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[Assistant] Let me just set the scene though. Imagine it was as hot as it has been these past few days. Sure. And you are on a secret mission, a special mission. Okay. And you have to run around in combat zones. Uh huh. And also, you've got huge bazongas. Yeah. And you just want to let them free.


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[Assistant] I think it's a bit of both. I genuinely think, like, I think you're right, PFLAX. I think the gratuitous, like, the booth babe and all that stuff and the kind of men putting in sexy women into their games and kind of, I don't think it's cool, but at the same time there is this sort of


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[Assistant] Can we not, no, come on guys, let's not start sexualising Gillian Anderson again and, and, uh, all of the hot women that we used to watch from our...


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[Assistant] Holy crap. So you went on holiday this week, Sips.


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[Assistant] I found, um, interestingly I found a few Japanese words that don't exist in English. And the first one is kind of interesting. So it's like,


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[Assistant] I feel like that's longer, though. That's like, that's the opposite of what I was doing. So, shibui means, apparently, means


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[Assistant] Or George Clooney, I guess. He's like a classy kind of older gentleman, um, who is still very attractive, um, and cool. And Jeff Goldblum is very shibuy. I think I'm shibuy.


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[Assistant] He's very stupid. He can wear anything. He's a DILF. I think we do have words for this, like, but it's not quite right. Look, I respect-


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[Assistant] You know what you should have said when I posted that picture of George Goody? You should have said Sugoi. Because that means like so many things at once. It means like wow, superb, fabulous, marvellous, amazing. It's like a general purpose Japanese explanation that means like


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[Assistant] Yeah, you basically could just use it all the time. It's like an expression of, of joy, you know. Oh, so it has to be joy.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I know it's really nerdy, but I've just, I don't know, like I've been enjoying the, the physical movement around of, it's quite a different gameplay experience, right? Because Miniatures Games, the first thing I sort of realised was that


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[Assistant] Just the fact that everything is measured in inches and everything is positioned so precisely. It's quite unlike, but because it's turn based too, it's kind of like this odd blend that you don't necessarily see.


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[Assistant] There's always this sort of politeness almost, like where I say to him, oh,


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[Assistant] And they're like, okay, yeah, sure. But when the pros play, I was watching like a video of like the finals or whatever. Right. They were like the opposite. They were like deliberately distracting their opponent. They were like being friendly and making jokes and stuff, but in a way that kind of


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[Assistant] Made them, their opponent make mistakes and not notice those things, you know. And so for example, if they missed that weekend token that was on there.


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[Assistant] That would be like a mistake that you want to force your opponent into. And it felt like there was this, there was, they were being friendly and being honourable, but up to a point. Like anything to do with the game, if your opponent didn't notice it, you had to capitalise on that mistake.


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[Assistant] You know? Right. I don't know. It was kind of odd to see because it sort of felt like slightly, I don't know, like not, not, not gentlemanly.


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[Assistant] Weirdly, do you know what I mean? Like when you're competitive, I guess, like in sports and stuff, you have to take those advantages where you can get them, right? Really weird. That is unpleasant.


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[Assistant] Cause I've been meaning, I sort of read about this a while back. You've probably heard of it. Uh, ikigai, it's like the, the, it sort of literally means life's purpose. Right. Um, or, or, or reason for being a reason for living.


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[Assistant] And it's this idea that you need to, in your life, um, find a combination of four things. What you love doing, uh, what you can be paid for, what you're good at, and what the world needs. Okay.


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[Assistant] That is a worry, isn't it? Oh, before we go any further, just to remind everyone that we are very proudly sponsored by ExpressVPN. Uh, you can go to expressvpn.com slash triforce.


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[Assistant] If you're browsing the internet, it provides safety and also privacy, but also you can use it to change your country that you're browsing from to get around things. Like I was, this week I actually used it because


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[Assistant] I looked up best films on Netflix, found a film I wanted to watch, and then when I loaded up Netflix I realised it wasn't actually on the UK Netflix. So I changed my country to America, and then I was able to watch it.


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[Assistant] Remind me again, Lewis, how would I do that? You can sign up at expressvpn.com slash triforce. And that supports the podcast. It supports us. I use it. I like it. If you're not using it, you should check it out. Well, let's get on with the podcast. Sorry. Sorry about the distraction.


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[Assistant] See if you can guess these ones, okay? See if you can guess what these ones are.


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[Assistant] It actually apparently means leaf-shaking wind. The first cold wind of the year that lets you know when winter is coming. Right. And so it's like, it's like the shivers, the shivery wind, it's like obviously a moment, a turning point. That's very cool. Similar to that is Koryu, which is the first one of summer.


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[Assistant] The leaves changing colours in, in fall. So it's like the way that the leaves slowly change their colours to call you. It's a, it's a cool, it's a, it's a cool, these are cool, interesting words that we don't have. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. Keep going.


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[Assistant] Oh, the other one which you might recognise is Itadakimasu. Itadakimasu!


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[Assistant] Close, it's, it's, it's what people say before they eat, or before they receive a treat or gift from someone. So it's like, I humbly receive this, uhm, which is kind of, so that's literally what it means, I humbly receive this, or, or like Bon Appetit, I guess it would be.


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[Assistant] There's a word which I've never heard of called Ojamashimasu, which means excuse the intrusion or I'm sorry to interrupt. It's like saying excuse me, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] They refer to Japan often as a gerotocracy, I think, or gerontocracy, which is this sort of state which is kind of governed by the elderly. And it's odd, but kind of very


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[Assistant] True, you know, they still use fax machines in businesses. They're still very kind of, they're very old school in a sense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's one of these, what's called sort of, it's like a mega, mega, Megalopolis kind of things. It's just sort of this like, I was reading about this and this sort of various mega, mega, I think they're called Megalopolis actually, which are these, and there's various ones. There's like the Eastern seaboard, which is kind of just like cities from New York all the way down to


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[Assistant] Is it Chicago all the way up Toronto and all the way up there on the Great Lakes? There's this big sort of megalopolis there and there's this one, and Tokyo one pretty much goes all the way along because it's this mountain range in the middle and they have the, the Shinkansen, the big train that runs along the bottom. It just, it goes through just city after city.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's a few in China now as well, just huge, like, urban sprawl that goes on forever.


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[Assistant] Really, really, really interesting. But yeah, they've always lived, I guess, more, but there's rural areas too. It's not that, I just, I don't know much about it. I just think it's really interesting to speculate wildly about. But the other one that I heard was, um, wabi-sabi.


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[Assistant] Which is this sort of meaning of aesthetic. Welcome to Wabi Sabi! It sounds like, it definitely sounds like that. Uhm, Japanese TV by the way is just terrible. Bonkers. But we'll, we'll not mention that.


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[Assistant] I mean, we only see those sort of extreme game shows really, but there's a lot of very kind of generic chat shows and sort of quite


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[Assistant] So they're awful. Yeah, anyway, Wabi Sabi is the...


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[Assistant] It's much more refined, it's the aesthetic sense of emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement.


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[Assistant] So it's like, like something that is simple and quiet, but makes you have a good feeling and a calm mind. Um, in the same way, I guess like huge, huja, huja is the sort of Norwegian, is it Norwegian or Scandinavian word that sort of means the kind of warm coziness of a, of a,


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[Assistant] But I think uhm, wabi-sabi could be used to describe, I don't know, like walking around the grounds of a stately home or something, you know, uhm, that feeling of...


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[Assistant] It certainly tends to be an art, um, it certainly has to be attached, usually attached to art, like a temple or a building or an object or a painting, something which gives you that feeling of.


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[Assistant] Just simple but homely but warm. It's tough. We don't have words for these things. But when you do, it's obvious.


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[Assistant] I've got a list here, serendipity, that's a good word.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I suppose actually there's a list here that don't, well the first one is cheesy. False tack you're trying too hard. Cheesy?


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[Assistant] No, you've become, you've become very sensitive all of a sudden. What happened to edgy sips? Are you just, are you concerned that you're gonna offend people?


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[Assistant] Talking about things that were, uhm, totally, totally fixed and, you know, these, these, these songs that are written by a committee of people, there was this idea, uhm, there's a podcast called Wind of Change, uhm, which is out, I can't... It's about flatulence, if you're interested.


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[Assistant] This came out of round about after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yeah, yeah. And it was a time when this is what the podcast sort of, this is not a spoiler for the podcast if you want to listen to it, I recommend it.


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[Assistant] Because this is sort of the idea really. The podcast investigates, like, the suggestion that the song was written by or connected to the CIA. Ha! Right. As a way to bring, as a Psi-op to bring down the USSR. Which did happen.


