The Rundown #19

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Hello ladies, angel and we'll comeback to the rundown. I we are
both very frustrated. I'm very frustrated. Brian's just laughing at my stuff.
Right. We did at watch fifteenminutes in and then my fucking fucking power
on my end cut out and Ilost the whole ass reporting all right,
we totally have only done this onceso far. This is our first song.

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Yeah, back to their rundown,everybody. So we're gonna go over
the two things we talked about beforehand. Probably will be over a little faster
this time because we've practiced so forthand so forth, starting with starting with
starting with the uh, there's makinga Shrek five. Whoa Yeah. So

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Shrek one one of the greatest standof movie animated movies all time. Shark
two did what very few sequels areable to do and be better than the
original. And then you had Strekthree, which, while it wasn't while
it is, while it didn't liveup to the like well, it didn't
eclipse the second like the second andthe first. It was an excellent movie,

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well written, well voice acted,and it was I think on par
with the first movie and a greatsendoff to the series. And then then
because sequel bait demands mut sequel bait, you had Shrek forever after they didn't
know this existed. Yeah, yeah, just timing wymy bullshit being based off

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of like, you know, Shrek. I'm gonna just drop spoilers because it's
been out in this movie has beenout for like over a decade and should
the fuck up. It's it's essentiallyjust you know, Shrek. Rumblestiltskin wants
to rule the fucking world. RexBerk, like Shrek is having a midlight
crisis because he is he's married withthree three with triplets, and like his

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day is like boring because he's beenhere. Whatever he wants, like like
prices, he wants to feel likea roll over again and basically skin like
he wants, he makes it soeverybody forgets him, like his in his
fame and shit because it's like oneof the most famous people in the fucking
world because like he was he's likeyou know, be in laws for like
kings and ship and then he foundthe lost a lost king or whatever in

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the third movie and uh, youknow, yeah, it's basically and it's
all and it's instead and like thebasically the entire movie is like stemming from
this midlight crisis, like timey whinymulti verse bullshit, where like the world
is like warped. He was thestil skin basic, he's never born,

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and like Fiona is now leading arebellion of overs and ship. It's just
it's not a great it's not excuseme, we're kind of ah. On
Shrek five, maybe it'll be good, but because here's the thing, right,

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Like, I think one of theissues with Shrek four ultimately was that
in all of the movies up untilthat point, there was an undercurrent of
like relatability, like stages in life, you know, being alone, being
a bachelor, kind of not enjoyingnecessarily being alone, but like having accepted

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it and finding someone who loves youmatches your freak and like, you know,
finding someone you love and like andthat's the very relatable experience. That's
a very human experience. The secondis, you know, meaning in laws,
you know, meaning being in aenvironment that class wise you're not familiar

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with, and like the uncomfortabilities ofbeing and like you know, being like
a poor working class person now you'rein like high society, and that's like
that's very relatable and you know,wanting your and wants to like you wanting
to like do everything to like abe more acceensible to your partner because you

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see them because like they're kind ofout of your league. That's a very
you know, human trait in understandingthe third movie, like the fear of
being becoming a parent and the andbecoming a father and like being worried like
like are you going to repeat themistakes of the past? Are you going
to be a good parent? Likeare you worried you're gonna find Like those

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are very human worries and you know, you know, daddy issues is another
undercurrent there. And are you tryingto tell me that time travel and reversing
people's birds aren't an everyday human experience. Well, I think, Well,
my thing is is that all ofthese things that i've I've talked about that

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these were happening parallel to the planet. No's were happy. There was a
there was an overworking plot that washappening like this was like like like these
aspects were the B plot. Thesewere the B plot, the B plot,
you know, And that's yes,you know, Shrek and Step for
the Fuck Around and Fairy Godmother tryingto get like look answer and ship,

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but like ultimately that was not themain plot of what was going on with
the story per se. At leastthat's what I felt like. The main
plot was like Fairy Godmother maybe admospherewas trying to fucking you know, get
rid of Shrek and the enforced marriagewith twins Charming. That's the second movie.
You know, I haven't seen thesemovies and I'm not gonna lie contributed

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you're good. And the first moviewas about you know, Shrek getting you
know, the mismeasable creatures out ofhis fucking swamp. That was the that
was the primary a sort of forput. The problem is is that like
the B plot was the catalyst forwhat was the became the april for the
A plot and structful, which Ithink is another thing that kind of makes

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it feel it's good because his becauselike basically for the entirety of Shrik Forever
after, like his mid life crisis. Ship has a montage at the beginning,
and then it's like barely kind oflike touched upon for the rest of
it. It's it's really not athing, you know, It's like,

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yeah, it's not like that midleg crisis. I'm just like I'm I'm
like, I don't feel like anyvariety in my life, like I'm happy.
I love like what I am,but I want to I want to
just feel I'm nostalgic for a past. I'm forgetting I was miserable with you
know that? Like that, likethat through mine is not there throughout the

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entire movie, which you know isa big reasonable I think even with all
the time you want me bullemit,it suffers. So, like I said,
not a lot of hope, ifany at all for strike. Yeah,
depending on who the writers are,maybe it'll be good. But uh

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not too not too sure. We'llsee, we'll see. Yeah, Uh
me the dog out. Give meone second. I've kidnapped a child to
bring with me. Theres a kitty. He's still Yeah, your cat's stole
in the knea shame I see.Yeah, he has been in there for

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months, A poor kid. He'slike, father, you have disgraced dust.
He's a pe week. But yeah, that was the Shrek stuff.
Moving on to the other part thatwe lost is that Ryan. Have you

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ever heard of a guy have thesketch controversy that happened? Man, do
I want to go to sleep.No, I haven't heard it. I
didn't hear about it before we startedtalking about it. Then the power went
out. So a lot of storyshort, and I'm not explaining the whole

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story. I'm just saying, frommy perspective, this controversy doesn't really make
sense. Nobody's really being hurt sofar. Milkshake duck situation is always there.
If you don't know what that is, look it up. You're looking
it up. Yeah, long storyshort, Milkshake duck is an internet culture.

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A milkshake duck is a person whogains popularity on social media for some
positive or charming trait, but islater revealed to have a distasteful history or
to engage and investment offensive behavior.Jesus so all right, but basically yeah

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so basically in a nutshell, thesketch situation here can be best described as
people flizzing over now there yeah soso just so. For those who aren't
aware of sketch, here is aflip prial of some of some funny folks.

