Episode 603: Apple Updates and PowerWash Simulator 2

The episode begins with an engaging and lively discussion about the latest updates to iOS 26, highlighting the new features that have been introduced in this version. The hosts delve into the specifics of the enhancements, such as improved privacy settings, redesigned notifications, and the seamless integration of new apps that make everyday tasks more efficient. They also touch upon the exciting new devices that have been launched alongside this update, including the latest iPhone models and the advancements in the iPad lineup, which promise to deliver an even more immersive user experience.Following this, Joe enthusiastically shares his excitement about his newest kitchen gadget, the Ninja Thirsti drink system. He elaborates on its innovative design and multifunctionality, which allows users to create a variety of beverages, from smoothies to infused waters. Joe explains how the gadget simplifies the process of making healthy drinks at home, making it not only convenient but also fun to experiment with different flavors and ingredients. He invites Cody to share his thoughts on kitchen technology and whether he has any favorite gadgets that enhance his culinary experiences.As the conversation progresses, Joe shifts the topic to discuss Absolute Batman, a notable series from DC's Absolute Universe, penned by the talented Scott Snyder. Joe asks Cody for his insights on this series, prompting a deeper analysis of the narrative arcs and character developments that define this iteration of the Dark Knight. They explore the thematic elements that Snyder introduces, such as the complexity of morality in Gotham City and the psychological depth of Batman's character, making it a compelling read for both new and longtime fans of the franchise.The discussion then transitions to the latest announcements from the most recent Nintendo Treehouse event, where the hosts express their excitement about the inclusion of the Nintendo Virtual Boy in the lineup of retro gaming experiences. They reminisce about the impact of the Virtual Boy during its initial release, despite its mixed reception, and speculate on how its revival might resonate with both nostalgic gamers and a new generation of players. They discuss the potential for updated graphics and gameplay mechanics that could modernize this classic gaming system while preserving its unique charm.Finally, Cody shares with Joe all the details from the most recent live stream hosted by FuturLabs, where they showcased some impressive new features in the upcoming Powerwash Simulator 2. Cody describes the innovative gameplay mechanics that were unveiled, which promise to enhance the player experience, such as new environments to explore and additional cleaning tools that can be utilized. However, he notes that the live stream did not reveal the much-anticipated release date, leaving fans eagerly speculating about when they can get their hands on this exciting sequel. The conversation wraps up with both hosts expressing their enthusiasm for the future of gaming and technology, eagerly anticipating what other surprises lie ahead.



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's recording though, so that's all it matters.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Nice. Yeah, I had an interesting experience trying to update
to I was twenty six, A very dumb experience, I
will fully admit.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Like that your fault being dumb or just dumb dumb.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
My fault being DUMBA So obviously that happened.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
When was that Monday? Tuesday?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tuesday, No Monday, it was Monday. It was Monday because
I was off. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, anyway, so ten o'clock rolls around and like any good,
you know, Apple user just frantically like update, update, update,
also because it's like I want to get this done
before I go to work type of thing. And then
the update comes through and I'm like, cool, update anyway,
throw the phone off the side, finish getting ready for work.

(00:52):
It finishes updating, and I look at it, you know,
it fully rebooted and everything, and uh, I go to
log in and I don't get any like new splash
screen or anything. In fact, everything looks the same, and
I was like, the hell did it not update? The

(01:12):
did not update the phone anyway? I got it to work.
So I go to work and a little while later
I had a little bit of downtime, and I'm looking
at it, I'm like, what the fuck, Like, let me
go check the version number eighteen point seven.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
What the fuck is eighteen point seven?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And then I go back to the UH to the
settings to look for updates, and I realized down at
the bottom it says update to iOS twenty six and
I was like, ah, I forgot that they do that.
Now update and then finally updated. It was like okay,
now it's like glass hello and stuff like that. I
was like, okay, well, I was just fully stupid. I

(01:50):
know you're say when I text When I texted, you
said like, ah, I'm fully updated, and I texted same.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I was like, no, I wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm a liar. Yeah, and you're gonna say that too,
because I almost did the same thing. I was like why,
Like I saw it and I was like, why does
this only say it's like like one hundred and eighteen
like kilobites a.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yet it still took like twenty minutes to like download, verify, install,
and then reboot. Yeah. Yeah, So that was my initial
experience with it. But overall, I mean, it's okay, it's nice,
it's nice looking, it's it's a up lift to the OS.

(02:39):
There's not a whole lot of features here that I
really have noticed and really played around with that. I've
seen the car Play widgets and it's just like I say, widgets,
but because of the size of the screen of my jeep,
it's a widget widget. It's a widget, and swipe to
the left and it's a widget, all right, So now

(03:00):
I can get the weather widget on there. My brother's
truck has a widen of screen that it fits two widgets,
a clock with note which I still don't fully understand
what they're there. I can't think of the word. But anyway,

(03:20):
because you can do the same thing when you put
your phone sideways and you put onto the wireless charger
and it turns into a basically clock.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
They have they have one nice there we go.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
They have one face that is just a analog clock
with no numbers on it. That seems to be their
default for the clock on the carpet widgets as well.
And it's like, do you really expect me to like
really focus? First off, I already have a clock on

(03:51):
my on the car, you know, car Play that's left corner.
You're gonna put that clock on there with no number
expect me to be like driving and sit there going okay,
that's okay too, Okay, so it's two. Then the other hand,
it's like way down there, no, no.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
So stupid if you're gonna do something like that.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And it probably does have like a digital clock version
on there. I just think it's dumb to have like
the shit ton of clocks all over the place.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
More like that, And you can't get rid of the
other one like the other ones. You can't tell it
not to have that one, to have the clock, so
it's like there's always a thing that tells you the time.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, the small one is always up there.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, like I.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Can't change any of that stuff. Which was kind of
the disappointing thing about widgets, Like going into it, I
didn't really know much about them, but I was the
way that some people were describing them. I thought they
were affecting the main screen, like you know, where you
have your uh, where you have your maps, and and
then you're like where.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
You're you're your three most frequently used.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, it's guessing where to go and and I was
hoping that bottom one would be more like where I
can change my widgets and stuff or you know, I
can change those things around to say no, I really
like this, this and this, and it's like okay, no,
that's not the case. It's this whole of the screen
that you have to swipe to, and it's just like,
all right, it's a thing. It's there. I will take

