May 26, 2025 • 59 mins
Ever wonder which video games truly changed everything? In this episode, we carve our very own Mount Rushmore of gaming, honoring the titles that fundamentally transformed the medium and our relationship with it.
The conversation spirals through decades of gaming evolution as each host stakes their claim for the games deserving immortalization. World of Warcraft emerges as an undisputed champion, having created not just a game but an entire cultural ecosystem that's survived for two decades while competitors faltered. We explore how its brand recognition and strategic marketing cemented its legendary status beyond just gameplay.
GoldenEye revolutionized multiplayer gaming on consoles, bringing friends together for split-screen chaos with unique characters and weapons that forged (and occasionally destroyed) friendships. Meanwhile, Resident Evil defined survival horror through Jill Valentine's adventures, teaching players to value every bullet and health item while delivering memorably absurd scientific logs about increasingly dangerous experiments.
The debate heats up around characters like Skyrim's Aela the Huntress and Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, who broke ground for female representation in different eras. Nostalgia flows freely as we reminisce about Halo LAN parties, the frustrating yet captivating puzzles of Myst, and Oregon Trail's harsh life lessons about dysentery and resource management.
From Mrs. Pac-Man gobbling barriers so others could walk through them, to Minecraft's perfect balance of peaceful creation and chaotic TNT explosions, we celebrate how these games didn't just entertain—they transformed how we play, connect, and create.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Before we begin today's episode, we would like
to share a quick disclaimer.
The views, opinions andstatements expressed by the
hosts and guests on this podcastare their own personal views
and are provided in their owncapacity.
All content is editorial,opinion-based and intended for
entertainment purposes only.
(00:42):
Listener discretion is advised.
Intended for entertainmentpurposes only.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Listener, discretion is advised.
Hey everyone, and welcome backto another episode of the Black
Curtain Club podcast, where wedive deep into shit you may or
may not give a damn about.
I'm your host with the mosttonight, Kyle, and my co-hostess
with the mostest, and zerocream fillin' Becca and Angie
Ladies how the hell are you?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm so fucking good dude.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm so good too.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, good, we'll just start lowering the
expectations just a little bit.
Anyhow, the mama raccoons hadan idea to kick me out of the
can and see if I can find my owndumpster to screw up.
So tonight's topic is one nearand dear to my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The female orgasm.
Thank you for that, youbeautiful bastard.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I wish I was, I wish I was done.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No, you're good I composed myself.
No, no, you're totally fine, ohGod.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Where's my vape?
Where's my smelling salts?
Oh, shut up.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Look at the vapors.
I'm over here clutching mylittle southern pearls.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm just clucking like chickens.
Okay, I love this man.
I swear, Okay, oh God help me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
My cheek muscles are relaxing.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay, that's good All right, I'm good here I am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, I'm just going to try to reread that line, but
you guys are just going tofucking die again.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Hold me what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Hold me.
What?
Hold me, becca?
Becca, I'm holding you and Ialso need to be held very
tightly.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm holding you, I have you, I have you.
Don't tense up, just breathe.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm trying to relax.
No one can relax in thisenvironment, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Stupid task or stupid task of a human.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
This is what happens when you put me in charge.
Okay, kyle, please continue.
We're enthralled.
So tonight's topic near anddear to my heart the female
orgasm why it's not important,if it is at all, and the ever
elusive mythical creature thattotally doesn't exist, the
clitoris, lol, jk.
Video games.
We're talking about video gamestonight, specifically our mount
rushmore's, and that's allthat's, that's my intro.
That's what I got written.
That's all Well.
Jk video games.
(03:07):
We're talking about video gamestonight, specifically our Mount
.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Rushmores.
That's all.
That's my intro.
That's what I got written.
That's all she wrote.
Hey, I'm hey.
This is Becca here.
Black Crane Club podcastco-host.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I'm so excited to talk about the Mount Rushmore
video games.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I am equally as enthralled hey.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Seska, because I am equally as enthralled Because,
me being me in true me style, Ioverthought this way too fucking
much.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Good, I'm so glad.
Please lay it on us.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I have two Mount Rushmores because, why not?
Oh, fuck, yeah, becauseRushmore.
I couldn't decide if I wantedit to be what video game Mount
Rushmore should be like, forlike video games as a whole.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, my Mount Rushmore like what is very
important to me, not necessarilymy favorite Chuffield no, I
think Angie and I are bothpeople who are so fascinated by
the way your brain works.
So any information you give usvia any medium, whether it's
video games or whatever, we areso down to unpack this with you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So please, do not feel like you have to hold back.
Oh yes, because I showed somuch distraction already my
first time in charge.
I almost killed a whole town.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, anyway, All of your base are belong to us.
There you go.
All of your baser belong to usthere you go.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For anyone who doesn't know what the hell Mount
Rushmore is, it is arguably thebiggest like tease of a
monument that you think is soamazing.
And it is like the thirdbiggest letdown in the world
Because, like you can't getanywhere remotely close to it.
Like it's about as big as thequarter or whatever coin it's on
I don't know if you know it'son a coin like it's so far away,
you can't see shit from likewhere they let you stand and
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everything else is like reallyeverything that's like super
restricted.
You like can't get to it, likeyou can't climb up to it and
like hang in like washington'snose.
It's like so far away oh man,that's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's a real bummer.
I would compare it to the grandcanyon.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Where you get there and it's just like, oh, it, it's
just a crack in the earth, like, oh, it's just Mount.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Rushmore.
You need to.
Genuinely, I feel.
What's different with the GrandCanyon, though.
More people can appreciate thatbecause, at least from a
science standpoint I'm a bigscience guy.
You know it's exactly that.
It is just a river and a bigass crack in the ground, but it
took that river like a billionyears to fucking carve that
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big-ass crack.
It took my mom nine months tomake my crack, you know what I
mean.
Like good for you, little river,the little river that could.
But also if you go hiking inthe Grand Canyon and you see it
like it's beautiful, it reallyis the different rocks and the
layers and history, just theactual architecture, geogra
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something, geometry, georgeLopez, something.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Geography, geology, no, whatever Geology.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Genealogy, the study of denim.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Please, oh, my god yeah it's genealogy.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Anywho, mount Rushmore is a monument in the US
, I think in one of the DakotasI honestly don't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's in.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
North Dakota.
My guy One of them.
Why is there two?
Doesn't matter, I agree.
Why the two?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Virginias.
What there two Doesn't matter.
Squirrel Fuck it.
I agree.
Why the two?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Virginias, what the fuck.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm sorry, no offense , fuck me.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Two Virginias.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Hey, wait a minute, if there's any state that needs
to be cut the fuck up.
It has got to be Pennsylvania.
It has to be Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Give Texas the panhandle.
Texas give Oklahoma thepanhandle.
One of you two give up thepanhandle.
Why are you holding on to it sohard?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
How about this?
How about Texas just fucks off?
Kidding, don't hate me, texas,florida can fuck off, though.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Florida can fuck off.
It's like twice the size ofAlaska.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
I don't know.
No, nothing's big fromcalifornia to like minnesota,
alaska's fucking huge wait.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Which one's bigger texas or I'm so sorry, alaska
alaska is bigger.
Listen, I'm stupid you know, Ijust I had to register like, did
she actually say that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
listen.
At least she knows like hercolors and she doesn't get white
and brown mixed up when itcomes to fucking gravies I have
an oklahoma education with oneyear of a colorado education at
the end of it.
Like don't expect much from me,I've limped my way to here if I
had a nickel every time I usethat exact phrase, I have like
three nickels Anyhow.
Mount Rushmore, it's a bigletdown monument of four
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presidents with their faces,heads, whatever the hell they're
called carved into the side ofit, Specifically George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson,Teddy Roosevelt I always forget
that one that kind of like hidesin the corner there and Abe
Lincoln.
So four fairly importantpresidents not up for these
political debates with anybody,or anything like that once.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The four hottest I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know about that man.
You know, kennedy had one nicehole in the head.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, but they already had it carved by the
time Kennedy was around.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's true Whatever.
Anyhow, four that had kind of abig impact on the country and
history overall.
So I feel that when someonesays the mountain rush more of
something, it's not just, oh, myfavorites, because I'll just
say, just my fucking favorites,the mount rush, where it has to
be something that has done more,for, if you can see, with video
games, I feel it has to dosomething more for, um, the uh,
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the industry and, like consumersalike, not just my own
personals, but still I put mypersonals as well Valid.
Who wants to go first?
No one goes, let's go one byone.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know, what.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'll go first, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Angie you go first.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Hell yeah, give it to us.
I'm so open and ready.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So my first one and I'm hoping that at least one
person here will agree with me,and it is World of Warcraft,
leroy Jenkins Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Shout out to OG, triple OG.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
So why this game?
I think deserves to be on mountrushmore because it gave us the
greatest internet video of alltime.
yeah, I mean that right there, Imean honestly.
But um, it was kind of likethis big cultural revolution
when it, you know, came intoonline gaming.
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There's this really specificsocial architecture within the
game so you can build guilds andsome of these guilds, people
have become as close as familieswith each other.
There's just an ever evolvingworld building lots of mythos,
lots of opportunities to engagein violence, violence which is
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always a winner in gaming or oryou go and you find some type of
rocks or stones or things, orwhatever you can go collect
stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You can, yeah, you can absolutely do that we'd be
lying if we said you didn't haveto kill a metric fuck ton of
things along the way to getthese rocks.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But still, Exactly, Exactly, and just the longevity
and the legacy of it.
You know this game has beenaround.
What for?
Two decades now.
And there is no other game inits genre that has sustained
this type of ecosystem andfantasy and real-world economy
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and emotional resonance.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Other games and franchises have tried.
So, like Elder Scrolls Online,they tried to be an MMORPG Like
wow, ouch, that's an alphabetsoup right there.
But whatever, they tried tomake their Elder Scrolls Online
like World of Warcraft and youwant to talk about some hardcore
diehard fans me being one forthe Elder Scrolls?
(11:09):
It just they tried, but theyfell so short.
They fell so short Because youjust you can't, you just you
really can't even think aboutremotely coming close to like
you said's, just so they've.
They've created a smalluniverse to like like economies
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and the stories, the lore isbehind each race and how they go
and they interact with oneanother.
So like between the horde andthe allegiance, like there's
specific ones for each ones.
These ones would be like that,those ones would be like that.
It just they just won't meshwith others and certain um
species can do certain jobs,because that's just kind of like
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what they can in their climatesor whatever it is, and they
just they can or they can't.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And that's just the amount of thought and in-depth
that went into it even theirbranding and marketing, like
they are the taylor swift of thegaming community, like they
have their finger in everysingle pie, whether it's
Mountain Dew, doritos.
They know their audience sowell that even people like me
I've never personally playedWorld of Warcraft I know more
(12:17):
about it than I should becauseit's been so shoved down my
throat, because they're sostrategic with their marketing.
You know what I mean yeah, yeah, they're pretty great.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean, it's like who ?
Who remembers that?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
like the badass when they uh, their cans were so cool
the cans were the best.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Is any of the merch that they do just?
Just brand recognition.
I just think, like their logosbecca knows this one I have such
a you want, you want my eyes toget tickled, all funny.
You make a good symbol.
You make a good little sigillogo like that one.
That game is just filled withthem and I'm like, oh, I want to
just draw those out.
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It's just so cool, I love them.
But brand recognition, that'sanother massive one.
But they also poured all themoney into the promos when they
did um.
I got into the game with thelich king um the lich king
expansion, mainly because theyused ozzy in the promos for it
I'm on the prince of darkness,and then the one after that was
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the one with mr t.
I'm mr t, I'm T and I'm a 9FMohawk.
Come on, those things are theshit.
What's your game?
Those are the shit, man.
They were awesome.
I fucking loved Ozzy.
Yeah, hell, yeah, hell.
Yeah, I got into it.
I need to learn what that gamewas, because Ozzy Osbourne was
in a commercial.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Perfect, yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
Yeah, good pick, angie, fuck.
Yeah, way didn't start a song,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm such a plebeian.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Kill me.
