The Rundown #9

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcometo the Rundown Joined. I'm sorry for
my demeanor. I'm a little putpissed about some ship I can't necessarily talk
about on Maine. But let's starttoday with a video from that we were
supposed to have last week, butdue to technical issues that we weren't able

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to. Oh, let's do it, so hey, everybody, I'm here.
He did it. He scoped outthis. What's the most illegal thing
you've ever done? My boy?He did it, He scoped out this.
My name, Curtis, my boy, Curtis, Why? Why why

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are you doing that? Just yourvoice? Nobody knows, he knows what
Curtis? You listen to this man, Curtis and Ralph go ahead, go
ahead, but they plan out thisHouselet this to me. Yeah, we
schook it out. We scoping outeverything. So cool cool, Like wait,
you can't hear ship. I don'teven see it. Ah, I

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bet you were preparing the video.There we I got it now restarted all
thirty seconds and sorry to the listeners, but I apologize. What's the most
illegal thing you've ever done? Myboy? He did it. He scoped
out this. I'm calling my nameCurtis, my boy, Curtis, Why

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why it is? Why are youdoing that? Just your voice? Nobody
knows me, he knows what isCurtis? You listen to this man,
Curtis and Ralph go ahead, goahead, But they plan out this Houselet
this to me. Yeah, weschook it out. We scoping out everything.
So cool, cool, like easy, quiet, neighborhood, nobody there.

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I'm like, all right, whateverwill we get there? We bring
it to the house. Tell mewhy? There was nothing but old alcohol
like wine, but all expired.I said, what is this? Cops
coming? We ran? He hitthe gate fat next the fact got clear
the gate, but he cleared it. I jumped and I went through the
gates field and everybody's outside neighbors wrong. So now we have cops and everything.

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So y'all robbed somebody and only gotold liquor and then got caught.
Yes, dude, this dude toldme he sculped it out. It was
yeah, they have TV's game systems, so there wasn't one TV in the
house. Now one It was likeabandoned. Yeah, that n What the

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hell is he scoping out? What'sthe most illegal? Oh? Lord,
listen, if you're gonna have thedecency the like not check if there's like,
if there's like a dozy neighbors andship, at least make sure the
house has some good ship in that. See, Evan, you are a
what's it called resourceful and uh,very observant motherfucker. I know it's ten

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minutes in less than ten minutes inso sorry YouTube gods. However, you
are a type of person I wouldcommit a crime with those type of people.
No, you don't do that.Nah, crime I commit is tax
of asient. I'm just saying youwould be the person that we go into

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like a heist crew. That's whatI'm saying because because I'm reliable enough to
get the job done and I cankeep my fucking mouth shut, and if
ship pans out, it's gonna panout. Yeah, that's that's what you're
saying. I went, I went. I went to you know, the

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you know, unfortunate Sons school ofyou know, criminal defense, which is
plead the fifth should fuck up,Like, even if you know you did
nothing wrong, even if you knowthat you are just getting your like,

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no, keep your mouth shut.I'm not sure if you remember these guys,
but on Instagram they're probably all oversocial media, or at least they
used to be. It was liketwo lawyers that were Alice Stoner dudes,
Shut the fuck up Friday. Shutthe fuck up Friday. Not because they're
right, not because they are right. That is one hundred percent so so

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the the hardcore nerd community for Fallout. By the way, just as an
update from last week's episode has cometo a consensus, the young guys like
myself are like, okay there.Todd Howard came out and said New Vegas
was cannon. Uh. The thethings that are shown in the show like

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aren't aren't as black and white asthe amazing scene we like it. I've
watched two and seven eighths of one. In seven eighths of an episode,
I'm waiting for Meadow to get okaybecause the fucker stabbed a dog and she's
not okay with that. Neither ofmine, I know. But you could
tell Meadow this, and I'm gonnajust spoil this little bit. Dog meat

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doesn't die. He doesn't die,he stays alive. Okay. Cool.
Regardless, the show is pretty fuckinggreat. It's pretty don't get me wrong.
They definitely, you know, hollywoodifysome of the bullshit. Don't spoil
it for me, but I havea prediction that Maximus was the person that
put that razor blade in her boot. Uh, you'll find out who does

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it. I won't say anything.So it was him, okay, because
I had a feeling. I hada feeling. I mean interrogation scene,
like that was fucking no that thatwas good to you. That was just
batently good TV. I think that'sI think. I think the next season

