. Today, I want to give you two things today. Two things that I think can help you navigate a life quake. Perhaps it's something in the past. Perhaps it's something you're going through currently.
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The first thing that I would tell you, my friend, is this. You need an anchor for your soul. You need an anchor for your soul. Because life is going to give you highs and life is going to give you lows. There will be sunshine and storms. There will be summer break and school bills. There will be straight A's and failing grades. There will be new jobs and there will be layoffs.
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Markets will rise and markets will fall. Tariffs will come and go. I think, I don't know, to be honest about that. I'm not a tariffs specialist, but I need to read up on that. But the reality is, what I know to be true, is that you and I are going to have different seasons. Yeah, seasons of applause and seasons where no one claps at all. There will be birthdays. There will be breakups.
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Lifequakes
I'm going to just share a couple of thoughts that I think can really, really help you. I don't know if you've ever heard of this phrase. It's called life quake, a life quake. It was actually popularized by Bruce Feeler in his book, Life is in the Transitions. He describes a life quake, as you can imagine, similar to an earthquake. He
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Lifequakes
There will be babies. Sometimes there's bankruptcy. Life will test your footing. And in those moments, you have to ask yourself, what's holding you together when everything else is falling apart? For me, It's Jesus Christ. My faith in him has been the steady hand on my back through it all. When I cannot stand on my own, he holds me up. When I lose hope, he reminds me who I am.
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Lifequakes
When I experience any sort of life quake, I turn to Jesus Christ, who I believe is the son of the living. My friend, at some point, I think you have to ask yourself, what's going to be the anchor for your soul? The second thing that I think is vitally important to have whenever you are trying to navigate a lifequake is, secondly, I think you need someone who will sit with you in the dark.
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Lifequakes
Yeah, I think you need someone who will sit with you in the dark. I recently saw Thunderbolts, Marvel movie. Not sure if you're a superhero movie goer. And if you haven't seen it yet, I am going to encourage you to go ahead and And skip to the outro of this. Go directly to the last minute of this episode if you care about going to see Thunderbolts.
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Lifequakes
Because I am most definitely about to spoil the movie. So here's the deal. There is a character in this movie named Sentry. It's a hero with godlike powers. But he is haunted by this alter ego known as The Void. And he essentially struggles with mental health. And at some point of the movie, darkness takes over. And it doesn't just begin to hurt him. It begins to consume him.
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Lifequakes
And it actually becomes a danger to everyone around him. And so he has this ability to send other people into their own darkness, into the worst day of their life. He has the ability to take everyone back to that. And the entire city of New York is being taken over by this darkness. There's this one character, while everyone is running from the dark,
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She pauses and she's got a close relationship with Century. Her name is Yelena. And Yelena does something in the movie that I thought was absolutely astounding. She doesn't run away from his darkness. She steps into it. She moves toward him while everyone else is backing away. She is the one stepping in. She puts herself at risk. Not to fix him, not to defeat him. Just to reach him.
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Lifequakes
To remind him that he's not alone. And there is this moment where... Sentry is fighting himself and darkness is taking over. And the darkness keeps telling him, you're always going to be alone. And Yelena, in the midst of this dark world that he's in, she just hugs him. And then a bunch of people come in and hug him and let him know that he's not alone.
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Lifequakes
And I'm not gonna lie, I was in the theater and I was getting teary-eyed. I'm sitting next to a bunch of dudes. We're all just kind of sniffling like, man, it's like, don't we all need a moment every now and then? When we're facing our own darkness, for somebody to just come in and let us know like, man, you're not alone. I mean, let's be honest. We all have a void.
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Lifequakes
We all have days and months and even years when the darkness just feels louder than the light. And we all could use someone like Yelena. Someone who won't flinch at our worst. Someone who says, I see you and I'm not going anywhere. Somebody who's willing to sit with us in the dark. And so today, my friend, I don't know where you are in your life right now.
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Lifequakes
Not just a bump in the road, but a full-on earthquake that cracks the foundation of your life and demands a rebuild. I had my first lifequake when I was in the fifth grade. My dad suffered a stroke, and in an instant, our whole world changed. The way we lived, the way we prayed, the way we hoped. The entire landscape of our family was never the same. I wonder what your lifequake has been.
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Lifequakes
I don't know if you are going through a life quake and everything around you is shaking. I'm going to ask you to do something today if that's you. Would you text me? Yeah, would you text me? I send out an encouraging text every single week to about 22,000 people as of today's recording. And if you are going through a lifequake right now and you need somebody to pray for you, I got you.
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Lifequakes
Would you just text me? Would you just text prayer and what's going on with your life to 469-809-1201? Yeah, just text what's going on with you to 469-809-1201. It's an app on my phone. I check it about once a week. It's a lot of messages in there.
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Lifequakes
I can't promise you that I will respond to every single text message, but I can promise you that when I go through those text messages, I will call out your name out loud to someone that I believe will run to you. And his name is Jesus. If you don't have anybody in your life that would pray for you, today's a little bit different. I would be honored to pray for you in that.
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And if there's someone you love that is going through a life quake, I would encourage you don't fix them. Don't rush them. I would encourage you to just be with them. Sit with them. Dare I say, walk toward the darkness, not away from it. Be the steady until they can find their anchor. Be that friend that shows up and says, hey, I'm willing.
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to sit in the dark until you're ready to step into the light. My friends, thank you so much for listening to the Ryan Link Podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. If you have a friend that's going through something and you need to pass this on, I think this would be the perfect episode to do that.
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Or maybe what your lifequake is right now. Perhaps it was a divorce that turned your home upside down. Maybe it was losing someone you thought you'd never have to live without. Maybe it was your child coming home, crying every day from school. Maybe it was watching your son or daughter slip into anxiety or addiction.
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Givers & Takers
Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Ryan Leak Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet. Each episode is around 10 minutes long, and I'm just here to give you a nugget of inspiration to add value to your relationships, the way you work, the way you lean, and the way that you live. Today, we're talking about the subject of givers and takers. Givers and takers.
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It shapes how we think about our budget. It shapes how we think about the holidays and our church, absolutely everything. In fact, I love this proverb that's found in Proverbs 11, 24. In the message version, it says, the world of the generous gets larger and larger, but the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. I want you to think about that. A generous life expands your world.
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A selfish life shrinks it. One of my favorite books is called Give and Take by Adam Grant. It's one of my favorite authors as well. Not only just my favorite book, I think he's fantastic. And in it, he explains that the most successful people in the long run are actually givers. Not because they're chasing success, but because their generosity, well, it builds trust.
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It deepens relationships and opportunities that takers often miss out on. Now, a couple of weeks ago, I was actually doing a podcast with a friend. And after we stopped recording, he said something that absolutely blew me away. He said that he's got this friend who owns a funeral home. And the friend told him, every funeral, I can always tell if the person was a giver or a taker.
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He said the funerals of takers are always short. Because there's no stories. People are just kind of there out of obligation. Saying stuff like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Greg was a good guy. Yeah, yeah, we'll miss you, homie. And that's it. And then it's straight to the gravesite. But givers, ooh, he said you can't get people to leave because the stories keep coming.
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People want to talk about the ways that that person impacted their life. It's hours of people sharing about the love, the kindness, and the generosity that that person poured out into the world. They talk about the time that they were at their lowest and that person showed up with a meal, a check, or just a listening ear.
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They recall a way that they always made time for them even when it wasn't convenient. They share about that person's generosity and how it made them feel seen, valued, and cared for in ways they never forgot. And honestly, memorial service talk doesn't make me sad. It actually makes me inspired. Because if I'm honest, I don't want a long memorial service. I want a three-day conference.
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When it comes to my life, when it comes to our marriage, when it comes to the culture of our home, when it comes to how we conduct business, how we treat people, one of the central values at the heart of everything we do is generosity. Generosity, generosity. We want to be the kinds of people that give more than we take. And it's not just something that we do. It's actually how we see the world.
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I want there to be so many stories that they have to schedule breakout sessions. I want to line out the door of people who were impacted by my life. And if that's the goal, And generosity isn't just nice. It's necessary. If at the end of your life you want people to say amazing things about you, well, then you have to reverse engineer that and you have to start doing amazing things right now.
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Because what you don't want is for somebody to ever have to get up at your memorial service and tell a lie. No, you want it to be a true story. And I think the way that we live with the end in mind is by having a generous life. It's by being a giver. You know, in your marriage, you can be a giver or a taker.
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Are you the kind of spouse who looks for ways to serve, to support, to give to your partner? Or are you always keeping score? Do you say things like, I do the dishes, so now you owe me something, right? Or do you just do the dishes because you love them? Do you look for ways to make their life easier? Or do you just expect them to make your life easier? At your job, you can be a giver or a taker.
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Are you the person who shares credit or takes it? Do you help your coworkers succeed or do you just look out for yourself? Do you bring solutions or do you only point out problems? Because givers in the workplace, they're the ones that get promoted. They're the ones that leaders want to invest in. In fact, if you look at some of the greatest leaders in history, you'll see a pattern.
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They weren't just ambitious. They were generous. They lifted others up. They built ladders instead of just climbing them. On social media, you can be a giver or a taker. Are you there for just the likes, the follows, the validation? Or are you adding value? Are you encouraging? Are you inspiring? Are you challenging people in a way that makes them better?
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Are you sharing other people's content that could encourage somebody to follow somebody that's not you? Are you a giver? Are you a taker? Now, maybe you're a person of faith and maybe you go to church and there you can be a giver or a taker.
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A lot of people that are people of faith that just go to church, well, some of them just show up to receive, just to consume, just to get a good word, sing a good song, and then they head for the parking lot. Or you could be on the giving side. And this is where you're looking for ways to serve, to give your time, your energy, and perhaps your gifts to other people. Church.
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as I understand it, was never meant to be a spectator sport. With your kids, you can be a giver or a taker. Are you giving them your presence, your attention, your encouragement? Or do they only get your energy when you're in the mood? I can't speak for you, but I can speak for me. When I think about our 10-year-old and our 5-year-old, sometimes I fall for the trap of giving our children gifts.
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But I'll fail to give them With your friendships? You can be a giver or a taker. Do you only call when you need something? Do you only show up when it's convenient? Or do you invest? Do you check in just because? Do you encourage? Do you celebrate their wins just as much as you want them to celebrate yours?
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At some point, we have to ask ourselves, on the other side of me, do people feel like I take more than I give? Would your family, friends, and colleagues say you're a giver or a taker? Because if I'm living my life right, the people in my world, my wife, my kids, my friends, my coworkers, they should feel overflowing. They should feel like their life is larger because I was in it, not smaller.
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I don't know about you, but I don't want to get to the end of my life and realize that I only live for me. I want my life to have ripples. I want my world to be large because I kept giving it away. And maybe today that's the challenge for all of us, to live with open hands, to stop counting, and to start giving. Whatever room you walk into today, I want you to think about
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Yeah, I see the world through a lens of generosity. I see the world through a lens of what can I give away? That's what I want my life to be about. The reason for that is, is because I feel like that's how God is with us. I feel like God has given me so much that the only appropriate response is to live a generous life. You may not be a person of faith, but I certainly am. And when I look around,
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Not what you can get from it, but what you can give to it. Because the world of the generous, it gets larger and larger. And the world of the stingy, it just gets smaller and smaller. Thanks for listening to the Ryan League podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend.
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at all of the blessings that are in my life, all the people that are in my life, I just think, man, an appropriate response is to be a giver, is to be one of those people that walks in each and every room and thinks to himself, hey, what could I give to this room? It shapes how our friendships roll. It shapes how we lead. It shapes how we show up for clients.
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You Asked For This
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast where we keep it short and sweet. And today we are going to be talking about something that a lot of people don't realize when they set their sights on greatness. I recently saw a clip of the Boston Celtics head coach, Joe Mazzulla. And in this interview, he said something that really stuck with me. The host was talking about Jason Tatum, his best player.
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A thriving business comes with good problems. The kind that keep you up at night. You're responsible for payroll, even when cash flow is tight. You're making decisions that affect people's lives, their families, their careers. You're constantly solving problems. Problems you didn't even know existed when you first started. Growth isn't just exciting, it's exhausting.
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But you asked for this when you said you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Leadership has a whole different weight. When someone says, I want to be a leader, I don't think they fully grasp what they're walking into. A C-suite leader isn't just calling the shots. They are carrying the burden of every decision, every failure, and every person who depends on the organization's success.
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The higher you go, the lonelier it gets. You don't get to vent down. You don't get to make emotional decisions. You don't get to take a break from being the person people look to for direction. But you asked for this when you said you wanted that promotion. Or maybe you say, I just really want to make an impact. That sounds noble.
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But when you gain influence, when your platform grows, so do the expectations. A large following means you can't just say whatever you want whenever you want. Your words are scrutinized. You don't just get applause, you get criticism. You get misinterpretation.
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And the pressure to keep creating, to keep showing up, to keep inspiring, to keep posting, even on the days when you feel like you got nothing in the tank. People don't see the weight of constantly being in demand, the pressure to maintain relevance or the exhaustion. of being accessible to so many people all the time. But again, you asked for this when you said you wanted to make an impact.
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Then there's writing a book. You want to write a book? You should. I think you should. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You should do that. But just so you know, there's levels to this thing. Writing the book is actually the easiest part. Getting it on a shelf is Getting people to actually buy it, promoting it, marketing it, doing the press runs, the interviews, the book signings. It's a full-time job.
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And this is what the interviewer said. He said, it seems to me like Jason has to deal with a lot of criticism. But before he could even finish his thought, Coach Mazzulla interrupted him and he says, gets to. He gets to deal with a lot of criticism. And I just thought, man, like that is such an interesting way of seeing that. That's a massive mindset shift right there.
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Oh, and once you're an author, people expect you to write another one. You're no longer just a writer. You're a marketer, a salesperson, a brand. But remember, you asked for this when you said you wanted to be an author. Oh, and then for me in my world, oh my goodness, they're speaking. Let me tell you what I hear all the time. I want to be a speaker just like you.
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And I just smile and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cute. That's so cute. That would be awesome. I'll tell you what. Are you sure? Because here's what's fascinating to me about some of the most successful speakers that I know in the country. They're actually trying to do it less. They're all trying to figure out how they can do just a few less speaking engagements. I'll just say this.
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It's harder than Instagram makes it look. It's flights, it's hotels, early mornings, late nights, sound checks, back-to-back travel, unpredictable audiences, weather, and the constant pressure to perform. It's giving 100% of yourself, even when you're at 50%. But again, you asked for this, and you said you wanted to be a speaker.
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At the end of the day, most people don't realize that when they say, I want to be great, what they're really saying is, I want to invite stress into my life and I want the weight of responsibility and I want to carry something that most people would drop and that's okay because these are good problems. These are the problems that come with playing big. So just don't be surprised when the weight,
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of what you asked for starts to settle in. You want to be the best? Great. But with that comes expectations. With that comes pressure. With that comes people picking apart every move you make and you don't get to complain about it. Why? Because you asked for this. Now, here's the good news. There are good problems. In fact, these are problems that most people would kill to have.
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Some of your biggest problems are your biggest privilege. It's an honor to have these problems. You could have small problems that come with playing small. Or you could have big problems that come with playing big. And trust me, big problems are simply a sign that you're in the game. You could say, man, I have to deal with this. Yeah, but try saying, I get to deal with this.
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So, my friend, when the late nights start stacking up and you're running on fumes, remember, you asked for this. When the criticism comes louder than the applause, and people who have never walked in your shoes have the most to say, remember, you asked for this. When the pressure feels unbearable, when the weight of responsibility is heavier than you could have imagined,
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and when opportunities are coming at you so fast that you barely have time to breathe, I hope that happens for you. In that moment, I want you to pause. I want you to take it in and I want you to remind yourself, this is exactly what you wanted. Because the stress, the expectations, the scrutiny, the exhaustion, they are all signs that you're playing at a high level. And guess what?
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You are going to be just fine. You have handled hard before. So you can handle this too. Keep going, my friend. You asked for this. You don't have to deal with this. You get to because you asked for this. My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan Link Podcast today. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend.
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Mazula went on to say, we talk about this with him all the time. And then he used this phrase and it really stuck with me. He says, speaking about Jason, he said, you asked for this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you asked for this. You asked for this when you said you wanted to be the best player in the NBA, on the best team in the NBA. And I thought in that moment, yeah, that's it.
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That's the fine print of ambition. Because when you're chasing greatness, when you declare to the world, I want to be the best, you're also saying, bring me the really good problem. You don't just get to sign up for the accolades. You're signing up for the late nights, the tough decisions, the public scrutiny.
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You're signing up for the days when you are questioning yourself but still have to show up like you own the room. Most people don't realize what they're actually signing up for when they say, I want to build a business. They see the success stories, the financial freedom, The glossy Instagram post of someone working from a beach somewhere. But behind the scenes? Come on, man.
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to the Ryan Lake Podcast, where we keep things short, sweet, and we always try to give you something practical to do that I believe can add value to your life. And I hope that today's episode is one that truly sticks with you long after the episode ends. I don't know if you've ever noticed. how easy it is to match somebody else's energy.
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He hit me first, daddy. And it's like, when I watch them, I think they're kids. But it's interesting when I see adults, it's like that logic doesn't expire. We just get taller and start driving. Some of us never grow up. We just get promoted. And it's easy for us to find ourselves in a world working with people like this.
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marrying people like this, dating people like this, raising people like this. Sometimes we're sitting next to people like this at dinner, or we're standing behind them in line, we're in traffic with them, or maybe we're on a group project with them in some way, shape, or form. And we can find somebody in our world that has an energy that we are tempted to match. And here's the deal.
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Unless we make a decision, I think we are going to end up becoming just like them. So here's what I'm learning. You've got to choose the code in which you're going to live by before things go sideways. Because if you don't, if you don't choose your code, someone else is going to choose it for you. Because everybody's got a code. You've got a code. You have a code in which you live by.
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And people get their codes from all kinds of places. Some people get their codes from their parents. If you have great parents, that might be a good thing. But you might also have a parent that said, my mama said knock you out. So if somebody double crosses you, if somebody breaks your trust, you say, all right, it's time to fight. Some people get their code from their zip code.
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
They'd be like, I'm from Detroit. Yeah, ain't nobody gonna mess with me. You'd be like, man, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why you got to say it like that? How come you can't just say, I'm from Detroit? Some people say, I'm from Chicago. I'm from the Bronx. You don't know what I've been through. You're like, man, why don't you just calm down just a little bit? But for some people, where they grew up,
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and how they grew up believes it gives them the right to treat people in some type of way. Some people, they get their code from culture. Yeah, from influencers on social media. Some people actually get their code from politics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Their behavior is dictated by what the left tells them to do. Their Behavior is dictated by what the right tells them to do.
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
If somebody gives you an attitude, you think all of a sudden, well, I got to have an attitude right back. I got to match attitude for attitude. If somebody is a cold towards you, you think, oh, I'm going to just get colder. If somebody throws shade, you say, you know what? I'm going to throw a whole tree. I got something for you. You want to throw shade at me?
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
But here's what I want you to know. Here's the good news today. You get to choose your code. Did you know that? You get to choose your code. You get to take charge of your life. You don't have to match dysfunction. You don't have to become the worst version of yourself just because somebody else already did. Did you know that you can choose kindness over sarcasm?
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That you can choose grace over gossip and Patience over pettiness? Did you know that you can choose peace over trying to prove your point? Did you know that you can choose joy over judgment? Did you know that you can choose love over labeling other people? Did you know that you can choose to be the calm in chaos? That you can choose to walk away when others want to wage war?
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Did you know that you get to set the standard? You don't have to match the energy. I'll never forget one time I was speaking for a corporation. It was actually a federal credit union out in the Bay Area in San Francisco. And I was asked to do an hour on kindness. Truth be told, they asked me to do eight hours and all my best stuff was like already taken up in six hours.
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And I was like, I mean, I can do an hour on kindness. And that just happened, is what it is. And I'll never forget that after the eighth hour, we did Q&A. And a woman stood up during that Q&A and she says, sir, I don't have a question. I have a comment. I said, okay. She said, I grew up in a toxic house. I went to a competitive college. My last job was dog eat dog.
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
I was taught that the only way to climb the ladder of success was to pull someone else off of it. But here you come in our office today and you taught me that I could get ahead by being kind. Sir, I have never heard anything like that in my entire life. And if I'm honest, this is what she said. I don't like the person I've become. But today you gave me a new way to be human.
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I'm going to throw a whole tree your direction. I think that we live in a world where it's totally normal to go mood for mood, comment for comment, insult for insult, silent treatment for silent treatment, passive aggressive email for passive aggressive email. I'm going to show you. And I just have to wonder if that's a mature way of living.
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And I just wanted to say thank you. My friends, I think that's what it's all about. It's a new way to be human. My friend, I don't think you have to match the room. I don't think you have to clap back for every clap. I don't think that you need to flex just because someone else is loud. No, no, no. I think you get to be an example, not a mirror.
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Yeah, I think you get to set the standard, not match the energy. So the next time someone's negative, harsh, judgmental, cold, selfish, dramatic, or just plain rude behavior just drives you crazy, do not match it. No, set the standard. You're better than that. Because when you do, you show the world a better way. And maybe, just maybe, you give somebody else permission to be human again.
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Don't Match The Energy. Set The Standard
I think you get to set the standard with kindness. You get to make a decision that, you know, I'm not going to let somebody else's behavior dictate mine. My friends, thank you once again for listening to the Ryan League podcast. If today's episode inspired you to be a better person, To show up in a better way. I would ask that you don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend.
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Until next time, this is Ryan Leak with the Ryan Leak Podcast. Have a phenomenal week.
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I've got two kids, two boys, 10 and 5, and they're always wrestling. They're always fighting. And inevitably, one of them is always going to end up crying because the other one poked his eye out or punched him in the nose. There's always something, right? And I always ask a question that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But for some reason, it always comes out of my mouth.
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And the question is, why did you hit your brother? Why did you hit your brother? It really is not a logical question to ask a five-year-old as if they're going to give you some sort of academic explanation as to why they hit their brother. But nevertheless, I say, why did you hit your brother? And what do you think I hear every single time? Because he hit me first. He hit me first, daddy.
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The Most Complicated Person I Know
Hey, what's going on? It's Ryan Leak, and welcome to the Ryan Leak Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet for you. Before I jump into today's episode, I wanted to just take a moment to thank each and every person who purchased a copy of How to Work with Complicated People. It is officially a New York Times bestselling book, and that would not be possible without you.
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And so we wanted to do a deep dive on that and super excited to share some insights that we're learning in that regard too. Now, as I've been extending a research arm of the Ryan Leak Group, I've thoroughly enjoyed that process. But for the study actually associated with how to work with complicated people, we actually partnered with the Center for Generational Kinetics.
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Shout out to Jason Dorsey and his brilliant squad over there. We joined forces with them to conduct a national research study on one specific thing, complicated people in the workforce. Now, this wasn't just a few Instagram polls or a roundtable of a couple of buddies over at the house. This was a statistically valid nationwide study of 1,000 working Americans aged 18 to 65.
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We made sure that it was weighted to match the U.S. census on age, gender, region, and ethnicity. And so just so you understand how research works, the margin of error here is is about 3.1 percentage points, which means the data paints an accurate snapshot of what's really happening in today's workforce in America.
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So if you polled 10,000 people, you would get the same results, plus or minus three percentage points. So just so you understand how we go about doing our research. Now, here's what we found. The impact of complicated people in the workforce is massive. 80% of people say complicated co-workers are exhausting. That means there is an emotional toll that happens when working with complicated people.
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48% say they've taken a day off work because they had to work with or for a complicated person. Think about that for a second. 48% said they've taken a day off. They say, hey, you know what? Let me go ahead and use some PTO for this person. It is not paid time off. It's a personal time. I want to take time out from a person.
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And maybe, maybe the most shocking statistic that we found was that 48% of workers would take a slightly lower paying job just to avoid complicated people altogether. That's not just a culture problem. That's a retention problem. That's a costly problem. That's a your best talent just left for $5,000 less kind of problem. And here's where it got really interesting for me. Check this out.
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79% of people say they work with someone who's complicated. Okay, 79%. I get this. 74%. those same people believe they themselves are less complicated than the average person. Listen, my friends, the math ain't math in here, okay? The math is not math in right now. There is a major awareness gap between who we think is complicated and whether or not that person might actually be us.
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And so I wanted to just take a moment to say from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support. Thanks for listening to it on Audible. Thanks for sharing about it on social media. It has been a wild ride over the past couple of weeks to see how this book has impacted so many people. So once again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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And that's a problem. Because here's where it gets real. And just, my friends, allow me to go first. Hi. My name is Ryan Leak. And I am complicated. And I can prove it. I have what my friends call selector frugality. Which means I have no problem sparing no expense on certain things. And I am insanely cheap on other things. I'll book a five-star resort without blinking. But...
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I'm also going to go to Walmart when I get to that city and get water because I refuse to pay $8 a bottle in the room. And then you see me walking through the Four Seasons with a 24-pack of water to which my wife looks at me and thinks, Why are we here if we can't afford the water? To which I would say, how do you think we can afford to be here? Okay, I'm not bad. I'm just complicated.
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My schedule? Oh my goodness. You want to talk about complicated? Don't even try to understand my schedule. I've got more irons in the fire than a blacksmith at a summer fair, okay? I'm flying across the country to speak. I'm coaching leaders, writing books, recording podcasts, working on documentaries, and still saying yes to things I probably should be saying no to. In fact...
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Recently, a PR team pitched me to do a big media tour for how to work with complicated people. And they didn't know the title of the book. And they said, hey, Ryan, we'll have you on Good Morning America. We're going to have you in L.A. and then Tampa and then Chicago and then New York. And I said, hey, that sounds amazing. But the problem is I'm already booked to speak. And.
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I don't know that I can just hop on a plane and just hop over and do a TV show. I've got work to do. Now, again, they didn't know the title of the book. They just knew I was doing a book tour. Let me just tell you what Greg wrote back to me. He said, Hi, Ryan. You seem really complicated. I'm going to pass on working together. And I said, listen, I totally understand that, but I've got this book.
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It's called How to Work with Complicated People. And if you just read that, I promise you, you might change your mind on us working together. The reality is I am complicated. I'm the most complicated person I know. I got a five calendar system and forget which one's right. I move so fast and assume people keep up with ideas I haven't even explained yet.
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I love people, but I'm terrible with group chats. So yeah, I'm complicated. And the odds are, so are you. And let me just tell you why this matters. There's someone in your life who's extending you grace right now for your quirks, your delays, your style, your habits, and you don't even know it.
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And the wild part is this, you might be judging someone else for the exact same behavior you're currently getting a pass on. We tend to give ourselves context because we are keenly aware of our behind the scenes. but we give others criticism. We say, oh, I didn't mean it that way. But when someone else does it, well, they meant it. And in fact, I think we fill in the blank with their intentions.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. They've had it out for me for forever. It's like, how do you actually know that? My friends, I've got an idea. What if we started with self-awareness instead of self-defense? Think about that for a second. What if we started with self-awareness instead of self-defense? What if we asked, in what ways could I be making it hard for others to work with me, date me, live with me?
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Just think about this for a second. Here's the deal. That doesn't mean others aren't complicated. But if I can acknowledge my own complexity first, it doesn't make others less complicated. It just makes me less judgmental. And that, well, I think that's the start of becoming a healthier person to work with, live with,
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I think that's the start of becoming a person that people get to work with instead of being someone they have to work with. You see, I just think that there is a version of you where no one has to be stuck with you. I think you and I can be the kinds of people people look forward to being around. And I think that that's the kind of person that you and I should strive to be.
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Today's episode is called The Most Complicated Person I Know. Okay, the most complicated person I know, and spoiler alert, it's not who you think it is, or perhaps it's exactly who you think it is. I want to... unpack the research a little bit behind the book. My company has actually been doing a lot of research lately at the Ryan Lee Group.
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My friends, that's all I got for you today. If today's episode inspired you, I would just ask that you don't keep it to yourself. Would you mind sharing it with a friend? It would also mean the world to me if you take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration.
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Thank you so much for being a part of the journey, and we'll see you next time.
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We actually just conducted some research on stress that I find extremely fascinating, and I'm very much looking forward to sharing that in the near future. We also just started another study on change as well. It's a massive problem that a lot of my clients deal with, and even just a lot of friends that are just navigating change.
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Grateful For The Glass People
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast where we keep things short and sweet. And I believe that today's episode is absolutely going to add value to your life. I am going to give you a perspective that regardless of your personality, I think it is going to change the way you see just about everything. You see, we live in a world that loves to categorize people.
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There are people in this world who don't have clean water, people who don't have access to opportunity, people who don't have the privileges or resources that we take for granted every single day. So today I want to challenge you to shift your mindset. Don't be a glass half full person or a glass half empty person. Be a grateful for the glass person.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it changes everything. You see, people assume that I'm just naturally positive, that I was born with this happy-go-lucky personality, like I just wake up every morning feeling like I'm in a Disney movie. That's not true. I'm not just a happy person. I'm a grateful person. And my friends, gratitude is a choice. And it's a choice that has changed my entire life.
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A while ago, my wife and I were talking with a friend and we were having a conversation about morning people versus night people. And some people were, I need my coffee people. And some people were like, no, I need my energy drink people and so on and so forth. And so we asked our friend, I said, hey, are you a morning person or a night person? She smiled and she said, I'm an all day person.
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And I thought, I didn't even know that was an option. But guess what? It is. And I love that because I just want you to imagine being someone who embraces every part of the day, every season of life, not because everything is perfect, but because you've made the choice to be grateful for whatever is in front of you. You might love your job.
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You might hate your job, but instead of focusing on what you wish was different, be grateful that you have a job at all. The people who drive you crazy at work, do you know how many people would love to have people getting on their nerves right now? Some people would be grateful for your biggest problems. Be grateful for the glass person. Maybe you're frustrated with politics.
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Let me tell you something. I know Republicans who are always mad. I know Democrats who are always mad. Here's the deal. If politics is your thing, guess what? There will always be something to be mad about. But I just have to wonder what it would look like, how incredible it is that we even live in a place where we get to have debates and discussions and disagreement.
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That in and of itself is a privilege. I am grateful for this country that often feels divided. I'm grateful that we get to have discourse over this. I'm grateful that we get to go back and forth on things that matter to us and I get to listen to you and perhaps you listen to me and we can grow our perspectives and our world gets a little bit bigger. I'm grateful for the glass.
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You know, we've got personality tests, social media quizzes, leadership assessments. We've got labels for everything. And one of the most common ways that I think we categorize people is, are you a glass half full person or a glass half empty person? If you see the glass as half full, congratulations, you're the positive one, the optimist, the one who finds the silver lining in every situation.
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I'm grateful for the country. If you have kids, they might be loud, exhausting, and unpredictable. They might test your patience. They might push every button you got, and then all of a sudden you find out you got new buttons you didn't even know existed. But there are parents out there who would give anything to hear the sound of little feet running through their house again.
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So be grateful for the noise. Marriage isn't always easy. Some days you might feel like you're on top of the world together, and other days you might feel like two ships passing in the night. But what if instead of focusing on the challenges, you became grateful for the person you get to navigate life with? Maybe your living situation is an idea.
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Maybe your house is too small, your neighbors are too close, or your rent keeps going up. But my friend, if you're sleeping with a roof over your head, you have something someone is desperately praying for. Look, here's the deal. I'm not saying that gratitude makes all of life's challenges disappear, but I am saying that it gives you a different lens to look through. We all have struggles.
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We all have things that frustrate us. But before you let that frustration win, before you spend another moment wishing things were different, ask yourself, what if I just chose to be grateful for the glass? No matter how much or how little is in it, the fact that you have a glass at all is a gift. And that perspective, my friend, I believe will absolutely change your life.
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Today, I challenge you to be a grateful for the glass person. Thanks for listening to the Ryan Lee podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, I send out an encouraging text message every Monday to about 20,000 people that are subscribed to it. And if you'd like to sign up for those, you can text podcast to 469-809-1201.
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But if you see the glass as half empty, well, you're a realist. Some might call you a pessimist. But you might prefer the term practical thinker, or as some of my pessimist friends say, I'm the only one who keeps it real. I keep it 100, as some would say. And those two categories is how we've been conditioned to think. Either you're full of hope or full of doubt.
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Either you're seeing possibilities or you're seeing problems. But today, I want to introduce a third category. Because I think there's another way to look at the glass. I think there's another way to look at life. Instead of asking if the glass is half full or half empty, what if we simply said, I'm just grateful to have a glass of water at all. I want you to think about that for a second.
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Expectations Detox
Welcome to the Ryan Leak Podcast, where we keep things short, sweet, and practical. This episode is officially released on Monday, April 14th, which means tomorrow I have a brand new book coming out called How to Work with Complicated People. And I would love for you to order your copy on Amazon. And it could be at your house within a day or two. Who knows?
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I mean, wouldn't it be awesome if we could all go to perfectpeople.com and handpick flawless individuals to marry, to lead, to work with, to hire, start businesses with these people, live next to these people. But here's the problem. Well, we wouldn't be on the website. They wouldn't be able to pick us. So what do we do instead? I think we adjust our expectations.
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Stop being disappointed when you don't get sameness. People are different, wildly different. And I'll prove it. Some people are one word responders. You got any friends like this? The one-word responders, fine, good, okay. That's the whole text. The one that drives me the most crazy is when someone responds with just, sure. Want to go on a date? Sure. Will you be at my birthday party? Sure.
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Listen, I get it. Some people just don't feel like texting you back, so they'll just hit you with the sure. Some people are the opposite, though. They are blog responders. You ask how their weekend was and they send you 800 words, seven photos, three voice memos, then a Spotify playlist. You're like, hey, I don't need all of that. Some people are in group chats, but don't ever respond.
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Don't judge them. They just got stuff to do and they don't feel like responding. I get it. People are different. Some people are Walmart people. Low prices, rollbacks, everything in bulk. I get it. Some people are target people. $50 for some toothpaste and throw pillows and they'll get groceries and couches at the same time. They're different.
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Maybe even same day if you got Amazon Prime. Today's episode is unpacking something that I talk about in my book, which is one of the primary strategies for working with people who have that gift of getting on your last nerve.
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You got Nike people, you got Adidas people, you got New Balance people. They different. You got Coke people, Pepsi people, Dr. Pepper people, Coke Zero people, McDonald's Coke people. Water people that would be upset if I mentioned a carbonated drink on a podcast. You got fast food people. They need their Chick-fil-A in five minutes or less. Then you got slow food people.
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You go out with them, they want to be there for three hours. It's like, hey man, I got stuff to do. Some people are snack people. You know anybody like this? You ain't never seen them eat, ever. But they always just nibbling. They just like squirrels all day. You're like, did you eat today? Yeah, you had some almonds. You'd be like, what? You got indoorsy people, outdoorsy people.
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You got some people's ideal vacation is leaving their kids and going to a beach with no schedule, no responsibility, just peace. Some people's dream is a staycation where grandma takes the kids and they do nothing in their own house. Some people's dream vacation is to take their kids with them. I'd be like, why are you taking your chaos to another city? But we're different.
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The reality is, is we just can't walk into the world and expect the world to have our preferences, our pace, and our personality. They're different. And that's okay. Stop being shocked when humans don't match your settings. Because they've got their own.
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So I'm going to encourage you to walk into dinners, meetings, Zooms, classrooms, group chats, PTA meetings, family reunions, in-laws' houses, weddings, holiday gatherings, airport security lines, staff huddles, boardrooms, road trips. Facebook comment sections, HOA meetings, fantasy football draft, small groups, parent-teacher conference, maybe even your own kitchen on a Monday morning.
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And when you walk in there, I want you to be expecting complicated. Yeah, I want you to expect the quirks. I want you to expect tardiness, attitude, disorganization, oversharing, under-delivering. I want you to expect that weird comment in the meeting. Expect someone to talk just to hear themselves talk. This isn't about lowering your standards.
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It's about having realistic standards and realistic expectations. People constantly tell me, I I can't believe my coworker would throw me under the bus like that. I can't believe my friend was an hour late again. I can't believe my sibling still doesn't text me back. I can't believe, I can't believe, I can't believe. My response, believe these people. Absolutely, believe them.
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I want to talk to you today about how you're going to be so much more effective in your life, in your job, with your relationships, when you begin to adjust your expectations. Here's the truth. Most of us quietly expect two things from everybody, and we'd rarely ever say it out loud. but we expect just about everybody to be simple and perfect.
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Because people show us who they are all the time. We just don't want to accept the data. It's not on them. It's on us. So here's what I believe is going to help you with difficult and complicated people. Stop expecting people to change who aren't trying to. I'll say it one more time. Stop expecting people to change who aren't trying to. Here's what I've learned.
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People who are trying to change, they do two things. Number one, they actually believe they need to change. If your boss has anger issues, the question is, do they even believe that they have anger issues? If your best friend never follows through on anything, do they believe it's a problem? You see, awareness is the first step, and many people aren't even on the staircase.
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Number two, people who try to change, they go out of their way to do so. If they believe they have anger issues, they find a therapist. If they're out of shape, they find a trainer. If they struggle with procrastination, they get an accountability partner. If they over promise and under deliver, they stop promising and start planning. Now, here's the million dollar question.
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Does the most difficult person in your life show either of those traits? Do they even think they need to change? Or are they actively working on it? If the answer is no, why are you expecting them to be any different? My friend, stop expecting people to change who aren't trying to. You see, the beauty of this posture is it changes how you show up everywhere. Oh, you show up completely different.
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You show up to work Monday morning thinking, is it going to be you today, Sheila? Is it going to be you today? Are you the one that's going to bring the foolishness? Here's the deal. Sheila, shockingly, is chill. You're like, all right, I see you. I see you, Sheila. That's cool. Tuesday, you walk into a meeting with Lucy. You brace for the eye roll. And all of a sudden, she gives you nothing.
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She's somehow acting like a functional adult. You're like, this is amazing. Wednesday happens. Zoom call with your most demanding client. You're ready for the chaos. But hey, they must have had their morning coffee because they're shockingly pleasant. Then Thursday rolls around and Jamal tries to blame you for his mistake. And in that moment, you've got grace in your back pocket.
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And you say, Jamal, I've been waiting for you all week. Why? Because you were expecting complicated. You see, now you're having fun. You're ready for it. You expected it. They didn't catch you slipping. Here's the deal. You already know who's difficult in your life. Why would you let them catch you by surprise? Prepare now. This doesn't mean you just have low standards for humanity. No, no, no.
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You're not cynical. You're not bitter. You're just realistic. You're not lowering your standards. You're preparing for their humanity. Throughout the process of publishing my new book, I made some mistakes. The team made some mistakes. There was one big mistake that in hindsight was rather small. In fact, it was so small, I can't even remember what the mistake was. But I do remember this.
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One person on the team said, are you mad that you have to delay the book launch again? I said, actually, I'm not mad. They said, why? I said, because I was expecting it. It doesn't mean we can't have a conversation about how we'll do better next time. It doesn't mean that there's no accountability. It just means that conversation is about 100 times more healthy because
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We left margin in our working relationships for delays, setbacks, missteps. And I just think that your life and work gets better when you have realistic expectations for the world around you. My friend, in my new book, How to Work with Complicated People, dropping tomorrow, if you are listening to this on April 14th, Monday, It drops on April 15th.
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I dive deep into what I call an expectations detox. And it's a way to reset the unrealistic standards that we often place on people who have no intention of meeting them. I promise it is going to transform the way that you lead, the way that you live, and the way that you love. You can grab your copy on Amazon today. My friends, thank you so much for listening to the Ryan League podcast.
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If today's episode added value to your life, do not keep it to yourself and share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you'd take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. Leave a comment if there's a topic that you'd like me to cover in the future. I would love to hear from you via text. I send out an encouraging text every single week. to about 20,000 people.
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You'd never say that out loud, but our internal reactions slash frustrations often come from people missing the mark. Now their job description doesn't say simple or perfect really anywhere. The wedding vows don't typically include either of those words, but somehow when somebody falls short, It's usually from an internal expectation that our external relationships never even knew about. And so...
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what we actually get instead of simple and perfect is, well, complicated, imperfect, quirky, late, moody, difficult, dare I say, human. Unfortunately, your only options for bosses, coworkers, kids, neighbors, pastors, lovers, the only options you got are human ones. And humans, unfortunately, well, they come with complexity.
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Are We There Yet?
My friends, my friends, welcome to the Ryan League podcast. I got an episode for you today that I am so excited about. On the Ryan League podcast, we like to keep things short and sweet, give you something practical that can add value to your week. Today's episode might be a little bit more challenging than normal.
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But what makes John, John, in my personal opinion, having gotten to know him more personally over the last couple of years, isn't his resume, but it's the way that he multiplies leaders. He doesn't just lead people. He raises leaders and I've met a lot of people who are generous with their money. He is generous with his influence, and he helps people become leaders. He empowers people.
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We've had some amazing events together recently, but while it's amazing to get to work with him and his team today, what's really wild is that this relationship has actually been 10 years in the making. I'm going to give you a little bit of behind the scenes of how I even got connected to John in the first place. Chad Johnson, a really good friend of mine, he is one of John's right-hand guys.
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He does a lot of bookings for John, makes a lot of connections for John, and he's been doing that for over a decade. originally got connected with Chad through a conference that used to be really popular called Catalyst Conference. And Chad worked for that conference. So every year I would go and would hang with Chad. And then he officially moved over to start working for John.
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And we just always stayed in touch. Really good friends. And One day I had a previous book coming out called Leveling Up. Now, whenever you publish a book and you're going with a publisher, I always want you to reach out to your most famous friends to have them post about the book. It is the most annoying thing in the world. I hate it with a passion.
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If you're my friend and you want to post about it, great. But having to ask people to just... you know, hey, would you endorse my book? First off, these people are not even going to read your book, so they're going to write like a little blurb. Don't get me on a soapbox.
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But nevertheless, my publisher asked me to reach out to some different people that had some different platforms that maybe they would have me on their podcast, whatnot. And then I just remember thinking, you know, John recently just started his leadership podcast. So I reached out to Chad and I said, hey, man, what do you think, man? It'd be cool to be on John's podcast.
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you might even come to the conclusion that today's episode felt, perhaps, discouraging. And as somebody who has a strong desire to encourage the world around them, you might feel discouraged. discouraged, but I want you to know today's podcast is going to challenge you. And if you are listening with a growing ear, I promise you, your life is going to get better today.
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I'd love to come on and talk about the book. And in that moment, I'll never forget Chad saying something to me that was a tough pill to swallow in the moment. But long term, it was one of the best things a friend, a true friend, could actually say to me. He said, Ryan, I don't think we're there yet. I don't think we're there yet. He was saying, hey, man, the truth is, hey, we love you.
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But I'm not sure that... That the work you've put in thus far is there yet to match that of John Maxwell. Which, again, like I said at the beginning, this is going to make some people feel uncomfortable. Like, I don't even like this conversation. I don't like the whole levels thing. We're all the same. We all should just be down there. Here's the deal.
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You can't just hop on somebody else's platform and just assume that you can just do what they do. It don't work like that. I get that this could sound offensive to somebody. It could sting. But I just got to tell you, when he said it, I didn't hear offense. I heard challenge. Yeah, I heard, hey, man, you got some work to do. So guess what? We started doing that work.
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Yeah, we started figuring out ways. How can we have more value to the people that are in front of us? I was challenged by his words. You want to know what's interesting? I think the truth for a lot of us is I think we actually want to be lied to. We want everyone to say we're amazing, even if we're not. We want compliments over correction.
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It's why some people can post a half-baked idea on social media and then get defensive when someone offers actual feedback. It's like you didn't even give your best. You just want everybody to like it and share it and make it viral. But what if there is... What if there was somebody going, hey, it's not there yet.
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It's why in the workplace, performance reviews can turn into pep rallies instead of honest conversations because we've created a culture where affirmation is expected and accountability is avoided. But if we always settle for comfort over correction, we'll stay stuck in cycles of mediocrity.
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Are We There Yet?
It's like we're all still playing kindergarten soccer where everyone gets a medal and everyone gets a trophy for just showing up. Listen, I've got two kids in sports and the number of parents yelling, good job, Johnny. When Johnny is airballing, okay, he is clearly struggling. It is wild. At some point, I believe we've got to leave the emotional kindergarten arena.
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Because if we want to grow, we need somebody in our corner who is willing to tell us, you've got some work to do. You're not there yet. You've got some areas to improve. You've got some skills to sharpen. You've got some character to build. You've got some faithfulness to practice. I love what Jim Collins says in his book, Good to great.
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He wrote, you absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. And that's what my very good friend Chad gave me. The brutal facts. And I didn't take it personally. I took it seriously. Now, did you know?
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that research from the Harvard Business Review found that 92% of people agree that negative feedback, if delivered appropriately, is effective at improving performance. Nevertheless, even with that stat, most of us avoid it. We avoid giving it. We avoid receiving it. Why? Because it's uncomfortable. Why? Because it risks the relationship. Why?
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Are We There Yet?
Because hearing you're not there yet can feel like rejection when really it's a gift. Like, have you ever had someone ask you what you thought about their article, their video, their book or post? And you were just kind, but not honest. You didn't be honest because you didn't feel like you had permission to tell the truth. Because the truth is, sometimes it wasn't that good.
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But you're trying to be a good friend. And you think being a good friend means telling them what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. And we just don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. So we just say, great job and move on. I've been on both sides of that moment. I've been the guy hoping for real feedback and getting sugar-coated compliments.
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I've been the guy trying to find a polite way to say, you've got a little work to do, but I just couldn't find it in my heart to do it because I didn't feel like the person was in a position to receive that they're not there yet. And it was just weird. And so I've got this question that I want to ask you today.
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Are We There Yet?
Do you have somebody in your life who's willing to tell you the truth, even if it stings? Not to tear you down, but to build you up. Because we all need at least one person in our corner who's not afraid to say, you're not there yet, but I believe you can get there. That's what Chad did for me. So what did I do with Chad's challenge? I kept showing up.
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Over the last year and a half, I have had the wonderful opportunity to work side by side with the They are actually the ones who have published my latest book, How to Work with Complicated People. And for those of you who don't know who John Maxwell is, he is one of the most influential leadership voices ever. Of all time, to put it frankly, he's written almost 100 books on leadership.
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I kept being faithful with the stages and platforms I did have. I kept looking for ways to add value to my clients and to my audience and to my platform. And then about a year later, Chad called me. He said, hey, I think we might be there. I'm going to pitch it to the team. And the team was 50-50 from what I've heard.
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They may not admit that now, but back then, Chad told me what was going on behind the scenes. But in that moment, they rolled the dice. And now we get to do some pretty great things together. Listen, there are still stages and platforms that quote unquote, think about having me speak on their stage or do their podcast. And then guess what happens? They pass. Yeah, they pass. Am I there yet?
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I don't know. But I don't lose sleep over it. You know what I think? I think every day, like today, is an opportunity to get better. And the there is not a specific stage. The there is me simply trying to reach my potential and give my best. And I just got to have some people in my life that can come alongside me and show me when I'm absolutely not doing that. I wake up every day
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And I give my best to whatever is in front of me. And I am going to encourage you to do the same and find somebody in your life who is willing to tell you the truth, not someone who flatters you, someone who challenges you. Because when you have somebody like that, you find yourself in a position where you can truly My friends, thank you for taking time today to listen to the Ryan League podcast.
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He has sold more than 36 million copies, which is a lot of books for sure. Not like 36 million downloads or views that people can get for free. I'm talking people like purchased over 36 million copies of books. He's coached leaders in nearly every country on the planet. His influence is absolutely insurmountable.
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Lebron's Secret Sauce
Welcome to the Ryan League Podcast, where we keep it short and sweet. Today, I want to talk to you about what it actually takes to be great. A person who has been at the center of debate when it comes to greatness is LeBron James. LeBron's greatness is has been argued in every barbershop and every sports talk radio show and every sports talk TV show for the last 22 years.
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LeBron's going, hey, let's talk about how much time it takes to really be me. And it makes sense. Because if you think about it, LeBron is a billionaire. That's with a B. He is a billionaire. So that $1.5 million is a fraction of a percent of his net worth. If you make $100,000 a year, that's like spending $150 on your health. That's a couple of gym memberships. That's if you're not at Lifetime.
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If you're at Lifetime, that's half the membership. That'll get you two weeks at Lifetime. But at LA Fitness, you'd be all right with $150. You know what I mean? That's a nice pair of running shoes. That's a few sessions with a personal trainer. What am I saying? The reality is, it's not the money that sets LeBron apart. It's his schedule. It's how he leverages his time.
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It's about him understanding the value of the one thing that no amount of money can buy. There are plenty of NBA players who could write the same check, but how many of them are willing to put in the same hours to take care of their body?
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How many of them are religiously stepping into cryotherapy chambers, spending hours in a hyperbaric tank, or getting meticulous treatment for every single muscle fiber in their body? LeBron James isn't still playing at an elite level at 40 years old because he wrote a check. He's still dominating because... Well, he committed the time to do what most players won't.
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The money gets you access, but the commitment gets you results. Plenty of athletes could afford the same trainers, the same recovery tools, the same nutrition plans. But how many are waking up before sunrise, putting in extra hours in the gym, prioritizing sleep like it's a job, and meticulously managing their body day after day, year after year? Greatness isn't about resources.
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It's about routines. So the real question is, what are you willing to do that most people won't? Because greatness requires time. Time that most people aren't willing to put in. Great books require time researching. Great marriages require time being intentional instead of just scrolling on their phones.
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Great business requires time understanding their customers, refining their strategy and adapting to change. Great leadership requires time investing in people, listening and making tough decisions with wisdom. Great diets often require time meal prepping. Great friendships require time showing up, checking in and being present, especially when it's not convenient.
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Great social media platforms require time creating, engaging, and providing real value instead of just chasing trends. Great careers require time mastering skills, networking, and taking on challenges that other people avoid. Great faith Requires time praying, studying, getting in the Word, and living out your beliefs with consistency.
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Great financial freedom requires time, budgeting, investing, and making disciplined choices today that pay off tomorrow. The bottom line is, whatever it is that you want to be great at will not happen by accident. It will happen because you made time for it. Whenever I talk to people about growing in any area of their life, I consistently hear, I just don't have the time.
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And I get it, because we're all busy. But as busy as we are, my question truly is, what do you have time for? I have to wonder if we're busy with mediocrity, with a desire to be great. You see, I'm amazed at what we actually make time for. Because we make time for our favorite shows. We make time for social media. We make time for sports.
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I read one article that says the average person spends two and a half hours a day on social media. I read another article reporting Netflix says their average user watches two hours of their content every single day. Listen, I love social media, I love sports, I love entertainment, just like the next person. But here's the reality.
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And what's interesting is, specifically, People have been obsessed with how much money LeBron spends on his body. The chefs, the trainers, the hyperbaric chambers, the state-of-the-art recovery techniques that sound like something out of a sci-fi movie. Like, what is this dude doing all the time?
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You are going to spend the next five years of your life doing something. So the question is, will it be something that moves you toward who you actually want to be? My friends, LeBron James' secret sauce isn't money. It's time. He's not lucky. He's intentional. It's having the same non-negotiables on his schedule every single day.
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That's what keeps him in the debate and conversation for being the greatest of all time. So the real question is this. Do I believe that LeBron James is the greatest of all time? I do not. I do believe that goes to Michael Jordan. However, I will say this. LeBron is outplaying my argument because I have argued about this for the last 15 years, and yet he is still playing.
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And as of this recording last night, I believe he had 33 points and 17 rebounds or something like that, which absolutely makes no sense from a 40-year-old. And I'm 38, and I get injured just getting out of bed. It's wild. Nevertheless... The real question is, for you, what needs to go on your schedule? If you say you want to be green, I would say you can't just put your money where your mouth is.
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You have to put your schedule where your mouth is. My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan Link Podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration.
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Thanks for being a part of the journey, and I'll see you next time.
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And the number floating around in which LeBron spends on his body every single year is a cool $1.5 million per year. I've read that stat in countless books, articles. In fact, I've quoted it in some of my talks as well. But I recently heard LeBron say something in a recent interview that surprised me.
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He said, I've heard this crazy notion about how much money I spend on my body per year, and I kind of just chuckle. That is a number that I will not disclose, but more importantly, I think it's the time. Isn't that interesting? We've been so focused on how much money he spent. He goes, no, no, no. If you really want to know my secret sauce, it's the time that it takes.
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Yeah, It's Called The Big Leagues
Welcome to the Ryan Leak Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet and practical for you. Just try to give you a little small nugget of inspiration for your week. I've got a new book coming out April 15th called How to Work with Complicated People. And I would love for you to pre-order that on Amazon. And as we have been talking about the book a lot lately...
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You tell yourself, no one will notice. But the only problem is, You notice. Deep down, you know you've got more in the tank. You're just tired. You're impatient. Or afraid to admit that good enough is really just a dressed up version of not my best. I've been there. And let me tell you, settling is sneaky. It wears this disguise of practicality, but really, it's just fearing a different outfit.
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Yeah, It's Called The Big Leagues
But I have to say this. Thank God for those friends who won't let you settle. I sent my cover options to a bunch of friends and got some mild feedback. But then I had one friend, Whitney. She challenged me. She said, these are all crap, Ryan. I said, Whitney, you think everything is crap? We've talked about this several times. She said, you're right. However, you need something like this.
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And then she sends me a website of a guy named Rodrigo. His website absolutely blew me away. it was immediately evident that Rodrigo and his team were world class. I dug into it more and saw that he had worked on Dr. Peter Atiyah's book, Outlived, The Science and Art of Longevity, which is one of the number one books in the world. Ironically, some of my friends actually work with Dr. Peter Atiyah.
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And so I gave them a call to ask about Rodrigo. Her name is Lacey, and she's actually been on the previous format of this very podcast. And so she's a really good friend of mine, and she gave him and his team a raving review. She said, hey, Rodrigo's the best. And I said, okay, okay, okay. And then, of course, I had to ask the question. We all want to know when we're shopping.
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How much are we talking? What kind of dollars and cents are we talking about here? And Lacey, she gives me the ballpark. of what their fee would be. And my response was, for a book cover? Like, like, like, like, like, for a book cover? This is what we want for a book cover? Wow. And in that moment, that's when my friend Lacey hit me with a line I will never forget.
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Yeah, It's Called The Big Leagues
I've had a lot of people compliment specifically the book cover. Now on today's episode, I want to give you a little bit of the behind the scenes of how the book cover came to be. If you have not seen this book cover, you can go to ryanleek.com slash complicated, or you can see it on any one of my social media platforms. Nevertheless, writing a book is hard enough, but choosing a book cover is
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She said, yeah, it's called the big leagues. I said, ooh. Lacey, Lacey, Lacey, why'd you have to come at me like that on a Tuesday? That was unnecessary. Talking about some, yeah, it's called the big league. She knows me too well. She knows I'm competitive. And I couldn't get the phrase out of my head. I said, get me on the phone with Rodrigo. I want to talk to this guy.
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The next day, I got to meet with Rodrigo, and within minutes, I understood why he and his team are worth every penny. Oh, yeah, yeah, they don't mess around. In that moment, I realized, oh, so this, this is what the big leagues feels like. You see, it's not about being the best. It's about giving your best. It's about refusing to settle.
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And after working with Rodrigo's team for nearly a year, I look back and think, man, we have come a very long way when it comes to this book cover. And the reason is simple. We raised the standard. We decided not to play small. You've probably heard the phrase, don't despise small beginnings. That's real. But here's what's also very real. Some people start small and they stay small.
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Not because they have to, but because they settle. We use phrases like, this is good enough, or nobody will notice. But playing in the big leagues requires you to challenge that mindset. This episode is an invitation to graduation. Where in your life are you tempted to settle? Maybe you've been coasting at work, just doing enough to get by.
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Maybe you've stopped investing in your relationships because things are fine. Or maybe you've got a dream or an idea that you've been sitting on for years, afraid to invest in it because it just costs too much. And the cost might be in your time, it might be in your money, or the cost might indeed be in your energy. And you just go, I just don't have it right now.
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I just don't want you to take the easy route. I want you to go where the expectations are high. I want you to go where the demands are high. I want you to go where the pressure is on to perform, to grow, to develop. You need to be around people in places that push you, people who won't let you stay the same.
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Jim Rohn, motivational speaker, he once said, don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. That quote hits hard because it reminds us that growth comes from pressure, from putting ourselves in environments that challenge us to rise higher. The big leagues is about challenging yourself to do things that scare you a little, things that make you grow. And here's the thing about growth.
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It doesn't happen in the easy crowd. You don't get better by surrounding yourself with people who let you coast. If you're setting goals, don't just set goals for the sake of checking them off. Set goals that force you to become someone better in the process. The kind of goals that require you to step up and learn new skills and read more and learn more and put in the reps.
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If your goals don't scare you a little bit, they're not stretching you enough. If you want to play in the big leagues, you've got to hold yourself to a higher standard. And that means leveling up your excellence, even when no one is watching. Here's what I want you to do this week. First, I want you to start by identifying just one area where you know that you've been settling.
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Yeah, It's Called The Big Leagues
And then ask, what would it look like for me to give my best here? I want you to get some feedback from someone you trust. Maybe it's investing in better tools, resources, or people. I want you to take one bold step that stretches you because excellence isn't a destination. It's a habit.
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When you start giving your best in the small things, you'll find yourself operating in the big leagues without even knowing it. And you'll never want to go back. When it came time to print the book, the design for the book on how to work with complicated people, we were told, was a little too complicated to print in a way that books are normally printed.
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Therefore, the colors we had chosen had to be a little more dull. It was still a good cover, and people liked it. And I got to that good enough place again. And I'll be honest, it really was good enough. It was still like, man, Rodrigo did this thing. It's still a really great cover, but... It's not quite where I want it to be, but it really is good enough. Like, we're fine.
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Well, it shouldn't be complicated, right? I know it's easy to think. A cover? Like, Ryan, it's just a book cover. It's not that big of a deal, but... When you have poured a couple of years of your life into writing a book, you don't want to wrap it in something that's just good enough. And the truth is, I almost settled.
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And if I'm honest, I was tired. So many emails, so many meetings, so many phone calls. And I just said, it's fine. And then two days later, Rodrigo called me and said, actually, it's not fine. You see, if we push back, or made any more adjustments, it would mean delaying the book launch again, which had already been delayed several times for a variety of reasons.
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The election, supply chain, I mean, so many things kept delaying the launch of this book, and I just didn't want to delay it any further, and I didn't want to have to remarket and repost and rebrand and redo websites and graphics and But here's the deal. When you've retained a world-class designer, he holds you to a world-class standard. He was right. It wasn't fine.
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Yeah, It's Called The Big Leagues
And so we made a decision to delay the book launch for six weeks past what we had already marketed. And I have to tell you, I'm so glad we did. I'm glad I didn't let my fatigue, my exhaustion, my frustration, or my disappointment have the final say. Perhaps the bigger takeaway from today isn't about book covers, but it's actually about friends who don't let you play small.
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One of the growing moves that you can make this week is to ask somebody who has a front row seat to your life and ask them, is there any area of my life where you think I'm settling for good enough? Yeah, you want to find somebody that's got a front row seat to your life and ask them, hey, is there any area of my life where you think I'm settling for good enough?
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Because the reality is some of us can give 80% and still be better than most. But again, the biggest problem with 80% is you know it's not your best. And you'll never reach your potential until you actually try to give your absolute best. My friend, I am inviting you to play in the big leagues.
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This is not where you are famous, but this is where you are absolutely giving your best every single day. Thanks for listening to the Ryan League Podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself and share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you would take a moment to order your copy of How to Work with Complicated People.
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And you can see this cover that I was just talking about for the last 10 minutes. And it comes out on April 15th. And you can pre-order that on Amazon, And I also send out an encouraging text every single week. If you'd like to subscribe to those text messages, you can text the word podcast to the number 469-809-1201. And as always, feel free to rate, review, and subscribe.
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Your support helps us reach even more people with these short, sweet nuggets of inspiration. Thanks for being a part of the journey, and I'll see you next time.
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I got some solid cover options that could have gotten the job done, no question about it, but they were safe. They were clean. But if I'm honest, something just didn't sit right. I could tell that I was settling for good enough. Have you ever been there? That place where you know something could be better, but you convince yourself that it's fine, just as it is. It'll work. It gets the job done.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Ryan League podcast, where we serve up short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. Now, let's be honest. The biggest debate of the last few weeks has not been about tariffs. Nope, nope, nope. It hasn't been about interest rates.
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And the other 55 dudes are just your random weekend warriors who... still bring up their high school stats at cookouts, okay? Just some run-of-the-mill dudes that are just ready for the Royal Rumble. Now, you got to ask yourself, can these 100 men take a gorilla, a silverback gorilla, okay?
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
Now, in my humble opinion, I think where the plan falls apart is the fact that the gorilla doesn't need a plan. It does not need formation. It does not need a team. It does not need a strategy. It is a strategy. It is a team in and of itself. It doesn't even need a reason. It just wakes up strong. A silverback gorilla...
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
is like a CrossFit champion, Olympic powerlifter, and Marvel superhero all merged into one hairy, plant-based wrecking ball, okay? Like, the average gorilla can lift up to 10 times its body weight, which means a 400-pound gorilla could casually... casually bench press a pickup truck while peeling a banana with its foot. I want you to think about that for a second, okay?
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Now, let's just take the strongest human you can imagine. Let's just say the strongest human you can imagine could deadlift 1,000 pounds once. What they would do while doing so, they would be screaming, right? And then afterwards, they would need a chiropractor. The gorilla, on the other hand, doesn't train. It doesn't even hydrate.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
It hasn't even been about GOAT conversations between LeBron James and Michael Jordan talking about the NBA playoffs and Luka not playing defense. Nope, that is not the greatest debate over the past couple of weeks. No, where the internet has been locked in on is the debate over could 100 men, take down one silverback gorilla with no weapons.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
In my humble opinion, the 100 men, even if they're all sumo wrestlers and all NFL defensive linemen, in my humble opinion, They become pancakes. But here's the twist of this episode. This episode isn't actually about gorillas. It's about connection. Because somehow, this ridiculous debate has sparked more engagement than most meetings ever will. Why? Because it's fun. Because it's unexpected.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
And it gets people talking. And that's the whole point. In my new book, How to Work with Complicated People, which, by the way, is a New York Times bestselling book. Thank you for your support on that. Now, in this book, I write about how we can actually improve our relationships by improving our connections.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
And one of the best ways to build connection is by asking better questions, unexpected questions, slightly ridiculous questions, fun questions. And so today I want to give you just some questions that I think can make your meetings better, make your conversations better. And you can just try this in your next meeting.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
For example, you could say, hey, if our team was trapped on a deserted island, who's leading us? And who's getting eaten first? OK, like now you're just you're trying to figure out who's the weak link. And I can just tell you if I'm in this meeting, I'm going to tell you right now, my outdoors survival skills are rather low. However, my airport vernacular, my ability to book travel is elite.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
So if you put me indoors or at a resort or any airport, I can get you out. If you put us in the jungle, we're going to die. I'm just telling you right now. Don't invite me. I don't want to go to your retreat. There's no point. Because if something happened, I can run fast. That's about it. Another great question. Who's most likely to accidentally hit reply all and shut down the company?
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Like who's like, we need to just take their computer because we don't know what they're going to say. Another question that you could use in a meeting is if you had to swap jobs with someone on this team for a week, who would it be and why? Another question could be, what's a small tweak that would make our meetings 10 times better?
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I mean, you could even just sit on that one for five, ten minutes. Like, how can we make these meetings even better? Because most meetings could be better, way better, with just one or two small shifts. You know, I mean, I've just heard a few answers around that.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
People have said, hey, something that can make our meetings better is if, you know, if they started on time, that'd be helpful, or ended early on purpose. What if we banned PowerPoint for one week and just had to talk like humans? What if the last five minutes of every meeting was used to ask, hey, what did we not say today that perhaps we should have? Sometimes I think we over-engineer connection.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
We try to automate what's meant to be human. But when you give people space to speak freely without judgment or agenda, you'd be amazed at what shows up. And then there's another question that I really think will get your team going. I really think will spark energy in a meeting. What's the most annoying thing the people we serve deal with and how can we fix it? I'll say it again.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
What's the most annoying thing that the people we serve deal with and how could we fix it? If you're in the customer service space, I don't know that you could easily fix this, but I probably should start a company that does fix this. Let me just tell you what drives people crazy. And if it was removed, oh my gosh, it would change the game for these companies. Automated customer service hotlines.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
Oh my goodness. You call in with a legit question, and before you can say anything, you're in a voicemail purgatory. Please press seven if you'd like to repeat these options again for the sixth time. Have you ever been yelling at your phone? Representative! Team member! Like, I don't know how they get us so frustrated, but it's like, would somebody please... Fix this.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
Listen, my friend, what you want to do in these meetings is you want to ask questions that spark some synergy, that create some connection. Perhaps it creates a fun debate. Perhaps there's some laughter. At the end of the day, one of the best things that we can do for our teams is build our connections, even with the people that sometimes we find complicated. So, yeah, at the end of the day,
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
Now, I don't know what you believe about this debate, but before you jump into your theory as to why you think the gorilla would win or the 100 men would win, I just want you to think about this scenario for a minute. Let's just say... that the 100 men aren't just 100 random guys from the mall. They're not just walking around Walmart. Let's just say we get to choose the 100 men.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
We're not talking about gorillas. We're talking about how do we create synergy in our conversations? How do we create genuine connections with the people we work with every single day? Now, if you've got somebody on your team that insists that 100 men could be the silverback gorilla, What I want you to do is I want you to watch that person closely.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
They've got confidence you might want to harness or you might need to be afraid of that person. Hey, my friends, thank you so much for listening to the Ryan League podcast. If today's episode inspired you, helped you in any way, added value to how you work or how you live, don't keep it to yourself, share it with a friend.
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
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100 Men vs 1 Gorilla
We get to stack the deck. I'm talking 15 sumo wrestlers, okay? I'm talking 20 of the top NFL defensive linemen, okay? Aaron Donald and his boys, all right? They just ready to rock and roll. I'm talking about your top 10 elite UFC fighters ready to choke hold and do leg kicks. I'm not really sure that that's going to work on the silverback gorilla, but let's just say we get to stack the deck.
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They Not Like Us
What's going on, my friends? Welcome to the Ryan Lee Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet. Today's episode is entitled, They Not Like Us. Regardless of how you feel about the song, Not Like Us, it's hard to go anywhere and not actually hear it. Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar has absolutely dominated charts, hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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They Not Like Us
You're like, hey, man, hey, they not like us. You got those early birds versus the night owls. You got the minimalists versus the hoarders. You got the Mac people versus PC people. You got vegans versus carnivores. You got people that grew up on Jeopardy versus people who are reality TV bingers. They not like us. Us. You've got generational differences.
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They Not Like Us
You know, you've got boomers that value loyalty and staying at a company for 30 years versus Gen Z who sees a two-year job stint as normal. Like, if you dare pass two years, it's like, hey, man, are you okay? What's going on? They're not like us. The reality is it doesn't matter where you go in life. The reality is we're all going to collide with people who aren't like us.
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They Not Like Us
And sometimes if we take it even further, they don't like us. And perhaps we don't like them. And when we collide with those people, we have options. Yeah, we've got options. I don't know which option has been historically, but I'm going to explore those options with you today. Number one, we could just ignore them. Yeah, we could just pretend they don't exist.
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They Not Like Us
We could live in an echo chamber of people who talk like us, think like us, and believe like us. But here's what I learned. Ignoring them doesn't make them disappear because they're everywhere. I know some people are like, I'm just going to quit my job because I can't stand these people because they're not like us. Okay. Okay.
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They Not Like Us
you're just going to find a new job and just find more people that are annoying or don't agree with you. So again, you can ignore these people, but I mean, I think they're pretty good at being unavoidable. So again, while it's a plan, I'm just not sure that it's, It's one that's going to actually help you grow. I actually think so many people can give you a deeper perspective of the world.
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They Not Like Us
I think when we ignore people not like us, I think our world stays small. And we just become more out of touch. Nevertheless, you're grown. I mean, at least I think you are. You can do whatever you want. But that's option number one. Option number two is you could try to change them. That's an option. Because when they're not like us, well, we can just say, well, what if we just help them be more
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They Not Like Us
Like us. Let me show them the error in their ways and persuade them to see things through my lens. But let's be honest. How often does this work? People rarely change because someone else demands it. If anything, they dig in deeper, proving why they're right in the first place. People don't change when they're backed into a corner.
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They Not Like Us
It has racked up over 250 million views on YouTube and counting, streamed over 500 million times on Spotify, and won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Now, whether you care about the Drake and Kendrick beef or not, This is what I know to be true about you and me. We all face somebody or we find ourselves on the opposite end of them. They not like us.
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They Not Like Us
They change when they feel safe enough to explore something new on their own terms. Again, you could try, but I'd love to see somebody do the same with you. Option number three is this. You could cancel them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people, they choose to cancel those who don't align with their values or views. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They Not Like Us
I've seen kids stop speaking to their parents over political disagreement. I've seen employees resign because they refuse to work under someone with opposing beliefs. I've seen lifelong friendships disintegrate. Siblings become strangers.
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They Not Like Us
And while there are certainly times when boundaries need to be set for personal well-being, I've yet to meet the person whose people skills improved by canceling everyone who didn't fit their mold. Canceling may create distance, but it rarely leads to resolution. Writing people off may be a go-to strategy for some. But again, it's not a growing one. Oh, and guess what? It's not an inspiring one.
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They Not Like Us
And it's certainly one we don't want to teach our kids if you're a leader. And someone came to you right now and said, hey, hey, hey, I've got this person that I don't like. They don't like me. What should I do? Is the best advice you could come up with just ignore them, write them off, stop talking to them, ask for a transfer? Now, is any of the aforementioned necessary at times? Sure.
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They Not Like Us
But I would argue that's the outlier, not the norm. I don't think it should ever be our go-to response. Again, you're grown. You can cancel whoever you want. It's your right. But I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that I think that there's a better option. And it's the fourth option. You could try and understand them. Why? Well, because I think that's what you would want, right?
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They Not Like Us
You wouldn't want to be ignored, forced to change, or canceled. You'd want someone to pause long enough to understand you. why something hurts, what makes you tick, what your dreams are, what your fears are. The same courtesy we want is the same courtesy we should give. Understanding doesn't mean agreeing. It doesn't mean compromising your values.
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They Not Like Us
It just means seeing people for who they are, not just who they are to you. When we choose understanding, I think we create space for connection. And connection is where real change begins. Imagine, just imagine for a moment, if we could be the kind of people who move towards others when they are clearly not like us. What if we could love them? What if we could work better with them?
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They Not Like Us
What if we could win with them? What if instead of responding with judgment or fear or assumptions, We responded with curiosity and grace. How different would our relationships look if we approached people not like us a little bit different? How different would our world look if we all did it together? My friends, I've got a new book coming out called How to Work with Complicated People.
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They Not Like Us
It's releasing on April 15th. And this book is all about helping us navigate relationships with people who challenge us. Those who think differently, act differently, and see the world through a different lens. It's designed to equip you with the tools to communicate, to collaborate, and thrive in environments where... Differences are unavoidable.
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They Not Like Us
If you've ever found yourself struggling to work with someone who's not like you, my friend, this book is for you. So I'm going to encourage you to pre-order your copy today on Amazon and perhaps take the first step toward mastering the art of handling complexity with wisdom, grace, and confidence.
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They Not Like Us
So the next time you collide with someone who isn't like you, I want you to ask yourself, what would happen if I chose to understand instead of ignore, forced to change or cancel? The answer just might surprise you. My friends, thanks for listening to the Ryan League podcast. If today's episode helps you at all, don't keep it to yourself.
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They Not Like Us
Share it with a friend, and hey, it would mean the world to me if you would take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. Thanks for being a part of the journey, and I'll see you next time.
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They Not Like Us
I think what really reveals our character is what happens when we find ourselves sitting across from, working with, Zooming with, or having a meal with someone and they not like us. When a Republican is sitting in the cubicle next to a Democrat, they're not like us. When a Muslim family is living next door to a Christian family, they're not like us.
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They Not Like Us
When it's a leader who is one of those leaders that lives by the mantra, it's not personal, it's just business. And they collide with the chief people officer whose entire job is about people. They not like us. Ooh, my favorite is when introverts intersect with extroverts. They not like us. You got those people that are just super, super chill. And then you got those people that are just OCD.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast, my friends. Today, we are recording with great trepidation. Today, we are going to dive into one of the most unexpected, one of the most controversial events, in my opinion, in recent sports history. My friends, we have to talk about the Luka Dodgers trade. My God, my God. Now, here's the deal.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
I woke up to what felt like 78,000 text messages. I thought, oh no, somebody must have died. In fact, the last time I got this many text messages at the same time, Kobe Bryant had passed away. Tragic. So I thought the same thing. Something tragic has happened. But no. Luka Doncic, the Dallas Mavericks 25-year-old superstar, had been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Now, living in Dallas, let me tell you, I just landed a little bit ago. And just driving from the airport to my home, it feels like a Great Depression. People are crazy.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
livid downtown dallas looks like a scene from a movie fans rioting in the streets nico harrison the mavericks gm i know nico not well but we've met he has reportedly been getting death threats i mentioned that to a friend i said y'all notice this nico's getting death threats my friend said yeah they're from me I said, you got to chill. It's not that serious. This is not a life or death situation.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
It's a life or death situation for Nico. For those of you who don't follow basketball, let me break this down for you. Luka Doncic is 25 years old. He's already been named Rookie of the Year. He's already been named a five-time NBA All-Star. He is widely regarded as one of the most unstoppable offensive players in the league. Some say history.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Last season, he averaged 32.4 points a game, 8.6 rebounds, and 8 assists. He can score from anywhere on the court. And no one of the other 29 NBA teams have figured out a way to guard Luka Doncic. Anthony Davis, on the other hand, is 31.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
He is an eight-time All-Star, an NBA champion with the Lakers in 2020, and one of the best two-way players in the game, which means he can play offense and defense at a very high level. He averaged 25 points a game, 13 rebounds, 2.3 blocks per game last season. While Luka is an offensive wizard, Anthony Davis is more of a dominant force on both sides of the ball.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Now, let me put a little disclaimer in here. While I personally wouldn't have made this trade, I do understand. I get what the Mavericks leadership was trying to do. They believe this move gives them the best chance to compete for a championship in the short term.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
And while they did what they think is in the best interest of the team on the court, I don't think they considered the ramifications of what would come off the court. Because the thing about big decisions is this. They don't just affect numbers and stats. They affect relationships, trust, and the culture of an organization.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
If you're not a basketball fan, I want you to stick with me because this story isn't just about sports. It's about loyalty. It's about decisions. It's about how we handle change. This trade has rocked the sports world. I don't know about the world. I'm a firm believer that your world is not the world, so I don't want to believe that it's rocking everybody's world.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
To put this in perspective, this would be like trading Taylor Swift for Beyonce. Luka is like Taylor, undeniably talented, breaking records left and right, selling out arenas. Taylor's Eros tour grossed over a billion dollars. I said that with a B. Beyonce is like A.D., She's a legend. She's still at the top of her game, but she plays a different role.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Her renaissance tour grossed $580 million, which is massive. Unbelievable talent. No question about it. But it's just a different level of impact. We're talking about two amazing human beings. But just imagine... Just like Swifties are fiercely loyal to Taylor, Dallas fans are fiercely loyal to Luka. Trading Luka is like telling Swifties that their queen is moving to a new record label overnight.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
What would the reaction be? Chaos. Or if she was doing a new genre, it'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Taylor, where you going? Now, some say, we going with you. In sports, some people in Dallas might be moving to LA, but most people aren't. They're not doing that.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
And what's interesting to me is that there's this incredible amount of pressure in sports and in business, and I would even say in life, to do whatever it takes to win, to make the move, close the deal, and chase the next big thing. And if I'm honest, I question if that's healthy. At what point does the drive to win come at too great of a cost?
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
You see, I caution people who are sacrificing personal relationships for professional progress. You might win the championship, but at what cost? You might build the empire, but who will be left to celebrate with you? Now, here's the deal. I'm not saying that the Mavericks sacrifice personal relationships for professional progress. I'm not saying that.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
What I'm saying is I don't think that they fully calculated what this trade would mean for their organization and for their city. I can almost guarantee you that when Nico made this decision, along with others, by the way, he's not alone in that. I just want to throw that out there. It takes a whole lot more than just one guy making a decision.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
But I guarantee you, when he was going back and forth with the Lakers about this trade, I don't think he thought through death threats. I don't think he saw that coming. I don't think he saw... He probably saw riots. He probably anticipated riots, but I don't think he fully anticipated having to get a security detail for his own personal life. I don't think he saw that.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
And what that makes me think is, are the decisions that we're making that... Well, we just don't see all of the ramifications that are beyond just that one decision. Because what's interesting to me is how emotional people are about this trade. I've spoken to several fans, and here's what I've heard.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
They said, even if the Mavericks win the next three NBA championships, I will never forgive Nico for what he did. I said, yeah, I don't know if it's that serious. But here's what my friends are saying. They're saying we'd rather be loyal to a guy and lose than to move on and risk everything. That's a heavy sentiment. And it's not just about basketball. It's about loyalty. It's about values.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
It's about the choices we make and the relationships we hold. Now, I've worked with the Mavericks organization before. I've got a lot of friends there. I'm not going to share any inside information on today's podcast, but I will say this. The past 24 hours have taught me a lot. Mostly, it's reminded me that winning isn't everything. Followers aren't everything. Downloads aren't everything.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
But let me just tell you, this trade has shaken up the sports world so much in the last 24 hours that people have forgotten that there is a Super Bowl in a week. This trade was so shocking. It has become, it's become like, it's become like 9-11. People ask me the question, the last 24 hours, let me tell you the number one question I've gotten. Ryan, where were you when the trade happened? What?
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
Promotions aren't everything. Bank accounts aren't everything. Recognition isn't everything. Some people get what they desperately want and lose what they desperately need. Think about it. We can get so focused on hitting the next milestone, closing the next deal, or making the next move, that we forget the impact our decisions have on the people around us. Now here's the deal.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
I don't know if the Mavericks' ownership and leadership have regrets or will have regrets about this trade. Maybe they made the right call. Maybe they didn't. Only time will tell. But this podcast isn't about the Mavericks. It's about you. For you, the next time you've got a big decision to make, I want you to consider this. What's the relational cost here?
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
How will this decision affect the people you work with, the people you love, the people who trust you? Because sometimes it's not about the win. It's about how you played the game. And lastly, to all my friends here in Dallas, I'll say this to you. We'll heal together. We will be all right, I think. I know this is a tough pill to swallow, but the sun will rise again.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
At the end of the day, it is just a game. Anthony Davis, I want to say this to you. Welcome to Texas. We're glad to have you. I feel bad for you to come in on the wake. of the rioting. Nevertheless, I hope that you and your family, as you transition, have everything you need to compete at a high level. And I personally will welcome you with open arms.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
My friends, thanks for tuning in today, whether you're a basketball fan or not. I hope this story gets you thinking about the choices you're making and the legacy you're leaving and understanding how your decisions go beyond just the decision. Thanks for listening to the Ryan League Podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend.
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Luka’s Gone, and I Need a Support Group
But it's true. Where was I when the trade happened? I was in a hotel room in West Palm Beach, Florida, getting ready to speak for my friends at Christ Fellowship, I spoke there this morning. I went to bed last night at 11.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, thinking it was just another night. This morning, I woke up, getting ready to speak. I look at my phone. Notifications galore.
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Quit Playing Small
Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Ryan League podcast. I hope you're having a fantastic day. Today, I want to talk to you about something I've been noticing more and more lately. It is an epidemic of people playing small. You know what I mean? It's like there are these people with phenomenal ideas, incredible talent, and a massive amount of untapped potential.
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Quit Playing Small
Other times, it's the fear of judgment. Yeah, that's another reason I think people play small. They have this, what will people say if I do this? What will people think of me? That's another episode, by the way. And then there's the classic assumption. Someone else could probably do it better. So why should I even try? Another one. Oh, the one that I really want to hone in on today.
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Quit Playing Small
Oh, the one I got to double click on today. It's the one I hear the most. Oh, I hear this over and over again. Woof.
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Quit Playing Small
But here's what's funny. In the process of avoiding self-promotion, so many people end up becoming self-diminishing. It's like they're hiding their light under a bucket and wondering why it's dark. Let me ask you this. What would it look like if you got over it?
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Quit Playing Small
Yeah, what would it look like if you started to believe that your voice, that your ideas, that your contributions could genuinely add value to somebody else's life? What if you believe that your life, that your dreams, that your books, that your podcast could genuinely add value to someone else's life? Let me tell you how I broke out of that cycle because I used to feel the exact same thing.
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Quit Playing Small
I think I had three or four years not on social media because I didn't want to be self-promoting. You see, I broke out of this cycle because, well one, I started believing that I had something to share that mattered. There's something that I know. There's something I've experienced. There's something that I do that could inspire someone else to improve the quality of their life.
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Quit Playing Small
And maybe it's a book that I've read and I could share something with somebody that could help them have a breakthrough. Maybe it's a friend of mine that I know that has a new podcast and you should start listening to it. And it could be the thing that heals somebody's marriage or perhaps it's just a perspective that could help somebody get through a tough day.
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Quit Playing Small
I just one day woke up and started thinking, Man, you know what? What if instead of making this thing about self-promotion, what if I just woke up every day and tried to add value to somebody's life? Could I have a career? Could I have a life? Could I make all of my content about adding value to somebody else's life? That's what helped me break out of it. That's what helped me break the cycle.
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Quit Playing Small
Let me make this personal for you. I've got this friend who has recorded, okay? This person has already recorded 20 videos for social media displaying his remarkable art. Okay, he's an artist and he's cold with it, okay? But guess what?
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Quit Playing Small
I know people who have business ideas written in notebooks, but they haven't shared them with anybody. I know someone who drafts emails to pitch their services, but they never hit send. I've seen people who actually rehearse what they say in meetings, yet they never raise their hand to say a word.
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Quit Playing Small
I've talked to people who've got plans to write books, but they can't even bring themselves to type the first word. word. If you've ever been in a place where you had something deep down inside of you that you know you wanted to do, but you just couldn't do it because you just didn't want to put yourself out there, I just want you to know you are not alone. But here's the thing.
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Quit Playing Small
But what they do is they consistently talk themselves out of showing up. It's like they're having an endless internal meeting with themselves and always coming to the same conclusion that what's on the inside of them It's not worth sharing. It's not worth pursuing. It's not worth posting. But here's the thing.
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Quit Playing Small
If you already recorded the video, hit post, dude. If you've already got the business idea, you already wrote it down, it's already in your notebook, share it with a friend and do some research.
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Quit Playing Small
If you've dreamed of writing a book, start with just one sentence because the courage to act is what sets you apart. Here's what's crazy. If you got a dream to write a book, did you know you could write one sentence a day and you could tell everybody in your entire life, hey, guess what? I started on my book today. Isn't that amazing? That's how life works. It's amazing.
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Quit Playing Small
I mean, maybe you've had a dream to start a business. Here's what I want you to think about. That dream isn't just about making money so you can quit your job and live on a beach. That dream exists because you believe the business you want to start can solve a problem or serve a need in your world. Or maybe you've wanted to write a book. That's not just about becoming a best-selling author.
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Quit Playing Small
It's about believing that your story, your words could change someone's perspective or even their entire life. Or maybe you've wanted to write a book. That's not just about becoming a best-selling author. It's about believing that your story, that your words could absolutely change somebody's life. Maybe you're not trying to be a social media influencer. I get that.
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Quit Playing Small
But what if you shared your insights, your creativity, or your encouragement with just some people around you? What if you just spoke up in a meeting at work? Not so you can say, look at me, but because you genuinely believe that your ideas could add value to the room. And guess what?
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Quit Playing Small
I have the sinking suspicion that what you've got on the inside of your brain could absolutely add value to the room that you're in. Here's how you get over the fear of being self-promoting. Understand that you're not being self-promoting. You're being generous. You're offering something of value to the world.
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Quit Playing Small
You're showing up not to make yourself look good, but to make someone else's day better, their job easier, their life more inspired. When you shift your mindset from self-promotion to generosity, everything changes. Because it's no longer about drawing attention to yourself. It's about drawing attention to the ideas, solutions, and encouragement that could truly help somebody else.
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Quit Playing Small
Now think back to those examples I shared before. If you're the person who recorded the video, you better hit post, dude. If you got a business idea, listen, you got to take the next step. Do some research. We chat GPT. Listen. The amount of information you can get in 60 seconds is absolutely remarkable. I was talking to my barber the other day. He was thinking about starting a mobile barber shop.
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Quit Playing Small
I said, hey man, let me pull out ChatGPT and let's just walk through this idea right now. And in 60 seconds, we had a plan and a budget and all of the hurdles that he would have to overcome to see his dream come true. He had never used ChatGPT before in his life. And in 60 seconds, he moved from, oh, this is an idea I got to an actual plan that he could actually execute.
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Quit Playing Small
Or he could actually look at the plan and go, you know what? Maybe that's beyond my capacity. And maybe the ROI isn't even there. But he was able to move from, man, I don't know, to, well, actually, I got a few things that I actually... No, and I can actually start moving towards something.
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Quit Playing Small
My friends, I just got to encourage you to stop overthinking and start doing something about what's actually going on on the inside of you. The reason I stopped playing small isn't because I just believe that I can add value to people's lives. It's because I wake up every single day now actively looking for ways to actually do it. And that's what I'm encouraging you to do.
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Quit Playing Small
Ask yourself, what's something people in my organization need more of? What's something people in my world could use encouragement around? And then don't wait for the permission to show up.
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Quit Playing Small
While they're busy debating themselves, someone else is out there doing it, sharing their ideas, posting their content, and taking that leap of faith.
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Quit Playing Small
Here's the truth. I will always admire someone who tries over someone who talks themselves out of being brave. Playing small. might feel safer, but it's not where transformation happens. So stop second-guessing yourself, because the world doesn't need a perfect version of you. It just needs you to show up with what you've got, and you've just got to trust that it's enough to make a difference.
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Quit Playing Small
So here's my challenge for you. Quit playing small. Speak up. Step out. Hit post. Show up. Raise your hand. Write the first sentence. Chat GPT your business plan. Why are you going to do this? Not because you want recognition, but because you believe in the value that you bring to the table. And just hear from your friend Ryan Leake. I think you bring value to the table. Why?
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Quit Playing Small
You clicked on an inspirational podcast today. Why? Because you thought maybe you needed to be inspired. But the kinds of people that click on podcasts like this are the kinds of people that don't just need inspiration. I think there's something in you that wants to give it away to somebody else.
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Quit Playing Small
So that's my hope for you today, is that you stop playing small because you can add value to the world around you. Thanks for listening to the Ryan Leak Podcast. If today's episode helped you, inspired you, challenged you to quit playing small, I would ask that you don't keep it to yourself and that you share it with a friend.
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Quit Playing Small
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Quit Playing Small
So why do people play it small? I want to break it down because, you see, I believe for some people, it's a fear of failing, which I talk about a lot. Nobody wants to risk putting themselves out there and falling flat on their face. Sometimes it's actually perfectionism. That's why people play small. You see, they think their idea isn't polished enough yet. I play it small because it's not ready.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
What's going on, my friends? Welcome back to the Ryan League podcast, where we keep it short and sweet. It is Valentine's Day, my friends. Love it or hate it, here it is. This holiday, it has a way of being pretty polarizing for a lot of people. If you're single, it's the world's loudest reminder that you are indeed that. If you're happily married, you get to celebrate that.
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than it was when we first started dating in Atlanta in 2008. Wow. That is, wow. Oh my goodness. We have, let me think about this. We've been together 17 years. I mean, we've been together, together, married 12, but 17 years, that's a long time. And you go back to 2008 and scoot on up here to 2025, two kids later, evolving careers, growing responsibilities.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
We are not the same people that we were when we first said, I do. Especially not who we were on our first date at Wendy's in Midtown Atlanta. My goodness. Y'all, I'm having a little bit of nostalgia right now. And I'm also thinking about my girl. She's so pretty. I love her. Now, here's the deal.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
As long as Amanda and I have been together, despite all of the changes that both of us have had in our lives individually and as we have had as a family, Here's what my wife has done so well that I think, if we can get this, I believe it can add value to any relationship you got. Here's what she does well. She stays in tune with what I need in every season.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
See, it's easy to assume that once someone tells you what they need, that's just what they'll need forever. But the reality is, We change. You see, what I needed in 2008 when we were dating is completely different than what I need today. What I needed from my wife in 2016 is different than what I needed during a pandemic. Even what I needed last year is different than what I need this year.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Some years, I needed encouragement. Other years, I actually needed space. At times, I needed a cheerleader. Other times, I needed a challenger. as God has expanded my influence, there's times where I need more deeper emotional support. But the key to staying connected, well, it hasn't been about her guessing my needs. It's been about her asking. And my friends, this isn't just about marriage.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
This applies to every relationship in your life. I want you to think about your friends, your colleagues, your family, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your situationship. Begin to ask yourself, do you know what they need in this particular season? Or are you still assuming they need what they needed last year? I want you to think about friends you used to be close to.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Maybe you've grown apart for a variety of reasons. Maybe moving to different cities, career changes, different life priorities, or even just the natural drift that happens when you stop checking in regularly. And when you try to reconnect, you may find yourself trying to connect around an old need rather than where they are right now.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
What used to be life-giving to them may now actually be draining. The dynamic has shifted. And I want you to know that that's okay, but one of the best gifts you can give the people in your life is understanding their season and looking for ways to add value to the season that they're in right now without holding them prisoner to how you used to add value in a previous season.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
If you're divorced, well, what were once good memories might now feel like bad ones. Then there are some of you in what we call a situationship. Now, if you don't know what a situationship is, allow me to explain. It's that kind of, sort of relationship. You know, the one where you're more than just friends, but less than an official couple. You hang out. You talk all the time.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
So just like we change, well, so do they. We all change. We're all growing. We're all waking up and figuring out what motivates us now versus what used to motivate us back then. Some people used to be money motivated, and then they got some. And now there are more people motivated. Some people are more time motivated. People change. You've changed. And that's okay.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
But what we can fail to do is keep in step with our relationships. And as their seasons change, we have to ask, do we leave enough space for the relationship to change as well? Instead of assuming what somebody needs in this current season, I want to encourage you to ask. Instead of reminiscing about how things used to be, lean into who these people are now.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
These people in your life that, and maybe things have changed. You go, man, you've changed. It's like, well, I don't know if you know this, but people that are trying to grow, well, it requires change. I had a friend tell me the other day, they go, man, you've changed. I went, yeah, I've been trying to. I've been trying to get better for a long time.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
I hope I've changed, but sometimes that means the relationship changed as well. You got to start asking yourself, are you one of those friends? Are you one of those family members that can go through different seasons with different people? When we approach relationships this way, I think we create space for our family and friends and loved ones to grow.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
And it gives us the opportunity to, instead of growing apart, we actually can grow with them. And so a couple of things I just want you to think about today. I want you to, when you begin to think about the important people in your life, platonic, romantic, you name it, I want you to be able to take a moment and have an intentional time with them and be able to ask a question.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Hey, what do you need from me right now? You might be surprised how much clarity that one question can bring. Like, is there something that you need from me right now that you might be reluctant to ask for? This is a very intentional relationship question to be able to say, man, is there something that you need from me in this particular season that I could be doing more of? And why?
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Because I want to be a friend. I want to be a good spouse. I want to be a good girlfriend, boyfriend, you name it. Is there something that you need from me? And secondly, I want you to consider what it looks like to be flexible. Because, I don't know, for example, just because someone needed your advice last year doesn't mean they need it this year. Maybe this year they just need a listener.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
And the last thing I want you to think about is I want you to have this practice of checking in regularly. I believe that relationships thrive when we intentionally invest in them regularly. Maybe you even set a reminder to check in with those closest to you. Not just when something is wrong, but to ensure that you're still aligned.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Hey, I know that you said last year that you were going through this deal at work and you really needed some encouragement and support around that. Is that still true? Perhaps this year, you don't need as much emotional support. You might actually need physical support. You might need actual help with a project. You might actually need to process a difficult conversation.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
But I think there's something powerful about not assuming a person's season, but really checking in with them in their actual season. Because I believe the best relationships, whether we're talking romantic, whether we're talking just friendships or work relationships, They don't just happen.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
They grow when we make the effort to understand and meet each other where we are, not just where we used to be. So this Valentine's Day, I want you to take a step back and think, do you truly know what the people in your life truly need in this particular season? If not, ask. And I believe that one question could be the key to growing together instead of growing apart.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Until next time, keep loving, keep growing, keep showing up, and keep checking in with the people that matter the most. Thanks for listening to the Ryan Link Podcast. If today's episode inspired you, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you would take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
There might even be deep emotional or physical involvement, but there's no clarity. There's no labels, no long-term vision. It's like being in a romantic limbo, stuck somewhere in between. We're just talking, and this is my person.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. Thanks for being a part of the journey, and I'll see you next time.
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The Relationship Check-In You Didn’t Know You Needed
But regardless of your relationship status, I want to share something with you today that I believe is going to add value to every relationship you have, whether it's your spouse, your friends, your family, or your colleagues. And I'm learning it from my beautiful wife, who I have been married to for 12 years this June. Now, for my wife and I, our life today is drastically different.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Welcome to the Ryan League podcast. Happy New Year, everybody. I am so glad that you're here. I'm not sure how 2024 went for you. Maybe you had some incredible wins, or perhaps there were some disappointments, perhaps some setbacks. You know, one of the things that people ask me about often is my approach to the beginning of the year.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
If you didn't learn one new thing this year, but applied everything you learned in 2024, this could easily be the best year of your life. Just think about that. We're just talking just everything that you learned last year. If you applied it this year, this could easily be the best year of your life. What do you know that you don't do?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
My friends, we got a lot of things that we know that we don't do. Think about it. What do we already know? We know we need to eat better. Come on. Come on, you know. Not just because it's trendy, but because our bodies thrive when we fuel them well. But let's be honest. How often does a number one from Chick-fil-A with a lemonade sound 10 times better than a dry chicken salad with water?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Come on, you know that sound way better. So what happens? We know we need to eat better, but then we find ourselves in a drive-thru talking about, so let me get a number one, hold the pickle, throw lemonade in there, large fry. I want you to add a little brownie to it too.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
And then for some odd reason, we think we're healthy because we say, yeah, and then I'll do a side, throw a little kale salad in there too. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on. We know better, but we don't often do better. What else do we know? We know we need to save more and spend less. That's not a groundbreaking revelation for 2025.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
But how many times do we walk in Target looking for some eggs and walk out with a couch? How many times have we ordered something on Amazon we did not need because it felt good in the moment and Amazon Prime could get it there before 5 p.m. if you order it before 11 a.m. ? We know that we need to save more and spend less, but sometimes we just, we don't. What else do we know?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
We know we need to prioritize relationships. We know we need to be intentional with those relationships. How many times have you heard that you should pick up the phone and call someone you care about, but you don't? Instead, we just like their social media posts and convince ourselves that that counts as some sort of connection, but we know it's not real connection.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
We all got those friends that can't pick up the phone, but they'll DM you. It's like your phone work. We know great relationships require intentionality, but sometimes we just are on autopilot on our relationships. If you're married, well, what do we know about marriage? Well, if you want to have a good one, you got to plan date nights.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
You know, there are some people that choose a word for the year, and I think that's great. But today, I'm going to give you something that I think could shape your year in a way that I think you'll look back on and be very proud of. And here's the good news. It doesn't require learning anything new. Yeah, it doesn't require you going back to school. It doesn't require you reading another book.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
It's not rocket science, but when you plan date nights, well, it can help your marriage. But how often does a busy schedule make us just push it to the next week and then the week after that and then the week after that? Before you know it, you've had months without any romance because you didn't do what you already know. If you're a parent, what do we know about parenting?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Well, the best parents, they don't just show up physically physically. They show up emotionally. They have intentional and kind conversations with their kids. But how often do we find ourselves distracted by work or distracted by our phones instead? And sometimes, well, the thing that our children crave the most, we don't always give them, which is our attention.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Sometimes we can be incredibly short with our kids instead of being incredibly kind. But what do we know about leadership? We know humility wins every single time. But how often as a leader do we let pride get in the way of admitting that we don't have all the answers? What do we know about health? We need exercise. We need to drink water. We need to prioritize sleep.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
We also know that we need to stretch. My goodness gracious. We know we need to stretch. And I'm talking to my audience right now. I'm talking to you. You know, listen, if you are over the age of 35, you know. I could do a whole episode on just this right here. You know you need to be stretching. You know it. And I know it too. But a lot of us, we still think we in college.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
We think we're D1 athlete, that we could just scoop up some McDonald's and just run around for a little bit and then just go home and just move on about our day. No, no, no, no, no. Some of us need a good hour of stretching before we go and a good hour when we get back. That's the cost of being in shape. Past 35, you gonna have to stretch. But how often do we just not listen?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
My friends, I think we have a challenge in our life where it's not about knowing better. It's not about learning anything new. It's about applying what we already know. Wouldn't it be awesome if knowing better automatically changed our lives? Like, wouldn't it be awesome if knowing about savings automatically built our emergency fund and like to start doing investments for us?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Wouldn't it be awesome if knowing better about eating healthy automatically burned calories? That'd be amazing. But that's not how it works. Knowing better isn't the same as doing better. And that gap is where the magic happens or where it doesn't. The problem isn't knowing better. It's doing better. I think sometimes we get a dopamine hit from learning something new.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
We get so excited in the moment that we actually trick ourselves into believing that we've already started practicing it. But here's the thing. Sometimes we believe that because we shared a good post, we lived a good post. Or we hear something good and think, oh, I've heard that before. Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
But just because you've heard it before doesn't mean you've practiced it before. Let me ask you this. What's the thing you need to hear one more time so that it finally makes its way into your life? At some point, we have to ask. When will all the podcasts, all the books, videos, memes, posts, and seminars we consume turn into transformation?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
A while back, I went in for an executive health check and they gave me this massive 100-page document breaking down my health and what I needed to do better. One of the recommendations was more resistance training and eating more salmon. Besides that, they gave me a clean bill of health. Here's the thing. I didn't touch a piece of salmon for two years, okay?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
It doesn't require you to learn anything new. You know, it's interesting. I was working out with my personal trainer the other day, and we were talking about his approach to the new year. And I said, hey, man, what are your goals for 2025? He said, what are you talking about? I said, come on, man, what are your goals?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
And then one day, I stumbled upon that health packet tucked away in a drawer in my office and it hit me. Ryan, what's the point of seeking wise counsel if you're just going to do your own thing anyway? What's the point of going to a marriage counselor if you think you know better than them? What's the point of hiring a coach or a trainer if you think you're smarter than them?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Here's another fun fact. Most people give up on their New Year's goals by the second Friday of January. They call it quitter's day. And maybe that's because we're so focused on creating massive, shiny new goals that we forget the power of mastering the fundamentals. What if this year wasn't about chasing the next big thing? What if it was about practicing what we've already heard preached?
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
So here's my challenge for 2025. Stop chasing the next piece of information and start practicing transformation. I want you to revisit the basics. I want you to apply what you already know. If you've been told to eat better, start there. If you've been told to save more, start there. If you've been told to show more humility as a leader, let that be your focus.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
I think you should let 2025 be the year of application. It doesn't have to be flashy. It just has to be faithful. What do you know that you don't do? What's the one thing that perhaps you could start applying today? You know how you could get a dub today? Oh, you can get a dub so fast today.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
You could just move over $100 into your savings account, $20 into your savings account, $10 into your savings account, $1,000 into your savings account, $10,000 into your savings account. I don't know where your tax bracket is, so that's why I gave a bunch of numbers. But you can make a move today that puts you in the category of people that are applying what they all ready for.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
To my friends, let's make this year the year where we don't just know better, but we actually start doing better. Thanks for listening to the Ryan League Podcast. If today's episode challenged you, inspired you, my friend, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with a friend. And hey, it would mean the world to me if you'd take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
Your support helps us reach even more people with these short and sweet nuggets of inspiration. Thanks for being a part of the journey. And I can't wait for the next episode where I'm going to talk about something that we all need to quit in 2025. And that is playing small.
