Leveling Up in Star Wars: A Chat with Tim Havlock aka Darkness429

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had a really bad email from someone when I
stopped playing Fortnite, and they're like, I can't believe you
stopped playing Fortnite.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I can't connect with my kid anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
But like, but honestly, though, like you can be that
connecting point of where like people can see keep like
a dad can watch what you're doing and start to understand,
like what is kids into and you as like a
connecting point which is really neat or even just facilitating
a community where people can come together.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You always stand for that.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Galleys. Welcome to Around the Galaxy, the Star Wars Fan

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talk show. I am one of your hosts, Pete Fletzer,
and along with my co host Nick Milke, we talk
to the people behind the Star Wars fandom. Today we
are joined by a very special guest, mister Tim Havelock.
You know him as Darkness four twenty nine on Twitch.
You may also know him from his Star Wars podcast,
Star Wars and Scotch. But he's not just a gaming sensation.

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He's a passionate Star Wars super fan who has made
a name for himself as one of the top streamers
in the gaming stream industry. In this episode, we'll dive
into Tim's incredible journey from aspiring healthcare provider to gaming influencer. Yes,
there is definitely a path there. You're not gonna want
to miss that story. He'll share his experiences playing popular

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titles like Star Wars, Battlefront, Fortnite, and even Call a Duty,
giving us insight into how gaming intersects with the Star
Wars universe and real life. But it's not all just
fun and games. Tim gets real about the stress of
podcasting in the Star Wars community, especially when faced with
some of the toxic side of the fan base. He'll
talk about how criticism has impacted his love for the

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Galaxy Far Far Away, and what keeps him motivated despite
some of these challenges. It's a conversation that I think
many content creators and fans will totally resonate with, especially
in today's climate. And for you Star Wars gamers out there,
Tim will reveal his top five all time Star Wars
favorite games. Trust me, you don't want to miss his
insights on Webaxy's games special for both casual players and

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for diehard fans alike. So whether you're looking to relive
some of your nostalgic moments online or find something new
to play. Tim's recommendations are sure to excite. But before
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oh one. Now let's get to our conversation with Darkness
four two nine our friend mister Tim Havelock.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Tim, Hello you good, How are you? So? Have you've
been a Twitch streamer for Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
So I started streaming twitch in uh man, it was
it was actually justin TV. I was in college at
the time, since this is probably twenty eleven. Yeah, even
twenty twelve, I still just in TV and I started
streaming in between classes in college, which was kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I was playing Battlefield three at the time, and uh
then you know, life, life took over, graduated, went moved,
and long story, sort of streaming again because I thought
it was.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Fun and I was I was lonely.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I was just my wife and I and she was
working full time job being a mechanical engineer, and I
was going to school to finished up to pre rex
to be a physician's assistant, and streaming was kind of
there when I needed the most. And so titan Fall
came out and I started stream in titan Fall just
for fun, and then it quickly went from fun to
being really fun and saying that I could quit my
part time job. And then I had to made the

(04:23):
decision of do I keep going to school or do
play video games full time? So it was no longer
just a fun thing that I did. On the side,
I was like, wow, this is serious, like this could
actually be a real time, a real full time thing.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
So made the decision and never turned back.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's wild to me that there's this whole culture. And
it's probably because obviously, if you were in the school
at that time, you're obviously younger than us. But I
watched my son watch video game streams all the time,
and this is the I'm going to sound like the
I had to walk up hill in the snow both
ways when I was a kid kind of guy. But like,

(04:58):
to me, that sort of connection and like watching games,
I'm starting to do it more like I've watched you,
I've watched Lloyd who does some of the production on
our show. But like, talk to me about that culture.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, when I first started streaming, it was kind of
like YouTube live. You know, it was like the thought
of like, oh, it's a YouTube video, but it has
a chat and you're doing it live.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's like, oh that's cool, it's neat.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
And I think it was still kind of like it was,
for a lack of the better word, it was kind
of like a like a redheaded stepchild of like the
content creation scene, Like it was just kind of like
it was kind of like frowned upon as like you know, like, oh,
you're not real content creators. You guys are just like
you guys aren't YouTubers, Like you don't put in the work.
You just go live and you sit there in front
of a camera and you play video games. Like there's
no structure to what you do, Like there's no validity,

