Hello DeMarcus, this is another exciting episode of Black Geek
Energy. How are you doing this week?
I'm doing, I'm doing, I'm doing, brother.
I'm, you know, ups and downs. It's been a rough time in my
life. Yeah, ups and downs, been a
rough time in my life. But you know, I'm making it
through anything. You need to talk about.
No, not for real. Just like family stuff.
How's you? Excuse me this week.
The same way we solved every week of lactic energy this week
there. My previous week I was in
Nashville for most of the week. Or like Springfield?
Nashville. Yeah, yeah, I got back what,
Thursday night? So you went from Atlanta to
Nashville to Cali? I went from Atlanta to New
Orleans to Nashville to Cali. OK.
Yeah, it says I've been back just like trying to catch up on
stuff like I got like I had challenged a parking ticket
before I left and then when I got back my my tag is expired so
I need to renew my registration. So just like a lot of stuff I
need to catch up on, it's. Just been tag was expired.
I mean, I knew it was expiring, but I had like before I left, I
had like another like couple of weeks before I needed to like
renew it, but I was gone for like 3 or 4 weeks.
You were gone for two. Well, you did all this other
going all the way around the country, so you may have been
gone for 3 or 4, but yeah, what you do in New Orleans, What did
you eat? I went to CK.
Oh, we love that over here. I I know you do.
What did I eat? What did we eat?
I didn't eat. Nothing like special, nothing
like specific oils. You didn't go to Cafe DuMont?
No, I haven't been to Cafe DuMont since like maybe like the
first or second time I went. Maybe like the first two times I
went to New Orleans, I went to Cafe DuMont.
But after that I don't go no more.
It's like a touristy. It's more of a touristy thing
and I've done the touristy stuff.
So I don't know. So you haven't seen like a
voodoo priestess they got your tarot card read or anything like
that? No, I'm not really into that.
All that kind of stuff. I have my tarot, my tarot cards
read Cat used to my tarot like years ago.
But yeah, more more that's more for like fun.
I'm not really into getting my terrace read and stuff like
that. Bi professional I.
Don't take it seriously. She is a professional person.
Oh, I don't know about the voodoo.
So how was Nashville? It was good, you know, wasn't
there for, you know, it was unexpected.
It was didn't expect to have to go there, but it was chill.
I was mostly like working when I while I was there because I, you
know, I had took a week off to be with my family and then, you
know, the next couple weeks I was like working from home or
whatever. So yeah, so it's like a lot of
work. And it was stressful getting
back to work too, just because like this is our, this is our
busiest, one of our busiest seasons because there's a big
education tech conference that my company participates in every
year and it's in April. So like you like after holidays,
when we get back, when we get back January, there's like a lot
of schools like do and change and implement and release before
this conference so that, you know, and I don't know, so that
folks can see it. So yeah.
Got to work and we need all this stuff.
Well, it's not so right. So you just had a week doing
work? Nothing really.
Yeah, nothing really exciting. Like I got Drama Night, which
was. Drama.
Drunk got drunk what it was in? Your house or at a club or.
What's coming next? It was pretty dope spot, Little
spot. It's a tequila bar because.
You're breaking up a little bit, a.
Tequila forward bar like most of the drinks are tequila drinks.
They have some like Cajun like Cajun waffle fries and then she
was I take this first. Well, what?
Hopefully you'll get back in the mood that you seem kind of down
to die. I mean you.
Know Jerry, what's going on so. What you say?
I say, you know what's going on in my own.
We'll talk about on the Patreon sure in my life and tell me if I
start breaking up so that you can understand me.
But in my life I just want to make one thing perfectly clear
to everybody, not you, because I think that you know well, we
haven't specifically talked about it.
I'm well to make everybody else out there understand that Why am
I echoing? I hear myself I.
Don't hear an echo. OK, nevermind.
I want to make everybody perfectly clear that this
podcast is about anime. It's about TV, movies, comics,
hit what's up, RPGs, video cams that we're going to talk about
today. But I can talk about whatever I
want to talk about. So if I want to talk about how
this country is going to Hades in a handbasket, I will.
And if I want to talk about things that are dealing with Das
president, I will. And I just want to make it
perfectly clear that Jardo will not be compromising with anyone.
Jardo is not a compromiser. Jardo has never compromised.
And Jardo is not someone who is going to conform to a racist,
misogynist, xenophobic or homophobic opinion.
I've never been that person. You know, in, in history.
History will show you that Martin Luther King tried to
compromise and they killed him. Frank Hampton tried to
compromise and they killed him in front of his wife and
daughter. Frank Hampton for Fred Hampton.
Oh, Fred Hampton, sorry, Fred Hampton tried to compromise and
they killed in front of his life and daughter in his home.
I am not going to compromise with anything.
This whole Trump stuff and Paramount by WB and all of this
right wing stuff in the world. I'm going to talk about if I
want to talk about it, I am so. What, what, what, what happened,
Jerry? Because I feel like I'm, I feel
like I missed a, a, a catalyst. No, nothing happened.
One of my friends was just on Facebook and he was like, we
should talk to the racist, we should talk to the homophones
just so that we could get stuff passed.
Now anything that we get passed with a racist isn't good for us.
I don't care if they're giving us the 40 acres and the MOOL
that they promised us 100 years ago.
Anything that we compromise with a racist, a xenophobic,
misogynist or a homophobic isn't good for us.
The best thing to happen for us is for those who would just die.
So no, no compromise will be made over here on my part.
No compromise is made on my part.
I just wanted to make that perfectly clear to everybody
listening, OK? Who did it?
I feel like if you've been listening to Black Geek Energy
for the past four years, you, you know.
If you know me. It's extreme.
It it's not extreme, it's not extreme to say don't be racist.
It's not saying to say why you homophobic.
I call you homophobic every time.
So it's not extreme at all. Feel like you.
I think that calling people are, I think that calling people out
for their biases that get people hurt or killed is not extreme.
It's normal. And if anybody doesn't think
that, then that needs to be normalized.
And for y'all who do not think that, then y'all are normal.
Y'all are radicalized. So yeah, I just wanted to make
that perfectly clear. OK, I believe yeah.
What else did I do this week? Well, I went to see Undertone.
It's the new A 24 movies about, guess what, podcasters and they
are podcasting at 3:00 in the morning and their podcast is
about 1 is a skeptic. Oh.
You're breaking up, You're breaking up.
Sorry about better now. Say something else.
ABCDEFG. Better.
Better, better.
So their pockets about 1 is a skeptic, 1 is a believer.
They're talking about paranormal things and it's 1 episode.
They get an e-mail with some attachments of some sound files
and it just starts off from there.
I would have been more into it because the sound quality was
amazing if there wasn't somebody sleeping in the theater.
If you are going to see a movie opening on a Thursday, opening
pre opening night at 9:00 at 630, take your butt home and get
some rest first. If you don't have it in, you
don't do it. Wait, somebody fell asleep in
the movie? Yes, and they were snoring.
But they snoring loud. Yes, I got 2 white girls over
here shrieking at everything. And I got one person 'cause I'm
all the way to the top. One person, a couple of rows
like I'm in G This person's in CA Couple of rows below me
snoring and it's only like six, 7:00 in the afternoon.
Why are you so tired? Why?
Because he. Worked 12 hour shift and then
wanted to come see a movie. Well.
You don't need to see a movie opening night.
That's where the Die hard you need to see a movie The weekend
if you got to sleep the the whole time.
