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August 5, 2025 101 mins
Brad reviews two more of Digital Eclipse’s standout “docu-games” with in-depth impressions of Atari 50 and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, highlighting how these playable documentaries preserve game history in fresh, innovative ways. Carrie is deep into the Shin Megami Tensei multiverse, giving updates on her time with Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance and Raidou Kuzunoha Remastered. We break down the biggest announcements from the latest Nintendo Partner Direct, including reveals for Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Octopath Traveler 0. In baffling hardware news, US tariffs have triggered a bizarre price increase on the original Nintendo Switch. We explain why this move was both predictable and unnecessary. Microsoft has become the top-selling third-party publisher on PlayStation, reinforcing the growing belief that console exclusivity may be fading into irrelevance. Meanwhile, Tencent may soon owe Sony big, as their game Light of Motiram is facing backlash for being a blatant clone of Horizon Zero Dawn. Finally, we talk about the Summerslam main event and why WWE seems determined to push away a portion of its core fanbase.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
What is everybody? Welcome to this week's episode of The
dents Fix's podcast, when your host Pride, joined by my
co host Micah Hey and Carrie.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
A lot of news? This is what's up this week?
A lot of news.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We had a Nintendo Direct. Tariffs are going to be
affecting our very real video game lives starting this week.
It's that's very exciting.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
We've got a.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
New games talk about, and we have some post office stuff,
including uh, some some questions about the going songs of
last night in the World Wrestling Federation. So that's going
to be an exciting topic of conversation. But before we
get into to all of that, a little bit of housekeeping,

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Speaker 3 (01:39):
Very much.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Not an independent media company is. It's army, and they've
been making some moves in the past couple of years.
They were actually in the news the last week because
they acquired Thunderful Games, who were the publishers of the
Steam World franchise of games, which are games that I
actually like quite a bit. But they also acquired a

(02:04):
couple of years ago, Digital Clips, and Digital Clips is
probably best known for their docu games that they have
put out a few of over the last couple of years.
I talked last year or several months ago about Tetris Forever,
which is really good history of Tetris and in all
of its different iterations, and I was in the mood

(02:26):
for something kind of laid back and fast as I'm
still working through Donkey Kong Bananza one hundred percent that game,
and so I actually went through two of their other
docu games, probably the most prominent one Atari fifty, which
details the history of the Atari Corporation, and then Lamasoff

(02:46):
the Jeff Minter Story, which is another really cool one
as well. You can definitely tell that Tetra Trevor came
later in Digital Clips as Chronology, because I think they
did a better job of kind of the documentary side
of it than they did in these first two games.
Atari fifty is was a little bear on documentary content

(03:11):
for my liking. And part of that's because, like, if
you are, like, you know, into games, and you're my age,
you probably know a lot about the story of Atari
and the kind of the history of Atari games, and
so there wasn't a whole ton of new information that
we found there. The bigger thing is just kind of

(03:32):
getting interviews with people that were actually like there when
it happened.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
The Jeff Mintor one was really interesting. I don't know
how many people are familiar with Lamasoft. Lama Soft is
a company of an independent company that started making games
in the eighties, and it basically for a long time
was just Jeff Mintor and his bag was pretty much
making like arcade style games that were really that had

(03:59):
like a first yeah, that had like a psychedelic kind
of vibe or art style to them, or that were
just very weird and quirky. Probably the game he's most
known for is probably Tempest two thousand, which was the
kind of the premiere game for the Atari Jaguar that
you know, as premiere is as a game can be

(04:20):
for the Atari Jaguar. And so that was interesting because
I was relatively unfamiliar with Lamasoft. And of course because
it's centered around one guy, there's a lot more information
there because you know, Jeff Mencher is still with us,
and he's he's happy to talk about his his history

(04:43):
and and games that he's made and things like that,
and his games are just really interesting, like like they're
really quirky and cool and just kind of different than
anything else that was being made. And it's it actually is.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Kind of a broader.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Thing that I've been learning more and more about, especially
the British game development scene in the nineteen eighties that
relied a lot on things like you know, the Commodore
sixty four and like the ZX Spectrum and stuff.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
That we because they didn't really have consoles over there
in the eighties, like they were mostly a computer gaming
culture and so they didn't suffer the same video game
crash that we saw in the US in the nineteen eighties.
Or in the early nineteen eighties, and also just a
lot more homebrew over there. I think like the kind
of that scene was the originator of a lot of

(05:38):
like what we now would think of as like independent gaming,
because you had a lot of amateur coders just programming
games just basically like trying to mimic arcade games that
they knew and poured it down to the hardware that
they had, and then eventually a lot of those folks
would end up making their own designs and kind of
iterating from there. So Lamasoft was really interesting. The thing

(06:01):
that is great about both of these games is that
they have a veritable treasure trove of playable versions of
these old games, especially the Atari collection I started to
There has to be at least fifty playable Atari games
on that collection, including a couple of like upgraded editions

(06:21):
of those games that were developed that were made by.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Digital Eclips specifically for this collection.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
And so for that reason alone, as sort of like
a kind of gaming museum of sorts, makes these really worthwhile.
The Lamasov game, the only thing, the only disapointment I
have is that really only covers Jeff Mentor's career up
until the Atari Jaguar years, which was the mid nineties,
and then there wasn't a whole lot after that, not that,

(06:49):
and he's still been developing games. He's still developing games
to this day that come out in variable platforms.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
But if you if you are.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Gaming historian or like your interest in vide game history,
these two are definitely must check out. It's pretty much
anything that Digital Clips is putting out is as far
as these docu games go, are definitely worth checking out.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Of course, the big one that they have coming.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Later this year, uh is they're doing a Mortal Kombat
one of these essentially that will have not only the
first three Mortal Kombat games, but also all the versions
of them, so like they'll have like the you know,
the arcade version, but then also like the console version
and the game Boy version.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
And they also just announced that like Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Trilogy is going to be part of that collection, because
I know that that game trilogy is somehow different than
Mortal Kombat three, like it has a lot more uh
shit in it, so I know that'll.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Be an entry point for those kind of docu games.
I think they call it the.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Gold Master Series is what is what they are actually called.
But I would definitely encourage checking out Atari fifty and
The Lot of Soft Game and Tetris Trevor, because I
think Tout Trevor is.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Still the best one of these, uh that we've seen.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
So sick.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Carrie, you say, uh in the doc here, the shin
Mcgammy Tense hours simply.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Do not stop.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
No, they haven't stopped at all. I did finally finish
in Mcgammy Tense five for as much as I had
to be kind to myself and lower the difficulty in
order to actually finish the handful of bosses at the end,
because nothing is more frustrating than spending forty five minutes
working on an endgame boss, getting it down to like
the last five percent HP, and then wiping my party

(08:34):
because I ran out of resources basically, and my Nahobinino
is like max level, and I was just like fuck this,
Like I just I'm not I'm not going to try
to restrategize. I'm literally just going to lower the difficulty level. Uh.
It's fine. I finished it, finished the Cannon of Vengeance stories,

(08:56):
so now I can new game plus the Cannon of Creation,
which I started but never fit. Canon of Creation is
the Vanilla Shinmagami Tense five story, but in the meantime
I also started Ride oh HD, and I'm really enjoying
that so far. Rightoh is a very different style of
game from pretty much all of the other Shinmagami Tense games,

(09:16):
insomuch that it's not turn based combat. It's action, so
it's different in a way that I think is really fun.
It still feels like a Shimmagami Tense title in the
kind of overall atmosphere and mood, but it's a it's
a fun twist, so right oh HD. The Mystery of

(09:39):
the Solas Army is a mouthful of a title, but
still better than the original title, which was Shinmagami Tense
Devil Summoner right O Kuzanoha versus The Solas Army. In
a lot of ways, quality of life upgrades are great.
The ability to save any way wonderful. What a small

(10:03):
but meaningful update. Instead of having to run around trying
to find a save point, you can have a quick
save file, which is great. That being said, there are
still a lot of PS twoisms about it. The camera
angles have remained static and unchanged, so it does still

(10:29):
kind of feel like, you know, PS one PS two
like running through kind of pre rendered streets and whatnot,
So I'm trying to put myself back in that mindset.
But that's really my only gripe is that they, you know,
for as much as it is like a full remake,
they decided to keep that particular you know PS twoism

(10:53):
about it. But yeah, it's it's a lot of fun,
you know, if you're interests did in like the kind
of vibe of a Shan mcgammy tense game, but maybe
turn based combat isn't your speed. Rhydo would probably be
what I would recommend, just because it is real time
like action combat rather than rather than turn based.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
So very cool.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Speaking of games with very convoluted naming conventions, we had
a Nintendo Direct last week. Nintendo announced it literally the
day before it happened. This was a partner showcase and
we got some interesting announcements, including two from Square, one
of which looked a hell of a lot like an

