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[Assistant] And then the rest of the blue, I don't know. But yeah, anyway, I think it just falls into the like, you'll probably never know.


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[Assistant] Like a lot of the prehistory kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] But even them, it's like kind of like, I feel like the current goblins have no idea anymore, just cause their cultures and stuff's destroyed. Like, maybe if you could go into the first era and talk to like the goblins in Hammerfell and so on, they might know, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, able to speak, I just mean whether they can preserve their like history and their mythologies and stuff. Cause a lot of, you know, oral stuff gets, it's like even for us, like unless before you have like, you know, writing, um, it's hard, it's a lot of it's like, you end up with 50 versions of same story, whether that's translations or just this group makes a slight alteration.


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[Assistant] Heavy burns jumped in for you last time and ended it. He was symbolically you. He mantled you and ended the podcast.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure about that one. Yeah, anyway. But Thor's Day- Food for thought. But Thor's Day 121 says they're putting potions in the water to turn the frickin' Guasgay Alexius Jonesius.


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[Assistant] I'm a little bit scared of talking about Russ though because it's a little bit listening to someone else's D&D stories, you know, it's like, it's this epic tale that they love to regale you with and you're just not interested in it at all. So I'm a little bit concerned that it's a little bit like someone telling you about their dreams, right? Whenever someone tells you about their dreams,


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[Assistant] I just like, I don't give a shit about your dreams. They're never that interesting. Like, even if all those crazy stuff happens, I'm just not that interested, I'm afraid.


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[Assistant] Let's start with anything real life that's happened to you this week. Anything in real life that happened that you want to share with everyone else.


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[Assistant] But I think that people might think that you're stressed though, right? People might think that you're like, you know, you've got the babi, you've got work to catch up on, you've got so much to do, you know, you haven't got time to take a shower, you know, it's just all go. But no, you do actually.


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[Assistant] I'm reading between the lines here. So you are basically having a family holiday. So you're meeting up with relatives, I guess, from Canada. And you're going to probably some seaside resort, right? Probably. Like some sort of holiday camp. Where you can leave the- We're going to Blackpool.


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[Assistant] Does it mean that you can, abutlins, that's it? So does that mean you can leave your kids with the relatives and then you and your wife can go off and like have some time alone? Cause I guess you don't really ever get that.


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[Assistant] But they've been conditioned, right? They've asked too many times. And daddy tries to distract them when he knows the thought part's coming up, so they don't ask him.


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[Assistant] God, I'm still just trying to process the image of a spotty teenage period flax with a giant video camera with a VHS tape, you know, in it, queuing up with his sister who's also spotty long haired in the 80s, you know.


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[Assistant] Like, probably eighties thought park, you know? Yeaah, yeaah. Give big candy floss, big hair.


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[Assistant] And then Chad, Chad grabs her, spins around and kisses her, and you're like, uuuh. And your heart just shatters into a hundred pieces. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What happens is you do that whirligig thing. So, you know, you, you, for some reason you make sure he's going to be sick and then you challenge him to go on the most bumpy ride and then he just projects out vomits and sprays the whole park and she gets sprayed and vomit and everyone gets sprayed and vomit and you're just there like chuckling.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think these are just like integral parts of relationships, aren't they? And uhm, yea right, a lot of them I think are so...


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[Assistant] So silly and just automatic that you can't even sort of think of them off the cuff. They just, they just happen as part of your daily.


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[Assistant] It will happen a lot, like when you go on a, you know, when we go on a journey with, uh, to, to America, you know, we'll just, they'll just crop up like very premium and stuff like this, you know.


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[Assistant] That's not very premium and stuff, you know, it all becomes, it blends into one as this kind of sort of strange event. And sometimes the funny ones stick around and it's sort of an evolutionary thing. The ones that are particularly good end up like being part of your friendship circle of energy.


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[Assistant] I mean, in a way, it's nice that we document this stuff sometimes because, you know, sometimes when we do the vlogs like Terps, Dusty's, Yog Tours, we talk a little bit about some of the in-jokes. We, we just reference them and chat about them and stuff. Cause I don't think we remember some of this stuff otherwise. I dunno, sometimes it's nice to have, to watch back some of these old vlogs and think, oh man, they're a little bit like taking pictures. I'm not saying


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[Assistant] I think sometimes, like, well, how do you feel about this, like, though, where people who take pictures of everything, right? Yeah. That sucks pleasure out of the actual moment. How do you feel about, because some people say, I'm not taking pictures of anything, you know, I'm going to just go live it in the moment. And some people take pictures of everything all the time. Yeah. And live through those pictures. How do you, where do you sit on that?


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[Assistant] So, where do you sit on the taking pictures line, P-Flex? Huh?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know what you mean. I think you're onto something there, definitely. Because I think that, you know, sitting down at your parents' house when you're 20,


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[Assistant] You don't wanna look at pictures of when you were a fucking babby rolling around a rug. Especially not loads of them.


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[Assistant] So having said that though, I think it's probably a good thing. And I think that what you're doing there, you do need to record them surreptitiously, because I think if you're, if they know they're being recorded, it's a slightly different dynamic. Exactly, yeaah. But then again, you don't want 20 minutes of like, just, you know, crap. You want, you know, a 30 second snippet.


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[Assistant] It's only so many hours in the day, you know. That's a very good point, Liz. Slips by. It does. It does slip by pretty quick. God. There's a, there's a balance. I think there's a balance to be had. I think, I think it does, I think having, you know, things that jog the memory and rather than, you know, things that help you remember good moments rather than...


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[Assistant] So I, since I've got you two dads here, I thought you could help me out with something, right? So, this week- You wanna be adopted? Uhm, sometimes on the York Pods, on the old podcasts, I used to tell like these kind of really boring,


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[Assistant] What the fuck? I was naked. In the shower. What the fuck are you doing in my flat? Anyway, that was one of the horror stories. But this latest one, I feel like I should put a trigger warning.


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[Assistant] Okay listen, right, so yesterday I was on my way home. Okay. And I stopped into Tesco's to buy Tesco Express, local Tesco's, to buy some important stuff.


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[Assistant] And I bought a bunch of, I bought like a vegetable curry thing, Tesco's. Tesco's vegetable curry, some hummus, some bananas, all the normal crap, right? Some spinach, all this shit, anyway.


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[Assistant] I was like, it was a bit late, so I was like, I can't really be asked to cook anything proper, so I'm just going to do the microwaveable curry, right? It was one of those ready meal trays, right? So I got into the kitchen and I pulled the sleeve off. Yeah. Okay. And I looked down and my thumb.


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[Assistant] Looked like a wasp, and I was like, what the fuck?


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[Assistant] So, and then I realised it wasn't a wasp, it was a giant cockroach, the size of my thumb, on my thumb.


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[Assistant] Okay, and it had fallen out of the sleeve of the curry, so I pulled that


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[Assistant] Holy shit! And I shook my thumb and it fell onto the countertop. And before I could do anything, react to this thing, it was up on its legs, it crawled along the countertop, it crawled over the lip of the counter.


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[Assistant] Fucking disappeared into my kitchen. Oh shit. Between the cupboard.


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[Assistant] Man, it fucking, obviously it had been in the fridge in, in Tesco's, right? And it obviously kind of been, it had been like, I guess cooled down in the fridge. I don't know how long it had been in the fridge for.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it was a cockroach. It was big enough. I can't think of anything else. It looked like a giant fucking earwig wasp monster thing. Oh man. I didn't even wanna, I didn't really wanna go on the internet. Did it have very long antenna?


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[Assistant] I didn't have any chance, but I watched it with horror go into, like crawl into the gap between the cupboards where I can't get to.


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[Assistant] It stressed me out, man, cause I'd never experienced anything like that. I think, do you know what it was? It wasn't the fact that it was a bug and it was in my place. I think I could have dealt with that. It was the fact that it came out of such an innocent Tesco curry thing, which I'm so, so at my most vulnerable. That's what happens, right? When you're just.


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[Assistant] I didn't. You didn't? Oh really? I couldn't. I couldn't eat it. I just thought. Fuck, I would have totally eaten it. I lost my appetite totally. I, I, I was like, I calmed down.


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[Assistant] You put a trigger warning in front of a fucking cockroach story.


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[Assistant] It was so big, it freaked me, I've never seen a bug that big in my life. Except for on Southeast Asian like kebab shops out in the street vendor. That's the only time I've seen insects that big. Or when someone's eating them on a fucking survival show like I'm a celebrity.


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[Assistant] The only thing I can really think of making excessive noise was my computer's currently set up closer to the front door to my flat than previously.


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[Assistant] Well this was the thing, right? Because it was 1am the other night and me and Barry were building a bass and I was just yelling.


