1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,720 This week, almost the Machine podcast. 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,920 We've got to tame them all, but we catch them with these things 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:08,760 that they're circular and they have things they go, they're 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 totally not balls. We are not using balls to catch 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,280 these Pokémon. We're not. 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,040 We're not Nintendo. Don't sue us. 7 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,160 Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Steam 8 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:52,200 Machine Podcast. My name is Dalton and joining me 9 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,920 this week is the one the only the handheld master himself, 10 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,960 Team Retrogue. I have no balls today. 11 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,640 No balls, no balls. No balls, no balls. 12 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:03,920 Do it. No balls. 13 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,080 I have plenty of of fidget spinners but no balls. 14 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,240 Lots of fidget spinners. Lots. 15 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,200 Of fidget spinners. Different types of fidget 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,560 spinners. My my idea was either that or 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,680 being like this week, almost the machine podcast and then being 18 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,480 like got to catch them all to which then you send them to your 19 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,600 storage to be never seen again. I mean done. 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,360 'Cause I do that a lot. No matter what, get these games 21 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,840 over playing. Oh, I think everybody does. 22 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,360 But man, how are you, how you been these past couple weeks? 23 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:43,080 Busy AFI hate the month of May, but let's let me not bore you 24 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,880 with the intricacies of my life. Except for one. 25 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,760 One little piece of news I need to tell everybody I got a pop 26 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,880 Pop. Yeah, puppy. 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,680 His name is Craig. Oh, Craig. 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,240 His name is Craig. We were going to change his 29 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,280 name. No, the name he came with, the 30 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,960 name Craig. We were going to change it. 31 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,680 Kyle didn't want us to change it, so in the like 3 or 4 days 32 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,720 that it took us to finally convince him that Craig was not 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,640 really a good name for a dog, the name stuck. 34 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,160 And so now he's Craig. Oh Craig. 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,840 He's old Craig. He's old old Craig. 36 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:29,560 And every time someone says what's the dog's name I say 37 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,440 Craig and they go Craig, the fuck's wrong with you? 38 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,240 Like ask my son. Come on, Craig. 39 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:37,800 We do. Craig. 40 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,680 Craig. Craig, Come on, Craig. 41 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,160 Damn it, No, that's. What's up dude? 42 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,880 I'm not I'm not going to be able to hear that now. 43 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,360 Now I'm going to like every time I see him, I'm going to be like 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,800 Craig and we and. Matter fucking. 45 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,760 Craig and I had a milestone today. 46 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,400 He he jumped up on the couch next to me and he gave me doggy 47 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:58,120 cuddles. He's. 48 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,680 Warming up to. You he is. 49 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:00,840 It's taking a little bit of time. 50 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,280 And then he proceeded to jump off the couch and poop on the 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,400 floor after I had just after I had just taken him for a walk. 52 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,120 Atta boy Craig you. Atta boy you. 53 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,120 Little well, you know, it's right there. 54 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,000 That also makes me think of a Friday. 55 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,160 Craig, that's a good have you've never seen Friday next Friday or 56 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,560 Friday after next? No, they're quite funny. 57 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:25,120 Gotcha. You know, but I have seen enough 58 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,680 South Park to to be to understand the Craig reference. 59 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:30,080 Craig. Craig. 60 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:36,280 So other than that, want to talk about backlash a little bit? 61 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,480 Well, first and foremost, before we talk about backlash, we'll 62 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,240 talk about some things that was going on with me. 63 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,200 Oh, I I wasn't thanks. I wasn't shutting you out. 64 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,360 I just figured backlash would be the what I've been up to part. 65 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,560 Well, first of all I have to say Ding Dong the bitch is gone. 66 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,760 Yes, old green hair Oompa Loompa got the axe. 67 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,480 Found that out at work the other day and I. 68 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,320 To which? I guess. 69 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,680 You then typed in our group chat, Ding Dong, the bitch is 70 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,680 dead in all caps. And I was like, what? 71 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,720 And you're like, Gabby got the axe. 72 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:20,640 I'm like, yes. Yeah, when I told Jen that that 73 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,960 I'm open and honest with my listeners on the podcast and 74 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,720 I've talked about work and stuff, I said they were all so 75 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,680 happy for me when I found this job because it was nothing but 76 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,560 good things or I didn't talk about work at all, which let 77 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,000 them know I was OK. I was happy because I would. 78 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,560 I was like, believe me, when I worked at Walgreens, they had to 79 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,520 hear about it. I worked for Coke they had to 80 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,040 hear about. It and Coke as well. 81 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,280 I mean you were in literal pain when you worked in Coca-Cola. 82 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,400 They almost broke you. I still deal with stuff from, 83 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,120 from working with Coca-Cola, but I, I told her, I said, I told 84 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,360 the Discord that Gabby got the axe and people were celebrating 85 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,400 for us. It's like, so I hope you know 86 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:03,440 that. And she was like, oh, well, tell 87 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,640 them I said thank you. So she said thank you. 88 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:13,000 But yeah, she apparently between Katie quitting, the complaint 89 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,480 that someone put in, let me just put it that way, I'm not going 90 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,160 to name them, and then the complaint that I put in not only 91 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,440 formally, but also when the Alien Labs guy came in and I was 92 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:25,880 like, yo. Yeah. 93 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,920 What? And then he was like what the 94 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,000 fuck? What are you talking about? 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,160 And we like we. So all of that combined was the 96 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,160 final straw. They've heard enough. 97 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,520 They're like your name is coming across our desk way too much. 98 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,360 Apparently a lot of other people had also had issues with her and 99 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,680 our store having all these issues was the final straw and 100 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,200 they were like gone, yeah. So work has been slowly going 101 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,240 back to what it used to be like so. 102 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,840 Yeah. We'll we'll fingers crossed that 103 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,000 that keeps going on. Yeah, we could talk about some 104 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,080 gaming stuff after Backlash, but yeah, we go. 105 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,960 So we watched WWE Backlash. Well, and you, you watched WWE 106 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,080 Backlash. I watched part of WWE Backlash 107 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,320 and part of the inside of my eyelids. 108 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,800 Yeah, yeah, we are, me and Connor heard. 109 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,320 Like come through the mic one time and I was like, let me go 110 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:20,920 ahead and just disconnect him. He's asleep. 111 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,960 To which I don't even remember, like I think I just woke up for 112 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,040 a minute and then just closed the laptop screen. 113 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,800 I don't think I even like tried to like leave the close discord 114 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,760 or anything. I just literally just closed the 115 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,560 laptop screen. It's been a couple of weeks but 116 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,760 I did end up watching it with my son the next day. 117 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,120 What? What was his first WWE 118 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,440 experience like? The first, very first thing that 119 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,520 Kyle decide to do was go. Backlash. 120 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,800 Backlash. Amazing. 121 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,640 The second thing he decided to do was sing the Seth Rollins 122 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,520 theme. Help. 123 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,320 That's what's up. Yeah, to which I recorded him 124 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,360 doing both and sent them in our group chat 'cause I figured you 125 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,680 would get a kick out of it. Yes, it's fucking amazing. 126 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,200 It makes me very happy. Yeah, it was my first backlash 127 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,440 and how to say it was pretty good from start to finish. 128 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:29,840 One major disappointment, but it was still it still ended up 129 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,200 being being a good match. Was your disappointment that his 130 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:38,680 partner wasn't? Johannes really wanted that 131 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,320 match up. But then I also, I also 132 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,640 understand that like, that matchup could never happen. 133 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,720 They're two very different personalities. 134 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,480 Yeah. I mean, no, I never say never in 135 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,400 WWE, Yeah, but gimmick wise, they're a bit different. 136 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,880 Yeah, but Joe Henry, Joe Hendry's got his own storyline 137 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:05,200 started and we actually, we've been trying to LB it, not very 138 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,920 successfully. We've been trying to get into 139 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,320 the Discord more to watch some of the weekly shows that we 140 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:19,240 don't usually get to see in between the main events, the 141 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:24,480 main pay-per-view events. Like we're on Smackdown and we 142 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,000 were going to watch Raw last night and then I just got tired. 143 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,120 We were going to watch Raw tonight, but now we're recording 144 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:38,039 for the show. So we watched Raw last week and 145 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,400 I was very, very happy to see that Joe Hendry had moved up to 146 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,240 the main roster first of all. And his song about Logan Paul. 147 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,320 And his song about Logan Paul, So he, he start, he started his 148 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,120 own storyline with the, with that. 149 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,320 So I think there's gonna be a Joe Henry, Logan Paul match in 150 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,240 the future. And, and I'm, I'm there for 151 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:00,000 that. Oh, absolutely. 152 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,720 I'm there for that. Especially, especially 'cause I 153 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,640 think Joe Henry will win. I mean, I think, I think it'll 154 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,760 be in the, I think it'll be in the storyline that he'll win. 155 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,600 Let's hope. Yeah. 156 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,280 Let's hope I will tell you this though. 157 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,880 I sent the interview to the chat today where Joe Hendry was on 158 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,720 Chris Vanvleet and he announced on there that he has recorded an 159 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,320 entire album with WWE music. Oh wow. 160 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,320 Like that, like their music division. 161 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,760 So he's going to have an album coming out. 162 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,120 OK, that's kind of cool. I was like, that's what's up, 163 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,040 dude. Yeah, that's that's badass, 164 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,760 playing into both of his strengths. 165 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,720 What else did I want to say about Joe Hendry? 166 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,400 I forgot now. Damn. 167 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,920 Fuck the handsome bastard. Oh, I mean, he's definitely a 168 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:41,840 handsome bastard. I'm thrilled that he's out. 169 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,240 He's moved up to the main roster. 170 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:44,480 Oh. What the fuck? 171 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,520 Oh, oh, I remember now. So also during that episode of 172 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,320 Raw, they were building up to the Seth Rollins, Brown Baker, 173 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,960 Brown Breaker match. And so random points throughout 174 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,080 the episode that we watched, Seth Rollins and Brown Breaker 175 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,080 would just randomly come out and just start like going at it in 176 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,840 the middle of other people's matches and so. 177 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,080 I love that. And, and both times Brown 178 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,120 breaker would beat the crap out of Seth. 179 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,280 And so then you'd like you'd, you'd then go backstage and Seth 180 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,200 Rollins is like licking his wounds. 181 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,680 Basically. He's like in pain or pretending 182 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:27,320 to be in pain. Well, one of the matches that 183 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,920 Seth Rollins came out and interfered with was the Austin 184 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,440 Theory and Joe Hendry. Joe Hendry match. 185 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,240 That match was interfered with by Logan Paul, but it then it 186 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,680 was also interfered with by the prophets. 187 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:46,760 Street. Prophets, thank you. 188 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,200 I'm learning. I'm still learning. 189 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,760 And then after that match, Seth Rollins is talking to the street 190 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,600 prophets and Joe Henry just casually walks in and joins the 191 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,600 conversation. And Seth Rollins just start 192 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,280 screaming you don't trust me, You don't trust me. 193 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,400 And then looks at Joe Henry and goes, I don't even know who the 194 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,480 fuck you are, so you probably don't trust me either. 