(11:43):
Octopath Traveler game but done in an action RPG format.
And this was called The Adventures of Elliott Cold in
the Millennium Tales, which is a new game that's coming
out from those folks that's coming out in twenty twenty six.
There is a demo available on the Nintendo Switch. I

(12:03):
have not yet had a chance to play it, but
this is not a turn based RPG. It doesn't have
anything to do with Traveler just as.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Far no, it's just in the HD two D style
in the same way that Triangle Strategy didn't have anything
to do with Octopath but was in the same style.
I'm interested, I have. I also haven't gotten the demo yet,
But the way that Square NX has kind of done
these new games in their HD two D style is
they'll do this demo period and then they basically want

(12:30):
you to fill out a survey and provide feedback and
be like, hey, I really liked this, but this didn't
do it for me, and then they make adjustments kind
of based on what the majority of feedback kind of
tells them about what was like to what was disliked,
which I actually really I think that's cool. Not a
lot of companies do that. So yeah, there was that,

(12:51):
And then then they did give us.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
A new ocapath trailer game, Octopath Traveler zero zero, which
which I guess is going to be a prequel to
the original two games, and it's.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Coming out this year.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, it's different insomuch that, rather than it being eight
different characters that all have a set storyline, you create
your own character and then you recruit people into your parties.
Apparently there will be more than thirty recruitable party members,

(13:33):
is what they're doing. Yeah, they're doing a sweak of it.
But what I did notice in the trailer is that
it appeared that many of the characters that you can
recruit are the party members from the first two Octopath games.
So we'll see what happens. I've been kind of lukewarm
on Octopath myself after playing through the first one and

(13:55):
thinking that the ending of that game was fucking bullshit
it so.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
You wait, you never played two.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
I didn't play too.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Two was really good.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I heard. I heard two was great. Like, I'm I'm
willing to give it another shot because I didn't feel
it was disrespectful of my time and the way that
Bravely was, but it was more like the the kind
of the way that one was trying to haphazardly tie
those eight stories together, and then that like super Boss
fight at the end, I was just like, no, I'm

(14:26):
I'm fucking done with this, Like, Mike, did.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
You ever play the second one? I knew you did
play the first one? Did play the first one? I
never finished the first one, though, I just yeah, I
felt I fell off to halfway through the first one. Yeah. Yeah,
So if you said good, two is good, I'm like,
two is great.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Actually, like I I can't remember, like I know, I
didn't play it when it came out, but I know
it was very high on my new to me list
from I think it was twenty twenty three that I
played that and talked about that on the show.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
So yeah, too.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Two was excellent, and I'm kind of stoked that we're
getting a new one.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Late this year. That's pretty cool. So Carrie, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
They teed you up at the very beginning with the
announcement of a new Monster Hunter Stories.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Uh yes, a new Monster Hunter Stories game. I love
these first two games. I started with the second one
when that came out on Switch, and then when they
did an updated version of the very first one, which
was a three DS exclusive previously. That was something that
I played last year and really enjoyed. So yeah, very

(15:36):
different gameplay from standard Monster Hunter games. It's a story,
you know, narrative driven turn based JRPG with kind of
an anime cell shaded style to it. And yeah, I'm
I'm I'm in just tell me, tell me when it
comes out. I will be there day one. I think

(15:57):
these games are a fun different approach to the world
of Monster Hunter and the lore behind the monsters themselves.
So yeah, they they showed off a lot of the monsters, obviously,
like obviously the main character has a wrath Loos as
in the previous two games, but we saw Legiana, and

(16:22):
most notably, they made sure to show off Magnamalo, who
was the signature monster of Monster Hunter Rise. So I
have to imagine that many of the monsters from Rise
will be appearing in Monster Hunter Stories three. Wouldn't surprise
me if they added some of the new monsters that
were created for Wilds as well, but that is yet

(16:44):
to be seen. They just they were like, Magnamala's here,
Here's here's the big angry purple dog. So yeah, stoked,
stoked on that. The minute it was like, here was
like here's an egg. I was like, that's gonna be
new Monster Hunter Stories called it from the jump.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
So and then the only other new game that was announced,
there's a brand new Katamari game coming out for the Switch.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, called Once Upon a Katamari.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm very excited for that. I love Kada MARII. There's
been it's been a while since we've had a totally
new Katamari. The last brand new Katamari that we had
for console, I think it was twenty eleven. Yeah, it's

(17:33):
real Katamari. Amour and Touch My Kadamari. We had like
a mobile game called Tap My Katamari in reaction, and
then they did the remakes of the first two games,
the re roll versions of the original Katamari. And we
love Katamari. So yeah. The idea that we would have

(17:56):
a totally new Kada MARII experience after literally a decade
and a half is wild to me. I thought it
was so funny that in the announcement trailer they were like,
don't worry. All the music that you really like from
the earlier games is still in this one and you
can select it. Because the kinda Mari games really are

(18:17):
known for their soundtracks as much as they are known
for anything else.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
So that'll be out.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Later this year as well, October twenty fourth, and then
everything else announced was just stuff that we already knew
about that either was getting a new trailer or announced
that it was coming to Switch, including EA like quadrupling
down on the Switch too, which is a change from
how they typically approached these things. The other stuff was

(18:46):
a lot of stuff that we expected Person of three
reloads coming to the Switch in October. Of course, the
fun Fancy Tactics remasters coming as well.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I liked the look at Hirold Warriors Age Prisonment. I
really liked Age of Calamity, So I'm pretty stoked on
this new Hyral Warriors game and just seeing kind of
like how they plan on connecting it to Tears of
the Kingdom, which will likely be in the same way
that Age of Calamity. The whole deal was like you

(19:17):
have traveled back in time essentially to prevent the calamity
kind of from fully happening and preventing the events of
Breath of the Wild. I have to imagine that Age
of Imprisonment will take a similar tactic in you know,
you are probably going to be more successful against the

(19:38):
forces of Gandendorf and actually more successfully imprison him without
like all of this ages dying in the process. So yeah,
I've got so excited.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
On that this trailer revealed a big problem for me.
I think I'm ready to try a Muso game, but
I don't know. I don't know where my my ingress
uh should be into that genre I I like, so
I'm kind of torn between. Like so, like I heard

(20:12):
Dynasty Warriors Origins, the newest one that came out is
actually really good, but I don't know that I want
to pay like, you know, near full price for a
game that I'm not sure if I'm gonna Like, I
have Persona five Strikers, which gives me a nice you
know connect you know, connected tissue points a P five,
which I like a lot, but it also seems like

(20:34):
that game is not like a true Musso game, Like
it's kind of like Muso Light. And then like you
have the Zelda Ones, which but I don't really care
that much about like the story that they're telling in
those games.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I really like Strikers. Persona five Strikers might be my
single favorite like Persona spinoff title that that has come out.
It is it's it walks a fine line between like
Persona shit and Muso shit, so I would not consider

(21:12):
it a full Muso game. It's very much half and
half Persona and Musso. But I do think that like
in that way, it is kind of an interesting ingress
into the larger Muso franchise. I didn't play Fire on
Them Worriors, but I did play the hell out of
Age of Calamity. I have played like I really liked

(21:33):
the earlier like Gundam Musso games. But I'm also like
a big Gundam fan just in general. So if you
don't care about gun.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Anything, that's not gonna do anything for you.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
And I heard like I heard like Samurai Warriors was
good because that has more like RPG systems than most
Musso games do. Like, could you have any advice here,
any any any?

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Uh? I I do not play these types of games,
not because not because I you know, I think ill
of them. I just uh, I just never got into
any particular you know, like like Bland that uses it,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, well I will. I will solicit suggestions from the listeners.
So if you again, if you're in the discord, let
me know what you think. So good ones will be
the only conditions they have to be playable on on PC,
so because that's that's where I'm probably be playing.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Uh steam Deck Verified Optimal if.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
If if that's possible as well, because that'd probably would
be a good place to to check those out.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Since Carrie speaks highly of it.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, and and you know, if you like the percent
of five story, Yeah, it's it's a good Uh, it's
a good jumping off point.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
I mean, I own it, SI might as well play it,
but we'll see.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's good enough that I would like if. It's the
kind of game where, if if I had time, I
would play through it again.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Like yeah, yeah, a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, there's several one piece boo games I think so yeah, okay, yeah, uh,
sticking with Nintendo just the the dumbest fucking thing possible
is happening this week. We've already seen it in other regions,
but now price increases are coming to the United States

(23:36):
thanks to tariffs being implemented by the current administration in
the United States government.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Uh but not on switch to things.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Notably, the switch one is going to be seeing price
increases this week. So starting this week, a switch one,
oh lad is going to be three hundred and ninety
nine dollars and ninety nine cents here in the US.
Which is only fifty dollars cheaper than a Nintendo switch To,