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[Assistant] Beep beep beep brr brr brr brr brr brr turn on their fucking things. What are they doing out there? I don't know what the fuck they're doing. I wouldn't have agreed to move into this place if they were fucking working at 7.30 every morning. So every morning I'm up at 7.30.


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[Assistant] Right, because I can't, it's like a perfect, it's like perfect l'alarm, and now I can't even stay up. Wow. Past half twelve, because I'm gonna get noise complaints, so.


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[Assistant] Everything in my life is conspiring to make me live like a better life.


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[Assistant] But that's how we talk, that's like normal, kind of every- that's not even the worst of it, honestly. So yeah, what haven't we talked about? Ah, I suppose we haven't talked about games yet.


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[Assistant] It's QI, it's would I lie to you, it's have I got news for you, it's 8 out of 10 cats does count.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like these, these are, this is where the, this is where the British comedy's at now though. It's panel shows. It's not, it's not the fucking, well that, that horrible Irish idiot fucking doing that woman. What's he called? Uhm, Mrs Brown's voice.


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[Assistant] I mean, but he's, didn't you see his film? Did you see the Alan Parchers film from like two years ago?


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[Assistant] Don't watch the fucking TV. I haven't had a TV that's plugged into the aerial for 10 fucking years or more now. I watch iPlayer, I download stuff, I watch stuff on Netflix, I watch stuff on fucking...


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[Assistant] It's not a great anime, but it's, it's interesting. It's a good one to watch.


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[Assistant] Honestly, like, it's not, it's not the best one in the world, but it's, it's, it's, it's a good like entry level kind of adult story. It's like reading comic, graphic novels. See, comics sounds bad, right? But graphic novels sounds cool. You know, Watchmen,


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[Assistant] Stuff like this, you know, you guys fucking gush all over the place about like superheroes and Batman and oh, Superman and Daredevil and gushing all over the place about Daredevil.


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[Assistant] A lot of graphic novels and a lot of anime has been written for adults and has turned into some really good, really good stories that are


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[Assistant] Devil vs Punisher, like, what do you fucking do? Like, oh, I'm rooting for fucking Punisher the whole way through, pretty much.


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[Assistant] He's like a better Michael Douglas. But I mean Dexter, going back to Dexter, we're going, we're supposed to root for Dexter. Dexter's a fucking vigilante


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[Assistant] Go for it. Go for it, Lewis. You guys are fucking assholes. And you know what? You're welcome to not expand and broaden your mind and worldview. You can just sit in your little box and play with your little


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[Assistant] I think we can all agree. Grown men who watch My Little Pony. I fucking agree.


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[Assistant] How about Big Hero 6? How about Tangled? How about Frozen?


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[Assistant] Okay, so you like, so okay, let's carry on then. Harry Potter? No. It's alright, it's okay.


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[Assistant] My feeling, okay, is that you have to educate yourself in order to grow and learn as a person, right? I knew that I wouldn't like Twilight, but I read the book anyway.


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[Assistant] I'm just telling you guys that you ought to not just prescribe to this pre-selected vision of the world and not make up your own mind or go in and argue with me when you haven't read it. When you haven't watched anime, you can't argue with me when you haven't watched it.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, but it's not funny. It is funny, and it's good. Like, I dunno, this is weird. It's kinda like arguing with someone who is a Christian, right? And they know.


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[Assistant] That they're gonna hate atheism, right? So they go into looking at this.


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[Assistant] Evolution bullshit with this fucking really cynical like stink eye and they're like


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[Assistant] It's like saying I don't like television. Anime just means animated stuff. You know, you like animated films, you like fucking Big Hero 6.


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[Assistant] No, that's the thing, P-Flex. No, I am never a person who will say to you, I'm not watching that, right? You suggest something to me, I will watch it. I will say, okay, I'll try it out.


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[Assistant] You guys are the worst. Do you wanna talk about games now? We've been like, all we've been doing is playing Rust for the last week. Is there anything else anyone has done at all?


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[Assistant] But they could possibly, in the last 30 years that this guy's been making anime, be anything similar to what he's been doing. There isn't.


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[Assistant] I played it. I played Dark Souls 3. I died 25 times on the first boss and then I killed it and I was like...


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[Assistant] Well, bear in mind they've given us like 50,000 Rust keys over the last kind of three years because we gave them, they were part of the humble Christmas bundle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw a really interesting post, I can't remember which game it was, but they, uhm, basically they were localising it into different languages and they had, they put some code in the game which could detect whether it had been pirated or not, uhm, and they found that localising for Portuguese and Brazil


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[Assistant] Piracy was easier than buying it legit, right? So a lot of people pirated because it was just an easier way to get your hands on these games. So before Steam, before, before these things, you know, Khazar and Limewire and all these fucking piracy torrents and stuff.


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[Assistant] It was just, it was just easier to get hold of, uh, TV shows and films and things like that. Yep. Via piracy than it was to, to, and even with taking the risk that you might get a cracked version or some virus or whatever, even with that, you know, accepting that.


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[Assistant] I think Steam's done a lot to fight piracy and I think Steam refunds is a great thing that will help people cause I think-


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[Assistant] Well, for example, I think that on day one with Game Dev Tycoon, at least me certainly, I think I'd already played Game Dev Tycoon on the iPhone, right, before Green Heart Games came out with their version on PC, I could see myself


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[Assistant] That's the key to like a successful game that's got longevity really. Just that core gameplay. You can do it again and again and again and it's just satisfying to do it. It doesn't need anything else. I think in a way like,


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[Assistant] You've done, you've kind of, sometimes life is about the journey, right? It's not about getting to the end. It's not about seeing that final, although there is a little smidgen of satisfaction at the end where it says, you've completed the game. Well done. Smiley face. I think that that is just the same.


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[Assistant] They didn't like, they didn't fuck the game up, they didn't bug it, they didn't like do anything weird to it. They just almost like put it on like nightmare difficulty.


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[Assistant] I recently read, uh, East of West, which is amazing. It's a great comic. Do you read any graphic novel sips? Got any, got any that you remember?


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[Assistant] Well there's a, there's a great Brandon Sanderson book called, short story called Steelheart, which I think I read the second one of actually recently, and that's about, uh, these, these people who can't have superpowers, and there's this one called Steelheart who's basically like Superman, um, and he just


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[Assistant] Cities and stuff, you know, and he's a bad guy. You can't assume that...


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[Assistant] You know, superhero, superman would, would be good. And yeah, it's great to deconstruct this stuff and look at it from a different angle. Man, uh, Straight Edge Kid says,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think video games and Marvel, superhero films and stuff and, and Star, I mean, I think when I was young, it used to be if you liked Star Wars, you were a nerd. Right. Right.


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[Assistant] And nowadays, liking styles is the default, right? I think a lot of things that used to be nerdy have become


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[Assistant] Just mainstream. And are now cool. And by extension, that makes, that legitimizes a lot of other stuff. I think that you still have the definite fringes of nerdiness. Like, Magic the Gathering is out there on the fucking fringes. But Hearthstone is kind of, you know, bringing it, bringing it, it's definitely as mainstream as it gets.


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[Assistant] It's, it's really fucking- It's like a YouTube fucking let's play. Yeaah, you just narrate every single thing you do.


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[Assistant] I think, I think most of our audience are in that category, so.


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[Assistant] That's alright. Let us know, let us know that, that challenge, uh, on the Studio Ghibli thing. We will see you all next week for more, uh, trifles. Angry dad ranting.


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[Assistant] Okay, all you've done is waste your fucking time. Listen, I don't listen to other people's opinions to let them decide for me.


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[Assistant] I do not agree with what anyone says. I fucking forge my own way based off my own fucking life experience and learning. I'm not willing to accept.


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[Assistant] I'm already taking this story with a pitch of salt as if it-


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[Assistant] When you say the animation, do you mean like the bouncing triangles from the last podcast? Was there a specific animated segment? No. No, that's what I was talking about. That'll come later.


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[Assistant] I like that. I felt that was either your touch or someone who knows the pain and anguish of having a shiny bald head. Yeah. Projecting that.


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[Assistant] There's a great bit in Seinfeld where Jerry's saying to George, uh, what are you looking for in a woman? He goes, I like long, lustrous hair. You know, really long, thick, lustrous hair. It's very important to me. And then he strokes his bald head, like, subconsciously.


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[Assistant] And I, I feel like that, that speaks void, like you know Larry David understands that being bald, you are instantly attracted to very long, thick, luscious hair on women. And if I see a woman with really thick hair down halfway down her back, I'm like, oh yeah, just let me touch that hair.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you, let me ask you a more important question. Would you like to have someone shoot a laser at your genitals? Because personally, I'm not about that life. What if it goes wrong?


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[Assistant] It's a laser beam, it's a bit, it's a bit Blofeldish, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] That wasn't necessarily what I was talking about. Let me just clarify, right? I'm not saying that I want a woman's hair to be...