I don't feel asleep in plenty of movies like this.
I don't. I don't think I snore but.
Well, this person was snoring. He was snoring and he just took
me out of the whole movie. I saw I, I think I would have
been more into the movie if he wasn't snoring, but now I got to
see the whole thing again. I have to see the full thing.
And what was it called again? It's called Undertone.
It's about 8:24, about two podcasters like us, we should do
a, you know, in Halloween, we should maybe do a podcast at
3:00 in the morning to see if we can summon any demons.
Nah, you got that? I'm good.
Well, we should just do one to talk about some scary stuff.
We always do. OK, well another thing I did was
I got this. A new phone.
Yes, it is the OK, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and it is
equipped with AS26 pin. It has the privacy screen.
I think I can show it to you. Maybe I can show it to you OK.
Like the like when you turn it to somebody try to look at your
joint from the side, it goes private.
Yes, but it is ingrained in the software in the things.
So like look, the privacy screen is on right now when I turn it
to the side. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, That's
private, all right. Yeah.
That is private and then because it is now it's now it's off.
So you can see the difference and because it is ingrained in
the actual screen and not like a little film, I could do it for
like certain. If I get a notification, then
you'll just privatize that notification so that you aren't
like looking on my shoulder or like when I'm entering
passwords. It'll privatize that part of the
screen. It's really, really cool.
I've been doing a lot of things and it's really cool that the
Samsung. The same with your new phone.
Yeah, the same with a new phone, but like a lot of things I don't
have to do because a lot of things on my phone are already
ingrained with who I am as a person from being a Samsung user
sister S3 and now I'm on the S 23 or S 26 because of 20.
Years the Samsung ain't it. 23. Well, you said S3, you started
with the S3. Yeah.
And so I imagine they come out with a new phone every year.
And if you're on the 23 now? Yeah.
Yeah, 20 years. I don't get that math 20. 3 - 3.
Oh well, you're right. Look, I'm not a mathematician,
but. Apparently you're not a grade
school math for either. But I forgot, I was going to say
too much math in my head, but yeah, this phone is a great
phone. And like with the Samsung Smart
switch, like all I have to do is run that application and it puts
all my settings, all my files, my homepage, my password, so I
don't have to enter in each password and forget them and
reset them for every application.
Like all that stuff comes over my old phone and comes into my
new phone automatically so that when this is over is Samsung.
Paying you for this, for this ad, this ad segment, this is an.
Ad segment, this is just ammonia.
You selling it bro? You're not going to get are.
Are you going to get one? I'm not.
Well, I'm not, I'm not doing, I'm not doing that job.
That's why I say this is not for you, because I can't convert
you. But no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. I think you.
I think you could get some
sponsorship because you might not convert me, but you there
are plenty of other listeners who may be converted.
Well, there are things in the works, but I but I really am
enjoying this found and of course this atmosphere I mean
this was it software ecosystem. There we go One thing I don't
like is you notice I do not have a case for my phone.
Do I need a case? No, I so like now I used to have
the S 22 for the camera up here. So I use my old phone for my
camera. Now, if you knew how many times
I dropped that phone over the past two years, dropped it on
carpet, dropped it on this pavement, dropped the air,
kicked the air, guess what? A car rolled over it.
Not a scratch, nothing. And even if I did get a crack in
my screen, it's only $10 to repair it.
Oh. Shit, that's pretty.
Good. Only $10.00.
So I'm like, do I need a case because they don't have the
lighter? Did you see my old cases where
they lit up and they like if I got a notification they would do
a little LED thing and it would light up OK?
Well, my old cases by saying somewhere really nifty and they
don't make through no more. So I'm like, I'm not going to
get a case. I'm probably not going to get a
case but you. Didn't think we're like your
your your your your. Flashlight flashes when you get
a notification or a phone call or something.
I don't do that because I'm mostly at home.
I don't need things flashing in the dark at me, that's all, I
don't think. Anyone needs that and it's all
and it always bothers me when people have it.
Well, the deaf. Sure, yeah.
But most people who I see, most people who I have it.
And then? Even if you are deaf, vibrate.
But if you set the phone down. Sure, sure.
Of course. I mean, if you, I guess for me,
if I set my phone down and I'm getting notifications, I have
elected to miss those notifications because I set the
phone away from it. And but I'm, you know, but if
I'm like at the club or at dinner or just like out in the
world and I just see this thing like flashing from somebody's
pocket, I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
What kind of emergency is going is this?
Yeah. It's it's, it's always bothered
me, but, you know, it is an accessibility feature for the
deaf. Yeah.
I think I can. Well, I know I could turn it on
for certain notifications or we get certain texts and certain
phone calls. But no, I don't do that.
I would just look at my phone every 5 minutes.
But yes, I think that we're going to do an episode where we
talk about Apple versus Samsung. We're just going to talk about
Apple, Samsung, I. Think I feel like we've done
that episode. No, we haven't.
Not yet. Sure.
Yeah, OK. I feel like we have maybe we did
a Mac versus PC episode, but no. Didn't do that either.
I feel like we have Jared if this feels familiar, but
alright, I'll believe you. I'm.
Not going to steer you wrong. I would definitely know it
because. You you would definitely steer
me wrong, but. DeMarcus, I would never do
anything like that. OK.
But we did not do a episode yet, and I think this about the time
we finish the score. So start looking at the videos,
'cause I'm a I'm gonna come out there.
Like, oh, you gonna have all the.
All the facts 'cause you've never you've always had Apple
devices after the Nokia and Razor, right?
Yeah, yeah, I had like a Nokia, I had the and then I had a
Razor, the Motorola Razor, which low key was my favorite phone
they. Have it now.
I don't want Android ecosystem but they have it now I.
Don't want it again now and then I I got that first.
Was it the iPhone? Did I get the first iPhone or
did I get like the three GI? Think I got the 3G first and and
ever since then iPhones all the way.
Oh my God I saw the do Samsung little clamp phone that like
clamps it's like really small. The touch screen.
It looks so like not the phone, the phone offers like this.
It's like 2 of these things. Like the one?
Yeah.
It looks so amazing, Like I knew that it had a screen on the
inside, but if you close it, then that part's a screen too.
And like it does all these nifty things like when you get enough
vacation and when you get a car. I was like, wow, I would, I, I,
I was like seriously looking at it.
If I yeah, but one. Of my coworkers had it and he he
enjoyed it. Yeah.
I don't know if he had the one where like the entire closed
part was a screen or if it was just like you close it and
there's just like a little screen there.
But yeah, now he he, he liked it.
He enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah.
And I and I like how you use this like, like have this like
up like that. You can like watch videos you're
eating or something. But yeah, it was, it looked
really cool. It looked really cool.
Alright, so now DeMarcus, this is the time of the show where we
are going to do our pick of the week or put you on segment.
This segment of course sponsored by our good friends at Movie
Pass. Can you tell them loaded up
Movie Pass please? Yeah, so Movie Pass is a
subscription based service meant to make movie going easier, more
affordable, more accessible for like the regular Joe's, the
regular Jessie's and and you know, it's, it saves you money.
That's like the bottom line. It's saving you money on movies.
So if you like to go to movies, if you, if you are one of those
kind of people like me, like you spent your teens and early 20s
going to like a movie a week of like 3 movies a month type deal,
then Movie Pass is for you. Because you know, if you're like
me, at a certain point, movies got way too expensive to be
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I didn't, I didn't choose, I didn't choose the movies to
spend $80, you know, on 2 tickets.