(24:10):
which is kind of crazy. The switch light is increasing
from one ninety to twenty nine, and you're also going
to see price increases on certain switch To accessories select
Amebo figures and the Alarmo alarm clock, as.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well as going up ten dollars.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
They Nintendo did want to go out of their way
to say that the price increases will not affect switch
to consoles or switch to games or the Nintendo Switch
Online membership. What was missing from that statement, of course,
is a comma for now that was probably implied at
the end.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
So I wonder how much confusion this is going to cause.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
It's going to cause a lot. So stinks, But I
guess this does go to show that they clearly baked
the tariffs into the final price on the switch to.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
And well we think because because again, yeah, the one
the one advantage that they had with the switch Too,
and the reason why it's setting so many sales records
right now is because they did a really good job
of getting stock into the country.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Before yeah tattoo.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
So like, like, for all we know, we still might
be working through initial switch to stock that they have
stored over here, and when they get through that, who
knows what will happen then.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
So but uh, yeah, if you voted for this administration,
this is what you voted for. Congratulations, hope you're really
happy with the result.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I saw someone say online I think it was I
think it was Giant BOMs Mike Benati that said, like,
I I like, if I if I see someone going
to buy an intended to switch one for four hundred dollars,
like I think I would physically have to stop them
from doing it, Like I would have to attack somebody
to prevent that.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
From happening, because that's crazy, right, Like, you can't.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
You can't fucking pay four hundred dollars in the in
the Year of Our Dog twenty twenty five for an
intended to switch one console.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
No, like, you can't of them.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
No, man, this is gonna cost a lot of confusion, man,
And it's uh. I feel bad. I feel bad for
the people at on on both sides of the point
of sale. I'm someone's gonna have to explain to these
people that just want to get something for, you know,
a loved one. And yeah, this is uh. And I

(26:57):
feel bad for the people walking in there being ignorant,
you know what I mean, like because like you can't
expect everybody to know all this stuff, and it's just
going to confuse people and it's going to give what's
that Simpson's that Simpson's reference where Marge gets the wrong game?
Oh I need Lee Trito's putting challenge. Yeah, it's like

(27:20):
it's a bone store. Yeah yeah, well you know, congratulations,
it's only been six months. Has only been six months.
The worst somehow is probably yet to come.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Uh, which is an insane thing to say, but hey
just goes to show you that we here in the
US are not immune from those price changes. I would
not be surprised if this is Nintendo pulling off the
band aid of sorts. And to see other I mean,
Microsoft already did raise prices in the US, so I

(27:59):
wouldn't it would be surprised. See Sony follows suit as well.
I know they've they've already increased PlayStation prices overseas.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
So yeah, I mean Nintendo has always been the innovator, right,
like they are all following Nintendo's innovations. So yeah, yeah,
get ready, get ready a thousand? All what consoles are happening,
and at that point, like like, what's the point, like

(28:26):
just just assimilate.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I mean that, I mean that, but also like PC
should gets more expensive too, It's not like it's not
like they're building GPUs over so yeah you know, yeah,
it's it's it's just a fucked up, fucked up time
all around.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Again. Remember those halcyon days when.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Consoles would go lower in price over time, and instead
we have just endured the first generation. Not only did
prices hold steady, but they actually have gone up.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah. Man, it's supposed to be hardware it's cheap, or
software it gets more expensive. That's that's the that's the
pack that we all have agreed to, not both of
them getting expense.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah no, not not anymore buy it, buy it now,
or pay more laters than the new message, which hey,
like if you ran out and bought an intended switch
to at launch just because you were just like, well
it can.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Only go up from here, look that you might have
you might just justified that accurately. Yeah, yeah, me too.
I mean, like I said, by like, the reason I
jumped so quickly is is.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Like, all it's only gonna get more expensive, Like it's
not gonna be Yeah, it's not gonna stay five hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
So jesus.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Some positive news from the stuff the story we've been
talked about for the past couple episodes as far as
adult games getting gripped down from marketplaces thanks to pressure
from payment processors, Itch has at least began reindexing adult
games that are free on their service, so it's a

(30:00):
game that does not require payment. It's is I think
at this point gotten it back up so they can
be found in searches and found in databases across their network.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Which is very good.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
And this is for all adult content, not just games,
so comics, you know, fiction, any of that.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
So again, as we talked about last week, like Itch
is a smaller site, they don't have the resources of
a valve, so they kind of had to act fast
and paint with a broad brush. And now they're in
the process of kind of manually auditing I guess a
lot of the content that was taken down to see
what can go back up and what's going to be

(30:41):
deemed unnecessary by their payment partners. So again, it sucks,
but it's it's good that we see some things happening
in a positive direction here. Gog also has some bundles
that they're just giving away a bunch of adult games
for free right now that you can do it because
they again, they're fighting the good fight in that regard.

(31:02):
So and gamers are organizing too. There's been some campaigns
to flood like Visa and Mass's been a lot calls.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, just inundating them because the difference between like
an email can just be filtered and get a you know,
boilerplate response, but these companies, like if you call them,
they have to answer you, and even if you know
you just get stonewalled and hung up on within you know,
two minutes or so, like, they are required to answer you.

(31:31):
And the thing is almost all of these call centers
operate on paying the call center employees per call taken,
which means if you are calling them over and over again,
the corporations then have to pay the call centers that
they use that much more. So this is not only
putting like vocal, visible pressure on these companies, but it's

(31:54):
also putting financial pressure on these companies. And so I
hope people continue to do it because you know what,
master Card put out a very flaccid response so to speak.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Very much. I'm not mad.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Make sure you.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
In the newspapers that I got mad. So yeah, what
what was What they said basically was like, well, we've
always had this policy regarding you know, illegal content, and
of course the point is that, like pornography is not illegal.
You know, even types of pornography that you might not

(32:37):
jive with is still not illegal, like having you know,
a fucking foot fetish or something like that. Probably not
most people's speed, but also it's not illegal, so that
kind of adult content doesn't fall under illegal content. And

(32:58):
that's now what people are really hitting them at is that, like,
you know, not everybody is comfortable with certain types of pornography,
and that's fine, but it doesn't make that pornography illegal.
So I hope the pressure continues to mount against Visa
and Microsoft because I think this whole thing is bullshit

(33:19):
and what it really comes down to is puritanical right wings,
right winged people who think that their belief system should
be everybody's belief system, and that's not how the world works,
has ever worked, or will ever work. So those people
can fuck off and they can restore the pornography for
the rest of us. Degenerates, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
I'm gonna read you guys a list of games and
see if you can pick up a trend.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Of what some of these games have in common. This
is a list of the.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Top ten selling PlayStation games in the United States last
quarter on the PlayStation on PlayStation platforms. Number one Elden Ring,
Night Ring, number two, fors A Horizon five, number three,
The Elder Scrolls four, Oblivion number four, MLB, The Show

(34:18):
twenty five, number five, Call of Duty, Black Ops six,
number six, Doomed the Dark Ages number seven, Death Stranding
two on the Beach, number eight, Indiana Jones and The
Great Circle number nine, Minecraft, and number ten Assassin's Creed Shadows. Now,

(34:38):
you eagle eared listeners might have picked up that five
of those games in Sony's top ten selling games on
the PlayStation in the second quarter are published by Microsoft,
and in fact, only two of those games are published
by Sony, which is very interesting and may be one

(35:01):
of the clearest signs that we've come across yet uh
that this whole console exclusivity thing might be a fool's
bargain at this point, because there's lots of money to
be made, unless unless you're well that that that's they
They live in their own Nintendo world.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, but more.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
So I I I can see Sony maybe not necessarily
knocking the wall down, but certainly getting their stuff out
to other platforms faster because there's a bag that's out
there that they could, uh, that they could seize going forward.
Certainly not one to misdunking the basketball.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Microsoft CEO of Satio Matla on the on the back
of fire firing nine thousand employees because you know, we
need to make more profit that we can did note
on an earnings call that Microsoft is now the top
publisher on both play station and Xbox platforms, which is
a phrase that is very funny but also apparently quite true.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, it's a brave new world. It is a brave
new world.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Meanwhile, I heard a startling statistic and again just just
to show you and and listeners that we all live
in our own sort of bubble of sorts as well,
and there's things that go on outside of the bubble
that we have no concept of.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Do you guys know what the most.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Concurrently played game in the world is right now, brand
Theft Auto five. No, No, it is a game called
Grow Your Garden, I think is what it's called, or
Grow My Garden, which is a game that exists inside

(36:56):
of Roadblocks.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I figured it was some kind of Roadblocks bullshit.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
And it has like at its peak recently fifty million
concurrent players, which is more than the top twenty five
games on Steam combined, probably more than the top hundred
con currently played games on Steam combined.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
So so there's a whole other thing happening, yeah, outside
outside of Wow Wow, getting old man.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
It don't happen to you.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
It's happened in the meme. My partner's kids are of
all they play is Roadblocks and Minecraft and so, and
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
So a couple weeks ago, Jeff Gersman on his channel
did like he went into Roadblocks because he's like, hey, like,
no one in in our side of the gaming space
really looks, so I just want to kind of look
and see what's going on in here. And it's it's
so rough, man, Like, there's so much bullshit that happens