(05:17):
it rather than leave it.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
But but I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
But it's basically just going to be like I hop
into the truck and just be like, oh, what's the
weather like? Anyway there? It is not like I'm already
outside looking at the weather. Is it raining? Is it raining? Yes?
It's raining. Okay, good thing, Thank you, thank you widget.
You told me it's raining as I'm getting soaked in
the rain.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I will say this though. The one thing I did
not know that was happening on car play is if
you have the Apple Sports app set up for your
favorite teams, yes, on the main screen, which I don't
remember what they call it, where it's was like you though,
your map is big, and then whatever media you're playing,
and then whatever, right, it will pop up there, yes,

(06:07):
and it'll be live sports score. It doesn't have highlights.
It just shows you the scores at the ending. That's
actually pretty fucking cool.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
It is cool. I have a problem with that already,
h and I kind of want to turn it off.
I will fully admit that I I have it set
up for the Diamondbacks. I used to have it set
up for the Coyotes, but they don't exist anymore. I
don't really watch sports as much as I used to,

(06:37):
mostly just because I'm not paying for one hundred bucks
a season for watching half a blackout season. But yeah,
like I need to turn off the note of kid
notifications for that and stuff because it takes up real estate.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
First off. Now in KRPL, it just sits there.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's like, I don't need to know that, honestly, so
please just go away. Because if if you don't have
that there, it expands out the middle one, which would
be my playlist or whatever I'm listening to the time.
And I'd kind of rather have that than a sports

(07:16):
score that I don't fully care about. Ye on. There.
My other problem with though it, though, is the island.
I don't know if it's just slightly bugged on my
phone or if it's because the way my case is
or something. But I'll be like scrolling through news and

(07:36):
the Diamondbacks will.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Will score or something, and so it expands out.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's like, ah, you know it's you know, the Diamondbacks
score and you're like, okay, go away, go away.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well it's got to be your phone.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Then it's taking up a third of my screen and
it's like it won't go away. And so when I
try to, because you can like swipe up and have
it go away, but I think because the way my
case comes out from the screen, I don't get a
full swipe up, and so I always end up going
into the app and it's like stop it. Noise the
fuck out of me. Where I'll just I'll be reading

(08:11):
something score and it just sits there and it's just like,
go away, stop it, get some.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Help stop it.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
So I need to turn off note of notifications for sports.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, that makes sense. I thought it was a cool
little thing if you're as.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Absolutely cool, if you're into this type of stuff, like
all this stuff is really cool.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's just that I'm not into it as much anymore,
and it's more of an annoyance to me when it's
just sitting there. You know, I can understand if a
score change happens and it like pops up real quick,
fine and goes away, but like just sits there.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I don't know what your mind goes away?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Well, I mean, well sometimes will go it'll be like ha,
and then it shrinks back up. But there are times
and it's more then it's you know, it's it's a
relatively high percentage, but in the less than fifty percent
where you'll just sit there like, hey, did you see
the score, and I'm like, yes, it takes up a
third of my screen.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course I saw the score, and it's just sitting there.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, h.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I don't have that problem. But also a lot
of times when I'm sitting home, I just turn that off,
like I just swiped the notifications away. I do like
the fact though, that you can actually get it on
the Apple TV, which is kind of neat if you're
again into sports things what's been on.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Apple TV for a while that which they do
it in a way that doesn't annoy me. Yeah, because
you could be watching content and then just a little
pop up in the upper right hand corner it's just like, hey,
dimme back scored, or hey the game's about the start,
you know, switch over to it, and it's like, again,
I don't have you know, it's cool, thank you, And

(09:59):
it's very unintru because it does like to go away.
Or I can hit the back button really really easy
on the Apple TV remote and it goes away.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Other than that, not too bad. I've played around with
the backgrounds of the best of the messager messages appe
nice you know, got a nice little sunset on our
group podcast or our group chat here.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, it's a it's a it's a funnel thing is
obviously doesn't really change anything. It's just some more of
aesthetics and cool looking stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah. Other than that, though, I really have to look
up like what changes were made. Obviously some of the
apps have slight, you know a facelifts, but I have
to really look up what what else they change that
would really affect me or whatnot? Whatever?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, same, I have to I don't even know what
they changed in mac Os twenty six. Sorry mac Os
Tahoe twenty six.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I will say. On the iPad, it's still getting used
to when when I set it up, it's like, hey,
do you want to do like your your normal with
if running multiple apps at once, or do you want
to switch it over to the new treat it more
like a like a MacBook type of way, and I
was like, oh, let's let's play around with the MacBook
type of way. Uh. And it has. It has gotten

(11:32):
me a few times where I'm just like, look, uh,
oh that's right. I have to now if I have
like multiple apps, there are certain apps that will open
in a window automatically, and that's how you close them out,
rather than swiping up and or like was it swipe
swipe hold and it takes you to the cards view

(11:53):
and you can swipe up it like swipes it off
to the side, and I'm just like, but why are
you treating it differently? Oh that's right, Okay, click and
then I have to hit the three buttons at the
at the upper left and then I can close it out.
It's a little weird, but otherwise it seems pretty cool.
I haven't really fully utilized it, rather than just one
time where I was like, hey, let's see how this works. Ah,

(12:14):
two apps, and I can move them around anyway. Close clothes, close, close,
close close. So that's the only thing that's really happened
that I've interacted with. I'm like, Okay, this is an
actual change that I can see myself using at some
point in time, just not right now. That is kind
of cool. The other cool thing that we got this

(12:45):
week is that Ninja Thirsty.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, how you liking that?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
It's actually pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So are you using the soda stream liquids?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Because is that white one? Is that like a fill
your own type thing?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
No? Oh okay. So how this hall went down is
for the longest time, my brother and I had thought
about getting a soda stream. Yeah, you know, it seems
for people who don't really drink a whole lot of
soda might not be something too bad because we also
do like sparkling water and this and that. And then

(13:22):
I was watching a tech YouTuber one day just popped
up because my brother and I popped up again. We
were talking about it, and then this tech YouTuber popped
up and it was like, hey, Ninja Thirsty, and I
watched it and I was like, well, that's kind of cool.
And my brother's a huge ninja herd loves ninja appliances,

(13:42):
and he just fell in love with it and he
was just like, I have to go get this. Apparently
Coals sells them, and so he ran down the coals
and bought and bottom.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
But it comes with a pack of like eight.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
So those canisters that you cancers with plastic bottles that
you see that are in there are just a little
plastic bottles that you pop open and then you click
in and then click on. And then how this whole
system works is that you can set the it's single serve,
which is which is what we wanted. That was the
big problem that we really had with one of the
big problems that we have with soda stream and soda