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that they're gonna do with it isgoing to be episodic. They're not gonna
dump it all in one gun.I don't think they were expecting it to
be as popular as it was.But like there's people like my my associated
mind ygo Deevil, who is whenI do. Who's someone who's an associated
of mine? He got his momto watch it and she's never nothing video
games ever, and she was.She was in love. So I will

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say I'll give credit where credit isdue with it. The show too.
It feels like Fallout, thank you, that's all I want it. No,
I know I'm not saying oh no, make no mistake. My hang
ups were almost entirely with the Lordship, and that ship was like resolved it
looks like it looks like Fallout.I love their use of practical sets,

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Like that's the one thing that Ireally really appreciate is that the practical the
practical effects, and the practical sets, and the practical costumes, and in
the in them cutting back on cG. I at least, or at
the very least having CGI that's goodenough that it feels realistic, all wonderful.
I will say everything following Uh,you know that whole fight in Philly,

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they flesh it out even more likeit's really it's really fun I find
it so fucking funny that they decidedto put a town where everybody's always fucking
fighting and name it Philly with anF. Yeah, no, I know,
Elliot said it first. Actually itwas funny. Watch it with me.

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Yeah, that's great. I'm justhappy to hear because everybody was freaking
out about the fucking New Vegas thing. Todd. Yeah, thank god Tod
came out and said that, becauselike the only people that have hanged up
about the show now or the OldGuard. And when I say the Old
Guard, I'm talking about the peoplethat say fall Out one and fall Out

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two are the best games in thefranchise, suck my nack. Yeah,
and fuck you people who are stillarguing about whether or not Fallout Tactics is
fucking canon. It is. There'sthis fucking dude, there's this guy in
my comments section had me fucking Idid a two time speed like response video

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in a short like so I soundedlike fucking bee bush of BEPO. Oh,
it's awful. This guy, thisguy here, I'm gonna read,
I'm gonna show you. I'm gonnashow you, and I'll show the audience
the fucking comment and question that hethat that he did this ship on so
the I made a video called whatwhat Fallout games should I play? After

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watching the TV show? Mm hmoh this goes, this goes fucking I'll
read it out to you for everybodyto see. Uh the first Fallout one,
second, fall Out Resurrection one pointfive, third, Fallout two,
fourth Fallout Nevada, fifth Fallout NewVia by the way, Fallot Resurrection,

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and and uh I think and FalloutNevada are mods. Yeah. Now,
granted, I advocated people to playTale of Two Wastelands because you get the
atmosphere in the field of Fallout withFallout three in the world building of that,
in the in the in the in, the atmosphere of it is better
than basically the atmosphere of any otherFallout game. But then if you want

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like the media ORPG in the samesafe file, you can just go to
New Vegas. Okay, all inthe same save file. And then he
says six, Fallout three and tailof two. After that you can go
with the rest the trash, thethrash, everything else is absolutely wrong advice.

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You can add Fallout Senora somewhere afterNew Vegas. I respect your content
and your time, but I willdisagree with it and dislike it for good
reason. And then somebody said gatekeepinglevel three hundred with this comment, and
he says nine thousand, not threehundred. And I'm like, I had
to go and I made a shortreplay because I had to go Beposha Pipa
mode because sixty seconds wasn't enough.Yeah, I think now, I'll be

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honest, I feel like I wasa part of the Old Guard when Fallout
seventy six came out, and no, the old no, the Old Guard
was very very much like I'm talkingabout. Let me explain to you,
no, no, no, letme explain to you what I mean.
I mean that Fallout is a singleplayer game. Fallout is not supposed to
have multiplayer, that whole thing.And I think when it first came out,

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those arguments were valid because it wasnot a good game on release.
Don't get me wrong. It hadthe bare bones of what needed to be
done, but it was there now, and then they updated and updated.
And I'm a big believer in Cyberpunktwenty seventy seven, you know, and
you're a big believer in No ManSky. So we both believe in games

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being able to come around that curveand actually being good. If a game
has good bones, and it couldbe debated whether or not Fallout seventy six
has good bones, I think thatlike the game itself is perfectly fine in
that regard. Its biggest struggle isthe engine it's built on. Like if

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it played like if it would playas smoothly as like a Fallout four,
then yeah, it'd be fine.But it doesn't. It's the rubber banding
of the effect of it is rough. And I really wish that they would
release an offline mode to play.There's like offline yet that's crazy. Here's
the thing, you know how theycould do it. They could make you

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connect to the internet to log intothe game. You have to maintain that
login connection. But everything else isjust done in the world, and all
it's doing is just checking if there'sany type of like other like service that's
like fucking with the game in realtime. So it's like contained. It's
just all everything you need is hostedon the fucking like client side. Mm

