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[Assistant] Uhm, they're, they're gonna be making, uh, and I know Elise knows this, the Kingkiller Chronicles into like this movie book, game, TV, like, universe ecosystem.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, he writes himself into the character, it's like, it's very much dream fulfillment, it's very Mary Sue. Also, he's the only one who has sex with the fairy, like, he's never had sex before, and then the fairy, who's only known for fucking people, falls in love with the perfect fuck man.


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[Assistant] They're gonna make this whole universe and I'm like, I didn't read any of the Witcher books, but I'm curious how, how this is going to work because


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[Assistant] Aragorn's a dragon. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn. Aragorn.


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[Assistant] The way that I had to look at them, like having played, done the Hitchhiker's Guide stuff and also the fact that there are two different tv adaptations and a radio adaptation and a movie adaptation and books and everything is that each one exists, it's telling the same story in discrete different ways and it's the same thing with Harry Potter.


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[Assistant] And like, I'm okay with that. And if this guy, I can't understand what he's freaking out about. It seems like he's just upset that the-


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[Assistant] Game doesn't 100% accurately reflect what's in the book. What it's never gonna do.


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[Assistant] Well, what the, what the author of The Witcher said in the, you know, in one of the quotes was that there's no literature when you are in the game and you're walking up and seeing the squirrel. And I guess the point he's trying to make is when I write that scene, I can write about the sunlight shafting through the trees and the twinkling of the birds and the- All the detail. All the detail, but that's what-


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[Assistant] That's the visual aspect and the auditory aspect of playing the game. That all comes across more viscerally to you playing a game. It's not a question of one being better than the other. They're a different experience.


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[Assistant] Well I think, well yeah, I mean I think that's, I mean that's patently crazy. Like this is a game that has no, arguably no narrative whatsoever. I'm sure, I'm sure somebody could figure out a narrative of this game, but I don't think there's a narrative here. But like Mass Effect for sure has a narrative.


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[Assistant] You should leave some, uh, positive messages.


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[Assistant] They really want to show off that new logo.


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[Assistant] In the future. Now, it's time to take it.


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[Assistant] Uh, I am your host, Lauren Sontag. I promise that intro will make sense in a little bit. I'm joined by James Willems. How are you, James? Hi, I'm well. Uh, joined by Congo expert Adam Kovac. And I'm also here. And, uh, banana expert Bruce Green. How are you, Bruce?


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[Assistant] Sure. Yeah, I just, you know, audio friendly show. No, no, absolutely. You gotta keep it in the visual. Oh man! You gotta watch all these clips!


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[Assistant] Ah, damn you. Take that annotations. Hey, we're back. We're back. We're back on the set, which is everyone's favorite setting for the podcast. It's always so hot out here. Yeah, it's balmy. It's balmy, it's uncomfortable. Boy, do we have some good microphones. Hey, they paid to see us sweat.


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[Assistant] That sounds fantastic, man. That sounds great. So, uh, I'm gonna throw this on here. I don't know what this is. In Half-Life 2 meets Gmod, who cares.


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[Assistant] Perfect. Uh, I guess first introductory topic. Well, you know monkeys, they're cool, but we gotta keep... Did you call up the sponsors? Sorry, no I didn't. Thank you. There we go. This podcast is sponsored by Casper and Blue Apron. Thank you Casper for supporting Dude Soup. For $50 off any mattress, go to casper.com slash dude soup and enter promo code DUDESOUP.


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[Assistant] And you can check out this week's menu and get your first three meals for free with free shipping. Go to Blayprint.com slash soup.


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[Assistant] Thank you, sponsors. Just got signed out of my account. That's cool. Why are we looking at Half-Life? I'm glad you asked, Adam. There's actually a, sorry, it's hard to type with a microphone on my face. There's a, probably gonna have to two-step it. Nope. So there was an interview with Mark Laidlaw, uh, who freshly has left Valve, uh, one of the lead writers that they had.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is from Arcade Attack, they conducted the interview. But I think the interview has a lot of great tidbits about


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[Assistant] About what writing for games is, what it means. I think most topically he was pretty, uh, he was pretty...


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[Assistant] So, uh, there's a bit of, there's a bit of talking here, uh, I know that I'm, I'm gonna try my best to not talk so much, but there's a bit of a brick of text, but it's interesting, so just ask your patience while we get through it, and while they, boy, they fuck with some portagons in this video anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, here's the question from Arcade Attack. Do you have any idea whether Half-Life 3 will ever be released, and would you be willing to work on this title?


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[Assistant] I had hoped for a reset between Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 3 that was as dramatic as the shift between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. I honestly don't know if anyone else has shared this goal, but it seemed important to me to give ultimate freedom to whoever inherited the series, with my own personal set of loose ends tied up to my satisfaction.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, I was not able to do that. But I never thought as far ahead as Half-Life 3 unless you were to say that Half-Life 3 and Episode 3 were the same thing. I will say that I expected every installment would end without resolution forever and ever.


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[Assistant] There was some good- there was some rumor going on around that episode 3 or Half-Life 3 would end Gordon Freeman's story, and I don't think that was accurate. My intention was that episode 3 would simply tie up the plot threads that were particular to Half-Life 2, but it would still end like Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2, with Gordon in an indeterminate space on hold, waiting for the next game to begin. So one cliffhanger after another. Uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess for me, uh, I certainly understand having some like narrative blue balls at the end of Half-Life Episode 2. Yeah, absolutely. There is this, there is this interesting assumption I think that goes on.


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[Assistant] That, that when somebody makes a story as gripping as Half-Life or Harry Potter or whatever, that there's something more divine than someone just sitting down and making it up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's always this assumption that the story is there in its complete and pristine form. There's some golden manuscript that tells you the conclusive and satisfying end of Gordon Freeman. But no, it was just some dude sitting at laptops writing out a story.


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[Assistant] And also it was a product, so it had to be open-ended, because who knows how many Half-Life games they were gonna make. So yeaah, it's, it's, it's frustrating because I think there are people who believe that there is a perfect Half-Life ending out there that never got made for one reason or another. Truth is it never existed because they never worked on it. It's just not there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all the bird people, they had it real tough. Free Man showed up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, sorry to interrupt. No, no, please go. I, I think when, when people say, like, like you, you mentioned in the first, when they say, oh I cared about the story, I really like the story, I want to say an ending to the story. The way that I always hear that in my head is I, I liked being Gordon Freeman in that world. And the story was interesting because you felt invested in the character.


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[Assistant] Because you got to express yourself as that character. You got to put the bricks on the plank of wood and then make a ramp. And you felt like you were in City 17.


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[Assistant] I feel like, and this is mostly anecdotal, but for the games where people say that they love the story, there's typically that, that level of, uh,


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[Assistant] It's interesting when people say they like the story of Half-Life. To me, that's more of a victory lap for the design, the levels, the guns, the sound effects, the music. I agree. Than it is the words on the page that the actors read.


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[Assistant] Man, it just all comes back to Kongo, doesn't it? Sorry, so somebody's spawning characters from Donkey Kong 64 to Half-Life. Because we're watching Half-Life 3 right now. But it's Gmod. Yeah, it's Gmod Half-Life 3.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Oh, it's on this table. Hold on. Oh, sweet. So I've got four roles here. Uhm, no spoilers, but here's the cast list. We got G-Man, Gordon Freeman, Alex, and narrator. Narrator's gonna have the biggest work. They're gonna have to read everything. So I don't know if anyone wants to opt in. It's like a paragraph. It's many paragraphs.


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[Assistant] I don't know what you want. I can read the narrator if you want. Okay, great. Uh, I guess I'll take... I'll take, I'll take Gman. Let me hear your Gman voice.


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[Assistant] Sure. I'll be Alex. Am I going to be saying a lot as Gordon? No, you aren't. I think you get one line. Got it. I was thinking, Bruce has the bulk of the reading here. Alright, well, here we go.


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[Assistant] Okay. This is amazing. It's two sombras. Perfect. Approaching my dream. Yeah. So I, yeah, I don't know. I guess, I guess for me and, and you guys sort of repeated it, it is, it's...


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[Assistant] When so much of your life is trafficked in the various canons, those approach a level of like sacred, they approach some weird sacred text type of status.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I feel like maybe, even though it robs some of the magic, maybe some, maybe a come-to-earth moment is necessary where it's like, no, it's just a couple dudes with laptops and they're making it all up as they go. Sitting around writing a story.


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[Assistant] This is the Jean-Claude precept. It's been established. Jean-Claude?


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[Assistant] The idea that, that no matter how far back you go and no matter how well you lived 300 years ago, being a normal person today is way better than that. Oh, I see.