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Uh gives the flipprial of sketch andsome just some funny bents of his
one for fifteen. That's what Iwould have probably. I just think one
for fifteen horrible. Now one forfifteen. That's what I would have probably
graded your haircut after you got it. But you know that's between you and
the lady at Great Clips. Greatlady. First off, it's big lead

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haircuts, like twenty seconds. Okay, you know, give me a weed
whacker. I gonna do the sameShip. What I get. What I'd
like to do is when I goand use is far away it with taking
a shower so I never really haveto wipe my hands. I was hearing
the show facts haircut okay with atap out shirt? Did he did stand

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up? He would killing, hewould cry. She realized you were like
Ship, I got motion twins,phenomenal rout, he's goofy, he's funny
as Ship. So yeah, Sobasically, just to get you caught up

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before we look at this fucking apologyvideo, Sketch Uh had was apparently a
model in somebody's only fans page,a gay only fans page, and uh
I remember hearing about the sketch allegationssketch controversy all. I'm like, oh,

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I can't believe Sketch did that.All in the fucking comments of like
TikTok, and I'm like, whothe fuck is sketch and what did need
me do? And I just googledsketch and I and this was the video
that TikTok had just showed you.Was the video that popped up, like
the compilation of like all the funnyship and he would like he said.
I'm like, oh, this guy'sfucking great. It's funny ship. And
I'm like, what the fuck didhe do? And then I went went
on Google directly and looked at Googleon TikTok and and like, like fucking

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I saw like a few different streamerswhose associated with like Kso seen mad j
C like comment on about the shamsamlike they're like, yeah, who gives
a ship? And they went inlike at the ultimately, like you know,
the gaming, the gaming sphere likeshould be one of the least right

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wing spaces on the Internet because likeso many games, just like the undercurrent
of them is like freedom anti likecreated like like like just like in the
the plots of games are like freedomanti authoritarian, don't be a dick treat
like like freedom for the oppressed.All the ship like these are the undercurrents

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and then you have like and thenyou have the call of duty community.
Not even the duty community, that'sjust that's the that's just the community that
I like throw out like when I'mlike, oh, here's the racist homophokes
now. Not now, granted,not everybody, not everybody in the places

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call of food is rast homophobic,but like one of the biggest creators in
that space, Nick Marks, likehe equates fucking he fucking equates homosexuality with
child predation. So you know,once you're at that, once you've drunk
the kool aid to that level andyou're one of the biggest creators in that
space, like, come on,but i'd aggress. I also saw a

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lot of people comparing sketch in thiscase to doctor disrespect, which I think,
like is absurd. Yeah, noteven because like, like it's funny
because a lot of the people whoI see going after Sketchford doing gay for
bottoming and Gapehorn is uh are We'rekind of hand wavy on the doctor disrespect
allegations, And I'm like, it'snot it is not at no, at

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no, yeah, this ship isnot like, this ship is not about
fucking yeah, protecting the children.Otherwise, y'all would have wanted, like
doctor disrespect be buried under a president. No, it's about hating gay that's
awesome. But moving on, thisis his full apology. We're gonna watch

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a good chunk of it. Ithink, uh, And then I think
just because I want to bring thisup because like, hey, you shouldn't
have to apologize for a sex workbefore, whereas this is a sex work
positive channel. And two this islike a Masterclots example on like pr management.
This man hopped on a live stream. This was a live stream and

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uh did this forbidden? God?Damn where were we all before? Fuck?
Elephant in the room. I gota haircut. That's funny as shit.

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Just a great beginning? Was it? Planning on doing this today?
But I guess so? Okay,I'll start from the top. Look at
this open and honest. That wasme. It was me. It's okay,
though, I will tell you what. Okay, two years ago,

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I did some stuff. I'm sorry. If you've seen similar stuff, you
know I'm a changed person. Hm, this is gilly worse than I thought
it was. So two years ago. I did not have sexual relations with

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that man. I'm just kidding.I did possibly catch out a bag fun
fact that little clip there. Idid not have sexual relations with that man.
Actually possibly like that that snippet that'sturned into a whole ass like take

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dogs out. Oh yeah, Ibet, I bet that's all awesome.
It's okay. What else do Ihave to say? I don't know.
Thank you to all my people thathave been sticking up for me. I
understand if you're bad shot hit thefan. I don't don't go on Twitter.

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I deleted. I'm just kidding.I didn't delete Twitter. I have
been yeah, yeah, what aspledge we get the right style at present,
and they're not. They were kindof lighting him up over there.
If I'm being honest, I believeit. They're all the Ela must familys.
So makes sense. I just asfar as like Twitter is concerned,

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I like, I don't. Idon't really use Twitter too much. I
engage more on threads just because likethey have an algorithm and that kind of
helps, and preferably I like blueSky like cautiously avoiding it. It's like
fucking land minds everywhere I go.Okay, I was dealing with some addiction

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problems, a couple of them,but no excuse there. Uh what I
guess just trying to give you somebackground background here. What else was I

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gonna say? Yeah, that wasme. I fucked up. I won't
do it again other than just abad pretty much. Yeah, this situation
shouldn't even be talked about the again, the fact that it's even being compared

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to the doctor disrespect situation is absolutebrain around insanity. Just calling it out
right there, it is. Itis. It's patently absurd ultimately because like,
let's let's be so fucking for real, like, let's be so fucking

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for it right, like it's it's. The people's issue with this is that
if if he if he had ifhe if he had gotten you know,
if he was like fucking a womanor in that, that it would wouldn't
have one tent the controversy none.It would have been like, oh ugly

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literally yeah, it's it's it's it'sliterally just because they're he's gay, like
it's like the most manly man.And here's the thing I want to remind
everybody, if you want, havewhat ever watched porn the men those like
like vaguely like those like the menin those in those that you're watching blast

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the back out of like a woman. You find attractive. All of those
men have either have either given itor taken it and gave porn because being
a start pasing that pays so muchfun. So like, yeah, so
you know, at the end ofthe day, it's the sex work.
Sex work, the sex industry is. It's incredibly exploitative and harmful, but

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sex workers are not. Like that'sjust the distinction. So also, you
did meant and we were talking,we did did a whole tangent about like
how like sex workers good and stuff. And you had a friend of yours
from high school who actually has itonly agains people wanted to shout her out
again just out of respect, yea, because we lost that originally my friend
Nikki Lee. Do you guys liketo check that out? Just supporting the

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homegirl, you know, for backall. That's last thing I want to
know he made that content. Butlast thing I want to show on this
is what is I think Philip deFranco kind of like did a perfect example
here Philly Dy Philip Philip Franco,Joe twenty seconds and then we're gonna can
move on to the next topic.It's not like he made that content,

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but he's known for saying that likegay people shouldn't have rights. And I'm
personally of the mindset of, yeah, that's the other big thing. He's
not that he's not like one ofthose like gay pastors that you know,
rails and sermons against gay people,and brimstonedn't fire all the ship and then
so it was all out in thestreets, but gay in the sheets basically

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anyone that attacked. Yeah, Ithink just the worst fucking thing about this
is that Sketch got like outed withouthis consent. Like that's kind of like
the hard part I think. Ithink that's like the heart, like the
thing that like pizzes me off,like obviously, like he was probably scared
of coming out because of like hewasn't sure how it was fucking commused.
He's a fucking man street dog likelike, but I will say, as

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fucked up as this is, notthat it should be expected, but people
who do online adult content at leastI don't know about him because it was
a one time thing. It wasa guest appearance. It was in his
own page that he also said.He also said that by the way that
like he said that he was likehaving suicidal thoughts and stuff on the lead
up to this, like that wassomething in that video and like this,

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but if he didn't get support thathe got from his friends and community.
And I want to say there aretons of private people who from an angry
customer or from a angry person whodidn't want to spend money, whatever the
case may be, an ex boyfriendwho whatever, will spread that information to