(05:43):
and so like there was a there was a point
in time where like, yeah, there was like no one
was really going to twitch except like like the hardcore
like niche guys. And I want to say it wasn't
until probably like the Fortnite time is when it really
became like accepted, and it not really even accepted, but
it became more mainstream and people are recognizing it as
an actual thing. And then once we get into the

(06:04):
pandemic and everyone kind of gets put into lockdown, that's
when it really opens up and everyone starts to recognize
it as.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like, oh, this is a real thing.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
But the thought of being able to connect with people
at like all different ages, within all different types of
just like walks of life, and it's it's crazy to think,
like you're you can be like the connection point between
like a sun, and like it's weird because like everyone
makes a joke like I had a really bad email
from someone when I stopped playing Fortnite. They're like, I
can't believe you stopped playing Fortnite. I can't connect with

(06:32):
my kid anymore. Share you but like but honestly, though,
like you can be that connecting point of where like
people can see he like a dad can watch what
you're doing and start to understand like what is kids
into and you as like a connecting point, which is
really neat or even just facilitating a community where people
can come together and make those connections and you are

(06:54):
that like that intermediary between those people and they may
have never even met each other before, but because of
your live stream, you created a community that allowed them
to meet. And I know that I have people in
my community that got married because they met each other.
It's just nuts. Yeah, it's really cool. So I never
thought I'd have the ability to inspire people to do

(07:15):
things like like go on a weight loss journey or
get married because they made friends because they were playing
video games one night.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's just like I'd never thought I was going to
ever have that opportunity, but being a live streamer, being
a community leader, I made that possible, which was really cool.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
It's really fascinating, And I wanted to tag onto that
just a little bit like what you're saying, Pete, and
even what you're saying Tim is I'm just a couple
of years younger than Pete. So I also fall into
that like old guy. You know, I'm looking across the
room at my nes that's looking at me, going you're
talking to a guy that plays video games on the Internet,
and I'm over here with all eight bits I have,
And so I mean, but this is the thing as

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a guy in his mid to late forties.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, I play.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Fortnite almost every night when my kids go to bed,
because it's dumb, mindless fun and it's the kind of
stuff that I did playing GoldenEye in college. It's the
kind of stuff that I did, Like, it's not complicated.
I'm terrible at Halo. I can't begin to play like
Call of Duty or any of that. It's so fast
and there's so many things going on. I'm like, I'm
too old for this, and it's that weird in between.

(08:17):
But I've also seen some of the streams and like
Pete said, our friend from Lloyd, our producer, he plays
a lot of Call of Duty, and so I'll tune
in when he's playing and part of it is I
can just kind of zone out and watch it, but
I can have a conversation with him in the chat.
We've got some friends who did some Star Wars stuff,
David and Tim father or as father and son, and
they would do it. They got on and the dad

(08:39):
played the Last of Us while his son, who had
played it twice, was just there for the journey. It
creates this interesting dynamic where you can have a conversation
and you're playing a video game, so the pressure's off,
like the distraction.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is the video game.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
So it's almost like the interactions are more natural and
more genuine as opposed to right now, we've brought you
onto interview and talk to you, but if the three
of us were playing Fortnite and laughing but also asking
serious questions, your attention is pulled, and I feel like
the responses are more genuine and hearing you talk about
that with the people that watch, does that kind of track?
Does that make sense that, like you've created this ability

(09:16):
almost to have more vulnerability and openness because there's a
third thing that's distracting from oh my god, I'm being
vulnerable right now.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I think that kind of comes with time and honing
your craft and understanding like who you are as an entertainer,
because you can always have that mask. For the longest time,
I always wanted to like separate who like Tim and
Dartin's Fortune nine were.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I never wanted them to be the same person.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
So like my level of vulnerability, if you will, of
like what I was willing to express to people and
when I was able, what I was willing to share
with them was very different versus how I am now.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm a very much different person.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I have a son, like he's five years old, and
so I see myself as a much softer person than
I was five years ago. The way that I look
at life and the way that I see my experiences
versus now versus how I would have said them like
eight years ago, completely different. And so like, yeah, I
think like streaming can be that depending on the entertainer