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[Assistant] I listened, I listened to the Bloodsport theme. Cranked all the way up and the windows rolled down, driving down the 10 on 4th of July. It was the most American thing I've ever done. I, I remember watching Kumite's Chinese tournament.


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[Assistant] Well you know what? John Claude at the end of the day still had to go to sleep on a bed like a normal man. He did. And today you can afford probably similar levels of comfort with a Casper mattress.


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[Assistant] So the Casper is basically...


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[Assistant] It's basically the most futuristic mattress you can buy because it comes vacuum sealed in a little mattress pod. And the second they pop the seal on that thing, that mattress will explode. Not in a bad way. It's actually pretty fun. I opened it in a narrow hallway. And it was, it felt like a bond escape room trying to get out of that thing. But it's engineered to meet the Goldilocks standard of just right.


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[Assistant] Which to me conjures up an image of a bunch of people in lab coats with Goldilocks meters on mattresses. But it hits right in the Goldilocks windows, so it's good, good stuff. They also offer free delivery and painless returns within a hundred day window. Which is a long time. So the idea is most mattresses, if you buy them, you can't really return them if a week later you find out you're getting back pain or something like that.


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[Assistant] 100 days is plenty of time to figure out over a long amount of time if a Casper mattress is going to be good for you or not.


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[Assistant] So it's essentially, you can get it, try it out, and if you like it, you can keep it. If you don't, uh, full refund. You can also save an additional $50 towards a mattress purchase while going to casper.com slash dudesoup and using promo code dudesoup. So you got $50 off, 100 day return period.


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[Assistant] And a space age mattress. What's there to not like, aside from the fact that it doesn't come delivered by Jean-Claude. But it might!


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[Assistant] I don't want to say it's not, it might- We don't know what he's doing. I don't know what he's doing, he might deliver your mattress! Get a Casper mattress today! Go to casper.com slash dudesoup and use promo code dudesoup for 50 dollars off. Thank you Casper. For your sponsorship. Dudesoup.


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[Assistant] Does this when he gets a shot at the balls and doesn't even care? Or wait, no, he, he misreads balls. This is, this is- There's some balls in this.


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[Assistant] Bolo Young is the best. Oh, Brandon Lee? What? When did he fight Bolo Young? I haven't fought Bolo Young. I haven't seen any like Brandon Lee movies and I feel terrible. Uh, The Crow? I saw like three quarters of it. Yeaah, it's not a great movie.


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[Assistant] Occasionally a movie will, like, weaponize an entire, like, rising subculture. Like The Matrix with stupid cyberpunk shit. Put a nail in it, I'm not saying in a good way, but they made a whole merch wave off of that.


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[Assistant] It's your job, even with a willing audience, to not be so stupid that you break their suspension of discipline. That's hard to do. It's very, it's weird because they're a willing participant, but still you have to come up with reasons that people are just gonna haul off and fight each other in a crowded restaurant.


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[Assistant] That's why I'm not a professional and Brandon Lee is to this day.


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[Assistant] I've seen a lot of discussion about net neutrality around it. I don't want to get into the politicization of it. If anything, I just wanted to sort of lay out what net neutrality is and why you're maybe hearing a lot about it now, and that's all.


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[Assistant] So in case you guys aren't familiar, net neutrality, as the term implies, is a precept by which all traffic on the internet must be treated equally. Which is to say, internet traffic is a lot like


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[Assistant] Car traffic. It's a good way to think about it. So, there's collisions. Literal collisions of data. Uhm, and that means that data has to sometimes wait at a stoplight to get to you. Uhm, so data, when you request it from a server, it goes through many routers to get to you. And at each one of those points, that router has to make a decision about what data goes first and where and how and to where. A lot of those decisions happen very quickly because it's all... Hold on, that's a cool face. Oh, nevermind.


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[Assistant] Was a cool face. I gotta pick another one so I can keep going. Here we go, randomly fight scenes, perfect. Uhm, so for instance, we're watching this video now because some content distribution network for YouTube has identified that one of their data location centers around the planet is going to send it to us and it's mapping it through various nodes around California.


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[Assistant] That's how it happens now. If net neutrality goes away, because there was a 2015 legislation that basically tried to codify it, but that's slowly being undone, eh, at the current moment.


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[Assistant] Uh, if that goes away, then suddenly those routers at every step don't have to treat all, all traffic equally. The company that owns the router can decide who gets what traffic first and from where. They can prioritize certain kinds of traffic over other kinds of traffic.


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[Assistant] Uh, so what does that mean for you or anyone else? Uh, that means that as a consumer, you will either, you're like, your internet could be metered. So all of the, all the data that you spend watching YouTube videos or Netflix, that could be sectioned out apart from the other internet traffic you consume. And that means internet providers could say something like, well you only get


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[Assistant] Five gigs of Netflix this month. And if you want more, you have to buy another package. Something like that.


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[Assistant] To an extent that already happens with mobile data because, because that wasn't regulated in the same way.


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[Assistant] I gotta be honest, I don't know the answer to that. Okay. Uhm, usually that stuff's invisible. They, so it's weird, it's, it's...


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[Assistant] My understanding, which is not absolute, but my understanding is it's like, independent companies will make those distribution centers and then AT&T and internet companies will strike deals with them.


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[Assistant] Uh, there have been examples in the past where net neutrality has been violated and then the FCC would find irrelevant companies. Uh, so for example, this was in 2007, uh, Comcast actually


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[Assistant] Uhm, however, if those regulations go away, then that stuff is perfectly legal. Which means depending on the kind of...


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[Assistant] Of traffic you consume from the internet, your experience could change dramatically or not at all.


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[Assistant] Uhm, right now streaming video is just the resource hog. So my personal assumption is that internet service providers would start metering and billing for that traffic specifically.


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[Assistant] The other thing that I speculate is that, uh, internet service providers would offer like a golden tier internet service, where no matter what, your traffic is prioritized in a tier above everyone else's. What if everyone has that? Then the internet service providers make a lot of money and do nothing else.


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[Assistant] I think the most direct benefit is if you can afford better internet than now you can buy it, because it will invent classes of internet users.


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[Assistant] It is a legitimate problem now that, like, spam email...


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[Assistant] Allowing internet service providers to individually track and throttle certain types of data may result in a smoother experience for you if you're playing a game or doing something low impact like loading a webpage or something like that. But odds are,


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[Assistant] Yeah. It was ranked the second largest, uh, behind Comcast. Right, but those aren't Comcast. Yeah, let's see here. What a chart.


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[Assistant] Not to get too tinfoil hat about it, but one of the concerns is, it's not necessarily, not something so, uh, uh, noticeable as you punch in youtube.com and you see a giant screen saying, brrm brrm, you didn't pay enough money. It's more like,


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[Assistant] Let's say you're charter, or you're Comcast, and there's news about how in the past you violated FCC rules or whatever. You just...


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[Assistant] And, and what information gets distributed to whom and how, and the power of corporations, and that's a little scary. That's super dangerous. Yeaah. That's really dangerous. So that's, that, that is the, and like you guys were saying, in terms of determining how the internet will work for the next 50-100 years, that's why people are freaking out about night neutrality.


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[Assistant] So, if, if you're curious about it, I encourage you to research it on your own. Come to your own conclusions. I don't want to lecture anybody. I'm sure the comments are filled with a lot of interesting opinions, cause uhm, there are some topics that have been heavily politicized, but that one, most people on the internet seem to be like, yea, we should keep it, we should keep it diplomatic, democratic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on that note, uh, not quite. Don't have a segue banked up.


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[Assistant] Blue Apron sponsoring this podcast. Thank you, Blue Apron. Um, so given that we're in what, like season five of Blue Apron sponsorships, I gotta, I gotta mix it up a little. So in this week in adventures in my cooking, uh, I discovered something invaluable. These guys right here in my hands. So it's weird. Okay. So let me, let me walk you through this. You cook with your hands all the time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, but I don't use them as effectively as I should, so I get, I get paranoid about cleanliness when I cook. Okay. But I think it's a good thing, you know, I try to keep everything clean, I keep my raw meats completely separate from everything else, I don't use, I don't like cross over knives.


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[Assistant] But I think I go a little too far with it because I found myself using tools for everything. So, for example, I had to strain some like vinegar out of cucumbers because I'm making pickles or whatever. I would use like a fork and like hold the- tilt the bowl and pour out all the stuff. Uh, or if I had to like plate something, I would use utensils to pick it up off the pan and then put it on the plate.


