March 8, 2024 • 22 mins
Just Blane & Ryan McBain: Warner Bros, Nintendo Crackdowns, and ScHoolboy Q
Just Blane and Ryan McBain focus on various gaming topics including the disappointment with Warner Bros' strategy post 'Suicide Squad' game, the success of 'Hogwarts Legacy', and the pitfalls of live service games. They discuss Nintendo's legal actions against emulator usage and reflect on the potential of the 'Outlast Trials' game. A major highlight is McBain's gaming interaction with KingGothalion and a throwback interview with ScHoolboy Q discussing his gaming habits, preference for Apex Legends, and his new album 'Blue Lips'. The conversation transitions into other gaming discussions, including Helldivers 2 and NCAA 2025's interesting developments.
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00:00 Introduction and Twitch Discussion 00:46 Warner Bros. Games Controversy 01:47 Live Service Games Debate 03:45 Destiny 2 New Content 04:25 Interview with Schoolboy Q 04:38 Nintendo's Legal Battles 08:45 Outlast Trials Game Review 10:09 Ryan McBain on Twitch 11:18 Discussing King Gathalion and Helldivers 2 12:10 Upcoming Updates and New Features in Helldivers 2 13:40 The Role of Joel, the Game Master 14:08 Interview with Schoolboy Q: Gaming Habits and Preferences 17:31 Schoolboy Q's Gaming Skills and New Album 17:41 Reflecting on Gaming Experiences with Schoolboy Q 20:58 Upcoming Plans and March Madness 21:12 Discussion on NCAA 2025 Football Game 21:56 Closing Remarks and Contact Information
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Just Blane (00:14):
Oh, here we go.
It's game related.
Just Blane.
Ryan McBain.
Yo, yo!
Twitch.
It's Twitch.
Ryan McBain on Twitch.
That's right, baby.
Hey, we got, I saw some big stuffhappening on your Twitch this week.
We'll have to talk about that.
Along with, you know what I'm talkingabout, along with a couple new
games coming out, Outlast Trials.
(00:36):
That's a good one.
Yes.
We're gonna have to talk aboutNintendo getting up in that
ass on the emulators out there.
You can't mess with
Ryan McBain (00:42):
Nintendo apparently.
Just Blane (00:44):
That ain't no joke.
This one right here has got people upsetand it's the Warner Brothers Games.
You already know what I'm talking about.
Yep.
It's Yeah.
We're gonna dive into that, cause I thinkyou've got a I think you've got a pretty
strong opinion on this Warner Bros.
situation.
Okay, so,
Ryan McBain (01:01):
W Warner Bros.
is basically pissed off,because, uh, Suicide Squad kills
the kills the Justice League.
Didn't do well.
Didn't sell well enough for them.
Alright, let's, let's hold
Just Blane (01:12):
off.
We'll get into this.
Yeah, we'll get into this.
Ryan McBain (01:14):
No, it's a live service game.
No, I'm pissed off.
It's a live service game.
Uh, it's not very good.
I think the storypersonally fucking sucks.
It's 70 bucks.
Now, Hogwarts Legacy that cameout, I believe, last year.
Just Blane (01:26):
Oh, so we're talking about this now?
We're not, we're talkingabout this now then, huh?
Ryan McBain (01:29):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm mad, man, I'm mad!
Alright!
And it sold so manycopies, it did so well!
22 million!
And, even though, that happened WarnerBrothers is like, nah, we're doubling
down, we're gonna just stick withlive service games going forward.
Yo, fuck
Just Blane (01:45):
that.
Tell people what a live servicegame is if you don't know.
Uh, it's um, Other than a money grab.
Ryan McBain (01:54):
Remember that shitty, um, Avengers game?
Oh my god, we tried.
Yeah, live service.
Actually, there are somegood live service games.
Destiny 2.
It's a decent game, but more timesthan not, uh, people don't want that.
They want like a story based singleplayer experience and Hogwarts legacy
(02:15):
delivered that it was a great game.
It was so good that people weremad that Warner Brothers didn't
have any type of DLC plan.
They're like, oh, uh, we didn'tknow it would be so popular.
So after you beat it, it's done basically.
Uh, so I just, this company is justlike the people that are making
these decisions are not video game
Just Blane (02:37):
fans.
Nah, man, it's the, it'sthe business people.
They don't have any idea aboutthe creativity part or the
Ryan McBain (02:42):
fun part.
Not one bit, not one bit.
And, uh, uh, so like, I'm probablynot going to be buying any, uh,
Warner Brothers games in the future.
They're going to lose a lot more money.
Just Blane (02:51):
And they'll, and watch, I guarantee you though, not only will
they lose money, there'll be the nextones to be laying off thousands of
people in the gaming industry, likethe rest of these companies, man.
They'll
Ryan McBain (02:59):
say.
And they'll say, Oh, we tried.
Uh, we don't know why peoplearen't buying the games.
No money talks.
Like the fans are literallytelling you what they want.
You
Just Blane (03:11):
know, 22 million copies of Harry Potter sold.
You best believe I would have beenmaking another DLC or Harry Potter.
There's six, seven books, man.
And I got some spinoff books.
They could have, they could have justkept running with a Harry Potter stuff.
I don't,
Ryan McBain (03:25):
man, I'm not even a Harry Potter fan.
And I love that
Just Blane (03:28):
game.
It was good.
Yeah.
That's the last game me andLindsey played together.
There and my own wife, we sat thereand played that game together.
Bringing families together, man.
But these live service games,they're not going to do it.
They're going to drain our wallet.
That's what it's going to do.
Not, not mine, not yours.
I might either.
Ryan McBain (03:42):
Man,
Just Blane (03:43):
you know what?
I heard you mention Destiny 2 in there.
Destiny 2 just droppedsome new content today.
They've got a hoverboard in game now, bro.
A hoverboard.
You got to see this.
I'll send you a link.
It is O P man.
There's people out therelike flying through the air.
Marty McFly out there, man.
(04:03):
Marty McFly.
Ryan McBain (04:04):
I have not played Destiny 2 in so long.
Uh, it's hard to get a group on,you know, I just fell out, man.
So, but yeah, when, when I usedto play with you and Alex and.
Shit was
Just Blane (04:16):
fun.
