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[Assistant] Well, it also feels like as a game developer at least, he's trying to test people's limits. And that's the kind of thing that rarely, you know, Andy Kaufman had certain kind of humor that was designed to get reactions out of people and then you just talk to him one on one and he was still trying to get reaction out of you because that's kind of how that person is wired.


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[Assistant] There's also the whole aspect of when an author creates a work.


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[Assistant] It's, it's kind of out there to be interpreted, and the author can always come out and say, I wrote Lord of the Rings because it was supposed to be a parallel of World War II, or whatever. Right. But if someone's like, if someone's like, well I read it this way, or I didn't pick up on that, or no one picked up on that until you said something, it's like, well then we have to judge the works.


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[Assistant] If you put your game out there, and you just let anyone play it, then, you know, if he only wants specific people to play it, then he should only give it to those specific people. That's how it goes.


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[Assistant] If he can't look at it and say that like, oh, this game could be interpreted many different ways.


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[Assistant] Then he's kinda got blinders on too, and I'm not saying that's how he feels, but I think that goes for any artist that makes something so overt.


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[Assistant] They don't have access. They don't have access to the number of, uh, Ray toys that sold.


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[Assistant] If putting female protagonists in their movies is only to push an agenda and it's losing them money and they're not making any money on it, they're gonna stop. Have they forgotten about Luke Skywalker?


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[Assistant] Die. Die for the empire. She's gonna die for the empire. Because they're gonna have you so bought in, to like, accomplishing your goals, be like Bioshock, you're just trying to accomplish your goals that you don't even, like, by the end of it you're not even gonna be thinking about the fact that your goals are going against the good guys.


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[Assistant] The final scene is going to be you overseeing the point where she's going to be real old, but uh, Han's getting stabbed by Kylo Ren, and then she goes, yeah. And then it rolls cut real fast. She lowers her binoculars.


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[Assistant] But that might just mean that they're just gonna charge for the DLC. There's just gonna be no season pass. Because they don't know, instead of, maybe they're like, we got such bad feedback because we charged people for season pass that we weren't 100% sure what was gonna be. That instead of charging them, we'll just say, when it comes out and it's ready, then you can buy it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, also if I recall that Han pistol was way better than any other, there was like no reason to pick any other gun. It was okay. To pick the Han pistol.


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[Assistant] Just give me, give me ten classes of Stormtrooper that you can just pick from.


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel the same way about Battlefield, like, even Battlefield 1, I'm like, I have to play 300 hours to unlock this gun?


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[Assistant] What? Who? You mean, yea, the guy who is an utter ginger through and through, he's on the wallpaper. Hux? Yea, Hux. Hux. He's on the wallpaper right now. See, see redhead? Pull it down and you'll see.


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[Assistant] I think, I think the, uh, are you excited to see Darth Maul fight Kylo Ren? Nope, that's, uh, no.


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[Assistant] That was Yoda, but I'm saying, you can fight between eras. Yeah. That'll be fun. That'll be fun.


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[Assistant] No. No, cause they did a battlefield game in between then.


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[Assistant] I'm way more invested in the growing narrative, because I feel like, you know, I came out of Force Awakens going like, okay, they played it real safe, they just did a new hope again.


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[Assistant] Now they can, now that they made a billion dollars they can do whatever they want. But it doesn't look like they're doing Empire again necessarily. I mean it's similar because it's our young hero on a


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[Assistant] Oh, as you say, at some point, so I would like for someone to step up and go like, you know, it seems like the Jedi are good guys.


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[Assistant] But I guess we're just doing the exact same thing with the force that the bad guys do. You know, like, we're pushing our own agenda, and as much as we talk about how things need to be even, we're still trying to wipe them out, so that doesn't make a lot of sense.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it'd be interesting too if some of the theories about Rey having a dark past, her being dangerous or whatever, but also, she also seems to be utterly heroic and feels compelled to do the right thing in most situations. If she is the embodiment of the Force,


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[Assistant] Because she isn't, she isn't pure to one side or the other.


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[Assistant] I'm just excited for the narrative to go forward. I know people really like Rogue One, but the whole time I was watching it I was like, you're just filling in blanks that I already kind of knew.


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[Assistant] That's an elevator ride, I'll tell you that much. $15 worth.


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[Assistant] That took forever. I didn't follow it at all, but I did follow Ricky from ETC who followed it very closely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's adorable. According to Trump though, that's not accurate. Toys R Us, that's good ads placement. Oh man, look at that standing too. This little boy, this... Careful, careful.


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[Assistant] Careful because it goes by in a wing. Did we look up how, like, how long these things normally take?


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[Assistant] Look at the, all they had was fur! See, so the giraffe, see, this wouldn't happen if the giraffe had a squatty potty.


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[Assistant] I love that. That's my favorite story. He died of AIDS. And if you go back on it, you can see that Adam only thought that because once he played a sailor.


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[Assistant] I realized I was an old person when I found


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[Assistant] Just lived within my skull. And so I was like, well I'm gonna do an experiment. So then I trimmed it short to see if it came back. And it did. Of course it did. It just can grow longer than other eyebrows. It thinks it's head hair. It got lost.


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[Assistant] It looks like a maple leaf or something like that.


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[Assistant] That's why. That's what James was thinking about. That's what gets me off.


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[Assistant] It's weird. It's almost as though he's attracted to men. It's very strange.


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[Assistant] He's an old man in the bottom, right? He's always doing press junkets. Last, last, two years ago or whatever, when the last one came out, he was singing that song about Paul Walker. He loves doing it.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's probably part of it too. I think she's also thinking, like, in the back of her head she's like, man, all I did was sign on to do this movie. They were like, we're gonna need you for two months. I was like, sure, we're gonna pay you a ton of money. I was like, sure, awesome. Maybe two months.


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[Assistant] So, so either way, she's like, it's a real low impact thing, and like, as an actress, I probably sort myself between things that make me money and things that I need to work for. She, in Monster, probably put herself through hell so that way she could look a certain way and perform a certain way. Whereas Vin Diesel thinks that Fate of the Furious is...


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[Assistant] He's pulling out all the stops. He's going really deep down the Stanislavsky method to really make that one work. And so, uh.


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[Assistant] Like, he probably, he's like, he was just, moment, amazing moment between two actors, and she's like,


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[Assistant] They said kiss, so I kissed. So I kissed him. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] He's not as ripped. Cause there's a big difference between a douchey looking regular guy, like that, and a douchey looking regular guy who's got muscles. Yeah, no, he's not as ripped as Chris Herman. Sure was cowboy. Oh, okay, hold on. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's steroids right there. Man, he's a perfect, he's a perfect man! He looks unbelievable. Yeaah. We should put the globe on his shoulders. Is that Bernie?


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[Assistant] Keep it frosty. In a reasonable way. Uhm, but yeaah. It's definitely been a change in the office. It's pretty wild.


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[Assistant] Solid. So I'm Elise Wilms, Bernie Burns, and Rooster Teeth is joining us today.


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[Assistant] I'll match three dollars. We should check back and see if this goal moves at all by the end of this podcast.


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[Assistant] Well, someday we'll know how everyone on Funhaus died.


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[Assistant] Oh, I do, I do, I do see a sponsor. Thank you, Adam. Uh, today's episode is brought to you by two sponsors, Blue Apron and Dollar Shave Club. You can check out this week's Blue Apron menu and get your first three meals free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com slash soup.


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[Assistant] And you can head dollarshaveclub.com slash dude to get a one month trial of any Dollar Shave Club razor for one dollar with free shipping. And then after that it's just a few bucks a month and we'll hear more about that later in the show. So thank you to both of our sponsors for this week.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm glad that Bernie was able to come back before we all died.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to seg- let's get this back around. Cause the last time Bernie was on DudeSoup was the first podcast ever, which was February 7th, 2015. Wow.


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[Assistant] I think he stands there like the whole time. I'm sure he does. Yea, this is already 45 minutes in. He's still there.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to ask Fernie if he thought this was the trajectory for Funhaus or whether like you've been surprised or not surprised by what's going on here.


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[Assistant] But I mean, he still doesn't seek it out, and I've noticed, like, Matt Peake is the most humble dude, too. If a fan does something nice or sends something to us, I've seen him, he's sending, like, long, you know, letters to them, like thanking them.


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[Assistant] Bruce is like a big brother to me and I respect him too much and I just can't.


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[Assistant] Well I hope he at least like washed his hands before he went and cooked. I didn't ask. Hold on, she's segwaying. Oh. I hope he washed his hands before he cooked because you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, so check out this week's menu and get your first three meals free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com slash soup.