195 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,520 And I'm like, I just started fucking dying. 196 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,600 Like poor Joe Henry. Like I don't even know who you. 197 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,480 Are what did I do to you? He's out just coming here and 198 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,560 singing songs. But Speaking of Seth though, him 199 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,080 and Braun had a great match at Back Life. 200 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,360 They did. The Dan Housen match was fun. 201 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:39,280 The honestly the match of the night for me was Oscar versus EO 202 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,040 Sky. Me too. 203 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,600 What a fantastic fucking match that was. 204 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,960 And now knowing like so this is some a little spoiler for you 205 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,400 from raw, but there was a scene where Oscar and EO meet each 206 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,440 other backstage and they like talk to one another and EO 207 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,560 basically tells her or excuse me, Oscar basically tells EO 208 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,960 you're in the Oscar spot now and they give each other a big hug 209 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,640 and then Oscar goes over and grabs her suitcase and walks 210 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,440 out. So she's. 211 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,760 She's from what I've seen it. Semi retired is what they call 212 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:12,720 it. Apparently she's got some 213 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,680 personal stuff that she needs to go take care of. 214 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,320 I don't know what. It is, which is fair. 215 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,440 Could be medical, could be family. 216 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,040 It's none of our. Business. 217 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:21,600 It's none of our business, quite frankly. 218 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,640 A 100% that's that's always my thing. 219 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,880 I'm like, if it's personal, that's all I need to know. 220 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:32,080 And I sent you the video earlier of some funny stuff with Oscar 221 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,480 throughout her career and some other like, And I couldn't help, 222 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,760 like laugh when your only comment about it was, wow, no 223 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,920 ads on the ring. And I was like. 224 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,240 That's your take away. Yeah, I, I, yeah, there's going 225 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:48,680 to be a lot of wrestling that we watch. 226 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:51,480 When I start again, we go back to we've been meaning to watch 227 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,080 things like there's Joshi wrestling. 228 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,000 I want to watch with you guys some AAA stuff. 229 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,800 I really want you to pop in and watch some AAA with me and Conda 230 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,760 sometime. It's really, really fun. 231 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,080 But before TKO took over like 2 years ago or whatever, it wasn't 232 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,040 WWE. The ring mat was considered 233 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,880 sacred ground. No ads. 234 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,640 The tables didn't have big ass Slim Jim ads on them. 235 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,240 I don't. Actually, I don't actually mind 236 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,920 the Slim Jim ads on the tables for one reason and one reason 237 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,440 only. The tables break. 238 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,600 The tables break in half, so when a wrestler slams into that 239 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,160 table, they're slapping into a Slim Jim. 240 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,680 And I think that's the whole point, yeah, is, you know, snap 241 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,560 the table. But I, I honestly don't mind on 242 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,040 the table. I wouldn't mind it if they were 243 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:40,840 logos like on the chairs and stuff like that. 244 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,920 But I don't like, I don't like all the stuff on. 245 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:44,520 The I don't like it on the on the mat. 246 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,880 It kind of reminds me of a scene in the the movie Ready Player 1 247 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,240 where IOI wants to, like, just put ads in front of like, the 248 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,400 virtual realities periphery. And they're like, oh, we can 249 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,680 fill 80% of a person's field of vision before inducing seizures. 250 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,840 And so they want to like, yeah. And then they show like, 251 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,000 basically, like, this is how much you could see I'm holding 252 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,200 up just, like a little box for my eyes. 253 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,800 And everything around you is ads. 254 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,560 Fuck that. Yeah, but that's what I think of 255 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:18,480 when I see the ads peppered all over the ring. 256 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,200 Yeah, and apparently I was reading something today that 257 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,240 Triple H and Stephanie are aware that there are like too many 258 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,000 commercials and too many ads and stuff and they're like trying 259 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,920 their best to get that across to the big corporate wigs which 260 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,520 that only C dollar sign. At that point the big corporate 261 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,640 wigs already signed the contract, so even if like they 262 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:42,400 do want to do a A180 on it, they have to wait for contracts to 263 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,520 end. Corporate bullshit. 264 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,040 Corporate fucking bullshit. The the main event was The other 265 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,320 match that jumped out to me was the Roman and Jacob. 266 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,520 Which I which I haven't seen yet, but I know how it ends. 267 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,360 OK, well then I don't mind saying then that Roman went 268 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,720 over, but Jacob stood tall at the end like it was really 269 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,760 really fucking interesting to watch. 270 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,920 So I'm looking forward to seeing where they go from here with 271 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,800 with Jacob Pattu. So I heard of and, and again, 272 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,880 this is total grain of salt because a lot of my none of my 273 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,680 feeds on social media now because my phones are our phones 274 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,160 are listening. I'm getting a lot of wrestling 275 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,640 stuff on the feeds on my feeds now and a lot of them are saying 276 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,000 like random stuff like Roman Reigns wants Jacob Fatu, like 277 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,320 fired from WWE and and, and shit like that. 278 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,280 That storyline. Is it storyline? 279 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:38,840 Yeah, there. There's a storyline right now 280 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,520 where Roman's just like Jacob's unhinged. 281 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,440 Jacob needs to be gone. Yeah, OK. 282 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,320 That's a storyline though, OK. If it's storyline, it's 283 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,360 storyline. That's fine. 284 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,280 I just, I get wary when I look at wrestling articles just 285 00:15:53,280 --> 00:16:00,560 because I get the same sources, Sportskida and another one, and 286 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,280 I'm like, I don't think these are credible. 287 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,200 Sportskida is dirt sheet nonsense. 288 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,520 So dirt sheet is the wrestling terminology for like a tabloid. 289 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,520 Right, right. OK, so. 290 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,200 The ones that I always just roll my eyes when I see them quoted, 291 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,240 whether they're true or not, I just don't respect the people 292 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,480 that do. It is the Wrestling Observer 293 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,480 which is Dave Meltzer. Yeah, that one doesn't show up 294 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,440 on my feed. I do get a a wrestling something 295 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:28,880 one but I don't remember the name of it. 296 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,720 And then I don't like fight full. 297 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,720 That one doesn't come up on my feet either. 298 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,320 There's one that's called like wrestling something but I don't 299 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,240 remember the name of it. I know there's the Wrestling 300 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,040 News, which is run by Brian Last. 301 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:45,000 That one's pretty good cultaholic, even though they 302 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,480 lean a little AEW heavy. I love those boys. 303 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,920 I. Don't get a lot of cultaholic on 304 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,600 my feet. I'll I'll have to find it. 305 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,480 I I wouldn't recommend you I would recommend you the 306 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,320 cultaholic podcast, but I wouldn't recommend you like 307 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,800 reading cultaholic website articles because I love them to 308 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,600 death. But they do do some clickbait 309 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,480 stuff, which is why I basically just do their do their podcast. 310 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,800 But I'm trying to think of the other one. 311 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,680 Dude, it's fucking the guy that runs it. 312 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:13,520 Is it pro wrestling torch? No. 313 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,000 That might be the one. It might be pro wrestling 314 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,680 something. Well, in in any case, there's 315 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,240 one of them that one of the guys who runs it used to guest on the 316 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:23,920 Taz show all the time and he was really cool. 317 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,000 Mike Johnson was his name. PW Insider. 318 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,640 That's what it's called. Pro wrestling insider. 319 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,000 PW Insider. Gotcha. 320 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,640 I trust stuff from them. OK, that's good to know. 321 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,400 But yeah, anyways, what you've been playing man? 322 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,720 Besides besides Koraman. I can't talk about it 'cause 323 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,360 it's coming up in a future episode. 324 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,600 That's fair. I, I, I the the Fung Fantasy 14 325 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,200 Needle kind of fell out 'cause I just, I just don't have the 326 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,760 time. I will tell you though, I think 327 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,640 of my hands on a on a Steam Controller. 328 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,280 Yeah, how's that? I love it. 329 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,520 Basically I've I've come to this weird crossroads when it comes 330 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,600 to to handhelds and stuff. And I have a bunch of handhelds 331 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,000 that I really only ever pull out when I need them for the channel 332 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,480 that I don't use them in, in personal everyday use at all. 333 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:14,760 But the one handheld that I use all the time, consistently a 334 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,800 little bit everyday, is the Steam Deck. 335 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,520 And the Steam Controller is basically taking the Steam Decks 336 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,560 controls and letting me have that on the TV or on my desktop. 337 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:34,040 So I'm finally now starting to play around with radial menus 338 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:38,280 and Steam Input settings and mapping things to different 339 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,880 buttons because now I have a way to do it to which it will carry 340 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,720 over to a different device. Like I could play in the Steam 341 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,080 Deck on the go and have those controls. 342 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,520 And now with the Steam controller, I can pick, I can 343 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,880 sit down at my desk or sit down in my in the living room because 344 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,920 I got I've got a mini PC in the living room and I can pick up 345 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:02,320 the Steam Controller and I can have those same mappings. 346 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,040 So I actually right before the show, I was playing a little bit 347 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,600 of Korum on on the Steam Deck, which I had docked and I was 348 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,600 streaming it. I was actually playing using the 349 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,000 steam controller and it just how it just connected. 350 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,640 How's it feel like comfortability wise? 351 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,000 It's. Fine, feels like a any old any 352 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 other old controller is what it looks like from the. 353 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,080 Front. I was just curious because I 354 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,840 knew it was weird on the front of it so I wasn't sure how the 355 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:35,560 how that translated. I'd say it feels mostly like APS 356 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,760 5 controller more than anything else just because of the 357 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,200 joystick placement, but it works. 358 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,920 The only difference is instead of having a touchpad up here, 359 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,880 you have them down here. So I don't know. 360 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,880 I I like it better than APS 5 controller just because the 361 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,200 touch pads make more sense for thumb placement. 362 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,320 You don't have to reach up here. Do you think it would be worth 363 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,840 me investing the money to get one? 364 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,760 It's $100. How often do you use a 365 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,040 controller? They were 60. 366 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,120 Well, they're 100 and there's a how. 367 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,640 Often do I use a controller. Yeah, and, and it's a it's a 368 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,720 freaking, it's on a reservation system right now because 369 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,320 scalpers scooped them all up. Yeah. 370 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,200 So now Valve is like, oh, well, now it's going to be a, you 371 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,560 know, just one per order. We're going to do reservation 372 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,080 system. We'll send you an e-mail when 373 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,480 when they're ready to purchase. No, I, I wouldn't if, if you 374 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,560 have you use mouse and keyboard most of the time. 375 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,640 And in the rare occasion that you need a controller, you're 376 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,000 mostly controller. Fucker. 377 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,760 I thought you were MNK. I probably it depends on what 378 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,240 I'm playing. I'm playing a shooter, a mouse 379 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,680 and keyboard. What about an MMO? 380 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,880 Depends on the MMO. Final Fantasy 14 controller all 381 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:42,840 day. Nice. 382 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Black Desert mouse and keyboard Project Goron mouse and 383 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,320 keyboard, World of Warcraft mouse and keyboard, Guild Wars 384 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,320 Guild Wars mouse and keyboard. But Final Fantasy. 