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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know where it's gonna take us. I guess I haven't really thought about it much yet. Like I saw this news this morning and then I was prepping for the podcast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe having Zelda play like a more active role would be really cool too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I always love when Zelda has like a parallel, like light, dark, twilight, not like, that's one of my favorite things that they do. So again, maybe there is an underworld, maybe. Oh yeah, it was scary.


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[Assistant] There's a narration under, uh, over it and it's just a really like fun, like people don't make trailers like that anymore. It was just really, it harkened back to even like a, you know, a movie trailer from the 90s or be like, this Chris, you know. And he's going through the mansion. Yeah, it was really fun.


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[Assistant] Uh, Poltergust? Poltergust, right? Poltergust 3000 thing. Uhm, but he can like do different stuff with it this time around and he can also create this goo version of himself called Gooigi.


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[Assistant] You, you and I, uh, selected two hardware.


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[Assistant] Oh, Scarlet. Sorry, you have Project Scarlet and I put the Elite Controller, the new. Yeah, what did I do about the Elite Controller? It's so lame. It's so lame, but just the fact that it's charg- like, has a rechargeable battery. It's so lame.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, I don't care about the customizable controls or anything, it's really just the charge.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Adam, you and I both, uh, were excited about 12 minutes.


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[Assistant] At least, at least Antonio, he worked with Jonathan Blow on The Witness. So hopefully there's some great puzzles. You know, I mean, I guess the whole thing is a puzzle. Yeah. Figuring out what. I think so, yeah. And, and, you know, your choices are going to influence the next 12 minutes. I assume. That's awesome. But this game, uh,


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[Assistant] I recently learned, I did not know this, that in Death Stranding, like, Caramel Del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn, they're not, they just, he just scanned them. Someone else playing them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the final word from our last sponsor is from Box of Awesome Bespoke Post. Uh, they send guys only the best stuff every month. Lawrence actually got a pretty sweet set of knives. He did. From this. Always gets cool knives.


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[Assistant] And you can get your own and you can get started if you take the quiz at BoxOfAwesome.com.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, he seemed, he seemed pretty happy. It's, it's not just like junk in this box. It's really cool.


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[Assistant] For sponsoring us. Are there any last things you guys want to throw out? I had a couple things that I just thought were cool.


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[Assistant] Yami, any other little things that kinda impressed you?


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[Assistant] It was fun. Yeah, it's kinda like more Borderlands.


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[Assistant] I don't mean that in a bad way. No, I mean like, it's like, uh, easy to pick up and have fun without, uh, like, I mean, you can't just be like, hey, buds, jump into Destiny 2, it's me. Like, there's no barrier to entry.


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[Assistant] I've never been a Watch Dogs person, but I actually thought Watch Dogs was kinda cool, like the way they're selling that NPC thing, and Grandma Helen, that's like a great fun thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, we'll see how it actually comes to fruition, but it looks like you can kind of play as any character in the world.


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[Assistant] And don't have, uh, uh, like, VO recorded for them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, cause I kinda just look, even from the Xbox press conference, there was so many, I mean a lot of these games are already out in some form or another, but there was just so much that they went over.


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[Assistant] I think there are some devs that probably feel, it's a great, you see a real time reaction of someone in front of you, enjoying your game, uh, that you may not get otherwise. Like if we perform to a live audience. Yea, it feels good.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, you've been around, you've seen a lot of the industry, your site's still flourishing.


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[Assistant] Sorry, sorry. Well, thank you for coming. Oh, thank you for having me. From the bottom of my heart, uh, I do admire you a lot in what you do. I admire you as well. I know you don't, you don't promote yourself enough, uhm, but Twinfinite, Twinfinite.com? Is it dot org? It's done.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, thank you for coming in. And thank you guys for doing the podcast. Always. Thank you to Omar and the Booth.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, we both do, uh, like, our channel stuff and we just kind of, I saw one of Gus's videos on the trending page, I think like, when was that? That was like two years ago now, right? Yea, it was a while ago. It was, uh, I think it was, uh, how to be a professor.