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share that content to family members,younger simplings, parents, the whole nine
yards. So it's just a fuckedup thing all around. That whole adult
content space has a horrible what's itcalled, like horrible problem in terms of
how exposed they are, Like it'sso sad, honestly, and this is

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just another example of that. Yeah, absolutely, Jim over this. They
go fuck themselves, whether it beJoe blow bigoted Berry to fucking Tyreek Hill.
He tweeted, Oh a sketch doneplayed, y'all Trek. If I
was you, I'd watched myself.You fast. You're not faster than a
Google search, your fucking woman beateremotion them. It's not like, yeah,

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fucking love Bilt the Franco man.Uh. I will also say,
did you ever see the guy onTikTok or Instagram, who's black but says
nigga really weird. You know whatwe're talking about? Idea who you're talking
about? Well, anyway, that'sthis whole gimmick. People get mad at
him because they're like, you're black, but it sounds like you're a white

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person saying it. Please stop,and he's like, I'm one of you,
please please understand. And then hejust says it in the most like
white way possible, like if yousaid it, Evan. And then,
uh, somebody came out and didsome research on him and it turned out
that he was a little bit ofa pedo. And uh, yeah,

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the Internet has not been favorable asthey shouldn't be. So good for them.
We talked about disspect didn't last week? Uh yeah yeah we did.
Yeah. Cool, another piece ofshit, letting that shit go on for
four years, five years, playingfucking playing fucking dumb. Very quickly,

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Evan, I wanted to talk aboutthe Uh I believe it's over. Yeah,
it's the twelfth, it's one dayover. But I did purchase some
games off of the Steam Summer sale. Did you yourself purchase anything? Man,
I have no money. I amvery bored. If you want to.

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If you want to help with that, you can go to himedia dot
gg slash tip. Uh. Onedollar a month is a boon of my
mental health. Please, I'm verypoor. You get exclusive, you get
early asked the things like the rundown, as well as exclusive videos and other
parts supplemented through our discord. Please, I am very poor. Give me
your money. But yes, continue, yeah, hey the boy please,

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he's the homide. He needs it. He's not just bullshit now. I
just wanted to say though, thatI got a few, quite a few
games during the sale. I gotStlaris if you know what that is?
Do you know what that is?So it's a paradox open world not open

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world, but like real time strategygame but in the universe. You could
get mods that make it like aStar Wars RTS, like upgraded version of
the garrison mode in Battlefront something likethat. Uh. And it's a really
cool game, Prison Architect. Igot, you know, just a cool

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little game. Pick that up forthree bucks, which is crazy. Have
a nice Death, which is Ibelieve a roguelike h what's it called?
You die? You attack platform oralmost like colda lamb Haites, things of
that nature. But it had likea cool little gimmick where you played this

(25:03):
little grim reaper fellow, and itkind of caught my eye, and it
was on sale for fifteen bucks.It's usually like twenty five thirty. I
was like, fucking, I mightas well pick it up. I also
got Balloon's Time to Fence six.That's a game. Yeah, it's a
game for my childhood. I believeit was. I think it was like
four or five six bucks, Soit was like, fucking, I gotta

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pick it up. And then forcrazy, wait when open When you open
that up, the purchase version onSteam has a lot of shit that the
flash versions never had. No Ibet and I think you'll jump out of
your seat for this. Both didMeyer Civilization seven six. I was about

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to say seven seven, just gotannounced six and uh, what's it go?
Left for Dead one and two allfor under like five bucks eight,
which is insanity than I did.Also buy The Universe because it sparking zero.

(26:07):
I need to get some practice inHow's Boulder Skate three. I haven't
touched it because I've been waiting forNoeli and Allen. Why we're doing a
joint fucking run. I'm just gonnastart a new campaign. But I'm also
not on my computer that much.I don't lie. Yeah, you know,

(26:27):
have you ever thought about you know, have you ever thought about like
just getting a big ass HD coordNo, I have one, and it's
sticks in my TV. My wholecovey yat right is whenever it's my night
on the TV. We the waywe go is, me and my girlfriend

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and my roommate have two separate scheduleyou know, block scheduling or whatever you
want to call it. I gettwo days. They share two days because
they usually watch the same thing orthey won't like and you know, and
and if and if there is andif there is for whatever a rarity or
like where together your girlfriend or ellenwant to watch something themselves, you'll usually

(27:14):
sacrifice a day just out of respect, just so they Yeah, I got
it, Yeah, gotcha? What'sit on? Whenever it is my day
on the TV, I usually playthe PS five, Not that I don't
want to play the you know PC. I just have so many games on
the goddamn PS five right now thatI need to get into. Folks,

(27:37):
you play on your PC while they'replaying on the Why don't you play on
your PC while they're having their daythen, so there lies the other problem.
Since Ellen has been working so much, it's been mainly me and Noellio
are watching TV together. So wheneverwe watch, whenever it's her night,
she usually is watching something that shewants me to watch. So then there's

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no more me being on my PCor PlayStation four. I gotta watch what
she wants to watch. Which,hey, don't get me wrong, I
love the ship that she's been suggestingand putting on. I'm watching Atlanta right
now. I literally just started itDonald Glover. Obviously it's great. I
just never got into it, butyeah, great stuff. I'm just like,

(28:22):
what do I do? And thensince I've been working as well,
time has also been a little limited. Not too much though, so but
yeah, I just wanted to shoutout a few of those games. Everything
was on fucking sadde man like everything. It was crazy. Yeah, I
wish I had money. I wishI had a job. I would have

(28:45):
I would have bought a ton ofshit. No, I know, I
know, my boy, so soI'm sorry. I know you go ahead,
you I cut you off. Iwas just gonna say, also,
I bet you didn't know. Iknow you're gonna bring up separate story.
But I just wanted to say onesecond, but you didn't know that like
ninety percent of the player base fromof what is it, Hell Divers Too

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is like gone and it's not reallyanything bad. It just had a really
big blow up. It just yeah, it's just fine. Well no,
it's just like it's like the peoplethat are that enjoy playing it are still
playing it like they no, no, no, I just mean the hypeover
it is has fizzled because you don'tsee as many videos about it. You
don't see as much marketing. Notthat it's bad, not that they haven't

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made great updates and put it ingreat shit, I'm just saying it.
Yeah, it's it's like it's likelike the it like every they the whole
purpose of marketing a game is notlike the gigantic highs. Yes, those
are good, like the influx ofmoney guarantees like the Games of Future,

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but like for a game like HellDivers, where like there is like some
like long term models, they monetizea bit of it. You know,
ultimately they've gotten to their end game. They've gotten to I think like the
player base is settled. The peoplethat are going to be playing regularly and
enjoy playing regularly, are here tostay, almost like Warfare I think Warfare

(30:18):
right, Warframe like has like thepeople who come to it occasionally or like
liked it, like it exploded becausethey wanted you know, at Destiny,
they wanted to play Destiny, butlike not Destiny. I gotta ask,
with these games as service things beingbrought up, how do you feel about
the First Descendant and something become Humantoo Human games? I have absolutely no

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idea what you're talking about. Sothey're both free to play, uh,
games as a service video games thatwere both released I think this week or
they'll last two weeks something like that. They literally both came out. I
heard that. For what the helldid I just say? The name was?