(14:18):
stream you always have to use the lead bottles.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, you make the whole bottle, You.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Bake the whole bottle, whereas this is single serve. I
take a glass and I put it there and I
basically set my fizz level one, two, three, and then
I set my size that I want in six ounce
in increments, so six ounces to eighteen ounces I think
is the highest on it. If you want higher than that,

(14:42):
twenty one ounce nineteen twenty four ounces, it might be
a twenty four ounce button on there. And then you
have the two flavors that you have there, and you
can set the flavor mix, so you can be like
I want one and two, and then you can set
the the amount of flavor that you want versus from

(15:05):
a like one to two.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
So it has just like a little.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Led indicator whether you want one or one or two
like strength amount of it.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So it has a lot of customization to it. Uh,
and then it's cool.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
You set all that up and you hit start and
it has a tank of water that can just be
pulled off of it. This system came with two tanks
of water, and the idea is like you can keep one,
you can keep them in the fridge. That's the whole point.
You just keep them in the fridge and it has
like a little blue indicator on it to let you.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Know that the water is cold type of thing you
just slotted on there.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
And then it just pulls from there, pulls in six
ounce increments into an into our chamber and then it
hits it with the CO two internally, gives it a
second and then it dispenses the six ounces. And if
you're going for fluids, because you also have the option
for no fizz what they call it still water and
you could do no added flavor to it, so you

(16:04):
can just do sparkling water on it. So to get
around to all of that, if you don't do any
of that. You can add your own flavors later. So
my brother bought a bunch of soda stream syrups to
go along with it, because after you just get the
sparkling water, you can just be like, okay, you know,
pour some syrup into their pepsi whatever it's mixed up,

(16:25):
and boom you have pepsi and it's really good. It's
pretty heavy on the STEO two no matter. It seems
like even if you pick the lowest setting, it's like
that's still a lot of like carbonation in it. But
it's really good. And the flavors that they come with

(16:47):
are just all basic flavors. Yeah, Unfortunately, I don't know
if the if the thirsty is that just like so new.
They only have like their generic stuff, which is it
comes with like orange tangerine that's a vitamin mix, and
then it comes with like strawberry something, and you can

(17:10):
get cola flavor, but that one was separate that that
was a separate thing from just the generic like fruit
flavored ones that it comes with. And I think there's
like one energy mix that it comes with. It's cool
too that you can swap. You can swap those things out.
You don't have to keep one in until it's done.
You can actually swap them out. But the soda stream

(17:33):
stuff is, you know, is actual pepsi products. So if
you like wild cherry PEPs is what we have right now.
And what else do we have? I think my brother
bought here. It was a seria mist is that they're sprite? No, sirius.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
I didn't say ciri mist it said sierras.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Can you tell.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Storry that's what it was? Yeah, used to be. That's
what it is. Thank you, And I think you about
one other flame to go along with it. Let her
like the actual name brand flavors. I've only tried the
wild Chair pepsi. The mixture that I put into it
was like a little on the light side, could go

(18:17):
a little bit heavier, which is kind of the cool
things like you could customize how much flavor aid you
put into there and get it so the next time
I go, I'll put a little bit more into it
to get an actual pepsi flavor taste.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I wonder if you put the the syrup in first
in the glass and then dispense it when it mix
it better.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I tried that, which is how we kind of did things.
The first it seemed to, at least in my case,
it hit the fizz a little bit too hard and
it basically within a couple of SIPs that most of
the fizz was gone. So basically just adding the syrup
plater and giving it a slow mix seem to be
not too bad.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
With all that said, I will say.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
The one big game changer of all of this happens
to be soda streams. What is it? Diet energy drink?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Interesting?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
It's red Bull?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh fair enough.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
So if you like, like it is generic red Bull,
you open this thing up, you take a whiff, and
you're like, that's sugar free red Bull. You pour that
shit out that tastes like sugar free red Bull. I'm like,
I don't know how they're getting away with this, because
that's sugar free red Bull.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
And if you like red Bull like I do, like
sugar free red Bull, that shit's good.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Do you enjoy me some red Bull?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So just saying, but yeah, no, it's really cool, like
you can mix some match flavors. Obviously is one of
the best and weird to having. We're probably you're supposed to.
I think at I think at full Fizz you're supposed
to get like a hundred servings out of the CO
two canister. There's no way for it for us to

(20:12):
tell really how much we've gone through it, but like
because of the newness of it and you're really trying
everything out. I swear to God, in the past what
three four days, we've probably gone through most of that
CO two canister. Once things settle in, it'll it'll last
a bit longer, I would say. But yeah, it's just

(20:34):
so convenient and easy of just like just grab a glass,
put the water tank on, what do I want.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Go and just inch and inch and it's done, and
you're like coolchi.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Ah, cool cool, and then you have your your nice
sparkling Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
So if you're into that type of stuff, I would
highly suggest uh getting one, or at least trying one out.
It was it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I was trying to see if they did a thing
like they do with the the Cure eggs, where you
have like an empty pod you can fill.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well, so that's the thing. So those pods do look
like they have the ability to take the lid off
and then you can fill them, but they're the consistency
of like a MEO, so I wouldn't put a syrup
into it.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, that's what I was worried about. Is I wonder
if it's if it's it's it's more viscous then.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
What it needs to be. Yeah, they are more consistence
of a MEO of a MEO drink, which is a
very liquity type type thing. So if you have something
if you have something like there are some we were
looking at fries and soda stream does have some uh
you know, flavor additives that are more liquidity, so you
could probably put those into there and have a I

(22:00):
have it work properly. But the the the actual pepsi
is the actual pepsi syrup. It is very viscous. So
for stuff like that, I would highly suggest just adding
it afterwards, which is no big problem. You just get it,
you know. The the container comes with a little measuring

(22:21):
cup that you can pour into and then you just
pour that into the drink and then just grab a
spoon or something. It just makes you real quick. Yeah,
So there, if you do have something that's pretty liquidy,
like you fill up one of the containers with meo
or or something like that, it should work with that. Yeah. Huh.