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[Assistant] So as long as I'm not touching raw stuff and then touching something else, I can use my hands for all that stuff. Yeah, of course.


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[Assistant] I don't know why it never occurred to me. So, I was like doing that and I was like, this is stupid. And then when I was straining the cucumbers, I just put my hand over it, dumped it out. It was done immediately. Uh, I had to plate stuff at the end, so I was making like turkey burgers and just picked up the patty and put it on the thing. It's oddly liberating, man. No one ever told me this stuff. So, I'm just slowly picking it up. You're becoming a man. I do appreciate that you try to keep the food clean.


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[Assistant] Language. I don't know. I know, sorry. But you can check out this week's menu and get your first three mils for free with free shipping by going to bluapron.com slash soup. Once again that's bluapron.com slash soup.


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[Assistant] Oh yea. Oh yea. You're a trash man. Can't throw anything away. Nah, I gotta eat all. I do too. I feel, I have never felt so bad than throwing away a blue apron meal. Cause it's like, I've bought like a whole bunch of strawberries and eaten half of it and it goes bad and I'm like, well strawberries, whatever. There's something that seems extra tragic about getting all the pieces and just not even putting it together.


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[Assistant] It's like, you can buy a bunch of wood and tell yourself I'm gonna build a house. Somehow that's less tragic than... I don't know where the analogy's going with that. Oh, that's fine. Putting a jigsaw puzzle and not putting it together.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought it was infogrames. Why is it so big? Uh, cause that's, it's supposed to classic the


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[Assistant] Are you supposed to channel the classic styling of the original Atari 2600? But does it just play Atari games? I'm glad you asked, James. It does both. Uhm, so here's a note from the announce, uh, quote, inspired by classic Atari design elements.


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[Assistant] As you can guess, these ports suggest modern internal specs.


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[Assistant] It also means that we will be able to deliver classic gaming content. We will also be delivering current gaming content.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you got tricked, kids. That's an uya. That's the uya. Now, here's the real, like,


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[Assistant] Sorry? They don't have anything nearly so, so defined for you to go. No, no, no. Uh, so let's see here.


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[Assistant] Eurogamer followed up on this, uh, via a French note to investors issued at the end of last month. Quote, to limit risk taking, this product will initially be launched within the framework of a crowdfunding campaign.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, that was a fun story. Even though that's pretty hard netting, uh, we gotta, we gotta officially put a stake in hard nets. Oh. So the previous winner, Sinclair Networks, the fake Facebook company that accidentally tripped into a landmine of uh, Mass Effect. Mass Effect DLC, yeaah. Uh, they were netting pretty hard. But this guy, Ivan Doran,


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[Assistant] This thing's notes. He hit an F6. Cool. Alright. Omar, is the audio on? Will people hear this?


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[Assistant] So, he has had a few like breakouts, he's got like a couple hundred thousand views, videos, but most of them are like this.


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[Assistant] I love it. PewDiePie is related. I love it. Brief call out. Thank you, uh, Abshir Mohammed for sending this to me. Alright. So yea, I guess we can bring it to a vote. Who's nothing harder? Some dorks on Facebook who got fucked by the internet or this dude just fucking slamming notes all across the keyboard up and down. Uh, Bruce, what do you think?


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[Assistant] And I think with that today, this week's Dude Soup is drawn to a close. If you're watching live, please stay tuned for the post show. We got a lot of fan art this week, cause missed last week. Oh yea. Cause of RTX, so that'll be fun to get through. If you're not watching live, watching on YouTube or watching at home, maybe check it out. It's at Rootscheat.com. Uh, the full, the fuel URL is a little rough. Maybe I need to set up a URL shortener. Maybe that would help people, yea, try it out. Actually,


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[Assistant] You used to have a, a semi, semi policy of making like every fourth episode available to everybody. Oh yea. You should rotate that back in. Why not? That's a vehicle to do it on.


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[Assistant] The weird thing is, Lawrence and his girlfriend went off.


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[Assistant] Our, like literally intersected with our activity.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, we would get back to the house at the end of the day because we were all sharing a place together. And then about five minutes after not action packed stuff was happening, Lawrence would go, well I'm going to bed. He had to hibernate himself.


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[Assistant] Or sleep on the couch, which is probably more comfortable than any of those mattresses.


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[Assistant] I really enjoyed hanging out with Blaine. We went on an adventure. I don't want to get too much into New Zealand trip. We're already way too into it. It was Will, Blaine, Elise and I were like,


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[Assistant] Oh, there's this really cool beach and a hike. Let's, we'll meet you guys there, but we didn't have enough rental cars, so we just got an Uber and we just started driving there.


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[Assistant] Well, everyone got excited because it said it was coming in a skyline, but it was like a 2015 skyline. It wasn't a GTR, it was not a GTR, okay. And so, uh, so we were about three-fourths of the way out there, pretty deep into this jungle-y thing, and we were like, hmm, no cell phone reception.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure how we're gonna get ba- and then we were like, do you think there's gonna be any other Ubers out there? And the guy was like, no.


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[Assistant] By the time we got to the spot where we were going to hike, the guy was like, well, I made a ton of money on this one Uber trip. Uhm, and it was a lot easier than doing small trips and waiting around. He's like, if you want, you guys can like give me a call and then depending on how long you are, maybe I can give you a ride back too. It's awesome. Super cool, but coolest Uber driver of all time. And so we went hiking and then it was a loop.


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[Assistant] So we called the Uber driver and told him where on our downloaded Google Maps the, uh, the waterfall was and he's like, sure, I'll pick you up over there.


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[Assistant] So then we just hiked through the jungle to the waterfall and then he was there on the other side and it was like, it was pretty cool. We had like a, not a personal driver, but we had the super cool, the coolest Uber driver in the world who would take us anywhere.


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[Assistant] And by the way, American healthcare, if you're listening, you're not. Uhm, it cost him like 300 bucks. Oh wow. 300 bucks and he did it like that.


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[Assistant] Based on the pain, and the location, there's probably an infection.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I'm saying. None of us up here are Nathans.


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[Assistant] Well wasn't it, wasn't it that he won, right?


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[Assistant] And then there was like a bunch of, there was like, people were like, look at all this stuff on his account. But they didn't do anything until after he had won, he, he tweeted something else.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, here's my thing. It's interesting because...


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[Assistant] I do feel like people should be able to say, kinda like, be whoever they wanna be, you know? And not feel like they have to necessarily censor themselves.


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[Assistant] But, like all things, I feel like you also have to accept the responsibilities. Like we talked about, people confuse freedom of speech with freedom of persecution for your speech. Right? Right, right, right. Like, and so, if you want to say all those things, you should be allowed to.


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[Assistant] But, the company that has a financial stake in acquiring a certain audience and maintaining that certain audience has the freedom to fine you for it. Now, no one's, no police are gonna come and knock down his door and take him, take him to jail for saying those things, but it's up to the rest of the,


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[Assistant] His followers and fifth graders and everything, stuff like that, that like to determine whether or not they want.


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[Assistant] There, I'm sure there, I'm sure there was something in the contract that says like,


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[Assistant] By participating in this tournament, you agree to the terms of whatever, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I also think that like, sometimes there's a difference between saying, just saying something and then like targeting.


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[Assistant] Just glancing at his tweets, a lot of them were like, aggressively saying something at another player. You know, like, or something like that. And those, those are way more dangerous to me than just speaking out. You know, uhm, just saying it for saying it's sake. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I can insult their game, insult their parents, insult their fight stick, insult everything. There's a fighting game guy called Low-Tier God, who's like known for like talking trash and stuff, except then he gets his ass kicked. There's great compilation videos of him losing in fights after having talked to some like really mad trash.


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[Assistant] But yeah, the interesting thing about that is I can only imagine that same, same as Dubby.


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[Assistant] You know, same as Dubby and same as the people filming that crying guy. Is that, if that dude came back next weekend.


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[Assistant] So we're trying to- That kid got brain damaged. We're trying to tie this back to the fact that-


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[Assistant] He, the guy, Dubby, was basically saying that like, sorry I was really subscribed to the culture of the gaming aspect, not thinking about how it had transcended beyond me to something professional, right? Yea, and more or less the shoestrings that money


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[Assistant] Still though man, you can choose so many other words to use. So many other ways to talk shit than by stomping all over specific racial groups.


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[Assistant] I don't play in professional circles. I would say, I would say part of the reason is because all devices now have capture things.


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[Assistant] Like you can Google me to see who I am. Like if that's the question of my identity or whatever, you can see who I am. Problem is that...


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[Assistant] I think that sports, and I'm including video games, endeavors of strength or skill,


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[Assistant] Inspire aggression, I think those two things go hand in hand. It's almost impossible to have a clear head and play football.