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[Assistant] It's about rent. Cheap rent. Yea, seriously. Try to be a YouTuber, then I won't divorce you. It's also sex whenever you want, right? On demand. No. That's with the YouTube thing too. Sex whenever you want. Yea. That's right. What's that? Was that not supposed to?


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[Assistant] That's true, but think of the different possib- sorry, uh, different possibilities of what could have happened there. Like, they're like, yea, they just filmed two scenarios, one where it was and one where it wasn't. It's like, we- they did like a little bit of it, so it's like so hard.


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[Assistant] That's it. When we shot with you two, it was like, I was leaving to go back home to Chicago, like, I think, like, two hours from when we were shooting that, so it was like, trying to get those scenes was so hectic, but it kinda adds to it, cause it's low budget. It's all really fast and low budget, yeah.


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[Assistant] I saw somebody try to describe it as like their perception of likes and dislikes. It's like, no, I'm a fan. And if I think a video is just below par, then I dislike it. It's like, that's not what I think it is, no? It feels hurtful when I see it.


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[Assistant] I got like the opposite end of that where recently I had a video on somebody and I don't want to fully go into it just because I don't want to give that guy credit, but uh, like he had compilations on YouTube all the time and that's where he was kind of getting successful and my video was like


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[Assistant] It's not, there's so many like good memes. It's hard to do that category because memes age so poorly. It's weird with the shorties because like, I think Gus should win in comedy but it's also like, did somebody else work?


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[Assistant] Yeah, the only reason I like started doing it was because I would just be, before like H3 got popular and everything, I didn't know you could do it, and I would just be like ranting to my friends like annoying them being like, look at this thing, it's so bad!


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[Assistant] Slacktivism probably. Chris Brown's activism, but for most of my videos that really bothered me and it's not one thing is I would say I started doing mine because I wanted to because it's fun I think to do that format like I would watch like last week tonight or something like that and I like being able to talk about something and then like


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[Assistant] But what really bothers me is the amount of kind of like, I don't think we could like regulate it, but the amount of like shitty 20 year old dudes who are like taking advantage of kids and just like selling things to them like crazy. Where it's like, I don't know what it's doing to kids brains to just constantly be sold something every second of every day.


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[Assistant] The thing is though, there was like a whole organization going like, well, you can't do this or that. And they're like, hey, I'm your best friend. And you know, this t-shirt got me all the girls in the world. And you're like, I don't think you could do that on TV. You definitely can't.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, he, like, tried messaging me and I didn't answer him. And then I was, like, playing video games with somebody, like, a week later, and I got tagged in an Instagram post.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where he mentioned, uh, choking me to death and smiling the whole time. Which, yeaah, so then I made a follow up video not about it, cause at first I was like, I'm not gonna give him any attention for it, but then he blew up on Twitter and Instagram, like hundreds of thousands of followers.


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[Assistant] So I was like, well, shit, now I have to talk about it, cause like, if you guys are gonna follow this guy, you gotta know who he is, and like, what he does. Ahem, sorry, and uh, he actually just...


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[Assistant] Uhm, got, I believe, charged with 21 counts of trespassing and harassment. Like, not anything to do with me, this was like, happening in a city beforehand. But yea, he just lost his Twitter as well too, so like, that's a whole- I've never been involved with any drama stuff until this last like, two months.


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[Assistant] So, that's why my last video is on an 80's movie and not a person. Because I don't want to be here. Well it sounds like you picked the right guy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I just, we, uh, for a while thought, one of my favorite things on the internet is kids uploading, uh, Minecraft parodies of songs, cause the audio quality was always so terrible.


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[Assistant] So on our first, on our first podcast, I would always do a bit, cause we did it over Skype.


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[Assistant] Like have a popsicle and then they post their video because they're a kid and they don't think about it? Or is it like something more sinister with it?