Aw man, Darrell was inthere with his King Cobra.
He's got some good contentout there now on TikTok too.
He's killing it out there, man.
You know what I haven'teven told people yet?
What?
We got Schoolboy Q on this show today.
Okay.
I got an interview with Schoolboy Q.
He's got a brand new albumout called Blue Lips.
I did this interview back a couple yearsago when Apex Legends had first dropped.
(04:38):
So we'll get to that interview, butlet's talk about Nintendo first.
Whoo, man, we mentioned it at thetop, you do not fuck with Nintendo.
Ryan McBain (04:48):
This whole story is just really, it's crazy, because I thought
that Nintendo didn't have a case.
Because basically, by law,if you buy a game, you could
like, do with it what you want.
If you want to like, just Youshould be, you're, you're, you are
allowed to backstorage your game.
Yes.
But, uh, I guess this companythat was, they guess they just
(05:11):
said the wrong things out loud.
Yep.
I mean, everyone knows, everyone knowsthat when you have, And emulator.
It's easier to pirate a game.
Oh yeah.
Usually pretty much like they justshould have kept their mouth shut and
they probably wouldn't have gottensued, but you know, they might've,
(05:32):
they might've actually won the case,but how are they going to go, go, go
up against Nintendo and their lawyers?
I don't know.
See that happening.
So they lost what, 2.4 million?
And they have to, which made them bold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they gave, and, and, and they have tobasically give Nintendo all their shit.
Just Blane (05:48):
So for people out there that don't know what an
emulator is, basically it providesany internet user in the world.
The means to unlawfully decryptvirtually any Nintendo Switch game.
That's what user got in trouble for.
Uh.
They didn't decrypt them, I guess.
I don't know what happened, butNintendo sunk that shit, man.
(06:08):
Guess what, though?
Within 12 hours, you got knockoffs ofYuzu emulators already popping up online.
They're not going
Ryan McBain (06:14):
anywhere.
Emulators are never going away.
The problem with Yuzu is they saidsome things in Discord, apparently.
And, uh, they made it look really easyto pirate software, even though some
people, some actually decent peoplewere using the, the emulators to back
up games that they actually bought.
Just Blane (06:33):
The correct way.
That's the, that's the legal, correct way.
You are allowed to do that.
Yes.
Yes, you are.
Uh, but, uh, I mean, Nintendoeven puts out their own emulators.
They've got the little S the littleNES, they got a SCNES and all
the games are preloaded on there.
And that's the Nintendo, that'sNintendo's official emulators,
but you can't get every game.
So that's what people areusing this other stuff for.
Ryan McBain (06:56):
This sets a bad precedent.
So, so where's it going to stop?
I mean, there's other like,uh, um, emulators you can buy.
Uh, like you could buy like a system thathas like 50 games and shit like that.
Oh yeah.
Uh, are they gonna go after them?
It's just, Nintendo's just
I
Just Blane (07:15):
don't know, man.
Shhh, man.
I'm not putting any emulatorson my Nintendo anything.
They might show up knocking on my door.
I feel like they got a SWATteam or something that goes out.
They have
Ryan McBain (07:29):
a SWAT team of lawyers.
That's what they have.
Just Blane (07:32):
Yeah, that's that.
That's definitely it.
Ryan McBain (07:34):
But like, Nintendo isn't messing around.
Like, um, that game, umOh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that game's blowing up and it'sbasically a knockoff of Pokemon.
Oh yeah.
So, but, um, the characters are different,but somebody made a mod that's just
basically just takes Nintendo's IPand it's just like you're playing,
(07:56):
uh, you're playing Pokemon, basically.
I saw that.
I've seen that.
And that shit down real quick.
Oh yeah.
Not mess around.
Just Blane (08:04):
I would not want to go to war with Nintendo at any Any capacity.
Nintendo, speaking of that, speakingof war, Nintendo's been around
since the Ottoman Empire, bro.
That's a random fact for you.
Look it up.
Google me out there.
If I'm wrong, you guys come at me.
But Nintendo has been aroundsince the Ottoman Empire.
(08:25):
Empire.
Put that down.
Not joking.
Ryan McBain (08:28):
I was going to say like 1988 or something.
86.
Just Blane (08:34):
I think you're talking about 1800s for Nintendo.
No kidding.
I think it started with board games.
I had to look that up.
Fact check me, but I don't thinkI'm pulling that out of my ass.
Outlast Trials.
Outlast Trials.
What about that game?
Ryan McBain (08:47):
Outlast Trials.
So the early access came out,uh, a little over a year ago.
I want to say more
Just Blane (08:54):
May 18th, 2023.
I see it right here.
May
Ryan McBain (08:57):
18th is a great game, but you can only play it on PC now.
It's.
Available everywhere.
PS4, Xbox, Xbox One,PS5, and it's cross play.
It's just you and four people.
You're basically goinginto different situations.
You have to get out.
It's basically survival horror.
It is a violent, gruesome, dark,disturbing game, and I love it.
Just Blane (09:21):
It says it's set in the era of the Cold War.
Human guinea pigs are involuntarilyrecruited by the good folks at the
Murkoff Corporation to test advancedmethods of brainwashing and mind control.
Ah, you should probablypick that bad boy up, man.
I'm gonna have to, man.
I remember seeing youplay it for Early Access.
(09:41):
I'm interested in this game.
Who made this game?
This is by Red Barrels?
Is that who did this?
Yeah, exactly.
Yes.
And they, that they're, they'reresponsible for all the outlast games.
I'm,
Ryan McBain (09:51):
I'm outlast one and two people really wanted part three.
So, so, so some peopledon't like this game.
I don't care.
I love it.
Um, and the fact that it's now,but it's cross play, So many more
people are going to be playingand they're going to love it.
Is
Just Blane (10:05):
that what you're going to be streaming?
I will be streaming
Ryan McBain (10:07):
that like tonight, baby.
Ryan McBain on Twitch.
Holla at your
Just Blane (10:11):
boy.
Speaking of Ryan McBain on Twitch, tellus who hit you up the other day to play
Ryan McBain (10:16):
Helldivers.
Okay.
It didn't really go down like that.
Okay.
King, Cthalion.
He's huge on Twitch.