(22:43):
All right, So that's what we've been doing for the
past like a couple of days of just like I
feel like having an orange drinkanging and then it just
goes and having some fun with it.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, because I know they have the they make bottles
for them.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
That the soda stream or thesty for the.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Thirsty well, so you put it in there and it's
like and it has a special lid that helps keep
the carbonation in.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah. Yeah, I saw those, just didn't pull the trigger
on yet.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
I don't need anything like that right now.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
I am. I am anti bottle right now, and I've
been like that for a while because we have so
many different Sagar bottles and blender bottles and I mean
like actual, you know, stick the bottle on the blender
type blender bottle things that it's ridiculous and there's just

(23:47):
like not enough cabinet space for this stuff. So I'm
just like very My brother.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Will be like, hey, so I bought the bottle, and
I'll look at.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
It like you're getting rid of an old one. You
gonna you're gonna throw some old ones away. I didn't
say that because I ain't got captain space for that.
Uh yeah, So I'm I'm anti that stuff. Right now,
I have the handful of bottles that I use and
I'm like, that's that's all you need. Honestly, like a bottle.

(24:17):
It's a bottle. It holds liquid.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's funny because a while back Page bought one because
it's a it's they're they're they're thermal so they you know,
keep stuff cold. So she actually bought one to put
like two liters soda like pour that into it.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
It works really well. I mean it does keep the
carbonation and that uh, the I think it's called the
chug litter or whatever used like half like a quarter
half a quarter turn maybe and it pops open and
you have like the and you you know see it.
But it's funny as when you after a while, if
you open it your I'm like, oh, actually is keeping

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carbonation and that's fucking wild.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
So but yeah, I thought those are cool because they're
obviously designed for the thirsty, so they fit in that
the opening to be some of the nozzle feels right
into it.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah, So that's been something that we've been doing that's
been pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Joe's a ventioned homemade sodas.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And that's the thing that we've been doing a lot
lately is just trying to homemake everything that we can.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
It seems in most cases it's just so much cheaper
to do.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
As an example, even with the soda stream stuff, it
sounds like it might be expensive because like one of
the big soda stream bottles makes like twenty four which,
by the way they're mixing stuff is really weird. Like
they'll see a serving size, but then like the mixing
amount is like totally different things for I don't know,
not even going to get into that thing. But if

(25:46):
you can find those those syrups on sale, which happen
to be something that best by cells, so we get
a discount on them, you're actually making like eat, one
of those big things makes like twenty four cans worth
of soda cans. Yeah, so if you're finding them, because

(26:06):
they don't really sell for like seven or eighty dollars,
but we get them for almost half that something like that. OK,
So you're like saving money right there. And that's kind
of the point of like you're.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Not holding giant cans in the fridge.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
If you're packs of cans in the fridge or the
pantry or anything, you're just it's just on demand stuff,
just a little bit of syrup, and I already have
good water and with you know CO two, especially if
you go through that program. I don't know what the
actual cost is of any of that stuff, but apparently,
like the actual CO two is inexpensive. It's just the

(26:43):
the canisters once you get going, or like sixty bucks
for two CO two canisters from.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Thirsty, But even those I think are seem to be universal.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You probably and don't quote me on this, but you
probably could buy the Stodas stream ones and just use
those if it's more convenient for you, gotcha, Because they
look the same. I don't know if the exact interface
of the top of the cans are or are the same,
but like, how many different types of CO two canisters

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you know exist in this world?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
They probably are the same. They just obviously you know,
a different sticker on it.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, they're probably all made at the same company. How
many different companies make, you know, CO two canisters that
you can fit into a machine for doing stuff like this.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Probably not many, Probably not, probably not.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
So to make a proprietary version would probably cost a
lot of money, which would drive up cost of the
actual CO two canisters and you're like, well, let's not
really do that.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Well, also, like if there's a de facto standard because
of a popular product, it's not like you're going to
change that fitting in.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
A safety reason. Yeah, this it is compressed CO two,
by the way, that can be.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Dangerous technically as league Yeah, de you know, decompressed depress.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
There we go. Yeah, so I can imagine that you
might be able to use and use them interchangeably if
it's pretty uh efficient for you. But so far, the
thirsty is just like, yeah, you buy these two canisters.
Then once you get two empty ones, which you'll have
three at this point, not three empty ones, but you'll
have three cansters at this point.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
So once you get to the third cancer, you just.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Send back the other two and they just you know,
quote unquote refill them and send them back to you,
and you're just paying for the refilled cost on it,
which I just don't know what it is. But yeah.
So it just been doing stuff like that and doing
a lot more home stuff like you know, making burgers
at house, making pizzas at the house rather than going

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out to eat, you know, in these awesome times that
we're having, just ends up being so much cheaper and
honestly somewhat bit somewhat more rewarding and a bit more
flavorful in some cases.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
And it's just like, yeah, and you're not You're you're
making exactly what you want versus going somewhere and trying
to figure out what you want or you know, I
don't want this on there, especially if you're a picky eater.
I'm not gonna name it the name page. And you
don't want lettuce or tomato. You don't have to do
that at home.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
If you don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, it's like we've been well, I mean, obviously life
around here has been a little bit trying lately, but
we've been trying to do that a little bit more too.
Like last night I made a I mean it's not
like a fucking made anything special, but I made Buffalo
blue cheese chicken burritos, and basically I do is air

(29:41):
fry some Kroger chicken tenders, which are by the way,
really good.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah right, so good to not just but their their
brand of like popcorn chicken and yeah, there's like a
chicken tender type thing are actually pretty good.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
So I did those with the Kinder's Buffalo a little
too much buffalo last night, A little heavy handed with that.
I was like, oh man, this is rough blue cheese dressing. Uh,
the Bob's Big Boy version, of course, because it's the
best one out there. Don't even challenge me. I've tried
them all.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
I won't challenge you because the blue cheese is not
my thing.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
So uh.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
And then I did some. I threw some hall opinions
in there, just for extra spice, because you know, I'm
a psychopath. The one thing I didn't think about doing well,
and the fact that we really haven't gone to the store,
so I didn't really have any. I was I was
gonna do some shredded cheese. We didn't really have any.
So well, not that we really didn't have any, we

(30:41):
didn't have any, Not that we really didn't have any.
We literally did not have much of it.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
So I'm not gonna use it here. You know, I'm
just gonna have to save it for later.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Real quick, Joe, while you were talking, because I was
paying attention, but I was, I was the googling. Uh
it says yes, so does stream Co. Two containers are
cannisters work with a ninja thirsty because both systems use
the same type of air quotes or quotes screw in

(31:11):
or threaded co two containers, although using a Ninja branded
canisters recommended by Ninja for best performance to ensure the
machine is fizz sensing light works properly. It also says
here where to go? Shit, I moved it.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
It does.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
It says the Ninja branded ones will give you more uses.
And I don't know where it went because they clicked
on a different box.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
That's an interesting thing.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
So I don't know if it's something they're Yeah, I
don't know. If there is a different compression, if the
bottles are slightly bigger, it doesn't. I don't know where.
I don't where it went now. Oh, some users have
reported that soda Stream cannisters may cause the thirsty to
go through cot faster per drinks compared to Ninjas canisters.