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[Assistant] I'm a little, like, just, it's weird to say this, but I just want to say, like, as somebody who makes these types of videos, like, not, you know, the subject matter. I think this video is super important, but I think aspects of this video were kind of irresponsibly made. Uhm, he seems to, like,


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[Assistant] They are still working against this stuff, they need to do a better job, but I think some of the things he said in this were kind of irresponsible.


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[Assistant] I think the argument you could make though is that those videos are monetized and there's nothing in the video that's inappropriate. It's like people are taking the video. So like, I think specifically that part to call their advertisers and be like, look, here's a kid hanging out in their room. Why would you monetize this? And it's like, well,


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[Assistant] That YouTube was almost like purposely hiding and recommending these videos, but it was clearly like, YouTube's algorithm is based off of.


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[Assistant] If you are watching kids videos, the algorithm, I'm assuming, thinks you are a child and you wanna watch that content, so then it shows you more, but he kinda painted it as like, yeah, if you're into this stuff, you enter the wormhole and YouTube's like,


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[Assistant] Welcome horrible person like when I don't think that's it either but again, I just want to say like YouTube I'm not defending YouTube like they need to change shit. I just like that's the main thing but like


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[Assistant] I don't know, the video was, I had very mixed feelings about it.


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[Assistant] Is, do we treat YouTube and Twitter and Facebook like regular businesses? Or are they just like, kind of like a phone now?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have done it but I have a twin brother so I can't not do that cause it's like...


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[Assistant] So we can pick a period of time. We have a time machine that lets us get with any hot dude we want. Yep. Fantastic. I like this game. Okay. Alright. Begin. Begin.


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[Assistant] After outsiders, I got his fucked up teeth fixed. Tom Cruise top gun, guys. Come on. Tom Cruise.


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[Assistant] These are hot dudes that you run to the club and go, you run whatever sort of train you want on me, like you do you, you do you, because I'll, this is-


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[Assistant] So this is how this game works. Let me tell you how it works. So, my heart throb, that I don't know if you guys agree with, but like, army hammer. He's like gay bait to me.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah. If you wanted me to get on, look, once again, you're...


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[Assistant] If you want to actually good Tom Hardy photos, do Tom Hardy Warrior.


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[Assistant] Like, not my type. I just like, too, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Oh. Hugh Jackman. That picture of him running on the beach. He is very good looking. Sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause you also might be thinking of James Marsden, right? Marsden? Which one? The guy who played Cyclops? James Marsden, yea. He was John Wilkes Booth in Zoolander when they do that quick cutaway and he does like a quick little look. Oh yea, I forgot about that.


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[Assistant] I feel weird about Michael B. Jordan because I liked him as a kid on, on the wire, when he was like, and I was like, that kid's fucking awesome, he's probably gonna do something, and it feels... Look what he's done.


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[Assistant] Oh, we were talking about this one earlier, uh, Benizel del Toro.


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[Assistant] Okay. Yeah, that's fair. I'm saying, you know.


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[Assistant] That's outside him for now. I feel like you put him on there. We're s- I think- We're straight in. Robert Redford, but then you also have to put in Paul Newman. Paul Newman also.


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[Assistant] E. McGregor, type in E. McGregor, Moulin Rouge. That is a smile you can't turn down. Revenge of the Sith. Nooo.


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[Assistant] Gosling's more of a, he's an actor's actor, whereas Ryan Reynolds seems like


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're comparing the two, that's fine. I can do that. We can sub him out.


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[Assistant] That's how strong Beckham is. He is very good looking.


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[Assistant] He basically, like, he's the reason why metrosexuals exist. That was the whole thing. What? Growing up I remember people were like,


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[Assistant] Cardio's good for you guys. You should run. I've been trying.


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[Assistant] Because they said, I wanna be beautiful forever. They wanna be young. And there they are. Look at that. Have you ever wanted, like, a man who is also a cat? No. Look at that.


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[Assistant] Did we make Jake Gyllenhaal into the list? I screamed it and no one added it.


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[Assistant] But like, the way he looked in Pain and Gain was ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, his nickname in high school would be Rat Tail. He was a model.