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[Assistant] You'll love how good it feels and tastes to create incredible home-cooked meals with Blue Apron, so don't wait. Right now you can get salmon piccata with orzo and broccoli, pork chops and miso butter with bok choy and marinated apple. Like these are


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[Assistant] Top shelf recipes that you will not find anywhere else. So, thank you Blue Apron for sponsoring this and, uh, yeaah, check out that link. But, uh, yeaah, you were talking about your friend fingering his butthole around.


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[Assistant] Uh, and there's no reason not to do that when you can get a great razor from Dollar Shave Club here, okay? There's no reason to use a cheap disposable razor either or pay a high price for some gimmicky thing. It's garbage. Uh, exactly. And when you make the smarter choice and join Dollar Shave Club, okay?


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[Assistant] You can either, uh, uh, pay a fortune or, uh, you know, do this. Dollar Shave Club is the best of both worlds. A premium razor at a disposable price. Uh, and you get a close, close smooth shave every time. And you can't beat that convenience of having, uh, these mailed to you. So if you haven't tried Dollar Shave Club, you're missing out.


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[Assistant] There's no smarter choice on the market, and right now they're giving away a one month trial of their razors for one dollar with free shipping.


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[Assistant] What made you decide to do the cell shading?


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[Assistant] This is just removable skin, right? Like you can just take it off.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what else peaked but has since plummeted to a 97 score on Metacritic? Oh.


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[Assistant] Well, Jim Sterling is currently under attack for the 7 out of 10 review he gave for Breath of the Wild. It was at a 98 on Metacritic, so it was, it was in the tier that's just below Ocarina of Time, which still holds the honor of 99 score, which is the best score on Metacritic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Jim Sterling, he gave it the 7 out of 10. Uh, he's, his website is down because he was getting bombarded. Uh, some are calling it a publicity stunt. Some people think that it's just a revenge ploy because in February he posted a video to his channel.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically saying like it's okay to pirate Nintendo games just because of how Nintendo's attitude has been toward ROMs, toward emulators. He basically is saying, you know,


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[Assistant] Nintendo perceives this as a huge threat to intellectual property and they're being so protective of their property to the point where they're committing transgressions against their fans, etc. Like he seems to be a little bit...


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[Assistant] In the anti-Nintendo camp, admittedly I'm not a huge, like,


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[Assistant] The, uh, one of the major sources of the backlash is his, his, or fans of the game saying that he's now manipulating the persuasion capital of this game in the system. So he's basically influencing future sales of the game in the system because being able to say this game is rated 90.


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[Assistant] I actually really appreciated the sites that played it for 10-20 hours, gave it a score, and then went back and revised their score. Like, I really like those kind of in-progress reviews where it's like, okay, you're telling me what you feel at the moment, but then you're upgrading, you know, or not upgrading necessarily, but you're revising to reflect what you further learned.


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[Assistant] It's a nice coincidence that this conversation, uh, you know, came to us being unhappy with the Academy Awards, cause there were some other people that were unhappy with the Academy Awards this year.


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[Assistant] Um, Bernie, I don't, I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm a big fan of like old radio plays. Yo, great! And, uh...


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[Assistant] If you'll pass this to Bruce. And, uh, we've done some 4 here on, uh,


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[Assistant] I, uh, generally like full cast recordings, I think are really, really neat.


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[Assistant] Omar's listening to his Dark Materials right now. I read them. And so is he, uh, cause I pressure everybody into having my interest.


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[Assistant] This is a little bit different, this play is a little bit different, but I hope you guys will all play your parts. Okay. In this, uh, uh, so let's begin here.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Academy Awards are a celebration of and tribute to Hollywood's greatest films and most creative, talented individuals. In our jaded world, everyone's a critic, but when it comes down to it, society's love affair with cinema burns brighter than ever.


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[Assistant] He pauses to set down a bowl of freshly cooked hot boiled eggs, a chop of milk rake, coffee table, then proceeds to swing the front door open, a horrifying smile stretched across his face.


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[Assistant] First, a tall, cheerful looking man dumps a pile of kids' choice awards on a nearby milk crate. It's Eddie Murphy. Why does he talk this way?


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[Assistant] He flexes in his cool leather jacket, tightens up around his bulging Australian muscles.


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[Assistant] He points at the television, there walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards as Sofia Vergara, dressed in a curve-hugging red number. She's stopped for an interview. Her sultry Spanish accent floats through the TV speakers, or at least the one side that works.


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[Assistant] Friends! Willem Dafoe's smile fades, his hand clenches, crushing a hard boiled egg within it.


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[Assistant] Eddie Murphy extends his arms out from his chest making round circular motions implying the presence of obscene almost comically large breasts.


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[Assistant] The usual. Rick has a moment of realization, he nods slowly.


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[Assistant] Rick and Willem's discussion is broken by the sounds of a grown man sobbing.


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[Assistant] And just like that, Eddie Murphy is gone. Hugh Jackman, we've silently in the background collecting the discarded Kids' Choice Award statues and hugging them tightly to his tuxedo clad chest. Suddenly out of nowhere, an elderly gentleman with a mischievous smile and dark glasses appears in the doorway beside Rick.


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[Assistant] I don't like to show anybody the script beforehand, but I don't- he needed to know-


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[Assistant] You were always hard netting. But thank you for tolerating that, Bernie, and doing that. Appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Breen, do you want to bump your, uh, Special Olympics? Yeaah, yeaah, so.


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[Assistant] And things that people don't really watch. So like Twits and Crits is probably the most vocal fanbase we've ever had. It is, it's true. And the numbers have just been dipping below so. Nobody watches it anymore. There's like 3,000 hardcore people who really like it and then the rest of them are just stone people who thought it was something else.


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[Assistant] What's the next TV fad gonna be? Cause they tried 3D, then they tried curved.


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[Assistant] But the thing is, so, we haven't played Heroes of the Storm for a while, and for those who don't know, Free to Play, MOBA, Blizzard made it, it's like very...


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[Assistant] Uh, here's the storm, and Zarya's a lot of fun to play as, but we just play against AI.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, but that means I had all that other time to get you guys infected with whatever I had.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean there's people suffering in the world, I'm fine.


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[Assistant] I'm better now, I gotta, I bought a camera to watch my cats.


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[Assistant] That was my Black Friday or Super Saturday or, uh, Silly Sunday deal. Whatever they had. Silly Sunday. I dunno. Yeah, I wanted to hang out with you guys, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, Elise used this, uh, archaic system of communicating with me. Cause we're, I knew we were all gonna be in town. And so I was like, what are you guys doing? Elise brought up all the community.


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[Assistant] And I was like, oh yea, and Jess was into that, and I was like, cool. Then you emailed me.


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[Assistant] You never asked for it. Weird strategy. You have my phone number. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] Anyway. You have about 85 ways of communicating with me. You chose email, so I replied, hey, sounds good. Let's do that sushi thing. Nothing all day. Nothing, nothing. Which I totally understand. You guys were super swamped.


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[Assistant] Wednesday, getting demo diss and everything done. And then I think like, the afternoon, the next day, you guys said,


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[Assistant] So we're thinking about doing this, we're going to go on a hike and do all this magical stuff.


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[Assistant] Well yea, cause Jess was really in the idea of like eating sushi but then you guys never got back so we ended up just cooking at home.


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[Assistant] That should just be a standing rule that politics shouldn't be at the table during things. But that's where it is.


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[Assistant] I guess, it's sort of, you're just saying, when you do that, you're like, I wanna argue. Who wants to fight? Fight me.


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[Assistant] That's kind of funny, it's like handing someone a loaded gun.


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[Assistant] I know it is. It's a thing. I've been trying to figure that one out for a while. Why?


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[Assistant] Sexuality makes a lot of people uncomfortable, which I guess is just more of what you're exposed to.


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[Assistant] And this is, this is, this is in no way a scientific analysis or anything. This is just my personal opinion on it. I think it's because


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[Assistant] Violence is so fantastical. It seems so, it seems so out of the realm of the ordinary to take a chainsaw and chop a monster in half. But then when you see tits.


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[Assistant] You, it's too real. That's more real than...


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[Assistant] We've learned a long time ago, if you want someone


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[Assistant] To desire something, the best thing you can do is take it away from them.


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[Assistant] So, you can't do cocaine. People are gonna do cocaine. You can't do drugs. You can't drink. Prohibition. All these things. All these things that don't work. And so when you


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[Assistant] Tell people don't look at nudity, we tell a bunch of kids ignore porno mags, ignore all this stuff. They're just gonna seek it out. And like, it's a curious thing cause, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Kinda, maybe, I don't know. It's like, you will never accomplish what you want by being straight, being forward, forward with it. When you express your intentions outright and say, this is bad.


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[Assistant] People will find a way around it. That's just how we are. That's how we're programmed as. You want what you can't have. Exactly. And that's, that's how it's always going to be.