He's huge, he's huge everywhere, actually.
And he put out like, yeah, he's lookingfor people to play Helldivers 2 with.
I was like, all right.
I sent him a dm, I slidinto his dms, baby.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (10:35):
And,
Ryan McBain (10:36):
um, uh, we played a, a few rounds.
He was a cool dude.
Um, uh, played early in the morning'cause like we had, he's got weird hours.
Yeah.
Very weird hours for me.
You know, I think he starts likearound four in the morning my time.
Yeah.
So, but yeah, we, we,uh, played on Sunday.
Uh, he was cool.
He was just like, uh, cause Iwas level like 23 or whatever.
(10:57):
He's level 50.
Oh yeah.
He was saying, uh, he said live on astream, uh, Ryan McBain, uh, uh, do you
want to be a thrown into the wolves?
And I was like, Hey man,I want all the smoke.
And he was like, okay, okay.
So like we did all the hardest content.
And, uh, it was, it was wild, man.
It was cool.
He's a very, very cool dude.
Just Blane (11:17):
That's awesome.
That's good to hear.
I like King Gathalion all the way back.
Destiny 1 days.
He was one of the originalDestiny streamers, I believe.
Yeah, he's been around for a minute.
Yeah.
Yeah, great dude.
I'm glad to hear he's good like that.
Helldivers 2 though, hejust had a major order.
You had to go take care of hisnew planet, Veld, and a new system
for take care of the Terminids.
We had all weekend to do it.
(11:39):
Ah, it took less than 24 hours.
You know, the Helldivers community.
We came out in full force, but Idid see that players are getting
a little upset that the Automatonshave taken over another country and
they want the community to be Theautomatons took over another planet.
I'm sorry.
Well, they want the community tothink harder on galactic strategy.
So we're about to get into some.
Ryan McBain (12:01):
Well, we know who the fault is.
We all have to blame Joel.
Joel is the, uh, dragon, uh, dragonmaster, dungeon master, whatever you
want to call them, besides all this.
Uh, but, uh, there's a huge updatecoming up pretty soon with like
mechs and also, uh, and, um, othervehicles and get this, the vehicles
You have to, it's stick shift.
(12:21):
I don't know about you.
I don't know about you, butI can't drive stick shift.
So this shit's going to be fun.
This shit's going to be hilarious.
Just Blane (12:27):
I can't wait for that.
I thought the funnest, coolest newmode of transportation was that
hoverboard coming out in destiny.
But now I'm waiting for this.
I got to see the stick shiftvehicle in hell divers.
Ryan McBain (12:40):
People like, no, man, it's all you, man.
You drive like
Just Blane (12:44):
people are going to be burning the clutch up, leaving them, leaving
the car there, whatever vehicle we got.
But yeah, the new, thenew major order popped up.
I was online, man.
It started, the screen, the screenon your ship turned on and started
talking about the Terminids were gonnaeat, eat your family and it was wild.
I don't know what happened.
I went out there, though.
I did my piece for liberty,for liberty and for democracy.
(13:06):
Did your part.
Okay.
I did my part baby.
Ryan McBain (13:08):
I did my part.
That's all you can do.
Really?
That's
Just Blane (13:10):
all you can do.
I can't, you can't askfor nothing else, really.
I mean, that's all you can do.
We, we, we gotta keep on these, thesemajor orders and make sure that we
don't let the OT automatons take over.
Determine if, whoever these me,man, I'm getting mad at here.
I'm
Ryan McBain (13:24):
getting mad.
I mean, eventually there'sgonna be boss fights.
'cause eventually you're, II'm assuming that we'll, we'll
be able to go to their home.
Worlds, worlds, whatever.
Oh yeah.
And there's gonna be boss fightslike the, like the possibilities.
Of this game are endless andit's, once again, only 40.
Just Blane (13:40):
That's so funny that, that you mentioned Joel, the game, there's a
real game master who at all hours mightgo in there and change it up for us.
I love it, dude.
It's, it's wild.
I want to, how'd you get that?
How did he get that job?
We should get him on the showand find out how he got that job.
I'm not trying to take it from him.
I just want to know, and then Iwant to stay in touch with him, man.
You know, that, that sounds good.
(14:01):
That sounds like a fun plan to get him on.
I got somebody to get on right now though.
I talked to Schoolboy Q, this was back acouple years ago, so we'll play it back.
Apex Legends had just dropped, we'reon an anniversary of Apex right
now, and Schoolboy just droppeda new album called Blue Lips.
Man, there's some bangers in there.
Let's play this interview,and we'll come back after it.
(14:24):
Would you say casual, hardcore,or somewhere in between?
ScHoolboy Q (14:27):
Car.
I would say hardcore.
Hardcore?
Hardcore.
How often do you play?
Every day, for like, uh,at least four hours a day.
Oh yeah?
Just Blane (14:35):
At least.
What's your favorite system of all time?
ScHoolboy Q (14:38):
PlayStation.
Bro, uh Damn.
Just Blane (14:42):
It's tough, isn't it?
There's so many.
ScHoolboy Q (14:44):
There's so many consoles.
Yeah, it's hard to say, man.
I can't say.
I can't say.
I want to say PlayStation, but I can'ttake away all the memories from Genesis.
I can't take away all the memoriesfrom 007, GoldenEye, Nintendo 64.
You know what I mean?
I can't forget about the start of NBA 2K.
You know what I'm saying?
(15:04):
On Sega Dreamcast.
It's like, so much.
Man, I can't.
I can't.
Just Blane (15:10):
Yeah,
ScHoolboy Q (15:10):
yeah, yeah.
It's crazy that it didn't, uh, last.
Just Blane (15:14):
Nah,
ScHoolboy Q (15:19):
I don't got no, uh, celebrity friends I play with.
And if I do, they probably notthat good at the games I play.
They mainly play like, uh, most ofmy celebrity friends play like, um,
football, basketball, all this stuff.
You know, I'm more so like into the,like, uh, the super competitive,
uh, like the, uh, Call of Duties,the, uh, I'm in the Apex now.
(15:40):
You know what I'm sayin I wasplaying Fortnite at a point.
Fortnite cartoonish.
I've
Just Blane (15:44):
been a Apex fan all the way.