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[Assistant] They just were spitting out loads of these ideas and some of them just went crazy. Like, at the time, the Scorpions were the biggest artists in the world. They were huge. They were going on a tour of Russia at the time. This, this was sort of the, a song that, that is to do with Russia. You know, it's got


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[Assistant] I follow, the first three lyrics are, a lot of the lyrics are linked to Russians like the Balalaika and talking about Gorky Park and stuff. And it was a huge, huge hit. And it's just such an interesting idea that it could have been manufactured by the CIA.


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[Assistant] This is horrible, this, what I'm having to listen to here. This is absolutely awful. You can tell that the other guys have to put up with this guy. They all, there's four old guys, they look like they're sat in wheelchairs. Three of them are playing acoustic sort of guitars.


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[Assistant] He's like shitting out like a fucking, really dry, heavy fiber, shredded wheat.


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[Assistant] It's always funny to look at stuff in speedo mode and slow mode. It's always fun to like, see people talk like sound like smurfs or... So I'm trying to find other


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[Assistant] Well, I guess it's odd because he's trying to do an impression. Yes. And I think that's the, that's the, I've always been led to understand that if you're covering a song, you shouldn't just make it sound as much like the original song as possible.


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[Assistant] Boring! It's tough to write these things, I think.


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[Assistant] Who doesn't normally, I don't normally listen to lyrics, I kind of am very much a, I know, some people I talk to are like, oh yeaah, I totally listen to the lyrics and take them on board, like scorpions, you know, totally no cause for me to get rid of communism. Definitely. But uhm, I guess like,


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[Assistant] The current place I'm listening to on Spotify is called, um, Fantasy Board Gaming.


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[Assistant] No, but it's like, it's a playlist where I could just like do, um, other things, like even read a book, and it won't interrupt my flow, right? I like having little musical- Right.


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[Assistant] I very rarely do that. I find it the opposite. Like I can't just listen to music. I find it not, not, it doesn't hold my attention enough.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'm not playing, maybe I'm not, yeaah, maybe I'm not listening to the right stuff. I suppose if you do listen to music properly, you can, I guess, hear more in it.


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[Assistant] You have to be aware of this stuff, like, it's definitely like stuff that, stuff affects you that...


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[Assistant] You didn't realise, like, where it came from. Sometimes, like, sometimes you'll have like a bad load of fart, you'll be farting, and you'll be like, where did that come from? And then you'll think like, oh, was it that, was it that thing I had for breakfast? Yeah, I shouldn't have eaten all that dog food for breakfast. That's what it's caused.


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[Assistant] Ooh, that's quite exciting. Someone's died. Who, who is it? Is it Auntie Josephine? Is it Auntie Josephine? And my mum said, yes, yes Auntie Josephine's died. Mum, that's terrible news. And of course Auntie Josephine


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[Assistant] Possibly appearing behind each other, like suddenly, suddenly they start warping across the country in 10 seconds, and then they're all next to each other, and none of them know that they're there, there's no, so credibly


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[Assistant] I don't understand. You can have pillars in Sphere, you just have to have them on little plinths. On like a tetragonal, like a 3D, it would be like one of those 3D shapes, like with little layers on it. Wouldn't be perfectly spherical inside.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess they have their own factions of nutcases within nutcases.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you just have to wait for, for those people to all just chuck themselves off. You know, I don't think there's any help in them.


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[Assistant] If the earth was like flat, it would solve quite a lot of problems in terms of like garbage disposal. We could just, like Zip says, we could just push it all off. Just push it all off to the sub-earth.


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[Assistant] So the water, I mean the water all flows off the edge anyway, right? So we could just let it go with the flow.


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[Assistant] Sorry to disappoint you. God actually created extra garbage already floating in space so the earth would know what to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they can go to the little arcade and play like space invaders and like lunar lander. Yeah, there'll be a Costa and Starbucks and stuff. Just to get it out of their system. They can crash a few spaceships in games and then, you know, like, cause all the truckers get off and play fucking racing games, don't they? Is it Ad Astra?


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[Assistant] Mars! Wow, can you imagine the competition? Jeff Bezos versus Musk going to Mars. I mean, God.


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[Assistant] The Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, you know, it's like, it's like the, it's wonderful. A mediocre painting that everybody wants.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's, it's at the number it's okay. So it's in all of the trackers now. It didn't used to be, it's just got into the S and P 500, which is the big tracker. And you can't be in that unless you make a profit. So apparently they've made a profit or at least shown that they've made one or something.


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[Assistant] That means that people who buy index funds, which is most people who get an exposure to the entire stock market pick up.


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[Assistant] See, I've completely lost now.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of reasons. A lot of people believe that electric cars are the future. A lot of people, like, we've apparently now got to have all cars be electric in the UK by 2030.


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[Assistant] But yea, alright, Sips. Like, and I think, I think people are... I missed the mum-joke. Can you repeat it?


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[Assistant] I love those little cute noises. No, I think people are banking on America and China and the people voting with their wallets and buying electric cars, right? I think that's where


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[Assistant] The market's going, the youth, the youth of today who are going to be buying the next generation of cars. People invest in companies that they think will do well in the future. And I think people think Tesla is going to do really well and make loads of money and be really big and be the next.


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[Assistant] Uber and I'm sure there's some speculation, but also, you know, it's, it's among the ranks of the biggest companies in the world.


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[Assistant] It's interesting to like, yeah, like, well, that's, that's part of, but a billion is so far away from that and a billion is like again.


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone's gonna turn down a million dollars, and I think a million dollars will put you on a path to be uncomfortable for the rest of your life.


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[Assistant] Back in the dark ages, you'd be able, you just have got to fight 500 billion now.


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[Assistant] See, I mean, the only reason these numbers can even exist is because we don't, we use digital currency, right? No one's got $500 billion like.


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[Assistant] I guess there's always been a lot of paper, a lot of the idea of money, not necessarily actual money.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. I guess wealth is different though, isn't it? Because I mean, you're not putting.


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[Assistant] When you're valuing a company, that's not worth that much. That's not creating money effectively. It's what people, it's like digging gold out of the ground. That gold is worth something, but it's not factored in. You don't print an equal amount of money when you dig some gold out of the ground, right? Or when you build a house, you don't print some money to match it, right?


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[Assistant] It's a terrible idea for, for so many reasons. Um, but it's, yeah, it never, it's never really worked for a long time. But then again, the currency supplies that we have around the world don't work super well a lot of the time anyway, because of various other issues with things.


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[Assistant] That's fine. You're doing the, probably the bare minimum you can to hold on by the skin of your teeth to a fairly shitty job working with probably arseholes. Good luck to you. Good luck. That's my motto.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just then people won't notice you, do you know what I mean? I was talking to Daph the other day and we had this guy come in as like an intern.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, that's the best employee we've ever had, by the way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we had this guy come in, uh, and do sort of, and what he would do is he would sort of, he was finished, he was finished whatever we asked him to do. Well, he wasn't on my team, so I didn't really do this second hand, but apparently we finished his task or whatever it was given.


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[Assistant] And then just sit there, like silently. Um, and people would notice me like, are you all right? And he was like, yep. And then that was it. So it's like an hour ago, I just go by and you'd be like, do you need, do you need some help? He's like, Oh, I finished the task. So I'm just waiting. Okay.


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[Assistant] Do you need a new task? Yes, okay. Well, okay, we'll go do that. And so it was very odd.


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[Assistant] And this sort of kept happening because normally I guess people would just browse Reddit or just try and look busy or fake looking busy or go and just meander around the kitchen or walk around the office.


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[Assistant] Just, just like if you work in a big office, you might just walk around and talk to people and just, you know, uh, say, oh, um, no, what do you think of this? And, you know, just waste time.


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[Assistant] That's really interesting. I think there is an art to surviving in these games as well, right? Like, uhm, and seeing through


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[Assistant] I'm just going to employ people for a very short time, steal any creativity they have, any ideas they have for my project and then fire them and get new people in. It was very odd.


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[Assistant] Very exploitative kind of slightly seedy.


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[Assistant] I think you have to be a certain kind of person to drive up to a bunch of people hanging around outside of the hardware store and roll the window down and like, I don't know, like you're picking up a prostitute.


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[Assistant] Okay. I don't know how much, how much this happens really, but I guess, I guess there was a time when, you know, the boilers playing up and I wish I could just drive to a hardware store. There's at work, you know, boiler man there and he's wearing the British gas, uh, hat and stuff. And you're like, you get in.


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[Assistant] I assume online has replaced a lot of this stuff.