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[Assistant] But it seems like the smartest thing you could do is just expose your children to a lot of nudity early on. But that might even fuck them up. Done and done.


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[Assistant] You're right, I should stop doing this. Now all of a sudden, now you've given them a mission. Now all of a sudden it's good versus evil. It's taboo. Yeaah. It's a weird thing where Nintendo can't publicly do this, but they should just count their blessings that their product is so popular that people want to draw it with things in return.


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[Assistant] I think it's a good barometer to know whether your product is going to succeed or fail. Remember how much porn was coming out for Overwatch before it came out? I know Blizzard was sort of like, that's kind of weird. Uh, but someone there was smart enough and said, we got ourselves a hit. Tracer is shoving her gun so far up the filmmaker's ass.


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[Assistant] People got upset because they got it to work on console because it was a port.


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[Assistant] I was like, there's no nudity, it's just two things. I mean, this is how me and my Christian girlfriend got it on in high school. Like, it's sad.


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[Assistant] Well the thing with Battlestar was they, they kept you interested, they were doing kind of the lost thing where they said,


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[Assistant] The question is more important than the answer for a while and they kept asking more.


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[Assistant] And that changes everything, wow. But it was never really clear what the difference was because in that show they were basically just humans.


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[Assistant] But they had some programming in there, it was all very unclear. Uhm, either way, in this show, someone can be a robot.


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[Assistant] It doesn't really matter. Yeah. Okay. Which is the better.


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[Assistant] Well it's sort of like the plot of Groundhog Day, except everyone is aware of it.


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[Assistant] Uh, he'll forget tomorrow and they just stab you and go, haha, fuck you. That's so weird. Walk away and then...


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[Assistant] Is it, are you gonna live out your fantasy of just murdering everyone and being an asshole? Or are you gonna try to be helpful and be a good person? And so, if this...


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[Assistant] Place actually existed, what kind of person would you be? And it, more, more times than not, I think most people turn into killing rapists, or like murderous rapists, because


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[Assistant] Hey, there's no consequences for what you're doing here, but it's sort of like, could you live with yourself, you know, after that?


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[Assistant] So you guys, so the big theory right now is that


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[Assistant] Every episode I watch, I like, you know, it's good. Robert Ford killed Jesse James. The coward Jesse James.


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[Assistant] The coward was Robert Ford. You're a coward. Jesse James everyone loved. Read about steaks. Robert Ford. Cowboy.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's a lot of allusions to, like, uhm, he keeps saying that line from Shakespeare.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the name Juliet keeps coming out. There's a lot of...


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[Assistant] So I don't subscribe to the Westworld subreddit, but I will go to it. Same with like Halt and Catch Fire.


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[Assistant] And that is sort of just how we consume media now where everything goes beyond. I mean Jess did the same thing, she watched all of Gilmore Girls.


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[Assistant] It was on for seven seasons. Yeah, I know.


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[Assistant] We know, but then there's female lead, who I've never seen in anything else. It's like the main guy from How I Met Your Mother. Nothing else. No one wants him.


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[Assistant] He saw the matrix and said, all shots should be that. 360 degrees, forever.


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[Assistant] It's a weird thing, imagine if at some point in your life you were driving your car.


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[Assistant] Which is, sucks because the universe they built is so interesting and cool.


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[Assistant] I had one of my greatest movie experiences. I think when we saw, Bruce and I saw Prometheus.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. They made a big deal about this because uhm, that one guy died of AIDS and they said, we got the guy from Hamilton.


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[Assistant] I don't remember where this was said, if it was just a joke I made in my head or someone actually said this, but Jess was working at Disney at the time.


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[Assistant] When Princess and the Frog came out, and somewhere someone said, finally we're going black to 2D animation. I said what? Back to 2D animation.


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[Assistant] It's sort of like this weird subtle like racist thing where they're trying to make a big deal like we made a black princess like just be happy you made a movie.


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[Assistant] Well, that was the thing, so we watched, uh, Little Mermaid over the weekend just cause I think Jess was just singing it. We're like, yeah, let's just watch it, it's a short movie.


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[Assistant] And just kinda had the realization, it's an old movie, it's like what, 20, 25 years old, something like that? Very old. It's a very antiquated movie, but.


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[Assistant] The whole movie she's talking about how like, if only I can get out from my father's thumb, if I can just get out, get out there to the world. Then she sees Prince Eric goes, I want to marry that man and never leave the castle.


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe we've progressed a little bit and it was like, okay, that seems very one dimensional. Also, it's an old fantasy story and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like you just throw it in a pan, cook it real quick, if you're in that situation, it will, your body will thank you.


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[Assistant] Woah, that'd be cool too. Just, cause he was supposed to do Casino Royale. I'd like to just see him do, like, he can pick whoever he wants. It doesn't have to do with continuity.


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[Assistant] I will say it has to do with a big project that we're working on, so it took some, uh, priority, and I understand that.


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[Assistant] I wanted to save that when everyone came back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was my cue to leave. Was that he started it up and I'm like, well, Lyft's here, gotta go. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Imagine if you got caught, what would be your response if Chris Hansen walked out? Does your heart drop or do you go...


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[Assistant] I deserve this, or do you like, this is a dream? What's your thought process?


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[Assistant] My problem with the show is that it was always preying on really dumb, sad people.


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[Assistant] Agree with you that pedophilia is bad. You're, you're agreeing with that, right? Are you saying that?


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[Assistant] Uh, not to get off too off topic here, but right now we're watching the original Xbox 360 event. I was so pissed off when they did this, cause check this shit out. So it's a woman, she like plugs it in. They didn't show the power brick.


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[Assistant] The cops tackling a guy with a sub high school education and then beating the shit out of him and being like, get out of here dirt bag. Would be like almost like the biggest loser.


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[Assistant] Wanted it? And they said, hey, are you aware that you, you're like, you probably have a disease and your brain's fucked up and you probably shouldn't have, you shouldn't be fucking kids and go, yeah, I have a problem, I need help. Okay, you're going to jail. Probably.


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[Assistant] Petters, uh, going, going a little further. There was, I remember, I was listening to this one bit about, um, there was a prostitute and she was talking about how the prostitution system is like so fucked up in the sense that if you're a streetwalker, um, chances are it's hard for you to find a job doing anything else. And so then if you get busted for being a prostitute,


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[Assistant] You're basically now you have a criminal record and now it's going to be even harder for you to get a job. So now you have to street walk even more and then it's just this perpetual loop of like, well that seems kind of stupid. So it's almost like.


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[Assistant] Well, prostitution should just be legal. Oh well. I mean, if it's sex between consenting adults, that's what I believe.


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[Assistant] Petters. Uh, well there was the other story too about the, it was the Catholic preacher who, a preacher who I believe did like molest like whatever 150 kids or something horrible. He was just a despicable human being. Uh, but he was like murdered in prison and it was, the story came out. I, I, so it's like, I always have mixed feelings about that where it's like,


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[Assistant] Sorry buddy. Yeaah. Let me throw this one out there. Say you were wrongly convicted. Double Japs. Well no, but like, say it's just like a total misunderstanding and then you go to jail and you're like, I'm trying to fight this, I'm totally innocent and then you're like, well you got convicted of a crime, that crime's so bad, you got murdered.


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[Assistant] That's sort of my, I don't know, like I said, mixed feelings all around because it's all one giant piece of grey and like, on one hand you're thinking, alright, justice works, and it's like, well that's not how justice is supposed to work.


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[Assistant] I'm saying that's a great first step. I mean, if someone has actually committed the act, horrible human being.


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[Assistant] Uhm, obviously I think everyone is entitled to some sort of rehabilitation rather than you fucked up die because it's like, well how are we going to be better as a society if that's the blanket rule where you fuck up once and you die or you fuck up once and you're punished for the rest of your life regardless of the crime.


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[Assistant] I guess it's like, go even simpler, I guess it's like, if someone was in a position where they stole something and they went to jail, and then they got beat up a lot in jail, and they got sexually assaulted, and then they said,


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[Assistant] Like a smaller crime, like a petty crime. Well, commit a much bigger crime, like a...


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[Assistant] There was a story I remember reading, I don't know how true it is, it was a teacher told me this like back in high school, there was a story about a Japanese prison that was like their entire


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[Assistant] I figured it out. The problem is, this is just a, this is a state problem. Or I guess, I'm just speaking on behalf of the United States.


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[Assistant] 4 million states. Each composed of about 600 people, no more, no less. Something like that. And that way, we're all just our tiny little island. And that way,


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[Assistant] No, but smaller. Like, think about it as like,


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[Assistant] I'm curious, I'm obviously joking because I have no solution to any of this. I'm more like Team Mars.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're gonna terraform that bitch. I mean, we're gonna be long dead, but uhm, I was thinking about that, like, in someone's mind.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like the streamies. How did, how did cummies come about? What did, what happened? Oh boy. You're talking about like 14 year old girls who call you daddy?