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[Assistant] To me, it is, I always love it more when, like Adam said.


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[Assistant] They do this thing and they look really serious, but then they're like, ah, I'm just fucking with you or whatever. And then they have a great match.


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[Assistant] eSports whatever, then Trash Talk all you want to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, then maybe you should try and be an upstanding human being when you win the Madden thing and then you may have a greater legacy, I don't know.


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[Assistant] And there are some people that have zero in humanity, but fucking ten in basketball. And they're going to be great and they're going to be assholes. And, but that's all they get. I would always rather be a circle. You know, like there's a lot of things that are worth mentioning about who I am.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think they're also very strong. And women have a higher pain threshold as well. That's true, they do, yeah. So they can handle it. I got this one because of the crack a little bit, but yeah, it's not going anywhere. Nope, I accept defeat. To all women.


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[Assistant] I think also I value community. Masking seems to have a community built around it. I dunno if this has a community built around it.


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[Assistant] Could be a tiebreaker? Up, and then whoever wins the poll is who moves on. Alright, that's fair.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't, man, she's, she's genetically different. I mean, steroids probably, but that's not, ladies out there, if you're thinking about doing weights, don't, she's not the end result. No, that's steroids. She also got breast implants in one of those videos. I saw that, yeah.


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[Assistant] I just wanna stop in on the show. Wanna hear something even funnier? When I was there, I was too busy being worked to the bone that I never got to go watch the show. I only found out how the show went if something went wrong in one of my segments and then I got yelled at.


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[Assistant] You took three bags then didn't you? I should clarify that 90% of the people I worked with at G4 were fans.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, that's when I watched G4 the most, was when I was in college. Yea, same with me. That I'd just go back and I'd just be like, Cinematheeee. But I also watched a lot of the Travel Channel. I was a big fan of Great Hotels with


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[Assistant] And we just taped it up to your wall. Put it everywhere. And I drew a bunny on it.


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[Assistant] You can share images and we have one that's just devoted to the thumbnails that go out for the videos and I just saw the thumbnail pop up and it had like X-Men and Apocalypse on it and I was like, I'm pretty sure all that we said was that I was the only one who had seen it and we moved on.


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[Assistant] That's the bigger deal. To Bruce's point, uh, he probably seemed the most vocally excited for a new fallout. I was very excited. For years, you were like, just give me more fallout. And then when it came out, you were like, oh, it's just more fallout.


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[Assistant] As far as I'm concerned, all those Mortal Combats and all those Netherrealm games, that's extra. And like when they had like Mortal Kombat Annihilation and it had a whole, like,


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[Assistant] Three people in the world really, really cared about, like enough to put down money for it. Like, yeaah, I'm referring to myself, Phil, and maybe you. No, I love killers.


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[Assistant] So like, why would they make it so good? Like in terms of mechanics. And it's because they know that there's a fighting game community that's going to appreciate it. It's not trying to broaden itself so much, they're just like doubling down on what they know is good about it. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Because it basically, it was, it was like the original Dark Souls. It was like the original Dark Souls. I can't, I'm too old to deal with games that just ask you to sacrifice time and then you go, sorry.


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[Assistant] Sorry, you doubled down and now you have nothing. Like, I just don't have time for that. Dead Rising 2 basically fixed that, added multiplayer, made it more fun and less like, stressful, and then-


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[Assistant] Dead Rising 3 seemed like it was that as well. And I wanted to play more of it, so I hope


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[Assistant] If it's, also, you know, we should just get, we should get Dead Rising 2 and we should just do a gameplay of it. Or 3, I mean 3 is good.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I'm being, perhaps I'm an idealist, but I also like to think it's because maybe the industry hasn't turned over on itself so much over there that it isn't like, we have this genius. We should let him create his genius, right? As opposed to like, we have this genius, we're just gonna put your name on the box, and you have six months to get your game done.


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[Assistant] The thing is, it's such a believable argument. It totally makes sense that like, a company, a car company would say,


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[Assistant] Well we don't want you to do that because that car, it would influence our sales if you drove head on into a wall and the car's front end completely smashed. We have a traction system that provi- like- There are hundreds of movies that- Yea, I know.


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[Assistant] I'm sure they've done the math and they said it's going to cost X amount of dollars to upgrade this thing and put it on the new systems and we'll probably make this Y amount of dollars. Just a way to get revenue.


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[Assistant] I don't think that they would step on, if they were gonna do Skyrim, which I think we're almost positive that they're gonna do, I don't think they would step on it by announcing something bigger and better.


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[Assistant] Handful of games that I've ever seen, like, announced and watched it and gone like, split second for those of you that don't know is a racing game that came out and nobody bought. It's like Mario Kart, except you didn't fire shells or beams of light or whatever. You charged up a meter.


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[Assistant] And you could use the meter to cause environmental disasters to influence the other racers on the track.


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[Assistant] That's all staged, and there's no way the game's ever gonna be like that. And then, it came out and it looked better than when they first originally showed it off, and it played exactly that way. But then again, no one bought it. And then they went out of business.


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[Assistant] But still, I was just, when we were talking about Watch Dogs earlier and like making grand promises and stuff like that, I split second is one of the few games that always comes to mind when it's like, did they make a huge promise on a game and then deliver beyond it? Yeah, they absolutely did.


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[Assistant] But then you have stuff like the Uncharted series or basically anything. Naughty dog. So you hear about developers being like, I hate E3. I hate it. We basically have to reshift all of our production.


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[Assistant] Just to make a demo that has, that doesn't require enough context, like, that we can just show off three minutes or whatever.


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[Assistant] But every time I play like a Naughty Dog game I always think about how they must be, they just must be drooling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I definitely think it is. I'm coming into a kind of renaissance of my own, realizing that like, I'm used to a different...


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[Assistant] Structuring of how to tell a story. Different, like there's tons of different ways to tell a story.


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[Assistant] Telling a pretty basic story over the course of 12 hours or 10 hours or however long it takes to beat Uncharted with lots of stop downs in the middle for like, now you get to do stuff.


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[Assistant] Is just another kind of way to tell a story, and to me it's like, well it's bad.


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[Assistant] It's bad, you forget about the moments that happened before, but to other people it's just kinda what they've known, like especially people that have grown up.


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[Assistant] In some ways it's kind of like a book, I guess. Books don't have to worry so much about pacing, they just have to make sure they don't lose you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they just have to make sure that they don't lose you. That when you set it, cause you can't, it's really hard to read a book all in one sitting.


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[Assistant] I don't Metro anymore. I know, but I'm just saying like, like you're not generally supposed to do that so they'll just give it all to you in one session, but they have to make sure you want to come back. Kinda like Adam though, I haven't played Uncharted 4 in probably like a week and a half.


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[Assistant] Cause like, we were talking, Adam mentioned, like, apocalypse.


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[Assistant] Uh, hopefully pushing forward the mar- showing them that there's other things you can do and influencing back and forth and forwards and all kinds of things. So, but like, Civil War still made so much more money than all of the superhero movies this year at least. So like-


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[Assistant] We just need to, we just need to get past, we need to get through this phase and listen, I love it. I love Dragon Ball Z, alright? Beam fights are awesome.


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[Assistant] I was thinking no fate but what you make. But that doesn't work with robux. Apocalypse, apocalypse.


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[Assistant] This is the ultimate shit thing to do, and I do not recommend it, but I did, I managed to do it once the other night, and it felt amazing, but with Mei, you freeze someone, like a soldier, someone who has very little health, right, you freeze them, and then you go, hello, and then you punch them.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, that's fu- it's fu- when you guys went to lunch the other day, I played in the office. Yeah. And I got into a match with a team that was pretty communicative, which is always appreciated. Like, just, like, hey, maybe we should do this or what. And there was some guy who had played really well time prior, and he goes, he goes, anyway we could get a Roadhog?


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[Assistant] And uh, we were on like Route 66, and uhm, and I was like, sure, I think I hit with Lucio, I was like, sure, I'll switch to Roadhog, whatever. Uhm, and so I did it, and then, he went Zarya, and


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[Assistant] When, and when Zarya's glowing, she's at full power. Yeah. We're close to it. So like,


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[Assistant] You get more frustrated with the bad people on your own team than the good people on another team. Like you, if you get to a point very quickly in that game where you admire other players, and you go, and you go, wow.


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[Assistant] Fantastic Reinhardt. Amazing. Like the timing on your charges and all. Just fantastic. Great plays. Great job. And they're like, thanks. Also, by the way, you can go into recently played with and you can click prefer that player. Oh wow. Or avoid that player. I've done more.