Like, that's my stuff now.
And I love Call of Duty.
What's your favorite Call of Duty?
You play Blackout?
ScHoolboy Q (15:51):
Yeah, I play Blackout.
Blackout's fun.
It's real fun.
Actually, I play that more thanI play, uh, Ranked Play now.
We had, uh,
Just Blane (15:58):
Offset in here.
Yeah.
And he played Blackout, and weended up talking about 15 minutes,
and he was giving me his cell phonenumber, and he was like, Hit me up,
we gotta, we're playing together.
Yeah, yeah.
And it was so cool, cause, Younever know who's into that stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have a good time on Blackout, butApex, who's your main character on Apex?
ScHoolboy Q (16:15):
I mean, I'll probably go with the robot.
Yeah?
More than anything.
You like that one?
Yeah, cause he funner, he more fun.
You know, you get to grapple andswing around and shit and like
get the high ground on people.
How
Just Blane (16:26):
many wins do you think you got?
Uh,
ScHoolboy Q (16:29):
I don't know.
At least a hundred.
Yeah?
At least.
I've only been playingfor like, not that long.
Just Blane (16:36):
Yeah, it's only been out, what, two
ScHoolboy Q (16:37):
months now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I should have at least a hundred.
Cause I was all Call of Duty.
My friends dragged me over to Apex.
Cause I wasn't messing with them.
I'm like, I ain't fucking with Apex.
Same with me.
I didn't know I'm like, I ain't messing.
This look just like Fortnite.
Exactly.
You know what I mean?
I was
Just Blane (16:51):
Oh my god.
I was like, this is like, everythingthat you want from all these Battle
Royale games all mixed into one.
ScHoolboy Q (16:58):
I didn't like it when it first came out though.
I was like, this shit trash.
Like, how many shots?
Cause I just Jumping rightoff Call of Duty and then
playing Dad is a little weird.
Cause you know, Call of Dutyis pretty precise shooting.
And here it's like, uhYeah, yeah, you got it.
Just Blane (17:15):
I was, I was getting, I was getting my shots
in and thinking they're dead.
And now I'm rolling outand then boom, I'm dead.
Cause the time to kill in Callof Duty is so much faster.
Especially if you'replaying hardcore mode.
Well,
Ryan McBain (17:26):
all right, man.
It's a good one.
I appreciate you
ScHoolboy Q (17:27):
coming through.
Thank you, bro.
I appreciate you, my man.
Just Blane (17:30):
That's it right there, man.
So that's Skullboy.
So that was Skullboycoming through with us.
And that was, so Apex hadonly been in about two months.
So this had to be five or six years ago.
So that's Skullboy.
Look, I thought he was bullshittingwhen he said I got a couple hundred.
I played with schoolboy and Heain't playing like he If it wasn't
(17:53):
for a rap career, the dude could beplaying video games professionally.
I had to stop playing with himbecause he was too damn good.
And it was just carrying,carrying all of us.
And I was like, man, I can'tget in the way no more, man.
I'm not work or what?
Yeah, he was helping.
He was getting only, only wins.
I ever got an apex.
I think we're with him.
It was literally schoolboy.
Q carry me to victory.
(18:14):
And he's a beast on there, man.
Like I played with other people likeOffset, average, you know, we're good.
He's good.
But this school boy was, uh, he couldliterally take on the pros out there, man.
Like it was, I've never seen somebodyplay and I was impressed like that,
but I don't think I ever saw him die.
That new album Blue Lips is out.
Man, I gotta play something fromthat for us because there's some,
(18:37):
there's some bangers on there man.
And this one right here is calledYearn 1 0 1 and he just goes in
kind of like how he did on on CollarGreens back in the day when the
ScHoolboy Q (18:49):
y'all
Just Blane (18:54):
surfing.
You keep little
his name, but he
his As got turned.
(19:19):
He's on fire, man.
Collard Greens is one of myfavorite hip hop songs of all time.
That's the one song, I even told himthis, that's the one song out there
that you can literally do anything to.
You put that song on, you can chill,you can relax, you can rob a bank.
Don't matter, man.
Like all that.
I mean, it can get you chillor it can get you amped up.
Like that's one of my favoritehip hop bangers of all time.
(19:41):
Collard greens.
But this new, this new track urine oneon one, there's a whole lot of other
tracks on blue lips that got heat, man.
He's TDE.
That's that's this is to me.
This is where West coast hip hop's going.
What school boy's doing for the game now.
So to school boy for years ago,finally getting that interview out.
What'd you think about it, man?
He said, big boy picked up on this.
(20:02):
Cause I did this when I was at big boyand he big picked up on something that
we use for the show from that interview.
And it's when school boy said.
I play probably four hours a day.
All of them, big boy, and all themlost their minds, like four hours.
And I was like, at the time Iwas probably playing with you.
We were probably playinganywhere from six to eight a day.
Oh, we were
Ryan McBain (20:22):
playing late, late night, man.
There were a lot of late nights, dog.
I
Just Blane (20:28):
love though.
I love that.
This goes back to the thing on, on ourfirst episode of video games leading us
to people that we would have never met.
I don't never, there's no way Iwould have ever met Schoolboy Q
being from a dude from the farm.
And here's Schoolboy Q, dude fromLA, you know, different backgrounds.
(20:49):
And we, and we caught up and welinked up and it was amazing.
I, I, I really do dig the album.
Go check that ass on Apple Music.
What else you got forus this week, McBain?
You got something else going on?
What's going on this weekend?
I'll
Ryan McBain (21:03):
be working, man.
Cause it's March Madness.
I ain't got no time to playnothing except some real life.
Uh, watching, uh, uh, basketball.
I gotta make that money, man.
I hear
Just Blane (21:12):
that.
Speaking of NCAA, we're gonna have toget on that pretty soon with our good
buddies, Nick Ferguson from the DenverBroncos and Alex Hardy, because they
want to come on and talk about NCAA 2025.
Football game coming back out.
I just saw some big news on that today.
The Manning, the Manning kid has optedto take himself out of that game.
Yeah.
He took it.
Yeah.
(21:32):
But I saw the reason he gave, hegave a reason as he don't want to be
the, he don't want to be in that gameuntil he's the top guy or something.