Well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I think my picks are going to go down from there, so
don't get too excited.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
All right, I will go.
I'll go.
Kyle.
The brands I picked were veryabstract, so I wanted to pick
one person from each brand tokind of be the face of it, and
for my first one I wanted to gowith Skyrim and Ayela the
Huntress.
If I'm carving a face into amountain, it's going to be the
one that makes adventurers crashtheir carts.
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Ayela is the hottest NPC inSkyrim bar none.
We all married her, don't lieand somehow, as her literal boss
, you become the Dragonborn.
You become the harbinger of thecompanions, and she still
treats you like the Dragonborn.
You become the you know, theharbinger of the companions, and
she still treats you like afucking intern the whole time,
like she just degrades you.
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It doesn't, she doesn't give ashit and I thank her for it
every time.
She's a worthy face for themountain and she is a worthy
face for my masochism.
That is my first pick.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Absolutely.
I really hate to break it toyou.
Um once, uh, dawn guard cameout, I stopped marrying ayala
and I absolutely married saranaoh, every single time, fucking
time, I have people they don'thave.
You know, the privilege ofgetting all the dlc, but ayala
is one that every single personreaches oh yeah, because it's,
(15:05):
it's the, it's the loincloth,it's the war paint, like you
said, it's the degradation sheyells at you call me welp one
more time, please.
Yes, well welp me, mama, welp me, welp me, mommy.
Oh, and the, uh, oh, the redhair, yeah, but no, yeah.
Then serana shows up and um, Ithink we've talked about it a
couple times.
I don't know if she talkedabout episodes, but, yeah, the
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specific part of my brain thatalways sees Kate Beckinsale from
Underworld, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I was marrying.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Serana every single time at Twice on Sunday.
Speak my language Every time.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No idea what the fuck you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, we can tell, we know, we can see that.
Listen, if you knew you'd bequaking, you'd be like wow,
becca, oh, she would, she, shewouldn't do anything else, she
would send you a picture.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Later you can add it to the bank world of warcraft.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Who?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
and she had the nordic armor, by the way, which
is very hard to get as a casualplayer.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, the ancient nord armor.
Oh, it's so good yeah it's theancient draugr armor.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's like like there's a plunging neckline.
She's got like a short littleskirt you got me.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh no, you got me with that.
Okay, I need to I'll give you apicture however long this game
has been out, I'm gonna 20112011 yeah, join the companions.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You just have to go to Whiterun.
They're fighting a giant.
She's waiting for you.
She's beckoning Not open arms.
She's waiting with a bitch slapfor you.
But it's so good, it's justright.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, so as soon as you have all your problems and
you learn of the horrendousracism that is running rampant
throughout Skyrim then you justkind of go over the hill and you
see nrs in the in the line,because yeah, elder scrolls
totally didn't rip off lord ofthe rings at all whatsoever in
the game, not even a little, noteven a little bit.
Um, yeah, you just go runningdown this hill into this field.
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You see a giant um.
Go tickle him, he loves it.
And then once you come backfrom the stratosphere, al will
be like fucking bitch.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Even if you kill the giant, like, even if you like
come in and you kill the giant,like you've leveled up, you went
up to like frost, whateverwhere you get the dragon stone,
whatever shit you have to bringto white run, if you beat the
giant, she doesn't give a shit.
She's still like whatever.
Like we were already fightingit before you got here.
We softened it up for you.
Like she doesn't give a shitthat you're the dragonborn.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
She literally does.
She was just like no glory tocome into the last moments of a
battle and I was like alright,bitch, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I saw three other people get fucking clobbered.
Why was I throbbing?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, exactly Kyle.
What is your first pick?
My guy.
Okay, am I going.
Which one am I sharing first ummy personal or the one I feel
for like the world at large,whatever you, want.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, you have to tell me which one.
Be personal.
Hey, be personal.
I want to the personal one okay, so golden eye I hurt your
knuckles golden eye is so goodgolden eye.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Golden eye, it's very near and dear it's and dear I
think it is.
Honestly, one of my very firstmemories is getting the
Goldeneye video game for myfourth birthday for the N64.
Um, I love the James Bondmovies period.
As it is Pierce Bronson, thatis my, that's my James Bond
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Connery.
Eat your heart out.
Rest in peace, good sir.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Eat your fucking heart out.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Pierce Bronson is the best James Bond.
I will fight any and everyboomer that Sean.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Connery can eat his fucking heart out the way he
just manhandles women.
I'm sorry, I'm broken.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
No, not you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You really want me sent back into a tailspin?
Just think about it.
We'll do it.
We'll do an episode on like themultiverse and all the
different universes.
Out there somewhere there is auniverse where sean connery
played.
Oh my god Kyle anyhow it was,oh my gosh my ovaries are
(19:09):
vibrating.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I heard that I felt the disturbance it's been a
disturbance in the force listen,okay, goldeneye.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I love GoldenEye.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's such a good game but that's also my favorite
James Bond movie and it just sohappens to be.
But yeah, it was the first.
To my knowledge, it is thefirst split-screen video game.
So you were finally able to getyour friends over and one of
you whips the shit out of theother one and completely
destroys the friendship, Becausesomeone found the Golden Gun,
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the Dual, dual revolvers, the DL44s and then just absolutely
slapped your friend kingdom.
Come on those on those maps.
So that's just so right there.
That's just a big, it's amassive turning point from video
games.
Now, it was that firstmultiplayer experience, because
now, or at least it was thefirst first person shooter they
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did, because I think,technically pong, the first
console video game you couldplay against each other.
It doesn't matter fuck it.
I'm saying the, I'm sayinggolden eyes, you get in the
first multiplayer split screenor the first person shooter.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
There's also the first blood in it which was
funny like also the charactersall had different hit boxes too,
so like if you were odd job youwere fucked.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like your head was so big, people just pop you like
yep exactly I forget uh if youplayed over and over yep, if you
were nick knack, you were theuh, you were the absolute bane
of the existence.
Because he was the uh, he wasthe midget, remember.
So he was the peter dinklagelike a motherfucker just zipping
around so like exactly so thehit box was like you were.
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You were screwed man, he wasfast fuck, he's like fast fuck
boy, that's fuck boy.
Odd job was dope though because,yeah, he had the big hitbox not
as bad as jaws, but he wasnever, uh, everyone unarmed.
Remember it was the?
Uh, you heard the and like thehand, just like karate chop,
swung in front of you and itmade like the.
(21:07):
It made like the, uh, theindian jones, as you hit them
and shit, um, odd job, odd job,would have his hat too.
So you could switch to your hat, you could throw your hat, and
it was like an insta kill if yougot them.
At the same time, though, ifyou missed, like the hat was
like stuck in the wall, you hadto go get your.
Oh fuck, let me go get my hatnow.
Put my hat back on, but itwasn't insta kill.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And then you, so he had dual weapons built in it was
very much like the firsttomahawk, like call of duty
should bow down to job with hishat call duty can suck all,
never mind.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, no, but no, it's just humbling man they
did.
Yeah, yeah, but just the musicto that game also.
All of it was mwah Chef kiss.
So much fun.
Still to this day, to this day,I have it downloaded on my Xbox
.
Actually Still play that gameAngie what is your next?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
piece Angie.
Okay, angie.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Angela Angela.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's so weird for you guys to say that Don't, don't.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I only say it like Tony Danza.
Now Give me the creeps, angela.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love to make your skin crawl.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, oh God, just please call me anything but that
.
Hey, I have one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So this is going to be a please don't yuck my yum.
So I'm going to talk about TombRaider.
Hell, yeah, I have played everysingle Tomb Raider game.
I absolutely love the character.
Just as a woman, she was a goodicon in a very male-dominated
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genre, like most video games,especially when that game
started out, there were not aton of like female protagonists,
just the exploration and thediscovery, with the puzzle
solving and the, just thearchaeological facts.
Um, I'm kind of a history buff,so that's why I loved it so
much.
But it made you feel like anexplorer and it really had
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cinematic storytelling it.
It blended gameplay withcinematic set pieces.
You understood the, the mythosof laura, her dangerous world,
her mythical world and she just.
I think this game and thischaracter has become just a
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global icon status.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I think it also translated really well into
movie too, and that is somethingthat not a lot of games can say
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, the noise you made with what I talked about
earlier.
Yeah, I, the noise you madewith what I talked about earlier
.
Yeah, I made the same exactnoises with that first movie,
mm-hmm.
Angelina Jolie Love you my love.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
For the love of God, Everyone pour one out for her
right now for that movie.
I'm pouring something for herin that movie.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, she got herself in a tip-top shape.
She put her all into that movie, her angel was the end of that
movie.
Thank you, babe.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Appreciate you and the fact that once they switched
the animation, when they wentfrom pyramid boobs to an actual
woman I don't remember if it wasright before, because I think
it was Tomb Raider 2.
I think it was the second onewhere they kind of switched that
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one.
She looked exactly like her andI was like it was impossible
for anyone else to portray herthan Angelina Jolie, and I
forget which one it was before,but it was either Tomb Raider or
it was Underworld, I was like,hey, chicks are neat.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I mean, honestly, you were well within your rights
with both, or either yeah andhonestly, angie and I could
probably say, as women, sameyeah yeah yeah, same, just yeah
uh, angelina jolie, yeah, she's,she's on my list.
Oh yeah, if I had a listespecially if you had a list now
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you're the one that called by awolf.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Oh no, we're not doing that one.
Oh no, no, no, the one that,absolutely, yeah, that one for
sure.
But the one you, you want totalk about ungodly noises and
stuff and thangs and whateverthat would happen.
Just her is Maleficent.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Her is Maleficent that's some Hannibal Lecter
sounding noises I pictured.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Dwight from the Office.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I was thinking Jim.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Carrey from the Cable .
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Guy when he takes the skin of the chicken and puts it
on his face.
Anyhow, hers.
Maleficent the dress, well,it's the leg, oh my god.
Anyhow, video games.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, that's my warrior queen.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Is that my turn?
Now it is For this next one.
I picked Resident Evil and, forthe face of this, I wanted to
pick Jill Valentine.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Are you sure her face not a little south?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Listen Kyle don't call me out here.
This is my pick.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
She's the original do-it-all, survive-it-all look
hot doing-it girl.
She was the core of the stars.
She saved the world multipletimes and she even moonlighted
as a brainwashed villain just toshow that she had the range.
Every game she touched made itbetter.
I would follow her into azombie apocalypse and a job
interview anytime.
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I think that she was reallylike one of the quintessential
women in video games.
She also like when I say shetied the team together.
I don't think there was asingle other character that any
of the members of STARS wouldhave gone back for, except for
Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield, the heart and soul of the
entire special tactics andrescue squad, and I will take
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that to the grave.
I think that jill valentineshould be on the mount rushmore
games million percent,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, yas, queen, yes, and it's been quite some times
as I played those.
I think she, she was the firstprotagonist, right, the very
first game.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
She was the first person you could be.
Either you could be chris, oryou could be chris or jill
that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, I always thought it was claire and okay
so claire was the second one.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I know that this was a japanese game that came over
to america.
They very much made it to whereto play as jill was to play
harder, like it would take lesshits to kill her, she could hold
less, she got different weapons.
It was harder to play as jilland get to the end.
And if you're a completionistlike me, like it was my
obsession, like I need to getthrough god mode jill, like I
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just have to do it sneaking andwhatnot.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
She was louder because she had heels on too.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It was so much more difficult to play as her and
then chris, like if you playedas jill first and then you went
back and played as Chris, youwould feel like Hulk running
through that mansion.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The game practically played itself, the game
practically played itself Likeyou're, just like eating hits
from zombies left and right.
You got so many bullets youcould actually shoot the one
bike that's like in your way andyou can't just step over.
Oh no, the path is blocked.
It's a fucking tricycle.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'm six, six, what the fuck hell yeah, kyle, I'm so
glad you agree.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you I fucking love the resident evil games.
I love it so much, and themovies.
And the movies are great toobut like the games?
Yes, they are just residentevil.
And dino crisis?