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[Assistant] Uh, as your walkout music within the MMA, you have a higher chance of losing.


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[Assistant] Uh, most of us were like, oh yea, Jurassic Park. No, no, my friend. Not at all.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, not at all. It's actually, uh, Chris Nolan, uh, Chris Nolan's brother, Jonathan Nolan, who's like the writer, the head writer on it.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of talent involved, but essentially there is a theme park, uh, littered with robots, but the most advanced robots you've ever seen. Sure. They're human like, like they get to the point where.


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[Assistant] Someone will do like a little cute thing with like their hand, like a, like there's like a prostitute robot. She like does a little thing with her lip and like, oh, I really liked how she did that. That's really subtle. Like there's all these like small human characteristics. A reverie.


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[Assistant] He basically either lives or dies every day, but no matter what he wakes up, and it's him waking up on a train, and he's in this wild west town, and he has a narrative that he has to play. It's like an NPC in a video game.


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[Assistant] The robots are unable to harm anything and they keep using flies as a sort of like an example. So like a fly will land on a guy's face and the robot kind of glitches out because he wants to kill it.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, cool. There's a really cool part where, so there's this main character, who's the actress? Evan Rachel Wood. Evan Rachel Wood, yea. So she's like, it's kind of, she's like one of the main characters. She's like, they say she's the oldest one, but then there's a part where her dad finds like some trash, and it's a picture of a woman in like New York, and he's like, what the hell is this? And it starts making his brain break. But then the girl who's been there forever looks at the picture and goes, I see nothing wrong. I see nothing. So it's like, she's programmed not to see it. There's something up with his memory or his,


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[Assistant] I mostly, what I want to see is a group of dudes


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[Assistant] There was a short-lived show, uh, it was only like, I think three or four episodes, a thing called Ascension. It was on Syfy. It was supposed to, so the plot of that was there's a group of scientists on Earth and they had launched a spaceship, uh, to go find different planets like 50 years ago. And the idea was like to see if life can sustain on this ship.


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[Assistant] And so because they realize humans can't live long enough to go to like Jupiter or whatever where they're trying to go. And so the idea was.


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[Assistant] The third generation will get there, but we need to be able to raise families. And it's very Bioshock in the sense that like, it's sort of like,


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[Assistant] These two forces are gonna join and then they're gonna, they're gonna kill the evil and it's all great. Or, this is a evil winter that always comes, that comes no matter what and is unstoppable.


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[Assistant] When they put so much of themselves into something and then fail miserably, but they had the best intentions to make something good and they thought what they were doing.


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[Assistant] Hey, God bless him because I've never made a movie. Neil Breen has made four. It's three.


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[Assistant] So every movie has a lull because you can't have dudes punching each other for two and a half hours.


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[Assistant] Well there's such a thing as character development and the likeability of certain people where you want to go along with their journey because my life's pretty boring.


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[Assistant] And that was like, you were lucky if once a month it was a good cohesive story that continued on and it was like a really good one. But for the most part, you just watched it because there was nothing else. And it was like, this is what you get for Friday night. Enjoy. It was like, whereas now.


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[Assistant] It's like almost unlimited choice, and TV's better than it's ever been, uh, compared to what it used to be, where it's a lot more cinematic, it's a lot more like film, I don't know.


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[Assistant] There was a kid who messaged me, I think it was showing one of you guys, but he was like, you copied my thumbnail. I think he was being funny. But it was like, it was a dishonored video. And it was like, he did the derpy eyes. And I was like, okay, no one invented that. And then I looked at this video, it was like a whole like 15 frames a second. I was like, come on, man. Well, I think that's gonna do it for today's bulletin.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh. Yeah, lots of good stuff. My video's coming along, can't wait to show you guys. We, uh. Blow your mind.


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[Assistant] As far as we can see, it's totally real. Like, basically all the robots are completely real life-size things, like horses, people, everything's life, life-size and real, I think.


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[Assistant] And basically it's evolution on a much smaller scale. So think about an NPC in a video game gaining sentience, basically. Eventually waking up one day and being like,


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[Assistant] Hell, what am I doing? Like, what have I been doing for the last 30 years? That's what's happening. And it happens in the first episode.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which I really appreciated because I was like, I know the story of Westworld and the story, like those sorts of things where I was like, alright, I know what's coming up and they get, right away they get to it.


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[Assistant] It's really, it's really interesting. Where is Westworld? I think you'll enjoy it. I mean, it's well produced, well acted, well written, you know, all the usual stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's a series, uh, it's like a seasonal series, and, uh, they're saying each episode's about 10 million dollars. Costs about 100 million dollars to make the first season. They said the pilot episode cost around 25 million.


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[Assistant] Okay, Game of Thrones is, they've announced an end, so it does have an end, uh, I think it's a, one more season or two more seasons, but that's it. Uhm, so I mean Lawrence, I guess once it ends you can go back and watch the whole thing. I have no interest.


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[Assistant] Also Lost, Lost is the same way, I mean, as much as we all hate Lost, they started the overarching narrative, you know, really long seasons, really long drama, uh, and making it sort of acceptable. Cause that was something that a lot of people didn't do.


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[Assistant] Our sweet ray of sunshine, Jacob, has joined us today. The abnormal running crew.


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[Assistant] Welcome to a live roostery-bullet-doodoo, I guess? That was powerful, yeah!


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[Assistant] So the dude suit panel, uhm, somebody suggested that basically every podcast in the world introduces everyone on that podcast every time and we have never done that. So I'm gonna start now here, cause it's a good time to change everything up.


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[Assistant] So I wore those. Speaking of it, being hot as balls, we're here at RTX, that's cool, huh? Woo! Hey!


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[Assistant] Go ahead and go ahead and throw the monitor up there. Uh, so normally we just talk about stuff and yell at each other a lot and typically rant and ramble. Uh, we can, we can do that.


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[Assistant] It's so hard to find one thing. For me mostly it's, it's knowing that there are people, you know, completely disconnected from me.


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[Assistant] That form relationships on the internet and then they get to meet in real life and I get to see that happen. And that's super cool. And uh, to be a conduit for that or to enable that is something special. Because for me, I was never very social growing up. So it's so cool that people can bond over something that is, you know, stereotypically very anti-social. Watching videos on the internet, so.


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[Assistant] What an, what an amazing man. Uh, so speaking of sexwing, we got another question, uh, from anonymous, uhm, go ahead and throw it up there please, uh, asking when will we get sexwing animated?


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[Assistant] Okay, dammit. It's mostly an issue of, uh, we don't want to get anyone's hopes up and have something not happen. So it's best to just be discreet in that regard. Sorry about that everybody. Uh, Anonymous is calling Adam out here. Another question here. Adam, why don't you like Pinkerton? The Blue Album is not better.


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[Assistant] Okay, now everyone is getting called out here. Uh, anonymous also asks, why do you guys only wear shirts that are two sizes too small? Well, hold on a minute. Was that your question?


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[Assistant] Uh, Derek Stuchlik, oh boy, I hope I got that right, asks if I've cussed out any children this weekend. Which is...


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[Assistant] Well you didn't curse out any children at VidCon. No, but I did scream obscenities


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[Assistant] As long as I've been here and as little sleep as I've had. Which is my own fault, by the way.


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[Assistant] Uh, we've got an anonymous question here. Do you guys prefer dude soups that are more focused on discussing news topics or ones that focus more on personal stories? That's an interesting discussion question. So uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, a number of masters it has to serve. Basically, we have to get a new audience and new audiences typically don't click on stories from people they don't know or care about. Uh, so the personal stories are fun to talk about and I'm sure you guys probably enjoy them more because you know about us and you care about us for some reason.


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[Assistant] That was awesome, by the way. Man, I was clenched for most of that podcast.


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[Assistant] I was just like covered in sweat after, ugh. Uh, so it, it's tough and, and we have to kind of strike a balance there of finding a title that might draw somebody into something that's discussion based, maybe a little headier and something that's light and fun. I don't know, what about you guys, what do you propose?


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[Assistant] Alright, well Chris, Chris McCroby has an interesting question. Uh, and I know this was intended to make it salty, but it's not. What is it like losing to Achievement Hunter?


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[Assistant] Look at all these people. I can't hear you what? There's a lot of echo on that mic.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm pretty, I'm crowding up on it. Uh, anonymous asks, how does it feel to be like actual celebrities for a few days where everyone is here for you?


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[Assistant] I gotta hug everybody. They're like, no, it's cool. I gotta!