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hmm, I got that. Butyou know it's but to your point,
like, it's the same reason why, like I don't have faith in a
game like Starfield, because uh,Starfield is not I think has aspects of
it that are excellent and addictive inthe way that THEFTSTA games are. The

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problem is is that you're constantly jerkedout of that by having to deal with
these with systems that are just onfucking fun and on just not good to
deal with. Yeah, I finallyhave a good long chance off of game
Pass, and uh I got tothe second world where after you leave the

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first one, you go land onthe second one before you even talk to
anybody important. I was literally like, I'm not enjoying this and I can't
tell you what it was. Itjust wasn't for me every single time I
had to be in space and maneuverand like I hated two things. I
liked the idea of like flying upto like things and docking and fighting and

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doing all that, and being apirate. I like the idea of like
the dog is just the actual mechanicsof the space combat was not enjoyable to
me. But you know what,I could get over that because I don't
like space combat in general. Idon't like in a Noman's sky either.
There's a reason why I like souped. I haven't souped up s ranking with
all the max down chit so Icould just curb stomp everything and not have

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to fucking try. The biggest problemfor me is the best travel system M
Yeah, the not really being ableto explore as much as you want,
having a fast travel to one location. There, to me is no point
to just touch down on a planetjust to explore, which sucks. Second,

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any anything that is procedurally generated,there's a range. If it's at
a man made structure or something,that's one thing. But if it's like
a bunch of caves, it's awful. What is that? How the maps

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on Starfield aren't procedurally generate. Allof the all of the maps are procedurally
generated except for the hand crafted componentsand settlements and stuff like that. Now,
the handcrafted components like always are stellarand they feel good and they give
you that fantasy and I like theidea of a new game plus in the

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sense of like, because I don'tknow if you know that Starfield has a
new game. Plus, yeah,I know it's different universe. Its sorry
spoiler everybody, I didn't know that, but whatever. Basically, but so
yeah, but basically, in anutshell, it's you know, the things

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that feel really great about Starfield arethe handcrafty components of it. Everything that's
that's procedurally generated is kind of assand like you could you could see this
on a certain level with you know, Skyrit right, like the best one
of the best parts of Skyrim,all of the hand crafty components what what
was kind of cheeks, the RadiantDay, the Radiant quests, you know,

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like the things that just like picka place, pick an item out
of a pool, make a questionand go do that. That's fine,
you know, maybe like it's coolwith like the Dark Brotherhood Forever where it
just picks a random not essential NPCor some shit that you can go MRK.
But it makes me think, itmakes me think everybody is drinking jonestown

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fucking cool aid, because I'm like, yo, what is everybody's favorite part
in Fallout and Skyrin. I'm sorry, Elder scrolls walking around and exploring.
Why would you take that away?That is what people expect. Everything in
the game, everything in the inbethest the games is built to foster that

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exploration and just figure in like exploringshit and trying shit out, except for
Starfield. Except for Starfield because ToddHoward wanted to do They wanted a lot
of fucking planets and all that things. And you know what I would have
taken. I would have taken andhear me out, I would have taken

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a game roughly the size of Skyrin, except the different the different holes are
on are just parts of different planets, and and the and the rest of
the planet can be procedurally generated inthe same way that it functions. Right

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now, you know, it's likeyou have you know, at the end
of the day, it really isjust like it didn't need to be a
thousand planets. It just needed tobe like five or six good ones with
lots of stuff built in them,you know, if they could, if

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if somebody. And the thing is, we're not even in a mod that
just condenses the entirety of the gamedown to like a handful of planets and
systems. Well like, this iswhat I've always the mods. Nobody wants
to mod Starfield because they say it'sfucking boring. Well again, this is
what I felt since fucking the releaseof Minecraft. I don't think people actually

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genuinely want limitless possibilities, because ata certain point, you just become bored.
You don't get more creative as youcontinue to play the same experience and
do the same things over and overand over again. And even if you're
you know, breaking out of theoriginal mode and actually doing shit that is,

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you know, three dimensional, fourdimensional, whatever it is, after
a while, you're still just placingblocks, You're still just killing enemies.
I feel like there's too much ofan emphasis on trying to make everything,
you know, so massive that wecan't even comprehend it, because most of
us won't even make twenty five percent, all right, So that's why,

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And that's okod that's a good seguelike how World recently has has done an
updated right, I haven't had achance to like hop back into it yet.
I've been preoccupied with other with otherlike little projects and stuff. When
did they update release? Because I'mjust trying to figure out if I played
it or not. I could tellyou the Power World really that released sometime

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last week. No, I haven'tplayed it, no media either, So
here I can actually pull up theoak so Nauticas on sale too, No
I can. I can pull itup for you here. Uh h.
Power We're all power a Power World, A couple of really great things dedicated.