(10:09):
that you're you're you're watching, you know, you could have
a lot of there's three different types of streamers. I
think you can really categorize them into three different three
different slots.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
You can you have your highly.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Competitive entertainer, you have your very very competitive They focus
on playing the game. They focus on playing it well,
but they won't read their chat, they won't pay attention
to what's going on, but they're really damn good at
what they do. And then like maybe everyone saw all
the thing for donuts and things like that. And then
you have the person who's highly engaged, who's extremely funny,
who can who can just make the just just owns
the room, but it's terrible video games.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
And then you have and then you have the in between.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're the person who can be like semi competitive but
isn't like able to make it pro And then you
have the person who can be like they can own
the room and they can drive a conversation, but they
might not be the funniest person in the room.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Like I think honestly, that's the most dangerous streamer.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
That's the person who can go but the furthest in
their career is because they're able to balance both of
those things.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I think that's always the biggest thing.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Like I think that I look forward with content creators
and even just like as myself, as the authenticity and
being authentic to your audience I think is really important.
Uh it might, and I don't think a lot of
people see that way. I think like there are there
are people that see it that way, but it's also
something that's kind of just like overlooked because it isn't
what drives the uh the money.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, I mean, I imagine that a number of the
sort of clickbait artists, I can't imagine that they're full
time clickbait artsts, like they can't honestly believe all the.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yea, how can you be angry that much?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
All? I don't know, oh a nap, But I think,
you know, authenticity honestly, That's what drove me to Star
Wars and Scotch because you guys just had you know,
I think so. And I think first of all, I
liked it because Scott very important, very important part of
the show Wars.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
During the pandemic, and it was a great name during
the pandemic, is all. We drank and then and then
the world opened up and we were doing the morning.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's harder to do that in the morning. Hard to
drink in the morning.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
But but so, how did you how did you go
from game streaming to Star Wars and how did you
get together with Kevin?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
So Star Wars has always been kind of a thing
that I've just always enjoyed. I've always loved it of
you know, from watching the original trilogy in the incorrect
order on the original VHS to uh, you know, I
said Republic and playing through that and Jedi Academy and
starting to read through the books and then the shows,

(12:44):
and then getting to be involved with like Battlefront, you know,
getting to actually like go to Stockholm and being involved
with the development of those games and stuff. That was
really cool, really neat. So like Star Wars has always
been like a part of my life. And I met
Kevin through a mutual friend of ours, King Italian at
the time, and then we went into business together. So
we were kind of just like shooting shooting the Breeze

(13:05):
one day and we started talking about the Mandalorian and
we're like, oh, you know, it was it was it
was really neat that we you know, at the time,
we had just done like a Star Wars style like
show at our event called at the time it was
called Guardian Con. We had changed the name of GCX.
We did a little like Star Wars panel because we
had a friend that was from Wikipedia at the time.

(13:25):
He was or yeah, one of the Star Wars news
or like news outlets and he came on and we
just talked for an hour and it was like we
packed the room and people were just like NonStop questions
for the whole hour, and it was it was great,
and we're like, let's try this, Let's see what happens.
And so we just thought it'd be fun just to
kind of talk about the Mandalorian. And we're like, oh,
we're really into shows. Okay, so shows is our thing. Well,

(13:48):
what's going to happen when Star Wars shows aren't running.
Let's try doing Let's try doing the Witcher. Oh yeah,
that'd be great. Let's watch the Witch and we'll talk
about it. We'll come to find out. Kevin and I
don't know anything about the Witcher. We don't care, Like
like I played the games, like yeah, that was fun,
but I don't know anything about it. I knew a
lot about Star Wars, right, and so we're like, let's
just let's just keep talking about Star Wars even when

(14:08):
there is and stuff like we know funny thing about
Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Let's just keep talking about Star Wars and so like
that was our thing.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Is like when shows weren't on, we talked about comics
and books that I was great because High Republic's starting
to come out and starting to pump out things, and
it was it was a good cadence of content was
starting to roll out.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
So that's kind of in a nutshell how that all
kind of came to be.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, and again the show, so you're on hiatus right now,
which is but all the episodes are still out there.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Go yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
I mean it's like a if you look, there's a
weird thing to say to guests. But I'm gonna say,
if you like the way Nick and I kind of
go back and forth, you're gonna love the way Tim
and Kevin go back.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
I've always I've always told people the way that I
talk to people like online, the way that I am online,
I just try to think like that's how I'm in person,
and so like that's like ever any conversations like this
is how we talk to you at a bar, Like
this is how it would be if we were just
having a drink.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well you know, And that's kind of like the way
we've always sort of tried to build the around the
Galaxy shows, like it that moment when Star Wars fans meet,
Like I think that's kind of a it's a and
I think Star Wars is such a great sort of
connectivity and it you know, when you find out somethinghen
you see somebody wearing a Star Wars shirt or you
you know they're you know, bumper stick around the car

(15:14):
or whatever, like there's an instant connection. And but you know,
we talked about this a little bit a second ago,
like the there's so much content out there, there's so
much happening.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
How do you feel about sort of the state of
Star Wars right now?