385 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,920 I started playing that on PS3. Gotcha. 386 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,440 So at Final Fantasy 11 I play that with a controller because I 387 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,400 played that on PS2 originally. So it's just coded to me to play 388 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,520 those games with a controller. But dude, like I mean shit, I 389 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,000 use my controller so fucking much. 390 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,560 That's why the thumb pad on that black one wore off. 391 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,800 Would would you benefit from having track pads on a 392 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,880 controller? See, I don't know. 393 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,000 Yeah. I've never had a controller with 394 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,920 track pads and my PS4 controller I never used that fucking touch 395 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,360 pad unless I had to. That's the only thing is if is 396 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:34,560 if like let's say you wanted to to move your computer monitor 397 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,320 like cuz don't you have your computer connected to a 398 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,920 television that's by your bed? I don't anymore, but I could 399 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,080 easily with an HDMI cord. Yeah, OK. 400 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,000 That's the only thing that I would consider a Steam 401 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,480 controller to be useful for you, because then you could use the 402 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,440 the track pads to, you know, navigate the mouse and click 403 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,240 things and stuff. But other than that, if you 404 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,160 have, I think you have a like an 8 bit do or a game server or 405 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,600 something I sent you, right? Yeah, that one. 406 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:03,840 That one's perfectly fine. I know. 407 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,280 Is that I had it on charge? You sent me that red Xbox 408 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,720 controller. Oh, that's right. 409 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,120 I sent you an. I sent you. 410 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,400 I sent you red. Little red. 411 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,760 Yeah. And I kept the. 412 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,200 Green so that goes with I kept. The green one I kept its 413 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,400 brother. I have blue. 414 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,560 Yeah, oh, look at that. We've got all the we've got. 415 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,120 We've got all the color games, we've got all the Pokémon 416 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,400 versions. Oh shit, we do? 417 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,520 Yeah. Anywhere missing is a yellow. 418 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,920 Do I have a yellow controller anywhere? 419 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,680 Not anymore. I think that's one I sent to 420 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,800 Willie. I've got a black controller. 421 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,840 Do you have a white controller? Yeah, I have a couple. 422 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,320 I have Astrobot. Well, there you go. 423 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,240 I have Astrobot right behind me. So we have multi generations of. 424 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,160 Pokémon. Then I have Starfield over 425 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,960 there. That Starfield controller suite 426 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:46,720 it. Is yeah. 427 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,240 And I have, oh, this one's, I did the Xbox controller lab one 428 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,160 time and this one's actually got my channel name on it. 429 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,880 Yeah, that's bitching. Yeah. 430 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,200 That was a birthday present, I think one year I think somebody 431 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:04,880 had gotten me a code to use the lab, so I made a controller and 432 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,760 I had it engraved. Hell yeah, dude, that's really 433 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,640 cool. It's kind of like when I got 434 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,680 that engraving on my smoker, I was like, yeah, I could come up 435 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,120 with a BBQ thing, but I'm like, Nah, I want to get the logo for 436 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:16,680 the. Dude that was perfect too the 437 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,480 podcast cuz isn't it the new steamy logo? 438 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,000 Yeah nice. My my students artwork forever 439 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,280 immortalized and a smoker. Yes. 440 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,720 All right. Anything else you've been up to? 441 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,160 I've been playing a few things and then we can move on. 442 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,040 I've been let me get Steam pulled back up real quick. 443 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,280 You got my recently played. I've been on the hunt for a new 444 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,560 idle game that's going to catch me like Firestone did. 445 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:48,400 So far Gothic Clicker has been fun and Coltera seems promising. 446 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,520 I bought Conan Exiles, good choice. 447 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,800 I was showing off to you a little bit. 448 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,960 Going. On I was just, I was telling you 449 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,280 I like ARC, but it's very like sci-fi coded, whereas Conan 450 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,960 Exiles is very fantasy coded, but same style of game. 451 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,000 And let me go ahead and tell you, there's already so many 452 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,360 things in Conan Exile. And be it a mod or not, I don't 453 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:18,280 know 'cause I added a few mods, but there is just so much 454 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,000 quality of life that's just better in Conan. 455 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:26,760 Versus like ark you you mean? Versus Ark, yeah, you can climb 456 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,960 walls like Breath of the Wild style. 457 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,080 Yeah, I I saw that you were doing that. 458 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,520 I feel like a lot of games do that now. 459 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,240 Good, right? You should be able to scale a 460 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,400 fucking wall. Oh my God damn. 461 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:45,600 Instead of the Skyrim style where you just hit the jump 462 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,160 button and hope that it catches. Man, fucking Bethesda your way 463 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,040 up the. Mountain, right? 464 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,560 Wait, that's actually a term. I mean, that's what I call it, 465 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,360 Bethesda. That's, that's hilarious. 466 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,480 Anyway, I'm sorry I'm interrupting. 467 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,160 You, I do it in other games and I say, Oh yeah, Bethesda, I did 468 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:00,520 my way up there. And. 469 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,960 If people are like, what? I'm like, you know, Skyrim, and 470 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,320 then then immediately they're like, Oh yeah, gotcha. 471 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,080 Because everyone does that. Let's see, I started up a game I 472 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,640 can't talk about. Oh I got Shin Megami Tensei 5. 473 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,920 Good choice. I'm holding off on diving into 474 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,720 fully but I'm chomping at the bit because I'm like oh that's 475 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,840 like Persona but even grittier and. 476 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,040 Dark it is. It's it's basically the, the 477 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,840 damn, my brain is getting fried. Basically in the community 478 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,360 people say that if you're a Pansy, you play Persona and if 479 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,000 you're actually are like a real gamer, you play a ship Megami 480 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,920 Tensei. I know it's harder. 481 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,800 It is harder. 'Cause I had on my 3 DSI 482 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,440 actually got this from the 3DS store. 483 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,720 Yeah, I bought SMT 4. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 484 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,960 Yeah, beat my ass. Yeah, you know, I heard, I heard 485 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,760 that the SMT games are just. Hard they are. 486 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,800 So I picked up a game that I've I've played for a little bit, 15 487 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,080 minutes total so far. It's called Librarian. 488 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,080 OK. Tidy up the arcane library. 489 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,000 Huh. So you are a librarian and you 490 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,960 get locked in a magical library where a fairy has gone mad and 491 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,600 knocked all the books off the shelf and scattered them around 492 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,480 the room. So you literally load into this 493 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,040 room and there are books everywhere. 494 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,440 You have to put them away. And your job is to put them all 495 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,720 the way where they're supposed to go. 496 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,640 I think I saw that's the. Whole point of the game I think. 497 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,680 I saw somebody playing that game on on an Instagram feed and like 498 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,320 the boyfriend was like, how are you playing this game? 499 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,800 But you can't organize your own closet. 500 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,680 Yeah, you see my room behind me? Yeah, fuck off. 501 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,360 There's something very relaxing about it though. 502 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:56,760 Like so far I've got like one shelf complete and then like a 503 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,360 couple other ones just scattered here and there. 504 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,320 But I'm just enjoying like reading all of the book titles 505 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,760 and shit 'cause they all have different names. 506 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,600 Can you actually read some of the books? 507 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,760 That I don't know. That I don't know. 508 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,680 Interesting, though, that you say that there's a game that I 509 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,120 want us to do for the show called The Longing. 510 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,920 Have you ever heard of it? Have you seen this? 511 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,800 Have you heard about this? No. 512 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:25,680 OK So it is a point and click type game but also an idler in a 513 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,880 way. OK so once you open up the game 514 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,000 you realize that you are the last remaining servant of this 515 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,840 like ancient king who has been wounded so he has to sleep for 516 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,960 400 days. OK. 517 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,120 When you load the game up and you start playing, a timer 518 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,720 starts ticking down in real time from 400 days down. 519 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,680 OK, now you could. And it runs while you're not 520 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,800 playing too. Yeah. 521 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,040 So you can, in theory, load the game up and then wait 400 days, 522 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,720 open it and then go see the ending of it. 523 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,400 Right. Right. 524 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,160 But to you to actually play the game, you get to know this 525 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,320 little character because apparently one of the things 526 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,600 they they said will make or break the game for you is that 527 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:10,480 he moves glacially slow. He just kind of mopes about, but 528 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,400 they said it's fitting because of the longing, the loneliness. 529 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,160 The name of the game is telling you that like all of this makes 530 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,680 sense. But the the reason I'm bringing 531 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,200 this up is that there's a library with a bunch of books 532 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,240 that are classics that are in the public domain. 533 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,840 And you can read them. And you you can read the entire 534 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,800 book. Moby Dick and other books like 535 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,600 that, they're all just in there and you can just sit there and 536 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,480 read them. And as you're reading them, that 537 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,680 timer's ticking down. You know, you can turn the game 538 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,160 on and then like work on your videos and then just lean over 539 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,720 and check on him and he'll just be chilling there. 540 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,760 You're a little shade guy. And I just, I just found it a 541 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,160 very interesting. They're like, by the time you're 542 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,280 done playing this game, there's like other things that you can 543 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,000 do to shorten the time down from 400 days. 544 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,920 Yeah, but people were like, I got really attached to this 545 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,240 little character. There were people that had like 546 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,320 1500 hours into that game. Wow. 547 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,960 So just seemed like it might be an interesting one for us to 548 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,360 talk about maybe maybe not have to obviously not play it for 400 549 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,680 days, Yeah, but to play it long enough to be like, OK, get the 550 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,040 gist of this. Here's existentially why this 551 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,080 game terrifies me. And then let's talk other things 552 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,400 like. That 400 days is a long time if 553 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,640 you consider there's what there's 365 in a year. 65 in a 554 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,440 year, yeah. So it's a. 555 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,680 Little over a year. Let's see, anything else? 556 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,760 I haven't really played Winrows because I've been playing 557 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,440 Koraman. I still need to dive into hell 558 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,080 divers too. That's about it for me. 559 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,360 Let's talk about some. Koraman. 560 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,880 Let's talk about some Koraman you got. 561 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,080 You got some wiki bootia bullshit. 562 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:48,520 I do in the a sense so there is no Wikipedia pages I could find 563 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:53,560 for this, but I did find a koraman dot wiki dot GG and the 564 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,040 wiki bootia bullshit about the game. 565 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,160 On this is explore a charming pixel world filled with 566 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,760 challenging puzzles, interesting creatures, and Titanic bosses. 567 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,280 You'll follow the story of an aspiring researcher joining the 568 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,280 technologically advanced organization of Lux Solis. 569 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,320 You'll be assigned to a specialized team called the 570 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,600 Titan Task Force, and you are tasked with investigating the 571 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,680 six Titans known in the region of Velua. 