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's some nice hair. And I like the way it goes, kind of little, little, you know, wavy at the bottom and looks a little...


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[Assistant] Do you know what I think it is, is that a lot of games now have so much of that sort of puzzle element to them anyway, that games back then were much simpler and you couldn't


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[Assistant] And, I mean, for instance, if you look at something like Firewatch, for instance, which I wasn't a fan of it, but it is essentially a point and click adventure that's 3D.


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[Assistant] So, it's kind of, I think it's quite similar in a way that, uhm, the games now have said, well, we can still do that.


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[Assistant] But in a, in a different and, and, and more sort of expansive way than just having a simple 2D pixel art guy walks into frame, goofy line, goofy line. And you need to combine the gum with the guy's ear to steal his earwax and then use that on the machine. And it's just.


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[Assistant] You know, I also just think uhm, maybe people sort of have changed their, their, what they want from a game. Like maybe the, the mass market for putting clicks has just, just isn't there anymore. Like you get, like how many Westerns get made these days? You know, not many.


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[Assistant] And that used to be pretty much all that was made. If you look at, if you turn on Film 4 or BBC 2 or whatever, you flick it around during the day for a movie, it'll be a friggin' western. Cause they're cheap as chips and there's a billion of them. And they're all the same, right? But at that time people loved watching westerns. And now westerns are super rare and they only really come out, they're like ultra gritty and grim.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, or, you know, like True Grit or, uhm, what was that one called?


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[Assistant] I think the thing with Starcraft 2, specifically when it comes to that is that they wanted to make it not accessible to, but to appeal to pro gamers and to have that high skill cap. And if you can just click


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[Assistant] For instance, to talk about making things easier, this patch is coming out for Dota, this spring cleaning patch.


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[Assistant] And the idea that you have to do something because the enemy's doing it, well then the response that you do to that, and we had this in a game the other day, is they stack the camps and you go as a group and steal their stacks.


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[Assistant] So it's like, or you can make your own stacks or you can just lose because their car is going to get more farm or you can, you know, there, there are multiple responses to that situation. And I, I kind of like that variety. And I also think what you were saying about how the camp stacking was probably an accident. I agree. It almost certainly was a simple check.


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[Assistant] Like, so imagine that you have these little areas in the jungle, which is sort of a neutral area, and there are monsters that just randomly spawn on the minute mark.


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[Assistant] Go and attack the enemies. They'll follow you out of the spawn box. If there's nothing in there, some new neutrals will spawn in. You walk away.


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[Assistant] I've been working on this imaginary version of Civ 6 and I've been writing this big list of documents and I've been thinking about how it works.


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[Assistant] If you go into my living room, I'm generally sat there in my underwear, there's like candles around, and in the middle of the living room there's like a framed picture of Sid covered in like kiss marks, and all my notes around that, and occasionally I say a prayer to Microprose Games or whoever made the relationship.


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[Assistant] This is going to change my notes about everything. I'm like, scrapping a whole wall just quickly. Yea, no, I just-


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[Assistant] No, I've started to take time out every day to, instead of just napping, like I used to be on two naps a day, cause I love napping it up, right? So I trim that back to- Nice, I respect that.


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[Assistant] It's great. I've trimmed it back to one nap and then one thinking time. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, patented period thinking time. So I just, I lie on the sofa, I cover my eyes so it's like dark, I'm listening out, the kids are playing, they're drawing and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And I'm just like zoned out, the TV's off and everything. And I'll just let my mind sort of wander and I'll just think, but I won't worry about stuff. Like I won't sit there, my wife, if she has any spare time, she worries. That's what she does with her spare thinking time is she frets and she plans and she thinks, oh, we should really get this done and we've got to worry about that. Whereas I just zone out everything.


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[Assistant] And I just think, I just let my mind wander and imagine stuff. So I've started thinking about Civ 6. So I'm imagining, sitting down and playing my imaginary version of Civ 6 and the stuff I'd like to see in it and how I think the game will play out and the stuff that I think


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[Assistant] has gone wrong and I really think over the mechanics of civilization and what I would like to change and then how I would fit that into my version of Civ.


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[Assistant] So think about the way, and this is true of pretty much all 4X games, alright? How do they handle population growth? Here's how they handle it.


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[Assistant] So what I'm thinking is the population will continue to grow, but you better have farmland there to support that population. So, and also think about this, it's not like the government says, you go out and farm that field.


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[Assistant] They just pe- like, farmers exist. That's how they make their living. Same as people who are lumberjacks or cattle ranchers or whatever. That's what they do.


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[Assistant] If you're using a lot of trees, like if I want to build Spearman, we're gonna need some, uh, we're gonna need some trees for that.


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[Assistant] You know, we're gonna need some, we're gonna need some metal for the, for the points and stuff. So, you start off with a sort of vague view of your surroundings, but rather than have a, oh, I wanna build a city here, but it's three tiles short of that forest and, oh, it'll need to be near this hill, like,


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[Assistant] That's, that's stupid. There's no way people are gonna go. It's just too far for us to get to that vital resource. I hate that.


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[Assistant] So I wanted to be more about a province and, and the people expand so that you get an idea of the fact that, well, we're using this forest and we're using this river and we're using these hills, so we consider this part of our shit. This is our shit right here because we use it. So if you can...


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[Assistant] You know, legitimately lay claim to the fact that you're using a forest. That's your forest. That's how shit works. It's not like there's a hard border that exists. There's three tiles in this direction, that direction. That's bullshit. It makes it like a board game. I want it to grow in relation to the geography and how you use it.


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[Assistant] Well, let's say you want to help grow the population. For instance, don't have any wars, right? Wars should cost population. That's where soldiers come from. Not from a hammer.


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[Assistant] Right, but the point is that that is still population, isn't it? That is still population.


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[Assistant] Lots and lots and lots of people died. Troop losses, yeaah. Maybe troop losses, you could say, obviously they were almost all dudes, but, but either way, it's still costing you population. Men are people too, Lewis, you monster.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't just be able to churn out dozens of units, because where all these dudes come from? You don't just make a bow and a man appears to hold the bow, so you wouldn't be able to have a civilization that's just expanding this vast military beyond the-


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[Assistant] The means of its population. So let's say you want to gear up for war, you're thinking we need some more people. So I'd have like, instead of just a city state, there would be minor nations.


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[Assistant] Your national character, because you're known and your people are part of that.


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[Assistant] That system of oppression and conquest. So you're not gonna, you know, there'll be benefits, for instance, perhaps in that, uh, scenario, you might have less, uh, culture and artists, but you might be very good at, like, military science and production and stuff. So...


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[Assistant] Your civilization would be shaped not by some decision made on high, like, I'm gonna be rational now because I've researched rational. It's like, well no, because what have you done to actually grow to that point?


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[Assistant] Like if you've built a lot of libraries and you've focused on science and stuff, your civilization is going to be more of a scientific civilization and their nature will be defined by their history. So I like that, I want to see it grow rather than just a simple of very board gamey choices.


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[Assistant] We're gonna build it here so I can get this horse and that hill and that tree and that mountain. I want it to be, well, we've been using that river and we've been using that tree, so that's our borders. Those are our boundaries. And it grows in little towns and villages and shit. I love all that stuff.


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[Assistant] Have you not noticed the way porn has changed? There's no story. Where's the story? No, it's just that there's a woman there, she shows you a tits and she shows you all her goodies and then some erect penis just hovers into view and boom, we're out. There's no story.


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[Assistant] So you know the way you've got your gold and you've got your tourism and you've got your research and all that. I thought another resource that you could develop and spend would be called authority.


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[Assistant] Okay, so your authority represents how well you've managed your people's needs and security and how much faith they have in you. And also, the punishments you've meted out to sort of give you the authority that you need to do things like, say, build a castle. Because...


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I mean, sorry, you build a castle, so you'd get some authority from that. So if you wanted to do things like change some laws,


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[Assistant] Or do something, your authority would be affected by that. And you can then spend your authority on various things I haven't come up with yet, but I'll come up with it. But it's like a measure of your power and your influence and how likely people are to do what you tell them and be happy and not rebel. Because you've got the authority level to keep them in check.


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[Assistant] And you get little quests from your population, like, there are some bandits fucking up my shipping route, uh, can you handle that? And you do it, and you get some authority, or you fail to do it, and you lose some authority, so it's kind of like a flexible resource as well. And I kind of like that idea of your, your authority is not based on how many fucking stadiums you can build, because it's not like,


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[Assistant] The lack of football stadiums and zoos is what's keeping Britain from turning into open revolt. It's the sense that there's an authoritative power in charge and our needs are more or less met. That's what keeps us in check. Not fucking circuses. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] They'll tear it apart, but I don't care. I've got all kinds of ideas.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Just to see how it goes. I'd like to work on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause that is the problem with a lot of these games is you build the thing and it's just there and now you have it and it's like what now? Like yeah, it would be good to then manage it on a sort of macro scale would be kind of interesting.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine, can you imagine playing Civ where when your city gets to a certain point, you have to go and city skyline that city?