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think the state of Star Wars
is kind of a reason why we took the hiatus
that we did coming off the keels of Acolyte. It
was just really rough, and it was kind of like,
what's the point of doing something that we're just doing
for fun. It's not we're making any like money off
of this, you know, like we have full time jobs,
like I content create full time Kevin is you know,
doing our business stuff, and then I'm also helping out

(15:50):
with GCX and everything else on top of it. You know,
where we got a merged company here, and so there's
a lot long story short, very busy, and so you know,
what's the point of Like I got to the point
with some of our posts that would pop off on TikTok.
I wouldn't look at the comments because I was absolutely
afraid of what people were not afraid of. Just like
I didn't want to just dig through it, you know,

(16:11):
I didn't want to get you be bothered with what
I knew was going to be in there, which is
going to be a bunch of people saying that like, oh,
you guys are woke, or I can't believe like you're
the problem, You're the reason why. Star Wars is a
way that it is like anything else that in between
where it's like, man, you took a fifteen second clip
too completely come out of context, and you warped it
into a version of reality that fits your narrative. And

(16:33):
so it's just that was exhausting, and even like playing
like hell, even playing the latest Star Wars game, playing
Star Wars Outlaw was was fun for me as a
Star Wars fan because I appreciated all the work that
went into it, but it was exhausting create content, to
create content around because no matter what, it was wrong,

(16:54):
and it's just like and I got to a point
where I was like, I just want to be a
closet Star Wars fan Now, it's like I don't want
to openly talk about it, you know, on the internet
other than like on stream. But why do I want
to make content around it when I'm just gonna get
beat up?

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
So that's kind of like so that's kind of like
where I'm at right now with the Star Wars fandom
as a whole.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's like, I love it.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I love everything about Star Wars, but it's it's kind
of like it's just something that I've kind of reserved
for myself right now because I really loved Acolyte and
I hate that I got beat up for it because
because it's not And it's not that I think that
it was perfect. There was definitely a lot. There are
many episodes where I sat down and reviewed it and
I'm like, that was bad.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
It could have been better, they should have done this.
But I always hit it with a but I like this.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
There was something about every episodehere I was like, no,
I see where they're going, or let Dave cook, let's
see where he's going with this. Oh, we're finally gonna
get a piece of content we've been begging for for years.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
And what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
You're just gonna poop on it, Like, come on, guys,
we got plages and instead of being happy about the
direction of something, we just wanted to burn it to
the ground just to do that, Yeah, just to just
to be upset because it didn't fit my Star Wars.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's just like you know, it's like you get upset about,
you know, fire in space, and it's like where do
you draw the line?

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Right?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
The weird thing is in Hope in the Death Starve
when there was still fire in space.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
The amount of clips you can go through and seal
them that. But no one's going to complain about that,
or are they? You know, you're going to complain of
We're going to complain about a CD rom that came out,
you know, that has a date that isn't even canonical somebody's.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Birthday, Yeah, birthday of a fictional alien.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I want to know who spent the time to go
find that. You know, I don't think we really want
to know that, just just a part of me does
part of me?

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Once Roistically speaking, you bring up a good point, and
we've talked about this, and it hit for us during
the Riders strike when Ahsoka was out.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, and we had made a conscious decision because we
We've got lots of friends who are writers who have
been on the show, and we wanted to stand in
solidarity with what we were doing. And we're nothing big,
but we said, while they're on strike, we want to
support them, have or we can't. And we didn't cover
the show, and so we watched the shows when they dropped,
and we texted each other, and I think it was

(19:18):
by the second episode on the same day. We texted
each other at some point and went, it's really weird,
like I'm watching this because I'm excited to watch it,
not because I'm watching it thinking how are we going
to talk about this on the show tomorrow night?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
And it's exactly what you said. It was a chance
to reserve it for ourselves.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
And get back to I just like watching Star Wars,
and I've tried to carry that forward as the strikes
were resolved and as we've gotten new stuff to go. Yeah,
we talk about it, but this is a hobby for us,
Like we also have real lives and jobs and whatever.
It's not that serious. It's not that but there's so
much of that out there that I totally understand the
point that you're talking about of going, yeah, we need