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[Assistant] It's really not that, I think a lot of people just use eBay as a shit Amazon. Um, they just resell stuff on there because it's just another place to get vision on your product, right?


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[Assistant] And also like buying up Reese, I mean, you got to understand that most Lego on the internet, I say most, but a good proportion of it's probably been played with by kids and their sticky fingers. And I don't really want to be buying used Lego on eBay because it feels like, I guess most Lego people are quite clean.


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[Assistant] So you just don't answer? Was this the guy you picked up from uhm, to do your handjob?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah mate, what you got there is just, you got the skeletons of bozos lying around. What you need to do is, you need to dig a bit deeper and concrete them over. You know, otherwise you get the smell coming up. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] In the same way that being a 2D organism would be, again, a very different experience.


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[Assistant] It's almost like you don't even really have to pay attention to the chess games. It's more about, oh, she's, the commentators like, oh, she's stuck in this position. What's she going to do? Do you know what I mean? That sort of stuff. It's good because it subverts your expectations.


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[Assistant] This is going to happen. It doesn't happen. And you're like, okay. And then she's like, she goes to this thing and you're like, okay, this thing, this is going to happen. And it doesn't happen. And it's constantly almost, it's constantly almost a relief. Right. Exactly.


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[Assistant] We're going to be light on the spoilers here because it's like, it's, if you haven't watched it, do, do so. Because I recommend it. I really enjoyed it. And I think just, it's enough to say that it subverted my expectations. Absolutely. And that is rare, rare enough, God, on television, it feels like these days.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's refreshing to see a different side of things. You know, I think that's, that's, it was great. Um, and I recommend it. Yeah. What else you guys been watching? What should he, what should he daytime TV?


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[Assistant] We've got loads of microplastics in us, we've got loads of dodgy stuff in us, we've got loads of heavy metals in us. We're not mentally, that's the point, isn't it? And it's almost impossible to get it out, right? Because new humans are born from other humans who are full of all this stuff.


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[Assistant] And we're eating those. Those are the good ones to get because you can troll those off the bottom of the fucking sea. Do you know what I mean? They're the tasty ones.


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[Assistant] This is the very first, uh, Christmas Triforce, uh, we'll, we'll do another one next week.


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[Assistant] There's like wet wipes in there and everything if you need them. There's a refreshing mist that you can spray up your butt when you're done if you need it. The ventilation's great, no one's gonna go in on it.


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[Assistant] No, but honestly, there's definitely like some, I feel like


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[Assistant] For me, I'm either here, uh, in the garage or at my gumar's house, and that's about it. It might as well say, like, haha, fuck you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not only that though, haha, fuck you, and we know where you've been. Like, and we can use this information against you.


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[Assistant] How, how much will my eyes roll when I get to that?


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[Assistant] It's, yeah, crazy. Who would have thought, hey, that living your whole life through social media would have been a bad thing, you know?


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[Assistant] Can you, uh, just for argument's sake, uh, obviously this would never happen, but would the phone be able to tell if there were multiple prostitutes inside my house, uh, while I'm walking, pacing up and down in my living room?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's an exaggeration, but like, you know, if, if, if you could hear like a stream of consciousness coming from these people, uh, often times it would be shit like that, right? Like most of the people in these positions are just fucking clowns. Like, it's crazy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're not. The hard truth is, is they don't give a fuck about you. And they pay no attention to you, and they're not noticing anything about you. Even if you died, they'd probably not really notice straight away. Harsh, I know, but true.


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[Assistant] The whole, uh, the whole, that social media thing, I've seen it on Netflix a couple of times, and I, I thought like, ah, maybe I'll watch it or whatever, and now I've just decided, you know what, I just don't give a shit about that, and I find the whole topic so depressing, and like, I don't,


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not invested in it at all. You know what I mean? It doesn't really have like a negative or positive effect on me. I don't really...


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[Assistant] Different iterations of that, one of them being like, I think, Fanta, and then the last tweet was just, uh, whatever, like, I didn't know. I see. I was too lazy to even look it up.


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[Assistant] Pantophobia, where you have to go to a pantomime, uh, and you're shit scared of it. It's a scary pantomime.


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[Assistant] It's all, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's fun for like a session with like some people. I played with half films, it was like fun enough, like I'm, I'm not gonna really like.


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[Assistant] It's a shame. It's kind of like a summary of gaming nowadays, it feels like. It's such a good idea for a game.


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[Assistant] But it's like 10% of a game because it's made by like a guy and it's not done.


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[Assistant] And everybody is just like really likes this idea and the promise of this like really cool game in the end, but it's going to take years for it to get there if it even gets there at all because of the way things are with early access and stuff like that. And it's just a little bit sad that you're sort of like your, your excitement for gaming.


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[Assistant] Is lumped into these, uh, people or like studios or like just one developer who can't, who might not even be able to deliver. Meanwhile, like I can't remember the last time I was really excited for a big triple A game. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I kind of know, like, or in my mind, I think, like, I know what kind of game it's gonna be, I know, like, the sort of format that it's gonna be, uhm, and you know what I mean? Like, I'll probably play it, I'll probably enjoy it and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you know, like, uh, like Subnautica, like below zero is the same. I'm just waiting for them to finish that. I want to play it. But you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Kind of like I was with, with wow, you know, or like something like that, you know, I was just like, ah, this is this big meaty game that I can really get into. I'm really excited to play it. Like I love like the.


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[Assistant] The, the, the sort of setting and the lore and stuff like that. And I, I don't know, like it feels like all the really big studios are just making these really, really, really formulaic safe games, right? Like there's nothing, there's nothing like that's really coming out from like a big studio that's like really like, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, or do anything it seems like. Unless it involves them just raking in more millions somehow for very little effort.


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[Assistant] Listen, just before the Richard Garriott story, I just want to, just to cap this off, I just want to say,


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[Assistant] I thought phasmophobia was kind of cool. I really liked the idea of it and stuff.


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[Assistant] But my takeaway from it, of it was I felt like uhm, I wish that this wasn't being made by one person. I wish that like a big studio would have really put some time and effort into making this game.


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[Assistant] Really awesome from the get go, you know, like being able to like upgrade your ghost busting hideout and having more stuff to do and maybe like hooking you into the game a bit more rather than it just being this sort of like


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[Assistant] I dunno, almost like a gimmicky party game, you know what I mean? Which is at best what it can be right now, given that it's the efforts of one guy, right? Like, I just, I just, that's how I felt. I just thought, why couldn't like a, you know, why couldn't like a Blizzard or like a big studio make a cool game like this that was fun?


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[Assistant] It just made me think of things generally, and I just thought it is a little bit of a shame that we're just sort of given the same old shit every year, just like a fucking, just like slight changes from the last year's game or whatever when, you know, there's all these great ideas of games.


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[Assistant] Realistically, no, I can't imagine that you'd want to. You'd have to, like, have this just, uh, deep, deep, like, passionate love for the game that...


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[Assistant] But of all the other things that you could be playing as well, there's like, you know, since Hearthstone's come out, there's been plenty of like, better games to spend your time playing. Like, it's, part of it definitely is like, oh, you know, this is what I'm known for playing and I have to keep playing this or whatever.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody realistically can play a game that long and love it. But then again, we got Flax here who's played like 8,000 hours of Dota too, so. 9,000.


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[Assistant] 9,000 hours of Dota 2, so maybe, maybe we're wrong, Lewis, maybe, you know. Maybe we are wrong. He does love the game, clearly, to play it that much. He doesn't, and Flax, uh, we both know, is not the kind of person who's just gonna play something because it makes him popular or not, like, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, among us is like playing Mafia, is like playing TTT, and the thing that makes it fun is that you're playing with a big group of people, so you're not, the focus isn't always just you, and the responsibility isn't just always on you either, right? Not even just for streaming, but just for playing the game, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, there's, there's things that open up that can be really fun about it. And like I was saying the other day about, uh, on stream, people were saying, oh, are you and Louis going to play Shadowlands when it comes out?


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[Assistant] I was like, you know, maybe I wouldn't say like, I wouldn't say never because again, like I'm not particularly looking forward to Shadowlands coming out, the new WoW expansion. I haven't played any WoW since the first month of the last expansion that came out. You know what I mean? Like I'm not, I'm not into it. I don't really play it.


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[Assistant] Right, but there is something to be said for something that isn't anything to do with, uh, like WoW specifically, and that's that I still know people who play WoW. I have friends that I made through my time playing WoW that


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[Assistant] I'd be interested in just like catching up with and playing a bit of WoW with and a new expansion sort of gives everybody that equal footing to do that, right?