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[Assistant] Did you ever play a game, it was, it was a, it was a games workshop game. It was, it looked like Settlers of Catan, or Four Settlers of Catan existed. It was like a series of hexagonal tiles. Was it called Citadels and Cityscapes or something? I've never heard of it.


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[Assistant] So, Mighty Empires, for anyone wondering, was the name of the board game I was talking about. Mighty Empires. It was an old, old Games Workshop game. It was still made when they did miniatures under Citadel Miniatures, which I think was a company that was presumably absorbed by Games Workshop to make miniatures.


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[Assistant] But uhm, it was, you had a bunch of hexes, like Settlers of Catan, you turned them all the other way up and then you drew them and you built a map.


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[Assistant] But what you were meant to do was then, for each battle on the Mighty Empires map, the end goal was that that would then be a Warhammer Fantasy Battle battle. So you wouldn't just roll a couple of dice, you'd go spend a weekend fighting that battle between the orcs and the men at this river crossing. So you'd have to set up your Warhammer Fantasy Battles map.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, there it is. Only the AI will probably be garbage because, god bless them, they can't code AI to save their lives, those boys, but they'll give it a go.


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[Assistant] It was, it was really good. I mean, Rome Total War, the first one, the originally medieval Total War felt really good, and then the second one was really good. Shogun, like the Total War Shogun 2 was the best that they've made, in my opinion. It was incredible. It was a genuinely really, really good game. But the, the problem is alright, you know, maybe you find the battles boring or whatever.


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[Assistant] The AI in the battles is routinely at release, just unplayable. Like at an empire, you would have these sieges, and the game was broken, the AI would never attack.


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[Assistant] If you, you couldn't leave your Citadel, because then they would easily win, so you just had to wait out the battle timer. And it would be like, you would have to tick the option that says, please limit battles to one hour.


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[Assistant] So you'd have to take one hour and then fast forward the game and wait about eight minutes for it to fast forward through the hours. Everyone just stands there on the battlements and his guys all stand there watching from afar. And that was like the average siege in Empire for me.


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[Assistant] Or they would just go, hey, cavalry are quick, so they'll get to the enemy first. So the cavalry, the enemy cavalry just runs at you, you obliterate them, and then his infantry come to you, you obliterate them, because you've got cavalry and they haven't. It's like, well, did you guys not test this? Like, that's the problem I have with the game, is that AI is just like, awful.


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[Assistant] The big battles, I mean there are, there are some, you can have some great battles in it, really. There's nothing quite like it, but the problem is that you need to get all these community mods.


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[Assistant] What they analyze about what you're doing, it's very easy to manipulate the AI with sort of faints and things, and they always buy it.


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[Assistant] But think about how many games are there like Civ? Endless Legend is the first game to come along that's anything like Civ in ages. And it's basically a fantasy setting, because otherwise people would compare it to Civ. Like, give me a historical 4X game that isn't Civilization. That's come out in the last five years.


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[Assistant] So that came out around Civ 4. Uhm, and the original is way better than the remake, I think. The original.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw the, the, every time I look on Steam friends, you guys factorioing it up. I'm like, wow, that must be good. And then I watched a video of it and I was like, I ain't got time. We're finished.


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[Assistant] Vote for me. There was a game, there was a game in the, in the early nineties called A train. A dash train.


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[Assistant] That's right, like you go pick up the blocks and move them to somewhere where they wanted triangles or something, like you moved things. And it was a similar kind of thing.


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[Assistant] That's like, uh, when we did the Anno, uhm, 1404 Lewis, and it was, it was nice.


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[Assistant] I've been, you know, get it, yea, get back in shape.


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[Assistant] I'll run along and I'll be in a car ahead of you dangling some, some, some tangos or something from a stick. Just dangling the tangos, you'll be running after them. Lifting logs.


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[Assistant] It always amazes me when you get people who still play that one game over and over again, they play all the mods, they replay it in different ways, it's the same. It just blows my mind. Like I enjoyed Fallout, but I haven't played it in months.


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[Assistant] Didn't we talk about simulation theory last time? I thought we talked about this last time on the podcast.


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[Assistant] Have you seen the state of the Steam store at the moment?


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[Assistant] Let me list you the shit that's available to me, alright? Alright, The Division, alright? So that's a big title. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Kronix, Action Champion, which is an awful title for a game I'm never gonna play. Armor 2, which has been out for fucking ever. The Vive, which I've already pre-ordered. Soccer Manager 2015, free to play, that's gonna be garbage. Hitman Absolution, very old, wasn't very well received. Steam Link, don't care.


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[Assistant] Defcon, again, very old game, already got it. Steam Controller, not interested. Uh, Arena Cyber Evolution, don't care.


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[Assistant] Uh, free to play. Wear the Samurai 3, don't care. Club Manager 2015, don't care. Battleborn, don't really want to play that. Red Crucible Firestorm, free to play, don't care. And then pre-orders for the Banner Saga 2. And then I look through the other titles that are available and it's just, there's just nothing. Until I get down to a certain title called...


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[Assistant] Right, I was looking at all new releases, okay? All new releases. Okay, well. Suggested. So, I want you to type in for me, Sips. I want you to type in Candice.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, it's just a piece of shit game that someone's made. It's like a gag, right? So they've made this gag game. It's... I mean, just looking at it...


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[Assistant] Makes me wanna uninstall all the other games I've ever purchased and just, just go live in a house in the middle of nowhere somewhere.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm Candice Innit. That's me up in the photo, the biggest one as I am well important. And this is an action RPG all about the incredibly trick lifestyle of me and my mates.


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[Assistant] So basically I was gonna get myself a new fake tan one day when an evil singing sensation named Crystal turns up and starts causing havoc, innit? And actually I wasn't having that and tried to stop her. Sadly I failed and she stole my mate's tanning business and so on. I-I kinda didn't wanna read it.


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[Assistant] Can I, you know what, Sips, I'm in the same boat, somebody bought me Hatoful Boyfriend as a joke, I never installed it, and since that point,


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[Assistant] I think it's weird because a game will come along that I become obsessed with, like say Dota, and play constantly. Uh, XCOM 2, finish that, like I've never finished games and I could not


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[Assistant] Wait to fin- I just wanted to see what happened, like I was really caught up in-


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[Assistant] Yeah. So let me, let me give you my cue. Cause I haven't looked at it in a very long time. Okay. But I've got 11, I've got 12 titles on it. Factorio is on there.


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[Assistant] Which I, I know you guys are recommending. The Division is on there, which I know we were talking about maybe playing. Stardew Valley, which I kind of want to get into, but at the same time, I just really don't fancy just having to lug potatoes around in a barn. Like that's too close to my real life anyway.


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[Assistant] What, yeaah, it's, it's utterly bizarre. I, I, ugh. ARK Survival Evolved, which I haven't played.


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[Assistant] Bad jobs? Honestly, I've never had a job I enjoyed apart from this one. So, uh, I hated all of them. I hated working for some


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[Assistant] Asshole. And pretty much every job I had, every single manager I ever had was just an asshole. That's just something about being a manager that attracts assholes. You're not my manager, you're not the boss of me.


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[Assistant] Like I'm saying, this is literally, you know, in terms of jobs I've had, I've worked in a warehouse one summer, just, it was a pharmaceuticals warehouse, so the truck comes in.


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[Assistant] It was two people, it was me and one other guy, and he was, he was at least, at least mentally backwards. Possibly. And they had.


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[Assistant] I get my kids to watch some, I farm it out, so they watch some, they tell me about it, Mrs. F, she gets home from work, I make her watch like 10 hours of, uh, uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Oh dude, you're so smart. Why didn't I think of that? Jesus. I can't keep up.


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[Assistant] I can't believe this was our code word. It's not too late, we can change it. Do you remember back in the day on something awful it used to be do you have stairs in your house?


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[Assistant] Well yea, A, you can always spot a goon, and B, it was like as soon as it had been made as the secret call sign, it was a joke in itself. Like people who came up to you and said, do you have stairs in your house? I am protected. You automatically knew not to speak to that person if they were a goon. Like it was like the way of outing the non-funny good goons.


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[Assistant] Well, they're right. Almost undetectable in the dick department. Ladies, you could just say, I have a small dick. Yeah, you're right. You don't have any dick at all. Congrats.