So MoviePass, you know, once you buy your subscription, it gives
you a certain number of points per month and you can use those
points to buy movie tickets. And you know, if you're, if
you're paying for, you know, even the lowest tier, like $10,
you buy them one movie took it and the service is paid for
itself. You know, you're actually up $6,
you know, something like that. You know, depending on where you
go see the movie at this point, I see it, you might be up 10,
who knows? And you, you go see that.
You go see that second movie, you making your money back.
You know, I might go see some movies, see a movie or two this
week, this weekend. Yeah, what you going to say I?
Don't know man, I'm going to see what movie pass got got up there
because now I even use MoviePass to see what movies are out that
I want to see like I like. I'll use Flixster sometimes but
mainly I just jumping movie passing get us popping that.
Movie Pass is the best thing you can do right now.
Like it's because first of all, movies, it's the ultimate
escape. For adults, it's the ultimate
cheap escape. It's not even cheap no more.
So if you need that escape from work, from this world we live in
with y'all's president, from seeing other people or being
around a whole bunch of people, you could go into the movie
theater and it's your own little world and you're living a great
story on screen. Because that's how directors,
the directors don't make movies to watch at home.
They make them for the swing like undertone.
The audio was this happened on the other side, this happened on
the right side because you know, she had her earphones out the
whole time. So that experience was supposed
to be in Dolby Atmos in the movie theater.
So it's the ultimate escape. It's the ultimate thing to do,
and the Movie Pass is the best way to do it.
For $30.00 a month, you get you get a whole bunch of points and
you could bring somebody else in for the whole month, $30.
Exactly. Yeah.
You could bring in two people. And if you just have one person,
you could just do it yourself for $10.
And the best part about Movie Pass is you get all these points
because you buy them like, like you have the purchase ticket on
their website, so or the app. So you're still accumulating
points in Fandango, in Regal, in AMC.
So you get free popcorn, free free hot dogs, 'cause I went to
the movie theater, see Undertone, and I got free drink,
free popcorn, free hot dog. Do you know how much that stuff
was if I didn't use those points?
She $30. 35 shut. The fuck up.
The medium popcorn itself was 9 dollars, $9 for 99.
Not even fresh tea pops. She reached in the the little
popcorn thing and pulled me out of bag for nine American.
Black American dollars. Black African American dollars.
So yeah, that is the best thing we got going on right now for
convenience and to make the movies accessible again for
everybody. Go ahead, Sorry.
And and it's every movie theater.
It's not like ANC, which is ANC, it's all of.
Yo, and I'll be trying to tell people this stuff, man.
And maybe and I'll be like, yeah, MoviePass.
Like unless you, you know, purchase movie tickets at
cheaper price. And they were like, oh, well, I
already got the AMC membership or I already got the Regal
member. I'm like, that limits you to
just the one movie theater as opposed to any movie theater in
the United States. Like when I go to home to
Atlanta, I can still use MoviePass.
When I go to fucking California, I can still use MoviePass.
When I'm in New Orleans, I can still use MoviePass.
Right. OK, fucking beat it.
Alright, so DeMarcus, where are you going for them on to this
week. I'm going to put you on to a
song, man. So when I went home when I was
in Atlanta, you know, it's a completely different music
scene. And out here in in California
and growing up, one of my favorite rappers and you know,
one of the most representative rappers of the Atlanta area, TI
with TI and you know, and all I'm going to say is the King is
back with with that song. Let him know.
And there's an album coming soon because he also dropped a dish
check with $0.50. But let him know it's a song
we'll put y'all on to. So go ahead, you know, request
that from your radio stations, download it on your Spotify's on
your Apple musics or whatever. TI let him know that shit slap
if you it. It really feels like old TI.
It really feels like a old TI. Like like like big things
popping area era, rubber band man era.
And this is the song that was the diss track to $0.50, right?
Not that one. That's not the district, no.
You know that the whole family has made diss tracks and I'll
fix to another podcast and they say that the short light skinned
guy with. The hair.
The money hair. You know, I think.
I think you're talking about money.
OK well I don't know, he made a diss track and they said that
his is the best 'cause even the little girl who's who gets
saying lessons cause saying really good has made a diss
track. But yeah they all have done it.
Even the one that does like country or RV with the guitar he
made one thing so. Yeah, no, that's what's up.
IA family that dishes together stays together.
I fuck with it, right? Yeah, that is an unfortunate
situation. I'm of course with $0.50 who
thinks everything is funny. Hey, yo, $0.50 and you know and
I hate they doing it with $0.50 with 50 because 50 gonna take it
there. He gonna take it all the way
there and you know, and I don't want to see I don't.
He stops, and they're still going.
Yeah, they're still. Going they were his.
Family. It's still going.
So they won. OK, I want to talk about this
new comic book I read, called and killed everyone but me.
It is about this girl who survives the final girl.
She survives everybody being killed in her cabin.
Weekend getaway. It turns out what killed him was
a demon Now this thing I'm not going to spoil it.
I just want to say that this was very extremely, incredibly
cinematic. Like this was a comic book that
I could see as a television show.
And it and it just it it flowed so well.
And like even after the story ended, I could see episodic
things that continuing on with it and weekly TV monster of the
week things as they go around. But yeah, it killed everyone but
me as gory. It got demons, it got a mystery
in it, and it even has some other stuff.
It even has chase sequences where everybody, you, you, you
know, everybody gonna die. So yeah, it was very good and I
would love to see this as ATV show so.
We it killed it killed everyone but me.
Nice. OK, it's good.
It was good. Alright then Mike is do we have
an activity for the week? Absolutely.
We always have an activity in today's activity, like all
activities. If you are just now joining us
on Black Ikana, you should already you, you, you, you slow.
But if you've been here, you already know that DeMarcus is
the creator, the actioner, the, you know, the game master of all
games and activities, Black Energy.
He is the judge during an executioner.
He creates the questions, the answers.
He determines the losers, the winners, the right answers and
the wrong answers. And today's game, I'm going to
call it for the plot and what you're going to be doing, Jared,
I am going to read you a a bad, hopefully hilarious summary of
the plot in of a video game. And you will then have to guess
which video game I am talking about.
OK, does. That make sense?
Yeah. All right.
They're going to be 10 now. Have I played these games?
I believe you have played most, if not all of these games.
OK. Yeah.
And, and if you haven't played them, you've at least heard of
them. But I believe you've played all
of these. OK, cool.
Well, let's let's get into it. Oh, I'm going to tell you what
I'm playing right now. Oh, I can't wait.
OK, let's go ahead. So there are 10 questions,
you're going to need 7 to win. Each question is worth one
point. I do have a bonus question if
you would like it at the end. OK alright number one.
An unemployed plumber commits multiple acts of reptile
violence while chasing the Princess who keeps getting
relocated by the the same kidnapper.
Mario. Absolutely, that is correct.
See Easy Peasy Mario Super. Mario.
Brothers. What's with Mario Brothers the
first video game? I think so because Luigi was in
it too. I think Tetris or Palm was like
the first video game. I mean, but you said the first
Mario video game. Oh, oh, yeah.
The first Mario video game? Sure.
Yeah, yeah, but Mario is good enough.
All right #2I. Think it was Galactica was the
first video game. You think so?
I think that's a little complex. I think it was Pong, or I think
it was Pong the one where you just knocked the ball back and
forth. Yeah, the first game was Tennis
for Two in 1958. Yeah, well, you just knocked the
ball back and forth. It wasn't called Pong I guess.