Dino crisis was a solid suitmade by the same people capcom.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yep also, devil might cry fantastico I haven't anyway
, no skin in this game bondingfor a second me and kyle.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm just like if you have a problem if you
have like difficult, like goingback and playing some of the
older games now, just because ofthe graphics and some of the
mechanics of it.
Resident Evil's 1, 2, 3, and 4have been remastered for
next-gen consoles.
And holy shit, I thought Jillwas hot before.
Yeah, now she's in full HD andall this other.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh, that little parade oh, that fuck-ass bob.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Jill please.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Your lockpick when she kneels to unpickle.
Sorry I had my teeth clenched,I don't know how well that
picked up.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I think it picked up too well.
Anyway, the games I think haveall been remastered.
I cannot recommend them enough.
Same thing, just fantasticstorytelling in how it just
plays out through the boss.
I want to say they definitelygave us three stage boss battle.
Oh, it takes you forever tokill the boss, but guess what
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it's?
Not my final form for the thirdtime, and they turn from human
to mutant, to a giant duck forno reason.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It always has a big eye in the final stage or one
giant tentacle making, likeinventory management, is its own
kind of boss battle that youdeal with throughout the entire
game.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You're always like tetris with.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like I am filled to the brim but I need all of the
things in this room.
I don't know what the fuck todo in resident evil zero.
Like you could put things downand come back for them later.
None of the other games youcould not do that.
If you put that thing down, itwas gone forever.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It erased yeah, it's like you threw it away.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It's like you threw it away yeah you just burned
those herbs and you're goinginto a boss battle.
I hope that key was worth it,bitch.
I hope you needed that inkribbon.
I'm sorry, I get off on atangent every time resident evil
gets brought up which istotally fine.
It's totally totally fuckingacceptable that game shaped me
as a human I.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It makes so much sense now yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
That makes a lot of sense I also.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I don't know if they actually did it as a joke in the
game, but I just, even as a kid, I laughed.
But it was like in the game youcan always always find the
science logs that they havewhere it's like this is Dr Sid
talking about this one?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Itchy scratchy.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Exactly.
Yeah, this is Dr Ben Dover.
Shit like that, right.
And so it's like we'vecrossbred a great white shark
and a Siberian tiger and asilverback gorilla and a
centipede.
It seems very aggravated.
We've been poking it with astick for four days and a
centipede.
It seems very aggravated.
We've been poking it with astick for four days.
We haven't fed it in three.
I hope it doesn't escape thenext log.
You just hear a crash and abang.
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It escaped.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
There's a sentient plant on the third floor.
It kills everybody that comesto water it.
But it's my job to water it.
Tomorrow's my first day.
Hope it goes well.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Good games, so much fun.
Uh, my number two, halo, putthe master chief up on that.
Bitch has to.
Yeah, you have to.
There's always the debate thatthe greeks invented pizza, but
the italians perfected it.
Well, gold, and I gave us thefirst person shooter.
Halo perfected it land partyyes, the oh.
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You just tickled a veryspecific part I can.
I can remember carrying one ofthose big ass fucking toshiba
tvs yeah across the street to myfriend's house.
We can all plug our xboxes intoone another.
We had like six tvs, sevenfucking living room they
perfected the multiplayer game.
I'll say it, they really, theyabsolutely, they absolutely did
I.
I credit where credit is due.
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Um call of duty gave us morecustomization where you can
actually make change a loadout.
I can put a different sight onmy weapon, a different under
attachment.
I can change the way.
The color of my weapon in thefirst halo just changed like
what color your spartan was, butstill it gave us a new
environment, it goes.
Different options, differentweapon, types of archetypes.
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It wasn't just kinetic weapons.
We had the plasma weaponry, wehad the incendiary weaponry, we
had the fuel rod injectionweaponry.
Um, we had vehicles in some ofthe maps.
Shout out the blood gulch.
I'll never forget you, baby.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That map has listed the test of time Also.
The HUD was next level.
The HUD was next level.
It always was so intuitivecompared to other games.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Absolutely To this day.
To this day.
For those of you who don't know, I have a fucking Master Chief
tattoo.
I'm a left bicep.
That's how much this gamereally means to be from.
Halo.
Halo 2, halo 3 rvb oh let's seefucking um odst reach.
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Reach was one of my favorites,the franchise as a whole,
doesn't matter which one,because each one had something
to offer, even if, like, let'ssay, the campaign was a little
lackluster, there was somethingelse that that next one, but
just brought to the table one ofthe highlights of it halo 2.
I think it was the missiongrave mind.
Uh, there's that one missionright before you get to the um,
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the councilman's like chamberroom or whatever, where you have
the flood fighting against, uh,the covenant.
And, of course, I was like youmight want to sit this one out
and they fucking played BreakingBenjamin's Blow Me Away, the
song they wrote for Halo 2.
It had that fucking blaring, asyou're just like shooting the
shit out of all the aliens.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And they waited until like 2023 to give us a
grappling hook to use, and wewere grateful.
We were like, oh, hell yeah,we're going to add a grappling
hook to Halo.
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Let's just like the other thing yeehaw and fuck
around.
It's just like intergalacticyeehaw and fucking it up Like
you're just zipping.
Come on, the highlight of thatgame is either using the
grappling hook to bring like oneof those like fuel rod cannons
and then like yeeting anexplosive barrel at an enemy, or
like when you have like theshock grappling hook and you're
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just like you shoot a grunt inthe face and he's just like
spazzing out.
You just come zooping in atmock fuck and like throw a knee
into his head it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's the best shit.
Zooping in at Mach Fuck andlike throw a knee into his head.
It's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's the best shit in the world.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I fucking love Halo so goddamn much and just the
peace and the serenity thatcomes from the ambience music
from ODST.
Just the rain is coming down,the very faint thunder, and it's
like some smooth, kind of likesmoke room jazz, just kind of
playing as you're just walkingaround this bombed out city.
It's great, very peaceful.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Speaking of peaceful, if you are not familiar with
this game, you're going to haveto give me a little latitude
here, because I'm.
This is an odd pick.
Love that Did you all ever playMyst.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, ever play mist, absolutely okay.
The thing I love about this islike you really expect it to be
like this fun little adventuregame, and then, like 10 minutes
into it, you're having to pressbuttons that make no sense.
You're flipping levers, you'rereading a 400 year old journal
and trying to figure out whatthis message is in these trap
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magical books.
You're not even sure sometimeswhat your objective is.
Sometimes you're just literallytouching everything in a room,
hoping not to explode and justget to the next one.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
So it's just Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think, like whoever came up with this
game, like they were maybe somekind of like benevolent sadist,
because I think it's firstbecause you've been to video
games right, like you literallyhad decoy puzzles, and like you
would.
You would think you're on theright track, but no, no, no, the
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real solution was like Nottoday water, it was just and you
didn't have a map.
You didn't have instructions.
Like and correct me if I'mwrong.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
There was no like little, like microsoft, like
paperclip, like hey, maybe trythis.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Like you had to figure that shit out exactly
completely on your own, yeah youlearn that game taught you by
your own personal failure itreally was, it really really did
like and the other thing Ireally love about this game is
that there was.
There was no music, you know, itjust was all this ambience and,
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like asmr, like you hadcreaking wood or just the wind,
or like you'd have like somekind of fuck-ass bird cry um
that just kind of made you feellike, oh there's something yeah
it's kind of daunting really uh,yeah and uh, it just was like
this weird ominous dream journaland you're just trying to
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figure your way out of the dreamand I just really think,
because it just was so differentand it's still I believe I read
somewhere that it's still likeone of the top downloaded games
to this day.
So I just think it, justbecause it's kind of an outlier,
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it deserves its place on mountrushmore just for being
different.
Becca, did you ever play mist?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
no, it's like I've seen the mist did you notice how
quiet I got?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
yeah, did any of that did.
Did any of that tantalize youto play it, or are you just not
into puzzle games?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Not a single one I'll be so honest with you Really
it's kind of glazed over.
No, I just never played thatgame.
I never ran in the same circlesthat it would be presented to
me.
Anyway, is it my turn again?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
It is.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So for my next pick, I did Super Mario Brothers and I
want Princess Peach to be theface of it.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I think that let's just choose which character
should be up there.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I was torn between Zelda and Peach for this one, if
I'm going to be honest with you.
But in my head, if Zelda getsthe title credits, peach is the
aesthetic blueprint, she's thepastel icon.
I think that she's the constantin a franchise, that the only
narrative is to rescue her.
You know what I mean.
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Like she is the plot of thegame she's a dumb bitch.
It keeps getting captured okay,listen, bro, like maybe maybe
her and bowser have like alittle side thing going on and
mario keeps getting in the way.
It's none of my business, I amjust playing as Mario, okay.
But I am curious about Peach,and I know you are too
motherfucker, don't even try tolie to me, but she always brings
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poise, optimism and a killerbackhand in Mario Tennis, I will
add.
She is the brand.
I think that she should be aface on Mount Rushmore.
Let's give Princess, let's giveprincess peach some credit.
Mario is a huge game.
It did so much for the gamingindustry.
It brought, you know, japanesegaming to america in a really
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big way back in the early days,and I think that princess peach
is a constant in the series.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
What revolutionized it?
Super mario is my number onevideo game in general for, like
the, just the general world,mount, rushmore, exactly that
one pong and atari may be thefirst video game in home console
, but mario absolutely definedwhat video gaming is.
So like atari, love and respectyou.
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Just, you walked super nintendoand you know the nes and mario.
That was us running 100 I'mglad you agree no video games
would not be where they arewithout mario, without that
franchise, without nintendowithout princess beach what
would mario be doing?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
he wouldn't be doing anything.
He would just be like I am hereand there are pipes fucking
fixing your foster you ain'tseen the movie?
Come on, I've seen the movie Ifucking, he's a're fucking
fixing your faucet.
You ain't seen the movie.
Come on, I've seen the movie.
I fucking, he's a fucking.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Brooklyn, fixing your goddamn pipes.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Can somebody stop Chris Pratt, by the way, can we
just?
He can't keep getting away withit.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
He can't.
God damn it.
Let's see Personals.
My next one, the Witcher,specifically the third Wild Hunt
.
Anyone who knows that gameknows it's one of the greatest
games ever made.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
It's a very niche game.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You can't start RPGs with that game, like you have to
kind of dip your toe in.
And even the Elder Scrollsplays the line of there's too
much to do.
But I feel it plays easier,like it doesn't hold your hand
but it severely guides you towhat you should be doing and
like the main quest and you getthe little exercise quests as to
where the witcher just dropsyou and says well, fucking,
learn, kid.
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Like it just goes.
Now if you play the other two,the other two did kind of do
that one, but if you just startwith the third one, yeah, you're
completely screwed.
But just the immersion of thegame, the way the story develops
, how you accidentally just getsidetracked with so many side
quests, it's, it is real life,adhd, borderline autism, because
it's just you have this onething to do but you just keep
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getting distracted all fuckingday long.
I will literally tell you thefirst 45 minutes of the game.
You're looking for yennefer.
So okay, let's go see where wecan find yennefer.
Down the path you come across aman with his completely
obliterated horse, because, yeah, I think it was a griffon that
attacked him, so he was justlike I guess you're having a bad
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day.
Yeah Well, all right, cool, nowyou can either choose to help
him or you can either choose totake payment from him, but
either way, you have to stopthat griffon.
So then you go to the taverndown the way for information and
the guy's like, hey, all theNilfgaardian guys, they're here
causing all sorts of problems.
They might know where she is.
So you go to talk to them andthen you fight them.
And then, because you fightthem, you get in trouble with
the guards and you have to gobefore, like the Baron of the
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land.
And the Baron is like, hey,kill the griffon and then I'll
give you the information.
So they go.
Okay, cool, how do you kill thegriffin?
Well, you need this specialpotion.
Well, what's one of theingredients?
Special potion, you have to getthe blood of a botchling.
Well, now you gotta go helpthis lady with a botchling.
So I'm already on seven sidequests.
I was like I'm just looking forinformation for my fucking
girlfriend and I'm doing sixside quests.