(38:12):
in that game. Like when you play a game inside
of there, like you literally get pop ups that are
like prompting you to pay to unlock, like mechanics in
the game and shit like that, and and like this
is being played by fucking children, man like it's.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
It is it is, uh is dour u. I had
to I had to, uh look does that. I know
I'm an old man now I'm an old hypocrite. Okay.
I had to tell my my oldest no, no video
games for a week, because like the first thing he

(38:52):
does is he's like, when I'll pick him up from camp, right,
He's like, can I play Mario Kart when I get home?
Can you? Can you get in the car first? Man Like,
like what are we doing? And then I'll tell him,
you know, if I tell him like no, you can't
play or or you know, hey, it's time to get
off the game, he's like, well what am I going

(39:14):
to do? I mean, what you're gonna do like toys
right exactly? And I said, oh ship right, like like
he's getting he's losing his imagination because he you know,
he's a little kid, like he ain't got nothing to
think about, but he ain't got nothing to do but

(39:36):
use his imagination, right, and he's losing it. He used
to have, he used to have a very active imagination
and he's losing it. It's like, oh ship, like, I
gotta regulate this ship, right, like and you know, now
games and systems like they have all that stuff where
you can like regulate like the link. But I'm like,

(39:57):
who cares, right like whatever, like just an active parent whatever.
And it's like, oh shit, like I was being not negligent,
but like it's very easy to not.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Be la fair about it. But but the other the
other thing you have to realize, though, is that the
the way that a lot of games, especially stuff again
and stuff like roadblocks, especially stuff that caters to kids today,
are programmed is to be malicious and and and and

(40:29):
and like they they've literally been engineered. I mean even
games that we play have been engineered to keep your
attention as much as possible for as long as possible,
just by like drip feeding you, you know, hits of
dopamine or like treadmills.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
To run on and daily es to go after and
and and and all that ship and you know what,
you know, I listened to Stephanie Sterling every every week, right,
and she would go on, well they would go on
and and you know, talk about how this stuff is
predatory and stuff, and I'm like, all right, but like

(41:06):
is it though, yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Like it is.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
It is, like you said, it is done by design,
and it is insidious. And that's the word that they
keep using when when talking about this stuff. It's insidious.
And yeah, that's it. That's the perfect word for it.
So the moral of the story is, if you have
small children, or if you have a personality that could

(41:33):
be described as addictive, like you, you really need to monitor.
And and you know, I'm not telling you how to
parent or whatever, but like my advice to you is
to make sure that you monitor what kids are watching,
what they're playing. Like anyway, I'm old. I'm old. I

(41:57):
never thought i'd get to this point where I'm like,
all right, you're doing them games. Oh I'm my father.
Well I'm not my father. My father took him Nintendo
sixty four and spiked it and he's really proud of it.
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. Like I
get out of here, because you know, they're mine. But like, yeah, man,

(42:20):
like I'm experiencing that now as as as someone with
a child that plays video.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Games well, and and the and the irony is is,
like you knows as much as our parents. Delliates out
like the amount of times that we were playing video games,
like we did still read and go outside, yeah, and
like do all this other stuff that I guess I
have like a more well rounded childhood of sorts.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Yeah, but the way games are now, like you don't
have to do outside. You can stay in this world
right and hang out with your friends and right and
talk socialized right. So it's it's wild, man, It's just
it's just wow. It's a full circle moment that I
felt like I had to get out there, especially with

(43:10):
three people who are guardians to children in some form
of fashion. And uh, I didn't want to tell my
father because I don't want him to know that he
might have been right.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
So yeah, it's like that was that was an like
it's one thing to like know about, like, hey, here's
all the ways that like roadblocks is a content mill,
uh from people, and that you know that that under
delivers them. But just like kind of seeing like how
you know what like what people are experiencing, which is
like holy shit, like and again it's it's just like
we know very little about, but that's what a lot

(43:49):
of game designers are kind of being and we're up
on it.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Right, like, we like like, we like, we follow this
stuff to varying degrees and we know what this stuff is.
But at the same time, I'm like, but do you
I guess wild Man as wild.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
The final news story is pretty funny one. So Tencent
is coming out with a game called Light of Motoram, which,
if you were to look at screenshots and key art
from it, it might look quite familiar to another existing
property of games that kind of exist in this world today,

(44:31):
because they basically made themselves a survival game with her
in the Horizon universe, right down to right down to
having giant robot animals and a title font that looks
very Horizon esque.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
So what the funniest part about this to me was
how apparently Sony says that it had discussions with Tencent
informally regards darting. You know, basically Tencent was kind of
like pitching Sony on on them doing an official Horizon game.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
They wanted to they wanted to license the IP from Sony.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, they wanted to license the IP and and then
do do a Horizon game, and Sony rejected it, and
then Tencent went, what if we did it anyway? Which
is not how this works.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
So yeah, so so Sony issuing Tencent in what is
bound to be one of the most like opened shut
like slam dunk cases, uh that I've ever seen. And
and so to Carrie's point, like what actually probably happened
is Tencent was like, we're going to develop a Horizon game.
Don't worry, Sony will definitely partner with us. And Sony

(45:49):
was like, naw, fam, we're good, like we don't we
don't need that, and They're just like, ah, fuck, like
we already made it, might as well put it out
there anyway.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
This Wild.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Remains honestly one of like the ballsiest fucking studios out
there because obviously.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
The money, the money like that it's gonna cost gonna
get They're they're gonna lose and they're gonna pay a
shipload of money and this game is not gonna come out,
but I don't care, like I guess it's worth it,
like like and somehow that like if if if by
some weird miracle like the judge in the case doesn't
grant Someny like an injunction preventing this game from releasing,

(46:30):
it now has a shipload of notoriety behind it that
will make people buy it, just as like a curio
a source and they'll make it and they'll make a
they'll make a shipload of money from that. And a
lot of people were like kind of pointed out, They're like, well,
you know what about Power World. Like people were like
happy like when Powered came out and kind of thumbed
the face and Nintendo. But the difference is like even
though like in Power World, like where there's some very

(46:52):
overt similarities to like Pokemon, Yes, but Power World wasn't
trying to make like a Pokemon game.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
No, they were doing a monster catching game that you know,
basically flew a little too close to the sun and
that's why they lost their the the own lawsuit that
Nintendo brought. But the you know, the the difference is
like they didn't just fucking take Pikachu trace over it

(47:22):
and make him green, which is essentially.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
They would even do that with this like like like
the like the protagonists they have in the screenshots is
like a redhaired woman that has a focus in her ear,
like like it's not it's not even no tying to
differentiate itself in any way, shape or form from the
Horizon series.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
There there is there is a joke about a Chinese
knockoff in there somewhere, and I'm not gonna make.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
It so uh so yeah, so if you haven't seen
this yet again, just just google Light of Motoram and
see and and just you know feature eyes in his
This Week in Gaming video this week, skill Up showed
like a sequence of screenshots side by side, uh and

(48:15):
like alternating in random order between screenshots from Horizon and
screenshots of Light and Motoram, but didn't have like the
the the badge of which game it was for a
couple of seconds so you could try to figure out,
like which game it was from, just kind of kind
of comparing them the you know.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
You need to find the difference between these two pictures.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Oh so so yeah, ballsy fucking maneuver from Tencent. But
I'm sure they will get smacked down.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Over this.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
We move on from there to the Dense Pixels post office,
where you can ask us questions in our discord every
single week. If you're not a member again, go to
denspixels dot com slash fans. We'll start with Michael B
who posted a question last week that was for Carrie,
which she wasn't here, so we'll ask him now. He says,
I am a black man of a certain age thirty four.
I think it's time for you to pick him and

(49:15):
learn an instrument. I played trumpet in middle in high school,
I'm considering learning how to play either the bass or drums. Carrie,
what is something I should consider when buying my first
base or even a recommendation will be dope. As far
as music I'd like to play, I'm into punk, metal, jazz, funk,
and hip hop, and recently took a deep dive into
psychedelic rock.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Well, what it really boils down to is your comfort
level when holding the instrument, because for me, you know,
I can sit here and tell you that you know,
a P bass, a precision base by Fender whoever is

(49:57):
the way to go. But you know, at the end
of the day, I don't like strat style bodies because
of how they tend to sit on my torso I
don't find them particularly comfortable to play. Similarly, a lot
of people love stingrays, which incidentally also have strat style bodies,
but stingrays are also extremely heavy. My first five string

(50:19):
that I owned was a sting Ray, and while I
loved the tone that it got and I thought the
neck feel was really good. I also just like I
didn't like playing it out because of the weight. Truthfully, so,
I currently own four bases, and three of them are
what are called short scale bases, which means that the
neck is a little bit shorter. They still have the

(50:41):
same you know, generally the same amount of frets and whatnot,
but like they're it's just smaller. And then I have
a five string, which is my custom build Kisel, which
I spent a lot of money on. But what I
would recommend, generally speaking is you know, go to your local,
you know, guitar shop. If you have a mom and