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[Assistant] My balls are really itchy today. It depends where you work. If you work in a nice accounting sort of office or for a lawyer or someone, I mean the lawyer doesn't walk in and go, my goodness, my penis feels heavy today. But if you worked in a


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[Assistant] You know what, that's one of those things, right, you know the way most people, when you, when you, let's say you have a job, doing something most people would think would be awesome, I mean I'm thinking that eventually it'll just become like work, but surely porn is one of the few industries where


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[Assistant] No matter how much you do it, it's still awesome. I mean, nobody gets bored of having sex, especially with different people, all the time, in all kinds of funky ways.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something. No, because sex is always awesome, alright, but let me tell you something. I was thinking about how movies are gonna change in the next like 50 to 100 years, right? 50 to 100 years?


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[Assistant] Phones. Computers and the internet. Alright, where are the flying cars? Where's the hover this? Where's the hover that? Where's the teleportation? Where are the aliens?


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[Assistant] My point is, right, it's slow. Shit is slow to progress. So here's one of the ways I think things will change. We expect actors and actresses to be capable of doing all kinds of shit nowadays. You've got to be able to act, you've got to be really good looking, you've also got to be, maybe you've got to do some cool stuff like fucking...


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[Assistant] Tom Hiddleston can dance and shit, right? And he's like a cool guy. So the next evolution of that is that they also have to be able to fuck really well on camera.


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[Assistant] So now, we'll be watching movies in the future, like, they'll be having full on sex like porn stars, that's just gonna be another part of the movie. The appetite for sex and porn is there, and we'll expect our actress to be able to act.


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[Assistant] And be like able to do their own stunts and be able to fuck. That's what I'm saying. We'll go to see like a Mission Impossible reboot in 2063 and whoever the new Tom Cruise is in that reboot is gonna be fucking people. And it'll be absolutely hardcore.


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[Assistant] Right, but I'm saying that the next evolution is they WILL be fucking. Like, people will be like, I don't wanna see it under the sheets, you know, I'm used to seeing porn on my phone whenever I wanna see it. Why can't I watch people fuck? And bam, you'll be watching, yea. Future Jennifer Lawrence will be fucking future Tom Cruise.


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[Assistant] Pretty much everything. And the stage schools are very much focused around being able to do dancing, singing, acting, and all that kind of stuff. So, I mean, take someone like, uh, Doogie Howser, right? What's that guy's name?


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[Assistant] Now, I very much doubt you could find a British actor who could do...


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[Assistant] That, like the way he can do acting and he can do comedy, he can sing really well, he can dance, had this big choreography thing. That's show business, right? Like the American actors and stars, it's all the show business, you know, they can do it all. It's almost like vaudeville is still there, they gotta be able to do their act.


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[Assistant] So I'm thinking the future is that we're going to expect them to do more and more and more and more. Sex being one of those things.


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[Assistant] I think the thing is, the things that make you extra extra cute when you're a kid don't translate. And also, people look completely different when they're adults. Like their faces get all big, and you know, it doesn't make sense. If your eyes are super far apart when you're a kid, you look like aww. But if you've got eyes super far apart when you're grown up, these people think, wow, he looks like a fucking frog.


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[Assistant] They tried to make, they made XCOM, I think it's called XCOM Apocalypse, which is, um, which was pretty bad, honestly. They made one that was like, uh, you had to shoot down the alien ships. It was like a space shooter. It was fucking awesome.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think it's one of the best games of all time. Like I really do. I think it's absolutely brilliant. It's a really good game. The thing is, the thing they got was, they don't have any repetitive shit in it that doesn't feel dramatic. Like it always feels dramatic. They always manage to make it feel like you're part of something really big and this is like your movie that you're making as you're going along.


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[Assistant] Dude, it was brutal, right? I wasn't playing on veteran, I wasn't playing on uh, like impossible or anything. We're getting through it, we're doing it, we got this great team, had a really good start and just snowballed from there. We get to the final mission. We're fighting the final mission. No way. When you have to kill.


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[Assistant] We killed two of them, no problem, but down to the last one, if I can kill him, we've got a shot, right? We've got a shot at getting out with just one person. The avatar needs to survive, so even if I only get him out, so what?


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[Assistant] I've got this amazing Psy operative, I've got the avatar can do stuff, so we have mind control and shit, we're killing everything, we see the avatar, you know the way every time you hit me, it teleports, right? It teleports.


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[Assistant] But I didn't. Everyone was like, restart! I was like, nope. This is the story of what happened. They came down to one shot to save the earth. And he missed.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's one mod that makes every single soldier will always get the bleed out option. Oh, right. Right, so when they're down, they'll bleed out. You've got four turns to get to them. You might think that makes it easier, but it does a little bit because you don't just get, because sometimes I was getting guys who were like really high level just getting one-shotted. Like they got unlucky, they got critted, they're one-shot, they're dead.


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[Assistant] I'm like, but that's like a restart if I lose a guy like that. Like I can't go without these two guys. Like that's it. Our squad is now two experienced guys and four rookies and we're like doing a black site mission. It's like impossible.


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[Assistant] So with the bleed out option, you can save those guys, but getting them out in itself.


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[Assistant] It's dramatic because we call down the evac, you're running under fire, picking him up, getting out. That's great. Like I like that. So I think it made it a better story.


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[Assistant] I remember going around there and he had these Super Nintendo controllers and there were tooth marks all over the controllers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, and you're competing to, to have like, maybe you go tourism, so you build like a tourist based city. Yeah. And you're trying to out-tourist the other, the other cities and that would be interesting actually. Like, uh, it'd be pretty fun. Yeah. You could like totally sabotage their cities and shit. That would be funny.


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[Assistant] You know what I watched the other day, this was a thing on the news about how dangerous watch batteries are for kids. You know those little flat


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[Assistant] And when it's wet, it just activates. Like it just starts to produce electricity and like chemicals boil out of it and it can burn a hole in the kids esophagus. And that's them, like they can't talk or they can't swallow anymore and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] There was this little girl walking around, she had like a bag on her neck to catch her spit, because she can no longer swallow spit and stuff like that. And I'm watching this and I'm thinking, I had no fff- Holy shit! I know!


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[Assistant] I wanna put the word out there, that these things are dangerous, and kids are stupid, keep away from your kids. I made my kids watch that, I made them watch that news report. It was on and I said, kids watch this, and they watched it. And they were shaken. And I was like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] But anyhow, just want you to be aware, parents and children listening to this podcast, don't put batteries.


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[Assistant] If you, if you try to live your life shutting yourself off from all the scary shit out there and pretending everything's alright, you may as well be a goldfish or a fucking dog.


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[Assistant] If you just want to live a life where all you do is hear about the good stuff. It's just like, I don't want to hear about the bad news. No, no, don't tell me, don't tell me. Then you're deceiving yourself.


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[Assistant] That's fucking crazy. I know. Uh, and number two, uhm, part 5? Oh shit.


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[Assistant] It's up to you. It's up to you guys. We don't have to. I think we have to have it now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, they're mostly about one to two pages. Some of the longer ones I just won't do, but there are definitely some brief ones. Some of them are terrible. Some of them are actually pretty good, but I'm going to read them all. And, uh, I don't know if I should critique them, but, uh, I might just, I might give them marks out of 10. I don't know. But anyway.


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[Assistant] Bodega, part 5. This is very different from other bodegas, this one, okay? Okay, I mean, in a bad way? You'll see. Scratching the itchy collar of his dull grey uniform, Ensign Crunkett waited impatiently outside Commander Tortolla's quarters.


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[Assistant] He made an appointment to see Tortolla three days ago. How the scriv can the boss man be so busy?


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[Assistant] They'd been sat in this asteroid belt on silent running for three months with no orders that he knew of. What a waste of time. Three months jammed into every crevice of this fast patrol ship, except for the areas that were mysteriously off limits. That meant no trips to engineering to hang out with his buddy Looper. Definitely no trips to the cargo hold, which was normally a good vape spot.


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[Assistant] Three months manning his listening post and hearing nothing. It was space. It was generally pretty flaving quiet.


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[Assistant] Startling crunket, the intercom to Tortola's room barked. Enter!


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[Assistant] And the door hissed open. Crunkets stooped to enter the commander's quarters. They were cramped. Yet the designers had still found room to cram a desk in here along with a bed, a bathroom and a lounge. All in dull official grey. That was the colour of most things around here. Official grey.


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[Assistant] Tortola was sat in his grey uniform and his grey chair behind the grey desk, staring at his computer screen. He made a condescending hand gesture to Crunkett to begin talking. Crunkett cleared his throat.


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[Assistant] Tortola stood up sharply in an attempt to look authoritative, but banged his head on the low ceiling.


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[Assistant] Pretending this hadn't happened, he continued, lecturing Crunkett about duty and the importance of the morality police division out here in the void of space. How beings could lose their sense of direction and decency, and needed to know that out here in the blackness there was still an organisation dedicated to rooting out wrong and bringing justice to the unjust.