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New Dog, Old Tricks.
He said, I'm going to continue doing what I always do, which is eat healthy and work out all the time. He's like, I'm going to continue doing what I already know. And so on today's episode, the big idea here, the thing that doesn't require you to learn anything new is it's making 2025 the year of application. Here's the good news.
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New Book New Superpower
What's going on, my friends? Welcome back to the Ryan League Podcast, where we keep things short and sweet. Today, I wanna help you work with that special somebody at your job. I wanna help you work with that person who perhaps is a little bit difficult, perhaps even a little bit complicated, perhaps somebody who makes every task 10 times harder than it needs to be. to be.
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New Book New Superpower
They make you think to yourself, why on earth do I work here? If that's ever been you, I've got a special announcement for you that I think is absolutely going to change your life. And I think it's going to change how you work. My friends, today is special because today,
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New Book New Superpower
I get to officially announce that my new book, How to Work with Complicated People, Strategies for Effective Collaboration with Nearly Anyone, is dropping on April 15th. The reason we say nearly anyone is because some people are certified crazy and you can't work with everybody. But I believe you can work with nearly anyone. Everybody.
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New Book New Superpower
And I believe that this book is going to unlock a new superpower in you. So let's get into it. Why did I write this book? Well, it's because after diving into a national research study, we realized something massive. Job satisfaction has less to do with someone's job description and more to do with the people they actually do the job with. It's amazing.
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New Book New Superpower
People can pull off a difficult job with people they enjoy working with more than they can actually do their dream job with people they tolerate. You see, when you've got people that you're doing the job with that are draining you, you'll start rethinking your entire career real quick. And here's what we found that really sealed the deal for me when we looked at this national research study.
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New Book New Superpower
When we started asking people about complicated, we got all kinds of answers. In other words, what we discovered is complicated is in the eye of the beholder. And it's not just about coworkers and bosses. It's also about clients. Customers, I mean, have you ever had a client who constantly changed their mind but expects you to read it anyway?
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New Book New Superpower
Have you ever had a customer who wants a discount but always wants the red carpet treatment at the same time? Or perhaps it's a patient who refuses to follow the plan, but still blames you when things go wrong. The truth is, external complications can be just as frustrating as the internal ones. And they can make or break how you experience your work.
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New Book New Superpower
So as a part of our research, we actually let people define complicated for themselves. In fact, one person wrote, When we asked them, this is the question, okay? I want you to understand this. We said, hey, how would you define a complicated person? They wrote one word, Leslie. I said, Leslie? Who's Leslie? Wait a minute, maybe they don't understand the question.
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New Book New Superpower
I'm talking about that person who's got some mood swings. I'm talking their mood swings are like the Dallas Fort Worth weather. You don't know what you're gonna get when you wake up and when you go to bed. I'm talking about that person who when they're on Zoom or they're on Teams or They refuse to stay on mute while their dog is barking in the background.
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New Book New Superpower
We said, hey, let us rephrase the question. How would you define a complicated person? They said, I said, Leslie. I said, oh, you for real? They said, yeah, Leslie is the personification of complicated, another person wrote Nate. I said, who's Nate? This is wild. Here's what I know.
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New Book New Superpower
If you're going to work, you're going to have to work with, work for, sell to, report to, email, Zoom call, negotiate with, or manage a Leslie or a Nate. And oh, by the way, if your name is actually Leslie or Nate, I got nothing against you, but I promise you somebody does. The reality is it's easy to work with people who are just like you.
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New Book New Superpower
They think the way you think, work the way you work, and approach problems the way that you approach them. It feels natural, smooth, effortless even. It's like showing up to a job where everyone speaks the same language. You just get each other. But then there's the opposite scenario. It's when you're paired with someone who challenges everything you do.
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New Book New Superpower
They work at a different pace, process information differently, and have a completely different take on what's obvious to you. I've learned that common sense isn't as common as we think it is. Isn't it interesting that sometimes you're working with somebody and every task feels way harder? It's like your instincts don't match. You misinterpret each other's tone.
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New Book New Superpower
And at some point you think, why is this person making my life harder? But here's the thing. This is what I want you to know. Those moments, those people, if you can lean in, that's where the magic happens. That's where you grow. That's where you grow. That's where you get better. That's where you harness a superpower. That's where you become indispensable.
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New Book New Superpower
It's when you can work with almost anyone. Imagine if you could work with nearly anyone, not just tolerate them, but actually work well with them. What if you could turn tension into trust? What if you could transform friction into momentum? What if the people who annoy you the most could actually become your greatest allies? That's what this book is about.
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New Book New Superpower
It's about learning how to navigate complicated relationships in a way that makes your job easier and makes you better. And we didn't just guess at all this. We did the research. We surveyed professionals across the industries. I interviewed C-suite executives that I've gotten to work with over the years and some MBA professionals as well. And the patterns were undeniable.
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New Book New Superpower
People's biggest challenges at work weren't the work itself. It was the people. Leaders who figured out how to work with complicated people were more effective and more respected than Teams that learned to navigate complexity saw higher retention, better morale, and stronger performance. And here's the kicker.
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New Book New Superpower
People who actively worked on their ability to collaborate ended up enjoying their jobs more, even if nothing else changed. So, my friends, How to Work with Complicated People. It drops on April 15th. And you, my friend, can pre-order it right now on Amazon, or you can go to ryanleek.com slash complicated. Now, when you pre-order it, you're not just getting a book.
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New Book New Superpower
You, my friend, are investing in your ability to lead, to collaborate, and to succeed at the highest level. And if you're a leader, manager, or business owner, this book isn't just for you. It's for your entire team. It's for anybody that has ever sat across the desk from somebody else and thought to themselves, I don't know how on earth I am going to continue working with this person.
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New Book New Superpower
Because here's what I know. If we can get better at working with complicated people, guess what? I actually believe that our jobs get easier. I want you to, for one moment, Begin to think about who's the most complicated person you work with. I can guarantee you somebody comes to mind. Now that you got that person, I'm so glad they got there.
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New Book New Superpower
I just want you to imagine what it would look like to work better with them. That's what this book is going to help you do. So my friend, go to Amazon, grab your copy, and get ready to unlock your new superpower. I cannot wait for you to read it. Also, I'm already looking forward to our next episode, which is going to be a very special Valentine's Day episode.
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New Book New Superpower
I'm talking about that person who in a meeting somehow manages to speak for 20 minutes without saying anything at all. I'm talking about that person who you hire this person. And on the first day, they make you question every life decision you've ever made in your entire life. I'm talking about the person who you trained. And somehow, it feels like they are determined.
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New Book New Superpower
Single, dating, married, divorced, widowed, or in a situationship. I've got a thought that I believe is going to add value to how you do relationships. Thanks for listening to this episode of the Ryan League Podcast. If it gave you something to chew on, do me a favor. and share it with a friend. Rate it, subscribe to it, and leave a comment to let me know what you think. Catch you next time.
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New Book New Superpower
They have made it their aim in life to forget everything you taught them immediately. I'm talking about the person that perhaps you promoted because they were doing great work. And then once they got the job, it's like they turned into a completely different person overnight. If you have ever worked with anybody... that challenged who you are as an individual, challenged your intellect.
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No, I'm sure it's great, too. I mean, not a lot of reviews on there, but it's overwhelmingly positive. I mean, just for the look of this game, I'm watching some more gameplay right now. I mean, it looks pretty solid. So, I mean, if the controls are there and it's not janky and it runs well.
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No, I haven't said anything. I've been very, very cautious on my take. We're going to save it for the deep dive.
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Yeah, definitely.
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If you have a little more time than we do, then please let us know and check it out and tell us what you think.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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They have made it known in our Discord exactly where they stand on this game. Like every three hours, guys, I love this game.
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I honestly, like, I mean, I love roguelikes now, so anything I can try and see how my runs go, unless it's, you know, I'm not a big fan of the card roguelikes.
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Yeah. And so I honestly I'm watching this and I have no clue what's even going on. This looks ridiculous. Are you just a are you like a you just have a giant pile of guys and then you like shoot shoot stuff.
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That's awesome.
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I love that the developer's name is Dodgeroll. Oh, yeah.
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it's beautiful pixel art it's not ugly by any means and it's got a lot of personality and charm because the enemies are like little bullets with legs on the front that's what was funny they look uh at least i am proud that that like the shell casings on the ground aren't like with the bullets still or crazy things like that are they when they fire bullets you see in some of these animations like the shell casings with it and the bullets traveling in the air and stuff
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At least they look like they know what they're doing.
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You hear that, Bethesda? Let's get Morrowind now.
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How many Skyrims are there? Is there room for one more? We can just one, two, three.
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Would you even be able to see him through the peephole? Probably not. He's a little short, isn't he? Like four foot down. Hey, buddy, come on in, little guy. I brought Skyrim. Oh, my God. That sounded like the little elves on The Simpsons.
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The name is vaguely familiar. I went and looked at it and stuff. I don't remember seeing anything like this, but I know the name.
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I was playing the playtest, and I'm looking at it like, where did this even go? Like, what the heck? I was lost immediately when I opened the skill tree. I was like, ugh. Your eyes crossed. You're like, oh, my gosh. My thing with those is I always get analysis paralysis. I'm looking, and I just never know what to upgrade to or what path to take. I'm just like.
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oh yeah i i mean i played um bloodborne yeah okay i played that so like i i've done some of the soul stuff but like i just i kept playing it and playing it and i was like i don't know why i'm doing this like i want to like it and everyone's like it's so amazing souls likes games and i just couldn't get bloodborne's an all-timer man bloodborne is so freaking good and like i can't get into it here because it's not an indie game and i'm the indie guy but you know
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That's a big take there. So it's not performing well.
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I don't know, because like you said, it's a beautiful game, and I did like the abilities you did have. It felt fluid, and you get this cool lightning attack right off the bat, or some blast attack, and you can do that, and then use your rolls to get around them and dodge stuff. I did think it played well. It looks good. It's kind of a cool style game. It's...
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It's not like a $70 game or anything crazy. No, no. I'm not sure why because, yeah, it's sitting at 63%. That is so low, man. That might as well be 10%. For an indie dev, that is devastating. The guys over there told us with Tales of Iron, if you're under an 80, there's a million 80 games. You got to be above that. So 63, that's kind of rough.
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I would probably wait for a sale. It's $40. Maybe that's why. They can probably do it if you get it for $20. I think it's a solid pickup for $20, $25. I don't know if I'd pay the $40. Even the enemies that you battle, they all look really cool. Some are big, creepy wolf guys and others are these blobs. Then you have these tall witch wizard looking people. There's all kinds of enemies and bosses.
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So Yeah, it may just be a price thing, honestly.
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I'm reading one of the not-recommended reviews with 36 hours in it. Same thing. It's like, it was good, but the more I played, I really didn't like it too much. But I think for like $20, this is perfect. And so...
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I do. I am a fan of chess.
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That's Wizards chess. That's what it was. They watched Harry Potter and they're like, I know what we can do. Haha.
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Yeah, it kind of does, man. I'm surprised. And it's funny because I was actually just doom scrolling earlier today and I briefly saw something like this and I thought it was like a weird mobile game or something. And I'm like, what? Like,
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you know chess like souls chess i'm like what the heck is this and i just kept scrolling and then you sent it over to us you know and you're like dude check this out i'm like what i just saw this so that's again i don't know how you always find all these things we have the same experience because i actually saw it in a reel and i was like huh what's that oh okay and then i went and searched for it because i was like ah see i'm a little bit different i didn't go oh mobile game
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Oh, that's good.
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Yeah, that's where my brain went right away. I'm like, when are people going to download this? And I just kept scrolling.
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This is, this is what we were just talking about though. Like these, these, uh, ideas that the indie devs have, like, you know, they just go and do it. They're like, yeah. And they don't, there's not a big board meeting and in a room like the AAA studios have where they shoot out all these crazy ideas. These guys are just like, Hey bro, you want to do this? And they're like, okay.
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And then they make a game.
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Let's make it a little deeper. Yeah. Make it a little crazy. That's wild. So no other news on that, though. It's just coming soon.
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Epic souls like adventure. I did not think I'd be talking about a souls like chess game today, but here we are.
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That game is wow. I watched one just the other day where they had some crazy item that was worth so much money and they set it down on the platform and it was kind of off the edge and they sent it and just smashed and destroyed everything.
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I was just going to say, dude, props to the devs that do that because that's just one more easier kind of access, you know, point of entry for people who may not have played those games a ton or not super, like, interested in them. But, hey, I'll give it a try with you, buddy. It's free. Exactly.
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Yeah, you got to be careful.
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Yeah. Man, that's the best. They really hit with these types, and we all talked about it. What was the other one we played with Josh? Headliners. Yeah. Yeah, we played Headliners. These super simple, you know, easy games.
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Yeah, yeah. You just all hop on because nobody goes to anybody's house anymore. So they just play party games online with each other.
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You get tired of Jackbox. Yeah, exactly. And just have a great, awesome time and laugh. And they're just dumb fun. And, dude, I love them.
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It is still bumping. Dude, there's 73,000 people in right now from Steam.
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I'm sure it's something crazy. I'm pulling up the page. At its peak, it was like 230,000 people played this. 117,000 reviews overwhelmingly positive, 96%.
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And is this a solo dev?
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Oh, okay. I mean, even if he's got like five people with him.
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Dude, that's gotta be a lot of work, but props to him, man. That's, that's solid to, to create a game like that. And then just to see these, I mean, with, with the way these types go to lend themselves to reels and funny clips and things like that, you know, it's just all that. It's like, it's easy marketing that you don't have to pay for and people just do for you, you know?
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Yeah, they do do that. That's what I thought, too, when I first saw the game. Oh, that's awesome. But yeah, check it out if you ever want to try these styles of games.
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Ten bucks, even if it's one night of fun. Like, that's cheaper than a movie.
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I like it. I'm feeling good now. I'm excited.
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Not at all. And now we'll just go play some Rivals and then hate our lives. Exactly. Yeah, well...
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For sure, yeah, to hop on with your buddy and just play a game and check it out and maybe find something that you otherwise wouldn't have played or don't like that genre. So I do think that's a cool thing they're doing. So with this, like with the big flop where it kind of came out, what were the issues with it? Was it just like bad mechanics?
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Yeah, there you go. Dang, that's always a bummer when, you know, and especially as these indie devs, I'm sure they have so much hope and aspiration for their games, and you put it out, and then it just gets compared to this beautiful masterpiece of a game that's also an indie developer, and you're like, man, why couldn't we do that? Like, what happened?
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Good for them, man. Yeah, good for them to give another crack at it. Like, hey, we're sorry. We messed up.
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I'm so sorry. Give me one more chance, please. Just one more chance.
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Well, that's a little different.
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That's true. They have a lot more people and a lot more money, too.
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Get buried a little bit in the mix.
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This one's kind of hard for me because I know I had talked with, you know, we had mentioned with the shadow drop with Expedition 33. And Josh was like, no, I don't think they'll do it, blah, blah. And my thought is like, why not? Cowards, if you believe your game and you stand behind it, put it out there and let it run.
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Say less, man. If you're going to combine skateboarding and fish, what more can you ask for?
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You know, it's kind of that in like sports terms of like basketball, you know, if you're good enough, you're tall enough. Yeah, I can understand that. If your game is super solid and you think it's amazing, I mean, look at some of the popularity of these games. We talk about Lethal Company and a lot of these indies that just take over the world by storm.
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Part of me wants to say, back it up, put out an awesome game and it won't matter what's released, but... I do get these other larger AAA titles and stuff. They have the development team. They have the money for marketing. They have the advertisement budget. And they typically just make a bigger, more polished game. So it's got to be hard on those devs.
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And I'm sure it's just kind of gut-wrenching when you're like, you think you have that week or two slotted out, and then somebody shadow drops a remake of one of the greatest open-world RPG games, and you're just like, oh, come on, man! What the?
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I do. I got a saltwater aquarium right away. I was like, oh, I know what that fits. Look at this copper pan. Look at that. That's, oh, man.
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i thought we had this figured out yeah expedition 33 oh man yeah so i'm kind of indifferent on it it's like it's hard it's it's one you know kind of one side you know both sides of the coin it's like have some faith in your game but also it's gotta suck i'm sure i know i mean that must really suck i mean what maybe the only reason we know about blueprints is because it dropped in a week where there was nothing else happening
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We probably wouldn't have.
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Yeah, it's a tough one, man. It's business, but it's also they try to be so tactful with how they strategize their release. I would have sucked because I honestly really enjoyed my time in Blueprints. I thought it was an awesome game, and I can with utmost certainty say that if it came out the same week as Oblivion, I would have never touched it.
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Especially because I'm not a puzzle game guy, but we had nothing else to play. And I was like, all right, I'll check it out. And Josh was like, I think it's going to be really good. And it was. And so it's cool to have the... There's just so many dang games coming out these days, dude. It's been a year of video games all time. I don't know how they plan this stuff. When would a good week be?
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Because there's always all these games that keep coming, plus the unexpected games, these shadow drops. It's like... I don't know how they got the week or something like that.
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Yep.
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Man, it sounds like licensing issues if they had it any closer to what the name could have been. That's what it sounds like to me.
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Dude, this is so dumb. But I watched it and I just found myself laughing and smiling and like, oh, yeah. Because you get on this trailer and it opens up. It's a fish. It's, you know, Tuna Hakes, Tony Hawk. You're like a skateboarding looking fish guy. And he just starts like doing all of these flips in the air after you pop out of water. And I was just...
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I'm stoked, man. Yeah, I'm excited. Everybody listening, you may have noticed a voice intro-ing us today. Our big boy Ace is hitting those reins, and he's going to run this thing, and so I can kick back and just relax.
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cracking up laughing it is utterly ridiculous um i i was gonna say too i started because just so everybody knows a little behind the scenes this indie stuff ace is a wizard i don't know where the heck he finds some of these games it is it is beyond me because i'll look at it and i'd be like how did you even find this dude like are you just he looks like down in the caves like looking through all these files you know finding these crazy games but uh yeah man this is this is just wild looking this is crazy
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Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, how many times do you, you know, just, like, lose a couple bucks? Like, so, you know, spending a couple dollars just for, like, 30 minutes of laughs is not, you know, not the end of the world, that's for sure. It almost does have, like, do you remember those old, that old N64 game where it was in, like, you know, the Peter Piper Pizza and the arcade places?
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It was the Wave Runner or whatever? Yeah.
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It kind of reminds me, like, the graphics and the look of the ocean reminds me of that, which is funny because it's just those goofy games. Like you said, you don't take it seriously, but it's pretty funny.
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There's 33 reviews. Hey, it's overwhelmingly positive. This is true. 100% of those 33 users.
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Oh my gosh. I'm watching a little Nemo board slide along this rail.
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Yeah. Oh, for sure. These things are cool, and it is where people get their, you know...
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artistic expression out sometimes and they're just like i want to make a game this would be fun what's a crazy idea you know and then they make that um you know kind of like we talked with uh sleepy man like yeah he's like this is kind of an artistic expression it started as a goofy song and i'm like let's make a game about it and and um and i mean he's spending i think a little bit more time on that one i would say he's uh he's putting a little bit more effort and time into his but it is the same concept most indie game developers i would think are just like
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Oh, nice.
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Some of those old, like, 90s and 2000s games were pretty off the wall.
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Chomping on baguettes and waiting for his turn to attack.
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I do. I really... I really have been vibing lately with these 2.5Ds. I really like the look. It's not just super plain, you know, like a 2D or some of the stuff like that in the side-scrollers, but it's got that little bit of extra, but that still unique look to it. And they seem to keep... Every time I see one, I'm like, oh, and it perks my interest. I do really like the atmosphere and the look.
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I always...
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the thing with these puppeteer type and and kind of look to them games um especially in like the big worlds the vastness of the worlds and stuff that they create you know it makes you feel so small they're always just like for some reason in a carnival setting or weird settings and it always is sir it's so creepy yeah like a circus or carnival and i'm always like you know but i do want to check it out but it's kind of spooky and creepy you know
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And without the music, things are so different. And so to have such a good track on a whole game series like that is something that's big. So if that's the biggest part, man, that's going to suck in a lot of people to just experience that world.
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I'm sure it's going to give that kind of almost... Like we talked about the hook and then what's going to draw people in. They obviously don't have the budget and they don't have the title to make it be a big thing. What is going to be that characteristic that really brings people in? And for the graphics, if they're not as good, it has to have some sort of little bit of hook to it.
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And to have that... that look is, is something that's really unique and something so cool that, um, I love with the, with the, uh, I mean, shoot, you know, I know Josh is a graphic snob and I'm a little bit too. I love looking at beautiful games, but lethal company is one of my most favorite games in the last two, three years. Like, and that looks like it was made on a potato.
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So like graphics do not make a good game. Like, a fun game makes a fun game and and so you know if you can tie it in with amazing music and composition of of awesome stuff and then and then a great art style dude all the better man so this i mean this sounds cool you don't need realism to get immersion is exactly it is absolutely like
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Yeah, I know. I want to know now. Knowing his love for all that, I got to get into it.
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They don't all hit. They don't all hit. That's the one thing with the indie games. You know, you're going to get something amazing that you don't expect, and it's not going to be $70. And then some of them, you know, they're just not the ones.
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Yeah, where's the loot? Like you don't have, you don't have like- You don't have, like, weapons, but, like, what do you get?
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Oh, that's good. The thing is, with those types of... I know Josh mentioned progression, but having the ability to have... those different ways to traverse through the, through the areas and, and, um, get back to other parts that you may have not been able to achieve, you know, prior in the game, early on in the game and stuff.
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There's just, that's one of, for me personally, like, and I know we talked about it on one of our recent episodes as far as like me forgetting I ever played Castlevania and playing it again. It's just like those first experiences when you unlock that next thing and you're like,
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oh now i can go back here you know and then you go back and you're so excited like what is in that room that you know is there you see it on the map but you can't get to it then you're able to like there's just something different there that you can't really get in many other games um in metrovania's like just kind of have that on lockdown and and that's really neat to hear like that they not only do that but do it in kind of a unique way
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That's nice, because I'm a big time, especially on action RPGs, and I'm traveling through, and then I'll go off every single path, because I don't want to miss anything, because I don't want to have to come back.
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and to know like in this in this style of game like to know okay that section's done check it off the list baby and i can go on to the next area and i'll gotta worry that i missed something like that's that's a big draw for me personally and it's so satisfying when you start checking off the rooms too like you've started completing them you're just like oh yeah yeah there we go so
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Well, and what maybe a little something that makes me emotional and I just want to put it out there. Like, how about a game that just runs well? Like, you know, like what? What kind of world are we living in where that's like a perk of a game? Oh, yeah. No glitches in the game runs well. Like, what do you, you know, what do you, what world do we live in where that's, that's a benefit?
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Like, oh, I bought this car after 5,000 miles, it blew up. Like, oh, bummer. You know, that's just happened sometimes. No, like put these things out, have them run well. And it sounds like this, this hit the mark on that.
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And like, that's, that's depressing that that's like a benefit, but it's also good to hear, you know, and it, and it should be an attractive thing for people that are, you know, looking for a game of this type.
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No, I mean, I might still be. Probably still crazy. But if you've played it and you agree or disagree, come let us know. Come to our Discord. Come to our socials, wherever it is. Let us know what you think, yay or nay, on kind of that rating. I'm interested to see, for sure.
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I would say, honestly, that is the perfect word, is curious. Hearing that, one, it runs flawlessly. The art style of the hand-drawn, kind of the look and the way it looks is something that is a big draw to me. The music, I am big on video game music. I think... That, paired with good cinematics or good gameplay, really just...
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draws you into kind of a separate, almost plane of existence when you're playing. You are in that world. You are part of that, and there's nothing else going on. So anything that can give me that feeling, I have to give it an honest shot and an honest try. And obviously, like we said, we respect Ace's opinion on this stuff wholeheartedly. We know what he thinks about this.
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For sure. And it's something that's, like you said, it's kind of a realm that we haven't tapped. Not to say that there's not great things there. It's just something that you don't normally gravitate to unless you're searching it out. And to have somebody that's just such an expert and just so well-versed in all things indie that Ace is, we're going to learn along with him.
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And with my opinion on Metroidvanias and how much I love them, it would probably be a crime to not at least try this. And the fact that I don't have to go play a whole other game to try this game is also enticing. So I would say for me personally, it's something that I'm definitely going to find.
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Not only just it happened, but I'm going to actively find a spot to where I can make some time to play this game. I think I have to. Yeah, man.
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That's one word for it.
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or along with the audience, if you will. So it's going to be so cool. I'm totally stoked for it, and I'm excited to not only learn about these games, but try some that I probably otherwise would not have played.
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Is that a really bad sushi joke? Maybe. Oh, man. Come on. I thought, oh, no, I thought that's what we were doing. That was the thing. You know, we're doing horrible jokes.
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We've been playing a lot of Rivals. Again is like something I hear in my nightmares. I don't want to hear it anymore.
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There wouldn't be a bad guy if there was.
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Nobody can be happy side-scrolling like that, man. Okay, see, I'm with you, Ryan.
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A thousand percent. That's my biggest gruff with Metroidvanias. I still love them. But, yeah, that whole kind of layout of the maps and the sequence there is a little tough. But, man, yeah, I'm excited to learn more about this, man. This is sounding pretty good, though. Yeah.
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It'll be all right. I played one or two Metroidvanias in my time.
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Okay. I get it. Oh, man. It took a second, but you know.
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describe how wonderful it was it's weird how much um uh music within kind of a game or even like you know a movie cinematics and stuff like that like how much that impacts your perception in in your gameplay like i know um i mean even just with uh like uh we just talked about um hollow knight like that music is absolutely fantastic and then Something like, not a Metroidvania, but like Skyrim.
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You know, Elder Scrolls. That music, when I hear that, I feel... Yeah, even when you're exploring and you have that just calm... You know, and it's just kind of... It makes you feel more immersed and more part of that world, which is something that's so cool and so hard to do. And that's why you can watch these clips or watch these gameplays or cinematic clips type things.
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I tried Undertale and I put about two hours into it. And then I was one of those people that just went, dude, I don't know what the heck this game is.
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Undertale also has one of the best soundtracks of a game, doesn't it? Because again, I've only tried it for like two hours. Again, it just didn't click with me. And maybe that's not fair to the game and maybe I need to give it another shot at some point. I know there's thousands of people that are nodding their heads and being like, yes, if Undertale didn't get mentioned, I quit. Yeah.
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so i'm glad you brought it up i just yeah i just don't know that much about it other than people really really love undertale and it does have one of the best soundtracks for an indie game all right All right, Ace, you get another one. Oh, boy. Back to back, baby.
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There is a game that, I mean, there's a few games, but there is one game in particular that I'm really hoping makes it back around to me.
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Maybe that's on my list. But I don't think either one of you are taking it, number one.
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Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. We've covered a lot of various topics through the years, but it's time to cover one we've never done before and it's time to put ourselves to the test. On this gaming-packed episode, we'll be drafting the best indie games of all time. That's right.
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Imagine how much Ryan would have loved Subnautica if he hadn't gotten his Cyclops stuck at the bottom of the ocean with no batteries. And then spent two hours trying to figure out how to get back down there.
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I felt like we were like, yeah, I feel like we were trying to like all jump in and help you brainstorm on like, well, Ryan, okay. If you take the prawn suit down, you know, maybe by the time it starts to decompress, you can jump out, you know, and then swim down to the Cyclops. And then like 20 minutes later, Ryan's like, nope, I died. Yep. Nope. No, no more. No, thank you. I'm out.
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I'm just like, oh. Subnautica is one of my favorite games, dude. Like I don't pretend that it's one of the best games ever made, but Subnautica, and I've said this before, Subnautica is the game kind of like Endless Dungeon for Ryan that kind of taught him like, hey, I kind of like roguelike games, man. Like, you know, I get the gameplay loop. Subnautica was the game.
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taught me that i really really enjoy survival crafting games with like good progression elements to it and i mean people are probably tired of hearing me talk about how much i love progression in a game but subnautica is the game that taught me that you know and it's just such a masterpiece dude just makes everything worth it everything you do leads to the next thing and then it just you know the progression it's that's the word because it just keeps going and keeps going and you always are achieving something as you go and play the game so yeah that's a that's a solid pick
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All right, Ryan, we're going to get back to your pick, but we're going to take a quick break and then we will be right back with Ryan's pick. All right, we're back. It is Ryan's pick. Ryan, this is going to be your third pick. Right now, just to give people a breakdown on what we have going on here, we have Ace with Hollow Knight, Undertale, and Subnautica. Oh my goodness.
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Ace is so confident right now. But Ace? Man, when this draft gets going and you get sniped and the game that you were going to pick gets taken and you start scrambling, man, it's a whole different world then, buddy. It's going to be awesome.
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We have Ryan with Minecraft and Celeste, and we have me with Disco Elysium and Hades.
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there are there is one game that i really just don't want you to to pick ryan yes there's one and if you don't take it i'll be so excited and if you do take it i will be very upset so i hope i now i'm second guessing i know ryan's like well i had a pick but now if i control josh that's i mean that's what matters i told you guys before we started this like that's where i'm going with all this but yeah all right what's your pick ryan
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You son of a... Is that it? Is that the one? It's not the one that I want to write here. It is bittersweet.
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Okay. It's definitely, I do not.
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I was going to take the game that I want, which I'm going to get. So I'm at least happy about that. And then I was taking rocket league, man.
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No, it's been an indie. I mean, Psyonix was the one that developed this game. And when it released, the world lost its mind, man. It's one of those few games where I actually said, like, let me see what all the hype is about. Played two matches and then went, oh, my goodness. And I instantly called like four friends and went, dude, you guys have absolutely got to pick up Rocket League.
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We have to play this right now.
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And yeah, 1700 hours later, I still have Rocket League installed. Nice. Yeah. Oh, man. I love that game so much. And I hate you so much, Ryan. Love you guys. I can't believe you took Rocket League from me.
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Well, welcome in, everybody. We are doing the impossible. We are going to go head-to-head to draft the best indie games of all time. This is going to work basically like a snake draft. So we randomized the draft order. Ace paid off the AI that we used to randomize this. So Ace gets the first pick, Ryan gets the second pick, and then I pick third.
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You don't think I know things? That's okay, because I can't believe this game made it back to me. And this is the one where I almost took this with my second pick. This is... We have already said this is one of the funnest video games that has ever been made. It made our list when we did that episode. This is a game that you can play with your friends.
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The builds that can occur in this game are second to none. I am taking Risk of Rain 2.
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Another roguelike. God. Oh, man. Risk of Rain 2 is so, so good, dude.
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Dude, it's the fun factor for Risk of Rain is second to none. The progression in that game is fantastic with all the different characters that you can unlock and they all play so differently. So it's like you get the joy of like just trying these new characters that you unlock and then you can kind of upgrade their abilities.
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You have to complete these kind of neat little quests to unlock some of the abilities where it's like you have to kill 50 enemies while airborne. And then it's like, oh, boom, that unlocks a skill for you that you or is like an upgraded or alternate skill.
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The the like like how you can break that game if you get certain like drops along the way in that and you can just stack these buffs and stuff like that. Not every run is that way. But man, when it happens and you're just like, I didn't know this game could go to this level. And I love Risk of Rain. I'm so glad it fell to me right here.
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All right, so this is where I'm struggling a little because I was going to take Rocket League right here. That was it. I was like, nobody's going to take Rocket League from me, and I'm very excited that Risk of Rain 2 was there, but if I had Risk of Rain 2 and Rocket League, I would legitimately feel like I won this draft. So here's the problem.
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Again, I'm back to the... I have some games on my list that I think... There is a chance that might make it back to me, but this is my next to last pick as well. I only get one pick after this. And I'm really torn between two games on this one. Man. I'm going to go with my heart, guys. There's a game that I think I should take right here.
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I really think I should take it, but I am taking Outer Wilds.
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It's not a Josh draft for indie games if I don't take Outer Wilds, man.
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I know you did. And here's the thing. I'm going to mention this because a good friend of the show, a listener for a long time, a good friend of ours, we've been playing a lot of rivals together. Rigo, I know is listening and Rigo instantly or recently jumped into outer wilds and kind of streamed it. And I watched him play one night and all the nostalgia came back for me on that game.
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And then it's so awesome because like, A few days later, he was just like, Josh, what the heck is this game, dude? Like, what have you done to me? And then I was like, yes, this is great. And then I think it was literally yesterday. He just went, dude, I have to thank you for putting this game in front of me because this is one of the wildest video game experiences I've ever had.
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The one caveat to that is because I have to wait to pick third, I get to pick back to back. So I will start the second round of picks after that. We're going to do this until we each have five games and then that's it. We're going to put this up on social media and in our community and let people decide who drafted the best list of indie games of all time.
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And that is just what I'd love to hear. And people that play outer wilds and have that experience are the ones that put it in that category where they just say, dude, if I could wipe my memory and play this game again, like all over for the first time, I would, it also happens to be one of the best indie games ever made in my opinion. So I am locking up outer wilds so that it will be on my list.
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And people aren't like, Josh, what the heck man?
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And Ace has back-to-back picks after you, and then he's done. So if you can poach something that Ace wants, I would really like to see this tilt fest. Oh, man. That's so tempting.
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She hasn't actually played Stardew Valley, but she would love it. I mean, 98% of people in the world love Stardew Valley. I am the 2% that does not.
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I get it. I get why people love it. It is a masterful video game. I can acknowledge that. I can acknowledge why people love it so much. It's just not my kind of game, man. Yeah, for sure. But again, I think it's one of the most highly reviewed positive games in existence as well.
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If you look up the best reviewed games of all time, I'm very, very certain that Stardew Valley is in that top 10 list. And I'm telling you right now, I'm looking. It's a 98% on Steam with 729,000 reviews, dude. Oh my gosh. That does not happen. This does not happen. You cannot please 729,000 people at a 98% level if there's not something there. Stardew Valley is a great pick.
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But man, this is going to be a heck of a fun episode. We're going to be talking about some of the all time greats. Yeah, I can't wait for this. But we do have just a tiny bit of housekeeping. Ace, I believe that you have a review to read.
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I would have taken it, but it's not my game, man.
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What is it? Concerned 8, right?
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something haunted here doesn't it i i can't i think i looked at that up once and doesn't it look just like stardew valley probably so it's like he just reskinned it yeah i just if it ain't broke don't you know don't face it that's true Oh, man. All right, Ace, this is it for you, man. This is going to close out your draft.
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I did not expect that I was going to like Shovel Knight as much as I did, and that is a testament to the game.
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If you have ever wanted that feeling of popping a cartridge into your Nintendo and then having that game just kind of blow your mind, and then you play it all weekend with your buddies watching and taking turns trying to beat a level or something like that, Shovel Knight is the epitome of that feeling, dude. It really is. Yeah. It's such a good game. It is such a throwback game.
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The kind of just joy in that game. Like you can tell the devs just had a good time making it. It's just a lot of fun to play. Shovel Knight is one of those. Like, I don't think that game gets enough credit to be honest with you. It doesn't. So I'm really glad you brought that up here because that game should be in like in the forefront of people's minds for just a really fun game.
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Also don't break the checkpoints like Paul did.
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That's true. Yeah, you've played a lot of other games since then. So Ender Magnolia, I wish I could speak on it. I've seen your review of it. I've heard you talk about it. What's funny is I've seen a lot of people on social media that are starting to kind of dive into that. And I'm seeing a lot of the same thing. Like people are just like, dude, this game is beautiful. The gameplay is super good.
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The soundtrack is second to none. Gosh, that soundtrack. Yeah. And so it's really neat to kind of see those other opinions from people that I don't know. These are like just Internet strangers that are going like, dude, Ender Magnolia is awesome.
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You welcome everybody that was waiting for Bellatro to get mentioned.
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I, I, I have tried to play Bellatro twice now, and I love indie roguelike card games, man. And since you can't take it, Slay the Spire is absolutely in contention for me for this last pick. I don't know if I'm taking that there or not. But the indie roguelike card games were a huge, huge genre. Again, I think Slay the Spire kind of set the bar there on that.
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You've just forced yourself to think you like wine. That's like Bellatro for me, man. I just can't. I feel like if I kept playing it, I'd just be like, I'm just pretending like I like this game.
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They're like, I've been playing this at work. I play it in the morning before I leave for work. I hide it from my wife.
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Oh, man. Dude, Bellaccio is a really good pick, dude.
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Yeah. All right. I'm just going to mention some honorable mentions. I mentioned Slay the Spire, dude. I really feel like for the record, I should take Slay the Spire because it's that game that everybody's going to be like, how did you guys not draft Slay the Spire when you talk about best indie games of all time? I might.
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Another game that I have bolded is just this little title that kind of came out recently called Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Is it indie? So this is the thing.
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Yeah, judge ruling. Let's go. I Googled it.
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I Googled it. And technically, it says that War Horse Studios is an indie developer because they are solely responsible to themselves. But at the same time, they did get bought out by a parent company called Plyon.
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And it's like, as much as I want to mention Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 being an indie game, I know the first one absolutely was, but I don't want to try to blur that line of like, it's an indie, but it's not an indie kind of thing. So I'm not drafting that one. Although if I could do it with like full certainty, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 belongs on that list, man.
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I'm going to lock it in. This one might be a little controversial as far as does it belong in the greatest indie games of all time. And I'm just going to say three words, boys.
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So I was like, oh yeah, I'll go with Bellatro.
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I do. Deep Rock Galactic is just a blast. I mean, it is just a blast of a video game. If you have some friends that you can hop in with, dude, this this game will keep you busy for dozens and dozens of hours. You will laugh. You will have fun. I mean, it's just kicking the stupid cans around in the main area, getting beers with your buddies before you even go down.
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It's just one of these games that is just a joy to play. And honestly, it deserves to be in these mentions, in my opinion. Yeah, Deep Rock Galactic is just a dumb, fun game that has been being developed for like 10 years now.
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And they just keep developing it. And they're awesome developers. The fans of this game are fantastic. And one of the best communities in a video game. like they will help you. They will not troll you, dude. Like they will act like they will walk you through things. I remember jumping in one time, these dudes were so high level and I just died like 40 times, like right in front of them.
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And I even was like, dude, I am an idiot. I am sorry guys. And they were like, no way, man. Like, we're glad you're here, dude. Like you'll, you'll get it. And I was just like, this doesn't happen. Like, what is this?
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I mean, Bellatro is a pretty darn good pick.
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Oh, how the turntables, buddy. All right. Well, let's get into this draft, boys. I'm excited about this. And Ace, you have the very first pick. So in theory, you are picking the number one indie game of all time. With this pick right here in your mind. Man, is it going to be recency bias? Is it going to be like Ender Magnolia? Is it going to be Tales of Iron?
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Real quick, let's do a couple honorable mentions if you guys have any. I'll just go. So on my list, Slay the Spire. I've mentioned that one already. Forgotten City. Dude, we covered that game. We did a deep dive. That game's fantastic. We had a couple of listeners that played it recently and went, dude, where's this game been? Like, this is awesome. Very, very cool time loop game.
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Legend of Grimrock. One and two old school blobber type games, dungeon crawler types. This is the game that...
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uh notch uh from minecraft when he was talking about making minecraft 2 they're making this game called like dungeons and levers or levers and treasures or something like that and he said that legend of grimrock 2 is one of his favorite games of all time so they're kind of trying to mimic that game and then one of my personal favorites i actually mentioned this when we interviewed uh chris tester the voice actor because he actually did some voiceover in this game is bard's tale 4
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dude, Bard's Tale four is one of like, it, that game is tailor-made for me. It's like the old school dungeon crawler. You go to these different cities, there's puzzles involved. There's like a really neat combat system. There's secrets galore everywhere. I mean, Bard's Tale four is like a, it's just a straight up, just this is perfect. Josh game kind of thing. Um, and then that is it.
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What do you guys got? Any honorable mentions for you guys? Well,
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I love frustrating, but that was before I kind of got into roguelikes too. So I, maybe I need to give that one.
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I've never played that, dude. And I know people love it. I think you would love it, man. Dude, I was chatting with somebody the other day and they were asking me like, hey, have you played these various roguelike games? And it was like The Binding of Isaac. And then what is it? Rebirth is the sequel to that one or whatever. Enter the Gungeon. And then there was one other one they mentioned.
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And I was like, dude, I've heard of all these and I know they're like all timers, but I've not played any of them.
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Yeah, I thought about that, but I was like, this isn't going to win me anything.
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It's the scariest game of all time, in my opinion. I've said that many times, but that was one where I was like, this isn't going to get me any bonus points.
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No, I don't think so. Like psychological horror for me is the horror that really gets me. Like, you know, gore doesn't do anything for me. The jump scares might get me kind of, but it's not like I'm scared. It's more just the anticipation of like, okay, I know it's coming kind of thing. But yeah, Psychological horror will mess with my head, dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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I thought about Liza P, and as good as it is, I just felt like some of these other ones were more... They're just better, unfortunately. Yeah, like all-timers. I think that game is the best indie Souls-like game in existence, like legitimately, and I cannot wait for the DLC on it. But I just don't know that it deserves to be in this top 15 of all time. Yeah, kind of list.
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Or is it going to be some deep cut that nobody's ever heard of because Ace just loves this game so much? Or is it going to be one of the more popular indie games? Is he going to play to the crowd and abandon his true nature? I'm a sellout, boys.
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All right, well, let's read these lists one more time. Ace, you wound up with Hollow Knight. That's a good pick, dude. I would have loved to have had Hollow Knight fall to me, but I didn't think it was going to. Undertale, Subnautica, you jerk, Shovel Knight, and Ender Magnolia. Ryan, you wound up with the... This is the one that you really played to the crowd on.
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Minecraft, but I can't argue with it either, man. Celeste, which was a great pick, in my opinion. I'm actually kind of impressed that you took Celeste.
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I got to pick four. Yeah, Rocket League, you big, stupid jerk. Stardew Valley, that's a good one. And Bellatro, which is another really good one. And then I wound up with Disco Elysium, Hades, Risk of Rain 2, Outer Wilds, and Deep Rock Galactic. Is everybody just voting for themselves here as far as best list? Does anybody's list stand out to people? My list stands out, obviously.
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Play every game on my list. We're going to let the listeners decide. We will be posting polls on social media and in our discord server. Our community is hands down the best gaming community in existence. We say this all the time. We have people join us. And then people hang out and then they go, dude, I didn't believe you guys. Oh, my goodness. You're absolutely right.
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We've been doing Marvel Rivals community nights. People have been playing headliners together. If you want just genuinely good people to game with, we have the place for you. It is absolutely free to join. We just want people to enjoy playing games together. The link is in the episode description. Come join us. Come have fun. We're at almost a thousand gamers and it's like legitimately amazing.
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They're the best gamers on the planet. I mean, everybody just is super cool to each other. People talk about games. They give recommendations. They talk about games like friends would. There's no toxicity. There's no slamming people for their opinions and saying, oh, you're dumb because you don't like Stardew Valley, Josh. And it's like... I know, but nobody's saying that either, which is nice.
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Like... Self-professedly, I am not a huge fan of Metroidvania games, but Hollow Knight is just an all-timer for me. It is absolutely near the top of my list. I could see this being taken as the 101. When it comes to indie games, we've all played Hollow Knight. We've all loved Hollow Knight. I think that's a good, safe pick that makes a lot of sense for the first pick on this one.
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We're going head to head to see who can put together the greatest list of indie games that history has ever known. The game choices will matter. Strategy will matter. But in the end, you will decide who the king of indie is. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh.
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Do you guys think Silksong is going to be better?
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Yeah, I have a feeling I think it's going to be better, guys. Like legitimately. And maybe that's just the optimist in me, but I think that that's why they're taking their time with this game. And I think Silksong is actually going to be like... you know, what red dead two was to like red dead, for instance, I think it's going to, or kingdom come to versus kingdom come deliverance.
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You know, I think it, I think they are actually going to say, look, we took everything we learned from the first game and we improved on all of it. So hopefully you get to play it in your lifetime. Yeah, that's not going to happen. So I'm going to need somebody to like write on my tombstone, like silk song, like, you know, 98% overall, you know, overwhelmingly positive or something.
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All right. So Ace starts us off with Hollow Knight Ryan. Oh, baby. I feel like Ryan's the wild card on this show, man. Oh, he absolutely is. I don't know. I know what I would pick on this pick right here, but I don't know.
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Minecraft is an indie game, man.
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Best selling game of all time.
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Does that mean it's the best indie game? That's the question. I mean, 300 million people would probably agree.
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That movie does not look good, dude.
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You would think that they're going to finally make this Minecraft movie, right? And it's going to be like, okay, well, we got to knock this out of the park. And then I feel like they were just like, yeah, whatever, man. Like 100 million people are going to see this anyway because they're going to want to see this Minecraft movie.
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And joining me, he may be at a small disadvantage with his general lack of expertise in the indie format, but he more than makes up for it with his competitive nature and his charming good looks.
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So, guys, I'm not going to lie. I am very excited right now because, number one, I got two of the games that I was hoping would be at this pick right here. And so my first pick is quite possibly one of the best RPGs ever made. One of the games that takes you on an adventure, one of these games where you kind of start playing it and you don't know what you're in for.
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And then as you continue to play it, you kind of go like, dude, what the heck is this game, man? Like, what is this? It starts off with you being just completely hammered in a hotel room trying to find your shoes and your tie.
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man yeah that wasn't making it back to you i know i know it was wishful thinking i was like oh maybe they'll totally overlook it like oh no no way buddy yeah disco elysium if you have not played it look if you are like me i did not think that i would enjoy disco elysium i am a guy that loves combat and action in my games i remember hearing about this game and going dude there's no way i'm gonna enjoy this there's no combat whatsoever it's a whole bunch of dialogue and talking like i
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You know, I don't think it's for me. Oh, my goodness. Was I wrong? And I feel like if you think that is the case for you, you are probably wrong as well. I mean, Disco Elysium is one of those all timers, man. I mean, we have all played it recently.
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Like, honestly, so if you were somebody that tried Disco Elysium way back in the day when you had to read everything, give it another try. Now, the voice acting in that game is second to none. It really just changes the entire experience. But yeah, so that's my first pick. Now I'm torn because I have one that I'm not sure that you guys would go to right away.
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But I also have one that I think will absolutely not make it back to me. So I'm going to take the one that I think is not going to make it back to me. And that is, I don't know, just a little game that changed the roguelike indie game genre forever. A little game where you are a guy by the name of Zagreus. You are trying to escape. uh, Hades to get out on your own.
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Your aunts and your uncles on Mount Olympus are helping you out. I am taking Hades. This game changed the roguelike world. Like honestly, I mean, when Hades came out, it took the world by storm and, It has often been copied. It has tried to be replicated. There are very few games that have done it. Honestly, I can't think of any game that's done it. Sworn is looking real close.
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Define the genre, like legitimately. There's a few games out there. And I mean, there's a few indie games that may or may not be on my list that define their own genres and stuff like that. And so I think that's a pretty good sign when other developers and games try to go, dude, we got to copy this. This is great. Like, let's capitalize on this. And As gamers, I don't think we mind that so much.
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I mean, admittedly, you have not played the extent or the variety of indie games.
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You know, give me more of what I like is not a bad thing. I think it only becomes a problem when it becomes like oversaturated at that point. And we're just like, okay, guys, like this is the 10,000th game like this. Like, I'm good. I don't need anymore.
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All right, Ryan, we are back to you. Your second pick.
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Well, number one, neither of us have, you know, compared to this next feller. But, you know, you may not have the depth of knowledge.
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The more you learn, I played Celeste in the last, I'd say year and a half. Like I was very late to it because the graphics put me off big time. I Celeste is in my opinion, one of the best platformers ever made. Like I can honestly say that dude, like it is, it is one of the best platformers. If you, if you were like me and the graphics put you off, You'll get over it, I promise.
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The gameplay is literally that good. It looks so hard.
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And it can be as hard as you want it to be. You start getting to the cassette side, what is it, C or something like that?
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It gets to be just a torture device at that point, man.
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Yeah. And then joining us, he might actually have the most to lose on this episode. We're in his world, and he's got the belt. But this is his first draft ever.
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All right, Ace. Well, now that you got full tilted here, you get back-to-back picks, buddy. Oh, yeah. It's super great that I get back-to-back picks.
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Undertale. I figured Undertale might get taken. Here's the thing with Undertale, and this is not to slander your pick, Ace, because I know people that consider Undertale one of the most masterful games that has ever been developed by somebody. The only issue with Undertale is it either hits and it hits extremely hard for people or people try it and they just go, what the heck is this game, man?
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I think at a 93% with over, what is this, over 209,000. Hundreds of thousands of reviews. Hundreds of thousands of reviews. Well established what people think of this game. I think it's actually underrated. I think that it probably should be sitting a little bit more up there with the other games that we've mentioned earlier. 95, 96, 97, something like that.
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There is not too many roguelike, just hop in, have fun runs with your buddies, and it's never a bad time. Even when you get a bad run, it's never a bad time. This game is one of those that just is pure enjoyment start to finish every time you log in. And, you know, there's not much more you can say about it other than it's just a great game. It's not good. It's great.
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Yeah. Oh, you can expect that. Yeah. Josh is going to stink everything. That's the usual.
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Yeah, there's one of the arts over or under, so we can't just say appropriately rated. I'm going to have to side with Josh on this one. I think as amazing as this game is, as much as it offers, and as beautiful as this game is, I think that just, man...
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there's only two percent like of like if it's at a 98 man that's dang near perfect like there is some issues with it and i i think that uh 98 is just a little bit too high and with no other choice i have to i have to go overrated you're one of the metacritic users right yeah i will say this hades is the highest rated game on metacritic in our list
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And this is not to take away from any of these games. It's like, hey, yo, 98, 98, 97, whatever it is, is perfect. That's a great score. We can't do that. We have to go over or under. Do I think it deserves more than that? No. One less? Two less? Three less? Like, whatever your percentage ratio is, I don't think that it deserves what it got. I would say a little bit less, but not by much.
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and that's just me but i know me and ryan still get into lethal like all the time i was gonna say i was really curious what y'all's two thoughts on this work because i see you guys going like you want to hop into lethal play around or two so we do and we we've played quite a bit together and um man i i love me some lethal company ace and i have had a million crazy we have a couple clips on our instagram where like i we we got no loot for like three runs and we're like what the heck
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And then I see a bunch of stuff and I just get so excited that I run to it. And then I just explode because I stepped on a landmine and I didn't see it. And then Ace is making fun of me. Ryan, no! Boom! And he's like, oh, loot! And that's me running to it. So the game... Man, it is just so enjoyable, so fun, and it's amazing, and it shows how good graphics do not make a game.
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Like, you can have an amazing game that doesn't have great graphics. Having said that, I think good graphics would definitely put it over the top to where it would be deserved of a 97. I think that it is overrated.
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I think that the gameplay itself and what you do is amazing and awesome, but there's a lot of upgrades and advancements and quality of life things that could be had to get it up to that score. So I don't think it deserves a 97, but I don't want to take anything away from what the game is. No, that's fair. I wouldn't either.
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Over or under 90? Oh, yeah. For you, Josh.
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And, And I have a feeling that it wouldn't be as high probably if there wasn't the ability with all the mods. The mods. The ability to mod in the modding community for what you can do to change this game and tailor it to your customized pleasure. That makes such a big difference in how people grade this game probably as well.
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How can you say that I get it's not for everybody when it's at a 97%? That literally means it's supposed to be for everybody.
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Well, I would say that you had a good feeling because you were correct because I think it is overrated. I will say not by much. I really did enjoy my time with Subnautica. I do think it's genuinely, like, if you're looking to dive in to, you know, to one of these kind of survival crafting type games, this is a really good one to start. The world is beautiful. Your experiences are memorable.
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I think that it's just, man, 97 is really high score. Yeah, I know. It's, you know, we can only do underrated or overrated. So I'm going to say it's overrated, but not by much.
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It's rough out here with the healer strike, you know? Yeah. Maybe if you healed me, then I'd be more, you know, apt to come back and help you.
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Okay, listen. I loved Dave the Diver. I thought it was so much fun. I thought it was an extremely enjoyable game. I had a blast playing it. I thought the interactions with the characters were great. I think the crossover with the Yakuza and Godzilla are wild and fun as well. It is not a 97, dude.
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That is, to have it rated with, like, as Josh just said with the other games, like, with some Nautica, that's crazy to me. It was awesome. It was fun. But it is not a 97. Overrated. Stamp it.
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And they're so mean to him. Yeah, why are they so mean? You're like, come on, Dave. Poor Dave. I don't know, man.
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It is so good. There's no game like Dave out there. It's not 97% good. That's all we're saying.
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So this one, you mentioned it, man. The art style, there's just something so unique and different about this. And it's one of those games that just kind of transcended a lot to where... A lot of people that had no clue of the gaming world knew about Cuphead because, you know, everybody knew about Cuphead. I think this is one of the rare ones for me that I think it's underrated.
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I think it is so crisp and clean and just pure for what it is. that it should just be a little bit higher. Like we said, not a 97 to 96. I don't think it should be a 96. It could be a 97, something like that. It's just like one or two ticks above. I think it's right there. It is an amazing game that everybody should definitely check out. If it's hard, try again. Reload.
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The problem for Ace is that it didn't have enough rats. That is true.
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It just wasn't enough of them. Needs more rats. Ace's notes, his game notes, needs more rats.
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I think it's appropriately scored. That's the problem. Yeah, but we can't say that. Yeah, we can't say that, though.
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teeny teeny tiny tiny estimates overrated yeah people are gonna be like what are you talking about we're like no listen we're talking about like one or two percent yeah it's a one or two percent we're not saying it's bad we're not saying it's bad you know yeah we're not metacritic oh man i promise
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It's wandering around like, what the heck? That's right, Terry. You're a superstar. I think pre-director's cut without the voiceovers, 93% is overrated, in my opinion. It totally turned me off of the game in the beginning, and then once they released that, and then Paul and Josh, to their credit, were like,
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no no they got the director's cut now you can you like there's voiceover work so you don't have to read everything and i'm like say less homie i'm in so i went and i played it and i fell in love with that game there's so much so much to love in there um 93 percent is is again criminal uh that's that's wildly uh underrated you know for for what it is with the voiceover work
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Dang Cujo. Cuno. All right. Or Cuno, yeah. I always call him Cujo for some reason. Cujo, you do.
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Oh, you heard it here first. Wow. Ace hates dredge. Wow. You heard it here first.
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Apparently so, because Dredge is not a 95. I love Dredge. I think the atmosphere is amazing. Talk about a cozy game that you just want to kind of sink into, but it's actually fun, you know? Yeah. I'm like Stardew Valley. But anyways, Dredge is not a 95. So it's just kind of clear-cut, simple. It's just overrated. Man, you two guys are harsh, dude.
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We're Metacritic reviewers, didn't you know?
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Well, hopefully we'll see with, what is it, Dreadmoor? Yeah, Dreadmoor. That's going to be like a first-person Dredge, which would be, you know.
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It's like, okay, this is what I wanted.
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Hot takes. You heard it here, folks. Yeah, hot takes. I haven't played it, so I got no comment. But I'm just going to say overrated. Oh, how dare you, sir.
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Thank you, theater kids, for making Undertale as big as it is.
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My daughter is a theater kid, and I totally get what you're saying. He's got him! No, 100%. Talk about choice. I have a choice, and the choice was to not play this game, so I'm sitting pretty. Take it away, Josh. Don't you love Undertale?
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All right. Insert the old white guys don't know video games comments now. They don't get it, man.
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You're amongst safety. We're in the trust tree right now. It is... wildly overrated what i mean just like you don't have to be a graphic snob to just hate on this it's the graphics are are ridiculous it you know it's a cozy game what is that code for just like not trying like boring to like make something that's just meh so i mean i get it
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We're going to get a million messages of how horrible it is, hopefully, because that's engagement. We're in so much trouble.
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Three old men hate on most beloved game of all time. Why would you want to waste your time playing this? I understand that there's aspects that make people feel good and kind of just can sit back and unwind, but that doesn't make an amazing game. It just makes something that's good for you.
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You know, one thing I like to do after chores at the house is more chores virtually. Exactly. It's not an indie game, but The Sims. It was good for its time back in the late 90s, early 2000s. Why are people still playing The Sims, dude?
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You want to fight me now, bro? Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. One game.
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It could be a good game and enjoyable for a lot of people, but that doesn't mean the score reflects that, is what we're saying. All right.
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I actually am going to say that I do agree. As amazing... Listen, listen, listen, listen. Listen. As amazing as Hollow Knight is, a 97%, based on our parameters, if I was to say that's pretty fair, that's not allowed. And I can't go higher than that because there is some issues that I have. I hate the map systems in Metroidvanias. Hollow Knight is also one of them.
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Certain other mechanics that I wasn't a big fan of within the game. I can't say that it's any better than what it's been rated. So I have to go with it's overrated for me. But not by much. I think it's an amazing game. It's one of my absolute favorites.
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favorite metroidvanias and i'm a big metroidvania guy um castlevania is in one of my top 10 probably a little bit nostalgia based on that but it's also amazing so uh yeah overrated brother oh wow i think josh should be looking for some new podcast hosts yeah well i listen guys you know here's my criteria what is the best metroidvania that i have played in almost
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Ace is callous now, man. Just turn up your hearing aids so you can listen to what we're saying, and then we're good to go. Oh, yeah. I love it. I love it. I see how it is.
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That would be good. I mean, that was what, if I was going to, you guys were like, hey, you need to try Risk of Rain 2. You got to try it. And it was like solo. I'm sure I would have liked it, but it would not have been the same as us being able to play together.
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No matter what the game is, no matter what they make or create, I want my end customer to have fun first and foremost, and then if I can make a bunch of money, that's a big plus and awesome. But, you know, like they you can just tell that their hearts always in it. And I love I love that it's it's fun first and enjoyment first with, you know, indie games. At least that's what I've always felt.
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Well, we got Night Rain coming out soon here. And I mean, I've never touched Elden Ring. I played some Souls games before. It's just not ever been my style. But you guys, you know, you and Josh have played a ton of Elden Ring and you guys are going to dive right back in to play with me because I've never played and to see my response to it, to see how I react to it.
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And like that's that's what shows that like they're going to get a couple more sales just just for friends to play with each other.
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Yeah. We have been talking to that. We may try to, uh, we'll definitely record some stuff and I'll do face cam recordings as I play, but we may try to stream some stuff to the discord live of, of my experience in the Elden Ring world. So we'll see, we'll see how that goes. So you're going to want to be there for that. I died again.
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Yes, remember people, it makes a big difference to these devs. We had a lot of solo devs on and we've interviewed them. And the one thing they all say is like, man, I can't stress how much wishlisting our game makes a difference. So if anything, just as a support the community and the environment and the world of game development.
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And maybe these people go on to be part of big studios because of their game did so well. So yeah, definitely always wish stuff. And then this one, yeah, July 22nd.
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You don't. I think, you know, obviously once it kind of switched over to the side-scrolling, like, you know, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, all those types of games, you didn't see this look. The second I saw this and I watched the trailer and I looked at pictures and stuff, I noticed two things. One, I was like, okay, yeah, looks like Punch-Out!! And I was instantly like, this looks pretty cool.
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And I was really excited. And then a second... I was like, the movement actually looks real. It looks good. I fought. I had professional smoker fights and other fights and stuff, and I'm like, okay, that's how you would throw this little undercut or the hook or whatever you would do.
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I mean, it looks good, and it just looks goofy and ridiculous like you're fighting a hamburger from the fridge.
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And thanks to you and this pod, I've been getting a lot more into indie games and I played a ton that I never would have touched otherwise. And I've had an awesome time.
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I'd be at Taco Bell a lot then. I'd be in a lot of fights. Praise be the bell. No, it's got a funny premise. The art style is really neat. There's a lot of depth to the room, even though it kind of is like a flat drawing look. Like you said, it's hand-drawn.
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Yeah, that or like almost like old school Nickelodeon, like old school Nickelodeon style cartoon look to it where like the background is kind of like just there and it's like almost like a backdrop. And then the cartoon characters stand out a lot more like your character, your playable character and whatnot and then your opponent. Um, but I do think it's a funny, it's a funny premise.
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Like you're fighting an old slice of pizza that just has arms and legs and it's just, you know, you're going back and forth with it now. So I, uh, knowing how many, how many leftovers don't get eaten at my house, uh, there'd be, there'd be quite a bit of battles going on. Yeah, me too. I'm a, I'm a bit guilty of that one.
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That's fair. I mean, the thing with a lot of those, I mean, a lot of those old games are really hard. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Super Punch-Out, I mean, even back to the old Aladdin game, the Lion King game on Nintendo and stuff, those games were really, really difficult. And I'm like, man, why did they make these for eight-year-olds? This is horrible. I can't beat it now. I'm a 36-year-old man. Why can't I beat this game?
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Enlighten us. Give us the rundown.
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Yeah, yeah. Does it make you want to be a vegetarian after that?
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There you go. I'll show you. this is what you get so so you went in and and um how how is the like gameplay overall is it it's very smooth it's smooth it's just just difficult it reacts well if you input something it happens immediately i'm just bad like the game is great i am just not good at it
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i honestly i haven't uh not to say that this would be it but i haven't found um like a fighting game or a combat game that i've loved since fight night round three um which you probably never played but that's just like a straight up boxing game but i just i loved that game that was probably my rocky area when i was getting into fighting and i was obsessed with with like everything fighting um
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But there's something to be said for a game that just feels like fluid and your punches connect and land. And when you throw it, it goes where you want. So I'm interested in this one. It seems pretty cool. It looks like we got a release date of the 25th. So that's right around the corner here.
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Including all the money. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. And it wasn't even pepperoni. It was cheese. Or it had pineapple on it or something lame.
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We don't have time to get into this. Don't come at me, bro. You know that. Come at me, bro.
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Oh, man. Listen, I drive in a pretty populated city every day, to and back. I have two children. I'm married. I own a business, small business. I have more rage than I can handle already. I have no desire to play anything that is intended to make me upset.
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See, I don't know. I wouldn't describe that as a rage game. That's definitely a rage game.
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You're mad. I mean, I guess you could, but that's their fault, and you guys are trying to work together. And then you could just blame them, and it's not your own fault, and you're not just getting annoyed by yourself. I don't know. This one isn't co-op or anything, right?
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bust in a gut laugh. Going from either playing in Rivals when I'm playing Moon Knight or Thor, the movement's not the best on some of them, but I can throw my hammer and fly, or I can double jump or zipline with Moon Knight and stuff. When I play any other character, I get so annoyed at how slow they are. If I'm playing this and I'm falling every four steps, I would rage destroy my computer.
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I would not be able to hand something like that. I will say... The graphics look pretty dang clean. It does look very clean. It looks very good for being, especially because a lot of times these are, you know, let's be honest, they're not high and high level games because they're just meant to elicit a response and get hype and everybody playing.
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Exactly. And so usually they don't put a lot of games. Effort, yeah, a lot of effort into that, but this looks, I mean, the thumbnail with the rainforest area and the sunset, it looks like they put some time into the development of it, so... He's just...
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Yeah, exactly. So we don't have a release date yet, just this year?
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my bad you know I'm sure we will if you do end up playing it please please let me know because I'm sure I'll forget but I'd be interested interested to see how it kind of flushes out and what the game actually looks like when people are playing it yeah but man these these rage games are just not for me My blood pressure is probably too high already.
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I'm learning. I'm learning the indie side, man.
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I haven't checked it in a while, but I'm sure it's already up there. He's just thinking about it, guys. It's making him mad. Yeah, I know. I'm all ready. I can feel my heart beating. What do you mean I fell again?
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Yeah, it definitely does. It's definitely that kind of really pop of color, retro looking, kind of bright, vibrant look to it. But it also, I mean, it looks fluid.
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Gosh, almost that kind of like Borderlands look, depth to it.
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this this this does look cool um it does have a demo out now um there's a demo which i would like to i have not checked it out yet but i would like to to check that out um and see it does work looks like it's uh controller compatible as well which makes a little bit easier for people but um yeah man this this definitely it it checks those boxes of a game that
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It looks like it'll just be fun, and then you can play with your friends, and then FPS, and then it has the good graphics. So, yeah, I'm interested to see this one. We may have to check it out.
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it is funny like utter chaos and and there's there's there is something to be said too about uh it doesn't have to be just graphically off the chart something that is is just next level realistic like there is a world where these games kind of have a place where it's this art style and it is art it is a cool look to it that is still playable still fun you still enjoy your time in the game and just you know have a blast so
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The Indie Expert Predictions. Indie Expert Predictions. Come now. Everybody listen.
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Oh, man. I would say, gosh, this is a hard one. I know, right?
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There are, for just games that I'm all kind of lukewarm overall on all of them, probably this Mycopunk. Mycopunk looks incredible. Yeah, I think that's probably the best-looking game to me. Also, I think the Backseat Drivers. I think that one's going to be a blast for us.
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I feel like that'll give the most laughs, the most fun. We'll get some clips out of it for sure. Yeah, exactly. The short time we play it, if we do, I think it'll lend itself to the most enjoyability and enjoyment overall, just for how goofy it's going to be and the chaos. But yeah, I mean, all these look pretty dang good.
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Some of them are coming out, one or two are coming out this week or whatever, so... Yeah, I'm interested to see how these all go. I do like the idea. We'll have to come back doing these indie episodes if we try these demos and come back and let people know what we think.
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Because we do this for you people. We do it for the people because we love you. Yeah, we love you. Do you feel the love? We feel the love. In fact, maybe I think that about wraps it up for us. Maybe we should play some demos now.
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yeah let's go play some demos right now but first tell them whether they can support the podcast right well if you like what we do and uh you know we offer some sort of worth to your day getting through on a drive to work or um if you're listening while you're working uh you know you can go over to multiplayer squad.com there's a lot of options for patreon support uh go ahead and join over there you can start for as low as five bucks a month it really does help us out and keep uh kind of the the ball rolling on this thing we've been
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This is also what I find so interesting about indie games is that there is not that board of directors. There's not the appeasement to the suits, and they just make the most ridiculous stuff that you could imagine. Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm very curious to see how this one plays out longterm. Um, it's basically this sandbox dating simulator, but like everything in a household you're dating.
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trying to do what we can to put out a lot more content, working hard on the Discord community, having community nights, doing everything we can. So all that support really means a lot. And it truly, every time we see a new supporter, it's probably the best part of our day every time we share the links to each other and stuff and screenshots and whatnot.
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So again, MultiplayerSquad.com, shoot over there. And then in the links in all of our bios, all the descriptions will also be our Discord. Best community on the planet, bar none. Almost 1,000 people on there. Tons and tons and tons of active members. Lots of lurkers. We love our lurkers that just hang out and maybe comment once or twice here or never comment at all and just enjoy the show.
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But awesome community. We always just talk games, talk movies, talk everything, talk life. But shoot over there as well and join in. It's a great place to be.
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You leave my girl alone. You leave her alone.
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Um, and you can put on your date V8ers, right? Yeah. There's a washing machine, the lamp, the, uh, the, the stove, the toaster, like you said, you know, we're not on speaking terms right now, so I don't want to, you know, go back to X's and stuff like that. But yeah, this just, uh, To me, not to poo-poo right away, but I'm going to. You've got to be really bored to play something like this.
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There's a lot of options in this world that I could... I'd rather play the OG pinball from back in Microsoft XP than this game.
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I will say that two married men, especially when it's a dating simulator, that you're dating fans and toasters and lamps.
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You heat my water every night. The crazy part, too, is, like, the character design is, like, it's very Humanoid-esque, but they'll have, like, you know, a fan over their head in the backside, like, instead of their hair, or they're wearing, like, a lampshade or drapes-looking stuff. The design is very good.
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Yeah, that's quite a bit. I mean, you can tell they obviously spent a lot of time in this. I'm curious to see how many people are involved in this as far as real genuine hardcore people that are in the nuts and bolts of this whole development process. I don't know, dude. Somebody had to be like, are we sure we want to do this? Are we sure? But all the power to them. Make what you want.
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It's art, man. Are we going to be the dating the toilet guys forever? Imagine, too, you audition for parts or you know them. You're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to get a part in this game. And then you're the toilet guy. That's your character. You're the toilet. That's right, everyone. I got to be the toilet and date everything. I can also throw you a bone. You get to be the plunger as well.
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I can only take so many burnt waffles, you know. We just had to cut it off.
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This one may be one that I just go back and look at just to not play it, but go see what the reviews are and what people say about it.
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It just blows up. It's just stream central. Everybody's streaming it, and they're like, I'm taking the lamp.
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Just you wait. It wouldn't be the first time people have called us idiots on TikTok or Instagram, so...
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Yeah, man. Even at Costco, you know, it's only so much one man can take.
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Next to nothing. Next to nothing.
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Oh, I didn't even think about that. Okay. All right. All right. It's all coming together now. The pieces are fitting together.
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Oh, no. I don't even like it when it's all beautiful and fantastic.
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Oh, gross. Like I am not the graphic snob Josh is, but even still, I do like, I do like my games to look pretty.
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That's, that's one way to do it for sure. So why, uh, I guess, cause I, I know next to nothing and maybe it'll educate the listeners. Um, So it's a parallel story to Undertale, so it's not any sort of continuation. It's like its own separate entity, but it's in the same universe?
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It looks it. And I guess just for clarity's sake, the driver can just barely see over the dash, right? Oh, just barely. Just like little slivers. Just like a sliver. You cannot see. You need the other person to describe where to go, where to turn, what to avoid. And I'm sure they throw kids going across the street or other crazy stuff, delivery drivers on bikes.
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I'm sure you're going to see all that kind of stuff. And you're like, watch out, turn right, turn right. And then, you know. No, you're other right type situation you're going to probably run into.
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Yeah. Which way do we go, dear? Turn left, Grandma. That's the train tracks. You dumb old bag. She called herself a dumb old bag. Yeah, exactly. These types of games, dude, for me, I'm sure it probably will be like, you know, five bucks or something or eight dollars or it won't be much.
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Yeah, it's unclear right now. But there is a free test drive. So maybe, you know, we should hop in and check it out. I am. These are just, you know, hop in, have a couple laughs for a night or two, and you've got more than your money's worth. Oh, yeah.
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Actually, I saw this in the show docs, and I like this question a lot because I think the flexibility that indie developers have offers them the ability to do so much more to cater to gamers. So the thing that I tend to appreciate, if you will, more about the indie development, indie side of the gaming world, is that you see the passion and you see the drive to just make gamers happy.
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I don't think it's meant to be that, you know, it's meant to be hop in, have fun, enjoy it, you know, um, get some crazy laughs. I'm sure again, too, this will probably be one of those where there's a lot of streamers making clips and reels.
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No risk. Yeah, no risk and just the ability to just hop in with a friend and just go back and forth and then blame each other whose fault it was. I just want to sit in VC and watch you and Josh do it.
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oh i'd love to i just that would be uh well he'd obviously be up front and then i'd be in the back you'd be trying to guide him like yeah ryan that's not where you turn yeah uh i love it so yeah again uh there is a free test drive um on steam it looks pretty sweet there's not ever this just this year right release date
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Dude, yeah. A little bit better. It definitely looks like it, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's something to be said. I mean, with the internet and how easy it is to link up with your friends, that's definitely an enticing feature for any type of game. Just throw in another player, and then you and your buddy can play together, and that's probably going to get a lot more people or couples that want to play together these types of games, especially indies.
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Um, but I'm, I will say, uh, it does look intriguing to me. Um, it, it looks pretty cool. I, I, I'm a sucker for roguelikes, especially after risk of rain too. And I've fallen in love. And then like, uh, deep rock galactic survivor. Um, it just, these, these roguelikes, I just, I can't get enough of them.
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So being able to play with friends and then it being a cool looking roguelike, that's not going to be again, uh, The cool thing with indies is you take a risk, you make a leap of faith that you're going to like it. If you don't, you're out like 15, 20 bucks usually at the most for a lot of times. You're not wrong.
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Who knows what it's going to be price-wise, but this is intriguing more than most indie games that I usually see. That's a good thing to hear, at least.
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Wow. As long as I bring my pillow. That's the turn-based one, right? Yeah, it is. I'll bring my pillow so in between I can take a little nappy-poos. We know Josh famously is Mr. Progression. I do like the ability with these roguelikes to...
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Have the option to upgrade my stuff, gather materials, and then doing it with a partner where we can link up our abilities together and team up what we can attack and try to just flow in a better sequence together. That lends itself to more my gameplay style if I'm going to play this type of game. So it does look pretty cool, man.
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I'm batting 1,000 on the roof jump, man. I am one for one.
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yeah exactly it's like they're all just dumb fun games i know um before uh we started recording um in the discord i was just chatting with people and and somebody asked about headliners and i threw up the clip and then somebody else was like what is this craziness and i'm like dude get in this game this is a fun it's like seven or eight bucks uh just just one session alone is worth the price of admission absolutely it is it is so much fun this game is a blast
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Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's always somebody down to play.
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We're all incredibly stupid. So come on down and just have a blast with us because you will die and then it'll make for good banter.
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Yeah, no, absolutely. The video I posted was a streetlight flying right next to me. Then I was like, oh no, Josh, which way do we go? And we didn't know which way to go, and we're jumping over cars, and there's just giant monsters when you're trying to return to extraction. It's just one of those games that lends to... It's very streaming-friendly. It's very clip-friendly. It just...
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It's nothing but fun, and it's just going to be goofy craziness a la Lethal Company, a la... What was the other one? Content warning. Content warning. A lot of those types lend to this kind of gameplay, and it's just fun. All the different attacks you can get. There's certain animals that'll grab you and flop you around, and then I'm taking a selfie while Josh is getting dismembered in the air.
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You know, and it's worth bonus extra points, and there's a lot there, and it's definitely one to check out.
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Yeah, this is true. Hey, buddy, you need a hand?
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Well, we were all missing arms. We just kept throwing them at you.
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Yeah, that's what I was saying. Almost one session is more than enough value for $8. That's no problem at all. And to be honest, for you, no game's a long-term game for you. Yeah, that's very true. Yeah. So I have a feeling like Ace and I were still, I know Ace and I, if we talked about it, we'd be like, let's go hop into Lethal Company. Let's go run, do some runs. You know, we would hop back in.
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But this is one, too, that you can, it's not a lot of space. You can just leave it on your computer or, you know, whatever. And then you can just, if somebody hops in, you can go play with them. It's a super cool game, but definitely check it out.
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I do. As much as they scare me in the crazy jump scares and whatever else happens in those worlds, I definitely do like it. I don't know. Did you guys get that kind of Nightmare Before Christmas vibe? Oh, absolutely. I was going to say, if one of you didn't bring it up, I was absolutely going to bring it up.
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I'm glad they threw it to me there because I got to jump in and say this first because somebody's going to say it, and I want it to be me, so I sound smart. But it definitely – that atmosphere and the look, like – Man, the thought of that in VR is just something different. And I know we always talk about the progression of gaming. Where is gaming going to go? What's going to be the next leap?
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Not to say that this is that, but... Man, I definitely want to try it out and see what this type of gaming is. Something I've never experienced. I've done VR, obviously, but something like this, it just seems so different to me, and it's something I definitely want to try out.
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Come on. I'll do it.
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Oh, yeah.
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I love it.
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What?
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That's right.
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is a boy named dave our boy dave is back he is he is you know what dave's been doing he ain't been just eating sushi he's been eating deep fried sushi because that boy has not lost a pound he's looking plump as ever I'm just going to say I'm a very active person. I like to go out. I think with all that swimming and all that work he's doing, he might have lost a little pounds.
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But, man, Dave is just the same as ever. You need that extra insulation. Yeah, it keeps him warm, man. I guess those low temps once he gets down 100 meters or whatever it is. It's cold. That's some chilly water down there when he's getting the prime fish for the good rolls.
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Oh, boy. Yes, we do.
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and then they did it they're just like we don't care we're doing it we don't care how we're gonna do it we're doing it dude this i i was watching and i'm like oh sweet dave's back i'm like all right what are we gonna do man i'm ready to go get some fish and then it goes and you see the crossover and it's like an 80s side-scrolling fighting action game at one point and
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
i'm like double dragon i was like yeah double dragon like any of those i mean even a lot of like the simpsons like this side scrolling where you can move kind of up and down for a certain kind of range get up pick up the there's like a coke on the floor coca-cola can you know for like bonus points or whatever and like it just i instantly was yep i'm in dave's got hands yep i'm in yeah dave's got hands
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, and from us coming, seeing that side-scrolling fighting, that just kind of hits a spot with us. We're like, oh, okay, yeah, I'm in. That's enough to for sure bring us back in. I know Ace, you're a little younger than us, but as painful as that is to say... That part hit with us probably a little different than it did with you.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
I know that's what I was going to say. I don't, I don't have to be Pinocchio for, for my nose to get big. It's there, man.
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Absolutely. I tell you one thing. If there's something I like in my swords, I like them to also be guns. You know? What more can you ask for? That's for sure. What is crazy to me is from someone who hasn't played it, and I've dabbled in the indies a little bit, not nearly as much as you two, but this does not look like an indie game to me. I mean, this looks like a full-fledged AAA...
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Graphically beautiful, just amazing game that is just beautiful and crisp, and it has all the attributes of a top-tier development, but it's considered an indie, I guess? It is. It's wild to me.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
That's what's cool to me is that I'm very story driven in games and I want to feel like I'm in that world. I want to be engaged. And maybe that's something that would draw me in a little bit more into a Souls game instead of just kind of rolling around and killing stuff, which is also super fun and awesome. I'm sure it's great, just not for me.
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But maybe this is one that with this little kind of new spice to it, I'll get sucked in and want to check it out. But real quick, Google search as of March of last year, 2024, they had over 7 million copies sold, I believe. That's very successful. Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah, so I'm looking. I don't know what the exact numbers are going to be, but man, that's pretty dang good for an indie game.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Oh, yeah, we did. Did you guys hop into one? I think it was by the name of Tito.
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I thought this was... You guys sent this over to me in the beginning. I hopped in, but it took me a minute to get kind of sucked into this demo. But it was actually quite a bit of fun. I don't know. What did you guys think?
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That tree was actually pretty sweet. I definitely went past him or back up to him and had him kick me away just a few times, and he kept throwing me up higher and higher in the air, and I was floating back. It was a good time. Good demo.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Genuinely enjoyed that demo interaction that I had, but it's night and day from the original one. Oh, 100%.
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Yeah.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Oh, 100%. The jumps and the way you can kind of use the different abilities throughout the world. I love it. For people who haven't played it, you get to hop in and you can absorb these things around you. And then you get certain abilities or traits based on those fire, water, trash bag makes you bouncy. And then like,
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
cardboard cardboard or like a bush you can start sneaking around because of the grass like there's there's a lot of cool things to it i loved personally just uh my tito because i could use the avatar with um the jordan uh bulls jersey that's the one i used i don't know what you guys use that was the dinosaur i felt pretty cool with that one I don't know.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Got to get a little flair to him, man.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
It was almost... The Acorns Falling was almost reminiscent of Mario Party. That's what I was thinking. One of those kind of party games, for sure. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You could see the shadow getting bigger, and you're like, oh no, and you gotta jump around. That last level, obviously...
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1 100th of the amazingness of that level, but it almost was like that Halo 3 kind of Warthog level. It kind of felt like it, didn't it? I was just running, and I'm like, oh, okay. I really like... You know, I like the demo. Now I love this demo. And I was feeling good, and I'm like, I'm going to jump here, double jump that, get over this. And I died.
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I'm not going to... You know, I died intentionally a couple times just so I could keep doing that area. You know, it was just... I think it was very well done. I think they did a very good job on what they've created. And it sounds like they've made the improvements that needed to happen from what you guys have said as well.
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
You know?
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Totally About Teeto, Lies of P: Overture and Hilarious Headliners - Gaming Podcast
Oh, there goes a splat.
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And Josh is not a gambler. I am not. Dude, he went to Vegas and just went to shows. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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What a combo, man. The Bash Brothers and then Ace Healer Supreme. Nobody can stop us. They can't.
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Jackson does that now, dude. Just like yesterday. He's like, this game's cheating.
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But Josh has never seen the Buffaloes run. That's for sure. And he doesn't even know what I'm talking about. But Vegas gamblers will know. The Buffalo machine? Yeah, the Buffalo machine. The golden Buffalo. Buffalo or pinball, dude. That's the one. Oh, man. Completely lost.
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Dude, how cool would it be, though? It looks like you're stuck in this room, and you're doing all this gambling and stuff, and the floor drops out. How cool would it be if it was tailored for VR, too? So are you going to pull that? That would make the fall a lot scarier. And you're like, what?
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Does it feel good? Then it's, well, not all the time. Not all the time, but it's just the right amount.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
And what are they, Josh? What are they? They're Scottish. That was what I was doing in the beginning of the show. Is that what that was? Yes, that's what that was. Don't even. Is that what that was? That was a quality Scottish accent.
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Let's hear what you got then. Come on. Yeah, you ain't got nothing. No, it's not Thor. I'm not an impressionist. It was not Thor. It was just Scottish accent. It sounded like you were trying to be Scottish. There you go, buddy. He's a brother in arms.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
And we will do the accent the whole time just for you. Oh, man.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
Anyways, I thought that I was not always the biggest Dynasty Warriors fan, but immediately I saw this and thought, oh, it's Scottish Dynasty Warriors. The thing that was a little bit different to me is that it felt like there was some weight to these attacks, and it wasn't just kind of blasting through just paper objects. It felt like you were damaging opponents. You're just OP.
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You're super powerful, and you can blast through them. So that was something in its favor. It was pretty cool. It looks cool. The music was awesome. I loved the soundtrack. Trailers are a weakness for me, just like Redheads. I get super hyped and over-the-top excited. So, you know, it could have sold me just on a trailer, but I'm going to wait and see where we go with it.
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uh love it when we're winning hate it when we have bad teammates and it brings out the overwatching you man it's it's i can see your salty nature like it's like my family's already picking up on it my daughter the other day was like they call it salt creep like with aquariums and other stuff where just the evaporation and the salt residue is there like i can see it i can see it form on josh's body like he just forms this salt layer around him but then like nights like last night it all just falls away man because then we're like we're so good at this game man we're
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But it definitely looks cool and the music's awesome. I think the art style is super cool, too.
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Yeah. We got to do the accent the whole time though.
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What will you do without freedom?
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It does look cool. I will say I'm not the biggest for these kind of super cartoony looking type worlds. But the more I watched, the more I was intrigued and the more I liked the look of it. The problem is, man, to capture somebody to not only really take a look but to buy your game, you've got to be – it's so hard to do.
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So you go to a restaurant and you're like, this is the best whatever food I've had in this area. And it's like, why is this not packed? It's just getting the name out is so hard to do in this day and age because there's so many restaurants or there's so many games out there and everybody's making a game. Everybody can get their engine and develop something. So it looks amazing.
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It looks like it's crisp and clean and has awesome gameplay. The world is neat. I just same thing. I love the developer name, though. Weird Beluga. What an awesome name. So that's plus points right there. But I really hope that they can get the name out. Hopefully this helps with that and we'll keep shouting to the rooftops.
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Get the Luna. Get Namor. Namor. Yeah. Oh, he's dead. He's dead. All right. Next one. Next one. Clear the point. Yeah. We're so great.
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But it's one of those things like when they're running through and you have all the gears like rolling through. And I love when worlds create just that over-the-top atmosphere that makes you feel like small and then everything else is larger than life. And this does that. So... Man, I really hope that the word can get out there and people can get behind this.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
And again, like we always say, a lot of time with these indies, the biggest thing you can do is wishlist. So anything we've talked about today, if you like it, if it sounds good, go and wishlist it. If anything, it'll help the developer, even if you don't end up getting it. But it does help them tremendously. So go and do that.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
That's where it's hard to find. Josh, we saw it at the Game On Expo that we just recently went to with John. There was a few developers there. I felt so bad for the one developer. I know. We played some games, and you could tell these guys just... They poured their heart into these games, and they were so excited. And we played it, and we're like, it looks cool. That's awesome. But it's just...
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We'll get there.
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It was on PlayStation. You run around, you're shooting. Yeah. I didn't play a lot of it, but I played some runs at a buddy's house. He's obsessed with it. Hard game.
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All those little orbs.
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I mean, there's just, there's the thing is though, like what market's not saturated? Like everywhere you look, there's 4 million battle Royales. There's a million first person shooters. There's a million roguelikes. There's a million like, uh, uh, you know, card games, you know, there's, Every single one, there's so many games coming out now. It's hard to keep track of them all.
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And that's what we're talking about with, like, how do you get your name out there? How do you separate yourself from the other people? So I think that's the thing, Josh, is, like, you know people that have played this other one. You know it's going to be good. That's less of a risk to try that game versus this one, you know?
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So it's kind of hard to pick one or the other unless something really kind of sets you off to, like, oh, okay, I got to try that out to see if this is what I think it's going to be.
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Yeah, the horror fishing genre. I will say the second I booted this up, before I read any details, any of the description, I'm like looking, I'm like, man, this is a lot like dredge. Like I'm feeling this, this looks good. And then the more I watched, the more I liked it. And then when I, afterwards I read it and it's like inspired by dredge. I'm like, yeah, that makes sense then. Yeah.
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That's why I liked it. You know, it looks good, dude. It looks really good.
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I'm going to get that fish.
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We're going to need a bigger boat. Yeah, this one. And I like, too, crafting lures and different things like that. This definitely has just that dark, gritty... And it's weird to say, but feel-good vibes. It does. It's a weird thing, but it does. It's like a feel-good vibe, you know? But it's kind of scary, too. So I am excited for this. Dredge was awesome. I think this will be equally as great.
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So we'll have to see where this goes. But, man, this looks dang cool.
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Yeah.
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Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
I definitely... I know I am big time against those tactical turn-based style games. But for this, I got that same feeling where it was not turn-based, but it has that tactical nature, but it's still fluid. It has that flow to it to where... You can alter your type of attack or style of attack based on the enemies that you're facing.
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Look at their weak points, and you can use your weapon as a piercing weapon versus slashing weapon. And so those types of tactical natures are what entice me into a game. The stand and wait while I select this attack, and then I attack them, and then they attack me, I don't like that. This is what I can get behind when you're talking about a tactical game.
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And I liked, I thought the art style was beautiful. I thought it looked very fluid. I thought that it had some weight to it. And I loved the kind of combat situation that they had. So overall, man, as far as this style of game, I'm much more enticed with something like this than I am any of the turn-based stuff or any of those kind of in-depth style combat games.
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Rock and stone. Rock and stone. Yeah, you can't beat it. That's one of mine for sure. Anything Deep Rock Galactic is always top tier for me. And especially when we get to play with you guys, you know, there's nothing like it. Yeah.
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that's for sure one uh the other one is is over the hill um surprisingly i i want someone over i yeah dude i i would love to just sit and vibe and mean you can just go on a you know a road trip and uh you know we live on opposite sides of the of the uh country so us being able to just go on a road trip and explore the wilderness and whatnot would be a pretty cool thing so i'd like to check that out so that's my other one
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Isn't that the... Yes, that's the roguelike one, right?
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thoughts on this one uh i'm stoked i i mean i don't i don't know why they wouldn't do this like uh they have just a rabid fan base that absolutely loves this ip and any iteration they're going to scoop it up and buy it and just yell rock and stone you know so it's it's one of those that the second you can get in on something like this you will if if you like this stuff
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And, uh, I'm one of them, man. The second I saw it, I'm like, yep, I'm in. I got to try it out. Yeah. I want to play this.
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Hello, ladies. I'm here for the tears. The tears of metal. Wait, is Thor Irish? It's for future discussion. It's on topic, buddy.
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I know Josh definitely doesn't want to for sure. Um, the one thing that it, that it made me feel is, uh, It gave me that vibe of what I wish Pacific Drive made me feel like. And maybe this could give me that pleasant, cozy feeling of just exploration and a great environment, a great scenery. And that's what I wanted out of Pacific Drive.
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But there were so many bugs and so many issues with the car vehicle stuff. We know all that. We've, you know, beat it into the ground. But this definitely, it piqued my interest for sure. And I'm not usually one for these types of games. But I was highly impressed by the trailer.
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Pay attention.
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We were just talking about how we're forest mountain people, Josh, and we just want to be out in the wilderness. And then this is a game tailored exactly to that. I'm not in the wilderness.
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You're telling me with that giant monitor, OLED, everything you have, you can't dive into it? See, I love driving. My wife makes fun of me. I get the car washed before road trips. I get everything prepped, and I'm like, all right, let's go, baby.
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Oh, come on. It's just going to get covered in bugs. You've got to leave in a clean vehicle. You're getting washed when you get home. No, you get washed before and when you get back.
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Some of us can do it ourselves. You got arms, brother.
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I'm recovering from the big hole I dug for that tree that we just got delivered.
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You don't hear anything for five, six, seven million years.
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You trying to make me jealous? What is this? I thought we were done.
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They know our pain.
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like i i oh man the degenerate gambler in me like i just i'm a sports better i i love gambling i love vegas i love craps i love throwing bones i love you know i love poker i'll go and sit for hours i love everything that is gambling so this immediately i'm like oh okay Yeah, that looks good. Oh, the devil's after me? I'll win. He ain't going to get me. This floor is not dropping.
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I'm going to win this money. And then I'm like, ah.
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The Midnight Walk – Deep Dive into a Creepy Cozy Walking Sim | Gaming Podcast
That's what sucked me in for sure. Like, I am not one to like, oh, a horror game. Let me go check it out. You know, but the claymation look to it. Nightmare Before Christmas is instant Halloween and instant Christmas movie every year for my family. And I was like, oh, I can play a game like that. Count me in. I can experience that?
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I was honestly on the same vein as you guys. I thought, man, I wonder if this is... Regrettably, I can't do VR with motion. But I wondered if this would hit so much harder in VR. That just...
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diving into this world to where you're, you know, lighting the matches and you're doing all the stuff and looking around and then getting attacked and whatever happens within the game, like the ability to see it in a virtual world might be that extra jump to take it over from a meh game to like something that is standalone, you know, something that really kind of is warranting those reviews, you know, a 90 whatever percent.
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Say less, homie. I'm in.
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Thank you, but who is that?
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okay how do we explain that i don't worry don't worry about it it's fine you'll figure it out i prefer the big stomps like oh yeah right right oh my gosh something's coming then you're like oh and you like look back and you're like ah you gotta run Yeah, see, Ryan, that would have been far more effective for me, man. Dude, sign me up. Put me in coach. I'll design it.
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I wonder if... I will say, I wonder if... Like, and I know we didn't, none of us played it in VR. I wonder if the VR would have changed that view on those types of sections to where you have a headset on, you're in VR and you're walking and you hear the rumble of, of the bones and you're looking around and you're like, what the heck, you know?
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So I just, I know like, cause you talked about, um, games made in VR or people playing games like super hot. Yeah. I've heard people that love Superhot that didn't play it in VR. I'm like, what? It's one of the best VR games ever. How can you play it in not VR? To me, the ability to dodge and move and move around, all that stuff, that's what makes the game. So I'm wondering if we...
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are missing a little bit of that magic, not playing it in virtual reality as opposed to just on a screen. We're not getting that extra layer of depth that we otherwise would have had if we played it with a headset on.
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Yeah, maybe so.
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Listen, I'm trying to make a show here, John. What are you doing?
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This is how they released it. You can tell with the lack of depth in the world. You can only see so far. It looks all foggy and hazy. Part of it's by design, but also part of it, I think, is lack of development. And and like, I think it was meant to be like, OK, we can't over design this world because virtual reality is going to be what people are using this for.
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So, I mean, maybe that was the case. Like they were just it was meant to be that they're like, let's let's try to release it on normal systems.
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Your instincts were correct, I think. My instincts were definitely correct.
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So, hold on. I want to clear something up. Would you classify this as a horror game? It is definitely a horror game. To me, it did not feel like a horror game. Like, at all. Never? Like, Outlast Trials, you know, a lot of these... That's like... Well, okay, that's horror. It's horror! That's what horror is. Horror is not like, oh, look, this guy's going to get you. That's what it felt like.
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He's going to get you. I'm going to go jump in this cabinet right in front of him, and then he won't know where to go. Like, oh, yeah, okay. Like, how is that a horror game? Like, this is not... It's more of a spooky game. And that's fine. And that's fine.
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Thriller and horror. To me, it felt like just like a... Like, because, I mean, it's the same exact aesthetic and look of Nightmare Before Christmas. that's not a horror movie. That's, that's like a, I, I'd let my little kids watch that. Cause it's just like a, it's a good movie with cool look to it. Yeah. It's creepy. Some of the stuff they do, but like this to me did not feel like a horror game.
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So I personally would not ever classify this under the horror genre of games. It's like, you know, spooky light.
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Spooky light, spooky light. Yeah.
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Hold on. Let's all pick a number. Okay.
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And then we'll say the number in turn. Whatever order is fine, but let's pick a number.
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Okay.
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$20.
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He's a professional, man.
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It's almost like when you have this, like, I love how it's made. I love to watch. large machinery, mass produced product. You have this one, you know, where they're just mass producing it. And this other guys are like, they're producing it by hand. And they're like, oh, well, we need to charge this price. It's like, you didn't need to do this. Like, you don't have to do that.
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You can use this device. Like, so they're over engineering something that didn't need to be done. They're putting things in that doesn't need to be there. And they're charging a premium price tag. 40 bucks is a lot for a game. It is a lot.
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Diminishing returns, man.
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I'll pay to see Wallace and Gromit. What are you talking about?
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We looked at this game and then I was like, yeah, I'll play with you guys. I'll hop in. And I did. I hopped in yesterday and then I played it a little bit and I played today. So I'm like, I guess, 10 minutes from the end then because like I'm supposed to go up Moon Mountain. And that's I mean, to me, that seems wild because I feel like there's so much more untapped like world.
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But also there's really not that much world there. So it's a weird feeling. It's for you to cling to. Yeah, it's like, what are we here for? I get it, but why? Why am I driven to go up this mountain? Why am I wanting to do all this? Yeah, man, it's an interesting game.
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Yeah. Well, that's because it's expensive. Because they get sick and throw up like me. Yeah. Or they're like Ryan. Yeah.
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I can play super hot, but if you're moving around like anything else, like... Yeah.
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Um, other than, uh, just like the, the kind of the scenery and the atmosphere, I love the look of this right away off the bat. And I, and I knew I would, I mean, knowing, you know, what I know about the other kind of this style. Um, I, I knew I was going to like it right away, but I did not expect to like pop boy as much as I did. Like, he is the most amazing, cutest, coolest little dude ever.
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You better put some respect on Potboy's name right now.
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He's a happy guy. He wants the world to see. Get their vitamin D.
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So I was headed up the mountain. What's the difference between the two?
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And that's kind of the end of the day. This game is nothing. And I played it for nothing. And John played it for nothing.
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There you go. It's all done. And you can shoot matches, and then you can light matches, and then that's the extent of the game.
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And I immediately fell in love. And I am not kidding. I looked to try to find, like, figurines. I'm like, pot boy, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I got some questionable search results immediately. So I'm like, I need to refine my search a little bit. So... But yeah, that was right away. I thought it looked beautiful. The world was cool. And I loved Little Potboy.
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We reconstructed the skeleton. We laid the person to rest. Like, really? None of it mattered.
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Well, speaking of put to rest, let's put this game to rest.
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Yeah. It was not half the episode. I think it was like two minutes.
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So please, anything anyone can do, it really genuinely, from the bottom of our hearts, helps us out. And we appreciate it. So whatever you can do, we love you for it.
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Save your money, man. Wait for a sale. If the devs are listening, invite us to your studio.
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I'm just thinking of John with eyeliner and like... Yeah, you and I have got the same vision.
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Like, just... Little, did you know, speaking of Tim Burton, though, we almost got a Superman, Tim Burton film with Nick Cage as Superman? Yeah. Do you guys know that? You don't have to tell me any weird goth thing. I'm just telling you. All about Nick Cage, Superman. What could have been?
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Give me all the matches, baby.
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I felt, I guess the long of the short is for me with the design is I loved the characters. I did not really care about the world. Like, I thought it was cool and it kind of looked good, but I wasn't drawn into the world as a whole. I did not like the fuzzy effect they tried to give. Like, you know, yeah, it's foggy, whatever, but, like, you can still see stuff.
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I think that was kind of maybe just so that they didn't have to develop as much of the game. So there wasn't... I agree with John that there wasn't really a heart in the world. I didn't feel... I didn't feel like I was where I was. I had no notion. I'm just like, okay, I'm cruising through this area. But I did have a connection to the characters and the character design.
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I did love Popaway, and I loved the other characters throughout the game. But just the world itself was just kind of lacking for me.
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which you know you're told that pretty straight up by this creepiest npc i think i've ever met in my life he's got like two heads and he's like almost snake sounding when he talks yeah yeah it's it's yeah it's it's a weird setting when you jump into off the bat but i mean that's kind of what they're trying to set up i think they they want you to be a little off put and trying to figure out some things and figure out where you are and what you are and um
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Oh, that's where you were stuck? I was curious.
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Instead of the way you're supposed to.
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92.
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I was looking up some stuff before we recorded and on Reddit and there are just nothing but glowing reviews of people that are going through it.
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You don't understand, man.
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Some of the stuff, yeah. Some of the stuff is a little spooky. John, I know you haven't seen too much about it, but it's definitely... It's super throwback to N64, cartoony, outlandish graphics and almost like Nickelodeon cartoon style look to it. But it's goofy and it pays attention to kind of what you're doing in the world. Ace and I talked about it when we talked on the last Indie episode.
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If you skip the cut scenes... He goes, oh, I guess you don't care what I have to say. That's pretty funny. He's like, oh, you don't want to hear me? He just starts giving you gruff for that.
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I will say he's been sending me different statistical things about Avowed and other games that I am currently playing. Like, why are you playing that? Come play Monster Hunter. Man, what are you doing? Come on. He's getting close. He's going to win me over soon enough.
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Oh, man. All right. In lieu of you going to sleep now, what do you got for us, John?
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Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Today we're going to cover the most anticipated indie games for 2025. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Ryan, and joining me... He's been living Mr. Sleepy Man in real life while on vacation all last week. It's Ace.
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It definitely does look – you can see it in that design like you were talking about, almost like OG Anastasia or that kind of grainy look. But it's got a little bit of pops of color, but it does have that dark kind of nature to it.
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I also do want to say I do think it's quite funny that within 30 seconds you said that all this stuff about Disney and then you talked about like body parts and dismembering and all these things. Yeah. I love how those things went together within 30 seconds.
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And that's, you know, honestly, as a game design kind of style, make these games that are somewhat adult content but designed in a way that was animated from like those adults' childhood, you know, to give them that kind of warm, fuzzy feeling, but then they can kind of be adults playing like adult content. You know, that kind of does go together. It's a smart way to do kind of game design.
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Love it. Yeah, I'm going to definitely have to check it out. I mean, I'm a big Disney guy too, so that one will definitely be on my list. And I'm glad because, I mean, this is why we're here because I had no clue about this one. Ace, you know all things indie, so you kind of had a little bit of an inkling of what that game is.
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But yeah, I'm sure a lot of people have no idea and they're going to look it up and be ready for it. So awesome. Well, I am going to come back with my third game right after this break. All right. I am back here to give you probably everybody's most anticipated game in the indie world. And Ace is like making a face right now. He's like, yeah, right. He's like, get out of here.
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This one I am very excited for. It is from the creators of No Man's Sky. And this one goes by a little name of Light No Fire. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This one, man, if you want to ride dragons, you want to go in a procedurally generated world where you can just do anything and all this... It's just... This one...