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They're doing arena battles right, almostlike Pokemon battles, but you fight
alongside the people. Yeah, yeah, they're doing They did a teaser for
it. Uh. A couple ofthe updates and stuff that they had done
is uh. They added a raidboss okay with different levels and things of

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that nature. They added training annualitems so you can now give experience to
your path. These drop in dungeonsthey have. They added Ancient Technical manuals
which give you ancient technology points.They added recovery mends, which allow you
to slowly recover your HP over time. They added the homeward thundercloud, which

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allows you to teleport you to yournearest base. They added ability glasses,
which will equipped you can see apal stats before you catch them. Mm
hm. They added a new passivecalled mercy hit, where pals with this
passive cannot reduce enemies each p belowone when attacking hm hmm okay. Kelps

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now produce power fluids on a ranch. DuMond can now produce high quality pal
oil at a ranch. You cannow reduce the way to metal ore while
writing a surf and to terra increasethe amount of ore droped while writing astagon.
You can now raise up I wasranked to the maximum with a single
synthesis using the pal essence condenser convention. Progress is now accumulated in individual pals.

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Negative power statuses will now be resolvedafter spending some time in the power
box. Quality life updates and andit keeps going and going and going.
I'm not going to go through allof it here, but like you know,
at the end, you know,at the end of the day,
like power World is itself like notnecessarily a randomly generated thing. It's handcrafted

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at least the base world is.And they also addited or they also edited
or mining spot that you can build. I'm not yeah, which is heat
which as a higher level player,I am building immediately because I need it.
I need that. But by andlarge, at the end of the

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day, you know, I've beentalking about this a little bit on nerd
News, which is another podcast.Those listening can go catch us on.
We can go check out check thatout at himediate dot gg slash, nerd
News, listen to it on theapp. I get an extra ten percent
at boost and ad revenue when youlisten to it through the app. Games

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today like the forty dollars and belowprice range is really where like a lot
of excellent, hi quality and rewardingexperiences or Adam sorry Meadow, and I
I haven't I haven't slept. I'vebeen going to bed at like two in
the morning for the last two daysand I haven't taken a nap today,
so I'm fucking dying, oh sinceyesterday. So I feel you. I

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feel you. But yeah, it'sjust start like this, like like,
don't get me wrong, like thestories of the fests, the games have
always been in service to the explorationof the world, to the next set
piece you know. Yeah, butI gotta be so real with you.

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Outside of things like Spider Man,I'm only naming games that I played recently,
so I'll get back Spider Man,Jedi Fallen Survivor All Armor Core six
six. How is that? Ifucking love that game. I know it's
not your style, but I wouldurge you to play it if nothing else.

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The visuals are beautiful. It's agorgeous game, and it's nothing like
other from soft games, which Ireally fucking appreciate. But you will rage
at some of these bosses if youget it, so just be aware.
I'm noticing that, like outside ofthe Triple A developers that everybody trusts with

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their life, undoubtedly Insomniac Games,fucking the Bungee prior to you know,
the Destiny, fucking money Graund,all these other trusted fucking gaming things.
Everything coming out seventy eighty dollars.Now, did you see Star Wars Outlaws?

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I heard that it was just aseventy dollars game with a lot of
micro transactions and not worth the time. Nope, wrong, Star Wars Outlaws
coming out this year, coming outI think September or August. It looks
like a great Star Wars game,But you want to know how much the
Digital Deluxe and Digital Ultimate addition costat least one hundred dollars, So the

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basic is seventy where you just getthe game brush begin digital Deluxe upgrade.
Just the Deluxe not Ultimate is onehundred and ten dollars evan and and the
Ultimate Edition is one hundred and thirtydollars. What the fuck is going on
nowadays? Because I don't know,the line must go up. Gaming is

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already one of the most profitable medialike divisions in the world. Gaming makes
more than movies, TV and musiccombined. But if you're not putting out
a Boulter's Gate spider Man Got aWar, you know shit that people have
read to Redemption GTA, a fuckinggame that we've been playing for over ten

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goddamn years. If you're not makingthose types of experiences, I'm not even
talking about big TRIPAA titles because lookat Hell Divers and look at fucking Power
and look at Lethal Company. Howcome those games are able to get the
care, are able to get thesupport from fans and the fucking creators alike,