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[Assistant] Sir, I've worked law enforcement before. I've done stakeouts before. This feels like a stakeout, but we're staking out an asteroid belt and the arse end are nowhere. Nobody comes here.


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[Assistant] Because these rocks are empty. There are no habitable planets. There is no traffic. There's nothing. If I'd known this was going to be the mission, I never would have signed up for it, pleaded Crunkit. I thought we were going to be back in time for my wife's due date.


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[Assistant] This is the SS expectation, Ensign, said Tortolla, gesturing around him. We're not your usual police cruiser. There's a reason we didn't tell any of you what your mission was. You're getting paid time and a half, so you're being compensated appropriately. I'm not going to ask you to trust me, because this is not about trust. This is about duty. Do your job. Get out of my office, said Tortolla coldly.


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[Assistant] Cronkite left. He wasn't angry. The worker man always got screwed over like this. He was resigned to it. He just wanted to make sure his daughter had better. Cronkite was in the middle of wondering what he was gonna do when the red lighting pulsing in the floor and at every comm station told him that the silent alarm had been tripped. He ran to his post, jostling with other members of the crew doing the same.


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[Assistant] We're just one of hundreds of ships just like ours undertaking the same mission all over the galaxy. For three months we've been laying in wait like Tridorian trap crabs. And now finally, we've detected the ship. It's docking at a hidden base on an asteroid in the Bolcaba Belt. Just a few hundred thousand clicks ahead of us. It is vital.


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[Assistant] He used an almost undetectable array of ultrafine beams of varying compositions to scan a huge area of space and detect microdistortions caused by sound waves. In space, of course, there was no sound.


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[Assistant] Someone recording a personal log. And when he heard the voice, his blood froze in his veins and he felt tears welling in his eyes. This was the dread fear that consumed all hope in a man.


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[Assistant] Sir? He mumbled. Crunk it! Speak man! Sir, I, I think it's...potato.


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[Assistant] So Tolla stood slowly, stealing himself. And Sunzither sent a whisper, said Tolla. And the tiny scout vessel, the MPD, fired a single subspace particle from its comms array. That single particle would be lost in the background noise of the universe to anyone listening. Impossible to decrypt. Impossible to detect.


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[Assistant] Bodega could not know that the MPD vessel expectation just sent a one bit signal that MPD HQ would instantly know meant one thing. Operation Kill Bodega was on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, go write some YouTube comments about it, Lewis. Yeah, I'll tweet at you.


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[Assistant] I just kind of realized that none of the episodes have anything to do with, like there's, there's occasional callbacks, but there's not, there's no consistency. It's always just a fresh two page bodega does some shit and probably kills a bunch of people.


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[Assistant] I like it when they, like, they take a normal name and they just change it. Like, for instance, take Han. Han Solo. Dan Solo, right? Luke has a normal name. Luke Skywalker, right? But you think about a lot of the characters they have, it's like, uh, Poe Dameron, right? It's just-


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[Assistant] You gotta have the funky names. It makes it seem like it's a cheap way of creating a universe. You just name, instead of just call it an ale, you call it something like, uh, Flobjaga Ale. And people think, ooh, exotic. But I could make Flobjaga Ale right now. I just brew some ale and call it Flobjaga. Boom. But you think it's something fancy.


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[Assistant] You know, when I was at TI5, or TI6, sorry, uhm, there were these, there were these guys that I've seen them at Dota events before. They brew like beers and ales and stuff like that. And they do the exact same thing. They call it like Mirana's arrow or they call it like Lich's, you know, ice block. And everybody wants it.


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[Assistant] Right, right. I mean, it's okay. It's nice though, but yeah, it's got like a dotery kind of bottle. So these guys come up to us. So it's like me and Shane and a couple of the other presenters and stuff were standing around chatting and these guys come over and I was like, Oh, Hey, what's up?


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[Assistant] And this, he starts telling us about the, I was like, how's it going with the whole ale thing? Are you, are you able to get it like, you know, at the event and stuff? And he said, well, yeah, I've been emailing Valve about it and he was like complaining about how we never get his back from them and it's just like a real hassle and how he doesn't understand them and they're idiots, blah, blah, blah.


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[Assistant] And, uh, this guy comes up and he just happens to be standing right next to him when he's running down valves PR and how they never get back to him, stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And so the Valve guy starts, like, engaging in the conversation without sort of revealing who he is and everything. Sort of saying, well, I'm sure they have their reasons I wouldn't worry about and everything. And the guy's like, well yeah, but I just wish he'd get back to me. He's like, well look, I work for Valve. And he, like, the guy's face just, like, crashed.


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[Assistant] I could just see the guy wanting to dig a hole and, uh, cover himself in ale and disappear.


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[Assistant] It's all, you know, when we were talking about people getting angry at video games, getting angry at video games because of something your team's done, that can be rage inducing. But if it's something I've done that's stupid, I can't get like angry with myself. I just feel.


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[Assistant] You know what, we talked a little bit last week about everybody loves Raymond and how nobody actually loves Raymond or his show. Uhm, and we talked about Frasier. I watched, so, so every morning, okay, in my house, this is how it works, okay, I wake up.


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[Assistant] There's no skipping. Anyway, you get to school and then you have to hang their coats up on the right peg.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Yeah, the snack box literally you have to get like these stickers that are unpeelable off once they're put on with their name like laser printed onto it so there's no smudging and stuff cause otherwise you just lose all your shit and it's like expensive to constantly replace Tupperware and stuff. So this happens, okay. I do this and then I get home.


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[Assistant] Well, not what I was for. But like, but even older school, at school now, you're not allowed to bring like, soda, you're not allowed to bring chocolate to school or anything like that.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine being allergic to peanuts and never enjoying the delight that is peanut butter.


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[Assistant] I know, but it's not like they're actually doing anything specific to beautify themselves, you know what I mean? Like it's, like, it's not like, my wife isn't like plastering herself in makeup or anything like that. I think she just, I think she sort of like has a wash and stuff and then I think she just tries on clothes for like 50 minutes basically.


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[Assistant] So I look after the baby while this is happening, and it's cool, I play with it a bit and stuff, and it just so happens around this time, Everybody Loves Raymond is ending, okay, the double bill, and then the double bill of Frazier starts, okay? And this is a great time of the day when the double bill of Frazier starts. So yesterday,


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[Assistant] It was amazing, okay? The first episode of Frasier was the last ever episode of Frasier. And it was like, and it was one of those ones where it was like, you know, they did the, instead of showing the actual footage from like back in 1991 when the show started, they, they, they like, they gummed it up a bit.


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[Assistant] To make it fit more with the story, like, as it turned out. So like, they put them in costume and stuff to make it look like it was from the early days, but it wasn't really from the early days. It was really clever and stuff and it was good. And then, you know, the episode ends, everybody's like, Niles and Daphne had a baby, uhm, Marty gets married to Ronnie,


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[Assistant] And uhm, and the baby's delivered at that vet by the guy who has sex with a pie, an American pie. And uhm, and then Frazier gets this like amazing job and goes to San Francisco and he's sitting on a plane talking to a woman and recounting all the events leading up to him doing this. And that was the last episode.


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[Assistant] So it ends, right? And then it's meant to be a double build with Frazier, so I was like, aw shit, maybe there's not gonna be a double build today. And then...


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[Assistant] It's so fucking good. So, and the one that was on today was the one where they, they're planning to take the dad to uhm, like this really fancy restaurant. They get a reservation off the back of Frazier's like street cred and stuff. But then the reservation's cancelled.


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[Assistant] I get, I know what you mean about being tacked on because I think, I think the sort of, the character that's meant to provide that


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[Assistant] Like, you know, Frazier and Niles are super fucking high class snobs. And then the character that's meant to bring them down a peg or two is the dad, right? The dad is just like this blue collar fucking guy that's been shot in the hip and, you know, just likes to drink beer and eat like, you know, fucking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then yeah, Daphne just kind of comes in and she feels that role as well sometimes because she's like kind of fucking behind the times and whatever. But yeah, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Remember it's starting so early, but he's like, obsessed with her, like, from the get-go. You know, like, all of these early episodes, he's like, oh, I brought dad some Devonshire-


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if you haven't, if you haven't watched all of Frasier, even right up to the end, it's fucking good, man. It's really good. It's really well done.


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[Assistant] I don't know about watching Rocky, I don't know if that's a routine I need in my life, like, I've got a lot of things to get pumped up for as well, but,


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[Assistant] That's overkill. That's, to me, that's too much.