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For the way it looks, I'm always surprised when I see these because I'm like, that's an indie? What? That's an indie game? And it just shows how wide that spectrum is of indie games. You have these little kind of pixel art, teeny little 12 megabit games, and then you have these monstrosities that just blow your mind that it's an indie. Yeah.
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that's so happy to have you at the hunt john there you go and you create your cool animals and all that stuff but yeah awesome well you know what a little bit about what we're gonna do today is we're doing most anticipated indies for 2025 and i'm beyond excited what you guys think There it is.
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There's nothing else to say other than just it looks amazing. I'm very, very excited for this. I don't know. What do you guys think?
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That's what I learned because I was at Best Buy buying a physical copy. I bought a hard copy of No Man's Sky on day one. I went to three Best Buys to find it. I got it. I could barely play the game. And I was like, this is ridiculous. You know, I was such a big turnoff. They made a bunch of changes. They learned from their issues and their faults.
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And from what I've heard now, I haven't gone back, but it's, I mean, it's like out of this world. Bro. Get it? Yeah.
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No, don't start. This is going to turn into a Star Wars podcast real quick. I have a lot to say about that. We'll stick to gaming. But yeah, no, like you said, man, it's to have enough humility and to be humble enough as a developer to listen to the people saying like, this isn't it, man. You guys need to fix this. And then they go and they do.
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And then they make it ten times better, and everyone's like, yes, this is what we wanted. Thank you. They learn from all that, and then they're coming back with this fantasy world. I just think it's not as much of an undertaking with No Man's Sky to where it's just millions and untold numbers of worlds. This is an Earth-sized world, but it's all procedurally generated.
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And that allows them to put so much more depth into those designs and into that generation. So yeah, man, I am stoked for this one. I have a feeling when it comes out, it's going to take a lot of my time. And hopefully it does, because that means it'll be really good.
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If you're going to do that look, you have to do it well, and they certainly did it well. I know I watched your video, Ace, as far as covering it, and I just don't know. I mean, I don't know what your thing is with rats and mice and whatnot, but like... You just somehow have a knack for finding any game that ever includes them. I may send you one, a mouse or something for Christmas.
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But it does have that cool look where it's one of those that's... There's not a ton to it, I don't think, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be fun. That doesn't mean it's not going to be enjoyable and you'll get your, you know, 10 hours out of it. And that's what's so neat about these indie games is, you know, a lot of times they're like 10 bucks. Yeah. 15 bucks. Like, we played Headliners.
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That was $7. Like, I played it, you know, three, four sessions. I more than got my $7 worth, you know, and there's something to be said about that with these, you know, types of indie games, but... This one definitely does look pretty neat.
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I'm just imagining some human guy who's like, this is the detective? He's a mouse. Did you know he's a mouse? Oh, man. That's great. All right, John, let's hear your rat or mouse-based indie game next.
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It does, and I will second. The music is some of the best I've heard. I mean, just from the trailer, it's some of the best I've heard in years from whole game soundtracks. I am beyond stoked just to hear what the rest they have on that end. I would say, I do agree, it does give that little bit of cyberpunk, but almost like maybe cyberpunk alien... Oh, yeah. Good observation. Yeah.
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Like something like that to where you're kind of in that in that kind of sci fi space world where, you know, stuff's coming at you and good luck, brother. You know, something like that.
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At least like what they thought it would look like. I wish it did, man. Right? But no, this one definitely does look cool. I'm thoroughly excited to see kind of where this one goes. And it just shows, too, how much... how much the music and the sound affects a game.
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There's something to be said about it because Indies and, you know, I'm sure you can speak on this a little more, too, is there just there's an ability for an indie developer to kind of do a little bit more than anyone else can do. They don't have the budget. They don't have the big studio and the large staff.
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I mean, you see those videos in those movies where they just take the sound away, or they input sound in another kind of video clip, and it totally changes the mood of what is there. And so it shows how important that genuinely is to a game. And good audio, good sound makes a difference in a game. It makes all the difference, man.
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And it doesn't even have rats. It doesn't.
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There could be rats. They'll be crawling across the pipes and whatnot. They're like, there they are.
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Yeah! Well, being that I am not an indie aficionado, I'm tapped out on three guys, so I'm just going to hand the baton over to you, Ace, on the next game. Oh, yeah, all right. Because I'm sure I have your list, and there's some very good ones, so I don't want to poach you, and I'm just going to let you go on your next one here.
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That's cool. So I think I told you this, John. I have yet to play Hades. So I am excited. I think what – I don't know. What do you guys think? Should I check out Hades first if I was a newcomer?
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But they do have that very wide spectrum of creativity and that realm to where they can just explore and try things that otherwise some board meeting with a bunch of suits is going to knock down and say, no, that's not mass appeal. We don't want that. And something that could be revolutionary. So I love...
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We're going to clip that. I'm going to take the time. I'm going to take the time right here. We're going to save that and send it to Josh. I love it. That's cool. I didn't think about the fact that you could play it on the Switch. So that to me, Josh is chiming in here.
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he fired him up sorry we're a little behind the scenes there but anyways I do get late at night I get you get sleepy Ryan and I don't want to sit at the computer I don't want to sit on the couch I go and I lay in bed And I doom scroll my life away for half an hour to an hour before I am ready to fall asleep.
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So the option to sit and play such a substantial game in bed with my Switch, that would be money for me. So I'll tell you one thing right now. I will download Hades today, and I'm going to play it tonight.
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sick dude it's gonna set a whole new standard for what you expect from a roguelike yeah i'm amped up because then and then i'm gonna beat hades before josh does as well so i'll have to i don't know in the off pod chatter down he says reinstalling hades right now
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And being on this kind of the indie side of things and doing this with you, Ace, and talking with you, John, it's opened me up to a little bit more of this indie world where I'm putting back the graphic snob in me and putting away those big, wide worlds to these kind of smaller experiences, if you will, that are just something that makes you just kind of hold these types of games a little bit more near and dear to your heart.
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It has that look. I mean, I am a self-proclaimed hater of the turn-based combat. To me, I like to make my decisions real-time, on the fly, in the moment when I see the axe flying at me. I like to jump out of the way and try to attack or shoot an attack. Do something like that. I don't like to sit and select what I want to do and then wait for everybody's turn.
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These are all my moves right there. Deal with it! No, that's why I play checkers. Ah, okay. This makes sense now. This makes sense. But yeah, I'm actually... For someone who's not excited with that world and that type of game... I will say that this one has piqued my interest. It is something, you know, hopefully it's not just because I have to play it.
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But I do think that it's something that they've done a good job creating a world that is enticing. It's almost exhilarating. Like, the look of it is just amazing. It's something that we haven't seen in a long time. Like you said, it kind of is that... that throwback to like the real Final Fantasy games that give you that feeling. So I'm excited, man.
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I don't know a ton about it like you do, but from what I have looked at and researched on it, it looks pretty sweet. Game of the year. I'm calling it game of the year. I can't wait to replay that later. It's going to be a trash fire. All righty. Well, we'll run a little short on time here. I think we're going to get one more each. I'm going to go with one.
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We won't spend too much time on this because the more we say it, the longer it will take, and then it won't be this year. And I'm sure you already all know what we're going to go with.
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don't and i'm gonna go with silk song oh the curse continues five more years i almost don't even care anymore i don't i'm just gonna keep doing it every year until the game comes out that's what's gonna happen i i am a big i mean uh castlevania i'm a huge metroidvania guy more old school than a lot of the newer stuff i know ace you are obviously a huge metroidvania guy um
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Something about Hollow Knight was just it changed that kind of realm of gaming in Metroidvanias and made a lot of copycats, made a lot of people think, okay, these types of games still are alive. These are great. And there's something that they're doing with Silksong that they haven't told us yet that they're taking five million years to accomplish. But you know what?
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I have all the faith in the world in them. I am very impatient. I want it now. I want it now. But I'll wait. And hopefully it's this year, but I'll wait. I have no doubt.
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Finally, it's like, come on. We'll get excited when it's here, but I'm just going to say it every year. That's my most anticipated for the year.
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That's that's wild. This I mean, it looks I'm looking at because I honestly I had no clue about this game. Never heard of it. Yeah. So but these the these screenshots are all I'm wondering, is this all gameplay?
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On the on the seems. Yeah.
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Again, this is one of those where it's like, dude, I mean, this is almost like a cathedral with these intricate stair railings and kind of gothic style church aesthetic to it. And I mean, this is another one of those just nods to like, man, this is an indie game, which is wild to me. But the development looks killer. I'm always down for a good, just kind of spooky, psychological, wild ride. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, already looking at the pictures, there's like a weird looking doll person thing in like a freezer. And so, yeah. Why are you trying to freak me out, man? I gotta go to bed.
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Knife hands? Knife hands, man. Now we're... Any game with knife hands, I'm in. So you can count me in on that right away.
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Right? Yeah, see? I knew. I knew. I remember. I remember. Oh, that's awesome. All right. Well, last for the best. So let's hear it, John. Take us home.
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It is pretty sweet. I have played the demo. Josh and I talked about this earlier in the week. It's pretty neat. The way you can... The strategy used to high ground matters. Oh, cool. Fire versus...
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other mechs that are susceptible to fire matters and then like your power ups and then you have waves coming in where you have a chance to go get this power up chest but you have to go and run and grab it and upgrade and get back in time and place your mechs before the next wave comes so there is a lot of cool aspects to the world as you kind of get through those levels so it is pretty neat is it kind of like a is it turn based is it like a tactical RPG like a fire emblem I was thinking fire emblem
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That's where my brain went. I wouldn't say it's really turn-based. It's more of a... From what I played on the demo, it's more of just kind of like waves coming through and you get your upgrades, you get set up, you defend your... Almost like a tower defense style. Oh, okay. Where the waves come through, you defend them, get them, you know...
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setup however is most advantageous for you and then go on to the next one do your upgrades and so on and so forth i didn't play a ton ton of the demo um but what i played was was pretty neat so i'm excited to see uh kind of where this one goes i know it says a diesel punk real-time tactics roguelike so just put punk after any word i know right it makes everything cooler yep Sweet.
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Well, that was a lot of fun, guys. We had a lot of games to cover there, and I think we're going to – I would like to say that we'd hurt a lot of people's wallets with these, but they're indies, so they're not going to hurt people's wallets. That's the cool part.
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That's awesome. That's what's so cool about the indie stuff is that the price point is so affordable to take risks on these types of games, which is just awesome. But speaking of taking a risk, we know there's a lot of podcasts out there in this world. And we're so happy that you guys decided to listen to us.
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But other than that, you know, do you guys have any other kind of closing thoughts or any other games you want to just give a shout out to?
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That's probably a good call, man. Because a lot of these seem to be that dark kind of horror, gritty kind of natured games. And they all look pretty good.
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Love it. Love it. All right. Now, everybody, remember these games that we shouted out today. Give us yours. Hop on over to our Discord. The link is in our episode descriptions on all the social platforms and all our social medias. Come on over. Tell us what your most anticipated games are. If you think we're crazy, tell us that as well.
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And then save this and remember for the end of the year when you can give us a bunch of gruff saying, you guys are so dumb. dumb because these games were horrible or you can tell us how smart we are uh that's probably less likely but uh hopefully that's true so uh that's all for us today but uh until next time happy gaming see ya i'm so sorry slay the spire 2 fans peace out toodaloo everybody
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Yeah, exactly. Love it. All right. Okay, guys, so let's get started, man. We got a lot of games to cover today. I'm super excited. I think I'm going to take the mantle off the bat, and I'm going to go with the big one. Gosh, I hope I get to play this game soon, and I'm so excited for it. I credit Josh for making me play the first iteration of this game, and I'm going to go with Subnautica 2.
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Yeah. It was one of those just kind of survival, amazing moments that you just get lost in. I would dream of the ocean and dream of bladderfish and dream of diving deep down in my Cyclops and getting lost and losing batteries and then having to swim around and getting eaten. So there's just something to be said for a game like that that just grips you and holds on tight.
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Wake up, dude. Come on. We're ready to go. All righty. And then he's forcing me to probably play a game that's first in his anticipation list. So he's no longer first in my heart. It's John.
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And so, man, I cannot wait for this kind of next...
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Yeah, it's definitely something that you could cover the story pretty quickly and just get a cliff notes of it for you there real quick. But overall, the main story is just your survival and your encounters along the way, which is just such a cool aspect of that game. So I wouldn't think you need to play the first to play the second.
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It does. I mean, I'm watching some gameplay now, and I mean, it definitely has an old-school Metroidvania vibe to it with that kind of art style with a little bit of the kind of grainy depth, you know, and the combat, and it looks like, yeah, and kind of the whips and the way the attacks look. I mean, there's definitely something to it.
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I mean, man, that's cool that you're in on the ground floor, which is such a cool aspect of the indie world is that they are somewhat attainable. Like you can, you can almost be part of the development of that game. Absolutely. Which, which kind of, yeah, you, you become like part of the game, which is, which is awesome. You get like a personal stake in it.
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Yeah, they're like, oh, do you want to hear about it? Yeah, absolutely, we'll come on. Love it. That's a good one, man. I know you got a soft spot in your heart for Metroidvanias, but this one actually looks pretty cool. I'm winning him over, folks. You heard it here first. Slowly but surely, Ace is ticking away on me with indie games. What's what you got for us, John?
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You know what? I hope so. I hope this game is amazing and I hope I love it.
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And by incredible, do you mean ridiculously scary and just out of this world?
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I watched it and I'm like, oh, I guess I'm just not going to sleep tonight. You know, no big deal.
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Yeah. I mean, there's a draw for that in a market for games that aren't 30, 40, 50, 60 hours. You don't have to have that long time. And then as far as the gore stuff goes, it doesn't bother me to see a body blown in half. I've seen it a million times. And to me, it's just kind of almost lazy writing and lazy creation. Totally agree.
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There you go. There you go. Man, I'm excited, guys. So first I want to get off on what have you guys been up to? What have you been playing?
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When you have to create this atmosphere that takes so much more thought and depth, you know, watching the trailer, you see they're in this attic and there's little bits of light that shine through and you see the dust particles and it just creates that kind of eerie world where you're like, you feel like you're a part of it. You're like, okay, this is, this is real.
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So that's just a, you know, it's cool when, when they go that kind of extra step and not just do just, Oh yeah, let's just throw some blood all over the place and body parts, you know? Well, there, is a place for that, it's really cool to see people put in the thought for something like this. Outlast, right?
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Love it. All right, so I guess we'll go back to me for one I'm excited for. This one... It's weird because it's almost like a nostalgic piece for me. I'm going with one. Josh and I had talked about it. Ace kind of reminded me of this game that I honestly totally forgot about. But I'm going to go with one called Mixtape.
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Um, the, the trailer is, you know, and John C exactly like I forgot, but I rewatched the trailer and I'm like, oh my gosh, I totally forgot about this game. Cause it was, um, it was just one that it, it's, you know, even the trailer, it's like a throwback to like old school trailers.
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It's like in a world where, you know, and it's, and it's throwing you back and, and, uh, it plays all this old school music and it's kind of explorative, uh, as you kind of, uh,
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figure out what's going on you know throughout their lives and throughout this world so i'm excited to see more excited to kind of see what they come up with with this game but uh yeah i mean it's i'm uh undoubtedly a sucker for a good trailer uh a la old school redfall way back in the day did not did not pan out And I will admit that, that one, Ace remembers from when I picked that one.
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Oh, I remember that one blowing up in your face. When I first, yeah, that one definitely blew up, but I'm a sucker for a good trailer. So hopefully this one doesn't disappoint like Redfall did, because I'm pretty excited.
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Yeah. I mean, if you just create like killer music and just good, it's like, it just seems like a, like a good vibe game. It does.
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Gosh, you don't want to, you don't want to know how we are. For the record, I am the oldest.
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That song was... After that trailer and I played that demo, dude, that song was stuck in my head for days.
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So thank you for that. Third party, like just embedding it into your brain.
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That's exactly how Josh and myself are. That's part of the reason I loved God of War so much. You still had that combat, but the story was so engaging, and you felt a part of that world. And Josh will just go fight Melania 400 times and have just as much fun, which...
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i i love you know a good two three hour gaming session but there's something to be said for a game that you can just pop in for 20 30 minutes play a little bit like you said get that hit and then go out you know yeah yeah well when you're working late nights and you're like i haven't got the time to put in and i won't remember what kratos has just said death can have me when it earns me
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My brain is melting already.
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Yeah. How it leads so far along to something else. Oh, wow.
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Okay, so listeners, it's like a highway of almost like text bars that look like circuit boards of a computer. It's just flowing stacked on stacked on stacked. Wait, green square.
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It's really 3D. It's like a shadow box where you can see. I was going to say pop-up book. Yeah, there's all the layers behind it that stack up and then create that level. That is so awesome to see. Jack, this is great.
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that is awesome. Wow. That is so neat. Yeah. So he's got the main character here and he's kind of making them dance and do a jig right now. But, uh, that, that's so interesting to see how that, once that character is created, then you can do all the effects, you know, this way.
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should make a game yeah they looked they looked over next to the campfire and they went that's an odd bug say that again i wish it was that simple
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I have one more real quick, Josh, I want to with obviously, you know, you have the rats and, you know, rabbits and frogs, you've named all these these different types of animals. Does using animals as as the characters and the enemies lead to more almost creativity and ability to kind of branch out and expand to just kind of wild, crazy places?
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I absolutely love the art style you guys decided to go with. It is something that you don't see a lot, but when you see it and it's done the right way and it's done well, it just kind of stands alone. What led you guys to kind of choose to design the game that way?
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That's awesome. Well, you guys did an amazing job. It's absolutely beautiful.
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Speaking of time, too, I just got one more. From day one, when it starts and you're like, okay, we're making Tales of Iron 2...
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is it just non-stop crunch time the whole way through is it is it to the pressures on or is it kind of ups and down and lulls as you kind of develop things or how does how does that whole kind of bird's eye view process look i would say when you're starting to develop the game you're in that concept phase of like this is what we'd like to do that tends to be less crunch intensive because
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He shows up to the office. He's like, all right, guys. Yeah.
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Give me a sword. Give me a sword. I'm ready to go.
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That's awesome. That is. That's wild. And kudos to you guys. Five five man team to make what you've created is pretty stellar.
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Nice, man. So, I mean, we love to get, one thing we love to do is kind of get that, who is the dev, who is the person behind the game, you know, what kind of makes them tick? Have you always been a gamer? Are you a gamer? Is there, you know, something that's kind of what brought you into this world?
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Yeah, if you can see back there, he's got the Blades of Chaos right behind him.
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I'm not, I'm not an indie guy and I love Hades. Exactly. It's like, yeah, it's a good game. John, when we got those backbones, first thing I was like, I wonder if I can get Hades on this so I can lay in bed and just play Hades. Yeah.
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You never have to leave bed again. It's why I don't sleep anymore.
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That makes sense. There you go. Exactly.
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okay that that that entices me quite a bit for sure like when you can get kind of kind of cool bonus kills or things like that that's that's pretty sweet for sure uh to put it shortly blasphemous is metal af uh there you go that's that's how people would describe it what do you got a number four oh ryan oh all right so it's me um i'm gonna go with one
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This is probably high up on a lot of people's list, but I'm going to just take it out early, and I'm going to go with Risk of Rain 2. Such a good game, man. It's... It was one of my first introductions into these roguelike, just, hey, load up, see what you get, and just run it. And something about that just really hit a chord with me. I love these styles of games. I found myself like...
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Why haven't I been playing these? What has been holding me back? I just was waiting for a game like this. Risk of Rain 2, top-notch. It is an amazing game. If you haven't played it, please check it out. It is so, so good. The build you can do, the creative nature of trying to pair things up, and everything you can do with your teammates...
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So you boot up into this world, and you can have your teammates with you, and every time you kill stuff and you work through this area... What is it?
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Kind of, yeah. You're kind of in like... You have like a base... a world that you're operating in that you have to travel through to unlock your upgrades, basically. So you're trying to get as much as you can each run before you go to the next one. So you're trying to upgrade your stuff, get to the next level, get to stack up your mushrooms or stack up this or that. So different things affect
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your attacks or your defense or your ability to heal or all of these things. So there's a lot that goes into the dynamic of it all. So with your teammates, what they have matters a lot too. So there's a lot that goes into this game. So it's really, really cool to...
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There is some RNG nature, so you can have that quote-unquote perfect run to where you're getting like, oh my gosh, this is good, and you get another one, and another one, and you're just decimating everything, and then something bad happens at the end. You get pancaked by something you don't expect. You get pancaked, and then you're like, oh, come on, I was on such a good run!
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So there's such a big... There's statistics and strategy and how you... build your setup, but then also, you know, there's RNG kind of into the mix as well. So it's, it's just, it's a crazy madness game that, that, um, I would highly recommend, you know, we, we will have to get on and play, man. Cause it's something that's super, super fun.
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Totally, they are. My name's not Shirley.
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They're harder to kill over and over and over.
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I just tend to like the polished depth of AAA titles. But I'm not taking away anything from what these indie developers do. I think they do some amazing work. They're doing the Lord's work, man. This stuff they create with, like, 5, 3, 10, 20-man teams is Claire Obscura, 30-man. Like, that's amazing. So, you know, no things against them. But, yeah, man, I'm excited to see what everybody's game is.
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yeah i i haven't i haven't checked this one out but you know from what you guys say maybe it's maybe it's something i should you know yeah did you ever play the first one ryan I did not, no. I'm not going to say I'm embarrassed because I don't care, but I'm not a big indie guy, but I'm learning to be. I'm learning the power of the indie.
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I'm learning what they have, what they have to offer, and kind of... kind of the untapped world from a lot of the mainstream stuff. It's like, you know, you know, all the people that are like, Oh, I've been listening to them forever with music. It's like, you have that kind of underground of music. That's indie games. Like this is the underground. This is cool stuff that people are overlooking.
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If you're cool, man, check out this game, you know? So like, But then once it's cool, then is it cool, you know? Yeah, I get that.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Anything studio Ghibli like is like, okay, I'll, I'll give it a shot or I'll take a look, you know?
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The indie scene is like, boom, it's blowing up.
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Oh, man. So I'm going to go with a game that Ace and I played quite a bit together. It is probably one of my favorite games that I've ever played, especially with a person. It is something that... Every time you log in, you never know what's going to happen, what to expect, where you're going to go. And I'm going with Lethal Company.
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Yeah. So it's hard to say. From such a simple concept, such a simple game, I think it spawned. And correct me if I'm wrong, you know, because I'm sure people will. Like, you know, there's so many other, you know, repo headliners, like all these other games that kind of spawned in suit. But Lethal Company was one of those that just, it was spooky. It was high risk, high reward. You were scared.
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Well, you know, we all just want to be big rock stars. No, gosh, no Nickelback. I just, I can't say the name without. They made a lot of money, though. I'll tell you that much. They did. They're doing something right. They're still around.
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The chat, you know, like the casino, like all of it, everything about it. And I know Ace and I had good times at the casino.
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all of it was just amazing um it is one of my favorite games let alone one of my favorite indie games so it is uh it is way way up there for me but headliner or not headliners lethal company is is way up there for me i i agree dude lethal is such a great game and it's such a good game to like introduce people to if you're like bringing them into gaming for sure because there's a little there's like a cushion a wiggle room you know
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That plan didn't work. That plan never works, Ryan. But we tried it and it was close. And then we decided to execute.
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Ain't no risk and no biscuit, baby.
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So did McDonald's, but here we are. Yeah, at least they're consistently poopy.
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That's why. Oh, yeah, that's why. No, to where I get, like, I got my niece, like, oh, you play Lethal Company? I'm like, yeah, I play all the time, you know? And so I hopped on with her, and then, like, her friends got on, and they had all these kinds of mods that I'd never seen, and I thought I saw all the mods under the sun, you know? And it's just...
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It's so cool when you have a game that has that ability to reach everybody, but then also be able to fit everybody. So it was cool. It's a neat game. It was a lot of fun. Not game of the year, but it was top, top, top for indie for me.
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Oh, for sure. It's in history, for sure.
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There's no darkness without the light.
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Just all the knights. All kinds of knights. Yeah.
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Dude, if you say it's good, I'll check it out.
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Now we'll move on to you. I won't pull a fall for sure. Okay, so I'm going to go with one. This is one Josh made me play. Oh. And this was... He forced me to do this. And I was... It was a game that I never, ever, ever would have played on my own. But I am so happy I did it. And I am so happy for more of it. And I'm going to go with some Nautica.
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I never, ever would have thought just like... survival crafter underwater. Let's go, baby. It's a game that
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you you wouldn't think would bring you some weird sort of comfort of just being underwater but it does until you see you know like the big monsters that are coming to kill you but other than that like when you're when you're just harvesting and you're and you're cruising around and you're uh you're building and expanding on your base and and doing what you need to do to pass through the levels like
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It is a really, really solid game that just, for whatever reason, and it's hard to, I can't put an exact point on why, but it just draws you in so well and makes you just want to play. And the story, I mean, in my opinion, it's not that good. but it still draws you in for whatever reason. Like you're like, Oh, well I still, I want to know what happens to that guy.
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You know, it's like, it's not some amazing thing, but you're like, Oh, I'm invested now. You know, like I want to know and you, you keep going cause you keep climbing the depths, you know, of the ocean to, to see what else you can find. So it's just, it's, it's a really, really cool game. I think they did an awesome job and I'm, I can't wait to see what they do with, you know, any more of the IP.
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It would be soft. If indie is the future of gaming, then once you become indie, then you also in turn become AAA. Oh, no.
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There you go. That's all you need.
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We have too many employees. We better fire them all. Oh, God, yeah.
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But I came very close to tears.
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I'll let you know when I get there, for sure. Hopefully you got a couple hundred years to wait, but I will say... To see the reaction between John and then, honestly, Josh, who's never finished a game in his life, who played 40 to 45 hours to finish this thing at 11 or 12 at night. He's an old man. He doesn't stay up past 9. He stayed up late, and he finished this game to beat it.
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There's something to be said about that. There is... depth to this game it didn't sit with me it's not my type but i can still recognize a good game even if it's not for me you know i can recognize an amazing uh culinary dish like wow this is beautiful it is presented well everything about it is awesome the flavor palette just not what i like and that's what this game was for me.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
I thought it was awesome for a, a turn-based combat game. It is the best I've ever played. And, and that means a lot from, from all the games I've played. So, um, yeah, that's, that's all I can say about it. But, uh, but man, like, like this thing is, is hitting the, hitting the peaks for, for a lot of people, especially being an indie game with like 30 man dev team. Like that's wild.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I can't believe 32.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
What? I love peanut butter.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Listen, I'm slowly accepting that some indie games are good. I'll take that.
Video Gamers Podcast
Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
All right, so sell me on it. Why should I play this game?
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
No, man, your connection. That's the thing is, especially with these indies, I almost feel like You know, you develop a little bit of a closer connection to the game, to the characters, like, like, cause it doesn't, it doesn't feel so hollow. Like you have that, that depth, this game is, is, is close to you and it's meaningful to you. So, you know, I understand like where you're coming from.
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So that's, I mean, I know we all know anyone that knows you knows these games and knows what you love about them. So yeah. Like, I get it, but it's cool to see, like, you explain it, and I'm hopeful that other people kind of look into this and maybe kind of get the same feeling that you do.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
All right, Ryan. There we go. You heard it here first. Play that game.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Man, I'm going to keep it short and sweet. You ready?
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Just say it. Say Rock and Stone. Say it. Rock and Stone!
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Oh, I love it. There's not too much like this game. This is a community game. This is a feel part of the crowd game. You are just one of the divers that... One of many. You're diving down and that's why you yell Rock and Stone. This game is awesome. Deep Rock Galactic. The Deep Rock Galactic Survivor was also equally cool. There's a lot of cool little spin-offs. Awesome game. Awesome developers.
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Very attentive to their clientele. They are really, really amazing. And I think this game is amazing. And it's done nothing but bring smiles to my face and everyone else's that I've been playing with. So that's going to be my last pick for sure.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
He's done with Claire Obscura, so now we can pull him away. Yeah, well, maybe. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Oh, dude. I am goofed off.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
I thought, I thought it was awesome. I thought it was, it was amazing how they kind of layer everything, how, how the look of the game, um, you know, that, I mean, that's, that's what you see when you play it. So like it has that, that is so impactful.
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It's so meaning, you know, meaningful, like you have to have something that looks good and looks intriguing, um, when you're going to play a game or if you're enticed to play something. So, um, For an indie studio to put what they did forth, it was pretty cool to see and then talk to them with Tales of Iron 2 and stuff. It's awesome, so it's a solid pick for sure.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
It's weird. Why is that the case? Obviously, AAA games, they have to... They're willing to invest in it. Yeah, they have to have a dedication to the graphics and all these other things. But man, the indie games seem like they don't have the money. They don't have the resources to do something like this. But they always seem to pick the right theme and the right music to match their game.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
That could have been a triple A game. I would have the same response. So the developer made no difference.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
And it always just plays out perfectly. It's wild how well in indie games the music matches.
Video Gamers Podcast
Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Oh, I don't know. John agrees. John doesn't look like he agrees with me.
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
You tend to focus on the core of something, like the heart of something, more than the extra risen flair and all that type of stuff. Yeah. It does have some sort of longevity and something that could be good 30 years ago would be good now because it's got that core and that base to it. Yeah, it really makes them stand out.
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It's your turn. Oh, yeah. So I'm going to go to the high-tech world of virtual reality. Yeah. I'm going to go with Superhot. Oh, yeah. Superhot is one of my favorite...
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absolute favorite uh vr games of all time there is nothing like sitting and i'm gonna if you guys can watch like vr or in a video like you go like this and you have your joysticks and you have to dodge and you can look up and down and stuff
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that's that's how you play the game it is it is so cool um what they did with this like it's the matrix it's uh john wick it's like everything you can imagine of all the coolest action movies in a vr video game that's why it's on my list it is it is so much fun it is just a cool hey bud you're over here, throw on this headset, play this game. And then, you know, anyone can pick it up.
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Anyone can just like pick up the coffee cup and like throw it at the stick figure, you know, like you do with your VR controller. Like it's, it's so good. So it's, it's gotta be on my top five for sure.
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It's worth it. I can honestly say it's worth it. Among all the other things, just for Superhot, it is such a fun game, dude. You would not be upset after you purchase this game.
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You can stand still and you can look around and figure out what you got to do. And then you pick up a coffee cup, throw it, pick up your clip, you know, in magazine and then shoot, shoot, shoot, you know, throw the knife. And it's, it's just, there's nothing like it, man. It's, it's such a fun thing.
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uh game that has a lot more depth than you would think and especially if you're trying to beat it to certain uh you know prestige levels like with timelines and other things like that so it's not just kind of it doesn't get boring so there's other achievements you can do so it's a it's a pretty cool game that's a great pick man and again like you're leaning into the indie sort of uh
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Personal Top 5 Indie Games Of All Time | Gaming Podcast
Best pick, isn't it? Yeah, I know. I know, guys. Thank you.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Dude, it was awesome. Definitely, 100%. As someone who grew up in... I was born in the 80s. I'm a 90s kid. Grew up with the N64. Those colors immediately. I was like, oh my gosh. I was waiting for the... From Banjo-Kazooie. That was pretty good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And that actually was pretty good. I'm pretty proud of myself for that one.
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That was the first time I've tried that in a long time. But... See, that was, man, we're ready.
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Cast us. Yeah, so this one was great. The art style, the look of it definitely has that old school 90s N64 kind of just goofy, colorful game that has that platforming. But there's so many unique little things that are awesome, and I'm so happy they're thrown in. When you skip a cut scene, the guy looks over at you that's talking to you and he goes, what? I'm not important enough?
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
You don't want to listen to me? What the heck? Which I love stuff like that in video games where there is that interactive element to it where you're not just skipping past them. It's like if you do that, he recognizes that you don't want to hear what he has to say and he gets mad about it.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, yeah. Come on, you got to go back to bed. This one was definitely cool, man. Like I said, to put in those different elements and then all the tension to detail. There's a part a little bit later on in the demo where you steal the cop's donut and then he goes, whoop. And it alerts Metal Gear Solid alerts for him. And then he just comes running after you to gather you back up.
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
And then wouldn't you know, lo and behold, it's not only in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 that I end up in prison, ladies and gentlemen. I also somehow, in 10 minutes of playing Mr. Sleepy Man, ended up in prison again. What about you? Did you get thrown in jail?
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
It seemed to be pretty clean. What did you think?
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
That's awesome. And then he squeezes you back out. I love it. That's so cool, man. Those little things, the wrinkles within a game that make them so much more enjoyable and just make you chuckle, this definitely has that in spades. It was good. The movement was pretty clean. There's really not much that I can say that's too bad about it. I'm excited to see it come out. I'm hyped for it.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, and play some more. It was definitely one that this is the most I would recommend from what we've talked about today. It was top of the list for me.
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
let's yeah let's let's make let's make his world what what is what makes mr sleepy man tick you know and then then he creates a whole game about it i love mr what a good story like yeah what a good story for like an origin of a game like oh yeah i had this weird song stuck in my head and i made a game about it you know we don't want to do that i love it um well that was awesome man did do you have uh is there any other games that you you want to throw out there that you may have played that we didn't cover
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, no worries, man.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, definitely. No, you definitely won the war. You know, I didn't win with Scrawled Away, but, you know, I got you. Hey, you can't hit them all, man. You can't hit them all. But that was... It wasn't... And to be fair, sometimes games just aren't people's style.
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
you know vibe with me but definitely i would say check all these out um and remember people wishlisting the game even if you're just a little curious definitely helps the devs it gets them going on their projects absolutely just like with mr sleepy man it's a one-man uh uh ship over there so he's doing all you could tell with his the voiceovers too because they were different but i could tell it was the same guy but he did a good job with him it was uh it was pretty cool to see but um
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Awesome, man. Well, other than that, listen, everybody, we appreciate you listening to all our stuff and sticking with us. If you like what we do and you may want to help out, you can sign up MultiplayerSquad.com for as little as five bucks a month for our Patreon. You get a bunch of cool perks in our Discord, early access to episodes. And speaking of the Discord, come on down.
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I know Ace personally will attest to this. We have probably the best Discord on the planet. I know we shout it from the rooftops all the time. Definitely one you need to come check out. Other than that, that's it for me. Thank you for listening. See ya! Peace out.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
I love this. It is too. As you go, it'll give you almost like a readout if your landing gives you enough boost because with a good or a perfect kind of completion there. So that's another satisfying feature that when you hit that, you're like, yes, I got that one right. But it's awesome to have those how you can kind of compound that and stack them up to just gain that speed.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
And I love that feature in games like that.
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Today we're... Oh dude, you know what? That's just too much work. Welcome everybody, we're here for another Indie Twig. I am your host Ryan. Josh was kind enough to give us the reins. And us, by the way, who do you mean us? Well, he may have lost the battle last week in our draft, but maybe he's going to win the war today. It's Ace!
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Exactly. No, it's definitely had some cool stuff in there. And then, yeah, if you can – sometimes when it's just that same running motion, it gets a little kind of tedious or boring. But to throw in bosses as like a little sprinkle flair in there is pretty cool. So, yeah, I liked it. It was a fun game. My son was watching, and he was pretty stoked on it too. So definitely check it out if –
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Love it.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Oh, I can see that. Yeah, I could see that. This one had, um, you get, you know, you start out, you're kind of platforming around, but it threw out that progression in the beginning, uh, part of the demo, you start to learn your techniques and your abilities and you have like this shift change where it can help you, uh, You have a bat mode and then, like, this other spinny mode.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
And there's all these cool different abilities that you get to help you traverse through the worlds as you kind of progress in that demo. And I thought they were really neat. Like, the abilities you had were pretty unique. I did not expect them. But they help. They help, you know, work you through the level.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, for sure. I thought I was running through, and I'm like, all right, cool. I'm a bat, and now I'm this little spinny guy. And I was like, that's neat. Those are a couple cool features. I like that. And then I'm going, and I thought it was done. Next thing you know, you can be a snake just ripping through the water, and then you can jump and tumble.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
And yeah, I'm excited to see what else is in it and where it can go, because those are some pretty cool abilities already.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yes, that's a good comparison too. I think the success of Astro Bot definitely showed that there's a need for it and people want it. It's cool to see because you know how I felt about Astro Bot. I did like the art style in this one too.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, that unique kind of sketch style. not watercolor but it's kind of that that weird stickery sketch style look to it that um that i thought was cool but yeah overall uh i thought this was another good one these you know so far you're two for two bud i have a bad feeling about the next one What? This game called Squirreled Away? How could you possibly have a bad feeling about that?
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Let's see here. Squirreled Away was the third game we played. It was be the squirrel, scurry through the gardens, up trees, and leap limb to limb in this craft and thrive park-like adventure. Meet and help other residents and collect bits here and there to build and decorate your dream treehouse. You may have been a little right with this. I did play this demo.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
I played about three minutes of this demo and I said, I don't know if I'm going to vibe with this one. I stopped right at the meditation mode because I couldn't get it to meditate and pass it. And then I'm like, yeah, you know what?
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
I did think it was a cool little world, and it was cracking me up running around as the squirrel, and when you're trying to do the meditate, his tail wraps up underneath him and around him, and then you start levitating off the ground. Yeah, the movements were good. I just, I don't know if my squirrel senses were tingling on this one, bud.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
They're trickling in. Maybe you get a late push, you know?
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Stinking dog. I was running around once I saw that. I could grab twigs and stuff off of the trunks. And I was like, oh, I started collecting things. And then I kind of hit my squirrel limit.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
No, for sure. Yeah, I looked and I was like, yeah, this is a little bit of a switch up. Yeah, it's cool. The world is unique and pretty. I do like that idea of, you know, crafting as a squirrel and you can play with your friends and build, you know, this cool tree mansion, if you will. Squirrel rust. Yeah, exactly. No, not that word. PTSD. Trauma.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
That's very, very likely. Very good chance that that'll happen. So, dude, I'm excited we get to talk some video games.
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yeah exactly exactly but uh yeah man it was it was pretty cool i do looking through the pictures too like the ability um to to make these it's it's not just like a little shack you can make these kind of homes and it's you know you go and you get the materials and it is truly like a little survival crafter so it's a little survival crafting game where everyone gets to be cute little squirrels i mean what more do you want i mean exactly exactly how much more can you ask you know it is getting very positive uh reviews already too
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Alright, welcome back. We got a couple more games to cover. These next couple I'm pretty excited about, man. Our next game we are looking at is called Twilight Monk. Now, this one, when I saw this pop up and I was looking through and watching the trailer and the gameplay, I'm like, this is a stinking ace game if I've ever seen one, man. This is pretty cool. I'll read the description here.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Embark on a quest to recover the three rings of Triskelion. Is that how you say that? triskelion and the last descendant of an ancient kung fu warriors in twilight monk experience a richly crafted metroidvania rpg with intricately crafted dungeons linked across a vast overworld spanning multiple continents
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
We did, we did. Ace being the indie expert that he is, I just said, you know what, dude? Find us some games, get us some demos, and let's check them out. And we can recommend them or not recommend them to all our great listeners out there. So I'll get started here with the first one. We got Haste Broken Worlds. I'll give you guys a little Steam description here.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Oh, okay.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
yeah no it's i mean this game is um it's definitely it definitely is unique i love the way the world look and and then uh it's almost it's got that kind of standard side scrolling metroidvania look to it and then it kind of kicks out to this weird third person overview look which i thought was really neat too like just kind of show show the world a little bit more but um
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, man, I love, I thought the combat looked really crisp. I thought, you know, like you said, the hand-drawn Metroidvania look is always, it's one of those classic timeless style. Like when we talked with Seko-san about, you know, just that look, there's something classic to it that kind of never goes out of style. You know, it's just always that tried and true, cool look that,
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
You don't have to have those Josh-level amazing top real-world graphics look to it to have fun and enjoy this game. I think this is one that's definitely going to hit. I know you're probably really excited for it.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
yo homes you want to go this way i was like oh man why does he talk like that i had the same issue with the guy in demons demon types oh yeah yeah yeah those sometimes they're uh sometimes they don't have the best uh audio or voiceover stuff uh but you know a lot of times it's one guy or a couple guys or something so you know i can't can't blame them too much on that one but uh how do you think
Video Gamers Podcast
Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
oh okay yeah so i was like oh this is kind of cool i could definitely see this going somewhere i i love when games put in more than one like kind of use for items like when when like you said it's you know it's your attack weapon but also you can use it to vault or plant platform up to these different areas to to get through the level um i just love when you have
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
more options than one with something. It's not always just, this is for this, this is for that. It makes a kind of uniqueness to every play style that everybody has. They can play it the way they want, which is cool. Love it, love it. Well, speaking of... Voice acting and audio. I think this next one is pretty, pretty good with all of the above. Why don't you tell us about it?
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Run fast, soar through the air, and master your landings as you speed through procedural worlds to outrun the end of the universe. So you got to try this demo out too, right? Yeah, I played this one as well. Heck yeah, man. What did you think? I had a lot of fun. This, to me, was one of those kind of fast-moving, Sonic-ish style speedrun-type games that the movement was really cool.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
This, this is going to be our, uh, uh, we'll, we'll put in like a sounder hidden gem.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
Man. This game is ridiculous. I love it. I will say, of what we played, this is by far my favorite. I am really glad that you sent this in. Not only, like, when you said the name, that's what I was singing to everybody. So if you go and check out the demo, the song will get stuck in your head, too. And it's just... Mr. Sleepy Man. So all day at work now, I'm going to be singing that song.
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Dude, what did you think of this one, man?
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You got a wing? Oh, you're infested, buddy.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
That's great.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
Ace is costing me money, man, because, dude, where did you find this game, Ace? It looks so good. How did I not know this game existed?
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
It looks so good.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
Hades multiplayer? With friends?
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
Give it to me. Yeah.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
And like, I can't help but think like Flyknight.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
We're not leaving.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
It's locked in baby.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
I don't know how to do this.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
Ah! Make sure you get that on film. Make sure you get that on film.
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Headliners, The Mute House and Sworn looks SWEET - Gaming Podcast
And joining us, he's the indie dude himself, the guy that found Sworn and has me and Ryan and soon to be all of you excited for it. It's Ace of Shame.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
It's got to be like a filter. You got to be like, all right, you know, I got to – and I'm sure it sucks to have to go through all that and kind of knock out the nonsense, you know, every time. But, I mean, it's just one of those things you have to do because otherwise it's just – it's too much. Like I said, everybody's got a dang opinion on every little nook and cranny.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Oh, well, this jump was a little too off in my opinion.
Video Gamers Podcast
Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
There's 4,000 jumps. Like, really, this one? This is the one? Exactly, yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Hello, fellow gamers. Welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. I am your host, Ryan, and joining us today, we have someone who may be still in Mr. Sleepy Man, but I think he's woken up from his vacation. It's Ace.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
definitely easter eggs everywhere yeah i mean and that's cool too like with um you know you know musicians they always have there's like the song and the song means this but there's almost like the song within the song it's like that that depth to it that that secondary meaning and what it does to like resonate with people you know on on that next level
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That's cool, because that shows... Like you said, it's not forced. This isn't something that you're doing just because you just... I'm going to create a game and make money. I'm going to do this because it's in me, and I want it to come out. It's coming out already. I might as well channel it and create something out of it. So, like...
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With that, trying to balance that whole artistic vision that you have, and you've created this dream-like crazy world, how do you channel it in a way to make it resonate with a broader audience, almost like music, where you can create something awesome that's just for you, but how do you do it to where you still appreciate what you've made, but it's something that can be for a larger group?
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Dude, that's awesome. Because at the end of the day, what do you play video games for? To have fun. To escape, to have fun, to enjoy. And like you said with the music, I hear Freebird. I don't think of the lyrics. I just think, I want to run through a wall right now.
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That's for sure.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
I think you're right. It could help anyone.
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Yeah, right. Game devs for press. Yeah, why not? I know. Back in the day, so I was – I grew up – I'm a 90s kid. And so I grew up with Half-Life, Half-Life 2. So when Source came out and like Half-Life 2 and they had the game development stuff where you can make your own maps, I would sit in class and I would draw maps and I would make my vents and boxes.
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And I'm like, oh, then guys could go around here and circle around. And then I would create it and none of it would work. None of it at all. And so that's the thing. It's just trial and error, trying to figure out what does work, what doesn't work, what ideas are completely ludicrous, and what may have some legs. And that was just developing maps for Half-Life and Counter-Strike and stuff.
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So to create a whole game from scratch, to actually code it, and then still have to find those... those goods and bads, you know, there's, there's something to be said from that. So that's, you know, good on you. Cause that's, there's, there's a lot of you're like you said, man, you, you're going to learn so much from, from doing all that.
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benefit of the times I think there's gonna be more solo developers like me coming out well that's the thing yeah it's easier so now there's I mean just like with podcasts I mean there's four million podcasts there's a million people that want to create video games and there's a ton of them that have never even got close to the level you are already you know creating these games so it may be easier but the the pool is much deeper and
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that you got to swim through to get to the top and kind of have that exposure, which you've done pretty well so far, which the music, I think, is a big tie-in, at least for us.
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And so with that, as you're creating this, how does that work with the chopping board, the chopping block, your prototype process? Yeah. where do you bring things in and chop them off? Like, okay, that may not work. You know, how does that whole kind of system kind of flesh out?
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Yeah, that's cool. I love that. We recently covered Split Fiction 2 recently. That is a game that dives into the mind of these characters to where it's taking all their ideas and then kind of Anything you can create is the limit, you know, basically, which is such a cool idea and a premise. So with you, you know, you're saying creating this from the dreams and the minds and stuff.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Like I said, this is the coolest guy ever. Just disappear.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
There you go.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
You just got to go to straight just Mr. Sleepy Man is your just overall name.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Like you got nobody knows who you are.
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Just the Sleepy Man.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
You're just this solo Sleepy Man developer and it's like Sleepy Man Productions.
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Oh, that's great. So with speaking of Mr. Sleepy Man, like working on this game, you know, how is this, you know, when you start from scratch and start from fresh like this, how has this pushed you to like evolve your skills as a programmer, as a musician and an artist? Like what, I'm sure you've had a dip into a lot of wells to get the ability to create these things.
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You know, what has that kind of process been like for you?
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Yeah, no, that's fair. I mean, there's something to be said, and that's part of the honesty within the development and the creation with a true musician or an artist. The best are just obsessed with the craft. They love what they do. They do it because they love it, not for any monetary value or fame or fortune or anything like that. Sure, a million bucks is a million bucks, and that's awesome.
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As a gamer yourself, like... Did you always kind of lend towards these types of games, platformer styles, or is this just like a nostalgia throwback type thing, or do you favor something else, and then this is just what kind of lended itself to what your artistic expression was with the songs that you created? Where did this game come from, and what do you normally play?
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Come on, let's be real.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
You're correct. I like when people say money doesn't buy happiness, and the saying is like, have you ever seen somebody on a jet ski? It's pretty fun. Yeah, they're pretty happy. Money's pretty cool. It does bring cool stuff, but there's something to be said about just... The core nature of the art form and the development, and you do it because it's your draw and your quote-unquote calling.
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That's what you're there for is to express this feeling or belief or something that's inside you that you want everyone else to see. So I think you're doing a great job with this game with expressing that, you know?
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The best ability is accessibility right there. There you go. That's – oh, man, that's great. Yeah, there is. I know I keep saying it, but there's just the indie games. And I've been turned on to them quite a bit with Ace. I'm doing the – we do an indie episode, and that's what this will be for. And I've always been kind of a big AAA guy, but I've slowly been leaning towards these indies to –
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Because you feel the core and the passion within them. So it's been cool to see the transformation, just within myself, of how you can find a place within this whole realm of game development for these smaller studios or solo devs like yourself that put in all this work.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Oh, it's going to be a little bit. Yeah.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
It's the best thing I can do for you. Just have a therapist hotline thing come up.
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There you go. There you go. See, now we're... See, this is networking. We're just getting it in.
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Yeah, yeah. Ha!
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
awesome well uh so that's kind of it for like the main stuff so we wanted to go into a little bit of a kind of bonus round rapid fire stuff so um don't think too deep about it just uh you know head in the clouds as you were and we're just going to do a little rapid fire questions here so and i think you've kind of already answered this one are you actually mr sleepy man yourself or do you run on caffeine and chaos
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It's a different world, right? Yeah.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Okay, what is your go-to gaming snack?
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
All right. Do you prefer playing games during the day or are you like a night owl? You like, like gaming late at night.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
You're like, yeah, it's, it's game time.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
There you go. So do you have any games that you absolutely love but are very, very terrible at? This is most games for me.
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Yes. Celeste.
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Alright, if you could have any video game character as a roommate other than Mr. Sleepy Man, who would it be and why?
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That's fair. I like the Mario. All those gold coins coming home. He's got a lot of money.
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a little bit of diabetes yeah maybe pizza I feel like I can eat a whole pizza that's one of those just scarf down two slices and you're good to go I'm an Italian American from New Jersey so I'm very I'm a snob about my pizza okay speaking of pizza then oh no
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but it's not a crime it's still pizza yeah see you know this is true it's still pizza but man it's just this guy puts bananas and blueberries on his i did it once it was for an experiment all right it was an experiment yeah it was bananas and bacon and then there was a blueberry ricotta pizza there were two different pizzas they were on the same pizza Are you a completionist?
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Do you like the 100% or Platinum games? Or are you more of a main story, just kind of get through the depth of the story of a game?
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Yeah. Cause this is, then it's not the game. Like, especially when you're jumping like halfway through and doing glitches through around stuff. So I, I like to speed run stuff just to see if I could make the, the jumps. But I am an action RPG. I love stories. If it's 60, 40 cutscenes, that's my type of thing. I like to sit down and have an experience.
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I don't get the whole just blast through games and see how much you can speedrun. We won't keep you much longer. We're shortly running out of time here. We got one more for you. So in your opinion, which game as a musician has the best soundtrack and how has it influenced you in your creative work, you know, creating games?
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Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. That's what it is. When you create something, it's not just one thing. It's many things together that all collaborate to create something great. And so having the ability to have all those other kind of realms to dive in from or pull from for you is cool with the music and everything else. Yeah. Man, this has been great.
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Like I said, Ace and I are pretty big fans already. We are stoked and we're excited to see all the stuff we don't know about yet. It's been great to hear about the creative process, all the challenges you had to overcome and everything to make... what you've already created, and we're excited to see what else comes to be. But is there a good way?
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Obviously, everyone listening, please, if you can, one of the biggest ways to help out these solo devs, especially for these indie guys, is to wishlist. Everybody needs to go and wishlist this game. Check out the demo. It's really, really cool. If anything, just wishlist it because I said so. But is there any other ways that people can come and support you or things that they should know?
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Nice. Well, cool. Well, again, thank you so much for joining us. This was a blast. It's rare to get somebody that is this involved in a solo dev game that has this much passion for it and is actually pretty good. We play a lot of games, and not all of them are very fun. We usually are pretty nice about it, but this is all genuine coming from us.
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We're real with you. So we love this one. But that's all for us today. Thank you so much for joining us. And until next time, happy gaming. See ya. Peace out.
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You're like, I got nothing but time. We're good to go. Seriously. Oh, that's awesome. The thing that we noticed, Ace and I both played a lot of your demo, and we fell in love, and it was not a normal 3D platformer. Ace, you got anything you want to talk about with your gameplay on that demo? Because he's the one that brought it up to us. He's like, You guys got to check out this game.
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And he's a little younger than me. So I grew up in that Nintendo platformer, Super Mario. That was the core of my childhood. So this resonated so deeply with me. So for someone a little younger like Ace, what was your gameplay like?
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Sometimes it takes a little bit to get back in the flow, you know?
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
Oh, no, no, no. You're the expert for sure. But I'm just saying that was my core 90s childhood with the platformers on the N64.
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Awesome. Yeah. No, I had the same experience. Ace was telling us, like, you guys got to check out this demo, man. It's really awesome. So he gives me four million indie games to look at every freaking week. So I'm always like, all right, whatever. And so I'll look at them here and there.
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But this one, the instant I clicked on and started to play, when your guy yelled at me because I skipped his dialogue... That sold me right there. I'm not even going to lie. To have the thought to create something like that within the game is what... I'm like, okay, the rest of this is going to be right up my alley.
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Indie Deep Dive with Devin Santi – Gaming Podcast
And joining us today, a special guest, someone who is maybe a superior musician to all of us, a game designer, many, many, many talents that most of us wish we had. It is the one, the only, Devin, the Mr. Sleepy Man himself.
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Because for somebody to take the time to think, yeah, maybe if I was an NPC or a main character and somebody skipped my dialogue, I'd be pretty pissed too. So, yeah. Dude, we love that. So we definitely put some time in on that demo. And what you created and what we've seen so far was awesome.
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i love a good spooky game exactly so so speaking of the music um you know that he mentioned there uh you know as as a musician and your background in music like um did that affect your you know approach to the game design and like how how did you maybe i want to put i really want to put this song in this area or or was there a different way that you kind of went about it like how did you approach that with integrating the music with like the game or the gameplay
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Yeah, I mean, there's always going to be somebody out there. You know, you can't please everybody. I mean, we recently had a troll review where it was just like 15 puke emojis. And we're like a 4.9 on the pod, and we're like all five stars, and then we just get one like that, and it just says terrible or something. And we're like, okay, you know.
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Hey, we're doing great. We are so stoked to talk to you. We cover this game in our indie episodes, and we're pretty excited to have you here. You're the creative force behind Mr. Sleepy Man. You're a solo developer. You got many, many hats that you're wearing right now. You're a musician, programmer, composer, game designer. Can you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself?
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Yeah, people are going to have their pains. But we've loved what we've seen so far.
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The hard part for me would be not to cram too much nostalgia in there. And just make it over the top and ridiculous. Which, I mean, it is kind of a ridiculous game.
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oh all right okay so choices matter yeah so yeah it's a linear story so i mean it's whatever well so so within like creating the game you know um you know some of the best ideas and we know this from just uh brainstorming and coming up with things for the pod or other stuff you know Sometimes mistakes come up with unexpected results.
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You know, was there any situations in here where you're like, oh, whoops, I messed that up. But you know what, that kind of works. You know, was there like a happy accident that helped kind of shape the game for you?
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yes it's cringe yeah that's like person that you hate like stop trying to be funny it's either you're funny or not people that are funny they're either funny or they're not funny dude yeah you have those guys that whatever they say they just crack you up and no matter they just the delivery and the way they do it because they're not trying they just are inherently funny and in the comedic timing and it's all there and you know we we found that it was it was there in this game as well so it there is something to be said about not forcing it you know yeah
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Share us with some of the background and kind of where this all started for you.
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That's great. Yeah, you play them back down the road and you're like, that was a good one. That was a good one. So with all this that you're creating, like you said, you're waiting to get that kind of backlash or people reaching out to you. I'm sure you've heard stuff with playtests and on Discord and people putting in input. Everybody's got an opinion. It's like a belly button or something else.
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Um, so how do you, how do you approach taking that on, you know, as a one man dev team, like how do you overcome that to doing too much to take away from what, you know, your world you've created, but also kind of cater towards what, you know, the people want.
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100%.
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Thank you.
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I was going to say, too, I got a pretty sweet jacket, which was nice as well.
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I can wear it like two weeks of the year, but I'll be happy when I do. Okay, we'll switch to tank tops for next year. All good.
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Sons out, guns out, baby.
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It's still $60.
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Changing the Game – Cloud Gaming, Backbone, and the New Era of Play | Gaming Podcast
Well, why would they do streaming?
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Even Redbox came in, and they took over. There was Redbox on every single corner and every single Walgreens, and they didn't adapt, and now they're gone.
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I love that. I do like... I love what you said about getting it right. I know... I mean, even with game development, you get these companies that have made these multi, multi-million dollar games that they've spent years and years on, like Cyberpunk. And it wasn't right when it came out. And there's people that have written that game off...
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Even though they fixed it, it is one of the best games ever made. Final Fantasy XIV, too. Their initial experience just wasn't good, and then they just write it off. So to make sure, especially in entry into the market, something that's not something people are super comfortable with, and making sure that their experience is flawless and executes perfectly...
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I admire that that was a focus on your development. So that's something that's super cool to see somebody take that time and, oh, we'll fix it later. Let's get it right the first time and give people the best experience right off the bat.
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That's so neat.
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I do have one real quick, John, before we wrap up totally. Yeah, please. The dreaded question with all handhelds and all controllers, what was done for stick drift? Ah, great question, Ryan. Cause you're going down to the microns on ergonomics and Z angles and everything like that. So, uh,
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someone who is who's replaced multiple and i know john is as well with his switch like secret is just like the bane of our existence as as as console gamers and people that play a lot like what was done within this unit so i don't have to go and buy another try to do warranty or anything like that so right we're going to be asking for your cell phone number after this actually you know anything
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On the box, dude, he's got both.
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Changing the Game – Cloud Gaming, Backbone, and the New Era of Play | Gaming Podcast
Sorry, I'm playing Claire Obscura on my phone. Sorry.
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But I play it for that reason because I want it in that moment. Games, I typically like other types of things. So not to take it away, but I will, like I said, I will go into this with an open mind for sure.
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We had this little break March and April are going to be pretty wild.
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I know we're going to, we're going to go to like log in and play any of these games about or, or any of this. And we're going to automatically click on rivals and we're like, Oh wait, no, just muscle memory of the last two months.
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I mean, who doesn't want to be a ninja, dude? Dude, it's like the number one kid thing. Like every little kid running around.
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You know, that is quite poignant, obviously, because just today in our Discord, and I don't know if this is what clued you in on that, I talked about how I made a batch of chili and I ate four chili dogs for lunch after my workout today. So I'm bulking. Are you going to make it through this episode? I'm bulking, bro. Permabulk.
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Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. What is it? You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention.
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Yeah, it's big. I think the last one I played, which I was...
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an immense fan of was i think two back on the 360 um i don't know how many because you know sometimes they don't go in order the side scroller ones right was this the side the last one i played was a side scroll oh you know this was like that was back to like nintendo or what that's the one i remember that's way back that's way way back the one i played i think i played like the first and the second feels one or two i think it was two but this is still like a 3d world um
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Or at least the one I played was, like, a 3D open world that you ran around in it. I mean, it's funny because remembering back 15 years ago, I feel like it looks like Gaiden 4 is going to look like now, you know? You remember the graphics so vividly back then and think they were beautiful. But, dude, it was such a good game and...
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Having that over-the-top fantastical attacks and movements and worlds where you feel like, okay, not only am I a ninja, but I am a bad A ninja. I am kicking some butt. I can do these crazy flips and dives and slash these guys in two and do all this crazy stuff. All my little abilities. It's everything you imagine a ninja to be when you're a kid. They're a superhero. It really is.
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It's like a superhero. I got so hyped. This is the one I'm most excited for, for sure.
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We're not jaded or anything. We swear. Oh, man.
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Yeah. You know?
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Well, first, I am jealous that you actually have Cajun lore, down south lore. Arizona, I'm born and raised native. We just have our claim to fame is bad drivers and then just old people from Canada. That's pretty much all we got here. But in the winter that come here. But I think you kind of described it like the art style and the music. And it all looked so good.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And it kind of looked like that weird good. Where you're like, oh, that was kind of... Man, this is kind of crazy. But also, I'm interested. I want to see more. I want to see where this goes. I want to see what it is. And the depth of this game... But like you said, the combat looks a little off to me.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And I think that we've been doing this long enough to where we usually can tell what we're going to like and what we're not. Or what's going to kind of typically land. I mean, it may be a smashing success and maybe hit. Or maybe there's more that we need to see that may change our minds. We're always open to that kind of stuff. But yeah, this one definitely just looked a little off.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
You're boo boo this man.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
But I am interested. And I did find it almost... kind of uniquely endearing that that that they really leaned into that kind of self mentality like where where you really felt like dang i'm i'm down south man i'm in the swamps and let's see all this craziness you know so uh yeah we'll we'll you know we'll see
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
That's part of every interaction where you have combat. I mean, you could sit down at this fancy restaurant. You have this beautiful steak, amazing-looking potatoes, and you got some beautiful broccoli. And then the water looks like it was pulled out of the sewer, and it tastes just as bad. That's going to ruin the experience. It's part of the meal. you know, it's part of the meal.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
So you might as well not have that included. So if you're going to do it, you know, do it right. That's the way I always look at everything in life. So hopefully it is. I mean, we may just, you know, be a little bit off based on how it's going to perform. And I, and I, yeah, I hope so too. I never wish a game to fail or anything like that, but yeah, man, I'm, I'm optimistic.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
What about this game? Every time that happens, and I know, I mean, rightfully so after looking at this. I mean, this looks awesome, but there's always so many games. Dude, it's hard to draft. We could only have, what, five or whatever? Eight. It was eight games, yeah. I mean, there's only so many we can take, but dude, this looks sweet. It looks really sweet, dude.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Oh, dude, I'm right there with you. And I mean, talk about, we were, I mean, kind of the theme of the day is talking about movement. Like this thing, like everything I looked at, you're just flipping and jumping and speaking of wall runs. And then you're, like you said, you're, you're flying through space and, uh, This one, I'm the same way. I'm like, oh, look at Dragon.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And I'm like, oh, look at Spaceship. That's how my brain is just... I love both things. And putting them together is that beautiful meld of just fun. And I think the gameplay, that's what it's going to be. It's just going to be fun. I'm so stoked to... I don't play a lot of games with my daughter. Uh, she, she is very finicky on what she likes to play.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I really think I'll be able to get her to play this one, especially since it's a female, you know, character and, and she'll resonate with it and just, and have a blast. Uh, I think it's going to be fantastic. I also very much love, I know we've talked before about side quests and going off and not missing like parts of levels and things like that.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
this puts a freaking portal there so you know where it is, and they do that intentionally so you don't miss it.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Like, hey, you don't have to do this if you don't want to, but this is going to a whole other world, and you're going to have a wild time, and it's like, count me in, say less, homie, and I'm diving through that portal immediately, and I'll be in space, or I'll be underground in a cave, or who knows where, and I love that idea.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
That was probably one of my favorite parts of the whole trailer, is being able to see the extra stuff throughout the game and it being that substantially different to the world you're already in. That's so neat.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
oh patty o'brien thank you for your support i knew ryan i knew you were you know i i immediately regret it i immediately regret it i was i was debating as you were saying i'm like don't do it don't do it and then my brain just says do it and uh yeah that was not a good choice you know patrick signed up to support the show he knows we're stupid not for long he's gonna be like oh man
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And we got basically Vader's our ambassador. He's just in voice chat 24-7. So, you know, he'll be your welcoming party. You just hop in with him. Yeah, I love it, man. He's always there.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
All they have to do is head on over to our Discord server. The link is in the episode description and share a screenshot showing that you follow the podcast and have given it five stars. If you have Apple and Spotify, double dipping is highly encouraged. And for every person that does that, Josh, what's going to happen?
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
We're even doing community nights. Which has been one of the best. I haven't laughed that hard in so long. We've been getting on Rivals. We're trying to do it a lot of weekends. And we're just playing 6v6 custom matches. And we even had a rolling queue of people waiting to get in. It's a good time with good people. And we're going to keep hyping it up.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Because it is genuinely like an oasis in gaming. It's so cool.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And submit your credit card info. Just $99.95. No, I'm just kidding. It's totally free, I swear.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I know.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I love it.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I am not.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I actually was thinking about this today. I'm like, I don't even know when the last Doom game I played was. When I think Doom, I just think of original Doom. You think the old school pixel. Yeah, old school pixelated Doom.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I know, obviously, there's been a lot of advancements, and they have some amazing games, as you described, but I don't know why those ones just haven't been on my radar as far as gameplay.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Which was awesome. For us Chunkies, you know, us Chunkies apparently, you know, it's not like we're moving.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Well, first, my first kind of thought was, as I watched the whole thing, I was just envisioning you watching it, giggling like a little girl. Oh, that's 100% accurate. That's exactly the first thing I thought of. But the second was... This looks pretty sweet, man. I'm not going to lie. From someone who hasn't played, I'm craving just an aggressive, angry, if you will, just dark, violent game.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And this seems like... you know, this is the one and there still is, there still is movement. I know you talked about like the old, you know, with eternal, like the grappling hook and other things in this, I saw him, he jumped over a broken bridge. He throws his shield and you kind of, when you call back your shield, it, it does a little pull to you.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
He used that as a mechanic to get over that gap. He like threw it up above and then pulled himself forward. So there still is mobility, which is nice. Cause I, I hate being slow in games. Yeah. I agree with that a hundred percent slow. So, um, yeah, the, the, the, The gameplay, the graphics, the fighting, everything about it looked clean and crisp and just ready to destroy.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I was amped up and ready to just kill things after I watched this. It gets you there, right?
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. I'll hold my breath.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
And it was probably 99% just to steal it from you.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
That was my plan the whole time.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Well, I'm used to being forced to play games, apparently, since this will be my fourth time in a row getting picked. So I don't know what I did to hurt... I don't know who I hurt, but apparently it was a lot of people. But this game... It actually looks pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. Now, having said that, I said it looks cool. I said it looks cool. It looks beautiful.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
The fight sequences look amazing. My biggest thing, and you said it and everybody knows it, is I just am not a fan of turn-based combat. I hate my characters just standing there, like, kind of waving back and forth, waiting for their turn. Like, oh yeah, because this is how a real battle would work, you know? And we'd all just sit and wait. And I...
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Ryan, the strategy, you get to... Oh, it's so much more strategic and you get to set everything up and you get to do your defenses. Which is true. Which is all true. I'm not denying that. But it doesn't mean that I cannot, you know, I can't not like that. I want to just go in and like we talked about with Doom, I want to bash faces. You know, so I get it. And I can appreciate that level.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
So it's not to say I'll dislike the game. It's not to say that, you know, I mean... Dude, I haven't played a turn-based combat game in a very long time for, you know, good reason in my opinion. Maybe this one turns me around. Who knows?
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
Dude, Pokemon. That was like my first like turn-based.
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Doom: The Dark Ages, Expedition 33, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Split Fiction - Gaming Podcast
I love Pokemon, but I always remember even as a kid, I'm like, dude, why am I just sitting here waiting? Oh, whatever put me to sleep. Okay, now I have to wait two turns or whatever. And I'm like, this is so boring. And I love turn-based things. I love chess. I understand it's strategic and you take your turns and you make your moves and attacks and you got to plan ahead. I love chess.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Which, by the way, I've bought all 10 copies. Oh, I know you have.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Dual copies of all 10 copies. That's my thing. I definitely... This is... undoubtedly like the, yeah, we're not really seeing elder scrolls six for a while. So let's just do this. Cause it's, it's a little bit easier. Um, and I'm all for it. Like oblivion to me was, was one of the best elder scrolls ever made. Um, I am a huge Skyrim guy. It's, it's in my top 10.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I just think the, the innovations and the graphics and, and what,
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
was released from the developer you know not with mods and all that stuff you can do with all these other games like just from the developer i think it's one of the best elder scrolls they've made um i it was just it was one of those that just sucked you in and you couldn't you know didn't let you go and you were just part of that world so to to think that an oblivion remake or kind of remap reskin whatever you want to call it like could come out within the next month
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
or two like that to me like i am especially after i know we just mentioned it especially after playing you know um uh about like that was just so forgettable for me uh to play something like this which i loved oblivion it's just so dated now it's hard to play like to get a revamped version would be would be something special for me as a as an elder scrolls just nerd i i am so stoked for this
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Isn't it so cool to just watch every one and you're like, oh, that's another. It's a buffet. That's another well-made trip.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Male, something like that.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I will say, okay, there's a couple things that can get me swayed, typically. And one of the big ones is a really good trailer. And the gameplay in the trailer stuff and the cinematics I've seen of this... are pretty cool, man. I'm not going to lie. It's like, okay, this looks kind of... I mean, I'm not going to lie. It's been a very, very long time since I've played just a pure turn-based game.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
And so to dive fully into one like this, you know, man, I'm excited to see what... If I still feel like I did from those old games. What is this going to mean to me with a 10, 15 year gap between this style of games? Because I haven't played it. I just have no desire. I haven't wanted to. But this one looks... Really cool, man. I'm not going to lie.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I'm going to say quit stalling.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
So like those hot time events or quick time where you can do things and if it makes it very cinematically pleasing and it gives me a little more than just that sitting around waiting to make my attack, that could 100% sway me. So I'm pretty excited. I think it will.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
All right.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
We're dead. We're dead, guys.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
No, I got a buddy – not to get way off the rails, but I'm going to do it anyways. I got a buddy that's hitting me up today. He's trying to get, I think, platinum on the 1993 Doom or something. So he's getting – he's like –
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
it's impossible to do solo he's like i need guys so he's getting this is the guy and the whole crew i used to play uh destiny with he's like i'm rounding everyone up we're all gonna come to my house i'll buy pizza and beer and we're gonna get this done and so it's like everybody getting together to play something like that but oh man that's funny i love it i love it oh man
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
And that's cool that you mentioned Dynasty Wars, because they said specifically in there, this is not just generated guys out there. There's thousands of soldiers. They're there. whether you're there or not, and they're going to be moving around and doing all this stuff, the environment is fully destructible.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
So all of these things, if you drive through them in different corners or different sides or different kind of areas of those structures, they're going to fall or collapse in different ways. All of it is so cool. And one thing that I love so much to make it operate the best that they could, they stayed with Unreal 4.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
So they didn't go to Unreal 5 because the physics in the Unreal 4 were just so responsive in the moment to make... the destructible environments just be reactive to what was happening. I mean, you're driving a tank through these medieval towers and castles and all these things. It's a crazy world. So you want something that's going to be responsive and react in the moment to what you're doing.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
And so they stuck with Unreal Engine 4. And from what I've seen, dude, I'm just so stoked to just run through with AKs and trucks, old Toyota Tacoma, and then like a tank and like everything else you can imagine, dude. It's just going to be so much dumb, stupid fun. And I think it's going to lend itself to streaming. And I think this game is going to take off.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I think it's going to be a big streaming game for sure. Yeah.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, right? Oh, no. So this one is like just all of it to me. All of it just seems just like a genuine fun experience. It was something I was a little concerned with in the beginning as well. Like the... the gameplay seemed a little bit, you know, nothing crazy. Like the art style was awesome. It was beautiful. I love that they sourced like, um, the, the toad, uh, or the fish guy.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
At what, 60, 70 bucks a pop, right? They're getting there, but, I mean, honestly, I mean, to be fair, for a game of Ubisoft's caliber, two million, like, I think there's a reason they're saying players and not, like, copies sold.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
That's a local, like 70 year old man that maybe his first experience voice acting, but he's from the South. And like, that's, that's just what he did. Like, so they, they, they, they were authentic within the creation of this game. And I thought that it kind of shown through in the most recent stuff that we've seen. Um, So that made a big difference for me. So I thought it was pretty neat.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I'm not sure if I'm going to get it or not, but we'll see. I got no right to get this game.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Is it enough? I mean, it's there. It's like... It would take – most likely it would take you saying, hey, man, dude, get it. This is sweet. And then I'd be like, all right, I trust you, brother. And then I'd get the game, and then I'm sure it would be amazing and I'd like it. Maybe not as much as you or whatnot, but that's what it would take to get me to probably get it. But I do see –
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
That's a big game. What did Paul put in? Like 60 hours or 70 hours for the deep dive?
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. So like, I think there's, there's a reason that's the direction on how they're kind of like, well, wait, no, look at, look at how many people are playing the game. And they're like, Oh, don't worry about how many copies we sold over here. You know, it just, I don't know. I have a lot to say about this and we're going to cover it all. But, um,
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I think on that part of it, I think there's a reason it is broadcast in the way it is, and it's meant to be in that fashion to make it look good.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
It has that look where you're just like, man. It is a look that makes my brain kind of go like, uh. Yeah, it's like, uh. And you're just kind of like, it's like a little skip stutter step. You're like, wait, what? What just happened? I want to check that out.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, you ever been on a boat?
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
You did it in the wrong order. You couldn't wait. I was pausing because I was going to toodaloo in front of John. I'll just give everyone. I was going to give everyone my normal. See ya. All right. See you, everybody.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
I was actually thinking as I was watching the trailer for Kingsmakers, I'm like, man, I'm picturing Henry of Skavitz or whatever. It's the same era. All the time I was in jail, I'm like, yeah, yeah. And I'm just killing everything.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
That's fair. It's one of those things where it's... With the prevalence of internet memes and hate and just, like, that gotcha moment that everybody wants to have or everyone wants to be a part of, you know, it changes things to where, I mean, even not to get political, but, like, even in, you know, in America, like...
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
you would think if you were either side of the aisle, like the other side, the world is ending. So, you know, with these games, like if, if, if you're, you're on, Oh, this is the best game ever. Or this is the worst game ever. There's not just like, this is a pretty decent game. You know, like, Oh man, they did. They made a good, not every game is going to be a million dollar, the best ever.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
The, the greatest thing you've ever played. You know, sometimes you just have a really awesome experience. You play a really good game. It resonated with you and then you move on and there's something to be said for that. And that's, that's cool. And it, and it just, the, the people that try to always just make everything. So highlight reel gotcha is, is what's,
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
causing a lot of issues with this stuff and so um yeah man uh last of us 2 was a great one i loved that game i i still love the first one better but it was definitely a game that should absolutely be played and i think this assassin creed from what i've seen i mean it sold um more cop more boxed copies from what i've read in the first week than star wars outlaws in the first three months which was a
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Pretty good game. Pretty good game. I like Star Wars Outlaws was pretty awesome.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
That's why I brought it up. That's why I brought it up. People were trashing all over Star Wars Outlaws. That was a fun game. It was good.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
All right. Later.
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AC: Shadow Drama, Oblivion Remake and Best of Future Game Show - Gaming Podcast
Like, honestly, it started off playing it. I'm like, yeah, this is the most mid thing I've ever played in my life.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
Which every corporate video does.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
We really had this nailed until the death scream. Buy this car now!
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
I think that is fantastic. I have never thought of that.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
No, I learned something today. And then I kind of went, oh, I totally have not even been thinking about that.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
If you like vegetables, I don't like you. Yeah.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
And we're like, dude, you're you're such a downer, man. Pretend to be scared.
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The Voices Behind the Video Games - Gaming Podcast
Yes! Dude, that is the answer. That is my number one answer.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, absolutely. I did have one point where I grabbed an anchor point, and then you talked about the bunny. I looked back, and then I just saw my car just go whoosh, and it just got shot across like 150 yards away or meters or whatever, and I had to go run and grab it. It's crazy in the zone.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
I'm so glad the game explained this just brilliantly, just like you guys did.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
It's, it's wild how, how fast that dissipates. Like, I was a big advocate for this game. I was shouting from the rooftops. I was so excited. I know with our boy Al, a new listener to the show, and we were talking about it. And after, like you said, about an hour, that just all is gone. All of the wonder and the majesty of the cool Pacific Northwest is It's just gone.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
And then you're like, how the heck do I get out of this area so I can get back to the garage so I can go to the next zone or junction or whatever the heck it is and continue on with this game?
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
That one's good. I will say the consistent schedule part is nothing to do with me. Just letting everybody know.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
I felt amazing. I thought it played amazing. I thought that there was a little bit of weight to the car. I thought that it felt a little heavy, but it felt reactionary as far as how you steered and stuff like that. That all quickly went away every time I tried to get out. And I had to look to the side and then click and then click again and then click. Oh, no.
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[Replay] Pacific Drive - Gaming Podcast
And I closed the door back on myself. And then I, oh, there we go. Now I get out. And then I realized, oh, whoops, I didn't put my car in park. And my car is rolling down the hill. And I got to run back down and go grab my car, get back in the car, put it back in park. Then I can get back out again. And then I can go explore. So that's kind of the whole driving era for me.
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That's exactly what I was going to say.
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Oh, definitely. I was the same way. You go through these areas and it's just the same thing over and over again. And like you guys said, I want to enjoy this environment and in this area because it was cool. The songs were awesome. I'm sitting there vibing. But every 14 seconds, I got to now I got to go off the road and do all this. Same thing with something new.
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The biggest thing I had was I saw in the beginning, I saw a charging station. And I'm like, oh, there's a building on my map. And I go and I look at it. I'm like, wait, what is this? I haven't seen one of these before. I'm like, oh my gosh. I remember Jackson was sitting right next to me. I'm like, dude, look. I was like, oh, it's a charging station. Okay.
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And I drove in and it put a little barrier and charges up. And I'm like, Whoa, that was so cool. But it took 50 other generic basic buildings before I got to that one thing that was different.
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What about you, Ryan? That's a good one. For me, it was... It was the airstrips. I don't know how your experiences were with it. Those were fun. And it was fun. Don't wreck your car. Because at first I got used to the buzzsaw, chainsaw ones or whatever that would have that little blade that would run across the red ones. And so I'm cruising and not thinking anything of it.
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And I see this kind of blue, hazy strip across the ground. And I'm thinking, okay, it's no big deal. I don't see anything. So I'm just going to rip through it before... something comes across, and it launched my car up so high, and I went off the side of this hill and just rolled and tumbled, and that's where I ended up. I posted it in the Discord. I'm like, I don't know.
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Am I supposed to drive here? And then somebody's like, you can't park there, and my car's just sitting on its side. I'm like, what do I do now? But those – I had a lot of fun with those. I thought those were really unique to where once I saw them, I'm like, oh, okay. I know what this is now. But the first time I hit that, I remember my face like – I was just in utter disbelief and in shock just –
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Whoa! As I just shot into the air, my car goes 15 feet and I just go tumbling down a hill.
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Dude, the first time I saw those, I was like, oh, sweet mannequins. I'm going to run these bad boys over and come. It's loud too. Yeah, it was super loud. It definitely caught me off guard. And then, like we said, lots of repair putty.
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You can hear Josh's auto insurance history talking right now. Yeah, that's true.
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It's all magic. It's definitely all magic. I do like also that Josh tried to say that he didn't have anything with the car. It was his favorite part, but pretty soon he's going to be calling it my precious. He's like, my precious.
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It doesn't make me crazy. I swear, guys. I swear.
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no but so um there i did think it was really cool like you go up you park your uh your car on this little kind of uh mechanics platform area and you have the screen set up and it shows you all the different parameters or or outlines of the parts of your vehicle how to fix them and how to repair them is a little uh less streamlined a little less streamlined um
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Like we said earlier, you need a lot of chemicals because you're going to need a lot of repair putty. So repair putty and sealants is what you use for a lot of the stuff. Anytime you got damage on your panels, your side panels, quarter panels, hood, all that stuff... You just get this big tub, and you take a big old scoop of plaster and just... It's body filler is what it is. Body, just Bondo.
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You're just Bondo-ing the whole car together, and you just slap it on there. All right, that panel's good. Oh, that panel's good. All this tire's sealed, or needs sealed, and then you just take this little gun and just shoot that on there, and that's sealed up. So the repairs were interesting to me, and it felt...
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super tedious to where a lot of times i just wouldn't repair it in between runs because i'm like i yeah i just have no desire to go around this whole car and repair every single stinking panel i'll make sure my lights are good and the bump front bumper is good and let's go you know so yeah it was it was interesting uh part of the game
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really did the first time hero i don't know if you guys died but i died one time because i was a little overzealous on a different section and i went back and then i guess there may be more generous uh at the dumpster after you die but like i hit the dumpster and then i started spewing out panels i'm like i was excited i was like oh am i gonna get the paul glitch you know and it was shooting and then it stopped and i was like oh after like seven or eight it stopped
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Yeah, it was cool to have that like it is. It's just quirks. It's these weird little things to give it more personality. So you do almost bond with your car because it has these weird little things that it does. Yeah, like you guys said, it's nothing that's overly obnoxious, but it was just a cool little feature. I thought that was really neat that they did that.
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Well, we've had talks about fast travel on different games, you know, and like some game developers have said, you know, we're not going to do that. We want to make the experience, you know, as you travel to that place good and you should want to do that, but... This one, you just don't because it's the same thing. You're driving. You're trying to avoid the objects.
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You're trying to keep your car alive. All you're trying to do is get to that space so you can get to the next section of the game. You shouldn't have a part of a game to where you dread that section to get to the fun part.
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So I found myself every time I was doing that or trying to get to an area, I just wanted to get that done so I could get back to the garage to tinker and do cool things with my car. So... Yeah, I'm with Josh on this one. Just the repetition of just over and over the same areas, the same houses, the same mats. It was just it was just too much.
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Like, I understand you can only do so much within a game, but it was just too much repetition for me.
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Imagine spending 95 hours doing that. Oh, I know.
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it's it's a pointless upgrade there's just a lot of systems that are just poorly designed poorly explained poorly executed um tagline of the game yeah yeah well i i i real quick too like i i'm not one that likes to leave um you know a lot of games will leave you a notification on unchecked items within your like menu or different things like that yeah
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I went in and I looked and I was so overwhelmed with how many there were, I completely just abandoned it. I said, nope, I'm not going to even look at any of these. I looked through two or three and then I said, there's way too many to try to check off so I don't have that dumb yellow icon on my top screen or whatever. So I just abandoned it and said, no thanks.
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That's what a lot of the game is, is just a lot of that.
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I'm sorry. You don't want glass shards?
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I'm still shook by Paul's thing there. Am I too high or too low on it, Ryan? You're a little too high in my opinion.
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Last, last, last. I have a little bit of a smaller leaderboard than the other guys because I haven't been here as long. But... I have at 34, Battlefield 2042, a completely horrible game. This one at 33, Paul would have some difference to it, but Disco Elysium. But this was pre-audio, pre-final cut. So I could revisit that. But I'm going to throw this... I'm going to throw this at the end.
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I'm going to put it at 35. At the very bottom? Yeah. It's at the very bottom for me. As much as I wanted to absolutely love this game, you mentioned it, Josh. I love the music. I would sit and vibe. That was the part I looked to.
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forward to the most like I'm like I just want to chill listen to the music have the rain come down in the forest and I'm going to drive through this area and then I'd have to deal with all the nonsense of the actual game you know so like that took the game took away from the good part which was just the vibe so yeah this one's going to go right at the bottom for me I wanted nothing more than to finish this game and to finish this episode so that I wouldn't have to ever touch it again
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Mine's already uninstalled. It's gone. Nice.
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That's why after the demo, I was screaming from the rooftops. This game is awesome. This is going to be so good. I... just driving in. You're in your truck, and then you get sucked in there. I was 100% in, and then nothing changed. It was the same thing the whole time. Play the demo. Play the demo.
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Play the demo, have fun, and then go on to another game. That's perfect.
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I will say, and it did miss the mark. But with what Paul said about wanting guns and wanting action... Every time I got out of my car and it's like an eerie, dreary forest landscape and I'm looking around, I was expecting something to come get me.
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And nothing ever did. Nothing ever did. And so I was just always left wanting that, even though it would have freaked me out and I would have screamed like a little girl. Uh, I just, I never got that. And, and that, that would have made just that little bit would have made the difference, you know, not substantially, but a little bit of to make it at least some somewhat palatable for me, you know?
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All right, I'm out of here, people. Let me just put this in. Oh, I'm not in drive. Oh, let me. All right, see you. Come back.
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No, I think that's pretty fair. The big thing, and I know that's been a big issue with a lot of people too, is with that roguelike nature... You die when you're out there. You lost everything. So you can't stop and save. You can't do any of that stuff. So you have to go back to the garage to be able to do that. And that's, you know, one of the big hangups a lot of people are having.
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But it's definitely one of the key features of, I guess, you know, a roguelike. So it's the nature of the beast.
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I don't know, man. That's a high score. Gosh. I was thinking somewhere in the mid-80s, like 84, 85, something like that. So worse than Blueprints? I think it's... I don't know. Like, I think it'll still be a good game, but I think everybody that's hyped up about it is just, like, blindly running into the, like, the light.
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Like, oh, give us the good turn-based game, you know, and they just run into it, you know, looking for happiness, which you can't find in a turn-based game, you know? So... You're spending all your time sitting around thinking, you know. All right, let me ask you a question, Ryan.
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With the story, the way it looks in the story and the cinematics, if it was more of an action RPG style where I am in real-time combat and I'm fluid and I'm moving, that would totally change my thought. I may be... Totally, you know, wrong. And I hope I am that, that these people have created a game that is amazing and I'm, I'm proven a fool and I absolutely love it.
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And it's a good game because you know what? I have to play it either way. So I hope it's good. Uh, and I, I, I want it to be that I just, these turn-based games just seem so monotonous and boring to me. I get their strategy. I get there's a planning, but I just hate the stop in combat. So I hope, I hope that it's great. I hope that it's amazing.
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The lesser Blades of Chaos? Leviathan Axe is far superior to the Blades of Chaos. That's the take.
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I think so too. If there's enough of it, it will. I can take that. When I think of turn-based, I just think of the old school Final Fantasies where you're
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I think, too, the graphics are superior, but they also are kind of... Whoa, they're not superior.
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No, they're superior, but they're bland. But they're bland is what it is.
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Dude, they are superior. It's superior graphics. It's not superior. No, you can't just make a bunch of funky colors and say, like, oh, no, this is the same as that. It's like, no, this is just abstract. You know, it's abstract art.
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How dare you dispute my claims for you, Josh? Your fandom will not be challenged ever.
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Oh, man. I think that this, man, if it's like The Division and The Dark Zone, it was pretty fun. I mean, The Division had its issues for sure, but I very much enjoyed that game. It's hard to say, man. I am up in the air on both of these.
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It's one of those where we've been burned so many times on a lot of these games where we think are great and they are bad and we think are bad and then they turn out to be great. And so it's hard to know what we're going to get out of these styles of games. I just, I do like the look of our craters more than marathon. And I'm a bungee fan boy, man.
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I've been, I've been a bungee guy for a long time. So it's, you know, that's hard for me to say, but, um,
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Bethesda. Oh, gosh. All right. All right. All right. I'm going to step out.
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I would say Nintendo or Larian.
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What? They had, like, an awesome game, and they're not just going to try to milk it dry for every single ounce of money that they could?
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Yeah. There's, there's just something to be said about, um, like recognizing what you've created and then there being a finalized chapter to it and, and accepting that and not just trying to milk people for more money, you know, and making a million, you know, all these different, like you see it with movies like, Oh cool. This hit, let's make five sequels.
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You know, they're going to be trash and garbage and it just, it destroys the series. So like leave Baldur's Gate alone. They, they, they made an amazing game. It has its purpose and its time, and then we'll go do something else. You know, I did not play the game. I've heard amazing things and not so amazing things from John. But I recognize and I love what they're doing with this.
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So that's a thumbs up in my book for sure. Yeah.
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Man, I can't wait to hear that they lowered prices and then they fix. Of course, they lowered prices. And they fix the controllers. Everything's good.
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The problem is you're a businessman that's got a good heart. Not everybody's got a good heart.
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For sure.
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It's just a personal preference. I prefer the Frost and Leviathan over the Blades of Chaos. I just like, you know, with my play style. But, you know, they're both amazing for sure.
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The thing is though, with food, food spoils, food goes bad. They have to have a high profit margin to counteract like their spoilage and other things like that. You can have a game and it can sit on the shelf for, for two and a half years and it's still good in two and a half years.
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Or manipulation.
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If it's $45 to manufacture, that honestly is kind of low. You always want to try to be three times cost at all possible.
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He's like, I need a break.
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I had two. They had to fix them. I had two Red Rings.
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And they didn't fix it.
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Clearly. John's always so reasonable, man. John makes his opinions, but he's so dang reasonable all the time.
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Very exciting that we were going to read at the end.
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You can tell how far behind we are.
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Well, that's that's the usual. So we can just expect that for sure. But man, Elder Scrolls Oblivion remastered, not just like, you know, a little kind of reskin or anything crazy. This is like a full on. Shadow Drop Remaster. The announcement is going to be... They're calling it a remake. Yeah, yeah. Not remaster. Remake. Sorry. Total remake. It's going to be in, I think, Unreal Engine 5, right?
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It's not going to be in the Skyrim engine? I believe so, yeah. I believe so. So it's going to be hardcore. Everything's going to be absolutely fantastic. I mean...
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closing those gates again dude closing those gates again it's like it's it's just to me oblivion is one of the best it's it's one of the best games ever made it's it's way way up there it's just so dated it came out i think in 2006 something like that so it's It's been a long time. It's crazy we're getting that as a remake before Elder Scrolls 6, but here we are. I'll take it. That's fine.
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It's Ryan. Dang, baby, you look so good right now with that remaster. Come on, come to Papa. I'm going to buy eight copies of you. Oh, man. I love it, bro. I'm excited.
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Tuesday, the 22nd, 11 p.m. Eastern, I think is when they're saying the announcement's going to be. 11 a.m. Let's be careful. That's really late for people. Yeah, that's really late. So a.m. Eastern, that's going to be the announcement. It's happened before where Bethesda's kind of shadow dropped some stuff, so maybe they just come out and say, hey, we're releasing this, by the way.
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You can play it right now. That would be so awesome. So hopefully, by the time you're listening to this, you can go into Steam and download Elder Scrolls Oblivion. That would be the sickest thing ever.
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Oh, I know.
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Oblivion Remaster, Expedition 33 Predictions and Bye Bye Baldur's Gate 3 - Gaming Podcast
Well, I kind of have to play Expedition 33. That was a trap, and you just stepped right over it, man.
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I know. I'm kind of forced to, but that doesn't mean I can't do both. You know, I can't do both. So we've already prepped our children. We've told them, sorry, little ones, you're going to have to fend for yourselves this weekend. Daddy's playing all kinds of video games, so I may have to bounce back and forth between the two, but...
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If I was not forced to play by our good third host, John, many moons ago, to a game that I didn't even know what it was when he's first like, yeah, you're going to play this game. I'm like, what? Expedition 33? What are you talking about? And then we got all the info. It does look really cool. I am excited for both, but man, I'm an Elder Scrolls fanboy, so it's going to be a hard weekend for me.
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Oh, RDR2. Okay, well.
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Bro, if they do that, they're freaking cowards, bro. It's Elder Scrolls.
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boils over and people lose interest and get frustrated you start to get mad i'm getting to that point i am getting to the point of like this this kind of hidden in the shadows you know a secret like just how long does it take to make a game it's not super super in-depth detailed it's not top of the world graphics with some crazy engine that you have to do i mean it's an amazing game that's that's designed beautifully i love the art style but does it really take this long to make a game
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So we have a timeline now. Does that mean we have a timeline?
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It would be nice, you know, playing, uh, playing, you know, it in your bed, you know, tucked in and just have the music going and falling asleep to silk song would be pretty cool, you know, on the switch. But yeah, I'm just, I'm at that level where I'm just kind of annoyed now. It's like, come on, man.
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Oh, that's good to know.
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You say it. I'm not saying it. I'm not doing it.
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Silksong DOES Exist, Genshin Impact Troubles and Gaming Drama - Gaming Podcast
Live service. God of... War. War.
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It's not an afterthought, but, you know, I'm still on the board.
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i like how you just compared robbing banks to live service god of war yes what are you doing playstation like don't just don't what's funny is right after they just dropped that um the little expansion for ragnarok or whatever the valhalla valhalla yeah free and they just drop it to everyone and then they're just in the background they got a live service you know kind of churning you know it's like no no no this is what we like the valhalla for free this is very nice
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You know, we do not want live service.
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Well, like we always say, too, not every game needs to be a battle royale. Not every game needs to be open world. Some games are designed and developed to follow this path and be this type. And just because this is the hotness that's making a lot of money doesn't mean you need to change what's over here. Go make something else.
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Go make something different that you want to be your live service and leave this alone.
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Did you ever play The Last of Us online? No. The first one, no? So I did. Not a ton, but it was pretty fun because you can make those little shrapnel bombs and toss them at guys and move around. The movement is so great in The Last of Us. But yeah, to make it a live service, I don't think that would work. No. Yeah, get out of here with that.
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Anyway, I'm sorry. What happened there? Yeah, you started drifting away. You were so mad. You were so angry.
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Hey, listen, dude. I know myself. I know who I am. And I would probably not be recording with you and I'd be on Path of Exile. I'm like, oh, I'll get to you later. I'm doing this raid. You know, I've got an addictive personality, man. I got sucked in. All right. I would quit the pod for Path of Exile.
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Dude's a poser, man. He's a poser, dude. Is that it? I'm just kidding. The thing is, I feel like it was one of those things where he didn't come out to say it. But he also was hoping nobody was going to ask it. That's my thinking as well. I am... Oh, this is my top rank here, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, look at me playing. I'm playing right now.
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He didn't say, oh, yeah, man, it was a grind to get to this. I played this long, this many hours. He didn't claim anything like that. But also... He didn't let everybody know that he didn't do all those leveling, you know, hard grinding nights and stuff like that. So it's kind of a little weird, you know, but he is a gamer, like you said, and he does play, he does stream when he plays.
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But yeah, you could tell like him trying to kind of fumble around. It's almost like you learn a new language when you're that deep into a game. You understand the key binds and where to go with everything and what you call everything and all the terminology. And for somebody else coming in,
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You may know games, you may get some of it, but to be able to be that fluent... Fluent in another language is different than being able to just speak the language. So it's just a whole different world, and people picked up on it immediately. And I don't know what he was expecting, but yeah, it's kind of one of those weird things.
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I don't think it's really bad or malicious, but also he was hoping probably people wouldn't notice.
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I think it is. I mean, how much is he making an hour, basically? Is he worth technically? You've always heard the thing where if somebody drops a $100 bill, it's costing more time to pick it up than they would just keep walking type thing. He goes and pays some guy however many thousands, and the guy's happy. I mean, he's creating jobs. Yeah.
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Dude, Sierra was the bomb back then.
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That's the one thing I think you should have done is just kind of come out and headed it off and said, you know, like, yeah, I run all of these companies. I don't have time to grind this many hours. I want to experience the end game. I play this and I'm going to play it. So let's, you know, check it out. Watch it with me, you know, and but.
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I was buying Dave my own dime for a while. Right? I know. Oh, that's funny. By the way, they got an average monthly active players of 60 million. Oh, my goodness, dude. No, no, no. That's on. Okay. Yeah. 60 million. Yeah. Online active players as of an hour ago were 124,000.
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Man, that's a tough one because I do see – I mean, with us both having kids and both – you can tell how much it targets them and those little cosmetic upgrades or those little things that you can get out of the loot box and the chance of getting them, how excited they are and how much they want it. And so you can see – I mean, that's why grownups go to Vegas and gamble because that –
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drive and that dopamine hit you get is something that's special but when it's kids that don't know how to make those choices and be able to lay off oh i should probably not do that you know it's it's a tough one i i do hope that loot boxes are kind of going the way of the past um i'm not a big fan of them i don't i don't understand why you would like when i play a game i want i want to play a game
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Very rarely will I be like, oh, that thing or that item or that skin is really, really cool. And I'll think about buying it. But I'm just here to play the game and have fun. You know, all that extra stuff doesn't mean anything to me. But I know a lot of people it does. So, I don't know. I prefer... the battle passes and going that route than, uh, than the loot boxes for sure.
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Yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah, till like maybe mid 90s or so. But yeah, they were they were top notch. Oh, man. Way to go, Sierra. Thanks for making some great games.
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That's true. Wait till you're an adult before you become a degenerate gambler. Stupid stuff.
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A lot more has been popping in, too. A lot more than lurkers. Hey, I've been a lurker. And every time we're like, yes, we converted another one.
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Yeah, yeah, that's fair to say. It's like love lost. You had so much passion and so much love for something, and then it was just kind of taken away from you, and it just makes you mad.
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Battlefield 4. Battlefield 4? Yeah, Battlefield 4 had to be mine. That just, I played that till 2 or 3 in the morning and woke up at 6 in the morning to the load music. You know. All the time. It was one that I probably put the most hours in. And then also probably, I played 42 when it first came out, but Vietnam, I played so much of Vietnam with Paul back in the day.
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So that was a big one too for me.
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That was for me, the hard line or something. There was, wasn't there another one?
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Yeah, there was one called Hardline. You were like a cop in that one. It was almost like COD, like COD campaign style. Oh, that's weird. Yeah, I definitely never played that one.
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Yeah, the janitor's still there. That's the 2%. It does make me wonder, who are these 2%?
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It's Ryan. When I read that article, it was like temper expectations. I'm like, don't worry, buddy. They were tempered a long time ago.
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Yeah, I mean, the thing is, like, yeah, like you said, different doesn't always mean bad. It could be different and good. But when you have come to love something a certain way and then they change it, you know, you get frustrated. Like, I'll even, okay, I know I constantly say Chipotle is overrated.
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The one thing I would get there when my wife would go, because she loves Chipotle, I'd be like, just give me a chicken quesadilla. They'd take a big tortilla, throw on a bunch of cheese, a bunch of chicken, fold it in half, put it in their thing, and it was like $5.50 or $6. It was cheap, it was easy, and at least I could get something, and it was okay.
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Then they decided to change the whole thing to where it's like a meal and you get like a little thing of rice and tomato and then it's like half the size and it's more money. And I'm like, okay, it's still quesadilla, but this is completely different, man. Why did you change this?
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I'm always like, you guys know the old way. Can you just make it the old way? And they always look over and they're like, I can't. And I'm like, oh, all right, whatever.
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I feel like you could. I think you could because then you could spawn in on him, right?
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I think you're being a little hopeful, man. Dang it, man. This this thing you come to find like they can do it the way they want to make a, you know, a boatload of cash and alienate some people that get upset about it. And they make this amount of money or they can do it, you know, a love letter, if you will, and do it the right way, the way people really would like it.
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And they'll make less money. What are they going to go with? They don't care. They don't care. They don't care.
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And that's the hard part. Remember when you were a kid and you were playing these games? When you saw the developer logos and who made the game and stuff, you never really thought anything about it. And now all these dev companies, we like CEA and we see Ubisoft and we see all this other stuff. And you just get mad. Thinking about them and how they take advantage of the people now.
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And you never thought about that before. But it's all about the dollar now, man.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm going to post this cake. This cake slaps, bro.
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was all a lie oh man i i like why are we so enamored with this game but we are because it was so good but i'm starting yeah it's it's a thing it's a fine line you have to walk to build up that expectation and and get people excited and like oh man and have that extent you know it's building it's building it's building and then eventually it kind of
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like you have to get an associate to get the batteries because it's a high shrink item but it took us 10 minutes to get somebody over there that's the most inefficient thing but dude companies are just doing the best they can to be able to protect their assets nintendo's no different it is a company full of people they have profit is not the meaning of life just like blood or meaning of business just like blood isn't the meaning of life but money is a requirement for business
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Just like blood is a requirement for life. And Nintendo has to be able to protect their bottom line. Big companies go under all the time.
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You know what else is a requirement for your customers to actually like you and your product? And guess what? When you start smacking your customers around and saying, we're going to brick your system because we are policing what you do with this product that you paid for. If that's the case, then let me rent the system.
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let me rent i seem to remember a little video that we recorded about donkey kong being like the launch title for switch 2 and how we land we were just flaming it yeah and i do remember a lot of nintendo people coming to the right there there surely are nintendo fans out there oh there's fans but yeah exactly but see here's the problem is that a lot of you don't have to be one a lot of people don't care if i had a switch i've never modded a switch in my life dude
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It's more, it's more the, see, I'm a man of principle, you know, and for me, this principle that Nintendo wants to keep their hands in my system that I bought and paid for and try to tell me what I can do with my property at that point, I have a serious issue with. Now, if you're telling me that I can't buy it, and that this is just a lease or a rental at that point, then that's fine.
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You know what? We're going to be talking about theft of artwork and Bungie. We're going to be talking about Nintendo and the Switch 2 and a crazy thing that they might be doing. We're going to talk about how gamers trick AI and try to interact with Darth Vader. We're even going to talk about...
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Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. There's nothing quite like gaming drama to get gamers fired up, and this week we've got the tea on Nintendo and Bungie, and word on the streets is things might get heated. But before the fireworks start, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh.