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[Assistant] Uhm, as far as, I mean, I really like the way James said it, that we got here a little older than I guess most people do, especially when it comes to YouTube. Cause I'm bad now, but 10 years ago it would have been insufferable.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, uhm, sorry for now, but at least be grateful that I have this amount of, of uh, understanding of myself because boy it was, it was just a mess. And uh, if for some reason I was given a podium back then, I would have made an utter ass of myself.


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[Assistant] I wanna know why. I always assume that everybody else is more interesting. That was like tight underwear or something. Uh, no, so, there's two answers. Uhm, one is that passion isn't anger, uh, and I can get very passionate. Uhm, the other is that, uh, passion. Oh, no. Yeah. I just get, I just get so overwhelmed with passion.


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[Assistant] Now the other is, uhm, I guess for me being in a video is kind of like acting, or it is acting rather, uhm, and I see how that can be confusing when you purport yourself to be yourself but you're not, or rather that


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[Assistant] Every individual on a daily basis has a number of emotions and they're all kind of bubbling up and doing their own thing. What you can do as an individual is choose to let one of them just go. Like take the restraints off and just be and be reactionary and childish or angry or happy or loud or whatever.


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[Assistant] I have the emotional freedom to do that when recording a video because it gets excused for the sake of entertainment. Uhm, so, I guess in a way it's kind of emotional catharsis. It's also fun to just kind of experiment with, uh, with that stuff. So, that's just what I'm dabbling in. That's, that's, that's the long-winded explanation for it. It's, uh, it's very conscious even though it doesn't seem like it. So, yeaah. That's, uh, that's, that's...


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[Assistant] It's one thing to be told that, it's another to understand it.


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[Assistant] You work with people all day and you have normal human interactions and then everything goes wrong. You genuinely don't know in the back of your head if it's genuine or not. And it takes a while to build that trust. Uh, and you know, it's like inside the Actors Studio shit.


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[Assistant] It's not natural to just immediately understand that it's for the sake of entertainment. You...


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[Assistant] And part of it also might be, oh, are they trying to tell me to like tone it down for the sake of the video? Like, you don't know those things. So it takes a while to build confidence and to just not give a fuck, really. Which is kind of what entertainment's all about.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've noticed that people tend to admire others that live without inhibition.


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[Assistant] Uh, whoever it is. Somebody's just like, I don't care, I do whatever I want. He's like, that's awesome, I wish I could do that.


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[Assistant] So I'm curious, cause I don't know what this is. Austin Wise asks, will Bruce apologize to Adam and James for being wrong in the oxygen tank vs. tubes debate? Oh. What is that? This is Subnautica, right? Subnautica. Ohhh.


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[Assistant] Jordan Barrera asks, question for Adam, when you were first starting out as the dead pixel with Inside Halo, what kept you going and motivated?


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[Assistant] Hold on, we're scrolling, we're scrolling.


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[Assistant] And it was the most depressing thing, man. Like they had a dairy aisle, like milk.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that was gnarly. Also, since there was just milk on the ground, it smelled like spoiled milk. Man, that was one of the, oh boy, that was one of those moments. I was like, shit man, I could have just stayed a programmer, and I could afford real milk.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think we're all Owlboy at some level. I mean, he's your classic underdog character, okay? He's berated, but he's gonna become a hero.


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[Assistant] I totally do. I, I uhm, I think my approach to how I empathize and imprint myself on characters' games depends on the type of game that I am playing. Because I do like, I like character creation menus and designing cool characters. Do I ever feel like I'm putting myself into them?


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[Assistant] Not much, probably the last time I really felt that way was creating a avatar for like rock band. Or like I made the girl and I kinda made her look like a blonde me. Uhm, I...


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[Assistant] I generally, when playing a third person game, perceive it as that character's story. That I am, I am playing through their story and following them. So like Tomb Raider, something like that. I don't, I don't think of it as like, I'm Lara Croft, this is a female character that I'm putting my self into.


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[Assistant] I don't even really feel like there is an identifiable character there to me personally. I just feel like this is the conduit through which I am shooting and doing whatever, or doing parkour or whatever. It almost feels like mechanical to me.


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[Assistant] I guess I'm really weird. I've never felt like I'm putting myself into a character.


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[Assistant] Not to derail you, Lawrence, but on the subject of Power Rangers and finding cool representation in strong figures like that. So, you know, the original Power Rangers series that we got here, there were two female characters, as you know. Kimberly and Trini.


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[Assistant] When I was like six or seven and Power Rangers was popular, when it first came out it was popular, we would play at school and I had two, two female friends that weren't exactly like the nicest, like, I wanted to be friends with them but then looking back, looking back I was like, they didn't really like me, we would play Power Rangers and I would have to be like a,


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[Assistant] They would get to be the pink and the yellow ranger, and then I would have to be the black ranger that's the like, the gender swap.


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[Assistant] So there were, you know, there were four, four male characters to choose from.


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[Assistant] I mean, I did see League of their own at a young age. Well, so did I.


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[Assistant] I think there are instances like in Tomb Raider when she's getting like, just not beat out over by some guys and you're kinda like, well, it is like hand to hand combat and, and she, though she's a strong kick ass woman.


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[Assistant] Biologically, I think that like, there are a lot of men that can just overpower women. You're damn right.


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[Assistant] I love I Spit on Your Grave Scenarios, like sign me up anytime like a woman goes back and gets revenge on like her shitty male attackers. I love that shit too. Pumps me up. I love it. Uh, enough Jennifer Lopez, she beats the shit out of that guy at the end or at her husband. Invade in Manhattan?


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[Assistant] It's not based on that robbery that those Englishmen committed. There was this group of like, uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I am, like, I'm, I really like, like, seeing diversity in games. I don't think I ever necessarily identify with a character. Like, you know what I mean? I think that's, it's just different. Like, I'm, I'm really glad when, like, I hear, you know, oh, this game is getting a female character. But, I don't really...


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[Assistant] This is, this is for the people that have no time, so it's like, we gotta combine the gaming experience, the television experience, the film experience, the music experience, Kojima's a big music guy, like,


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[Assistant] Different, have a cutscene so integrated into gameplay that it feels more fluid.


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[Assistant] Well like, James loves Psychonauts, and I'm sure Tim Schafer heard a billion times.


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[Assistant] I can't find that weird owl. You know, it's like saying things.


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[Assistant] The charm meter broke. It was too full. Yeah, tapped out.


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[Assistant] Well people talk about too about how, you know, they always say that a woman's sexual peak is in her like mid-30s or whatever, but then there's the argument that that's not a biological thing, that's because women are more comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality at that age than if you had your first divorce.


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[Assistant] Guys, you were so mad and it was just great cause you went, you went, guys, make sure I leave at 6. I have to leave at 6, I gotta go to the show. Oh, you're trying to make me leave!


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[Assistant] It's pretty wild. Yeah. Well speaking to getting through this in a reasonable way, uhm, I mean our plans in the immediate future are to just wait and let YouTube sort it out. Yeah. Or get back to us with maybe some more concrete information about what to do going forward.


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[Assistant] Thinking about the numbers that you just quoted, it may be the beginning of the end.


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[Assistant] For the most part, their channels were growing really, really fast and they were doing really, really well.


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[Assistant] And when something like that hits, that sticks with you for a while, even in internet time. So I think in three to six months time, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw sort of a steady decline.


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[Assistant] And that was the interesting thing, I remember watching, like seeing a lot of tweets from like Tmartn and Syndicate and stuff like that, and we've all known those guys and hung out with those guys, and I would see them tweet about this and be like, oh man, I'm having such a great day, here's my dog, and I was always like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess this all blows down to the fact that like, this is something we preach, and I'm sure you guys do too, which is, the audience has to be smarter. So like, I know, and that's the problem is that like, I mean like,


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[Assistant] I guess attaching yourself to a YouTuber and starting to get more into the world of YouTube, no matter how young you are, educate yourself in that kind of stuff and find out.


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[Assistant] Well, and that's what I'm saying, at the very least we say in the description that it's sponsored by Movement Watches, and then we say it two or three times throughout the podcast, but...


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[Assistant] This, Nepenthes guy, should have, like, somewhere in his description, should have said, this video is sponsored by whatever the name of his...


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, one of my feelings in life is that, I mean, look, for example, I think these sorts of guys, like Nepenthes and things like that, they've been running a YouTube channel for a while. They follow analytics, we know they do.


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[Assistant] They, they follow their channel, they follow their audience. That does take some smarts. Like, I don't, I'm not gonna say, I will not ever ever ever say that they're too dumb.


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[Assistant] That's one of those things that eventually somebody will say, like if you're selling cigarettes or drugs or alcohol or gambling, like those are the things that everybody knows there's a stigma that goes along with them.


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[Assistant] I am not gonna say they're, oh, they were too dumb. I think along the way, somebody asked them and they're like, yeah, but nobody else has done this, and how could this be illegal? There's no law, so fuck it.