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[Assistant] Tip of your bangus. Yeah. Alright, well, I don't know. Some days, like, definitely warrant it. But like, in a routine, I don't know if you'd want to be doing it like, I think you'd, I think maybe you might have like a bit of a problem if you're routinely doing it four or five times a day.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Well, I mean, it is a thing that happens, whether people like to admit it or not. Whether it's in a routine or like, I don't think I'd ever be in a routine with it. I think I would just be the kind of guy who's like, you know what? The feeling, it's taken me. I'm ready to go. You need to be inspired.


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[Assistant] You know why your brain is just like, you know why it's, they say that you should have an hour between playing video games and going to sleep where you just read or you know, like even


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[Assistant] Watching TV is not the best, but like reading, reading a book or something that doesn't involve like a screen with bright lights like behind it like backlit or whatever because


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[Assistant] Playboy have really good articles too, like, they're not the disgusting ones where it's like, I took his rock hard red jackhammer and placed it delicately. It's nothing like that. It's like, you know, they're really good, like, you know, about issues and sports and stuff.


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[Assistant] No, all the stores closed and stuff? I wish we did that over here. Like, any excuse really, just to have like a little cheeky nap sort of thing. But like, I think if people could get together and get behind that idea.


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[Assistant] We'd have to call it something different because siesta's clearly like, you know. What do you want to call it? I don't know. Sleepy time? Something familiar, yeaah. I mean the kids are doing it anyway.


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[Assistant] They have a whole system now for like abuse monitoring, so like if a, if a child...


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[Assistant] So some of the stuff that's like, like the quiet space, you know, like if every day your kid is going to the quiet space, that would be a big trigger for them. They'd be like, why is this kid fucking tired all the time? What's going on at home? Well, let's do an investigation and then.


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[Assistant] Yeah, schools are much different to what they used to be, Lewis. They don't have a sleepy time anymore. It's all like full on learning and like homework. Like my son, he's four, he gets fucking homework, man. Like, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] He has this book that he has to read, okay? And it's like, Pam has a pot. Like that's one page, okay? And the next page is...


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[Assistant] Tom has a pot. To throw it in so that they're not cheating and just like assuming that all they need to read is the person's name, it'll be like, Bob has a mop.


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[Assistant] It's clever, it's really clever, but like they gotta stay on their toes and you think, you know what, if I was four and I was doing all that shit, hell yeah, I'd be ready for sleepy time all the time. Like that is gonna tax you hard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, but now like they do a lot of phonetic stuff too. So like, so like, um, for Bob, they'd have to sort of sound it out to, to spell it. So it'd be like.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Bob, you know, like it almost sounds like you're saying it sort of thing, so it's, ugh, man, it's weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, floppy is like kind of a tough one. I think biff is probably the easiest. Chip is hard because it's the chuh. They're not like, they're not like, you know, on top of the chuh yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they'll let, when they spell out chip, they'll be like, kuh, huh, eh, puh.


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[Assistant] So it doesn't sound like chip at all, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Floppy would be a pretty tough one too, cause longer. Yeaah. Yeaah, it's weird man. It's just the way that it is now. They're coming up in this generation of iPads and the internet and social media and stuff like that and their whole experience of childhood and everything is gonna be like vastly different to ours. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Interesting about all this though, like wars and religion stuff aside, you know, I don't think now with technology the way it is and society the way it is and how far we've come,


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[Assistant] And I was like, man, it's crazy how soon Christmas comes along, eh? It's gonna be in like a month or whatever. She has like grandkids and stuff. She's like, oh yeah, I'm never ready for it. But what I do now is I just go on Amazon and I order the stuff and they wrap it all for them and everything and they deliver it and it's done. And I'm like, cool.


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[Assistant] You know what, it's, it's so bad though, even now, it's like, oh, so like, do your kids, you know, ask for things from Santa? No, no, they just have a list, they, there's a Facebook widget, they, they can put together what they want with links to Amazon, so all I did was went on there and I followed the links and just bought everything they wanted. Alright. Cool. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] You don't even need to know these people that you're buying shit for anymore. You know, like, back in the day, it was like, okay, I know that fucking Bobby really likes Marvel superheroes, so maybe I can go out and get him, like, uh, signed.


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[Assistant] Fuckin' checkbox, check, done. Bring on next Christmas. Yeah, exactly. It's like, it's crazy lazy now. It's nuts.


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[Assistant] But they're, they're trash though. They're, yeah, and they're, they're customized as well. So like you can put somebody's name in print and stuff. I don't like that. Like I like, I like cards that were, you know, not customized. You know, you, you knew that somebody had to seek out this card and find a really good card. It was like perfectly printed with like,


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[Assistant] Is that they're like a therapy tool, right? Sometimes people will like pour out in a letter and it's like, okay, just send me a le- tell me how the fucking dog is and stuff and that's it. Like I don't-


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[Assistant] They always seem super dramatic too. Like letters always seem really dramatic, cause you can start them anyway, right? You can be like, son, comma.


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[Assistant] I miss you dearly. Me and your mother. Son, I have something to say to you. I would normally never have told you this, but, son, I've never loved your mother. The woman is a bitch.


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[Assistant] But letters are like that though sometimes, right? Because they are dramatic and it's like people have to go out of their way to sit down and think about things to write and stuff and that's when the emotional outpouring comes and sometimes you have to be very careful of opening a letter. I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] There was no culture for texting like that either, you just didn't do it back then.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Man, people got really fast at that though. My wife had a phone like that and I'd look over, I'd hear like tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. What the fuck? I'd look over and she'd just be like bleh, like just like bashing out this text message.


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[Assistant] It was like, it was like those carnies, you know, when they, you know, like they, they, they work the ride so often, the spinning teacups, they can like dance in between them and it looks like they're about to kill themselves, but they're never going to because that's all they do all day.


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[Assistant] They love that in football, eh, when it's a young lad, he's just starting, he's 16 years old, aww. Full of potential. Got his first goal, aww, god, the whole crowd was so proud of him, but his dad not so much. Dad wanted him to become a bean counter, but uh, you know, football, he was just so good at it.


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[Assistant] They're always like that. Especially in England, I find that they make sports seem so dramatic. In North America, they're dramatic enough.


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[Assistant] But there's always just like a, like, the story is always somebody's really good at sports, they get a scholarship, they go to a good college or university.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to learn something that they'll never do anything with because they're so fucking good at sports and then they...


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[Assistant] The pitch was calling to him and stuff and it's like, fuck off. This guy's gonna fucking play football for like three years and then he's gonna get really shitty arthritis in his knees or whatever and he's gonna retire as like a multi-millionaire and that's it. Like, the pitch calling. Go fucking somewhere with that. Nobody cares about that.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, like, I wouldn't want to read mine. I have a cup, we have some of those too.


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[Assistant] Well old people like from that, um, era as well are petrified of like the phone too, right? Like my grandma for example, she's like in her 90s, when I talk to her on the phone, long distance, she is just like stressed to fuck about it, thinking that she's gonna get a big bill or whatever, so she's like


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[Assistant] That's it. That's it. Cause she's like, back then, you know, you could go bankrupt with long distance bills, but nowadays it's not, they're not, they're not bad. You know, we're so connected worldwide now. It's not a problem.


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[Assistant] But uhm, she's not, she's not hip with that, you know. She's not up to speed. She still thinks that she's gotta be careful with a long distance call, you know.


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[Assistant] Yo, you actually dated and time-stamped, like, your letters? That's cool. Yeah, of course you could write on them. Of course you have. I never did.


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[Assistant] It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer using the IPX network.


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[Assistant] I don't think women do it like that though. I think they have, they light candles and sit in the bath and think about it. Like a guy will draw the curtains and just start wailing away, but like women are different. They don't do that.


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[Assistant] That's right, yeaah, so you don't even need to tell people because most people are snooping on you anyway. Where was this text message sent from?


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[Assistant] Hey, another thing I want to just add quickly, uh, before hopefully a bodega, you know, on the topic of things being easy and kids having it easy and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And the expectation is now that things will just work, right? Like everything, you know, everything has been refined so much now that it's, you know, things still kind of break or whatever, but you don't have,


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[Assistant] It was rampant, right, in the 80s. Nothing, nothing fucking worked, okay? You'd buy like a food processor or something, it wouldn't work. It would just sit there and gather dust, like nobody-


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[Assistant] Cared about it. Nobody would ever want to fucking figure out how to do it. It just looked cool and you got it for somebody as a president or whatever and it never fucking worked.


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[Assistant] You know, like, SodaStream never fucking worked. The ice cream factory that you got when you were a kid never worked. You know what I mean? Like, nothing, nothing fucking ever worked. Like, your expectations were so low of shit in the, in the 80s and the 90s. Like, nobody cared. But now, it's like, everything has to work. Everything is online all the time.


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[Assistant] No problems, there's a tech support guy, you can phone 24-7 and he's gonna, you know, everything's gonna work for you. It's really weird, isn't it? Like how things have changed in like 20 years, I guess.