572 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,000 But soon you find extraterrestrial forces bringing 573 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 a mystery elemental type to your planet, causing a fundament of 574 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,160 the world to slowly collapse. Lux Solis will assist you by 575 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,240 providing useful gadgets, but it's all up to you to gather the 576 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,840 Titan essences and undo the damage to Earth's core. 577 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,280 Now, if you do not want to hear spoilers for this game, skip 578 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,760 ahead 30 seconds because I'm about to sum it up for y'all 579 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,440 motherfuckers in about two sentences. 580 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,640 Everything I just read is the basis of the story. 581 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,200 You beat the aliens, You gather the Titan essence. 582 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,560 You beat the aliens. You go to gather the last Titan. 583 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,080 It's been taken over by Crimsonite, which is the name of 584 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,920 the substance that these aliens bring down. 585 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,280 You have to fight it. It starts healing itself. 586 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,120 You have to keep fighting it. The Titan starts fighting the 587 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,800 Crimsonite from within. You beat the final battle. 588 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,720 You're like, all right, I got the final Titan essence. 589 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,040 That doesn't matter. You do that. 590 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,240 You beat that, the aliens leave and you saved the day. 591 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,320 The game is over. Congratulations I I was hoping 592 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,920 for more. Yeah, I'm in the middle of the 593 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,880 third Titan and I think there's what, 6 total? 594 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,880 Technically 5. There are 6, but you only get 595 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,320 the essence of five. Gotcha cause the 6th 1 is that 596 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,600 that last one? The 6th 1 is the final boss. 597 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,840 Gotcha. So I'm in, I'm at three of five 598 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,600 then. And yeah, I could tell that this 599 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,080 is a paper thin, like Pokémon Red and Blue type story. 600 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,920 Which, you know what, that's kind of OK to an extent because 601 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,880 this game is more about the gameplay loop than it is about 602 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,320 the actual story. But do we want to get into first 603 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,320 impressions before we talk about the gameplay loop? 604 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,520 Yeah, yeah. I just thought it was absurdly 605 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,560 easy to cover the story, so I figured we'd just get that out 606 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:04,720 of the way. Yeah, good point. 607 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,760 Unlike most of the games we play for this show. 608 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,160 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 609 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,800 So yeah, let's do first impressions, man. 610 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,840 So I, I'm not sure actually what my first impressions were 611 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,760 because I just kind of got comfortable. 612 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,600 I just, the storyline obviously is different. 613 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,280 I got comfortable with the gameplay loop very fast because 614 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,160 it feels like old Pokémon. It feels like red and blue or 615 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,200 gold and silver. So I just kind of settled in, 616 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,240 Started playing, started looking for monsters I would want to 617 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,720 have on my team permanently very early on, but got what I thought 618 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,480 was a shiny. Turns out shiny is a very 619 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,240 different connotation in this game. 620 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,200 I think, I honestly, I think that's the one of the main draws 621 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,360 of this game is trying to find perfects. 622 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,760 Yeah, yeah. And I guess there's a way for 623 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,240 you to do it like post game that's a lot easier. 624 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,560 But for me, I don't know. It's actually a complaint for me 625 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:14,840 because the way they do the the different colored variants in 626 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,680 this game is you have a regular variant, you have a potent 627 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,280 variant, you have a perfect variant. 628 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:26,240 My first potent was a squirrel or not squirrel was it was a 629 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,160 bird, which I still have in my party. 630 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,920 I think it's on its second evolution, probably about to hit 631 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,880 its third, and stats are tied to the color. 632 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,120 So really if you're want a min Max, you want to catch a 633 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,720 perfect, or you want to turn a potent into a perfect. 634 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,240 The only way to turn a potent into a perfect is for a hidden 635 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:54,520 value to hit 21. And so like I got lucky, I had a 636 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,560 frog thing that was potent and I put it in the machine not 637 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,120 knowing its values and it just happened to have a potency of 638 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,840 20. So that kicked it up to 21. 639 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,680 It made it a perfect which which I thought was cool because I 640 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,520 wanted to get at least one perfect for them for my 641 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,120 playthrough. There, you beat me. 642 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,719 I didn't get any. Really. 643 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,199 I had AI, had a few potents, I didn't get a perfect. 644 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,480 So getting back to first impressions, aside from the the 645 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,199 comfortableness of kind of just falling into the monster 646 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,080 catching dynamic of weakening, throwing a a spinner, not a ball 647 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,960 to spinner to fidget spinner, figuring out the type chart and 648 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,840 all and all that, the game actually early on kicked my head 649 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,840 into the dirt and I'm playing on just normal. 650 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:47,960 And yeah, it's not as forgiving as even the original Pokémon 651 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,800 games. Did you did you get that 652 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,480 impression too? Yes and no. 653 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,120 You're muted. You're still muted. 654 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,560 How about now? I heard that. 655 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,840 OK, I also had to take a raging piss. 656 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,400 I dude I had to piss so bad. I was trying to keep it together 657 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,360 but the second you muted and like just bolted out of the room 658 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:12,240 I'm like thank God. Dude, I was sitting over here 659 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:15,760 like crossing my legs and shit under my desk like Oh my God I 660 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,280 got a piece of it. I wish I still had a copy of it. 661 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,360 If someone can find in the episode where Willie went to go 662 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,720 take a piss and I just started singing a song about it, I know 663 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:26,720 Connor loves it. Oh yeah, I know, I know the 664 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:28,960 song. Willie's taking the piss. 665 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,600 He's. Got his. 666 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:36,120 Dick in his hand. In his hand, something like that 667 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,880 Yeah, I just, I need a an edit of that anytime we take a piss 668 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,080 break, I need to I almost even if Willie's not on the. 669 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,920 Episode I almost thought of singing it, but I had AP 2 so I 670 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,800 just like couldn't hold it long enough to to get the song out. 671 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,400 Yeah, we didn't. We we forgot to mention that 672 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,760 that Willie's not here. I was about to say before I get 673 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,800 into my first impressions, I do need to mention I was going to 674 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,880 do it at the end, but then we just talked about it. 675 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,400 So I feel like we should mention. 676 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,320 Yeah. So Willie is out for this 677 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,920 episode. He didn't get a chance to play 678 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,040 Koraman these past couple weeks. He's had some stuff going on, 679 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,520 but also he is currently dealing with the fact that his computer 680 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,440 is kaput. I've been there. 681 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,000 Do you remember? Do you remember that episode 682 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:24,280 that I filmed on my Legion Go because I I my computer died 683 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,480 like the night we were about to record. 684 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,000 But the fact that you were able to whip that shit together on 685 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,920 the Legion was was fucking impressive. 686 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,720 Yeah, to that, to this day, I literally just unplugged my 687 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,440 desktop, plugged that thing in and it just, I, I made something 688 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,520 happen. But yeah, so fingers crossed 689 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,560 that we can help him get that sorted out shortly. 690 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,280 It it, you know, if it ends up being that he's got to get a new 691 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,040 one. Patreon.com/the Steam Machine 692 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,160 Podcast this time if you want to donate to the the The Computer 693 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,120 Fund. Literally, literally at this 694 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,960 point. Helps keep the lights on, yeah. 695 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,360 The the lights, the lights of Wooly's PC. 696 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:10,280 But I did, I did tell him that well, if it's already not 697 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,160 working, now would be a great time for you to put in that CPU 698 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,320 I sent you and see if that helps when it gets running up again, 699 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,840 up and running again. Yeah. 700 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,280 I'm curious what die? I know he's got an old 701 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,880 motherboard. I don't know if maybe that's the 702 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,480 issue. I I think that's probably it 703 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,160 cause the motherboard was what went on mine too. 704 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,360 And if that's the case poor guys beat 'cause once the motherboard 705 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,160 goes new motherboard. I'm hoping I have something 706 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,120 around here I can help him out with and and I think I do. 707 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:41,840 So I'm just waiting for him to tell me whether or not his 708 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,400 computer is OK or if it's dead dead before I mail it to him. 709 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:48,480 Yeah, but so good vibes towards Willy. 710 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,160 Everybody send send Willy your good vibes. 711 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,840 Yeah. So my, my first impressions with 712 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,680 Korman, it's funny, what put me in the mood for this was I had 713 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,720 to take my dad a couple weeks ago to the eye doctor. 714 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:05,840 He had to go get some surgery done on his eye and like some 715 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,680 shots and things. And I brought the handheld that 716 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:14,280 you had given me with me, and I was playing Pokémon Glazed, 717 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,000 yeah. Yeah, yeah. 718 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,600 I was just really enjoying it and it looked so fucking crisp 719 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,560 on that screen. Like I sent you a picture of it 720 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,760 and even you were like damn that looks. 721 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,720 Really good. It really did that. 722 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,680 That is a gorgeous screen on that on that handheld. 723 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,280 Yeah, thank you again. Oh yeah, of course. 724 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,160 I love it, dude. It's my, it's my, my bedtime 725 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,320 chiller. And I was like, man, it'd be fun 726 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,480 to do a, a creature collector. I was torn between that and 727 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,360 another game, which I won't mention 'cause I'll probably end 728 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,360 up picking that at some point. But I was like, man, so I I was 729 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,080 like, let's check out Koraman. So I load into it and I'm like, 730 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,880 oh, I'm right back to where I was on the handheld playing 731 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,400 that. It looks exactly the same just 732 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,160 on my computer screen. And I enjoyed it. 733 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,240 If in the starting off I was like, OK, I get it. 734 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,560 It has its quirks, which we'll talk about, some things that 735 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,040 that it does that is too much like Pokémon in my opinion. 736 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,920 And then it does some things that are not Pokémon enough. 737 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,720 Yeah, I'll agree with that as well. 738 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:19,640 I will say I played on, I used custom settings, so all of my 739 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:25,320 difficulty stuff was on Normal, except I set it to where my 740 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,800 Koraman heal when they level up. Because if I remember right, 741 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,160 that's what happened to Pokémon too, right? 742 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,800 You level up and your health goes back up some. 743 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,760 A little bit, but not all the way. 744 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,760 Not all the way. OK, Well, this would heal me 745 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:37,960 back up all the way. OK. 746 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,520 And let me tell you that came in close. 747 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,120 Oh yeah, I'm sure. More times than I can count. 748 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,240 I'm sure, Yeah. No, I. 749 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,640 But everything else I left. No, I'm playing on straight 750 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,920 normal and for a good chunk of time, actually it still is, but 751 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,040 for a good chunk of time it it is kicking me through the 752 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,600 freaking dirt, mostly because you cannot buy revives right 753 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,200 away. You can only get them through 754 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,480 the the little battle pass thing that they got in there. 755 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,120 And I and I use the battle pass term very loosely. 