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And there's no you know, publicmeltdown over the outcry that more games
need to be more so like hellDivers and more so like Power World than
fucking Killed the Justice League, becausethat's what I'm not understanding, But that's
the trend, that's the direction we'removing because by and large, games like
Kill the Justice League are an exceptionand not the norm in the sense that

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games that are seventy dollars and arepay to win slog fests, since with
micro transactions and grinding bullshit, theysell in enough quantities and enough people pay
for the micro transactions that's worth it. Oh, I know, micro transactions
are literally more than fifty percent ofgaming sales. That's why micro transactions will

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never go away from gaming. Butif you notice, all of the games
that do do really well either don'thave micro transactions in the case of uh
Content Warning, Lethal Company, OhDeer, and Power World, and if
they do, they are respectful there. They are very much optional to the

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point where it is not going tobe like, like you, if you
have to spend money on this,you either don't play the game enough,
or you just don't give a ship, or you're just buying it for cosmetic
reasons because no progression and stuff islocked up in the war Bonds and hell
divers. But you but to geta new war bond, you got to

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spend like a thousand credits, butyou get like if you like just explore
a tiny bit at each mission,you'll get like fifteen credits apiece. And
after like a week of like aplay session of like playing for a few
hours every night, a week ortwo of playing a few hours every night,
voila, you cannot pay for thefor the war bond. Yeah which

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mark? Which? Yeah? Which? And also the war bond is also
by the way, the war bondthat you can buy that is it's ten
dollars. Well, that's that's whatI'm saying. I'm saying things like take
Street Fighter for example, they havebattle passes almost every month, but it
is strictly you know, cosmetic items, nothing to help you end game,

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literally just to change how your characterlooks. And if you love the game
that fucking much, you should spendthe money on a micro transaction. I'm
not against micro transactions. I'm justsaying, why are we creating games that
is not an experience of itself,that is being marketed with something that you
don't get at launch? Has somethingto buy now, pause real quick,

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so unpaused. We just had awhole conversation separate that had to happen for
other reasons. I think we weretalking about Fallout seven. You were talking
about Fallats seventy six. Now itstarted as like a mid game and we
were talking about we were onto otherstuff. It's okay, let's just the

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new conbo. Sorry for sorry ifanybody feels unsatisfied. But we literally just
were talking for like a half likehalf like fifteen minutes, half hour about
some heavy shit. So you couldtake a drone in my brain, I
still would never remember what the fuckit was we were talking about. I

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want to talk about the the adeptiscustodies. Do you know what Warhammer is,
Brian? Yes? Do you knowwhat Warhammer forty k is? Yes?
Do you know that this past weekGames Workshop said there has always been

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female custodes. They played the samegame I played. Yeah, So to
be clear, for low reasons,there is really no reason why there couldn't
be of of female custodes. Andbecause because the gold the gold ones that

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are about six inches shorter than thepride marks the sons of God, and
they're these are the ones that arejust on Tara, and they're stronger than
the space wrings. My whole thingis from a lower perspective, it makes
sense. There's there. There reallyisn't any reason why female custodies shouldn't exist.

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Female space rings might have been aharder sell all things considered, but
that's what I thought we were talkingabout. No custodis are like the above
them. Custodis are above them.Custodies are made fucking test tubes. Dude
about Warhammer. I hope you knowthis, Yeah, I know it.
But the reason we're talking about itis because, like the Chudds are losing

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their mind. Well, here's thethings. Warhammer has gotten pretty fucking large
over the last few years, especiallyin the wake of the pandemic when people
were related. But I can't betheo. I can't be the only one
who looked at that fucking fandom anddoesn't think toxic masculinity. No fault of
their own, No, no madethe mistake. Games Workshop last year had

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to put out a statement saying,Hey, the Imperium is about hate,
war and hatred. Warhammer is not. That's just are not welcome in our
thing. Bigots are not welcome.And the reason why they're doing this is
because there's a lot of that,Like a lot of new people have gotten
into the fandom, lots of newpeople, lots of new people that aren't

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just thirty something year old white menwho put younger people. I don't kidding,
no, no, no, Paul, what the fuck it is,
Because here's the thing. I'm interestedin Warhammer. I will would if I
had the money, I'd go buya fucking you know, kill squad pack
and I paint that shit for fun. One hundred percent. I do that.