No Pong came out in 1972. OK, all right, interesting #2A
small child abandoned school and animal welfare laws to travel
the world, forcing wild creatures into combat for prize
money. For prize money he abandoned
schools and and does what? Abandoned a small child,
abandoned school and animal welfare laws to travel the
world, forcing wild creatures into combat for prize money.
I'm guessing Pokémon. That is correct.
It is called Pokémon, yeah. That was this is like a bad a
bad thing, but they the parents let him so and he was just 8 or
it was. Like it's like, yo, you finished
with elementary school. You can either go become a
Pokémon trainer or keep going or go to middle school.
And I think most, I think most kids at like 10:00, 11-12 years
old when you're going to middle school, you would be like, no, I
would rather go train Pokémon than go to school.
I mean, that's what most kids did.
You saw those kids right around. And then, but then you also had
adults doing it, adults who like finished high school and they
was like, all right now would be a Pokémon trainer.
Yeah. OK.
And there has to be some kind of like, because they don't know
how to pay taxes, they don't know how to vote.
I mean, you don't learn these things at school anyway, but
the. Thing is, oh, have you heard
about the latest Pokémon game? It's the highest rated Pokémon
game of all time. It's about this Ditto.
Who Pokopia I have heard of. It yeah, it's yeah, it's
childish, like Animal Crossing, but it's.
Animal Crossing, but Pokémon. Yeah, it's about Animal Crossing
and Pokémon, but the story is about all the humans are gone
and the ghettos trying to find out what happened to the humans.
So it's like an apocalyptic Animal Crossing Pokémon game.
Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know all the humans
were gone. And isn't that, I mean, isn't
that one already out? Like the newest Pokémon game is
like a it's like a, you know, it's like a regular Pokémon
game, like, like a new, a new world with new.
Yeah. New starters and new Pokémon and
stuff. But it's not people aren't
aren't into it so they're re releasing fire red and leaf
green. Well, they always re release
fire red and leaf green, but they just came out with that
wave and wind. I think that's the next one.
Like yeah, that's one. But Copia is the the latest
thing. Everybody, everybody talk about
it on the podcast and the Youtubes.
I might, I might redownload my fire red.
I was like yellow. I loved yellow.
That was my first Pokémon game. And I saw this I saw this IG
reel where they were like, what was your first Pokémon game?
And whenever somebody said anything like Crystal, the
before they started playing like the Jurassic Park shit, it made
it look like hello. And you know, you know, 'cause I
was playing Pokémon Yellow on like Game Boy, not even Game Boy
Color. Right, right.
And I had the Game Boy where the whole screen could go another
color. So I was playing yellow with the
pink background. All right, purple background.
So the sepia tone shit sepia. Tone, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
Number 3A bald man solves his midlife's crisis by tattooing
himself and yelling at his son while killing gods.
I got a four. The the God sold it right at
first you were like what the fuck is this?
I was. Like tattooed man.
No, I think that when you said yelling at his son.
Yelling at his son gave it away. Boy his son ever get no his
son's name was a traitus OK his son did him a name.
Lucky his his his given name, yeah.
The teaser for the third one. I have not.
It's out. It's just the title screen, but
it's out. OK, Boo.
I don't want to see that. I want to see some games playing
alright. Oh, they did release, I'm so
sorry, 'cause no, I, I know you don't pay attention to this sort
of stuff, but they, Yeah, so please release a new game.
They released the same day as the trailer where it's like the
the first ever victory of God of of Kratos and he's like a child.
Oh yeah, I think I did see that Spartan.
Army or something? And it's like, is it like a side
scroller? Yeah.
I've seen that one, yeah. And it stars the stars the
original voice, which is Carl Barker from Living Single
Carson. He's the original voice of
Kratos. Yeah.
Nice all right. Number 4A space soldier
repeatedly saves humanity while his Co workers contribute
absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing.
OK, a space soldier. So really I'm thinking Halo.
I haven't played Halo yet, or Mass Effect.
I know that we love like Mass Effect.
I can't think of any other space soldier games that I have played
so because should be absolutely nothing.
The people on the Mass Effect ship contributed.
So I'm going to say, is it Halo? It is.
That is correct. It is Halo alright.
So they didn't do nothing. I.
Mean like with in Halo when I played it, like a lot of times
like you, the people like you, if you're playing by yourself,
if you're playing solo mode, the poop, that's what you ain't
really doing shit. It's like like the stormtroopers
helping you out. Like they there maybe they, but
they're taking hits. They're like some of the bullets
meant for you are hitting them, so they are helping.
I remember Halo one or two was my first ever experience with a
video game being in 4K. Yeah, I I saw it at Strawberry
Banks. I was in somebody else's room.
Somebody else? 'S and I, I didn't play it, but
I saw I was like oh wow, this is the future, but.
Yeah, I remember. I remember when.
When I remember when we were, we were still at Hampton and Cam
had us all over for dinner One time we were watching Iron Man
on his, and he had got that new TV and you could see like his,
the pores and the sweat on the character.
I was like, yo, this is a completely different experience.
Yeah, I was like, this is actually making me
uncomfortable. I'm too close to his.
All right #5-A man wakes up in a strange land and immediately
starts breaking pots, robbing strangers and the salt and
wildlife. Zelda.
That is correct. It is Zelda doing a great job,
Jerry. Yeah, I have you played or or or
or Carina of time? OK.
Have you played Majora's Mask? Like only like the smallest bit
of Majora's Mask. Me too.
Me too, I tried to play it like later on The Rhyme of it on my
computer. I didn't really like it as much
but I did want to play Orcan but.
But apparently, like Majora's Mask was like a hit when it came
like, and I wanted to play it so bad and I was like, but I
couldn't. But I couldn't get it.
I was, I think I already have, like other games.
Oh, alright, and how are you doing on Breath of Breath of the
Wild? I'm.
Doing pretty good last time I played it like I made it to.
I'm at the part now where it's like I have to, I got it's like
2 paths. Either I like go to these
different villages and like collect memories, or I do this
other thing and I can't quite remember what the other thing is
right now. Have you have you gotten the
cards cards that are they you know, they have this little
figurines, Nintendo, you could like plop the figurine on the
thing and like stuff comes up. So then the hackers make cards
of these figurines, the RFC code and you can like put them on the
thing and it like reads it and pops the thing out.
Now they have this little machine or you could do like
thousands of them, but I would suggest getting those that they
make your experience more fun and they're like $10.
Yeah, I'll, I'll look into it. I don't I don't, I don't not
sure what you mean by the cards, but I'll look into it.
You know, I'm a I'm a purist like the first time I play
through a game. I don't like to use any cheat
codes, any like modifications. Just play the game as it comes,
I mean. It's not a cheat code because
Nintendo, you know, the Nintendo makes these things like the
little figurines that Nintendo has, the little Nintendo Memoji
or whatever. Yeah, and you pop the thing on
it and you can. Onto your switch.
Yeah, onto your switch and it would like plop stuffy in the.
In the world. World.
Yeah, All right. Sounds right.
Necessarily a cheat but I I cheat the first time through.
I'm on the cheat on. DLC playing right now, Let's
call it. Let's call it.
We'll call it DLC. All right, number six, a
criminal steal cars, commits dozens of felonies, and still
somehow finds time for yoga and golf A.
Criminal steal cars? I'm thinking a Grand Theft Auto.