(51:02):
pop I generally recommend going to mom and pop shops,
But if it's a guitar center that's generally fine as well.
I'm just sitting down with a few different kind of
like body styles and seeing what feels good to you,
because every neck profile is different, everybody style is going
to be different. Weight is a big one with any
instrument that is that you're going to have around your

(51:23):
neck and your shoulders. So you know, I don't think
necessarily any kind of bass is you know, better than
any other for certain kinds of music, like I have
this custom keyesel. It's headless. It's more associated with like
heavy metal, but I've also used it on like funk songs. Similarly,

(51:47):
I have like a damn electro longhorn which has flat
wound strings on it, which are very much associated with
more like jazz and blues and whatnot, and I've used
that on some heavier stuff. So it really just depends.
Feel free to DM me if you want sort of
more in depth instructions, but really the best thing you

(52:07):
can do for yourself is go into your local shop
and just be like, hey, I'm interested in getting into base,
Like what's what's a few different options if you're just
kind of getting into it a good entry level in
terms of price point, there's a lot of good stuff
out there in the like three fifty to five hundred range.
Gretch makes a good model that I actually really like

(52:28):
a lot. Every time I see like the new Gretch bases,
I get very close to just bringing it home with
me because I like the way that they look more
so than anything else. But yeah, thanks, thank you, thank
you for the question. I've been playing bass for like
twenty five years now, so I have offered online lessons

(52:51):
in the past as well, So please hit me up
very cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Camp asks now that everyone else is aware that Joey
Swoll is a master piece of shit. I've known for years.
They're any famous person you immediately knew was shit, but
it took longer.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
For the rest of society to realize Will Smith. Look,
I was a fan of Will Smith, but you know,
he just started getting kind of I don't know, And
this was well before like the slapping thing, right, Like,

(53:31):
he just there's something about him. Do people like Jennifer
Lopez because I don't. I think people generally do.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
I feel very neutral on Jennifer.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
I think I think Jennifer Lopez is the definition of
pretty privilege. Her talent lies in dance and choreography. Whoever
told her she could sing and act is they were
trying to like make something happen, and they butter her
up because she cannot do either. And I don't think

(54:07):
this next person's piece of shit. But I've been saying
that Galagadot cannot act for a very long time and
people were just like, but she's wonder woman, and I'm like, yeah,
but she sucks.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, she's not a good actress. And also she sucks
in numerous other ways.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
They had Princess Buttercup put on an Israeli accent and
Wonder Woman because gal Gadot can't do any other accent
like they had Robin Wright. They had everybody anthemis Gara
had to have this weird like Israeli accent because Galgadot
can't like act. And now that I told this to

(54:50):
Jay and I feel totally vindigated and pleased that it
is society societally acceptable to make on him gal Gadots act.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
I don't know that I've I don't know if there's
anyone who I was in like like like I knew
before everyone else did kind of situation. I'm I'm still
holding out hope that Michael Fassbender ends up being a
piece of ship one day because, like like Pete, longtime
fans of the network though that I'm not a fan
of Michael Fassbender.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
I think he's a.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Terrible actor, and it would help, it would help vindicate
me if he came out was like I've actually like
a right wing asshole or something. He seems like a
perfectly nice, nice gentleman.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Look, here's here's here's a here's a full proof way
to determine if someone is an asshole. It is the
Rupert Thorn test, right, Rupert Thorn from Batman, the animated series.
They were trying to dig up dirt on Harvey Dent
and and his his assistant or his his co work

(55:53):
he was. She was like, oh, the guy squeaky clean, Rupert.
I don't know if we can dig anything up on him.
It was like the blood of the picture, the darker,
the negative and this and it applies to Joey Swole,
mister Jim positivity. I'm positive, positive guy positive positive, you know,
just ask the colors how positive? I am, like, what

(56:14):
what the I don't know that guy, but yeah, he
seems too he seems he seems too positive. You're too positive.
I don't trust you.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I think for me, it's probably gotta be Nicki Minaj.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I just something something something about her didn't feel right
to me, and ye, not great. And then I think
the other one and maybe maybe maybe this is just
because of like my parents' age. But Eric Clapton, that's

(56:59):
actually a really good I feel like everybody freaked out
recently because Clapton did like the anti vax stuff and
like was very against like COVID mandates and stuff like that.
And I just remember my dad being like, it's a
shame about Clapton, and I was like, Dad, Clapton is
also a admitted rapist and domestic abuser and has been

(57:21):
for years, Like, why are we surprised that this guy sucks?
He has always sucked, like.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
But because we all felt bad for him because his
kid died in the in the early nineties, So fuck him.
So that air class is a pretty good one actually,
like like he's really shown his ass in the last
several years especially, and then like you said, you know,
a lot more, a lot more besides uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
GT. Simpson asks if you had a magic wand it
could change one thing for any gaming franchise, what would
it be. They know the trade.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Evolution system in Pokemon and the funky stell system in
Assassin's Creed.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
I would get rid of all the cartography mechanics, particularly
in Ubisoft games where you have to climb a tower
to open a map, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
the map should just like the world is there, like
let me explode. I don't want to have to. I
don't want to have to climb a giant tower to

(58:31):
look around to you know, get my bearings or whatever like.
And I know why they do it. They want to
show off their climbing tech and they want you to
appreciate the world that is not curated. It's just generated
but whatever. Like, I get it, but it's annoying unless

(58:53):
you're an immersive sim Can we just get rid of
encumbrance as a.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Mechanic's it serves no positive purpose at all.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
It is just.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I think it's interesting because I think about like STAB
and the trade evolution. So STAB stands if you're unaware,
STAB stands for same type attack bonus, which means that
a fire type Pokemon using a fire type move will
do more damage with that move than a normal type
Pokemon using a fire type move. The thing about STAB is,

(59:35):
I think STAB actually makes a lot of sense. I
I like, I like that little bit. I think that
like it encourages you to have certain types of attacks
that align with certain types of Pokemon. I think that's fine.
Trade evolution system feels a touch outdated by today's today's standards.

(01:00:00):
I think there should be another way for me to
evolve a cytherer into a scissor beyond having to find
a friend to coordinate with and then trade it while
it's holding a specific item. I completely agree with that.
I do think that like that mechanic should stay in
but there should be a like alternative way to evolve

(01:00:22):
these pokemons.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
And you know, it's ironic about that it should in
theory mm hmm, it should be easier than ever it
should be.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It is still as tricky as it was twenty five
years ago. And then the I think what I would
want to change would honestly be more about like the
ivs and the EV's, like those stats and and that
kind of shit. I've never liked the Nature system. I've
never liked any of that. I think that in particular

(01:00:57):
drives me crazy because it means that in order to
be competitive at Pokemon at the highest levels, you have
to like do all this crazy shit with breeding and
you know, trying to find basically like the perfect thing.
And I just I wish it was something where it
was more along the lines of, oh, we're just going

(01:01:19):
to like raise these values in a slightly more streamline fashion.
I think the IVEV system and the nature system is
so convoluted in bullshit and I would love it if
Pokemon abandoned that entirely. Then the other thing that came
to mind is in the Golden Sun games, the one
thing that I really want to change is that it

(01:01:40):
lacks what I what you would call smart combat, where
if you have all four party members attacking one specific
creature and there are two available, if the third out
of the fourth attacks kills that creature, the fourth party
member doesn't then move to the next creture available, They

(01:02:01):
just defend instead, which is usually a waste of a turn.
So I would just want to add smart combat to
Golden Sun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Yes, yeah, that's even when Golden Sun came out. That
was ere.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
When Golden Sun came out, that was extremely up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Okay, if I can also add again this isn't franchise specific,
but every single RPG should have like the metaphor Slash
persona slash like Earthbound thing where if you fight something
that's completely under leveled compared to you, that the fight
just automatically happens, that you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Have to go through the and the The thing I
would add on top of that is every RPG should
have the It's the one thing that bravely introduced that
I think should be in every single RPG is if
you have random battles, you should be able to adjust
the rate of random battles that occur.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yep, you typically only see that in the in these
remasters that they're coming out with, But yeah, that'd be
a good mechanic to just put in the game good
quality of life feature. E Jack asked if you had
carte blanche on choosing a music artist for your dream
video game, who would you choose?

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
If Nuja Best was what U side sign him instantly?
He says, that's the right answer, buddy. But since he
is not with us, Untro Nishihara does some similar work,
but he's kind of moved into more of a house

(01:03:37):
style music. Funky d L who else, Marcus D who else?
Who else? Who else? Who else? Let me move on
my app re plus, dj Okawari, uh Fat John and

(01:04:00):
just any of those any of those people, uh that
do like low fi jazzy hip hop beats, which is
gonna be in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
In Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
What's that ghost of Yote from that direct?

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Do we talk about that direct?

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Not?