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[Assistant] Ni-ni-ni-ni-nino? N-n-n-nueno.


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[Assistant] I think on the dildonian t-shirt it should be, uhm, a picture of a dildonian looking very happy and then with a speech bubble that says, do you have a vagina?


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm, I'm bad. I'm doing pretty bad. Why? What happened? Oh no. Just, I, I took a, I went to the bathroom before we started thinking, you know, it was going to be a quick in and out and it wasn't. You found a lump. Oh, dude. No, it's not as bad as that. It was just a bit of a, just a bit of a messy shit, Louis. Jeez.


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[Assistant] That's pretty much how it works, I mean, on the porn side of things, for sure, yeaah.


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[Assistant] You just gotta flush out your system and, um, and you're, you're, you're ready to rock and roll. Imagine a world where you're about to go on stage at a stage show and you don't need to poop because your system has already been flushed out three days prior and there's no chance of you pooping again for like a week. Beautiful. It's a dream. It's my dream.


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[Assistant] Like I think that's like our curse, like that's, that's like more evidence that this, this earth of ours is actually hell and we don't realize it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, me and Lewis are in the vacuum of World of Warcraft right now. We've been playing it heavy for like a week and a bit now. That's all we've been doing. So we have like nothing new to talk about. We had to like force ourselves to play Hearts of Iron 4 yesterday. Pretty much. It was fun though.


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[Assistant] I wish I, I wish I had more manpower and I wish I had more units so that I could do more. Like, cause all I'm doing is doing air everywhere.


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[Assistant] Imagine just knowing the game so well that you can do that. That would be fun. I would enjoy doing that. I would definitely tinker away at that for a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] Once you take over the UK, you're like pretty, pretty good to go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's because it'll have been coded to respond to like a situation in X number of ways. It's really easy to figure out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, in some examples though, like the AI in Hearthstone, for example, I think


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's coded, not badly, but it's coded in a certain way that- that from the out-


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, but I think, I think in some specific cases, it's, it's done on purpose.


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[Assistant] Certainly in something like Hearts of Iron or like Stellaris or something, the AI would totally benefit from being able to learn and adapt and do different things. But like, what if it went like too far and became like really, really, really, really good and you could never beat it? And then Skynet.


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[Assistant] Imagine like, imagine a world where the military just got so lazy that they, they depended on, you know, like game AI to, to, you know, manage and plan their wars.


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[Assistant] Can we, uh, phone up Paradox, we're gonna need the Klauswitz engine to plan out this one.


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[Assistant] Now, the simulation says it's 1945, but let's, let's for argument's sake say it's 2020, and uh, we're, you know, nukes actually matter, and uh.


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[Assistant] I didn't realize that was a thing because I actually identify as a computer. So for a league to accept me with open arms like that.


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[Assistant] You know what I find, you know, something like, something that it's worth mentioning as well, like something I always find really depressing, like when I'm playing, you know, like Fallout for example, and like, you know, this, this maybe could happen to us as well, you know, imagine, imagine AI becomes so strong and imagine,


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[Assistant] Somehow we are wiped out by robots or something like that. And then, you know, thousands and thousands of years later on, uhm, because like the robots just don't know what to do. They just sort of meander around and do whatever it was that they were intended to do in the first place. And then,


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[Assistant] Some other distant civilization lands on planet Earth, which is still totally intact and everything, but it's just completely sort of run by these like boring ass weird robots with like, you know, Coca-Cola slogans that they're chanting out every once in a while and stuff and like,


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[Assistant] What, what, what is another civilization gonna think of us if that's what they see? You know what I mean? Like when you're playing Fallout, you see like a, like a Nuka-Cola robot like walking around saying like, hey, bring your kids down to Nuka world and stuff like that. You're, you're sort of like, oh, fuck that. Like the old world is like,


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[Assistant] That's funny and charming in its own way, but man, it's like kind of depressing as well, right? Like, and like, and that's the only insight they get into your civilization is these crappy shitty robots that you've made that are now just like shuffling around on this beautiful earth where there's like no humans left sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Based on human nature and like, you know, the way that we are, the way that like at a very basic level, we operate and like we've always...


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[Assistant] Humans have always had some sort of, you know, uh, idea of like conflict and, um, being stronger than, than somebody else and like the whole sort of, um, you know, concept of like alpha male and, and this and that, and like, you know, what if an alien race just doesn't have any of that? Maybe, maybe they're just like all fun loving.


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[Assistant] You know, buddhas or something and they just, you know, they spend all their time like examining the feelings of like insects and stuff and they love each other and they work together.


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[Assistant] Actually, when I'm 90, I'm ready. Like, I will die. Like, I'm good with that. I'm cool. Like, just, you know. Just live in World of Warcraft. Not even. Just like, just fucking pull the plug. I'm done. I'm, you know, 90 years is enough for me. Like, I don't need to live, like, much longer than that. I don't know if I'd want to.


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[Assistant] You know, if I could live forever with like, uh, my 18 year old body and stuff, cool. But like, I don't want to live forever with like a fucking old decrepit geriatrics body or in a virtual world or anything. Like I don't want, I don't want to fucking.


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[Assistant] I know, but this idea of like burning somebody's body, I think people do that on purpose because they're like, I'm done, like I don't want there to be any ifs, ands, or buts, nothing, you know, just fucking burn me and that's it, I'm done. I don't want to accidentally like,


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[Assistant] No, I think that chamber's got like a built-in defib, so like when they thaw you out, just like, psst, in your back.


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[Assistant] I think what, what a lot of us, I think nowadays, I think we have the time and the luxury to sit around and think up all this crazy shit. Um, but the reality is that none of it is going to happen in our lifetimes or our children's lifetimes. I disagree.


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[Assistant] We had no way of stopping this ship once it started getting going, so uh, we just left you.


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[Assistant] I started playing the, uh, the Nuka World DLC for Fallout 4. Oh, cool. It's cool, man. It's pretty fun. It's like, you can tell that the guys who made it have been to Disneyland, uh, lots of times because there's all of the sort of


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[Assistant] The tropes of, of, you know, like a theme park or like a major sort of child friendly, family friendly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's, it's got the usual sort of fallout stuff in it as well, which has been really cool so far. Like I've, I've barely done any of it and so far it's, it's just been great. It's just been really fun. Like the, the whole sort of idea of Nuka World.


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[Assistant] Um, the storyline that's like behind it, that the factions and stuff is, it's really well done. It's really, really good. It's worth getting for sure. It's the last DLC, isn't it? Yeah, I think it's the last for the season pass. So I, I don't know what the plans are for.


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[Assistant] I guess the idea for the season pass is that you buy it ahead of time and it gives you all of the DLC at a discounted price


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I feel like the DLC and the frequency that's come out in has enhanced the game a lot and made it a lot more fun to play. You know, definitely it's introduced a lot of interesting cool things that you can do and you can spend time doing in it.


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[Assistant] I think it's just really well done. Like I, when I first started playing Fallout 4, I, I liked it cause I really liked the Fallout setting. I, you know, I'm generally a fan of Fallout games and stuff.


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[Assistant] For some reason I played for about 50 hours and I got really bogged down in the settlement stuff and then I was just like, oh, you know, I think like I've played enough. I don't really want to play anymore. Um, but coming back to it now, I'm starting to realize more and more that it's, it, it is a really good game. Like it, and you know, a lot of people dismissed it straight away saying that it wasn't very good, but.


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[Assistant] I personally think like it's starting to become almost as memorable as New Vegas for me, which is hard to talk about.


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[Assistant] I don't know why that is. Well, I think we just- we live in this culture now where we-


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[Assistant] We don't, we're not willing to spend time or money trying things when other people have done it already. Like I think sometimes we put too much stock into what people are saying and reviewing and stuff. You know, like I read reviews, I listen to people who criticize games and review games and you know, sometimes I agree with them or whatever, but


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[Assistant] You really like, everybody's tastes are so different. You really have to just, you know, if, if something appeals to you and you want to play it and you want to try it, you should just go for it. Cause you might, you might be surprised, you know, like.


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[Assistant] Fallout 4, if you read any reviews, like, you know, you'd stay away from it, but I'd say if you stay away from it, you're missing out on some potentially really good...


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[Assistant] Really good moments like in gaming, like there's definitely some good stuff in there. And it's, it's just such a rich sort of, like the map is, I guess, smaller than people are used to, but man, there's so much in there. It's crazy, like.


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[Assistant] It's just really good. If you really like the setting and the universe and stuff, it's really good. I like it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's only like, you know, it was grey before. He might've just accidentally left it out in the sun or something.


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[Assistant] I think Andalf does, like, at night when he goes home. You know, he's like, alright, hobbits, well, you know, it's been a great day, but...