756 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,000 It's not anything you have to pay for, but it's just as as you 757 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,920 do milestones. You can level up to 100 and 758 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,600 every level you got something new. 759 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,040 Yeah, it's like a challenge board of stuff where it's like, 760 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,360 'cause there's a ton of achievements and stuff and they 761 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,960 Oh yeah to get. Very much so. 762 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,440 Some some pretty hilarious ones too. 763 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,200 And that's what I like about this game. 764 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,960 It doesn't take itself very seriously at all. 765 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,200 Very much similar to Nexoman. Like it knows kind of knows what 766 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,680 it is and it knows what it isn't. 767 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,920 But there's there's some Easter eggs in this game that are that 768 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,720 are love letters not just to Pokémon, but also the the 769 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:50,040 community and also to other pop culture references. 770 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,800 I know I mentioned in the Patreon section, there's a guy 771 00:40:53,800 --> 00:41:02,680 named Ed that you run into very early on and he is a video game 772 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,760 representation of a YouTube named Gym Leader Ed, who is 773 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:15,160 pretty much the monster taming or monster collecting authority. 774 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,960 Like his channel is the one you go to if you want to learn about 775 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,200 monster taming games that are not Pokémon. 776 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,760 Yeah. I didn't catch the gym leader Ed 777 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,200 thing until you sent it in the chat and I was like oh shit, 778 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,760 'cause I I had never heard of him, but now I'm going to check 779 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,160 it. Oh, I hit my mic now I'm going 780 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,000 to check it out for. Sure. 781 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,880 And there's a, there's even a, a, an old man you run into at 782 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,520 some point named Ashton, who's wearing a hat and an outfit that 783 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,480 very curiously looks like Ash Ketchups. 784 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:51,320 Yeah, yeah, I, I took some screenshots because I do want 785 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,440 to, I did want to cover some of these while we're on the 786 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,000 subject. So there's one of the the potent 787 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,160 bird that I got is a silk. Yes, that's the one I got too. 788 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:05,000 I got a potent silk wall. OK so he has a move that is much 789 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,680 like sand attack in Pokémon but it is called in this game pocket 790 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,960 sand which is a reference to King of the Hill when Dale would 791 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,720 go pocket sand and he would just have sand in his pocket and he 792 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:18,640 would throw it in people's eyes. I. 793 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,680 Remember that I didn't make that connection. 794 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,720 Oh man, I did immediately. I laughed so hard when I saw it 795 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,160 was called pocket sand. I was like, that's incredible. 796 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,960 That is absolutely incredible. Did you run into L? 797 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:36,240 I don't know if I'd. He's in the, he's in the first 798 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:40,240 town that you go to and the the first town is kind of like a 799 00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:43,320 country like farmer, farmer town. 800 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:48,080 Yes, I took screenshots of this. Yes, Al, when you talk to him it 801 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,640 says I've been seeding and plowing so long, even my wife 802 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,520 thinks that my mind is gone. But I'm a man of the land with 803 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,000 quite some discipline and befitting of this job, I grow a 804 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,480 beard on my chin and if I finish and if all the chores are done 805 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,240 and all and well is fine, Harvest Fest will be here and 806 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:07,440 we'll enjoy the party time. Gee, I wonder what that sounds 807 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,360 like. Did you talk to his wife, Susan? 808 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,360 Spending most of our lives living in an Amish paradise or 809 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,080 something very similar. Yeah, we've spent most of our 810 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,000 lives living in this small paradise. 811 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,560 Yeah, that got me so freaking good. 812 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,240 Yeah, I was cacking. Bro. 813 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,880 I was if you check out AL's farm Outback, if you click on the 814 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,320 carrot it says I should give this carrot to a sailor, it'll 815 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,920 help them see better. I forgot what that reference is. 816 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,880 Oh it's it's, it's a dad joke 'cause it's spelled SEA. 817 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,520 It'll help the sailor see better. 818 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,360 Oh, right, right, right, right, right. 819 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,120 OK. Click the Scarecrow, it says 820 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,040 this guy should get an award. He's outstanding in his. 821 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,120 Field. Yep, I did. 822 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:54,160 I did get that one. I did get that one every time. 823 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,920 You're in the library. Every time you see coffee it 824 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,960 says motivation in a cup. Motivation in a cup? 825 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,480 Yeah. I don't remember what that 826 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,160 reference is to, but I just thought it was funny. 827 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,760 Commercial, yeah. One of the like folders 828 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,680 Motivation. The best part of waking up this 829 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,440 folders in your cup. Folders in your cup. 830 00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,640 OK. I I would assume it would be 831 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:15,920 something like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 832 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,800 I just figured it was AI. Just figured it was a reference 833 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,640 to needing to drink coffee in the morning to get yourself 834 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,640 motivated. That's one thing that I I just 835 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,680 have a Diet Pepsi. That's my cup of coffee in the 836 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,520 morning. I have water 1st and then a 837 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,280 diapers. All I wanted was a Pepsi. 838 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,000 Just one Pepsi. There's one with Pepsi and. 839 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,720 She wouldn't get it for. Me the shelf with detective 840 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,360 books on it. Your character just says 841 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,160 detectives. I think the Butler did it. 842 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,960 Yeah. If you click the the classics 843 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:53,320 shelf it says Coroman Farm 2084 the Orange Clock. 844 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:54,960 I wonder what these books are about. 845 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,840 Animal Farm 1984 and Clockwork Orange. 846 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,800 Yeah, and I giggled. I was like Coramont Farm. 847 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,760 The Orange Clock was good, too. Yeah, there's a Star Wars 848 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,040 reference. Very simple 1. 849 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,680 You get to a point in the game where you get caught by guards 850 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:20,680 who all look the same and one of them says Execute Order 66. 851 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,600 Love it. If you click on the corn, it 852 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,160 says I can't think of a corny joke. 853 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,360 Yeah, yeah, there's, there's, there's a bunch. 854 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:34,680 Oh, oh, oh the the bears. Yes, Aurora beryalis. 855 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,840 And and beryalis. Aurora beryalis at this time of 856 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,960 day, at this part of the country, localized entirely in 857 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,000 your kitchen, no. No. 858 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:47,840 It's yes. Oh, yes. 859 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,200 Can I see it? No. 860 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,960 Yeah, that correct me. You cannot. 861 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,640 This is Aurora Beryalis. And then there's a there's 862 00:45:54,640 --> 00:46:00,680 another Koraman who's an electrotype who is a CAC i.e and 863 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:06,800 then it evolves into DCD EE C i.e, so A/C DCA. 864 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,120 CDC Yeah, there were a lot of good little pun. 865 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,480 Names for sure. And I got, I got to do this real 866 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,880 quick for the Foley. Shout out to Canada Dry 867 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,000 Cranberry 'cause they're the sponsor of this section. 868 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,120 No, I'm just kidding. My question for you is you had a 869 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,000 grievance with the way I played this. 870 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,760 Game. Yes, we need to have a talk. 871 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,320 I'm very, I'm very curious what it is. 872 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,640 You beat this game really fast. I did beat this game, really. 873 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,080 Fast. How did you play it, Dalton? 874 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,400 How did I play it? So I started out and I got my 875 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,360 starter Pokémon, Jesus Christ, my starter Koraman. 876 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:50,320 And then I caught that bird and then I caught a like a bug 877 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,000 looking 1, I don't remember it's name. 878 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,400 And then I just ran around the starter area for a little bit 879 00:46:55,560 --> 00:47:01,720 and levelled up my, my main Pokémon, God damn it, my main 880 00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:06,680 Koraman, until he was level 8 or 9. 881 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,080 And then I moved to the next section, ran around play, 882 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:11,760 levelled him up a little bit more. 883 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,880 And like, by the time I got to the first big area, I had him in 884 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,240 his second evolution and I got an experienced share. 885 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:22,920 So I started using that on different core. 886 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,360 The lazy gem. Yeah, the lazy gems. 887 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,200 And then you get 'cause it's like 20% and then later on you 888 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,160 get one. I only found one that was the 889 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,000 50. Percent the sloth gem. 890 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,880 But that's how I levelled up all my other Koraman was. 891 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,120 I would put the the gems on them and then I would just go around 892 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,920 fucking get up with my main one and getting the levels on those 893 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:42,880 other guys so. You. 894 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,960 So I beat this game. My core mom was my main, my 895 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,400 shark guy was level 95 or 96, one of the two. 896 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,640 And the rest of them. 40s and 50s. 897 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,240 You fuck. What's the deal? 898 00:47:56,240 --> 00:47:58,120 What's, what's the fucking problem? 899 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,000 What's the problem? I beat the game. 900 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,680 You're basic. You're basic, Dalton. 901 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:09,280 I I'm basic you. Played this game like 90% of the 902 00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:15,280 population played Pokémon Red and Blue where your starter was 903 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,560 over levelled and everybody else could just fuck right off. 904 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,600 Yeah, because. What? 905 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:25,960 OK, when you watched Pokémon the show, Ash had all kinds of 906 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,440 Pokémon, right? Who's the one that was always 907 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:29,280 there? Pikachu. 908 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:34,880 His starter Pokémon Pikachu. So you want to know how I played 909 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:36,600 this game? Like Gary? 910 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:44,840 I leveled all of my Koroman equally #1 so when one leveled 911 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,320 up, I switched to another one, put them in the forefront, let 912 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:52,880 them gain a level, and whenever I wanted to use different 913 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,800 Koroman, I stopped story progression and I levelled them 914 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,760 up until they were caught up to the rest of the party. 915 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:08,720 And so all of my Koroman right now are all 35 right now at the 916 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,920 part of the game I'm in. I also benched my starter. 917 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,920 Benched your starter? My starter because I picked the 918 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,120 fire 1. You pick the water one. 919 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:24,320 The fire 1 is the ugliest looking one out of all of them. 920 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,720 I don't like him. You know who? 921 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,120 You know who the cooler fire Coroman is? 922 00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,200 The bull bull, The sheep, The sheep bull. 923 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:37,200 It's not cool when you first catch it, but as soon as that 924 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:42,280 thing levels up, Oh my God it is the coolest looking fire in the 925 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:46,400 entire game. I wish I picked the little ice 926 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:47,800 bear. Oh yeah, cub. 927 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,120 Zero, Another great another. Yeah. 928 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:56,760 Cub 0, Aurora and Barry Ellis. Like not only do they have the 929 00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,320 greatest names, but they have the the they are the best 930 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,200 looking of all the starters in my opinion. 931 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,320 Although the Shark 1 is a close second. 932 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:08,040 I picked the fire turtle. The fire turtle is not. 933 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,800 Great, I I found a screenshot real quick just to hammer home 934 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,600 what you're talking about Now I told you I beat this game. 935 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,840 My main was at 95 or 96, so this screenshot was a little before 936 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,560 that. Here are my Here are my core Mon 937 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:25,560 at this point. 75. Megalobyte. 75. 938 00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:28,000 Yeah, Megalobyte 75. How the fuck do you? 939 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,560 Remember the screenshot? Oh OK, OK OK. 940 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,160 I forgot I sent this to you. I was like, how the fuck did he 941 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,840 guess that? Yeah so megabytes at 75, Mino's 942 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,400 at 24, which I did eventually evolve Mino into the bowl. 943 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,760 I agree. That was my Fire Koraman from 944 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:50,000 Yeah Go Beak level 45 Tora Volt, which is. 945 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,840 That's the electric cat. Thundercat. 946 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,080 Which which you? Actually. 947 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:58,640 When you start the game you have like like a dream and that's one 948 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,640 of the Koraman that you use in that dream. 