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
We didn't talk about it in depth.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
But yeah, so what Mike is getting at is that
so ghost of the Sushima had the curve Solo mode,
which you know, puts it in like a you know,
like like a like a top bar format and you know,
black and white and up the film rain stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Well, they're gonna have that, but they're all, what's what's
the new mode called that they're adding into this one?
Get the I forget the I can't. I can't remember
the name of it. I'm trying to. I'm trying to
look it up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Hmmm. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
The Watsona mode, Yeah, where you can where you can
listen to I don't know why I blanked on that,
where you can listen to like lo fi hip hop,
beats a la Samurai champloo right where most of us
kind of discovered nujabet and in the twenty five years

(01:05:22):
ago because you're old too. Yeah, man, Like this game is,
this game is speaking directly to me, Like this game
is trying its best to be my game of the
year by those two modes right there. Like, so yeah,

(01:05:42):
play Ghost of Yota. You're gonna get what you want. Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Like, if we're talking like existing video game composers, I
think like motoy Sakeraba, I think is like beyond his
work in Golden Sun, which you know is where I
was introduced to him, But he also did like Mario

(01:06:10):
Golf and Mario Tennis and Dark Souls and basically all
of the tales of games. I think he's just prolific
in a way that that many others of his particular
vintage aren't. Or I would go with Zoon, who's the

(01:06:31):
guy responsible for the Total Project series. I think Total
Project is tall is known for a lot of things,
but the music in particular, I think has always been good,
and Zoom does a lot of things that I think
are very musically interesting. So yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
GC Simpson comes in another question for my f one heads,
so me, uh, is there a dream car and dream
track you would love to take for five laps? They say,
for me, I'm taking a Ferrari and the Miami Track
sideways if I had my way. I don't know that
I have an infinity towards any particular F one car.

(01:07:12):
The mclar the current years McLaren seems like it's very
easy to drive, so I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
That would be what I would go with. But my favorite,
my favorite tract of race on a.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Probably probably would be Interlagos, just because that track is
a good mixture of real high speed UH straights end corners,
but also like a nice technical in field, so you
can really get a sense for both, you know, both
of the car strengths. The other one is MONSA, But

(01:07:47):
MONSA feels too boring, feel feels like too much of a.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Like like a like a.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Basic answer for that. But that that's the mons is
just the go fastest ship track. Like that's that's basically
what that's there for. Not Monico, I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
That would.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Mad Coco g says the Sega tried again with soccer
Awards via the Persona studio, would it actually have a
chance to take off in the US since the twenty
twenty reboot that nobody talks about.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
The thing about soccer awards is it has been around
since nineteen ninety six and it's never found a foothold here,
which means that it has been around as long as
the Shinnmagammy Tenesse series. And I believe as long as
Persona has been in the United States, and for as
long as Persona was around in the US, it took
until five to really go truly mainstream soccer awards is

(01:08:43):
it's It's interesting because I think the issue with Soccer
Awards is less about like the quality of the games
and just has to do with the fact that it's, like,
it's a tactical RPG with dating sim elements, and in
the grand scheme of things, so is Fire Emblem. But
I think Soccer Awards just like hasn't been able to
find the foothold just because of the genre that it

(01:09:04):
exists in. I don't know if giving it to a
studio like a Peace Studio or like Atlas in general
would be like the move. I mean, technically they could
do it, because both franchises and studios are owned by Sega,
But it's I think it really just has to do

(01:09:24):
with the fact that, like it's ostensibly like a tactical
RPG with heavy visual novel elements and heavy dating sim elements,
And because all three of those things are very niche
on their own, you're really only going to be able
to like appeal to so many people. Yeah, Shin Soccer

(01:09:45):
Awards came out in twenty nineteen. Worldwide in twenty twenty
didn't didn't really do so hot. It was also considered
even in Japan kind of a seven out of ten
so you know, I think that has as much to
do with it than anything sold well enough in Japan.

(01:10:07):
But yeah, it's just it's not the kind of franchise
that is going to have the global appeal that PERSONA
has managed to capture for a lot of reasons.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Let's see here, Tea Wash asks, what is your white
whale of merch? There's a figure that I once said
bad but it is impossible to find.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
It's too expensive. Now curious to what that is. It
was there was this side show Doctor Doom statue, not
the Hot Toys one that's coming out, but there was
another one that's coming out that's like four feet tall.

(01:10:52):
Well that came out let four feet tall. I couldn't
I wouldn't be allowed to bring that in my house.
And it is it is way too expensive. But yeah,
it's probably probably one of those.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
I don't know that. I don't answer for this one because.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I don't know that I have like a merch white whale,
but I do have like a promo item white whale.
I actually have a couple, and they're unsurprisingly both related
to Golden Sun. But I have I have a lot
of Golden Sun promotional items. Mostly from Dark Dawn because

(01:11:36):
Brad and I were working at Game Stop when Dark
Dawn came out. I have somewhere a really funny picture
of that Brad himself sent me of him teasing me
holding up the Golden Sun Dark Town game. So it's
like I have like the little standy and whatnot. And really,
something that I have been on the lookout for for

(01:11:56):
a long time is the small like tabletop like counter
tabletop promo for Golden Sun The Lost Age. I've seen
a couple of them show up on eBay and they've
generally ended up out of my price range or I
lost last second to a sniper bid, so I would

(01:12:17):
love that. It's like holographic. It's nothing to write home about,
but for me, that's my white whale. And the other
thing is there was a Golden Sun The Lost Age
like promotional T shirt that was given away and I
haven't been I haven't had any luck finding that either.
So in terms of like mass market merchandise, I've got,

(01:12:43):
I've got everything. I've actually sold a lot of my
figures this year, so yeah, there's there's nothing I really
want that's like that had like a mass production run.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Let's see here, uh Kent ask, do you guys have
a guilty Pleasure TV show or game? I can tell
you the game that I feel the guiltiest about that
I've been playing recently, and I've talked about on the
show before, but it's been kind of a comfort food game.

(01:13:16):
It's the Xachtronics Solitaire Collection, which I have just an
absurd amount of hours in, and all it is is
just a compilation of like eight different like solitaire games,
some of which are like uniquely designed and some of
which are varying, some like currently existing stuff. But man,

(01:13:37):
just it's really hard to not play it when you're
just kind of sitting there and you want something to
do while you're doing something else, just keep your hands occupied.
And I need to find something else to take that place,
because I again, way too many hours.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
In this in this game. If you, if you ask me,
you know what Guilty Plas TV show I mean at
this point, it's fucking wrestling, because Jesus Christ, we get
we'll get there. I've been I've been dancing around. I
was gonna save this. I don't know. I've been known

(01:14:15):
to play. I've been known to play an anime titty
game every once in a while. I can't remember the
last one I played. To be to be like fair
to myself, I guess. But if you look on my
trophy list, I'm sure there's one trophy somewhere so that
I can't get rid of the of the game on

(01:14:38):
my on my actual list of games that I've played
that has some sort of you know, busty anime girl on.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
It, I don't know that I have much in the
way of like a guilty pleasure. It's like I've played
some dating sims, but I wouldn't say I feel guilty
about them like I don't. I don't harbor a lot
of guilt for the things that I enjoy. I tend
to enjoy them loudly and openly. Maybe like that seventy show,

(01:15:14):
just based on how many of the actors kind of
turned out later in life. But I don't know. Red
and Kitty still bring me a lot of joy, So
I still I still like that show a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Beach a Boy asks, hopefully y'all got Micah and Terrence
on here this week, Well, fifty ain't bad. Pick your
favorite character, game, movie, show, or comic book that would
be invited to the proverbial cookout. I know the correct
answer is, which is they should decline. But let's say
this is the one everyone who is invited could come,
and what would they bring? You know, the only one

(01:15:58):
I can think off of the top of my head.
It is, uh, is from a video game? M hm,
which is any Well, I'm gonna cheat then, because there
are a lot of dragon Ball video games and I'm
gonna say Piccolo because Piccolo is uh the plosest thing
to an actual black man in that universe who is
a good dad and who has a rap on his

(01:16:22):
head and yeah, and his best friend is an aloof
white man. So yeah, yeah, there you go that Piccolo.
That's the answer. All right, Uh, let's let's get into
the fucking wrestling talk too terribly long, but uh, two questions, uh,
and we'll combine them into one and then and then

(01:16:43):
just fucking talk about this. Johnny asks, who decided to
bring back piss jug Man was just a t k
O or callers triple h testing the waters quote unquote
because wow, uh, and then John C says, related to
Johnny's question, it's just a coincidence they did away with
the media scrumbs right before bringing back a dude named
an ongoing sexual trafficking lawsuit which alleges a whole ass

(01:17:06):
human being used as a bargaining chip in his contractual negotiations. Right,
can't have mister Levy split this water at the White
House fumble his way through answering one or two questions.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
About it at the end of the night. Yeah, no
fucking shit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
That the the moratory of on press conferences was, you know,
coincidentally aligned again, not only with Triple H's ill advised
visit to the White House acceptance of a position on
the quote Presidential Fitness Council unquote, but then of course yes,
with the as as Triple H you know, said in

(01:17:41):
the wake of that, when asked a question about Vincent
Man and the still pending litigation a sexual harassment against him,
said something along the lines of, well, you know, like,
you know, people make mistakes and eventually we have to
move forward and this, that and the other thing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Right, little did we know that he was also talking.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
About Brockelssner because Brockleasner about to grace our screens again.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I'm glad I didn't watch Summer sam Slam yesterday because
I would have been so bummed out I watched.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
And that's the already.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
As I put in the discord, I actually didn't watch
Summer Slam all weekend. I was only tangentially aware that
it was on, and I just wasn't not like like
I've talked about on the show for the past several months,
like I just haven't been very welcome feel welcome by
w Dodd. But I happened to be online as the
main event was starting, so I'm like, you know, we'll
tune in, We'll see if Cody turns heel or if

(01:18:34):
you like, you know, John Cena. It was was blowing
smoke when they just decided to dump the fucking heel
trn story that they've been telling for the past you know,
five months.