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I had it? And then thefinal Descent the first Descent didn't First
Descent. I don't fucking know,long story short. Uh. They said
that that was kind of more ofa cash grab than more of your standard
free to place. Too Human hasa lot of character customization. It's a
little wonky though, so I wouldsay give it a few months, let

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it update that whole thing. Butyeah, that just happened in the game
sphere. Yeah, that's fair.I mean my thing is is that for
all of them, for like thecontroversy that were the results of Sony's choices
with hell Divers, Ultimately, HellDivers has a pretty solid monetization path in

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regards to the people who will payfor the war bonds who won't. Long
story shirt, everybody is settled in. It's everybody gets to have fun.
Everybody can have fun. Yeah,and from what I from it, correct
me if I'm wrong with anybody inthe comments. I'm pretty sure that every
time they release a new war bondlike something, the original war bonds are

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still there, so it's like there'sno fomo. Oh okay, that's see.
That's the thing that I fucking hateabout even premium paid games that you
will miss out on not necessarily contentthat will impact the gameplay and put a
competitive edge over non paying characters,but players. But it's just fucked up

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that I pay sixty seventy eighty upto one hundred and ten dollars for a
game and then there's still content thatI can miss out on that was there,
and then they'll try selling it backto me. I mean, every
fighting game has done this teching.They just opened up a you know,
premium shop. So I think battlepasses are not a bad form of progression.

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They are basically just another form ofprogression that you can see out on
the line. But the only butmy issue with them is when it's the
fomo aspect. I genuinely believe thatif you're going to have a battle pass
of some of any sort, youshould it should be indefinite. It should

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be indefinite you it should you orlike I think you should do kind of
what Halo does, which is justyou know, you start in like the
new like the Halo game that likefucking flopped and if I and correct me
if I'm wrong, but this ismy understanding of how it works is you
have like the battle pass that camewith the base game, and then every

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subsequent battle pass is just added onto the end of it and so add
nauseam like in Infinity, whenever theycreate a new battle pass of your content,
it's thrown on to the end.So like you know, you can
get it whatever you want, andyou know you can, and I think

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I think that if you want,as long as the battle pass doesn't have
any like power in it, basicallylike as long as like it's like all
cosmetics or fun and fun, Ithink that selling battle pass skipts is completely
viable so long as the battle passcontent remains. So, just to make

(34:37):
sure I'm understanding your point, you'resaying that you should make the battle passes
free after they've expired when the newone comes out, right, I think,
then I think that the I think. I think what what they should
do is the Battle pass itself shouldbe free, the Battle passlf should be

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free the the new content is taggedon into the end of the battle pass.
And uh, if you and this, here's what this does. It
forwards your most active just very quicklyto let monetization in the form of tear

(35:19):
skips for the battle pass. Understandthis, So here's what this does.
This makes it so Uh, you'rethe people who play the most and play
most actively. Just get the ship. I will say not that I don't

(35:39):
understand the failure of this game,but I think also that's what Suicide Squad
has tried to do. Don't getme wrong, they didn't have the juice
from the beginning. The game justwasn't good. But you know, and
and the worst part is that whilethat that idea is good, then it's
like like even a turd can haveeven a turtle have a company's in it.

(36:05):
No, literally, you know,so I would even propose, I
would even say do do what Iwas saying. Right, the new battle
Pass, the one that gets updatedevery few months or whatever, that one
is premium, but it becomes freewhenever it expires, and for the expired
battle pass, you could buy thetear skips. Like you were saying,

(36:29):
I fuck with that idea. That'scool too, right, because here's the
thing. At the end of theday, if you shut this game off
and turn it back on fifty yearsfrom now, you can just play solo
mode on over and over again whenwith no players and still just grind out
the fucking cosmotoicy want anyways, Likethat's why, Like I understand the hate

(36:51):
that it got when it initially dropped, but I think looking back after Mortal
Kombat won, people were really lookingat it with rose colored goggles on.
Right now, Uh, Mortal Kombateleven really did that. Don't get me
wrong. There's online aspects where certaincostumes you just can't get without fighting people
online, and I respect it becausethat's what a fighting game honestly should be.

(37:14):
You know, like go fight actualpeople, Go fight actual people and
get good, raise the ranks andget it through you know tier rewards.
Yeah, no, that I thinkthat is like, Uh, there's a
YouTube er that goes by the nameBritney or Britney organ E. He uh
he has this entire video. Uhhere, let me see if I can

(37:38):
just briefly bring it up because Iforget the exact acronym, but but like
for me, it's his Uh.He basically talks about how games kind of
need three aspects to be uh good, to be not good, to be

(38:04):
uh like to be kind of successful, and one of those was as he
was was he calls big dick factor, Like you know, if it's like
in the old Halo games, youwould have like your skull helmet and stuff
that you got from like winning,like from like winning and like and like
being like good enough at the game. And it is one of those things

(38:29):
where it's you know, you learnyou're just like, oh, I'd fucked
like but but you only get thatthrough like winning. Like I do think
that like there need to be certaincosmetics, There need to be certain things
that show like Hey, I'm builtdifferent, don't fuck with me. Yeah,

(38:52):
like, that's that is, youknow, ultimately, I think one
of like the big things, uhthat I mean, yeah, don't get
me wrong, that was one ofthe biggest you know, acclaims and uh,
what do you want to call it? Attractions of the original modern warfares.
I mean, when you saw somebodywith an intervention that had extended mags

(39:16):
and a fall camo on the groundin modern warfare too, you knew you
were dealing with a fucking Lee HarveyOswald motherfucker. Like you weren't leaving.
You weren't leaving the scene unscal typeshit. So yeah, no, I
definitely agree. Yeah, And Ithink, like you go for it,

(39:36):
sorry, games like hell Divers,games like Warframe, especially whenever you go
to the relays and shit like thatand you see the other characters and you
go on missions and you see allthe fucking cosmetic items and all the shit
that's going on there. Like Iunderstand you and I have a difference.
There has to be that type offactor into games. I think too many

(40:00):
games are emphasizing the paid monetization ofonline aspects and battle passes that I mean,
like literally, I think it wasthis week or last week we just
heard the real reason we never gotthe story DLC for GTA five, and
it's because ETA Online just became thefucking cash cow, and even though they

(40:22):
recorded everything, it didn't make senseto release it because it wasn't going to
compete with GTA Online. Yeah,I think, in my opinion, they
should have just fucking released it forfree. They already had the goddamn thing.
But let's not get into that.Yeah, I feel that. But
the CBT I was talking about fromBricky said it was instead of it was

(40:44):
a casual accessibility, easy to understand, easy to grind, good for newbs
and vets, big dick factor ofrewarding cosmetics show off that the players prove
humane X and time investment unlocks foryears, multiple avenues tailored to veterans,
which I think is a I'm gonnasend you this video so you will launch
it yourself. And I think hegenuinely, I think he genuinely does a

(41:08):
fairly decent job of explaining that,explaining it better than I hold here.
But yeah, it's just the wholebattle past things, just like like I
think my biggest I don't necessarily havea problem with live service games and and
might I even add like games thatyou pay up front for as long as