So whatever, you know, but that's the good
Ryan McBain (21:40):
reason personally, I would have opted out because
they're only offering you a hundreddollars and a copy of the game,
Just Blane (21:45):
you know, that yeah.
Yeah.
Good on him.
That's not what they got.
They, they're going to make so muchmoney off of those guys by their name.
They got it.
They should have paid them,but that's a whole other topic.
It's Ryan McBain on Twitch.
That's right.
Check him out.
Go over there.
Get your subscription, man.
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99 best for best 4.
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You can spend legally.
That is
Ryan McBain (22:05):
legally.
Yes.
Keyword is legally.
Just Blane (22:08):
You can catch me at JustBlaneTV, at RideTheWaveMedia,
everything out there.
So we'll see you guys next week.
Ryan McBain (22:15):
Yay.
Oh, here we go.
It's game related.
Just Blane.
Ryan McBain.
Yo, yo!
Twitch.
It's Twitch.
Ryan McBain on Twitch.
That's right, baby.
Hey, we got, I saw some big stuffhappening on your Twitch this week.
We'll have to talk about that.
Along with, you know what I'm talkingabout, along with a couple new
games coming out, Outlast Trials.
(00:36):
That's a good one.
Yes.
We're gonna have to talk aboutNintendo getting up in that
ass on the emulators out there.
You can't mess with
Ryan McBain (00:42):
Nintendo apparently.
Just Blane (00:44):
That ain't no joke.
This one right here has got people upsetand it's the Warner Brothers Games.
You already know what I'm talking about.
Yep.
It's Yeah.
We're gonna dive into that, cause I thinkyou've got a I think you've got a pretty
strong opinion on this Warner Bros.
situation.
Okay, so,
Ryan McBain (01:01):
W Warner Bros.
is basically pissed off,because, uh, Suicide Squad kills
the kills the Justice League.
Didn't do well.
Didn't sell well enough for them.
Alright, let's, let's hold
Just Blane (01:12):
off.
We'll get into this.
Yeah, we'll get into this.
Ryan McBain (01:14):
No, it's a live service game.
No, I'm pissed off.
It's a live service game.
Uh, it's not very good.
I think the storypersonally fucking sucks.
It's 70 bucks.
Now, Hogwarts Legacy that cameout, I believe, last year.
Just Blane (01:26):
Oh, so we're talking about this now?
We're not, we're talkingabout this now then, huh?
Ryan McBain (01:29):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm mad, man, I'm mad!
Alright!
And it sold so manycopies, it did so well!
22 million!
And, even though, that happened WarnerBrothers is like, nah, we're doubling
down, we're gonna just stick withlive service games going forward.
Yo, fuck
Just Blane (01:45):
that.
Tell people what a live servicegame is if you don't know.
Uh, it's um, Other than a money grab.
Ryan McBain (01:54):
Remember that shitty, um, Avengers game?
Oh my god, we tried.
Yeah, live service.
Actually, there are somegood live service games.
Destiny 2.
It's a decent game, but more timesthan not, uh, people don't want that.
They want like a story based singleplayer experience and Hogwarts legacy
(02:15):
delivered that it was a great game.
It was so good that people weremad that Warner Brothers didn't
have any type of DLC plan.
They're like, oh, uh, we didn'tknow it would be so popular.
So after you beat it, it's done basically.
Uh, so I just, this company is justlike the people that are making
these decisions are not video game
Just Blane (02:37):
fans.
Nah, man, it's the, it'sthe business people.
They don't have any idea aboutthe creativity part or the
Ryan McBain (02:42):
fun part.
Not one bit, not one bit.
And, uh, uh, so like, I'm probablynot going to be buying any, uh,
Warner Brothers games in the future.
They're going to lose a lot more money.
Just Blane (02:51):
And they'll, and watch, I guarantee you though, not only will
they lose money, there'll be the nextones to be laying off thousands of
people in the gaming industry, likethe rest of these companies, man.
They'll
Ryan McBain (02:59):
say.
And they'll say, Oh, we tried.
Uh, we don't know why peoplearen't buying the games.
No money talks.
Like the fans are literallytelling you what they want.
You
Just Blane (03:11):
know, 22 million copies of Harry Potter sold.
You best believe I would have beenmaking another DLC or Harry Potter.
There's six, seven books, man.
And I got some spinoff books.
They could have, they could have justkept running with a Harry Potter stuff.
I don't,
Ryan McBain (03:25):
man, I'm not even a Harry Potter fan.
And I love that
Just Blane (03:28):
game.
It was good.
Yeah.
That's the last game me andLindsey played together.
There and my own wife, we sat thereand played that game together.
Bringing families together, man.
But these live service games,they're not going to do it.
They're going to drain our wallet.
That's what it's going to do.
Not, not mine, not yours.
I might either.
Ryan McBain (03:42):
Man,
Just Blane (03:43):
you know what?
I heard you mention Destiny 2 in there.
Destiny 2 just droppedsome new content today.
They've got a hoverboard in game now, bro.
A hoverboard.
You got to see this.
I'll send you a link.
It is O P man.
There's people out therelike flying through the air.
Marty McFly out there, man.
(04:03):
Marty McFly.
Ryan McBain (04:04):
I have not played Destiny 2 in so long.
Uh, it's hard to get a group on,you know, I just fell out, man.
So, but yeah, when, when I usedto play with you and Alex and.
Shit was
Just Blane (04:16):
fun.
Aw man, Darrell was inthere with his King Cobra.
He's got some good contentout there now on TikTok too.
He's killing it out there, man.
You know what I haven'teven told people yet?
What?
We got Schoolboy Q on this show today.
Okay.
I got an interview with Schoolboy Q.
He's got a brand new albumout called Blue Lips.
I did this interview back a couple yearsago when Apex Legends had first dropped.
(04:38):
So we'll get to that interview, butlet's talk about Nintendo first.
Whoo, man, we mentioned it at thetop, you do not fuck with Nintendo.
Ryan McBain (04:48):
This whole story is just really, it's crazy, because I thought
that Nintendo didn't have a case.
Because basically, by law,if you buy a game, you could
like, do with it what you want.
If you want to like, just Youshould be, you're, you're, you are
allowed to backstorage your game.