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Let me pay 20 bucks a month for your Nintendo Switch. And at that point, you have every right in the world to say, hey, because you're not actually owning this and you're renting it from us, we get to have a say in what you do. I can understand that principle. But when you say, hey, give me $450 for this console. Oh, okay. And by the way, after the transaction, because guess what?
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When I go to the store and I give them my $450, They don't make me sign something that says, Josh, do you understand that you can't do this, this, and this? And you understand that when you give us this money that you are agreeing to this, you don't know this until you get home and you try to boot it up. And now Nintendo says, hey, welcome to the Nintendo Switch 2.
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By the way, accept this agreement. I've already given my freaking money to you. How are you going to spring this on me after the fact?
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Listen, Nintendo has made their money. You got my money. I can freaking take a dump on the Switch 2 if I want to. It's my Switch 2 at that point. You don't get to tell me what I can do with my property at that point. If I want to mod it and break it apart and then try to file a warranty claim and say, Nintendo, your product sucks. It broke. Guess what? They're going to say, fine, send it to us.
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And I'm going to send it to them and they're going to go, you took a dump on this, Josh. This isn't covered under warranty. And I'm going to go, oh, yeah, you're right. I did. Okay, cool.
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My bad. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Every single customer goes, oh, yeah, you're right. That's not how it works, Josh. The customer will bully the company until they get what they want. That is how this works in actuality. But let's take your argument, okay? Let's take your argument. When you buy a Nintendo Switch, or any other console for that matter, yes, you do own that hardware.
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You do not own the software. I understand that. Okay. So when you are modding, most of the time, what you are doing is you're modifying the software and the operating platform, which you do not own. If we're talking about ownership, there's your argument right there.
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That's a fair point, John. I don't like it, but it's a fair point. It is. It is. Listen, man, this is one of those things where it actually, I was hoping John, I knew about the software issue and I was really hoping John didn't bring this up, man. Come on.
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It's like windows, dude. If I pirate windows, guess what they do? They say, Hey, you have to have an activation key, you know, and then I got to get creative and find an activation key.
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So I get that the software is their property and they have to maintain it. They have to update it. And if you change it, that can cause some issues. Here's the biggest problem for me. Nintendo has just gotten greedy. And I know you hate that term, John, because it's like, hey, this is a company trying to make profits and things like that. Define greedy.
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You don't make $4 billion net revenue if you're not gross. Right? Where the little figurines that it's like, hey, we're going to sell these for $40. You can tap it on your Switch, and a little character pops up on the screen and throws confetti at you. And I get it. If I'm a fool and I pay $40 for one of these things to watch confetti pop up on the screen, that's fine. That's my money.
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I can do what I want with it. But the thing is, Nintendo has... has moved from this let's make games for gamers that are awesome and iconic and all this to let's see how we can soak as much money as humanly possible out of people, restrict the access to they have to their own machines at that point. It's like taking away the game cartridges.
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like meeting your loved your your deceased loved ones in vr man like oh this is this is gonna be an interesting show if nothing else man because these are some interesting kind of deep subjects but hey man this is what the gaming world is a buzz about we kind of started talking about some of this before recording because it's definitely uh people have various opinions on a lot of these things too so i'll tell you what let's just get to it boys
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There's no such thing as a game loaded on the cartridge now. You have to buy the little game key. It still comes as a cartridge, but there's no actual game info on that cartridge. Why is that? Because they don't want resale market. Because they make more money when people have to buy these keys at that point. Every decision they make is the quest for the almighty dollar for them.
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It has zero to do. That's every company.
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No, I disagree, man. No, Josh, by that same logic, you'd be like, okay, well... Xbox has an unfair advantage because they're going into cloud and they've been doing such a good job of like making everything available. They're putting all these games on game. But they shouldn't do that. They're just tasting the dollar. They should just die.
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Then why are they putting premier games on game pass day one at this point? They could easily say, dude, because it's smart. It's smart. Because gamers want to talk. I wouldn't buy game pass if I couldn't play these games. If I don't get the good games day one, I'm not paying for game pass at that point. If you're giving me crap games, guess what? I'm not going to pay for that.
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Yeah, but what all you're saying is that their particular value statement matches what you value. And Nintendo's is different. And that's okay. You don't have to value what Nintendo does. Oh, I don't value what Nintendo does at this point. I don't. You are a person who wants there to be no consoles. No console exclusivity is what you're saying.
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Well, right, right. But that is counterintuitive to business that you can't. If you commoditize gaming, that's socialism, basically.
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Okay, so with no console exclusives, why are they moving away from console exclusives? If that's the case, you're seeing PlayStation, especially Xbox, releasing things simultaneously at this point. The days of exclusives are going away because these companies are realizing that they can make a lot more money
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selling these products to a wider variety or like a wider market of people than only the people that have a PS5 or only the people that have an Xbox.
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This is a market variance, guys. So number one, I want to address a point here. There's a couple of reasons that...
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that nintendo is looking to phase away just like everybody is looking to phase away from physical product is that when you create physical product there is cost of goods involved and now you have to manage inventory you have to manage return cycles it is costly and oftentimes unnecessary people don't buy physical media as much as they used to anymore but if you're selling physical media
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You have to produce it. You have to package it. You have to ship it. You have to manage it with the people that you're shipping it to. And then you have to track whether or not that physical item is selling. You have to manage store presence. There's a whole like complication that comes with it. And people are just moving away from it. It is just the way the economy is working.
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So the fact that they are like going behind now game keys and that kind of thing. I think that is the status quo.
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Make your final point, John, and then we gotta move on. My final point is that this is cyclical, okay? When... When, for instance, Blockbuster went under, Hollywood Video went under, physical movies started to go under. You started to see this surge in online distribution, mostly through Netflix. And we go, oh, man, there goes the end of studio exclusivity. All your Disney stuff is there.
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Your Paramount stuff is there. All the other studios, they're all showing stuff on Netflix. And then people started saying, well, like, we lose a lot of money by just giving everything to Netflix. We should have our own thing. And then now you have all of these different online services. It's the worst. It is the worst, but that is how people make money, right? That is the...
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wonderful thing about capitalism is that it is a free market and things live and die based on the dollars that they create so if you don't like nintendo the best thing you can do is don't buy a product the market will sort itself out but there's a lot of people right now that like nintendo but here's the thing too anything fundamentally wrong here's the thing too
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Nintendo, we've been talking about Nintendo a lot lately.
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Josh, final point. Vote with your wallet. And that's exactly what I'm going to do. I don't even mod things, dude. I have zero intention of modding a Switch 2 at all. This is just simply, guess what? Vote with my wallet. I don't like the business practices. I don't think they care about the gamer. I will not buy a Switch 2 based on those principles. It's kind of like Ubisoft.
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I'm not buying an Ubisoft game because I don't like the way Ubisoft operates at this point. And so you're right. It is a choice. And for all the people out there that are excited about the Switch 2 and could care less, honestly, it doesn't really make a difference to me. I'm not planning on modding it. It's just the move towards this is what we care about. We don't care about gamers. We don't care.
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By what measure are you saying they don't care?
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Because every practice that they are implementing is something that is like, we don't care what the customer thinks. We only care what we think. Nintendo only cares about Nintendo, which is why they're putting all these practices into place.
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There's nothing behind that. That's your opinion. I mean, that's what this whole show is about, Josh.
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right but like you could very easily say the same about any company trying to make money there are a lot of very goodwill companies out there that absolutely will do whatever they need to do uh i don't want to like product placement arizona ice tea yes arizona ice tea like athletic greens like this is a very expensive supplement thing where one day like i i got like they they will absolutely customer service takes precedence over anything else the company i work for dude
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If anybody has a problem with anything at all, we love our customer base so much that I, I will absolutely at the cost of profit and money, make sure that those people are happy. No matter what, dude, even if it means class action lawsuits, have you been a part of one?
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Well, I won't name the entity.
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Yeah, it was a website issue. It was dumb. It was predatory. Somebody knew exactly what they were doing.
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Yeah, right. And that type of class action lawsuit, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's because your website wasn't ADA compliant or something along those lines. That's a well-known predatory practice from doctors or whatever. Nintendo, most big corporations have been You know, part of many of those.
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And so there is a tipping point when you become an international publicly traded company where you have to start to protect not only your assets, but the assets of the shareholders. Yeah, there it is.
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There it is, man. It's all about them.
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Costco's sweet.
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And again, all about the shareholders, not about the customers, dude. So... All right, let's move on.
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Oh, man. All right.
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That was really good. Yeah, it was great, man.
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Everybody's like, whew.
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Oh, man. For people, I love arguing, and I know John loves to argue. There's our half hour, by the way. I don't know how. I look down, and we're 30 minutes in, and I'm like, we just got started, man. Well, guess what, people? You're getting a longer episode today.
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Oh, we got more to cover right after this break. Guys, let's talk about a company that maybe doesn't know what they're doing, and that's one called Bungie right now. Dude, we're trying to go tour the studio this summer.
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We love the people at Bungie. Maybe not the corporate Bungie that is just not in a good place right now, dude.
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Guys, I mean, this is... Do we know what this... So the long and short of it is that Bungie ended up using art that belonged to somebody else in their new game, Marathon. A lot of the art. Yeah. Did we determine whether or not that was... intentional theft. Cause I think that person who did that, who was responsible for it is no longer there.
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Like that, that was allegedly, allegedly this. So here's the thing. Like John, if you were a really big company, okay. And like one of your employees, maybe like went to somebody's house and like stole a bunch of their stuff out of their house. You would probably fire that employee and be like, Oh, they don't represent us. You know, like, yeah, we're going to fire. Yeah.
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So that's kind of what's going on is Bungie is saying that, This artist that we paid to do art stole all these assets. We didn't know about it, people. They just took all these assets, and now we used them in the game. We don't know where they came from. They're like one for one, too. They came from an artist, guys, that used to work for us. Oh, God.
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What would you suggest they do?
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I think they compensate the heck out of the artist who got their work stolen and then say, hey, do you mind if we use your art in our game? We're really sorry about this, but we'll pay you. We'll pay you a lot of money for this because guess what? Most artists don't make a whole lot of money. So it probably wouldn't take as much as you would think. Are they not doing that? What's that?
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Well, I doubt that because now this person is certainly lawyered up at this point and the lawyers are probably pushing it.
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I would be willing to bet that Bungie probably had some sort of, you know, rational response like, hey. hey, man, this is a big mess up. I'm sorry. Here's a settlement of a couple hundred K or whatever.
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So Bungie did come out and apologize. It's funny because I saw the initial tweet from this person that said, hey, Bungie stole my artwork. And this was before the poop hit the fan, like legitimately. And I went, wow, really? Like somebody's claiming they stole their art. And then lo and behold, two days later, Bungie's responding, going like, yeah, this is bad, guys. We didn't know about this.
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And there's no denying it whatsoever. So they did say, hey, we are very sorry. It looks like one of our artists stole this other artist's work, and we've been using it in our game. This is a really bad look for us. They are going into damage control, which is what any corporation would do. I mean, I don't think anybody begrudges Bungie trying to make amends on this. Here's the problem.
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Bungie is just not in a good place. And again, this kind of goes back to companies and their clientele, man. Like, you know, Bungie took a lot of flack with Destiny players for selling expansion content and then pulling it back. Do they have the right to do that? Is there a reason behind that? I'm sure there is.
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But this does not garner you goodwill with the people that you generally want to sell your product to. Ryan is instantly nodding because he's like, I was there, dude. I was affected by this. And so you protect your reputation at all costs with people. And right now, Bungie's reputation is in the crapper, dude.
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Not only from what they did with Destiny and the walking back of content that they sold to people and then pulled away from those people. There was a lot of people that said, Hey, listen, marathon, not doing it for me. You know, is it an okay game? Yeah, it's fine. Like, you know, I don't think anybody said the game is garbage, but what people have said is it's just not that impressive to me.
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You know, why did they make this extraction shooter? And then you put a very bad PR issue on the table along with everything else. It is bad timing.
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I saw an article, I think it was from Forbes, that basically said, hey, you know, guy talked to a bunch of Bungie insiders, people that he knew. And again, so take this with a grain of salt because it's, you know, a guy writing an article that says, hey, I talked to people that work at Bungie. Anonymous sources. And, you know, what he was saying is. Major leaker.
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Yeah, major leaker, you know, is basically said, listen, the response to Marathon when people got the play test was underwhelming. Uh, then you have this issue with, you know, why did they make this game in this genre? The underwhelming response is tough.
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I mean, if you're a studio that's been working on a game for five years and you're a major, major studio and the people kind of come out and go, yeah, dude, your game's just kind of mid got a cool art style. But that's about it. Oh, wait. You ripped off the art style from somebody else? Oh, yeah. It's not even their art.
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And it's not even your art. And then it's like, dude, it's just people are saying the morale is at an all-time low. People are worried because if Marathon fails, it's the end of Bungie. And I'll be honest. I don't see how that doesn't happen. If Marathon releases and it fails, Bungie's done, dude. We see the death of a juggernaut in the industry at that point.
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I mean, there are a lot of people that are saying Sony owns Bungie, and if Marathon fails, Sony is just going to absorb and disband Bungie.
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That's it, you're bricked. Okay, so Ryan, let's get a little context on the nature of this argument here. What are we arguing about?
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Well, look at Concord. Concord came out at one of the most notorious epic failures of a game ever. Sony pulled it off the shelves in two weeks, dude. Two weeks. You think they're going to take that chance with Marathon? Like, I think they're going to. So this is what people are saying. Dude, if you really want to try to make this game something, you need to delay it.
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Marathon is due to release in four months, guys. Four months. Can they turn it around into something that number one gamers are going to love? the gamers are going to support because if they, Hey, this is stolen assets and a shady company that has a history of pulling content back where they're not in a good place. They're not in the goodwill of gamers right now.
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You know, this is, this could be the death knell for them, man. And you couple a terrible PR issue on top of all of the other concerns. It's just a bad place for bungee dude. And I honestly, like, I feel for them. Like, I know there's a lot of people.
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Yeah, we met with them. I mean, they're really cool people. And I just have so much nostalgic love for the Bungie of the past. This is really bad timing. It's really, really bad timing. I don't know what their finances is, so I couldn't say it. Like, Ubisoft, I think, is in trouble. Yeah. Bungie, I don't know.
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I don't know if there's just enough weight in the Bungie brand name still to be able to justify keeping it alive. I don't know what else they have in the pipeline. I will say that this is something economically that's always been very...
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I've been very curious about in the gaming industry is that it seems that you would be able to tell whether a game or not was like a good product, a good solvent financial decision much earlier than a couple of months pre-release. You know, like I... it just seems like such an interesting thing to me. I, I say this like about like game of Thrones a lot, you know, like I, I loved that show.
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It was on the air for 10 years. I went spent invested 10 years of my life into that show only for that last episode to hit. I was,
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there right until the last episode and then i felt cheated out of 10 years of my life and you're doing it again with last of us and uh well i've got a comment but but with the game of thrones i'm like it just seems like if you had like one or two like really avid fans on in the decision making council whatever you want to call it To say, like, guys, this isn't going to fly.
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The people that you are catering this to aren't going to like this. Like, we have to stop or pivot hard.
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This is the major, major issue that we have been talking about for years now with the AAA studios. When you get these suits involved in game development... It is not good, dude, because it becomes profit over product at that point, and that is not good, dude. Gamers are smart. I mean, we are a smart bunch of people. We are a highly opinionated bunch of people, and we can see it, dude.
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We can absolutely feel the passion. Look at Expedition 33, dude.
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Is there a game that just oozes more development passion than that game? And then you cross-reference that to Skull & Bones, which Ubisoft released and called a quadruple-A title, but it was made by suits, man. There's nothing. There's no passion. There's no nothing in that game.
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And guess what game is going to be remembered and which game cost some company millions of dollars to be a gigantic flop at that point. When you get the corporate suits involved, that's when things go south because, again, it's all they're focusing on at that point. You know? Yeah. All right, let's move on, guys. Are you sure? Are you sure you guys aren't done? Yeah, all right.
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So we got time for one more story. Three-hour episode inbound. All right, let's just decide this right on the air, okay? We can talk about the crazy Korean VR firm that lets you meet your deceased loved ones in VR, or we can talk about gamers taking advantage of Darth Vader's AI in Fortnite. Yeah.
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Oh, those are both so good. The Vader thing seems quick. I'm actually really intrigued with this VR question. But this is a trio. I'll let you guys decide.
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I think the VR question is interesting. So I'll tell you what. Let's cover the VR thing real quick, and then we'll just give our brief thoughts on Vader. How about that? Because we have to.
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Okay.
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Because again, this falls on the heels of Expedition 33 for people that have beaten the game and played it. So no spoilers coming, but it is fitting to what's going on in the gaming world. So there was an article that a Korean VR firm created this experience where you can go into VR and and interact with your deceased loved ones.
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And the example that they gave in this case is a mother and her 10 year old daughter who, who died from an illness suddenly. And they actually have video of this where you see the mom in a VR headset, and then you see the daughter kind of walk out, you know, from, from behind something and start talking to the mom in the daughter's voice. She looks exactly like the daughter and,
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Dude, I'm going to be honest, man. I watched this video at work today and I literally started getting choked up because as a parent, I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child, number one. But then to see your child represented in VR and hear their voice and have that ability to interact with them. I don't know.
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There's a part of me that's like, dude, there are people that would give anything for this experience. But then there's a part of me that goes, this is not a good way to deal with this, man. Grief is a weird thing. And again, in Expedition 33, it kind of touches on grief.
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We're not going to get into spoilers, but I mean, that is a major underlying tone in the game with the gommage and everything else. People that have beaten the game, you understand what we're talking about. If you haven't, go play Expedition 33. So the question is, is like, what do you think about this, man? There's a part of me that kind of recoils and goes, oh, you shouldn't do that.
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But then there's a part of me that's like, oh, my goodness, dude. Like this mom got something that maybe she desperately needed from this experience, too.
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I certainly don't think this is any weirder than open casket funerals when you're covering over a corpse. I am frankly all for this stuff, man. I am probably in the 10% of the population that is like, hook me up. Put me in the matrix, like chip me, do all that stuff. Take all the stupid weak flesh off of me.
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Like I'm so acutely aware of my mortality that like I, anything I can do to escape it, I'm in favor for. I think that there's this kind of thing helps us get closer to some sort of biological immortality where we're able to maintain our consciousness past our normal lifespan. And I'm 100% for it.
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Ryan, what do you think about this, man?
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Oh, my goodness.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Shall I open? No, please. So, first of all, this type of thing is not unheard of. If you buy and own a firearm and add a bump stock in most states, that is illegal. You get that removed. If you were to buy and own a vehicle and you put in an unsafe brake system, that would no longer be a legal situation. With Nintendo... You are not just buying a Switch. You're not just buying a console.
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I'm even more for this now, right? Because most children irritate the crap out of me and then let people kill me after they're dead kids. Oh, boy. I'm glad I'm the editor on this episode. That takes care of all the parents and all the kids, and then me and all my 40-year-old teenager friends can just live our Peter Pan lives forever. This is awesome.
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It bears the question that if you could live in the Matrix, would you? And Ryan, you basically said if it meant seeing my family member that I don't have anymore, I absolutely would. No, no.
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Right.
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My thinking is not having to face this situation, thankfully, is my initial gut reaction is I wouldn't do it. I don't know that it's healthy to be able to do that. And then like, you know, again, I, you know, the grief process is unique to each person that that goes through grief. You know, I think how people deal with it is different. I would be not a good person to handle that.
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I think I would be very self-destructive, to be honest with you.
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I mean, you know, people know themselves. And so it's kind of like the how would you deal with that? How you deal with it might be different than how I deal with it. And who's to say the right way. Right. But. I think that it would be unhealthy for me to revisit that situation and try to get over it in that case to say, Hey, I need to move on with my life because I'm with you, Ryan.
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I think that if you got that, that, you know, endorphin rush of like seeing your child again and that interaction and stuff, I think you just put yourself in a very dangerous position to be like, I'm not leaving, you know?
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Well, so this is an interesting philosophical question because I think If you were to go into this VR scenario and the AI is unconvincing, whatever it is, that the experience doesn't feel authentic, then I feel like there's not really any harm or addictive endangerment. You get in there and go like, that was weird and emotionally unpleasant, and so I'm not going to do it anymore.
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Or you get in there and you go, wow, that was so immersive. It was like being with my child or my wife or whoever it is. Again, I can't bear to be without them. I want to spend all my time in the matrix with them. Then at what point do you go like that is any less authentic a relationship than with a real tangible human? Like reality is perspective.
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And if your reality, you get to the truth, right?
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That's the matrix because it's like, you're, you've been living in this life that you thought was real. And then somebody comes along and says, this is not real. There is a real world out there. Do you want to see it? You know? And I think for me, my absolutely, I would take the red pill and be like, I want to know what the actual real world is.
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If you're telling me that what I am experiencing is not real, even though it's all I've ever known, They're like, I don't know what it is in my brain, but I'm going to be like, I want to see what's real, like plain and simple. Even if that means the end of this, you know, I want to I want to know what the actual truth is, what what reality is. It may not be pleasant.
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And I mean, in the Matrix, it's really not pleasant. But there's just something in me that is like I would need to know. Maybe it's curiosity. I don't know. But, yeah, I would want to know what the actual real world entails at that point. I will say that this experience looked pretty good. I mean, it was the girl's voice. It was AI driven. So the mom didn't program.
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The mom didn't know what was going to happen. The saddest thing was at the end of this experience, the little girl lays in bed and the mom's like kind of like trying to like pat her and like tell her good night. And then the little girl turns into like a little like butterfly made of light and just flies away. And I was like, oh, my heart.
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That's beautiful. That's beautiful, though, man.
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It was tough, man. All right. Well, on a different note, guys, let's talk about how gamers have been taking advantage of Darth Vader in Fortnite. This is the one I love the most.
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What other podcast are you going to listen to where you get to hear a heartfelt VR deceased person story followed up by gamers making Vader say inappropriate words in AI?
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The best podcast.
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Yeah, that's true. We just lost every single Patreon subscriber at the same time.
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I'll be honest. I had a buddy at work come up to me today and asked me if I had heard about this Darth Vader AI thing. And I was like, we're actually talking about it tonight, dude. You have to credit the ingenuity of gamers. If we could only use this power for good, that would be great, but we don't. We use it for the most inappropriate things.
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The Mythic Quest, they talk about TTP, time to... If you've seen the show, you know what it is. But it's basically like, if you give gamers a creative tool, how long before they start drawing things that are inappropriate in the game? I mean, this is what gamers do, man. I don't understand why we all just know that this is what happens. So... Vader is in Fortnite.
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Apparently you have to like, you know, fight everybody else off to try to get to talk to Vader. He takes you away. I haven't played Fortnite. So if this is wrong, please don't roast me on social media guys. But you know, you have to fight Vader. And then if you duel him, apparently then you get to kind of talk to him and he trains you or something like that.
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And this is where you get to interact with Vader. And it is an AI language model type thing. Most of these come with protections. Gamers have figured out how to get around those protections. I have seen many a hilarious clip right now of gamers getting fader to say some very inappropriate things. I mean, like on the one hand, you kind of go like, why?
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You are buying a ecosystem that Nintendo helps to supply. You may own that physical device, but when you begin to alter that physical device, you become a potential liability to the community that you're buying into. And there's the practical concern, the very practical concern that I will take
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But then on the other hand, you kind of go like, yeah. Yeah. You appreciate the ingenuity on this. I will say one of the funniest clips I saw was Vader actually accusing a guy of cheating where he like you can hear the voiceover. And I guess he kind of like the voice follows you through the rest of the match that you're in. And it's like Vader starts saying, like, that was an amazing shot.
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Like some would say you're strong in the force. Others would say you're using technological achievements to obtain such power. You know, like basically saying the guy was cheating.
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I think this is great, dude. Like, this is how you implement AI in a fun way in a video game, in my opinion.
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Yeah.
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We never grow up. It's the truth. But you know what? Also, don't grow up, man. Just because you get old doesn't mean you've got to act all stodgy and uptight and grown-up-like.
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Oh, man. Yeah, Peter Pan World full of middle-aged. Oh, man. Right?
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Goodness, guys. Well, this was a fun episode, man. Are you sure?
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We went way long on this one. People are like, man, these twigs have really gotten old.
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We're going to fight today, man.
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Because guess what? The best thing is that I think if we would have had a lottery where we chose the other perspective, I bet we would. Oh, yeah.
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It's as little as five bucks a month. It really does go a very long way in helping us keep this content flowing. and keeping the show independent. And one of, I mean, honestly, let's, you know, off the hinges, you know, gaming podcast out there as well. So, yeah. Yeah. So thank you everybody for hanging out with us. That's going to do it for this episode until next time. Happy gaming. See ya.
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Bungie's Blunder, Switch 2 Smackdown and Gamers Gonna Gamer - Gaming Podcast
any corporation's side on this, is that if you begin to mess with the hardware in a way that it is not intended for, you create customer service liability, which then costs them money. If you mod it incorrectly in some way, you have messed with the fundamental software parameters of the device, and then it becomes a very murky situation for them to try and hold up their warranty.
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Bungie's Blunder, Switch 2 Smackdown and Gamers Gonna Gamer - Gaming Podcast
Toodaloo buckaroo.
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Bungie's Blunder, Switch 2 Smackdown and Gamers Gonna Gamer - Gaming Podcast
And joining me, you can find him trying to trick Darth Vader into saying, May the fart be with you. It's Ryan.
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If you should complain, even if it is your fault or not, I want to jump into already. Please.
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Okay. Allow me to address your first two points. When you buy a bump stock, you are making a weapon more lethal than it is intended to be to a wider number of people. Potential, in this case, people. This is why bump stocks are outlawed. When you modify your brakes, you are saying that you are making your vehicle unsafe towards other people.
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So there are safety concerns with these sorts of things.
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And those issues are there for the safety of the common people to protect them against these sorts of modifications causing damage and bodily harm to other people. If I buy a car and I want to put... whatever leather seats in my car or modify it with a cold air filter, put nitro boost on it, whatever. That's my car. I paid for it. I own it. It's mine.
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I can do whatever the heck I want to do to it. If I want to roll it with house paint to change the color of it, I can do that because it's mine. I own it. Now, if I break it in that process and I take my car to the dealership and I say, hey, man, my car's not working right. And they open it up and they're like, Dude, you modified this. This isn't covered under warranty.
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I'm going to go, oh, yeah, you're right, because your warranty specifically implies what's covered and isn't covered. So if I screw it up, that's my fault. But to say that I am purchasing something, but I am not purchasing the physical product at that point. I am purchasing the rights to use this product, which is what Nintendo was saying. That is shady, scummy.
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Now I feel like I'm at the used car lot with the guy that's slapping the hood going, this baby gets 50 miles to the gallon if you get out and push. You know, like... What the heck is Nintendo doing, man? They are so anti-consumer at this point. Nintendo. That is absolutely not. Oh, they absolutely are.
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Yeah, we'll get to Vader here in a little bit. And joining us, Rockstar might be saying Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the best thing the world's ever seen, but he says the same thing every morning to his bathroom mirror. It's John.
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Categorically incorrect.
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No, because listen, here's the thing. You can't tell me that if I buy your product that I'm not allowed to modify your product at that point. Where does it stop? Can I put a screen protector on there? Because that's modifying the product.
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Josh, I used to own a business with 120 people that did $40 million a year in revenue. This is exactly what I'm talking about. When we had customers who would, for instance, put what they wanted to be a sound barrier around an HVAC unit that we put outside. Yeah. They would do it with the best of intentions. But really what they were doing was they were restricting the air exchange and the unit.
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The compressor would die early. That's their fault. Okay, it's their fault. But then they would say, well, you never told me this specific thing.
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But hold on. But your company. We're talking about a world where irons have to put a safety disclaimer on the side of the box so people don't iron their clothes while it's on their body. I do not. People are dumb. Yes, they are. Common sense doesn't exist. Like Nintendo as a company, as a big company with a target on its back working in the entertainment industry, whatever you want to call it.
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has the legal right to protect its IP. The Switch ecosystem includes proprietary software, hardware, services. These things, when people start to tamper with them, circumvent built-in protections and often lead to pathways for cybersecurity problems. If nothing else, if we're not talking about physical security, we're talking about the security of people's
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Bungie's Blunder, Switch 2 Smackdown and Gamers Gonna Gamer - Gaming Podcast
information the security of people's ability to play a game without having to worry about whether somebody's got like an auto aim mod or something in a multiplayer game the system is designed to work in a particular way that nintendo can monitor the safety of it and any tampering with it outside of that creates liability.
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And the most important thing here is that I won't say this for like, if we're talking about hardware mods, something like more or less harmless from a consumer standpoint of people like putting in their own joysticks or buttons that have, you know, response that is more ideal for them or whatever. Like my buddy CJ modifies arcade sticks. It's like a hobby of his.
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But the grand majority of people who do this stuff do it to get, like, what do they call them? They do it for, like, emulators. Most of the modding community is for it. I get why people need them. Okay. Which is theft. It's categorically theft.
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That is not entirely inaccurate. Wake up, Flex. Doing all right today, man. Doing good, old man.
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Uh, right. But if that's just because it's not an option, then, Nintendo is doing this so that there is a deterrent from people even trying. Sure. Trust me, bro. Nintendo's doing this because they're evil! They're evil!
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It is corporate responsibility. Okay. Trust me, if I was installing people's HVAC systems, and especially the guarantees that we put into our systems, we're giving people a two-year, 100% money-back guarantee. But if somebody could just mess with it and then blame it on us, that would be a problem.
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I would have absolutely in a second started installing technology that broke if a customer tampered with it. If there was some key that only allowed us to modify it and therefore maintain the integrity of our own warranty and guarantee system. you can bet your bouncy booty that I would have done that 100 times out of 100.
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So if this is truly because of liability issues and not Nintendo being a greedy corporate giant that has completely lost its way to gamers, then why aren't Xbox and PlayStation doing this? You don't see Xbox and PlayStation going, we're going to brick your system, losers, if you try to modify it.
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It's because the... That is a newer technology. Like, for instance, the original Xbox was basically a dummy computer in a shell. Do you guys remember that? Sure, yeah.
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Looks like I lost a little bit of water weight overnight. Oh, boy, guys, this is we got some drama. We have not only do we have some drama, we got a lot of drama to talk about this week, man. You know, some weeks we got all kinds of like awesome game trailers to talk about game reveals, you know, other stuff. This week, the gaming world has just decided we didn't have enough drama, guys.
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Okay. Had they the technology at that time to be able to brick wall somebody from modifying their hardware, I... guarantee they would have done it. Absolutely.
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The technology exists. Why aren't they doing it now?
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Bungie's Blunder, Switch 2 Smackdown and Gamers Gonna Gamer - Gaming Podcast
They're not doing it now, though.
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Yeah. If it's truly liability, Microsoft, I don't know which company has a higher valuation, but I'm going to assume Microsoft has a higher valuation than Nintendo. You think this would be priority one for them if it's truly a liability issue for them to go, oh my gosh, guys, we got to protect ourselves. This is absolutely 100% because they do not want people modding things.
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And I get that it is a deterrent for people, but for a company to say that if you mess with it, we are going to brick it, we are going to push the little red button that nukes this system to make it unusable is absolute overreach in my opinion. And it is taking advantage of the fact that the End User License Agreement, the EULA, nobody reads these things, dude. Nobody.
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How many games have you just clicked the, yeah, let me into the game button so that you can play the freaking game? This is not Nintendo being like, man, we don't really want to get sued. This is absolutely Nintendo going, we don't want you to be able to do this because it takes money out of our pocket.
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If we allow you to modify it and turn it into an emulator, you can put a thousand games on this thing. And now you're not buying our $60 overpriced game.
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You can steal a thousand games and put it on our company. That is what you're saying.
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It's not the company's responsibility to police its users.
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A lot of those games are Nintendo IP.
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It's not their responsibility, though.
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This is the thing. It's not Nintendo's responsibility. It is their right. It is their right to protect their IP. It is their product. They can do whatever they want. It is a legal right. Whatever your moral qualms about this are, this is the beauty of a free economy, Josh. If you don't like it, buy something else. No problem.
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I'm going to because at this point, I am not buying a Switch 2. That's fine.
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Regardless of what you sign.
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At least a little bit.
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They're not sticking it. They're sticking it where the sun don't shine anymore. You don't have. No. This would be one thing if what we're talking about was like some totalitarian regime where you didn't have the option to do something. Dude, if you don't like the way Nintendo operates, go somewhere else.
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Nintendo is operating in the way that they feel is going to allow them to be able to produce and protect the best IP that they know how. Nobody knows everything, man. I mean, like, bro, I just had this debacle at Fry's, which is a Kroger store today, where they like, they hid all of their batteries behind a, behind a,
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We Sat Down with Bungie: Dev Secrets and How They're Giving Back - Gaming Podcast
Oh, just stumbled right into Bungie. No big deal at all.
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We Sat Down with Bungie: Dev Secrets and How They're Giving Back - Gaming Podcast
You did it.
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We Sat Down with Bungie: Dev Secrets and How They're Giving Back - Gaming Podcast
That's awesome. So, like, you know, you talk about, like, Christine's been here forever. You know, you're newer to this kind of side of it. But, you know, they let you in as a finance guy. So there's going to be a culture there. And a lot of times as gamers, you know, we hear about the cultures in a dev studio and what it takes to create just these awesome games that people make.
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What is the culture like at Bungie for you guys?
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We Sat Down with Bungie: Dev Secrets and How They're Giving Back - Gaming Podcast
People that will put in the work and the effort to do these things, it's not just, oh, you failed this time, kick them to the road. You can see the opportunity within them and what they can achieve, and you let that kind of develop. And that's just such a cool – we go back to the community and what a studio is.
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And it's cool to see such a big place still kind of feel that small to where people feel like they can make a difference. And so that's awesome to see.
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This place is a pretty good. I think I'm going to stick around.
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Especially Vault of Glass. So I'm an OG Destiny guy too. I have like 1,700 hours in Destiny 1. I was lucky enough to where I had a big enough crew. We had enough for a raid, and every Tuesday we'd run all three characters. I'd run my hunter, warlock, and titan. Every Tuesday, we'd run all three, and we'd run through the raid.
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But there was just nothing like that, the mechanics and the way that that raid kind of went together, like with Atheon and all that stuff, like in the Vault of Glass. It was just something that was so different in hunting for the Gjallarhorn. I ran – everyone had the Gjallarhorn. Look, and you could see his head like, oh, man. That's so good.
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Because everyone else got the Gjallarhorn but me for like 40 raids. I didn't get it. And I'm just like, come on, man.
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The wolf packs, yeah. Immediately, the wolf packs.
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And then there's all these other missiles, you know, and it's just like, oh, okay, that's what the hype's about. So, yeah, that just shows with the development, you know, like what it takes to draw people in, to make people keep playing the game. You know, it's just, man, that, yeah, I have so many fond memories of Destiny 1, just doing those raids in Vault of Glass.
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Like, that's the second you started talking about that, you know. Yeah.
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Oh, I was a Titan main. Oh, you're a Titan? Okay. Yeah, I was a Titan. I love the Smash, man. I love to run in the Crucible, and they're capping the flag, and I come in and slam and just wipe everyone. Oh, I'm that guy. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm playing Marvel Rivals right now, and I'll main Moon Knight, and then I'll just drop the Ankh, and then I'll just ult on everyone on the base.
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But yeah, I'm more of a just kind of like just smash everyone, you know, kind of Hulk smash. Punchling, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I liked Warlock, but I could never get the good vibe. I would play him, but I was never a big hunter guy. See, I'm a hunter.
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That's me.
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Yeah, I got a couple of buddies that were the hunter mains, and they just vibed well with them. To me, I was either the warlock with the power punches and stuff or the titan with an AR and then just smash. Yeah, smash.
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That's why he's mad at you already, right? Yeah, I know, right? He's like, oh, you're that guy. Don't worry. We'll get in. We'll go to the lighthouse, buddy.
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We just talked with an animator, and he was telling us how it takes three months to do 10 seconds of animation. Who knows what it is with doing the video game stuff behind, because there's a lot of motion controls involved as well. I'm sure there's just so much that is the behind-the-scenes work that people don't see.
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You're like, I see it.
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Now, because you are such an involved gamer, you've been playing for so long, does having that kind of outlook on these games help you with the development side? You're in the know, you know what people want, you know what you want. Is that kind of advantageous for you?
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Just excuse us a little bit. You guys go on both sides now, though. You get to still do the foundation stuff, but then you get to work with video games. How awesome is that?
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Everyone tried real hard. You all did a good job. I don't play these games, no way. Great job. Now go delete the game.
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Josh has never said that before.
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I love the sigh. That's how you know. That's how you know.
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You know what they are? They're queuing up to reload because they're dead. Because I came through with a Banshee and smoked them all. That's what happened.
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the warthog is the right answer whatever people that's just iconic is all it is like it's obviously iconic it's amazing banshee's the superior vehicle in my opinion that's iconic for a reason yeah exactly plus if you got a good warthog driver and a gunner together that is true a good a good combo is is solid for sure
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Vex milk is the lifeblood of the Vex alien race. That's what Vex blood is.
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Yes, it is. Is it just like, I don't know.
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I don't want to drink it. I don't want to drink it, but I know what Vex Milk is, and I just shoot it and it explodes, and then I feel happy inside when I see it.
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Oh my goodness. It better be by Kate six and he slings me a Vex milk and we're good to go. And some spicy ramen and some Vex milk.
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Yeah, it's like literally you are the worst tank ever, but also, hey, let's go help this kid. So like I've – I mean my son has been in the hospital when he was younger for some things and then my little sister as well and Phoenix Children's here locally. Yeah. The stuff that all these different organizations do is just – the outreach that they do is just awesome.
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What is the most powerful moment that you've seen from your time there with Bungie?
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I know it's going to be hard.
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Um,
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And now he's leaving and I'm not okay with it.
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He's like, well, I'm going to go have some fun now. Yeah, whatever. Oh, man. That is awesome. So, like... I mean, as speaking of gamers, we're a fickle bunch. We're kind of all over the place. As we talked about getting together, I think overall, the community is truly, at its heart, good. Like... There can be an impact with that. What can they do?
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What is something that you would love to see gamers come together on? Something that we can all just unite on because at the end of the day, we all get home from work or whatever we do. We want to log on. We want to be together. We want to get our time in to this world. What can we do together as gamers to have an impact on your world as far as helping people?
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I got that. I got that. So, Jared, you've been with Bungie for a bit now. As a gamer, I was actually watching some of your stuff. I think you are a kind of longstanding gamer. Oh, no. You're watching some of my Bungie bounty fails? They
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Yeah, I think that's what I would take. It's massive. I tried to 3D print a thorn handgun, hand cannon, and I got to a third part and something messed up, and then I was like, there's too much here. It's too much. We have a lot of weapon replicas in the studio, too.
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I'm so jealous right now.
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I just need to get into finance, and then somehow I'll just end up over there in the game department. Exactly. That's how it works.
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I take my car.
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To get into the juicy side of it, here's the big one. Who would win in a fight? Master Chief... Or Doomguy?
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what what is it um i mean you know these games what what is it that takes you you know what what's a game that is is that next level for you what what makes you kind of feel you know as a gamer what what's the best best that's out there i mean right now or like yeah yeah right now right now oh this is hard um
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Chief, that's a good answer. We'll take it. There's no wrong answer on this one. Exactly, yeah. There's no wrong answer.
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All right. I like it. I like it.
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Highly, highly addictive.
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We just did an indie episode with top five indie games and stuff, and Bellatra was on my list for just one of those that people just can't stop themselves. They can't help themselves, man. It's one of those that grabs a hold of you and holds on tight.
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I love that phrase, by the way, the best worst decision. That's a good one. That's like playing Rust. Yeah.
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It's Ryan. Why do you have to remind me every time? Like... This is an amazing thing. It's a horrible thing. It's just like a lot of my life has gone to this beautiful, beautiful game. It's an amazing thing, Ryan.
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Yeah, when you know and then you're just running away like, well, this is the end. That's awesome. Oh, my goodness.
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That's probably true.
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I love, I love to ask you just like, Oh, admin job. I'll just hop into one of the best studios of all time.
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Like there's like, are you kidding me? He's like named Halo or something. I don't know. Like,
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It is weird. It's a weird thought because you think back to certain games like 007. That was N64. Even, like you mentioned, Metal Gear Solid. That was PlayStation. Yeah. the thought of just exclusives being gone, you know, Halo with Xbox, you know, it's, it's, it's a weird thought, but also why not? Like, why, why can't these games just be for, for everybody?
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I know you guys are very unhappy, but have you ever had pizza? Have you ever had a pepperoni pizza? Oh, man. We got a couple of larges right in there, and then some chips, and everything's cool, right? We're all good? No? It's not even Papa John's, man.
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What the heck is this? That's worse than nothing. That's the worst. I'd rather have nothing.
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Yeah.
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Yep. Yep. It's like, I feel like DJ Khaled is like, another one. Another one. I'm just like, I just keep watching trailers. I'm like, I just, I can only get so excited, you know, and I just keep going. But, you know, here we are.
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I had played it. I never owned it, but I was at a buddy's house and he had me do a few runs because he knows that I was getting into roguelikes and he's like, you got to check this one out. He's like, Returnal is awesome. So I've definitely dabbled in it. I would not say that I am competent or very knowledgeable on it, but I have played it and seen it. And what I did play was awesome.
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Yeah.
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What are you doing to me? That's before delays or who knows what else happens. Miss me with that, dude. I'll watch it. Oh, that looks pretty cool. And then I'll totally forget it exists for like a year and a half.
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I, um... It's hard to describe how excited I am. Because even though Metal Gear Solid 3 was not my favorite...
Video Gamers Podcast
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overall as far as gameplay and then kind of the memory of the games i do think that is the best game in the series i think metal gear solid 3 is the best crafted the best gameplay the best story i think overall it's the best you know in that series so for it to get a remake and for it to be done as well as it looks like it's being done i am uh i am very excited especially
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for people like you that have never had the pleasure to play it. Yeah. It is going to be a whole different world just watching some of the gameplay. And, you know, you were asking for gameplay. This showed some gameplay. It did. And just to see it, I instantly, I was like, holy. Oh, brother, man. I am so excited. I am so amped up.
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I am ready to just dive just straight into the mud, so to speak, into this game. And, dude, it's going to be... Dude, I'm telling you, I promise you, you are going to love this game. If you liked Metal Gear Solid V, you are going to love it. Metal Gear Solid 3 Delta.
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It's so weird. The one thing with freaking Kojima and stuff, his villains and his boss fights are just so memorable. Like, you're not going to have, like, a part of this game that's, like, an impactful part within the story that you're not going to remember. It's not going to be like, oh, what? Who did I fight there? No.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
You are going to remember every section of this game, and it's going to be, like...
Video Gamers Podcast
Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
just a different chapter like this was this chapter that was that chapter and they're gonna all be so memorable and the interactions and the battles it's it's gonna be just something that you've never experienced before and i'm i am so stoked just kind of sit back and watch it happen dude you don't even understand i'm like i'm a giddy i'm like a kid before christmas man
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Dude, there's an old man called The End that he just has moss on him because he doesn't move and he's like a sniper. And there's... Kojima never fails to disappoint... Or to excite with... He never disappoints with his enemies. His bosses are just crazy. There's just nothing like it. And they're over the top... They're obnoxious in a good way.
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And it's going to be something that you will for sure remember, man. There's just something about it that I just can't even wait. And I haven't played Metal Gear Solid 3 in a very, very long time. So I'm almost going to be kind of getting back into it with you of things that I forgot. Like, oh, man, I totally forgot about this part or that part. So it's going to be something else, man.
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I'm so stoked.
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Yeah, this is what starts kind of with the original boss, you know, and stuff like that. So it's... I don't want to, you know... The story, even if I told you every step of the way with the story, you wouldn't understand it. It wouldn't make sense. I know the story, and it doesn't even make sense to me. So I couldn't even. It'd be hard to explain it.
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So, yeah, they did not do us any favors as far as that goes with the kind of linear timeline. But this one is something else. So it's going to be very, very good.
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There's so many. I'm here for it, man. Yeah. It's going to be good.
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For realsies. We're actually going to release it this time. This time for real.
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You know, I hate to be that guy, but it just looks like kind of the same of the old. To me, I saw nothing that piqued my interest or drew me in. And so, yeah, I think it's just kind of the same of the old.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way that I'm trashing Borderlands that I just think it's going to be horrible or anything. I guess I'm maybe just a little more pessimistic because I want it to be good, but I just don't see anything that's blowing my mind. But... Who knows?
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Maybe when it comes out, it's something that does... Until you really get to get your hands on it and play the game, you truly don't know. They could put all the different mechanics or movement things in the world, but unless they work well within the environment, it doesn't make sense. And so... Who knows, man?
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I hope it does, and I hope that it is something that I go, man, I should have been on this one from day one, and this is something amazing. So, you know, it's just kind of one of those things. It's just like a wait-and-see type game.
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Dude, honestly, if they make the games for everything, then it's not about the games anymore. It's about the consoles. Let's step up these consoles. They have to pack them to the brim with the best tech.
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Yes.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Oh, annihilation. You know, it's yeah, it's it's one of those. It's definitely a key word for sure.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
And, you know, that that's what's going to dictate what people buy, you know, so like that's, you know, that's going to be ultimately better for the consumer is that they have to give everyone the best option, you know, because all the games are going to come out in all the systems.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
I guess I am not typically... This type of stuff does not usually resonate that deeply with me. I'm not big on this style of game. I'm not for the kind of East Asian kind of... Final Fantasy look type stuff, but I did watch it multiple times, and watching some of the stuff, I'd see... I noticed on the second or third pass, I'm like, oh, okay, that looks kind of cool.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
In the gameplay, I'm like, oh, I didn't notice that the first time, with some sort of mechanic or some attack that looked really neat. So this is one that it has stood out a little more than the others. You know, you...
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
these battle Royals came out, everyone's doing a battle Royale all of a sudden, you know, and then it's like, where, where do you find the one that, that makes the most sense for you? Um, what, what resonates with you?
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So for this, with this type of gameplay, from what I've seen so far, it did look more than what I would have expected to like be okay with, you know, it definitely resonated a little bit more than, than what I would have thought.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
So this this one has better performance than that one, you know, so then it's all about performance and what you get verse. Oh, this is an exclusive for this one or that one.
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Yeah.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
That's the hard part is it's like, you know, when you got these guys that leave from another, you know, kind of developer base and they have almost a style to them and then they go and they create what they are known for. Yeah, it may be good, but it also, it's like, I already, you know, I already got GTA. What makes me want to get this?
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For sure. Absolutely.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
I do, you know, I think that the futuristic look to it would be really neat, but is that going to be enough for me to buy that over something else? You know, that's always the hard part with these types of games is when they look so similar to something else, like we just mentioned with the BRs, like all the Battle Royales, like Why is this battle Royal better than the other ones?
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Like what, what's the draw? What's the catch? What is going to bring me into it? So, um, yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's enough for me, but, um, but who knows? I'm easily excitable, man. We know.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Well, I hope it comes out this year because I paid a lot for it in our draft. Yeah, you did.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
I did.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
No, I am with you as well. As someone who... Dude, I mean, we both... We grew up with couch co-ops. We grew up with games that, you know, that just... You could play together. You could rely on each other. And the thought of... a game that builds its core around that something that that's the entity of the game. That's, that's what the game is about.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Um, I am all for, I'm, I'm going to desperately try to get my daughter, uh, who's in her teenage years and, and is like, I'm a teenager. I don't like my dad anymore. Type, type, you know, things. So like, but she's getting into games. I think I can get her into this one. And I think it'd be something that we can, you know, play together and bond over. And I think that'll happen kind of, uh,
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on a wide margin throughout a lot of people that play this game so i am stoked and and beyond that like it just looks cool like all the gameplay all the all the missions i we talked about it before where there's little if there's a side quest you know it's a side quest because there's a whole portal and you go to a different world like that i love everything i've seen so far and i i can't wait to jump into this one
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
I'm still in prison in Kingdom Come, dude.
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You know what I mean?
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I think so, man.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Um, I mean, I got Metal Gear Solid, you know, three, so I am, I am beyond stoked, dude. I think it was good. I think there was a lot of other good, uh, kind of highlights to it, but I am, I am so stoked for a beatkeeper guy and fire guy and electric guy, as you described them. And I love that that's how you described him because you didn't know them because you haven't played the game.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
He described him as beekeeper guy, fire guy, and electric guy. Those are the enemies. That's who they are. I can't wait to battle those guys. I'm sure they will love those descriptions as well. But it's going to be good.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
That's true, man. We just love video games. That's all it is.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
That almost sounds like a recipe. You take your diced Rono and then you mix it in the sloppy stew. No, no, no.
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And then stir three times, four turns.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Too much in Kingdom Come, man. I know. I'm the potion. I got a potion empire. I'm usually in jail. But other than that, when I'm not, I'm brewing.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
It's Ryan. Ugh, tastes like poison. I will say this.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
oh man what a that's dude what are you gonna say about that like poetry poetry poetry emotion man it's just uh what what a description an apt description of of what we offer here at the video gamers podcast
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
All right, Ryan, you got one for us, too. I do. I have one as well from The Wild Zombie Villager, which I... Oh, so he lives in a 600-square-foot bedroom. There you go. Or one bedroom. Something like that. And even we have zombies that even listen to us, you know? Yeah. So can't complain there. But it is titled, This Got Me Back Into Gaming. Five-star review from, again, The Wild Zombie Villager.
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I love this show. It is fun, family-friendly, and just two awesome dudes. This is me ad-libbing here. Stress awesome. But also, dudes who love gaming and are committed to this show. TLDR, it's got me back into gaming. P.S., Paul will be remembered. P.P.S., Helldivers 2, or Failguard? That's the easiest decision ever. Was that a question?
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There was a question mark at the end, but I will tell you right now, Helldivers 2. I don't need to show you my shirt here.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
My leg!
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for democracy what a review though man i um i genuinely i know we talk about it all the time but to see these is just it's such a cool thing every day to see the people that took the time out of their lives to to leave us a review to show that they care about the show and they care about us and and to kind of help us with all this crazy thing we're trying to do here um but it man it's so cool
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Oh, it's going to be good. I love it.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
We are. We're genuinely active. We are on our Discord. We are there every single day. We're communicating, talking to everybody. Hop in. If you've got a game that you want to play and you don't have anyone to play with, we'll play with you. It's that simple. We've got this kind of thing we're trying to push. No gamer left behind. We are here for everybody. So is our Discord.
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Somebody there will play a game with you. So come on down and hop in there. You're going to have a good time.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
I think they were all based out of Seattle, right?
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
Oh, my God. My eight-year-old son, who will never stop talking about a Lamborghini, would be just, yeah, that's just like the car for a kid. Like, that's when you've made it.
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Have you seen the GT3? Lambo's where it's at. All right, we're turning this into a car episode.
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Listen, it's just like... Hey man, let's make a really awesome live service game. We're going to do something that's been done before, but we're going to do it better than anything ever has. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be a successful smash hit. We're going to release all these characters consecutively every month and a half, two months. Oh, okay, it started. It's going well. Awesome.
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Let's do another release. Okay, it's going even better. Man, we have hit the gravy train. We're going to keep chugging along. This is... Oh, wait, what? Oh, we're laid off. Oh, what? Okay, well, that makes no sense. What the heck, man? Like, it just... All of it, I don't understand the thought process of...
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Split Fiction, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Tides of Annhilation - Gaming Podcast
investing this much in starting this game and this development team, and whether or not they were there just to kind of start the game or help the games launch, whatever the case may be, what they did was working and working very, very well. Why the heck would you change a dang thing, dude? I do not understand. Yeah. Money.
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For what? Half a percent? Like 2%? How many points do you need to make it look good on the books to where you're going to jeopardize the future of your game? Like... how many little dots and figures on that spreadsheet need to be in the black for it to make sense to do something this risky? To me, I mean, I understand. It's out there. It's already successful.
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Love it. Games for everybody. That's what we need.
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It's cemented in, you know, you got Tim the Tapman, Ninja, all these big-time streamers, all these big-time pro gamers, esports guys that are all in love and quite honestly obsessed with this game, including us. I was going to say we kind of are too. Including us. And we're even, you know, this comes out Thursday. We're having a community night Friday, right? Yeah, tomorrow. So tomorrow.
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Tomorrow night, Friday night, we are going to have a community night. We're going to get on. We play a lot of custom matches, 6v6. We'll do in. We had the other week, you know, we had like 20-something people on. We were shuffling people through and splitting teams up. But, like, needless to say, we're all obsessed with this game.
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To me, I can't see a world where, and maybe that's just the part of me that's not obsessed with money, I can't see a world where it makes sense to risk the future of the game for a couple points on a spreadsheet. I just don't get it, man.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
So, I guess like we said, the story itself is kind of minimal. There's not a lot to it. You're traveling along in the galaxy. Some alien comes, smacks you around, scatters some bots all over the place. You've got to go and you've got to rescue all these bots. That's how you start. So now you're going through and you start to go through these different kind of worlds.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
And it was just... It was a continuation of the playroom, but with more depth and more detail. And as it started to progress, you just kind of... Yep, it just kept checking the boxes. Yep, there's another one. Oh, that's cool. There's that. And I just know initially... I played with a smile on my face a bunch of the times I kind of tried to recall just how I felt.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
I'm just like, yeah, I was just smiling. I'm cheesing the whole time I'm playing this dang game. So it was one of those where you just felt good. I know you were saying something. You wanted something different, something. We've been playing heavy games. This was that initial impression where you're happy. It's a happy, fun game right off the bat.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
It's Ryan. Dude, I will be your iron girdle any day of the week. You better believe it. And I'm so proud of you that the world knows who you are now. Because last episode, apparently, they didn't. In the middle of summer, Ryan.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
Like when somebody says good audio, like, huh?
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
What does that mean? It means like, because I got goosebumps right now thinking about it. That's how good the audio is. Just thinking. It really is. You genuinely, I was so excited for Josh to play this game just so he could hear it. And I can't stress to you guys how much I actually kept saying, dude, just wait. Wait for the audio. Wait for the pills. I kept telling him, Josh, the pills.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
Wait for the pills. Wait for the pills. Wait for the metal. Like, it's something that this is a game to where when you hear stuff, you not only hear it, but you feel it. You feel that sound. And that's something we'll dive into deep with this. But like... The combination of the audio and the audio through the controller and the feedback you get within the controller, it's par none.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
There's nothing I've ever experienced that's like this game, which is so wild on a standard 3D platformer that's system-based to just exclusive PlayStation. And to have something of that quality, you can tell... Why isn't every game this way? You know, why doesn't every game make me feel this way from an audio aspect?
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
But like, if that's how it was going to sound, it would, it would be exactly like that. Even, even the, uh, and I know you can attest to this when it rains, your Astro bot pops open an umbrella and you just get this such a real like pitter patter, uh, of water on plastic of like an umbrella. That's just so... It's so hard to describe, man. It's crazy.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
And I know that you know what I'm talking about. And anyone that's played the game knows what we're talking about. But it's just you have to experience it to really genuinely understand the difference between not only the audio coming from your speakers, whatever sound system you're running, but just what they can do with that little controller is just wild.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
It's not lazy animation. You can tell when things are, okay, we're just going to use this system and that's going to be the graphics of the game. This, they had their style, and they just maximized it tenfold. They said, this is what we're going to make it look like, and we're going to do the absolute best we can, and they did that.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
I went back to the crash site, where your PlayStation is, and you can see all your bots, and you can do a bunch of exploring throughout there. I went to this back area, and I'm just wandering around, and I went into the snow, and the crunching through the snow, and you see the snow separate.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
I just ran around and spun fists and just hit all the snow in this little area just to clear it out because of how good it looked. That's how wild it is. It's not ultra real. That's not what it's meant to be. And that's okay. And this works. For what it is, it works so well. They did such an amazing job.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
And you can tell that these people are... These designers and the developers and stuff, they took everything they could...
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
to absolutely peek out the playstation for these graphics like the way they had it set up and designed it was it was unbelievable i loved it and i know i've been gushing over everything so far um it's true and it's probably gonna keep going but it just it was it was just everything looked good like i there what can you say bad about it you know with the graphics
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's like that's what it was. And I would just sit there and run circles.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
Dude, yeah. Even on the Astros playroom, I would go in and there used to be all the little bots that were back then, you know, and they'd circle around you and you would just run through them and bump into them and you could hit them and they'd get mad at you. It's just there's so many parts of it that are so interactive.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
That that it just like we were saying before you just smile like you keep doing all these things you just keep getting that that hit where you're just happy every part of it makes you happy which is just there's not a lot of games that do that it's very true I will say to that there are some really cool uses of perspective in this game.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
Well, I mean, usually like right off the get, you know, you're already... You're flying in on a PlayStation controller that's like a rocket ship kind of F-16 looking ship that you're coming into. So right off the bat, you're staring this and it's just... Every part of it from the very beginning just feels good to play. So you get into a level and you got to start working through it right away.
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[Replay] Amazing AstroBot - Gaming Podcast
There's going to be enemies throughout. There's slime guys that will shoot slime at you. There's other characters that will electrocute you when you get too close. There's characters that will...
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come near you and then they just shoot spikes out of their sides and if you get too close you'll pop and you know you got to restart so they have such a good variety of characters throughout um that you have to battle and then as you progress through the levels you know you're just there's also so much and you talked about it with the ants there's so much depth to it to where you're going up you're going down you're going in areas you're coming out of them you're going around them there's
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No land or level is just kind of flat straight through, just a straight path. Everything has a bunch of different ways to go around it. There's so much, and I'll keep saying, a depth to this game that it's hard to explain. We keep saying you're going to just have to play it, and I think that's what it is. You have to play this game.
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No, I mean, yeah. I mean, the basis of it is pretty simple. Rescue bots. That's about it.
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That one was a big one for me, for sure. Because it was just... When we say like you just shrink down and it's – you go into like a little mini room in one point. You're walking along a wire and then you can go under the bed and there's coins under the bed and you come back out and you got to crawl along a bookcase and then go through a tunnel.
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And then you get up and then you've got to fight a big monster and you got to shrink – blow back up in size. So – And it's so cool to see how you do it. And this kind of goes back to the fluidity we're talking about.
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It's so instant. And this is what I found with, I mean, all of this game and then even the playroom is that everything just, it's so crisp. It just clicks. Everything that you do happens. It's responsive. It's instant. There's not any delay or drag or weirdness that kind of takes you out of the zone. You are in this world, and that's part of what the audio does to you.
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You are so immersed into what you're doing. That's what you're focused on. Okay, I'm a small mouse now. I'm going through this room and I'm going to this other place. There's another part that I thought was so cool. It's not as impactful as that, but you hop on to a fake controller in-game and you shoot throwing stars. And you look in front of you and there's like five bamboo stalks.
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And you've got a character up to the side that's a bot. And you're like, oh, I'm going to rescue that guy. And then you shoot your throwing star and it slices the bamboo shoot down. And you're like, oh, okay. You cut yourself a path to climb up to get him. And you rescue him. You're like, whoa, that was really, really cool.
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And then a little later in the map, you get it again and then you use it to make like a platform to climb up on these like spinning kind of wheels and use them as steps. So there's so many aspects of the game that do things like that, that just keep the immersion. It's just, it's unreal, man. It's so hard to describe.
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Or like, dang it, dang it, no, I can't believe he got me again.
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That's cool. Yeah, I didn't get a chance to play those. I know we were kind of playing through, and so I'm so excited to hear that because, yeah, we beat it. We beat the final boss. We went through all the levels and got most of the characters or rescued most of the bots. But to hear that, to get it to that aspect, and they will release.
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I know I had talked about how it lends itself to speed trials and running like that. They are going to do a DLC, I believe, that's going to come out free in so many months. I'm not sure when, but I did hear that that's going to offer that. But this seems like a good replacement until then, because that's how I was on the playroom, where I was doing time trials, trying to run these levels.
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And you said at the beginning, you're like dying right away or dying here or there. By the end, dude, you're like, boom, boom, boom, boom. You're like Neo. You just...
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sense everything and you know everything and and you're flying through so i'm super stoked to try that out i'll have to take a another break from space marine i guess for astrobot for a little bit but i'm gonna make you play these levels because i want you to feel the pain that i felt but i also really want to hear your thoughts on them as well so oh man that was easy
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Well, so I will say, and I know you said as far as timeline on this game, six to nine hours or something like that. It's not a long game. There is a lot more you can do with it. Probably full playthrough time to where you're going to really rescue all the bots. I think there's over 300. To beat the game, you probably need like 210 or something like that. My biggest complaint with this game...
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is that there's not more. I want more, dude. I honestly don't know what I could say other than not having time trial stuff where I could just do speed race levels and time trial levels type things. I genuinely think that this is one of the crisp and most designed audibly, gameplay-wise, visually. All of these things check every single box. And I just wish there was more of it.
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That's my biggest complaint is that I want more. More!
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you know or something like they do it's i don't know if you saw they do they do have uh when you're replaying through level i don't think they have it in the first and it's actually a genius thing the birdhouse you saw okay yeah it cost you like 200 coins or something like that just nothing and then it just it'll chirp and kind of guide you to where the characters are the bots that you missed or some something you know of of interest in that level which is nice when you're doing the you know the replay through a run trying to get more characters so
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That is one thing that I think they kind of helped with that, but it's totally fair what you said about kind of replayability.
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Dude, and I mean this with all seriousness. I don't see how it can't be. It is so far and away one of the best designed and developed games I've ever played. Ever. I don't see how it can't be up there. Obviously, there's really not much of a story. And I'm a huge story guy. I know, you know, Paul, a former host, was a huge story guy as well. Like... That can totally make a game.
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But this is just the audio, the gameplay, the development, the design, the graphics. Everything about it is so top-notch. You can tell they just did not cut any corners. It was a pure passion project from beginning to end. And they just did such a phenomenal job that they, beyond a shadow of a doubt, deserve all the credit they would get and they should get for this. And it better be up there.
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What do you have negative to say about this game? If you've played it and you didn't like it or you have something bad to say, hit us up on our socials. Come to our Discord. Let us know because I genuinely want to hear from anyone that doesn't like something about this game. I don't know what you could not like.
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who whose takes well i don't know what you're talking about i don't know man that guy that guy must like weird games i think so i think he likes a lot of weird games i also want to say i don't appreciate being included in 36 37 that age range i still are in that age i know i identify as like a 22 year old oh wow really you're that old
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All right, so this is a game that I know, obviously, everybody knows we love this from listening to this. If you're listening this far into the episode, you know that we love this game. It's going to be really, really, really up there for us. For me, it was one that, like, the way they developed this and the way the worlds were, it felt as to where...
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It was not a lot of platformers and a lot of other games. It's kind of like that world's just there. It's always going. There's always things happening. This game felt like it was waiting for you. Everything you did in this, it felt like you were the centerpiece. You were the one there. You were making everything move, and everything revolved around you.
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9.7. This is not only one of the best games of this year, one of the best games I've ever played. Audio, visual, gameplay, everything. Flawless.
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I will say too, you're lucky that my son is your biggest fan.
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Yeah, next time I see Jackson, dude, I'm giving him a fist bump.
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He did not know what to do with himself the next morning. After we've been playing, we were grinding out Astro Bot for like four straight days. And then all of a sudden, the PlayStation's gone. And in the morning before school, he gets up early like me. And he's like wandering around. He doesn't know what to do. And I was like, he's like, Josh is going to play, right?
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And I was like, yeah, yeah, he's playing it right now. And he's like, all right, cool. And so he was excited. You were going to check it out. He's like, it's a good game, Dad. And I'm like, I know, buddy. I know.
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yeah it was um it i can't stress it enough get this game because it's not only a game it's an experience like it really is you genuinely have to like to to understand what we've talked about and gushed about for a whole you know hour here um you have to experience it yourself it is it is a genuine like kind of once in a generation type experience
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We're going to get on it for sure. Absolutely.
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Yeah, I believe it's Playroom, but like, yeah, it was kind of like the introduction to the PlayStation, kind of what they gave with the system. And it was something that we, by I mean me and my son, just were obsessed with. So we absolutely loved it. And when we figured out that this game was coming out, we were beyond excited. And we're going to cover all that today.
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I was hoping that it was going to be everything Astro's Playroom was and more. It was one of those things where, okay, here's a little snippet. You go around to Costco, and there's always samples everywhere, and there's a million different things you can try and taste. And you get that one, and you're like, oh, okay. Okay, that's pretty good.
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Where can I go and get more of this, please? On sale. Thank you very much. So it was one of those that I was beyond excited. I wanted more because I knew that I liked what was already there and they had a good base for And it was exciting to see what a full game would be.
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And I can tell you that even if I hadn't played, what the trailer and what it looked like and the hype behind it would have easily got me excited enough to play as well.
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That's what it's meant to be, and it's meant to get you to buy a dang PlayStation, bud.
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Absolutely. So the description reads, the PS5 mothership has been wrecked, leaving Astro and the bot crew scattered all over the galaxies. Time to ride your trusty dual speeder across more than 50 planets full of fun, danger, and surprises on your journey to make the most of Astro's new powers and reunite with many iconic heroes from the PlayStation universe.
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And I'll tell you, they do bring a lot of heroes from the PlayStation universe.
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Dude, it's funny, too, because because some of them are characters that I totally forgot, like are like PlayStation exclusive characters. And you seem like, wait, that looks familiar. I know. Oh, that's from that one game, you know, and it just dude, it's just nostalgia hit after nostalgia hit, man. It's got all that dopamine, you know, it triggers for sure.
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Dude, I think everybody knows the value of a good pivot.
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Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. I think this was a quality pivot because I secretly felt the same, dude. I'm looking at this and I know that I had the advantage of I had true love and admiration for Astro's Playroom. So I already was in kind of the mold and in that world. And so I was just beyond excited. It was something that I could play, something I could play with my son.
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And I was genuinely just looking forward to what they could create and As a full game. Like hey. Let's put some time behind this. It's not just a release with the system. This is an actual game. People have to buy it. People are going to pay their money for it. And they're going to have expectations. So let's deliver. And to see what they could do with those expectations.
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I was just so excited for that. And... Yeah, man. It was one of those that as amazing as Space Marine is and looked, I was definitely ready for a good platformer like Astro Bot.
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And I think with what happened with Bungie and Destiny 2 and kind of where that tailored off, they're just going to get cooked, man. They're just going to get cooked. All right.
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We all are. I think we all are. And the thing is, like, my only counter to that is, you know, how many of the people that made those decisions for Halo are still there. That's the thing, you know, because that, I mean, you can cheer for a sports team and this team did this and that and this and that. That was five years ago. There's only one person on the team left from there.
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It's just... That's who matters. The core that's developing this game is what matters. I mean, I hope it's amazing. Because I had some of the best times of my life playing Destiny. And I want to continue that. And I love Bungie for what they gave me. And I want that to continue. But Pan... $30, $40. $40. That's what's rumored. It's not confirmed. It's premiered tile.
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$40 with a bunch of transactions and micro stuff in there. Man, I don't know. It's going to bleed me dry if I want to keep up. We'll see. I hope. It's good.
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All right. That's awesome. I mean, didn't the original Hades release on the Switch as well? It did, yep.
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Like, this is what they already did. And I know we always go over kind of what we're going to talk over the show. Me, I was like, oh, that's kind of normal. But I guess people that don't know, like, this happened before the last time. So, I mean, it's... It's news, but it's not news, but it's also for people like you guys that, you know, you're a PC player. I'm a PC player for the most part.
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I have the Switch and stuff, but it is kind of, man, I got to wait. You know, we're not used to having to wait for stuff like that. So having that timed release, if you don't have a Switch, you know, it's definitely a little different, but...
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it is cool for Nintendo to have some sort of top tier game release that they can kind of pair up and be like, Hey, you know, now you can buy a switch to, you know, here you go. And we got this game coming out. You can only get it with this system. So it's, it's smart for them and it's good for them.
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Does it release with the OG Switch 2, or is it just Switch 2? What do you mean? Just the original Switch as well, or is it only Switch 2? I don't know. That's a good question. I thought that I read that it was a Switch...
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Okay, that's what I have too.
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That's kind of weird, though, because you want to sell your new system, but you're not making it exclusive to your new system. But if they did, then they would probably get such a bad backlash. Like, what do you mean? I already got a Switch. Why can't I have it on the normal Switch? I don't know. I mean, Nintendo's a gigantic company.
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We have answered this, and our names aren't Shirley.
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Four people.
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No, I don't know. It's just, I like, that's why I love action RPGs because the fluid movement of transition between the world into combat, like it's just fluid and it goes and you don't have to stop. And then I'm looking at the AT-AT and I'm like,
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Final Fantasy where it's just like yeah three people I know I get it I get it it doesn't change it doesn't this that's just I it's it's just not for I'm sure I wish I could get into them because I know a lot of them have some really great stories and in their their amazing games that everyone just loves but I just can't get behind it man they just do not do anything for me it's your loss yeah I agree yeah I'm sure it is I wish I could but you know it's just not for me
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That's how my wife was with Rogue One. Like, she is not a Star Wars fan, but she's like, this is a really good movie. And she'd be like, let's watch Rogue One. And I'm like, old, say less, homie. Like, let's go.
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We had a jet battle for the point earlier too, like a week ago.
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This is equality, and I love it.
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The moral of the story is squat. Everybody squat. That's what we're doing. Don't skip leg day. Yeah, don't skip leg day.
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It is deliberate. How can it not be, dude? There's no possible way this is not deliberate. When you have a manufacturing problem or an issue that's coming from, like, your hardware does this problem, everybody has this problem with your hardware, and you don't fix it on your next...
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so you played Pong a lot more current than me, but like I also, my first game I remember playing was also Pong. I remember the dials. My dad just happened to show up with one. He worked a lot of trades and odd jobs. And sometimes people would like give them stuff, you know, or stuff as payment. And we, he came home with an Atari and lo and behold, they had a Pong on it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Man, so it seems, like, really prevalent. Like, oh, man. Well, right, right. I don't really know about this issue.
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Well, I hope you're hungry. I hope you're hungry, brother.
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Just make it work. Like, that is insane to me. You're already. We went over this. No. Last year. It might be more expensive to manufacture. But their net revenue was over $3 billion.
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3 billion is a lot of dollars, man.
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shareholders there's a lot of things that go into that three three billion dollars on paper doesn't necessarily translate none of that matters to me as a consumer i want a system when i pay 450 dollars to not have the controllers drift so i'm going like this and within a month like that that does not seem like nintendo's the worst It's so bad.
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one one and that's after 1700 hours on destiny and all that stuff and i have an xbox elite that i got used and i got to use it for another probably year before that had stick drift so i don't know how much time you've never had to replace no right especially my my sony products have all been tanks there is there is a known issue here the fact that nintendo didn't fix this now i looked up hall effect and i'll be honest guys this sounds expensive
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And I remember sitting there probably at four or five as well. And I remember just doing it. I'm like, this is pretty cool. I'm going to dedicate my life to a screen game.
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Charge 500 for the system and make a system that works.
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They can't say they didn't know now. The switch won. They could. Now they can't.
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Call 1-800.
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And then I know about it. Yeah.
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Who are you? Goodness gracious.
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You can all get your butt kicks in the morning. That's true.
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Sounds like a publisher.
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Beef me up, daddy. Come on, let's go.
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I got cake. I got cake, you know? I do a lot of squats, okay?
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Okay. Ryan? That's fair. Okay. Okay. Don't you steal my thunder, Ryan. Hold on.
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I'm the bungee guy, though, because I played 17... A hundred hours of Destiny, so I have had my fair share of it. I just... I, personally, with the art style, I didn't like it. Okay. I did not like the look of it. I thought that it was kind of half-baked.
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I thought that it was... They made it look like that, so they didn't have to spend as much time on it, and they could focus on some other things. Yeah, to me, it was not... Because I... Destiny came out in 2016, 17, something like that. It's been a while. A long time ago. And I thought it looked ten times better.
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It's a beautiful game. The one thing that I have hope for is if Bungie can do anything, it's shooter mechanics, crisp, clean...
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uh uh fps action is what they can do i would say some of the best shooting ever any game oh yeah legitimately i mean halo halo redefined it yeah i think they've only refined they double down on destiny it is some of the most crisp shooting gameplay you will ever get in in a game and um i i don't know if i saw that translate into this uh trailer and the gameplay that we saw i hope it does
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Because that would be the only saving grace for this game for me. I'm not the biggest extraction shooter guy, but if this one kind of fleshes out to be something that is really clean and it's an enjoyable, precise shooter, I probably would fall in love with it. But if it doesn't kind of pan out to be that way... Man, I don't know where this is going to go.
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Huh.
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You don't say. Dude, what is five weeks going to do? Like, come on, man. Oh, we have to implement these changes. We're going to update it and dial it in. No. No, we're not stupid. We're not stupid. Well, we're not entirely stupid. Okay, I was going to say we are kind of stupid, but not fully stupid. We're not fully stupid. We're not all the way stupid.
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We're smart enough to understand when, you know, you know when your kid, you know, tries to do the same things you did as a kid and you're like, come on, buddy, like my son all the time. he tries to tell me I can't pause it. I can't back out on the game. I'm like, bro, I was like, I played this game. Come on, man. Come on. Just, just, we don't even have to do this. Come on.
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And so it's just, they're just trying to like pull the, like, it's almost more insulting than just saying, Hey, those are some pretty awesome games. We commend them on their development and what they're creating, what they're releasing. We feel that it's going to be best for us and to get engagement and, and get, uh, people, people's eyes on this game.
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Absolutely. Heck yeah, man. I'm excited.
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If we release in March and that's what we're going to do for the interest of our game and our company. Okay. You know, it's like, have some, have some faith in your game, but also I respect that, you know, but this is just, this is garbage. I hate this stuff.
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I think it was. Yeah.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, exactly.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Well, that's the thing. It's like if you're, I mean, geez, just to make it just blatantly obvious, like if you were like a soda manufacturer guy and you're selling your own soda brand and you're going to this big festival and on the day you wanted to go there, Coke and Pepsi are there. And you're like, well, you know, I'm going to perfect my recipe a little bit longer.
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We're going to come in two weeks or four weeks when they're not there. But that just happens to be when I'll be done perfecting my recipe. No. Look, Coke and Pepsi are there. I don't want to battle against them. I'll go in four weeks when nobody else is there and I'll be the main show. It's just it doesn't – we're not stupid. We see right through it.
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Which has me worried about this game too. Well, exactly. That's the thing. I mean, this is not a brand new series or like a new launch with IP like that. That is new. That doesn't have a longstanding like fan base. You know, we mentioned Ace.
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huge Assassin's Creed fan I played the originals like I loved them and I kind of fell off because they weren't very good and for them to come in here and just not even be willing to like duke it out like alright let's go they're not confident dude and there was a day when an Assassin's Creed release would make other developers be like no now we're not going up against Assassin's Creed dude delay it we can't do that and now they're like we don't care you delay your game movies oh man
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Do we?
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Yeah.
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Um, I am excited. I mean, it's like you said, it's been in development for quite some time. Um, but it's just, it's kind of, it is that successor, but more of that SIM style, realistic kind of skating, um,
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exposure type game like it it is not that you're not going to get that 25 combo move thing and just jump over buildings and do things like that like you do in Tony Hawk so it's going to be a little bit different a little more realistic but um Man, I sure hope this game is good.
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Because I just... I still, to this day, I'm just... It's... When you... When you take that on and you become like, you know, quote-unquote skater, it's just like in your blood. And you can't get away from it. So anytime I see things... I still... I broke my wrist a couple years ago skating because I'm a big old goofball trying to do more than he could in a big old 14-foot bowl. And...
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snap my wrist to have a skater too much after that, but I still love it. And, and it just never leaves you. So playing a game like this is just something that, you know, it's, it's, I just, I really hope that it, they do well with the production of it. They, they develop it, you know, they've had a plenty of time. So I think I, I don't have any doubts. Honestly, it's just one of those things.
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It's like, get it here. Like I'll release it. I wonder, fix the kinks, fix the bugs, and then just release it.
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That's the thing. I think, I mean, back... late 90s, early 2000s when a lot of these games came out and skating was a lot bigger too. Nowadays, you have how many different systems? How many different mobile deck systems? A million different games. There's just so many options. to when there was a lot less back then. So people that didn't skate could appreciate a game like this.
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So it's just, is it going to hit people in the right kind of points to where even if they're not skaters or if they don't care about that, they'll still enjoy the game. Um, I am, curious on how they'll do it with being kind of that free-to-play style. Maybe you want to unlock Rodney Mullen or something like that. Bob Burnquist.
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Get the battle pass to get the right skaters, the old-school skaters you want, which I may fall into that trap, but you never know. Oh.
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Yes, I would agree. I'm going to main Technophile for sure. Oh, absolutely.
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They got $20 of my dollars.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
That's a lot of money, man. All you got to do, just make a good, fun game that has an awesome loop that you can continuously play and you continuously feed them content, which is the perfect setup for Marvels because how many million superheroes they are. And even if you don't know them, you may like their play style or like their character once you get on it. And it's free.
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So anyone, you're like, yeah, you should hop on. It's free. Just download it. Try it out. If you don't like it, no harm, no foul. You know, it's, man, like you said, it's a risk. But man, when those hit, like a billion dollars, that's a lot of zeros, buddy.
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It was like 660 or something crazy.
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They really should.
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Yeah, no, exactly.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Well, I'm just a little worried. You never know. Cautious optimism. Yeah, cautious optimism. It's just one of those things, man. It's hard to follow up some of these that are just the greatest game ever made. Again, like you mentioned earlier, Half-Life and stuff, it's... Yeah, I mean, people are going to go. People move on to other jobs. Yeah, we have some of our old staff here.
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But it's like sometimes it's that group that makes the magic happen. Everybody together puts in that little bit that all kind of meshes together. And so if it's not there, you're always kind of playing with fire. So you never know if it's going to hit or not. And so I don't know, dude. I hope so, man. Because I know just as much as you, I freaking love this series.
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Witcher 3 is one of my all-time favorite games ever.
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Yeah. Oh, for sure.
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Because our shareholders aren't happy. Good job. Go find another one.
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just i i'd like to see other devs take a uh take a page from that notebook oh heck yeah i mean and that's gonna uh you know entice people so much more and it's what is it 311 you said yeah 311 employees so that's like i mean roughly based on the money and then the ps5 like that's like 1.3 ish million that they just popped out just like that you know for their staff which is that's that's pretty cool man
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Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, my wife comes from the corporate world. And I'm not ashamed to say it. It was Bank of America. You scum of the earth. But unless you want to sponsor us or advertise or whatever, I'm sure we can work something. Then we can totally work something out. But they would do that all the time. They do these dumb little pizza parties. We hit this quota.
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And then it's like, oh, by the way, you're not getting a raise this year. And then their CEO goes and gets some huge bonus. So to see a company do this, to repay and kind of give it back to the people, that's who makes your company run. So it is cool to see a larger company do that for its people. It's rare, honestly. Unfortunately, but it is.
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Luxury Battle Pass.
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Yeah. Ryan! Luxury Battle Pass. I'm going next level, brother.
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Come play Marvel Rivals. We serving cake to everybody. See ya. Woo, the cake shop's open.
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Listen, listen. I went with the basic Battle Pass and I was impressed. I was buying filament for the 3D prints for Fan Fusion with my own money. I was buying games with my own money forever. And I buy one Battle Pass and I'm getting gruff.
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I did. Listen, I live in a land of luxury with my Marvel's rivals.
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Yeah, research purposes.
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Mental acuity, I guess. Acuity.
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Off the rails already.
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Skate or die. Skate forever.
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It's Ryan. Bro, you think I should go switch flip that ledge there? gnarly half cab throwback like come on gnarly that'd be so gnarly man wait can i gnarly half cab i don't think i can gnarly half cab i don't know no you idiot gnarly half cab what are you talking about fakey half cab there we go yeah yeah skater dive what was the move from uh tony hawks where the dude christ there like the
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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, honestly, thankfully not anymore because my son's graduated to games like Marvel Rivals. Like actual video games that are fun? Actual good, decent games. The thing that I'm curious about with all this is like, If it's going to be a successor and it's going to be a second, what does he do?
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Is he going to make the graphics better or is he going to leave on blocky kind of the same way to have that same feel? I mean, it's an open kind of crazy world where you just build and craft and do all these things. What would a second game look like? What would be the sequel to that?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's weird that it doesn't seem to be popping off like you would think for something this big.
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Thank you.
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When creepers will blow you up.
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Okay. What are you going to do? I mean, what could you do? What would that be? What would that encompass? So that's where my mind goes to with Minecraft. What can you do that's different? Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm going to take what is no.
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feel like maybe one or two might be pretty dang big coming out in february but i don't know that's just me
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
No, he was so lame, dude. He was such a nice guy. He was a lame old man.
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I just felt he was just kind of like a dweeb, man. He did not... embody like the leader of of expedition 33 to me anyways like he's gonna go in there and he's gonna make the difference and set everything right like that's not the feeling i got again that's as far as i got um but i was not disappointed that's as far as gustav got yeah me and him we're on we're on the same path now okay ryan
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I did not, but I also thought it was weird, like you mentioned, like the looks and the similarities. And I'm like, man, all these guys kind of look similar and the same. So there was like some sort of sense of there's more than meets the eye. There's more than the picture that shows, just like the rest of the game showed you within that first act.
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Like there's always something else around the corner or behind that picture or, you know, whatever it may be. So, yeah, I didn't think too far into it, but it wasn't just, like, cut and dry.
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Verso was way sweeter than Gustav right away.
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So now I want to ask, like in these types of games, then even in like movies and stuff, do you guys typically try to, when you're playing it or watching it, do you try to figure out what's coming up next or what is going to happen? Or do you just...
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like to live in them because i i tend to like to just be in the moment and almost not think about the future and experience what's happening so i can almost react to it real time and not just be constantly wondering so you you josh you said i'd love trying to figure out like it's just a challenge to me to be like okay this is this is what i think this is what i don't think this is what i think the twist is that's coming up
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You know, so... It's funny how you get that when you can only have so many characters. And, like, I'm not a turn-based guy, but, like, I know that you get attached to certain ones. Even if they may not be as good, you're more comfortable with this other character. And you're like, I don't want to switch, man. I like this one. Yeah, that was me. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Halo 3 Warthog level. Halo 3 Warthog level. Absolutely, yep.
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Yeah, let me know, man.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Please, because I'm like, wait, what?
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Okay. Then maybe I'll have a little less questions.
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Uh-huh.
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So are they like, you know, to go into the painting, are they like jacking into the matrix?
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Now I'm really lost. Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. So then I have a question. This is personal. Like what? Those like kids that you meet that are like, oh, I was just playing and blah, blah, blah. And they're like the ghost looking guys. Like, what are those?
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You guys don't even understand how much I've had to hear Josh talk about this song.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Do they? Is it? Yeah, it is. Yeah.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
It's the matrix.
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Oh, wow.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I would too. That would be cool. And hopefully we get Bella Thorne instead of Bella Ramsey for mail.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Okay. Seriously, as someone who has not finished the game, I just see nothing but spoiler tags. And we've had it for probably weeks. And it's pretty cool to see how many people have jumped in. hopped in on the game and are just so excited to play and talk about it. Like Josh said in the beginning, you just want to talk about this game. Our Discord is the place to do it.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
So you heard it here first, everybody. Josh and John are not experts. So anything they say the rest of this episode, just, you know, let it just, you know.
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Ooh, on the spot.
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Oh, gosh.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, that's easy. Yeah, and that's why I was like, no, no. I would say Last of Us. That's a good one. Excellent. The ability to the desperate nature in that world and what they had to go through and where they were trying to get and then what happened at the end of the game and stuff. I would say Last of Us is probably one of the better stories I've seen.
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I'm very much story-driven. That's why I love action RPGs so much, because I can get that kind of flow of action and combat with typically a decent story. So I am excited to see where it all went. And like I said before, I love the story. I love the world. I just can't get past turn-based combat.
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I beat Act 1, yeah. So I went through Act 1, and I'm like, this is enough for me.
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Yep.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Is that how that works? Like, I'm just gonna just have my mind blown from it? I mean, I figured I was gonna bring this pillow and take a nap real quick.
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That's what it was. It was shocking. And that's the exact same thing I was going to say, too. It's that storming the beaches where it's just that chaos, quick glimpses everywhere. And you're like, what the heck is going on? And everybody's dying. And it's just chaos. And so it was a big...
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
into this new world, which was very, very startling, if you will, to bring you into what you're about to play.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
It's like the Metal Gear Alert sound. Like, everybody knows what that is, you know?
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I'm ready to hear it, buddy. I'm ready to hear it.
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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Puppets with funky hair, yeah. Yeah. Then they hit you and you're like, oh, okay, all right, all right. Whoops.
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Yeah. Nobody's safe from there. I personally was not disappointed, though, because I think Gustav was a little bit of a weenie, for sure.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Definitely. It compliments from what we saw, you know, from the game, it compliments it so well. So, I mean, you guys did a good job on the pairing as well. So, I mean, we can't wait to get into it and we're going to dive into what we saw more.
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How much money you got? That's what they're asking. How much money, how much money you got? I don't mean me right now.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Um, that's, I mean, I wanted to say, uh, like I've always wondered something, you know, for the process when you, especially when you've made a series of games, like how does, uh, how does that go along coming up with like a new IP, like something brand new, like, Hey, let's start fresh. Let's make a new world, a new environment, a new atmosphere. Like how does that whole thing come about?
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Oh, that's awesome. So like when you, you know, you've got this, you've got this idea, you got this vibe on what you want to create. how do you come up to the next step to where you have to come up with the art style, the mechanics, the story? Where does that process lead? Is it just kind of an evolving, ever-flowing thing? Is it just a vision from the get-go? How does that work?
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We're here. Maybe this makes more sense. As this character, our protagonist, has advanced, you know what? This would be a lot cooler of an option. I just came up with it. Let's try this and run with it. Is that something that kind of happens throughout the ebbs and the flows of the whole design process?
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It keeps a little place in your heart. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So other words, good answer. That's what I'm saying. I liked it. We liked it. That's a good one. Yeah. Oh, man.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. I mean, we recently talked with an artist out of London, and he was telling us just the amount of time that goes into animation and creating these things that people genuinely just don't understand what goes into this process. And so, like, you know, with expectations that you mentioned, like, is there a difference with, you know,
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
from the crowdfunding side to standard investing, just having overall investors versus crowdfunding. Listen, we're trying to make this game. We're doing the best we can. What's the difference between the two as far as the development of a game?
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
There you go. That might be the answer for a lot of these. Okay, well, question number two. As soon as you get funding from some investors or a company, everything changes, and now you have to answer to the suits.
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I would think a lot of – and this is just a fan. Like we said, we're just gamers and we just are fans of video games. And I would think that the Kickstarter kind of funding type stuff or people, they're fans. They just want a good game. And that's why they're trying to fund it. That's why they're investing in it to where investors are looking for a monetary return.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
They want black and white spreadsheet money back. They don't care what it's like as long as it sells. And so I think that's the difference is people like us and other people a lot of times just want just a genuine good game.
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Well, the numbers seem to be going well with the ratings, like Josh said. I mean, I don't know if my mom would even give me an 88%. Those are some good numbers. I'll share your moment.
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Oh, that's the best answer. It does look cool. I'll say that. It does look cool. I'll just be waiting every five minutes to make a turn is all, you know. Oh, man.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
It's going to be less exciting. You could have picked a better answer. That is so crazy.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Mike's like, I've been making a game. What do you mean? Mike's like, I don't have time to play games, man.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
No, that's fine. We got the number one answer there.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
That was probably the best one you could have given, for sure. We did not preempt them. We did not tell them ahead of time. Oh my gosh, that's funny.
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yeah wishlist please go do it it helps the devs out so much and it's just genuinely watch the trailer look at the pictures read the stuff about it this game looks so so cool so just if anything if you guys love us go wishlist this game
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Awesome. Well, hopefully you're that, that NASA duct tape. That's just like impeccable and sticks to anything, no matter what. Like I, we had a, I had a cousin that had his dad worked for NASA and he had some NASA duct tape and it was, it was the best stuff I've ever had. I never used it again, but man, that's.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
That's the hope. Yeah. On our good days.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Go ahead. Get to it. I got to. We got to talk graft a little bit. Josh has been very excited. As you can tell.
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Getting Down with Graft - Gaming Podcast
Well, that's what we were going to ask. Like, do you just, you know, how do you go about having this custom music made? Do you just kind of like let them run with it and just kind of vibe on, on what they create or, you know, how, how does that happen?
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
I just think what a luxury you guys have now, though, as designers to have the ability to do those patches. I couldn't imagine the stress back in the 90s and 80s and stuff like that. There's no patches. You just have the game that came out.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
What more can you say about this, dude? Dude, it was awesome. You definitely want to stay tuned and listen to the whole thing. Not only did we get kind of that behind the curtain, this guy was just totally awesome, gave us some really kind of cool details about game development, what goes into it, what his opinions are. So it was something that you're not going to hear from a lot of places.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Oh, yeah.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Well, every time you try something different or new or unique, you know, there's always that hesitance on is this going to land or is it going to be rejected? But I can say it's been great so far. Yeah.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
So it was definitely an interesting thing.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Dude, us little Americans over here, we just can't even fathom that, man.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Then it doesn't feel like a fetch quest. It feels like you're just still playing the game. Even when you read a book and then you have to go back to the previous page the next day. This you don't.
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If you do and design it right like you guys have, having that ability to just instantly pick back up even a few days later knowing where to go and what you have to do because you're excited to continue the story that you're a part of, there's something big there. It's awesome.
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dude you see him over there yeah and you see it's like nine o'clock ten o'clock here AZ time and you just see morning morning you know normally it was back in the day it was it was mo box at like 3 a.m. you know mo bot we like to call him and and then now it's just we got all these people it's the discords active Like 24-7 now.
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I know personally for me, I do all the audio editing and stuff for the pod. And I mean, we record. I have to listen to it when I edit it. After that, I really don't listen anymore. I don't listen to the episodes after that. Yeah.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
out of the park and and for uh a group that he said is very family-based family orientated he said his wife was in the the first uh kingdom come game and then so like it's just a big like group kind of of of awesome people that man i want to support this is like honestly you touched on that dude this is the kind of developer that we should support like yes listen
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Yes, absolutely. Everything that Josh said, this is one that you definitely should check out.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
think we do um something that is absolutely amazing that we love to see and receive and we've been getting a ton of them and that's another review
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Okay, well, I don't mind if I do. So this one is from Butch987654321. Kaboom! No, the kaboom's not in there. Just the rest of the numbers.
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All right, all right, fine. This one's titled, Best Video Game Podcast Ever. Five-star review. The podcast is incredible. As a gamer dad of similar age, I can relate to Josh and Ryan on so many levels. They bring plenty of nostalgia, but also review new games and trends, always keeping the podcast interesting. Great work, guys. Also, Josh is way older than myself or Ryan.
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That's not what the review says. Oh, okay.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Now, at Subway, did you try to flex and get free food? Like, do you know who I am? He meant the Subway, not at the restaurant right now.
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it's ryan i was gonna say i was so annoyed today because i my i'm like falling asleep and i'm like this is just like real life is this real life sim and i'm just falling asleep as i walk through and i'm like oh there's a bed it looks like you know nobody's around and then next thing i know i wake up and everybody's trying to kill me again every time i go to everybody just wants to kill me
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
But I beat Josh, so that's all I care about at all.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I can't do it. It's a little too close to home, guys.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
She's got diamond skin. She's got good attack. She's a solid, solid Vanguard. Don't make it. Don't make it weird.
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My new main is going to be Emma Frost. No, it's mine.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
No, boy. You got to tell me that they are different.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
But he's a healer?
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He's going to be a tanker. He's going to be a strategist. I know.
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That's not bad. Boy, you got to give me that Cajun accent. Invite me to a crawfish boil, Ryan.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Oh, boy. That's a life I live. Invite me to a crawfish boil, Ryan. You want to come down to a crawfish boil, partner? We got the etouffee and the... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You say no more. Say no more, man.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, bro, Keith is unhinged. So everybody, before we do our deep dive, just watch out for Keith.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, they already had a sequel. If they did it good the first or the second time, they wouldn't have to worry about this and there wouldn't be a Schedule 1.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, there's right now 300,000 players playing Schedule 1.
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Just all the, all the, the, the food that has just a bunch of spices. It's always great. Every time. Yeah. Every time where you're just like, you're putting that much of all of that.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I think the answer is you, Josh. I think you drafted Silksong. Oh.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I think Silksong is on your list. Oh my goodness.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I'm so excited for that game. So... We're not worthy.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I feel like you either have an eight ball of magic or you sold your soul to the devil. You're just really that good, brother. Because you picked a lot of good games, man. I did. I will concede props to you. I don't know. 2025 is your year, dude. No, there's no way. Because even GTA 5, just that one game. GTA 6, you mean? Or 6. GTA 6.
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That's why Josh always goes, well, guys, I got to run to dinner. Yeah, you're darn right, man.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Go back to the Street Fighter thing.
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We're all friends here.
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well, no, that's the thing is it, it will be good. It will be, it will be absolutely, uh, mind blowing how good it looks and it will be crisp and clean. And that's one of the biggest things with, uh, these bungee games. And, and this is what I, uh, fell in love with, with destiny. Um, I got, uh, thousands of hours more than I ever care to admit in destiny. And, uh,
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It is one of the crisp, the most crisp and clean shooters that have ever existed. But I just, there's something fell off in the last few years that it's just not what Bungie has kind of held that standard to. And it's not what it used to be. And I am concerned. but I'm excited to see what they could do, what maybe they will make happen.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I don't like the fact that they're like, hey, we're going to show off gameplay, and they just make an announcement about the announcement. Yeah, it's the whole we're announcing and announcing. It's like, come on, man. Just drop some gameplay.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
like put it on the people and be like yo this is what we got boom you know and like and then show them but uh you know who knows maybe it'll be good i i sure hope so man because i hope so dude i used to play i i would raid every tuesday night i would grind out like i played so much destiny because it was just so dang good and i'm looking for a shooter that has that same um you know
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Like it just, it just draws you in and you want to play, you want to go back to it every single day. And I haven't had that. So, you know, I, I hope that this is the case. Otherwise I'll just keep playing rivals with you.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
He just can't. He's Ubisoft. He's like, it's an itch. He can't scratch. He's like, Ubisoft. Ubisoft. I've had a really long time.
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All right, Ryan, and then you've got one too, right? I do. I do got one, and this one is another five-star titled Amazing Can't Recommend Enough from TheHoneyBadger1234, which probably is like maybe their dog's name, and that's like a standard password for most people, dog's name 1234. But anyways, the review reads – This is a great podcast.
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The hosts are energetic, and you can feel their passion. It's great getting multiple shows a week in about an hour each. I drive haul trucks for work about 60 hours a week, and I'm looking for good and fun podcasts, and I can't stress it is enough that this show has it all.
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So number one, thank you, dude. Keep things rolling. I love it.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I would also like to know, if you're a trucker, if you drive the open road, I love to drive too. Every time I'm on the road, you got to do that double pump. Oh, the honk? Give me the honk. Yeah, dude. Give me the honk. If you guys still do that, I've had a few that just look over at me in disgust. And I'm like, man, this is not my childhood anymore. Just having a good time.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I think so, yeah.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Absolutely. I'm going to always do it forever. I'll be 80.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Oh, this guy. We're back to the mean ones, Ryan. No, no. This guy that couldn't handle the standard keyboard at Game On Expo. I don't know what the keys are. It was set to modern controls. Oh, man. What am I going to do between that and Street Fighter? Man, I don't even want to hear it.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
That's a solid banger of a list for sure. Ryan, what you got? Thank you. Mine, too, I'm going to go with, obviously, Best Game Ever Made, Red Dead 2, Last of Us, Half-Life 2. Got to play that. Got to check out kind of what made first-person shooters and gaming what it is. God of War, like you said, Josh, 20, Cyberpunk, and then Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater. I think it's slept upon quite a bit.
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It is a really solid game for what it is in the time era it came out in. We're getting the remake. That's a great choice. Yeah, we're going to see.
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I love how Josh is just like, I'm so freaking excited. And then John's like, yeah.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Oh, man. That's great.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah. I mean, it looks cool. I'm always... Man, it's hard because some of these games, when they blow up like this, like Lethal Company did, everyone's like, oh, my gosh, this is amazing. And we hopped on and I was like, this is amazing. And then there's other games that you hop on and you're like,
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
it just didn't really sit with me it didn't it didn't fit right this one stardew valley but i just it's it's interesting i'm not i i am not the biggest puzzle guy um i like if if i'm i'm not gonna sit down and do a puzzle i'm not gonna sit down and do these things unless i'm like competing against someone so to me i just feel like it's just work
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Yeah, but like, okay, whatever.
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I know. It's not. It's just too easy. Yeah, it's too easy. The man has had a long week. It's simple. It's simple. It's cake. You know, it's just, you know, it's borderline elementary, my dear Watson. You know, there's just nothing to it. But no, really, I think this does look good. I am not the biggest puzzle guy, but this one does intrigue me, and I think
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Blue Prince Hype, Silksong Confirmed & Rivals Season 2 – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I get it. No, I get it. And, you know, after losing in Street Fighter, you probably want to settle down and retire. And you want to dial back and just kind of sit in your cozy, relaxing puzzle game. So I totally get it, man. I get where you're coming from. I understand. So I support you in that. Ryan, didn't I beat you? Yes, you did. So you are the ultimate champion.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Okay. I didn't know that. That's wild.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
You know, that's... That is... That's hot takey. That is a hot take. PlayStation 2, Nintendo, you know, like... Okay, it's one of those where, like, that's... If that happens, I fully expect that to happen type thing, you know? Like, if it releases, and if it releases with Mario Odyssey 2, like, that's gonna happen. It's just kind of like 1 and 2, you know? Just continuation. It's gonna happen.
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So, man, yeah, that's... I just sure hope that it can play some better games than Mario. Oh, dude.
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You know, I... It's so weird because I feel like I still... I mean, during COVID and all that craziness, I feel like I still just got my Switch. And I'm just getting used to it. And I'm just playing it and getting comfortable with it. And we played a lot. And I set up my projector. And we played outside when we do outdoor stuff. And... Um, but it just, it feels like it's still new.
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We're like, you know, your old PlayStation or your PS2 and those ancient old when you had them, like it was, it felt like a while. I feel like this, this switch was like still new, but man, if, if they do it, there's one thing is Nintendo knows what they're doing. They, they do not do anything without a reason. So all the stuff is planned. All the stuff is strategic.
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And they will release this with goals in mind. So I think you may be spot on. If they do this, it's going to be that way.
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Oh, man. So what? Man, we got so many options for hot takes. What I'm going to follow that up with, I'm going to go with one that's a more recent thing that we've been experiencing together. I know we have mentioned it in our deep dive. I know people have mentioned it overall, and this was the big question of this game coming out. What was it going to be? What was it going to do?
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I think 2025 Marvel rivals will kill Overwatch. It's done.
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I am so excited. I am so excited because I haven't been on a game in a long time where Josh is like, hey, what are we playing? He's hitting me up. He's like, oh, come on. Because normally Josh is on like eight different games. So for him to get on a game and stay on a game, I'm like, oh, he's in. Me and Ace have been alone for the last two months while he's playing Path of Exile.
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So to have Josh come in and he's hardcore on Rivals.
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Yeah, I know. We're going to play tonight.
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We are going to play tonight. So I think that just the setup, I think the initial setup with it being Marvel and the just accoutrement, of characters and abilities and skins and everything you can do that has recognized ability, if you will, that people know. Everybody's got their favorite Marvel character. Everybody's got their favorite superhero. Most often, it's a Marvel character.