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[Assistant] Out of all the MMOs that have come out, those are the two, uhm, big ones. Well apparently the Final Fantasy XIV is like the best MMO out there right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 76. Yeah, technically, yeah.


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[Assistant] I think, I think the big thing with a game like WoW is that with Rust there's setbacks, right? It's not, it's not a very linear.


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[Assistant] Progression if you like. There's lots of ups and downs. You can lose your base. You can lose a lot of work. You can have shitty sessions where things just don't go well. You know, maybe you're fighting against a clan that just completely outclass you and it sucks.


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[Assistant] So you might, that might be your whole evening, just fighting against this like insufferable clan that you're just not having fun fighting against. And that, and that's like.


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[Assistant] Not great, right? You know, you don't really get that in WoW. Like, like everything is just like leading up to you raiding and then eventually raiding enough that you succeed at raiding. You know what I mean? Like, there's never really any setbacks other than


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[Assistant] That, that, you know, you, you might do attempts on that in a night and it's not gonna really ruin your night not doing it. You know, it's still a fun experience.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Eve is the same as Rust in a lot of ways. Like there's, there's, there's consequences for actions and there's, there's toing and froing and there's dips and there's highs and lows and stuff.


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[Assistant] Computer that was used for one very specific thing that the school didn't need to do. So nobody used this computer. It was just like in a back room collecting dust.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he was like, Oh, can I use it to like make a, uh, like an adventure game for my friends? Like, so in his spare time, he'd go into this room and use this fucking like punch card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's nuts to be that sort of dedicated and passionate and that's like your whole, your brain is just fixed that way sort of thing. It's kind of nuts, but yeah, I'm not surprised. Like he's obviously got money now as well, so he can do these like.


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[Assistant] Sort of like big, uh, intricately lavish, uh, you know, real life role play experience.


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[Assistant] I did, yeah. That was the first, like, kind of the, one of the first, uh, online games I ever played.


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[Assistant] I would have, I would have just tried to like over egg it at that point. I would have tried to get- You lost your mojo. Like exasperated mad, like just to like sort of show that I was-


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[Assistant] We've got one over here where it's like, there's, there's two, so there's like crazy golf, which has the windmills. Right, right. And then there's just mini golf with, with, which is kind of more like,


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[Assistant] Challenging greens, right? Like it's not, like there's a couple of slopes and stuff, but nothing like, there's not like huge like, like crazy obstacles or you don't have to like hit it between stones and stuff like that. For the most part it is just sort of like.


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[Assistant] I think that like, I think, I think he's pretty, I'd say he's like an average Dota player, which is saying so because it's a hard game and a lot of people are less than average at it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's because you're playing with people who have played it far more than you as well. Like, we, we had, we had this as well. We were playing with like, Ped and like, Xylus and stuff one day. And occasionally it really shows that they've played the game a lot more than everybody else because they just have- They know how to lie about the tasks. They know when to lie. They know they have-


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[Assistant] I had a game the other day where I did a stack kill. It was at the start and everybody was clumped up close together and even at the start when people go off and they have a job like right close to where you sort of spawn in and you start.


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[Assistant] Uh, their screen is obscured by this job, right? So, I just killed rap straight away.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then, so instantly his body was discovered because there was like everybody there.


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[Assistant] And then everybody's like, all right, well we'll vote out Ravs because we're all there and we, we think we saw him do it or whatever. So like I got away with it, but people, people were also trying to vote me. So then the next round, they called a meeting straight away and voted me out.


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[Assistant] So I killed somebody, I blamed it on Ravs, Ravs goes out, and then the next round they call a meeting straight away to vote me out. Yeah, and kill you, exactly. Yeah, because they weren't sure, right? But then, after that,


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[Assistant] There was no round where it didn't just start with somebody calling a meeting straight away. It was like the most chaotic game I've ever played. Cause everybody just didn't know what the fuck was going on because of like that first kill or whatever. So in the end,


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[Assistant] Uh, they ended up voting out like five people right after me. So like, Ravz is out, I killed the first person, Ravz is out, I was out, and then five people got evicted out in the end. That's insane. It was, it was nuts because nobody like,


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[Assistant] Nobody knew what was going on and everybody was just like, uh, against each other or whatever. Meanwhile, the other imposter who was, uh, I think it was G-Star?


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[Assistant] Was just sitting there not saying a thing and then carried right through to the end, like, and won. Because everybody was so hung up on voting each other out because they didn't know what was going on. It was hilarious.


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[Assistant] I've had it where somebody, they voted me out, it wasn't me who did it, I was blamed for doing it, but then they didn't follow up and kill the person blaming me and he just got away with it. You know what I mean? Like that happens sometimes.


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[Assistant] I got evicted or, or ejected from the ship the other day off of one vote, okay? Because nobody, uh, skipped vote.


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[Assistant] I think it's a thing like when you have a wife and kids, no disrespect to wives or kids.


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[Assistant] But you do, you do tend to sort of shut off every once in a while, right? Like. The annoying young man. No, it's not even that you're annoying or particularly young. It's just like.


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[Assistant] My son does the, the lazy lie. Do you, do your kids do this flax where you're like, have you brushed your teeth? And they're like, yeah. And you're like, uh, yeah, there's no way you have.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they just lie about something cause they just, it's like something small, but they can't be bothered doing it or like somehow.


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[Assistant] One time I got pictures on Google of people with like these really nice white dentures or like fake teeth or whatever, smiling stuff. And I said, look it, you're gonna have school pictures, you're gonna have like maybe wedding pictures, you're gonna have pictures of yourself taken. Look at these nice teeth.


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[Assistant] All you gotta do is brush your teeth twice a day to have these teeth. It's not much, is it? Right. And then I showed them pictures of people with like brown fucking like rotting teeth and stuff. Oh no, you didn't. Very quickly your teeth could look like this and that doesn't look very nice, does it?


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[Assistant] So now, every time, uh, there's like any drama around brushing teeth, like we just sort of say like, oh well, you're just gonna have brown teeth that are gonna fall out and stuff.


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[Assistant] Oh, fuck me. It's a bit like that, but it's less, uh, it's less over the top, you know? But like, sometimes you just gotta hammer the point home, you know? Like, visual aids and stuff like that. All that stuff helps.


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[Assistant] Remember on cigarette packets, they started putting those pictures of people with like, uh, gum disease and like they showed pictures of like diseased lungs and stuff like that. And uhm, I don't know how well that worked, but I remember feeling like, oh shit, like I don't want this to happen to me at the time.


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[Assistant] Another, another thing that we, we notice and we, that we struggle with from time to time, especially with my son, cause he's a bit older, is the...


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, no, but, uh, it's the, it's like the, I'm sure you've had this before too, Flax. It's like, uh, they emulate like their friends, right? But their friends might be doing things or saying things that like,


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[Assistant] Your, your kid doesn't. So you could tell straight away, like, that they've been around somebody that is like,


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[Assistant] Their parents are a bit like looser with them in what they let them watch or play or whatever. Like, uh, like we don't let my son play fortnight because it's just like, he's still a bit young for that. We'd prefer him to just play like, you know, super Mario or whatever games like that. The more sort of like age appropriate for him. But a lot of his friends at school play fortnight.


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[Assistant] Right? And like, uh, when like the flossing thing was happening, you know, he'd come home and he'd be doing that and we'd be like, what are you doing? Like, why?


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[Assistant] Where have you seen that? Why, why would you come home and copy? Like, like it's a big thing for us to say, like, don't fucking copy what people are doing because like they're, they might just be like doing things that you're not meant to be doing or you don't really understand what you're doing, right? Like just be yourself. Don't fucking emulate other people. I didn't say fucking to him, but like, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like it's important that they don't just like blindly copy what everybody else at school is doing, right? I think that's learning though, isn't it? Unfortunately, that's how we learn. We try to like, we try to sort of like drum that into him now because it's like every once in a while he'll just come home and he'll like,


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[Assistant] And then it turns out that like one of his fucking friends brother or something is like swearing at him. Oh man. Or some shit like that.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I used to love that. I used to love, like, every once in a while, my dad had this, like, a change, uh, thing, like, upstairs on his dresser. It was like this brass saucer thing. I think it was like a commemorative thing that he got through work or something.


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[Assistant] And I'd check the change bowl and like if there was ever like, you know, like dollar coins or like $2 coin in there, I'd be like, Oh dad, can I have like the, can I have this loony or can I have this $2 coin or whatever? And be like half asleep, be like, yeah, yeah, whatever. Just like, just take it. It's like in the change bowl.