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[Assistant] I told you I went up against a guy whose, his actual battle net ID was GenjiMain. Nice. And I went, wow.


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[Assistant] I prefaced it, but what I want are games where they show you basically like scripted events, kinda like the Battlefront stuff, when they would like script out Battlefront. This is what you might see in an awesome match of it, provided


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[Assistant] The game can actually do something to that capability, right? So like going back to SplitSecond.


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[Assistant] Something, I think a good example, and obviously the game hasn't come out, so we'll see, but the Beyond Horizon gameplay demo?


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[Assistant] Weak points are in the dinosaur and that's probably what I'll be going for when I play the game.


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[Assistant] I don't necessarily, that's not necessarily how I might end up doing it. Like I may just blast it with a giant rocket.


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[Assistant] So the last time that Blaine and I checked Wikifeet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, today I wanted to talk about a bunch of stuff. Alright. Uh, first and foremost, I wanna talk about VR. Is VR not gay enough?


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[Assistant] You guys will remember Robert Young, he's the indie dev behind the Free to Play Radio 2 collection, so that features three short experimental games, Hurt Me Plenty, Succulent, and Stick Shift.


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[Assistant] And they are about male sexuality, punishing, eating, and driving.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but Robert Young, a lot of his games are meant to have very deep, deep commentary on what it is to be a gay man, gay, the gay community. Is he gay?


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[Assistant] He had a little bit of a problem with a lot of streamers playing his games and sensationalizing them.


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[Assistant] I rewatched the video that we did and I didn't really feel that way about it.


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[Assistant] Well, sensationalizing in like, oh, this is, this is weird, or this is gross, or not, maybe sensationalizing is the wrong word, maybe vilifying them. Oh, oh, no, no. Like, saying, like, essentially saying, like, that this kind of behavior is wrong, that, that's, you know, being displayed in these games, uhm, he, he, uh,


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[Assistant] The article that recently popped up on Kotaku interviewing him references the Jacksepticeye video where the game is referred to as messed up.


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[Assistant] And viewers are forewarned so they, as, before they watch, so they don't just like vomit all over the floor is the wording used, I believe.


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[Assistant] In my opinion, personally, I think like, sex is funny, gay, straight. Like, it's inherently funny. It's like, you know, we are-


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[Assistant] Which is why I don't think he made this comment in jest, but...


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[Assistant] It'd be a little cool if he did, but he said that he wants to keep creating work that is obscenely gay.


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[Assistant] And so these gross people stay away from VR entirely. So he wants to make like the gayest VR game ever. Why not? So that people associate VR with being super gay


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[Assistant] I'm always conflicted because he has, I believe, said that he's trying to make games for the gay community.


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[Assistant] So, is it then bad if like, we're playing them? Cause they're not games made for us.


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[Assistant] That's how I, I feel. We also have a ton of gay fans. And well, LGBTQ fans. Plus, to be exact.


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[Assistant] That's, that's how I would, I would think he would maybe feel about it, but he has also gone, uh,


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[Assistant] Or can be quoted as saying that he really doesn't like the idea.


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[Assistant] of VR being these empathy machines. Cause a lot of people are looking at VR going


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[Assistant] His comment is really like that salacious to say like, I just thought it was kind of funny and I'm sort of like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's make VR as gay as possible, because I don't really want homophobic people in my community, personally.


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[Assistant] Well, like stick shift, which is the game where you're driving a car.


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[Assistant] Like social commentaries to his games. You would never, like, I guess that's also a problem too because we see it and we don't.


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[Assistant] But I'm curious if like he's, if he's upset, like if he watched our gameplay and saw us having fun with it, if he'd be upset. Cause you guys didn't say anything derogatory or it was just kinda like fun and laugh, like I don't know if he'd be upset by that. I'm curious.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, on to the next big gay news. Battlefront 2 has a trailer.


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[Assistant] There was, there was Poe and there was, uh, who's the fighter pilot? Finn. Like, I keep-


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[Assistant] So it spans 30 years, it covers all eras, so prequels episode 7, so Kylo Ren, Darth Maul, Rey, Yoda are all gonna be in it.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Adam had a really interesting, like, you had a cool theory for the end of the, uh, so basically, like, there's, you know, the big question is like, is she going to defect to the rebellion? She's part of the, yeah, well you said that.


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[Assistant] It was very, very important that Lawrence note that, uh, this is not the first, uhm,


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[Assistant] They're gonna, they're gonna add her into like every scene. She'll have the background. She was there all the time. That's what I, I really wanted Josh to like add a character to like day five like that. Where he goes, he has to go back and spend millions of dollars reshoot for millions of dollars.


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[Assistant] He says he can't talk about the specifics of this, but there is something different in mind that will allow you to play longer and be more invested in the game without having a fragmented community.


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[Assistant] Well, it sounds like they are listening to community feedback a lot, so that would hopefully happen for you, because the fact that they're not doing the DLC path, season pass, means that they're listening.


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[Assistant] The guy, the guy from About Time that plays the...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we were pretty supportive of the original Battlefront game, or the original, the one that came out two years ago. Uhm, is this, is this too soon to revisit this?


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[Assistant] And I'm not wearing the one I'm referring to today, but I have the Ladies Beverly watch and it's beautiful. Uhm, I love it. It's a grey band. It's simple but it's very fashionable.


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[Assistant] Which is what I try to be, you know, simple in the fashion, but not the...


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[Assistant] We can talk about Star Wars more if you guys want, but I couldn't pass up that transition.


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[Assistant] I thought it was, it was really cool, uhm, and I'm not even that big of a Star Wars fan, so.


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[Assistant] That's kind of where the fan theory subreddit was at. Cause I like to hit up that subreddit. I like, I love fan theories. Good, bad, stupid, dumb. I love them. And they were kind of more of what we thought was the balance is not the balance because there needs to be more of a grey area reached.


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[Assistant] We need something to be excited for, because April the Giraffe gave birth, so we don't have that to look forward to anymore. You guys hear about this?


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[Assistant] It took forever. The actual shootin' the- I'll show you the video, cause the actual shootin' out of the cast- Yeah, will you put it up? It was great, yeah, I'll put it up, but, but just a little, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, information on this, 1.2 million people watched the live stream of this on Animal Adventure Park's YouTube page. 4 million people watched Donald Trump's inauguration.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I had a, I had a fun little idea to, uh, to hear, uhm, so now you can, you can help name April's calf. It was a boy.


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[Assistant] Or minimum of, I think they mean maximum of, do they mean maximum of 5?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so if you do vote, uh, that money goes toward, it's split between the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and then Ava's Little Heroes, which is helping kids with epilepsy.


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[Assistant] Oh, how about Kano? David Giraffe. Like David Jaffe.


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[Assistant] So this girl Stella, her and her friend Levi thought it'd be funny if they like brushed her eyebrow to look like a feather. And I guess they used like,


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[Assistant] Eyebrow glue or gel or something to do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was a joke, but now everybody in the online makeup community is apparently doing it. I don't really know because I'm not part of that community, I'm not allowed in, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I just wanted so you guys could show your wives, girlfriends.


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[Assistant] Now people do like eyebrow implants, which like, like, I think it's called blading.


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[Assistant] And James raves about how much he loves his Mack Weldens, and I have to say that I do appreciate their silver underwear line, that's naturally antimicrobial, because it makes his drawers smell fresh, even when maybe they aren't, as fresh as they could be.


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[Assistant] So if you want to try Mack Weldon, they have shirts and socks and the whole deal.


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[Assistant] They also want you to wear underwear that is going to last and hold up to everything that's going on in your crazy life. So whether that's, you know, your love life or your squat life, they're making underwear for it all.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I know everybody at Funhouse has been blown away by how comfortable their underwear is, including the rest of their line too. So socks, shirts, hoodies, sweatpants. Love their shirts. Their sweatshirts.


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[Assistant] And you guys can check them out too and get that comfort by going to MackWeldon.com.


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[Assistant] And getting 20% off your order by using promo code soup. So thank you Mack Weldon.


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[Assistant] And, uh, hopefully you guys check it out, because I'm tired of, like, frankly I'm tired of hearing about it from you. So just buy more Mack Weldon, so I don't have to hear about it. Can I actually do that? Yes, please. I will ask you.


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[Assistant] The last thing I kind of want to talk about because I mean I guess we have been talking about like sexuality, gender, feathering.


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[Assistant] But, uh, so Sharley, Theron, Vin Diesel, they share a kiss in Fate of the Furious. You guys know because you've seen the movie.