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
With him or whatever whatever has been going on. And
the match was fine.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
I think, I like, people are praising the match heavily.
I think I've determined that, like the WWE style big
event main event style match.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Just isn't my jam anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Of just watching two people throw haymakers at each other
until one of them finally, you know, just can't answer
the bell anymore. Like that's basically the the style of
main event match they've been using for the past decade
ever since brock and Roman Rains at Rest thirty one.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
So the match was whatever for me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
And then as soon as like brock Leser's music hit,
I was like, okay, cool, like like send me a
clearer message that you really just don't want me fucking
around with.

Speaker 3 (01:19:31):
This with this program. That's how bad it is. And
that's how you know that they know it's bad that
they wouldn't even do their their their dick riding, fart
smelling you're the greatest. Ever, how on earth are you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
How are you such a booking genius? Press conferences where
they where they bring in sick of fan and to
ask you know the most like triple h, how on earth?
How how is your lower back after carrying so much dick?

(01:20:12):
Like you are amazing? Right, Like that's the type of
questions they get. And then they would maybe get one
person to come up and that's but that's how bad
it is that they know that one person would come
up there and be like, uh, was that with that? Man?
I don't think I think it would have been.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
I think that would be like the question of the
fucking evening though, is the thing It had.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
To have been it would have had to have been right,
Like that's how and that's what I'm saying, Like they
put them, they they they introduced this element back into
their company where even in that very friendly area of
the press conferences that they used to have, even that
wouldn't be safe for them, that safe space wouldn't be safe.

(01:21:00):
That's how bad this is that And you know, I'm
not As soon as I heard the music, I just
turned it off. I watched the ladder match because I
really wanted to see that ladder match because I never
get to see the street profits on pay per view,
so I really wanted to see that ladder match. And
I was, I mean, I was entertained. I was, and

(01:21:22):
then I was in and out, you know, because it
started early, and you know, I gotta help put kids
to bed and stuff like that. So but I did
make it back for the main event. And you know,
for a forty old man and a fifty year old man,
they did way more than I thought they would. From
a forty old man that like gets the psychology of

(01:21:43):
the performance of wrestling and a fifty year old man
who gets that but like can't do the moves as well.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
It was it was better than I thought it would be,
and I kind of figured it would be because they
had to kind of do a may call for that
first time that they wrestled. Then as soon as I
hit them, as soon as I heard the music, I
just got done. And then I just got up and
went to bed man because it's like all right, but

(01:22:14):
like and at the same time, like I'm not I'm
not surprised, you know what I mean. Like to to
get back to the question, was it a t k
O call or a Triple H call? Or if you're
Triple H, he's like, it's John Cena wanted to My
hands are tied. I just creating.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
He's learning from the ultimate buck Passer.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
Uh, Like like.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
If it's awesome, I did it. If you hate it,
it was that other guy Triple always chickens out like
it works, right, like it works, so Thaco TRIPLEH chickens out.
So well, there you go. But to get back to
the question, I think I I it could have been.

(01:23:09):
It doesn't matter whose call it was because it could
easily be any one of them, and and it it may,
but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whose call it was.
They all agreed to do it well. And and the
funny thing is is that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
You don't need this like like John like John cenas Yeah, John,
John Cena's retirement tour itself is like enough of a
draw to get people to tune in and to get
like that they gain something like look at all the
people that are on the card that you could that
you could put John Cena with, like like John Cena

(01:23:50):
versus goother You could run back John Cena and Roman
Reigns like like like you could run back John Cena
and Danian Priest.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
Like maybe that's not as big of a draw. You
can give it. You can put a young guy up,
or you can put you can make a star bron breaker, right, yeah,
come on, man, like it doesn't it doesn't make any sense.
And that proves to me that uh Thaco has no

(01:24:19):
faith in his card. Like he's got no faith in
in in people that aren't seth Rollins see him Punk
or Cody Rhoads or Gomther because I still think they're
gonna have that, man, I think that's gonna be his
retirement match. And but he has no faith in anybody
else on the car, even people who are proven commodities

(01:24:41):
like bron breaker. So I don't how awesome would it
be if we all know how John Cena came in, right,
Kurt Angle on my Mount Rushmore. By the way of
professional wrestlers, he's really good at what he does in
all aspects of professional wrestling, Right, how awesome would it

(01:25:04):
be if John Cena paid it forward, has somebody come
out or or or you know who wants to step
up like he used to, right, and then somebody comes
up and just like you know, ruthless aggression or whatever
the reality era or you know whatever, right, and and

(01:25:25):
and make a star Like you said what you want
about Vince, he saw something in people and he and
he knew how to make stars from people that didn't
deserve it. So, I, you know, it's just weird, man,
Like I'm I'm I'm not I'm not feeling it. And
this is the first time in a very long time,
because like wrestling is usually something that like I would

(01:25:47):
just kind of have on, but I would still watch.
I don't even want to just like have it on
in the background anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
Well, like it's just and the other problem with it
is is that like it has fallen prey to the
same thing that we see everything falling prey to is
that is that for longer, frankly than I anticipated, wrestling
like somehow managed to stay somewhat apolitical even in the

(01:26:15):
era of Donald Trump, where since twenty fifteen, basically nothing
has been able to be a political like like like
it's basically like like politics has you know, been insidiously
inserted into everything, even stuff that like it was always there,
but it was like you could ignore it, like now

(01:26:35):
it's in your face all the time. And I like, again,
against all odds, somehow wwe managed to mostly avoid a
lot of that, Like it's still like it still did
like it almost went out of its way to not
engage in that. And then like this week especially was
just like them as I've seen many people describe it,

(01:26:58):
like take the mask off and be like, no, actually
it was it was us the entire time, like like
like this is always what it was, and to some
extent it's like, yeah, of course this is always what
it was, Like you're fucking like like like the matriarch
of the family is in the fucking Trump cabinet, and
you know all these.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Guess what guys, all these wrestlers, they're rich dudes, you
think Cody Road. You think Cody Road just because Cody
Road is married to a black woman, you think that
dude is on the right side of history. I don't.
He's got he's got an arm tattoo on his neck
of a skull with wings and an American flag. Get

(01:27:38):
out of here, nah yo, nah uh huh, Nope, I'm
I'm not buying it. You know what I mean? You
should you like? Like I said, I think, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
I think at this point, anyone that continually happily involves
themselves and promotes w W E like kind of doesn't
deserve the benefit of the doubt in a lot of
ways and kind of needs needs to be the ones
to go the extra mile to show like, hey, no,
actually I'm not a piece of shit.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
And look man, like, I'm not here to I'm not
here to put pool on things that you like, right, Like,
if you like wrestling, like, keep watching it. I'm gonna
probably keep watching it. I'll watch like big events. But
like week do we television, It's just we do be
Television has been suffering and that and that's my thing,
Like I'm very good at trying to like at keeping

(01:28:28):
politics kind of at Bay a bit like when it's
not like directly in my face, but at the same time,
like yo, if you're gonna dangle you know, brock lesnar
in my face, like well, like that guy's a creep, man,
Like that guy's a creep. Like you're gonna dangle Hawk

(01:28:49):
Kogan in my face? And like all right, man, like
you let him go and then you brought him back
and and he didn't get a good response, and and
now that he's gone, you're you're trying to pretend that
like like I get it. I get it. I do,
I really do get it. But at the same time,

(01:29:11):
like I don't have to watch and yeah, I trust me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
I got plenty of other things competing for my time
and attention and to be able to excize. I mean,
and I haven't been watching weekly for a while, and
I haven't even been watching the big events for the
last couple I think the last one that I did
watch was probably Backlash, which was back in April, like,
and I haven't really watched anything since then, so like

(01:29:37):
I've I've certainly stepped away.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
But like this week was like a very aggressive.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Statement by them in many ways to be like actually
we would like to cater to this specific audience. And
if you're not really down with that, then we're cool
kind of shoving you away. And I'm saying, okay, cool,
enjoy that again. And it's it seems to not work
really well for a lot of other businesses when they
purposely push away more liberal minded people and force them