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[Assistant] And, uh, man, I would go nuts. I would buy fuckin' licorice and like fuckin' Sour Patch Kids and like, uh, like those huge like infinite Gobstoppers and those sour Gobstoppers and stuff. We'd stop at the store on the way to school. So like, it was always like this big thing. You'd get to school and you'd have all this candy and everything.


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[Assistant] You had like, oh no, it was like a candy stick, you lick the stick and then you dip it into the powder, right?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Lucky dip or something, but it had like the two compartments, right? So you had like the orange powder and then you'd have purple powder. So like you.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we used to get the really sour ones, that was the big thing for us, you know, like the purple one was the most sour, so it was like, okay, try this purple one, like can I have a go, can I have a go?


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[Assistant] Microsoft gaming zone. I used to use that one.


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[Assistant] I used to just phone a- I got lent the original Final Fantasy on the NES. I must have been about seven or eight years old?


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[Assistant] My, my dad's friend from work lent me it, okay? Like, so my dad brought this game home with him one day, uh, from his friend at work called Mike. And he was like, oh, hey, Mike, uh, Mike thought maybe you'd like this one. He got it and he played it and, uh, he couldn't get like really far in it, but he thought maybe you'd want to try it out.


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[Assistant] So I was like, wow, great, what is this, Final Fantasy? Like a new Nintendo game? Like I was like fucking going nuts playing it, but it was hard, like I didn't really know what to do, I didn't understand it and stuff.


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[Assistant] So I used to phone this guy Mike at my dad's work. So I'd phone up my dad's work because my dad at the time was doing like ident for the police. So he was like, he'd have to like go to crime scenes and take pictures basically. So there were times in the day where he'd just be like in the, in the office, right? Like either developing a film or.


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[Assistant] You know, writing, writing reports or whatever. So like, oftentimes you could phone the office and catch him. So I'd phone him up and be like,


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[Assistant] Well, they did it all day every day. They had like, I don't think back then they had, uh, this, this is all covered on this, uh, high score, uh, documentary as well. You guys probably like it, actually. You should watch it. It's called High Score on, uh, Netflix. But there's a, there's a segment about all this. The, uh, the, uh,


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[Assistant] They didn't have the Brady Bradley games guides or whatever. So these guys had to play the games, but they would put together these huge binders of information, like often hand drawn maps and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that, you know, when they get a call about a certain game, they would just be able to like reference it and sort of know where you are. So they'd always ask you questions like, okay, what room are you in? Is there lots of gray blocks? And they'd have to like look through the, you know, the book to find the room with the gray blocks and then they'd know where the potion was and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they cover Sonic, Pac-Man, all that kind of stuff. Richard Garriott's in it a whole bunch as well. Uhm, it's, it's interesting. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it's pretty good. I liked it. I've liked it so far.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. We're recording this on the very last day of 2020. Of the very worst


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, exactly. I watched this, uh, death to 2020, which is the Charlie, which is Charlie Brooker's screen, screen wife or whatever. He used to do it every year. And obviously since he's been doing black mirror of being out in America, I think he's gotten a bit, um, more, I don't know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, surprisingly, it's quite, it's just, it's quite good. Um, but yeah, that was this year, unbelievably those, the Australia on fire.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, you know, it's, it's minus two according to my phone outside. It's freezing cold this morning. We missed a week of trifles broadcast last week because period was ill.


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[Assistant] So this was after your kid was being held at home, remember though?


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[Assistant] A couple of the nice little things that I heard about describing was if someone put a £50 note on your windowsill, you wouldn't get up to pick it up. No, you wouldn't. You absolutely would not. That's how bad you feel. And the other thing is like all of the stuff that normally works as a distractor, like normally when you're


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[Assistant] Like when you watch a movie or something called TV show or something that you like, you're quite quickly like, bam, you're in it, right? If you're, when you're very sick, you can't get into that. Like you can watch your favorite movie for 10 minutes and just be sick of it.


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[Assistant] Me too, like I went, so I went to my grandmother's funeral this week. Sorry buddy, I shouldn't have said that. It's totally fine. Uh, my dad just had the jab as well actually, his first jab, so cause he's 80, so he's in the vulnerable range.


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[Assistant] And my mom and him are obviously, the whole family is very protective of him. And so we're really sort of like, Oh, you know, he's the one who's at risk. So we're not sure whether.


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[Assistant] You know, and I think it's quite restricting because my parents used to be quite, I don't know, like.


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[Assistant] They feel like, since my dad's 80, it's like, let's make the most of things and do stuff, you know? And I think they've been quite annoyed in the last six months because they've been trapped inside. It's mean, it's meant they've not been as active as they normally could be, you know, physically. And I think that is detrimental to, to elderly people too. You need to try and keep active and stuff.


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[Assistant] They have done a little bit of walk, we're trying to walk every day and stuff, but you know, when you're trapped in the same place, it's, it's hard. You know, going out anywhere feels like a little bit of a risk when it's kind of, you know, out there. And so I think it's quite scary for, for these, these, these folks, you know, um, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I feel a bit sorry. Anyway, it was a very nice funeral actually. Not very many of us there because we don't have that many big of a family anyway, really. Yeah, I guess with restrictions.


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[Assistant] I think it was, it was a bit stressful for my mum because she sort of felt like she was organizing it and it wasn't quite, it didn't quite go to plan. Like they played the wrong music at the start and then it sort of over ran a bit. And so they had to cut one of the readings and then another sort of, they played the wrong music at the end. And so my mum was a little bit.


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[Assistant] Cause I don't think, well, yeah, my mom said something at the time as well. She was quite stroppy at the time, but I think she was also a little bit upset. Um, and so I actually, I think everyone else thought it was fine.


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[Assistant] I didn't really notice. I think one of the reasons it sort of overran was because my dad, um, sort of talked a little bit about how he knew my nan. And it's interesting how


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[Assistant] You don't realize necessarily how other people know other people, right? And so I think for a period of time when.


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[Assistant] Nana had just sort of gone in after her, after my grandmother died and.


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[Assistant] After she kind of moved to a smaller flat near, nearer to where my parents were, my mom and dad sort of regularly visited her every couple of times a week to bring us supplies and help her out and do stuff.


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[Assistant] My dad ended up actually sort of spending quite a bit of time with her.


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[Assistant] You know, like, so he, cause they, they read the paper together and so they talk about certain things and she'd always try and like, not exactly bait him, but kind of like.


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[Assistant] You know, see, see if she could get him to get his opinion out or something, you know, and so they had this kind of odd friendship that.


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[Assistant] And I think that it was, it was nice to hear how she had, you know, been a part of his life, um, from a different point of view. Cause to me.


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[Assistant] You know, as someone who, you know, I moved across the country and so I didn't see her for a few years. But before that, when I was at home and when I come back from uni and when I didn't have a job, I sort of took on the role of going and seeing her every week. So there was this period of two or three years when I got to know my Nana very well.


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[Assistant] So it was, it was, I think each, each of us kind of has our own


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[Assistant] Anyway, it was a very nice event. It snowed like crazy. Wow. Just the skies opened and it just absolutely snowed down.


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[Assistant] So it was only an hour on the train up from, so I took the train from Bristol to Cheltenham. How busy was the train?


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[Assistant] Well, fuck, fuck, no one, no one was on it. So it was well, fuck, fuck, no one, no one. It was like, it was the 28th, um, of December.


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[Assistant] And so yeah, obviously everyone's off work anyway, but the train was empty, but you can't sit next to anyone. They've got each of the, you can only sit on the inside seats, you know, window seats. There's no aisle seats.


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[Assistant] Um, and the trains were running a very limited service anyway. And so it's like kind of a very, it's a very strange trip overall.


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[Assistant] I think it was, I felt a lot more, I don't know, like I, I thought I was a lot sadder than I thought I'd be. You know, I went in thinking, oh, you know, this is, this is a celebration, you know, this is, this is part of life. Um, and, and stuff. And, and, but I was, I was, I got quite, quite, quite tearful. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So I'm sorry to hear about that, Sips. And what I'm, I guess what I'm saying is, you know, you may well have memories, you know, something might trigger your memory.


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[Assistant] And it would be, it would be a shame if, you know, you weren't to pass that, you know, good brain down to some possible future.


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[Assistant] He'd obviously, he'd obviously considered how to bring it up with me because my brother, obviously my brother hasn't had any kids in his, um, in his marriage. And so I'm the, you know, the surviving Brindley, you know, I'm the future of the Brindley line. And so I sort of, I looked at him and I said,


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[Assistant] I said like, well, you know, I'm not sure that's how it works.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't think that that's necessarily something that's passed on in that sense.