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[Assistant] Well she's kinda like pulling him toward her, right?


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[Assistant] He's been going on about this kiss with Charlize Theron.


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[Assistant] He says, he said I was definitely not complaining. Charlize is not a bad kissing partner to have.


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[Assistant] He said, do I know she enjoyed it? Oh my god, yeah. A kiss cannot lie. Lips don't lie. No they didn't. She owned it.


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[Assistant] And then Charlize goes on Ellen, she says she doesn't get it, uhm, my, you know, uh, he's going on about this and she really doesn't get it.


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[Assistant] I think it's just some, you know, playful ribbing between two friends now when they talk about this. But uh, you know.


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[Assistant] That's a smirky in the thumbnail they chose. Yeah, so we were asked by the Special Olympics, Gavin Free and I, to go over to the Winter Games.


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[Assistant] I'm actually going to match donations, not during this podcast, but during the artsy podcast, the live recording tonight, uh, any donations that are made up to $5,000 total. I will match that myself. That's huge. And I'm going to convince Matt to do it as well. I'm going to convince Matt to do that. I just say Matt's going to do it. I feel obligated.


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[Assistant] I think there's another part of it too, which is your own mortality starts to sink in on a more immediate basis, and you're like, I wanna know how everyone else in my family died, so I'll have a good idea of how I'm gonna have a good one.


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[Assistant] When I see an obituary in the paper or whatever, a news article, and the person who died is my age or younger, I wanna know more details. They just say, oh they passed away suddenly. It's like, how? I don't want whatever that was to get me. And I feel like if they're under a certain age, they should, they should absolutely be required by law to put the cause of death.


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[Assistant] To give credit where credit is due, that was a lot of fun starting all that.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, I don't know about you guys, but it's, what I thought, the only thing I thought we'd have more of, is I thought we'd have more of Rooster Teeth.


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[Assistant] Like we're holding them back? Yeah, you're like, you're keeping us at bay. Like I don't know if you guys remember, but I was actually on this trip when I was talking to you guys, I was actually house hunting as well.


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[Assistant] Trying to find a place where I could live in LA because I thought I was going to be out here all the time.


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[Assistant] This is not that office. This is that horrible room where you guys were for how long?


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[Assistant] Memories. And I remember there's a room off to the left on camera here, uh, behind Lawrence and Adam. That's where Peak was. And I remember my impression of Peak was, here's a guy who will do anything possible not to appear on camera. As soon as the camera started rolling, he would just like, just disappear around a corner.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm trying to do now? I'm finally getting caught up on social media. I'm in the process of trying to get Bernie as my name on everything. Like, Bernie on Instagram, because I don't have an Instagram account. I don't have a Snapchat, and apparently that's what everyone is doing now. So I'm trying to find- I have no idea how to get in contact with the person-


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[Assistant] Okay, we're trying. Go ahead, answer the question. What's the picture?


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[Assistant] We had a dude when we were working on our building, uh, the 636 studio, uh, the one that was like Achievement Hunter was all crammed in with that little room. We were building that building out, uhm, we had a guy who was working on it who came and took pictures of everything. Nice. That's not leaked though. He left his camera there.


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[Assistant] He left his camera like on site and then we just like said, oh, you know, this guy left his camera. He came rushing back for it.


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[Assistant] That was the thing in the video I said that I see a lot of these cars, the Model S on the road, and a lot of the comments were, I've never seen a Tesla in person in my life. And it's, I get it, because if you don't live in a city, an electric vehicle really doesn't make a lot of sense. Because the range on it is, you know, it's not as convenient as a gas engine.


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[Assistant] Depends. It's way more convenient if you live within a hundred miles of where you work and then you- I haven't been to a gas station in three years.


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[Assistant] It was actually, it's actually an idea I had for a really long time to do it, uhm, which James made fun of me when I told him that earlier today. Really a long time.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I wanted to, uh, there's another thing I want to do with a car, but it's a way bigger project and I just, I can't do it. So I, this was like a way to get like towards that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's supposed to last for anywhere between two to four years, but if I decide to go back tomorrow and just pull it off, I can just pull it off. That's cool.


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[Assistant] And I gotta give a big shout out to Marcus, if you don't follow Marcus on Twitter, you absolutely should. Marcus Laporte, who's our production designer for All Things Rooster Teeth. And he's just, he's awesome. He just, he's, he's, it seems like a relatively new hire at the company, but the guy can do anything.


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[Assistant] So I think a fun formula for vlogs is, you know, you do everyday life stuff and you kind of do like fun projects like this, like this is just something


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[Assistant] Links we ever got in terms of the traffic that it generated coming to Rooster Teeth. Jolopnik, uh, did a story on the third person car we did for the very first episode of Immersion.


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[Assistant] And it was, I think like 90,000 people came through that link to see the video that we can measure, you know? And that's, that's a lot for a link. Like on Reddit, you'd be surprised. Something that goes to the top of the Reddit, uh, top of Reddit, like


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[Assistant] I didn't realize how close I came to meeting a lot of people in the past.


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[Assistant] I have, since I've done this since less than a week, I've had experiences where people have seen the car and then hunted me down wherever I am to find me. Like, there was literally three people that found me during dinner.


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[Assistant] They just go to Cheesecake Factory and now they all go to Cheesecake Factory.


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[Assistant] And there was, there's a lot of other businesses and shops and restaurants in that complex, but they found me in the Cheesecake Factory. It's like, I'm insulted that they looked for me in the place where I was actually eating. Like, I'm better than this.


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[Assistant] That's not his car! As he's pulling away, I say, you're bigger than the car. I mean, he is like, he doesn't get in that car, he puts it on, like a shirt.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the car to go service is in Austin. It was before ride sharing.


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[Assistant] I believe that because people are just stubborn as fuck, you know? And it's amazing what the cars do now. It's amazing what that car can do.


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[Assistant] Without any help from the infrastructure at all. It just, it does it just by recognizing, you know, via visual recognition algorithms, recognizing street signs, recognizing lanes, all that stuff. And it's, it's, if there was any kind of like standardization of the lanes or the signage, you know, to help autonomous cars, it would go a really long way.


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[Assistant] No, the outrage is really off the charts sometimes with this kind of thing, right? Doesn't make any sense to me. Like, people are spending time bringing down his website and everything, it's like, what? Who cares?


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[Assistant] I think that's a good example of that, that I just recently, uh, consumed, was, have you guys seen the movie that won best picture, Moonlight? Yes.


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[Assistant] That's a really slow burn of a movie. It's slow. The pacing is very slow and deliberate. It's one of those movies that I'm very grateful I saw it in a movie theater because I'm a captivated audience. As if I was at home, I don't know if I would have made it through that movie in one viewing, you know? I might have come back to it later, but it's just a different pace.


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[Assistant] I have to say though that when we were on the set of Eleven Little Roosters, which you guys were hilarious in,


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[Assistant] That's like the most overdone impression in the world. The Godfather impression. And I thought, oh, people are gonna be so sick of this after two episodes, but they're like, I don't know what that is.


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[Assistant] You just watched it backwards. But it's hard, you can't go back. When you get the refinement of things that contribute to the culture over time, you really can't go back and watch the things that inspired them. It just doesn't like, after Pulp Fiction, people are like, you have to see Citizen Kane because it's a nonlinear narrative and everything. And I watch and I'm like, I'm gonna kill myself watching this. It's like I'd rather watch Pulp Fiction.


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[Assistant] I like that still, like, we still have, like, I've been at VidCon, and I like that we still have things that, like, roving packs of girls can, like, scream and tear their hair out about, you know what I mean? I'm glad we haven't completely moved beyond that. Now it's British vloggers and Justin Bieber. It's a nice coincidence that this conversation


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[Assistant] And if you want to go to either my Twitter or my Facebook, I have links on how you can go help. And I'm gonna be matching, uh, up to $5,000 total for everything that's donated during the hours of the URUSHI podcast today, which is right after this, right?


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[Assistant] I always got two. I bought one for, for, as a gift. Uuuh. And, uh, it's a 40, yeaah, it's a gift for myself. A 40 inch 4K TV Samsung for $3.50.


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[Assistant] I said jumping from platform to platform collecting orbs. But she said flying.


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[Assistant] It was, it was, uh, not as good as Owlboy. Oh no. Actually no, I enjoy seeing my family. So I did a, I typically do a lunch with my dad and a dinner with my mom.