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[Assistant] If somebody comes up to you and is like, you know, I can make you a fuck ton of money and it's going to be really easy and you don't have to do a thing, that's a problem. Like that's the, you know, like there should be an alarm going off in your head being like, oh boy, I don't know. And that, I think that speaks more to your guys' point where it's like if they're 18 years old and they just got a million subscribers, they don't have that alarm yet.


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[Assistant] Wow. See? Bad decisions. Bad decisions all the way around.


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[Assistant] Uh, Omar, does Lisa's mic work? Are we good?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I came in his butt and then he'd pooped. I think he came in your butt and then you pooped. Oh, well is that what happened? Okay, so he came in my butt.


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[Assistant] But, uh, so People vs. OJ for me was so, it resonated so well because I'm from LA. So I was here when it was all happening, and I remembered things, like I remember when I was like, holy shit, I didn't know that happened, and I remember other things happening. When I was here, being like, that's crazy, like, you don't realize how crazy it was because it was real life.


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[Assistant] No, but it feels a lot like- Well, we can move on then. It feels a lot like if somebody took Twin Peaks, what's good about Twin Peaks, and said, let's make a shitty show on the CW.


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[Assistant] It begins when these two twins, this brother and sister, go out rowing a boat on the lake, and then one of them, the brother dies.


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[Assistant] Do you feel now like you're trying to reintroduce Psychonauts to a new generation of players? Or are you like, these damn Millennials, they don't appreciate summer camp, like they're not gonna get my game. Do you feel like you have to change your narrative at all?


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[Assistant] Obviously, Ramus of Rune is coming out before Psychonauts 2, but...


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[Assistant] I agree, I still think that there's a lot more effort going into the masking and quicksanding is kinda lazy, and uh, so I can't admire it as much.


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[Assistant] You're as an evil thought cause I also want to talk about Carial. I want to talk about Carial as in, uh, Princess Bride.


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[Assistant] I haven't really looked into the DLC yet, but I imagine that that will be a feature of it. But back to Kerry, I was in the Fire Swamp in Princess Bride. Do you know that he does his own stunt when he jumps down into the quicksand head first?


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[Assistant] I'm thinking of the ring. So, I'm thinking of Hammer on Elm Street for a specific reason.


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[Assistant] I don't really find the mold monsters scary. Uhm, to me the game keeps upping it's stakes with like the videotapes and the fact that like goddamn grandma still hasn't done anything yet. She's always just there.


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[Assistant] There's just stuff that they do visually and atmospherically in that game that they've been doing it


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[Assistant] At this point, as far as I've been watching James, cause I sure as hell cannot handle it myself,


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[Assistant] They've been doing the same shit for hours into this game, with the oscillating fans casting shadows, your shadows, just everything, and it's still, it's still creeping me out every time he goes into a new room, I'm still creeped out, and, and like completely, uhm, just on edge, wondering what it could be.


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[Assistant] We're live! Get him! We're live! Get the Gorillath. Gorillath. Get the Gorillath. Get the Gorillath.


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[Assistant] Sorry guys, real quick. That's not true at all. The best part about this is that you guys can relentlessly make fun of me. Because I have no problem. Because I know it's fucking dumb.


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[Assistant] We're always in the Pokemon train and I was not. So I didn't know anything about the movies, I didn't know anything about the cartoon. I for some reason know the theme song backwards and forwards. I think probably because my friends sang it all the time.


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[Assistant] But not enough for the show. Uhm, and, uh, I never played any of the video games, I just wasn't on it. So this weekend, uh, my girlfriend Bethany was in town, and I was like,


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[Assistant] I have heard some interesting things about Pokemon Go and how every single person in the world is playing it. So I was like,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna give that a shot with Bethany, see if she wants to play a video game. Also, I found out that YouTube Gaming


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[Assistant] My phone's kinda old, and uh, and I was like, well, I don't know if it's gonna be able to stream, I don't know if it's gonna be able to play Pokemon Go. But, Saturday morning, when I woke up, I went to Bethany, I went, I have a plan for us today.


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[Assistant] So, uh, oh jeez. So, anyway, so, we walk outside, I fire up Pokemon Go and she goes,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I was like, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. And then I was like, and then I hit stream on the YouTube gaming app. And, uh.


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[Assistant] And I like kinda put my little face up and there's a tiny little face cam on the thing. Uhm, youtube.com slash blue screen. And uh,


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[Assistant] And a bunch of people, like, jump into the stream and they're like, hey, you know, like, why are you? I was one of them. This is crazy. Yo, you jumped in the next day. I was streaming the day before. I watched the first day. I just, I sat on.


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[Assistant] It was cool because there were like 300 people watching, I was playing Pokemon Go, and I was streaming, so it was basically like you're playing outside with your friends, online, and I was playing the biggest game in the world.


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[Assistant] So, for me, I was like, and the game was relatively fun, in the sense that I had to walk around. By the way, I love walking around. I love being outside. So that was a big deal for me. Now you have a reason. Uh, and now, well, I mean, yea, like, normally I would do that anyway. So I used to wander around, when I was in college, I used to wander around neighborhoods.


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[Assistant] I'm betting that if you show Jess this game, she'll enjoy it. And it's one of those things that you guys can actually do together.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is surprising to me that when you're wandering around the neighborhood right now,


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[Assistant] Tapping and tapping. And that's, again, the app is totally broken. Like, it's one of those things where like, I understand the concept. Now, maybe we are thinking about it too much.


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[Assistant] So this is kind of where I kept running into the same barrier, which was like, if for example,


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[Assistant] Bethany walked up to a gym and was like, cause she's now got the app on her phone, she's gonna go out and play. And she walked up to a gym and she's like, well you need to...


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[Assistant] This app will go away in a month. I'll be very surprised if I'm playing this in a month.


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[Assistant] No they have. Already. I mean like, even in our own city around here. Yeaah. So like, that's why I thought, okay well, I'll level up, I'm gonna go to a gym, get crushed a bunch of times and be like, nevermind, I don't wanna play.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, for now, I mean like, it's a phenomenon that I don't necessarily think will last. Only because the app is still broken.


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[Assistant] Uhm, actually for you, and this is another reason I was sort of in a hurry to catch on to this game, Catch. Nice. Nice! Uhm, because, uh, I knew that, I knew that it would be like, basically an entirely different game in a month or two or whatever. Uhm, that's why I was like, Adam, you should probably get started.


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[Assistant] And the reason is because, well the reason is because if you want to start later or in a month or whatever, it's not going to be any fun at all. And that's, like for me I felt like Overwatch, that if I wasn't in early on Overwatch, and I started let's say four months into it's release schedule, I would have been like, I'm getting destroyed for


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[Assistant] So like, that's why I feel like this is, at least with this one you don't have to play competitive. You can go out and just catch Pokemon, but it gets kinda boring.


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[Assistant] That's why I did it. That's why I gave you one game, comedy gameplay, and one let's play. So then that way...


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[Assistant] So I've been Googling over the weekend because I was like, what the hell? Why, why can't I figure out what is the most rare and what is the least rare?


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[Assistant] Well, our intern just taught me something new, I don't know if you guys know, you can spin the pokeball and then throw it. Yeah, it's really a curveball. Wanna do anything? Apparently it gives you a better catch. Yeah, you get more XP.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then also, uh, like I said, I'm still trying to figure out, in terms of rare Pokemon, like I caught a Scyther, and I heard that that one's rare, and I don't know if that's rare. I don't know. And like, we have a Tangella, and I don't know if that one's rare. Seems rare. Yea, I don't know. You know, like, it's, it's- Adam, what do you- Yea, what do you think Adam? Here, I'll check Adam.


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[Assistant] First of all, number one, if he's there and I'm able to track him, why can't I just walk towards, you know, walk that way and he'll pop up? Apparently that's not the way it works.


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[Assistant] Yes, so, yeaah, I mean like, I'll explain what I know, and you tell me, you tell me what's wrong. Uhm, so, basically, when you see what's nearby, you tap on the little thing, it shows everything that's nearby, you tap on one of those Pokemon, sorry Adam, I know you're bored.


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[Assistant] Uh, you tap on one of those Pokemon, and that's what you're tracking at this point. So then you turn your body, physically turn your body towards


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[Assistant] Which way your, which way your character is facing, and then it lights up, and then it like pulses green, sends off a green outline, and you're like, okay, I have to walk that way. So then you walk, you walk that way, but, who knows how far you have to walk.


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[Assistant] I noticed that, hi Elise, uh, I noticed that


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[Assistant] Tap my lucky egg, which doubles your XP, then dropped a lure and stood there ten at night.


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[Assistant] All over the place. That's my favorite part about the video game.