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[Assistant] It keeps you on your toes. I know I joke about all this stuff, but I'm in complete agreement with you too. I think if it had fallen right for me and I'd been in the right place for it with the right person, I think it would be easy, right? Well, you're lucky. It's not only my decision and it's not only, and it's difficult. Is it hard? I don't feel, I feel like a,


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[Assistant] The other thing about waiting longer is that, um, you know, it's going to be harder for you to have grandchildren, right? And so I saw a look to my dad and I said, you know, people in glass houses because he didn't have me until he was 45. And so, I mean, that's, that's, that's, I've got eight years till I hit the limit. That's not even the limit.


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[Assistant] So talk about detective stuff, right? Obviously I really like watching all this detective murdery stuff. I've watched anything to do with it. I've watched it probably real life or playing it on a game. And me and Lydia used to do a stream where we played murder.


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[Assistant] And anyway, I was, I was looking at, cause every year at the end of the year, I look through for the top games of the 2020 and I try and play them all, right? So.


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[Assistant] To try and like give me a little bit of new injection of new stuff. Um, and so I was playing, so I looked up the polygon top 50 games of 2020, which was the thing they put together like a couple of weeks ago. And fuck me.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a complete garbage list. I, I think it's, it's total trash. Give me some examples. Well, okay. So obviously guess what number one is and it'll be fine. No, I don't think that's even on the list, but Hades is number one, which is a great game.


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[Assistant] And then number four is, is Final Fantasy VII Remake. Sure. Again, whatever.


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[Assistant] Amazing. There's like, you know, it's got the obviously things on there, but.


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[Assistant] One of the ones on this list, and I think it's pretty early on, um, is this game called Murder by Numbers, right? And I was like, the fuck is this? And so I looked at it, because I had it on my Steam library already, and it's, it's, it's a Picross game. Have you ever played Picross?


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[Assistant] It's like that. So I had a puzzle book the other day because my nan used to do these kind of going back to my nan, but she always used to get puzzler, which is this magazine where you get free pen is full of puzzles. Um, and so I had one over Christmas cause I thought it's quite nostalgic, you know.


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[Assistant] Um, and I was enjoying going through it, doing all these stupid puzzles. Anyway, I played this game and it's, it's pick cross. It's basically, it's basically you get a grid and it's got numbers and the numbers tell you which blocks you're supposed to fill in. Anyway, it's like the.


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[Assistant] So I've also done two jigsaw puzzles this Christmas.


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[Assistant] Then again, I'm, I'm actually quite into it. I like the, I like, I like it, but I will say the other game I played about murder, which I sort of can recommend is a game called


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[Assistant] And you've got a file room with loads of boxes and you have to go at, you have to like look through a file of facts, um, find like a reference to a file you want, go down to the basement, grab it, bring it back up. Oh, go through it and stick the important bits on the wall and link them together on your crazy wall with pins and it's.


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[Assistant] It was really fun. So a hand with many fingers. It's about CIA. I liked it a lot. It was like two hours long. That's my little tip for this week game wise. Um, and I haven't really done anything else other than Christmas. So man, I'll tell you what, you know what I did?


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[Assistant] Wow. Right. And that's because you can't possibly beat yourself.


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[Assistant] You can't control him. No, Tetris is the kind of thing like Mark Zuckerberg would be good at. Do you know what I mean? Or I think something like, um, I think like you tend to see like the more physical things like Rubik's cube people being more dexterous or at least like, at least like not being as nerdy. Do you know what I mean? Like I feel like.


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[Assistant] To be a Tetris champion, you literally have to have like the palest skin imaginable. You can see your kidneys, you know, just naturally kind of thing. You have to be evolved to like be a different life form to be good at those games. I think Tetris it's, I dunno, I never could, I never could, it never clicked with me in the same way that certain other things too didn't click.


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[Assistant] Being trained to do something and casually learning. I think that if you casually picked up a Rubik's cube and you started playing with it and you started trying to figure it out, I think you would.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm quite interested in chess, but I feel like you still do see young chess people come along. I mean, Magnus Carlsen, I guess, recently, good example of someone who's relatively new to the chess world. Um, even now, even though he's like probably like getting on for our age, but he's, um,


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[Assistant] He's like someone who, you know, almost like, you know, you, you thought back in the day with these, these Russian masters and stuff. You know, this is back when people were very smart. People were going, going to the moon and working out very complicated maths and, you know, building nuclear power plants. You know, it's not like, it's not like we, we didn't have knowledge of like.


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[Assistant] We're able to teach kids nowadays. It's not that we're teaching them more, it's that we're teaching them better. Because we have more knowledge of the game.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's pretty good. That's interesting. Cause I think Dallas wants to organize like a little chess talk.


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[Assistant] The human brain is amazing at what it can watch out for and see and remember and realize and also kind of see at a glance maybe even like stuff like a lot of apparently a lot of Magnus Carlsen's play is very intuitive and it's very much like- He plays fast as well.


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[Assistant] It's weird to say that, right? But it's intuition from experience. So it's like something that he.


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[Assistant] That's the thing they are in this time vacuum. So, so the bizarrely I read this thing about how the Simpsons is now aspirational, right? That it's a, it's a man being able to support a whole family and have a house in a nicer place.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, like I read this whole article about how the, obviously the new series has started this year and it's, and it's, it's something which is so detached from reality because it used to be this thing where


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[Assistant] You know, in the post-Reagan years, there was this kind of feeling that the middle-class was being squeezed and that, you know, Homer had to take a second job as a mall Santa or a crowd man.


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[Assistant] And you know, by now, you know, it's, it's completely different, you know, for, for someone trying to support a family.


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[Assistant] He loses his job, he gets a new job as this, Christmas one, you know what I mean? Like they smash him out and have to do it. They should have stopped 20 years ago.


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[Assistant] More time appropriate for like what people are experiencing in the here and now.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I just seem to see no more than two customers in the shop is the sign I see on smaller shops like newsagents and offlicences and stuff. So there's like a little queue of people waiting outside. And you always, I'm always judging the people in there. I'm like, God, why is he spending so long looking at the peanuts? You know, just pick a bag of peanuts and you can see.


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[Assistant] So Borders was there, and it went back all, like, absolutely miles, and they would, uh, in the print section where they did all the newspapers and magazines, they would have all, like, American magazines and newspapers, like, you could buy the onion.


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[Assistant] As a paper. Like it was, the onion started off as an actual newspaper before it became a website and everything. It was, it was a newspaper.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it was like a broadsheet newspaper, and it had all adverts for local businesses where the onion was printed. I think it was a college town, I can't remember which one, it might have been San Francisco somewhere, I apologise. Onion fans out there. But I used to buy it all the time, I'd go in there and get it, and it was literally the onion as a newspaper, and that was it. Because then they did all the, uh, I mean I've got loads of, you see the collections.


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[Assistant] Of onion articles. Uh, those used to be in print. Like, that's how you'd buy it. So we'd buy that and they'd be like American...


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[Assistant] Magazines about video games and sport and stuff like that that you just couldn't get. And then all that whole magazine newspaper thing just disappeared, which is a shame because it was nice to browse, but I didn't buy much to be fair.


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[Assistant] Uh, and they'd have those at borders, I guess they just didn't sell. It was a bad business model, but I do kinda miss it. What was the other fucking-


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[Assistant] It is a good name. Like Google. Like, uhm, regardless of what the search engines are like, I'm pretty sure the Google search engine was meant to be the best one back in the day when it was like Alter Vista and stuff like that was the, you know, there were competing search engines.


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[Assistant] And people just weren't ready. I honestly think a lot of these firms were ahead of their time in a way. Obviously their execution was terrible a lot of the time. I like, pets.com just sold pet stuff. Why would you limit your business to just pet stuff? Why wouldn't you say,


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[Assistant] Almost as good as porn.com, which is a website. Very clever, whoever got that one first.


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[Assistant] I mean, zombo.com is the only website you ever need, really.


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[Assistant] What if you went to the wrong one? You went to a regular, like, triathlon, you had a rifle, they were all looking at you thinking, what the fuck is this guy doing? Gets to the second stage and just starts blasting. Everyone else is getting on a bicycle.


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[Assistant] It means you, you shot him in the leg with the AWP, so you're aiming for the head or body, mainly, you know, it doesn't matter with the AWP, body shot is enough, even with full armor and, and, and, you know, Kevlar and a helmet, you'll still die.


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[Assistant] But if you just shoot him in the leg, you can survive the AWP shot on like, just a few HP. Right. Really? Yeah, yeah. In CSGO, I just wanna, just for anybody wondering, we're not talking about real fucking life. Alright, I wanna say about- No, this is a good-


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[Assistant] 2000 years ago. There are estimates, but nobody is conclusively this is the correct answer. Like, most 99.9% of people aren't even written down anywhere. Like, the whole of humanity was just lost. You lived and you died and there was no record of it at all. You left nothing. That's even scarier, I think.