(19:57):
a break, like it's time to sit down for a minute.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, it's just uh, it just it was also just
kind of just seeing the constant dread on social media,
which is another just like a whole nother aspect to it.
Or it's just like you see the other content creators
that are just like tired of it. Is that everyone
gets wrapped up in it, even though it's like if
you really look at the percentage of it, it is
a and I think the article that came out from

(20:21):
Vanity really like they really it was no variety or variety. Yeah,
it was righty. The article that came out even talked
about it. They're even saying it like the most negative
toxic people are a percentage of a percentage of a
percentage correct, Like they are the smallest, but they are
the loudest.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
But they're the loudest. There's the loudest.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
And so they drive so much, they drive so much
spotlight to their messaging, and so people just and and
just and it just as social media does. It's a
wildfire and it just picks it up and it's just
like you can't escape it.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's the other thing too.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, I mean, well, you know from from what UH
virality and what success looks like in streaming. The problem
is the people who do it well with the negativity,
who were able to make that their thing. Unfortunately, their
messages are bubbling up. And so the example I give

(21:17):
I was give nick is before we went to a
Star Wars celebration in California a couple of years ago,
my dad, who doesn't you know, he's a he's a
casual Star Wars fan, and he said to me, he said,
I heard they're they're recasting the Mandalorian. I was like,
where did you hear this? He goes some guy named
Mike Zero, and I was like, oh my god. That
he went on a little Star Wars search because he

(21:39):
was going to Star Wars celebration and he got the garbage.
And that's that's the challenge. That's the challenge with all
of it, and that's what's exhausting.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, most definitely.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
You were a gamer. Were Star Wars guys. You're a
Star Wars guy. Let's just talk about Star Wars video
games for a few minutes. Sure, totally, the whole pantheon.
The table is laid out in front of you, You're
picking three or four. What are the three or four
that are like the Star Wars games you love? You
can play them over and over again. I mean, I
still play Battlefront two. If I get tired of Fortnite,

(22:09):
I'll and it's eleven o'clock and all my kids are
in bed, like, I'll throw some Battlefront two on, I'll play,
you know, super Star Wars from you know SNS still
kicks my ass, Like, where are you with the pantheon
of Star Wars games that are out there?

Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean, so from from least to greatest, I'll give you,
I'll give you five. Okay, So I think coming in
at number five, I would put Outlaws. I think I
think Outlaws is if you really look at it from
from top to bottom. What Ubisoft made was a Star

(22:46):
Wars Red Dead Redemption, which was really cool. It was
really neat. Now do I think it could have been more?
Most definitely, But the amount of detail that was put
into it, from the dialogue between just random people on
the streets, to being able to play endless games of Sabak,
being able to bet on faith Year races, like all

(23:07):
of these things for the normal gamer probably didn't give
a crap, right but for the Star Wars fan that
was a love letter. I think that was a love
letter Star Wars fans, and I was very very happy
with it. I think overall they did a great job.
Coming in number four, it would be Star Wars SERVI
I was a Jedi Survivor. I think Survivor was was good,

(23:30):
and I kept on going back and forth between it,
like is Survivor is Outlaws and Survivor, like which one's better?

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I love? I love a Fallen Order.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Fallen Order is a phenomenal and that one's like in
the top three for me, Like that is just an
amazing game from start to finish. It's fantastic. And I
really wish that Reesemon would have just built off of
what they had in the first game and kind of
just kept going with it. In Survivor, they tried to
do this like open world style game where it was
just like I felt like there was just a lot

(24:03):
of nothing when I really wanted to just kind of
just go through that that linear story that I had
in the first one. Also, they dropped the ball on
the whole Zefo storyline. I don't know why they had
to just do this whole marketing pivot to High Republic.
It felt so forced. None of it made sense. It
was just like out in left field and eat. All
the cool High Republic stuff that we covered in the