That is correct. It is Grand Theft Auto.
OK, All right, rounding now. You got 6 correct.
We're moving on to the final four.
You're crushing this game here. I'm so excited for November.
We're going to get a lot of grand.
Theft Auto 6 comes out final. Yeah, after 10 years, it's been
over a decade. Really.
Yeah, Grand Theft Auto 5 came out first on the PS4.
PS Three. Damn.
Yeah, all right. Number 7A depressed warrior
repeatedly dies, resurrects and gets insulted by strangers by
fighting things far stronger than himself.
Insulted by strangers, dies and gets resurrected.
I'm thinking Hades. Maybe it's Elder Rain, maybe
it's the other fun soft game. Something about Bunstall from
South. Oh, from South.
OK, Yeah. Something about blood or
something. What's your final answer?
I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna say Bloodborne. Bloodborne.
Yeah. OK, that is not correct Jerry.
It was Dark Souls dark. Souls.
Well, it's made by the same people.
Yeah, I mean close. Both from Software gangs.
OK, all right #8 A pizza enthusiast saves the world by
beating up demons while listening to heavy metal.
A pizza enthusiast. You say peace, I'm thinking
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after so I have no idea what
this one could be. Saves the world.
Earthworm Jim.
Wow, is Earthworm Jim a pizza enthusiast?
Probably Chow. OK, that is incorrect.
It was Devil May Cry and I, I, you know, I feel, I hear that
the, the pizza enthusiasts part threw you off.
I feel like that is a piece of his character that was lost in
the game. And I did.
I've never played a deep Devil May Cry game.
I just watched the anime so. Fair enough, fair enough, All
right #9 Jerry rounded it out. Here.
A group of teenagers saves the world using the power of
friendship and questionable fashion choices.
A group of teenagers. Friendship and questionable
fashion choices. I'm thinking Final Fantasy 15
with them in the car. A group of teenagers only play,
but there are many games save the world by friendship and
questionable fashion choices. Maybe Persona.
I'm gonna play Persona. I'm gonna say Final Fantasy 15.
You gonna say what now? Final Fantasy 15.
OK, Jared, that is technically incorrect, but I'm gonna give it
to you 'cause it's Final Fantasy 7.
OK, OK, questionable fashion choices.
I think that's accurate. No, but then again, this was in
the late 90s, so now and. They were questionable then.
What made them questionable? Like he.
Wearing that shit in real life and then God damn Tina got on a
mini skirt in in the in the in the freezing cold.
Child, please, all these barbarian women wear stray
bikinis for armor, so don't even go there.
He wasn't. That is also a questionable
fashion choice, and she wasn't a barbarian.
But OK, and then Cloud was a military person and I would wear
several outfit like what do? You think you would?
OK. So is that questionable all?
Right #10 just. Because you like to address your
opinion with yours, Fashion census do.
I dress European. I mean, you wouldn't dress like
me. You won't give me the links.
Well, I can give you the links. You'd be gatekeeper.
No 'cause it's not a link what have buy stuff off the rack
nowadays, but I used to get my stuff made by people.
It's like Etsy. No, like call them up.
I see their stuff on Instagram and I will call them and say hey
make me something. OK cool.
Alright, last one here. A man spends 200 hours fighting
monsters, crafting armor, and still somehow looks like he
dressed himself in the dark. 200 hours, that's very specific.
Now, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't allow that number to be so specific in your mind why
you're thinking of this. Try trying to think of this game
just. The second part of it is he
dressed himself in the dark. He still looks like he dressed
himself in the dark. This is a a horror game.
OK, guess you can't ask ask questions.
He looks like he dresses himself in the dark.
I have no idea. I I I I'm really drawing a
blank. I would say Kirby.
OK, the Kirby is really close. This one is actually Monster
Hunter World. What's That's no cause.
Can't you make the character? Yeah, but like, it's still one
of those games were like, you can't choose how the stuff
looks. You can just like craft it.
DeMarcus, all the outfits in that game are customizable to
how you want it to look. You can literally buy this out
that you want. DeMarcus, That, that that would,
yeah. But when you make, but when you
make, you know, plate armor number one, it always looks like
plate armor number one, but. You can color like.
Maybe you can, maybe you can change the color, but it still
looks like plate armor #1 DeMarcus, anyway, you.
Made it seem like this was not a game where you could create your
own character. Well, Jerry, you still got 7,
right? Exactly.
You still won this game, man. You did a great job and you were
killing it for the first six. It was, I think Dark Souls threw
you off and it kind of shook your confidence, no?
Nothing shook my confidence because I know what these games
are meant to do, so nothing strikes my confidence anymore.
But yeah, anyways, on today's episode we didn't talk about
video games and some of the did I say Hampton?
No, this says champion. I hate when people wear those
champion sweatshirts. I'm like, oh, does that say
Hampton? And it's never Hampton.
It's champion. Yeah, this is actually one of my
favorite reunion shirts. We're going to talk about video
games and the easy mold controversy and if there should
be easy mold and if people should just get good as they
say. But DeMarcus, what games are you
currently playing now? Right now I'm playing what we'd
like to talk about earlier, Legend of Zelda Breath of the
Wild. I'm playing Ark the Lad.
I play a little bit of that here and there.
I'm also playing Spider Man. There's one more and I can't it
can't remember it off the top of my head.
Let me see if I can pull it up. It'll be in my like PlayStation.
That I still can't see. By the way, I'll.
I'll change it to public. I'll change it to public after
we get off the thing you. Have said that for how many
years? Well, no, no, no, because I'll
say it and then you'll do something, piss me off and I'm
like, I'm not doing it no more. But the mic is you.
Still you. Know this to be true.
No, no, no, the mic is you still say it.
Why is the PlayStation website so slow?
Like I feel like they should do better than this.
This is really disappointing. But.
Anyway, yeah, while that's still say those, let's let's go with
those games for now. Let's go with those games for
now while I do the rest of this. OK, what games are you?
Playing right now, Jerry. Thank you for asking, DeMarcus.
I am playing. You're breaking up.
Oops, you're breaking up.
Can you hear me now, DeMarcus say.
Someone else? Testing, testing.
All right, OK, So what I am playing now is this game called
Dragon Quest 32HD or HD2. Anyway, it's the remake of
Dragon Quest 3. Yeah and they got a whole bunch
of stuff in the Dragon Quest world.
I also downloaded Dragon Quest 1-2 so I can play it and 'cause
I don't see how you can play all these deep story games all at
once and then I didn't know where you are when you go back
into the game after month you. Said I know where I am when I go
back into the game, OK? And and I sorry now.
You go. Ahead.
A lot of times I play these deep scoring games and like when I
put them down and have to pick them back up, I have to relearn
how to play all over again. And sometimes I just start
depending on how far I am. I just try to pick it up from
wherever I am and if I'm not that far I'll just start the
game over. Well so I'm playing Dragon Quest
3 and I am also playing a drum roll.
Please Selashta 2. Selashta 2 is said to be the BG
3's. Successor, you're you're
breaking up now. Can you hear me now?
Yes. OK, so you said the game.
Was called what 2? Celestra.
Celestra 2. Yes, and it is said to be the BG
three sequel or the BG3 like which uses the new the new.
What am I thinking? Oh oh, the new rules for dungeon
Dragons, which dungeon Dragons 5.5 edition and you know it's
supposed to be really good. I'm going to go in there today.