Yes.
But, uh, I guess this companythat was, they guess they just
(05:11):
said the wrong things out loud.
Yep.
I mean, everyone knows, everyone knowsthat when you have, And emulator.
It's easier to pirate a game.
Oh yeah.
Usually pretty much like they justshould have kept their mouth shut and
they probably wouldn't have gottensued, but you know, they might've,
(05:32):
they might've actually won the case,but how are they going to go, go, go
up against Nintendo and their lawyers?
I don't know.
See that happening.
So they lost what, 2.4 million?
And they have to, which made them bold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they gave, and, and, and they have tobasically give Nintendo all their shit.
Just Blane (05:48):
So for people out there that don't know what an
emulator is, basically it providesany internet user in the world.
The means to unlawfully decryptvirtually any Nintendo Switch game.
That's what user got in trouble for.
Uh.
They didn't decrypt them, I guess.
I don't know what happened, butNintendo sunk that shit, man.
(06:08):
Guess what, though?
Within 12 hours, you got knockoffs ofYuzu emulators already popping up online.
They're not going
Ryan McBain (06:14):
anywhere.
Emulators are never going away.
The problem with Yuzu is they saidsome things in Discord, apparently.
And, uh, they made it look really easyto pirate software, even though some
people, some actually decent peoplewere using the, the emulators to back
up games that they actually bought.
Just Blane (06:33):
The correct way.
That's the, that's the legal, correct way.
You are allowed to do that.
Yes.
Yes, you are.
Uh, but, uh, I mean, Nintendoeven puts out their own emulators.
They've got the little S the littleNES, they got a SCNES and all
the games are preloaded on there.
And that's the Nintendo, that'sNintendo's official emulators,
but you can't get every game.
So that's what people areusing this other stuff for.
Ryan McBain (06:56):
This sets a bad precedent.
So, so where's it going to stop?
I mean, there's other like,uh, um, emulators you can buy.
Uh, like you could buy like a system thathas like 50 games and shit like that.
Oh yeah.
Uh, are they gonna go after them?
It's just, Nintendo's just
I
Just Blane (07:15):
don't know, man.
Shhh, man.
I'm not putting any emulatorson my Nintendo anything.
They might show up knocking on my door.
I feel like they got a SWATteam or something that goes out.
They have
Ryan McBain (07:29):
a SWAT team of lawyers.
That's what they have.
Just Blane (07:32):
Yeah, that's that.
That's definitely it.
Ryan McBain (07:34):
But like, Nintendo isn't messing around.
Like, um, that game, umOh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that game's blowing up and it'sbasically a knockoff of Pokemon.
Oh yeah.
So, but, um, the characters are different,but somebody made a mod that's just
basically just takes Nintendo's IPand it's just like you're playing,
(07:56):
uh, you're playing Pokemon, basically.
I saw that.
I've seen that.
And that shit down real quick.
Oh yeah.
Not mess around.
Just Blane (08:04):
I would not want to go to war with Nintendo at any Any capacity.
Nintendo, speaking of that, speakingof war, Nintendo's been around
since the Ottoman Empire, bro.
That's a random fact for you.
Look it up.
Google me out there.
If I'm wrong, you guys come at me.
But Nintendo has been aroundsince the Ottoman Empire.
(08:25):
Empire.
Put that down.
Not joking.
Ryan McBain (08:28):
I was going to say like 1988 or something.
86.
Just Blane (08:34):
I think you're talking about 1800s for Nintendo.
No kidding.
I think it started with board games.
I had to look that up.
Fact check me, but I don't thinkI'm pulling that out of my ass.
Outlast Trials.
Outlast Trials.
What about that game?
Ryan McBain (08:47):
Outlast Trials.
So the early access came out,uh, a little over a year ago.
I want to say more
Just Blane (08:54):
May 18th, 2023.
I see it right here.
May
Ryan McBain (08:57):
18th is a great game, but you can only play it on PC now.
It's.
Available everywhere.
PS4, Xbox, Xbox One,PS5, and it's cross play.
It's just you and four people.
You're basically goinginto different situations.
You have to get out.
It's basically survival horror.
It is a violent, gruesome, dark,disturbing game, and I love it.
Just Blane (09:21):
It says it's set in the era of the Cold War.
Human guinea pigs are involuntarilyrecruited by the good folks at the
Murkoff Corporation to test advancedmethods of brainwashing and mind control.
Ah, you should probablypick that bad boy up, man.
I'm gonna have to, man.
I remember seeing youplay it for Early Access.
(09:41):
I'm interested in this game.
Who made this game?
This is by Red Barrels?
Is that who did this?
Yeah, exactly.
Yes.
And they, that they're, they'reresponsible for all the outlast games.
I'm,
Ryan McBain (09:51):
I'm outlast one and two people really wanted part three.
So, so, so some peopledon't like this game.
I don't care.
I love it.
Um, and the fact that it's now,but it's cross play, So many more
people are going to be playingand they're going to love it.
Is
Just Blane (10:05):
that what you're going to be streaming?
I will be streaming
Ryan McBain (10:07):
that like tonight, baby.
Ryan McBain on Twitch.
Holla at your
Just Blane (10:11):
boy.
Speaking of Ryan McBain on Twitch, tellus who hit you up the other day to play
Ryan McBain (10:16):
Helldivers.
Okay.
It didn't really go down like that.
Okay.
King, Cthalion.
He's huge on Twitch.
He's huge, he's huge everywhere, actually.
And he put out like, yeah, he's lookingfor people to play Helldivers 2 with.
I was like, all right.
I sent him a dm, I slidinto his dms, baby.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just Blane (10:35):
And,
Ryan McBain (10:36):
um, uh, we played a, a few rounds.
He was a cool dude.
Um, uh, played early in the morning'cause like we had, he's got weird hours.
Yeah.
Very weird hours for me.
You know, I think he starts likearound four in the morning my time.
Yeah.
So, but yeah, we, we,uh, played on Sunday.
Uh, he was cool.
He was just like, uh, cause Iwas level like 23 or whatever.
(10:57):
He's level 50.
Oh yeah.
He was saying, uh, he said live on astream, uh, Ryan McBain, uh, uh, do you
want to be a thrown into the wolves?