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And you said you're playing with dolls. Damn fucking right, Look at
this ship. I paint and Iput it on a shelf, you know,
And I don't want to fucking youknow, so, but like I'm
not so insecure that you can saythat and it's an issue. Yeah,
you'll start. Some men are.And the fact of the matter is that
like there's they put out a shortstory of like with the with like the

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first like on record female Custodes,and like they're and here's gonna saying,
oh, it's a retcon. It'sa retcon. They've read con this ship
three hundred and seventy four times.Since like last weekend, So I don't
I don't want to fucking hear itlike they were condon ship all the fucking
time. Yeah, because not notto defend these idiots, because they're fucking
stupid, but I will say,if you have twenty plus years of all

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your you know, entries in youruniverse or whatever, the fucking books,
the fucking games, whatever it is, and not once you've seen a bitch,
you can't sit there and tell methat they've been there the whole time,
like there's not one story. Wellyou don't know why they originally they
were actually talking about it. Doyou don't know why back in the nineties

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they're saying, why don't we makeyou look snooties? Is because some fucking
executives was like, we already haveall the models made, we're not printing
them with boobs. And the thingis is that like armor with boobs and
shit, the only like those don'treally like exist anymore. The ones that
do is like the adept to Sororitaz, but they're like warrior nuns and it's

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kind of part of their aesthetic andit's kind of fucking rad. So there's
really no reason, Like the onlyreason like you would know that, the
only way you would know that acustodis like have like are the stories written
about them? And just because Andthe thing is that the way that the

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lore and the stories and stuff inWarhammer Work is is a living history.
It is the stories of this worldare forty thousand years old. There are
innumerable stories, innumerable things all overspace time with here that just are there

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custodis are there are some of theCustodi's women, sure because the thing because
you know what, not because theyhaven't fucking talked about them. And also,
like my thing is that here's thething I am, if nothing else,
a gigantic loare nerd. And thereare certain things that there are certain
lore things that are set in stove, and there are and lore things that

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are not and there thinks that areambiguous. So I just want to tell
you good just very quickly. Ithink you fucked up because you talk to
the wrong person about this. Igenuinely could not care less about the lore.
I just want to play Space Marinetoo, because that ship looks fucking
fire and it got oh it gotdelayed out. You know you should play

(35:23):
you know you I think you wouldhold you over, m bull gun.
No, I really, I haveno interest in it whatsoever. Really,
it's something like Haites or fucking DeadCells. I'm not really into the that
type of game, like I wishI was. Is it on the pals?

(35:49):
Probably, let's see I check andgive them a shot just for funzies,
okay for sure. Yeah. Like, if it's on game Pass,
you might as well fucking try.It'll hold you over till you get Space
Marine. Oh I should tell youthis, so, uh, just to
go back to fall Out first second. Fallout four is like five bucks on

(36:13):
fucking PlayStation right now, go getit. If you don't already own it.
Oh, I brought it and you'reout of your mind. They actually
just released some new content too toit, which set next next shin update
two. Oh it is okay,I'll have to try. I actually I

(36:34):
actually was thinking about maybe going backand doing a Fallout four play through and
actually like actually like playing it forreal this time and just doing that,
spending a disgusting amount of hours withit and having fun. I just don't
feel like it has Uh, what'sit? God, there's a problem with
games and keeping longevity with the playerat least with me, Like I have

(36:58):
such a hard time playing I don'tunderstand it because like Armor Core six,
perfect example, I'll play the samefucking mission a million times to get enough
fucking money to buy every fucking pieceof goddamn leg gun, fucking uh middle
Part, whatever the fuck it is, and then I'll play something like fall
Out for once I get past thefucking Diamond City, I'm like, what

(37:22):
the fuck do I do? Yah? You got what I'm saying. You
felt, I mean like you have, you have, you have a solid
goal, but then like it justopens up a little too much and you're
just like all of these fucking questsin the quest log, what do I
do now? I don't want togo I have to go all over there

(37:45):
and there's no faster Well, Idon't want to fucking go all the way
over there. It's like the fuckinguh, Yeah, I understand what you
mean. There gets to be apoint in the game where you're where you
just kind of hit like a limboand you're like, what the fuck do
I do? And then at acertain point, like it kind of recondenses
and you're kind of like get onthe straight and narrow again. Once you
get past it, and then afterthat is usually like the endgame scyms like

(38:07):
that for me, like between thelevels of like thirty and like forty five,
where I'm like in the middle oflike multiple different quest lines for multiple
different guilts and like multiple different thingsare going on, and my quest log
is you there's so much shit andit's just like I'm just over fucking whelmed