I haven't played it yet but I want to go in there today and
just see what the character customization is like because
they the game is officially released.
But it did cost me $32 from $38.30. $2.00 today.
Yeah, and, and I had a discount because I have been in their
discord. So, so I did have a discount and
it's only $32 and but the game isn't released, it's just in
alpha stages. So yeah, I'm just doing the
alpha stages of the day, which is up to level 4, and there are
some some things and it stops at a certain place in that one.
But yeah, I'm excited. So is it?
Is it? Did you pay $32 for the alpha or
did you pay $32 for the entire game?
So this is the entire game when it's released?
I did the same thing with BG3 and I bought the alpha like 2
years before it was released. I remember that.
I remember that, yeah. The mark is when are you going
to play Harder Skate 3 'cause we got that for you too.
You still have not played it. I played, I had been playing it
and then I stopped playing it. Some other things took
precedence. I want to make Baldest Gate 3
until like another couple's game but I still got to upskill my
girlfriend. I feel like it'll be slower
paced. I don't know, I think Baldis
gate will be a very different kind of game than we have played
together and so I'm trying to. I don't know, maybe I should
just drop her into it. What you think?
To my She's never going to learn anything if you don't just play
it. That is a that is a way to go
about it. Just play it, OK?
Yeah, and there are so many mods now with BG3 'cause you know,
they aren't, you know, they have moved on, Larry, and has moved
on. So there's so many mods now that
you can actually make it as easy or as hard or as as fun as you
wanted to. So there's literally no excuse
not to play it now. But yes, we're going to talk
about how these games are. Have these easy modes, DeMarcus,
do you think that game should have easy one?
Like it should be something that's included.
Do I think games in general should have an easy mode?
Yes. Do I think every game needs easy
mode? Absolutely not.
Like I don't think Dark Souls needs an easy mode because I
think the, the, the, the premise or the, the, the draw of that
game, like part of that game is that it is fucking hard.
So given in an easy mode, kind of like, you know, you, you kind
of take away from the game itself.
But I mean. Like how some characters are
inherently black and that is a part of their character.
And if you if you don't and if you make them not black, then
it's like, what are they doing in this place with these people?
So why is? The white man a slave.
Yeah, like Wyatt, like why is this white man the king of an
African country? So I think, and I think Baldur's
Gate, not Baldur's Gate. I think of Elder.
Soul. Yeah, Elder, Elder Scrolls, Dark
Souls, like those kinds of games.
Yeah, those kinds of games are inherently hard, you know, and
that is the way they are meant to be played.
But even those games have difficulty sliders.
Sure. But I don't know if they go to
easy mode because I've only dabbled in elder ring before I
started cheating like this game is it for me.
But but yeah. Some players believe that games
should be accessible to everyone with easy mode, while others
believe that difficulty is a part of gameplay like you just
said. So I'm asking you, wait, what
you just said about Elder Ring and Bloodborne and even to an
extent Hades 2 and the Haiti series.
Do you think that that core gameplay should be so hard that
people who are not dexterous enough, of people who were born
with a disability, do you think that that should be OK if that
is the way that the designers, you know, wanted to be?
I think all games should be accessible.
I think that if I have if I if I have lost eight out of my 10
digits and I only have this, I should still be able to play the
game OK? Should the game be easier for me
to play with my 2 remaining digits instead of my 10 digits?
The the physicality of it should be easier.
It should be easier for me to do the inputs.
It should be easier for me to, you know, do.
It should be easier for me to to do the inputs.
But the game itself should not be easier.
OK. Because I should be, I should be
able to have the same frustrating experience that my
10 digit having compatriots are experiencing.
Because then, you know, without that, then it becomes like two
different games. You know, you, you go to the,
the Dark Souls meet up and you know, everyone's like, oh, I got
to this person. He was hella hard and I had to
figure out how to do it. And then you're just like, well,
you know, it was easy for me because I only have two digits
and I just had to click 1 button three times.
And then he was looking and I beat the guy and it's like we're
playing two different games. Like, I don't want to hear what
you have to say. Yeah, I definitely agree with
you there. Like the accessibility should be
across the board. Everybody should be able to play
what you want. But even if it's not like a
physical impairment, even if it's a mental impairment, A.
Cognitive impairment? Sure.
Yeah, where you can't, you know your neural pathways won't get
to your fingers as quickly as that frame per frame segment
that these fighting games even have in in their thing.
I think that they should allocate different modes but
still keep the difficulty up. Like I, I, I, I don't know how
they would do that, but I do think that is the best way.
I remember when The Last of Us one or two came out, how the
industry praised it for the ways that it even let a blind person
play it with the audio cues. So, and if you were bumping into
something more little chimes, if you were blind and they had
different cues for if you could not see in color, then they may
be the enemies of certain shades.
So I did like that. I thought that made it really,
really accessible, really, really fun for everybody to
play. I'm not sure how they would do
that with a firmware game, but oh, go ahead.
One other thing that I want to say is 1 at least from my
perspective in what in in my 35 years of experience in life,
100% accessibility is impossible.
Oh yeah, even for me. And I play games all the time
without any physical or cognitive impairments.
Like there's never going to be a game where like everywhere they,
we are able to cover every type of disability, every type of
impairment, every type of, you know, faculty, There's, there's
never there's, that's never going to be a thing.
And, you know, should that be the goal?
Should we shoot for perfection? Maybe, But I'm, I'm glad I don't
work in that world. So I have to make those
decisions. Now another thing is the length
of time because not everybody has two or three hours to spend
on a boss fight. Like I know that one of the
major things I'm hearing with part of Skate 3.
That's why people don't like mistake.
This isn't a jump in and jump out game.
You can't jump in and jump out. You are in a battle sequence.
You going to be there for at least 45 minutes to an hour.
If you are fighting goblins. Now you fight a boss is going to
be like longer than that, but you find something that's going
to be pretty long, but everybody doesn't have time to just jump
in. I remember that does have time
to sit there, hunker down and like be prepared for a long
Jordan boss battle. And that one I got AI got AI got
a kick that one back. Because that's, that's the same
as like saying like, oh, I don't have time to sit down and watch
a hour movie. It's like, OK, you, you don't
have time for an hour movie, go do something else.
You make time for the things that you want to make time for.
You know, I don't have time to sit down and watch a 30 minute
show then go watch a 15 minute YouTube short.
DeMarcus, you have said on this podcast that you have queued up
a game, I think you queued up on the Skate 3 and you saw that the
data was going to be too long. And he was like, no, I can't do
this right now. Yeah.
And I turned it off. Yeah, absolutely.
And so I'd go do something else because I don't have time for
that thing right now, and I make time for it later now that I
know how long it's going to take.
You make time for it later. You haven't picked it back up.
But then why would you? I, I, I think that you say that
you made time for that thing, but you haven't made time for it
because I. Think I'm, I'm speaking more in
general that when I if I don't, if something is going to take a
long time and I don't have time for it, I don't do it and I make
time for it later. I don't try to crunch it into 30
minutes. If it should take an hour.
I don't try to. I don't, I don't complain and
Rage Against the machine like, oh, you should make this be
shorter for me because I don't want to spend 30.
I don't want to spend the whole hour.
No, it takes an hour. So you need to play body skate
3. I will make time for it when I
feel like it. Oh, by the way, the other games
I'm playing, I'm playing High on Life and I'm playing Dragon Age
with the Vale guard. Oh, how's Dragon Age?
It's good, it's fun. I played.