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That's where it was. So, like I said, it may
they may have a different fitting piece on it, like
the not the screw on part, but the actual like
receptacle that may work differently with the Ninja ones. I
don't know. It could be like some refrigerator. I'm not
gonna name any brands. Whirlpool that have microchips in their

(32:29):
water filters that are supposed to let you know more
accurately that your filter needs to be changed. But what
we have noticed as technicians in the world is the
third party ones that you buy will cause an error
in your refrigerator saying that your filter is not working

(32:52):
and not give you water because it does not feel
does not sense the proper chip in there, and it
will not feed water.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Fun.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, thanks HP mm hmm. That's all I was found
on there.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
But yeah, so fun times with that.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
The only other thing that I wanted to ask you
about today or.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
My iPad's over there, way over there.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
It's way over there. It's out of reach tall, but
not that tall, uh, because I know you still actively
read comics. I was really I was running through Reddity
yesterday and I saw that someone had posted like apparently
new designs for Catwoman for Absolute Batman. I was like,
what the fuck is Absolute Batman?

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh yeah, Absolute Batman's fucking wild.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Have you seen Joker yet? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:49):
No I haven't. That's what I'm saying, is like, Uh,
this was like, yeah, I introduced an issue I think
thirteen I think it said or maybe did right, around
there and I was like, oh, so they're kind of
just starting to run. And I went and search for
it on Amazon and like that dude looks fucking yoked man.
And then they had Absolute Superman and Absolute Wonder Woman

(34:11):
and I want to know, like, what are these? What
is the is this a just? What is this way?
And is it good?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Do you know it is good? It's so it's this
it's an alternate world. It's hard to explain, but like
it's it's uh, it's Scott Snyder being Scott Snyder.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Oh so I didn't even see that. I didn't actually
look at who created it, Yeatt.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Snyder, and it's it's pretty fantastical world.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Uh where.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
That thing's a little bit different, but an issue. I
think it's fifteen Joker trying to find the fucking page
for it. Anyways, he turns into a dragon. What yeah,
this is this is what it looks like.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Uh oh that's not what I thought. I was thinking,
like classical dragon.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, no dragon, yeah you took if.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
You you know, gave him tightens hereum, but like it
turned him into tight dragon.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
So and like there's like, yeah, it's it's an interesting book.
It's actually really fun. But it's definitely like you know, uh,
it's it's it's not a it's not a classic Batman.
It's a lot more action y mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
But it's looks like even like the different design of
Wonder Woman where she's like tatted up and stuff. I
was like, good, I didn't like actually look through any
of the pages, and I was like, that looks pretty cool.
She's riding like some sort of ghost Rider esque horse
in one of the covers, and Superman looks like he
just kills people.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Like, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty gnarly.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
All right, Right, do you know what the overall story
of it is?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
No, I haven't read enough of it. I just know
there's like this, uh it's in this Uh it's kind
of like when he did uh the Batman or the
DC Metal yeah one where it's like this else world's
tale of like crazy stuff happened if.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
The Batman who laughs like blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah yeah, but yeah the Catwoman, for example, I mean,
really made people upset because she's not white.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, so dumb. But yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
So it's basically it's like alternately like basically again like
very like I would almost say metal in a way like.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Just yea, like the design of the Batman on his
chest is like very it's like a rectangle with ears
and wings basically.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
But yeah, also just looks like he put on.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
A regular Batman suit and it just stretched out because
he's fucking uh oh shit. That that one artist of
that famous Captain America infamous I should say Captain America
chest picture comes to mind where it's just like huge,
fucking you know, unit of a man and just stretches
out that bat symbol. Yeah, but I thought about getting

(37:29):
some of the digital versions of it just to see
how it is and reading through it a bit. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
They I'll say this though, like the the one thing
that's I don't want to say annoying, I guess I'll
say annoying is like Batman like changes physical size from
like page to page.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Okay, I did notice that because on Amazon they obviously
show you they'll show you like a couple of pages
of things.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yeah, and like the cover, he what I've seen just
looks like like.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Bigger than he looks when with I'm just everything's just
you know, with Carrie Kelly, you know whatever Batman returns
like that's a massive Batman, but this dude looks bigger
than that batman. And then the inside art shows him

(38:30):
in a gym going to a punching bag, and he
doesn't look that big as Bruce Wayne.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
And it's just like, does that like a padded suit
that he kind of puts on.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Like the covers make him look way more ridiculous than.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
He actually is. Yeah, I don't have anyone here.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, he's not he's not like he means he's a
big dude, but like he's not like he's like a
little like like that's.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What a batman looks like. He looks yoked anyway, here's
Bruce Wayne. Mm who else looks this ginormous?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Let's not let's not pay for that fucking video audio.
Holy shit, I'm trying to see if Yeah, okay you
probably saw, Yeah this is the Yeah that's the one

(39:38):
reason in the gym. Yeah, yeah it is a shoe one. Yeah,
he's definitely yoked as fuck. Dude, that's not not even
a fucking thing. Like but yeah, he's like he's just
a big motherfucker for sure.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
But he looks more normal in that that picture, Like,
like you say, it's still big, but at least more proportional.
But then you look at the like the cover art
that they have of him, it's just like, damn, that dude.
That dude doesn't look like he's on something, and it
probably isn't. He's only in the last few years on
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, there's there's a part in the first issue where
they show a better scale of O there it is.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Let's see if I can.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Get a good spot. Come on, I know there's a
scene where he's like next to a normal human being.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh, and by the way, it's extremely violent. I guess
I should have put that in there too. It looks
like it could be yeah, like people getting stabbed in
eyeballs and him pulling off like his cowl pieces and
stabbing people.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
His chest piece is an axe that tracks, and like
its like there's this scene where he cuts the dude's
hand off.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Still alive, I mean for now.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I mean he just doesn't have to save him. Yeah,
if we're going by Christopher Nolan logic, you don't have
to break my room of no killing. I just don't
have to save it.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
I can't really get it to stop on it anyways. Yeah,
he's not like that's the one thing that like he
never he in the in the comic book, he's never
like in the pages. He's never like the massive size
he seems on the covers. The covers are definitely blown
out of proportion. It's like how Rob Lafe Lightfield Layfield