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[Assistant] Uh, James and I were talking about this earlier, is that, like, cause you were like, you wandered around for 10 minutes trying to find a Pokemon, you didn't find one, and I was like, no I didn't find it, but I burned calories, and I was outside, and I think that that's kinda cool, that I saw a lot of fat nerds, while I was wandering around, sweating their asses off, looking for Pokemon.


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[Assistant] I haven't watched Last Nights yet, but I did watch this season. I can't, I can't watch it, I gotta work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna watch it because everybody's raving about it.


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[Assistant] We said that. We said that they did something wrong. I mean, like, they, so the fact of the matter is, it's funny, I was in the comments a lot, reading those comments and responding back, because I saw people saying, they did this, and they did this, and they did this, and I was like, where's the proof for any of this? So like, so for me, I was like, I totally believed the comments. I believed them all. It was fine.


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[Assistant] But I didn't have any proof, so I couldn't be like, well this one dude on the internet told me he did this, he changed the description after the fact. So that must be what happened. I don't know. I have no idea. I do know that they...


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, like, I think that, just really quick, I think that they absolutely knew about what they were doing because they had part ownership or owned the website.


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[Assistant] Then fuck man, if I were that guy, and that's, that's what happened, I'd be like, yeah, I saw it happen, here's the proof. And I, you know, I'd be all over him for it.


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[Assistant] So I, I completely and totally get where they're coming from if we didn't condemn them enough. I just don't watch Syndicate and T-Martin every single day. My thing is, alright, so my thing is


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[Assistant] The thing is, is that it looks like a laundry list of things they did wrong, but I don't know that for sure. So I know that they did a couple things wrong, like didn't disclose the fact that they were sponsored by that, didn't disclose that they were owners, part owners of the website, and also there's a whole gambling part of this that I don't, can't really speak on because I'm betting that most of the internet thought that was legal up until it wasn't legal. So, I mean like, it is technically legal.


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[Assistant] I really, I enjoyed that movie. And I thought, it was one of those things where I thought it was funny because it's just like every other, every other sect of uh, humanity and society, which is, there's a bunch of hipsters that do one thing, there's a bunch of normal people that do another thing, there's a bunch of jocks that do another thing, and like, you know, it's like, well, which ones do you not like, which ones do you like? Who are the jocks?


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[Assistant] These are, these are, these are celebrities. And these are people that death, yes, death does come to them eventually. It comes to everybody eventually. And it's like, if we were capitalizing on a terror, in my opinion this is totally different. Because if you're capitalizing on a terror attack, like a terrorist attack, that's obviously a total tragedy.


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[Assistant] People are, like, this is like, innocence getting attacked, this is a big deal. Then it, then yes, they would, you know, like, we should probably reevaluate what we're doing. But if it's a celebrity dies? If a celebrity dies from a drug overdose?


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[Assistant] Like I said, the sad part in our world right now is there's so much violence happening that at this point we're accidentally making fun of it. And like that blows my mind. That's really really sad.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's a lot of people. Kanye, Kim K, Katy Perry, there's a whole... It's a conspiracy. Can we talk about that?


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[Assistant] I have to buy like specialty socks. Maybe for tiny footed women.


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[Assistant] It was actually my, uh, Japanese footbinding. Oh, Chinese. James once said he's like, he's like, anytime there's any Asian culture reference, Bruce makes joke about footbinding.


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[Assistant] I'm Elise, uh, I am a Christ-like figure in my glowing, uh, gray, soft gray. You're like Mercy. Yes, this is Adam.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've ever bought anything on Black Friday, because in Canada, Black Friday is a pretty recent thing, because Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. Uhm, and yeaah, I don't think I've ever bought anything on Black Friday.


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[Assistant] It's really not, it doesn't feel special. I uh, I remember being in a...


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[Assistant] Like holiday tradition in Canada to have Boxing Day and those corresponding sales.


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[Assistant] Can I tell you my sad Halloween story? You might care, Lawrence. So I go to this party and I'm wearing my Himoto Amaru-chan costume, my cape and my little red shorts. Nobody, not a single person knew.


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[Assistant] They said they were characters from the movie Atlantis 2.


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[Assistant] One of them was dressed as this non-character from Atlantis 2, but she was all like grungy and kinda like...


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[Assistant] Punkish, and I was like, you should tell people that you're one of the people from the Quagmire in the...


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[Assistant] So I was so mortified when that happened. Cause I guess I saw, I was at the A's and I clicked on AJ instead of Adam.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Michael Pachter, you know, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, he gives out full sized chocolate bars.


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[Assistant] And uh, talk like this all night. But we were the only people dressed up in the bar.


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[Assistant] I think he was from a small town. That's maybe. Where nothing, you know, happened.


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[Assistant] You guys play Overwatch a lot, and that's usually your like go-to after work game, which I think Overwatch is cool, but I don't, like this I, I like,


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[Assistant] Really wanna play, I think about it. I'm not afraid at it, but I have a good time playing it.


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[Assistant] And it sort of feels like, uh, you can be, you can, you can be,


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[Assistant] Essential to the team without just making, like, kills. And I like feeling valuable in some way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, from a perspective, not even looking at the quality or merit of the game, but something that I definitely lose touch at.


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[Assistant] Working in this industry and being fortunate enough to get like free game codes to review and stuff like that is I think a lot of people like, they can maybe


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[Assistant] It's the holiday release season now, everything's coming out, maybe people can buy like two AAA games, afford to buy that. And it might just be that Titanfall 2 isn't making the cut when you have like Last Guardian coming out, Dishonored 2 coming out, like, it may just come to that too.


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[Assistant] I forgot what game it was, but did like 2 hours free.


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[Assistant] I think it's weird cause like all the maps look so similar to me in Titanfall 2. They do. Like I know this is a stylistic choice but.


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[Assistant] That's how they have to do it. Well, the thing is he was never supposed to carry that baby to term.


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[Assistant] He created a contest where he wanted to see if people could submit essays


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[Assistant] Well, he didn't get enough entries to cover all the prizes. But he did have one essay that uh, he hired an academic essay company to write an essay about Junior.


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[Assistant] But it would be really interesting for us to write an essay as to why No Man's Sky was actually like...


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[Assistant] Add like slash about to the URL.


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[Assistant] I love all the To Catch a Predator artwork of Lawrence coming out of the woodwork.


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[Assistant] Well, my thing about the trending stuff is that, well, one, I wouldn't be surprised if they were like, mm, they have someone who's supposed to go through and unbiasedly pick stuff, but it's like there's an initiative to legitimize your platform by saying, look,


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[Assistant] But I'm sure H&M, like, it's a big client and it'd be cool if they got some, you know, focus from it. But that was also the kind of thing where before I ever watched it myself, I saw, man,


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[Assistant] And in like different places that I just generally search for news, it popped up. Now I don't know if that's because those news feeds found it in YouTube trending or it went to trending because so many news feeds, like I could see H&M sending a PR blast to


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[Assistant] I mean, you could probably find out. I'm sure if people, if there's a big PR blast that a bunch of websites got about this thing, this YouTube video, then that might help solve it, but I don't know if it's a conspiracy.


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[Assistant] Here's how to maximize your odds of winning the lottery, you know? If you don't win the lottery so bad.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we'll get a group of, you know, uh, if you get the whole restaurant in on it, all the gals will get together and we'll all buy lottery tickets together. It increases our chances by .000002. But that's how you maximize the odds of doing it and then they do it for 25 years and they never win the lottery, you know?


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[Assistant] I guess here's my, my kind of take away. I think like it really sucks and I feel bad for people that are affected by it. Uhm, you guys were looking at our analytics and it's like we have been affected for the last year or so, right, since March or something.


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[Assistant] I just, to me it's the kind of thing, or we've said it before, so it's kind of beating a dead horse, but it's someone else's, you're playing with someone else's toy. You're allowed to freely play with someone else's toy, and yes, it is absolutely true that without the creators, YouTube is worthless.


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[Assistant] Which makes sense, but from a business perspective.


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[Assistant] And, and honestly, if you're at the point where like people are talking about you on YouTube or you can make a video that can send these kinds of waves, I really hope that you're thinking of your channel as a business and then that is the advertising side of your channel.


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[Assistant] There were huge channels way before H3H3.


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[Assistant] He kind of appeared before and so he should, I would go into it thinking, and I do this with Funhaus and Inside Gaming before it, I go, we were kind of late in the game when we got into it. We were, we were behind the curve of the rise of gaming and let's plays, right? And so, so it's easy to assume that


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[Assistant] There was someone that maybe we surpassed in that process that, that we could be the, we could easily be the next one being surpassed. I mean h3h3 came, he kind of appeared after we did and he's, he's huge. He blew by, you know.