(41:30):
there are games that are expected thatlike do have like like like like you
know, long term support goals inmind, you know, more like if
you have people actively on payroll ofdeveloping content for a game, you know
what I think, Like if youpaid the full price for a game and
there's an aspect of the game thatis popular that people enjoy, I think

(41:52):
having cosmetics and things available in thatpart of the game is justifiable. In
my opinion, I think that isa completely I think that's I think that's
type of understandable because you've got topay people's payroll. You gotta, you
know, you know, at acertain point just becomes a sink. And
if it's not making that money,the suits at the top are just gonna

(42:14):
kill him, which you know,was part of which like let's be fucking
for real, like for was abig reason why there was a call of
duty every fucking years because like forbecause up until a certain point they didn't
have that stuff, so they justmade a new one. And now and
trey Arch seems to be like theonly consistent one that makes somewhat of what
they used to make. I'm notsaying it's the same, but it seemed

(42:37):
somewhat well. I mean, basically, the way it works now is that
they have three three studios in rotationmaking Call of Duty games. At the
time, they have Trey Arc,they have Sledge Infinity and Infinity war but
the Infinity Ward and not Modern Warfarethree. Supposedly the multiplayer in that is

(42:58):
like good, but it's literally acarbon copy of Mono war for two,
the original, not the last yearversion of What the fuck ever? You
know what I'm saying. Uh So, I'm like, why is it that
only one out of these three studioscontinuously makes good content and the other two

(43:20):
are hit or miss if they don'trely on original traits. Even the Ward
seems to like being more consistent,seems more consistently, seems to do a
better content Sledgehamera they go for.I won't lie like Infinity war Ward has
a great power of using gimmicks,like they definitely change it up, don't

(43:44):
get me wrong, but form yeah, exactly Like they'll give it a whole
new retexturing, but then it willfeel exactly like two years ago. Or
three years ago game and it's like, come on, guys, I thought
this, so it's gonna be bigger. Do you know who made Vanguard Call

(44:05):
of Duty? Vanguard that was asledgehammer? Yeah? Yeah, Because here's
the thing. I don't judge Callof Duty by its multiplayer even as single
player. I judge it by itsarcade. I judge Call of Duty games
by their arcade of yeah, bytheir Zombies modes, backups, extra mode,

(44:29):
whatever, invasion, whatever, whateveryou want to call it. I
ultimately do feel that like the arcademodes are the most fun part of our
Call of Duty For me personally,I couldn't give I couldn't give lots of
ship about the game, the storymodes. The stories used to be like
the solo campaigns, like I usedto buy I used to buy Call of

(44:53):
Duty for the solo campaigns and Iused to buy Call of Duty for the
Zombies modes, and that was it. Zombies was just couch co op party
game for me. That was That'swhat it was. After I finished the
solo mode. Yeah, I meanbetween Black Ops one, all the Black

(45:13):
Ops Zombies are consistently good, evenif you don't like necessarily the changes they
make you recognize that the gameplay isfour was probably my least favorite, like
Black Ops four, like the stuffthe mechanics there were probably my least favorite.
But it's like the pizza analogy,like you could have bad pizza,

(45:35):
but it's not the worst food youcould have. Right now, I did
see. I never played College EGhosts, so I never got to experience
the I hear that like people arelooking back at it as just like that,
like the actual like a lot ofthe game play, mechanics and decisions

(45:57):
that they did with it, includingtheir are in the mood that they had
for it, from what I hearwas actually pretty verbose and excellent in a
lot of ways, especially going offthe single player because number one ends on
a cliffhanger, and then they neverannounced the ghost too, That's the first
thing, and then what's it goon? The multiplayer was like a really

(46:19):
good drag, but the arcade modewas pretty fun. I heard was good.
I already heard that the perked modeand system that they had in Ghosts
was actually really good too, evenif the I do wonder, like at
outside looking in in hindsight, howmuch of the hate towards ghost was just
a sort of community backlash to justkind of the monotony of of Call of

(46:44):
Duty at that point, which Imean, you know, titan Fall came
out, I think alongside Ghosts too, so you know that kind of just
that. I I remember that year. I literally got the special edition of
fucking Call of Duty Ghosts right,and then after I played it, like
I got the Prestige edition with thefuck ever veteran whatever it was. After

(47:07):
I played it, I was like, dish, sh it is trash,
Get me Titian Fall, never mindfuck Call of Duty. But yeah,
I play call Italian Fall out ofSpike. It was good. Titan Fall
two got an update recently, likea stability and security update recently, so

(47:27):
like it's so fair that single playerssupposedly really good. Yeah, at least
Titefall two single player is. Butthen again, like Respawn actually fucking listen
to people and stuff, and itbumps me out that like Respawn is now
just like Apex, Legends, GeneratorDot Studio. So I don't know.
I feel like Respawn if they likedidn't have to like maintain and constantly keep

(47:52):
content ranked out for Epex, Ifeel like the the I feel like they
probably would do a Titan Fall three, And honestly, I think I think
if Response did make Titan Faull free, it would be like, I don't
I think that they because they havea BAX that they would just they're like,
we don't want another fucking live service. Here's our content roadmap for it.

(48:13):
And then after that we was justgoing to have security patch and balance
patches occasion like it, just justlike maintain it, like at arms Lang
after a couple of years, likethey have to have done with Titan Fall
two, type Fall two for oneto hear, is still like remarkably playable.
Yeah, it definitely is. It'smobile, high mobility and ship like
that. Like it's really it's reallyseamless. I was also gonna say,

(48:36):
uh, I don't understand. Iunderstand it, but I don't understand why
this horror stories and the failures outof big companies trying to make live service
games has not deterred big studios andbig companies from trying to do live service
games. It is because the amountis because it is because ultimately they the

(49:04):
amount of money a live service gamecan generate is too enticing for them not
to try and waste billions of dollarstrying to get a successful one. Go
Now. I know. Now,granted, I think that if every company
wants to have a live service game, have that live service game. But
once you get a successful one thatlike that, that like that has legs,

(49:30):
don't make another. Yeah, goback to doing what you were doing,
right, because here's the thing.It's like, ultimately everybody has,
like here's the thing that people forget. Everybody has like their main game,
their main live service game, theirmain comfort game that they play. Right,
They're like, this is a liveservice game that is constantly everybody has

(49:50):
like one that they go back toan age, and it's very very difficult
to make a player go from oneto the other or play both because they're
so time consuming. Correct. Sofor me, I my my issue is
that I have a couple of liveservice games that I genuinely enjoyed playing,
and my time is split between them, and therefore my emotional investment in them

(50:14):
is split. Like I love EldersStrolls Online. It was my first MMO,
Like like the first MMO I actuallyenjoyed. I have five thousand hours
in that fucking game. I don'tthink I have five thousand hours in a
single man right, So so likeI've I've played that game for well over
six seven years, like six years, and I played a disgusting amount of

(50:37):
it. And but like I alsolike Followed seventy six, I also like
No Man's Sky. These are likewell, and while No Man's Sky ossensibly
is not necessarily a like if youbought it and downloaded it tomorrow without any
like without like any wide fire oranything like, you could be fine even
still play it like it's whatever.But like they put out a fucking content