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It's like I have a side questfor a side quest.
Okay, so what are you gonna do?
Okay, so I gotta, I gotta helpthis one baron, fucking kill his
bastardized child.
The fucking botchling which, bythe way, I have to kill the
wraiths for.
Okay, cool, I've killed thebotching and I've helped that
guy.
Cool, so that guy gives me thepotion that I need to kill the
griffin.
So I can go to the other guyand pick the fungus in his
backyard and almost get eaten bywerewolves to fucking.
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Now mix with that to make thepotion to put on my blade and on
the arrows to kill the griffin.
Now I can kill the griffin,bring it to the milf guardian
guy.
The milf guardian guy tells hisguards to fuck off, so then
maybe he can tell me where mygirlfriend was four months ago.
This is the first 45 minutes ofthe game and it's the first
step of the main quest he's justtrying to prove chivalry isn't
dead, like that is just hisultimate goal it's fucking
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ridiculous.
I have 17 hours locked into thegame.
I haven't even left my frontfucking door, like there are
missions that are complete.
There's missions and charactersand experiences in the games
that are locked if you make thewrong choices or you make
different choices.
There's two or three storiesthat are really intertwined
insanely.
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The three main characters, umand it's just chef kiss.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
It's gorgeous all right, so my next one.
So this is like this is a very,very, very old game and the
reason I picked it is because Ithink generation after
generation, like we've allplayed it and it's had like this
recent resurgence of peopleplaying like the original
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version of this game.
So I'm going to see if you allcan guess real quick.
So you didn't have a map, therewere no second chances, you
just had a wig.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
A wig.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
You had a wig and your wits about you, and you had
to do the thing, oh god, I'mgone.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Um, I'm gonna say hitman.
So you just had a, you just hada wagon, a two--wide river
Oregon Trail.
Yes, she just knew, she justknew.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Hell yeah, you had a wagon.
I'm like Professor X.
I just needed a couple of hints.
Oregon Trail.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
So yes, I am talking about Oregon Trail, and this was
literally the first game to tryto kill you and then ask you to
reflect on your bad decisions.
You want to go across the river?
Boom, your freaking oxen alldrowned.
You want to rest for a few days?
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Nope, too late.
You died of cholera, dysentery,you bought too many bullets.
You're gonna die of starvationnow the hitch in your wagon
broke.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
That's gonna set you guys back three days it was so
realistic.
They made you budget.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It was so ridiculous this game was like final
destination, but with bonnets.
It taught it, taught you.
It taught you real life lessons, like if your cousin becky uh,
broke her toe, she was probablygonna die.
And uh, even if you shoot 2 000pounds of bison, you can only
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carry back 10, because you know,the dysentery.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
It weakened her.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
I was just like a five destination of bonnets.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
I'm just like the honest version of those movies.
They're just like a horse andlike the fucking logs come out.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Here's EQ.
Oh no, yeah, they just getcrushed Nathaniel.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Oh no, barn falls over on you, they just get
crushed.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Nathaniel, oh no.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Horseshoe upside the head, Ezekiel the rations.
Oh no, now he's starved.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
It's a very long movie.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very
plain before you get sidetrackedany further, becca, you do your
last one.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
So my last one is Mrs Pac-Man.
I think that she's theblueprint before blueprints
existed.
She didn't just break barriers,she gobbled them whole while
being chased by ghosts.
She put a bow on and madehistory.
Listen, she did her time in thetrenches.
She walk a walk, so j couldrule the mushroom kingdom, she
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crawled through pixelated chaosso these girls could strut
through cut scenes.
I think that she deserves hertime on mount rushmore.
Let's give mrs pac-man her duebeautiful, that was beautiful
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thank you, kyle, that was goodthat was okay.
No, that was good the first gamethat taught you listen,
otherwise you get cholera ifeverybody doesn't eat a certain
amount, then everybody is gonnaget sick, and that is something
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that should not be put on thehands of a fifth grader who's
just trying to get throughcomputer lab.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Lord, oh God, okay, hell yeah for Ms Pac-Man.
Fuck yeah, hell yeah, you walka walk.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
That's so joking, oh God, oh.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Christ, hell yeah you walk and walk.
That's so joking.
All right, Kyle.
Yeah, my last one.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
So for my personal, I was going to say one, but
you're currently playing it, soI don't want to spoil anything.
So I'm going to give.
Just know that Red red dead,redemption 2 is on my mount
rushmore, um.
But I will talk about one ofthe honorable mentions that I
had, and that is minecraft.
A lot of the games we've, a lotof the games, a lot of the
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games we've talked about tonighthave to do with um, violence
and shooting and destruction.
If there's one thing that Iabsolutely loved about Minecraft
when it came out its firstinception, there was just the
creepers.
They didn't have the zombies,didn't have the skeletons.
So there are monsters andthings to fight.
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There are things that go bumpin the night and for you to go
bump back, you're right.
So the original concept youjust had to avoid the creepers
in the game.
As to where so many video gamesare bent on destruction,
minecraft's basis it's meat andpotatoes is creation and
imagination.
Yeah, it is so much fun.
I can't tell you how much time,how many hours, I have into
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that game.
Same thing, you just need it.
Just, oh, there's too muchthinking.
You don't have that reactiontime.
You just had that really long,rough day at work, and you know
that the, the five-year-old insouth korea, where, like his
gamer tag on call of duty isjust symbols and they're
flashing, he's just gonnafucking give you the boots.
So you don't want to deal withthat shit, you want to just play
a game.
Throw on minecraft, just letthe very peaceful music, let you
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go.
And same thing, very asmr aswell too.
As you go yeah, yeah the grass,the crunchy of the grass, the
like knocking of, like the trees, as you hit it with the
shearing leaves.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Oh, shearing leaves gets me.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
It's the that's the best, and um, when you're eating
, that's a good one too the lala lava chicken.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
But all seriousness.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I thought that was the villagers you wake them up
that creeper sound that reallyis so good the fuse very ASMR,
I'm glad you said um the bonesjust kind of clanking against it
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they're great the zombies.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
It's just and none of that, but same thing.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
There was very, very little of the game too that that
came through my headset like,like, literally I felt it going
one ear and out the other.
It like registered it, it shookmy skull, it literally went
through you.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
There was no explanation of what to do and
how to do and you had to kind oftinker and figure shit out,
specifically the redstone andthe mechanisms and the machines
and mechanics it was so much funstill to this day, even after
watching like all these videosand these books and how to
actually do it all, I still fuckit all up.
But then you give that game to abunch of jackasses in their 20s
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and nothing to do because oflockdown, and we do the same
thing.
So we got on the realms and itwas like I think there was like
seven or eight of us to be mybuddies and same thing.
We'd like build our houses, ourstuff.
We're gonna go.
Okay, these ones are gonna gomining for this.
We're gonna build up ourdefenses and these people are
just gonna look for the diamondsso we can get ready to fight
the ender dragon.
Well, every now and then, meand my buddy jake you guys think
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I'm a fucking ball buster and ajackass.
This motherfucker ain't got allhis hands, he's got nine and
three quarters fingers becausehe thought it was a good idea to
stick his hand.
Oh, the snowblower's clogged.
Let's just stick my hand in.
Yeah, way to go, genius.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Idiot, idiot.
Speaker 3 (53:24):
We were the Simon and Garfunkel, aka the Lewis and
Clark, with no sack of Julia.
We just went exploring.
So we would go and explore allthe different maps and the
cartography tables and so on andso forth.
But also we would launch massgenocide against creepers to get
as much fucking gunpowder as wecan.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
So we'd say we're going out.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
Hey, we came back with 20 different maps that
we've mapped out.
Hey, we came back with, youknow, 20 different maps that
we've mapped out so we can nowexplore all these other things.
Little did you know that hisentire inventory is just fucking
tnt and then we would hollowearth out everything of our
entire village.
We would just we would, wewould hollow earth, our whole
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village.
We would rig everyone's withoutthem, knowing we would hollow
earth our whole village.
We would rig everyone's withoutthem knowing we would rig
everyone's fucking buildings andtheir houses, their inventories
and what you call it.
His cousin, my best friend,nick.
He would make like fuckingErebor, right, he would tunnel
into this mountain.
It would fucking go and go.
Holy shit, the shit he wouldmake.
We would rig everything to blowup, have it all set to perfect
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redstones and whatnot, and wewould place a random pressure
plate somewhere on the map.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
That's very Achievement Hunter of you.
I will say yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
No, it is maliciously autistic of me to do that.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
I like trains.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
I call it militiatism .
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Militiatism, militiatism, oh God.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
We would do that and we would just put a random
fucking pressure plate anywhere.
I can't tell you how many timeswe've done that and as we set
the pressure plate, a fuckingchicken just goes and lands on
it and just fucking blows it.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
Just wastes we would always put it like we put it in
like we had one.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
I think the best one, that was.
We made sure we had this onedude who worked third shift, so
he was never on when we were andhe was at work, we were playing
, he was, we were all sleepingor we were at work.
So we set it like in like hismain doorway, we put the
pressure plate.
God, he was at work, we wereplaying, he was, we were all
sleeping or we were at work.
He would play.
So we set it like in like hismain doorway, we put the
pressure plate, so, as he'splaying by himself, he just hits
, click and then everything justfucking blows up.
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So we signed back in later onthat night.
It's just a crater.
That was our village and ourhouses and we would just die
that's a big like galactic craftlike the nuclear bazooka energy
that you can achieve withminecraft yeah, you guys.
Yeah, we would.
We would oppenheimer the fuckout of ourselves for no reason I
love that so much.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
I need people guys.
We should make a minecraftserver that we can just get on
and play on who wants to pay forit.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Not, we won't get anything done because, no, I'm
very much like.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
I will 100, build our base.
I will have us a mine set up.
There will be torches.
I will be very efficient.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
You guys will see a very particular kind of effect
come out if we play minecrafttogether yeah, but if I'm just
saying this, I'm just gonna letyou guys know this right now if
you ever hear like the sounds ofwar, aka, saruman song, aka,
that means I'm going to go, I'mgoing to blow something up.
I'm going to blow something up.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
I will get you, kyle, I will get you so many supplies
to achieve your dreams.
Speaker 3 (56:38):
I love being.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
I love being the base mother.
That's like.
That's like my role in games.
Like, please just let me mineand like, do my thing.
I love being the base mother.
That's like my role in games.
Like, please just let me mineand do my thing, and you guys go
out and adventure and bring mestuff back to advance us.
I am 100% the support character.
I will make you guys a nicehome.
You will have a bed.
You will have a plant next toyour bed.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
You will love playing Minecraft with me.
I'm the ranger that is partcrow, because I just find
trinkets and oh, this is cool, Ineed, I need people like you.
I don't get anywhere by myself.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
I'm just over here making my nice home, making a
nice mine.
I have nothing.
I need you.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
I need people like you when's the last time you
played that game?
Speaker 1 (57:18):
because the updates are fucking intense oh no, I was
playing like three months agoso you know that like oh,
diamond's only between likelevels, like 6 and 16.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
Yeah, they start at like minus 95 now.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Well, I will tell you a secret Diamond is always
around lava.
If you find lava, you will findDiamond within 64 chunks.
I will get you all the prettyshinies.
Kyle, I love mining in thatgame.
I need somebody else to fightthe spiders.
I don't want to deal withenderman.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
They stress me out well, I'm glad you guys liked my
uh female orgasm joke and myclitoris joke.
But uh, all credit of that goesto my wife, lauren, because I
had to add.
I wanted to add some type of ajoke in the beginning there for
shock value.
It's like no one knows what thehell we're gonna, what's gonna
go on and what the hell we'regonna talk about yeah um, I
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almost said tonight's episode9-11, tonight's episode the
holocaust.
But she looked at me and she waslike no, because that's gonna
send becca on like a whirlwindof like 9-11 conspiracies and
for whatever reason she's gonnasquirrel on that one.
So how about female orgasm?
I was like done so hell yeah,our 10 minutes our 10 minutes of
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you guys dying in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
All credit goes to her for that all credit okay,
that was our video game, mountrushmore episode.