(38:30):
with options and eventually, like Iget I you know, I just start
knocking shit out. I finished thisstoryline, I finished this storyline, I
fished this quest line, I finishthis guild, that guilt, and then
it just like it just kind oflike all comes together. It's something that
like like I don't know what itis. It's like being in that moment,

(38:52):
like that that area of a betheesthe game. It feels good and
bad at the same time. Itfeels like, oh, I'm really like
into this, like just so manyoptions that I'm like trying this. I'm
like, oh, but what thefuck's over there? And you just get
longer and longer and longer, andthen you just like your quest your quest
list is like yelling at you likeit is sitting in the back of your
mind, Like, as you're exploringthis random fucking dungeon, do you want

(39:15):
to another sent another settlement needs yourhelp? Yeah? Man, And I'm
and it's really weird because I'm gettingto the point where I think I just
value games that respect your time.Yeah, because, like you remember Assassine.

(39:36):
Do you remember Assassine screen two?I didn't get I didn't the I
didn't get onto the Assassin's screen untilRevelations, okay, well, and then
I played like and then I playedlike a fifth of three. I played
like a fifth of Black Flags andthat was it. Yeah. Uh.

(39:57):
The reason I say AC two isbecause in that game, they had a
collectible and it was feathers, andI said, fuck the goddamn feathers.
Those feathers are pieces of shit.They fucking run away when you try to
get them. You can't even youhave to buy fucking maps just to get
them. But you know what thefuck I did collect the goddamn pieces of
Eden so I could get that fuckingall tai year goddamn armor. And you

(40:19):
bet your nigga at fucking eight nineten, however, old I was fucking
got that armor because it's like,hey, that's the fucking Mount Olympus.
That's where you're trying to get to. You know. I don't need fucking
fifty million pages of the same fuckingbooks, so I could actually read the
book altogether. What the fuck areyou talking to me about? Yeah?

(40:45):
And also is it too much toask for fucking games to just do a
dragon ball z ask goddamn recap.That's all I want, That's all I
fucking want. I took like anine month hiatus on Jedi Survivor, the
first game, and when I cameback, I was like, what the
fuck is going on here? Idon't know where I am. I don't

(41:07):
know where to go, I don'tknow what's happening. What do I do?
Also it's a Soulsbourne type of game, right, yeah? Yeah,
so I had to learn the fuckinglearning curve all over again, and I
was like, fuck my ass,pro test, protest. If you rage
quit a Solsborny type game and comeback to it later, just start over.

(41:30):
I promise you. I promise youit'll it'll be less frustrating and more
rewarding. I stepped away from SecondRow for like a month, and I
got much further than I did thelast time. And I hopped back into
it yesterday and I just kept gettingmy bucking ass be and I was thinking
it was also like one of thehardest fucking ones. The hard part about

(41:54):
it is learning how to parry.Once you parry, it becomes a cake
walk. The problem is is thatyou've got you it's you're you're training your
brain. And I don't really getpairing that much. I think it's I
think the brain. The brain drainwas like lesser because I was playing a

(42:15):
lot of Lives of P consistently,which, by the way, for everybody
watching, Lives of P is oneof the best video games that I've played
in the Soul's Born genre. Theonly thing better than in my personal opinion,
is probably fucking Elder Bring because it'sElder ring box sake. So but
even then, the gameplay, eventhen, the actual like combat flow and

(42:36):
gameplay of combat in Lives of Pis better than Elder mhmm. But that's
just me. Yeah. At theend of the the gaming's kind of fucked.
Where I think what's probably gonna endup happening is that we're gonna see
the double A industry kind of booming, and I think we're gonna see public
game like like, we're going tosee a lot of studios that very much

(43:02):
uh or do well without a publishers. Independence serios gonna do quite well.
From Soft is a good example ofthis, or at least once with hands
off publishers like from Soft. Uh. But Larien Studios is another one there
there they don't have a publisher theirhands off you're gonna they fumbled their ship

(43:24):
so bad? How so not allowingnot doing anything for voters Gate three post
launch outside of obvious patches and shipI'm saying expansions or anything. And then
to also they've been they've been hintingthat they weren't gonna that Balder's Grade three
was going to be its own cohesivething and not gonna have anything else,

(43:45):
which, don't get me wrong,I they made more money than you and
I could dream of. They madeenough money that every single employee of Larry
and Studios could go buy three Island. They made probably they made more money
than fucking Noman Sky did and HelloGames. They're fine money wise. The