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So the anticipation of waiting for that character, waiting for a new skin, if you like to buy skins or any of those things, I think it's just...
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Nostra Ryan is here. I'm going to give you everything you need to know.
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is how you do it people yes yes constant constant updates constant drip of of of everything you need and want and um man it's just it's been an experience it's been an awesome time to have i we've all been getting we've been having these community nights which if you're not part of it dude hop in our discord and It's been fantastic. We are extremely active.
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I don't know of another podcast or anything else that is this active in their Discord. We talk to people every single day, literally every single day. We play games. We try to have these community nights. We had like 10 people the other night. Yeah, everybody's invited. Hop in. We made custom matches. It was just...
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It was so cool to get on and just not only play with the people but play on this game. So, yeah, man. I just think it's taking over. So, goodbye. Rest in peace, Overwatch.
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And I will say that was not premeditated. I thought about that right now.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
It hit the brain because it's probably pretty bad, but I'm also going to roll with it. Nostra Ryan is here.
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You know, yeah, I feel you, man. It's hard to say that, like, thinking about Borderlands, because it's such a big title and has so much longevity.
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Absolutely. And, you know, I've played it, and I'm not an expert on Borderlands. But, man, to think that they just can't right the ship, you know, it's just almost disheartening. But... Yeah, it's one of those like these seem like impossible and they are hot takes, but you don't want them to come true. So it's like, no, this can't be real.
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All right, so I got one that may hit you a little bit and may hit you in the huevos there, partner. But I think... Not the beans. I think that the next Elden Ring is going to be a flop. And that's dramatic pause there. I don't like you, Ryan. I know you don't like me. I know, and here's why. Let me explain. I think that it's one of those things where you build up such a great, amazing franchise.
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You do so much to it. And be it, I'm not a big Elden Ring fan. I don't like Souls games. I do not like the role simulator that I call it. But I recognize the greatness and I recognize how many people love this genre and this series and this game type. But I think what are they going to do to have a continuation on this type of game? They have to step it up.
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You can only make so many expansions or new games that just do the same thing. So what are they going to do? I don't think that they will do it. I think it will be a fair game. I think it will be just like the rest. But it will be a flop in terms of expectations and what people want out of that franchise.
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They're going to make it amazing.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Okay, but then 80% of your player base that liked the original is all alienated now. They're pissed. They're like, what the heck is this? I've been playing this for 10 years. What is this crap?
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I'm telling you, man. This is hot takes, bro. This is what we're here for.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
It's either going to be wildly successful or I think flop, man. I don't think there's a middle ground. No, in between mid.
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I don't like that idea, man. I knew you wouldn't like that one, buddy.
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I will. Okay. So the review reads... A cold cloudy night. The night sky obscured by a low layer of clouds. The wind bone chilling as it nears the mid teens in temperature. The open road lit by the occasional street lamp.
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like games and games that don't release. You talked about GTA and stuff. What I want to say is if, if GTA six and then potentially, you know, potentially if half-life or anything crazy like that doesn't happen, I think indie games are going to dominate 2025.
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There is a lot. There's Ghost of Yotei. There's all kinds of amazing games that are supposed to come out this year. But how many times do we get just these indie pop-ups that just blow up and just make an amazing footprint? Like, It's not as hard, like, the kind of level of entry into development now as it used to be.
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A lot of these guys come out of college or come out of, you know, wherever, super smart, can put down, put up a startup, and they can make a game. And I really think that a lot of them are doing an awesome job, and I think that they're going to do even better this year. So I'm hoping, man.
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They pop up, they pop up, and then it's like, oh, okay, here we go. Yeah.
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Dude. If this happens... Just give me a minute, Ryan. I need to breathe. I need to breathe real quick. Hold on. You're talking. Oh, man. It's getting hot in here, buddy. It's just like as much as I want... I mean, I want Grand Theft Auto now. I want Half-Life now.
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I want all these games now, but man, I tell you what, if we can just have this on the horizon, it's just going to make it that much brighter, man. We're just going to see the sun, and we can just kind of... We have something to work towards, you know? Every day we get up, well, Half-Life 3 is coming, you know?
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That would be... In one year, to get those would be unreal. I got two quick ones that I want to do, too. First one, Moon Knight, best Marvel Rivals character. I got to put that in there.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
That's a hot take. I know people don't like him or people don't use him because usually he's wide open and I can just select him, but the moon haunts you. That's all I got to say. And then the second one, I think we will get a surprise release of Silksong right around Halloween.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Right? I know, I know. Please be right. Detriment to my own list. I think how cool would it be to get that Silksong drop Just before Halloween. And I think that would just embolden everybody. Indie devs would be off the charts. Everything would be crazy. It would be just amazing. I love it.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Their quips and jokes and differing tastes in video games makes for a satisfying drive while we still mourn the fallen soldier Paul. We embrace our unrestrained shenanigans. Rest easy at work, Paul. Not gone, but also not forgotten.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
That's actually a good question.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I would think it still is, but it's like the hype level and the dedication of their fans is to the next level. It's at AAA levels, right? It's at AAA levels.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I hope so, too, man. How cool would that be? Like an October release? That would be great. Dude, right around Halloween, Silksong. I love it.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Gosh, I hope so, man. It's going to be a long year if not.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
And then we talked about it, so it's another three years.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
It had it all, man. Yeah, it had everything.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Everything you could ask for in a review was in this review, so I love it.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Which is also a great review. Not to take away from this review. It's fantastic. We love all reviews.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Nice. If there's one thing I strive to be is 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
We are, dude. We are firing on all cylinders 9.2 out of 10, and we're cruising, and we can just go up, up, up, and away.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I may have a drop or two I'm going to put in.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
You know, if it was like almost just a title, I would think that was a super hot take. But after you kind of explained it, I'm maybe on your side, man.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
No, that's yeah, that's going to be that's going to be big for sure. I mean, and I mean, man, with the way you described it. I mean, I've been playing Ubisoft games for 20-something years, you know? So, like, it's one of those things where it's like, dang, man.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
That's how many steps do they have to take and keep making these mistakes to finally admit, you know, like, okay, maybe we can't do this anymore. So, I don't know. That's, yeah. That'd be a big one if it happens. That's for sure.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
All right. All right. What do you got, Ryan? Okay. So for mine, I am going to go with... I guess maybe this one's another kind of loss of jobs. But I'm going to go with that... By end of year, I think AI will be used in a huge, huge portion of the development of all video games in-state today.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I know as of October of last year, in 2024, 62% of all developers are using AI in some sort or some capacity within their games. I think that's going to skyrocket, and I think the amount of AI within their games are going to go through the roof. It's just there's no reason not to from a financial point, I think, and ease for the developers. So we'll see if it plays out.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I'm just going to play Limp Bizkit and just roll, roll, roll all day long.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
But I think that AI is going to really, really take over the development kind of area of games.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
But to give up that, to give up your kind of like art expression to AI. Yeah.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Every video I've ever watched, that's what it looks like.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. It's one of those things. It's like... Do they hit some major hiccup that kind of stalls it a little bit? Or, I mean, you know, money talks. And so when the people who make these games... The game industry is not what it used to be. This is not like kind of a niche product. This is a very big industry now.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
And the money dictates where people go, what people do, and how they develop everything. So the backers are like, hey... I can cut 20% of my costs on this by using AI to develop these games. I'm going to do it. Or you can't develop my game. I'll pick somebody else. And like I said, money talks. So we'll see, man. It's going to be crazy. That's for sure.
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Bold Gaming Predictions and Hot Takes - Gaming Podcast
I think we won't know. I don't think we'll know until the verdict's in if it's good or not. And then it'll be like, oh, that was AI. AI developed that.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Und plötzlich ist dein Handy jetzt ein Portable Gaming Rig. Ja, du wirst nicht Mario Brothers bekommen. Du wirst nicht Zelda bekommen. Aber du bekommst Halo auf dem Weg, Mann. Du bekommst Borderlands auf dem Weg. Du bekommst Claire Obscure. Freaking Claire Obscure. Triple A High Lift Titel. Tag 1 auf deinem Handy für eine Brachion von dem Preis.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
So, it seems weird that Xbox is positioning their download titles at $80 or their physical titles at $80 or whatever. But I think that the grand strategy is to move people more towards that subscription service, which Nintendo currently cannot compete with. That's very true.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Well, and they will. I think that we have a precedent for that in the past when DVD was evolving into what is now Blu-ray. I don't know if you guys remember this, but there was a technology competition between HD, DVD and Blu-ray. HD-DVD kam zuerst, hat die bessere Name, weil es die DVD ist, was man gewohnt ist, plus HD. Aber Sony hat ihren Geschäftsplan besser erledigt und hat einen rausgegeben.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Ich denke, es ist extrem möglich, wenn nicht möglich, dass Sony mit ihrer eigenen Cloud-Service folgen wird. Aber wir werden sehen. Ich denke, Sony... Und Nintendo wird auch folgen müssen.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Weißt du, ich weiß, dass du das sagst, Jess, aber du hast keine Ahnung, wie genau das ist. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich so viel Opern in meinem ganzen Leben gehört habe.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Ja, also das ist etwas, ich weiß, dass wir viel zu viel Zeit auf diesem Thema verbringen, aber ich wollte diesen Punkt machen. Wir in der Switch-Episode hatten einige Konterargumente über die Stickdrift der Joy-Cons und ob das intentionell war. Wir haben unsere opposite Meinung darüber. Aber generell denke ich, dass die japanischen
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Mindset, which Nintendo is still at its core a Japanese company fundamentally. The Japanese people tend to, or I should say culture, tends to sich in Qualitätsrefinierung befindet. Aber das bedeutet nicht unbedingt, dass sie kulturell am aktuellsten sind.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Wenn man in Tokio, Japan, irgendwo in Japan geht, aber auch in Tokio, was man als diese cyberpunk-futuristische Stadt denkt, benutzen die Menschen dort immer noch Fax-Maschinen. Oh, wow. You still have to sign things physically, sometimes with a stamp. Like if you live there, you have to like literally go get a physical stamp to sign documents with.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
And Microsoft has always been sort of at the cutting edge of tech. They are figuring out how they can compete. And I think it is a brilliant strategy. You know, like you said, they can't compete with the first party titles with either of those parties, with Sony or with Nintendo. So what can they compete on? Ja, genau.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Das ist das, was du mir zeigst.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Because I think... I think you're right, Josh. This sort of feels like the most recent Captain America movie with Red Hulk a little bit, where it's just like, we can squeeze some more juice out of this lemon, man. I know it's already dismantled over there. We juiced it a hundred times, but there's probably a few more drops in there. Let's just give it another squeeze.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
But yeah, there's no innovation. I think that there's probably a certain number of diehard Borderlands fans out there, which I love it, man. I love the art style. I'm cosplaying as a psycho from Borderlands at Fanfusion. But yeah, nothing new, nothing terribly exciting. How dare you, John?
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Right, and this is exactly why, like, for instance, the GTA 6 delay, I respect it, man. I mean, it could be that during playtesting, they got a lot of this negative feedback. We're like, hey, guys, you know, this kind of feels like the same thing. Rinse, recycle, repeat here. Like, is there any innovation? And they might have went like...
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Rockstar, glaube ich, ist ein Studio, das mit Integrität arbeitet. Und sie hätten gesagt, weißt du was, wir brauchen viel Arbeit, Leute, das ist es nicht. Ich hoffe, dass das der Fall ist. Okay, also das war's.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Great group of guys, too. Warhorse, great group of guys.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Josh, hast du noch andere Spiele gespielt, seit du Expedition 33 gestern gewonnen hast? Ich habe keine. Nein. Also, ich war auf meiner normalen Uhr. Ich war um 2 Uhr am Morgen und ich habe Expedition 33 gestern gewonnen. Also, am Morgen war ich so, okay, das friert ein bisschen Bandwirt. Lass uns zu ein paar Spielen gehen, die ich vergesst habe.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
I want you guys to think about something real quick. What game has Valve released that was bad? None. Yeah. None. I think, okay, so Valve owns Steam, which is a great business for them. Why would they put themselves in a position to jeopardize their brand reputation with a game that isn't perfect with the reputation that they have? I agree. We may never see that game.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
If it isn't perfect, I don't think we'll ever see it. And frankly, I prefer it that way.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, and then it collapses into a black hole and, you know, it's like, that's it. And then they lose, you know, Steam followership, you know, it just opens up all sorts of possibilities.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
The grand majority of people, like GTA has kind of fallen into the zeitgeist, like Call of Duty or the TV games. Yeah, especially online. Casual, you know, like people who aren't gamers, quote unquote, play those games. Like, you know, we're dorks. We're middle-aged dorks. We're going to catch some heat for that. Yeah, exactly.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Borderlands 4, über die wir sprechen werden, kommt raus. Also, ich war so, ich habe nie wirklich Borderlands 3 einen Schuss gegeben. Lass mich das heute Morgen probieren. Also, ich habe es auf meinem Cloud-Service gespeichert. And I immediately felt like Andy dropping Woody in Toy Story. Like, I don't want to play with you anymore.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Ich denke, dass wir hier über zwei völlig andere Dinge sprechen. Das ist wie Oppenheimer gegen die Avengers. Weißt du, was ich meine? Die Avengers sind designt, Blockbuster zu sein. Jeder, ob du ein Comicbuch-Fan bist oder nicht, wird einen Avengers-Film sehen und es gibt extrem hohe Erwartungen dafür. Half-Life ist mehr so ein kurierter, mehr Niche-Titel. Niche? Du nimmst Half-Life Niche?
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Hör mich aus. Hör mich aus. Hör mich aus. Was meinst du? Vergleiche die Sales-Nummern, Ryan. Oh. Vergleiche die Sales-Nummern. Was hat Half-Life 2 gekauft, wenn man es mit GTA 5 vergleicht?
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
There's no comparison with the money that Rockstar has made in its games versus Half-Life. Which game is more highly rated?
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Well, yeah, and I would say Half-Life. Just like probably Oppenheimer is a more critically acclaimed movie than Avengers Endgame. But there's a difference there. One is what GTA by its nature being a...
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
game that is violence heavy set in current day has a broad appeal like everybody plays the gta games half-life it's it's sci-fi it's niche it's it's very you know it occupies kind of a weird spot it's not niche in the way that like uh
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
We don't disagree.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
96%.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Guys, Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold 210 million copies. Wow. That's ridiculous. Rockstar isn't afraid of anything. It would have to take something very special. Like Half-Life 3? Half-Life 3 probably, I don't have the numbers available to me, but Half-Life has been out quite a bit longer than GTA 5 has also. But I'm willing to bet that Half-Life 2 probably sold 20% of that.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Like, Expedition 33 was so good that, like, playing anything else right now just feels kind of lame, dude. It's...
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Yeah, so 15% of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rockstar ain't afraid of this video. I don't like this conversation. It doesn't make me feel good. That's gonna do it for this episode, everybody.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Half-Life forever! Wow! Toodly-doodly.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Have you thought about maybe getting a new cord for this camera of yours? This is what happens when you insult the baguette gods. You can take the boy out of France, but you can't take the France out of the boy.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Nope. No. GTA Online und GTA 5 are doing just fine. There's no financial pressure for them to move on. And frankly, I would rather them wait and get it right than release it early. And anyway, so it's fine.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Das Problem mit dem negativen Feedback-Loop ist, dass es so schwere Reviews hatte, als es rauskam, dass es viele Leute gab, die es nicht mal in die Lichter des Tages geben konnten. Als Last of Us 2 rauskam, gab es eine ganze Menge Kontroversie über bestimmte Aspekte der Narrative im Spiel. And people review bombed it, and I was actually one of those people that was affected.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
It got so much negative publicity that I didn't even touch it. I have to imagine Cyberpunk 2077 is the same. It was released in a poor state, but everybody I know who's played it in its current state has been like, it is a top of all time game. It is. Legitimately it is.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
No. They already made that game. It's Expedition 3.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
You can quote me on this. I went into that game with such high expectations and it nailed it. I reached out to Sandfall today. They are getting a lot of requests, as you can imagine. But I asked them if we could fly out there and meet them and hang with their dev team. If they say yes, mark my words, we are going on a field trip.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
No, there's a business strategy behind that. Oh, absolutely. We should just get into it since we've tiptoed around it.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Genau, so wie wir in der Switch-Episode spekuliert haben, wenn Nintendo die Möglichkeit hat, einen Preispunkt von 80 Dollar pro Spiel auszuprobieren, wird jeder anderen folgen. Das ist nur so, wie die Wirtschaft funktioniert. Sie setzen eine Bar, wenn die Bar von der Konsumbasis toleriert wird, folgt jeder anderen die Bar und es wird eine Anwendungs- und Verkaufs-Sache.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Solange die Anwendung da ist, geht der Preis hoch. Xbox hat also einen Hike zu 80 Dollar für ihre kommenden Spiele. Aber wenn ich mir das vorstelle, ist die echte Strategie dahinter, die Leute mehr zu ihrem Subscriber-Service zu bewegen. Wenn sie mehr Leute auf rückgängigen Revenue-Plattformen bekommen, ist das im Endeffekt eine mehr nachhaltige Sache für ein Geschäft, die sie nutzen können.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Das ist der Grund, warum man keine mehr Blockbuster sieht und viele Netflix- und Cloud-Streaming-Services sieht. Das ist nur die Art, wie diese Dinge funktionieren. Jetzt denke ich persönlich, dass Xbox und Microsoft eine fantastische Sache in der Positionierung sind, sich gegen Nintendo zu kämpfen.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Wir hatten diese ganze Diskussion, Argument wirklich, über die Preispunkte von Nintendo auf ihrer neuen Konsole, die 450 Dollar sind. Und ihre Spiele sind 80 Dollar. Und übrigens, das 450 Dollar bringt dir nicht mal ein komplettes System. Du verpasst noch eine Kamera und all diese anderen peripheralen Geräte. Und oh, du weißt, vielleicht oder vielleicht nicht. Die Joy-Cons sind geschlossen.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Wer weiß. In der Zwischenzeit hat Microsoft exzeptionelle Dinge mit Cloud Gaming gemacht. Anybody who isn't on Game Pass, even if you're not a Xbox gamer, it's 25 bucks a month and you get AAA-Titles day one. That's for the premium. That's like the cream of the crop version. Exactly. 25 bucks a month and you get day one access to titles like... Claire Obscura Expedition 33. Day 1.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
You get South of Midnight. Day 1. And that's $25 a month. Those two games, Doom of the Dark Ages. Day 1. You don't even need a console. I'm playing, like I was playing, I played South of Midnight end to end on my TV with no console. Just streamed it right to my TV. Und ich denke, dass Microsoft die finanziell verantwortliche Sache macht, indem sie die Nintendo Switch-Argument absolut macht.
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Borderlands 4 Reveal, GTA 6 Delayed, and… Half-Life 3!? – TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Du brauchst diese Sache nicht. Backbone ist ein peripherales Gerät, welches sie Ryan und ich, dieses kleine Gerät, gesendet haben. Hoffentlich sehen die Leute das Video hier. Aber dieses kleine Gerät, der MSRP für die erste Version, war 100 Dollar. Also assume ich, dass diese Pro-Version wahrscheinlich 150, 200 Dollar im Ballpark sein wird. Und es verbindet sich mit deinem Handy.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Your ACLs would both completely explode if you just stopped on a dime. And they did. But you know what? I stopped. I stopped. At the same time. Okay, but you can stop. You know, the crazy thing to me is that I don't even... Double tapping to run, that's the hang-up on the greatest game ever made. It's so dumb. No, it's the greatest game ever made. There is...
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
If your hang-up is having to double tap to run, or to me, when I'm gun battling, flick that joystick up, and it's a headshot. Boom. It becomes second nature when you play it a little bit more than, I guess, you guys have. Maybe you're not sure. We got them going here. We got them going right now. I know, and I don't like that you got me going, but I am because... I like it.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
I can say that there are games that gameplay is better, but I don't think that the gameplay in Red Dead is bad enough to negate All the other 99% of how amazing that game is. That is not enough to justify not letting it be game of all time. For me.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
I mean, that's fair because, I mean, Witcher 3 is one of our favorite games of all time. Absolutely. I mean, it's one of those things where I still... Switching between the swords and, like, just the combat is so kind of... But to your point, like...
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Well, I just knew when I had to run, it takes a second to take a couple steps. But that's, you know, and I'm not a sim guy. I don't like real-life sims. I don't like sim games as much. But it does make that more realistic. I'm a cowboy in 1890 or whatever it is, and I'm just running. So it takes a couple strides to get going. But yeah, man, I just don't even know what to say.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Have you seen some of the games lately? Like, come on.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
I love God of War. It's one of my favorite games of all time as well. Red Dead is just that next level above for me. But it's fair. I get it. I get some people can't handle controls and they're not good enough to do it. So it's not a big deal.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
so my wife her name is Sarah I had like Sarah 6.0 because I would just randomly clip a wall or a pole or something with my horse I know it's true and I just kept renaming it to just keep it like the running joke because it would just my horse would explode and I'd run and tumble and I'm like Dang it! Now I'd have to go get another one. So I get it. I get it.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
But, you know, there's a lot in that game. They can only do so much. Everything can't be perfect, man. It's...
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Right. If you were to, if you were to say eight, I could, I could muscle my brain into like seven and a half. I'll meet you in the middle.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Okay, so I have 1,700 hours in Destiny 1. And I spent more Friday nights than I care to remember in Trials Over Cyrus. And you get real sweaty on Friday nights. And yeah, it was a lot of highs and a lot of lows, for sure. Yeah.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
All right, all right. Yeah, I'll get into it too, I swear. Yeah.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
No, yeah. After the seven, eight out of ten, I was like, I don't know about that.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Actually, that is... No, that's... We're building a rapport. This is very good. This is much more than Josh has ever given me. Still overrated. I'm not going to date him. Oh, come on, dude. No. All right. Moving on. Moving on. So, like, with games like that, what is... You know, what is it... I know we all, as gamers, we just... We have a feeling that gaming gives us.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
And so it resonates with everybody. And like we talked about before, there's all sorts of categories. There's something within everybody that they can find a game. Like you said, everybody has a game that they can find. Did that help lead you into this role, just having a love for gaming? What brought you to this?
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Well, I'm working. Yes.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
Don't say Arthur Morgan because of gameplay.
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You know, I'm going to throw this out there. I think you're selling yourself short. You think so?
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He's a five foot one plumber.
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This is true.
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The Gift of Gaming: How Make-A-Wish Grants Gamers Dreams - Gaming Podcast
I hate Yoshi. Just punch him right in the nose.
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That's smart. Yeah, we're pretty far into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 right now. And we're having to break off to start Avowed. So we're kind of reluctantly doing it. But we're super excited to check it out. Because, man, like you said, you have an amazing pizza or an amazing burger. And just because it's not the best one you ever ate doesn't mean it's not good. You're having a good time?
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You can sit and have fun and enjoy it. Yeah.
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oh man that's crazy but um i guess so so you know with you with with the gift of gaming yeah you know you lead the division for for make a wish and um you give all these kids kids you know their dreams you know how does that how does that process work how does it come to you to where you can come in and fulfill those dreams and you know explain that process to us
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So you know like kind of the – maybe the more challenging ones or things that are a little bit harder to accomplish and stuff. What is the most favorite one that you've had that just kind of like stuck with you? Maybe just what's the most unique or something that just held on tightly that you've granted?
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It's like, dude, what are you doing? Like stop,
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that's love it, man. I know. Right. It's, I mean, Josh and I were both, um, uh, you know, Phoenix, Phoenix, uh, uh, people here. I'm a native born and raised. Um, my, my son's been at, uh, uh, Phoenix children's and my, and my little sister as well. Uh, I know make a wish I've seen them there, um, before. And so like what you guys do is just, it's, it's second to none. And, um,
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there's a lot to be said and you know it's it's something that we try to kind of put forward too with with our campaign of of just no gamer left behind that there's we just we just want there always to be a good space for for everybody and for anyone that that is having a hard time or needs help or anything like there's always there's always somebody there for you you know and that's what you guys do you make these dreams come true and so um
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What we want to do on behalf of the Video Gamers Podcast, we want to help you guys out. We're dream makers now, apparently. We're honorary dream makers.
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So we're going to donate $5,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Thank you. And we just want to make those wishes come true.
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That's yeah. Cause I mean, I personally, I mean, when I see somebody that, that like needs a jump, uh, you know, a parking lot or, you know, uh, they need gas on the side of the road. I get amped up to help them with something like that. So, so to get your whole life is, is just, you're just helping not only somebody, but you're helping kids. Like I couldn't imagine.
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You know what I mean? I'll download it right now. Let's play it. I'll play it.
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And it shows what gaming means to people, like what it can do and how it can heal and help and bring people together and make wishes come true. It's just, there's nothing like it.
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Cause I get chills hearing you talking about it.
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I just want him to call me an idiot sandwich and I'll be good to go. That would be life accomplishment.
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Josh, just so you know, that gum over there, it's not free candy. Dang it, too late.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Josh, why aren't you saving cats? Exactly. Yeah, let's turn this around right on Josh.
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Okay, so, I mean, you're heading up this gaming division, you know, it's obviously kind of, you're getting to help kids, it's a dream that anyone would love to have. Like, it's safe to say, you know, you said in the beginning, like, you're a gamer as well, like, have you just always been that way? You've always just loved video games, you love that kind of world? Yeah.
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We always say that no matter who we have on the show, if we ever bring anybody on, or anyone just in general in life, we can talk games. No matter who you are, if you like video games, we can talk games and we can find some sort of common ground where we can chat about something. It's just one of those things that bridges all gaps and unites everybody, honestly.
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There's just that bond between gamers where it's something different than anything else in the world.
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I broke... I broke my wrist. I'm an old dingus, so I thought I could skateboard again like I did when I was 17. And I broke my wrist and I couldn't golf. I'm a big golfer. And so I threw on the Oculus and then I was just playing VR golf for like two, three months until I could swing a club again. And so there's just so many...
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uh, uh, categories within like the gaming universe, if you will, that, that will fit somebody, which is just so awesome. And I'm sure it's applicable to, you know, you and your industry with your, you know, company and, and make a wish to, to be able to just satisfy all those needs for these kids, man. It's just so awesome.
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You sit on a throne of lies.
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I think there's, there's reflections to like everything in real, like in, um, I'm not the biggest SIM game guy or crafting, but, but when I am in there, I love to get the crafting that, uh, can do it when I'm not there. And I also – in real world, like I have a 3D printer. I 3D print all the time and I love just pumping out prints and it's going while I'm not around.
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And it kind of is the same correlation between the two where it's just – it's operating when I'm not there and it feels good. And so, yeah, that's the one thing I love in these crafting games that it's just pumping when I'm away and I'm doing other things with the game. But, yeah, it's so weird the – the tie in between real world, uh, pleasures and then video game pleasures, if you will. Yeah.
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So, okay. So Josh is very excited because, um, so we, uh, we actually, I got on satisfactory with, uh, Josh and then one of our old hosts, Paul, and they showed me the ropes and we just went all out for like two or three weeks, just hardcore, uh, right before one of these updates that came out, but, um, we, we had the most obnoxious, amazing base you could ever imagine.
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And then, uh, uh, organizational czar, Josh is, is like, you can't, you're mixing this with that. And cause me and Paul are, we're just putting a conveyor belt so we can travel across areas. He's like, you can't put this in the way of this.
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And, and so, um, that one definitely hits those marks of, uh, it's, it's satisfactory when you, when you place this stuff, you know, and they're in the right spots and you're like, you know, yeah, that looks, that looks good, man. I like this. This is, this feels good. And you're, and you're sitting here on a computer playing a game, you know?
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Love that. I'm going to second that one right there.
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I equate it, and I think they did this brilliantly. It's just the Fortnite effect that I've kind of said with a lot of things. But I mean, I have an eight-year-old son. He's been gaming with me since he could walk, pretty much. I gave him a controller with no batteries before he could play, just so he could hang out and we would play together. And so he's a good, solid gamer.
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But he even asked me with Rivals, he's like, is there new characters, Dad? Is there any new ones? And I'm like, dude, they're already putting out more than Overwatch ever did within a couple months. And it's just that instant gratification, that constant reassurance of you're getting something new. Yeah. You either check this box or you're getting a new skin or you're getting a new character.
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And I think the youth is so conditioned for that, that that's what they strive for. And then that's what developers are creating.
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It's that 15 to 25 range. You got time, you got no kids most likely, and you have the time to grind. Nowadays, it's, I want to have fun. I want to enjoy my game time. I want to play. I don't want to have to spend 15 hours doing this to unlock the gun to help me 10%. It's definitely the... time invested is not worth the reward for people like us anymore.
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And I want to say that shows the longevity too by I don't know how many people today use the term blog anymore, which I grew up with. I know Josh knows and a lot of people used it from the old days. But yeah, people don't really blog anymore or vlog.
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I love the idea of online communication and online friendship is no different than IRL. Like you said, you don't like that term. I don't either. I think I have people that... I've met within the last year or two that I feel personally closer to than people I've known in, you know, IRL for 10, 15 years.
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And it's just that, that connection and that ability to be open with somebody you've never met in person, face to face, but you have a bond and a relationship with them that transcends, you know, personal connection, like the, the, the, the being in front of them. So it's, Yeah, that's so cool.
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And it's something that's so, I think, new within the last 15, 20 years that people are still kind of wrapping their minds around. But yeah, we're going to keep learning every day. And yeah, I'm excited to see kind of where all this goes.
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Keep it coming, man. We're excited. We love it.
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We get it. And our Discord, dude. Lurkers. We got lurkers in our Discord that will sit there for a year. I've been here. I've been listening to you guys forever. I'm going to just say hi. And then they just get open arms. What's your favorite games? You know, we always like to try to just bring everybody in. And it's almost like just kind of a revelation, like...
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OK, you know, these people are cool. They will accept me. And it's always cool to see every time. And I'm getting, again, goosebumps now thinking about it.
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Oh, here we go. Here we go. Now we're going to have to hear 30 minutes of Street Fighter from Josh. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, we're already after. You see how this goes.
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It's that battlefield. Like that lay of the battlefield. You can see the whole field where before you're just like, kill, kill, kill. And now you see the whole picture. You see everything that's there because you've been trained and seasoned over time. And I think that's what it's become for us is that we can kind of assess the environment and act accordingly within these games.
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That's my excuse anyway. Yeah, right? That's why I didn't get that headshot.
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And everybody better go look and everybody better go follow. I'm telling you right now. From me.
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Or the corner on the top right there. Yeah. Challenge that guy.
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Galaga or Battlefield 42 at a Pizza Hut or something like that.
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So I'm a Moon Knight, so you can cloak for me any day of the week.
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Yep, bring it on. Listen, I'm a purist. I'm going to stay with the true game, Diablo 2. I'm going back 25 years, man. That's where it's at. Yeah.
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It's Ryan. Listen, listen, we figured out last time with the sushi roll with the crab's treasure and stuff. No, we're not going there, Ryan. Yeah, just rolls aren't for me, man. That's all it is. Oh, man. Oh, man. And yet I know you love sushis. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Right.
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Yeah, Destiny and Destiny 2 were weekly raid nights and then just doing runs almost every other night as it was. And I didn't play anything else for years. So that was definitely the blind spot there until probably about Witcher 3 I dabbled in and then God of War and then I kind of fell off and Destiny also. in turn fell off. So yeah.
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Yeah, that's that that's what that's what I enjoy, too. I'm not a big souls guy, but the ability to craft certain potions and this and that to have that set up to where, oh, if I link this with this, this is going to power up that and it'll do this much damage. And then it just makes the battle that was seemingly impossible so much easier. So I thoroughly enjoy that kind of stuff, too.
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I don't think I was able to get into the beta, but I know you talked glowingly about it so far with what you played and from what I saw. It looks pretty good.
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I may or may not intentionally not be watching those videos just so I don't get hyped up because I know I will.
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A little busy, a little busy.
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I think it's hard, because I don't know... If you're not an Indiana Jones fan or a history buff, it may not resonate as well with you, but I'm such a nerd with history and archaeology to where just that setting and environment... Does something for me. So playing a game like that. If the combat. And the world. Is kind of subpar. Then I'm a happy guy. So I'm hoping that's what we get.
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From what we saw today. When we recorded this. That was released. It looks pretty good. So fingers crossed, it's not going to be game of the year. It's not something outstanding or amazing, but I just hope that it's a really solid game that just is a lot of fun and something I can enjoy.
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Don't even act like I won't be there. I know you will.
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I'll let you know, brother.
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oh man this this is hard because as gamers we develop i think like a bond or a connection to a game you love like you you know it's especially if it's one that means a lot to you you'll defend it you know to the death like it's a child or something you know so i i unfortunately with thousands of hours And Destiny, I just can't do it anymore, man.
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I do think you should feel crazy, but I think it's justifiable.
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As much as I loved that game and as much as I think it's one of the purest just straight shooters that is so crisp, they just did too much wrong to justify the right. And it's just something I don't even touch anymore. And it makes me sad, but that's one that's just off the shelf.
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I think it was a lot of money grabs. They got into microtransactions. They started doing things to where it wasn't as much about the story and the progression as it is just getting people to play, getting people to go on and stream. It was all about... Twitch and everything else.
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So they just... It kind of went the way of Fortnite or anything else to where it was more about not the game, but all the commercialization of it. And that's just really... It just turned me off so much. And it... Just wasn't what it was prior that I loved so much about it. And it breaks my heart. But yeah, it's dead to me.
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That's very fair. No, that's a very fair assessment. I would agree.
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Rare?
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There we go.
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Like, all right, moving on, moving on.
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So this one was a little hard because, you know, typically really good games get really good recognition most of the time. So it's hard to find those hidden gems or ones that people really haven't gone out and tried or haven't got enough publicity to bring people in. So I'm going to go with one that was pretty recent and it's an older game, but it was...
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By far, one of the best experiences I've had gaming. Part of it was because it was with you guys, you and Paul. This was a Forza friend that we did back in the day with Paul, and he made me play Heavy Rain, which was just one of these... Choose your own adventure. You are picking what you do. Your main guys or a few of them can die pretty dang early if you don't make the right choices.
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And certain things you can do can just totally change the outcome of the story and the way you progress. It's just one of those games that there's so many layers to it, and there's so many levels, and it's just absolutely amazing.
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I personally, somebody who's big in gaming, I know I get usually kind of stuck in my track of what I'm playing in the moment, but I haven't heard a lot of people talk about this, and so... If you can, Heavy Rain is a game that you should definitely try out. It's not super duper long. It's something you can play. I wouldn't play it around kids, but it's heavy.
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But it's a really, really good game that I would recommend to anybody, any adult that wants to play just a solid, amazing story, amazing campaign, awesome gameplay. There's some just really cool features. It is a little dated, but it doesn't take away from how you play the game. So that's mine. I loved it.
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No, that's – yeah, that's one that I actually haven't – I haven't checked out. I mean, I'm too busy playing just repurchased modes of Skyrim. But, I mean, it's over almost 9,000 reviews on Steam. And it's overwhelmingly positive. Everything. It's got all these crazy, out-of-the-world reviews.
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Yeah.
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[Side Quest] Path of Exile 2, Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones - Gaming Podcast
So, it's wild how you get these games that are reviewed so well, they just don't track to kind of grow big, big, big time.
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What's the price on Steam? I do. $8.74 right now. It's actually 65% off.
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are you kidding me for under ten dollars so it is uh yeah for uh i don't know how many more hours this is but yeah 65 off it's it's 874 dude just go pick that game up right now yeah because it's fantastic man it is such a bundle the bundle is 1325 oh i don't know what the bundle i don't know yeah i forgot they'd bundle Digital collector's edition.
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I guess there was a little bit of DLC and then some music or whatever. But yeah, overall, I mean, it looks awesome. And if it's kind of based off Skyrim, you know you're going to have a good kind of base there. Absolutely.
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Has there been any other, I mean, other than maybe Grand Theft Auto that's modded as much as Elder Scrolls?
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We got another one. It's the same as the first one. However many we have is the same as the first. We're excited every single time. And it feels the same every single time. You see that email little notification come through on our phones. And we're like, oh. Oh yeah. And we just, like you said, start texting each other. Like, look, we got another one, blah, blah, blah.
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Well... You can't say meet your wife or any of that stuff because that's too cheesy. Speaking of cheesy, I'd say if it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. No. Man, I guess personally, I'm not a big fan. time advocate of luck. I think you kind of make your own luck.
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So, uh, so I, I'm not one of those. I don't, I don't believe in, in chance or these things. I think, you know, when people yell at me, Oh, you shouldn't have said that, you know, when a sports game's happening and I'm like, Oh yeah, cause I influenced the game 2000 miles away, blah, blah, blah. I'm not a big superstition guy at all.
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And I come from hockey and there's, those are some of the biggest superstition guys you'd ever meet in your life. Uh, but it's just, it's not for me. So, I'm personally... I'm not a big luck guy. I would say anything that I've done or had happen most of the time is because I put in the effort or tried. Some things happen just because they happen.
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Not that I can think of.
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I won some money on a scratcher once. Okay. There you go. Nothing crazy or big. I just... I never... I don't know. Anything that I do, I go into it and I put full bore into it and I'm focused on that. And that's maybe my ADHD brain, but that's what I'm focused on and that's what I'm directed towards. So anything that happens is because I was working towards it.
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And so I'm not... The luck part is not in my brain, but...
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I had a 91 convertible 5.0 Mustang when I was 16 years old, but this accident happened when I was 18. I was headed down the road. I was in the left lane of a three-lane just main street. A commercial tow truck pulled left in front of me. And luckily, this is the part where kind of the luck versus you make your own luck type thing.
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Or look, we got this review, you know, where it's everyone out there that listens and appreciates what we do. It really does mean so much to us.
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I was able to turn and kind of get in front of him enough to where the front of his car or the truck kind of caved in the side of mine and it shot me off all the way onto the curb.
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and i wasn't hurt i wasn't injured i was i was good to go if i had not done that i would 100 have drove driven under the the flatbed tow truck and it would have took the whole top of my car off and i probably wouldn't be here today so you want to call that luck divine intervention or or skill whatever but uh that's one that came to mind you know aside from everything else but uh
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That may be considered luck. I'll take it.
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Cause it's like, where do you, where do you put that at? I mean, we had a ton of games this year and we always, I remember when we were talking the end of last year, we're like, man, I don't know. I don't know what's going to come out. We'll be able to get to our backlogs. That was a joke like that. That didn't happen, you know? And, and so, um, Let me do this, Ryan.
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I'm not going to lie.
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8.5?
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Yeah, I think that there was some great games that really shot this score up this year that are honestly all-timers. Astro Bot... is just such a dang good game. I keep getting sucked back into that stinking thing. And there's so many, like you listed, and a couple downers that bring it down a little bit. But I think it was definitely an above-average year overall.
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I feel like you made this just for me. Did you do this just for me?
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Garbage, yeah. Yeah, it's too thick and just meh.
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So that's okay. Okay. Think. Okay. That feeling. That's how I am with like sweets and ice cream and stuff. So my wife will get McFlurry or any sort of ice cream or milkshake. I'll take one bite. And if it's a little too big, I go. it's just too much. And so like the little bit is good, but after that, it's just, it's too much. And so that's how, that's exactly how I feel.
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No. Yeah. Watermelon and all those other ones. No, thank you.
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No, thank you.
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Garbage.
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That's why I laughed because you sent me this and Josh does a lot of the outlines for the shows. And so I was looking over the food questions and I'm like, he made this just for me because I was like garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage.
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They're good.
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That's basically like what? 70 cents an episode?
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I agree 100%.
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Oh, every time, like we said before, these ones – Whenever we see them come in, they always brighten us up and it just gives us that juice to keep going. I know when we were talking about if we were going to keep doing this, we're like, let's do it. If they hate us and all the listeners plummet and they don't like us anymore, then maybe we'll pass on. But it just kept going.
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Everybody kept chugging along and the downloads kept growing. So we love it and we're going to keep on keeping on.
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So, uh, aside from soccer too, we're obviously playing that, uh, for the deep dive coming up. Um, and we will keep our thoughts on that hidden until that episode, but Astropod,
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Well, here's the deal, bud. Here's the deal. They released their time trials so you could do speed runs. So I've been maybe diving in a little bit to doing speed runs and trying to... figure out how the heck these guys do. I'm doing everything I can to try to beat their times or get even close. And they're killing it in like 35.4 seconds. And I'm at like 39.
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And I'm like, how are they shaving off these extra seconds? And there's just, I just can't do it, but I just can't help myself from trying, you know?
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It's Ryan. Wait, wait, what's this game? I've never heard of it. Oh, that's the worst thing you could ever say, Ryan. You've never said anything to me at all about Path of Exile 2.
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How are you doing this?
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It's like, what's more shortcuts? There's this one on this one level where you have to laser the seal in the water that shoots you up. And so then you can laser again and not have to use an ice. You get three ice packs you can use to slide across. And then you have to do that so you can take the other three shortcuts. And if you can't get that, there's no way you're going to beat it.
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But it's the hardest thing to do in the world. It's unreal. I tried it for two or three hours with my son, and we just could not get it dialed in. He's a little more emotional than me when we play games, and so he was very, very frustrated. He's like, Dad, let's do something else. I can't do this anymore. I'm like, all right, bud. We can move on. But it's just...
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Time trials, when they're short, get me. Because if I can flip and turn it over within a minute or two, I'll just keep trying it over and over and over. If it's like a long extended thing, I probably won't do it. But short time trials are like my jam.
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Oh. that's awesome.
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Okay. Oh, yeah.
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All right.
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I am sending you videos. I am trying to hype you.
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This late in the year, huh?
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Have you heard of that, Ryan? Not too many people have been mentioning it. Maybe it's my circle I'm with. I don't know.
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Or like a blatant copy and kind of remake of a superior game. I don't know.
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I don't know. How dare you? I was going to try to let that slide, Ryan.
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And I don't like this, man. I need you to be like, yes. Yes, Path of Exile 2!
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I wish everyone could have seen Josh's face. That was strictly for him. Him and me, just so I could see his reaction.
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I'm sure I will at some point, but Deckard Cain is hovering over my shoulder.
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But you're not, Ryan, and you should be! Why? Why won't you join me?
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And it's like, buy our $90 games, man.
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All right. That's for all you advertisers out there that would like to advertise with this podcast.
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Are you sure about that? Are you sure about that, Ryan?
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Metroid Prime 4 & Doom The Dark Ages Anticipation + Nintendo Direct Predictions – Gaming Podcast
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. The Nintendo Direct is looming. Well, okay, by the time this episode releases, it's already happened. Doom the Dark Ages is making a strong push to unseat Expedition 33, on my hype meter at least, and Metroid Prime 4 will let you open doors. We've got a lot to cover, but first, some introductions are in order.
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Yeah. John also mentioned Elden Ring in a little text message to us, and I kind of went, Elden Ring on the switch is... I feel like I'd go blind. That thing better have a bigger screen, man. I think that's just your age.
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John, have you seen, I mean, I'm assuming you've seen the trailer.
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So the premise of it, you touched on it, Ryan, but the whole premise of this game is you are living Breaking Bad, basically. So if you ever thought, hey, I bet I could build a drug empire. I bet I could manufacture these drugs. I bet I could grow these drugs. I bet I could set up distributors and avoid the law and all that stuff. This is exactly what this game does. You play it with buddies.
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Talking to my buddy at work, he said this game would not be nearly as fun without playing it with friends, which is a lot of games. But that is the premise of this game. You can buy a house and decorate your house and buy a lab and try to get efficient and things like that. I will say I'm with John. The graphics on this remind me of like a Roblox game.
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You know, there are some really funny parts that I have seen. I've seen some funny reels where it's like you sell some drugs to somebody and then their eyes turn blood red and they go staggering away or something like that. You know, kudos to the solo dev on this because this guy's filthy rich at this point.
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But this to me seems like one of those games that, yes, I absolutely believe it is probably a ton of stinking fun. but it's probably a flash in the pan as well. Are we going to be hearing about schedule one in three weeks? I highly doubt it, but it's only 1999. If you're up for a really good time with your buddies, you know, I'm sure you're going to laugh and things like that.
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You know, it's probably well worth the money to see. I know that we get FOMO. I mean, we're gamers, dude, Ryan, we've been talking about picking this game up and playing it because we're like, well, if it's that fun, I don't want to miss out on this dude.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is for 20 bucks. I think you're going to absolutely get your entertainment value out of this game. Yeah. That's exactly what it is. And so I think it's very low risk, especially with a rating like this. What was the other one? We were with the pictures.
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Um, Oh, that was a headliners. Headliners. Yeah. A lot of ways. Yeah. Yeah. These games are simple. They're dumb fun. You have a great time with them and then you just move on. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I think there's a reason that you see these games being so prevalent. You can make a ton of money if you hit on one of these.
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I mean, and then the people don't complain because it's a simple premise game. So gamers don't get all snooty about it and be like, oh, it's so dumb. I can't do this in this game because it's like, It's just meant to be fun, dude. That's all it's meant to be, you know?
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So again, you know, legal disclaimer, we don't support any of the activities that you may or may not perform in schedule one, but if you want to have a good time, it seems like that is a good opportunity for you. All right, guys, let's talk about Metroid Prime 4. Now, I mean, you talk about a mega franchise that has a very rabid fan base, myself included. I love the Metroid games.
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I mean, I grew up playing Metroid, the very, very initial Metroidvania. It started all of that genre. This is a game that if you grew up playing Nintendo, you understand it. GameCube, Nintendo 64, there's been all these iterations of the Metroid series. And we got the announcement about Metroid Prime 4 months ago.
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The Drift-Cons? Yes, Drift-Cons, yeah. Guys, we got a lot to cover. This is another great week for video game news. Again, the Nintendo Direct. We're going to make some predictions today. And then people that are listening are going to be like, You guys are idiots, man. You didn't get any of those right.
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And then recently we got this gameplay overview trailer for it where we got kind of a little bit more of an in-depth look at it. I have thoughts on this, but I'm going to save those because I want to hear from John. Because, you know, John, you are a Nintendo fan. You love your Switch. Love Nintendo. You like Nintendo games. Yep. What is your opinion of Metroid Prime 4 from what you've seen?
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Ryan, have you, have you played it? Cause you might be with John. If I remember right. I don't know if you're, if you've played a lot of the Metro.
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So I like the Metroid series. The most recent one I played was Metroid Dread on the Switch. I thought that was a neat take. It kind of had this creepy, slightly more horror aspect. You know, you were being stalked by these unkillable robots, so to speak. There was really neat boss fights. You know, I thought it was a very fun video game. I really didn't have any major issues with it.
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There was a couple of complaints I had, but it was a great game in my opinion. So this is not to slander Metroid Prime 4. This is to slander the trailer that we got for Metroid Prime 4. Guys, I don't know that I have seen a more stupid trailer in my life for such a major IP. They're showing it off. You've got the first-person perspective on this one.
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But we're going to throw out a couple predictions as to what we think we might see or things that we hope we see from the Nintendo Direct as well. But as promised, guys, we've got another quick question from one of our Epic supporters here. That we're going to start off with. This one comes in from Technophile75. And I like this one, man. It's a little more on the technical side.
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That's kind of the gist for the Prime series for Metroid. You're walking around these beautiful forests that are all just muddied and dull-looking because the graphics suck. for the Nintendo Switch, you know? And then they get into the, like the hook of Metroid Prime 4 and it's that Samus gets these psychic abilities. There's something magical on this planet.
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You're on Pandora from Avatar basically is what they're trying to say. And it's like Samus getting psychic abilities on top of her suit and her rockets and all this stuff. And then they go on to show you this stupid little totem with this little glowing ball on a door where you reach out to it and you use your psychic ability
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to open doors that is literally the line from the trailer is use your newly discovered psychic abilities to open doors like what are we doing here guys like are you kidding me it's a big mess this is the best you can come up with nintendo big miss like is is this an intern that you had make the metroid prime 4 like trailer like come on man
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I'm not saying I wouldn't use my psychic abilities to open doors. I just mean, like, this is what we showed off in this trailer, guys. It's not the showcase.
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The shooting looked bland to me. It looked like it had no impact whatsoever. I get that they're not going to show off every, you know, weapon that she gets, but the shooting looked very, very plain to me.
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The big highlight for them in the shooting was that you can guide your shots and it showed it like slow down the game and then you hit one creature and then you aimed it over to the other creature. And I'm like, this looks dumb because these creatures don't look like they're hard to kill anyway. Like, am I just slowing down the pace of the game at this point? Look,
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Again, I am not saying that I think Metroid Prime 4 is going to be a crappy game. I'm just saying whoever made this trailer, somebody needs to watch these things and go, is this really the best we got, guys? Is this what we want to show the world? I'm sorry to whatever intern was forced to make that trailer.
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Like, you know, like, that's the thing. Like, I remember saying this exact same thing about Hogwarts Legacy, right? Like, we saw a really good looking trailer for Hogwarts Legacy, and then we saw a really bad looking trailer for Hogwarts Legacy. And I responded pretty much the exact same way where I went, what the heck is this trailer? I'm very hopeful that this is just a bad trailer.
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I mean, we all loved Hogwarts Legacy. Fantastic game. But man, it's funny. I don't see a lot of people talking about Metroid Prime 4 right now. Maybe it's that we don't have a release date. Maybe it's just we haven't really seen a whole lot. Or maybe it's just that they're not doing a very good job of hyping people up for this game either. They're all making drugs in Schedule 1.
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But, you know, I like these kind of questions here, too. So he asks, what are your thoughts on the new DLSS4 and the use of AI in frame generation? So, Ryan, why don't you go ahead and explain frame generation and DLSS and what that stands for in 20 seconds. Go.
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This is Nintendo. I don't think Nintendo listens to their fans at all, man. Nintendo, listen. Here's the thing. This game's going to sell a million copies no matter what. I mean, it's got the Metroid name on it. So no matter what, people are going to buy it. It's going to sell. Nintendo's probably going to make their money.
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But again, I don't know that I've seen a trailer that's got me less excited.
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Yeah, exactly. And honestly, that is exactly the truth, man. So, Palworld did it, and then they're getting sued by Nintendo because Nintendo went, hey, we're the only ones that can make bad games around here. You can't go making a good Nintendo game on us. So, all right.
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Speaking of Nintendo, boys, we're going to get to a couple of Nintendo Direct predictions, but we have to talk about Ghost of Yotay. Yeah. Now John's excited. Look at him. He's like, dude, I don't care about Metroid Prime. I don't care about Doom. I'm not playing Schedule 1, but Ghost of Yotei. What?
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Yeah. We, we, when, when we saw this trailer and ghost of Yotei was announced, we all went, Oh my goodness. It's about time. Like, how has it taken this long to get a sequel to, you know, ghost of Tsushima? Um, I'm a little jealous, John, that you're actually getting to experience ghost of Tsushima for like the first time, like legitimately, um,
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And so it's really neat that we get this announcement. And so the announcement is basically that Ghost of Yotei has been confirmed for 2025. There's a tiny bit of like a snippet of story that we got where it's basically saying like, hey, you know, the protagonist is upset because people raided her village and, and raised her village. And now she's upset and she's going to enact revenge.
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Um, there's a lot of speculation on the, like some of the game mechanics, like she's going to be doing bounties because they mentioned that there are a plethora of odd jobs for her to do so that she can make money to enact her revenge. And then of course people take that and they go, Ooh, there's going to be bounties. We don't know a whole lot about that.
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The main takeaway is that it is planned for a 2025 release. Dude, 2025 is shaping up to be a heck of a year, guys. And I remember 2024 at the end going, I don't really know how 2025 is going to be able to top this, man. But, dude, it looks like it's topping it, like in all honesty.
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Do you remember the year that it takes to one game of the year? Like we do get those down years, but I think we're in a couple of really, really good years right now. So we might be spoiled a little bit too.
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You used fog twice there. Okay, I will say it was chat beat GPT, so blame it on chat GPT. I literally... I was like, there's fog in the first line, there's fog in the third line. What's going on here?
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That would imply that John has a mane in a hero shooter, which we also know is not true. We're just getting lies all over the place here, man. What is happening? Whatever. You don't even have a haiku.
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Dude, because I refuse to use AI to come up with a haiku is why.
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Yeah, exactly. I respect the art form, guys. Anyway, let's go make some drugs.
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oh man we're gonna name our drug empire haiku we're drawing some weird lines here guys oh my goodness oh my goodness all right guys real quick because we're running out of time nintendo direct predictions all right uh i'm gonna throw out one because i know we've been hopeful but not to be a buzzkill we are not going to hear anything about silk song at nintendo direct
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Nintendo just overusing a franchise for the, what is this, like the ninth or tenth iteration? This would be Mario Kart 9 officially. But don't they have some kind of like offshoot Mario Karts where it's like been little side games? I don't know. I'm so sick. Look. We pick on Ubisoft about this, you know, but Nintendo, it's your turn.
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Mario Kart 9 is going to be the same as Mario Kart 8, which was the same as Mario Kart 7, which was the same as Mario Kart 6, 5, 4, 3. And I'm sure at some point somebody went, ooh, like, how can you say that, Josh? We got Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 6. How dare you? Dude, they're all the same. They're all the same games.
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And if we pick on Ubisoft about making the exact same game over and over again, then you know what? You're not immune either, Nintendo, because stop it. Make a new game! You know? Why?
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And as I say that, please give us a brand new Mario 3D game. Right. Exactly. Oh, that's great. Oh, man. So, okay. Any other predictions? I would like a new Smash Bros.
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see that's what i'm not sure of man i don't know if that like we've seen a lot of failures multiverses and some of these other games that are trying to kind of mimic that have not done well lately yeah and like i i just don't know if nintendo's willing to risk the like the burnout on that particular type of game or not it's been how many years has it been like i don't know six seven years i don't play smash bros i like real fighting games i could i could very yeah i'm with you josh uh
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This is my problem. A couple new levels and a couple new characters. It's the same game. Yeah.
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And then they just call it like Super Mega Smash Bros. And then everybody's going to lose their minds. It works for John Wick, brother. I will not accept any John Wick slander on this podcast.
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I know the kingdom heart games are beloved by a lot of people. They are iconic to a lot of people. Those are games that I will just never experienced in my lifetime. I don't know why, but it's just, my brain has, I like mixing Disney characters with like this. It just, it doesn't compute for me, man. Like, I don't know why.
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And I know there's people that are going like, Josh, you have no idea what you're saying right now.
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Yeah. I mean, apparently Donald Duck cast the most deadly spell in the universe or something like that that would make Doctor Strange jealous. I don't know. It's very weird lore. I can't wrap my head around it. I hope for the Kingdom Hearts fans and you, John, that maybe they do announce something like that. But it's such a blind spot for me that I'm content to just be blind on.
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I'll make one more prediction. I think we will get the announcement of a 3D Mario title to go along with the Switch 2. I think Nintendo is smart enough to understand that they need some sort of Mega Draw or Mega Game to announce with the Switch 2. And they're going to rely on the Mario franchise because we had Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, which was a huge success.
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And so I think now they're going to say, hey, it's Mario's turn. Let's give the people a brand new 3D Mario game. So... They got a lot to choose from, too.
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I've seen some chatter about Donkey. Listen, I like the Donkey Kong games, man. My wife and I have played almost every Donkey Kong game that has been released. Donkey Kong is fine, but he's not like a console selling type of character. He is a side character in the Nintendo franchise.
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I hate to be like the contrarian on this, but it's like, don't try to give us a Donkey Kong game and then be like, look! Guys, you're getting a Donkey Kong because I'm going to be like, what the heck, man? You couldn't even give us a Mario or a Zelda? Like, come on. Come on. Yeah, come on, man. All right. Oh, man, these episodes are getting off the rails here. All right. Listen, that's it.
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We're out of stuff to talk about. We're out of time. Well, actually, we got way more we could talk about, but we're out of time. So we're going to wrap this one up. Thank you, everybody, for joining us. Listen, if we sound like complete and total idiots because we whiffed on every prediction or thought imaginable. We did that on purpose just to make it entertaining.
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And if we got any of these right, that's because we are absolute video game geniuses. And we'll make sure that we point to this episode and point out that we got everything right at the same time. So that's the beauty of this is we have evidence. All right, listen, thank you for joining us, everybody.
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I wasn't really going to explain. I was giving my opinion. I was giving my opinion. This is what you get for slamming Goldeneye, Ryan.
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Bow to the AI overlords.
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So real quick, because I love tech. And so to explain what this technology is for people, this is basically rendering. I'll call it software, even though it's the hardware that does this and processes this. Um, so DLSS is deep learning, deep learning, super sampling. What this does is it downscales your resolution so that it's easier to render on your console or your PC.
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And then it does this artificial AI upscaling. So this is what is going to say, Hey, I'm rendering this game at a lower resolution, which is very easy for a graphics card. And then the AI does, brain kicks in and upscales it into your 2K or 4K resolutions. So this is a good way to improve frames per second. That's really all this comes down to.
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There is a lot of talk that it's like, hey, well, this is kind of cheating and there's a loss of visual quality and stuff like that. We've gotten better at this and we now have this stuff called frame generation where to even boost frames per second higher, the AI basically looks at your screen and goes, yeah, I can kind of see what's on here. Let me insert these artificial frames into your game
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to improve your frames per second even more. I have played around with this a lot because again, I love technology and I have a higher end graphics card that can actually do this kind of stuff. I will say that I do think that there is a world where DLSS can drastically improve things for people.
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I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he's been dreaming about setting up his own unsanctioned medicine empire and watching reruns of Breaking Bad to prepare.
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I am not one of these people that can tell the difference in the minute graphical quality that's like, oh, you're losing some of this fidelity and stuff like that. The frame generation stuff I can tell because it looks artificial to me. Do you guys remember when TVs came out with like the 120 hertz black frame insertion?
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It looked like soap operas. Like literally everything looked like a soap opera and our brains kind of went, this doesn't look natural, dude. That's the same technology basically. So in a nutshell, I don't hate it, but I get that some people would not like it. But for most gamers, all we care about is a smooth experience. And so I think that the technology makes sense.
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You always have the option of turning it off. I should say that a few games lately have just relied on it completely and gamers have gotten upset by that. But gamers will get upset over anything, guys.
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Yeah. The last thing I'll say on this, because we got a lot to cover, is the main complaint from a lot of people is that this is just making developers lazy. Because instead of making a game efficient and optimized and things like that, they can just rely on this technology to make their game better. And there is some proven loss of quality with using some of this technology.
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So it's kind of like, if you just make your game the right way and optimize it, we don't need to rely on this stuff. So I get why people are concerned, but for the most part, I think gamers do benefit from this stuff.
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But you also have to have a higher-end graphics card to be able to do that, which kind of makes it a moot point because I don't need to use this stuff because I have pretty much a top-of-the-line graphics card. So it's like I don't really get the thinking that this is limited to those two. So we'll see. We'll see where it goes. But again, we all love frames per second, right? Yep. All right.
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So, guys, we got a lot of gaming chat, a lot of gaming chat to cover. I get the because I'm the host. I'm just going to start off with you. Dark Ages, boys. Oh my gosh. Okay. Have either one of you played Doom Eternal? No. No. Okay, I've said this many, many times. Many, many times. Doom Eternal is one of the best single-player, first-person experiences that you can have.
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This game is bananas, dude. And every time I see one of our listeners or somebody in our Discord community pick it up and start playing it, they always say the same thing. Oh my gosh, this game's great. It just flows so well. It's like I'm dancing. It's a ballet of destruction. And the game just builds on itself layer after layer before you know it by the end of the game.
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You're grapple hooking everywhere. You're flying around, you know, you're switching weapons on the fly and you're wrecking, you know, fantastical demons. I am a huge fan of Doom Eternal. If you've played it, you understand, but it is pretty much the pinnacle of that first person shooter experience as far as just the flow of the game and stuff like that. Doom the Dark Ages. We covered this before.
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I don't know, Ryan. Mr. Light Tan. Tan is a color, I guess, right?
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We said, dude, the motto for this one is stand and fight. You have this saw-toothed shield. You're this big, tanky, you know, the Doom Slayer in this armor. This takes place way before, like, a lot of the Doom games, I guess, or something like that. So it's like a prequel in a sense. I thought this looked absolutely freaking incredible as a fan of the Doom series. What did you guys think?
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I mean, I get Doom. You know, Doom is not really John's type of game. He definitely prefers a little bit more of that chill kind of aspect and grandpa games. Yeah, well, not great, but just story-based, and there's not much story.
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And joining us, he's really just here for the Nintendo Direct Chat, and he's already doubled down on a Switch 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 port. It's John.
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Yeah. I think you talk about that drip, Ryan. They kind of turned the faucet on for this one. Some of the things that really stood out to me are, number one, the shield gameplay is incredible. You have to parry these different attacks, like the –
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bullets from the demons come out green sometimes and if it's green you can parry it and shoot it back at them they showed you piloting so for anybody that's played doom eternal they showed you piloting the gigantic mechs uh that fight the gigantic demons so there was a whole like segment of this preview where you get to be in one of those and you're just punching this like
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20 story tall demon and then you get these guns that like a gatling gun. That's huge I mean this game so over-the-top you're riding a cybernetic dragon at one point.
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I i john you know how excited i have been and i am for expedition 33 but this preview this preview like legitimately was like tugging on expedition 33 being like i don't know if you can hold on to that number one spot now man man it looks it looks really cool i i you may convince me it looks really cool there's just so many good games coming out guys i mean yeah
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This one is absolutely... I mean, I'm playing Doom the Dark Ages. There's no way that anything in the world could stop me from playing this one. So if you haven't seen this preview, check it out because it's pretty mind-blowing.
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And I don't know that I've gotten more excited from watching a game trailer and just going like, I knew I wanted to play this game, but oh my goodness, this touched on everything that I could want from this next game in the Doom series. So... We have... Guys, you know, every now and then a game comes along that really just...
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shocks the the world you know the internet becomes a buzz where everybody is like did you hear about this game are you playing this game uh pal world was a good example of that lethal company when it came out you just hear so many people talking about it that you're like i can't ignore it i cannot ignore this game and there is a game that is out right now that you know is like my buddy at work
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literally came into work he's you know he's a gamer and he said josh have you have you you know heard of this game and i said yeah i absolutely have i've heard of this game and he said i played it all weekend with some buddies of mine it's really fun dude and i think the the chatter is is on point and i was just like man we've been talking about covering this game as well and i've been hearing really incredible things we're going to tell you what that game is right after this break
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All right. So this game has dethroned Monster Hunter Wilds, guys, in its first couple weeks of release. It has a higher concurrent player count than Monster Hunter Wilds, which is a gargantuan franchise and release. This is a game called Schedule One. This game sounds like the stupidest premise ever.
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Wait, wait, wait. Are we getting proceeds from this?
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But before we actually talk about that premise, let me just hit you with the Steam ratings on this game. This game is sitting at a 98% Steam rating. Unheard of. Unheard of with 33,000 reviews. This is not like 500 people found this game to be really enjoyable. This is a 98% rating, 33,000 reviews. Schedule one sounds bananas. Ryan, tell the people, what do you do in this game, dude?
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Oh, all right. So it's all on me here. I'm going to go with one that Paul picked last year. Ooh. And we'll see if it maybe releases this year. I for sure hope so because I am a glutton for punishment and I love the series. I'm going to go with Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater and I'm going to start the bidding at $15.
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You're just trying to run me up now.
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Would you have given it to me at 35? Probably. That's only $2. That's 1% of your budget. That could be my last two games once I spend $100 million on Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, that is true.
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Yeah. I'm glad it's in my list this year when it will actually release. Yeah, yeah, fair enough.
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Rockstar has a good long-standing trend of releasing games every couple years. Come on. Yeah.
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Dang it. Paul's out. What are you doing, Josh? Come on, buddy.
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If I didn't just pay $100 for Grand Theft Auto, I would have paid.
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That's for sure. one dollar no i'm gonna go with uh i'm gonna do the alters i knew this was coming what have you been right alters at 10 15 25 30 35 oh my gosh 40 42
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I bet you're shaking in your boots right now, brother.
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No, because he'll give it to me. I know Josh. Josh will do it. I know him, too. He'll be like, whatever. I don't care. I'm going to give it to him. He can have it. 42? Yeah, 42.
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Yeah, especially with the base they already have there. And it just reminds me of, you know, you talk about the demos and stuff. That reminds me of the original Metal Gear on the little PlayStation disc that I played. And I was like, oh, my God, this is the greatest game ever. And then I played the game and you see what Metal Gear did.
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And so it's kind of along those lines where I just this demo did something to all three of us for all of us to all say the same thing. Like, oh, we're ready for this game. It's got to be good.
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Didn't you just say $14? No. Who? Me? Yeah. No, I said 10.
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I said I'll start the bidding off at 10. All right. I don't know what the heck my brain was doing. Yeah, no, I'm out. So $15, Paul?
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I don't got a lot of money. Josh, are you going to bid or are you out?
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Ryan? I mean, it does look pretty sweet. That's so cheap, though.
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This is great. Great podcast content right here. You can have it. You can have it for $6. All right.
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Okay. I got him up from a dollar.
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There is some definitely a good bit. Let's go with a game that is near and dear to Josh's heart. We may or may not have talked a lot about this game and loved this game and loved it dearly about what we enjoy and don't enjoy. But I'm going to go with Subnautica 2. I'm out. Early access. Well, Paul's out already.
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$8. You can't let this one go under $20. Come on. You already said you're out.
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Oh, 20 is kind of a lot. What do you got to say? Are you double-guessing now, Josh?
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why I personally don't like early access games, just release it when it's done. But yeah, that's here and over there. Oh man. So you're at 20, 20 and I only have what? $57 left.
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Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to give it, I'm going to give it to Paul.
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Oh, man. I hate this draft.
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I'm so handcuffed, but I'm going to be so happy when Grand Theft Auto releases and I will just win everything.
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We knew what you were up to.
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I have $7 to play with here, guys. Hold on. You got it. You can have it if you want. No, you can. You already put it in Josh's. I know.
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I can move it. I see it in the notes right now. You already put it in Josh's.
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If I swing a sword three times in real life, I'm tired. Why would I want to do that in a video game? Well, I don't know. Personally, I hate stamina bars. It's the worst. I'm trying to escape the world. I'm always tired as it is. Let me just mindlessly swing at everything. I don't want to deal with that.
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Yotei at $38? Dude, that's killer.
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All righty, Mr. Moneybags here.
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Well, let's see how much money you guys have after this. Let's go for a big boy. Let's do it. We're going to do... Avowed. Oh, there it is. Opening bid, $20.
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45 50 I am out no oh boy I'm scared Ryan come in Ryan I'm out Are you sure?
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Paul, I was counting on you, Paul, to drive him up.
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There's a lot of games I could fill out for a dollar. There is a lot of games out there, I know.
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This is true. I feel like you said this last time, too, on some Nintendo game, like on the last draft.
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Man, I really wanted this one. Real quick, has there ever been like the original Gears of War game, like the trailer with Gary Jules and Mad World, like a better trailer to a video game? Oh, it's so good.
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Quit trying to get me to spend money. You know I'm easily excitable.
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Listen, I got a lot on here that have not been taken that I can use for a dollar.
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I have not spent a hundred yet.
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Ryan only has two games, though. And I only need to buy two.
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Oh, man. Let's go with. I'm going to go with Civ 7. Okay. I'm going to do that at five bucks.
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I've played one or two here or there. It's been a long time, but I know they have a very...
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That's going to be killer. Trust me. Mark my words.
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All right, Ryan. How much did you say? Five bucks. Seven. Eight.
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Nine. Ten. It's a big name game. People love it. You can have it. For ten bucks? Yes!
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It'll look good on your list, for sure.
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Obviously. He can't even do that because he needs a dollar left for the other one. I can't even bid $13.
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$20. If a game like Elden Ring doesn't go in the $30 range, something is wrong.
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25. That's why I was going to go. Ryan, it's Elden Ring.
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Okay, but is it going to release? And Paul's bidding on it. Paul's bidding on it, so it's probably not going to release. That is a good point. That's what we know.
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I'm going to go 27. 30. 30? Dude, he's trying to round out his team right now.
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What are you gearing for? What are you trying to get me to spend my money on?
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That was your fault. You suggested it.
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I can't believe you. How dare you, Ryan? Whatever. Whose turn is it? It's yours, Ryan.
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I do. I do need some games.
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Yeah. He's going to be like, man. That's probably true.
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There's a huge list of games. Don't.
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Yeah, I got all these up here. Yeah, for sure. What is this, Collusion?
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I want to do it just to keep it, just to get him. But I also don't know if he wants me to do that. I need a lot of games, so I'm going to do $12. You can't buy it now.
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He can go up to $23, and this is his last game.
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But it's just one of those. I guess it doesn't really matter.
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If I bid, what, 23? If you take it for 24. I don't like how easily influenced I am by Josh.
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And like you said, Nintendo doesn't release stuff without it coming out soon, so... Boom. 13 bucks. That is a great pick. It will come out.
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Yeah. I'm, I'm super stoked about that.
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You're breaking my heart, Ryan.
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That was a steal. And one question. Did any of my games not release?
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That's at least two more years until release.
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There's definitely a few that I look and man, it's hard because you got Skate, Outer Worlds, like you mentioned, Mafia, Old Country, that's a good one. Part of me, though, really just wants the nonsensical chaos of Kingsmakers. And I think I'm going to... We know it's coming out.
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It's going to be a good one. I'm going to go with Kingsmakers for my last pick.
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I think so. When I had, I had a friend, my good buddy Shane, that doesn't really ever game. He likes to listen to the podcast, just kind of support us and stuff. But he's like, have you heard of this game? There was like a truck driving through like medieval soldiers and stuff. And I'm like, oh yeah, totally. And I knew exactly what he was talking about. He's like, Paul drafted it last year. Yeah.
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Star Wars Outlaws was really good, too, but I paid a lot of money for that, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 at like $12 or whatever it was, that was a steal. That was such a good deal, but yeah, man, what a list. I'll tell you what.
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I was like, yeah, it's been going to come out for a while, but I'm excited for it. And, and like these types of people are excited that don't really game. So, uh, yeah, I, I think that's one that, uh, should be good if it, you know, it'll, it'll release.
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Oh, come on. The Redfall. I was new. I was new, man. I was like, okay, that's a pretty good trailer. Like, I'm into it. And you guys are like, oh gosh, who's this guy?
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I will say you also just cost us another year for the game that should not be named.
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All I was trying to do was hype up, build up Paul's money. So I was trying to leech his funds.
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All right, we're back.
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Screw those guys, man. I beat Melenia. You know what I mean? I'm Elden Lord. I can do all of these things, man. You are? And freaking Bernstein and Smaug.
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Yeah.
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Like, in any game, the healers are the ones that are the most important. They keep you alive.
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Protect the healers.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
This is stupid. And I did. I jumped over to DPS because I'm like, this is dumb.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
Maybe hero shooters are not good for me, but I love them so much where it's just like hot dogs.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
I do call it education. Yeah, I forgot about that.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
Okay, okay. All right, you know what?
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
Much love back to you, buddy.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
May might be even better.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
57,000.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
No, Mom. How many do I have to eat? You got to eat the whole plate.
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May’s Most Hyped Games, Rivals Support Strike and Expedition 33 - Gaming Podcast
I don't want no more, boss.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. So this one's pretty personal as far as like it was a big leap overall in gaming in the gaming world as a whole. But it also was something that was significant to me in my kind of gaming journey. I'm going with the Source Engine from Valve. So, 2004, I remember, and I was always, I mean, I was playing Half-Life, Counter-Strike, all the old games like that, all the Sierra stuff.
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And when Valve came around and they busted out this Source engine, and I remember doing this little, like, play demo where, and it's just a video and you can see, when I saw the water rippling, and the cave, and then the look of the character models and everything, I was just blown away. I was like, this is the greatest thing that's ever happened in the world. It'll never get better than this.
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Did you say you had a friend named Spud? Yeah, Spud. That's what I got.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
This is amazing. And it made just such a big difference to where I was even... They had map editors that you could use and you could use the source engine. And I was designing my own like Half-Life maps in class. And then I'd go home and, you know, make secret passages.
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And like it just inspired the gaming part of it or the map design part of it because the engine was just such a big leap graphically in what they can do. It was just, you know, it was something else.
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That's a really good pick, man. I like it. That, that's solid. That, that, that makes, I mean, and you see how far, I mean, there's whole another industry of, of these controllers that they're making like super customizable advanced extra buttons, you know, on these controllers now. So, you know, it's just a natural progression of things, but yeah, that's, that's a good pick.
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All right, John, we're back to you, buddy.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
And that's the thing. What if they just decide, oh, that's not in our catalog anymore, and they pull your game off?
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I'm going to go with one. It's not a super old one like some of yours, bud.
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I'm working my way up through history, Ryan. I'm going to go with something that it was another pretty big thing in my life. I played a ton with former host Paul. back when this came out, and then Josh, I know it was a big part of your life, kind of do a detriment at some point, but I'm going with just the explosion of MMOs, MMORPGs. That's on my list! That's on your list?
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I figured it would be. Oh my goodness, man. 99% Was EverQuest and then, like, 04 is when World of Warcraft came out. I mean, that's, I think, what really made the big jump. And that was a lot more universally kind of played than EverQuest. But EverQuest did start, you know, start the whole kind of push for that. But...
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What that became and what that did to gaming was it was where you weren't just kind of playing a game. You had a whole other world. You had another life. You were living there. You had almost like a job. You're like, oh, yeah, I got to do some crafting and get this stuff sold at the auction house and then go do this. And we're meeting up here at this time. It was just something so new and unique.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
to the gaming world where you could be together and, and live a whole nother like life. It was, it was just something that was crazy, dude.
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Yeah. It's – yeah, there was just nothing like it, man. I felt it too with Diablo 2. My buddy, he was my best friend in the world. He moved to – his dad got a job in Kentucky and he moved to Kentucky and we couldn't hang out anymore. And then all of a sudden, we're able to get on and we're able to play Diablo together and chat and run stuff together and it was just –
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
It was such a cool thing with the advancement of this type of stuff. The online gaming, MMOs playing WoW together. There's nothing like it.
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I put it on and turned it on like a week or two ago. Really? Yeah, actually to check and see if it needed updates. Yeah, because I was going to play it later, and then I took it off and I never touched it again.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
That's usually what it is. Like, you go like four to six months, you'll play it for a week solid, and then you won't touch it again for five or six months.
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Yeah, I never heard of that one either. What about you, Ryan? What you got? I got one, and I guess in the moment, just because it might have been a little revolutionary with what else has come out and the timing and stuff like that, but I'm going with Goldeneye, dude.
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It kept me sane, dude, when I broke my wrist because I couldn't golf for, you know, three, four months or whatever. And so I just put on the VR set and was doing it one-handed that way. And I kind of felt like I was on the course. I was swinging a club. You could hear the sound. So it's so neat. It's just, yeah, there's that motion sickness. It vastly limits the games that I can play.
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Because Perfect Dark was a hundred times better. GoldenEye freaking sucks. Go back and try to play it. That is the hottest of hot takes. Go back and try to play it. GoldenEye sucks. It's nostalgia. That's the only thing that saves it. And Perfect Dark was a hundred times better.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I don't know all the Xboxes either.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
What is this? Yeah, I will say that that's the only system I ever rented was a Nintendo 64. Yeah. For what game, Ryan? I was like, actually, for Goldeneye. Yeah. Oh, so it's not so bad now, is it, Ryan? Yeah. Yeah. And I remember, like, this isn't very good. No. Get out of here. Now, I will say, though, Josh, I know because you're a 64 guy, but didn't the PlayStation come out a year before the 64?
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I don't know, dude. My timing is terrible.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
That's a good point when you think about it.
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Yeah. That's nostalgia. Okay, but are you saying that it was even bad for the time? In the moment, because it was kind of the first of that era, it was something that's new. But it's not a game that... It was done 10 million different ways, 10 million times better. So the game itself is really not that good of a game. It was just something new. Wow. This podcast is done. Deal with it.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Go lay on the couch. Let's get inside your mind, man. Let's see what went wrong. How does that make you feel?
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I love not mobile gaming, but handheld gaming per se. I had an original Game Boy. I had a stack with all little cases for each cartridge, and I had all these different games I could play. I could go under my blanket at night, or if I'm being babysat at some event with my parents, and I was off in the corner playing Pokemon. It was just... such an experience.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
So there is the nostalgia factor, but it's also that ability to just play wherever, you know, like, what do you mean? I can't, I'm over here playing video games. Like, well, you can take me wherever mom.
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Yeah. I'm playing Simpsons and cruising around on a skateboard as Bart. Like, this is awesome.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I'm going to get so much hate on Discord right now.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I did because I did have that, too. I had Game Boy and basically mobile gaming as well, like the explosion of that. And I think it did transition, too, with how powerful our phones have become. Like, there's just – I mean, think of how big these industries are with – 80, 90% of the world. Like if you ask them what angry birds are like candy crushes, they're going to know, you know?
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And so that's just how that, that has just grown from, from the handheld gaming, you know, transition naturally to our phones. Cause they're just so powerful, but yeah, that's a good, that's a good pick, man. Do you have any others, Ryan? Yeah, I got one that, because we're talking about just big kind of things that changed gaming or a big leap forward or something that made a big difference.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
And so I'm going to go with one that may not always be a good thing, but I'm going with live service gaming. So the addition of live service to where it changed. Yeah, I mean, you have the ability to have something to where it's not just package signed, delivered, and it's done, that game's done, and if you love it or if there's problems, too bad.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Like, now they're able to change things, tweak things, update stuff, but also... It includes everything that comes with it because they got to pay those people to do all those things. And then microtransactions come into play, all that stuff. So I think it was a substantial shift in the gaming world, good or bad, however you want to look at it.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
You have to hold the Z to like... And you can't move at the same time.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. I got one. We were actually talking about it today in the Discord with a few people. But the jump in a game from Grand Theft Auto 2 to 3.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
My gosh. I played so much Grand Theft Auto 2. And then to go from that to an open world...
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
with cars that you can get in and drive and like you can look at the buildings and i'm you know you start and you're in this construction area and it's like raining and it's dark and gritty and you're looking around and it pans 360 and it was just the biggest jump i had ever seen like that that um just blew me away blew my socks off it is a very good one that is a good example as well so i had to make up for goldeneye yeah
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Oh, I'm excited. I'm so excited. Oh, man.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
We'll record our podcast from the Oasis. Oh man.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Oh yeah, yeah. I actually, we got a superhero John here reaching out his tree branches to everyone. He got us a playtest key for Mandragora, and dude, I'm kind of liking it. We'll save it all because I may make some videos on it and stuff, but I've been digging. It's been a while since I've played Metroidvania, and it's been a cool little experience so far.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
One of the best samurai games ever made, for sure. Oh, dude, so good. What are you playing, Josh? It really is.
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Dude, you almost felt like a superhero or a genie. Like, you could do anything with the Power Glove, man. Dude, I wanted that Power Glove more than anything in life, dude.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I think we've talked about it a ton on the Discord. No, no, no, no. I don't believe it.
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Listen, the... Oh, gosh. Give me a haiku right now, Ryan, about this episode.
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Go ahead. I have to meditate first.
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You don't meditate. You reflect. Is it like five, five, three? No. I forget. I don't know. I don't know. I know how to type chat GPT in.
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The Greatest Leaps in Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, we know how your intros are made too.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Either way, you'll have fun. You'll have a good time.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I like both. I'm a big first-person guy. I played a lot of shooters growing up, especially in the time of Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Battlefield, all those first-person shooters. But I also... Some of my favorite games ever is these third-person games that you just kind of have that little kind of overcocked right angle, and it feels comfortable to me. And so to have a shooter...
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like this that I can use the abilities and I can use the angles and I can stay out of sight you know I've done it before where I'll stay just a little off cocked left and I can see where they are pop out shoot pop back in you know and you can do that without having to use any sort of kind of real cover mechanics to me I like it I do enjoy it that way
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It just feels good, especially with the abilities that different characters that I prefer to use have. It just all melds right for me. So, yeah, I'd like the third person, you know, personally.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
We miss the people. We miss talking to everybody. We miss sharing our wealth or lack of wealth of knowledge. But we're probably just overly excited. So we wanted to record. Us? Over excited about video games? That doesn't sound like us at all.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And I think real quick too, I think that's part of... There's a reason, I think, because you see every character is recognizable. Every character is somebody's favorite Marvel superhero. You see the character on the screen. You're playing that character. So I think that's part of it is you're Iron Man or you're Thor. And you can see yourself being them.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Whereas in first person, it's not as much that you get to see. Yeah.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
What's a good one? That's just kind of like a tank, but totally different.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Let's call them duelists right now. Oh, that's brilliant.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. You got to do something that there's something behind it. Why they're doing what they do.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Create something in their head. They're strategizing what they have to do to heal everyone. What if we call them healers?
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
We did it, America. All right. We should be in a boardroom, man.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I still just call him tank dealer. He PS.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Man, one could only imagine.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Moon Knight for life. I am a duelist for sure. That is my go-to. I love to just hit that 15k, 17k damage and just pepper people with damage.
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I personally like being heals, too. I enjoy almost the challenge because it's kind of wild in this game, especially, too, because it is so chaotic. You have to be pinned on your guys, and you have to heal them, and it is tough. And it's just one of those things where, like, in Battlefield, I loved going medic because I would just drop medpacks everywhere.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I'm running over with the crash guard, bringing back guys, and let's go, let's go. So... But I do just love melting faces. So it's fine.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
You know what I mean? I would give you the opportunity, as long as you want it, man, to test them out for sure.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
The one thing that's cool about this is a lot of these different characters also have... I mean, your mobility is pretty substantially different between different characters. So with Moon Knight, I love you have a grappling hook ability. You have this kind of almost Arkham Batman kind of glide ability where you can glide through the map.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And it's something that you can move quickly to the area and then... If the team... I've noticed people are starting to figure out... This is part of the thing where everyone's starting to figure out characters, what they can do, their abilities, how to defend against it. And that's the nice part about there being so many is there's always a counter. Even if somebody's OP, there's a counter to it.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I saw that when I looked and I saw it because I didn't know what episode you were going to throw up. And I saw Pacific Drive and I'm like, he would put that episode up. I'm like, I'm not listening to it. I don't want to bring up those old wounds.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
So... With Moon Knight, the stuff that I loved is if you get in the right spots, he's a little bit of a kind of a mid-range. He's not up close. You got to get mid-range or further back. You can throw these onks, which are just like these little symbols you can throw. And then everything you throw to that will 100% damage and hit anyone in that cone of five yards.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And then you can pair them up within five meters. Then you can pair them up within seven meters. You can have two out at a time. So if you get in the right spot at a choke point, you can just do insane damage. And if people don't shoot them and damage them from the other team... you just wipe them every time they come into that area. And it's just everything is an automatic hit.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
So it's one of those that, I don't know, maybe just hits my dopamine right. But when I get in the right spot and I can just wipe a team and just get four or five kills just like that from my regular attack, not even my ultimate, I love it. So Moon Knight with the mobility and just the crazy DPS you can do if you do it right is awesome.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It just sits there. It's benign. It does nothing at all unless I throw my attack at it. then it will transfer it to whoever's in that kind of cone of damage. But they can damage them and break them, so they're gone. But other than that, they just kind of sit there and do absolutely nothing unless you're attacking them and people are in them.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
so i turned around and shot it but i was just like come on well i was just this morning i was playing as jeff the healer you know and i see the onks on the cart and nobody's attacking i'm like what are you guys doing so as a healer i'm taking out extra things like and then trying to keep everybody healed so it's one of those things you kind of got to know what the characters do i knew because i play moon knight um but yeah it's just oh man it's it's i'm an instant lock unless i have to do something else
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And he does all those things too. He like rolls on his back like a dog, like a little like happy puppy. And that's Jeff. Like, you know, and he's just got a good heart. That's all he wants to do. He just wants to go around and heal everybody.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Yes. I will purposely avoid the point if I see an Iron Fist and I'll save my Ankh and I'll go after him. Because that's the one thing. Moon Knight can do crazy damage with your Ankhs. You have to hit every shot if you don't have one. But if you do, you can bait them in and they'll come into your little kind of cone of death and I'll just melt them. And it just makes me so happy.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It brings so much satisfaction once you get one.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Hawkeye slash Hanzo is, is, is the worst because you don't even have to have kept calling him Hanzo like the whole time.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And I will say, too, one thing that I was just kind of preaching to the dev team, like the communication in-game that's not prompted, that's not anything. When you just have characters that are next to each other, sometimes it'll just start a little kind of dialogue conversation. That's awesome.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
There's one that I've seen going around on Reels where Venom and Groot are there, and Groot just keeps saying, I am Groot. And Venom's like, I think I'm going to go to a plant-based diet. Yeah. And I'm like, what? That's great. Like to come up with this kind of stuff is just hilarious. And they have them for like every character.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
So you can tell they really put a lot of time and thought into not only like the design and the kind of playability, but the interaction between all these characters too. So it was just, it was awesome.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I'm back! Yeah, that's the cool thing. And the visual effects of it too. If there's a Venom and you have a Spider-Man or a Penny Parker, you have Symbiote on you and you get an extra attack. So you do this Symbiote attack type thing as you're kind of cruising around. So it's...
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, things looked a little wonky. Yeah, I know.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Again, just... They put so much time and thought into these extra little tie-ins and these extra things to just... Because, you know, everybody knows Marvel. Everybody knows these characters. Everybody knows what they can do and who's in what world and what universe and whatnot. So...
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leaning into that i think they did a really good job on um just making it fun like having those little things they're not game breaking they're not going to change the map like in the dynamics that much but they just make it more fun and more enjoyable and i think that was such a good choice i do too i love it and i love finding new team up abilities as i played your characters and realize like whoa yeah yeah exactly so all right you mentioned maps ryan um you know the i
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
That's the one. And then, yeah, it just, man, it was just such a letdown because I don't think our expectations were there, but they weren't to the height that Dragon Age was or you expected to be from your previous play, you know, in the series. Speaking of love, though, and I think we got a lot of people that we got to show some appreciation to, right?
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I have certain ones where if I can get a bird's perch up top and I can hit the point hard. And the one thing I do think is cool is, one, it has destructible...
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
environments environments to where you can actually open up different areas to give you a new lane and a new kind of angle on the enemy or where they're coming through which is neat and then some of them do fluctuate where they'll stuff will shift areas will move platforms will raise or lower so i think that is that is pretty cool that they have that in there but there's really nothing like kind of to sing home about it's it's just a map you know
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I think that it's the magic, my man. I think that I'm so sick of everybody crying and whining about, I want it to be fair. I want it to be balanced. This character's too good. We'll get good scrub, man. Sometimes a character's going to be good. Find something that counteracts them and take them out. I'm not good against Iron Man. It's so hard for me to hit him flying around in the air.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
If I have a Hela or somebody else, they can take him out. But I'm not crying to limit Iron Man's mobility in the air.
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Well, yeah, because that's what teammates do.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I said he kept wrecking me. You didn't have to.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
to switch I would have been fine if you didn't but I'm just saying but I just I like that there's characters that do things a certain way and it gives passion and almost not an anger I will say but like it just makes you want to kill that character even more like I hate Iron Fist I won't play Iron Fist because I hate him so much you know in the same way and so being able to have that ability to just it creates that kind of
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
and craziness within the game to where I don't want it to be all perfectly balanced and then everybody plays the same thing. And, you know, it's just something that, to me, it feels more old school to where people who want to play these other characters are going to play them. People who want to easy out are going to play them.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
But if you want a challenge, you can play these other guys and see how you can do. And that's what I like.
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He like follows them like breadcrumbs all the way back to the spawn.
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Not often. I usually have the mobility to get away.
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No, I agree. It's fun to all group up and hate on Iron Fist.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Literally come play with us. Hop in the Discord. Say we're playing. And if we're able to, we'll get on and we'll play with you. I've played with a ton of people. I've got probably over 50 hours. No, no. I have 40 hours on my Steam and then probably another 20 on my PlayStation out in the living room. And so I got a ton of time and I'm always playing with people. So hop in and play with us.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I'm going to give a nod to Michael on this one. And I got two words for you. And oh, no, that's that's part of we just talked about the chaos, the craziness, the the unbalanced nature of this game. I don't want to queue. I've played in matches where I've had five or six DPS characters and we maybe have a tank if we're lucky or a kind of a half tank. And we walked a team. We just.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
straight up destroyed them and then I've had others the same way where we got absolutely crushed because we had no heels our guys weren't as good and you get destroyed and so like it's just that balancing act of again I kind of harken back to like old school before they did all this balancing type stuff is you just have to find what works good for your team and what how you're playing in the moment and
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I don't like the mandatory nature of being told you have to be this character or that character or you have to wait until this amount of time to play them. So I don't want it. I hope they don't mess with it. I think that's part of the magic and I hope it stays the way it is.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Oh man, this is a hard one. So like I said, I got a pretty good amount of time in two or three weeks so far. I think that there's some things that are good and bad. I think that it's good that people are starting to still figure out their characters. So it's good if they're on your team. Not so much if they're on the other team. But I think that there's... This game just offers...
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Merry Christmas to us, man.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
fun at the end of the day. Like you get to get on and you can have a match. And if you're not liking the character, if you're not vibing with it, it's not feeling good at the moment. You can switch, you can switch back in your little, uh, home base lobby. You can, you can, um, do what you need to do to, to play a character that maybe fits you in the moment.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
You want to heal, you want to tank, you want to do something like that. I think they did such a good job on creating the versatility and, um, the options to suit every player, uh,
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
type you know to where you you can pick what you want to do in that moment so i think that was really good um other than that i mean as far as the bad goes there is some some balancing things but we think that that's kind of the magic of it and a little bit of the mystique and then uh i will say and this is maybe just a personal thing but as far as the bad goes i played some comp matches
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It almost makes the game not fun because all you comp players, if you're listening, I know you're listening to our pod. So first, I want to thank you for listening to the podcast. Secondly, I want to say quit whining like a little baby. If the healer is not healing you enough, they're trying. If the hell is not killing Iron Man, he's trying. Guys, everybody wants to play the game.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Everybody wants to have fun and everybody wants to do good. So just chill out, man. Just have fun. Play the game and have fun.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
This game is free, everybody.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
You got like the, you know, the whole cinematic where the Marvel, like the Avengers movie, the first one where they all kind of come out. That's what you have as the other team. And you're just a bunch of like derpy, you know, and they're like, oh no, we're going to get...
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
We're the off-brand Kirkland signature.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I will say too, real quick, real quick. Just heads up, everybody be patient. Because this is Marvel, because there is superheroes, you will have little kids in your games. That's very true. They will be crawling around as Spider-Man, backed by your spawn somewhere on the wall, AFK, going around. Just be ready for it. It's just going to be one of those things. All right, we're down a guy.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Let's keep going. So just a heads up, that will happen, but that won't take away. You will have fun.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It's very enjoyable. I think that it is one of the first games I've had in quite a while that I'm like, man, I just want to hop on and play. I'll play a couple matches and go. This morning, we were headed to go see some of my wife's family. They're in town and we're going to go visit them for like an hour or two this morning before we did some other stuff. Me and my son hopped on.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
We played for 20 minutes real quick before we left. But it's like every time you can fit in that nook of rivals time, we hop in, we play a match, then we get out. So having said that, this is something that it's going to be quite up there for me. And I haven't had an experience like this in a while as far as a shooter goes. I'm giving this bad boy a 9.1. 9.1. 9.1. It's in the nice.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I wanted to do eights, but I'm like, I just can't do it. I have way too much fun with this game, and I think I'm going to continue having fun. I already have skins that I plan on buying in the future that have leaked. I'm going 9.1.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Dude, it's baby. I can't stop. It's it's so much fun. Every time I haven't booted up anything else. All I all I play is this.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I thought I was going to be way further, but that's good.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, because there's always one good moment in every match, too. Even if you're losing that, you're like, you did some crazy squad wipe or something crazy happened. So there's always something, too, to talk about.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I don't think you do. We try to draw everyone in with the pod, and people are like, oh, cool. These guys are all right. They're decent. We're not kidding about the Discord community. Everyone that comes in just absolutely becomes almost part of a family. It's literally a community where everyone greets each other every morning. We talk about our lives.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
We talk about what games we're playing, what recommendations. It's such a cool thing to be a part of and to see. And everyone else says the same that's in there. It's pretty awesome.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Come on now. Come on now. I feel like Martha Stewart with all this cake going on. Oh, the cake shop is open. It is open for business. All are welcome.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I did not. I don't remember if I just wasn't selected or I missed the timeline or the window or whatever, but I know you did, but I wasn't able to play it, and I honestly really wasn't that jealous at the time. I know you weren't. It was just kind of like one of those things, but yeah, I wasn't able to hop in and check it out.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's, it's one of those things, like you said, everything I look at on, on Instagram or any of those social media platforms, it's just all how to play this character, how to play that character or, Oh, look at this hat that happened, you know, just highlights and clips and reels and stuff.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
It's a, one of those that you can tell when everybody's on it and everybody's playing it and it's trending hard when all the Twitch streamers, all the, all the social media kind of
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
platform people just are making content about it you know that it's it's pulling in numbers and it's pulling in people and and maybe for good you know maybe for bad you don't know but uh it's it's definitely it's trending hard it is trending hard and you know like i said we we wanted to cover this game because we have seen a lot of people asking yeah if it's actually that fun
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
You know, I was thinking hard on this one because it is, you know, with the way things are and the way the world is with content and data and just everything is so fast, so fast moving, and everybody's always on to another thing. You know, it's what's next? What's next? What's the next best thing? What's the next thing that I can sink my time into?
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
I do genuinely think that this has a little bit of staying power. I think that the tie-in with... long-trending Marvel characters that have been around for 60, 70, 80 years, however long it's been. Maybe not 80, but... But for a long time, you've had these characters that everybody's familiar with.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Your parents, your grandparents know the characters, so you can show them and they'll be like, oh, that's Iron Man, or oh, that's Captain America. They'll know who it is, and so... You instantly have that tie-in. It's not just some random character.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
And then I think the fact that they can trickle in so many other characters and other skins and kind of use that little bit of the Fortnite kind of type architect. To where they can just keep people interested. Because I'll tell you one thing. I'm a big fan of the Moon Knight character. I love Ancient Egypt. That's part of the reason. But me and Ace were talking about the movie from the show.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
You can get the skin with all the linen wrappings. And I'm like, okay, I usually don't buy stuff on games. But I'm going to buy that. I have to have it. It's one of those things. And so I think that ability to just draw people in with the recognition of Marvel. And then the fun gameplay I think is really going to give it some kind of legs to stand on for a long time.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Psych. This is just a prerecorded intro. We're going to start the rewind here now.
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[Deep Dive] Marvelous Marvel Rivals - Gaming Podcast
Because this is what's hard. It's like there's a concept for this game as a whole, but it's a hero shooter. There's only so many ways you can go about it. Now, I will say some of the abilities and techniques that you do and almost the characters are like a direct ripoff. Oh, yeah. It's like copy-paste. But I think it is something that...
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It is very similar, but I think it stands alone with some unique features and the unique kind of play style you can do and the pairings you can do with the characters. So yes and no. Does that count?
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Oh, for sure. I mean, that one, definitely a good thing I had more than five. So that one was on my list as well, obviously. It's a phenomenal game. I think what they did so well there was they created this world that was full of so much chaos and so much misdirection and distraction.
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to where you wanted to focus on the story, but you were so caught off guard by the world around you and everything else that, that you just couldn't always focus on it. Your, your attention wasn't on trying to figure out the story the whole time. And, uh, and it was just, you know, it w it was something that by the end, you're like, Oh wait, you know, I'm trying to get out of here.
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What's going on. And then the, the twists and the turns happen and you're just blown away. So it, uh, Yeah, man, to be able to experience that again, like I said, it was on my list and it's that's just one all timer. Absolutely.
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can do that again i know we always have people hop in oh this is my backlog and they're like witcher 3 cyberpunk red dead we're like oh that's like that's the best backlog you could ever have like you're you're in for a treat man this year is going to be a good year in gaming for you it's gonna ruin gaming for you i know right everything after that's gonna be like all the best games yeah what man games really fell off it's like no you just picked all the best games in the last five years and just put them into three months you know have fun yeah
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What do you mean neither of us has played? How can we replay?
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Okay, well, I know you haven't played this one, so I know you won't be able to guess this, but I'm going to give another quote for the listeners out there that will know. You probably know, too, just from the quote here, but... Why? Why can't I read your mind?
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You're trying to troll me, man. I can only take so much in a day. I can only take so much. It's Metal Gear Solid original OG 1998 September release Metal Gear Solid 1. One of the best games ever made. Not my favorite Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear Solid 2 is my favorite for numerous factors. Going up, I played the beginning sample demo disc for Metal Gear Solid.
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And I was like, this is the greatest game ever made. And you play that first little level. It's like 10 minutes long. And I played it probably 40 times before I finally convinced my grandma to get me Metal Gear Solid for Christmas. And I did nothing for like three days but play that game start to finish. And I played it so much, I had every unlockable thing you could have with the tuxedo snake.
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You know, you're running around in a tuxedo. Unlimited ammo with the long bandana. Like Meryl in not her normal attire with certain things you could do. So like... There was everything that I unlocked. I loved that game so much. And to be able to play it for the first time again would be just something surreal. And, man, I would love it.
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Yes, yeah. That'll be Snake Eater, yes. I'll play that one. I'll play that one, buddy. You better, dude, because that's probably, arguably, probably the best one, kind of, you know, overall. But, yeah, man, Metal Gear Solid 1 was just... It was something so defining for me, and I think it was defining in gaming. Yeah.
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If you haven't played it yet, I would definitely suggest it because it's still a good game. It's not going to hold up graphically, but the story and the gameplay is still fun. But it's not a spoiler if it's over 20-something years old. So Psycho Mantis... You're a kid and you're on a PlayStation and you have to move your controller.
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This is Psycho Manus. You have to put your controller into the second port so he can't read your moves so then you can beat him in the boss fight. Like, what game did that? I wish more people did that now, dude. Just weird, unique things like that that nobody would think of. It was so different and ahead of its time that... It was just, it was next level.
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I mean, he's reading your saved stuff off of your memory card and stuff. And, you know, it was just, it was something totally, totally unique and different that I would love to experience again.
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Yeah, that was, um, I definitely, well, I don't have it, you know, on the levels that you do. I did appreciate that game. And actually when I look back on it, I have a lot more fondness towards that game and that experience. Um, I feel like maybe the way I had played it in the time because we had so many games going on.
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I didn't get to experience the way I probably would have if it was organic and I was just playing it because I wanted to. Having said that, this was in my top 10 or 15 list of if I could replay a game because there was just that, okay, I'm on the ocean. Where do I go? I'm like, oh, what's this fish thing? I'm like, oh, this has water. I'm like, okay, that is this.
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Then you just got to figure it out and you got to go. All right, well, there's something over there. Let me go see what's over there. Oh, there's something over there. You just keep progressing that way. There's something to be said about... not guiding people through your world, having them have to explore it.
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And so there was definitely a lot of really cool twists and turns and bumps and crazy sporadic things throughout this game that definitely, you know, if I could experience again, I would as well.
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I know. I know for sure. So I'm going to go with one that, oh man, is probably a weakness of mine. I love... kind of action-adventure, you know, RPG-style, like open-world, you know, the same templates of all these kind of styles of games. But this one really hits on a lot of levels for me because of, one, the story, the graphics, the cinematics, and the gameplay.
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And I'm going with Last of Us 1, the first Last of Us.
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It's unbelievable. And that's one thing. And I am a horrible sucker for a post-apocalyptic world. Something inside me just loves... seeing time stood still to where I'll explore the world and I'm just wandering around and my wife will walk by like, what are you doing? I'm just in some random house in the game imagining the people's lives going on while they were in this world and stuff like that.
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That always just hits for me. Between that and the gameplay and the back and forth and even the jump scares and the scariness of the zombies and everything. I'm a little baby when it comes to zombies, but All of it to me, to be able to experience that again for the first time and just have that game to where that's all you think about that day.