Um, I honestly I love all ofour picks.
I don't think any of us werefar off the mark at all, but I
would love to see what you guysthink in the comments below,
whether you watched the previousfew or not.
We are going to release a newepisode every monday and make
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sure you like and subscribewherever you get podcasts bye
say, bye kyle bye kyle, bye, byeSay bye Kyle.
Speaker 3 (59:02):
Bye Kyle.
Before we begin today's episode, we would like
to share a quick disclaimer.
The views, opinions andstatements expressed by the
hosts and guests on this podcastare their own personal views
and are provided in their owncapacity.
All content is editorial,opinion-based and intended for
entertainment purposes only.
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Listener discretion is advised.
Intended for entertainmentpurposes only.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Listener, discretion is advised.
Hey everyone, and welcome backto another episode of the Black
Curtain Club podcast, where wedive deep into shit you may or
may not give a damn about.
I'm your host with the mosttonight, Kyle, and my co-hostess
with the mostest, and zerocream fillin' Becca and Angie
Ladies how the hell are you?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm so fucking good dude.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm so good too.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, good, we'll just start lowering the
expectations just a little bit.
Anyhow, the mama raccoons hadan idea to kick me out of the
can and see if I can find my owndumpster to screw up.
So tonight's topic is one nearand dear to my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The female orgasm.
Thank you for that, youbeautiful bastard.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I wish I was, I wish I was done.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No, you're good I composed myself.
No, no, you're totally fine, ohGod.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Where's my vape?
Where's my smelling salts?
Oh, shut up.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Look at the vapors.
I'm over here clutching mylittle southern pearls.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm just clucking like chickens.
Okay, I love this man.
I swear, Okay, oh God help me.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
My cheek muscles are relaxing.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay, that's good All right, I'm good here I am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, I'm just going to try to reread that line, but
you guys are just going tofucking die again.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Hold me what.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Hold me.
What?
Hold me, becca?
Becca, I'm holding you and Ialso need to be held very
tightly.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm holding you, I have you, I have you.
Don't tense up, just breathe.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm trying to relax.
No one can relax in thisenvironment, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Stupid task or stupid task of a human.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
This is what happens when you put me in charge.
Okay, kyle, please continue.
We're enthralled.
So tonight's topic near anddear to my heart the female
orgasm why it's not important,if it is at all, and the ever
elusive mythical creature thattotally doesn't exist, the
clitoris, lol, jk.
Video games.
We're talking about video gamestonight, specifically our mount
rushmore's, and that's allthat's, that's my intro.
That's what I got written.
That's all Well.
Jk video games.
(03:07):
We're talking about video gamestonight, specifically our Mount
.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Rushmores.
That's all.
That's my intro.
That's what I got written.
That's all she wrote.
Hey, I'm hey.
This is Becca here.
Black Crane Club podcastco-host.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I'm so excited to talk about the Mount Rushmore
video games.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I am equally as enthralled hey.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Seska, because I am equally as enthralled Because,
me being me in true me style, Ioverthought this way too fucking
much.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Good, I'm so glad.
Please lay it on us.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I have two Mount Rushmores because, why not?
Oh, fuck, yeah, becauseRushmore.
I couldn't decide if I wantedit to be what video game Mount
Rushmore should be like, forlike video games as a whole.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, my Mount Rushmore like what is very
important to me, not necessarilymy favorite Chuffield no, I
think Angie and I are bothpeople who are so fascinated by
the way your brain works.
So any information you give usvia any medium, whether it's
video games or whatever, we areso down to unpack this with you.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So please, do not feel like you have to hold back.
Oh yes, because I showed somuch distraction already my
first time in charge.
I almost killed a whole town.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well, anyway, All of your base are belong to us.
There you go.
All of your baser belong to usthere you go.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For anyone who doesn't know what the hell Mount
Rushmore is, it is arguably thebiggest like tease of a
monument that you think is soamazing.
And it is like the thirdbiggest letdown in the world
Because, like you can't getanywhere remotely close to it.
Like it's about as big as thequarter or whatever coin it's on
I don't know if you know it'son a coin like it's so far away,
you can't see shit from likewhere they let you stand and
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everything else is like reallyeverything that's like super
restricted.
You like can't get to it, likeyou can't climb up to it and
like hang in like washington'snose.
It's like so far away oh man,that's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's a real bummer.
I would compare it to the grandcanyon.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Where you get there and it's just like, oh, it, it's
just a crack in the earth, like, oh, it's just Mount.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Rushmore.
You need to.
Genuinely, I feel.
What's different with the GrandCanyon, though.
More people can appreciate thatbecause, at least from a
science standpoint I'm a bigscience guy.
You know it's exactly that.
It is just a river and a bigass crack in the ground, but it
took that river like a billionyears to fucking carve that
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big-ass crack.
It took my mom nine months tomake my crack, you know what I
mean.
Like good for you, little river,the little river that could.
But also if you go hiking inthe Grand Canyon and you see it
like it's beautiful, it reallyis the different rocks and the
layers and history, just theactual architecture, geogra
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something, geometry, georgeLopez, something.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Geography, geology, no, whatever Geology.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Genealogy, the study of denim.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Please, oh, my god yeah it's genealogy.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Anywho, mount Rushmore is a monument in the US
, I think in one of the DakotasI honestly don't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's in.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
North Dakota.
My guy One of them.
Why is there two?
Doesn't matter, I agree.
Why the two?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Virginias.
What there two Doesn't matter.
Squirrel Fuck it.
I agree.
Why the two?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Virginias, what the fuck.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm sorry, no offense , fuck me.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Two Virginias.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Hey, wait a minute, if there's any state that needs
to be cut the fuck up.
It has got to be Pennsylvania.
It has to be Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Give Texas the panhandle.
Texas give Oklahoma thepanhandle.
One of you two give up thepanhandle.
Why are you holding on to it sohard?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
How about this?
How about Texas just fucks off?
Kidding, don't hate me, texas,florida can fuck off, though.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Florida can fuck off.
It's like twice the size ofAlaska.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
I don't know.
No, nothing's big fromcalifornia to like minnesota,
alaska's fucking huge wait.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Which one's bigger texas or I'm so sorry, alaska
alaska is bigger.
Listen, I'm stupid you know, Ijust I had to register like, did
she actually say that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
listen.
At least she knows like hercolors and she doesn't get white
and brown mixed up when itcomes to fucking gravies I have
an oklahoma education with oneyear of a colorado education at
the end of it.
Like don't expect much from me,I've limped my way to here if I
had a nickel every time I usethat exact phrase, I have like
three nickels Anyhow.
Mount Rushmore, it's a bigletdown monument of four
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presidents with their faces,heads, whatever the hell they're
called carved into the side ofit, Specifically George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson,Teddy Roosevelt I always forget
that one that kind of like hidesin the corner there and Abe
Lincoln.
So four fairly importantpresidents not up for these
political debates with anybody,or anything like that once.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The four hottest I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I don't know about that man.
You know, kennedy had one nicehole in the head.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, but they already had it carved by the
time Kennedy was around.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's true Whatever.
Anyhow, four that had kind of abig impact on the country and
history overall.
So I feel that when someonesays the mountain rush more of
something, it's not just, oh, myfavorites, because I'll just
say, just my fucking favorites,the mount rush, where it has to
be something that has done more,for, if you can see, with video
games, I feel it has to dosomething more for, um, the uh,
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the industry and, like consumersalike, not just my own
personals, but still I put mypersonals as well Valid.
Who wants to go first?
No one goes, let's go one byone.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know, what.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'll go first, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Angie you go first.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Hell yeah, give it to us.
I'm so open and ready.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So my first one and I'm hoping that at least one
person here will agree with me,and it is World of Warcraft,
leroy Jenkins Jenkins.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Shout out to OG, triple OG.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
So why this game?
I think deserves to be on mountrushmore because it gave us the
greatest internet video of alltime.
yeah, I mean that right there, Imean honestly.
But um, it was kind of likethis big cultural revolution
when it, you know, came intoonline gaming.
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There's this really specificsocial architecture within the
game so you can build guilds andsome of these guilds, people
have become as close as familieswith each other.
There's just an ever evolvingworld building lots of mythos,
lots of opportunities to engagein violence, violence which is
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always a winner in gaming or oryou go and you find some type of
rocks or stones or things, orwhatever you can go collect
stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You can, yeah, you can absolutely do that we'd be
lying if we said you didn't haveto kill a metric fuck ton of
things along the way to getthese rocks.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But still, Exactly, Exactly, and just the longevity
and the legacy of it.
You know this game has beenaround.
What for?
Two decades now.
And there is no other game inits genre that has sustained
this type of ecosystem andfantasy and real-world economy
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and emotional resonance.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Other games and franchises have tried.
So, like Elder Scrolls Online,they tried to be an MMORPG Like
wow, ouch, that's an alphabetsoup right there.
But whatever, they tried tomake their Elder Scrolls Online
like World of Warcraft and youwant to talk about some hardcore
diehard fans me being one forthe Elder Scrolls?
(11:09):
It just they tried, but theyfell so short.
They fell so short Because youjust you can't, you just you
really can't even think aboutremotely coming close to like
you said's, just so they've.
They've created a smalluniverse to like like economies
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and the stories, the lore isbehind each race and how they go
and they interact with oneanother.
So like between the horde andthe allegiance, like there's
specific ones for each ones.
These ones would be like that,those ones would be like that.
It just they just won't meshwith others and certain um
species can do certain jobs,because that's just kind of like
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what they can in their climatesor whatever it is, and they
just they can or they can't.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And that's just the amount of thought and in-depth
that went into it even theirbranding and marketing, like
they are the taylor swift of thegaming community, like they
have their finger in everysingle pie, whether it's
Mountain Dew, doritos.
They know their audience sowell that even people like me
I've never personally playedWorld of Warcraft I know more
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about it than I should becauseit's been so shoved down my
throat, because they're sostrategic with their marketing.
You know what I mean yeah, yeah, they're pretty great.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean, it's like who ?
Who remembers that?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
like the badass when they uh, their cans were so cool
the cans were the best.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Is any of the merch that they do just?
Just brand recognition.
I just think, like their logosbecca knows this one I have such
a you want, you want my eyes toget tickled, all funny.
You make a good symbol.
You make a good little sigillogo like that one.
That game is just filled withthem and I'm like, oh, I want to
just draw those out.
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It's just so cool, I love them.
But brand recognition, that'sanother massive one.
But they also poured all themoney into the promos when they
did um.
I got into the game with thelich king um the lich king
expansion, mainly because theyused ozzy in the promos for it
I'm on the prince of darkness,and then the one after that was
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the one with mr t.
I'm mr t, I'm T and I'm a 9FMohawk.
Come on, those things are theshit.
What's your game?
Those are the shit, man.
They were awesome.
I fucking loved Ozzy.
Yeah, hell, yeah, hell.
Yeah, I got into it.
I need to learn what that gamewas, because Ozzy Osbourne was
in a commercial.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Perfect, yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
Yeah, good pick, angie, fuck.
Yeah, way didn't start a song,yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm such a plebeian.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Kill me.
Well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I think my picks are going to go down from there, so
don't get too excited.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
All right, I will go.
I'll go.
Kyle.
The brands I picked were veryabstract, so I wanted to pick
one person from each brand tokind of be the face of it, and
for my first one I wanted to gowith Skyrim and Ayela the
Huntress.
If I'm carving a face into amountain, it's going to be the
one that makes adventurers crashtheir carts.
(14:11):
Ayela is the hottest NPC inSkyrim bar none.
We all married her, don't lieand somehow, as her literal boss
, you become the Dragonborn.
You become the harbinger of thecompanions, and she still
treats you like the Dragonborn.
You become the you know, theharbinger of the companions, and
she still treats you like afucking intern the whole time,
like she just degrades you.
(14:32):
It doesn't, she doesn't give ashit and I thank her for it
every time.
She's a worthy face for themountain and she is a worthy
face for my masochism.
That is my first pick.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Absolutely.
I really hate to break it toyou.