That I played, that I did really, you know, you.
Didn't like it? It didn't do for me.
What previous iterations of that?
Yeah, Dragon Age 2 was the best one in my opinion.
Yeah, I like the one where they had the table and you can go
around, I don't know if that was Dragon Age 2 or Dragon Age
Origins, but I like the table and after you and with this one,
after you got into it, it just was a constant to say, OK.
Yeah, it seems like that. It seems like it's going in that
direction. Like you, you, you like this is
your base. You go to a different place and
kind of like fight through this map, get to the thing, then go
back to your base. Yeah, yeah.
And I it, it gets, and a lot of games get a little repetitive
like that. And like, that's why I stopped
playing the Assassin's Creed games.
There's just, it was like, it was like run, sneak, jump, run,
sneak, jump, stab. Now, as you said, certain games
are designed around a challenge other than a core experience.
No, a challenge as the core experience like Elder Rain,
Blood Board, Hades, Hades one and two, and beating a difficult
boss Price. I share cultural moments among
players. Hey, Marcus, what are you doing?
Why not see you at the top of your head?
You ain't bald yet. I.
Don't think I ever will go bald, but go ahead.
Shared cultural experience. Yeah, because I did see a lot of
people who played Elvin Raine talk about this boss, that they
made it through in this event, that they delved even to the
dungeon, they found something new and they beat this boss.
And even with me, with God of War and fighting all those
harpies. Harpies.
Funny, that was. The Valkyries, Great.
Yeah, the Valkyries, that was great when I made it through
there. And I, I, I, I beat the final
Valkyrie myself, no cheats, but yeah, that was an amazing time.
But like, and it's certain in these games, Elder Rain, Blood
Board, these are the From Software games, Dark Souls, they
make games with those boss bells in mind so that people can talk
about it. Yeah.
And I think that is like, like building a game around a
challenge is not a bad thing. Having that challenge take some
time, some amount of time, also not a bad thing.
Like that is part of the challenge.
Yeah, and I remember another great boss that I loved was a
King of Hearts 2. I believe there was a secret
boss connected to the Peter Pan world, and you could be outside
of that, a big band. You are flying around and you
had to beat this boss that was on big band.
Oh, that was such an amazing boss 'cause you're flying, you
are, you're shooting fireballs and you're going up and you're
hitting it with the key blade. So it, that was an amazing, I
love like I would go to that boss again, again, again, again,
again 'cause you could actually repeat it, but the mark is.
What are some of your favorite experience with a boss?
One of my favorite bosses is the final boss from Legend of the
Dragoon, Yeah. Yeah.
'Cause he had, he like he was tough to beat point blank
period. And you know, I'm fighting them,
I'm losing, I'm losing. And I finally beat him and I'm
like, yes, I'm done. He's down.
And then he has a second form And I was like, you got to be
fucking kidding me. And I was like, I have been
using all of my resources to get past the first form and there's
a whole nother battle left. You have.
Nothing left. What was we going to do here?
Yeah, that was when Square Soft was.
No, Square Enix was Square Soft and they always had those kind
of bosses that oh, you thought you was done.
Yeah, so I think like that's one thing I love, like a good second
form boss. I think I think this game, I
think this the other one I'm thinking of is in Dark Souls,
but it's it was like a it was like a minotaur, like a giant
minotaur bull creature monster on like a bridge.
It might have been in Elder Scrolls.
So you played these games? Dark Souls, elder Elden reign.
It might have been elden reign. It's either Dark Souls or Elden
reign and I think it was either that or Dark Souls.
Like I played, I played, I played both of them, but I can't
remember where this ball showed up.
And like I'm fighting them, I'm fighting them.
I keep, I keep losing and I keep going back to fight them.
And I'm like learning as I go looking some things up, you
know, learning some tips and tricks.
And it get, I get to a point where I'm like, I'm fighting
them on the bridge. I have him like trapped in a
corner and he falls off the bridge And I was like, I'll take
it. I'm out of here.
And then the last one I'll mention is a boss from split
fiction. It's one of the early bosses
when you have the, the, the parking ticket world or whatever
and it's like this orb and it just like keeps throwing cards
at you and you got it. Like one person has to like jump
onto the boss while the other person like shoots at it to like
open up this certain piece. And then, you know, you got to
like work together, hit with a bomb.
I I love that boss just because there's so much, there's so much
teamwork that goes into it and you need so much coordination.
So you had to really work together to beat them.
And I asked. And yeah, so those are some of
my the bosses that stand out of my mind.
I didn't know that you played From Software games.
So interesting. Yeah, there is something that
else I wanted to say that I have forgotten.
It's just like I always do. What?
Are some of your favorite bosses, Jared?
Well, I said already, Kingdom Hearts is a boss battle that
stands out to me. Big.
Ben, Yeah. Do you have any more?
Is this that one? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I can do some more. I Final Fantasy 8, which is my
favorite game of all time. When you fight idea, who is a
sorceress for the first time and then they have this part at the
end where every big battle is a boss battle.
It's a open up more parts of your menu.
You have to fight all these people or you're going to skip
to the main boss. So if I'm going to use magic,
then I have to fight somebody to unlock my magic thing.
If I want to summit something, I'll fight another thing, so I
could like the summit. If I want to use items, I have
to fight something else. I'm going to use my items.
And it goes on and on and on like that.
Is all of this part of the same fight?
Like while you're fighting the one boss is like I go to use my
items and I have to do fight something else to use the item.
No, these are different bosses and then and then there are
enemies in between these bosses and this is the end game.
So they're all extremely high level.
And so I think that that was one of my favorite things that stuck
with me and keep me going back to that game.
I think that those two are the Valkyries and got war and that
final Valkyrie, which took me like the first Valkyrie took me
so many times. I cut it off for for a day.
Then I went back in on the game, went inside the Valkyrie
dungeon. I beat the first try.
I was like you just had. To let it sink, you had to let
the lessons sink in. You had the lessons.
I know the question I wanted to ask.
Do you think that the Internet is changing the difficulty?
You know when you can just look up the answer with how to do
stuff because like on my machine, on my Windows, PCI
could just press a button and then here come the AI.
Now I could just ask the AI, how do I finish?
How do I beat this part? Because it already knows the
game I'm playing. It has a screenshot on on my
computer. So I already know.
So I say, how do I beat it? And it tells me details step by
step. And then PlayStation, if you are
in the PlayStation, that one for $20, you can press another
button and go to how do I solve this?
It'll tell you how people solve this.
So do you think that the Internet is making it easier for
people to beat these games? Do I think the Internet is
making it easier in a way? In a way because.
And I think it depends on the game, right?
If this we're talking about a puzzle game that's hard and
you're going to like, look up the answers to the puzzle.
Yeah. Because it's there's not a lot
of maybe there's not so much like to do except for like input
the answers or move the things into the right place.
But for games like split fiction or like Baldis Gate or Dark
Souls or like some of the harder games we're never talking about
or even like this, like more action oriented games, like I
can give you the recipe, I can give you the sauce, but you
still got to go over there and do it.
Now I can be like, oh, if you just jump to the third ledge and
then, you know, skip to the 4th instead of jumping to the
fourth, you know, then you'll be able to beat this person.
And it's like, OK, cool, that makes sense in my head.
Now I actually have to have to develop the skill to do that.
So like when do you use the Internet to figure out how to
beat something? Because I use it a lot when I'm
doing puzzles. I don't want to solve the
puzzle. And I use it a lot with these
games that I love the choice games.