949 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,760 Yes. And the other one sucks. 950 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,640 The freaking like 3 hands with the three faces. 951 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,520 I hate that thing, so ugly. They're a bitch to fight. 952 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,720 Yeah, no, not really. The I I usually one shot him 953 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:15,920 with a ghost move. Oh yeah, if you got a ghost 954 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,600 move, once I got something with a ghost move, it was not bad, 955 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,040 but at first when they would hit me with like status effects. 956 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:21,840 And stuff. Oh, yeah. 957 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because when you level up the 958 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,160 way I was playing, it did heal me, but it did not remove status 959 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,360 effects. Gotcha. 960 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,480 Yeah, and they're really good with hitting you with the status 961 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,560 effects. The CPU is CPU is not bad in 962 00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,040 this game. It's not stupid. 963 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,920 You can toggle a mode to make them stupid if you want, but I 964 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,440 left that. Yeah, you can also make the game 965 00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,680 infinitely harder for. Yourself too, you can. 966 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,560 Built in, is it no lock? Is that what it's? 967 00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,920 Yeah, yeah, there's built in shit for that too. 968 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,800 Yeah, consequently, the term Nuzlog, for those who don't 969 00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:03,160 know, is based on a comic and I forget the author's name, so 970 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,760 forgive me author, if you're listening, but it's a comic 971 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:13,880 called Pokémon Hard Mode. And he was the first one to come 972 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:19,120 up with these rules to make Pokémon harder. 973 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,040 Whereas if a, you know, if a character faints, you have to 974 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,760 release it from your party. You only allowed to catch the 975 00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,320 first one in each area. And, and Koraman has these 976 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,680 toggles built in like you have like a hard mode and you have an 977 00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,440 extreme hard mode. The hard mode is just if you 978 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,720 know they get knocked out, they they're out of your party. 979 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,040 But the extreme mode is is you could only catch one in each 980 00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,200 area. Well, it'll turn off the ability 981 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,040 to catch any others. And it was, I think. 982 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,400 I thought it was really funny that it gives you a couple 983 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,800 settings just for like making it easier. 984 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,720 Like there's like just a few and then it gives you 2 whole pages. 985 00:52:58,720 --> 00:52:59,880 How to? How to make it harder for 986 00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,360 yourself? But yeah, the but the reason 987 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,680 it's called Nuz Lock is because in this guy's playthrough, he 988 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:12,960 catches AAC dot, he evolves it into a Nuz Leaf and the Nuz Leaf 989 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,880 dies. And so he writes in the comic 990 00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,680 the Nuz Leaf talking to him, like the spirit of the Nuz Leaf 991 00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:31,360 talking to him very similarly to one of the magical beings in the 992 00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:37,560 TV show Lost, taking the form of John Locke and talking to the 993 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,440 Doctor dude. I think it's the Doctor dude. 994 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,920 It's been forever since I saw Lost, so that's why it's called 995 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:49,800 a Nuzlak because it's based on a Nuz leaf that acts like John 996 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,080 Locke. Interesting, I always assumed it 997 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,760 was just like the name of the dude who first put out the first 998 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,560 ROM hack like that, you know what I mean? 999 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:57,880 That's always. Well, I mean. 1000 00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,360 Like a soul, yeah. No, it's it's based on the comic 1001 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:07,480 of the person who first started doing Pokémon Hard Mode and the 1002 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,400 fact that his Nuz Leaf acted like John Locke is the, it's the 1003 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,360 weirdest, it's the, it's the weirdest lore for Pokémon. 1004 00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,960 But it's like really cool at the same time that the the term Nuz 1005 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,040 Lock came from that. Oh yeah, just to round up my 1006 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,840 party real quick, I had an ecliptor which is like this dog 1007 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,000 wolf looking thing with a moon around. 1008 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,640 It was a really. How did yours evolve? 1009 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:30,520 Oh. Shit did it? 1010 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,040 Did it evolve through level up or did it evolve through a 1011 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,560 special means? Level up I think. 1012 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,600 There's two ways that that Koraman can level up. 1013 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,400 One is if it's just hits level 39. 1014 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:47,320 The other is if you get into a battle with another Lunar Wolf 1015 00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,280 and you both use Howl in the same turn. 1016 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,040 They'll both evolve at the same time. 1017 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:53,520 That's fucking. Yeah. 1018 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,520 And that's something that. I love little. 1019 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,360 Shit, you want to know how I found that out? 1020 00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,160 Because I got a text message from one of my Co workers. 1021 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,880 Co workers who's also going through this game right now in a 1022 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,320 steam deck and he said I just stumbled upon the lunar roof 1023 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,320 mechanic. He's like, it completely threw 1024 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,120 me off and I'm like, well, just spoil it for me because I kind 1025 00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:17,000 of want to I kind of want to, you know, evolve mine and that's 1026 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,680 what they told me. And I'm like, that is a bad ass 1027 00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,720 freaking mechanic. Yeah, that's super. 1028 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:28,520 Also it's it's also cool that they built in a different level 1029 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:32,080 up mechanic or different evolved mechanic for him just in case 1030 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,920 you never hit that. Yeah, 'cause I didn't and I, 1031 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:40,040 mine was level 58, so I just levelled him up through doing 1032 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,200 that and then I also had a a Seraphis. 1033 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:45,760 Yeah, yeah, the, the, the flying like. 1034 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,560 Yeah, he's like. A flying ghost thing. 1035 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm waving my arms around 1036 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,360 because that's what it for mine. That that's what it. 1037 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,560 That's the animation it's doing. It's like waving his like cloak 1038 00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,240 or whatever around skin. Yeah, I don't, I don't remember 1039 00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:03,080 who I replaced him with, but I ended up replacing him with a, 1040 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,320 an ice Coromon at some point, I think. 1041 00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:10,120 Yeah, my, my current team is see you went with the, you went with 1042 00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,520 the electric Kitty. I went with the electric doggie, 1043 00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:17,680 although I had that ACDC Quran in my party for a long time 1044 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,720 before I caught the dog and the dog I was like, the dog was I, I 1045 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:23,160 was like, I'd rather have the dog. 1046 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,480 The dogs when it evolves, it gets 3 heads. 1047 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,640 It's very, it's very Cerberus like, except it's electric. 1048 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:33,600 So it's just that's cool to me. I still have the, the evolved 1049 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,720 form of the silk quilt because that's a potent. 1050 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,520 I have the ram thing. I have this frog, which is my 1051 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,640 perfect. I have the lunar the lunar wolf 1052 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,720 and the last one I have is a ground crocodile. 1053 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:55,640 This is out of all the like there's some OK looking ground 1054 00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,760 or sand Koraman but to when I to me the the crocodile was the 1055 00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:04,800 coolest looking and a lot of the times when it when I pick teams 1056 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,000 and monster catching games looks plays a big part. 1057 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:13,080 The the other one I was considering using was the the 1058 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:17,120 armored sand dude but I didn't like its its pre evolved form 1059 00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,120 which is basically just like a lump of sand that looks like a 1060 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:24,600 penis and then it just it turns when it when it evolves it gets 1061 00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,440 like actual like stone armor and looks like something a little 1062 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,760 bit cooler. But until then, it just kind of 1063 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:34,040 looks like a Diglett. Did you like I did think that 1064 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,800 the weasel looking Koraman looked silly and only got 1065 00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,720 sillier looking as it went on. Yeah, I refuse to put that thing 1066 00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,840 in my party. And when I saw it's final 1067 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:45,400 evolution when I was like, really? 1068 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,240 You know that and that's kind of unfortunately like, you know, 1069 00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,760 props to them. There's only 110 catchable 1070 00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:58,080 monsters, but then they supplement that by having you 1071 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:02,080 also try to fill out a potent dex in a perfect dex. 1072 00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,440 And getting the perfect dex is like hella hard because it's 1073 00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,760 like a one in 3000 chance that you're going to run into a 1074 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,120 perfect. So you have to either catch a 1075 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,600 potent and hope that it's levels are enough that if you put it 1076 00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,200 through a machine will make it perfect and putting it through 1077 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,640 the machine is not cheap. It's something like 3000 gold 1078 00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:21,920 and gold is very hard to come by in this game. 1079 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:28,680 Or you, you make these potions that, you know, make it easy. 1080 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,440 Did they increase the, the encounter rate? 1081 00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,920 And and I didn't really like that they tied stats to the 1082 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:41,720 color changes because now that means that if all you have our 1083 00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,840 standard Koraman like you're, they're not ever going to be the 1084 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,280 best they can be ever. Like that was actually a 1085 00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,600 sticking point for me. That's, I don't know, it didn't 1086 00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,640 bother me too much, but I also, I've never been on the whole 1087 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,440 like EV train and stuff like that, so that that stuff's 1088 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,120 usually beyond me in Pokémon, so I didn't really worry about it. 1089 00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,720 And they do have a similar mechanic, though the the 1090 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,040 potential no, no, no. Absolutely, absolutely. 1091 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,840 I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying like, that's not 1092 00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,120 something I normally go for. So I didn't even bother to 1093 00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,000 notice really that I just was like, oh, OK, so they have two 1094 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,040 different versions of shiny and they're a little better stat. 1095 00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,160 Yeah, that's just the way I looked at it. 1096 00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:25,480 Question for you, Sir. Did you like me save like almost 1097 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,440 all of your good spinners just in case you came across 1098 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,240 something you needed? Yeah. 1099 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:34,920 So like I. Use standard and silver unless I 1100 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,000 come across something that I really really really want to use 1101 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,040 in my party, and then I'll use the elemental ones. 1102 00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,880 OK, no, I'll, I guess I should rephrase. 1103 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,920 I would use the elemental ones if I, yeah, like like you said, 1104 00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,920 like if I wanted something. But like I also had a plethora 1105 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:53,320 of golden spinners and I had a platinum spinner and I never 1106 00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:57,200 once came across anything that I felt worthy of that platinum 1107 00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,520 spinner. And it's because I was like, OK, 1108 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,720 so maybe there's a legendary. You can't cut. 1109 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,160 You know, come across Then I just kept get, yeah, I kept 1110 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:05,840 getting into these fights with these Titans and you couldn't 1111 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:06,840 catch them. So I'm like, well, what's the 1112 01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:08,440 fucking point? There is none. 1113 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:10,680 That's another sticking point I had with this game. 1114 01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:12,640 Why the why the fuck can't you catch the Titans? 1115 01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,720 I understand. Like during the main storyline 1116 01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,600 of the game, you're just looking to get the essence and they're 1117 01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,440 not dead. After you knock them out, you 1118 01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,720 just defeat them and they're like, here's here you go. 1119 01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:28,400 You're you've passed my test. But postgame you're telling me 1120 01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,120 you can't catch them? That I don't know. 1121 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,720 I didn't even go into postgame. No, I've I've looked it up. 1122 01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:39,240 The Titans are just, do you remember in Nexamon Extinction? 1123 01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,080 I think there were a couple of like Nexamon you just could not 1124 01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,040 catch. They were just part of the story 1125 01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:45,760 and that was it. Yeah, it's the same thing with 1126 01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,720 the Titans, which sucks because the Titans look badass and I 1127 01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,920 really wanted them in my party. Right. 1128 01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:52,320 I was like, there's five of them. 1129 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:54,840 I got 6 slots. Actually, I was like, there's 1130 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,160 six of them. I got 6 slots. 