Um once, uh, dawn guard cameout, I stopped marrying ayala
and I absolutely married saranaoh, every single time, fucking
time, I have people they don'thave.
You know, the privilege ofgetting all the dlc, but ayala
is one that every single personreaches oh yeah, because it's,
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it's the, it's the loincloth,it's the war paint, like you
said, it's the degradation sheyells at you call me welp one
more time, please.
Yes, well welp me, mama, welp me, welp me, mommy.
Oh, and the, uh, oh, the redhair, yeah, but no, yeah.
Then serana shows up and um, Ithink we've talked about it a
couple times.
I don't know if she talkedabout episodes, but, yeah, the
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specific part of my brain thatalways sees Kate Beckinsale from
Underworld, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I was marrying.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Serana every single time at Twice on Sunday.
Speak my language Every time.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
No idea what the fuck you guys are talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, we can tell, we know, we can see that.
Listen, if you knew you'd bequaking, you'd be like wow,
becca, oh, she would, she, shewouldn't do anything else, she
would send you a picture.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Later you can add it to the bank world of warcraft.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Who?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
and she had the nordic armor, by the way, which
is very hard to get as a casualplayer.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, the ancient nord armor.
Oh, it's so good yeah it's theancient draugr armor.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's like like there's a plunging neckline.
She's got like a short littleskirt you got me.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh no, you got me with that.
Okay, I need to I'll give you apicture however long this game
has been out, I'm gonna 20112011 yeah, join the companions.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You just have to go to Whiterun.
They're fighting a giant.
She's waiting for you.
She's beckoning Not open arms.
She's waiting with a bitch slapfor you.
But it's so good, it's justright.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, so as soon as you have all your problems and
you learn of the horrendousracism that is running rampant
throughout Skyrim then you justkind of go over the hill and you
see nrs in the in the line,because yeah, elder scrolls
totally didn't rip off lord ofthe rings at all whatsoever in
the game, not even a little, noteven a little bit.
Um, yeah, you just go runningdown this hill into this field.
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You see a giant um.
Go tickle him, he loves it.
And then once you come backfrom the stratosphere, al will
be like fucking bitch.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Even if you kill the giant, like, even if you like
come in and you kill the giant,like you've leveled up, you went
up to like frost, whateverwhere you get the dragon stone,
whatever shit you have to bringto white run, if you beat the
giant, she doesn't give a shit.
She's still like whatever.
Like we were already fightingit before you got here.
We softened it up for you.
Like she doesn't give a shitthat you're the dragonborn.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
She literally does.
She was just like no glory tocome into the last moments of a
battle and I was like alright,bitch, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I saw three other people get fucking clobbered.
Why was I throbbing?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, exactly Kyle.
What is your first pick?
My guy.
Okay, am I going.
Which one am I sharing first ummy personal or the one I feel
for like the world at large,whatever you, want.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, you have to tell me which one.
Be personal.
Hey, be personal.
I want to the personal one okay, so golden eye I hurt your
knuckles golden eye is so goodgolden eye.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Golden eye, it's very near and dear it's and dear I
think it is.
Honestly, one of my very firstmemories is getting the
Goldeneye video game for myfourth birthday for the N64.
Um, I love the James Bondmovies period.
As it is Pierce Bronson, thatis my, that's my James Bond
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Connery.
Eat your heart out.
Rest in peace, good sir.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Eat your fucking heart out.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Pierce Bronson is the best James Bond.
I will fight any and everyboomer that Sean.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Connery can eat his fucking heart out the way he
just manhandles women.
I'm sorry, I'm broken.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
No, not you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You really want me sent back into a tailspin?
Just think about it.
We'll do it.
We'll do an episode on like themultiverse and all the
different universes.
Out there somewhere there is auniverse where sean connery
played.
Oh my god Kyle anyhow it was,oh my gosh my ovaries are
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vibrating.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I heard that I felt the disturbance it's been a
disturbance in the force listen,okay, goldeneye.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I love GoldenEye.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It's such a good game but that's also my favorite
James Bond movie and it just sohappens to be.
But yeah, it was the first.
To my knowledge, it is thefirst split-screen video game.
So you were finally able to getyour friends over and one of
you whips the shit out of theother one and completely
destroys the friendship, Becausesomeone found the Golden Gun,
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the Dual, dual revolvers, the DL44s and then just absolutely
slapped your friend kingdom.
Come on those on those maps.
So that's just so right there.
That's just a big, it's amassive turning point from video
games.
Now, it was that firstmultiplayer experience, because
now, or at least it was thefirst first person shooter they
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did, because I think,technically pong, the first
console video game you couldplay against each other.
It doesn't matter fuck it.
I'm saying the, I'm sayinggolden eyes, you get in the
first multiplayer split screenor the first person shooter.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
There's also the first blood in it which was
funny like also the charactersall had different hit boxes too,
so like if you were odd job youwere fucked.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like your head was so big, people just pop you like
yep exactly I forget uh if youplayed over and over yep, if you
were nick knack, you were theuh, you were the absolute bane
of the existence.
Because he was the uh, he wasthe midget, remember.
So he was the peter dinklagelike a motherfucker just zipping
around so like exactly so thehit box was like you were.
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You were screwed man, he wasfast fuck, he's like fast fuck
boy, that's fuck boy.
Odd job was dope though because,yeah, he had the big hitbox not
as bad as jaws, but he wasnever, uh, everyone unarmed.
Remember it was the?
Uh, you heard the and like thehand, just like karate chop,
swung in front of you and itmade like the.
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It made like the, uh, theindian jones, as you hit them
and shit, um, odd job, odd job,would have his hat too.
So you could switch to your hat, you could throw your hat, and
it was like an insta kill if yougot them.
At the same time, though, ifyou missed, like the hat was
like stuck in the wall, you hadto go get your.
Oh fuck, let me go get my hatnow.
Put my hat back on, but itwasn't insta kill.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And then you, so he had dual weapons built in it was
very much like the firsttomahawk, like call of duty
should bow down to job with hishat call duty can suck all,
never mind.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, no, but no, it's just humbling man they
did.
Yeah, yeah, but just the musicto that game also.
All of it was mwah Chef kiss.
So much fun.
Still to this day, to this day,I have it downloaded on my Xbox
.
Actually Still play that gameAngie what is your next?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
piece Angie.
Okay, angie.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Angela Angela.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's so weird for you guys to say that Don't, don't.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I only say it like Tony Danza.
Now Give me the creeps, angela.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love to make your skin crawl.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, oh God, just please call me anything but that
.
Hey, I have one.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So this is going to be a please don't yuck my yum.
So I'm going to talk about TombRaider.
Hell, yeah, I have played everysingle Tomb Raider game.
I absolutely love the character.
Just as a woman, she was a goodicon in a very male-dominated
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genre, like most video games,especially when that game
started out, there were not aton of like female protagonists,
just the exploration and thediscovery, with the puzzle
solving and the, just thearchaeological facts.
Um, I'm kind of a history buff,so that's why I loved it so
much.
But it made you feel like anexplorer and it really had
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cinematic storytelling it.
It blended gameplay withcinematic set pieces.
You understood the, the mythosof laura, her dangerous world,
her mythical world and she just.
I think this game and thischaracter has become just a
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global icon status.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I think it also translated really well into
movie too, and that is somethingthat not a lot of games can say
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, the noise you made with what I talked about
earlier.
Yeah, I, the noise you madewith what I talked about earlier
.
Yeah, I made the same exactnoises with that first movie,
mm-hmm.
Angelina Jolie Love you my love.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
For the love of God, Everyone pour one out for her
right now for that movie.
I'm pouring something for herin that movie.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, she got herself in a tip-top shape.
She put her all into that movie, her angel was the end of that
movie.
Thank you, babe.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Appreciate you and the fact that once they switched
the animation, when they wentfrom pyramid boobs to an actual
woman I don't remember if it wasright before, because I think
it was Tomb Raider 2.
I think it was the second onewhere they kind of switched that
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one.
She looked exactly like her andI was like it was impossible
for anyone else to portray herthan Angelina Jolie, and I
forget which one it was before,but it was either Tomb Raider or
it was Underworld, I was like,hey, chicks are neat.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I mean, honestly, you were well within your rights
with both, or either yeah andhonestly, angie and I could
probably say, as women, sameyeah yeah yeah, same, just yeah
uh, angelina jolie, yeah, she's,she's on my list.
Oh yeah, if I had a listespecially if you had a list now
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you're the one that called by awolf.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Oh no, we're not doing that one.
Oh no, no, no, the one that,absolutely, yeah, that one for
sure.
But the one you, you want totalk about ungodly noises and
stuff and thangs and whateverthat would happen.
Just her is Maleficent.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Her is Maleficent that's some Hannibal Lecter
sounding noises I pictured.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Dwight from the Office.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I was thinking Jim.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Carrey from the Cable .
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Guy when he takes the skin of the chicken and puts it
on his face.
Anyhow, hers.
Maleficent the dress, well,it's the leg, oh my god.
Anyhow, video games.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, that's my warrior queen.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Is that my turn?
Now it is For this next one.
I picked Resident Evil and, forthe face of this, I wanted to
pick Jill Valentine.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Are you sure her face not a little south?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Listen Kyle don't call me out here.
This is my pick.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
She's the original do-it-all, survive-it-all look
hot doing-it girl.
She was the core of the stars.
She saved the world multipletimes and she even moonlighted
as a brainwashed villain just toshow that she had the range.
Every game she touched made itbetter.
I would follow her into azombie apocalypse and a job
interview anytime.
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I think that she was reallylike one of the quintessential
women in video games.
She also like when I say shetied the team together.
I don't think there was asingle other character that any
of the members of STARS wouldhave gone back for, except for
Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield, the heart and soul of the
entire special tactics andrescue squad, and I will take
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that to the grave.
I think that jill valentineshould be on the mount rushmore
games million percent,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, yas, queen, yes, and it's been quite some times
as I played those.
I think she, she was the firstprotagonist, right, the very
first game.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
She was the first person you could be.
Either you could be chris, oryou could be chris or jill
that's right.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, I always thought it was claire and okay
so claire was the second one.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I know that this was a japanese game that came over
to america.
They very much made it to whereto play as jill was to play
harder, like it would take lesshits to kill her, she could hold
less, she got different weapons.
It was harder to play as jilland get to the end.
And if you're a completionistlike me, like it was my
obsession, like I need to getthrough god mode jill, like I
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just have to do it sneaking andwhatnot.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
She was louder because she had heels on too.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It was so much more difficult to play as her and
then chris, like if you playedas jill first and then you went
back and played as Chris, youwould feel like Hulk running
through that mansion.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The game practically played itself, the game
practically played itself Likeyou're, just like eating hits
from zombies left and right.
You got so many bullets youcould actually shoot the one
bike that's like in your way andyou can't just step over.
Oh no, the path is blocked.
It's a fucking tricycle.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I'm six, six, what the fuck hell yeah, kyle, I'm so
glad you agree.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you I fucking love the resident evil games.
I love it so much, and themovies.
And the movies are great toobut like the games?
Yes, they are just residentevil.
And dino crisis?
Dino crisis was a solid suitmade by the same people capcom.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yep also, devil might cry fantastico I haven't anyway
, no skin in this game bondingfor a second me and kyle.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, I'm just like if you have a problem if you
have like difficult, like goingback and playing some of the
older games now, just because ofthe graphics and some of the
mechanics of it.
Resident Evil's 1, 2, 3, and 4have been remastered for
next-gen consoles.
And holy shit, I thought Jillwas hot before.
Yeah, now she's in full HD andall this other.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh, that little parade oh, that fuck-ass bob.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Jill please.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Your lockpick when she kneels to unpickle.
Sorry I had my teeth clenched,I don't know how well that
picked up.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
I think it picked up too well.
Anyway, the games I think haveall been remastered.
I cannot recommend them enough.
Same thing, just fantasticstorytelling in how it just
plays out through the boss.
I want to say they definitelygave us three stage boss battle.
Oh, it takes you forever tokill the boss, but guess what
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it's?