And I was like, Hey man,I want all the smoke.
And he was like, okay, okay.
So like we did all the hardest content.
And, uh, it was, it was wild, man.
It was cool.
He's a very, very cool dude.
Just Blane (11:17):
That's awesome.
That's good to hear.
I like King Gathalion all the way back.
Destiny 1 days.
He was one of the originalDestiny streamers, I believe.
Yeah, he's been around for a minute.
Yeah.
Yeah, great dude.
I'm glad to hear he's good like that.
Helldivers 2 though, hejust had a major order.
You had to go take care of hisnew planet, Veld, and a new system
for take care of the Terminids.
We had all weekend to do it.
(11:39):
Ah, it took less than 24 hours.
You know, the Helldivers community.
We came out in full force, but Idid see that players are getting
a little upset that the Automatonshave taken over another country and
they want the community to be Theautomatons took over another planet.
I'm sorry.
Well, they want the community tothink harder on galactic strategy.
So we're about to get into some.
Ryan McBain (12:01):
Well, we know who the fault is.
We all have to blame Joel.
Joel is the, uh, dragon, uh, dragonmaster, dungeon master, whatever you
want to call them, besides all this.
Uh, but, uh, there's a huge updatecoming up pretty soon with like
mechs and also, uh, and, um, othervehicles and get this, the vehicles
You have to, it's stick shift.
(12:21):
I don't know about you.
I don't know about you, butI can't drive stick shift.
So this shit's going to be fun.
This shit's going to be hilarious.
Just Blane (12:27):
I can't wait for that.
I thought the funnest, coolest newmode of transportation was that
hoverboard coming out in destiny.
But now I'm waiting for this.
I got to see the stick shiftvehicle in hell divers.
Ryan McBain (12:40):
People like, no, man, it's all you, man.
You drive like
Just Blane (12:44):
people are going to be burning the clutch up, leaving them, leaving
the car there, whatever vehicle we got.
But yeah, the new, thenew major order popped up.
I was online, man.
It started, the screen, the screenon your ship turned on and started
talking about the Terminids were gonnaeat, eat your family and it was wild.
I don't know what happened.
I went out there, though.
I did my piece for liberty,for liberty and for democracy.
(13:06):
Did your part.
Okay.
I did my part baby.
Ryan McBain (13:08):
I did my part.
That's all you can do.
Really?
That's
Just Blane (13:10):
all you can do.
I can't, you can't askfor nothing else, really.
I mean, that's all you can do.
We, we, we gotta keep on these, thesemajor orders and make sure that we
don't let the OT automatons take over.
Determine if, whoever these me,man, I'm getting mad at here.
I'm
Ryan McBain (13:24):
getting mad.
I mean, eventually there'sgonna be boss fights.
'cause eventually you're, II'm assuming that we'll, we'll
be able to go to their home.
Worlds, worlds, whatever.
Oh yeah.
And there's gonna be boss fightslike the, like the possibilities.
Of this game are endless andit's, once again, only 40.
Just Blane (13:40):
That's so funny that, that you mentioned Joel, the game, there's a
real game master who at all hours mightgo in there and change it up for us.
I love it, dude.
It's, it's wild.
I want to, how'd you get that?
How did he get that job?
We should get him on the showand find out how he got that job.
I'm not trying to take it from him.
I just want to know, and then Iwant to stay in touch with him, man.
You know, that, that sounds good.
(14:01):
That sounds like a fun plan to get him on.
I got somebody to get on right now though.
I talked to Schoolboy Q, this was back acouple years ago, so we'll play it back.
Apex Legends had just dropped, we'reon an anniversary of Apex right
now, and Schoolboy just droppeda new album called Blue Lips.
Man, there's some bangers in there.
Let's play this interview,and we'll come back after it.
(14:24):
Would you say casual, hardcore,or somewhere in between?
ScHoolboy Q (14:27):
Car.
I would say hardcore.
Hardcore?
Hardcore.
How often do you play?
Every day, for like, uh,at least four hours a day.
Oh yeah?
Just Blane (14:35):
At least.
What's your favorite system of all time?
ScHoolboy Q (14:38):
PlayStation.
Bro, uh Damn.
Just Blane (14:42):
It's tough, isn't it?
There's so many.
ScHoolboy Q (14:44):
There's so many consoles.
Yeah, it's hard to say, man.
I can't say.
I can't say.
I want to say PlayStation, but I can'ttake away all the memories from Genesis.
I can't take away all the memoriesfrom 007, GoldenEye, Nintendo 64.
You know what I mean?
I can't forget about the start of NBA 2K.
You know what I'm saying?
(15:04):
On Sega Dreamcast.
It's like, so much.
Man, I can't.
I can't.
Just Blane (15:10):
Yeah,
ScHoolboy Q (15:10):
yeah, yeah.
It's crazy that it didn't, uh, last.
Just Blane (15:14):
Nah,
ScHoolboy Q (15:19):
I don't got no, uh, celebrity friends I play with.
And if I do, they probably notthat good at the games I play.
They mainly play like, uh, most ofmy celebrity friends play like, um,
football, basketball, all this stuff.
You know, I'm more so like into the,like, uh, the super competitive,
uh, like the, uh, Call of Duties,the, uh, I'm in the Apex now.
(15:40):
You know what I'm sayin I wasplaying Fortnite at a point.
Fortnite cartoonish.
I've
Just Blane (15:44):
been a Apex fan all the way.
Like, that's my stuff now.
And I love Call of Duty.
What's your favorite Call of Duty?
You play Blackout?
ScHoolboy Q (15:51):
Yeah, I play Blackout.
Blackout's fun.
It's real fun.
Actually, I play that more thanI play, uh, Ranked Play now.
We had, uh,
Just Blane (15:58):
Offset in here.
Yeah.
And he played Blackout, and weended up talking about 15 minutes,
and he was giving me his cell phonenumber, and he was like, Hit me up,
we gotta, we're playing together.
Yeah, yeah.
And it was so cool, cause, Younever know who's into that stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have a good time on Blackout, butApex, who's your main character on Apex?
ScHoolboy Q (16:15):
I mean, I'll probably go with the robot.
Yeah?
More than anything.
You like that one?