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Like, when am I going to get home and get back on and continue this story? Like, opening back up a book type thing. Like, that is something that would be so cool to get that feeling again that's just a strong drive to finish this story every day the second you put it down. You just want to get back to it.
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Yeah, I know we've talked about it. I know Paul has mentioned too of like, let's get Ryan on. Let's do it. And we haven't been able to make it happen, but... Man, yeah, I haven't been able to experience that, so maybe that'll be a first-timer for me at some point.
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is really good as well um and so you get that nice little bonus of like another eight hours worth of new content as well so yeah jeez that's awesome all right what's up next for you ryan oh man man i know right i just games again what what could it be what yeah what i wish was there um so i'm gonna go with one that uh took the world by storm something that
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was not only just an amazing game, but amazing kind of communal type thing. And I'm going to go with World of Warcraft. There's nothing like your first MMO. There was... And I know yours and what EverQuest meant to you and what it took over your life, the hold it had on you. So I felt like I was neglecting my other life when I wasn't on that game. That's how much it meant to me.
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I need to be doing this or that or whatever else. So much that I may or may not have got a glider and was gliding and got banned at one point when I was very young. So... We're not going to talk about that.
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But being able to just load into that world and you just have a community and a society that you're almost... It's just... It is another world that you get in and we're going to go run Scarlet Monastery or Welling Caverns or any of the higher level raids. It's been so long I don't remember those anymore. But like...
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There was something about that progression that back then, the OG WoW, it was so hard to level up. So when you saw a level 60, you're like, respect, bro. Respect. Everybody gets to 20 or 30, and then they peter out, and then they start another character or just quit the game. But if you can get to a max level back then, it was an accomplishment, man, and it was a grind. Yeah.
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Dude, there was just something about it. Getting your griffins or your mounts for the first time and stuff like that. There was something there that was just a magic that nobody had ever experienced before. And to be able to get that kind of new global gaming phenomenon again would be just awesome.
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It's really just been fantastic. So dude, If there's one thing I love more than chaos, it's Filipino chaos. Yeah. I mean, that's like the top version, isn't it? I think so. I will say hierarchy of chaos hijacking the show real quick. I did. I am a lifelong bowler and I was in a probably one of two or three white guys in all Filipino bowling league.
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And it felt like it, but something was off. And it's just not having that initial first experience of the beauty of it all and the wonderment. It wasn't there. And so, again, after level 30, I was just like, okay, I've done this before. And you kind of fall off from it. So, yeah, it's just that first time thing and that first MMO, like you said, that means so much to whoever has played them.
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The MMO is the new one. Eventually, there'll be another game type, like BR took over the world. There'll be something else that takes over to where it's like, you remember your first that, first game type of that. But that remains to be seen what it'll be. Hopefully, it's soon.
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In case you didn't know that little background story. Filipinos are awesome to all of our Filipino listeners out there. They would have these potlucks and they brought in a whole straight up whole pig and they chopped it up and like it was the best food ever in my life. So if you can join a Filipino bowling league, do it or Filipino, whatever. Filipinos are top notch.
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Oh, for sure. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of when we played, me, you, and Paul played ARK. Yeah, exactly. We first start, and I'm like, I just keep pooping. I don't know what to do. Or the swamp sickness that we got.
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I came and gave it to you all. I had swamp aids or whatever. Yeah. And, uh, but yeah, there's something, especially because you guys played it together, like that, that initial experience where you all are just, it's like group discovery and having that together. There's just, you know, it's one of those things that's irreplaceable.
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Like, even if you were to play with a different group, like it would be different, you know, for the first time. So yeah. It's so hard to recapture those moments and those memories, and you just have to hope there's another game that kind of replicates that as far as your feelings when you started up.
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But man, yeah, those are just so cool, especially in those worlds that are like that, the survival where you're just like... You can get lost in it, man. I don't know what to do. I don't know where I'm going. But, you know, we got to survive. And then things just keep coming at you. The world is coming at you. Yes.
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And it just makes for just so much, you know, craziness and memorable moments, which is awesome.
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Uno mas. All right. So, you know, obviously, obviously, we got to save the best for last. So what game would be absolutely so amazing that someone would want to replay it again maybe 25 years later? Oh, goodness. Diablo 2.
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Listen, it's 25 years later. There's no way Diablo is 25 years old. It came out in 2000. It came out in 2000. Let's see, July 6th of 2000. there are people listening right now, probably quite a bit that are not even as old as this game. And I was playing it on release.
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And if I could recapture the magic of, of not only just playing this game, playing the campaign in that dark, deep, I know I always say dark and gritty. Like that's, you know, just, just, just, just kind of environment in a world that I love having that, that nature to it. Um,
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To recreate that experience alongside of LAN parties with Diablo and then playing online on Battle.net, kind of in the origin and the birth of online gaming in the early 2000s, late 90s, like... To be able to recapture that... Oh, man. I mean, I'm still searching for it. That's why I'm still playing Diablo Resurrected 25 years later. And it's still just as good as I remember, if not better.
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Like, with rune words that they have now and all the stuff you can do... It's just... There's something to be said to create art, if you will. And 25 years later, you have thousands of people that are still enjoying it and loving it and it's thriving. If I could recreate that, man, there was... We talked about the grandmas picking up the phone with the dial-up and kicking off.
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I remember playing on Diablo, and I'm online, and I'm playing and running and doing fights and battles. And I had an 88 Amazon with Wind Force Bow and all this crazy stuff. And somebody picked up the phone, and I got booted. It's one of those things. All of the stuff I remember, even the bad, I wish I could have that experience. You lost a Wind Force? Yes. Oh, dude, yeah.
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From your grandma picking up the phone. I didn't know. I didn't lose the Wind Force, but I lost. I was playing. We were dueling. I was on duels. Oh, okay. And she picked it up while I was dueling, and then I got DC'd. And then, you know what? So I lost my duel and everything, and then they loot the gear.
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I had Wind Force and SOJs and a bunch of runes and charms. Dozens of hours. Yeah, and it was like a machine gun. You could just...
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and it would just pierce and you know there's a million things you can go into but yeah to be able to experience that again would be uh the top of my list for sure diablo 2 was really the pinnacle in my opinion of diablo like they diablo the first one came out and it was great and and
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Personally, with Resurrected, they spiced up the graphics and then they have the rune words and stuff. And I think it plays just as well as any other game currently. Uh, it's, it's phenomenal in my opinion, like any listeners, if you want to play Diablo, hit me up, like I'll hop on with you and I'll help you run and, and I'll, I'll help rush you up through your levels.
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But it's, it's one of those that everybody should at least check it out because it is that amazing. The story is good. Uh, the gameplay throughout is good. It's, it's just the progression, everything about it just, just sits well with me.
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Well, there's a reason 22 years later, people are still craving like a remake or like a reboot or something. There technically is a remake.
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Well, and there too, there's something to be said too, because like, I mean, episode one came out in like 99. So KOTOR came out in 03. So this was like, this was our Star Wars. Yeah. This was that time period where in the late 70s when the other ones came out, those were a lot older. And I remember seeing them and thinking very fondly of them.
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But this was our Star Wars when we were a little bit younger. And this game just hit all those marks that it fed that craving for more Star Wars. And it was good. It wasn't just like, here's more Star Wars content and just shoveling it down our throats. It was good, too. And there was something to be said about that.
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And so, like you said, the twists, the turns, people aren't going to know unless they play it, just like Bioshock. But, man, there's nothing like it. And there's a reason everybody wants more. And it kind of harkens back to KOTOR as like, that's the Star Wars game. That's the pinnacle that we try to strive to emulate. And hopefully we get some. I really hope so, man.
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Still? He survived again? What? What? You guys just don't have any ideas of what else to write? Oh, man.
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You have no idea. We don't have the VR tech, but we're trying to create the Oasis, man. Yes. That's what we're doing.
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Josh is the best Marvel Rivals player I've ever seen and he's the best host I've ever heard in my whole life. See ya!
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Oh, man. It's hard because part of me instantly knows exactly what I would do and what I would want to do. But then the part of me that's like, you know, get up and go outside and get fresh air is like, no, what are you doing? So I'm still going to go with it because I think of how amazing it would be. I'm just going to basically rip off Ready Player One. I want the Oasis, man.
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Give me that reality where I can plug in and give me the Matrix. I'm going to disappear and level up and pop culture and coins and whatever else I want to do. I can fly through the air, upgrade my mechanics or machines or cars or all those things. It would just be something so unreal. And I think – I mean you see how easily society falls into just like reels and shorts.
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So something like this would just – the productivity of the world would stop. But man, would it be cool.
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Josh, Josh, Josh, hold on a second. Look right here. Look right here.
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I think so. It's just like, how far into you want to go to where, you know, you give up your humanity and, and like, unplug from this world and plug into that one. Like how far are you going to go?
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But now I'm just picturing all the people running around in this virtual world with their contacts. But, but the people who aren't in that world and they're just watching someone like jump and move side to side around stuff.
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Okay. I'm channeling back. All the way back, back, back, and the way back when. So now I'm going to give you a quote, and let's see if you can get this. The vast majority of people should get this pretty dang quick, okay?
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Yeah. Yeah, no, no. Street cred gone. Because you're such a fan for Symphony. Street cred gone. You are out, bro. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Neither am I. I'm a little bit, but it's still just... It's my favorite, and I think the best one ever made. But that's a game that... Just the pure experience of... Just the raw nature of the most classic Metroidvania I've ever played, I would love to experience again. There was just something about it that it hit all those marks to where it wasn't too much... it wasn't boring and not enough.
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Absolutely. Thank you, everybody. I am here and I'm here to stay ready for another beautiful episode.
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And, and it was challenging enough to make you want more, but, but you wouldn't get kind of like dull or anything like that. So it was just, it was one of those that, that just hit all those marks for me, especially way back when, you know, in the nineties. But man, if I could play that again for the first time,
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For sure. Part of it. I mean, the vast majority of my original playthrough was taking turns with other family members. Well, oh, you died. Next person up. And then they got to load their thing, and then they'd play and stuff. Yeah.
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I think that and then the art style and the kind of dark scenery of it and you're in this, you know, Dracula's castle and you're fighting all these monsters and just the way you carry through the world and then you... Okay, I got my double jump. Oh, now I can go back to that other spot, you know, because that was the first real experience to Metroidvania for me. So...
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Having that knowledge of, oh, now I can go back here. What's there? And getting into that, that I've been waiting since the first third of the game. Now I get to go back to it. Something about that just was awesome for me. And I see it in games now that still hits. But man, to get that first experience again from that would be something special.
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Yep, yep. It's a weird cinematic. Two old 90s corny graphics and stuff, but man, it was so cool.
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No, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. Really? Yeah, it's something in the air. I've been a little queasy or nauseous, too. A little forgetful, but don't worry about it. Let's just, you know, we got a show to do. We got people waiting for us.
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There's a three-word summary. It's called rip and tear. There you go. That's the three words, man. I love it. But I think that that is absolutely the heart of Doom. And Ryan, you said it. You said, dude, I feel like I'm playing an arcade game again. And we don't get to do that very often.
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Oh, dude. Yeah, we're going to get to that because I know that was a question a lot of people had is like, yeah, but the shield. Oh, we're going to talk about the shield. Guys, we're going to start this episode off with a quick question. One of our Epic supporters, DarkSide900, asked this question. This is a perk that we give to people that sign up to support this podcast.
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Yeah, it's funny because I'm with you. Like, I mean, I have had just a blast. Everybody that has listened to the show for a while knows I love chaos. I love a hundred things going on the screen at once. I like difficulty. I am playing on nightmare level. I die a lot. It is difficult, you know, but I thrive on that challenge of like beating this fight or beating this level or something like that.
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Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. It's time for the most metal of episodes, the most metal of deep dives, and the most metal gaming conversations you've ever heard. If you can't tell, today we're covering Doom the Dark Ages, perhaps the most metal Doom we've ever seen. Does it live up to its name, or is it on par with Doom Eternal, or perhaps even better?
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But John, a hundred percent, dude, I can absolutely see how it's like, this is just kind of more of the same at this point. Is level 18 really any different than level 7 was? Yeah. I get it, man. Honestly, I don't think that that's a weird take at all.
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More cake is never a bad thing.
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Well, I didn't, by the way.
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Under the Epic tier, I love this question, dude, because it's going to give me a chance to nerd out. People have heard me talk about the answer on this before. But the question is, what are some of your favorite gaming controllers or accessories of all time? Ooh. The gaming controller debate is one that has been going on for a long time, man.
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Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair, you know? I mean, I think, number one, that it has... Doom has always been a very simple, action-based, not, like, mechanically difficult... You know, there's, like, five keybinds, man. Yeah. It's, like, forward, back, left, right, smash, you know, shield, and change weapons.
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Yeah, there's a simplicity to it that I think is actually kind of comforting in a way. Um... So let's get into some of the game. But I don't think your take is honestly that weird, John. I was playing the other night. In all honesty, I was playing the other night. I was on this level, and I kind of went...
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like i've kind of done this man like i'm a little i'm a little bored right now like i think i'd rather go play like rivals with some friends or something like that but then i played last night and i made it to a new part and i was like oh yeah this is great man just slaughtering demons left and right and it's getting harder because they're throwing more of the big demons at me so it's like now i've got to manage like which one do i take out first like that guy's the most dangerous but
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But if I go after him, I'm going to get flanked and these guys are going to kill me. And so there's a lot of like that involved as well. So, yeah, but I get it. So. Let's do this. So for people that are not familiar with Doom the Dark Ages, this is the prequel, which I think is kind of cool, to the 2016 Doom reboot. Now everybody's heard of Doom.
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You can play it on your refrigerator, pregnancy test, pager, whatever. I mean, these are all legitimate things, dude. I'm not making these up. I've seen Doom on a pregnancy test.
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so but you know but then they rebooted the franchise back in 2016 they kind of brought it into modern gaming and you know a lot of people that loved doom way back in the day myself included instantly went oh yeah like doom um so we got the doom reboot we got doom eternal we got doom the dark ages i think maybe there was another side shoot or something in there somewhere um but i
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The premise of doom, the dark ages is literally doom, the dark ages where it's medieval. This is before all of the happenings in doom, eternal and stuff like that. So your dude, like you've got armor, you've got a shield, you've got a flail. And that flail is awesome. Oh, it's so good. Oh my goodness. The flail is so good.
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You know, but that is the premise of this game. So when you get into it, if you have played Doom Eternal like I have, Doom Eternal is much more futuristic in the sense of like the weapons that you get and kind of the play style of the game as well. But that's kind of the setting is that it is meant to feel like you are not as technologically advanced.
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It is meant to feel like it is before a lot of the happenings in Doom Eternal. And I'm just going to, before we get into some of the monsters and levels and guns and stuff, I got a question for you guys. Oh, yeah. Is there anything more satisfying than the landing sound of Doomguy in Doom the Dark Ages when you jump off a ledge and you hit the ground, dude? Oh, it's so cool.
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The way that they made this game convey your power in that weight is unlike any other game, dude. I'm telling you, man, I can hear the sound landing. I get amped every time. I will intentionally try to climb up to a higher ledge so that I can jump off and just freaking shockwave smash everything because it's just so satisfying.
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Dude, this game is... I mean, honestly, the whole franchise, but I think this game really heightens it. It is just visceral, dude. Yeah. I mean... You know, I talk about liking Doom or preferring Doom Eternal where you're the fighter jet and that stuff. And the movement in that game is spectacular. But, dude, the feeling of just being this tank, this absolutely bad mofo dude.
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You know what I mean? That is not shying away from anything. And you're just shield bashing your way into a horde of guys smashing things with your flail. Like all of it just feels like the impact. Dude, even the gun sounds like the shotgun. I mean, a point blank double shoddy to one of these beasts is the most satisfying sound ever.
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My main complaint with Space Marine 2 was the guns.
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go ahead i i was just gonna say i legitimately like ryan picks on you about the difficulty level but i think the difficulty actually matters when it comes to the guns in the gameplay because i'm with you the cycler is my default go-to gun it will mow down all of the little guys you know i got some upgrades to it that can shock the bigger guys and chain lightning and stuff like that yeah
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But on nightmare mode, especially with the heavily armored creatures, like I have to take a different tactic because I need to break their armor as fast as I can and try to take them out as fast as I can so that I'm not getting flanked and wrecked by four higher level demons that are all coming after me. Dude, if we're talking about guns, let's just talk about guns because the chain shot. Yes.
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Yes. Oh, my gosh. I freaking love the chain shot, dude. So the chain shot whips out a freaking cannonball. Basically, it's just a giant steel ball on a chain. And this gun launches this thing out at like Mach three. You can charge it up to get it like even more powerful hit on it.
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Dude, the chain shot and watching that thing just shoot out, hit a demon, and then ricochet off the little chain goes slack. And that demon just staggers backwards is the greatest thing ever, man.
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Well, we'll get into some of the upgrades too, for some of these weapons, but it's like, you can upgrade things too. So the chain shot fully upgraded is just an absolute beast. The way I approached it and John, I get it. Like, honestly, like I kind of almost had to at one point in the game, make myself use some of the other weapons.
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It is a valid point to be honest, because it's like, you know, once you get the cycler, it's like that takes out most things. And then I just run up with the super shoddy couple shots at most and boom, they're dead. Yeah. I will say that varying up the gameplay a little bit really enhanced it for me. But, again, playing on harder difficulty kind of forces you into some of that, too.
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Because if I just run up with the super shoddy, I'm going to get two-shotted. You know, like, I can shoot them, but they're just going to kill me right back at the same time kind of thing. So... I approached the game where it is, okay, what is the level of this demon, right? Like if it's a higher level demon, you know, I need to kill this thing quick.
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And that's where the chain shot and the super shoddy combo came in to just absolutely wreck these giant creatures.
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The cycler and honestly, even just the basic shoddy for me were a really good way to just take out a lot of like the smaller trash mobs, which can be dangerous because if they flank you and they're shooting at you, especially on nightmare level, you're going to die quick even to the trash guys at that point. You know, but I approached it in the this is my these are my like heavy tank killers.
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And that's the chain shot, the super shotty and the rocket launcher. Here's my fast, nimble guys that it's hard. I can't land a rocket launcher shot on these demons that are zipping around and flying through the air. So for me, that's like where, you know, the cycler or just the regular shotty hit. I mean, let's be honest. There's few things in life as satisfying as throwing the chainsaw shield.
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It is the correct answer. I don't even own a PS5, but when I borrowed yours, Ryan, there is just something about that controller, man, where it just works so good. The ergonomics of it, the freaking speaker that just adds that layer of sound to it, the haptic triggers. The touchpad.
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Okay. Fair. Yeah. To be fair, John, I saw this in some of the previews before the game release. We got some people that got access to previews and stuff. And one of the complaints that I saw was, hey, in Doom Eternal, you are forced to use a variety of weapons to survive, especially with the enemy types that they throw at you in Doom Eternal. They had the exact same complaint.
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While the weapon design is neat and there is a variety of weapons, I just don't feel compelled to use any more than two of them. And so I think that could legitimately be an inherent flaw in the game and in some of the combat, maybe at the easier levels. I will say that for me, at Nightmare... I my priority was absolutely kill these tougher demons.
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I have to kill them as fast as possible so that I can survive.
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You know. Oh, yeah. And the way to do that was with the chain shot with the super shoddy, you know, parrying an attack, which then would instantly power up the chain shot because I had that upgrade, which would then, you know, hit that guy like a ton of bricks.
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And then just try to get this guy dead as fast as humanly possible so that I could then go focus on this guy and hopefully burn him down before that guy behind me wrecked me in the 15 seconds that I had kind of thing. So I do think that that is a valid complaint on this, is that you were not forced into a variety of weapons like you were with Doom Eternal.
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yeah all right let's let's take a quick break and then i want to talk about some of the different levels i want to talk about the dragon i want to talk about the atlans because this is stuff that they showed off and i think absolutely bears bringing up so we have to talk about character design too all right that's fine with me yeah so all right we'll be right back after this break all right we're back
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Man, so just a very quick thing, because I know there's people that are going to be like, you guys didn't talk about all the guns. There are a variety of guns. I want to say there's, what, six different guns? Seven different? Something like that. But then you get a variation on each type. So when you get the rocket launcher... Or you get the grenade launcher that falls into that category.
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We've been talking about the plasma gun, the cycler versus the accelerator. One is almost like a pistol. The other one is like a machine gun kind of thing. So you have these classes of weapons that you get and you unlock throughout the game. Each weapon also has upgrade paths that really kind of change the way that the weapon can behave.
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And that's the point. That was my point with the chain shot is I amped that thing up to where as soon as I parried an attack, it was fully charged. So I didn't have to take that time to hold it and charge it up. It was just an instant fly out and wreck guys. We have to talk about the shield real quick.
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I said we're moving on to the level design, but man, the shield is the main thing in this game, right? This is what they were selling. This is kind of the premise behind your guy and why you can be this juggernaut. The shield is great, dude. Oh my goodness, man. I mean, you have to block with it. It can only sustain so much damage before you can't use it for a little while.
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And if your shield is down, you're probably dead. Yeah. But you do get the ability. It doesn't start as the chainsaw shield. It's just a normal shield. And then I was like, what the heck is this, man? Where's my chainsaw? But again, the game throws constant kind of upgrades and progression at you through the levels. The shield allows you to block.
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It allows you to parry, which is super important in this game where, you know, green little light blobs or attacks fly out. And if you parry them, they get reflected back and then wreck the monster that slung them out at you. You can shield charge, which means you can smash things that has an incredible range on this. I was surprised by the range on this shield charge.
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They still use it now.
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Yeah, so the shield is fantastic. It plays a large role in the game. It also kind of helps you solve puzzles. You have to throw the shield into things. You can stun monsters with the shield, which is super satisfying as well. Not everything can be stunned, so when you're fighting that big, strong demon... The shield's just going to bounce off that guy.
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You can't lock him down with the shield either. But, man, that thing is so satisfying. It was so well done in this game. I have to give them credit. They showcased it, and they made it just absolutely feel incredible.
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You brought up a really good point, Ryan. And one of the things that I like about this is that you have to play aggressive to survive. And that was one of the differences for me from Doom Eternal is that in Eternal, because you're so mobile, a lot of times you are kind of ducking behind cover and running to try to catch your breath and stuff.
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And I started playing this game like that and I was getting wrecked because it was like, no, no, you've got to actually wade into the fight. I don't care if you got two health, you need to go into the fight.
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You do in dark ages. And once I realized that it was just like, oh man. And it felt so good. This game does a phenomenal job of just keeping you in the action.
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Yeah. All right. Let's talk. We're running. We're already being long winded.
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I know, man. We've had a good day today, guys. So, OK, so they showed this off. This is not spoilery at all. In the previews, we got the the Atlan is what they call it, where you were in the absolute gigantic mech. Man, if you've ever had the dream of just piloting, you know, a hundred foot tall kaiju killing type thing, man, like this is this is it.
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Accessories. I'm going to say my, my razor Tartarus gaming key pad. You guys know, I love this thing, dude. Once you go, it just, it allows every game to play the same. I rebind every key. This is the joke is somebody will say, what's the key to like change this. And I'm like, I don't know, dude. Cause the very first thing I do is just go into a game and change all the key binds to match this.
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I will say while this was super cool to me, it also was like the probably least fun part of the game. There's like the guy testosterone like, yeah, you know, where you're just punching these monstrous demons. And then but the gameplay elements are so simple. I kind of just went like, OK, well, this is whatever. Like it was fun for like 10 minutes and that's it.
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It's a neat visual thing. It was a neat... Like, it just didn't really... Like I said, the gameplay element of that, for whatever reason, was just probably the lowest point in the game for me. Now, the dragon, on the other hand, I gotta say, Surat, which is the name of the dragon, is my boy. Dude, I... Do you guys, like, talk out loud sometimes when you're playing games? Always.
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Dude, when you get the dragon for the first time, you know you're getting him because the whole level is like, hey, you're heading to, like, the dragon aviary kind of thing. You know it's coming. Dude, this dragon lands, and I just walk up to him, and I'm looking. He's clad in armor. He's got red glowing eyes, got scars on him. He's freaking, like, dragon drool from these massive teeth.
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And I literally just laughed out loud. And I went, this is the most metal game I have ever seen, dude. Like, legitimately. It is. I mean, it was just a fun thing where I was just like, I don't know that you can get any more metal. Like, I mean, everything in this game. The guns, the dragon, your gauntlets, the shield. Like, I mean, literally everything is just metal.
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It's the best $80 I think I have ever spent. I don't even use my keyboard, dude. I use my keyboard to type, and that is it. This gaming keypad does everything I need it to do. Every game is always the same. I don't have to relearn the muscle memory or what E does or what Q does this time or something like that. I cannot recommend it enough.
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I will share the messages that I was getting from Ryan because I'm like,
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like went to it so it sounds like it might have just been a weird like uh probably a trigger or whatever yeah i had zero issue and that's another thing is i had no bugs no crashes no issues i mean doom eternal and doom the dark ages are well known for being like super optimized and this continued on with doom the dark it's your little keypad thing All right, guys, we're running long here.
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Dragon levels to me were one of my favorite. I love the mix that you're on the dragon, you're dogfighting, you're flying around, but then you have to land and then you hop off and you're back to just being Doomguy running around, just destroying everything in your path at the same time. That variety of level was pretty cool to me. All right. Here, here's the thing I want to talk about.
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So what, what was your favorite part of the game and what was your least favorite part of the game?
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If mine broke, I would literally run to the store tonight to buy another one instantaneously because I cannot live without it. Yeah.
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So you're talking the monster variety as well.
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I mean, I can kind of get that, man.
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It's so satisfying. I'll say for me, the visceral just nature of the combat, the heaviness, the absolutely wrecking things absolutely just does it for me, dude. I sit there like with this just grin on my face, you know, like pumping in the air, like just wrecking these demons. To be fair, this is not a game. I think my longest play session in this game was probably two hours.
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It's not like Expedition 33 where I'm losing the world and eight hours later it's like, oh, what just happened? Because I've just gotten completely sucked in. I think this game is best consumed in little doses like that because it can get repetitive. It is just a gameplay-focused game. The gameplay is insanely fun to me, but it's not super deep.
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You know, this is not like changing the genre or anything like that. So it's like I can actually understand those kind of takes. The best part of this game was just how fun the combat is. You feel like you are just freaking Doom Slayer, man. And you're ticked. And you're taking it out on these demons and everything. And it's like, this is great.
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I will say that this is not the most inspired Doom game to me. I think that title still belongs to Doom Eternal. I'm with you a little bit on the level design. I'm with you a little bit on the repetition. There were parts where I was kind of like, I think I'm just going to go play something else for a little while. So I don't have any major complaints.
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Usually there's something about a game where you're like, man, this just really put me off. In this case, I think it's just a few things that are subpar that because some other aspects of the game are so good that you kind of notice them a little bit more is all. All right. Here's I want to I want us to rate the game.
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And then I want us to to let's do that first, because I do have a question for you guys after that. So on a scale of one to 10, how would you guys rate this?
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8.3? That's funny. You and I are very close. For me, if Doom Eternal is like a 9 to me, I think Doom Eternal is perfection for a single-player first-person shooter. Doom the Dark Ages for me is probably an 8, 8.2, something like that. It's quite, quite good. It's just not the best in the series kind of thing, but I'm having a blast with this game. Oh, you know, I get it for what it is.
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That's fine. But like even right now, like if I got 30 minutes to jump in and chain shot some demons and, you know, super shoddy them in the face like that's just going to be a good time to here's my this is the big question. Now, this game came out day one on Game Pass. We talked about it. Game Pass.
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I mean, I'll be honest, man. Game Pass is moving way up my board as far as favorite services right now.
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It used to be that I'd cancel it. I'd play a game, and then I'd cancel it. I'm just leaving my subscription going right now. You just got to leave it up. But here's the kicker. Is Doom the Dark Ages, because the price tag on Steam for this game is $70. Yep. Is doom the dark ages worth $70? No. Okay. Ryan. Yes. For me, yes. This is tough for me because I checked my play time.
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Yeah, absolutely. All right, guys, it's time to talk about some Doom Dark Side 900. Thank you for the awesome question, by the way. If you want to ask us a question, you can sign up over. The link is in the episode description. You can sign up. That is an awesome perk for people that support the show under the epic tier there. I cannot wait to talk about this game. I'm a huge fan of Doom.
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This game takes about 25 hours to be on nightmare mode. Again, I die a lot because I'm playing on a hard difficulty level. So there are many times where I have to repeat a fight seven, eight times, which I'm sure adds to my gameplay. So let's call it a 20-hour game. If you know what you're getting into and you like Doom, then I think it's worth $70.
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Legitimately, I think you are going to get $70 worth of entertainment out of this. If you have never played a Doom game before, or maybe this isn't your favorite genre at that point, I don't know if it's worth $70, man. I don't know if that gamble of $70 is worth it to see if you like it at that point. I am with you, Ryan, that I think it is worth it.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
but it's like, this is not like, Oh yeah, it's worth 70 bucks.
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Yeah, that's honestly the kicker.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
So just for the last point on the $70 price tag is on Steam, where everybody that is playing it on Steam paid the $70, it's sitting at an 86% very positive review score out of 11,000 reviews on Steam right now. So people seem to be happy with it.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
This isn't really your kind of game, though, either, John. I loved Halo. I know you had fun with it, but yeah.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
Those are more in-depth, though. Doom is very simple in its premise. Honestly, it's never really tried to be.
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I mean, that kind of is what it does, and it does very well. All right, listen, the takeaway here, get it on Game Pass, try it out. If Game Pass is not an option and you like Doom Eternal or the 2016 Doom, I think you're going to be happy with this game, even at the price tag, because there's really not any major flaws to it, in my opinion. Agreed.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
I have made no qualms about that. I don't know that I played every single Doom game that's ever been made, but I have absolutely played this series throughout my lifetime. I know you guys have played it, and we have been playing the heck out of Doom the Dark Ages. We were all very excited for this one. It kind of came at an interesting time because, you know...
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On today's episode, we're going to find out, but first, some introductions are in order. i am your host josh and joining me he's an aspiring slayer nope nope wait that's the difficulty level he played on it's ryan oh man i was gonna come in with like a rock ballad like metal yeah and and uh now i just feel so broken broken inside glad i could crush your soul once again right that's fine
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I mean, we're still fresh off the heels of Expedition 33. We have people daily that join our Discord server that are like, dude, I just started this game. I'm in Act 1. This has been just taking over the gaming world. People love talking about it. I love seeing it. It never gets old to hear people be like, yeah, I'm in Act 1. And then we're like, oh, man, you're in for a ride.
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But Doom came out a few weeks later, and Like, was this the most perfect timing for a palette cleanser type game like Doom the Dark Ages after this insanely epic, heartfelt, intense perfection of a role playing game? And then it's like, okay, nothing can follow that up, guys.
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Yeah, Ryan, I just remember you saying, like, dude, I think you literally said this game could not have come at a more perfect time for me.
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I love that. I think Ryan's first message to me after he booted up the Dark Ages was, dude, I feel like I need to run through a wall right now. And you literally do. And it's amazing. So, okay. And just to clarify, neither one of you have played Doom Eternal. Is that correct? No. Correct. I have not.
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I am on stage 18 out of 22. I plan on beating it either later tonight or tomorrow.
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This is a game where I know I don't beat a lot of games. There's a lot of people out there that know I get gamer ADD and then I just move on to the next one. But this one I will absolutely wind up finishing because I'm still just having fun with it.
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Yeah, yeah, it will. So the reason that I bring up the Doom Eternal question is the natural question that I see from most people is how does it compare to Doom Eternal? If you have played Doom Eternal, you know how good that game is. You guys have heard me sing its praises many times on the show. Yep.
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Even in the trailers and the kind of developer breakdowns and things that we got to see leading up to the release of this game, they said, hey, in Doom Eternal, you know, you're a fighter jet. You're flying around. You're double jumping. You're grapple hooking. And Doom the Dark Ages, we wanted to do something different. Our theme for this game is stand and fight.
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And it's like, ooh, that gave me chills. I can still hear them saying it. And so I can give my opinion on how it compares to Doom Eternal. I just wanted to verify that you guys didn't get to play that one. So you don't have that comparison. You're judging this. on its own merits without comparing it to Doom Eternal.
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I'll just spill the beans then. I prefer Doom Eternal. You guys know if we're playing a game and I can be a rogue and the fast guy that's zipping around, that's who I want to play. Ryan, Marvel rivals, my main is Psylocke. I want to be fast. I want to be quick. I want to be stealthy. I want those movement skills. I want to outplay the people or the game and things like that.
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So I have always preferred the speed that characters and games like that give me. So I don't think that Doom the Dark Ages is as good as Doom Eternal. I do think it's about 80% as good as Doom Eternal. So for me, that's still saying an awful lot. Uh, but the, the, if you had to say, Josh, which one do you prefer? I am going to say I prefer doom eternal.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
I love the fast paced movement mechanics in that game. Um, there's a couple other nitpicks that I'll have that we'll get into with doom, the dark ages, but you know, it definitely is. Here's the main thing. It doesn't feel slow. Like, that was the main thing that I thought a lot of people were concerned about was this whole stand-in fight. You're this tank. You've got this shield.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
And joining us, he would like us to address the practicality of a chainsaw shield and keep saying, I mean, how do you catch it, though?
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You're not supposed to be jumping and running around and stuff like that. And I kind of went, is this going to be... really slow gameplay. It ain't slow, people. If that's what you're worried about, I can tell you right now, it's not slow. The shield bash, you have to stay mobile. The parrying mechanic keeps you constantly looking around you.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
It does not feel slow, but Doom Eternal just hits different, man, and I vastly prefer it over Doom the Dark Ages from that sense of like, I want to feel like I'm zipping around, man. I like that movement.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
You feel like a juggernaut.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
Since when do you know me to beat games?
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Dude, I think that is honestly a fantastic take. And Ryan, I'm going to throw this to you. Because one of the things that you said early on when we were talking about it was... I feel like I'm playing an arcade game again. Yeah. Like, that was literally the statement you made, and it clicked with me instantaneously. John's nodding his head, too, because this is not a story-driven game. At all.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
That chainsaw shield is freaking sweet.
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Doom the Dark Ages is Metal as...Heck – Deep Dive | Gaming Podcast
Like, at all. Like, I mean, there is some characters, and, you know, they're trying to set up some reason for you to be swattering the hordes.
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I could only stretch it so far.
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Yeah. Literally like the devil.
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Yeah. He's a 12-foot luchador with horns. Okay. Yeah.
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You set it up. But that crowd would just be, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie. She's crawling. She's crawling slowly. Diablo's just towering over. I'm in this, man.
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That's a good one.
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Oh, the diseased child? Sure. What if I get infected?
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She might be infected.
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Goes and hand sanitizes right away.
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Certainly not clean cut. Yeah, good guy. No doubt about that.
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That's a good one.
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Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
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I'm feeling motivated already, man.
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No, you have to definitely adapt to your surroundings and what's going on in the missions at hand and what is happening before you just kind of do what you want to do. You got to almost earn the clout, earn the ability to do what you want to do, which is kind of endearing. It's pretty cool now with how much we've played, going back to how we started, you know?
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The thing is, like, it's, you know, that's... The crazy thing is it's almost like if you were to ask somebody what's the meaning of life? What's your hook to life? Because that's what this feels like. This is like another world. You feel like you are part of this life and you find yourself like living, you know, I know we talked about it being like the kingdom come one, like a medieval sim.
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I don't think this was on that level, but it definitely had simulator aspects to it, which, which I liked. There was really good things. There's not, that's not a bad thing. So it's just, it was, I wanted to, it was almost like it was the hook for me was that It was like a second life. I wanted to go in and continue as Henry and be Henry and do Henry stuff.
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Whether that was thievery and going to jail or running around or finding mutt or finding my horse or robbing or pillaging or doing all the stuff that you could do. I just felt like it was a second world that I could go into and disappear into. And it just captivated me, man. It was one of those things that that was the hook is it just felt like another world I could jump in.
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Yeah, absolutely. It helps set the world. It's just so beautiful. They created just an awesome space to explore. Very similar, like you mentioned, to Red Dead, to where... Around every corner, there is potentially something that you can run into. There's someone around there. Even when you are fast traveling, there's always something that you can run into.
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So they did create a world that is just alive. It feels alive. And I think that when you play it, it feels the same as well. So yeah, they did just such a stellar job on that aspect of this game.
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Get to the Bloody Baron.
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Which is horrible, by the way, that it takes that long. I'm not making an excuse, but I'm just saying it is after that. That's where it goes.
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Oh, definitely. And I honestly, like, I got goosebumps just now thinking about it. It's wild because one issue I always have with these types of games is I hate getting the wrong answers. I hate...
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When I'm interacting, like, right off the bat, dude, I'm running my mouth as Henry in the very beginning, and I know you know what I'm talking about, as to where... And then I'm getting lectured, and I'm like, oh, crap, I said the wrong thing, you know?
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And sometimes those prompts are always a little deceptive on, like, what you think you're gonna say, and it says something a little bit different, and then it's not as polite or not as aggressive, you know, if you wanna be, you know... But...
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Once I got into it and I started to get some money and I started to really get into the game and I understood that it really is... It's not about getting the right answer. It's about just kind of experiencing that moment. Every time is an experience. Every interaction is an experience. Everything you do has consequences and it leads to other interactions, but like... It's not detrimental.
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It's not going to destroy the game. So you don't have to be upset about it. And that's one thing that I always struggle with. But once I finally got that and I really started to just dive in, and that helps with the immersion part of it as well, I... Man, it became something that... The game was all I thought about. I was just like, I got to do this. I got my alchemy brewing empire.
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And that's based on Josh having maybe 35-ish hours and I have 40. Yeah. And that's like, oh, we're going to get into the beginning of the game. That shows kind of how much this game has to offer, which is just wild.
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I got all these potions to make. It's three days for the next harvest. I got to go get more marigold and everything else I can get. And nettle and whatnot. I got more potions to brew. And then interactions. If I said the wrong thing, I'm like, oh, bummer. Oh, well. And then I'll circle back around and try to mend ties down the road and stuff. So...
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just once I figured out that this world truly is alive and every interaction is not end all be all. And, and it, it's like almost just flowing like a body of water. Like that's what really turned the corner for me to where I was like, man, I am all the way in on this. I am a hundred percent full bore. Like, let's go. I am Henry.
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And and I just want to I want to save my Lord, you know, so it's it was it was something cool to realize that kind of revelation moment. But man, dude, it was it's so much fun.
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Where am I going to go? What am I going to do? Coincidentally, like that also, that stupid old lady is also what made me almost quit the game. I was going to rage quit.
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Whenever we can talk about like bad things, just let me know because I got a lot to say. We're going to do that.
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So one of the things that's so cool about this game is... An average gameplay session is never average. Like, it's always different. There's always something unique about every interaction and every kind of session that you play to where, I mean, you're going to go and I'm going to go brew potions and then you go out to... To get flowers and whatever materials or whatever you need to do.
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And you get sidetracked and something else comes up. And the next thing you know, you're two towns over. Fighting some guy learning how to sword battle. Because that will help you later on. And so... Everything about this game is just kind of a fluid flow of ups and downs, lefts and rights. There's nothing stagnant. There's nothing moving in the same direction.
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It's always just kind of all over the place. It's a real world. It truly does feel like... You can hop in and do whatever you want to do. It is your gameplay. You have to play within the parameters of this kind of experience. Don't break the law like me, basically. That's what I'm saying. But there's always something to do. You can be a blacksmith. You can make a bunch of stuff.
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You can brew potions. You can go trap and harvest animals. Or just do the main quest line. There's a million different things to do. So every session is so different that it's such a unique game. I haven't played anything like it in a very, very long time.
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So with this, it is... I guess I wouldn't say that it's simple, but the simple view of it is you have your directional attacks to where you have top-down strikes, left-right, and then straight thrusts or whatever. And then you have shield blocks where you could parry. And there's timing elements that also come into play. But it's something that... Well, the fighting aspect of it is there.
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It's not so much... It's something that you can do. You can target fights. You can go and battle people. You can do all these things. And you can get really, really good at it. But it's not the main part of the game. And it doesn't have to be. Which is a thing I liked. I think that the fighting itself is a little bit not my style. Yeah.
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It's a little tricky to learn, and to be quite honest, I would not call myself 30, 40 hours in or 40 hours in or whatever. I'm not a proficient fighter. I do the best I can. I can beat a lot of guys, but it's very tricky, and I'm not that good at it yet. So it is difficult. It's difficult to learn, but... It is rewarding when you fight those guys.
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There is something to it because of that difficulty and that hard nature of it. There's something there. So the long of the short is... Fighting's not the best. The combat's not the best, but I also see why it is what it is, and it leans into all those other factors of that. It is, I mean, fighting in real life kind of sucks. Like, you know, swinging a sword at somebody, you're going to get tired.
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Trying to shield, you know, block off another axe or a polearm or whatever it is kind of sucks. So, you know, it's not something you always want to do. If you're good at it, heck yeah. If not, you may avoid it. So I think it just ties into everything else, and I think they did a good job of that.
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You know, if it has, like, ignorance is bliss. Like, I have no knowledge, and it did not affect me to my knowledge in any way. From what I took from the story, from my gameplay, how it started, how I'm progressing. Like, none of those factors I thought... man, what are they talking about? Is that a callback to the other game? None of those things came into play for me.
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Yeah, it doesn't. And which is wild from people like us that we generally, I mean, you love hard, difficult, bash your head against the wall combat. I enjoy like kind of active kind of nonstop type combat. So we enjoy combat, but it wasn't something that took away or added to this game. I think it was there. That's not a bad thing.
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It was there enough where we could fight and battle, but I didn't think about, man, I want to kill someone. It's like, oh, I need to get over there to do this to accomplish this next thing. I'm thinking just about life, and this goes to that immersion factor that we had. The combat was there. It was serviceable, in my opinion.
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Do you disagree? No, I think a lot of them. There's something...
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unique or quirky about every quest line that you run into where uh parts of it will make you laugh parts will make you mad parts will uh make you just shake your head like everything has like all the colors of the rainbow and and it just makes you know every time you don't know what to expect which which i find so awesome that's that's part of it
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that I love is, is every time you boot up a quest or every time you run down that pathway to the next objective, like you don't know what you're going to go into.
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Especially, like you said, for a game of this size... For what they did, I was honestly amazed. The ability to have... We talked about earlier just about how everything kind of goes on each other. You go and you get in a little fight with something... You're covered in blood. You have to go wash your body off. Because even a little tussle with a guard or a little... You fight a boar.
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So yeah, I would not say that you have to play the first one in any respect to feel like you can play the next one.
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Even if you just kill it, it doesn't hit you once. You still got blood on you from it. So you have to go wash your body off. Everything you interact with and encounter...
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like has an effect and and the graphics show that and so you know even just traveling through and i mean you mentioned like the the towns and you know you see the ruts from the uh the carts coming through and the wagons and then you see where they posted up um planks and boards to kind of
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direct the water I was watching and I'm like man that's crazy like the detail to put that in to have planks of wood to where the water would run off to so that they can control it so it doesn't wash out the road like that's weird little just kind of details that probably a lot of people won't notice but it's just it's in there and it just helps again with that immersion like I think we just keep harking back to the immersion of these worlds and
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The I mean, obviously, the graphics are amazing, but all those little details are what really, I think, set it apart.
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They did a lot of coding, that's for sure.
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I mean, I agree wholeheartedly. I think they did such a good job. I would... Our Discord, we always kind of preach our Discord. We've been talking about this game so much in the Discord. And a ton of people have been mentioning stuff. And our boy, Stalin Steve, he kept saying, he's like, do as many side quests as you can before you do the wedding. And I cannot echo that enough. Like...
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Because it genuinely does make a difference because you have met all these people now from all these towns and villages around this world. They're all at this wedding. And so you're like, oh, I did this for them, this for them, this for that guy, and this for that guy and that girl. And so you have this kind of just group of people that you know, and it makes it so much more personable.
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To where that wedding and all the little side effects, you know that people's quirks. You know what they're – I mean there's a guy that's just a ridiculous drunk. And you're having to help him again after you helped him before last time he was drunk. And so you know all their quirks. You know what's going on. And it just makes it – it's that much better.
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So like the wedding itself – and which is crazy because this is like – you know, this isn't like the end of the game. No, this is like when it really, really takes off. And this is 30 hours in, you know, 30, 40, 50, some people hours in, you know, and this is when the game really takes off is just the wedding. And so, uh, man, I think just the buildup,
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To essentially like the really main start of the game is just something that I've never seen before. And gosh, I just don't even know what to say. It's masterful, dude.
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I think it is absolutely maybe top two. I mean, something's got to... If GTA 6 comes out and it's just an absolute banger, which is going to be hard to believe with the anticipation of it, I don't see anything beating this, honestly. It's such a good game.
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No, it's next level. There's something you have to take...
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account when when something this special comes across and and i think this just man this hit this hit all those markers to where it's it's unique it's beautiful it it has uh uh intrigue it's it's dark but it's also happy like it hits everything like there's nothing that it doesn't do you know so like there's no reason that it's not in that category like at all
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Oh, man. So – Because you said you wanted this moment, Ryan, earlier.
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So there's a few things. I think – and it's hard because it's part of that immersion, part of that real-world thing. There's two interactions that come to mind. One is with that lady out in the forest. Yeah, she's an alchemist that you meet kind of early on. The alchemist you meet early on.
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And then another is with the Lord of Samin where you help him with a task and then you're riding back to town and stuff. So two things where... You can do everything right, and then you just make a little simple small wrong choice, and it just is detrimental to your gameplay. And you could lose a lot of time if you haven't saved, which is another factor that I have an issue with.
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So with the lady, I'm just throwing this out. Spoilers or not, you can turn it off if you want for three seconds. But you go out there, you do a bunch of stuff for her, and you actually have a bed in this house. And I slept in the wrong bed instead of my own bed. I slept in her bed. And I wake up, and she's over me yelling, guards, I'm going to get the guards.
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And then I had to pay her money, which I didn't have. I'm a schlub. I barely got clothes on. And she's like, you have to pay me, blah, blah, blah, if you want this to go away. And I didn't have any money. So then she just takes off running down the street, and she's going to go tell the guards. And I'm like, this is ridiculous. You know, I slept in the wrong bed. Give me a warning or something.
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Hey, you can't sleep in my bed. You know, that wouldn't make sense to me. Additionally, with the quest with the Lord Samin, I was writing back from the cart and okay, this is your stop, Henry. Hop on out and go tell them, blah, blah, blah. But I hopped out immediately instead of waited for that prompt. And so then when I talked to him, they didn't have a quest prompt for me. So I talked to him.
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He's like, bugger off. He's like, to hell with you. You didn't want to help us. And I'm like, what are you talking about? We just killed a bunch of bandits. What are you doing? And so something as simple as that is when you do just a small mistake It's so punishing. It's very frustrating as a player.
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I understand there's a lot of factors that go in, and it's maybe just a me thing, but to have something that simple to where you just did something so small and it'd be that punishing, that's really hard for me to take to when you lose an hour of gameplay or something like that because of that.
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And there's, I don't, I don't, I don't understand it. I don't see the benefit in it. That's, that's developers. Yeah. And I know Andre's our best friend, but that's developers trying to tell you how you need to play their game. I'm going to play the game how I want to play. If I want to save scrub, let me save scrub. That's not for you to tell me that.
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This is one thing that always frustrates me because I was one of those that lost. I spent an hour and a half brewing potions, getting all set up, started my... Alchemy Empire, and I was like, alright, I'm gonna go save now. So I went to fast travel to this area to run down to my bed, and on the way... Oh, you encountered these bandits. Do you want to talk to them or not?
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And then I'm like, well, no, I'm going to run. It's like, oh, failed. And then they just kill me in three swipes. And then I lost all that progress. That's enough to get someone to quit a game. Honestly, somebody who doesn't have a lot of time or doesn't do this as much as we do, that'll get somebody to quit a game. So...
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And like you said, the ability to get those Savior Snops later on, they're not expensive down the road once you get some money. So you can just pack them up. And it's not a big thing. So why make it so hard in the beginning when you're trying to learn this game? You're trying to learn this world. Why would you make it so hard for people to continue playing?
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If they can't dedicate four straight hours or five straight hours. So that's one thing. I will never back off of that. I hate managing saves. Let me save in the middle of a swing. I don't care. I want to save when I want to save. It's a game for a reason. I'm not trying to... I don't know. Now I'm thinking about it, and I'm all frustrated.
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Yeah, I just saved her daughter, and then she's like, you slept in the wrong bed. I'm going to get the cops. Yeah.
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To me, it was the most... accurate Sim-like game that didn't feel like a Sim-like game.
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I was. I would say that... I'm optimistically hesitant. I had good feelings, and I thought with what we've seen in the production and all the stuff leading up to the release of the game, I felt like it was in good hands and it was handled properly so that we were going to get, in turn, a game that was handled properly.
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Yeah. I am right up there with you. This is an absolute must play. I had put mine just a tick below you. I'm coming in at 9.5. That is... That's equal for you.
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I got a War Ragnarok at 9.6. It's right up there. I have not played a game... That the immersion was this much to where I just lost myself. I mean, even more... Skyrim's in my top ten. I think it's number three. I felt more attached to this world than I did to Skyrim. Yeah. I fully understand that thinking, dude. That's what this game meant to me. I am... I mean...
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This episode releases in a few days or whatever. I was probably supposed to start Avowed a couple days ago. I saw you playing.
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I wasn't joking on the intro where I saw you playing. Josh wasn't joking.
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I have not even downloaded Avowed. I have still been on Kingdom Come. I don't know how I'm going to get off and go play Avowed now. He's going to have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers, I guess. It is a game that is something special. I genuinely think it's way up there for Game of the Year. And it's an all-timer, man. I cannot wait. I will personally say...
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I don't know if Josh is going to play it again. He, he's not wanting to come back and revisit games, but I, I will get more than a hundred hours in this game. And after that, I will come back and do a full on deep dive, um, on this, you know, however I do it, you know, and just like a bonus episode or whatever, but there is, there is so much more to cover that I want to talk about. And, uh,
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I can't wait to do it, man. So it's going to be hard to get away. But yeah, 9.5 for me. It is up there. Absolutely. No questions asked. You have to play this game.
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And, you know, it's one of those things where you're just never sure, you know, especially if you haven't played a first game in the series and then you got this huge big release and it's the second one. And like you said, do I need to play the first? Do we have to? You know, it's like, no, no, no, you'll be fine. Trust me.
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No, you don't understand. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. Get in the pillory. See ya.
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And then it's like, okay, you know, and then you're going to, you're just going to kind of hop into this big title that's got a lot of hours involved. And it's like, does this make sense? And man, it just totally did.
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I would say that it was definitely something different and unique. It was well-crafted. I got that impression right away.
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They did right. It looks like I'm going to have an adventure. I don't know where the heck this is going to go. I don't know where this is going to lead me. But I want to find out. And that's the first kind of draw that took a hold of me. And then the graphics helped. The movement helped. How they kind of started you out in the quote-unquote tutorial.
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It's Ryan. Hey, hey, don't throw that at me. Listen, I didn't do it. It wasn't me. I swear. Is this how we're starting? Was that a peasant accent?
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Like as you learn how to move and do a few things. And this game... Even if you have a tutorial, like, you know, don't get twisted. Like, it's unforgiving. Like, if you mess up, like, you're going to pay for it and you're going to have to restart in an area, whether you saved or not or, you know, whatever. And we'll get way into that for sure. But right off the bat, I definitely felt like...
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I don't know if almost like just comfortable, like I was ready to sit down, buckle up and like see where this was going to take me.
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I learned that real quick.
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I'm just perpetually arrested in the, what is it called again? The pillory is what they call it.
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They hated me everywhere.
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It was, man, it was hard because it was one of those that the first opening part of it, I'm like really vibing with this game. I liked it. I liked the way they cut in the cinematics and they just sprinkled in just enough with the gameplay and the tutorial stuff. And then they just drop you in the wilderness with just a pair of shorts, basically.
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You've got no shoes, no shirt, no nothing, and no service for sure.
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I don't know what it is, but I grew to love it. It felt like home. I was there crying.
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They don't want you there. You are in trouble. Everyone doesn't like you already because you got into town. You immediately run amok. So it's one of those things where... Right off the bat, it was just difficult to even get started. And it's not like a survival crafter or anything like that where you can just... Alright, I just gotta go chop down some trees and just get started.
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You have to woo people and start to communicate and figure out where you need to go and who you need to talk to and how you need to progress through this world. So there was a lot of different layers and... One thing that I liked that Andre had talked about was game sessions that are memorable that have a name to them.
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And I feel like this did do that to where every time I logged in, especially early on, I'm like, oh, that was that session. That was that session. So as we progressed and as we got into it, I was super frustrated because But it started to alleviate the more we kind of got into it and the more we started to understand kind of where this whole thing was going and how it was going.
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Like, you learn trigonometry or anything crazy like that, you're going to be frustrated at first. But as you start to understand, everything seems to make sense. And it kind of broadens the picture. And I felt like that's what this kind of did. As you got into it a little bit more, it started to open up for you and make sense.
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Josh, there's a mortar. Don't go by the enemies. Don't, no, don't. Oh, I'll get you. I'll get you back.
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So, this is one part that I thought was so neat and such a cool fold within the game. As you're playing, you have these stratagems like Paul explained. So, you pop open this menu and it gives you a list of all your different ones. And then it's got...
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your arrow keys like a code to call down these stratagems so in the heat of battle you have all of these bugs or all these terminator guys running around you and you gotta hit left left up left up down right you know or something like that and you hear the buttons as you're going and you can hear your teammates buttons too and it's like i need a respawn or i need resupply or i need a war striker any of those things and you gotta stop or you know as paul found out there's ways to get it to where you can keep running and you can still hit those codes um
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And you can drop the stuff down. You get this kind of a ball, and you throw it down, and a big beam comes down in the air, and you can either see your strike come down or the resupply or any of those things.
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So it was just such a neat feature, I thought, that in the middle of all this chaos, you got to input a code to try to help yourself to advance throughout that little match or that little battle in that moment. So... It was such a cool feature. It was really unique to have that kind of, like I said, that fold in there to have to do that while everything is going crazy. And you're going to get hit.
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Sometimes you have it in your hand. You've entered that code, and then you get blasted by a tick or something, and he's spraying acid on you, and you drop it right on. Guys, run! Airstrike, run! Run! Run! And everybody's got to scatter because it's going to hit there. And if it's one of the eagle strikes, it's going to happen in a couple seconds.
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So it was such a cool feature that I absolutely loved. And I'm sure you guys can talk more on it. But yeah, it was one of my favorite things was the stratagems.
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It's great, man. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I, uh, There's so many that are awesome within this. It's so hard a lot of times to pick one because you have so many cool options. It's not just a tool. They're fun to use. They're enjoyable. Every time you use one, you're like, yeah, all right, every time.
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And real quick to get back to just the overall basis of the stratagems, how much different would it be If you click down your, your little slot and you just selected which one it was, you didn't have to put in the code.
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No, it would still be cool. But think of the difference that creates just having to put in that code. I just, I wanted to mention that real quick, but aside from that, I'm sure everybody on the Discord knows about what my favorite strategy is. The team killer? The team killer. I'd say it's equal team kills because I'm pretty sure I got a lot of screenshots where Josh had more accidentals than me.
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But... There's one that is a great amasser of death for the bugs, and that's the Mortar Sentry. I absolutely love it. Andy, our good friend, turned me on to it, and I used it once, and I was hooked. I was like, oh, oh, yeah, this is the one. You just hear boom, boom, boom. And you just see the mortars going in the air, and it's just kill, kill, kill, kill. Josh dead. Paul dead. Andy dead.
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Hey, guys, I got 30 kills on that little run. It was worth it. I'll respond right now.
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No, I will die on this hill. When I get 250, 300 kills, and I have two accidentals, it's worth it. It's worth it. You can complain and whine and cry all you want because you died, but you're going to die anyways. And I'm going to get 300 kills.
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Do what? Draw 25? Yeah, it was, what was it? Don't have the mortar or draw 25 cards, and then it just says Ryan in it. He's got a whole stack of cards. Yeah, that's 100% accurate.
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As long as you still leave the review.
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I thought they did it brilliantly. First, I'll touch on, because that's what's at the top of my mind right now, the ship stuff with the minerals or the rare samples and stuff like that. That's just another layer. We keep talking about layers.
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It's just another factor in the game that I absolutely love that brings more unintended chaos to the game because you spend all this time, you're defeating all these bugs or all these robots, and you've collected all these samples, and you die. Well, all those samples you have are on the floor now. You get respawned, but maybe you're not close to the rest of your team.
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You got to run back and try to get them. Hold on, guys. I got to get my samples back so you guys can all extract with them. And so it's just one of those things where, you know, it just makes more panic and chaos and depth to the game worse. where you have to get those so that you can bring them home and extract them and then further progress your ship or your guns or whatever you use them for.
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So I absolutely love that factor. As far as the rest of stuff with the advancement in your equipment, all of those things, I love how you have the different pages. You can keep kind of scrolling through. All right, I got to spend this much. You can't just save them all. You've got to spend it.
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It's one of those things where we've got to get all this stuff spent before we get to the next page, and then we can unlock these. And they do have those little carrots there. You get some credits, or you get a cool, unique emote, or something different like that, and then, oh, look, there's a cool gun.
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So as you go through, there's just those carrots dangling to keep you progressing throughout, get those war medals, get those samples, and just keep dispersing liberty throughout the galaxy.
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Yeah. And one thing too is how many times did we say, Dude, I can't wait to get to level eight so I can unlock this. Oh man, I'll get the Tesla tower at level 15. Oh dude, level 20. We're going to get the rail gun. Like that's, that's what I haven't had in such a long time to where you're just looking forward to every little tick of your XP to get to that next level.
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So you can unlock certain things that you want to try out because like we said before, everything is so impactful. Everything is so fun to use. It's just overall, the progression is just awesome. Yeah.
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And on the fact of the premium war bond thing or whatever, This is only a $40 game. Yeah. Like, you could buy that and you're still less than $60. You're not even up to a $60 game. This is more fun than I've had on a game in forever. Like, and it's $40.
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Now that's some liberty right there. Here's a tip for you, man. Thank you for making this video game. Have an extra $10.
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And the fog lifts and then you see like 40 bugs. You're like, oh no, you think you're good. And then all of a sudden the terror comes right back to you. This is one thing. Bring the spores back. I'm scared. Dude, Paul and I were talking about this today or yesterday. I forget when it was. We were just gushing over the environment. We were just talking. And this seems so lame, but I'm like, Paul,
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Look at this crater, dude. I just called down this strike. Look how it just took out the ground and destroyed these buildings. He's like, dude, I know. Isn't this awesome? And that's the stuff we look at this game. We're in there just looking at the environment and what damage we've caused. I've always been... I love Call of Duty. I love Modern Warfare.
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I've always been a Battlefield guy because I love the effects I can have on the environment within where I'm playing. This does that brilliantly. It's beautiful. I call these strikes down. I'm trying to destroy these bugs in these towers or these vent factories. And it does. It destroys them. And it puts a freaking crater in the ground, man. You just blow up everything.
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And you feel like you have impact on the world other than just shooting guys. And that's what makes it so cool to me.
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Well, and what we've been doing too is like we, I mean, a lot of times when we've been running suicide or these like really higher up levels of difficulty, you know, when we're at the end, we're kind of out of everything. And we're just trying to kite guys around until we can get the extraction and get out of there. So you're running.
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And like you said, those little like claws will just hit at you and you get a little stun lock. And so what I've tried to do is you're kiting them around, you run around the corner, and you dive and turn and try to take out a couple and get back up as fast as you can and then run again. And then you just keep trying to repeat it as you run around.
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And it's so crazy that just a simple dive mechanic brings so much to a game. And that's what all of these features do. It's unbelievable, man.
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I have one load out and it's that it's my, it's my strikes and then my, uh, Rover and then the mortar.
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Not at all. That's why I don't know. Like I said, I don't know if this will fade, but I was... Filled with so much liberty. I saw that and I was like, oh, no, they didn't. And I went right to that planet and I said, oh, let's go. I'm going to destroy as many automatons as I can. Man, I hope this keeps going because I've been having nothing but an amazing time.
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That was so good. Yeah, that was, there's, it's, it's just so hard. There's so many, every, every match you, you run into just a crazy story. Like every time there's something crazy that happens. I mean, even right before recording, I was playing, I hopped on, I was trying to get a few matches in real quick. And, um, I was just trying to farm samples. So I jump in.
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I forgot that I left on public, so I got grouped up with a bunch of people. No big deal. I thought we were going to run it through. These guys were just throwing strikes at single enemies. Full on strikes. I'm like, oh, man, really? This is going to take forever. And they're going, and it's taking forever. And then they keep striking on me and stuff. So what I... This may not be the best thing.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
But I ended up... I killed them. And then I didn't bring them back. Because I was the only one. And then eventually, they all left the game. So I was able to do it through. After that, I was able to cruise through pretty okay. And I got like 15 samples and stuff. But they were... It was ridiculous. They were just constantly killing me or killing somebody else. Or just wasting all their strikes.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
Putting... hell bombs in the middle of just nowhere because there was a guy there and then i'd shoot the guy and then there's just a hell bomb sitting there because we all got one for free and it was just one of those things where i'm like come on guys so yeah that was that was my uh evil deed but it was for liberty there you go anything anything for liberty yeah
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
And it hasn't changed. No, I know. Every time I launch it... Dude, just today, right before the recording, I was like... I was with my son, and I launched it, and I'm like, dude, watch. And I move out of the way of the big mountain to the side so that I could watch the blast and see the wave come towards me every single time I look at it. And that's just...
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
one of those other factors that we talked about with the environment is like all these little things you watch it go. You're like, Oh, which way is it going? And you see, and then you go, all right, here we go. And you just sit and wait and you just, what game do you go and you just sit there and wait to watch something happen like that? You know? Oh, we all stop in our tracks every, every time.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
And it's, it's just one of the coolest things. It blows up. You're like,
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
Dude, why are you such a mind reader? I couldn't gush and I couldn't say how much I love this game more. Honestly, I sat for days thinking about this leaderboard. I'm like, man. You should have just asked me. I would have told you. I know, right? I really, really like this game. I'm like, it's not better than Diablo, right? It's not better than Metal Gear Solid, right?
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
I had such a hard time figuring out where to put this, but I think 4 is the spot for me. Yeah. I'm a multiplayer guy. I love interactions with people. I love us doing it together. I haven't had a game where all I think about is, what do I have to do within my life to get back to Helldivers?
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
That's all it is. It's like, okay, I got to do this, this, this, and this, and then I can go play Helldivers. That's what I've been doing for the last week. And I'm happy about it. Every time I get on, I'm like, this is awesome. And it helps that my son comes and plays with me too. And then he's my little XP farm bot. I just throw him on and sit back and watch and stuff. But I... Yeah, man. I...
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
I don't know, man. This one might even climb up more for me, but it's beyond what I ever would have expected out of this game. It's almost like it's a quadruple A title for $40. Yeah, yeah. Not skull and bones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, number four is the one for me.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
And our Discord has never, ever... By the way, join up on Discord. It's completely free, and it's amazing. Awesome community, and we play a lot of this game. But our Discord has never, ever, ever been more active than this.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
Dude, remember when we said, oh man, we're going to catch up on games this year. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
To me, as a kid, I was a 90s kid. And so growing up, when I was a little bit older, I watched 80s and 90s action movies with my dad. That was like one of our things on TNT or whatever late at night. We'd watch Arnold and Sly and all these guys. blow stuff up obnoxiously and say these cheesy one-liners. And that's exact.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
You feel like you're in those crazy eighties action movies and you're running around, you hear all the yelling and the screaming, and then you even hear the one-liners, you know, throughout, throughout the game, throughout when you're in the middle of the match. And it's just, it takes me back. And it was just, there's so much enjoyment and there's so much fun. And,
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
You hear someone just screaming bloody murder because they're on fire. You're like, Josh, are you on fire? And he's like, oh, yeah, yep. And he just hits himself with the stem. He's like, all right, I'm good. And then we just keep running. So there's just so much comedy in there as well as all the action and the objectives. There's so many layers to this. I could gush all day.
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[Replay] Heroic Helldivers 2 - Gaming Podcast
What about you, Ryan? It was like, man, I'm trying to think now because it was a dispenser of destiny or something like that. But it was it was destiny because, you know, Josh's destiny was to get friendly killed. Yeah, that's very true.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Two gems. Oh, the gems. The gems.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
For sure. And when you open the door and it gives you those three selections, you're done. You have to pick one. You can't back out and say, oh, I'm going to go get some gems or try to find some and then come back to this. You know, you are toast. And that killed one of my best runs, you know, because I'm not having the gems or stuff prepared. So, yeah, when you go to one, that's it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
You're picking whatever you're able to pick in that moment, and that's it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
That's the thing with RNG comes into play so much is where, you know, you can get a good run with a couple good items to begin with, but then your path is always like, oh man, that's why I would always try to just get as far north and just straight up as I could in the beginning. Yeah.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Through the middle, so then I have options left or right, and as many pathways to go around and circle, because there's others where I thought I was dead in the water, I was able to find a key, and then I was able to get through this one side door that opened it all back up for me, and I was able to get back up, so...
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
There's definitely... You have to be so strategic with how you pick every single spot, and you have to have some foresight and planning on, like, okay, well, this will lead to this, and this will give me these coins to... In case I get this or that or, you know, different things like that, so...
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
There's just so much that goes into picking each room, you know, with just your selection of three other than just what gems you're going to spend or what, you know, keys you're going to have to use or any of that.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Um, I, I don't know if it hit me as bad because I just kind of... I mean, maybe it was just because I was in a zone and I was playing for 12 hours in one day and that I was just click, click, click, click, click, go through. If I get locked out, if I don't find a path, boom, new day.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And I just start over again and not have as much of a care as, dang it, I'm wasting this day as, dang, this one didn't run out. Let's start again and start fresh. And so... I tried to build every run just as much as an easy path up. And then if I needed to come back to try to look for more materials and other things, I was able to do that.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
But I know what you guys were talking about, about the same rooms and stuff. But it becomes like... When you play enough, this room means this, this room means that, and it becomes an asset to you, and you can use that on each run. And it doesn't really... It's not a negative, but it may not be a positive as well. It was a negative for me, honestly.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
yeah i'll have one of those what is that supposed to mean yeah yep that's uh i i honestly um i don't know what you guys were i was probably gosh maybe 80 on these boxes the one thing that i hated and and this is just like a personal thing is that um when you get it wrong like you didn't know which box had the gems so then you don't know the answer and i'm like no no answer i
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I want to know why I didn't get this right. Cause you know, it'll, it'll say the truth and the lie and stuff. And, and, uh, you look at it and I'm like, dad, this is the one. And then it's empty. And I'm like, wait a sec. Well, which one was it? And you know, there's two more boxes and it's like, nope, deal with it, bro. And I'm like, all right, I'll just go keep going on my mission, you know?
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And it's so that was super frustrating with those boxes. Just not knowing when you got it wrong, which one was the right one.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
That's the thing. It's, it's, it's, um, you get it. Like you get that square in the middle and you're like, all right, I'm doing square roots now. So then I'm like, okay, this by this. And then, but the problem was I was thinking, all right, square root by square root. And then I, I, I three plus five is a five. And then wait, that's gotta be. And then, you know, you're like looking around.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
It's like the, the mathematical mean. And then I, well, and then finally I'm like, Oh, it's still on the inside. So I got to add these square roots after I calculate them. And I'm like, Oh, it's this number. And then you click and you're like, yeah. And then it opens up. And so, and it gets progressively harder. I know that it goes to just like crazy levels. Um,
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
on a dartboard like and that's one teeny little factor in this whole game but every time you go in there you get like keys or a security card or you know things like that and so it's always very advantageous to try but it is also very frustrating
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
When I'd start a new day and I'd have two extra gems, yeah. Yes.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Big time, big time. Cause these men trying to get to these certain rooms, when you get to like, you know, the room that takes one or two, but it's very advantageous for you in that position, in that grid to use that room. If you don't have the gyms, you know, you're kind of just beholden to whatever the other selections are. But if you have them,
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Boom, then that gives you that bonus head start early on to give you a boost to kind of the rest of that run. So having that early start, having those extra resources right off the bat every day makes such a big difference in this game, which... I found to be kind of cool. I did like that part of it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you talking about the shed? Yeah. Dude, I unlocked the shed and I totally forgot about it. I'm not even kidding right now. I'm not even kidding. I got out through the garage and I unlocked the shed and I totally forgot I ever even unlocked it. I just did 15 days without the shed and I have unlocked it. Ryan. Okay.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
The shed is one of the best things that you can do to help start your run.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I'm so mad right now. I unlocked the side gate.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I unlocked it. I got out there, and then I just never even thought about it. I just went on to my normal runs.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
What do I need this for? I didn't even think about it. Oh, man.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I thought you were trolling me in the beginning of that. But yeah, I've been looking for that room because I needed it for something else. And I've been searching for it for 15 runs before I finally found it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
The amount of times that I had key cards and other rooms that I needed the secondary room to even make them viable, it was almost every run you had multiple things that you needed something else to use it, and then you just never could. And so that is a serious RNG thing that just doesn't sometimes pan out.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And maybe sometimes you pick the wrong choice of a room that would have led to something else. Who knows? It's still new in the game. We kind of don't know a ton of it. But, man, that part is definitely frustrating when you're just trying to make these runs work and you're trying to get a couple good things, but you can't execute it because there's nowhere to go.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
You just can't do anything about it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Right. Those boarded off doors were like the bane of my existence. Oh, dude.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Um, man, what didn't work was it was hard sometimes just the RNG of, of gathering certain items or devices. Like there'd be times where I'd find, I'd find the shovel. Like if I get the courtyard or the green, the green room or whatever, and there's always something there to get and you get a shovel and then I would never find any dirt to dig up.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And I'm like, or I dig something up and be like, Oh, there's nothing of use there. And I'm like, Come on, you know? I saw the shovel once. Yeah. Once. Really? So I got it a ton. I got that a ton.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, that's probably true. It's just... I think... There might be a little bit too much of the RNG, but I don't know if that makes kind of the game what it is and makes it so difficult, or if that just kind of is just an extra thing that kind of makes everybody not like it. So I don't know. The RNG part of it that takes away from your strategic planning is frustrating.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Having said that, you always get a new run. So you can come back in and try again and see if you can line things up and get them to go the right way. And then they're all the more exciting when you get it to line up and you get it to work. And you get that one item over here and then over there you need it. And so those parts of it I did like. I did think it's cool that it did have a story.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I am not a big puzzle game guy. I don't like to do things just to do them. I love to hike, but I love to hike when I'm going somewhere, not just to get to the top of the hill. I love to hike because I'm going to go hunting over there or go into that creek because I'm going to fish it or things like that. I love a purpose to something. So I want to, I want to get my estate.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I want to win this and get, find this room so that I can, you know, so I did like the story aspect. It did draw me in. Um, but I think the RNG stuff is, is taking away a little bit from that, um, from my perspective.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Okay, so hold on. Did you ever go through the spare room with the treasure map?
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
As you walk through, your treasure map will pop up, and you can click it, and it'll show you a spot where you can dig.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Maybe that's what it is, but all I know is I went through that a couple times, but here comes the RNG again, because every time I went through that, I never had a shovel. Yeah, exactly.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And then every time I walk through it, I see the treasure map pop up like on the side of the screen. And I'm just like, oh, come on. I already know I don't have a shovel.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
That's so nice, dude. That's the goal.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Closet, closet. It's just not for me. What about you, Ryan? So, man, interesting enough, I think I might be the highest on this game, which is wild because I am not a puzzle game guy. I... When they're, hey, figure out these puzzles, go ahead. It's just not for me. I don't like no sense of purpose or direction and just like, cool, you can solve this puzzle. Good for you.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I do like that there was a little bit of a background, a little bit of a story, some sort of, as you described, Josh the carrot to guide you along. I think the setting, the music, the ambiance was good to keep you in that mode and that mindset. Again, the RNG is a little bit frustrating, but I think that was some of the magic of it that you couldn't get too comfortable.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
You always had to be on your toes to try to make whatever run you had, make the best of it, make all those items that you found count. Solve every puzzle because you never know if you miss that one. Dang, you don't have two gems. You talked about the freezer room. I found the freezer room one time. And you know when it was? When I unlocked the right door of room 46. I got all the way there.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And then I went to go in. The last room I had to go in to go into the room 46. And lo and behold, two of the three rooms needed gems. And what do I not have? I don't have any gems. And I have to select a room. The only other room? The freezer room. And there's no door in the freezer room. It's the freezer room. So I go in. It freezes my assets. Cool beans.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
At least I'll save this stuff until the next day. I decide to go walk around and look around. I find a furnace. I melt all my assets. So I lose it all anyways. So it was just a big wash. Yeah. There's a lot of ups and downs in this game. I think it was fantastic for a... I understand the hype. It's a 92 on Metacritic right now for the Metascore. It's doing really well. I get why people love it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I get why people hate it. Um, it's probably a lot higher than, than most, uh, puzzle games would ever be on mine, but I'm going to give it something like a 8.3 ish. It's, it's up there for me, which I never, ever would have thought of. I don't play games for 12 hours straight. And yesterday I played this game for 12 hours straight because I wanted to solve it.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
And I got one room away so many times.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Um, so it's right there. It's like right there. Yeah. It's like right there.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Who would have thought? Because I know you said that our video game knowledge. But according to Instagram and TikTok and stuff, we're just dumb old men. We have no clue what we're doing.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
You know, being called out by Santar was not the best day for me. I'm like, oh, come on, man. How are you going to call me out like that? Just to be fair, I have put, if not the same amount or more time than Josh into this game.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
oh man so i i for me i um my hype level was just whatever you were yelling at me the whole time like guys we gotta play this game it's gonna be so great look there's hype all over the place And so I was like, okay, it's got to be at least decent. You know, I am not a big puzzle game guy. I like puzzles in games.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
I love when I'm playing an action RPG or something, and I love the puzzles that lead to something. But I don't like just strictly hardcore puzzle games. So I wasn't super hyped, but I was interested to see why it was getting so much praise and so much acclaim this early into the release.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
So the thing that I loved about this game as far as how to describe it is that it's not just a puzzle game. There is a story. There is a background. There is a goal. You know, you are, what is it, the nephew? Is it the nephew? Yeah, you're the nephew. So you're the nephew of this, you know, wealthy estate, and you are the heir to all of it if you can find this secret room. So you have a goal.
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Mine was just in one day is all. Yeah.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
You have something to strive for. And while you're doing that, You're going through this grid. There's like a grid that you have that you have to go through. It's a 9x5 grid. Yeah, 9x5 grid. So 45 rooms that can fit into this thing. And you open up all these rooms. You have to find that 46th. So as you go, different rooms have different pathways. They only have one door. They have two doors.
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Blue Prince: All Hype or All-Timer? - Gaming Podcast
Or some doors are blocked or locked or a million different things. So to navigate through this kind of board, if you will, like... is pretty tricky and it takes a lot of pre-planning and, and in the moment planning of, Oh, I'll go back and get this. I'll get that. So there's, there's so much that goes into this game.
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It's hard to kind of tell in one kind of, you know, fell swoop, but there there's just, there's a lot there.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with it and of it, but I don't remember what it is.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I've seen a lot of those 90s trends are coming back.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, exactly. I remember having my, you know, lined paper sheet that had all the codes for like Tony Hawk and I had them all written down. And like you said, it was like, you know, all symbolism style and Alps, arrows, triangles, all that stuff. But yeah, man, there was just something like it to find that new codes and you could share them with your buddies.
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Hey, try this one when you get home tonight and then tell me tomorrow at school. You know, it's just yeah, it was it was such a cool thing.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
It's like trying to log into something now and you forget your password and you just keep trying.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, 90s. It's the bomb. The bomb.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Exactly. Kind of like we talked to the arcade. Not only are you all gamers, but you were all there for the exact same game. You were all in the line. Then you all talk about your favorite parts on the game, what you liked about it, what you didn't like, what you're anticipating in this one, and how excited you are. There was something different.
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I may be a little happy that we don't have to do that anymore because... getting the game at midnight, and then you want to play it. You're staying up until who knows when. You may see the sunrise that morning.
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But it was one of those things that the community getting together for this release and showing the excitement of how many people are in line and how crazy they are for their anticipation of it. It was something else.
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And then you can't sleep at all. You go back. You look at it. You're like, no, it's still going. And then you wake up early and try to get on a little bit before you got to do whatever. But yeah, man, there was nothing like it.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
When they open those doors, dude, and everybody comes in, and then everybody gets their game and copy, and then they all just scatter like roaches out into the parking lot to go home.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
I would do it for another Elder Scrolls, but that's better.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Well, speaking of getting a game and taking it home, what do you remember as one of your favorite things when you pick up that new game that you have just been wanting and you can't obviously play it in the car? What do you do? You sit and you just scour through that manual. You look through all the characters. You read their bios. You look at the descriptions.
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You look at the controls so you know ahead of time, like, all right, I'm going to be ready. I know that this button does this. This does that. Get a little bit of backstory. Read over the case a few times. Reread everything again because you're still so excited. Oh, yeah. That was one of those that I desperately missed, being able to just sit and browse through the game manuals.
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Yeah, I want to try this out for sure. Yeah, speaking of, dude, check this out, man.
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Gaming is Dead, Long Live Gaming - Gaming Podcast
This is my original copy from 1998 that I got when I was a kid. Dude. It has the table of contents, and it's got all the... Maybe I'll throw some pictures up on our Discord or something.
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Trying to read it when you pass by streetlights or you turn on the light and you get yelled at. I'll get a ticket with that lights on. Oh, okay. Yeah. I just need to see this one part. That's not true, by the way. You don't get a ticket.
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You'd go up to the front and see if they had anyone turn any in.
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yeah exactly and then you you get that and you're in the car and then they get the pizza and you're just smelling the pizza and you got your game and just life is great you know mom can i eat my room please and then they're happy because they got a babysitter for the night so they're just like yeah go ahead go go off and play and you just disappear and do nothing but game for the rest of that night and uh it just you know man yeah that's that's one of those peak like childhood things
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Oh, yeah. And those were expensive back then, too, for a late fee. So it was a big deterrent. But yeah, you would not be getting a game for a while. That's for sure. Oh, man.
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Yeah, I'm with you, man. Those are awesome. But speaking of happy place and just the excitement of playing the game, when that game hits your brain at such a good level that all your buddies are playing it too, and you all want to hang out and play it together, what would you do? You pack up everything.
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Yeah. I ain't using the clear purple one. What are you talking about? But it rumbles. Yeah. No, thanks. I don't care. And you all link up and you could play these games that you normally don't play with each other. And you're all sitting there. You got your soda or whatever, maybe pizza for that too. And you can all just laugh and joke and talk crap to each other right next to each other.
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And it was just – there was something about the old school LAN parties, man.
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Take that nerd. Yeah, I remember one of my first big ones that I remember was with Paul. Actually, somebody brought over an extra Xbox and we booted up Halo lands together and we had eight guys or whatever. And it was like the coolest thing ever. I was my mind was blown.
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Yeah, you didn't have one. The only one was a strategy guy or a friend, a knowledgeable friend.
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Dude, that's wild. See, I never – that was just before kind of my time with having to do that. So I never had the experience. But, man, that just sounds so weird dialing up a number and calling some random dude and be like, hey, help me get through this level.
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Oh, man. It's exactly what happened to me playing Diablo 2 with my buddies online trying to do bail runs or who knows what. And old grandma just decides to pick up the phone. Yeah. And what happens?
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disconnected. Connection lost.
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It took a long time to get back onto the internet. You had to go and log in, and then it took forever to connect to the modem and whatnot. It was a process back then.
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Or somebody tried to make a call or something.
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Man, what we had to go through as gamers.
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It made us tough. Yeah, my son, I'm like, dude, he just gets on anything. He's playing Castlevania on a little teeny emulator Game Boy thing, and I'm like, man.
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People don't know, man. They don't. They don't. But I'm sure they'll say that about the future when who knows what's going to happen.
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adapter thing for my 360. I couldn't get my LAN cable there and my mom wasn't going to give me one and I got that so then I could get internet and I'm like, yes, now I can play Gears of War and stuff. There's nothing like it. Every generation is going to have their things that they remember for sure.
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why yeah i don't know why you wouldn't want to hop in i mean it's it's one of my favorite things you know a lot of people get up and they'll scroll social media or read the news or things i go right to the discord and say hi to everybody good morning everyone's already chatting away with speaking of the snowball and how big it's getting to like every time i click it open it's like 50 missed messages i'm like oh my gosh i'm getting it hard to like keep track of these now and keep up with the topics but it's it's been so awesome and like yeah thank you for me too um
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Man, it's cool. It's different. Something I didn't expect, for sure.
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It's Ryan. Thank God for Amazon, because I have bulk bandanas that I just keep in my drawer, so I can grab one of those bad boys for work. And then, man, shout out to Pogs. I miss those so bad. Those were the bomb.
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So I didn't have it to the extent that you probably did to where kind of console gaming and co-op gaming and stuff at home was so much more prevalent in my youth. But I did go to, I remember a few of the malls around me as a kid, and then some of the small amusement parks, like local ones that had large arcades. I loved to go.
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I loved to go play the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the old Simpsons game, battle people for high scores at Pac-Man. Just all of that for getting that clout, and you got the rep of, I got the high score at the arcade type thing.
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Didn't always end well for me, but I did it.
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It's like hearing the ice cream man around the, on the other street in your neighborhood. You're like, Oh, Oh, you know, you're like, your brain just starts pumping. You're like, yes, yes.
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It's not. No, it's not even close to the same, I don't think. Because it's definitely more about that, like... poppy fun kid atmosphere where they have, you know, a lot of like youth and kids games and the arcades were just straight up. This is all the best that's out there. This is the latest awesome games that are, that are out now that you've got to come here to play them.
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So it was, yeah, it was, it was just something different. They're definitely not the same.
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Well, and it was also, it was kind of like, you know, we like to talk about our Discord as like an oasis for gaming. Like, that's kind of what, I mean, video games have not always been as mainstream or looked upon as well as they are today. You know, and it was a place for kids that liked video games that, you know, a lot of times got bullied or made fun of and stuff.
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They could all be there with everyone else that liked the same stuff that they did and just veg out and game.
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Josh, you guys can't see it. Josh is fired up right now for sure.
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Oh, man. So I'm going to do one that... Let's deal with one that everybody knows. When you think about it back in the day of things you remember, one of the big ones for me was always the cheat codes.
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cheat codes looking up your old cheat codes getting all that stuff like who who i mean do you want does anybody really use cheat codes nowadays like they don't exist they don't like what you know back in the day it was like start select l1 l2 r1 r2 left on right up left on right up and then you know there's a million especially for the old gtas like to where you would go you'd look them all up and then you would you would use all those cheat codes just to have fun and go crazy and do stuff that you normally wouldn't do in the game or even
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I'm probably going to, because this is the one... Yeah, but I can be excited for you, too. I know, you can be excited, too. This is one that we all three, me, you, and Paul, played a lot of the demo for, and I immediately was extremely hyped. I was a little bummed that it wasn't any sort of co-op nature to it, but the alters... Dude, I am so excited.
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I honestly, it kind of skipped my brain for a while. And now that it's been coming back and I've talked to a few people on our Discord in the community and I've sent them the demo link, the demo's back open. So if you haven't checked it out, please go try it. It is honestly like there's a weird just feeling to it that I think they got something cool going on.
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And I'm really, really excited to play this game.
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And you use this quantum computer to set it all up, and then there's an actual timeline where you see the breaks, and you have this web of the different timelines where the different universes collide and whatnot.
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All of it is so cool, and it's almost, as far as, like, the look and the aesthetics, it's similar to, like, gosh, I don't know, like a Death Stranding meets, like, survival crafting type thing because you have to do a lot of, like, mining and different resource material gathering and stuff, and then you have to, like, power up things in your base.
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It's just, it's got a lot going for it, and I'm really excited to see kind of what it's going to be.
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That's what I have seen, but also, I don't know if you guys have seen this, I saw a goldfish
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That's a good one. Talk about just a good story and then just amazing gameplay. What more do you ask for? It's fun to play no matter what and then the story is good on top of it. It's just a solid game. I don't have a doubt that they're going to double it up and probably make it even better. I'm super excited for
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Let's see if you can tell the game from this sound bite. Ugh. Tastes like poison. On my list as well, man. Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater. Probably critically acclaimed the best of the Metal Gear Solid series. It is an absolute top tier game. However many years ago it came out. And the revamp of it, the graphics, everything. The story, the bones are all there already.
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So all they have to do is kind of refresh it. And I think it's going to be just amazing this year. So I'm so excited. I am very excited to jump into this, to get this experience. Oh, that's right. You haven't played it. I have not.
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I call my kids dinguses like daily. So it's a good quality word.
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I mean, the graphics are great, man. Yeah. I will say, I wish, you know, speaking of PC ports, I wish I was smart enough to know, like, why. I mean, the game's developed, the game is designed. What in the transfer of console to PC is where so many hiccups happen and where you have compatibility issues? Like, I wish I could understand that.
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Like, you would think that they would have the ability to make something that would be streamlined. Yeah.
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No, not at all. That's why I'm like, I'm not smart enough, you know, to know.
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They're like the ultimate party animals.
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Quit trying to say Kirby, dude. I can't. Kirby. Oh, man.
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There we go. Oh, gosh. Yeah.
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All right, Ryan, what's up next for you, buddy? So I'm going to go with one that this is a dream. It's a hope. It's something I've been waiting for for a very long time. Half-Life 3? Oh, gosh, don't even get me started. I'm going to hope we get Silksong this year. I'm going to say it. Maybe that's another year to it. But they said we were going to get it. It's announced that we should get it.
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But I'll believe it when I'm logged in and playing and on the first level and annoyed that I don't have a good map because that's what Metroidvanias do. But I'm still very excited and I want that game so, so bad.
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I don't even know what you just said.
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Well, just tell me what the flop button is so I can be a real soccer player.
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Nice. Yeah, I got it. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, if it's cool and then we get a lot of hype and it looks like it was on Xbox. So I don't know. I think I saw that Game Pass. So maybe we can hop in on Game Pass.
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And I am extremely competitive. I love competition. I love to compete. I always want to challenge somebody for something. But if I lose, I'm like, oh, dang, man, that was fun. Josh gets mad. I don't like losing, dude. I don't like losing.
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Why do you show up to pickleball on Saturdays then?
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Yeah, all right. I know. Pat on my back.
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So, as most entertainers do, we are very self-absorbed, and we want to look and see what people are saying. And I'm wondering, why the heck we got a few one-star reviews? And I'm looking back through our reviews, and I know sometimes things happen, or maybe we made a mistake, or what we could maybe be better at. And I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling. I get all the way back to 2022.
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It's like 20 years, right? It's been a long time, dude.
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I remember playing Xbox 360 with Gears of War drinking Mountain Dew Amp energy drinks and eating pizza or doing whatever when I was like 17, 18 years old way back in the day. 2006.
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Dude, just the Lancer, just like with the chainsaw and just chopping guys in half.
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I didn't play 4 or 5. I'm like, eh, I'm just kind of done with these.
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I really hope this releases this year. I know we're all kind of high on it. Speaking of dumb fun, Kingmakers. I mean, what I think of is I think of Helldivers, but, you know, kind of old kingdom with guns and cars and trucks. And it's just crazy goofy fun that you're going to laugh and joke and have a good time. There's not going to be, you know, any of the gruff.
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It's just, you know, you get on to just laugh and enjoy yourself. So I'm very much excited for that one. And it's high on my list.
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The real question is, did Mind's Eye take 13 years to develop?
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right in the middle expedition 33 and i'm like i'm sorry man i did hop in for like three rounds i played maybe an hour it's pretty high quality man it looks good i was outside grilling and i was watching you because you streamed it on our discord uh by the way if you haven't joined our discord it's freaking awesome but anyways i watched you and it looks amazing i mean the graphics look good it looks fluid good combat good movement and then i watched you get and uh it was pretty sweet yeah
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To where I'm looking for reviews and I see a one star and I go, oh, all right. Who's this dingus or jabroni, if you will. And I start reading this review and I'm like, this is overwhelmingly positive. The title is A Show Like No Other. Been over a year now since I started listening to the podcast and joined the Discord. And I got to say, it's been life-changing. This all sounds amazing.
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Stoked. I've always loved Ninja Gaiden. So any good ninja games that have just awesome combat, count me in. Yeah.
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You're afraid of the weird.
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You have to be a certain type of person. I think Kojima's games always have crazy long cut scenes and it's very weird and eccentric and stuff. And so I love, I mean, I love all the Metal Gear solids are all my favorite. Um, so yeah, I, I'm, I'm excited for that.
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And I think he did from what I was reading something the other day that said that he did put a little more combat, um, into this one after, after the, yeah, after complaints on the first one.
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Yeah, you ever had a bad time playing Tony Hawk?
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And then I glance over at the name. And Josh, could you please tell me what the name of the person is who left that one-star review?
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I have not had faith in Bungie for maybe four or five years from the direction they've taken Destiny. Um, and it seems like they've almost washed their hands of it and they're like, well, let's try this. And this crazy extraction shooter idea that they've had from that. I mean, I hope so. I hope it's awesome. I hope it's amazing.
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I hope we really enjoy it because I hope every game is great because then I'm going to want to play it and have fun. So I'm just, I'm very pessimistic, very reserved on what they're going to do with this game.
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Huh? Not that I can think of. Yeah, Splitgate 2 would be good.
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I don't know what's going on. You don't say. Yeah.
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I was just looking at that, yeah.
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Yep. Yep. Which I, I, I mean, I played that on my laptop, uh, on traveling and I was like, this is the awesome is like game to just play when you're chilling somewhere. It's like a, it's almost a cozy game, but not because it's that survival type vampire, whatever. It's a comfortable, easy game.
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Yeah, you may not get far, but it's easy to kind of just play the game. But...
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Remember we're like, Oh, there'll be some games this year. It'll be pretty good. You know, it's, it's crazy. Every year this happens.
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That's close, man. I'm really excited. And yeah, I think anyone, if you haven't checked it out, please go try the demo. It's pretty sick.
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Who was it? Ace of Shame.
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Ace of Shame. You should feel shame because I looked and I saw a one-star review for our beloved Ace of Shame and I'm like,
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gotta be kidding me and then i also thought this is the best day of my life and i screenshotted everything and i'm like i'm saving this immediately and then i just started i just started spamming ace you got some splaining to do like here we go and and josh and i roasted him oh relentlessly like good friends do man ace was like we are like you were not getting away with this man and and we're like you know we have to bring this up on the show now and it's just like no no
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Oh, it's all making sense now. Yeah, it's all coming.
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Oh, there's a lot of what.
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I just want to thank absolutely nobody because I did it all on my own. Yeah!
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Just kidding. Thank you, everybody. I love you all.
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Yeah. It'll be good. It'll be good. It's just, it's, it's how, how big is it? Is it going to be a console defining game? And typically that's what you want with your launch title. Um, I, I just don't know if Donkey Kong has the legs to do it.
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Just push the button. Yeah. It's not nobody. Nobody listening right now falls into this category. But obviously, because you're all professional gamers and amazing and we love you. But maybe there's just a lot of dumb people and they need that.
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Yeah, rub it in. Rub it in some more. Yeah.
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And I went off the side and I'm dead. And I went off the side and I'm dead. Over and over and over. Oh, man. I don't know. I didn't die on that part, Ryan. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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For me, it's just famously I'm not a Souls fan. I'm not the kind of guy that likes to sit and just kind of roll around over and over and over. But... I need something different. I've played a million of these medieval knight kind of worlds. Dark and gritty. I love it. And I love exploring. Skyrim is one of my favorite games ever. But if it's going to go into the realm of that Souls archetype.
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Give me something a little different to interest me. Or maybe just be obnoxious or crazy. And being a crab... is the way to go. I'm like, okay, all right, I'll check this out. I'm not a Souls guy, but you know what? I'll take a peek at it, you know?
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Everyone loves it. And I mean, I'm pretty sure we saw the merch from Ace, but it was just a hat with a crab with a sword or a knife or whatever. And I was like, okay, that's pretty sweet. Just for the merch alone, that's top tier. We got to play that one.
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No, that's a good one. And it does... It seems like it's like a little bit... You know, a lot of comic book Marvel stuff, like lately, it's just real kind of happy, dory, campy stuff. It seems a little darker. It seems a little like there's real kind of battle to it, you know? Um... And it's just, yeah, I think this one definitely, it's not, I'm not a turn-based guy, so it's not for me.
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But I think you would most like, I mean, obviously, a lot of these games we know that we would like. It's just getting the time to play them over something else. You know, it's like weighing those odds. But because I'm not a poser like you, bro, I definitely didn't look this up. But it's the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. There you go. I said the gifted school for people. For people, kids.
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I knew what it was. That's right. We don't want to call them mutants. Yeah, that's not the right thing. You're genetically gifted. There we go. That's what my mom used to say. You're genetically gifted. Oh, brother.
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All right, well, that's... So that's... All right, that's a good one. So for me, my next one is going to be... I'm going one... Kind of another one on the... darker kind of world that man, I just don't know how I never got into this kind of, of realm. Like it's not something along the lines of, I just didn't like the gameplay. I just didn't like kind of what it was or what it looked like.
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I wish this is like the IRL stamina bar. I don't have a mod for it. This is where we got to rest, man. We're just going to be goofy and crazy and fun and talk about some crazy stuff right now. I'm excited.
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It was more of just, it just didn't happen. Like, Oh, that's a cool game. I really want to play it. And then I just never got around to playing it. And that's going to be, uh, the monster hunter series, man. You've never played any I've never played any of the Monster Hunter series and I feel like it's so like tailor-made for me I love fantastical fights I love beasts I love crazy worlds and
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Amazing graphics. I feel like it has everything that I would love. And it just never got around to lining up to playing it. It's just one of those things that it just didn't line up for me. And I must have been playing something else or just enthralled with some other game or world. But yeah, that's one that I just, yeah, I never got around to getting into that.
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It does. It has that... I don't know, almost that, gosh, it's like, you know, it is that top-down old-school look, but it's like an alien effect to it, to where it's just, it feels creepy, but you're drawn in, you're sucked into it. So it gives that effect to where you just want to keep playing and keep going with it. It seems supremely atmospheric, which I really love.
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So nice. Well, yeah, that's that's a good one. It's just gosh, like I need to add another one to my I know my list, you know. So, this one is probably not on a lot of people's list because it's a pretty popular game. And a lot of people have played it. And a lot of people are going to be surprised that I have not. Especially with my love of roguelikes. I'm going with the Hades series, man.
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Oh, dude. I don't know how I missed this. I don't know how I never got into it. But, I mean, I got introduced really kind of mostly into the roguelikes with you guys. You and Paul playing with you guys.
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man this this looks like just such an awesome game i wanted to play it i wanted to to dive in and see if i could beat hades because you know that's what uh we went over with uh you know jack and stuff when we were talking about the games and it's like i've beat uh millennia i've done all these things but i can't beat freaking hades man what the heck you know but yeah so the problem is you got to spend the whole game working your way to him and you get one chance out if you had
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That's true. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah. I was just, I was so excited about thinking about killing Hades.
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I think it's basically exactly what you described. It is wild looking, man. It's almost hard to describe what it looks like. It's that weird kind of eerie creepiness, but...
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Yeah. Come and tell us because this I'd be interested to see what, you know, our listeners have to say.
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That's for sure. I mean, most art, if you will, which a lot of the games, you know, film, cinema, all this stuff is drawn off of something else or an inspiration. But every once in a while, you get something that is like, there's not a much like it and there there's, you know, they're, they're not drawing off of a lot of other things and it's something just so unique.
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And this one looks like that. Um, maybe drawing a lot more of older, older style stuff, but it's, it's not like anything that's coming out today. So.
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Yeah, exactly. That is awesome. So I guess we're going to just continue the really good review trend. This one, I'm not sure if you had played this. I know a ton of people in our Discord did. I believe you did, but it's a game by the name of Dredge.
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So I thought you did. I couldn't remember if it was just Paul or if it was you two, but I know a ton of people in the Discord did. I know a ton of other people that we've talked to have as well.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Yeah, he did. He did. So this... Maybe that's just subconscious and why it popped into my head when we were going over this because I have it and I need to play it. And I love, I mean, just again, I am so driven by a really good atmosphere and this has that. Oh, it absolutely is. It has it in spades, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
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So having that ability to just kind of fall into that world to where you get lost and you are just going to go play this game and do whatever you need to do and captain your boat... that's something that calls to me.
Video Gamers Podcast
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So I just, you know, we get so lost in all these other games or we'll get hooked on something else and then these other ones fall by the wayside and you're just missing a gem that will, you know, float on by and be gone forever if you don't go back and get it before it's too old. You know, you don't want to go back and your backlog and hop into a game that's 15, 20 years old.
Video Gamers Podcast
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You know, it's going to be not the same reaction that you otherwise would have had kind of closer to its release. So, I definitely want to check this one out sooner than later because I've heard nothing but amazing things.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
Heck yeah, man. That's one of those when it's like,
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
okay you know indie games off the charts like nothing this isn't like crazy triple a game it's gonna be something that's cheap and just an awesome good time you know for everybody so yeah it'll be one that i'm gonna hit up very very soon yeah all right this next one for me uh is a game that i was insanely excited for but we're gonna tease it and we're gonna take one more break real quick
Video Gamers Podcast
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I feel like it is. The thing is, you know, the ability to play with friends forgives a lot of... Changes everything. It forgives a lot of sins in a game, man. Like, you can forgive a lot of things and then you can even laugh about them together. Like... did you see what happened with this? And oh my gosh, this glitch happened or that thing happened and, or how ridiculous that was.
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Like it almost enhances the effect of it. You obviously want a game to run, you know, the best it can, but, um, yeah, the ability to play together, it, uh, it negates a lot of those issues. So man, that would, uh, and so, so in this one, you kill rats.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
We were touting up all the rats. Arlo's the super rat. He's the bomb. And then all of a sudden, Josh is in here just killing all the rats.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
No, that's, that's, that's a good one. It's it's yeah. Well, like I said, man, the ability to play online with people is, uh, is something else. Um, yeah. This one, I don't know about future ability to play online with people, but in the past, you haven't been able to, and it's been a legendary game that I have never touched, and that one goes by the name of Elden Ring. Oh, dude, you are missing.
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I know. Now, listen, hear me out. Okay. I played Bloodborne and I did not like Bloodborne. I played a lot of Bloodborne and I really, really wanted to like it. And I said, all I do is I run through the same spot and I roll around and I slash and hit and punch this guy and then take potions and do whatever and then go to the next one. And it's just the same thing over and over and over.
Video Gamers Podcast
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And I just, after that, I said, I don't like souls likes. I don't want to play them anymore. I don't care to play them. I don't even want to spend my time doing them. Everyone says how hard and crazy they are. I don't like fighting a boss 400 times. Anyways, I'm not even going to waste my time.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Having said that, I very, very much like medieval fantastical worlds with armor and soldiers and big swords and awesome fantastical attacks and crazy enemies. And I feel like I just have to buckle up and give it a shot just to see. Give it a good 15, 20 hours to get in, learn the mechanics. I won't give five hours and be like, eh, it's not for me. I'll give it a good, honest try.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
And see if I can really kind of, you know, almost like, you know, when you're, you know, to our younger audience, don't do this. But when you're a kid and you try a beer and you're like, this is horrible. Yeah. They call it an acquired taste for a reason. And then you're 35 and you're like, oh, beer's the best thing ever. I don't drink anymore. Josh doesn't really drink either.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
So we don't, you know. Don't drink is what I'm saying. Beer is gross to me still. Yeah, exactly.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
But I'm wondering if it's a taste that I can acquire. Something that I can be like, okay. I think it is. I really am starting. This is starting to grow on me. And I feel like the nuts and bolts are there to where it's not like you're going to have to convince me because it's like, hey, man. But what about this? What about that? It's...