So I can see, OK, what happens if I choose this?
What happens if I choose that? So when do you use the Internet
for I? Use it.
I will use it if like if there is something like if I'm
collecting something in a game and I want to collect all of
them, I will use the Internet to be like, you know, where are
these things so I can collect them all.
And you know, that's if I'm like, if I can't find them
myself, like I think I always give it a shot myself first,
like I will use it to. I would look up like crafting
recipes and like, oh, I want to be able to, I want to like make
this. Like what do I need to make it?
Where do I find the things to make it?
I think a lot of times I use it for like, where do I find
information in this game? And then like if I'm replaying a
game, I'll definitely use the Internet.
I'll use like walkthroughs. I'll use, I'll use it all.
Yeah, because I think, like you, like I said earlier, like I'm a
bit of a purist when it comes to like your first playthrough.
You got to do it on your own. Yeah, I definitely do it for
crafting too, but even I don't think I've ever been a guy.
Do all your own because when I would get the Pokémon games like
especially red and blue or yellow or whatever, the next
iterations where I have like 3 versions of the Pokémon books
where it was show you OK, this is this child.
This is the monsters that you can find in the woods here, the
percentage and like they are so beautiful.
I hate that they don't make those anymore from Brady games.
So I would get the books for Pokémon and for Final Fantasy so
I can get all the secrets that were also included.
And so definitely for those two games I have like my Final
Fantasy 1011, I have those things back there somewhere.
I got Pokémon for like 3 and I got some other Brady games are
actual guides that show you know what to do.
And so I will use a guide. I mean, so it definitely depends
on like what game I'm playing. Like I'm about to pull out a
walkthrough for Ark the Lad because I feel like I'm in the
end game. And when I first played through,
I found the like, the boss room immediately and I was like, OK,
bet. And I was like, but I'm not
strong enough. So I need to grind around here a
little bit to, you know, up some levels, learn some more skills
and then I'll go back and fight them.
But now I'm lost and I can't find my way back.
So I'm about to look it up. Yeah.
So I'll look stuff up about just get frustrated too.
I'm just like, all right, fuck it.
I I did my best. But I do like a good, like,
overview thing. It's like, hey, here's
everything in this area, not necessarily where it is, but
here's here are the things you can find.
Yeah, I think I want to go back to that, just buying the book.
Like I want to play Final Fantasy 7, the original version
again. I want to like get the book and
kind of go back and see what all is there.
And I'm going to play 9. I think I have 9 actually.
Anyways, let's go ahead and wrap this up now.
In the 80s and 90s, they made games.
They didn't care about you. There was.
One possible because what was that one Lion King game there?
Was like a Lion King. Card on purpose.
Yes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, yes, like, but that
came from the arcade versions of those games.
They didn't want you to win, they just wanted to to for you
to have those quarters that to put in the quarters we want.
You to keep it always comes back to capitalism.
We always want your money. Yeah, so difficulty really meant
that replayability when games were shorter and they really,
you know, because if, because if you're there for three hours at
the arcade, then I only got $0.25 from you.
Yeah. And modern games, they are
longer, more story driven, more choices.
And this audience now includes more casual gamers, more people
40 and up are playing. And a lot of these people have
actually grew up with a console in their hand, right?
But I just want to. But yeah, those games in the
90s, Earthworm Gem, Comic Zone, Lion King, Aladdin, The Little
Mermaid, Echo the Dolphin. I saw, I saw this play through
of Echo. When was your play through?
I, I saw this little thing while people were talking about Echo
the Dolphin, they were talking about how they're about to
remake it and they show the old thing and I was watching.
I was like, that's how you did that.
You had to push a, you're underwater.
You're a dolphin. You had to push a rock.
You had to use a rock to push yourself down.
Ask her to sweep it up. Do you have to roll that rock
this way? I am a 8 year old little boy.
I don't know nothing about Curry.
Something like this. I don't know.
You had to like, roll that rock all the way down there to open
up. You know.
Breaking up here. Oh, sorry.
Am I better now? Hello.
Can you hear me? Yeah.
Better now. Yeah.
And you had to. I was up again.
Frozen again. Yeah, so I wasn't thinking that
way with Echo the Dolphin. And that was just they just made
those games that hard. You had to have like a a video
gaming degree to to beat these games.
Like like I don't even remember a game that I beat before Final
Fantasy 8 because it wasn't Sonic.
I did not beat Sonic even though I played all the time.
I didn't beat Mario even though I played all the time.
I think that Fantasy 8 was the first game because I kept going
at it even though I was playing that game wrong.
I played that game wrong because I wasn't using the GFS to
junction my abilities like I think did I tell the story
before? I did not use the GFS to
junction my abilities like it was.
A whole part of the game that you just didn't use, that was
supposed to make the game easier, Yeah.
Yeah, so you're supposed to get that at this one.
This for that castle. I'm talk to you about where
where you can unlock the thing. I'm reading that and I was like,
unlock what did I figure it out that you're supposed to junction
the GFS to get access to explode magic some?
I was like. What?
And then when you junk the GFS you could junction it with magic
so that you could be resistant or at these to your magic.
I'm like, what is? I've been playing this game
wrong the whole game for it. Could have been it could have
been 60% easier. Right.
No, 100% easier because I junk and I leveled up so much like
doing it the extra hard way because I had to level up more
because I wasn't using any of the extra stuff.
I had to level up more. I level up so much that the rest
of the box, when I figured it out, it was so easy that first
thing I was like at Max level and, and yeah, I like blew
through the rest of the game and I was like, when did they tell
you this? But yeah, I, I didn't, I think
that was the first game that I ever beat.
Yeah, in the 80s and 90s. I can't remember the first game
I ever beat 'cause I didn't like I did not beat a lot of games.
It's exactly I wasn't beating games Tombaugh no Sonic no.
Mario no. I would skip to the end, Amar,
just see if I could do it, no. Like the the last, like the like
the one that sticks out of my memory is like I had a dot heck
sign game. Like the the the first series,
the the dot heck sign games is like outbreak, infection,
something else, something else. And I beat that.
But and but I only remember beating it after I got a memory
card and I could like save them for long as it was like a four
disc kind of thing. Yeah, I think that helped me out
too, those memory cards. All right, DeMarcus, I think
that's where we're going to end that conversation.
That was a good conversation, I didn't think.
Yeah, that was really good. I enjoyed that.
I really I miss video games. You miss video games?
How do you have the PlayStation, Xbox and Switch looking at you
I. Miss having the time to gain.
I miss, I miss having. I miss being able to wake up on
Saturday morning and just start gaming and nobody bought Yeah.
Yeah. Do you think we have time for a
question today? We're at the 30 minute mark
right here. I.
Know I'd rather not. Let's do a question to mark.
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game, like everything doesn't have to be easy in your life.
Like in the best things in life are hard.
Like some of some of the best things that you will acquire in
your life are going to be hard to get.
And if you always run away from challenges, you always turn your
back on challenges, then you will never grow as a person.
So play the hard games, play them on at least normal mode and
not easy mode. You know enjoy and you know if
but if you if you already know you're a casual gamer and you're
there for the story, play the casual games.
Don't buy a game that is known for being hard and then be like
why isn't this game easy? Know your role, stay in your
life. I think that you should, even if
you're a casual gamer, you can, if you want to experience
something you can experience. Something give the give the hard
things to try to help you appreciate the casual games even
more, right? Right.
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