(24:24):
books didn't even cover in the video game. So it
was just like, what's the point of you even bringing
up High Republic to just confuse people if they haven't
read the books, right, So that's the other one that
was kind of kind of weird for me.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
So that was that was five. It was four for three.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I would say probably oh man, because nice one because
Nice Republic is first for me.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Survivors three or is to fall in orders to what
would be? What was three?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I had it, I had it ready to go, and
I lost it completely. What's the what's the one where
you're your Darth Vader's apprentice totally totally brings Star Killer
Unleast Unleash would be would be the would be number
three for me?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
So fortunately was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean, like one of the most iconic Star Wars
scens is just pulling down a star destroyer destroyer, So
so that's definitely like that's up there. I think the
top three games and then two would be uh, Fallen Order,
just a phenomenal just Star Wars story from start to finish.
It hits all of the all of the marks, combat,
the the the Jedi experience of being able to use

(25:33):
the force, going from like nothing to something. It was
a great hero progression. It covers all of the really
cool planets. It makes note to just awesome things like
from Clone Wars and Rebels and just like all of
these just really neat things that you're like, man, I
just would love to experience that in a video game.
You get to do it, and then and then bring
doing this dark soul style mechanic really fits well in the.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Star Wars universe. So just really love that.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
And then next over Republic, Like I don't think anyone
will ever say like, that's a bad video game, no
matter what.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Year it is.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
I feel like in twenty years from now, like you
can still go back and play Nights Republic and you're like, yeah,
it's it aged did not age well, It's rough, but
the story is just still just so good. It's just
it's just an amazing Star Wars story from start to finish.
And hopefully fingers Crossed we actually get that remake, and
that's so man.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I hope we get it. Do you have any insight
on that, because that's been sort of absolutely not. It
has been.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
It has been this constant back and forth of we're
working on it. I don't know the projects dead, we're
working on it. So all that we know is that
it's happening. It is in production. But it has changed
hands so many times. It has started, it has stopped,
it has been reset. So it is going to be
like one of those games like the High Republic game
coming out Eclipse.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Eclipse is supposed to come out in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Eight, so who knows.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's crazy. Of course, my favorite all time Star Wars
video game is X Wing versus Hi Fighter on the
PC in like nineteen ninety seven or whatever it was.
But right on the heels of Wing Commander Yes, with
Mark Hamill commander. Well, so Tim, we didn't get into coffee,
but I know you've got that going on. But tell

(27:16):
us a little bit about where we can follow you,
where we can keep up with you, and where people
can can continue to watch you play. What are you
playing right now?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, so right now we're it's a weird time. It'd
be very honest with It's a weird time for video
gaming if you are, if you are up on like
trying to stay up with what's new and what's happening,
there's not a lot. So it's been thrown in Liberty,
which is a new free to play MMRPG, So if
you're into that, that's been a lot of fun. Played

(27:45):
Demonology today, which is it's spoopy season, so Halloween, it's
always great to play scary games.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
And then Magic the Gathering.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I've become a big fan of cardboard and I play
lots of Magic the Gathering now, so been doing a
lot of that.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
But you can follow me over on Twitch, on YouTube,
on TikTok, Instagram's starting.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
It's fortunate everywhere. Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
And then if yeah, I know, we didn't get to
talk about coffee, but I do own a coffee company,
So if you're into fresh roast, order coffee. We roast
over on Long Island. We love We roast on the Island.
It's called Kingscost Coffee and at over kingscoscffee dot com
we've got all different types of roast free to check out.
We just launched our Fall roast and then we'll be getting
ready to go into the holidays with cocoa and all

(28:27):
those things. I got to check that out. Yeah, yeah,
we most definitely. Actually, if you guys want to after
the show, send me your address, we'll get some coffee
over to you.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Nice. Yeah, yeah, we'll get that over you guess.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Good well, Tim, thanks much, and for sure give my
best to Kevin and I will and I hope Star
Wars Scotch comes back, and I hope, I hope you
love Skeleton Crew because I feel like that's going to be.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Very I really am excited for it. So we'll see
how it goes well. Awesome, Well, thank you so much, Tim,
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh dude, anytime you are welcome anytime to join us
and we'll talk more stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
So all right, so good guys.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Well, that wraps it up for this episode of Around
the Galaxy. A big thank you to Tim for joining
us today and sharing his journey, and to you for
hanging out with us. If you enjoyed this episode, be
sure to check out Tim on Twitch and social media
at Darkness four two nine to keep up with all
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Speaker 2 (30:08):
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