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
It's an amazing game that's just not built for me, but maybe I can play it and develop that taste for that game.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
But those are all those action RPGs that are very story-driven. But that's what Elden Ring is! No, because Elden Ring... It is! It is. I'm telling you, man. I guess I can't truly speak on it because I haven't played it. I know. But I will say that I have played Souls game and it looks exactly like Bloodborne.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
But that's what I did with, like, I mean, I fought all the Valkyries on God of War with, you know, on Mega Hard Difficulty, whatever it was. And I enjoyed it because I was so drawn into the story and the characters.
Video Gamers Podcast
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But that's the thing is there's no story in Elden Ring, right? There is. Okay, there is, but you have to dig to tomes and, like, find all the stuff. I get it.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
I knew I'd get you hyped up for this one.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
I knew it. I genuinely, though, I do. I will. I will this year. I'll hear me now. I will give it a try this year. It will be a game that I will play and I'll put a good 15, 20 hours.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
This is, this is one of my favorite things, man. These, every time we see these come in, um, it just, it warms my heart and, you know, good, bad, otherwise, like just to see that people care enough to, to hop in, write a review and, let us know what they think. Like there's something special about it and it's, it is so awesome.
Video Gamers Podcast
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All right. All right. You heard it here, folks. We're going to play together. Oh, I love it, dude.
Video Gamers Podcast
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That's... It's... It's always weird to see, especially even us, when games just kind of go by the wayside, when we're so involved in the gaming world. I know. Like, think of how many other people haven't seen these games, and it can be just such an awesome masterpiece, and it just kind of falls by everyone, so...
Video Gamers Podcast
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Man, yeah, there's so many out there, and that's why we love doing these, like, you know, what's your backlog? What are you looking for? And then people will come up with a game that you've never even heard of, and you look it up, and you're like, whoa, that looks really cool, and you try it out, and you love it. So, you know, that's the cool part about this, but...
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
Man, yeah, there's so many I want to play.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
And if you leave them, we're going to read them on the show, which is even better.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, duck fighting is a little weird with a mouse, for sure.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Uh, for sure. I'm going to go with one that, um, man, this, uh, I don't know if it's a, if it's a full on backlog game, but it's one that I, I, I've dabbled in very, very slightly, but I, I want to actually dive into, and this is another multiplayer that, that, uh, maybe, and I, and I know you personally, I have seen the, the, the text where you said, I'm getting the itch again. And that's right.
Video Gamers Podcast
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I'll do it right now, man. I don't know what it is. I got sucked into the algorithm. But, dude, I am in the REST algorithm where I'm watching this dude that gets into these RP servers and he just baits people into his base and he traps them. And I'm like, that looks so fun. Like, everything about it looks so amazing. They get so mad. Not to say that we would do that. We're kind to all gamers.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
Oh, we would absolutely do that, dude. That's the beauty of Rust, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
There's something about it. Elden Ring and Rust. That's the rest of our year.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
I love it. I'm in. I am full in for the major disappointment and the major joys. Oh, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
And why is it Elden Ring? Dude, okay. Man, it's honestly, it's between Elden Ring and Rust. Is it? Yeah. Let's go! Because the thought of actually like, I mean, Elden Ring on its own merits would be an amazing game to try and test out. I'm sure I'll eventually learn to love it. But the thought of playing with someone else
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we're chatting, we're going over, oh, let's check out this, you know, and then we can explore together. Like that, that would be really cool. And that's, that's a draw for me. Cause I love, I, a lot of my old friends, like even when I used to play destiny, they don't play with no mics. I'm like, bro, turn on your mic. Like, what are you afraid of? Let's talk.
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Like, so, so hanging out and talking and playing games is a big draw. The thought of us playing Rust and maybe bringing in Paul back on board and then Ace or John or somebody else coming in and we just get fully in.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Yeah. Bring in the Discord. VGP is coming in. We're going to take over this server and make a Rust freaking powerhouse. That gets me excited as well. But also then we have freaking 5 million games to play. Why are you doing this to me? This is why we have backlogs because there's so many games to play.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
I know. I saw you say that. Now it's rash, buddy.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
That's pretty solid. What more can you ask for than that? A couple of dorks talking about video games and you get that response, man. Yeah. Oh, man. I love it. That is extraordinary for sure. And speaking of extraordinary, I got another review that's also – I guess we're extraordinary because it's five stars. But this is from Soliday with two Ys, which it says – Awesome podcast.
Video Gamers Podcast
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These guys are funny and cover a lot of content and make a lot of their own content to keep it interesting. Glad I found you guys. I tried other podcasts, gaming things, and it just ain't it. This is it. Love you guys. Thank you.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
That is a solid... Dude, I love every one of these.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
God. You don't want to get me into... I played a lot of hockey growing up, so you don't want to get Ryan into Canada mode. And I'll just get into hockey bro and say a lot of crazy stuff.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Whether it's in the library or not, it's like, okay, that one's on the list. I'll buy it when there's a sale or something happens, but it's on the list of that one's going to happen at some point within the next six, eight months, year, something like that. So it's definitely in the library.
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That's one that was on my list and I totally spaced it for sure. No, it's like you kind of give somebody a hint on like a movie or a TV show. It's like, okay, you know, that's... It's not interactive. The thing that's so crazy about video games is you are part of that world. And when you walk away from that and you had that amazing experience, you walk away with something different.
Video Gamers Podcast
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It's a little bit different than a movie or a video game or a TV show. And from someone who recommended it to them, it makes you feel that much more like... yeah, I told you, you know, see, see, this is why I'll believe me on the next one. Okay. The next one I gave you, it's going to be fire as well. So, so you'll have to play it right away. So yeah, I love, I love these backlog.
Video Gamers Podcast
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Uh, and I'm so stoked to get into these cause I honestly want to play them all. So I'm just like, I,
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
It's Ryan. I mean, what more of a backlog do you need? You're never done. That's all it is. 20-something years later, you're never done. And it's just revolving. I'm just being economical. I'm being frugal and friscal. Friscal? I don't think friscal is a word. I'm just making up words. That's how committed I am to Diablo. I'm making up words.
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No, and I mean, for you and your kind of the archetype of what you like within a game does lend to some concern for something like this, in my view for you. But for me, I mean, I'm the guy that one of my favorite parts in Red Dead 2 is the entry snow level. Like, when you start off and you're just trudging through the snow... And that's a walking simulator, if anything.
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So to me, these types of worlds where you are just – you become part of it. And whether you're walking or running or doing missions, when it's that involved in that kind of – the thing that lends me –
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
credibility on what my opinion is going to be with it is the kojima aspect i'm a you know i'm metal gear solid guy so kojima i'm like okay i'll try it you know it's kojima i'll try it you know i haven't yet i'm sorry i'm sorry i swear i'll try it someday it's a very polarizing game Absolutely. And there's a lot about it. But I mean, it's sitting at like a 9 out of 10 on Steam, 82% on Metacritic.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast
I mean, it's up there. So it's just maybe one of those things that it's not everybody's cup of tea, but it may still be an amazing game.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
See, this is the thing. We got to find the threshold for Paul and just be just under it. Right?
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Dude, dang. Ryan is the youngest in the group. I'm cannon fodder, man. They're going to send me off and just go get smashed by a bile titan, but it's worth it. Sorry, Ryan.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Three draft picks and a 2025.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I have Extifiant and Dread Wolf, and I've only spent $47. That's pretty good. That's not bad. That's honestly pretty good.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Let's see here. Um... Let's just keep things rolling. I just want to keep the pressure on both of you. So let's go with Elden Ring. Shadow.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
$40. $45. $50. Elden Ring might be the game of the decade.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Boom. Sold to Paul for 59.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I thought he was going to be out after that. He was him and Han.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Are you guys chatting on the side to just hype me up?
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
There's some collusion going on, I swear. 47.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
um speaking of awesome games let's go with rise of the ronin oh okay what's your bid 22 dollars 22 this is where i have to show i have to eat my words about picking on the graphics for this game
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2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I don't have any money.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I'll go $19. I'll go $20. You can have it. All right. Okay. I had to bump him up a little.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
It'll be amazing. Are you kidding me? Ugh, poison. I don't know.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I'm not sure I like it, but... I like it because it's worked well for me so far. Are you nominating, Ryan?
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I was literally just looking at Hades 2. I'm going Hades 2. I have it here highlighted. So we're going Hades 2. I'm going to open the bidding at $5. Okay. Oh, $10. Easy. $12.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Say, yes, it was a troll. And how you can claim that is come to our Discord and then talk a lot of smack.
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2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
it'd be the exact opposite is what you'd be hearing i can't believe you bought that oh man all right i nominated that one right okay ryan we are back to you oh okay let's um let's do something wild let's go with uh king's makers at five dollars king makers all right or king makers yeah i'm sorry
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Why are you trying to just run it up on me?
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I only need two more games. Oh, man. What's the current bid? Six? No, you're at seven. You said eight.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I'll go nine. I'll go ten. You can have it. All right.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I think they're going to stream it.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I figured it was close to around there, and I didn't really want to get too much further into only having like five bucks left, so congratulations.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
You know this game's going to be fun, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Help me, I'm poor. Ryan, you only need two games. You only need two games. If you get this game, then you only need one game. But there's one that I really, really want. You ain't getting that. You're not getting it. You're not getting it. You don't even know what it is.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. You haven't had much action lately.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Let's do... I'm going to go Sandland for... Sandland? Yeah. Two bucks. Opening bid. Paul? Going once. I'm waiting on you, Josh. I'm waiting on you, Paul. Going twice. Five. Three. All right.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I do know. Speaking of so cool, though, that John guy is just so cool.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
$11. $12. Stop it! How many more games do you have to get? Paul still has to get three. Yeah. You can have it.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
It was for $47. Oh, $47.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. Let's do... We mentioned it before. Let's do Homeworld 3. Five bucks.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
So you both... I said $5. Oh, you said $5.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
You're out of games?
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Ryan nominates. Dang it. I wish it was Josh's.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
I love Monkey Ball, man. That game is so good.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
That's when Josh was like, oh, it's up me next, right? And I was like, yes. And then he's like, oh, wait, no, it's Ryan.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. I love to gamble, baby. Okay, so what I'm going to go with is a bit of a gamble here because we have no clue if this is going to come out. We haven't heard a single thing about it. There's a lot of hopes and prayers out there. I'm going with Silksong for $12, and I'm going to spend every ounce of money I have. Josh, are you taking it? You got 14.
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I'm stoked with my team. It's pretty good. I think I paid a little too much for Rise of the Ronin, but I was excited. But, you know, whatever.
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If those click, you're going to be like, boom.
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Ryan, what about you? Hades 2 for what, 17? Yeah, I know. That's a kind of a no-brainer.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Indy's going to be so good, dude. Whatever. It probably will be. The name is dumb, but it's going to be so good.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
You won't even know what you're going to do once I bust out my list here.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Oh, my word. This is when I feel like Josh, because I went to the extent further than I've probably ever gone, and I printed out a sheet, and I highlighted it, and that's about it. I have my $200 limit written at the top, and... Let's buckle up and ride, baby.
Video Gamers Podcast
2024 Most Anticipated Games Auction Draft - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. All the power is right here in my grasp. And what other game to start with than one that everybody's very, very excited for and that is... coming very, very soon, we're going to nominate Dragon's Dogma 2 for $1. For $1? Yeah, I'll bid me. Do we all agree that this very well could end up as the best game of the year?
Video Gamers Podcast
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You got you hyped? Well, yes, and then... How's your strategy? Where's your tears out there, bud?
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I thought it was like he looked almost identical to like if Rick from Rick and Morty was just like a pothead. Yeah. Like that was with long hair. Like that was his character, which was awesome to see running around. Yeah.
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remember well i i wasn't there for it he wasn't here oh that's why you joined us a little bit later i did and so when i hopped in i'm looking and you guys had got the the apartment up there and whatnot and so i'm looking around at the map i'm like how do i because i didn't go through the tutorial i just hopped in you know and raw you know just go hop hop right in let's see what happens and so uh i look and i was like guys we have an rv and you're like oh no no no that's burned down
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That thing caught fire, and it's burned down. I was like, oh, okay, never mind then. So the RV catches on fire. So I don't know what you guys did, but you ruined our RV. It wasn't us, man.
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[Deep Dive] Scandalous Schedule 1 - Gaming Podcast
The rivals. Oh, there you go.
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[Deep Dive] Scandalous Schedule 1 - Gaming Podcast
It is. It's definitely. And it's based on, too, like a lot of the different strains, if you will, have a lot of different effects. And so then a lot of those, you know, change when you give them the sample and they may like it or not like it. And it's so awesome to see the reaction like real time on the spot right when you give it to them. And that's kind of some of the beef me and Keith have.
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And we'll go over that later.
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[Deep Dive] Scandalous Schedule 1 - Gaming Podcast
We'll get to the Keith beef.
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[Deep Dive] Scandalous Schedule 1 - Gaming Podcast
You know how many people right now think that it's dumb fun? 295,000 people are in the game right now. Wow.
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We're like, why is this all they want? And they were like, that's all we've had. That's all we're selling, man. And I had so much that I'm just like, I'm just going to go broadcast everything to everybody. And I had like eight different strains with me. And I'm just running around and just giving stuff to everybody. I'm like, they got to get hooked on it. Like, it's good.
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You want some crack cake or whatever it was called or all these different ones. And I'm watching everybody do all these crazy reactions when I give them samples. It was wild.
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[Deep Dive] Scandalous Schedule 1 - Gaming Podcast
So in addition to punches, you can also, I guess, use knives and bats and all these other crazy things. So I was still kind of new to it when I first met Keith. I was trying to just go out and market and do like a good entrepreneur would. So I see a guy and I'm like, hey, buddy, do you want to try some of this? Oh, you have these – because when you click on somebody –
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It's the cost of fame, brother. That's what happens, man. It is.
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They have their type of reaction they want, if you will. And different strains have those different types of reactions. Some have sleepy, power, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Based on what you mix into it. So I gave him what he wanted. This is what he was listed under. And then he just goes... Ugh, that's garbage.
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And he was talking mad smack to me after I gave him some free stuff and he's talking smack to me. So then I said, guys, this guy's showing us a little bit of disrespect. What should I do? Josh immediately is like, dude, no, punch him.
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teach him a lesson dude josh is like teach him a lesson and i'm like yeah this is our turf that's right and i was like all right keith let's square up boom i pop him right in the dome and then he like falls back and and uh then keith gets up all of a sudden keith decides he's gonna pull out a knife wait yeah i want to tell this from ace and i's side of you because we're at the we're at the apartment you know manufacturing stuff and we hear ryan go like yeah what's up keith boo
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I'm not going to lie. I did have a lot of fun reading through those comments just giggling.
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oh oh he's got a knife oh he shanked me he shanked me and all we hear is you getting shanked by Keith yeah he did have a knife and he did shank me and then I because I I still hadn't experienced that in the game yet so I was totally I was totally got off guard when I just see him whip out and he's got a knife in his hand I'm like is that a knife Oh, it is a knife.
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And he just shanks me right there. And I was like, and then I, you know, I definitely ran away and just booked it after that. But, uh, these characters are pretty crazy out in them streets, man. The streets are tough.
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That's because you got left out of it. I did. I did. I'll take it.
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So much room for activities. So much meth here.
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What's the pan head guy? What's the one?
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I think is he walks around with like just underwear and then like a, like a vest and then the pan on his head or a pot on his head. Yeah. He's crazy.
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Benji had it under control. He knew what to do.
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We'll help him with his phone, too, so he can read it.
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Dude, it's awesome. I would roll around. You guys would be getting all the stuff from the hardware store and getting baggies and getting all the gross stuff and soil. And then I'd just be running around slinging whatever I could. And I'd swing by Benji. pick up what he has. He's got like 1400 bucks. I'm like, all right, sweet. I grabbed the money, stock them back up, come back to base, drop off.
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And then just kind of loop that over and over again. And it was so awesome. Every time I'd roll up, I'd be like, dang Benji. Good job, brother.
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i'll spend 300 on an automatic water kind of thing and so i paid my time man i'm gonna we did our it's it's so cool too because like even like clipping the bud you know off you're like oh yeah yeah and you're bringing it in and then packaging i had so i'm like the first time dude the first time i packed with the mark 2 i was like oh my god guys this is the greatest thing ever i love that thing this
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this is amazing i'm like watch and it'd seal it and shoot it to the side i'm like yeah once again and i just do 20 i'm like i'm doing more and i go and get more and then come back and package more it's just that's so wild when the busy work is like exciting and fun you know
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But you do get that incentive. There is a bonus. If it's after curfew, you get that bonus on your deals and stuff, which you're like... Do I want the bonus? Do I not want the bonus? There's another carrot for you, Josh.
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I do want to say one of the funniest things, uh, and this has to do with, with all of this stuff is, is that to get on a game, uh, with, uh, my family friendly, uh, podcast hosts. And I hear, um, cause I was a little bit, you know, behind, I was, I missed the tutorial part. So they were already kind of rocking and rolling in the very beginning of the game.
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And to hear Josh and Ace talking about, hey, we need to get more baggies. Hey, we need soil for the next OG Kush. Granddaddy purple, man. We got granddaddy purple. We need to go. I need to get more seeds because our dealer is this. Oh, we got a deal coming up here. We got to stock back up Benji before we do that. And just to hear, like, the drug talk. Oh, dude.
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The funniest thing in the world for me for, like, two hours. I was like, I can't stop laughing. This is, like, the greatest thing ever. It was hilarious.
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I hated Miss Ming. I gave her like five samples before she finally started to buy from us because I kept trying. She's smart, man. This is crap. Miss Ming knows what's up. Yeah, she knows.
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Yeah, I think there's that spot where... One of the big things I think with this game is it puts you in a realm where the vast majority of people playing are never going to experience this thing. And that's what's kind of fun about it. Just like GTA. I'm not going to go around and drive my car crazy and shoot and do heists and do all these things. But that's why it's fun.
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So at some point you have to have...
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that carrot keep being enticing and and with like gta like different heists you're like okay it's always fun to rob people and do heists doing the grindy kind of work and just trying to get to the next level of making the next drug or whatever it's at some point you run into a lull so if they're able to to make it more enticing i think they'll have something uh pretty substantial there but it
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There's definitely like a wall you hit where, okay, I got like, you know, this many percentage of the drugs. Like, do I, like you said, do I really want to spend another six hours to try to get to the next level? So yeah, I definitely see, I definitely see how the grind can kind of catch up to her. You lose a little bit of that enticement to just keep, you know, keep hustling, man.
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Cause that's what you do in this game. You're just a hustler.
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Did you guys see in that update or any of the potential future stuff? Because one of my biggest gripes, by far, is not having the dedicated server stuff. Yeah, that's... Is that potentially coming up? Did you guys see that at all? I haven't seen anything about that, unfortunately.
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That was one, because I know I personally, I've been working seven days a week for the last two months, and I'm dying here, but I'd try to hop on, and they'd be playing, and I'd be so jealous because they're just talking about all the drugs they're making in the Discord, and I'm stuck at work, and then I'd get home late. And I can't just go hop on.
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Josh is asleep, and I can't go hop on and do my thing. So for me, that was by far and away my biggest hang-up because I want to play this game, but I don't want to start my own when I have it with you guys and just kind of rerun the stuff I've been running. So that was a big issue. I mean, I would even financially, like, okay, $5 a month for some server access. I would 100% do that.
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So that's something that I hope they implement in the future. I think it will help them.
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I do. Awesome. So this one's from GrizzlyTeam6, a nice five-star review, and it's titled, A True Gamer's Podcast. And this review reads, I really like this podcast. I listen to every new episode, and it definitely makes the 12-hour workday feel not as miserable.
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Like, why can't I just I can sling my drugs wherever, bro.
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bring it on baby bring it on that that would be really cool especially if they did a um kind of like uh remember san andreas where you'd get your green turf and you could take over different quadrants or areas like if you had your turf you know and then they had their turf and then people could venture over you could try to steal you know their clientele over to yours and stuff and then you could have you know beef with each other and um that would be that would be really neat i i
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Honestly, I think there's just there's so much available content like that they could branch out to. You know, there's no reason that this game shouldn't get even better in the future. So, yeah, I'm excited to see what they do.
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Yeah. Josh did. He was always like, we need more seeds. We need more seeds.
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Yeah. We're almost out, guys. Guys, guys, guys. I need extra money. I'm going to make a big order. And then Josh would come back. And our just racks would just be racks on racks on racks of seeds. And I'm like, dang.
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That may not be the right saying. Hold on.
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You don't get high on your own supply. What are you doing?
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We did toast together. When we got the new house, we were by the lake, and we're like, all right, let's go.
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This podcast hits home because they talk about the classics that I grew up with playing and honorably mentions a peak of gaming when midnight releases were the best feeling in the world and someone calling the house phone while playing with your friends online was the worst feeling in the world. We definitely know that and have experienced that.
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Yeah. No, exactly. I mean, I think even literally one other person, you'll have so much fun. Like, I don't know exactly how fun it'll be on your own. I think it's still pretty solid and it would be a good time, you know, just to mess around. But, like... Just hearing you and Ace, like I said earlier, talking like drug talk was worth the price of admission, dude. $20 for that all day long.
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But with one or two people, even however many you can fit in a server, it's definitely one of those that it's not a lot of money. You'd pay that much to go to a movie. You're going to get a lot more time out of this than a movie. So... All the way, definitely pick it up and just have a good time.
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Real quick, before I forget, because I have a horrible memory, maybe it's because I was dipping in our stash too, but I was picking up stuff from my supplier, my distributor for work, not that kind of supplier. And I mentioned something to a guy that I've been talking to for, for a couple of years about video games.
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And I just said something about schedule one in like three other, other shop workers came, you guys, you guys play schedule one. And they came over and we all talk schedule one for like 15, 20 minutes or like, Oh my gosh. And I was like, Keith, am I right? And they're like, yeah, Keith. And so it's, it's just, it's definitely taking the world by storm. And it's, it's for good reason.
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I think it's a solid, solid game.
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Other gaming podcasts I've listened to like to get off subject about things and go completely irrelevant, but these guys stay on topic and have really good conversations about all things gaming. Hot take, Lord of the Rings PS2 games were the best co-op games of all time and are ones that truly deserve a remaster.
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Don't sleep on the trash, by the way. You can make a lot of money doing the trash.
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I feel like I need to go twerk now. No, no, no, no, no. No.
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Which I know that I personally, I played a whole crap load of Lord of the Rings co-op on there and it was awesome.
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Bro, Keith, you come on, run up on me, bro. I'll see you on the street. It's going down, brother. I want my money, Keith. I want my money, Keith. Pay up.
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That's a solid answer. That's probably what I would have gone with, but I'll go with something a little different. I don't know if this was necessarily any sort of corporate greed or just bad planning or the way they executed it. And maybe it's better now. I don't know. It's been a while. But the Elder Scrolls Online... I was in the alpha, the beta.
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I played everything from that game because I knew when I was playing, you know, Oblivion and Skyrim and I was just like, man, if I could just play this game with other people, this would be the best thing ever. And I tried it and I'm like, this is not good at all. That really sucks.
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So I just wish it was executed a little bit better to where it was just, I don't know, it was just so boring and wide open and there really wasn't a lot there. Like I said, it's been a long time since I've checked it out, so maybe it's different now. But at launch, I was very much disappointed with kind of how that came to be.
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If a giant's not launching me 400 feet in the air, then is it really Elder Scrolls?
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Well, have you ever wanted to, you know, start and build your own empire from scratch? Yeah. Well, Skeletal 1 is the ticket for you. You boot up into this world that... The biggest thing that I love about this and how this game plays out is it's this kind of...
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It's not really like a... I wouldn't say survival-type crafting game, but you're crafting, you're exploring the town, you're making up... You're starting your drug empire. Like I said, you are advancing your way up the ladder within the neighborhood, and you're in this area... Cops are after you. Cops are searching around. You've got to go around. You've got to make your deals.
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You have to hide from the cops. If they get on you, you've got to run from the cops. You have your home base. So it has a nice set of progression as you go through this world kind of entry level, and it just goes up and up and up as you progress.
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build your empire so it's it's definitely one of those cooler type um i don't know well how would you describe like what you would call it it's a progression kind of game simulator style yeah judge simulator basically yeah it is simulator but no it's not yeah yeah i'm gonna get sued again yeah
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It's just Breaking Bad simulator.
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You middle. You wouldn't understand. I'm surprised you know how to use a computer you're on.
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Way to leave him on the hook, man.
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Okay. That is coming out this year. Duh. Yeah, we'll see about that.
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Okay. So I am just equally as stoked as you are. So I think they've really learned their lesson with no man's sky. Cause I was one of those day one releases. I got this game and I'm like, This just doesn't work. What are we doing here? Where's all the crazy dinosaurs walking around? What is all this? I went to like 400 planets. I'm like, what am I supposed to be doing?
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There's nothing here, anywhere. And I think what they've done to repair that and fix that shows that they've learned their lesson and they know what needs to be done and they know what people expect out of this type of a game. Because this is, I mean, procedurally generated and AI and everything you can imagine. All this craziness is all within this world. And like you said, you have the crafting.
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You have the fantastical nature. You're riding dragons. You're going underwater. They have in the trailer gameplay footage. You're swimming underground or in this river and lake and stuff. And it's just... You can see off in the distance these snow-capped mountains, and it's just a beautiful world that you can craft in, you can fight in, you can survive, you can explore.
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It's everything that I love in these types of games. They have it all. So I think they know what needs to be done. They know how to optimize it and make it perform well, and they know what people are looking for. So I think it's going to deliver, man. I want it. I want it now.
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That sounds kind of like mystical or something crazy and wild world and something get a lot of choices.
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Did he pull it off, Ryan? It did. And you are right. It's Peter Mullen, you. And then, yeah, he definitely did. You could have multiple wives, right? Or girlfriends? I think you could. I think I fooled around a little bit.
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I got in a lot of trouble, I think, in that game when I was 12 or 13, whatever, and I was playing it. But, dude, what a... innovative world that you could just explore, and it just was so different from anything else at the time that, I mean, he wasn't kidding. It was just something totally different from anything else.
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Yeah, there's no way. How many times do we watch these trailers and it's all just cinematics and you're like, okay, that's cool. What does the actual game look like? I forget that one that we talked about where you're mixing the potions. Yeah, and you're mixing the potions and your shields get splintered off and stuff and it looks absolutely amazing. It would be
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tenfold next level if if the gameplay was actually that way but it never is but when they come out and they say you know somebody as trusted you know as fable comes out and says hey some of that was gameplay just so you know and it's like oh okay then you're trying to figure out which part yeah okay well this can't be it and then you watch the whole trail and you're like i don't where was the gameplay exactly yeah that's what that's what would be great then they go psych it was all gameplay you know
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And why would we thank somebody at the top of an episode, Ryan? Gosh, I don't know. Maybe if they were just a kind, gentle soul that wanted to, you know, maybe leave us a review.
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What is this? This looks awesome. Yeah, it's so cool. It's almost like a sea battle, but it's in the air. And you can move around freely if you're battling someone else. But then if you're going to go attack a stronghold or something... You know, you guys in the trailer, you can see them. They're like, I'm going to grab this gun, that gun. All right, let me grab this ammo box.
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And they go to kind of this stronghold where they have all their equipment. They all gear up. And then they just jet pack off their ship down onto the ground. And they're like, oh, we see enemies. You know, they're guarding something. And they start working their way in there.
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It's just such a cool kind of premise and environment to where they're just exploring and going into these zones and trying to get all the loot and bounty they can and whatever tech they can find and whatnot and then get back to their ship. So... you know how it is playing games with your buddies or your friends is just always a blast.
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So doing something in this setting and the way it looks so far, I'm super stoked about. So I, it's just, I don't know. I just get excited for so many games and this is another one of them, but man, it looks good. It looks really good.
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That's like a crackhead. I haven't tried crack in a long time.
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I don't know. I'm kind of... It almost looks to me just kind of like a Star Wars clone type game. You know, open world kind of... And that's bad? Not that it's a bad thing, but it's just like... It's just this dusty world and like... I don't know. I am excited. It looks cool. I just... I want... Personally, I want to see more. I want to see more to where... I am with you on that.
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More to really kind of get me excited and get me drawn in a little bit from what I've seen. I think it'll be good. I think they've got, obviously, they got the financial backing and they got a lot behind it to make it good. That doesn't always, you know, money does not always create a good game. But we'll see, man. I don't know.
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I'm not as hyped as you, but I just want to see more to get to that level. I'm just a little reserved is all.
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That's worse than a stamina bar, dude.
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I prefer not to spend my time grinding mice.
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Yeah. More than likely we're going to get like, it's going to be like a quarter to, and we'll start getting stuff within like the next month, hopefully. And then, and then it can kind of drum up that excitement and get everybody stoked, you know, to, to, to see what it's all about. But yeah, we'll see. Yeah.
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The game that shall not be named.
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We don't have to specify. We don't have to specify. Just some people say it.
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I know you're a huge fan of Hollow Knight. Big time. The graphics, the music, the scenery, the gameplay. It's everything I want in a successor to the genre of Metroidvania, like to Castlevania, which is one of my favorite games. It's in my top 10. Grew up playing it. Absolutely love it. I'm still playing it.
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My son got this little Game Boy emulator thing, and it's got PlayStation 1 games and Castlevania's on it, Symphony of the Night. And I'm like, heck yeah, buddy. So I played it more than him. Don't tell him that.
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uh but uh but yeah it's just it's such a good game the hollow knight but dude silk song was first announced february 14th 2019 that's ridiculous 19 dude that's ridiculous so it's been six years now this is my issue is everybody being strung along like if you want to take time if you want to develop it if you want to do all these things that's fine but
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There's a reason we keep saying you don't say Silksong because it's going to get delayed again. Because we don't know. We have no information. We don't have anything from anyone. And they're like, oh, we're working on it. We're working on it.
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that honestly in my opinion there's no excuse we're all consumers we are eager for your product communicate with us what you're going to do and when you kind of have a realistic timeline you know and then we can go from there but i think they i think they like it this way i think it's intentional and i think it's it's kind of that no press it's absolutely intentional yeah and as annoying as it is if i was a developer it's working if i was a developer
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almost six years like or more than six years i guess so a pre you know like an october pre-halloween spooky season release you just want to be right about your i do want to be right honestly i really do want to be right i want to be right it would be great Because it would be like the perfect scenario and setting for this game to where then everyone through the holiday season can play it.
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And I think the sales will be through the roof. I think it's the perfect timeline. I think it's finally to that point where people are like, okay, we've been waiting. We've been waiting. You know, we're about to hit that point where nobody cares anymore. And so it's... Yeah, I think it would be great, but gosh, who knows, man.
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Before the next hollow comes out, I'm just going to keep saying it. Yeah.
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I called it so good. Like I'm going to call this one too. Just watch.
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They're finally listening.
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Oh, dude, I'm with you right there on that one. It's just, gosh, I'm so sick of seeing stuff that I want and I'm so excited for, and I can't have it. It's like looking constantly at a food menu. But you can't order the food even though you really want it. And it's right there. You can see the picture. You can see like a commercial where they make them look all great and fantastical.
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But you can't order it. You can't have it. And so that's what we feel like. We're just sitting here in the window drooling on ourselves, waiting for these things that we just want so bad. And we're denied.
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It tends to give you a weird feeling. It does. Usually things happen a certain way. We've done this long enough to where we know kind of the patterns on success and how things kind of go through the pattern of release. And this just doesn't seem to follow the normal kind of structure. So, yeah, I'm a little concerned as well.
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Listen, listen, you didn't have to attack me live on the podcast, dude. Like, listen... You're jealous of my hair. I get it. My face is what it is. I can't control it. Okay.
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Oh man, it's that's, that's going to be hard. It's either Judas or, um, gosh, probably fable.
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Yeah, let's go. The mood haunts you.
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the discord, just because we talk about it and people playing rivals, like we had to create a role for it. So everyone's always getting on, they're getting in the voice chat and then there's other games people play together. So really we're not kidding. Come out. We're, we're active. We'll talk with you. We play games with people. So it's just, it's been a blast.
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We've had big group, uh, sessions at like community nights every weekend now. So, um, Yeah, not much more to say about that, but it's just I'm stoked. So let's go play.
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Check it out. Lurk for a week. See if you want to come in and hang out. And if not, no harm, no foul.
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Everybody's got their opinion, but it's always very informed on the Discord, which is cool.
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And if you don't, go play it. It still holds up to this day. You can even get it on your Switch. Go play Bioshock 1. It's my favorite. Infinite's great. They're fantastic. So... Go play.
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It's Ryan. I was not even thinking about that. The first time you said it, I was like, dude, you said it again in my head.
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It is not, which is crazy to think. We're already almost halfway through January. March is only a couple months away.
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I would say for the betting term, the sharp money would not be on March is what I would say.
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It did. I just want to play it. I'm like, I'm ready. I want to play that kind of... Bioshock feeling game again. I want to have that gritty dark nature. With just kind of a cool environment. And the gameplay looked awesome. The features looked cool. The story. The voice acting. Everything about it is what I like. And I want it now. Or I want a realistic timeline.
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You can't. It's like another so many years every single time. I don't even care anymore, Ryan. We're never going to get it. I just accepted it.
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When are we really going to get this? When can I expect to actually play this game? Because a lot of these. We were going over names of games. That were expected. And we weren't sure about. And, you know, a lot of these, like you said, three, four months ago, we got some info on it.
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Like, that's kind of a long time in the tech world or video game world to get... You know, normally you got stuff every couple weeks. You get that drip to get people hyped and ready. And we just haven't been getting that with this. And so I, you know, I honestly forgot about this game. But I'm so excited for it. You know, which is such a weird thing to say. But...
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Yeah, I want it and I want more content and I want to be hyped for it. All they got to do is just give me a little bit. Give me that drip and I'll be ready.
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Silk Song! Silk Song! Yeah!
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I mean, we don't got the same with a lot of these other big titles. Unless we're getting content or something to hype us up, we're not there yet. We got to get hyped before we can start mentioning it every time.
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Yeah, we don't want it. We don't want it anyway.
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No, release it just before Halloween, like I predicted, please.
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I've played a little bit here and there, but when you give me an open world where I got some PvE elements that I'm trying to complete these quests and these objectives, and then I also have that kind of, in the back of my mind, hey, I know I could run into another squad at any moment to just blow up this mission, that's...
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There's something to that that just kind of hits on all cylinders for me as well. I love kind of these crazy worlds. And I think probably one of the biggest things with these delays for these types is just... making sure that everything works. Because when you create PvEVP, you got a lot of factors and it's open world. Like there's potentially a lot of bugs in the mix there.
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So hopefully they can iron all that out and we can get a nice clean release. But dude, I'm stoked. I love this type. I love this genre. And I'm always down for just open world madness.
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Yeah, he'll get them in line. It's a good choice.
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Corporate Kombat: We Built a Business Using Only Video Game Characters | Gaming Podcast
I am. That one wasn't scrambling. I'm scrambling for the rest. Yeah. So the next one I'm going to go with is a worker. You want somebody that, you know, I'm not like John. I just don't want slave people that are dumb and can't talk. So I want someone who's intelligent and just willing to just do anything to get the job done. I'm going with Mr. Gordon Freeman from Half-Life.
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As a worker.
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Wow.
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Everybody has an equal share at this company. They're all equally important.
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Do we still got to do this, Cap?
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Hey, though, what's going to happen if he disagrees with your CEO? Because look what him and Iron Man went into when he got upset. Civil war.
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So. I'm going to go with someone who I've personally had, for my other worker, experience with as a worker. Solid track record. Always on the job 2, 3, 4 in the morning. And I roll up, get my money. They're always telling me when they need more product. Oh. I'm going with the one, the only Benji Coleman, my dealer from schedule one. This dude is the most reputable, dependable guy.
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And he's not going to give you no backtalk. He's just like, what do you need boss? I'll take care of you. Boom.
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Yeah. Give him a good signing bonus.
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I picked my worker. I got my accountant is all I have left. So I had to scramble a little bit, but I am excited with this one because when you got somebody you want, you know, I think we can all agree that my company may not be the most on board, up to par legal endeavor. So I'm going to go with somebody who may be able to swindle their way, talk their way out of things.
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Good with wheeling and dealing. I'm going with the one, the only, Victor Sullivan for Uncharted. Uncharted.
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Yeah, Sully.
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That is a terrible choice. He's going to cook the books. No, he's going to cook the books. He's going to embezzle.
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We're going to make so much money it won't even matter.
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They disappeared to the islands. Yeah.
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Sully, no. Sully, he's always there for Drake, no matter what. So he's going to be there for me.
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But are we profitable? That's all that matters.
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I would have rather Cortana like I planned.
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The villains always think they're the good guys. That's the best villain. Evil is perspective.
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Quit boosting up his company.
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Um, I had a snake as CEO.
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And then you freaking double sniped me. Yeah. Good jerk.
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That's the issue.
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They do have a board. Because he had a board and everything.
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I can do whatever I want. Yeah.
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He's going to sleep all day, be out all night.
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One other honorable mention for a worker is Paul's rust character.
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And a steak. And a steak.
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There you go.
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Yeah. Good job guys.
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Will Ryan get picked for the sixth straight time? Okay. Find out. Well, number one, I hope so.
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What are you doing?
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Ryan, you're up.
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Well, I think a lot of people would think when you're building something, you got to start at the top. I'm going to go right for the head of the company with the CEO. I want somebody who is coldly efficient, hyper-intelligent, and always in control. I'm going with GLaDOS from Portal for my CEO.
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All I know is my boss is a jerk. Yes. She's got a lot of rules, man.
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That's an excellent pick. That's an excellent pick. Nook was going to be my accountant, so that was the first snipe off the board already. Not no more.
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Okay, good.
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Oh, man.
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If the phone starts ringing, he's like, I don't want him answering the phone. I hate you. I hate you. Hey, Link, how are those TPS reports coming? Huh?
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Ace on the indie episode.
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It was swapped. Cortana was going to be my accountant.
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Oh my gosh, dude. What the heck? Now I'm like scrambling.
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When she gets a little too close to some workers, you're going to have to call HR. That's what you're going to have to worry about.
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A little bit, but I got a good one here lined up. So I'm going to do my manager next since you just stole my accountant and I'm scrambling. I'm going to get somebody who is, like, a natural skilled leader, very, uh, strong, determined, you know, good decision-making skills. I am going with commander shepherd. Good one.
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Yes.
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No, it's not. I actually, I was looking at it and then it had a, like a live stream up of, uh, of some people playing it and it's still up now. And I was watching it and I watched for a good 15, 20 minutes. And I'm like, yeah, I'm not even going to download this thing.
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It's just not... When I read the description, it's like, MOBA extraction, team-based PvPVE with top-down combat where players battle for loot against rivals. Gear up, make a plan, and set a course for Skyvale. Stealthy treasure runs explode into multi-team PvP chaos. And then I'm watching the battles, and I'm like...
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Just it doesn't know what that's too much like there's just like it's like let's put all this together and then like have fun Yeah
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They look like they're having fun when they're playing it, but I'm just like, nah.
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Dude, I would honestly love to go to... I don't know. I don't want to like... It would be nice to end on a bang, but I just want to get right to it. I want to go to Deliver at all costs.
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It's been a crazy week for me work-wise. But, man, this one was actually neat. I don't know about you, man, but did you get like disco Elysium vibes? I did. I did.
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So you boot up and you got that – if you've played Disco Elysium, you kind of are walking through this. You got your top-down view, a little caked off to the side, and you're getting set up. And there's those – you see those notifications and you go and you get your notice from your landlord. And then you go and you get dressed. And it's that kind of getting ready for work and it's, I need a job.
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And you get this job and you're a delivery guy all of a sudden. And, you know, you get this vehicle and you have to, you know, pardon the pun, deliver at all costs. Like that's the name of the game there. So you're driving through right off the bat. I was cracking up. I actually paused the game.
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I opened up OBS and I started recording just so I could record it because I didn't realize that I could repair my vehicle. And so I have my front passenger tires dead. And I'm just like driving sideways. And I have people hanging on because I'm delivering fireworks. And the fireworks just happen to be igniting everywhere. And I'm hitting people, pedestrians all over the roads.
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And everybody's mad at me. And they come to try to attack me. But I'm not stopping because I'm delivering at all costs. So you drive through these areas and it's just... It was such a neat premise to where the driving mechanics felt good. The driving did feel good. That's one thing is that fishing to Paul is like driving to me.
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I love if you're going to put driving in a game, don't make it obnoxious. Don't make it a detriment to the game. Don't make the controls bad. It felt good. It wasn't great or amazing, but it wasn't bad, and it didn't take away, which I loved. So it made me feel very good and it was crisp.
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And then the comedic nature of that delivery, I see lending itself to a lot of really cool clips and videos and a lot of stuff that is going to have just evergreen longevity to this game. And yeah, man, it's just you get your packages, you got to deliver them and have fun, buckle up, and it's going to be a crazy ride.
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Taking the balloons. Delivering the balloons. Your truck floats away when you go off ramps and stuff. It'll help your truck float.
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If anything, just a fun demo, man. It's, it's one to just check out. Yeah, it really is.
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it's it's good i mean that's honestly all i can say is it's more monster train they've kind of tweaked it a little bit it's what you know and love from monster train did you play around at all with i did i did i got i got in and um i'm sure you know my my thoughts on this before i even tell you but it was i'll preface it with this it was very it was a very fair game it was uh
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I'm trying to be fair.
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To these, this is what we always talk about. Just because we may not like something... I mean, I know people that don't like pizza or cheeseburgers and stuff. And you're like, what are you talking about? So, to me, I loved the art style. I thought it was very cool. I enjoyed watching the game as I played it. I just... Man, after like three battles, I was like... I'm so bored with this already.
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I'm like, I hate these stuff. I hate them, and I tried. I put in the effort, and I tried to play it, but I did. I'm like, oh, that was a cool effect. I recognize the design elements in what they put into this game. It's just one that's just not for me, and that's just kind of you know, bare bones. That's all there is to say about it on, on that aspect.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
But I can tell why people who like this style would, would like these types of games. Um, I think it's, it's grading well, um, on, on all the metrics that people are looking at as far as, you know, how they, how they base these styles. So, um, Yeah, I just, I tried.
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I'm like, let's go attack. And then I'm like, do, do, do, do, waiting. And then they attacked. And I'm like, all right, now I attack again. And then I'm waiting again. And, you know, it's just, it's just not for me, man.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Underrated film, by the way.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
And unless you've been caged, like you haven't lived yet, just so you know.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
There's a lot to it. I thought it was really neat. I do... Again, I liked that kind of art style that they chose for this one. I think it gave a good look to it. And... like the, the ability to, when you're running through and you have to be cognizant of like, Hey, if I lose this guy, he's gone. Like this is done for this run. And it's, you know, that guy's, that guy's out of here. Um,
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And then you can build these monsters. So you want to play them. You want to build these monsters up and do those upgrades and those abilities to enhance that 3% or 5% extra attack or those things, but you don't want to lose them. So there is that strategy base within this. And then I thought the effects of the battles themselves, like...
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
You have this character and it like tears open like a portal realm and you can attack through it. And then the other character just jumps across and attacks. So there's different abilities and different ways those battles kind of happen, which makes it just – you don't get into a lull of just a boom and then they attack back. Yeah. There's a difference there.
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And then, like you said, there's a lot more to it with the strategy of this counteracts that and these different effects and those ways you can power up and change these characters. So, yeah, I thought, again, there was a lot more than meets the eye from the first base when you start. But, yeah, it's definitely a neat game that people should check out.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Yep. Just hide them under plates in between bowls under toilet paper.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
It's the progression, man. You're a sucker for progression.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
It's got to be delivered at all costs.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Oh, this is the hard part. Dude, how much are we going to get into this game? Because I know we got the same answer. And split fiction... You're talking a little split fiction? I'm talking a little split fiction, man.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Probably. I'm double playing because I'm playing with my daughter and my son, and I'm redoing it together. So I'm getting a lot of time in. That's good dad time right there. That is good dad time. And my son just keeps going, we're speed running, Dad. We're speed runners. And I'm like, let's do it, buddy. Yeah.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Bro, I don't remember what I had for lunch. All right, all right.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
I second that. We are going to cover it in depth, and it deserves to be covered in depth, and we're going to go a lot more into that. So stay tuned. You'll want to hear what we have to say.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
I'm so glad we're back to just being dumb and talking games, man.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
Um, it's that it's that top down kind of grid based. Like you said, it's kind of it is that real time action. I love this. This is what lends towards my play style with these types of games. I don't like to have to wait for, you know, I'm not a turn-based guy. I don't like to have to wait for the attacks. I like that I can see the movement coming. I can see the waves coming.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
I can see what I need to do and I can plan accordingly and move my guys where they have to be. And if that didn't work... I can adjust real time on the spot and kind of go that way. I did like the effect that you had those specialty attacks. Your different characters have these, not just their standard. You can set them up. You are mobile. You can put them where they need to be.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
But then, okay, here's a squad right here. I'm going to go and take my mech and just fly up and stomp on them. And squish them like bugs, which is awesome. So I love the ability to have that little bit of flair, that little extra effect, and it's not just point and shoot. So it is cool. I did not get as much time as you. I know you had mentioned before we talked there is some kind of progression.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
We are. We are. And everyone else listening knows that, and they've accepted us. So now we can just be us. Now we can just be idiots, man.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
I don't feel that I hit that with my play time yet, so maybe you could speak on that a little bit more. But from what I played, I did like what I saw, and it's definitely something that people should check out.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
And even the high ground stuff, like high ground, low ground, like that makes a big difference too, yeah.
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Split Fiction Hype and Steam Next Fest Finds - Gaming Podcast
I was too. I did think it was neat to get those upgrades. You get airdrops or loot boxes that would drop down. And then you also have a wave coming in. You're like, oh, do I have time? And you just run your guy over and you get it. And you get your upgrade. And you're trying to run back to get to the defensive position. That's advantageous for you. But you may not have enough time to get back.
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So it was definitely... I was surprised. I know you said you liked it. And I was like, I'm not too sure. It kind of looked like a mobile game to me from the start. But... Once I hopped in and started to play, I'm like, okay, there's something to this. So I think it's definitely got a good core, and I think there's a lot there that people should check out.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Honestly. You guys are very similar. Because that's the one thing I did. Thanks for a great podcast. Lots of non-conflict. Great.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yep. Yeah. The one thing the Ultra Hand kind of had, I had fun with near the end, just making goofy stuff. But overall, I just thought, well, it was great as a game. I just, it was not what everyone touts it to be, in my opinion. So.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Man, we just unlocked a secret. Josh, I'm out.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
It's worth it to check it out again for, for a full playthrough for sure.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
that's networking you know variously across the internet that's social media that's cold emails pretty much anything and everything so i've got to run it as a bit of a business because it is my full-time thing wow that's super that's super neat to get that insight um so my daughter she's uh in theater now she's in high school and she absolutely loves it and she's always in there practicing lines and dances and all that stuff is there like um
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
And I think- Yeah, after hearing that, dude, I'm back. I don't quit anymore.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
getting real hard line on on certain ways things are said and types of things you know with uh you kind of branching off what is your take on this with the emergence of the ai and them doing that and bringing it into this kind of realm well i mean the thing with ai really i mean the whole ethically sourcing thing is a huge massive thing anyway because like if you're using 11 labs even
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I am excited because I'm a huge Fallout guy. And so I haven't had a chance to get into Fallout London yet. And now I'm going to be just hunting for your voice the whole time. Yeah, it's in there. There are a couple of different characters, but yeah, it's pretty distinctly.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Well, that's, I mean, that's what we always try to do, even with this show, our show here is, is we don't want to have a tight script. We don't want to have certain exact topics we're going to cover. We'd like to hit some points, but we just kind of hang out and vibe and let it flow and let things go where they're going to go naturally.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
And you can feel that as a consumer, um, you know, I hope for our listeners, but then also as a consumer of the games, you know, you feel that bond and that connection and you can tell that, that, you know, everything melded together and it's natural.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
That's awesome. I did have a quick one I wanted to ask, speaking of just hitting lines and stuff. So when you're doing these reads, and especially before, like you mentioned, the cold reads, do you have a bag of characters that you pull from when you try stuff out? Or are you hitting them on the spot, which is what you think they're wanting to hear?
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
And then you were in the game and then they made you buy it?
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Oh, we missed one clause in that. Oh, three voice acting lessons for Ryan. Oh, okay. Okay.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
When I'm sick, I can do a pretty killer Kratos, too. Oh, wow.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
It really is. We just hopped into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and so that's going to be a bear. Oh, which looks amazing. Yeah.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, and we've been playing Marvel Rivals for like two months. We haven't had any really games to cover, and so now we're like, oh, we got to buckle down for this one.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
It's Ryan. I'm not a puppet. You can't force me to do anything, man.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
No, no. I'm classically trained, bro. Oh, man.
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The Voices of Gaming - Gaming Podcast
Oh, Kudo. Kudo. Yeah, Kudo's the worst. Oh, yeah, Kudo. I think too, Joe.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Es ist witzig, dass du das erwähnt hast, weil für mich das, was herausgekommen ist, absolut der Gedanke der Exploration in diesem Spiel ist. Und es ist seltsam, weil wir oft über Exploration reden.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich spreche oft über Outer Wilds, als wäre es wie, oh Mann, das Spiel, die Exploration in diesem Spiel ist unglaublich, weil du all diese Planeten explorierst und du findest diese Ruinen und all diese Dinge. Und es ist ein anderer Art von Exploration. Aber du hast den Knall auf den Kopf. Ich mache eine Quest. Da ist ein Gruppe von Häusern da drüben.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Oh, let me go run into this obvious old neighborhood that's now crumbled and abandoned and all that. I go into a house. I look into the two or three bedrooms and the kitchen and that kind of stuff. And then there's just nothing. It's empty. And I'm like, well, that was a waste of time. But then I go into the other house and it's like, oh, I found a can of meat. And it's like, okay.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And then I leave because there was nothing there. And I go, well, that was pointless. And then I run down the road and there's like a little convenience store, a little rundown convenience store on the road. So I go in there. And I'm looking around and then I find a backpack that's tucked away in the corner. Inside that backpack, maybe I find a pistol.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Or if you're really lucky, you find something really cool like an attachment for a weapon or something. And you're like, whoa, I could have totally just run past this and had no idea. I love that, dude. Not everything has to reward you. Because what happens is that creates the sense that this world has been picked over. Genau, ja. Es war keine Leidenschaft von den Entwicklern.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It might get a little crazy. I'm not gonna lie. I got to work this morning and I was in that delirious mode where I just didn't even care what I said anymore. I was just being stupid and silly and people were like, dude, you're weird already, but you're being really weird today. And I was like, I got a good excuse, man. I haven't slept in like two weeks. So... Hey, it doesn't matter.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Das ist ein Weltbild. Wenn ich in ein Haus gehe, die Türen sind gekippt, alles, es sah aus wie verdammt. Und ich bin so, naja, jemand ist hier vor mir gekommen. But you do find things and I will say they do a great job of tucking things away.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
So if you actually like jump over that pile of crates and then crouch down and kind of wedge yourself through this other little pile of crates, maybe you find a treasure chest that's tucked away in the corner and then you find something really good. And that's the kind of exploration that I absolutely love because you could play this game. Never know that was there and that's fine.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Or if you took the time to actually explore and you found it, you're like, dude, this is great.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I haven't felt that sense of exploration, honestly, since Skyrim. I did mention Fallout as well, because it's one of those things where, just go look. If you see something over there and it looks like an abandoned factory, go check it out. At one point, I went to a giant factory. It wasn't part of the mission. I'm wandering around, I'm like, there's got to be something here.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I spent a solid 10 minutes poking my head in rooms and not finding anything. And I was like, well, this is kind of lame. Ja. But it beeped and I was like, oh, there's something nearby. And then I figured out that it was on top of this giant like storage tower thing, like a grain silo almost.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And then I was like, because I was circling it and I was like, well, it's obviously up there, but I can't get up there. There's like a ladder that didn't go all the way down to the ground. And I'm like, well, how do I get up there, man? I go and I just kind of back out of this factory a little bit and I start following the pipes.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und ich dachte mir, warte mal, wenn ich auf diese Pfeile kommen kann, kann ich auf diese gebrochene Ladder springen. Also habe ich die Pfeile durch dieses riesige Gebiet gefolgt. Und sicher genug gab es eine Gegend, in der ich auf die Pfeile springen konnte. Und dann fuhr ich und es war wie eine halbe, eine halbe Meile, um auf diese Pfeile zu kommen, um auf diese Stelle zu kommen.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Aber sicher genug konnte ich auf die Ladder springen und habe ein Artifakt gefunden. Und ich dachte mir, das ist so, wie man es macht, Mann.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We are here for the people. Ryan, we have been very excited about Stalker 2. We were hyping this game up before it released. I know it was a game that we were really looking forward to, especially after the disappointment that we had with Dragon Age Veilguard. I don't want to bash that game, but it's like, you know, I think we were hyped for that. That didn't pan out.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Because it was rewarding from just playing the game. Yeah. You know, and that's part of the issue that we have had with some games of late, is where you are not rewarding me for just playing, you are literally putting everything in front of me and then saying, hey, just pick.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
pick and then I'm like but that that's not fun man like that sense of discovery should matter so okay well exploration so are we agreeing that that's kind of the which is hilarious because again we did not talk about this at all and if we both came to that same conclusion then that tells me that they did something right in that regard for sure yeah so
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Alright, we're going to get into the performance because this is one of the major complaints that people had with this game. I know there was a lot of concern over this. Even in our Discord server, people were saying, I want to play the game, but I heard it's terrible. So we're going to talk about performance as soon as we get back from this short break. Sorry, this game has crashed. Rebooting.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Oh Mann. Okay. Ich meine, ich habe es früh erwähnt. Es gab definitiv einige Probleme beim Erlösen dieses Spiels. Ich bin mehrere Male am ersten Tag verletzt. Ich war eher frustriert, als ich das Spiel am nächsten Tag runnen konnte. Ich kann dir nicht erzählen, wie viele Mal ich in diesem Spiel gestorben bin. Aber das Schießen fühlte sich so flottig an.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Es war wie, was ist mit diesem Spiel falsch? Ich kann nicht richtig schießen. Ist es ein Lack? Ist etwas los? Ich habe herausgefunden, dass die Maus-Akceleration von default aufgeführt wurde, mit der Null-Option, um es auszuführen. Also musste ich tatsächlich das I&I-File hacken, um das zu machen. You mentioned modders. Bless you modders out there because that I&I hack absolutely saved the day.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Because then I was like, okay, this feels way better now. There were memory leaks where if I played for longer than like an hour, it would start to like stutter and you could tell the whole game was just kind of starting to kind of grind to a halt. God forbid you try to window out of this game. I was playing and I tried to window out for something and then it was just like,
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Then we kind of moved our hype over to Stalker 2. We've been playing it. Und wir werden alles unterbrechen. Wir werden über das Spiel sprechen, über unsere Gedanken darüber sprechen. Wir werden über die Leistungsprobleme sprechen, die die Leute haben, weil ich weiß, dass das eine große Frage für viele Leute ist. Also werden wir all das hier in nur einem Minuten.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I will say, I had the crashes on the first day and I just gave up. I went to bed, I tried it the next day, I wasn't crashing. While I did have some performance issues, for the most part, this game actually ran pretty well for me. I expect, when I go into a big town with 30 NPCs and a bunch of buildings that you can actually go into and stuff like that, the frame rates are probably going to drop.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Why am I not running 80 frames, bro? I just don't... I get it. And you and I have very good PCs. I mean, I'd say almost top of the line PCs that we are running. And, you know, it's like the game... We just talked about it, man. It's that old school jank. Like, if you're playing this game... You're not really caring about a drop in frame rates or the occasional crash.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You know, this game has quick save and quick load. I love that, dude. I think the reason that we had quick save and quick load back in the day more often was because they knew that the game was janky and you just would quick save a lot of times. And if something bad happened or you crashed, you would just quick load it and you were right back to where you were.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
So while I did experience performance issues and I can say, listen, Maus-Schwindigkeit, Alter, ich weiß nicht, wer da eigentlich überhaupt Maus-Schwindigkeit will. Das ist das schlimmste Setting, das ich je gehört habe in meinem Leben. Es ist im Grunde, für diejenigen, die es nicht wissen, es ist wie eine Software-Schwindigkeit deines Maus.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und so ist es fast so, als würdest du überstehen oder auf alles übertreiben. Wenn du deinen Maus bewegen und stoppen, bist du gewohnt, dass der Maus-Kursor einfach zu einem toten Standstill schnappt. Und mit Maus-Schwindigkeit fliegt es das Ganze. It's the most annoying thing in the world. So I could care less about the crashes.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I could care less about the memory leaks because I just restart the game and that would fix that. The mouse acceleration was the one thing that drove me bananas, but there was a fix for it. And then honestly, for probably the next 15 hours of gameplay, I had like zero issues. So I don't know if the game just kind of had to load assets or get past a certain part or something.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I will say there was one area later on in the game and shout out to Jiggle Puff on this one because he said, hey, I don't want to spoil anything, but if you guys are crashing in the sewers, just turn your graphics down to low. And I remember I got to a spot where I kept crashing and then the light bulb went off and I was like, wait, I'm in some sewers. I wonder if this is what he was talking about.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Aber Ryan, Mann, die Reviews, die kommen einfach immer rein, Mann.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Turned my graphic settings to low, climbed out the ladder, and then just turned them right back up again, and it was fine. But I don't know, man.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I guess the whole point of all this is to say, yes, there are some performance issues, but it's not game-breaking in my opinion.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Das ist der Hinweis. Das ist für mich auch ein Vorteil. Das Spiel hat eine natürliche Anzahl an Schwachsinn. Die Leistungsprobleme abweichen nicht aus dem Spiel. Und sie haben bereits drei Patches veröffentlicht, seit das Spiel herausgekommen ist, um Kräfte und Leistungsprobleme zu lösen. Das ist das Hauptwahrnehmende, auf das sie sich gerade konzentrieren.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
All right, I did want to touch on that because, again, that was one of the major concerns that we could see from our community and online as well. And I think it's a little bit overblown. If you're the kind of person where a frame rate drop bugs you, maybe this isn't the game for you at that point. All right, Ryan, let's get into the heart of any game. That is the gameplay. This is hard, man.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You and I were chatting before we started recording. Es ist sehr, wie wir sogar gesagt haben, wie das ist ein schwieriges Spiel zu brechen, nur durch die Natur des Spiels selbst. Es ist ein riesiges Welt. Wie der Welt, ich weiß nicht, es gibt acht verschiedene Zonen und sie sind massiv, Alter. So groß. So, you know, you have this massive map to explore.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You've got cities and factories and underground areas and little caves and stashes and sewers and all this stuff that you can find and explore and do. And so it's like, how do you break down a game? whose premise is just go out into the world and experience this world. Yeah, go survive. Yeah, go survive, right?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Like, oh, you have quests, you know, and we'll talk about the characters in the story here in just a little bit, but it's like I'm on a quest for somebody But a lot of that question is just go over here. But over here is like a 10-minute run. And I'm going to stop at 30 places along the way.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Let's go! Hey, we love it when people leave us reviews. Thank you to everybody that has taken the time to do that. Nummer eins, es hilft wirklich dem Podcast, weil jeder, der sich für einen Gaming-Podcast sucht, das erste, was sie tun werden, ist, Reviews zu lesen. Nummer zwei, es hilft dem Show, um die Reviews zu lassen. Es baut uns in den Rankingen für Podcasts und solche Dinge auch.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
So it's kind of a challenge to say, hey, these are the different components of the gameplay. Because... Es ist ein Spiel, das sich einfach in die Welt einlädt und erweitert. Vielleicht hast du eine generelle Richtung, in die du dich bewegen musst, um diese Quest zu machen. Aber es ist wie die Dinge, die auf der Art und Weise geschehen, die dieses Spiel machen. Ja.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und was machst du in diesem Spiel, Ryan? Wie würdest du den Gameplay abschließen?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, es ist eine Herausforderung, das jemandem zu beschreiben, weil, obwohl es die Hauptquests sind und es sind Sidequests und Leute, die dich in die Richtung zeigen, und du weißt, du musst keine Sidequests machen, wenn du nicht willst. Nein, jemand ist verpasst. Kannst du herausfinden, was mit ihm passiert ist?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Oder hey, mein Freund wurde von dieser Gang von Thugs verabschiedet und ich hoffe, dass du ihnen helfen kannst. Weißt du, das Art von Sachen oder, weißt du, der klassische Hey, dieser Kerl hat mir Geld und ich weiß, wo er ist. Kannst du ihn runterlösen? Ja. But what's funny is when you go do that, number one, you find 15 things along the way to distract yourself with.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And then when you get there, there's three thugs that are standing around and have this guy trapped in a house. And you do get the option of how you interact with these characters. You could just go say, you know what? I'm taking you guys out. And then a fight erupts. Or you could say, hey, let me go talk to the guy and see if I can work something out.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Or you can maybe offer to just pay off the thugs. So the game does give you choices like that as well.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
But I feel like your play time in the game was probably vastly different than my play time in the game, which is also going to be vastly different from somebody else, because it's that kind of game where the more you explore and the kind of more things that you find, those are going to influence what your opinion of the game is. And
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Du weißt, zum Beispiel, als ich dieses eine Gebiet besucht habe, sah es aus wie ein kleiner Farm. Es hatte etwa vier oder fünf verschiedene Gebäude auf es und wie ein Garten. Und als ich mich dazu rannte, hörte ich diesen schrecklichen Schreie. Und dann kamen ein paar Mercenarier raus und ich dachte, sie würden mich attackieren, aber sie waren tatsächlich von etwas ran.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und als Weise, zu danken und vielleicht nur zu brachen, nur ein bisschen.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und dann gab es einen von diesen unsichtbaren Mutanten, den du sehen kannst, wie die Predator-Kamouflage. Und diese Dinge, ich hatte es bereits gewusst an diesem Punkt, diese Dinge sind unglaublich schwer zu töten. Sie sind schnell, du kannst sie nicht sehen. Bring it on! drei dieser Leute in diesem Bereich.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und ich habe eine halbe Stunde gebraucht, um zu versuchen, wie ich diese drei Kreaturen töten kann. Und die zweite, die ich töte, war ein Quick Save. Quick Save. Ich habe einen runter, Baby. Quick Save. Wir haben einen. Wir haben einen. Aber ich habe es geschafft. Ich habe alle drei von ihnen töten lassen. Keine Waffen, keine Grenaden, keine Medikamente, nichts. Aber ich habe es vollkommen gemacht.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We like to read them on the show. Like this one that comes in from That Sick Boy. It's titled, wow, I'm stunned. This pod is so good. And it says, I listened to this as I was sick. It made me laugh and puke my way through being sick. Don't worry, I still listen to you guys when I'm not sick. Anyways, I just wanted to say hi and this is a great pod for gamers near and far.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Es gab keine Erlebnisse. Ich war so, oh, komm schon, Mann.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
But it was. That's the point, right? I didn't need treasure to make it worthwhile. It was the fact that I found this just random place where there was three of these freaking mutants. One was tough enough, but I figured out how to kill them all, you know, and that was the reward.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It was like I had an hour and a half of just a really good time playing this game with nothing to show for it in the game itself. Actually, it cost me almost everything. It costs you all of your stuff.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
That's what this game is. That's why we say it's kind of tough to describe, but it's going to be how you play this game. If you beeline the main quest, that's fine. You can do that. And there is a story in a quest. We're actually about to talk about that in just a second. But you can absolutely lose yourself in this world by just playing this game kind of the way that you want to play.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
But there's no direction other than the quest. People just say, go that direction. And again, you might get sidetracked. But that's up to you. And I know like you and me, we were kind of ADD gamers. Like we absolutely got sidetracked. Oh yeah. So Ryan, did the story of this game make any sense to you?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Let's set the table. You're a stalker who is somebody that is in the zone. You are hunting for these things called artifacts. The game starts out with some kind of scripted event where you have this big scanner thing that you have to plant. It's almost like a little mini tutorial. I'll be honest with you. I didn't follow this very well.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You're betrayed or somebody that you're working for got betrayed and you happen to be there and then you were with this group of guys that I can't tell if they're the ones that betrayed you or got betrayed, but it leads you to this town of other stalkers and then people want to know what happened and now you're mad at somebody.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It's funny because legitimately I thought it was a misspelling because I thought they kept saying soldier. Like, hey, that's soldier, but the guy's name is Sauter.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
They don't like each other?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, ich meine, das, was mir stand, ist, dass du getötet wirst. Du suchst jemanden. Wenn du herausfindest, was ihm passiert ist, führst du dich zu dem Mann, der wusste, was ihm passiert ist. Und wenn du diesen Mann findest, will dieser Mann, dass du dir ein paar Kingpins auswählen kannst, um dir ein paar Informationen zu geben.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ryan and Josh effortlessly intertwined their old school energy mixed with that gamer dad intensity while reviewing some absolutely great games. Whoever is not watching this, please find this and watch. It's a must. P.S. If this makes it on the pod, hi future me. I'm so honored.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und dann musst du dir die schwierige Wahl machen, ob ich Kingpin A auswähle, ob ich Kingpin B auswähle, oder ob ich einfach diesen Mann auf den Gesicht schiebe, hier und jetzt, was ich optiert habe, zu machen. You know, and that kind of stuff. So, you know, the story in this game is pretty massive. There is a very wide cast of characters.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We were talking to Jigglepuff again because he's 40 plus hours into this game. And it was funny because the other day he mentioned he was like, has anybody else made it this far? Because I just found out. Ich bin nur halb so weit. Und das ist, als mein Gehirn explodierte, weil ich dachte, du, das letzte Mal, als ich 80 Stunden in ein Spiel verwendet habe, war, glaube ich, The Witcher 3.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Das ist ein riesiges Spiel, aber das ist ehrlich gesagt das, was dieses Spiel ist. Es ist großartig. Du kannst absolut 80 Stunden in dieses Spiel verwendet haben und wahrscheinlich auch noch Dinge entdecken. So, in regards to the story, I'll say there is one there. I'm not sure I really cared about it or followed it very much.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It's just enough to kind of guide you through the world so again you can just experience this world that you're in and that they crafted for you and let the game play just kind of tell the stories that you need to be told. So, Alright, we're going to get into one more topic and we'll touch on that a little bit.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We've kind of hinted at it, but it's just the overall atmosphere and kind of what this game does right and kind of the anomalies and that kind of creepiness. But we're going to take one more quick break and then we'll come right back. All right, Ryan. I'm just going to call it the atmosphere of this game, because I loved it. Dude, I will say this absolutely resonated with me.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It's a post-apocalyptic world. It's set in the Chernobyl area. And so it's a wasteland. There's mutants. There's these weird phenomenon called anomalies that are glowing. And maybe they're flame jets, or it's like a wind tornado thing. All I know is the anomalies will absolutely wreck you. You cannot run into one of these things.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You do get a warning, like you have an anomaly meter or something that will start beeping like crazy if you're getting really close to one. Thank goodness, because I have run headlong into one of these many times, even with the thing beeping incessantly at me. They really just add a sense of danger to the world of like just the world itself.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
That's not counting the fact that there are mutants, there's dogs everywhere, You know, there's rat swarms. That was crazy. I mean, literally like a hundred rats came at me and I didn't know how to fight these things. There's the stupid, invisible mutant guys. And then there's just the roaming humans.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You know, like this game is one of those things where it's like, hey, in a post-apocalyptic world, you can't trust nobody. And if you see people coming, you probably want to think about hiding until you figure out what's going on. So I absolutely loved this. Just the setting, dude. The atmosphere of this game. Don't trust anybody. They're probably going to try to kill you.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
People are not trustworthy. At one point I was talking to a group of guys and then they were like, you know what? We're just gonna kill you, man. And then they all started attacking me for no reason. And I was just like, dang, man. You have to worry about radiation all the time. You have a Geiger counter that'll start clicking. And that sound just, oh man, that'll really mess with your head too.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
You're like, oh no, oh no. Did you get to experience one of the emissions? Because the emissions happen where they're like, dude, you got to, you absolutely, the world just goes absolutely bonkers and you better be inside when that happens. Because if you were outside, you were absolutely guaranteed death at that point. And it's this like massive radiation storm that comes ripping through.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
That was really cool. Like wow. What did you think about it? I mean, you love post-apocalyptic settings, so I gotta imagine this is right up your alley.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It's very cohesive, too. None of it fell out of place or odd to me. Like, oh, we had to throw in this mechanic, so we just threw it in there because some CEO said that we needed this. We need more storms.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich sage das sogar, weil ich frustriert war und wir darüber gesprochen haben, wie sich das Spiel nicht in der Hand hält. Ich war in einem, ich will es nicht so nennen, Schuhe, vielleicht ein Dungeon ist der beste Begriff dafür, aber es war diese Untergrund-Area und ich habe einfach nur von etwas getroffen. Und es würde einen Drittel meiner Gesundheit auslösen.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und ich bin drei oder vier Mal gestorben und ich schaue mich um und ich bin so, Alter, und ich war wütend an dem Spiel. I was like, this game's stupid. It's so buggy. I don't even know what's killing me. And then I was like just randomly shooting, thinking maybe it's one of these invisible mutant guys. And it's like, no.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And then I finally realized that there's like a poltergeist down in this area. Maybe it was an anomaly, maybe it was something, but if I stopped to just look around and actually pay attention, I realized that something unseen was just chucking buckets and whatever was laying around at me, and by the time I'd get hit, I would turn around, but now the bucket's on the ground.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And so I thought it was a bug in the game, when actually this was just a super creepy place that has an anomaly in it that I probably don't want to hang out in. Und das war dann, als ich dachte, das ist wirklich cool, Mann. Ich war enttäuscht. Verstehe mich nicht falsch, weil es nichts gibt, was ich tun kann, außer mich um die Runde zu drehen.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I did the challenge levels. I will say there was apparently a challenge level where it was a combination of every challenge level. And that one I didn't do. But I did all the other, like the secret, the shape levels and stuff.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Aber dann würde es mich irgendwie folgen und ich würde etwas in der Raum schütteln, in der ich war. Aber ich war so, das ist kinder cool, weil ich dieses Ding entdeckt habe, das schrecklich war, das nur Teil des Welt, Mann. Du weißt nicht alles, was da draußen ist. Und das ist Teil des Spiels, weil die Stalker nicht alles wissen, was da draußen ist.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und das Spiel schießt Dinge an dich, die du nicht wissen wirst, was sie sind. Und vielleicht erscheinen sie teuer und aggravierend, aber das ist das Gefühl, das ist die Atmosphäre dieses Spiels.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
They really did. So, all right, Ryan, we're kind of running long here. I always like to ask this because it's kind of a good way to summarize things. What's your favorite thing about Stalker 2 and what's your least favorite thing about it?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I'm with you. There were many times where I just kind of felt like I wasn't connected to what was going on. The exploration part was incredible and I liked the little stories that got told through that. But why am I tracking this guy down now? He did something, he knew a guy. I really didn't get sucked into the story very much.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
This is going to sound weird, but I think my least favorite thing was just the scale of this game. Like that's intimidating sometimes, you know, especially for us. Right. Because it's like we we we turn through games so fast that there's always that like I need to I need to try to experience this game. I need to try to do this. And it's like this world is huge, dude. And it's like.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Will it be a hit? Die Anomalie, start away, throw bolts, it make good. Alright, that's pretty good, man. I was impressed with the impression and then the farts.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Logging in, like there were times where it was like I had 20 minutes to play something before I had to go do something. And my wife was like, why don't you play Stalker? And I kind of went, that's a game I really need like two or three hours to kind of dedicate to. And she was like, you can't just hop in and play for 20 minutes. And I was like, Nein, nicht wirklich.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und das ist für mich ein bisschen negativ, weil es ist wie, ja, ich hätte nur ein paar Häuser besucht, aber es ist wie, es fühlt sich fast an wie eine Verantwortung, um Ja. Ja. Ja, sicher. Ja.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
favorite thing i'm with you just the random things that happen in this game the finding pipes that i could run along and figuring out how to go up on this building finding an invisible poltergeist that absolutely was intended to be there and wasn't a bug in the game um coming across two different factions having an all-out war i mean how many times did you come across guys that were just having a gunfight where it was like six dudes on either side just lighting each other up you're like oh
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I would just sit there and watch it though. Or maybe try to sneak in and loot one of the corpses after they were dead. The world is alive. It's a janky life, but it's alive.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, ich liebe es, dass dieses Spiel durch die verschiedenen Events und Geschichten und Quests erzählt wird.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
But I can't help it. I'm kind of that way because I'm like, if I'm gonna mess up, I want to mess up as fast as possible so I can try it again. Instead of like the creeping through kind of strategy.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, absolut. Ich stimme dazu. Ich mag die Tatsache, dass du in diesem Spiel mit Leuten dumm sein kannst. Du kannst es so spielen, wie du willst. Ein Typ hat seine Waffe verloren. Du bist in der Zone, Bruder.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und er war so, hey, ich kann nicht da runter, weil der Radiation, aber diese Waffe war, du weißt, und dann bin ich da runter und habe die Waffe genommen und er war so, oh, danke dir so viel, Mann. Und dann war ich so, ja, ich behalte das. Und dann wurde er so wütend von mir. Und ich war einfach so, es ist eine gute Waffe, Mann. Ja, du weißt, du kannst es so spielen, wie du es auch spielen möchtest.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja. Ryan, overall thoughts on this game. I mean, would you recommend Stalker? We're going to go to our leaderboard right after this, but I mean, how did you feel about this game overall?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich habe dieses Spiel wirklich genossen. Es war wirklich ein Rücktritt für mich. Es hat wirklich den alten Sprenger geknackt. Es hat wirklich geknackt und ich habe das Gefühl genossen, Mann. Das ist der Grund, weshalb ich am Anfang des Shows fast sagte, dass es so fühlt, als wäre es eine Mischung von Skyrim, aber mit einer Fallout-Vibe dazu, weil man sich in diesem Weltraum einfach verlieren kann.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und es sind die kleinen Dinge, die du findest, während du explodierst, die wirklich das Spiel machen. Und das ist sehr reminiscent von Skyrim für mich. Du weißt, die verrückten Ruinen oder der Typ in der Bar, der sich als Teufel befindet oder dich auf einen verrückten, trunken Quest für die ganze Nacht führt. Du weißt nicht, was passieren wird. Das ist dieses Spiel.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Du hast gesagt, dass der Typ, der einfach Leute schwindelt. Ich meine, das ist das, dass es viele dieser Dinge in diesem Spiel gibt. It was a little daunting to me just to kind of step back and look at the scale of this game and go, I'm not going to be able to devote the time that this game probably deserves, honestly. So I'm with you.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I think if you were the kind of person where you want to absolutely lose yourself in this very well-crafted world, this atmospheric kind of post-apocalyptic thing, you don't have a game on the horizon that you're looking forward to. Weißt du, was ich meine? Stalker 2 war viel mehr angenehmer, als ich dachte, es wäre, aber in einer anderen Weise.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Hey, there's no such thing as sidetrack when it comes to talking video games.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich dachte, es wäre wie eine endlich gecraftete Erfahrung und es war fast das Gegenteil. Ja, es war einfach so, dass wir nicht deine Hand halten werden, wir werden dir nur Dinge geben, die passieren. Geh, geh in die Welt und sieh, was passiert. Und ich liebe das. Und es ist einfach nicht, was ich erwartet habe. Aber ich war sehr, sehr glücklich überrascht, dass das, was wir bekommen haben.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, sicher. Ich weiß, dass es eine Geschichte gibt. Ich habe mit Jigglepuff gesprochen, der 40 Stunden lang ist, und er machte immer noch Geschichte und so weiter. Und er war viel tiefer in die Faktionen, die Faktionen und so weiter. Und wer versucht, das und das zu erreichen. Also ich weiß, dass es da ist. Es ist nur so, dass wir nicht so tief in es oder so weit in es kommen.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Okay, hören wir uns mal an. Es ist Zeit, richtig? Ich möchte anfangen, mit dem Thema zu sprechen. Wir haben keine Stalker-Spiele gespielt. Das war unser erstes Vorhaben in dieser Serie. Ich weiß, dass du es vor dem Show erwähnt hast, dass es vier oder fünf Spiele gibt. Etwas so. Oder vielleicht vier Spiele plus ein DLC. Etwas so. Etwas so. Yeah. And so we have zero experience with this series.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Aber es ist da für Leute, die ein bisschen mehr davon wollen. Ja. I was very pleasantly surprised by this, but it was also a different experience than I thought it was going to be.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
All right, Ryan, let's go to our leaderboard and let's rate this game, man. Let's make it official and kind of give people an actual game rating on our thoughts on this. Where are you at with this one? I'm curious, man. I'll be honest, before you give your score, I have been all over the leaderboard. There's parts of me where I'm like, well, I mean, it was kind of janky.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It had some performance issues. Es ist ein bisschen schwer zu folgen manchmal, aber dann gibt es andere Zeiten, wo ich sage, erinnere dich an das Ding, das du gefunden hast und das, weißt du, wie das Ding, oh ja. Ja.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich, es ist verrückt, ich habe mir gedacht, dass ich dieses Spiel in 8,5 geben werde, ich werde nicht lügen, aber wir können es nicht, wir können es nicht weiter tun. Ich bin so, gehe ich einen höher, gehe ich einen weniger als das, weil ich nicht, ich bin mit dir, Mann, ich schaue mich an meine Leiterbord, richtig? Und es ist wie Nier Automata.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Nier Automata ist eine Erfahrung und ich weiß, dass es Leute gibt, die es lieben, aber ich spiele Stalker 2. Like more than I would play Nier Automata at this point. And Nier Automata is an 8.5 for me. I just got done talking about the Forgotten City on our last episode where I'm like, this is a hidden gem and it's not flawless, but it's so memorable. So you know what?
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Actually, I am rating this an 8.5 because it's the right rating for it. And as much as like, I don't always want you and I to be in sync, but sometimes it's like, it just, that is what this game deserves. And it's crazy to me. Because there's so much jank. I crashed, you know what I mean? I got killed by invisible things that took me a while to figure out.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I don't understand the story in this game. Ja, genau. Ich war immer überwacht. Das Spiel bemerkt dich sogar. Hey, sei kein Packrat, aber ich bin ein Packrat. Hackrat, Mann, ich kann diese Sachen nicht wegwerfen. Ich könnte diese 50 Bandagen an einem Punkt brauchen. Also ist es so, dass es mir keinen Sinn macht, aber es funktioniert alles einfach so, Mann. Ja.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und wiederum, wenn du bestimmte Dinge nicht magst, wenn du Spiele nicht magst, die deine Hand nicht halten und sie dir nichts erklären, wenn du wütend wirst, weil du von einer unbekannten Anomalie getötet wurdest, In a world that's filled with crazy anomalies? Maybe this isn't the game for you. The gunplay is kind of eh. It's difficult.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We did not know what to expect. All we know is that we saw video. We kind of followed the development, the kind of release hype and stuff like that. And we were pretty excited for this game to come out. Like I jokingly told my wife, hey, I got a game coming out that I'm really excited for. And she said, yeah, you say that all the time. And then, you know, lo and behold, it was out.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It only takes about three bullets for you to die and it takes about 40 bullets for somebody else to die.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It's a frustrating game. Like it can really be frustrating at times, but it's like, but it just works, man. So I get it. There are very, there are a lot of people that this game absolutely would not resonate with at all. And I completely get that. But for me and apparently you and I know some other people that have been playing this, it really does resonate.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
It doesn't make any sense why it resonates because there's people that could be like, yeah, what about this, this, this and this? And I'd be like, dude, you're right. Like, yeah, those things are terrible, but I still like this game. I love it. Yeah, so I'm going 8.5 as well.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
For me, that is, I mean, that puts it up there with The Forgotten City, Deep Rock Galactic, Terraria, Tears of the Kingdom, The Witness, which people know I love, Nier Automata, which is a beloved game for a lot of people that have experienced that. But Stalker 2 belongs there. It's just, it's a unique experience. It works for what it does. It doesn't work in some ways, but it doesn't matter
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Alright. Well, I think that's gonna do it, Ryan. You know, we have one episode left this year. Und ich bin schon überrascht, weil es unsere Game of the Year Awards ist. Wir werden ein paar Werte geben. Wir werden alle über unsere Lieblingsgames sprechen. Wir werden unsere eigene Game of the Year nominieren. Unsere bescheidene Game of the Year.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Wir haben ein paar Kategorien, die wir durchgehen werden. Vergesst nicht, diese Episode zu verpassen. Sie wird am Dienstag veröffentlicht werden. So it's going to be a little bit different because normally our longer episodes come out on Mondays, but that is coming out on Thursday. So don't miss that one. Believe me, you're going to want to tune in for it. That's it. Ryan.
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Stalker 2 war eine gute Erfahrung, Mann. Ich bin froh, dass wir diesen hatten. Ja. Ja. And if you want to go the extra mile and support the show to keep this content flowing to everybody, you can head over to MultiplayerSquad.com. You can sign up there, support the show. We're going to give you early access, ad-free episodes, some Discord perks and stuff like that as well. So that's it.
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Heading back to the zone. Until next time, happy gaming.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
We started playing it. So, I guess my question is, what was your expectation? What did you think that this game was gonna be? And then we'll talk a little bit about what it actually is.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ja, ich werde ehrlich sagen, ich bin irgendwie mit dir im Sinne, dass wir all diese Trailer gesehen haben. Ich meine, wir haben den Mann gesehen, der den rüsten Bolzen in die Anomalien gelegt hat. Und wir sind so, naja, das sieht cool aus. Und dann gibt es dieses Horde von mutten Hunden, die sie fangen. Und wir sind so, oh, das ist auch ein bisschen furchtbar.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und ich denke, meine Erwartung war, dass das wie ein schreckliches, dunkles, Kind von ersten-Person-Schütter war. Um, yeah, I, I, you know, I, I didn't think it was like a, not in the sense of like Call of Duty or something like that.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Like we knew it wasn't going to be super fast paced, but almost like a, I think in my brain, I kind of thought this is going to be a creepy, like half-life type experience, you know, with like this big world, these characters, these stories.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yes, there's some gunplay, but it's not really like the main focus of the game, but it is like the, the mechanic, you know, for how you'll interact with enemies and stuff like that.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
um ist der now that you have played it not knowing what to expect are there any games for somebody that has no idea and is like dude i i mean i've heard the name but i haven't watched any video like is are there any comparables that you could make that this game is similar to i i think you said it there um
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Yeah, I agree 100%.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Du, das ist so lustig, dass du das sagst, weil als ich angefangen habe, habe ich, du weißt, die Leute sprachen über Performance-Issuen und oh Mann, die Spiele fliegen und es läuft nicht gut. Und das war legitimitär der erste Tag. Es kam wirklich nicht zu sehr positiven Reviews oder Antworten von Gamern.
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[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Ich weiß, dass ich mich selbst den ersten Tag, an dem ich auf dem Platz saß, vier Mal fliegen und dann einfach abgab. Legitimativ habe ich gesagt, oh Mann, sag mir nicht, dass es eines dieser Spiele sein wird, in denen ich es nicht mehr spielen kann. Ich weiß nicht, was passiert ist. Übernachtlich kam ich zurück am nächsten Tag und dann, du weißt, es hat nicht mehr gebrochen.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Nun, es hat wieder gebrochen, aber nicht wie wiederholt. Du warst, du warst auf die Pferde, Alter. I don't know what I was doing. Um, I, I am with you when you mentioned half life. I do think that there's definitely some old school, like fallout vibes to this game as well with like the characters and the kind of how they're always like talking to you and they want to send you on this mission.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And it's like, you go fetch something or do something or, and then you come back and the guy's like, Oh, you're back. And just there, there was some kind of like fallout vibe to that. Um, Aber der beste Weg, um das zu beschreiben, ist genau das, was du gesagt hast. Es gibt mir dieses alte Gefühl eines Spiels, das nicht deine Hand hält, nicht wirklich sehr viel zu dir erklärt.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Halb die Zeit sterbst du und du weißt nicht mal, warum du gestorben bist, Mann. Ich kann dir nicht sagen, wie viele Male ich von etwas getroffen wurde. Und ich bin so, was schmerzt mich, Mann? You know, and I'll be honest, maybe it's because we're older gamers, but there was something so endearing about that to me that it just instantly kind of resonated.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And I know there's like a lot of people out there that were like, dude, this game's broken. It doesn't, I'm dying. I don't know why. I, you know, I don't know where to go. Am I supposed to explore all these places? Why is there not tutorials and all this stuff? And I'm just sitting here like, this is great. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I gotta explore?
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, or no companion that is telling me the answer to a puzzle within three seconds of me getting to a location? Like that kind of stuff? Hey, you should try jumping over there. Hey! What's that empty building over there? Maybe that leads to the secret bunker you're looking for.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
I agree 100% on that. And so if I had to say there's any kind of games, you know, and now there's going to be people that are like, dude, you're talking Fallout, you're talking Half-Life. This must be one of the best games of the last decade. You know, we'll get to that. But that is kind of the feeling.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
If I had to compare this game to something that most people have probably played or can say, oh, okay, well, that makes sense. I would say those are the two closest comparisons, in my opinion.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Oh, where it's like the physics, it's like the sound of hitting things?
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Es ist lustig, wie viel Nostalgie dieses Spiel für mich zurückgebracht hat. Ich weiß nicht, vielleicht sind es nur die Gamers, die sie waren, als sie das Spiel entwickelt haben. Ich weiß es nicht. Es fühlt sich so an. Es ist Stalker. Es wird Jank haben. Das ist garantiert. Wenn du einen superpolischen Spiel suchst, suchst du in den falschen Ort, weil das das Stalker-Feeling ist. Ja.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Und ich konnte es nicht ganz verstehen an der Zeit. Und jetzt, dass wir es gespielt haben und ich es verstehe, ist es wie, das ist nur old school Jank. Wie jeder Spiel ging so. Ja. They kind of just went, the game works, ship it. And we got used to that kind of stuff because, and I'll be honest, man, like one of the things that I actually really enjoy was that there was zero handholding.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I'm with you, man. And not to just keep piling on Dragon Age Veilguard, but coming from that game, where it was so dumbed down, and everything was just straight told to you, versus jumping into Stalker 2, where nothing is told to you, was actually kind of refreshing for me.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, we'll get into some specific examples of like some some things that, you know, maybe were frustrating for somebody at first until they kind of figured it out to give a little bit better idea. But we'll get to that in a minute. But Ryan, we always start off our deep dives in a kind of are talking about a game. By mentioning the standout, what is the thing that stood out to you the most?
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And we've had this kind of cover so many different things lately. We've had audio, graphics, gameplay, atmosphere, scale, that kind of stuff. So A lot of times you and I will kind of talk about this first and kind of come up with a consensus. Yeah. But we did not do that this time. Because I'm actually really curious what the standout thing for you was.
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
And so we intentionally did not talk about this. So I want to hear, like for you, what is the premier thing? Like what is the thing that stands out to you about this game?
Video Gamers Podcast
[Deep Dive] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gaming Podcast
Thank you very much. Oh man, alright, well, that's quite the intro. Anyway, welcome to the show, everybody. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And that's like one of your favorite games. You loved that game.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Well, what happened is when they all came to me, I went to instinct and just buried myself, so I just dug down in and then just threw up some blocks, and I'm like, ha-ha, you can't get me now.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I was just like, oh, no, danger, I'm just going to die. Hide, hide, hide, hide. And they can't get you. So I just built up and walled up. And so it's good. So because like just a throwback to like what you're saying, Josh, about playing like a bunch of creative. Like when I said with my kids, I was like, if we're going to play and I'm going to play with you, we're playing survival mode only.
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The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
So that was the only thing we did. So I got pretty good at doing some of those things. But yeah, once I got out of there and they kind of moved away, I just went off and I just thought I could go find you guys. And I definitely did not go. Yeah. And anywhere close to the direction you guys had traveled, so it was a journey to find each other again.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I kept doing that, too. I would always feel like, I'm like, why is it letting me craft? What the heck? There's not enough spots here. How am I supposed to make this? I can't put these together and craft them. What the heck is going on? And that's from like, it's been a couple of years probably since I've played this game. I couldn't tell. It was, yeah, okay.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
You know what, I don't care though. I don't care. I don't care if I'm old man and I don't know how to play Minecraft. Sorry.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Okay, I'm a wanderer. We already know that. Any open world game, I'm a wanderer. So you got to know that going in, man. I'm not responsible for where I just disappear to.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
The sticks drop down, too, when you cut down the tree.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Oh, my goodness. He's the landscaper. He's cleaning up our mess. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
You can use it. You just use the tree. Use the wood. It is so wild, you know, for... I know, I mean, like, Rust, Satisfactory, or any of these survival or crafting type games where you can create these structures and these, you know, live in these environments. Um... How different this seemed to feel to us, where we're just like, what? It's almost like a different language.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
You're doing the same thing, but it's a different language, and we just could not get it for some reason. It's not the same flow, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
man the amount of times i hit e on everything dude thank you ryan i was i was pressing e on everything and i i took because i totally forgot it's it's you know the right click action button to open doors open chest do all that stuff and i just always ace would make fun of me because i'd walk up and then i'd just be standing there and he'd see me do nothing and i'm like he's like you pressed e again and i'm like yeah
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
It really is, and that's one thing they do. I know we're big on audio, and graphics obviously are irrelevant to this discussion, but the audio in this game, it is one of the better games that I've heard with, like you said, the thunder, the different creatures that you can hear them, or you hear the skeleton's arrows, and you're like... And you're like...
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
oh crap, you know, like, you know exactly what that sound is. So I think that's something that they did. You know, graphics does not make a good game.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
So having all these other little factors within it, we've seen it with Lethal Company or a lot of these other kind of indie type games that aren't incredibly graphically pleasing, but they are just fun and enjoyable and are something that you can have a good time with. And this seemed to hit the mark on a lot of those.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
We are not big Minecraft guys, but there are things that we can recognize that they did very, very well. And I think Audibly and a lot of the crafting stuff, they did a good job. The exploration and things you can do in the world, it was a good time overall because you're just playing with buddies. And I got to kill Josh, so... Yeah, many, many, many times.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. As far as building a home? Yeah. Probably above ground just because it's easier. Yeah, you loser.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
That's because you weren't with me and Ace when you were gone.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
You were gone, and Ace and I were like, let's build this mine. We're going to start the Mines of Moria. It was later condemned, the one that I made with Ace, and Ace went off and made his own because he's a crazy, crazy guy, but... We went down and we spent like a couple hours just going down because we found diamond and we were trying to harvest it.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
But we kept just getting ganged up by like six or seven skeletons in the same pocket where we could not. Yeah, just that's all you heard.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
yeah dude it was and there's nothing we could do because we couldn't get we couldn't get our bodies to get our gear to get our armor to get all the stuff but we're like we don't want to leave it so it despawns and we kept just like funneling down there and taking turns and just dying we're like freaking josh he doesn't even know what we're doing and we're dedicating it
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
our lives i would have tunneled around behind the skeletons and then i had like 22 diamonds on me we were so mad yeah we had built bridges across the top so we could get over to the area easier and it was just yeah skeletons hands down are the worst creepers can blow up your base you know what don't let them close don't don't piss them off don't let them get sneaking up on you like come on man be smart look at around your surroundings yeah yeah yeah yeah skeletons
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Joss is like, I have been to the nether realm. I am one with the nether boy. It was a tour. It was more like a field trip.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
So if those graphics were, you know, it's like Kingdom Come, you know, and you got, like, when you throw down a cobblestone block, like, it's graphically pleasing and it's detailed. Do you think that would make much of a difference for you overall?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Mistakes were made. Mistakes were made.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. No, that's fair. I mean, I think I'm on a similar vein as you. The graphics don't bother me nearly as much as you. I love amazing graphics, but like I said, Lethal Company is one of my favorite games, and those are Horrible graphics. And we're playing a bunch of these goofy games. A lot of these indies that are just playing out fun games.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And so I think with Minecraft, it's something that it's, you know, yeah, there's some creatures out there. Oh, they're like the spooky monsters. watch out for the spooky monsters, you know, stay in your home and sleep. And then you can go out and you can do your mining and, and get your materials to craft and stuff like that. And then see the next day.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I think there's just, uh, there's something inherent within the game that draws like the kids in that they like it. And it's a little spooky and a little scary, but it's not too much. And so I, I can kind of recognize it. And so, uh, it's a little bit of a turnoff to, to something that I would want to play longterm. Um, but having said that it still is, as far as a parent goes, it is a vibe game.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I, I did not mind my time playing this game. I did not have a bad time when I play with my kids and I can just go out and just dig, dig a hole down and, and, uh, not like Josh did where he went straight down, by the way. Uh, I don't know if you mentioned that number one, number Yeah, number one rule. Josh just went straight down. He's like, oh, no, I can't get back up. Yeah. No, duh.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
You just went straight down 200 feet. But just going out, good audio, just a vibe is kind of what this game seems to be like for me. It's not one that I would, like I said, play long-term.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
It's, it's since from, from the day I joined the pod, people had been asking for years and it's been, you know, uh, almost a couple of years now since I've been part of this thing. And, uh, yeah, dude, it's been a nonstop every once in a while. Hey, have you guys ever thought about doing Minecraft? Are you going to do Minecraft? You know?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
term but it's it's not a bad game by any means obviously 300 million you know copies or whatever sold so it's it's there i love when my kids play it a lot more than when they play roblox because they're a lot more uh or a lot less emotionally invested than they are with roblox
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And I love that we've been, you know, in secret, you know, playing, playing this game and we're going to drop this. Uh, people are going to be excited when they hear it. I think, um, and excited to hear what this, uh, The whole crazy play session was.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Isn't there, wasn't there some sort of thing too, where some guy created like a whole, um, like a, like a working CPU. Oh, I've seen that. An actual working computer with bits and yeah, it's wild.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I wonder if our kids are going to see each other because my daughter's going too over to Arrowhead.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
that'll be funny uh yeah i what i what i my thoughts on uh the movie itself i'm i am one of the biggest old school jack black fans i have loved him for 20 plus years um he was so great and i just thought that this movie was going to be something that was was highly profitable it's going to make a buttload of money and it wasn't going to be very good and it didn't matter and it's just kind of one of those things like that's just what it is yeah that's just what it is here
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Dude, they made an amazing game out of freaking Pinocchio with Liza P. You can take fantasy, fantastical, happy, campy stuff and make it dark and gritty and good. I would think that would have been a better avenue, but also kids are going to bring in a lot of revenue.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Nobody ever should. Once you meet me, you should learn not to believe anything I say. You're a terrible liar. Which is a good trait to have, I think.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Ace did this for you. You better all go out and thank Ace right now. No, no, no.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And family gaming, like people being able to play with their kids, like, and it being an okay game, that's not bad. And you don't have to worry about it. And you could just kind of like hang out and just play a game with your, with your kids, you know, especially for people who aren't gamers, like, you know, we're gamers, we know games, but people who aren't, they can still walk around and,
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
That reason is because our sons or daughters said, Dad, can you play Minecraft with me? And I said, sure thing, kiddo. Let's go hop on. And we just dove in. My experience with Minecraft, I, believe it or not, have quite a few hours in this game. I know you wouldn't believe it, Ace, from my crafting ability, but I never had to craft.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I would just, I'm like, all right, guys, I'm going to go disappear. I would go down in mine like crazy and I'd come back with a bunch of mats and then drop them off and they would do all their thing. But we were all playing together.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
So, um, my overall experience, like prior to us playing was just kind of, of exploring the world, playing the game with the kids and just spending time with them more than anything. I didn't really dive into, I didn't, you know, go and go through the portal and fight, you know, the ender dragon and all that crazy stuff that it gets into.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
So I never got to those high end level parts of the game, but, um, Definitely just played like it more as just a vibe. Like I'm just going to hang out with the kids in mine and, you know, hang out and just have a little kind of Minecraft session.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
They're just like, Dad, you want to go find us some diamond and some gold?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, brother. Why would I make all my own stuff when I could just kill you and take your stuff?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. We're just used to dealing with our kids, man. Good job, Ace. Good job.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
It is the greatest selling game of all time.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
I wasn't like I was kind of, you know, you know, there's so many other games. And then, you know, we're still like head over heels with rivals and up and down relationship with that and stuff. And so it was hard to tear ourselves away from that to come play Minecraft, which we both like we said, we played a decent amount and it's been for kids.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And that's for a reason is because it's not really our type of game. Um, I, I have to say I was somewhat excited to just get back in and just get that kind of chill Zen. I'm going to go mine. I loved to explore down in the depths and find a cavern and just go look around. Um, that all changes when you just get, uh, you know, 40 million skeletons shooting arrows at you and you just die instantly.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Minecraft Episode: Yes, Really - Gaming Podcast
And yeah, you know, over and over, but, uh, Yeah, I was a little, you know, kind of indifferent. Not super upset, but yeah, I was not super excited to play. But I had some high hopes for certain parts, if you will, I guess. All right. Well, I was not excited.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
yeah so what like what are your gaming plans for the next month and a half man it's it's hard to say i um uh may have been known to have an addictive personality and i am just so hard on rivals right now i'm not sure if i'll be able to pull myself away for anything else um there's a few other games that have caught my eye a little bit that i might try to do i may try to finish honestly finish uh indiana jones just to get it done and out of the way but uh
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
I don't know. It's just one of those things that... It is nice because, like you said, we get... What a bad problem to have. Oh, I got to play this game. But it does become almost like a chore, almost like work. I have to get this many hours so I know what I'm talking about. And we can kind of tell everybody else with some sort of clarity on what we feel about the game. But...
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
man to have this freedom it's like what i mean this morning even this morning and i hopped on my son was begging me he couldn't beat venom on the spider-man 2 because we had the difficulty cranked up i'm like i got you bro so we hopped on and we played a little bit of that because we have the freedom man we're free yeah yeah it is it's funny because i think there is like almost like this weird guilt that we have when we complain about having to play video games yeah
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
It is, yeah. And there's so many characters that there's always something new to try. And the content online, like all the reels and videos, is always somebody doing something you haven't seen. So you're like, oh, I want to try that. I saw the other day, Spider-Man's flipping off... ledges out in the open, um, and pulling guys off the map and then diving back.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
And I'm like, okay, that's kind of cool. I want to try that. And so there's just so much to do. And, um, now we're turning it into a rivals episode too, but, but I just, yeah, I think, I think I'm going to be stuck on that for a little while. I mean, hyper light breaker, early access or whatever comes out in a couple of weeks. So maybe we'll hook, hook into that for a minute.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
But, uh, yeah, man, I think we got a little bit of time to just mess around. Um,
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. So last year being my first kind of full year on the pod, I paid a lot more attention to things that I normally wouldn't in the gaming world and played a lot more games that I wouldn't. Even if they get kind of mega hyped and they're the hotness of the moment, you know, normally I stick to what I'm just cracked out on.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
So I hope we have another year like last year that was just full of so many surprises of just awesome. Even if they're flashing the pans, like last year was just such a fun year for all these types of surprise gaming experiences that we got to have. Yeah. I hope we get that again, man. I just enjoyed it so much.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
And then also just with games and everything, watching the pod grow, I just hope we keep chucking along and keep growing and keep just getting to experience all this awesome gaming talk that we have. So I'm stoked, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
So what would you say was the last one of those generational games to come out? The most recent?