(01:30:10):
to confront things that they're generally uncomfortable with having being
forced to confront. So again, enjoy. We'll see how long
the the good times last, and we'll see when the
pivot happens, because I don't think that the good that
those good times will actually last.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
You know when the pivot is are gonna happen. You
know when the piv is going to happen. When Trump
shows up at a at a at a pl E.
When Trump shows up at one, then that's gonna be
That's gonna be the actual test, right because Trump can
go to a UFC event and those UFC fighters are
are running to get to their well.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
But but UFC is already generally like like I feel
like combat sports, like real combat sports are like generally
a right wing appealing in the industry anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
And and that's what I'm saying if Trump shows up
to some of these things, that's when the test is
gonna happen, right, Like, that's when the real like rubber
is gonna really hit the road. And I think I
don't put it out of romal possibility that he would
show up at like a WrestleMania, especially in Vegas. Says

(01:31:16):
they're going to be doing them in Vegas for a
while and the home of the UFC, you know what
I mean, Like it's that's that's when the real test
is gonna happen as to whether or not w W
can can feel like they can just kind of get
away with anything.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
Well, And what's funny is that there was there was
a time not that long ago where I was like like,
like that kind of possibility has always been in the
back of my mind, especially because he's like, well he's
in the Hall of Fame, you know, and like he
has like like a long time connection to the company.
But I was always like, they're not stupid enough to
fucking fumble the bag like that, Like they understand how
polarising is.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Now, yeah, now I don't think that that's that's that
that's the case. So yeah, and now they're you know,
he's he's on the Terrens asked us in a in
a in a private group. He's like, what the fuck
is Triple A's doing at the White House. I was like,
you know, it's it's for the Presidential Fitness Challenge, just
you know, like like, but why him? I was like,

(01:32:15):
because because it's just like when Arnold Schwarzenegger was there,
like you you get this, you get this guy to
lend this credibility to it. And he also had Lawrence
Taylor there, which, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
Lawrence Taylor, who previously the FU for for those that
don't realize, pleaded guilty to uh to trafficking a sixteen
year old girl who larned and Lawrence Taylor uh may
a complim for this by saying, well, hey, like it's
not like it was some child, like this was a
working girl.

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
So you know it's it's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
You know, you can't play football, folks, because apparently when
you have lots of concussions it leads to tons of radamage.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
By the way, former Restvatia made it made a venture
margs Taylor. It's worth worth yeah to bring everything everything
full circle? Oh shit? Oh man, So Carrie, how how
do you feel it As a relatively new wrestling.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Fan, it's not great, especially because like there's a lot
going on that I like, you know, I I I
started watching, you know, week to week when it hit
Netflix because then I could actually watch it week to week.
Last year, I watched kind of all of the ples
because I just I have Peacock, so it was kind
of like a why not. But I wasn't quite as

(01:33:38):
invested as I became over the course of this year.
So it is just tough, right because it's like, there
are things that I enjoy. There are certain like superstars
that I really like, you know, Penta is fucking incredible,
and like he's so fun to watch, you know. Everything
that happened with seth Rollins this weekend was just like

(01:34:00):
so good, so good, and then like the immediate swerve
into the bullshit right like, and so it's it's tough,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
It it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
I I do kind of want to see if the
very loud negative reaction to Brock's appearance makes them rethink
that and kind of see what what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
But like, you know, the problem is though that that
reaction has to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Is going to happen right there yea happen right there
on television. It is not. It is not going to
because most people don't know or care about the Janelle
Grant stuff. Like everybody knew about the you know, Haulkgan post.
They're in fucking Los Angeles, like like then will California,
like come on you so but but yeah, it's got

(01:35:07):
to happen right then and there, and it's got to
be sustained, and it's got to be you know, and
even then.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
Right, they'll try to they'll try to spin that into.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
Right pip uh, yeah, oh he's a he's working the crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
But right, So, I mean, I kind of want to
take away and see approach, but I'm also starting a
new job where I won't be able to watch raw
as much anyway, So maybe this is a good time
for them to fuck her out and I can just
watch Penta highlights after the.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
Fact and and and again like it, and and to
Carry's point, like that's actually, you know, a really good point,
like you know, you can if you want to kind
of stay connected to it but not have to be
forced to watch it, like they put out highlights on
YouTube every week, and you can do it that way.
But yeah, it just it just fucking sucks, man. And

(01:36:01):
and again, like wrestling is hardly the first thing that
I've had to kind of re evaluate my feelings toward
based on political stuff. Like like I said earlier, like
everything is seeing is is it seems to have like
a stance or something assigned to it in some way,
shape or form. But as we've talked about many times
in the show, like you can understand that like those

(01:36:24):
things exist around you, just don't shove our face in it.
And if you decide to shove our face in it,
then you're gonna force people to make difficult decisions and
they're not They're often not gonna go the way that
you think they are. So as a as a corporation
that's trying to be successful, and again, like you're you
would think that your job to be a successful corporation

(01:36:46):
is to appeal to the widest demographic that you possibly can,
especially a demographic that tends to have money and spend
money on things that that has a lot of disposable
income and has to spend it on friend those things
that makes them happy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:04):
But you know, I guess, I guess poor people in
the South have money too, to spend on you know,
fucking shirts and ww ticket price money.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Yeah, like hundred dollars fucking Middle Bowl seats to wrestling
events and everything else like that. So cool, good, good
choices all around there, So uh, that'll do it for
us again. Don't forget to uh if you want to
ask us questions in the post office, that's pixels dot com.

(01:37:37):
Slash fans to join the discord carry anything to plug.

Speaker 2 (01:37:42):
Yeah, so uh. This coming weekend is maguest So if
you happen to be in the Bay area of California,
it's down in San Jose. I'm doing too much. So
Friday night is the Byscore album release party for our
new album Out in Front. That album is available to
order either digitally or on CD. We are putting four

(01:38:05):
additional tracks on the CD for a total of nineteen tracks,
which is a lot so but otherwise you can go
to biscore dot band camp dot com and order either version.
And here's the thing, so you might have noticed, if
you're a regular listener of the show, I wasn't here

(01:38:26):
last week. And the reason why I wasn't here last
week is because I was at the animal hospital with
my eldest cat. Gannon, who almost died, didn't die very
happy for that, but I had basically been told that
if things hadn't improved when they did, that I was
going to have to make very hard decision. So I'm
very glad he's home, very glad that he is back

(01:38:49):
to his usual sweet self. Gannon is my white and
tabby cat who often has made cameo appearances in the
YouTube edition of this podcast. So I am currently looking
at more than nine thousand dollars in VET bills total
because of the amount of treatment that he had to

(01:39:10):
receive and the surgery that he had to receive. So fortunately,
many people have been very generous and many people have
ordered the album. Currently, album proceeds are largely going towards
paying off the rest of these VET bills that I
had to finance. So if you like video game music

(01:39:30):
and you want to support me and my cat personally,
there's a lot of cool stuff on the album. We've
got Final Fantasy seven, We've got Sonic Adventure, StarCraft, earth Bound, Zelda,
and then we've got like Pokemon Snap and RoboCop and
Boomy Necho and Paradise Killer. So a lot of deep cuts,
but it's it's really fun start to finish. I'm very

(01:39:52):
proud of the work that my partner and I did
on that. So Yeah, album release showed this Friday night
eleven thirty pm and then uh Saturday night main stage
my Hades band Premium Vintage will be on the main
stage at Magwest, and then in between all of that,
I will be doing a speed run as part of
the Magfast programming and I'll also be hosting the Dwelling

(01:40:16):
of Duels panel as well. So if you're attending, let
me know. If you're not, then you can catch it
all on recaps online after the fact. But yeah, shows
don't stop. I will have to practice the minute we
are done for recording this episode that I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Pre during my Biscore album as we speak. I forgot,
oh thank you to do that earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
And again that's on band camp for folks that would
be interested in checking that out, it's biscore dot band
camp dot com. And for me again, don't forget that.
I did start my newsletter that I've been kind of
sending out and just kind of a place for me
to riff on some various top week to week I've

(01:41:01):
got a couple things kicking around for this week.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
I don't know which way I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
Go yet, because I have something I want to talk about, attention,
kind of taking attention back.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
From things that are stealing it from you. I also
have some.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
Thoughts because I went to Banana Ball this past weekend
here in Baltimore and that was an interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
Time as well. Yeah, I saw that on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
Yep, so it was it was interesting and I have
some thoughts about that for sure. But again, that is
a Mind Swept Dot club. If you're interested in signing
up to receive that newsletter, it's completely free. All you
can to just give me your email address so I
know where to send it every single week. That is
going to be it for us. Again, thank you all
very much for watching and listening, and we will see

(01:41:45):
you all.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
The next time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Thanks so yeah
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