(51:00):
a free content update for free everythree months, like clockwork, so like
there's always a reason to jump backinto the fucking game. Follow seventy six
released a new expansion and I stillhaven't gotten into it to do it because
I'm still have to go play thegoal. I still have a bunch of
content I have to do, andthe Elder scrolls online and like you know,

(51:21):
you know, so it's like youknow, you know for like ultimately,
what point I was trying to makeis that everybody has like their one
live service if you and there isroom in the market for more live services.
But but there isn't room in themarket for every game to be a
live service if you want to.If you want to do it too much,
it does now granted, like ifyou are in once you have that

(51:45):
live service under your company umbrella,foster it, you know, you need
to do everything in your power tomake people want to stay, to maybe
feel value and enjoy it, youknow. And then if you're going to
have like games that have like alonger supportsycleed like you have like a Hell
Divers for example, Hell Divers isnot I think, I don't think is

(52:07):
enough. Like that is a gamethat isn't going to appeal to most people
to be there one hyper obsession.It is going to be for some There
were definitely people that were like thatwith the original Hell Divers, but it's
not going to be like that foreverybody. So one of the things you
kind of have to keep in mindis is, Okay, how do we

(52:27):
get people like you need? Thenyou need to like do something like the
suggested like where you like have yourprogression be like this battle pass thing and
then like you tack it on atthe end like or you need to you
know, like you yeah, becauseI think this is also a lot of
realities for gamers when there are somany options for so many different live service

(52:51):
games, so many different battle passeson these live service games. What you
already you already factor in work,you're already factor in sleep, and then
you already have the limited amount oftime split of your free time split between
uh, you know, spending timewith family, actually playing video games,
friends, the whole nine yards rightsonly there's only eight hours in a day,

(53:15):
and realistically we only have eight ofthem to ourselves to do what we
want exactly. And if you workmore, you have less, If you
sleep more, you have less,So the whole family you have less.
So the whole nine yards. Youand I are both in committed relationships,
like we don't have families yet.Yeah, but like even even so,

(53:39):
having a relationship still eats you know, three like like anywhere from three to
five hours of your day by itself. If it's not fifty percent of your
day in terms of your free time, then it's probably you're either on different
working schedules or it might not bethe best. Either you're fucking up or

(54:00):
one of y'all are sucking up,like like the thing so so like ultimately,
like you know, the big fun, the big thing is is that
like you know what I think alsoin this ecosystem what ends up happening is
is that you know, the wordof mouth of you know, journalists like
like certain figures in the space,and your fellow gamers and friends that play

(54:24):
games becomes more valuable because you can'ttrust like like PC gamer or any of
the like the typical games meeting becauseit because ultimately you have to remember this
gaming news press are like it's it'sakin to like industry press. Like it's

(54:44):
like it's like a fucking it's likefucking like uh, a restaurant, it's
like a fucking uh like a manufacturinglike like like uh press for like an
industry type of thing, industry likeindustry news. You know, that's what
it's not for us. You know, it's it's basically reporting on like what's

(55:06):
going on in the industry type ofthing. You know, you have,
like that's what people have to remember. PC Gamer and things like that.
They are not in IGN especially,aren't you know, reporting to us.
They are reporting to the competitors ofother companies about what's going on in the
industry. They are their industry rags. So you know, for us,
like you know, when when Iget a critical mass of people in my

(55:30):
life and better play games saying hey, you got to try this game,
I say, Okay, I'm goingto go try this game. And so
what ends up happening is that youdo have games like your Elder Brings.
You do have your games like yourSpider Man's. You do have your games
like balders Gate. Not to saythat all three of those are necessarily on
like the same playing field per se, you know, but just in terms

(55:52):
of like scale publicity game good gamesthat are well liked and that that that
have a critical mass of people thatsay, hey, you should try this.
We're living in an environment now wherelike actually good games that aren't like

(56:12):
will like are are suggested more thanlike the slot that comes out like if
EA puts out like a new Andjust to lend credit to your point,
I will also say I think alot of the time video game purchases are
done because of word of mouth moreso than advertisement. It is it is
the community is a community? IsI think one of them? Like,

(56:36):
well, yes, games that spendyou know, a million dollars of marketing
will usually make multiple millions more backin copy sales. Ultimately, you know,
if you know there's like people willtalk and you know, you know,
like I don't know anybody. Theonly person I know who played Suicide

(57:00):
was my buddy Sean, and hestreamed it for his channel as a joke,
like to talk about how bad itboss. Yeah, So there you
go. If that's the type ofship that you're seeing about a video game,
you're less likely to go experience it, Like I want, Like,
if I wanted to experience it,I'm just gonna go watch his Bonds.
No. Literally. I also wantto say I have a slight disdain for

(57:27):
mobile gamers in terms of not becausethey're not real gamers or what the fuck.
Ever, the mainstream argument is mywhole thing is when video game companies
started to monetize time, I thinkthat us as gamers really got fucked by
that because as we're already staying eighthours in the day, shit is already

(57:50):
fucking limited. Well, the thingis is that when they implement it,
like, don't get me wrong,but I understand the fucking just before we
get into like the initial pushback andshit like that, I understand the appeal
of stopping that upgrade from lasting tenhours as opposed to the seven. What
the fuck ever? Uh you know, and I totally get how it's almost

(58:15):
like gambling. I understand the uhuh you know, shady aspects of it
from the video game companies. I'mjust like, fuck, man, we're
in this situation now because of howprofitable that shit has been for every fucking
body. And uh, yeah,here's the biggest, sadness, dude.

(58:37):
So here's so this is here's thebiggest He's love him, He's very entertaining,
the dude, great guy. Ilove is Shorts, absolute god.
Yep. So we're so. I'mjust this is relevant to what you just
said. Something to bring this upsadness, dude, I worked two years
of overtime straight on StarCraft two Wingsof Liberty. StarCraft two Wings of Liberty

(59:02):
made less money than the horse,the first Sparkle pony horse in World of
Warcraft, a fifteen dollars micro transactionhorse made more money than StarCraft two.
That's it. That's the whole name. Dude. You're wondering why these companies

(59:22):
do micro transactions because dipshits keep buyingall of this. Yeah, here's the
biggest. Yeah, And I don'thave complete disdain for people who buy micro
transactions and shit like that. ObviouslyI do it as well. I'm not
gonna fucking sit here, Yeah,to criticize people that I think you master.
I've bought probably at least one thousanddollars worth of gems. But it's

(59:45):
just so fucked especially in games whereyou already pay these fucking premiums just to
get access to the content. Thenthe shit gets pulled away from you artificially,
not because of any real timeline.It's digital content. How much fucking
space is a take up on aStar War? Yeah, here's my thing,
right, It's just ultimately, Ithink if I were to start,

(01:00:07):
like make a game tomorrow and Iwanted it to be monetized in whatever way,
I think that a lot of theways that I would do it is
I think I would, you know, I think you know, at having
you know, like a progression linewhere that's cosmetics only that you can buy,