(41:47):
made caps chest a the wrong physical dimensions but also
the wrong direction because like it went this way when
he's trying to face forward, but the rest of him
is Yeah, proportions have never been Robbed's a strong point.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Neither feet.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Yeah. Now, a while back there was speaking of that.
There's a funny video I saw where a guy literally
made or was it a slideshow technically he made a
slideshow of every cover right lifeld made that he obstructed
the feet of characters. Yeah, and there's one where he

(42:30):
he clearly doesn't draw them and then he just put
stuff over it. But but Marvel released a of virgin
cover so didn't have any of the like the labels
or anything on it, and does it's literally just pure art.
So there's the characters had no feet. So when you
look at the regular book, it has like some kind
of like title down at the bottom that's like splashed

(42:52):
over it. But because that is technically away from the
art that they pulled it off, and so the characters
have no feet. They just have legs that go down
to skinny little lines and there's like no feet whatsoever.
It's like and it's so funny too, because like, when
you look at the normal book, it just looks like
that piece with the words are covering the feet. But

(43:13):
then you go to it and it's just just it
literally just stalks that go down to like they didn't
even he didn't even like finish. It's just two lines,
no shade, no color in between. It's just the two
lines like like this. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was
so fucking ridicous, dude. It's like because like, yeah, he's
afraid of feet. It's not that he can't draw me,
he's afraid of them. I was like what, and then

(43:34):
he showed it. I was like, fuck, that's hilarious. Oh
my god. That's why Rob Liifeld is Quentin Tarantino's least
favorite comic book artist. I just made that joke up
right now. You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Yeah, loves feet.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
That uh, that reminds me of this past week.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I saw it, like I don't know what I think
as Emmy's or something like that, where Brad Pitt was
either receiving an Emmy or talking about something. Again, I
don't know what the exact context was, but he actually
made that comment about, you know, thank you for Quentin
Tarantino for giving us all the the feat oh yeah,

(44:17):
of our.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Different like various different other actresses.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
And they show the actresses like man, man man, They're
all kind of laughing, and then they showed Quentin Tarantino.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
He's just like sitting there like, fuck you.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
So hilarious.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Good time's great oldies.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah right, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
I'm trying to think if there's anything else I want
to talk about this week. Nintendo's last press conference was
drastically let down.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
I didn't even watch anything from that. I just heard
that they announced a virtual Boy attachment. I think it
technically more like two attachments. You could do a what
was that what was that called rebo or whatever it
is type of cardboard version, and then they had like
an actual yeah version of it that you can slot your.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Switch into and it's like all right, switch or switch
to it does do both.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
That's cool. I didn't know the switch one would be
able to do it, And I guess they're they're developing games.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
For it so you can do so they're bringing uh,
you're they're bringing the a lot of the game, well
a handful of games and putting it on the Nintendo Online.
So like just another reason to have Nintdo online so
you can play like the Mario the Virtual Tenant, Virtual Autenant,

(45:46):
Virtual Tennis. It has a weird name. It's Mario Tennis,
but like virtual and it gives you that it's that
you know, it's still the red and black fucking wireframe
bullshit that makes your fucking eyes hurt after a while.
So yeah, there's that, which I was like, all right,
cool whatever, Like these kids nowadays, it's nostalgia at this

(46:06):
point because anybody, anybody under the age of fucking twenty
one is gonna go, this looks like shit, doesn't even
look like VR. It's like, yeah, we fucking know. They
did this on the essentially the fucking engine of a
game boy.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah right.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
They just use glass like lenses to use to fake
the parallax of virtual so it looks like you're looking
into virtual space. Okay, that's all it was. It wasn't
actual VR. Oh okay, it's like lawnmower man VR if
that's what you want to fucking compare it to. Okay,
it's not. It's definitely not like so you know, like

(46:43):
on there was three D movies for TV at home
right where when you yeah, when you had when you
used it and it was a movie that was in
three D n theaters. It has that three D effect
where it comes out of the screen. Then there's those
movies where they did it after the fact, like it
didn't shoot it in three D. They use the weird

(47:04):
fucking computer things to do it, and it's more of
just it has like a depth in it, like the
TV feels like you're going into it. Yeah, that's what
this is. As for virtual reality, Like I know it's
not three D right then it's like a bad comparison,
but that's what it feels like where it's not like
you're you can look around and you're in a virtual reality.

(47:25):
It's just got depth like you can it feels like
you're looking into the game. So when you're playing the tennis,
it feels like you're looking across a tennis court at
an opponent versus you knowing it's just a flat image
that has three D graphics, you know, like that's all
that's it just makes it. It uses a parallax to

(47:47):
make you look like you're seeing distance when you're actually not,
obviously because it's a fucking screen, but it it fucking
hurts your eyes and you stop using it, and like
everything around you who has this like brown tint because
your eyes are so used to focusing on black and
red that everything's fucking skewed for a while. Because when

(48:08):
I was growing up, my best friend Alex, his dad
got one and we played it and it was we
were like, oh, this is so cool, and like forty
five minutes an hour later like fuck, dude, my head
is killing me and you're the way it was set,
it has a stand to sit on a table, which
made no sense to me because most people who play

(48:32):
video games are gonna be set up in their bedroom
in the living room, but this was designed to sit
like on a kitchen table, so you can sit at
it and like be like in a chair and I'll
be sitting right here. So we didn't know that. We
just went to the same place we normally play video games,
the living room, where there's a coffee table. We sat
on there, so we hunched over this fucking thing and
shoved our dumb faces into it. And after a while,

(48:55):
your head hurts, your eyes hurt, and your fucking back
and neck are killing you because you've been hunched over
trying to play this fucking thing versus now where you
would just like strap it on your head, like if
someone if they were to make this now, it would
be just strapped your head and that's it. Yeah, but
this one is making it is literally a complete mock

(49:15):
of the new of the old one. So it has
the base and it does have an adjustable to go
up and down, so if you're sitting there, you can
you do this versus keeping your head straight or whatever.
But you still have to put it like on a
desk or on a table where you're sitting at a
normal like level like where you'd be eating at you know,