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[Assistant] Like at least now, there is detail. I mean if you- in a thousand years time, presuming we don't destroy ourselves and everything, there will be records, permanent records, of- that we existed, and our names, where we were born, and when we died, it was all there in the register, who our children were,


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[Assistant] So here's the problem, there's a guy called Josephus. He was a historian. Supposedly, uh, contemporary to Jesus. He was a Roman historian. And supposedly, you can look all this up, he said there's a guy called Jesus and a bunch of Christians follow him and believe in him. And this is happening over in Jerusalem or whatever.


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[Assistant] And the problem is that that quote has been modified. So he's, the actual quote is...


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[Assistant] There are some people who believe that there's a guy called this. Not, there is a guy called this.


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[Assistant] So history has changed not just, it's not just is it inaccurate at the time it's written because you've got to judge what are the motives of the person writing it. You've also then got to say this thing gets translated through all these different scribes over time and some of them are biased and change things. I mean the Bible has changed.


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[Assistant] And saying we're all still here, there have been people here, and there will be people here, don't worry. Because I think most people, I definitely suffer from existential dread on behalf of the human race. Not like some kind of martyr, but I just think wouldn't it be awful if this all stopped?


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[Assistant] Like if we all just died and went away, how tragic would that be? We're so rare, we're like a jewel in this galaxy. This amazing intelligent life that can explore space and do all these wonderful things and all these awful things, it would be tragic. So knowing that there's continuity is important.


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[Assistant] I think, uh, I know I'm reading this book called Sapiens at the moment, um, which is really, really good. It's all about the history of mankind and where we came from and stuff like that. It asks them really-


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[Assistant] It's a very good book. I mean, it does ask some interesting questions. Uhm, so sometimes, like a lot of the stuff he says actually makes you question, like, uh, your opinion about, about broad things. Like the chapter in one of the moment is like empires. And he said that


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[Assistant] Throughout history, people, one way or another, have lived under some kind of empire. Whether you even realize it or not, the influences of those empires stay with us. They stick around. So for example, when the Roman Empire fell and everyone was like,


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[Assistant] To get to what actually was the original culture of a place. That all you're doing when an empire comes in and replaces what feels like the way of life there, it's actually just, you're replacing another empire, whose effect was there. And you'd have to replace that one and go back and go back and go back through history, to the point where essentially you're saying, well,


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[Assistant] Is like some recent coddling of the gaming community and, oh nowadays you can just save any time. In my day we, you know, that wasn't how they designed games. They couldn't save the game. We had a horrible experience where we had to do the same thing that we'd just done a game. You physically can't save the game. That's why it's there.


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[Assistant] A lot of the games that I have an issue with when it comes to difficulty, like Dark Souls is very, very hard, everybody knows that.


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[Assistant] But the point is, you might have to restart a bit of a level, or you might have to, you know, but you dip in and out, you don't lose EVERYTHING. Like it's not like you go back to zero, like you used to. Like it used to be, like battle turrets or whatever. You run out of lives, that's it. You gotta start the whole game again from scratch. They figured out checkpoints and saves and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] But so here's what I was thinking, with something like Battle Brothers, which is a very hard game. Like I play that game on stream quite a bit. It is a brutally hard game.


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[Assistant] Sometimes the round will start and their guy on the opposition, like I said, it's a, it's a...


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[Assistant] Hex-based, uhm, turn-based fight-em-up. Basically, you have a squad of mercs, you fight enemies, you improve your gear, you improve your skills, you fight quests and stuff like that around the map. So it's a fun game, but it's incredibly hard. I have to play it on easiest difficulty most of the time, otherwise the combat is just punishing, and the amount of time it takes.


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[Assistant] To you seemed fine, and people come along and start changing it. In your mind,


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[Assistant] It doesn't need changing. Like the, the core, the core belief of conservatism is why can't we just keep things as they were? Like why do we need to change things? Everything's fine as it is. It's a very selfish point of view, which is...


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[Assistant] And that's the problem, is that when something really does matter to people, if it doesn't actually fucking affect you, and it doesn't, why are you so against it? If it really does affect people, that the idea that a fucking slave trader has a pub named after him, it should change, because what difference does it make? It's still a pub.


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[Assistant] But it matters to some people, just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it's not an issue. And I think that's the problem, is we're very self-centered and focused on what doesn't matter to me. A lot of bollocks, innit? It's like those people, like I- I-


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[Assistant] If you see on Twitter, like when people, when MF Doom died, I think The Guardian or a couple other newspapers published it, like MF Doom, he was a legendary rapper, he was a fantastic rapper, he died. Half the fucking replies were, ooh, never heard of him! And that to me represents the same


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[Assistant] It's the same deal. I hadn't heard of this Colston guy before all this happened, but once it was brought to my attention, this guy was a fucking slave trader. And by the way, a lot of people in Bristol made a lot of money from that.


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[Assistant] I kinda couldn't, yeaah. So a friend of mine, uhm, was, there was a conversation on Facebook, I didn't dip into it because I sometimes like to read my friends' conversations on Facebook and just, there's no point getting involved, you know, uhm, so a friend of mine was saying, uhm, that he's


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sure that, you know, it was a bit of a six or one and a half, a dozen of another, and nobody really blames the protest happens and we feel.


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[Assistant] And one of the things you'll often see is police injuries. It'll say seven police officers were injured. So there was a Guardian article you can find about this. There's a protest a while back. I think it was one of the ecological protests. And they listed


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[Assistant] Riot police in London having a big bust up with, I think it was, uh, National Front or BMP or it might have been some of the, uh, Tommy what's-his-name lads.


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[Assistant] And the officer going in, they were like, what are you hoping for at this riot? He goes, bit of sport. That was one of the riot police took it. He wanted a bit of sport. In other words, he wants it to kick off. Yeah. Like they want the fight. Why else would you fucking join the fucking riot police?


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[Assistant] I'm sure some people listening to this will disagree with our opinions on this and that's fine. But the point is you're allowed to protest that and you're allowed to disagree. If you look at Hong Kong, the act of protest itself is being made illegal. That is an issue. If you don't see that as a problem,


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[Assistant] And look at what the people do in the protest were like, when did it get violent? And what was the motivation for it to turn violent if there was no reason for it to turn violent? That's what was the difference between a protest and basically a deliberate riot, which I don't support.


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[Assistant] I'm here, sorry, I'm really busy today, but like, I've got a lot of, uh, stuff, it's tax time, and uhm, man, there's like, you know, there's stuff happening, like uhm, like doge coins and whatever, like jeez, I've got so many emails to...


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[Assistant] So I'm here, but like, you know, if I'm a bit distant, it's because I'm super busy, so. Okay, you're cracking down on all the add-in. I'm trying to get ahead of the game here.


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[Assistant] Globalization. NFTs. Ah, mutual funds, RSPs, like jeez.


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[Assistant] You gotta look at those and figure out TTFNs. I gotta go check my fridge and check all the sell-by dates and everything in there as well. PNGs, LLPs, BFGs. Oh my god, don't get me started on those BFGs.


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[Assistant] A starter greenhouse, but it's not one of those flimsy ones that will just blow into the road, uh, the minute there's like a gentle breeze. It's like made of wood.


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[Assistant] It's pretty sturdy, it's heavy, it's quite big, uh, but it's not just a sort of flimsy framework of glass. But I can fit quite a bit in there. Like we started growing some little lettuce.


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[Assistant] Some lambs lettuce, uhm, we got a couple of pots of cress growing.


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[Assistant] No, no, my kids, like, got, I don't, like, I don't know how they managed to find this stuff, but they, they have, like, I think my mother-in-law got them.


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[Assistant] It's like a little bum bag that you like, you know, tidy your waist.


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[Assistant] It's got all the stuff in it and it came with seeds for all sorts of stuff. So we were like, okay, well let's just plant them and some of them are growing. It's unbelievable. Like little tiny sprouts are coming out of the, out of the soil. We, you know, we, we, we sowed those seeds and now that they're in the greenhouse, nice and warm in there, they get the sun. We've been watering them every day.


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[Assistant] Stuff is actually growing. So before you know it, we're going to be doing a chef's kiss every night with food that we've grown, uh, in my, in my greenhouse. I can smell the greenhouse.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. I'd like something like that in the future, but for now I'm just going to have to settle with this one that we got, which is fine. It's fine.