(01:00:28):
you know your way through there arethere will be obviously a handful of
cosmetics that are earn only. Youknow, get that, you know,
big dick factor basically, and youknow then and then like if I if
I'm selling like cosmetics and shit,you know, it's there's no fucking fomo

(01:00:49):
or rotation of them. It's justthey're just there. Yeah, you know,
ultimate, that's part of the reasonI think, like, ultimately I
stick with light more traditional, uhyou know, a live service and the
form of like an Elders Girls Onlineenough there, Like, there is so

(01:01:12):
many cool looking armors and stuff justin the base game by itself, and
you can mix styles and stuff togetherusing the outfit system, so you get
like a merbos like options and stuff, which is pretty cool. Ultimately,
there's no need for me to likespend a lot of money on clothing or
things like that. I have abuck time, Like, don't get me
wrong, I have a fuck tonbecause like, you know, I get

(01:01:37):
that's the game that's playing the game. Like. I also like have an
Ali Skirls Online subscription for the yearand like, which means every month I
get you know, fifteen fifteen plusfifteen sixteen dollars worth of like the premium
currency with my purchase of like Yoplus, which is just honestly, like,
if you play Eli Skirls Online,like and you've played Wow in the

(01:01:59):
past, just pay for you plusthe craft bag is worth it. You
get access to all the DLC soyou don't have to pay for it out
of pocket. It's fine, andit's and you get in honestly, you
get like fifteen bucks a month inthe currency anyways, So it's like like
you're getting like, it doesn't hurt. I know what you're saying, it

(01:02:19):
doesn't hurt. But like, also, the nice part about Elvis Rose Line
is it's an MMO that's paid once, play forever. Yeah. But here's
also the thing, like exactly likeOmi it was saying in the video whatever
bullshit content thing. I don't fuckingknow. A Gunskin and Call of Duty
will make more money than a Hadestwo will ever make. And it's just

(01:02:44):
like, fuck, man, whatdo you do? What do you do?
Thankfully it's not a direct competition inthe form of like they already have
these studios inside of their the BinaryPlayStation Xbox studio fucking you know Ben Diergram
there, but it is, it'sfucked it's fun. Yeah. The only

(01:03:09):
the only thing is the only thingI will say is that Super Giant is
a team of like one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty
one, twenty three, twenty three, twenty four people, twenty four to
twenty five people working in super Giantgames. These are the people that made

(01:03:31):
eighties one and two. And here'smy thing, right, It's like,
yes, I agree that, Like, ultimately we're kind of in an indie
renaissance ad presence without adapt and that'swhy I say it's a direct competition.
Yeah, the best games are goingto come from indie developers. Like I

(01:03:55):
think, like games like price aroundthe forty dollars like that, like that
is like your below the forty andbelow like you're you're like you're between the
paying Paying for a game that costsbetween twenty and forty dollars was usually a
price point where you're gonna get apretty solid gameplay experience. Like Stardo Valley

(01:04:15):
is twenty dollars, it's usually onto for fifteen ten, Yeah, easily.
You know, you know what elseis forty dollars? Hell Divers,
Power World both you know, excellentdouble A games that are definitely worth your

(01:04:35):
time and investment, and so drasticallydifferent, drastically different. And it's like
and then like what and like whatlike what came out in like the weeks
after, like Power World and HellDivers too, Skull and Bones a game
that costs at by default seven dollars, I think, yeah, sixty maybe

(01:04:59):
on PC? Yeah, probably not. But and if you're buying the Ultimate
Edition, fucking one hundred and tenbucks on that shit. And don't get
me wrong, I'm not saying anythingbad about one hundred and ten dollars on
certain edition of fucking games, especiallyon the shit that you get, But
I am like, how much moregrind? Here's my thing. I shouldn't

(01:05:24):
feel like I'm clocking it at workif I'm playing your game. If that's
the case, then your game isdead to me. Yep. So if
I look at the standard edition ofthe game, it is sixty dollars,
but they haven't heavily discounted to thirtybecause it's done poorly, poorly. And

(01:05:48):
mind you remember this also, Iknow they dropped the price, but on
the Ultimate Edition or Premium Edition whateverit was, you also got three days
of early access that isn't there anymore. If they go to a certain price,
it's wrong. You know, you'relosing out on content that was sold

(01:06:11):
to you. Yeah, here's mything, right, It's like I paid
for the Deluxe edition of Starfield tobe able to play it early. That
is an aspect of the reason whypeople will pay for something. You get
to experience the thing curlier, whichis like, ultimately, that just means

(01:06:32):
that the release state is Like Ijust the that means the release date is
three days five days earlier than itactually is, and it just fucks over
the people that buy the base game. I totally agree. Here's what I
think, right, Like, theDeluxe Edition of Skullen Buns is a standard

(01:06:54):
deluxe and premium. Standard is sixty, Normally Deluxe is seventy five, Premium
is ninety. Right. The weirdin the age where the standard edition is
not the base experience of the game, you want to pay for at least
the deluxe edition, like the atleast the mid range one. Now for

(01:07:16):
the truly scummy companies, like hey, if you want the real experience playing
the game, you gotta get thepremium edition. Yeah, And it honestly
depends on the type of game thatyou're talking about, because as well,
like I'll even say this, right, I'm gonna buy Sparkling zero one hundred

(01:07:38):
and ten dollars whenever I have it, right, no fucking question. Same
thing with Space Marine two. Thething about it I won't sit here in
mind is if you don't pre orderthe game, you don't get some of
the characters that would be considered likemain canon, and maybe you get them
through story progression or what the fuckever, But like that does kind of

(01:08:00):
fuck over some of the fan basethat might not have the money until the
game releases or after. So I'mdefinitely not turning a blind eye to shit,
But I will also say Ubisoft gamestend to be if you buy the
like Premium edition, the most expensive, it's pretty much just finishing the game

(01:08:21):
faster. That's what it really is. It's just like at that point,
you're just spending money to have lessfun. And I mean Arman Pirate that's
his name, right, Pirate,Pirate something whatever. He said that in
a different short where like you're actuallypaying to lose because you're missing out on

(01:08:44):
more of the game. The challengeis a part of the game, and
if you pay to overcome that challenge, you're paying to lose out on some
of that experience, some of thatgrind, you know, right, And
it's like also like when the grindis so impossible that you know you have
to Like there's like I was,and I talked about this in my Shadow
of Year treat right, like,like you should spend about an hour and

(01:09:13):
a half two hours mass on aboss in Elder if because like, it
should take you about that if you'vebeen playing, if you play through a
bunch of Elden Ring and you playedfrom soft games before, and like in
like and you understand that, Okay, I've got to learn how to god
roll this, do this, don'tdo this, and you like that process

(01:09:35):
of learning takes time and however longit should be. Now, however long
that time learning of the perth shouldbe. Now here's the thing. Right,
at a certain point, if I'mspending I spent fifth, I spent
eight. I spent no ten hourstotal fighting the final boss of the Elder.