(49:37):
or working on a computer or whatever. Right, So it's
still that. But it's like, I, I don't know, it's
so dumb because like the games were not fun. They
were very basic obviously because the most of the technology
was like into the headset.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
So anyways, yeah, I just remember playing that at Toys
r Us and I think the only two games I've
ever played were Virtual of Mario Tennis or whatever it was,
and Warrio Land World whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, I pulled the article up again because I was
gonna talk to you about this and the other disappointing
things that Nintendo announced.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Go for it because I, like I said, I didn't
watch any of it. I'm not really stuff right now.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Yeah, yeah, I don't blame you, don't wrong. The games
I have played on it, I have enjoyed. But there's
been two of them.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
It's been Mario Kart and Donkey Kong. It's the only
two games I have for it.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
And it's not that great. It's on here, Mario Tennis,
Galactic Pinball. Oh, the weird one was called Teleroe Boxer.
It's like a fucking robot boxing game. And more are
set release. This doesn't This IGN article, of course, doesn't
have anything substantial on it. They're just basically posting what

(51:00):
Nintendo official blurb was. Don't do any investigation, igen, It's fine. Yeah,
it all comes though. So Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics come
to Nintendo Switch an expansion pack on February seventeenth of
twenty twenty sixth. The accessory needed to play Virtual Boy

(51:24):
Mario Nintendo Classic as well as the cardboard version, will
be available for pre purchase on My Nintendo's store in
the future. Visit here for more because again it's the
official blurb, as they said, from Nintendo. But yeah, so basically,
it's just a shell that has the lenses on it

(51:45):
that I aren't even like, I don't they're a little
bit of parallax, but like they're not, like, it's nothing crazy.
You see the gain the screen of your your chosen console,
and I think it has two different slots for the
going because one's the bigger screen, was a smaller screen,
So smaller screen we have to go closer. Bigger screen,

(52:06):
we'd sit back further. They fit in there. I think
it sits at like a slight angle for it anyways,
and then it closes down to seal in the light,
so it's just the screen and then you use your
joy cons for the controllers. It's not like it's a
new it's literally just a plastic or cardboard shell that
is designed to keep out light. So it's just the

(52:31):
vision of the screen. Okay, so that's the that's the thing.
But still virtual boys fucking garbage. Yeah, but that's fine.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
If I had a switch, I wasn't there wouldn't be like,
oh my god, I must buy this.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yeah, I would wait for some fucking nerd to make
it on one of the many three D printing sites
and just print out one and then boom, I'll I'll
have it.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Because someone is probably already Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Mean there's some nerd was already like, oh well I
have the sign for Virtual Boy print out you can make.
It's fifteen pieces that easily snap together, no screws or glue,
and you're like, all right, well print but yeah, it's
I don't know. The games are never great and it
fucking hurt everything about your body when you got done.

(53:22):
And this is I'm talking. We were like what twelve
or thirteen or some shit when it came out, Like yeah,
like you know, an hour, you're fine, but for the
next hour, but once you stop playing, for the next hour,
you can't see any properly because there's like like you
have literal burning in your fucking eyeballs and you're seeing
a grit and shit everywhere. You're like, well, I'm in

(53:45):
I'm been sucked into tron World now, and I don't
think I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I am Tron.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Tron is the program. You don't want to be Tron.
You want to be Flinty or Aries or Aura or
all the other names. It's like, no, those are computer programs.
I don't know if there's anything else if I wanted

(54:14):
to spec Oh, Nintendo's the The other thing too, is like,
so with a Nintendo announcement, Uh, they announced the DLC
for Donkey Kong Bonanza garbage. Uh it's a fucking uh.
It's DK Island, which I thought was pretty cool, right,
But all it is is like this thing where like
you are doing are you working for the bad guy

(54:36):
of the main game, which is fucking wild, and he's
paying you to rex shop on uh DK Island to
collect emeralds and all the whole DLC is basically you
have to, like you learn the pattern so you can
be faster at it and so you can improve your
time of how fast you collect or how much you

(54:58):
can collect in the time frame.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
They give you. And I was like, that doesn't sound fun.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
I guess it's not an ext it's not extension. It's
DLC at the animal content and the worst fucking use
of that word or that phrase.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Possible just sounds like a bunch of time attack stuff.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Yeah I don't care about Yeah, I don't even like
doing those challenges in games so much so speaking of
video games, and how excited I am for power Watch.
Similar too, that still does not have a release date.
It's sometime late. It used to be late or late
of twenty twenty five. Then they change into a Fall
of twenty twenty five, and I need to look it up.
But the date for actual fall of twenty twenty five

(55:36):
is like either just passed or is about to pass.
We still have a fucking release date. Any who one
thing that this live stream that they just did Future
Labs did on Friday, Yeah, Friday. He was answering a

(55:57):
bunch of questions. Of course, everybody and their sister's cousin
uh called dreammate was asking release date every time they
popped in the chat release date, release date, like they
missed it, Like, no, dude, if you if it was
announced on there two seconds later, that should be on
the internet. Anyhow, People kids kept trying to like trick
him in different saying different ways like oh blah blah.
But anyway, so yeah, but one of the things he

(56:20):
now he announced in it that was someone who's never
played it, Like many people haven't. Probably Joe has not
played it. It's just a cozy, fucking fun, relaxing game. Anyways.
The one thing I never really played in the first one,
which they're actually just got rid of completing the second one,
is the challenge modes is basically like go into a
map and try to clean it as fast as possible.

(56:42):
And they're like, that doesn't really Like his words, not
exact words, but paraphrasing, was it didn't fit the vibe
of the cozy, comforting game that we were doing, so
like they just got rid of challenges completely good.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
It sounds like they recognized that, hey, this is just
not something that fits the what we're doing in this game.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yeah, so that's cool, but that but they made Yeah,
they're very good about it. They've and people kept asking
about uh DLC. He's like, we can't talk about it yet.
Uh He's like, we do have it, we have and
where and he alluded to it like because they had

(57:24):
partner DLC for the first one, like they had the
Final Fantasy one, the two Raider one, SpongeBob Back to
the Future, different ones like that. So they're they're definitely
he's he mentioned the fact they're working with partners, but
he won't tell us what it is yet, Like he
won't tell us that any of them because obviously, but
he's like, there will be a road map that's released

(57:44):
with tentative where we're with release dates of the tentative DLC,
but like, you know not what they are. But they're
gonna do free content, which they did in the first one,
which has now ended completely if anyone has played it
or wants to play it, so you can get all
the content as one big bundle. The free is part

(58:05):
of the game obviously, but if you want to get
the DLC, which includes again Final Fantasy, Tom Rader, Warhammer,
forty thousand, SpongeBob, Back to the Future, Shrek. I think
that's all of them, and then the seasonal ones, which
are a Halloween one, a Christmas one, a cruise ship.