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[Assistant] Both of them were great, the food was amazing, uh, at both places. One we went out, the other one was, uh, home-cooked. Uhm, but, I got to have a few Trump debates. Oh boy. So that was exciting. Uhm, I got to do a few of those. Although, that didn't bother me, like, I don't, it's not one of those things that, like, we can all, we can all talk about and still be friends afterwards, so it's not, who cares?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it was, it was good. Uhm, and, uh, and then, let's see, what did I do? I did something Thursday night, I can't remember. Oh, I watched the Game Attack, uh.


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[Assistant] No, absolutely not. I heard Craig, uh, Craig from ScrewAttack was saying they were going to do a Black Friday gaming stream for people in line, uhm, while they're waiting for, there it goes. That's about right. That's about right. That's a good metaphor. For that, for ScrewAttack.


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[Assistant] And I was like, oh, you know, I bet they're playing something fun. I'll do that. I turn it on and I'm playing Mario again. And I was like, play something else! Play Battlefield!


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[Assistant] Well, so Craig, that's, that was another thing, I was like, Craig's playing on his personal channel, they just played a, like a Mario game for their champ, or their, for game attack.


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[Assistant] I mean, it wasn't nudity per se, but it was, uh, DOA Beach Volleyball. And it was like, basically like, I had discovered that a video game


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[Assistant] And specifically to give you a boner. And, uh, DOA Beach volleyball really made me question why, why and what I'm attracted to and I will always be grateful to it because then I eventually settled on the fact that I was, in fact, attracted to a fake digital character.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, that's what I, what you said, console versus PC, it strikes me as people think the PC gaming audience is more mature and typically older than the console gaming audience. I don't know if that's true, but that's I think the impression that most people get about console versus PC, but I have no idea if that's true.


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[Assistant] This series has really gotten me, which I've never done before because this question is posed in a lot of different sci-fi and it has been for years and years and years about like, oh, is a robot, you know, that is sentient? Is that artificial intelligence? Are they, are they a human now? Do they deserve the same rights?


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[Assistant] But for me, it's actually got me putting myself into the robot's shoes, into the host's shoes, because I start asking myself, what would happen if like, I woke up


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[Assistant] And I found out that basically it's like the Truman Show where I woke up that everything around me was orchestrated and it was all fake. What would I do? Which is really interesting to put myself into the robot shoes and be like, well shit, how would I feel?


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[Assistant] And I would feel terrible. I'd feel like, I'd feel like basically like, like they said, my whole life is a lie.


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[Assistant] Man, it's such an interesting question that you have to put yourself into the robot shoes rather than into the human shoes. Because I feel like the humans are almost more one-dimensional than the robots are in this show.


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[Assistant] And he also, like, he basically mutilated a bunch of robots. And like, he did that because I think, like, at this point in the show, I felt like he was experimenting. Whereas before, he was like, well, no, like you said, he's like, well, I kinda wanna be a good guy, and like, this is the way I live my life, so I'd like to play it this way.


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[Assistant] Yes, and then, and now, now he's like gone crazy basically. So that's, to me, I'm just saying good guy, bad guy in the sense that before he was trying not to kill anything, and now he doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] So it's funny, like, it ended for me, cause I watched it too, with Bethany. And, uh, by the way, I was a Gilmore Girls fan from the very beginning, I watched it when it was on. Uhm, and so when it was at the very, very end, uh, I don't understand


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[Assistant] I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. Uhm, the, uh, the very end of the show hit me and I like, I got, I was like, yep, and I got up and like went and started putting my laundry away and Bethany was crying on the couch.


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[Assistant] And I was like, what, what, what, what are you crying about? And, and she's like, so we started to look up the, uh, the ending and why, um, uh, and like there are a bunch of different theories and all this other stuff.


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[Assistant] Castle's a procedural. And so it's one of those things where it's like- Probably one of the most popular shows in the world. I know why people watch it, because it's the same thing.


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[Assistant] I believe it was shot in 3D. I think. Oh yea? No, no, we like Idris Elba.


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[Assistant] They have, uh, these milk chocolate peanut butter cups that are amazing. You can only get them at Trader Joe's.


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[Assistant] Also, I would say, you know, to be honest, yes, originally I thought it was out of the realm of possibility, but now that Donald Trump's president, no.


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[Assistant] Did you know that when the plane crashes, most people are, so the, the, the actual, um,


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[Assistant] I am enjoying, my big thing is I think that


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[Assistant] When you have media, and this almost goes for anything, figure out what it is. And then be true to that. As opposed to trying to straddle a bunch of lines. So if you're gonna make a super dancy pop song, make it so dancy and make it so pop. Don't mix R&B elements into it.


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[Assistant] If it, if it's going to betray the dancy and pop of the rest of it. So like stuff like narrative, narrative and gaming is fine with me. I genuinely like the Telltale games, like the Walking Dead season one and season two and the Game of Thrones game. They're all really, really, really fun and I really like them, but it's because they're just, they just double down on narrative. They're like,


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[Assistant] participate in that story. When you get into a situation where it's kind of,


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[Assistant] I think the problem with those situations is you get into a thing where you're


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[Assistant] So like, there's really long scenes. It could be a well written scene, but like, even in Uncharted 4, there's some sequences in the beginning that I'm like, tricking my watch. Like, and this is when a game is supposed to hook you, right? And it's still going a little long. It feels like it needs an editor at some point.


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[Assistant] I, I think though that like certain things that are purely cinematic, that don't even ask for your interaction, like there's a, it's, it's within the first like 90 minutes of the game. So spoiler or whatever, but not really.


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[Assistant] One more thing, one more thing about the frogs before we move on from experimental shit music. That's great. Uhm, I, uh, I didn't work, but I had a friend who worked at the radio station in college and


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[Assistant] I mean, everyone's saying, like comparing it to Wolfenstein.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll get into that in a second. Can I just say? There's another concern. Can I just say about Blue Apron that it was like a week ago, probably maybe a week and a day that Elise said, hey,


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[Assistant] We should do Blue Apron. And I said, what is that? And she said, oh, it's a thing where you, you know, you just, they send you recipes and the ingredients and then you make the food. And I was like, absolutely let's do it. So what's the code?


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[Assistant] I genuinely like to cook, but the biggest hurdle is you walk into the kitchen and you have like, pieces. It's like, it's as though you have...


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[Assistant] Like, you wanna do one puzzle, and you have the cover of the box, but-


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[Assistant] I, uh, there, I went to a restaurant, obviously there's a ton of seafood down there, and they're just like, like, we got fish tacos and I swear they were fish burritos with, you know, if you ordered fish and chips, the kind of size fish that they would give you, it was that in a tortilla.


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[Assistant] And they're like, here you go, here's your fish taco. And I was like, ugh. But there's a place we went to that they, if you go fishing, this is a very fishing cultured place down there. Everyone has a boat.


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[Assistant] Not to shit on your point, pun intended, but uhm, do your cats clean out their own litter box? No, not at all.


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[Assistant] That sucks, and, you know, who cares about what an IGN review, what one person thought of a game that, like, who cares? But I guess there is a side of things where...


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[Assistant] I wonder if that review will prevent people from buying it?


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[Assistant] Or unless it's science, even science deals in theories, like, unless it's things like that, absolutes are really easy to figure out.


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[Assistant] Opinions are also really easy to identify. If it's an opinion and you don't agree with it, then feel free to take the time to form your own.


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[Assistant] Just, you can just take that energy and instead of writing a Tumblr post or whatever about how you disagree with this reviewer who I assure you had never heard of until someone else linked you this article or whatever.


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[Assistant] Then just, just go play the game and then decide for yourself if you like it or not. Also, it's not gonna affect the sales. The game's gonna fuckin' do gangbusters. Which shouldn't- It's fine. That shouldn't-


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[Assistant] Well, it's also, on top of that, I always like the Marvel vs. DC, like Marvel's killing it, those movies. Those movies are just killing it, Marvel. And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, DC has how many concurrent running television shows? Like, Smallville ran for nine seasons or something? That's a lot of ads. You know, they don't really count them like box office. But that's a lot of money, too. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I totally get what you're saying and I agree. Here's the problem. How much money did you make as a game reviewer, Lawrence? Oh, I mean almost none. I did it because I really like playing games and talking about it. This is the same problem we have with, at least in America, like teachers.


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[Assistant] You know, there's, there's money involved too, and anytime money gets involved, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, wow, it's a lot cheaper for, I, this is,


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[Assistant] I don't know if Polygon does this. I have no idea how their business works or whatever. But like, it's a lot cheaper for Polygon to say, farm out reviews to reviewers who are willing to do it for 250 bucks a pop than


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[Assistant] Have the greatest reviewer who commands a salary and health insurance and stuff like that, who is not only passionate about reviewing games, but also, you know...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but my only request was that there was enough time in our travel that I could get to Miami and then also drive to the building that is supposed to be the place for the birdcage. So I did that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wish more of the population of Miami were like dudes in really tiny bathing trunks rollerblading that are really ripped and kind of have like- Like a boombox over one's shoulder? No.