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Okay.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
For sure.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, it's not on that level. Right, yeah, exactly.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
So I'm going to give you two because, as you just mentioned, you really don't think that GTA 6 is going to come out. If it does, guaranteed Insta-lock of the year. That's going to be that generational game we're looking for, for sure. If not, I really think... Ghost of Tsushima was such a good game, and it had so many layers and levels to it, and it was so beautiful and crisp.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
And having that under their belt, coming now with Ghost of Yotei, I am just beyond excited for that. And I think it has a really, really good chance to show well. So, you know, that's where I'm going to go.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, the first one was just so good. And then now they can just expand on it. They know what's good, what's bad, what to do, what not to do.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
It's so good, man. The VGP train is rolling. You better hop on board. All aboard! But we have two new Rare supporters to thank.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
That'll be good. We'll see. And you can always, I mean, 25, 30 hours, you can easily turn into 40 or 50 just with a little bit of exploration, you know?
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
I did. How long was that again? The trailer? Yeah. No, the little clip. Like 30 seconds or something?
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
I was going to say, I did listen to it, but I was going to say, if I can, I'll try to put it in for everyone else to hear listening. So I'll try to clip it in right here.
Video Gamers Podcast
Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Okay, well, that worked or it didn't. But here's the thing, dude. I've been waiting for Half-Life 3. Dude, it's been 20 years. Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. That's bananas, dude. 2004, man. It's just... I don't know. It's one of those things I am all big on the FOMO and getting hyped. I love to just get excited for things in the anticipation. This is one where I will believe it when I see it.
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When it is coming out and it's going to release, then I will join everyone. Maybe I'll miss a train, but I'll be playing the game on day one.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Oh, man. I think that... Probably the only thing that could beat it would be GTA 6 just because of its recognizability. And just more people that aren't gamers are going to play Grand Theft Auto than gamers that are anticipating. I think the anticipation and the desire for Half-Life 3 is probably more. Like... We've been waiting 20 years, like you said. 20 years.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Fans of the series are so excited if this actually happens. They are craving it. They've been begging for it for 20 years, two decades. So I think that they will be ravenous and ready for it. But I just think GTA has that kind of bigger base. And it's been a long time for GTA 2, let's be honest.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Well, like you said, DK Matt, he never even played it. He hasn't played one or two. So he's going to go back and play Black Mesa first, which I recommend. It's all modded up, so it's a little bit more current for you. Half-Life 2 plays still just fine. It holds up well. Very, very awesome. So... Man, now you got me excited. What am I doing?
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Can you imagine if we got GTA 6 and Half-Life 3 in the same year? Freaking Hawkeye, don't give me hope. Don't.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Well, I know what I'm going to do in January now. I'm going to play Half-Life 1 and 2. Thanks.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
So I am very strongly opinionated on this one. When I'm escaping the world, you know, Earth is hard enough. We got enough going on. Family, kids, jobs, all that stuff. I want to get away from the world, get away from reality. And I'm playing this fantastical character. Why do I have a stamina bar? I am an all-powerful wizard. I can conjure flames. I can tame beasts. I can control the elements.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
But don't make me run up a hill because after 15 steps, I'm breathing heavy and I have to slow down. Or, oh no, I'm over-encumbered. I'm holding too much. Come on, man. That's the first thing on any type of game that I can mod and they have mods for. I'll turn off stamina bar or I'll turn off the weight limiter and stuff like that because I hate it.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Well, you like the tactical nature and the reality of the fights and doing that. That's why you like turn base. I just... I want to go and just kill stuff, man.
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Yeah, that's the thing they always, oh, think about the devs. They tried so hard. This is their job, you know?
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Yeah. You know? It's okay. It's okay to just, they just didn't do a good job. You know, not somebody built your house. You can't, you know, and you got your walls falling off and the light switches don't work. You don't say, well, they tried hard. You know, this light switch works. You know, you go, no, this isn't good. This is not what's supposed to happen.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
No, that's totally fair. Same with, like, movies. You know, guys will take... Sometimes people take roles just to get a paycheck, you know, and their heart's not in it. And it's not a good movie. Like, you can say it. It's just not a good movie, you know?
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Yes, thank you so much. And actually, it's a cool trend I've noticed lately, too, is I'll see people hop into the Discord. Hey, everybody, blah, blah, blah. And they join up. And then like two days later,
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, exactly.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
So, I'm definitely not the biggest sugar connoisseur or cookie guy, but there's one thing that I do like in, I guess, the pastry sugary world is chocolate chip cookies. Yeah. I am a glutton for punishment with those. So, I don't know how many chewy... versions of the Chips Ahoy I remember having, but I do know... They come in the red container.
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The blue? Okay, so I know I've had 10 million in the blue, and if there's a container of those in the pantry... More often than not, I'm grabbing a stack, like a stack of poker chips, and I'm walking over to wherever I'm watching TV or doing whatever, and those suckers are gone in a few minutes. I would say for me, the kind of – you know when you bite into the crunchy one, it's got that pop to it?
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That little pop when you bite it? It's just a good flavor to it, and it's good kind of taste and texture. So if I was going to pick one, I would say the classic.
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blah blah blah signed up for legendary or not legendary but like rare or epic and it's like what you know awesome man this is so cool they hop in they see how good the community is they see what we're actually kind of we're not joking when we say how great it is in there and and then they sign up and uh get all the the perks of it and everything so it's it is really cool to see i love it
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Hey, look at me. I'm not the sugar guy.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
I will take it all day long. I'm not the one you're going to ask for sugar recommendations for sure.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Which has more calories? I do love broccoli, though.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Oh, okay. Okay? Okay.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Bill Nye the Science Guy right here.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
That's true, man. You can't argue with science. That's our inherent nature. We just want the calories to survive and continue on.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
yeah so so yeah i guess chewy it is proof now chewy chips ahoy okay so so chewy wins now i have a cookie question for you real quick i know we're out of time but what is the best girl scout cookie oh the samoas dude oh get out of here dude the coconut caramel in those things is so gross no dude i love coconut coconut the samoas now thin mints are a close second
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Okay, that's exactly what I do. I feel a little called out right now. So my wife actually bought a box of like 12 boxes of the mini boxes of Thin Mints the other year. And I'm like, why did you do this? She's like, I thought you'd like it. You love these. I'm like...
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
well yeah but why did you do this now they're gonna be gone in like a month like why why would you do this to me so i ended up i did i wouldn't put them in the freezer because i knew if i did i would eat them so i like left them away they're in the pantry and then every once in a while i'd go and i'd put them in because i have no self-control let's be honest i'm a big kid like i'm just a infant child that just wanders this world so yeah it's uh i don't like coconut though so
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Gee, you like chewy again. It's like a Twix bar. I bet they have more calories too. I bet you they do.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
They're right there. They're chewy and they have more calories. Josh loves it.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
I bet chips are lower calorie than cookies. And I love chips more.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Well, serving size. I'll go weigh them. I'll get a gram of my little food scale and we'll weigh each.
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Half-Life 3 Teased, Gaming Pet Peeves and Path of Exile 2 Thoughts - Gaming Podcast
Oh, my goodness. Honey, why are you late from work today? Oh, well, we got into some work stuff. Just work stuff, honey.
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See ya. Oh, wait, I'm going to do this instead. Hold on. The moon haunts you.
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I'll still say it is a very good review, but those are like 1A, 1B. It's very, very minute difference for me.
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I just like you recently found out I wanted to be a cowboy since I was a little kid. So Red Dead just had that little bit of extra resonance with me that just sat well. But they're still just they're like perfect games.
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Yeah, it was a Clint Eastwood. And I was like, I told him.
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I may or may not use any chance I can get to show off my revolver skills. I can spin a revolver pretty well. I'm not lying when I say it.
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Oh.
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hey brian how you doing okay another remember that whole john thing yeah no that's great and it honestly happens more than you can ever imagine maybe it's because i don't enunciate properly but anywhere i go anytime i ever order food oh what's your name sir that's ryan and they go all right brian thank you and i'm just like all right thanks i don't even correct him anymore yeah i just go with it at this point yeah yeah
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Um, well, I've been just obsessively playing Marvel Rivals, which we'll talk a little bit, like you said, about a little community night we had. I just can't get enough of that game right now, man. I was not as big into Overwatch. You've probably played 10 times more Overwatch than I ever did. I never really was big into hero shooters, but this just has gripped me. I absolutely love it.
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I'm obsessed. And I can just hop in for 10, 15 minutes, play a match, and then get off if I have something to do. So it's been fantastic. And other than that, I've been doing a little bit of Indiana Jones, the whatever great super circle ring thing, whatever it is, whatever that great name is they have. I'm probably a third, maybe 40% of the way through it, but it's been pretty solid so far.
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I've enjoyed it.
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Absolutely. I may or may not have just been seeking you guys out like the whole time. Any of the scushies.
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And it's like, this is better than Diablo. That's high praise, man. Those are big words. It really is. In my opinion. Well, I was going to say, what would you say between the two is the most like Diablo? What features are the most like Diablo? And what's the biggest difference that you noticed? That's a really good question.
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Yeah.
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He's stood. Bonjour, les amis. It is Ryan. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
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I am here for the show. Thanks to Amazon.
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I am ready for the episode, my friends. I don't...
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Yeah.
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Le fromage.
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Until next time, happy gaming. Toodaloo, everybody. I'll sign off with a French salute. Au revoir. I surrender.
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The Art of Gaming and the Threat of AI - Gaming Podcast
It has been interesting to see that. And then we've been noticing just kind of in the gaming world, We've been seeing a lot of things coming back to that. We've been seeing almost this blend of 3D and 2D to where they're taking that kind of 2D look and they're creating depth with it by layering in.
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We had the guys from Oddbug on and he was showing us his design software and it was so interesting to see how they can stack this stuff up to make something that is 2D but so unique and like I said, have that depth to it. Um, it's just been, you know, there's, there's all these games that they're, they're doing it with now and, and we're seeing it more and more.
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Is that also like something that you kind of like that approach and the way they're able to make, make those two D's even more unique?
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That's awesome. I love this stuff. I find it so interesting. You mentioned you'll get up and you'll record yourself doing some movements for a scene and you become the actor to help you animate that. Does that go in line with... Does this really take as long as we all think it takes? You know, are you really putting in that much time?
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Is it that time labor kind of that takes it just over and over so many hours? You mentioned a million hours. Like, is it really that involved?
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Some of those numbers just are mind-boggling, but I guess when you're going to do it and you have to do it right, and I know a lot of times artists are very particular about their art and they want it to be a certain way, so I'm sure that lengthens the process, but man, those numbers are just...
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That's awesome. Did you so now with, you know, we had mentioned that you did the Katy Perry video with the animations there. Did you lot? Did you kind of put those kind of things to effect in that one? Is that how you kind of really?
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OK, I'm going to come up with an idea.
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That is wild. Those are those things behind the scenes that you don't know about, man. That's such a cool thing. So I'm still stuck. I want to go back a little teeny bit to where you were talking about, you know,
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10 characters on there by 24 frames a second, you know, with how many drawings that actually entails, you know, as technology advances and we're seeing kind of the advancement of motion capture and how far it's come, you know, they're doing everything from people to animals, you know, everything's getting motion captured now, which I personally, I love watching.
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But does that, does it lose some of that artistic feel for you? And like, what are your thoughts on the kind of the whole motion capture part of it?
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And that also, too, just shows how the variations just in life and in art are, too, because you said a red apple. I pictured a green apple. Yeah. You know, and that shows how just different everyone's perspective is and how they are and how they look at art in the world and stuff.
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But so, you know, you had mentioned about, you know, university and stuff back then for was that did you go to school for animation? Like, where did you get started? When did you kind of realize you wanted to do this? And this is going to be a career and you wanted to pursue it? Like, what was that kind of process like?
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Yeah, absolutely. And so like, um, I have a quick one too. Like you mentioned, you know, the, the, uh, kind of one of your first real animations you did with your friend and stuff. Now with all the characters you've created, you know, in your career and, and, and films you've done and all the stuff that you've, you've made, you know, Josh and I, we're fathers, we got kids, we love our kids.
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but we love them differently. Like, do you have, are all your creations kind of, do you just have a love for them all? Or do you have one that's a certain favorite that you're always drawn to that, that resonates with you the best or, or how does that work?
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How awesome, Josh. Could you imagine? I can't even fathom just being a little bored. I'm like, I'm just going to animate Gandalf and Balrog fighting.
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that's yeah that's something that's so cool and unique too with with uh and it shows how important a good art style is to a game is when something can hold up 30 plus years later you know it shows how impactful that is and then also like the influence it has on people i know we were talking before and you had mentioned you know some of these games did influence your art and your design styles and how you kind of look at the way you draw characters and animate now um
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Oh, absolutely. I was going to tell a quick story, too, about with AI and the creation of art. Because my son, he's eight now. But when he was a lot younger, we watched the animated movie Cars a ton. And they have Tow Mater. And then big Star Wars fans, we had Darth Vader. And so my son always called him Mater, like Darth Mater.
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And so I had Josh create me an AI real quick art thing of a Darth Mater. It looked like Mater as Darth Vader. And it was awesome. And it was something that we could do on the spot. But there wasn't that kind of almost story or history behind an artist creating it. It was cool to see. It was something we laughed at. But there wasn't anything that you resonated with. So again, I love that.
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There was a soul to it. So it was something we saw, had fun with, and kind of passed on. And you don't have that connection with an actual commissioned artist or something like that. So I do think that while AI can make some fun stuff if it's used kind of in that fun, campy way, a true artist, there is that feeling and that bond with that art.
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But yeah, it's so cool to see what it can do to people.
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And the teasers, I mean, we're going to put all your information in the description on everything, but... The teasers for Blue are all over your YouTube, which shout out to your YouTube also. Everyone listening should definitely go check it out because along all these other animations you have on there, you have tutorial processes on designing.
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And I was watching a lot of your videos and they were so interesting. And I'm a competent, slightly competent artist, but I found them so fascinating. So anyone is going to love them. So everybody should definitely go check those out as well.
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And for everybody, it's S-Y-K-O-S-A-N when you're searching it, Psychosan.
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How many, you know... I can't stop. I am self-described with this big old nose of mine. But that's two in a row you put me on blast on the episodes, man.
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Oh, yeah. I remember, I mean, you're going from, you know, games on the, you know, Sega, Nintendo, and these side scrollers and, and, And, you know, while they may have looked good, there was nothing like it when this came out. And I remember fighting, you know, as a kid, fighting like a tiger. And I was like, this is the best graphics I'm ever going to see in my whole life.
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Like, look at this thing. It looks like a real tiger, mom. You know, look at it. And I was like, don't look at her. Don't look at Lara Croft, though, because then I won't be able to play the game anymore. But let's focus on that.
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Oh, I can smell colors. That's all. Oh, man.
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That one makes me sad, dude. Two sex was so good, man. It was. Yeah. All right, Ryan, before we get to your next one, let's take a quick break and then we'll, uh, we'll see what's up next on your list. All right. Welcome back, everybody. Ryan, I'm still feeling a little nostalgic for Dusex. Get me out of this little bit of melancholy I got going on, man. What you got here?
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Yeah, well, we'll see. I'll believe it when it comes out.
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So speaking of like stealth and that type of thing, and then just kind of memories and like something that was so big back in the day. And I think a lot of these are going to be kind of you know, older type games, because those are the series that, that after five to 10 years, you're like, dude, what the heck? Why haven't you made another game? You know, where, where is it?
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Um, so I'm going to go with siphon filter, uh,
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I mean, although we did get a pretty sick-looking trailer.
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uh siphon filter is a game that i've never played and i see so many people talk about so you got to explain this one to me a little bit you missed out man so the original was in 1999 um the most recent one they had i think was in like 07 or something like that where they the some one of the sequels but the the biggest one was the original i remember it was it was that kind of
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Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. You know, some games crash and burn. Others burn bright before simply fizzling out into obscurity. I'm looking at you, Twisted Metal. And yet others might be cult hits, but with a small group of people and just never really warranted a sequel.
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You're used to playing GoldenEye or, as we started the show, Perfect Dark. All these types of espionage, secret agent games, and you're this cool guy. But this was one where you actually... It was that next stage in graphics. So it was that late 90s where things kind of took that next step up. And it was just... There was something different about it to where you could move throughout the world.
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I know, the trailer was pretty nice. The Perfect Dark remake.
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Yo, man. Yeah, that's a game that we didn't even talk about. I don't think that's coming this year. That's why.
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You could traverse with the night vision and the combat, the gun... Was this like Splinter Cell? Was this like a spy espionage type game? It was very much spy espionage, just a lot like Splinter Cell. I think almost... I mean... I don't know.
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I may be totally way off base, and I'm just going off the cuff here, but Splinter Cell may be kind of the carry-on, the spiritual successor, if you will, of Siphon Filter. I just remember playing it as a kid, thinking that it was the coolest spy game I had played up to that time, and then it just disappeared. I don't remember playing any more after that.
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I don't remember hearing any more after that, and it was one of those that just like... why did this game disappear? Like there was so much there and then it's just gone, you know? And it was just one of those that I think, I think just fits this mold of, of this was awesome. It hit hard and then it disappeared, you know, like, like a one hit wonder type, you know, quote unquote type. Yeah.
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But this is the thing, right? Because it's like, I have heard a lot of people talk about siphon filter and I know that this is an older game, uh, Um, I never, this is one that I'm just kind of completely ignorant to, to be honest, other than the name and other than hearing friends talk about it, like back in the day. So it's like, there was obviously something there that resonated with people.
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Dude, I feel like we talked about it like a year ago, and it's still like, you know, crickets.
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And then it just went nowhere. And it's like, why, you know, was it fighting in the studio? Like, is that they just couldn't get along anymore. And they're like, I'm out, you know? And then it's like, the game's just sitting there, just like reaching out, like, but what about me? I'm a good game.
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Cause it was one of those that, um, at its time for sure was, was definitely next level. It was something that I remember just this, this subway level and, and you're trying to go through these tunnels and you're fighting through, through this train car and the subway and you're, it was just something I'd never experienced before. Um, And I was like, this is going to go on forever.
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Yeah, there's not much going on there for sure.
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This is awesome. I love this game and I can't wait for more of it. And then I never really had that continuation. I know, like I said, there was more that came out, but it just, I mean, the series just kind of died and obviously we don't have any more now. So it fits the mold, but it was just, it's just a bummer.
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I feel like the first Splinter Cell, and again, I could be wrong on this, but I almost wonder if it was just overshadowed. Like somebody did it better than them. I feel like that's the general kind of tingle is like they had something and then somebody came along and went, let's let us introduce you to Splinter Cell.
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Well, because if you hear that sound and I'm going to try to put it in right here. Okay, that's the splinter cell sound. And you know, you know what that is and what that goes to. It's just like that. You know, and that's, dude, your goggles are up and you're going, you know. You're moving now.
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Yeah, stealth mode engaged. Exactly. All right. Well, listen, everybody. I mentioned Twisted Metal in the intro. People that have been listening to the show for a while know how I feel about Twisted Metal. I freaking love Twisted Metal. I played the heck out of that game. I mean, I absolutely loved it. I played all of them. Yes, they kind of started to fall off.
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No. So welcome in, everybody. Thank you for joining us. We have a fantastic episode for you today. There's going to be some games that you probably haven't even heard mentioned in a while. There's going to be some hopes about maybe these games will come back at some point. And there's going to be a lot of like, what the heck happened? Like, what happened to that game, man?
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Twisted Metal 2, in my opinion, I think was the best one. Twisted Metal Black was pretty good. I think Twisted Metal 3 was probably a disaster. That is the one series when people say, what's a series you want to see remade again? It's my instant answer. But I'm not going to harp on Twisted Metal because everybody knows.
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But I had to throw it out there because it wouldn't be an episode about dead games if I didn't bring it up. I am going to bring up, and this is the other one that I kind of hinted at early on, Jade Empire. So I don't know if you guys remember this game, dude, but this was the height of BioWare back in the heyday. And...
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it dude it just came out of nowhere jade empire was basically the game that bioware and i think this came out after kotor if i remember right or kotor one um i could have my timelines off a little bit honestly it's not important but it's like bioware was in their heyday they were making just the greatest games that people had come across and they made this game called jade empire and
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Dude, I remember this game. Dude, see, this is what I'm talking about, right?
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You could be like, you got all kinds of different weapons. It was like, you got martial arts. It was your choices matter, dude. This was like Mass Effect, but like an ancient, like feudal Japan kind of thing. Actually, I don't even know if it's feudal Japan. But it was like action combat to where you were kicking butt. And I just remember thinking like, dude, this game is incredible.
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Great characters, great choices, great combat. That classic height of Bioware where they were just putting out some of the best games ever. And then it just... They just, that was it. No Jade Empire 2. No anything else. It was just, we made this absolute banger of a video game. Yeah. And then we just never touched it again. Just like, that's it. We're good.
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I know why. Like, this is one of those ones where, like, this is Mass Effect. Mass Effect killed Jade Empire. Like, they came out and they said, hey, you know what? We have this idea for this space kind of game. Yeah. But, dude, Jade Empire was so good. I loved that game so much, man. It's not like this was a bad game. This game was a banger. And then they just went, yeah, we're going to... Oh!
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Oh, you mean everybody in the world loves Mass Effect? Okay, we're just going to keep making Mass Effect, people. And my sweet, sweet Jade Empire was an empire no more.
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Empire no more. Yeah, that's... Man, that's one of those, like... Dude, this is... It's... Yeah, looking at these pictures is throwing me way back. It's... That's what happens when you get these forgotten, you know, lost in time. Like, people wonder, you know, even just with... I'm a big history buff, so, like, you wonder how... how certain things in the world or in history just get lost in time.
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And like a game like this, the second I looked at the pictures, I'm like, Oh yeah. Right.
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That's why I said, no, imagine not having computers or the ability to just kind of pull stuff up. That's how things get lost. Basically is the long of the short for what I'm trying to say. But yeah, man, that, that is a, that's a really good pick. Um, Man, yeah, that's... It makes me almost want to go back and play it, dude.
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Legitimately, just to like... Am I looking at it through rose-colored glasses at this point? But I don't think I am. That game was awesome, dude.
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I think at every level, going back to old games, you're always going to have that... If it's nostalgic for you, you're going to have that little bit of rose tint to them. But some of them still just... Even if... you know, comfort of life or certain things don't hold up, uh, because it's an older game. Some of them, you can still appreciate what it was, you know, and what, what it even is today.
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So this is going to be a lot of fun. But Man, we are going to start off with a really awesome announcement, something that has us very excited that we kind of want to just announce to the world, to all of our listeners out there, because this is going to be and has already been the catalyst for a lot of really awesome things that everybody is in store for.
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Like you're like, you know, this is, this is what it is, but I still, you know, this is still pretty cool. You know, I love it. That's awesome, man. What do you got up next, Ryan? So I'm going to go with one that I just... Man, for something that in the... I don't know. I'm not that old, but I'm assuming late 80s.
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But then all through the 90s, that just was something that was a mainstay in all video games. I'm going with Mega Man. Oh, my goodness. I freaking love Mega Man, dude. How can you have...
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So many games within such a small period of time, like let's say late 80s to late 90s, like that span to have so many games that I remember personally playing just as a kid and then even when I was older going back to play them. And I'll even go back here and there now. To have so many games and then just poof. Everybody knows Mega Man. Everybody knows about Mega Man.
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Every gamer knows of the Mega Man games, but why is that series just gone? Where did it go? Where are you at? I don't know.
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Dude, where are you? Yeah. And this is weird because I don't... Was Mega Man like a straight up Nintendo IP? That was Capcom? Capcom.
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Mega Man was Capcom if I remember right. Yeah, yeah. And it's weird to me because I remember playing Mega Man on the old Nintendo. Dude, the premise of those games where it was platforming, it was shooting, it was boss fights. You got the boss abilities, dude. Like... that's the only, I'm, there may have been other games that did it before then, but that's the game to me.
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That's like, dude, you fight this boss and you beat this boss. You get their ability.
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And it was like the leaf shield and the bubble and you know, I mean all that stuff. And it was like, yes, you could play that game in any order. And it was super hard to beat some of those bosses like Nintendo hard. Yeah. Or if you did them in the right order and you got the right ability from one boss, it really simplified the other boss in that case. And then it was like, oh, I'm an idiot.
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I should have done this way. The most recent thing I can remember is it's not even called Mega Man. It's 20XX. I think it's free. I can't remember if it's free or not or if it's very cheap. But somebody made almost like a remake of Mega Man, and it was just called 20XX. And I remember playing it, and it was so good, dude. Yeah. I don't know what happened to those, man. Like, what's not to love?
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Platforming, shooting, boss fights, upgrades, abilities. Like...
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Yeah, and then I know they have the most recent entry, I believe, is Mega Man 11. But that was all the way back in 2018. But it's like, man, it's been a while and it hasn't been that... Well, they're making more games. It's not what it once was. And you're like, Mega Man was huge. It was everything in gaming back then. And so it feels like it's just gone. It's kind of that lost game.
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I think if I had to guess in this case, because I do like talking about what happened to them, right? Why did these fail or why did they go away? There's over 130 games... In the Mega Man series. Oh my gosh. So is this just simply like you flooded the market, dude? You know, when you make 130 Mega Man games, like you're going to have an awful lot of them that just don't hit.
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And when enough of them don't hit, you probably just go, well, we've tapped this series for all it's worth.
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uh you know ip and then just kind of go from there but yeah that that makes sense man that's a lot i didn't realize it was that yeah that's well this is between all platforms yeah boys portables you know i mean all that stuff too but yeah that it's but that makes dang it right yeah
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i freaking loved megaman dude i loved it i had i had a i had a game on playstation megaman legends was like came out in like i think like 97 or something like that and it was um it was definitely one of those that's like a core memory of megaman like the older ones for sure but that was the one that you could just cruise around it was like open world almost but
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So a very good friend of ours by the name of John We are actually bringing on in an official capacity on the podcast or for the podcast to help us out. John is an amazing human. He has a heart of gold. Honestly, his true desire is just to help people in the world. And he's got the heart and the brains to do that. And John has been a friend of ours for a long time.
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I have this very vivid memory still of being a kid and going over to my best friend's house and we would all try to like beat the boss. And if you died, you just hand the controller to the next guy. He'd be like, give me a turn, give me a turn. And then it was just next guy up kind of thing. And of course we'd sit there for hours trying to beat it.
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And you're like, but I wanted to be the one to beat him. Oh, man. Dude, what a great. I freaking miss Mega Man, dude. For sure. All right. What do you got? I'm going to go with just a category of games here. Okay. And there's going to be older people that really are going to just be happy with me right now.
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And there's going to be a whole lot of other people that are like, dude, I've heard of these, but I've never played them. So I don't understand. Yeah. I'm just going to group it as a whole, and I'm going to say Sierra Games in general. Oh. Dude, when I was a kid, the games that... I mean, I grew up on Atari. I grew up on Atari 2600, then NES, then Sega.
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When we had a computer, well, we always had a computer because my dad was kind of a tech guy. But when we got our first, I think it was like a 386, it could actually do graphics and beep beep sounds and stuff. I remember Sierra was one of the first games that I ever played. And I can't remember if it was like Police Quest or Heroes Quest.
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I don't actually remember the very first Sierra game I ever played. It might have been King's Quest. These games were the pinnacle of gaming. They were adventures. They had memorable characters. You had to interact with your environment. You had to solve puzzles. Dialogue mattered. So they were always telling like this really neat story. And then they kind of started to evolve.
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So there was King's Quest early on where you were just this kind of squire guy walking around this kingdom trying to figure stuff out. And it was always these neat little puzzles where you had to kind of observe things and be like, oh, is that a rock over there? And then you could put the rock in your inventory. And then later on, you'd see a bird in a nest with something twinkling in the nest.
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And it was like, if you had the rock, you could throw the rock and then the bird would fly away. And then you'd climb the tree and get whatever the thing out of the nest was. And it was like, they were kind of like, I don't want to call them puzzle games, but they had actual puzzles built into them. And then, dude, then they started to evolve.
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Then they turned into Heroes Quest, which got rebranded into Quest for Glory for people that may not remember the old Heroes Quest games. These are the games that I grew up on. Then they started to branch out because we actually had this conversation. They got into these really kind of funny games like Leisure Suit Larry, where these were very adult themed. Yeah.
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they were hilarious you know like i remember my parents cracking up playing these and they for being adult they really didn't show a whole lot in that case but it was still like just adult themed and i remember i was a gamer i wanted to see the game my parents like no no you're not coming in here no you know but but then i played them later on i'm like okay well these are hilarious man
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Sierra games, in my mind, were some of the best games that ever existed. The only modern games that I can think of that kind of compare or if you've ever played like the Monkey Island games and because they just had one, I think it was two or three years ago that like kind of they did the final chapter of or whatever. That's the very similar style.
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Dude, Sierra games, they were like the height of my childhood. It was this weird thing because not everybody had computers. A lot of people had NESs and Segas, but if you didn't have a computer, you couldn't play a lot of these games.
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And so it was this rare mix of almost a little bit exclusive, but people that had computers were playing Sierra games, all loved them, and it was just good times, man.
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Dude, for sure. And it's funny because it shows the... kind of the broad reach that they had in the longevity. Um, and obviously they're not anything what they were before, but I mean, you say that that was part of your childhood, but also for me, you know, I was born a little bit later. So like the late nineties was when I was kind of,
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in my youth and in my gaming peak, you know, no responsibilities. I can just play games. And that's when I had like Half-Life and SWAT 3. I remember it was like one of my favorite games as a kid. And I'm arresting guys and saving people. And just those games... Played different than everything else. And that's bringing it to something newer. That's what I love so much about... Oh, jeez.
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We've been chatting behind the scenes for a while. And we finally said, dude... you need to be a part of this. And he said, I need to be a part of this. And we all kind of just broed out for a little bit and, you know, went, yes, let's do this, man. So John is officially on board. Um, you will see him in our discord server.
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Now I'm going to forget. With Russia and... Or Ukraine with... Oh, Stalker 2? Stalker 2, yeah. Stalker 2.
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It has that old school kind of... Not to say clunky, but like that... They didn't hold your hand at all, dude. They didn't hold your hand. It was that feel of that old school Sierra game, and that's what I love so much. That's why I love Stalker 2. And those games, you know, late 90s, that was my peak, and I loved them. So that's cool to see that...
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You kind of had your window with that Sierra Games, and I also had my own window with a whole different series of games with the same people, which was so cool, man. If they ever want to make a comeback.
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And I know, actually, the founders of Sierra started working on a remake. I think it was called Crystal Caverns, if I remember right. I need to check back into that. Because I like answering this question. What happened to Sierra Games is they got bought out by Activision. They actually merged with Activision and became Activision Blizzard. So there's like... I don't know if this makes me happy.
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It kind of does in a way because it's like... I mean, we had some really good games from Activision Blizzard. But it's like... There's a little bit of Sierra Games DNA in there. I think so. And I like to believe that that's what made some of these games the games that they are. That's funny.
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No, that's a good point for sure. All right. What's up next for you, man? Oh, man. Jeez. I'm going to go with one that, gosh, I don't know. I don't know how relevant it is in today's gaming world with how just quick and instant response. Everyone wants everything, and you can't just go and do whatever you want in this game. This is strategic. You have to take your time.
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You have to make sure that you go across the river properly. You don't want to get dysentery.
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Every kid who had speech class as a child, their speech teacher just shuffled you off to the computer, which is what mine did. And I played Oregon Trail. What the heck happened to Oregon Trail, man? It was something that I don't understand. It is such a cool premise and thought of you got to get from here to there. You got to trade. You got to hunt. You got to do all these things.
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And they could make it such a cool, like imagine Red Dead 2, but scaled down to where you just got to make this linear path across the Oregon Trail. Why can't we do that?
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Yeah, dude, there's there's something there was something about Oregon Trail because every it was like the one game that every school computer had. Everybody had it. Yeah, but but it was like hidden. They weren't like it didn't it wasn't like, hey, everybody go play Oregon Trail.
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It was your you have like this hour in the library that you're supposed to be doing schoolwork and everybody would like go over the computers and then the students figured out like, dude. if you do this and you do that, like there's a game on this computer and you'd be like, what a game? And be like, yeah, man, just type in like, you know, and this was DOS back in the day.
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You are going to see his influence on a lot of things for this podcast that are coming up. Um, maybe you'll see him on a show or two. He's, you know, he, We can't get shown up by other people, so we're kind of a little hesitant to bring him on the podcast.
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So it was like, you know, you got to go to the director and they'd be like, dude, CD backslash DIR star dot, you know? And then like, it'd be like, you know, run Oregon trail.exe.
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So, Dude, I never killed so many rabbits ever in my life.
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Oh, and then poor Marsha would always get dysentery and die. The beauty of Oregon Trail, I think, was that it taught you, especially as a younger gamer, it taught you, like, you better think ahead a little bit. Yep. You know? Sure, like, buying all the oxen or the food or bullets is a good idea, but, like, you better think about some wheels. Yeah.
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Because if you break a wheel and you don't have one, you're all dead.
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Oh, your wagon yoke, you know? Yeah. Dude. my, my eight year old self was like, Oh no, I better prep for this. It's like, well, I mean, it's good.
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What's funny is there was a recent remake of Oregon trail. I say recent, it's probably been in the last like five or six years. I never checked it out. It's like, I don't, it's one of those games. I just want my memories of sneakily playing it in the library, you know, and trying not to get caught by your teacher.
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Cause if your teacher walked by and saw that you're playing video games on this computer, she'd make you shut it off. And, and, Nobody wanted that. It's a classic game that oddly has withstood the test of time, even though I don't know if the remake's any good or the graphical improvements that they've tried to make on that. I just never tried it.
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Yeah, I haven't either. I pulled some stuff up here. It looks like they released some sort of remake on the Switch in 2022. Yeah. But it's definitely not. I think the spirit of this episode. I think the magic's gone.
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I think the spirit of this episode is like these games are not what they once were and what happened to the series and where is it from now? Because people are going to be like, hey, they just released one this time. But it's not what it was.
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All right, dude, I'm going to bring up one of my favorite series of I said this with do sex and it's still to me to this day is one of my favorite series of all time. I'm just going to call it the X-Wing slash TIE fighter games back in the day. Oh, yeah.
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Dude, there was something about being able to pilot an X-Wing or a TIE fighter in space with a joystick on a computer and just dogfight all of these things. They put you in the most impossible situations. These games were hard, dude. I can't tell you how many times I died from just a swarm of TIE interceptors or something like that.
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And then it's like, you just, you started to become the best pilot ever, man. I felt like Poe Dameron, you know, where it's just like, I'm the greatest X-Wing pilot alive. And I mean, graphically, they were not much. I know that they've done some kind of fan made, like a high res type stuff on these, but yeah,
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But just being a great friend, people have heard Ace of Shame on the podcast from time to time, and we kind of have a feeling that John will be definitely on the show so that people can get to know him. We'll probably make him do a draft with us so that we can just crush him, Ryan, in this draft, and then just kind of make sure he stays humble at the same time.
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There was some kind of crazy just magic back in the day with playing these games and shooting down Thai interceptors or Thai bombers or defending your Mon Calamari Star Cruiser against this big assault or something like that. And then just when you thought like, you know, Hey, I'm finally getting good. You get this briefing and this mission where it's like, it's time to take out a star destroyer.
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And you're like, wait, like, wait, really? And then you have to fly your way in, you know, they're sending little squads of interceptors and tie fighters after you. And then sure enough, dude, you were cruising along the sides of this massive star destroyer and you're blowing up the shield generators and you're It was absolutely incredible, dude.
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I remember begging my parents to buy a joystick so I could actually fly properly.
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so does yours actually work your joystick worked oh yeah okay so yeah dude i was i was notorious and thinking back god bless my parents for putting up with me because the amount of times at whatever uh uh sales and and uh uh you know estate sales and garage sales and everything i'm always like let me get this let me get that and this is
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Game stuff and computer stuff, components were not what they are today, ladies and gentlemen. Just telling you right now, things were hard to get working back then. You had to have all the right ports and drivers, and it was a little difficult. So, dude, the amount of joysticks that I bought to play, like,
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you know uh simulation games or pc you know f22 lightning 3 i was gonna fly fighter jets and i was like i'm gonna have this you know and then i went through like three none of them worked i couldn't get them to work my parents didn't know what the heck to do and i was like i don't know what to do and i'm like well i'll just go to the next game but man that's awesome that you actually got one to work and then you were playing you know playing that game
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And it's really weird to me. They were they and still to this day. And this is not nostalgia, mind you. They are still the best dog fighting space combat games that I have ever played, like legitimately. And I got so hyped when Star Wars Squadrons came out because I was like, somebody did it. This is my childhood.
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And it just, they didn't, it wasn't the same, man. I don't know what, it just didn't have the same feeling. Give me a single player game. And I know that game had a single player campaign to it, but it just wasn't, they lost something there. And maybe it was just the difficulty. I don't know. But dude, I really wish that there was an excellent space dogfighting game like that.
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And I have tried a few over the years. Some of them are okay. you know, like, oh, they're high speed and this and that, but they're just missing something. I don't know if it's just that they're missing Star Wars or they're missing those sounds of the TIE fighter, like screeching, but I don't know, but nothing has ever compared to that. And I have sought it out repeatedly in my adult years.
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So if somebody knows of a game that is equal to the X-Wing TIE fighter games, let me know. Cause I would love to experience that again, man. For sure.
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You know, so if I, if I just have to keep looking at his abs on Instagram, like it's ridiculous, it's annoying.
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For sure. All right. Well, I got one here. I think it'll probably be our last one for this, but I'm going to go with the game that also kind of in that youth time that I thought there was going to be a million in this series because I thought it was such a unique, dark take on just a kind of action environment type game. I'm going to go with Max Payne. Another series I've never played.
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I'm very familiar with the name. I'm familiar that people love it. I know it's iconic, but dude, just like Syphon Phil, I don't know. I need to look back and see what I was playing when all these games came out.
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That might very well have been it, dude. I didn't need any other video game for years because that was the only one.
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That was me in the late teens of recent years. All I played was Destiny, so I missed games for three or four years. Dude, Max Payne was one of those where it came out in 01. The first one came out in 01. It was one of those where it just was taking those new game mechanics to the next level to where you could have that slow motion Matrix-style
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gun shooting gun battles and um it was dark it was gritty there was kind of some you know not the best content for young ryan but i was gonna play it anyways and uh it was it was just one of those that i thought was going to continue on they went to max pain 3 and it ended in 2012 i think it just kind of bled off and they didn't have any interest in making anymore but it was one of those that i thought was gonna continue on and it just didn't
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Were these also like spy type games? Like I'd never played one.
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So what's the, like the, you're more, you're this kind of just kind of beaten up, trodden down detective guy that, that, you know, no luck, you know, it had that kind of aw shucks, no luck type guy, but you're in this dark gritty world and you're this detective and, and your family was, you know, killed. And I don't want to spoil things that people want to go back to play these games, but,
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There was something about it. Basically, you're this detective guy that's going out to kill the bad guys. And you're not the best guy either. And so there was something to it to where it was that mix between towing the line of good and bad. So yeah, man, there was just something there.
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I actually looked this up because I wanted to see what happened to the series. And basically with this one, Remedy Entertainment shifted their focus to Alan Wake and Control. So they kind of went, we had this franchise. They made some good decisions. I mean, it's not, you know, this is an example of like, okay. It's kind of like with Jade Empire.
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Yeah, so we're going to destroy them in a draft just to bring them back down to earth.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
It's like, I really can't complain that we got Mass Effect.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, out of that. It's like, okay, I'll take it.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
So I was like, all right. Well, if you guys ever get bored and want to make a Jade Empire 2, that's fine. But yeah, sometimes, It's funny because sometimes these studios take what they learned and then instead of trying to continue like a franchise and saying we're kind of beholden to this, I kind of like that sometimes they'll just say we learned a lot of lessons.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Now we're going to make a new IP and we're really going to put everything into effect on this.
Video Gamers Podcast
Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
I agree. I think it's smart to learn when to realize that this served its time and while we appreciate it and we love it, we're going to move on to this now and put our efforts into this and we can make something great, you know? So, and not to just, you know, like beat a dead horse, Marvel with, you know, their movies. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, you might be like a perfect human specimen, but we can kick your butt in video game drafts, man. But, but honestly, uh, John is fantastic. He's the driving force behind a lot of improvements that are coming to the podcast. Like, I don't know, maybe this third episode we're doing every week with these indie games, um, maybe coming soon, a video podcast. Oh, Yeah.
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Well, speaking of, uh, things, uh, reaching the end of their time, right. That is the end of this episode. Everybody, thank you for hanging out with us. Listen, if there's games that you go, how did you guys not mention this or, you know, a game that you really just are dying to talk about? We have a place for that. It is our community.
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It is over eight hundred and fifty gamers strong at this point. That is an awesome community. It is gamers hanging out, chatting video games, no toxicity, no insulting people for opinions and game takes and things like that. It is respectful. It is family friendly. There are gamers of all ages that are there. And if that sounds like it is your place, then we want you to be there.
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The link is in the episode description. So we are so excited about the future of this podcast. I mean, you guys, like I said, people will be hearing more about John as well. But man, just when something awesome comes out and you're like, Josh and Ryan didn't do this before. Like, yeah, you can thank John for that as well. You know, that means we're going to be trying some stuff.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
You know, we're actually actively working on trying to get some industry people as guests on the show to kind of talk to voice actors and talk to, you know, other people that are in the gaming industry. Like, you know, an animator, hopefully we're going to have on the show to talk about like game animation and kind of how that stuff goes, too. So we're going to be trying a lot of stuff.
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We want your opinion. That's how we get better. If we try something and you go, guys, this just wasn't it, let us know. I mean, we are here for the listeners. We do this because we are passionate about it. But we really want to expand the content that we can bring everybody. And we are so excited to do that, man. And we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the listeners.
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So for every person that is listening right now, genuinely... We are humbled by the response. We are humbled that we have made so many incredible friends through this just being dumb and talking about video games, man. We say that almost daily where it's like, dude, I don't know how we got here. I don't know how we've made all these friends. And it's just awesome, man.
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So thank you to everybody out there. Remember, if you haven't done so already, like and follow the podcast. Rate us five stars. By the way, if you drop a screenshot of your rating and that you're following the show, we're going to donate $10 to a foster charity. So make sure you do that as well. It only takes a few seconds. That's it for this episode. Thank you, everybody, for joining us.
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Whatever the reason, on this episode, we're going to be covering the games or franchises that have been lost to time. Ones that at one point every gamer had heard of, but now are just whispers of times gone by. We'll be talking about some of our favorites, some we honestly don't really even know what happened to, and maybe a few where we know exactly what went wrong.
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So some awesome charity events. I mean, we are hitting it big time. We love the momentum we have. We cannot thank the listeners enough. I mean, honestly, we have been saying this for a while, but we are experiencing something that honestly, I think people dream about. You know, we are seeing this just kind of very astronomical kind of curve in...
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people finding the podcast, people supporting the podcast, our community is growing leaps and bounds every day. Um, it's really exciting times and honestly, like we could not be more excited. So, you know, we wanted to just put that out to the world. Thank you, John, for being willing to join us on this adventure. Thank you for kind of kicking Ryan and I's butts into high gear on this.
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Um, and listeners, you should thank John too, because there's a lot of really awesome stuff coming, uh, because of him. So,
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good stuff good stuff is uh coming everyone's way for sure yeah absolutely it also means a lot more work for me and you ryan so you know we can say this now check in in like three months and then uh well maybe we'll do like a re-intro for john i'll be like man that guy that guy's got us doing four shows a week i can't do it anymore Yeah, so awesome. But we are very excited.
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We hope that you are excited with us. One more exciting thing before we actually get into these games that have been lost to time is we have a new epic supporter to thank. I'm just going to say Ali A. Because we don't have a Discord handle or anything else. And I don't want to throw your last name out there either. But thank you so much, Ali A, for signing up with Epic Status.
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Make sure you join our Discord server so that we can send you a proper thank you and get you involved in the community as well.
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Thank you. Yes, absolutely. And thank you to everybody else out there that supports the show. If you have it on your mind or your heart that you do want to support this show, you can do that over at MultiplayerSquad.com. You can sign up for as little as five bucks a month, but it really does help the show and it helps us just keep putting this content out there for the world.
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Ryan, let's get into it, buddy, because, you know, there's a certain bit of nostalgia that comes to mind with some of these games. And, you know, we like to kind of go down the nostalgia road from time to time. We don't always want to stay there because, you know, not everybody's got the nostalgia for some of these games.
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But you're going to have heard of these and we're going to do our best to explain why they were great. And then what the heck happened? Yeah, exactly.
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It was so good. Yeah. So, you know, it's one of those things, too. And I kind of mentioned this in the intro. I feel like some of these games and not all of them fit into these categories by any means. But there are games that I think were like cult hits. Like I have one on my list that I'm going to talk about that maybe not a lot of people know about. But.
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Are like, you know, if you know this game, you're going to love this game and you're going to be like, oh, dude, I remember that. But I think it just didn't hit real well for a large majority of people. A couple of games that come to mind for me like this are like Undertale is a good one where it's like very, very passionate following of people.
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but if you haven't played undertale, you're kind of like, dude, I don't get it. If you played undertale, like I did and you played a little bit and you went, dude, I don't get it. Uh, you know, that could be one of those examples. Amori is another game. I'm sure a few people just shouted with joy. Uh, that game is, you know, very beloved by a few people.
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Um, and then sometimes we have games that like released with a bang and then just die off right away. Like, it's like they come out firing and then it just, for whatever reason, they just kind of fade into the mist. Um, But we're going to talk about those, man. And we're going to have a darn good time doing it.
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I'm pumped, man. I'm excited. And I should just say, we just kind of have a list. We're not numbering these. It's not like the number one game that I want to know what happened. So I think this was more just let's kind of talk about some of these games and what happened to them and why they're memorable. Yeah. why we're actually bringing him up on the show. So why don't you get us started, Ryan?
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But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me...
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I'm going to bring up one, and I think this will make some of the listeners happy because it was a recent deep dive that I had to do, and I'm going to come out with a bang here, and pun intended, I'm going to go with Red Faction. Like, what happened to such an awesome game? Obviously, they recreated it to the Red Faction Guerrilla Marsters or whatever.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Remarsters, that's what it was. Yeah, Remarsters, which is just so bad. So bad that it's good, which I love, but... I was introduced to this because of the deep dive, and I absolutely loved it. I loved the gameplay. I loved the destructive environments. And it was something that, with today's technology and the ability to really create some vast...
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amazing worlds that you can destroy you know create it to knock it down if you will like why is this not like a series that's continuing why why are they not making more of this game it's really weird because i have never played a red faction game and you hadn't either yeah i mean we've heard of them like we both are like dude i've heard of the red faction series but then you got forced into playing it and i think it was red faction gorilla yeah right yeah
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Um, and then, um, you actually quite enjoyed it. And it's weird because it seemed like it was very much ahead of its time with the physics and the destructible environments and all this stuff. And I remember actually watching some gameplay and I went kind of like, dude, this is, this is actually kind of a neat concept. Yeah. And then it just went away. Just poof. Yeah. Yep.
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And I think because, you know, this is one where they did actually release if I'm pretty sure that they released one called Armageddon and that Armageddon did not do very well. And so I think what happened is when you start to kind of see, hey, we're onto something and then it declines and then you make a sequel. And then that sequel really underperforms.
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I think a lot of these studios get shy and they just say, oh man, this series really is not resonating with people anymore. So let's just move on. And it's kind of sad in a way because that means like money was the deciding factor on what was a really good series.
Video Gamers Podcast
Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
One bad thing, man, money moves. So it's, it's just, yeah, it's, it's, uh, if you don't perform, then it's just everybody looks at that and it's really hard to get that next kind of, okay, I know this one didn't do good, but we got some really good ideas for this next one. Trust me. Trust me, man. That's what EA says all the time. Trust us, guys. Don't even get me started.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Why didn't they learn? Just let the series die, man. That's what THQ did with Red Faction. And then EA's like, nah, man, we're just going to keep making these. You throw enough darts, one of them will be okay?
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
This is why I try to not share ahead of time, because that was just preliminary. Like, I know this is coming out, but I'm excited. But it took a long time for them to kind of revitalize this game. And then Josh, of course, has to just throw a jab. You know, that's not what it always is.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Like, well, maybe. Maybe. You know what I hate? I will absolutely buy the next Battlefield. I know. Me too.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
You're bringing me down. Let's go to the next one. What do you got? What do you got? Let's go.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Okay, so I am going to bring up one of my favorite franchises of all time. And I actually nerded out the other day because I found out that there is a fan made like kind of remastered mod for this game that is free for people to pick up. And that is a series called Deuce X. Dude, Deuce X, the original Deuce X. I remember being, I was probably 12, 13, somewhere around there.
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Kid in the prime of like, oh my goodness, gaming is the most amazing thing ever. And the original Deuce X... is to this day a mind-blowing game. It was so far ahead of its time. It was unreal. All these people that are talking about, dude, your choices matter. You can approach things in all these different ways. Baldur's Gate 3.
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You know, it's one of the things that people love about Baldur's Gate 3 is you can approach any mission, any quest, any challenge in a hundred different ways. Your imagination is the only thing holding you back. And Deus Ex was one of those games where you could actually approach a situation from like four or five different angles. And at the time, that was mind blowing, dude.
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Like nobody had done that. It's got espionage. It's got cybernetics. It's futuristic. You're Adam Jensen. You're the super cool Neo looking dude who's got this good voice actor and you just sound super cool. And I just remember everything about this game made me feel like I was some kind of futuristic cybernetic spy. you know, hacking terminals and all this stuff.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
And then they came out with, I don't remember the exact order. I think it's like Mankind Divided and Human Revolution are the other two. I might have those swip swapped as far as the release dates. They try to take them to the next level, and I think they just didn't quite succeed 100%. I played both of those games, and honestly, they're both pretty good.
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They don't have the magic of the original, but they were still very good video games, and you can pick these things up super cheap now. And then it's just like, what the heck happened? This is like Mass Effect or Witcher or something just falling to the wayside. Can you imagine if after Witcher 3, they just kind of went, we're done. We're not making Witcher 4. We're good.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
I hear what you're saying, Ryan. Yeah. It was at the top of your list. Because that's what I'm so excited for.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
Now, to be fair, the sequel, Mankind Divided and Human Revolution, were not great, but they were still very good video games.
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Where did they go? It's so weird, because if you ask any gamer, you know, like, of our age, 30s, 40s, you know, in that genre or age type, like, everybody knows the name Deus Ex. Like, you were familiar. You saw that it was released, even if you didn't play it. Like, you were familiar with it. And for something that was that kind of worldwide transcendent, like, to just disappear...
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It's just so weird. You always wonder, like, what happened to cause this to not be continued? Like, how do they not see money in this to make more, you know? And it's just one of those weird things, especially, like you said, it was totally ahead of its time. There was so many crazy things that just blew your mind in real time playing that game.
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
And then just to not get a continuation, it's, like, almost frustrating. You're like, come on, man. What the heck?
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Games Lost to Time - Gaming Podcast
They had it all, dude. They had stealth. They had combat. They had technology. They had multiple approaches to any situation. They had choices that actually mattered and you would find out later on in the game and stuff like that. It was just gaming perfection, dude. And then two sequels that were maybe subpar to the original, but still pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. And then it just gone.
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All I know is when I'm at a party and I finish dinner and then I look and I see like a pile of nachos or I see a couple of cookies. I'm just going for more nachos, man. That's what I want. You're weird.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Exactly. Man, I knew I liked this guy.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
A taco, you can have beef, you can have pork, you can have chicken, you can have shrimp.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Elk burgers are actually pretty good.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Okay, well, since the season is here, it's February, and you know what February means. It's Girl Scout time, where these drug-peddling girls come around and try to give us their crack cookies. So what would you say is the best Girl Scout cookie?
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
yeah it's two and two now right i'm i'm i like i said before i'm not a sweets guy but i will i it is i'm incapable of eating uh one thin mint i will eat a sleeve every time uh no questions asked and i just don't even try to hide it if i'm gonna do it i commit it's not very often but yeah i'm for sure a frozen thin mint guy
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
That is a solid number two. That's fair. And I'm sure if I like sweets a lot more, I would try the other ones, but I just have no interest. So if I'm going to do it, I'm like, all right, well, this is the only thing I'm going to eat. So I just always do the Thin Mints.
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Yeah, that's fair. Grandma's homemade cookie is that soft chocolate chip, just chewy cookie. I love it. That's fair. I'm not going to fight you on that one.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Pie. Let's do beef or pork. Beef.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Heck yeah. And all the different variations in sauce you can get and stuff like that. But let's do McDonald's or Burger King.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
I've never had anchovies on a pizza, but I do like a Caesar dressing that's very anchovy heavy in the flavor. But I'd be interested to try it on a pizza. I've never tried it.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
He's not eating your mama's eggplant, dude. This is specialty. He's eating high diner eggplant.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Listen, we're all winners here. Yeah, that's fair. We got all the questions answered. And at the end of the day, salty over sweet. So I'll walk away. I'm feeling good.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
all i do is just sit and like some people will scroll you know uh sports stuff other people scroll instagram girls i scroll food like i'll just sit and i just look and then i'm sitting in bed at 10 30 like man i'm hungry and my wife you know really are you getting up you're going to make more food and i get a hankering for something and that i saw and i go gotta go make it awesome
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
That's pretty big.
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Yeah. The art style. All of that. Yeah, it's funny because I'm not a turn-based combat type of guy. I'm not always a big fan of those. I can recognize the art and the beauty and the style of those worlds. Just kind of the combat is a little off-putting for me. Speaking of food pudding. Yeah.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
So have you heard of another game coming out that I'm going to, fortunately or unfortunately, remains to be seen? Claire Obscura Expedition 33 is coming out. Have you seen that one?
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Oh, nice. Yeah, it looks pretty cool. I will say, for somebody who's not super hyped for that style of combat, this one does pique my interest a little. Not that I have a choice, but I am a little bit excited.
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metal gear solid the board game and that looked like that looked ridiculously cool and it mirrors the uh metal gear solid game on ps1 almost exactly but just through a board game okay so now now you're speaking my language because i am i am a metal gear head i got that game when i was you know i'm dating myself here but i think i was 12 years old when it came out and i convinced my grandma to buy it for me and i've played every metal gear since um a million times so
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That sounds actually pretty cool. A board game that mimics the actual play style, which I think is one of the few games that it could probably work with that bird's eye view.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
I get that. That makes sense. Yeah, when it's like this type here, these are the restaurants I need to search out for this specific kind of course, if you will.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
What do you want? There's a lot of good restaurants, but what are you looking for, for sure?
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
really really good that you might like well i guess speaking on kind of categories um arizona ironically enough does have i mean we have pretty solid mexican food but overall there's a lot of good kind of other types of food in the valley like ethnic wise what is your favorite kind of food along those category you know range broad spectrum
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For years it's been going on.
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[BONUS EPISODE]: BEST Gaming Foods w/AZFOODGUY - Gaming Podcast
Oh, yeah. You hear that, Ryan? That's all we have for today. So thanks for joining us. I can respect it. I am not a sweets guy, but if I'm going to eat a doughy pastry covered in sugar, I tend to go with waffles. I just like that kind of those little pockets just hold all the goodness, you know, with each every little bite.
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I can see that. No, the decision has been made. All right, all right. The ruling stands. I'm not fighting on this one. It's fine. I got others to fight for.
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Okay, so this is the big one. This is the moneymaker here. And I know that a lot of the world is divided on either side. And we're going to go with sweet or salty.
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Yeah, sweet or salty food. Are you going with the pastries, the candies, the donuts, the treats, or like you said, that pastrami, that beautiful, delicious sandwich, that salty ramen, that delicious ramen you're going to eat, you know, all the good, good stuff.
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yes yes the con is that you do freaking everything yeah that is the downside there is like oh you want this done guess who's doing it guess who's gonna do it yep that's the thing you get you get just so much flexibility and and you avoid all that red tape when you do it yourself um again like you said though you know you're the one doing it yourself i work solo i work for myself and uh
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Sometimes it's really good. Sometimes I'm like, man, I should really get somebody on board to help me. Obviously, as you well know, there's a lot of crazy aspects to designing a game and a lot of work that's involved. How do you go about deciding on these people and picking what parts to kind of sub out to get that little bit of help to alleviate some pressure from you?
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Um, it's one of those things is if there's the willingness to learn, the information is out there with the web. Like we have just the biggest library you could ever imagine with step-by-step videos that show you everything you need to do. And so there's no excuse not to, to have the ability if there's the desire. So that's so cool.
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I mean, gosh, to me, I like, I picture it as like, you're looking up at the top of Mount Everest and you're by yourself. Cause you're a solo dev and you're like, yep, I'm going to go climb that mountain. Like, let's go. Yeah.
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Maybe there's a little bit something there that I need to explore a little bit more. That's so cool. I mean, even with us, I say we would consider ourselves a successful podcast, but there's so many out there and you just have to kind of put out that content and see what sticks and what, like you said, has legs that can keep going.
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So, you know, in this crazy explosion, I'm sure it was a whirlwind of, man, these people really like this. This is kind of something I wasn't expecting. Was there any cool, like, what was your favorite moment out of all of that, you know, something, a crazy interaction or something you got to do? Like, was there anything unique that stood out to you?
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That's a freaking cool moment, man. Yeah, that's perfect. That's top tier right there, man.
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The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
But still, how cool is that? Yeah, that's really cool. If anyone ever tries to give you any gruff, you can just be like, did you win a showcase in a free gaming PC? Yeah. You know? Yeah, that's amazing.
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Dude, yeah, I want to say just watching that stuff and I see that AIM window pop up and I'm like, Oh my gosh. Am I in like eighth grade again? Like what is happening right now? Oh, Ryan, you just dated yourself by the way. Oh yeah, no, I know.
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The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
Oh, definitely. I mean, it's cool to see something that... Honestly, too, what's exciting for me is that it's something that's been created that only honestly could have been created in this time frame. Because going back to your younger days and with AIM and that... You couldn't create this game in any other era. So it is almost like a time piece.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
And it's like a time capsule that encapsulates your world and your life and your story. I mean, that's what seems so cool about it for me. What for you, is it just like the storytelling? Is it how you approach it? What's the most exciting thing of this game for you?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
that's what it is. And then you can run and go fix it. And you're like, I still got it. I still got it.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
That's so awesome. Yeah, I love that. I mean, you learn so much more a lot of times. I mean, obviously, you want to succeed, but when you learn so much from a failure, you're like, okay, that doesn't work. That's off the board. Now I know that I have to go this way. And then as you just progress with that, you keep checking off that list, and you just get better and better.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
And so, I mean, that's so awesome. Yeah. With Lily's World XD, I mean, you've been on it for about eight months, you said. You know, what's next? So you got hopefully like a release date coming up, beta access, you know, anything like that kind of in the works?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
Where am I now? You know? That's awesome. Well, this has been great. So I run the indie episodes we do on Wednesdays. And one thing I always try to tell everyone is, you know, a lot of these indie devs, you know, wishlisting is so important. And, you know, what are some of the other ways people can, you know, go to follow and support you and help this development progress out?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
That's one of those crazy things when you cosplay and people recognize you. Can I get a picture? You're like, absolutely. Yeah. That's cool. So, I mean, you mentioned Last of Us. I'm a big action RPG guy. I love Last of Us is in my top ten. You know, God of War, Uncharted. All those are big, kind of near to my heart. What is some of your favorite games as far as genre-based?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
Are you falling in love more in the horror genre or more action RPG? Where do you kind of gravitate towards with your game kind of play?
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
Wow. That's wild. I haven't heard of that one. It's neat when they put in interesting mechanics like that that just change standard gameplay to something kind of unique and different.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
Man, we got like 100 games we're meaning to play, dude.
Video Gamers Podcast
The Solo Dev Diary - Gaming Podcast
That's fine. I'm just the Lone Ranger. I live a solo life.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
For grown-up hands, please. Please.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
nothing you guys can't see i'm just like crumbling my hands together to try to play like with the joycon what it looks like i don't have big meaty hands but it's like dude even for me like what the heck man we're not giant men i'm i'm 5 10 you know uh 210 and i don't i have decent sized hands i wear large to extra large gloves when i'm working you know and stuff but like
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I don't have giant hands, and that thing, trying to hold it, is just so obnoxious. It's the worst. So for a beef of a man, a mountain of a man, or a woman, you know? So I hope that that little bit of a boost on the size of that is going to help for sure.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
You mean Drift-Cons? Drift-Cons?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, just like your soul. But it looks clean. The way they did it, they have that kind of nice, clean outline along the analog stick that matches the color on the side. So when they're docked and set up, you don't really see it, and the system looks clean. I think it's just a nice, uniform, tech, clean look. Um, all, a lot of the other kind of handheld systems that are, that are out these days.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So it just doesn't look as much like almost a toy when you're playing it or holding it. If you're going to play a handheld mode, uh, I have like a yellow and I have all kinds of crazy colors because I keep having to buy new controllers because they all have crazy stick drift. But, uh, but yeah, so I, I, I love the color scheme that they, they did with this one. It looks very clean.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, how do we stick with what we've been known to make, which is primarily a lot of times these kind of party games, youth games, things like that, with also leaning into a lot of the cool stuff, the innovative stuff they've been doing over the years. So yeah, I think it was a great decision.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So what happens when that button breaks, though?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
A button? A button that no one knows. Whatever could it be?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Dude, this is the internet. This is the internet in 2025, man. That's just, it's, everybody's got an opinion and they're, they got to let everybody know. And, and, uh, What could this button be? And everybody just has to mass hysteria. Nintendo's probably like, man, we released a whole system reveal, and they're just concerned with this one button.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Brother, now it's like linked up to DoorDash or Uber Eats or something like that.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. A controller. A Joy-Con controller. Like a mouse?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Through the power of Nintendo.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, yeah, apparently from the video. Sorry to interrupt.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. That's the thing is it might be one of those, um, let's put this hardware in here now and we'll figure out how to use it or implement it later. Um, yeah, I think they'll develop towards that or maybe technology will even advance towards that, uh, in, in the software realm. So yeah, Yeah, man, it's definitely puzzling, and you're just sitting to think, well, how would they implement that?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
What would be the game? Maybe that's what they want us to do. Who knows what we will see? All this talk just got me so excited.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Dude, I sure hope so, man. Because that would – I just – I think one of the biggest things that have gone away from gaming is gaming together like in person. Oh. Everybody hops on. Everybody's got their own account. Nobody has hard copies of games. So everybody's got to have their system. There's not much of that couch co-op or land parties where... Dude, I know you did the same.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I would bring my computer. I would lug and do a big old job to bring my computer. The monitor. The monitor over – and this is not before these teeny little monitors.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I know we're old and we're dating ourselves, but I would lug this giant little 19-inch monitor over or 16-inch and then it was like 40 pounds and we'd set it all up and then we'd all play for five, six, seven, eight hours until the wee hours of the morning. And I just think if they can create something to where it eases that – into being able to do that type of LAN party group.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Because, I mean, Switch is already, Nintendo is already geared towards party games. If they can make it easier, dude, I'll be so stoked. Easier in person.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
What do you mean? You're playing games together.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah. Man, this one's hard, because obviously we can see the core of the system and what they've shown so far, so there's not too much to go out of that realm on anything crazy. I know even people in our Discord today were talking about some sort of camera, hologram, projector stuff that they could maybe implement within the Switch and stuff, but to me...
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I feel like it might be more software based to where if they're able to implement some sort of just, I don't know, Nintendo based like crazy AI that, that they implement within their games from now on to where everyone's having unique experiences in switch to games that, that will draw people in, um, shot in the dark, crazy, you know, who knows?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Maybe they're creating a cybernet, but, uh, but who knows? Um,
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
It's a potato, man. It's always been a gimmick. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So like, think about that though. You're, you're, you're killing time somewhere and you're like, hold on, let's play this game and you can just bust it out, throw it onto the wall. You got like a, a eight foot by five foot projection where you're just, you know, you're playing Super Mario Kart.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Exactly. Ma'am, could you move? I'm on my third lap. Can you sit over there, please?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
For something that's not super hardcore on the performance base of it and what they have to cram. We have to cram this crazy GPU and all of this other computer set in here to make sure we can have this ultimate performance. They don't need to do that. Like you said, their games sell. And that's why people buy the system. If you can offer that, like, dude, that would be next level.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So you just clip them on and dude, okay. Golf club. You can set it up. It'll have the line set on the golf club. And then you'll know if your club face is open or closed. And then you could play VR golf or some sort of simulator golf on it too.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Maybe that's what they're banking on.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I would say we're pretty hardcore gamers, and I know a lot of other people in our Discord and stuff are as well. I don't know about you, but when I look at a Nintendo system or a Switch, I don't think of multiplayer.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I never think of multiplayer. Like maybe like with the family when we're here, like a party game, like let's play together. But I never think of I'm going to get online and play this game to where you think of Madden or you think of Call of Duty or any of these other games on these other systems. Marvel Rivals. Right, Marvel Rivals.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Everything is like I'm going to hop on and I'm going to play with my friends, you know, and that's what you think. But Nintendo, that's not what comes to mind. It's like this is a – We're just going to play at home system, you know, and, you know, who knows?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
But like, I just I feel like, yeah, that's a big thing they're missing out on is if I mean, if I could easily just hop on and go face my buddy at Mario Kart and just talk trash and beat him to the, you know, beat the brakes off of him. That would be awesome.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
The answer is no. The answer is no. But also, will I buy it? Yes. Yes. I'm not saying I won't. Exactly. It's like, no. Honestly, in my brain, it looks exactly the same as it did on Nintendo 64. It did.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
you know like i'm just it looks the same to me i when i run over a banana i get just as mad you know it's like it's the exact same blue shell dude but it's just like all right this is a new one so it's you know a little bit of upgrades and whatever features they add or whatever things they do but yeah it's not anything that's gonna sell the system for me but um but yeah it's it's something of course you know and nintendo knows it that i'll buy
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I think to reach the levels that they probably want to get to, they do need that. I know a lot of people, because this is... around roughly 95% backwards compatible. I know they said that most games will work with the Switch 2, most Switch games.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I know personally, my friend that I mentioned earlier, he said he's never owned a Nintendo system, but he's buying this one because there's been a lot of Switch games that he's wanted to play. So, you know...
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Something like this, I think for people like us that already own Switches, that already have always played Nintendo games, they have to have that thing that's really going to make us want to play. That's the draw. So I know personally, I didn't have a Switch for a while. I really wanted to play Animal Crossing again.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I played a ton of Animal Crossing when I was younger with Paul on the GameCube and whatnot. And I'm like, you know what? I really want to play it. This was during the COVID times. I'm like... It took me forever to find one, but I found one, and then I was playing it, and then I got into all the other games again with Switch and Nintendo, and then Zelda and all that stuff kind of went from there.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
But I think they have to have something to really draw in the people that just aren't already going to buy it. They're going to have a base that is no matter what going to buy that system, and they have to draw in the other people. It's just a question of what's that going to be.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Exactly. Yeah. Oh, cool. My Mario Kart race will have an extra, you know, eight guys or 12 guys or whatever. I'm still going to smoke all of them anyway. Yeah, whatever. 150, 250cc, boom, gone.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I will say, if you are a scalper, And I don't care if I alienate anyone. You are the scum of the earth. Oh, yeah. And I did very much dislike. I won't say I hate you, but I dislike you very, very much. And you were the reason it took me this long to buy my first switch because I couldn't find one anywhere. I went to four million targets and I called all people all the time.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So don't be a scalper, man. Just let people get what they want. You don't need to make your 50 bucks or 100 bucks off your system by buying them and selling them and stuff. But let the people have their game systems.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
We'll try to make that happen.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So yes, we will be buying the system.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Let's do an extra episode. We got to talk about this. We got to let it out.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
You may dispense with the presentries, Commander. I'm here to put you back on schedule. I assure you, Lord Vader, my men are working as fast as they can. Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
not terrible at this we're not that's what we always say like we don't suck like we're not maybe maybe we're not the best for everybody but we promise we don't suck
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Listen, listen, time, you know, just like Gandalf, you know, man, it's all over the place. We're everywhere.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I'm getting there. I'm getting there, buddy. If you look at my beard and my head, man, I'm getting there. Well, you are 15% bigger, as we proved in the intro. Family show.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
You told me it was a good intro and you were happy about it. Dude, that's probably one of your best. I wasn't lying, right? I am 15% happier than I was before. I'll tell you that much. That was a solid intro.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I knew what you were going with, man.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
No, no, it definitely does. First, though, I want to say, without a doubt, all companies should take this practice and just put it in effect. The shadow drop,
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I think it causes so much more excitement and bewilderment and whatever thing you want to call it to where the media and the craze of the internet with how fast things transfer just goes off the chain as opposed to announcing it and then everybody waiting and then it's just this long, drawn-out thing to where people lose interest. I think this blew up today.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
And for good reason, I absolutely love it. I secondarily love the fact that they did it this way. I don't want to see people just like sitting and playing a system or do I want to see it. And, and the fact that they did make it look like that car commercial to where they're sweeping through the lines. I get to look at the device. I get to see the ports.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
I I'm kind of, you know, I'm one to be curiosity. Yeah. I, and I'm one to be excited by a trailer. So this like a media, I'm like, okay, that's, That's kind of cool, you know, looking at it. So I love the way they had this kind of whole thing set up and the way they produced it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, I had a buddy, my buddy Sean. I've been playing PlayStation with him for 15 years. We've been playing games. I've known him forever. I played hockey with him since I was a kid. He's never owned a Nintendo system, and he sent me the trailer this morning at like 6.30 in the morning, 6 in the morning.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
And that shows how much that reaches immediately for somebody who's never owned a Nintendo system to have that off the cap, ready to go, to send to people, for everybody to see and just get excited about it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Or even, what was it? Helldivers. Didn't they just do that with the new race or whatever? Yeah. They're like, oh, by the way, you know, and then I was like, oh, what? And I went that night and looked up. I'm like, sure enough, there it is. You know, so it's, man, this stuff, it just, it makes that pop a little more, you know, dramatic, you know, in my opinion, at least.
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
So it's hard for me. It was a little bit of, Okay, that's a Switch. I kind of want to know more. What is going to be the... Okay, it's bigger. That's cool. The controllers, that looks cool. The mounting system and whatnot. But what is going to be that advancement? What's going to be different? And is it going to be more hardware-based, software-based?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
What are we looking at that's going to make that next step to make... me personally justified buying a new system. So it was a little bit of excitement, but also kind of just a little bit of a drawback of where are we going to go with this?
Video Gamers Podcast
Switch 2 Reveal Extravaganza Episode - Gaming Podcast
Like, what is it? What is it going to be?
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
I'm through a couple chapters so far. I'm a few hours in. I like to take my time. I did test out Nightmare. It is a nightmare. So be ready for that. Buckle up if you want to get crazy.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
I can see that a little bit. I mean, my opinion, though, I'm the slayer, so I don't care about any of them. And I'm just like, who are these scrubs? Like, I'm just here to rip and tear. So I didn't mind it too much, but I do see what you're saying, especially about the Viking-looking guys. They just kind of look like generic soldier dudes.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
Bro, I am ready to rip and tear. I have needed this game for a long time, brother. I'm pretty stoked.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
Absolutely. I love the weight they gave the character. And as a Slayer, you feel strong without your enemies feeling weak. So it's not like these are just a bunch of marshmallows that you're smashing through. These are strong characters. You're just that much more powerful, which I loved.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
And one of my favorite parts of it, too, is when you're in low health, you're incentivized to attack. You have to be super hyper aggressive. Okay, I have five health. Let me go charge that enemy group of 15 and try to get some health orbs. Like, I love that fact that it's just constant go, go, go, go, go. And you never stop just destroying.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
I mean, I'm a kid in an arcade again, just blown up bodies like it is. It is been a blast.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
They just smash right through them. I love it. Even the Titans. You're like shooting them down. I love it. I bet initial impressions. Solid. I love it.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
yeah same same a bit of getting used to just coming off expedition 33 but yeah but probably what i needed it's a wonderful palette cleanser we just need a mod now where uh the slayer can wear like the hat and the this little scarf and his french outfit maybe carry a baguette you know just ah yeah love it love it
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
Yeah. 100%. Yeah, you're in there. The music is fantastic. I want to run through a wall, which you can do, which is amazing. You just go through. It all syncs up together. It's utter chaos, utter destruction. Initial impressions are a crisp, clean combat with lots of energy and just crazy, crazy everything.
Video Gamers Podcast
Doom: The Dark Ages - First Impressions | Gaming Podcast
And then you just keep upgrading to more weapons and more ways to kill things. Imagine if they had the Slayer against the Painteress, bro.
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This is actually an intervention. This has nothing to do. My phone is on. I can Google for you.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I thought I might have to kill you, but if you want it, I guess you could kill someone else.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
It was Junior when he got it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Birth name. Really? Jackie Pizza. Did you check IDs? She showed me her ID. Jacqueline Pizza.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
This is just like a kid with autism. It sold my soul.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
What if Brandon went to your hometown? Ron DeSantis cowboy boot diagram.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Dude, my dad kind of stopped doing that, like, thing where they, like, you know that, like, metal thing when you were a kid? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
He saw a light bulb and he just freaked the fuck out.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
All the time. Everywhere. They would go down my street outside my house every day.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I mean, I was just going to give her a carriage ride.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
How many bars are holes? I mean, I don't know. You know Howson Hall.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
And who died of AIDS but refused up until his deathbed to admit that it was AIDS because he didn't want people to know he was gay.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
He would hate to see us win.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Pull up this bar. Houston Hall. It's spelled like Houston. H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-O-U-S-H-
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
And she couldn't get into the next bar. Oh, no.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
No, we didn't go there with that. You got to turn the other cheek on that. You're thinking of a different spot. I know what you're thinking of. You got to walk away. That was... He's thinking of some place on like the... I don't know, a different place.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Yeah, sometimes I wake up freezing and sometimes I wake up sweating, but I just kind of have accepted that.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I feel like you would know shit about like war or something.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
That's got Justin Fields.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Yeah, I've never met him actually. But we went to the same college. Oh, we share blood. So Lawler kicked you out this morning?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
It's going like a thousand miles an hour down the street. This is like a great noir film.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Don't fact check me on that, though.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Hey, Sammy. This guy over here doesn't believe me about your bar slide. Would you mind serving one up just to save my good name? My pleasure, bud. Thank you, Sammy. Let's clean this garbage out of here. We're in the runway.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
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Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
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Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Exactly, yeah. If you really want to punch through 120 years of age, you need some kind of gene therapy. And so this is not... Are we there, dude?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I'm telling you, you guys. I'm telling you, don't die. We're there. It's not obvious. It's like we don't have the things off the shelf right now, but it's moving. And I think in our lifespans, there's plenty of time to get this stuff out.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We're always doing new stuff. He's like, yeah. Yeah, we're doing some exosomes on Monday when I'm back in LA. Some what? Yeah, exosomes. What's that? Yeah, so maybe you've heard of stem cells? Yes. Yeah, so you do these kinds of... These treatments that have, people have used them for all kinds of things. They use it for facials.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
They've been trying to treat people with paralysis, rebuild spinal injuries. So they're used for a wide variety of things. I used it for mesenchymal stem cells. I did it on my joints as an experimentation. So we're always trying. You really are a human lab rat.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
we were really safe. So when we go through this process, like, so I would say this, oftentimes people suspect or suggest that I am somehow at greater risk. Yeah. And I would suggest they are at greater risk because we measure me so intensely. Yeah. How often do you get your blood work done?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I mean, depends on what we're doing, but you know, sometimes weekly, biweekly, monthly, I'm getting MRI scans all the time. We're doing like, uh, We're doing microbiome, urine, like we're doing everything all the time. Do you drink your Shibambu? What is that?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Very lean, runs marathons.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
No, I mean, I measure my sperm weekly now, but... Weekly? Yeah, we just started doing that, yeah.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Well, so like what we find out is when you measure these things weekly, you just find these really neat relationships with how things change. So I've been measuring my sperm, I've measured my sperm four times over the past... four years, which is not enough.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So we need to see like what happens when, and then, you know, like when we have the LA fires, what happens when your body's filled with toxins? Does your sperm go down? You know, like does the motility go down? So we're just, every time we want to know more, we just increase the density of measurement. Then you start seeing all these relationships.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, so you've got various metrics. Like you want to see total sperm count. You want to see the motility of the sperm, like how many are swimmers. Yeah, you want to see the DNA fragmentation index. That's kind of a disputed idea, but you want to characterize the sperm through various quantities. And then you can design an age to it. So everything we do always has an age.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So you can be, you know, I'm 47 years old, but like my heart is 37. Oh, yeah. My cardiovascular ability is age 18. My nighttime erections are age 18. Are better than an average 18-year-old.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
It's his great-grandfather's name, yeah.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. You got to shift that mindset. Okay. Wow. Right? So you're really committed to this lifetime. You're going to do it. You're this close. So I'm talking at South by Southwest on Thursday. Yeah. And I want to give a talk about 10 reasons why death is dumb. I love it. You're drinking liquid death. I love liquid death. And I'm just saying.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I'm just saying death is on. Yeah. Right. But my life is so bizarre. I go around trying to convince people. Not to die. And I'm called a fucking weirdo. Right. But no, but Talmadge is great. I have three kids. I didn't really imagine that my child would become my best friend.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
And we... it's like he teases me. He's like, sometimes he knows in my intonation, when I say his name, he's like, ah, you're in dad mode. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And like, I'm just going to command what he does and he doesn't, no matter what happens. And the other time he's like my peer. Sure. And we're very much morphing into that kind of thing, but it's, it's like my favorite. It really is.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
That's right.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. How did that go? Did your father see benefits? Huge benefits. Really? Yeah, gigantic. So people don't realize that, you guys maybe know this, that I did it because my father was experiencing cognitive decline. And so honestly, he has turned his life around. He's in his early 70s. Exactly. His friends, his coworkers are like, Rich, what is happening? Like, we do not understand.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
You attribute it all to the plasma transfer? Part of it. He's on blueprint as well, but that was a significant spike in his well-being. And I suspect now it's been over a year. So the effects have to be wearing off, if not worn off entirely. But I mean, it kickstarted something in him that was really... He did mesenchymal stem cells with me. He did the folistatin gene therapy.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Are you a big peptide guy too? I did that when I sprained my ankle.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We're going to start that next month.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Cool. Yeah. We just did, uh, we did our baseline tests. We did three metabolic tests and we're going to see where my baseline levels are. Then we'll figure out the dose. We're excited to try it.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. We've been looking at my pineal glands. We did an MRI. Because as you age, it calcifies. And then it stops producing. Yeah, I know. That's scary. It's scary. And then it stops producing melatonin, which is why you supplement as you get older. And so we were looking at using this ultrasound technology to ablate it.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So basically, can you use ultrasound and knock out the calcification so you get back to it?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So that was the theory. So you can use ultrasound to ablate all kinds of things, stones and stuff like that. So it was just a repurposing of can you do a different part and can you do it in the brain? So when you're in the brain, you want to be very careful. So we had these, I did one session. We started with very low dose. So we actually didn't complete the entire protocol.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I had to travel and never got back to it. But yeah, this is the kind of technology where if you can, like you can decalcify, maybe you can restore uterine function.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So yeah, I say it's plant-based. Vegan has all this baggage. But plant-based, OK. Yeah, yeah. So we're just driven by the evidence. And so we went through the evidence, and we say, what foods have the highest value contribution? to lowering your speed of aging and maintaining health. And we just ranked them. So there's no, like, we don't have a horse in this race. We don't have an ax to grind.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We just wanted highest quality evidence. And so we created this don't die plate. And so I basically eat a lot of legumes, like lentils, beans, edamame, a lot of extra virgin olive oil.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Oh, I brought you guys a bottle. And you drink it.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Why drink it? Well, you can.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
You know what? I love olive oil.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Have you had good olive oil? Yeah, I've had some good olive oil. Can we bring one out? Please. Let's drink some olive oil. Let's put some olive oil in your coffee.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Hold on.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Berries, nuts. Tofu, berries, nuts, seeds.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I have the best bowel movements.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, but it's like I'm never upset. I've never had any problems. I'm never bloated.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We do both hemispheres because we're trying to keep it within consumption within 12 months of harvest. And so, because as it's not like wine where it gets better over time, it degrades. You want to drink it as close to harvest as possible.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Alcohol?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. So I was going to ask you about that. That was July of last year. Yeah. How are you doing?
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Thank you for asking. Cancer-free.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, yeah.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So we've actually been wanting, I actually want to build a garden.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
And do that and control the entire. I'll come over. I'll show you what to do.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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How big is this? Is it a small thing? I'll show you what I have.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Organic is full of shit.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, I know. Okay, so here's the thing. We have been... Here, let me get this.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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You're going to love it.
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Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I'm telling you.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
It's great. Tom, do you have something you can get it in? Vodka. Do you guys make me one? Do you drink coffee? I don't. I love it. I mean, it's great.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
It just creates a mood swing for me.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
I prefer my own. That's good.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. So I was going to say we smoke meth, uh, with a little Coke, you know, like a clock topper with, um, when we started doing this, like going into the die equation, we started measuring everything I was eating. So every single food, uh, every single supplement, all my water, all my air. And so everything. And so food, as you know, is incredibly toxic. Yes.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
And so it's horrifyingly bad, and there's no standard. So we're creating a new thing called Don't Die Certified. We're going to crowdsource this where you take your favorite food, vote it up, and then it'll be like $500 per test or whatever it is. We'll get the results back. We'll post it for the public. So any food. And we're going to try to test.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
It's actually really good.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
It's very nice. And that's good for me? Yeah. So I consume more olive oil than any other food type in my diet. 15% of my daily calories.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. That particular scene from the documentary was when I was earlier on in the project and I was doing 1,950 calories a day. So I was 20% caloric restriction. So it's pretty deep. That's why I got pretty skinny. So I've since increased it to 2,250. So I'm substantially more. And so now my hunger is in check. So I am slightly hungry all the time, but I find it really enjoyable.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Because having eaten too much is actually quite miserable. Yes. Yeah. And even feeling like neutral, it's okay. But I like the edge of a slight hunger. I feel more creative. I feel more energetic. Same. I just feel better. It's like being on Ozempic. Yeah. That's where I'm at right now. Yeah. What's your dosage on that?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, yeah. Cool.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Cool. What's your experience?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So when I met you today, that was the first thought I had. I thought you, I thought, I thought you, you feel good. I could tell like the way your, your, your clothes were on you and the way you moved. I did. I felt you. I thought like you're feeling good about soft wave.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
so you it's like every okay here's a secret every two months is like the most you can do it every two months you have to rebuild it so the way you can cheat that healing time is by doing hyperbaric oxygen therapy I just did that when I had cancer too I want to buy a chamber okay yes I'll give you I'll tell you which chamber to buy I just did 69 sessions that's amazing for anti-aging and you know it's the best whole body skin rejuvenation therapy you can do it's better than any treatment
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, go ahead. We're going to share our data this week. It has probably been the most effective whole body therapy we've done.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
hyperbaric stuff of course i i think so too there's so many hyperbaric chambers yeah if you pull up brian johnson how did you find the one that that uh that is you know the right one for you so we got a hard shell uh yes i moved my office you see all the memes people are doing on me stop it you're working in there yeah so because in these hard that's yours yeah
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So in these hard shell chambers, it's two atmospheres, but the oxygen level is 21%, which is what atmosphere is. So it's just the flammability of our environment right now. So you can take your electronics in there and work. Otherwise, if you have to peel off 90 minutes a day, you can't do it. So I basically worked there in the first 90 minutes.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
But you still get the benefits of a different level of oxygen in there? Yeah, because that mask, so you breathe 20 minutes on with oxygen, then take a five minute break. So 20 on, five off, and you do it for 90 minutes. And yeah, it improved my microbiome, my brain, my skin, my cardiovascular ability. It reduced these advanced glycated end products, like junk in your body. It just like whole body.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We're really surprised.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So I get that. So to help bridge that gap. So if you see LeBron James, you're like, he performs really well in the court, one of the best basketball players of all time. And he sleeps well and eats well. And you're like, God damn it, LeBron, you're fucking cool. And then a guy like me, people don't know who I am.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
So they're like, who is this vampire billionaire, tech billionaire, Patrick Bateman, Prometheus, fuck face guy?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Sounds like you've been reading some comics. Cause they don't know. So I was like, you guys, I get it. Also, I'm a rejuvenation athlete. And so I created this Olympic sport. We have a leaderboard. It's who has the lowest speed of aging in the world. Anybody can compete.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah. So you can do these age tests. They're so much fun because like we could actually do seven in studio today. What? Let's do it, bro. Yeah. Yeah. How? Yeah. So seven easy ones. So for example, you can do grip strength. So there's like a little meter. Yeah. Yeah. Just hold it. So, and there's a, you have one with you guys. Do we have it?
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Do we have a grip strength thing with us? I hope we do. That'd be cool. Yeah. Okay, and that's a measure of longevity? Yeah, so you look at a chart and you say your age, and then you say for your age, you're at 25th, 50th, 75th percentile, or 99th percentile. You could do another one, a one-legged stand. So you stand on one leg and you close your eyes.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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It's very hard to stand upright on one foot with your eyes closed. It measures your balance. So as you age, you're good. Okay. You can do sit and reach. So just sit on the ground. You're trying to stretch. I never could do that shit. Yeah. That's age-based. Continuous push-ups. Continuous push-ups.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, I know. Exactly. Yeah. So we have standards and rules. But these are just introductory ones. And then, of course, you can get so much more advanced. You can look at your...
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
age of your heart of your lungs of your brain of your speed of aging your body it's like i've done more biological age tests than any human in history that's for sure we measure everything because it's so fun like what happens when like when you do methylation blue yes like what happens to your immune system does it change does it does it become younger and it's by in its profile so we're trying to assess all these cause and effects so when you feel that why um
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1,200.
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It seems very boring. I think the good news, you guys won't have to. I hope not. For example, you can typically drink tap water and not die. So there's like some basic level of health built into society. As we get better technology, you're not gonna have to do the stuff I do. You're just gonna like do society. Food's gonna be clean.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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I did go to Burning Man. Okay. Yeah. I threw off the routine. Yeah. So I went to, I did the, I was on stage with Rufus.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
Yeah, and they were filming it. I didn't think much of it. But people watching were like, is that Brian Johnson on stage with Rufus at Burning Man? Did you like Burning Man? It was fun. Yes, you had fun.
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Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We had so much fun.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
Bryan Johnson Will Never Die | Your Mom's House Ep. 803
We went out on the playa. So on Friday night, the last weekend, we were up all night long. That's definitely not your norm. All night long. How did that feel? It was amazing. We had such a fantastic time. Wow.
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No. We took naps during the day, trying to get ready for it. We took a nap during the day. We tried one at night. So really trying to be thoughtful about it.
Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura
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Yeah, so I went to India and China last month, two months ago, and it increased my speed of aging by almost 30 to 40%. Oh my God, for sure. Just from- Being off the- Exactly. Time travel, the time difference, the lack of sleep. What about something like coming to Austin though? Does that screw you up at all? Yeah, well, it's like a little bit.
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Like my hotel room, it has a little, there's a light on the balcony. Weirdly, you can't turn it off and I can't close the curtains all the way. So light comes into my room and then you have a mask on, it takes the mask off and the body is just sensitive to light. And so it changes my circadian rhythm. My bed is not chilled like I have at home.
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Yeah. My room is not cool enough. So like there's small things here and there.
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So I turned the temp down to 65 in my bedroom. Wow. So this is a thing. Yes, married couple thing, yeah. Yeah, I got it. Do you guys sleep in the same bed? Yeah. How's that going?
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Yeah. Have you ever tried not sleeping in the same bed? Tell me about it.
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I will say I sleep better at home than on the road, though.
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Yeah. Do you have any kind of stimulants built in? Like do you do caffeine before your show to get into the right?
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I feel for you. Yeah. I mean, doing this, I'm here at Austin all week and I'm sure by day four, I'll be feeling like I really want to be at home.
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Yeah. I'm missing out on all the good stuff. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's a lot. 300 times.
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I want to see it measured.
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So these are the kinds of things they live in antidote. Yes. I want to see him lead the leaderboard.
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Right? Watch him jack off or something. Yeah. You got to measure that shit. Otherwise-
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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. . . . .. a, P P P P P P P P P P,實, ac , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , a sol a And so I bought a jet and it just kind of fell in love with it. It's just the best. What kind of did you get? Can I ask? I bought a Mustang first and then I got a phenom 300. Those are incredible. Yeah. Yeah.
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So I sold it in the pandemic. So yeah, there was like a two to two and a half year time where I just wasn't flying. And you've got to fly the plane. Otherwise, it just, yeah, there it is. Yeah, those are rad. It is so fun to fly. Yeah, I got my license. So you got instrument rated to fly this? Yep. You can fly that solo. Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, I honestly am really kind of mixed on this. I fly commercial right now everywhere I go. Germs. Yeah, man.
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Yeah, so what was I saying?
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I asked if you were going to buy another jet. Yeah, so I wasn't flying. I was doing Blueprint, and I was – basically not traveling because we were trying to do everything perfect for my biomarkers and traveling is so costly on hurting biomarkers. And so I had like a four year run where I just wasn't traveling.
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And then the plane owns you where you have to fly somewhere every week because if you don't, The plane just, you know, you create risk because something that's not used in a mechanical system is gonna fail. And so it's gotta be used. And so I just wasn't using it and it was such a pain in my ass. So I just got rid of it. And so, but now recently I've been traveling a lot more.
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So yeah, I'm thinking. Yeah, I mean, but you know, like I, I mean, Flying is just so fun. It's the greatest. Yeah.
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Unquestionably.
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Yeah. You can get a jet, and you can probably get away with the annual operating costs at around $400,000 to $500,000. Wow. So just get a four-seater. It has a range of, call it 1,000 miles. Cruises like 300, 400 miles an hour. And so it will suck doing coast to coast. If you're east coast doing west coast, that sucks. But given that you're in Austin, you've got nice short hops.
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So anywhere in the U.S. is pretty doable. You have one, two stop runs. and just get a pilot for any time and it will be worth the money.
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Yeah. So I think you definitely should get your license, but also I'd always fly with a co-pilot. Sure. Yeah, because if you don't, I think the stats are something like professional pilots are like seven times safer than... amateur pilots, which I am. Yeah. Cause you get in the plane, you're like remembering stuff. You're not doing it all day, every day. So you're just not fast.
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And so if you get into a situation and you need to be fast, like you're kind of screwed. Yeah. So I always have someone in the cockpit with me. That's awesome. So I do. Yeah. It's like, so if your financials allow it, it definitely, it was worth the worst, worth the increased efficiency of the things you can do. Yeah. And the way you can do them. Save time. So much time.
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Yeah, there's good low-cost planes like Turban. But are they safe if they're low-cost? They're safe. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. So you don't need it because the Phenom was, I think, like $8 million I paid or something like that. But you can get four-seaters for probably like even less than a million, like $700,000. What? Yep, finance it, and then operating costs are pretty low.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. That was like my early days. I was like, I can do whatever I want. I'm going to put on nail polish. You can. You can do whatever you want. I went out of that phase, but like, yeah, I want to do it. By the way, I've really enjoyed the other day.
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Yeah. Yeah, so do it every day. It's really, really good for you.
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Don't I have some stripes of some autistic behaviors? Well, yeah. We all do.
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I'll share it with you guys so you can have it as part of your lifestyles.
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Okay, cool. Yeah. This is, I'm going to distill like the most powerful laws of what I've learned for the past four years. Okay. Yeah. Let's go. Okay. So first, I just want to say to you guys and the audience, dying is dumb. Okay. Okay.
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Let's go. Dying is dumb. We accept this premise. Great. Okay. So you want to make sleep your number one life priority. And that's hard. That is very hard because- He mocks me.
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It's insane.
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Yeah. The hard thing about this, though, is it's really not built into our culture. We just sleep whenever we have time. So you need to build your life around sleep. So here's how you do it. So the most important thing is your resting heart rate before bed. So that is after your show or when you're getting ready for bed. when you lay down on a pillow, measure your resting heart rate.
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So if you have a wearable, like an Apple watch or, okay, great. So just look at your beats per minute and you'll probably be something like 60 thereabouts. And so you want it to say it's 60. Okay. Your goal is to try to go from 60 to 50 over the next few weeks. Okay. Because the lower your heart rate,
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Exactly. So the drivers, those things are big. Also food. Because when you eat food, your heart's pumping, trying to digest. And so you want to eat. That's why I eat at noon. Because I give my body nine hours to digest. So when I go to bed, my body's fully completed. Its primary digestion is done. And my heart rate is 44. Now, if I eat at four or five, my heart rate's gonna be at 52 or 53.
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If I eat something bad, it's like 60. And that's gonna just destroy my sleep.
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What's that look like? It's wrecking their sleep because their heart rate will be up probably 20 beats per minute. And there's an exact relationship with heart rate and lower quality sleep. So it's going to demolish their deep sleep. And so deep sleep is when the trash collector, the trash truck rolls through your body and it picks up all the garbage.
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And if you miss that deep sleep window, the trash collector doesn't come and you have trash accumulation. It's not like the next day you feel it. Yeah. And the trash collector doesn't come back and like, oh, I'm going to pick up three days of trash. It can only fit so much in the truck. And so you don't want to miss these cleanup windows.
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Yeah, exactly. Autophagy, where your body literally goes through a self-eating process, and it cleans up trash in your body and gets rid of the debris.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Exactly. So yeah. So if your bedtime is, let's say at 10 o'clock, let's say Tom, you're at midnight thereabouts. Yeah. So try to have your final meal of the day at least two hours, if not six hours before bed. And just experiment. But you'll see the earlier and the lighter you eat, it will drive down your heart rate. And you'll feel amazing because your sleep will get better.
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And then, Tom, you mentioned also the wind-down routine. And so what I do is I actually do self-talk. And so I give the various versions of me names. So I'll say like Ambitious Brian, Anxious Brian, Dad Brian. And then I'll listen to their voice when they show up. Dad Brian, 7.30 p.m. when I'm doing my wind-down routine. My bedtime's at 8.30.
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Dad Brian may be like, today when you were talking to Genevieve on the call, we had this interaction and you really should have been more understanding, whatever the rumination is. And so I'll have to listen to that and say, okay, great. And I'm going to write that theme down and say, I'm going to call Genevieve tomorrow and say, hey, babe. But otherwise, if you don't do that,
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I'm going to put my head on the pillow and I'll think, ah, that thing about Genevieve today. And then I wake up in the middle of the night and it's like, oh, Genevieve. And so you need to kind of get that thing washed out. Also red and blue light. So turn screens off. Blue light's really bad. So you want to have red light and amber light in your house, in your environment.
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Stimulants earlier in the day. And then be consistent. So the body really is as good as a clock in terms of keeping time. So if you, if you say your bedtime is midnight or 10 or whatever you do, be on time, like within a plus or minus 15 minutes, really work hard to be on time. And so that's your first goal is like make sleep and you will be a better human in every way, shape and form.
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If you make sleep your top priority, there's just, there's no drug more powerful than sleep.
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I believe that too. I think it, it dictates everything for the day.
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Yeah, I work out an hour a day. I do strength, cardio, flexibility, and mobility. And so a balance. You rotate what you're doing throughout the week? Yeah. I just kind of play around the gym. I'm not very structured. I do various things. But, yeah, I spend a full hour. And then I measure everything. I'm trying to be age 18 in all metrics. And so I peg that for the goal.
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And, yeah, it's just a non-negotiable every day an hour. An hour.
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I do. Oh, wow.
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No. So I might even work out a bit lighter. Like if I'm feeling really bad, I'll chill, right? Obviously get in the body some space. But mostly I just work through it. Dang. Ryan, if I can leave you with anything, get that jet, dude. Thanks. Thanks. Yeah. You know, it's complicated though because I'm very mindful. Like why am I packing this big metal thing around for one person or a few people?
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No, no, no, no, no. I mean, it's morally and ethically complicated for me. I really, I struggle with it. The jet?
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Yeah. Yeah. And you can usually rationalize it. You're trying to live, you're trying to die, man. I know. Yeah, I hear you.
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Yes.
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Yeah. I mean... We all know that that stuff is misery, right? And I don't think anyone really wants to do it.
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Yeah, they kind of, it's a cope, right? They say they want because they can't stop it. And so they're in a bad state. I've never felt better in my entire life. Like I've never been more emotionally stable. I've never had like a bigger consciousness. You know, like negative things don't get to me. Like I'm just good.
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And I don't think I've ever been able to say that in my entire life, that I'm just good. Like honestly, it's all okay. And so like, I guess like fun, it's like a different direction, but just to be good with existence, I would give anything for that. I mean, I was so tortured for most of my life. This is like...
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Yeah. It's really cool. Yeah, and Ryan lives here. Yeah, he's a friend. Yeah, I met him years ago. We were in touch occasionally. He's a great guy.
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Go do his podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's great.
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I'll introduce you to him if you want. Yeah, we're in touch. We just haven't been together for a while. Okay.
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Thank you. Yeah, it was cool to hang with you guys. Yeah.
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Well, this is Full Circle, so we're going to do a Don't Die 2 documentary. Yeah. So you guys need to talk some shit. Oh, easy. Oh, you got it. Fucking Brian.
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I'm sitting in my office listening to everything he's saying. He's just lying left and right. Yes. He's good at that.
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He also lied saying that he wasn't training. He wasn't doing anything. I never said that. He concealed it.
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What did you say?
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No, I asked you what you were doing. You said nothing.
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You can't be trusted, so anything I'm saying right now. Was it on the show? No, it wasn't on the show. Exactly. I work with you all day, unfortunately. You did not ask me. I talk to you a lot. You never asked me. I'm forced to. You never asked me. Okay, forget about that. You saying that I played in college, I would have never said I played in college.
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find it. I'll give you $1,000 of my own money if you can find it. Oh my god! Right now.
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I definitely didn't say I played college ball because that would be a straight lie and anyone could look it up. But I also didn't say that I played in college. Okay. I played in high school.
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I do remember that.
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Why don't you play me again now that I'm actually back in shape? My knees are blown out. That's what I was going to ask. Nigga, please, no. It's easy.
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Wait, wait. What does that mean? Translate that for us. What does that mean?
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No. How come?
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No, you chose not to get paid. You chose not to.
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What happened with the hair? You could have had a long locks of hair.
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You got scared. You got scared.
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No, you wanted hair transplant. What happened? No, no. I wanted 10 G's. It pivoted after you got scared.
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But see, what I'm saying is we went to that because y'all... Then you chickened out because you heard that there was a little blood, little microneedles, and you're like, oh, that scares me.
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That's exactly what happened. I remember.
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You're not wrong, but we didn't shake hands on $10,000. That's my point. Sure. Yes, we started as going like, all right, any amount of money. And then, to Tom's point, we settled on something that would be entertaining not only for us, but something that you wanted and also something that felt like more of a bet.
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I'm chilling. You killed me last time. You destroyed me. Why wouldn't you want to play again?
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Now you got three. I'm 40 pounds. I'm 40 pounds. Ryan, holla, la, la, la. That's what you want to be after this? Sure.
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Like, how many L's you want, nigga? My knees are back in shape. I'm now much stronger than you. So, come on. Let's go. Oh.
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You won't. No, I don't need one. Okay. This is fucking sweet.
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I won't either.
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Maybe you need a swim instructor to learn first and then not a coach. We'll both cease the coaching. I'll figure that shit out.
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Remember when I took everyone out on the boat? And he didn't show up. He's like, oh, I overslept. What are you talking about?
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No, you didn't. Not for my birthday. Not for the birthday.
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Ice cold Pepsi.
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I told you what it is, right? I don't care if he kills me. You should. Doctor said drink water. Yeah, drink water, dummy.
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He quit smoking. Fuck that. I do what I want. If he kills me, he kills me.
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I'd be a Pepsi even though I get diabetes. Give a fuck. Doctor said drink water. Fuck that.
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That was awesome.