1131 01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,280 Let me get them six Titans and that'd be my party. 1132 01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:02,440 Maybe they wanted to avoid that, but that also takes away from 1133 01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,840 the postgame. There's not a lot of postgame 1134 01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,600 here. Finish the, finish the Corodex, 1135 01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:08,800 and that's kind of pretty much it. 1136 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:13,360 An online multiplayer which requires you to get perfects in 1137 01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:14,680 order to actually stand a chance. 1138 01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,160 So that that's a time sink, I guess, yeah. 1139 01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:23,240 I I put my Steam says 56 hours, take off, leaving it on for like 1140 01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,720 a day. So 32 hours or so. 1141 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:26,480 I put it in this. It was. 1142 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,240 It was. Yeah, it's fun. 1143 01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,200 Yeah, it's fun, and even then there's parts of it that aren't 1144 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,320 like the puzzles. Not a fan. 1145 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:34,960 Oh, yeah, What? Thank you. 1146 01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,520 The thing that I mentioned earlier as the Chekhov's Gun is 1147 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:40,920 that this thing does things that Pokémon does that I don't. 1148 01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:42,080 That being ice. Puzzles. 1149 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:47,360 Yeah, I hate those. I didn't like the treadmill 1150 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:49,680 posters either with the arrows. Oh. 1151 01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,840 Fucking hate. And then they combined it. 1152 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,760 I hate that. And then they combined it with a 1153 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,800 door system. I almost dropped off of the game 1154 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,000 at that point. When I got to the floor of that 1155 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:04,320 first tower where it was the arrow platforms and the locked 1156 01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,240 doors, the locked letter doors, I legit almost dropped the game. 1157 01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:12,080 I actually took a screenshot and I almost sent the screenshot in 1158 01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:14,080 a group chat saying, OK, I'm done. 1159 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:17,840 And then I, I just ended up getting through it and I, I 1160 01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:19,360 played more of the game. Glad I did. 1161 01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,960 But yeah, and then and then I got into more like, like the 1162 01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,080 Titans are basically the gems of this game. 1163 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:31,080 And so you have to pass their test before you can fight them 1164 01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,680 and get their essence. So the first Titan was electric 1165 01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:38,240 and so you had to climb a tower of a power plant and that's 1166 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,400 where the where those platforms and doors were. 1167 01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,680 The second one was ghost and he basically turned you into a 1168 01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:49,040 ghost and sent you to a ghost realm and you had to save the 1169 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,560 spirits and, and, and I didn't like that either. 1170 01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:56,360 Then there's a part of the game where like you have to like not 1171 01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,960 walk on the sand for too long because it's too hot. 1172 01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:04,880 So it like freaking it freaking like burns your feet and and all 1173 01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:09,800 of these things are like stuck to a very stupid mechanic where 1174 01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:14,320 as if you fail, everything turns black and then you just see try 1175 01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,200 again and then it like bounces you back to a checkpoint. 1176 01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:22,040 And every time I saw try again I got mad because I'm like. 1177 01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,600 Because it should say white it out. 1178 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:29,040 Well, no, it's just not even that just it just annoyed me 1179 01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:33,200 that they made the puzzles that frustrating to the point where 1180 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,600 like you're seeing that screen all the time. 1181 01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,720 Like it at that point, I'm just like, I'm done with these stupid 1182 01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,800 fucking puzzles. I just want to play the game. 1183 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:43,840 I just I just. Wanna I just wanna. 1184 01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:47,600 Send my monster against this monster and and it's it's, it's 1185 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:49,920 annoying. We haven't even touched on to 1186 01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,520 this game replaces like the need for HMS with the fact that you 1187 01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:55,520 have a gauntlet. Yes, I do like the gauntlet. 1188 01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,080 The gauntlet was interesting. It had like a few different ways 1189 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:03,200 that you could use it, one of them being like a stink so you 1190 01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,600 could walk in the grass and use this and it would make all the 1191 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,960 Qoraman leave the grass so you could get through it. 1192 01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,680 Safe and then there's A and then there's another stench that'll 1193 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,960 attract higher level Qoraman. So if you're looking to catch 1194 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,120 one that you don't want to raise up from the bottom, or if you're 1195 01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:21,520 just training, that comes in handy. 1196 01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:24,880 Oh, because of the way I played the game. 1197 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,680 And so I don't know if you would have had this happen, those 1198 01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,880 fucking items that you could use where you would not run into any 1199 01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:35,120 Koraman that were less than your main Pokémon. 1200 01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:37,440 Koraman. God damn it. 1201 01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:38,120 Yeah. Koraman. 1202 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,680 Thank you. I would pop that and I was just 1203 01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,040 smooth sailing for three minutes. 1204 01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,680 Ain't nothing fucking around. It's high level is my Koraman. 1205 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:49,960 Yeah. Of course, by the way, if 1206 01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:53,040 anybody wants to turn this episode into a drinking game, 1207 01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,920 anytime Dalton accidentally says Pokémon instead of Koraman, take 1208 01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,280 a drink. Take a shot, Dan. 1209 01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:03,440 I'm talking to you specifically. Send send your medical bills to 1210 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:09,040 team Retrogue at. Thatspatreon.com/team Machine 1211 01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:14,680 Podcast Do we want to do ratings? 1212 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:16,840 Yeah, there's not too much else to talk about. 1213 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:18,040 I think we pretty much covered it. 1214 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,880 I agree. Shark Man was the best man. 1215 01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:22,280 I'm just saying my, my shark boy was. 1216 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:23,320 He was. He was the shit. 1217 01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,760 Yeah, I wish I picked him or the OR the OR the ice bear. 1218 01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,120 Mostly the ice bear. I'm not happy with the fact that 1219 01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:34,120 I picked fire, but I will eventually be able to find a Cub 1220 01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,240 0 somewhere in the wild. Because there's just all the 1221 01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,680 Koraman are in the game. They're not version specific. 1222 01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,480 Also, there's no trading, which made me mad because I wanted to 1223 01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,200 trade with you, Dolan. Yeah, I was gonna send you like 1224 01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,360 a decently levelled Korvan to help. 1225 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:54,080 You. Question for you though, before 1226 01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,400 we get into ratings, there is a sequel which is what prompted 1227 01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,560 the remaster of this game which they gave to us. 1228 01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,640 For the rogue planet, I'm actually looking forward to 1229 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:03,320 that. Yeah, Rogue Planet, I was going 1230 01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:04,960 to say how you feeling about that 'cause that is going to be 1231 01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,040 a Koraman game, but with a rogue like. 1232 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,680 Yeah, no, I'm interested. I want to see what they do with 1233 01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:10,400 it. I I. 1234 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:12,680 From what I've seen in the little trailers and stuff that 1235 01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,760 I've looked at it looks it looks fun so I I would give it a try. 1236 01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,760 I like this game enough to give. Its sequel. 1237 01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,240 I agree. One last thing I want to talk 1238 01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:24,960 about that Pokémon does not do is you have a lot of character 1239 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,680 customization. You could even unlock new 1240 01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,560 outfits. Yes, yeah, I I like that. 1241 01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,280 Did you beat the trivia guy to get his fucking? 1242 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,800 Book I beat the trivia guy to get his book hat, and then I 1243 01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:39,320 went into a bath house and unlock the ability to wear a 1244 01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:42,640 towel. And actually in the bath house, 1245 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:47,680 there's either a South Park or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1246 01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:53,320 reference, depending on your pop culture preferences, where when 1247 01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:57,040 you're wearing that towel outfit and you go up to a pile of 1248 01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:00,640 towels and you click on it, it just says I did not forget to 1249 01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:02,080 bring a towel. Don't forget to bring a towel. 1250 01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,840 Don't forget to bring a towel. Me and my dad were just talking 1251 01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,200 about that earlier. Oh, you know, it's wild. 1252 01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,800 Go ahead. Talking about talking, just 1253 01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:12,200 talking about Hitchhikers guide for a second. 1254 01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:14,400 My dad was reading me something earlier and this is probably 1255 01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,000 something that most people, some people know or most people know. 1256 01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,440 Me and my dad didn't realize this and it was really cool. 1257 01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,840 So you know spoilers for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1258 01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,640 if you haven't. If you don't, what's what's 1259 01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,280 going on with you? You know the answer to all life 1260 01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:32,480 when they ask the computer what is it and it says 42 right in 1261 01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:37,240 ASCII. The asterisk is a symbol for 1262 01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,920 whatever you want. Like if so in the multiple, you 1263 01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,760 know, whatever that that equals to whatever you want it to be. 1264 01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:47,320 And the number representation for an ASCII is 42. 1265 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:51,440 So when they ask it what is the, you know, what is the meaning of 1266 01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:54,840 life, it answers 42, which is what a computer would say, which 1267 01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,200 is the representation of an asterisk, which is them at 1268 01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,480 basically telling it whatever you want it to be. 1269 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:01,760 OK. And my dad was like, isn't that 1270 01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,240 cool? And I was like, yes, actually 1271 01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:05,320 that is cool. I did not. 1272 01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:06,960 That's really, that is very cool. 1273 01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:10,160 I I've read that book several times and I never caught that. 1274 01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:14,320 I love when math nerds post shit like that on online and I'm like 1275 01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,120 hey, thank you for putting that in the layman's turn. 1276 01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,840 Yeah, so that's actually a good answer. 1277 01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:21,840 I like that all. Right. 1278 01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:24,439 Was there anything else you wanted to touch on before we? 1279 01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,000 No, but because we did a South Park reference. 1280 01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,319 Fuck you Jeff, watch South Park All. 1281 01:08:31,359 --> 01:08:35,560 Right, I enjoyed this. I picked this with a little bit 1282 01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,240 of nudging from someone who wanted to play a monster. 1283 01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:40,880 Catching game. I wonder who that person was. 1284 01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,359 And I don't know, he's, he's very nice, very evil. 1285 01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:50,000 Very nice, very evil. I had fun with it, I definitely 1286 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,880 have my issues with it. It does a lot of things. 1287 01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,600 It's almost like we said it's almost too Pokémon coated in 1288 01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:59,240 some ways where it's like I fucking hate Slidy ice poke, 1289 01:08:59,920 --> 01:09:03,840 just don't like them. I didn't like the like mini 1290 01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,880 bullet hell thing you had to deal with when you were the 1291 01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,680 ghost and having to avoid the bad spirits try to get the good 1292 01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:09,920 spirits. Like I just felt like that was 1293 01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:12,479 unnecessary filler. Oh, I hated that part. 1294 01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:17,840 But the battles crisp, smooth and fun and I felt like that's 1295 01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:19,439 where the core gameplay of this is. 1296 01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:23,880 And I will say that in the post game there is a that big battle 1297 01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:25,880 tower that's closed. It opens up at the end of the 1298 01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:28,520 game I imagine. Yeah, it it opens up and you can 1299 01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,640 go in there and just fight infinitely I think, or there 1300 01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,520 might be like 100 levels or however you know the fuck it is. 1301 01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,479 But to do after the you beat the game, if you want to go for that 1302 01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,399 fill in the perfect decks. There's ways to go about it. 1303 01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,040 I liked it enough to play its sequel, but this game did not 1304 01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,279 blow me away. It did not impress me like say, 1305 01:09:47,279 --> 01:09:52,080 Neximon Extinction did. So I'm going to give this 7 1306 01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:56,880 Auroras out of 10 Barry Alice's, and actually I'm going to give 1307 01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:58,840 it a 6.95. OK. 1308 01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,720 So yeah, I agree with pretty much. 1309 01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:06,880 Everything you said, the only thing I'm going to add is out of 1310 01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:14,360 the 110 Koraman that are in this game, some of them are just not 1311 01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:18,320 there. Like design wise like where's in 1312 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,440 Pokémon? Like even if you didn't like the 1313 01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:23,640 Pokémon, you could admit that it's design was well thought 1314 01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,240 out. And I feel like some of them, 1315 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,960 some, some of the monsters were just not as well thought out as 1316 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:32,760 that. And, and and you know, whatever, 1317 01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,480 different team, different design. 