Not my final form for the thirdtime, and they turn from human
to mutant, to a giant duck forno reason.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It always has a big eye in the final stage or one
giant tentacle making, likeinventory management, is its own
kind of boss battle that youdeal with throughout the entire
game.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You're always like tetris with.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like I am filled to the brim but I need all of the
things in this room.
I don't know what the fuck todo in resident evil zero.
Like you could put things downand come back for them later.
None of the other games youcould not do that.
If you put that thing down, itwas gone forever.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It erased yeah, it's like you threw it away.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
It's like you threw it away yeah you just burned
those herbs and you're goinginto a boss battle.
I hope that key was worth it,bitch.
I hope you needed that inkribbon.
I'm sorry, I get off on atangent every time resident evil
gets brought up which istotally fine.
It's totally totally fuckingacceptable that game shaped me
as a human I.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It makes so much sense now yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
That makes a lot of sense I also.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I don't know if they actually did it as a joke in the
game, but I just, even as a kid, I laughed.
But it was like in the game youcan always always find the
science logs that they havewhere it's like this is Dr Sid
talking about this one?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Itchy scratchy.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Exactly.
Yeah, this is Dr Ben Dover.
Shit like that, right.
And so it's like we'vecrossbred a great white shark
and a Siberian tiger and asilverback gorilla and a
centipede.
It seems very aggravated.
We've been poking it with astick for four days and a
centipede.
It seems very aggravated.
We've been poking it with astick for four days.
We haven't fed it in three.
I hope it doesn't escape thenext log.
You just hear a crash and abang.
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It escaped.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
There's a sentient plant on the third floor.
It kills everybody that comesto water it.
But it's my job to water it.
Tomorrow's my first day.
Hope it goes well.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Good games, so much fun.
Uh, my number two, halo, putthe master chief up on that.
Bitch has to.
Yeah, you have to.
There's always the debate thatthe greeks invented pizza, but
the italians perfected it.
Well, gold, and I gave us thefirst person shooter.
Halo perfected it land partyyes, the oh.
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You just tickled a veryspecific part I can.
I can remember carrying one ofthose big ass fucking toshiba
tvs yeah across the street to myfriend's house.
We can all plug our xboxes intoone another.
We had like six tvs, sevenfucking living room they
perfected the multiplayer game.
I'll say it, they really, theyabsolutely, they absolutely did
I.
I credit where credit is due.
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Um call of duty gave us morecustomization where you can
actually make change a loadout.
I can put a different sight onmy weapon, a different under
attachment.
I can change the way.
The color of my weapon in thefirst halo just changed like
what color your spartan was, butstill it gave us a new
environment, it goes.
Different options, differentweapon, types of archetypes.
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It wasn't just kinetic weapons.
We had the plasma weaponry, wehad the incendiary weaponry, we
had the fuel rod injectionweaponry.
Um, we had vehicles in some ofthe maps.
Shout out the blood gulch.
I'll never forget you, baby.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That map has listed the test of time Also.
The HUD was next level.
The HUD was next level.
It always was so intuitivecompared to other games.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Absolutely To this day.
To this day.
For those of you who don't know, I have a fucking Master Chief
tattoo.
I'm a left bicep.
That's how much this gamereally means to be from.
Halo.
Halo 2, halo 3 rvb oh let's seefucking um odst reach.
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Reach was one of my favorites,the franchise as a whole,
doesn't matter which one,because each one had something
to offer, even if, like, let'ssay, the campaign was a little
lackluster, there was somethingelse that that next one, but
just brought to the table one ofthe highlights of it halo 2.
I think it was the missiongrave mind.
Uh, there's that one missionright before you get to the um,
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the councilman's like chamberroom or whatever, where you have
the flood fighting against, uh,the covenant.
And, of course, I was like youmight want to sit this one out
and they fucking played BreakingBenjamin's Blow Me Away, the
song they wrote for Halo 2.
It had that fucking blaring, asyou're just like shooting the
shit out of all the aliens.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And they waited until like 2023 to give us a
grappling hook to use, and wewere grateful.
We were like, oh, hell yeah,we're going to add a grappling
hook to Halo.
Hell yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Let's just like the other thing yeehaw and fuck
around.
It's just like intergalacticyeehaw and fucking it up Like
you're just zipping.
Come on, the highlight of thatgame is either using the
grappling hook to bring like oneof those like fuel rod cannons
and then like yeeting anexplosive barrel at an enemy, or
like when you have like theshock grappling hook and you're
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just like you shoot a grunt inthe face and he's just like
spazzing out.
You just come zooping in atmock fuck and like throw a knee
into his head it's so much fun.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's the best shit.
Zooping in at Mach Fuck andlike throw a knee into his head.
It's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's the best shit in the world.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I fucking love Halo so goddamn much and just the
peace and the serenity thatcomes from the ambience music
from ODST.
Just the rain is coming down,the very faint thunder, and it's
like some smooth, kind of likesmoke room jazz, just kind of
playing as you're just walkingaround this bombed out city.
It's great, very peaceful.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Speaking of peaceful, if you are not familiar with
this game, you're going to haveto give me a little latitude
here, because I'm.
This is an odd pick.
Love that Did you all ever playMyst.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, ever play mist, absolutely okay.
The thing I love about this islike you really expect it to be
like this fun little adventuregame, and then, like 10 minutes
into it, you're having to pressbuttons that make no sense.
You're flipping levers, you'rereading a 400 year old journal
and trying to figure out whatthis message is in these trap
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magical books.
You're not even sure sometimeswhat your objective is.
Sometimes you're just literallytouching everything in a room,
hoping not to explode and justget to the next one.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
So it's just Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think, like whoever came up with this
game, like they were maybe somekind of like benevolent sadist,
because I think it's firstbecause you've been to video
games right, like you literallyhad decoy puzzles, and like you
would.
You would think you're on theright track, but no, no, no, the
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real solution was like Nottoday water, it was just and you
didn't have a map.
You didn't have instructions.
Like and correct me if I'mwrong.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
There was no like little, like microsoft, like
paperclip, like hey, maybe trythis.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Like you had to figure that shit out exactly
completely on your own, yeah youlearn that game taught you by
your own personal failure itreally was, it really really did
like and the other thing Ireally love about this game is
that there was.
There was no music, you know, itjust was all this ambience and,
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like asmr, like you hadcreaking wood or just the wind,
or like you'd have like somekind of fuck-ass bird cry um
that just kind of made you feellike, oh there's something yeah
it's kind of daunting really uh,yeah and uh, it just was like
this weird ominous dream journaland you're just trying to
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figure your way out of the dreamand I just really think,
because it just was so differentand it's still I believe I read
somewhere that it's still likeone of the top downloaded games
to this day.
So I just think it, justbecause it's kind of an outlier,
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it deserves its place on mountrushmore just for being
different.
Becca, did you ever play mist?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
no, it's like I've seen the mist did you notice how
quiet I got?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
yeah, did any of that did.
Did any of that tantalize youto play it, or are you just not
into puzzle games?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Not a single one I'll be so honest with you Really
it's kind of glazed over.
No, I just never played thatgame.
I never ran in the same circlesthat it would be presented to
me.
Anyway, is it my turn again?
Speaker 3 (39:16):
It is.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So for my next pick, I did Super Mario Brothers and I
want Princess Peach to be theface of it.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I think that let's just choose which character
should be up there.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I was torn between Zelda and Peach for this one, if
I'm going to be honest with you.
But in my head, if Zelda getsthe title credits, peach is the
aesthetic blueprint, she's thepastel icon.
I think that she's the constantin a franchise, that the only
narrative is to rescue her.
You know what I mean.
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Like she is the plot of thegame she's a dumb bitch.
It keeps getting captured okay,listen, bro, like maybe maybe
her and bowser have like alittle side thing going on and
mario keeps getting in the way.
It's none of my business, I amjust playing as Mario, okay.
But I am curious about Peach,and I know you are too
motherfucker, don't even try tolie to me, but she always brings
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poise, optimism and a killerbackhand in Mario Tennis, I will
add.
She is the brand.
I think that she should be aface on Mount Rushmore.
Let's give Princess, let's giveprincess peach some credit.
Mario is a huge game.
It did so much for the gamingindustry.
It brought, you know, japanesegaming to america in a really
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big way back in the early days,and I think that princess peach
is a constant in the series.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
What revolutionized it?
Super mario is my number onevideo game in general for, like
the, just the general world,mount, rushmore, exactly that
one pong and atari may be thefirst video game in home console
, but mario absolutely definedwhat video gaming is.
So like atari, love and respectyou.
(40:59):
Just, you walked super nintendoand you know the nes and mario.
That was us running 100 I'mglad you agree no video games
would not be where they arewithout mario, without that
franchise, without nintendowithout princess beach what
would mario be doing?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
he wouldn't be doing anything.
He would just be like I am hereand there are pipes fucking
fixing your foster you ain'tseen the movie?
Come on, I've seen the movie Ifucking, he's a're fucking
fixing your faucet.
You ain't seen the movie.
Come on, I've seen the movie.
I fucking, he's a fucking.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Brooklyn, fixing your goddamn pipes.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Can somebody stop Chris Pratt, by the way, can we
just?
He can't keep getting away withit.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
He can't.
God damn it.
Let's see Personals.
My next one, the Witcher,specifically the third Wild Hunt
.
Anyone who knows that gameknows it's one of the greatest
games ever made.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
It's a very niche game.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
You can't start RPGs with that game, like you have to
kind of dip your toe in.
And even the Elder Scrollsplays the line of there's too
much to do.
But I feel it plays easier,like it doesn't hold your hand
but it severely guides you towhat you should be doing and
like the main quest and you getthe little exercise quests as to
where the witcher just dropsyou and says well, fucking,
learn, kid.
(42:08):
Like it just goes.
Now if you play the other two,the other two did kind of do
that one, but if you just startwith the third one, yeah, you're
completely screwed.
But just the immersion of thegame, the way the story develops
, how you accidentally just getsidetracked with so many side
quests, it's, it is real life,adhd, borderline autism, because
it's just you have this onething to do but you just keep
(42:29):
getting distracted all fuckingday long.
I will literally tell you thefirst 45 minutes of the game.
You're looking for yennefer.
So okay, let's go see where wecan find yennefer.
Down the path you come across aman with his completely
obliterated horse, because, yeah, I think it was a griffon that
attacked him, so he was justlike I guess you're having a bad
(42:50):
day.
Yeah Well, all right, cool, nowyou can either choose to help
him or you can either choose totake payment from him, but
either way, you have to stopthat griffon.
So then you go to the taverndown the way for information and
the guy's like, hey, all theNilfgaardian guys, they're here
causing all sorts of problems.
They might know where she is.
So you go to talk to them andthen you fight them.
And then, because you fightthem, you get in trouble with
the guards and you have to gobefore, like the Baron of the
(43:13):
land.
And the Baron is like, hey,kill the griffon and then I'll
give you the information.
So they go.
Okay, cool, how do you kill thegriffin?
Well, you need this specialpotion.
Well, what's one of theingredients?
Special potion, you have to getthe blood of a botchling.
Well, now you gotta go helpthis lady with a botchling.
So I'm already on seven sidequests.
I was like I'm just looking forinformation for my fucking
girlfriend and I'm doing sixside quests.
(43:35):
It's like I have a side questfor a side quest.
Okay, so what are you gonna do?
Okay, so I gotta, I gotta helpthis one baron, fucking kill his
bastardized child.
The fucking botchling which, bythe way, I have to kill the
wraiths for.
Okay, cool, I've killed thebotching and I've helped that
guy.
Cool, so that guy gives me thepotion that I need to kill the
griffin.
So I can go to the other guyand pick the fungus in his
backyard and almost get eaten bywerewolves to fucking.
(43:58):
Now mix with that to make thepotion to put on my blade and on
the arrows to kill the griffin.
Now I can kill the griffin,bring it to the milf guardian
guy.
The milf guardian guy tells hisguards to fuck off, so then
maybe he can tell me where mygirlfriend was four months ago.