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[Assistant] Some of that stuff, I'm like, I just throw it into the whole cutscene, I don't need it. You need to remind me that I'm playing a game.


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[Assistant] Which is, when we do a gameplay, for example, we did a For Honor gameplay that was sponsored.


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[Assistant] And then we also have to say at the very end, you know, like, make sure you click here to sign up for the beta and blah blah blah. So it's very very clear that Ubisoft sponsored the video.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there are like three or four different requirements that we have to meet, uh, in order to not, you know, draw the ire of the FTC. Right. And that's something that I can't believe people are still getting away with, and that's why like this whole team art and syndicate thing came out.


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[Assistant] I was, I, like I said, we knew those guys and I was like, gosh, these guys are smarter than that. Like, that's why I'm like, I wish that I was able to talk to them personally about it.


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[Assistant] And we worked at an MCN that should have learned that lesson a long time ago.


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[Assistant] Right, and we had like, I think the whole Xbox thing was the very first time I think that anybody was exposed to that story when we reported on it.


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[Assistant] So he's partnered by Machinima. Yea, exactly. He doesn't work for the company.


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[Assistant] Well Sam, I was lucky I had parents that would have told me, no you don't work for the company. This is a contract. And my parents would have been really really really scared of me signing anything when I was 17 or 18.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, so I mean like, so that's why I was actually surprised to hear about this whole thing with these two guys, cause...


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[Assistant] I feel like they had seen, maybe they hadn't, but I feel like they had seen all the errors, uh, that had happened along the way, you know, like the stuff that we reported on at Machinima, uhm, and would have been like, no, you know what, let's learn from this, let's not do this, and,


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[Assistant] We were talking about this in the office. Maybe, maybe they just thought it was okay. Maybe they thought it was like, it was, it was totally fine.


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[Assistant] We were just reading about the story today on The Verge about how PewDiePie settled, uh, or not PewDiePie, but, uhm, Warner Brothers settled with, uh, with the FTC, uhm, in terms of, cause I guess Warner Brothers basically paid YouTubers to play


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[Assistant] That same, that same exact thing happened with Machinima. Exactly the same. Where they were able to prove that, Microsoft was able to prove that they told Machinima, and Machinima was like,


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[Assistant] We thought it didn't matter. Whoops. So they, so the FTC just basically settled with, or I'm sorry, Warner Brothers settled with FTC. Which means that there is going to be money exchanging hands for this T. Martin syndicate thing. At least, there are going to be heavy fines.


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[Assistant] I don't see jail time either. It is at stake though. That is a possibility. I think it's conceivable.


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[Assistant] The FTC, would they get rid of their YouTube accounts?


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[Assistant] You just gave two subsequent examples of exactly what you were talking about. People always talk about how like, they're always like, man, I'm so hot. And it's like, 60 degrees outside and it's like, okay, yes, true. You are hot. For you, Ariana Grande. It is not hot. Yeah, 60 degrees is cool.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of things that are really bad about that phone. I mean, it's two years old now.


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[Assistant] Uh, James? James, are you there? What happened? Is he not, is he not?


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[Assistant] Oh, where's Peek? Oh. That's the first question, Lawrence. That is the first question. So he's, uh, Matt Peek is currently the best man at his brother's wedding.


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[Assistant] Okay, I guess we'll see you at work on Monday then. But no, it's always you guys, so thanks again for coming out, we really appreciate it. Love you!


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[Assistant] Well this is, I mean, at VidCon I was the one that said this is my chance to beat little children.


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[Assistant] Fuck you. I felt, I felt really guilty because they were all stuck there. Basically like my other half was all stuck in the airport for seven hours and I was just like, there's nothing I could do.


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[Assistant] And the advantage to that is that they all join Snapchat. So now they're all on Snapchat because they're bored in the airport. So now you get to like find out what they're doing just on the daily.


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[Assistant] And I didn't really know what they said, but I had a bunch of fans walk up to me and be like, yo, Achievement Hunter was talking shit about you on their panel, uh, what are you gonna do about it? And we were like, oh, well we're just gonna be extra nice to them on stage today when we play Lawbreakers, and then when we literally slaughter them over and over and over.


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[Assistant] We'll just be nice! Uh, and uh, that worked. That was a good game.


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[Assistant] I didn't know you could do that. That's a talent I didn't know you had. Yeaah. It was honestly, you sound pretty good.


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[Assistant] I figured that out afterwards and I was like, oh, Adam was over there and Ryan wanted to be left alone and it bothered him. I'm sorry Ryan, I apologize.


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[Assistant] Lawrence, you had a point though. Did I? I'm sorry, Adam had a point. I lost it.


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[Assistant] We're not famous. Like, Tom Cruise, if he was walking down the street, everybody would be like, that's Tom Cruise, look at that Tom Cruise. Oh, I want to get a picture, I want to get some design. Eventually he has to go inside because he can no longer be outside.


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[Assistant] Put it very eloquently, which is like we come in, we talk to three thousand people or however many people are here, we feel awesome, and then we go out the back door next to a dumpster and a homeless person shoves us.


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[Assistant] That's a, that's a good point. So I always, I would just say, what fame, for me, cause I, I, you know, like, like Adam said, we're just happy to talk to you guys cause you, you like what we do, uh, and that's good enough, I think, for all of us.


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[Assistant] The worst part of that is there are consequences to everyone. So if you live without inhibitions, there are lots and lots of consequences that happen in real life. And also even like, you know, in fake life, it's like, it's one of those things that I've heard so many times that happen with actors that just, they overreach.


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[Assistant] And then they overdose or something like that. So it's, you just gotta be really super careful.


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[Assistant] So actually, I'll give a little context here. So we play the game. Hold on. There we go. Oh, there we go. Okay, good. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, so, uh, we played a game called Subnautica. It's this kind of like early access game where you can, you basically live underwater and you can create submarines and little, you know.


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[Assistant] Who cares. Anyway, I'll take two. Wow. So we played it and James kept talking about these tubes that you could build and if you put a tube at the top of the water and then extended the tube downward,


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[Assistant] He thought you could get oxygen from them and I was like that doesn't make any sense. Why would they do that? You could only get oxygen from that one area. So you always have to swing back to the pipe.


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[Assistant] Well, going back to Lawrence's point about just, about acting, like, it was one of those things where I was in my head, that was my initial instinct was to say, there's no way. And then if I had been just sitting next to James and we were just playing a video game and not, no camera on, I would have been like, yeah, you know what, James, maybe you are right.


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[Assistant] We should show the picture on the- Oh yea, sure.


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[Assistant] Kiddy Plays, Gassy Mexican, and then what was it? Expert Thief.


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[Assistant] Generally, generally you get more people. Generally you're like-


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[Assistant] Maybe you're not supposed to understand it. No. It's like every other relationship. Are you gonna take us through our best podcast memories?


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[Assistant] Well, we are talking normally. I think we're also given time. It's like, what do you think about this topic? Share your opinion. And, uh, and then we always, like, just like at the building and everything, we always become bitter old men about everything.


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[Assistant] Clearly, clearly he unfiltered Robin Williams as a different kind of person than the, than the cut down performance. I was going to say, it's because he was edited. He's performing as well.


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[Assistant] That's just how I am, personally. I also think there's value to liking something, but then also seeing its flaws.


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[Assistant] Nothing has to be perfect. I think we also get a lot of flack for that. Where we'll say like, oh yea, Deadpool was a really good movie. But then we'll do 30 minutes as to things that we wish were different about it or could have been better.


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[Assistant] That doesn't refute our original statement of, we liked the movie Deadpool.


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[Assistant] People get so caught up on the fact that we spent- we talked about these things, which by the way means that it is a good movie because we can pick out specific things as opposed to just- Saying it's bad. Sui- describing it as trash, like Suicide Squad is just like hot garbage. Like, that would be more than one podcast if we really wanted to dig into it.


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[Assistant] Well, I think more than that, it's let's figure out how and why this happened. I think that's generally the heart of what a lot of our discussions try to be. Now, we don't always hit that mark, but it's generally like, okay, people are really pissed off about No Man's Sky, why are they pissed off and how could this have been prevented and maybe this will help us in the future with future games that


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[Assistant] We'll lead us down that path or future scams like lottery scams and stuff like that. Like how can we do something, how can we talk about it now that may