1318 01:10:35,480 --> 01:10:38,120 Go ahead. Do do you think that we saw? 1319 01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:39,320 I I know I don't. Think I did. 1320 01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,920 Do you think you saw all of the Korman that are in this game? 1321 01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,440 Because I don't think I didn't see them in the game, but I did 1322 01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:48,000 look them up. Because in game I did not see 1323 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,080 them all no and I there's no way I would be able to see them all 1324 01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:56,400 because the part of the game I'm at there's no like I still 1325 01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,120 haven't hit parts of the map yet We're certain core amount would 1326 01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:03,480 be so no like I'm. Basing that based on like. 1327 01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,640 Like I'm like OK, I don't like my the way my starter core 1328 01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:10,000 amount looks. Let me look at some other Fire 1329 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,320 Koraman online and see if there's one that I like better 1330 01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,760 than this. The ram was the only one. 1331 01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,440 The every other one I was like, no, thank you. 1332 01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:23,520 I don't like these at all. And even then, like, you know, 1333 01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,320 of the electric ones, the only two that I think look really 1334 01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:29,160 good are either the cat, which you picked or the dog, which I 1335 01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,920 picked. All the other ones are just kind 1336 01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,800 of like there's a lot more bugs than there need to be. 1337 01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,680 And I don't know, I I felt that the monster designs were not as 1338 01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:43,240 fleshed out as even Neximond extinction, which I feel had 1339 01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:47,960 really unique monster designs. And there was never one to where 1340 01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:51,440 I was like, oh, this is ugly. I never want to sell my team 1341 01:11:51,440 --> 01:11:55,360 ever. I will say it does look like 1342 01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:56,400 that. This was this. 1343 01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,600 Devs first game. OK, so you know what? 1344 01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:02,520 Maybe I shouldn't be so. Harsh, but no. 1345 01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:10,840 I'm going to give it a straight 7 ACS out of 10 DCS. 1346 01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,280 OK. We did get one question while we 1347 01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:14,200 were recording. Wow. 1348 01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:16,520 During. OK, yes, and I will. 1349 01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:19,320 Post it in the the stream. Chat here, just give me one 1350 01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:22,800 second. Apparently you're I saw that so 1351 01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,440 this. Go ahead and shout out him out 1352 01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:25,760 if you know. If you want to, because I don't, 1353 01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,960 I'm not quite sure. Oh, too loud tech. 1354 01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:32,600 Yeah, he's a he's. A He's a How do I describe him? 1355 01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:36,040 Idiot. I'm kidding you. 1356 01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,080 I'm kidding. He's a he's a good dude. 1357 01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,280 So this came in from Adam and this is a. 1358 01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:44,880 Visual representation. I will describe it though. 1359 01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:52,760 Pick your Mortal Kombat trio and the first row we have the Lincui 1360 01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:59,680 Sub 0, Smoke and Noob Cybot and the second row we have Outworld, 1361 01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:06,520 Reptile, Molina and Baraka. In the 3rd row we have Shaolin, 1362 01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:11,880 Liu Kang, Liu Kang excuse me, Kung Lao, and Raiden. 1363 01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:17,200 In the 4th row we have Black Dragon which is Kano, Cabal and 1364 01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:20,640 Aaron Black. And in the 5th and final row we 1365 01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:25,880 have Netherome Scorpion, Kwanchi, Sangsung Shangsung. 1366 01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:29,280 Jesus Christ, I can't talk tonight. 5 trios, 5 legacies, 1367 01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,160 one combat. What row do you pick? 1368 01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,840 I'll go with the Lincui. You're going row. 1369 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:35,840 Number one, fuck you. OK. 1370 01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:37,440 Well, I'll pick a different one then. 1371 01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:39,960 I was going to go in row number. I mean, no, no, we'll make it. 1372 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,920 No, no, no, no. No, no, no, you don't have to 1373 01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,440 pick it because I don't have to pick a different 1. 1374 01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:47,120 You could. Also go with the Lincui. 1375 01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:50,240 We could be in the same faction. Well, I would go with the 1376 01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:54,240 Lincui, but I did have a. Backup I did in the newer games 1377 01:13:54,440 --> 01:13:58,400 I really enjoy playing as Aaron Black and in the older games I 1378 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,920 really liked playing as Cabal. So I will go #4 Black Dragon 1379 01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:06,720 even though I fucking hate Kane but I will also. 1380 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,240 Say yeah, fucking. Out world nether realm pretty 1381 01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:11,520 strong too Shaolin. Now these are all strong teams. 1382 01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:13,880 They are. Let me double check. 1383 01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,400 And make sure that was the only question. 1384 01:14:15,480 --> 01:14:18,120 Because I'm pretty sure it was, yes. 1385 01:14:18,480 --> 01:14:22,120 All right, Well then, do you want me to announce my pick? 1386 01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,320 Now or do you want me to announce it next episode? 1387 01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:29,160 OK. Announce it now and then we'll 1388 01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:33,040 explain the short game. OK, so I was torn. 1389 01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:41,520 Between a game I had already beaten that I want, Dalton and 1390 01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:48,240 Willie, if he's able to, to experience a cozy game, which I 1391 01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:54,080 could say for later on, or an RPG that's kind of on the 1392 01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,480 shorter end that none of us have played. 1393 01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:01,600 And so I decided because May's always kind of a bit of a shit 1394 01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:06,400 show and I don't know when I'm going to have time to sit down 1395 01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:11,400 and try something new, that I would go with the game that that 1396 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:15,680 I'd already beaten, that I want Dalton and Willie to experience. 1397 01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:20,720 Because at least that way, if I don't get to finish it, I've 1398 01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:22,720 already finished it a couple years ago. 1399 01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,960 So it's, you know, I still don't have to worry about spoilers or 1400 01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:30,640 anything like that. And so I'm curious to hear what 1401 01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:34,400 Willie's thoughts are on me picking this game. 1402 01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:41,360 So not next episode, the episode after next episode we will be 1403 01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:44,120 playing Final Fantasy 7 remake integrate. 1404 01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,200 I look forward to it. I have been very. 1405 01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:56,440 Very curious about the changes. I know of the I know like just 1406 01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:59,640 things about what happens and stuff like that, but I don't 1407 01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,920 know how it all plays out. I don't know any explanation for 1408 01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:05,200 any of it. So like I'm looking forward to 1409 01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:05,800 seeing it. Yeah. 1410 01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:09,640 And it and it you know it'll. It's, it's also setting me up 1411 01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:15,040 selfishly, the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which is the second in 1412 01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:18,560 the in this trilogy. It's coming out on Switch to 1413 01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:22,520 June 3rd. And even though I own this game 1414 01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:27,880 on PS-5, even though I own this game on Steam, I'm going to 1415 01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:31,520 enjoy it more I think on the Switch to, because I think 1416 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,680 that's the only system in which I'm going to have a perfect 1417 01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:41,120 compromise of visual, visual beauty, I will say, or graphical 1418 01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,880 fidelity, as well as steady frame rate. 1419 01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:50,040 Because on the Steam Deck, on the Legion, go, pretty much any 1420 01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:53,040 handheld that I own, you're only get it. 1421 01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,240 You're either getting a nice looking game or a smooth game. 1422 01:16:56,240 --> 01:17:01,280 You're not getting both. So yeah, I'm probably going to 1423 01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,240 end up playing when we're done with Remake. 1424 01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,440 I'm probably going to end up playing Rebirth on my own time 1425 01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:09,840 on the Switch too. And then if we end up playing 1426 01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,440 that for the show, you know, that's a long ass boy. 1427 01:17:12,440 --> 01:17:16,840 So I don't, you know, my busy ass needs to get a head start on 1428 01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,480 it. All right. 1429 01:17:19,480 --> 01:17:22,600 So yeah, not next. Episode but the episode after 1430 01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:28,240 we'll be doing Final Fantasy 7 remake integrate but that leaves 1431 01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:34,800 the next episode and we had a a patron. $20. 1432 01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:40,560 Donation from 1 Turtle Bear Man and Turtle Bear Man did this 1433 01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:44,160 with two intentions that I would like to make known to everyone. 1434 01:17:44,480 --> 01:17:47,880 And I'm sure he'll talk about this as well because I think he 1435 01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:50,440 plans to join us for this one. He thinks that this will be a 1436 01:17:50,440 --> 01:17:54,760 very entertaining episode and I think he wants to sit in and I, 1437 01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,360 I, I'm not going to say he's committed to it, but I believe 1438 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,720 Dane is also going to try to sit in with us on this one. 1439 01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:04,200 So this is going to be a smorgasbord of probably laughter 1440 01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:07,520 in this episode. The other reason was that he 1441 01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:12,760 wanted to show everyone that you're totally allowed to donate 1442 01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:17,320 the $20 tier for Patreon and not give us an 80 hour game. 1443 01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:21,200 Now let me clarify that with saying that I don't mind the 80 1444 01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:24,600 hour games. I like the long boys, but when 1445 01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,840 we get really busy, I don't want to disappoint you guys when we 1446 01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:29,520 don't have the time to put into those. 1447 01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:34,840 Case in point, Octopath Travel War 2, which I had to sit out. 1448 01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,400 So yeah. Yeah, you had to sit out. 1449 01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:38,960 I don't. Think Willy got very far in it 1450 01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,320 and then like I got far in it, but like there was a lot about 1451 01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:44,760 it, but I just didn't really want to give a bunch of it away 1452 01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:45,800 because it was a really cool game. 1453 01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,880 And that's just that episode. That episode just ended up being 1454 01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:53,200 what it was. But so like if say, if you 1455 01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,680 wanted to do the $20 TR and throw Untitled Goose Game or 1456 01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:58,520 something at us like that, like that's OK too. 1457 01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:02,240 Just don't feel like you need to like make make it an epic. 1458 01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:04,600 Like, oh, if I'm doing this, I got to make it something epic. 1459 01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,560 Like, dude, you could fucking troll us with it within reason. 1460 01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,320 Yeah, Nate and I think we'll find out what that. 1461 01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:14,920 Reason is after. This episode because 1 turtle 1462 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:18,440 bear man, our buddy Nate has selected for us to play jump 1463 01:19:18,440 --> 01:19:20,240 king. Now I know nothing about this 1464 01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,400 game other than I've played it now. 1465 01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:25,000 But like going into when he suggested it and did this I I 1466 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:29,720 knew nothing and I played it long enough that tonight when I 1467 01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:33,880 saw you installing it before we went alive, I said, oh shit, let 1468 01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:36,280 me watch your first experience with this game and you were 1469 01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:40,160 like, oh OK. And you loaded it up and I just 1470 01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:43,760 sat here giggling. And we will talk about the next 1471 01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:45,800 the. Rest of that conversation in in 1472 01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,440 two weeks, exactly what I was about to say Thank you. 1473 01:19:48,440 --> 01:19:50,080 I was going. To be like and for the rest of 1474 01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:55,560 that you have to TuneIn. So on that note, Mick Plug. 1475 01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:01,440 Team Retroque on YouTube. Shout out again to Willie, 1476 01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:07,240 hopefully he is computer issues will not be issues anymore in 1477 01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:09,840 the near future. In one way or another, yeah, 1478 01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:10,840 we'll get it. We'll get it. 1479 01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:11,920 We'll help them get it figured out. 1480 01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,280 All right. Well, if you would do us a favor 1481 01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,680 and leave us a review on iTunes and Spotify, it really helps 1482 01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:19,640 people find us in the algorithm. Give us a five star or I think 1483 01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:22,840 it's a thumbs up on Spotify. Whichever one it really does 1484 01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:26,480 mean the world it it it very appreciative of that. 1485 01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,800 Join the Discord 'cause I'm horrible at actual social media. 1486 01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,640 Bit dot LY slash TSMP Discord, all capital letters. 1487 01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:35,480 That's where our community is at. 1488 01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:38,240 Everyone in there super chill. We're always having 1489 01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,200 conversations about all kinds of shenanigans. 1490 01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:42,120 That's why I always tell everybody welcome to the 1491 01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:45,960 shenanigans when they join and you can vote on the polls, which 1492 01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,720 are up until you know we need to pull from them. 1493 01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:53,960 It's getting late. 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