(58:31):
There's one other seasonal one, and then they're what they
call Muckingham Files one through six, which are essentially add ons,
but there were free add ons, and they're sort of
like a singular map that had that was just a
playable place, and there's each one of those had anywhere
from two or three playable maps on them. So the

(58:55):
base game thirty eight jobs or missions you do, and
then the I think it's like twenty four total between
the seasonal and the free, and then each of the

(59:15):
DLCs have anywhere from five to six maps each, so
there's a lot of content and it's only like the
base game is twenty five bucks unless you're own game Pass,
and then it's free. The DLCs are eight bucks each,
but you get a discount on those two if you're
in the game Pass, I believe, so they're like, yeah,
six fifty or something like that. I could be wrong.

(59:39):
I can't remember, or they're like maybe they's seven bucks.
I don't remember, but right now in the store, if
you want to buy it completely, I think it's like
thirty thirty nine or thirty four ninety nine and you
get all of it.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Which sounds pretty good because it's basically full last game
at that point.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Yeah and game Yeah, and then they just released or
not just really a couple weeks ago they announced the
pricing for power Watch similar to and it's actually the
base game if you're not in game Pass, which is
day one for free, if you're not on if you
want to play on PC, buy it on an Xbox
PS five, and now switch to it's only twenty five

(01:00:19):
bucks for the game. They kept the price the same
even though they didn't need to because of the popularity
of the game. But also they're like, nah, like, we
don't need to make it more because we can give
you this base game which has hours of play. But
then also you're probably gonna buy the DLC for it
because it's just that much fun. And they're introducing multiple

(01:00:42):
stages in this one where like a stage will then
do something like there's this underground bathroom, which I think
is like a Japanese thing, I think, but anyways, you
start cleaning the top of it and it's basically there's
a like oblong shape right on the ground with a

(01:01:05):
little thing. Once you finish cleaning that, it beeps at
you and it raises out of the floor. Then you
clean it and then you can go open the doors
and clean the inside as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah, So they have a couple of those, and then
they made a bunch of different changes to like the
UI which is really clean and nice looking, but then
the actual physics of the game, for example, in the
first game a little nerdy on this, but in the
first game, when you're looking at the different dirt when
before you start spraying at it, when you look at

(01:01:36):
it tells you what type of dirt it is and
what type of material it's sitting on, so stone, glass, wood,
cement or whatever. Rate, But then it tells you the
kind of grime that's on there. Is it slime, is
it mold, is it mud?

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Is it whatever?

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Right, paint blah blah blah. Alse in Wonderland that was
another one they did, the DLC That was fun too anyhow,
sorry distracted, so uh you do that and then they
had soap you could get that helps clean that off
the problem the Wayason I didn't ever use it in

(01:02:10):
the first game, mainly because you had to buy it
and then it runs out and then somehow, for some reason,
the store runs out of it. Like it's a very
weird thing. Anyways, but when you spray it, it essentially
just like kind of bubbles away and then like eats
away at the material, so it kind of cleans it off,
but then it leaves little areas that are hard to see,

(01:02:33):
so then you have to go over your with your
power wash and wash it off, and it just made
it more annoying that it did anything else because it's like, oh, yeah,
I'm not really that's cleaning it off, but like it's
not really doing it. So in the second one they
made soap Free. Its a recharge. Basically, once you you
can only spray so much of it on the map.

(01:02:55):
Then once you spray it off, it rebuilds into the
sprayer like magic as they said, but instead of you
spraying it on and it just dissolving, it sticks and
then you take your spray or and you spray it off.
And if you're using a weak nozzle a week spray,
it only gets off the soap and then the grime
around it wasn't doesn't have the soap on, it is

(01:03:16):
still there. So it makes it cool. But also like
that's just like obviously how soap actually works. But it's
only one type of soap that works on all grime.
So you're like, oh, I need this for mud or
mold or whatever, and they're like, oh I don't have
any of this, I have to go buy it and
blah blah blah blah. So there's little things, like little

(01:03:36):
little things they change in there. It's funny. I saw
this video that Future Labs reposted on their social media
that someone made. And he dudes at like a home
Deeper or Lows or whatever or whatever it happens to be,
and he goes, hey, I have to tell you this
powerwash shimmer didn't lie about the nozzles. He holds up

(01:03:57):
a thing and it has the different nozzles for a
power and they're the colors that are associated with the
stream type that's on actual power wash stimulator. So there's
one that's basically just a straight up just shot of
water that's really powerful. Then the different sprays that are
like either you have more PSI on him, and he's like,

(01:04:18):
it's it's it's real. Yeah, it's like, oh, it's not
just like a game. It's like they actually went and
looked at how power washers worked and made it the
most rudimentary you could be on a video game, but
still like accurate to what it was. And it was
so funny because like they even have the shape where
like when you turn it one way, you can tell

(01:04:40):
which way the spray is gonna go vertically or horizontally
by the way the nozzles configured, So if you turn it,
it makes it go a vertical line versus a horizontal
line and he's holding it and he's like you can
see it. It's the same. I was like, this is
so funny. So yeah, so we're us in the power
wat similar community are waiting with baited breath, and they

(01:05:05):
keep they're so there's so menacy about it too, because
they keep releasing videos on all their platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,
all the different stuff, Twitter, all the fun stuff of
these videos literally making fun of us waiting for the
like the release date. And there's this one where like, uh,

(01:05:26):
they kept posting these videos where like they would have
numbers somewhere in it, and so people were like trying
to like wait like all week long, like yeah, like
oh yeah. And then so they come out with a
thing that says, oh, get our sherlock caps on and
watch you try to figure out the release date. And

(01:05:46):
then it does that whole like math thing floating in
the air, you know, and it's just like fall of
twenty twenty six or twenty twenty five. And I was like,
you motherfuckers, dude, you sons of bitches, just troll the
ship out of out of all the players.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
It was just hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Yeah, it's so great. They're and they're really good at
their their community stuff is really good. But they're just
they're so menacy. Dude, just having about it is menace
and I like you fucking digs so but AnyWho, Uh,

(01:06:30):
I think it's all. I'm trying to think of anything
else I had, but I think that's it. I didn't
really have anything else, all right, cool, Well that's uh,
that's it for this week's episode of Comes Naturally. We
have been I've been Cody, and as usual, you fuckers
just came naturally by