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[Assistant] That's actually a really good photo.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there it is. That was just a fucking awesome look. Okay.


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[Assistant] Chadwick Boseman? I would say most of the cast of...


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[Assistant] Black Panther, we're all like models. They were. Everyone's gorgeous.


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[Assistant] So he's got great eyes. He does. He looks like Henry Cavill right there, not as Abraham Lincoln.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. The old MTV show. I remember being like a kid and being like, that boy pretty. Oh, Heath Ledger!


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[Assistant] We have to do another ad read, but I think we've got our list. I think we do. Also, we can play the Dolph Lunger game after this. Oh yea, that's right. This is a game we used to play.


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[Assistant] I remember when I first saw Chris Evans, which I think was not another teen movie, which ended up being a smarter movie than anyone gave it credit for. I was like, fuck this guy, blah blah blah. He's one of those teen heartthrob dudes. He's another, uh,


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[Assistant] Fuck em, these are all, these are one of those guys all the girls talk about that I'll never be, blah blah. And then I think of someone, Sunshine. I was like, oh shit, boy he can act. He's great. And then he kept just showing up in more and more things and then I was like, they announced him as Captain America. Yeah, fuck yeah, he's great. Put him in stuff. And then yeah, he's good in Snowpiercer. He's fantastic.


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[Assistant] I like that bit. No, Ryan Reynolds in, uhm, Amityville Horror Story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's his like early Canadian days. When he was with Alanis Morissette. That's right. Alanis, they'd call her.


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[Assistant] I think all those guys basically went through hell. Oh yeaah, he said it was awful. Yeaah. That's a toy. That's a statue. That could also be a statue.


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[Assistant] I'm almost positive they're like, uh, hey Zach, there's some issues with this Man of Steel script. He's like,


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[Assistant] George? George Clooney is George. You gave me the people who paid their dues. I'm trying to think about it objectively.


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[Assistant] Cause he was like, oh fuck, that's Mike Tyson. That's the guy who knocks people out in three seconds. So he's like, I remember that little bitch, Karen.


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[Assistant] I can't do it. I mean, I don't think we have any coffee sponsors, but... He also has a great voice, but sometimes he sounds like Buzz Lightyear. Can we put... fuck. It should be Zac Efron.


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[Assistant] I do like that about him. He does pick weird things. Like, uh, what was that, Bronson?


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[Assistant] Young, young hot dudes. There you go. That's a good list, that is a solid list. I'm happy with that list. You made a really good list. I'm happy sending this to my family.


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[Assistant] Just so you know, my friends and I got together on a Tuesday afternoon. We decided the hottest minute in Hollywood.


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[Assistant] Make it look like a Buzzfeed video, where it's just like, just hot dudes with outlines around them, and like, top ten. Firestorm in my pants.


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[Assistant] That sounds like you have herpes. Yeaah. Your balls itch? Yeaah? Can I help? We should do that. We should do the last ad read and get out. I scratch it with my, my scruff.


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[Assistant] What about an uhm, inception?


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[Assistant] Like I said, look, like I said, it's like he got plastic surgery out of the womb. He looks too good.


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[Assistant] Oh yea. I'll say that like, if I, if you were to like, draw a cartoon of what the next Aquaman would look like and you drew that, I'd go, oh cool. And then be like, good news, someone like that exists. Cause what I sent you was a Photoshop.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Paul Rudd. What is that, when he's like 52? It's not Paul Rudd. He looks like Paul Rudd.


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[Assistant] My trust in a company with nodes, you know, where they're like, we got nodes all over the planet, baby. Trust us. We got nodes.


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[Assistant] I'd rather trust my, the stuff I have and my equipment and.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then also, I mean, because I'm already sort of at the behest of my internet working or not.


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[Assistant] Honestly? There's stuff on the floor. It's true though, like the...apparently...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I saw a fabulous, uh, Twitter video where somebody just did an ASMR redub of a Housewives of Beverly Hills clip.


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[Assistant] And Stephanie came up with the idea that we should do ASMR redubs of game trailers, and I agree entirely.