Yeah, cause he funner, he more fun.
You know, you get to grapple andswing around and shit and like
get the high ground on people.
How
Just Blane (16:26):
many wins do you think you got?
Uh,
ScHoolboy Q (16:29):
I don't know.
At least a hundred.
Yeah?
At least.
I've only been playingfor like, not that long.
Just Blane (16:36):
Yeah, it's only been out, what, two
ScHoolboy Q (16:37):
months now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I should have at least a hundred.
Cause I was all Call of Duty.
My friends dragged me over to Apex.
Cause I wasn't messing with them.
I'm like, I ain't fucking with Apex.
Same with me.
I didn't know I'm like, I ain't messing.
This look just like Fortnite.
Exactly.
You know what I mean?
I was
Just Blane (16:51):
Oh my god.
I was like, this is like, everythingthat you want from all these Battle
Royale games all mixed into one.
ScHoolboy Q (16:58):
I didn't like it when it first came out though.
I was like, this shit trash.
Like, how many shots?
Cause I just Jumping rightoff Call of Duty and then
playing Dad is a little weird.
Cause you know, Call of Dutyis pretty precise shooting.
And here it's like, uhYeah, yeah, you got it.
Just Blane (17:15):
I was, I was getting, I was getting my shots
in and thinking they're dead.
And now I'm rolling outand then boom, I'm dead.
Cause the time to kill in Callof Duty is so much faster.
Especially if you'replaying hardcore mode.
Well,
Ryan McBain (17:26):
all right, man.
It's a good one.
I appreciate you
ScHoolboy Q (17:27):
coming through.
Thank you, bro.
I appreciate you, my man.
Just Blane (17:30):
That's it right there, man.
So that's Skullboy.
So that was Skullboycoming through with us.
And that was, so Apex hadonly been in about two months.
So this had to be five or six years ago.
So that's Skullboy.
Look, I thought he was bullshittingwhen he said I got a couple hundred.
I played with schoolboy and Heain't playing like he If it wasn't
(17:53):
for a rap career, the dude could beplaying video games professionally.
I had to stop playing with himbecause he was too damn good.
And it was just carrying,carrying all of us.
And I was like, man, I can'tget in the way no more, man.
I'm not work or what?
Yeah, he was helping.
He was getting only, only wins.
I ever got an apex.
I think we're with him.
It was literally schoolboy.
Q carry me to victory.
(18:14):
And he's a beast on there, man.
Like I played with other people likeOffset, average, you know, we're good.
He's good.
But this school boy was, uh, he couldliterally take on the pros out there, man.
Like it was, I've never seen somebodyplay and I was impressed like that,
but I don't think I ever saw him die.
That new album Blue Lips is out.
Man, I gotta play something fromthat for us because there's some,
(18:37):
there's some bangers on there man.
And this one right here is calledYearn 1 0 1 and he just goes in
kind of like how he did on on CollarGreens back in the day when the
ScHoolboy Q (18:49):
y'all
Just Blane (18:54):
surfing.
You keep little
his name, but he
his As got turned.
(19:19):
He's on fire, man.
Collard Greens is one of myfavorite hip hop songs of all time.
That's the one song, I even told himthis, that's the one song out there
that you can literally do anything to.
You put that song on, you can chill,you can relax, you can rob a bank.
Don't matter, man.
Like all that.
I mean, it can get you chillor it can get you amped up.
Like that's one of my favoritehip hop bangers of all time.
(19:41):
Collard greens.
But this new, this new track urine oneon one, there's a whole lot of other
tracks on blue lips that got heat, man.
He's TDE.
That's that's this is to me.
This is where West coast hip hop's going.
What school boy's doing for the game now.
So to school boy for years ago,finally getting that interview out.
What'd you think about it, man?
He said, big boy picked up on this.
(20:02):
Cause I did this when I was at big boyand he big picked up on something that
we use for the show from that interview.
And it's when school boy said.
I play probably four hours a day.
All of them, big boy, and all themlost their minds, like four hours.
And I was like, at the time Iwas probably playing with you.
We were probably playinganywhere from six to eight a day.
Oh, we were
Ryan McBain (20:22):
playing late, late night, man.
There were a lot of late nights, dog.
I
Just Blane (20:28):
love though.
I love that.
This goes back to the thing on, on ourfirst episode of video games leading us
to people that we would have never met.
I don't never, there's no way Iwould have ever met Schoolboy Q
being from a dude from the farm.
And here's Schoolboy Q, dude fromLA, you know, different backgrounds.
(20:49):
And we, and we caught up and welinked up and it was amazing.
I, I, I really do dig the album.
Go check that ass on Apple Music.
What else you got forus this week, McBain?
You got something else going on?
What's going on this weekend?
I'll
Ryan McBain (21:03):
be working, man.
Cause it's March Madness.
I ain't got no time to playnothing except some real life.
Uh, watching, uh, uh, basketball.
I gotta make that money, man.
I hear
Just Blane (21:12):
that.
Speaking of NCAA, we're gonna have toget on that pretty soon with our good
buddies, Nick Ferguson from the DenverBroncos and Alex Hardy, because they
want to come on and talk about NCAA 2025.
Football game coming back out.
I just saw some big news on that today.
The Manning, the Manning kid has optedto take himself out of that game.
Yeah.
He took it.
Yeah.
(21:32):
But I saw the reason he gave, hegave a reason as he don't want to be
the, he don't want to be in that gameuntil he's the top guy or something.
So whatever, you know, but that's the good
Ryan McBain (21:40):
reason personally, I would have opted out because
they're only offering you a hundreddollars and a copy of the game,
Just Blane (21:45):
you know, that yeah.
Yeah.
Good on him.
That's not what they got.
They, they're going to make so muchmoney off of those guys by their name.
They got it.
They should have paid them,but that's a whole other topic.
It's Ryan McBain on Twitch.
That's right.
Check him out.
Go over there.
Get your subscription, man.
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99 best for best 4.
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You can spend legally.
That is
Ryan McBain (22:05):
legally.
Yes.
Keyword is legally.
Just Blane (22:08):
You can catch me at JustBlaneTV, at RideTheWaveMedia,
everything out there.
So we'll see you guys next week.
Ryan McBain (22:15):
Yay.
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