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[Assistant] It does the job. It's, it's, it does all the things that I want it to do. Uhm, but I've got big, big plans, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, to form a place for Terry to live as he gets bigger.


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[Assistant] They're probably gonna die, uhm. No, they don't. They're really hardy, actually. You can get, you just give them a bit of water every once in a while, and they're, they're fine. They don't need direct sunlight, but they can handle the direct sunlight. Like, they're, they're really, really tough.


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[Assistant] No, it's been a rough lockdown. Well, there's Terry as well, but no, I have a new spider friend in my garage. He lives in the corner and he lives sort of behind or she, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, she like, she sets up a net, like a web in the same place all the time and just, and just hangs there waiting for stuff, I guess. And then otherwise she just hides behind that wire organizer and just like has a nap.


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[Assistant] My buddy up there is gonna take care of all that for me. Like nature, life is finding a way in here.


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[Assistant] Oh, mosquitoes for sure. If I could catch every mosquito in the world in a net and throw them into a spider web and they would die, I would do it. I don't like those.


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[Assistant] Another fun mosquito related fact for you guys today. If you ever visit the Portuguese island of Madeira,


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[Assistant] They also have no mosquitoes, and the reason for that is they have some native lizards there that eat them all up. They're harmless lizards who eat all the mosquitoes. Well, they're not harmless to the mosquitoes, are they? Well, yeah, but they're heroes to me. Little green heroes. Yeah. God, we need more of these guys.


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[Assistant] I might. Yeah, sleepers. Well, in London, there's plenty of those. We did a similar thing a couple of years ago, but we didn't go as fancy as you.


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[Assistant] Got rid of all life in the backyard as we knew it and then uhm, we just like, like mulched up.


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[Assistant] See, the thing is, these places will call me and I'll listen, I'll be like, you know what, the sea is calling me, the countryside is calling me, but then, uh, my brain will also be calling to me saying,


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[Assistant] That's too much fucking work. It's too much, it's too much upheaval. So I'll just stay where I am. You know what I mean? Like my roots now are firmly here and man, I don't know about you guys, but like moving is the worst and I just don't want to move again. It's the worst.


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[Assistant] Yes, yeaah. I mean, we don't really have room for a third child, which is, uh, you know, a problem. I mean, like we will soon, like I guess after we get our loft converted, but you know, these things take time. So like, it might be done by the time the baby is like 18 or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they'll be able to. I mean, the baby doesn't need their own room for years anyway, really. I mean, like, just like, you know, sleep in a crib in our room, it's fine. But uhm, but yeah, I still don't want to move though. Like, even though I probably...


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[Assistant] Each day of the week you could spend time in a different room and you'd just feel like you're in a hotel or whatever, right? Like, oh yea, I forgot I had a library. Huh, nice. Okay, well, this'll do me for today, I guess, and tomorrow's back to the utility room, I guess. Or whatever, like, you know?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, you know, I mean, gaming is such a broad thing now. There's tons of different genres of games. There's tons of different communities for games. Like, you know, there's


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[Assistant] There's casual games, there's not so casual games, there's all sorts of stuff.


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[Assistant] To, to keep up with everything would be a lot and I think you'd have to be kind of passionate about the industry as a whole.


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[Assistant] Which is garbage. I don't know why anybody would waste their time. And uhm, I think you just, you just play the stuff that you like to play, whatever, it's fine. Like, I guess you're, I guess you're a gamer. You're just, uhm, you're like a, you know, like you've carved your own little


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[Assistant] You've played this game so much that you now have developed your own rules for playing the game with other people who have played the game a lot. Yes. But you're not a gamer. So, no. Right.


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[Assistant] Do you think that you'll get banned from attending tournaments and stuff if they hear about your creepy ruleset that you and your friends play?


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[Assistant] They're gonna hear about it, they're gonna be like, this is such a huge disrespect to us. He's not allowed to come to any of our card game tournaments anymore.


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[Assistant] I kinda, I kinda know where you're coming from, like, uhm, let me just explain, uh, this, which I'm sure I've explained before. Here's another, uhm,


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[Assistant] Another, a Triforce moment for you. I'll probably repeat word for word something I've already said before. Like I, I get these, uh, I have these sort of moments when I'm gaming, uhm, or like it's usually after I play a really good game and then I'm trying to find something else to play, I'll get like in a bit of a...


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[Assistant] Bit of a rut, I guess? But while I'm in that rut, all I can think about is playing Dudes in Alaska, which doesn't exist.


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[Assistant] They were just, they prepared their whole lives for that one moment. And then the war ends and they have to rotate back to the real world.


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[Assistant] I got layers though, like I'm thinking vertically. Like I have, yeah, I have like a, like a, a raw resource distribution layer and then, uh, kind of like ten foundations up.


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[Assistant] Man, it is very satisfactory. It is the whole thing when you get to that point where you're just like, look at everything I built. And you're going between sites and as you're approaching like the first site, you're like, holy shit, this is awesome. Like, you know, it renders in from far away and everything.


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[Assistant] I cannot bring myself to like that game. Like it's not even based on the bad release or anything like that.


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[Assistant] I can't stand the way that it looks, like I just hate the...


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[Assistant] I hate that the space station is just a big triangle in space. And you know what I mean? Like I, like I said, I was saying this to chat the other day when I was streaming. I was like, if I'm playing a game in space, I want like,


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[Assistant] I want the stuff to look like it's from like Eve or like, uh, from Starcraft, you know, like I like that industrial sort of, you know, like pipes.


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[Assistant] Fuel tanks and shit everywhere, like that, that's the, those are the aesthetics that I want and they're important as well. Like I can't just play a game that looks like artsy fartsy futuristic, you know what I mean? Like depending, like some, some people could probably pull it off, but I don't feel like No Man's Sky does pull it off.


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[Assistant] And it just feels like this, the, all of the planets that you go to have this like hue of like the color of baby shit. Like it's just, it's the worst.


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[Assistant] Uh, this time around, I mean, I've played it, I've played hundreds of hours previously, uh, but this time I started in the, uh, desert, like not, not like the, not this, not, not like the really hard desert, but like the, the other desert that has tons of pure nodes in it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that doesn't matter though because I'm building in the sky basically, like, uh, my, my whole factory is floating above everything. Cause I just find it easier to snap everything to the grid rather than...


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[Assistant] Well, Skylines is a game about traffic problems. The whole game is basically a traffic problem simulator.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the thing, there's no sort of like traffic rule sets in the game by default. So, you're trying to plan a city that looks like a real city, but when you consider a real city will have...


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[Assistant] Lots of, uh, little, uhm, details in, in how traffic can flow and stuff, right? Right. You know, like one ways and, I mean, you could do one ways, but like, you know, no, no right turns and stuff like that really does help with the flow, but there's no way in the base game to, to do any of that. Right.


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[Assistant] And as, as like planning and stuff becomes more and more like modern and that way leaning, uhm, it'll change the city, but you know, you're still, in a lot of cases, you're just stuck with what's been there for a long ass time and just won't change.


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[Assistant] Hey another really quick one though, guys, if you're looking for like just some good, good fun, I played Rocket League this week with some friends and I streamed it a bit yesterday with some people, and uhm, man, for just like throw away 5 minutes of fun or whatever is actually really, really exciting and good fun.


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[Assistant] Oh me too, but it's like, the matchmaking is actually kind of decent at putting you against people who are equally bad, so like.


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[Assistant] I think as much as we're used to this new normal or whatever, I think once things kinda get back, uhm, to as they were, people will, uh, quickly remember, you know, how things were and just adapt again.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think the thing with a store at least like, I don't know, I don't know how I feel about buying prepared food from a back alley with a closed door and an iPad on a table. You know what I mean? Like I want to see.


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[Assistant] Uh, that I like to go to and it's what it's like, uh, it's like a kind of, it feels like, like, uh, like an old school kind of like Italian place, you know, it's got the, um,


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[Assistant] It's got all these like olives in a bowl and like eggs in a bowl and it's all, you can see it, right? It's all behind glass and all the guys are back there.


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[Assistant] And there's, there's, there's like hot food too. They make like pasta and they make pizza and everything.


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[Assistant] And they're all super chatty, like the same people go in every day to get stuff and everything. Like if that was just reduced to...


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[Assistant] An iPad on a table and a closed door and like one guy. I feel like, you know what I mean? That's like, I'd be missing out on like five minutes of just like,


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[Assistant] I think we're gonna be miserable. I think we're already heading towards, like, utter misery, and then just losing those small interactions, which you don't really place a lot of emphasis on, but actually, they are good for you, uhm, is, is, is a, is a shitty road to go down, in my opinion.