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[Assistant] I think, I think, cause this continues to happen like Adam says, it's like a cycle and every single time a lot of people like comment on it and videos get like millions and millions of views by being angry about this stuff, uhm, which is by the way making money for YouTube. But I hope that these creators that


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[Assistant] Whatever their own business is, building a website, building their own personal hosting service. So that way if tomorrow YouTube goes away, they can turn on the switch on this other thing and be like, okay, you guys that really still want to watch my content, you can go here for it now. And it may not be awesome, but there's at least a place.


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[Assistant] But they want to draw people into their platform and it'd be nice if they tried to educate, educate other outside businesses by saying like, yes, the number on the channel is not the most important thing. It's this other number. And they're like, well, how do I get that number? And I'm not really sure.


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[Assistant] Hold on, I remember a certain discussion back for the Inside Gaming Awards about how cool the cyberpunk whatever trailer looked. That was Lawrence. I know.


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[Assistant] I don't know, so for me Death Stranding had already released a trailer and I was like, what? And then it released another trailer and I was like...


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[Assistant] Whaaat? Like, just even more what? And it does seem obvious. Kojima at least has a reputation for being a creator who just gets giddy about things and then just does that. So now he just has a boner for Guillermo del Toro and Mads Mikkelsen.


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[Assistant] But I agree with you, Adam. I am not excited for the game at all.


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[Assistant] Other than, like, if they had just said Hideo Kojima is making a new game and they showed a picture of the words Death Stranding, that's the same level of excitement I had, I would have, if I watched the whole trailer.


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[Assistant] If I, if I was a movie, then I'd be like, okay, but video games have a different level of interactivity that I expect. Sure. Like, I just wanna, like, what if we saw that and then it was a RTS?


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[Assistant] That's the, I don't know. I don't know. I think, like again, I feel like I'm at the same level now where I would have been if they just said a new game by Hideo Kojima is coming soon. Okay, cool. Like, and I'm glad that it, I'm glad that he didn't show something like,


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[Assistant] He went bankrupt and he's been living under a bridge, but this is his second chance and now he's bringing back Crash Bandicoot. This is a company that's been making millions and millions and millions of dollars since they stopped making Crash Bandicoot that's just now kind of going like, I'm talking about Naughty Dog and Sony to kind of a greater extent. Now they're like, they're like,


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[Assistant] I-I don't care about the member berries thing, I-I just think it's funny thinking about, like, companies that own these pro- because it isn't just one man's passion, it's companies that own the rights to these things that are going like, has it been long enough that we can do Parappa again?


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[Assistant] I'm on board, Psychonauts got announced last year. Like a game that financially probably shouldn't exist, Psychonauts 2, I came to terms with that, that financially Psychonauts 1 didn't sell enough to make it a huge franchise and the production was marred with difficulties just to get it out there and available to everyone.


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[Assistant] What pisses me off is, and I knew this was gonna happen, people messaging me about Last of Us 2, which, that wasn't a shocker.


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[Assistant] No one's listening. Doesn't matter. I heard you, The Last of Us 2. They made, The Last of Us 1 made a conscious narrative decision at the end of the game to open it, to make sure that way they could make a sequel. Of course. As opposed to potentially a more dramatic


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[Assistant] And it was absolutely not a success. Also, like, you have, this is the fifth, they announced the fifth Uncharted game, right? Not counting the PSP stuff. So it's like, you got a lot of cool games too.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, Sony- But he doesn't know how to feel about it. Sony dug through the ditches last time in Eric, we gotta find a little new IP that no one's ever heard of from a company that's just trying to get their start, and then we'll get behind that, we'll make that the next big thing. And then No Man's Sky came out and they were like, Crash Bandicoot!


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[Assistant] Are you excited for this? Here's what a fight will look like in it. Which is kind of like the difference of like, you know, Last of Us, their trailer is fine because it kind of fits within the game. You're just watching a girl play guitar.


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[Assistant] But? But, uh, but I like this. This trailer for Wipeout is sweet because this is the game I'll be playing.


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[Assistant] Like, if the trailer for Wipeout was a dude suiting up, getting into his thing, and like he puts on his helmet, so sound check, sound check, let's go, and then it like launches off, and then it's a Wipeout, I'd be like, okay, I mean I guess it's probably gonna be Wipeout.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what the fuck they're doing. They're working on whatever level they're gonna show at E3, which is gonna be the huge scripted, uh, like action set piece.


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[Assistant] I think, except that I think Naughty Dog is a studio that knows how to build for that stuff. So they build, they don't build uncharted, but they build a small town that they can run through and smash a car through and then eventually after the fact while they're working on the game, then they go and they go, boop, we'll put this right in the center. I think that's how they build their games.


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[Assistant] Did he work at G4? Well, you and I played it, so it must have been a nice spell. Yea, yea. Apparently he worked at G4, I didn't know. Bill Trent? Where'd you go?


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[Assistant] That's not what I said. I just said that my level of excitement isn't going to change if you just show me something that's like, kinda whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, the, the Mass Effect, that would be on the flip side, the Mass Effect trailer. Oh, I haven't seen it yet.


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[Assistant] It doesn't. I wanna see it, I wanna see it. It does not, like, I never, I played the first, I played the first Mass Effect three times, didn't finish any of the three playthroughs. Never played the second or third one, so I'm clearly not a Mass Effect person. There it is.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's more about how the character emotes. It's like you never, I have no idea, I can't get it in that person's head at all.


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[Assistant] I'm into it. There's a thumbnail for Marvel vs Capcom with Spider-Man.


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[Assistant] We're not showing Spider-Man. Oh, really? Yeah. So here's a question tying back into the trailer. Would you rather see, this is such a weird question, but would you rather see, like if...


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[Assistant] If the Spider-Man, the Spider-Man trailer that they showed at E3, right?


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[Assistant] I mean maybe it's all the non-interactive parts of what gameplay would be. And I'm not accusing it of tricking me or anything, I'm just saying like this game, this is the combination of sweet ass trailer that is clearly intending to teach me what I will be, what the game will look like as I'm playing.


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[Assistant] And so they know there's like sequences where you, they have plans for you to be chasing some bad guy through a cafe, holding right trigger.


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[Assistant] And then flipping through and he's gonna bounce off the walls and do everything and everything like that. So they're in the trailer, they put a sequence where it looks like probably what it will look like in the game. And I like that. That's, that's my favorite kind of trailer. I will, I will.


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[Assistant] I still think that there are people at Naughty Dog that are specifically, their department is working on the E3 trailer.


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[Assistant] And then afterwards, then they go, then they go like, okay, now we got that, that's already done. Go back and work on the other game and then we'll figure it out in, because every single time Uncharted has had one of those things, I've never felt like


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[Assistant] The game, the game's narrative flowed naturally into that sequence. It always just kinda was like...


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[Assistant] And now here's that point where the E3 trailer happens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're just playing. Yeah, there's a difference there. You went to an event? Yeah, we sent him. Where do you think this came from?


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[Assistant] They've added to basically everything that can make sense, whereas I guess everything ripped off Titanfall before.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, was it like Advanced Warfare and like, Call of Duty. Call of Duty just basically took everything from Titanfall. Halo 5 took a lot from Titanfall. Yeaah. And now it's Titanfall's turn to steal.


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[Assistant] That game was awesome. So what do we want? Do we want to talk about Watch Dogs or Blizzard? Which one's better?


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[Assistant] Yeah, all I can say is we played some single player, James, uh, Ubisoft, uh, God bless them, has their shit together when it comes to events.


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[Assistant] So, we've been doing the journalism thing for a while. Journalism. Where you basically just go to an event and you play a video game and you record it. I like it. And for the longest time it was always like, bring your own laptop, bring your own stuff. Ubisoft's got their shit together and like, they have the webcam, the Elgato, the microphone, everything's just set up ready to go. They just hit a button and you sit down and you do your thing. They even have this like,


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[Assistant] As a universal verb. It definitely has become a lot more fun. It takes itself way less seriously than the last one, which you can kind of get the vibe from the trailers anyway, but like, confirmed, like, uh, there's so much to hack. So wait. It's easier to count the things that can't be hacked.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's also, there's cars in the world that are, uh, like, you know how you always try to ramp off of, they would do this in one of the older GTAs, they had the, uh, like the tow trucks or something like that, like, you can kind of ramp off. Yeah, and this one you have to like, you can like hack the car while you're driving, the ramp falls down, then you ramp off the car, so there's like mobile ramps.


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[Assistant] And then the drones you can use are pretty awesome. You can use like a little RC car, like a flying drone, and then you can fly around and those things can hack.


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[Assistant] Yeah, remember the driving physics were pretty bad in Watch Dogs 1, and this one just feels, I don't know, it just feels like a fun game.