(44:07):
thing is, though, is thatthey they just the consensus was that the
people working on the game didn't wantto fucking work on Balder's Gate anymore.
They'd done it. They were,they were still patching it like they don't
want to make anything new again.They want to work on other projects.
And we're And here's the think.The next thing that bald that fucking Larry

(44:29):
puts out is probably going to beanother Divinity Original Sin or something akin to
it. It's probably gonna be somethingin Pathfinder. And that's fine, and
and and when it comes out,I will probably play it because I because
I want to. I want tohave sex with weirdly colored Elvin women,

(44:49):
you know in games. So yeah, but us as I'm just saying us
as consumers, we lose because thereis an example of a great made by
a great studio who takes the timeand the allotment of resources that is actually
needed, and it benefited them verywell. It just doesn't. They also

(45:12):
lost. They also lost a quarterof the team that helped make that game.
They lost the low Masters and thereand the people and in the in
the in the in the in theart directors and designers at Wizards of the
Coast. Well has laid them allthe fuck off. Well, that's the
thing, Like rock Steady. Justto bring it back to to kill the

(45:37):
Justice League for a second. Thereason that that game is so ass is
because everybody from the fucking Batman ArkhamGames is gone, long gone, like
over ten years. They are nolonger fucking employees, which is crazy to
think about, but it's like,Yo, you are a legendary studio.
You gave you gave birth pretty muchto the modern day superhero fucking video games.

(46:00):
How did you fumble the bag thatfucking badly ship of theseus as aus
thing? I'm just saying, like, I don't understand if it is just
great talent, how it doesn't seemlike a game studio can get talent onto
the fucking business side of the ship, because that would be my first guest.

(46:22):
Well, it's because it's it's it'sfor a couple of reasons, right
right, Blizard. Back in theday before the Activision takeover, for all
their fucking problems, obviously, likethe interpersonal issues and shit, developers ran
the business like the people who werein charge of the business were developers or

(46:50):
people with development background. It's whyis why is Boeing currently in the shitter
right now? Just to go intocurrent events, It's because Boeing is run
by marketers business people when before theirmerger back in the seventies, they were
run by the engineers. The engineersunderstand the importance of a high you know,

(47:16):
quality of investing in talent, andthey understand the importance of making sure
that that talent is being to ahigh standard. When you have business people
who's whose only concern is short termcurrent quarterly gains, everything else is willing
to be sacrificed. And when youhave and when talent is the old in

(47:37):
in in people are the only reasonyou are able to make these fantastic experiences.
When a Bobby Cottic is like,you know, paying like doing shit
like you walk in this room likeeverybody one two one two as you're walking

(47:57):
into the building, and then everybodyis a one, goes over here and
you go sit at your desk andover here, go over there to that
room. You all get fired anddoing shit like that, right like functionally,
at the end of the day,the problem is ultimately that unless the
unless, unless the people who makethe final decisions are are are the people

(48:21):
are have a background in the shitthat's being done, the business is going
to have a long, slow,arduous decline unless they fix their ship.
Blizzard used to be one of thebest video game studios in the world.
Boeing used to be used to usedto have something like eighty percent of the
world's market share for you know,commercial aircraft. But when you let dickhead

(48:47):
necko nepo babies with a marketing degreecome in and run shit, don't be
surprised when they when they run itinto the ground because they don't know what
the fuck they're doing. All they'reable to do is cut costs. All
they're able to do is make abalance sheet look good. And while yes,
that might work in the short term, at the end of the day,

(49:10):
all it's gonna be left is abunch of shitty products. Uh a
crippled business and uh a a andwhist and wistful remembrances of what used to
be. Mm hm true, Iguess we're living Yeah, we are certainly

(49:31):
living through it. Yeah, giveme money at Hi Media dot gg's slash
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Sorry, I was thinking I wasmixing you and shown up. Uh to

(49:52):
go follow Brian at instagram dot comslash Brian uh under that no to at
no Dot on this where Brian,I'm sorry, I'm very tired. I'm
good. I'm tweaking links in thedescription. We we are we here,
stick around for a little bit.We'll chit chat a bit after the recording.

(50:13):
But don't forget to kiss your mother. I don't understand that reference.
I'm saying it to the audience.Maybe a hug is okay if you don't
feel comfortable being a grown as adultbecausing your mother on the lips. He's
your mama, little baby boy.I know for I know for a shit,

(50:34):
and you fight me if I ifI gave you that same advice,
I guess it doesn't make her anya bitch though you said it. I
know and I meant it too,Desine. AnyWho, I'll catch y'all later,
have a good one. I'll bemad, right, Thank thank

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