This is the first 45 minutes ofthe game and it's the first
step of the main quest he's justtrying to prove chivalry isn't
dead, like that is just hisultimate goal it's fucking
(44:22):
ridiculous.
I have 17 hours locked into thegame.
I haven't even left my frontfucking door, like there are
missions that are complete.
There's missions and charactersand experiences in the games
that are locked if you make thewrong choices or you make
different choices.
There's two or three storiesthat are really intertwined
insanely.
(44:43):
The three main characters, umand it's just chef kiss.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
It's gorgeous all right, so my next one.
So this is like this is a very,very, very old game and the
reason I picked it is because Ithink generation after
generation, like we've allplayed it and it's had like this
recent resurgence of peopleplaying like the original
(45:10):
version of this game.
So I'm going to see if you allcan guess real quick.
So you didn't have a map, therewere no second chances, you
just had a wig.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
A wig.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
You had a wig and your wits about you, and you had
to do the thing, oh god, I'mgone.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Um, I'm gonna say hitman.
So you just had a, you just hada wagon, a two--wide river
Oregon Trail.
Yes, she just knew, she justknew.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Hell yeah, you had a wagon.
I'm like Professor X.
I just needed a couple of hints.
Oregon Trail.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
So yes, I am talking about Oregon Trail, and this was
literally the first game to tryto kill you and then ask you to
reflect on your bad decisions.
You want to go across the river?
Boom, your freaking oxen alldrowned.
You want to rest for a few days?
(46:14):
Nope, too late.
You died of cholera, dysentery,you bought too many bullets.
You're gonna die of starvationnow the hitch in your wagon
broke.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
That's gonna set you guys back three days it was so
realistic.
They made you budget.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
It was so ridiculous this game was like final
destination, but with bonnets.
It taught it, taught you.
It taught you real life lessons, like if your cousin becky uh,
broke her toe, she was probablygonna die.
And uh, even if you shoot 2 000pounds of bison, you can only
(46:58):
carry back 10, because you know,the dysentery.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
It weakened her.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
I was just like a five destination of bonnets.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
I'm just like the honest version of those movies.
They're just like a horse andlike the fucking logs come out.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Here's EQ.
Oh no, yeah, they just getcrushed Nathaniel.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Oh no, barn falls over on you, they just get
crushed.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Nathaniel, oh no.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Horseshoe upside the head, Ezekiel the rations.
Oh no, now he's starved.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
It's a very long movie.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very
plain before you get sidetrackedany further, becca, you do your
last one.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
So my last one is Mrs Pac-Man.
I think that she's theblueprint before blueprints
existed.
She didn't just break barriers,she gobbled them whole while
being chased by ghosts.
She put a bow on and madehistory.
Listen, she did her time in thetrenches.
She walk a walk, so j couldrule the mushroom kingdom, she
(48:19):
crawled through pixelated chaosso these girls could strut
through cut scenes.
I think that she deserves hertime on mount rushmore.
Let's give mrs pac-man her duebeautiful, that was beautiful
(48:42):
thank you, kyle, that was goodthat was okay.
No, that was good the first gamethat taught you listen,
otherwise you get cholera ifeverybody doesn't eat a certain
amount, then everybody is gonnaget sick, and that is something
(49:02):
that should not be put on thehands of a fifth grader who's
just trying to get throughcomputer lab.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Lord, oh God, okay, hell yeah for Ms Pac-Man.
Fuck yeah, hell yeah, you walka walk.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
That's so joking, oh God, oh.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Christ, hell yeah you walk and walk.
That's so joking.
All right, Kyle.
Yeah, my last one.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
So for my personal, I was going to say one, but
you're currently playing it, soI don't want to spoil anything.
So I'm going to give.
Just know that Red red dead,redemption 2 is on my mount
rushmore, um.
But I will talk about one ofthe honorable mentions that I
had, and that is minecraft.
A lot of the games we've, a lotof the games, a lot of the
(49:55):
games we've talked about tonighthave to do with um, violence
and shooting and destruction.
If there's one thing that Iabsolutely loved about Minecraft
when it came out its firstinception, there was just the
creepers.
They didn't have the zombies,didn't have the skeletons.
So there are monsters andthings to fight.
(50:16):
There are things that go bumpin the night and for you to go
bump back, you're right.
So the original concept youjust had to avoid the creepers
in the game.
As to where so many video gamesare bent on destruction,
minecraft's basis it's meat andpotatoes is creation and
imagination.
Yeah, it is so much fun.
I can't tell you how much time,how many hours, I have into
(50:40):
that game.
Same thing, you just need it.
Just, oh, there's too muchthinking.
You don't have that reactiontime.
You just had that really long,rough day at work, and you know
that the, the five-year-old insouth korea, where, like his
gamer tag on call of duty isjust symbols and they're
flashing, he's just gonnafucking give you the boots.
So you don't want to deal withthat shit, you want to just play
a game.
Throw on minecraft, just letthe very peaceful music, let you
(51:04):
go.
And same thing, very asmr aswell too.
As you go yeah, yeah the grass,the crunchy of the grass, the
like knocking of, like the trees, as you hit it with the
shearing leaves.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
Oh, shearing leaves gets me.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
It's the that's the best, and um, when you're eating
, that's a good one too the lala lava chicken.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
But all seriousness.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I thought that was the villagers you wake them up
that creeper sound that reallyis so good the fuse very ASMR,
I'm glad you said um the bonesjust kind of clanking against it
(51:52):
they're great the zombies.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
It's just and none of that, but same thing.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
There was very, very little of the game too that that
came through my headset like,like, literally I felt it going
one ear and out the other.
It like registered it, it shookmy skull, it literally went
through you.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
There was no explanation of what to do and
how to do and you had to kind oftinker and figure shit out,
specifically the redstone andthe mechanisms and the machines
and mechanics it was so much funstill to this day, even after
watching like all these videosand these books and how to
actually do it all, I still fuckit all up.
But then you give that game to abunch of jackasses in their 20s
(52:40):
and nothing to do because oflockdown, and we do the same
thing.
So we got on the realms and itwas like I think there was like
seven or eight of us to be mybuddies and same thing.
We'd like build our houses, ourstuff.
We're gonna go.
Okay, these ones are gonna gomining for this.
We're gonna build up ourdefenses and these people are
just gonna look for the diamondsso we can get ready to fight
the ender dragon.
Well, every now and then, meand my buddy jake you guys think
(53:04):
I'm a fucking ball buster and ajackass.
This motherfucker ain't got allhis hands, he's got nine and
three quarters fingers becausehe thought it was a good idea to
stick his hand.
Oh, the snowblower's clogged.
Let's just stick my hand in.
Yeah, way to go, genius.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
Idiot, idiot.
Speaker 3 (53:24):
We were the Simon and Garfunkel, aka the Lewis and
Clark, with no sack of Julia.
We just went exploring.
So we would go and explore allthe different maps and the
cartography tables and so on andso forth.
But also we would launch massgenocide against creepers to get
as much fucking gunpowder as wecan.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
So we'd say we're going out.
Speaker 3 (53:39):
Hey, we came back with 20 different maps that
we've mapped out.
Hey, we came back with, youknow, 20 different maps that
we've mapped out so we can nowexplore all these other things.
Little did you know that hisentire inventory is just fucking
tnt and then we would hollowearth out everything of our
entire village.
We would just we would, wewould hollow earth, our whole
(54:00):
village.
We would rig everyone's withoutthem, knowing we would hollow
earth our whole village.
We would rig everyone's withoutthem knowing we would rig
everyone's fucking buildings andtheir houses, their inventories
and what you call it.
His cousin, my best friend,nick.
He would make like fuckingErebor, right, he would tunnel
into this mountain.
It would fucking go and go.
Holy shit, the shit he wouldmake.
We would rig everything to blowup, have it all set to perfect
(54:22):
redstones and whatnot, and wewould place a random pressure
plate somewhere on the map.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
That's very Achievement Hunter of you.
I will say yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
No, it is maliciously autistic of me to do that.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
I like trains.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
I call it militiatism .
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Militiatism, militiatism, oh God.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
We would do that and we would just put a random
fucking pressure plate anywhere.
I can't tell you how many timeswe've done that and as we set
the pressure plate, a fuckingchicken just goes and lands on
it and just fucking blows it.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
Just wastes we would always put it like we put it in
like we had one.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
I think the best one, that was.
We made sure we had this onedude who worked third shift, so
he was never on when we were andhe was at work, we were playing
, he was, we were all sleepingor we were at work.
So we set it like in like hismain doorway, we put the
pressure plate.
God, he was at work, we wereplaying, he was, we were all
sleeping or we were at work.
He would play.
So we set it like in like hismain doorway, we put the
pressure plate, so, as he'splaying by himself, he just hits
, click and then everything justfucking blows up.
(55:31):
So we signed back in later onthat night.
It's just a crater.
That was our village and ourhouses and we would just die
that's a big like galactic craftlike the nuclear bazooka energy
that you can achieve withminecraft yeah, you guys.
Yeah, we would.
We would oppenheimer the fuckout of ourselves for no reason I
love that so much.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
I need people guys.
We should make a minecraftserver that we can just get on
and play on who wants to pay forit.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Not, we won't get anything done because, no, I'm
very much like.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
I will 100, build our base.
I will have us a mine set up.
There will be torches.
I will be very efficient.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
You guys will see a very particular kind of effect
come out if we play minecrafttogether yeah, but if I'm just
saying this, I'm just gonna letyou guys know this right now if
you ever hear like the sounds ofwar, aka, saruman song, aka,
that means I'm going to go, I'mgoing to blow something up.
I'm going to blow something up.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
I will get you, kyle, I will get you so many supplies
to achieve your dreams.
Speaker 3 (56:38):
I love being.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
I love being the base mother.
That's like.
That's like my role in games.
Like, please just let me mineand like, do my thing.
I love being the base mother.
That's like my role in games.
Like, please just let me mineand do my thing, and you guys go
out and adventure and bring mestuff back to advance us.
I am 100% the support character.
I will make you guys a nicehome.
You will have a bed.
You will have a plant next toyour bed.
Speaker 3 (56:58):
You will love playing Minecraft with me.
I'm the ranger that is partcrow, because I just find
trinkets and oh, this is cool, Ineed, I need people like you.
I don't get anywhere by myself.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
I'm just over here making my nice home, making a
nice mine.
I have nothing.
I need you.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
I need people like you when's the last time you
played that game?
Speaker 1 (57:18):
because the updates are fucking intense oh no, I was
playing like three months agoso you know that like oh,
diamond's only between likelevels, like 6 and 16.
Speaker 3 (57:28):
Yeah, they start at like minus 95 now.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Well, I will tell you a secret Diamond is always
around lava.
If you find lava, you will findDiamond within 64 chunks.
I will get you all the prettyshinies.
Kyle, I love mining in thatgame.
I need somebody else to fightthe spiders.
I don't want to deal withenderman.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
They stress me out well, I'm glad you guys liked my
uh female orgasm joke and myclitoris joke.
But uh, all credit of that goesto my wife, lauren, because I
had to add.
I wanted to add some type of ajoke in the beginning there for
shock value.
It's like no one knows what thehell we're gonna, what's gonna
go on and what the hell we'regonna talk about yeah um, I
(58:09):
almost said tonight's episode9-11, tonight's episode the
holocaust.
But she looked at me and she waslike no, because that's gonna
send becca on like a whirlwindof like 9-11 conspiracies and
for whatever reason she's gonnasquirrel on that one.
So how about female orgasm?
I was like done so hell yeah,our 10 minutes our 10 minutes of
(58:31):
you guys dying in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
All credit goes to her for that all credit okay,
that was our video game, mountrushmore episode.
Um, I honestly I love all ofour picks.
I don't think any of us werefar off the mark at all, but I
would love to see what you guysthink in the comments below,
whether you watched the previousfew or not.
We are going to release a newepisode every monday and make
(58:55):
sure you like and subscribewherever you get podcasts bye
say, bye kyle bye kyle, bye, byeSay bye Kyle.
Speaker 3 (59:02):
Bye Kyle.
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