(01:10:00):
At the six hour mark, Irealized the build I had, which
had gotten me through every other fightand every other aspect of the game,
was not cutting it. I hadto switch. Now, granted, that
is an indicative or gameplay design,where I like have been able to go

(01:10:21):
through the game and play with thisbuild and like adapt and stuff be fine.
Now I have to change all ofmy gear, change all of my
strats and everything to do it.Like that doesn't feel good. That's indicative
of like, you know, Iwould say that the Final Boss of the
Other is poorly designed and in thatway because it's punishing in ways that are
not good. If you want togo check that out, go check out

(01:10:43):
the Shadowy ar Tree review of mychannel that was published past Thursday at time
when when you see this on dayof release. But the reason I say
all that is when you're spending likethere's a there is a critical amount of
time that a task and a gameshould eight for you to be able to
move right. One of this isone of the issues real quick or for

(01:11:06):
you to recognize that you're round awhole square peg round holy you know right?
You know. There's another example ofthis is this Power World. Right
in Power World, you know,you start by like really fast progression,
like you're like you're like, okay, I'm leveling up, I'm wanting to

(01:11:26):
do things and this and this,and then once you hit like you know,
the mid thirties, high thirties,shit starts to like like shit starts
like slowing down like once you hitthird level thirty things should starts slowing down
a little bit more. Once youhit like thirty five, the higher thirties,
it starts more, and once youhit like like the forties, you
know, progression starts like slowing tomore to a crawl because, like you

(01:11:48):
know, the gameplay loop is youis is collecting resources, going around collecting
resources, crafting resources so you canthen expend the resources when you go out
exploring more of the man It isa it's it's a it's a game of
prep and moutument automating that prep tolike be quicker so you can get out

(01:12:09):
and explore them. It is aif you if you like shit like Minecraft
pectoria, like the kind of likethose times it feels good to do.
But you know, at a certainpoint, like I'm spending you know,
an hour hour and a half gettingeverything together and crafted, and that I'm
spending about twenty thirty minutes, youknow, doing this, you know that

(01:12:30):
can be frustrating, which is partof the reason they made certain they made
it the indre and patches updating thegame. They've changed that. They've changed
that to not be the case.They've changed that the game to they've changed
the games, They've added aspects ofthe game to make that grind easier so

(01:12:50):
you can get out and explore more, you know, and you know for
games like you know, say likean Assassin's Creed. See that's a good
example. Metal loves it and it'snot a bad team by any means.
But once you get to the higherlevels, like you gotta spend money,
like if you unless you want tospend hours and hours and hours an hour

(01:13:13):
hours grinding. And I already knewthis was going to be the case.
That believe that's what was gonna endup happening. So I like, are
back, We're gonna start playing yourmark like two hundred bucks for her to
just buy the shit she needed toget ready to go. And yeah,
I mean, I will say thatis one of the benefits of these games
becoming going on discount, going onsale, becoming less expensive. The DLC

(01:13:39):
of these games, you know,sometimes ranging from like two hundred fool bucks
to get everything depending on the amountof DLC to like eighty five seventy five
fifty dollars depending on the discount orwhatever. I will say, that's a
big, you know benefit for us, especially since everything is so cross platform,

(01:13:59):
you could buy shit everywhere, you'llget a discount anywhere the whole nine
yards. I will just say,it feels so fucked that after that,
the same experience you were talking aboutwith Elder Scrolls, that I'm talking about
with Warframe, that you're talking aboutwith Fallout seventy six, these life service
games that actually respect your time,respect the grind that you're going on.

(01:14:27):
It never makes you feel like,Okay, now I have to shell out
twenty thirty bucks for me to actuallymake progress, because if I don't,
the next four or five days ofmy life whenever I play this game is
only going to be dedicated to thistask. And if it's something like a
from Soft game where you're aware ofthat aspect because that's the that's the appeal,

(01:14:51):
then yeah, of course I respectit because you're upfront. There's no
like could you imagine if Secoro hadlike a gun DLC where everything was just
a single bullet, You know howmad people will be, Like that's the
ship that I'm talking about. Itjust feels so fucked. You want to

(01:15:12):
move on, You want to doone more story before we call it?
Yeah? Sure, you know aboutthe hook two girl. Yes, yes
I do. It's such a fuckingboomer conservative me. Dude, I could
not be more indifferent on this subject. I go ahead, just very quickly.

(01:15:33):
I found it funny, Noellie,I had such a viscer reaction to
her being brought up, and I'mlike, I understand it, but also
I'm not gonna go out of myway to give this person any real estate.
In my mind, here's the thingI saw. I only know her
for like just like like her meansand shit, we're on my for you

(01:15:56):
page and then like I just Ididn't engage with it much at all,
so like she just here for atime, and like she wants she's done
some podcasts apparently like a family friendof hers, a family friend of hers,
like basically like her like her dad'sbest friend or some ship like uh
started uh selling hats and ship likeand giving her the proceeds so she'd at
least gets some benefit out of it, which is good. She went on

(01:16:18):
a podcast City and I'll yeah,I voted for and like people were really
upset about that because, like Isaid, it's a boomer conservative me.
And the whole purpose of the Huktwo girl was so men who like mediocre
men who are like shitty partners anddon't know how to eat pussy send it
to their wives and girlfriends saying ahah literally you know, because it's like

(01:16:42):
it's it's here's the thing, youknow, who the hok with the huck
to too, Like meme is likepopular with people that don't people that don't
have like like a healthy sex.Yeah, probably like it don't. It's
it's it's with people with partners whoeither either don't have the like don't have

(01:17:04):
the spirit, like they don't haveexperiences. It's like it's like they're like
like conn lingis and fallatio is notpresent in conservative relationships by and large,
you know what I mean, Likeyou know, not you know, Lauren
Bolbert doing some wild ship with herpartners and stuff like give them handies and

(01:17:24):
theaters and stuff like that is likethat's like that like like like that's like
like like like there's some exceptions tothat, some of them might swing a
little bit whatever, but like,by and large, most most of the
people that subscribe to like a moderateconservative conservative lifestyle that are the types of
people that do have the hawk tgirl present in their existence. These people

(01:17:46):
aren't even aren't aren't eating their partner'sgenitalia like they're not doing that ship.
Yeah, but I will also saythe reaction either way of her gaining fame
either from conservative people non conservative,whatever the case may be, her gaining
followers, and her receiving hate basedon it and everything else in this world

(01:18:12):
hate honestly out the outside the insanepuritanical people. But then again they hate
not even that the people were justlike, we don't have the follower and
things like that. It just makesme wish that these presidents and world leaders
w finally pressed the red by indo it, Come on, come on,
do it. I'm just I'm overit as a mine. On that

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We appreciate you your time and yourlistenership. We're here with another very large
episode compared to what we normally do. But that's good. Next week hypothetically,
depending if we can get everybody Iwant to have a conversation, we're
gonna have like some more other creatorsanalysts next week. Hopefully, fingers Brosted

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Brian And yeah, right, thankyou guys. I guess look at me
before we before we quit, legat me. I got the episode two

(01:19:44):
hair from Obi Wan. Look nowat now he's at that Qui Gonion right,
like the fucking uh what's his name? Yeah that's Cauleen. Who who
are you talking about? Mat ObiWan's master Quigan. Yeah, that's saying
right Qui gon Chin. Yeah that'sright, all right, go away right

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