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[Assistant] You have to incentivize yourself. When I was, when I was a teenager and I figured out how to masturbate, uh, I did it in the shower because it's just, you know, convenient. But that led to me showering a whole lot more.


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[Assistant] There's a bottomless lady in like a squatting position, so it really does imply that the liquid you're drinking came out of her.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, mix it up. And it has that cool straw that goes through the square.


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[Assistant] Ah, I saw that on your desk. I thought it was a Pokéman. Many, uh, gamer on the street here checking in. Many people in chat advise that you get a shower bench.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are so many consumer products that I never think that I could just get whenever I want that would make my life easier. Just like, well this is how it is!


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[Assistant] Well this, it seemed a little more, it seemed to dive a little more into the game mechanics. So all the broad strokes I think were hit in last year's demo. So...


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[Assistant] This year they did show it, at least in terms of the gameplay part of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, they should, they kept clicking back and forth between a few character builds of, in a Deus Ex kind of way, like, here's what you can do if you're a Netrunner, here's what you can do if you're more combat focused.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there were some hints in some of the dialogue trees of like, if you have this origin story or something like that, you can pick these dialogue options.


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[Assistant] I kind of wish they had showed that too, because they keep, there were some pretty serious divergent paths there about what you could do and what you could choose, so.


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[Assistant] I get that maybe there wasn't time, or those things weren't in scope for this particular demo to show, but I think this demo is very good about showing you the reality of what choice means in that game. I saw the UI, where, oh yea, there it is, okay.


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[Assistant] It also fits the vibe of cyberpunk I think, uh, and also just like,


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[Assistant] The thing for me, like, to wrap my head around is that it's called cyberpunk and there are punk aspects to it of anti-corporation and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Oh, about origins? Well, sort of. I mean, honestly, it seems identical to Dragon Age origins, where you had to pick an origin story and then it would pop back up in beats as the story went on.


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[Assistant] I'm, I feel like yeaah, they'll wallop you with that and I feel like a lot of people are gonna spend their first evening just sweating at the character, character creator. Uhm, but I think once you get into the game...


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[Assistant] I'm always fascinated by that of how you make a player okay with consequence.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and games like this in Witcher 3 especially, sometimes it would hit you with something that you didn't intend and is a less than optimal solution, but the game tries to get you to just roll with it.


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[Assistant] And I feel like the same vibe is here is like, you're gonna see those dialogue options that are going to set your brain on fire because you can't pick them, but it's just gonna make you wanna play again. So I'm kind of okay with that. Warning boobs. We're showing a boobs. Look at them jiggle. They're classy boobs. They are classy boobs.


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[Assistant] He got a, he got like brain fried. If somebody's connected, you can like microwave their brain if they're connected to the internet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, so yeah, you can theorize about that stuff, cause you're right, cause then you go to meet another lady who's like super into the deep web or whatever, cyberspace, of course. Uhm, and the goal is to find the first person who digitized their consciousness and transcend it into the internet, cause they might know about this stupid chip in your head. They had a name. Alton Cunningham. That's it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the Grand Imperial Mall, which gets shortened to gym, G-I-M. So they call it gym, but it's not a gym, even though it has workout equipment in it, because I think the implication is the animals move the equipment in so they can work out all the time.


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[Assistant] I wanna know how it affects open world and how much your decisions cascade. Cause in the first demo, the one from last year, they showed that like, uh, oh you do like a job to rip off a street gang and then they send like some guys out after you and it's in the open world, they're just in a van chasing you on the street.


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[Assistant] So I wonder if there's like a, some kind of like New Vegas style allegiance system, where if you betray one corporation, they'll be after you for the rest of the game, or you can do something for them to smooth it over or something like that.


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[Assistant] When it comes to, like, decisions you make that alter the story, it'll be interesting to see how, yeah, it probably does bow out and then come back in at certain points. Yeah. Uhm, but it'll be interesting to see how that ricochets down. So, yeah, if you, if you stick with the voodoo boys, they still betray you, but...


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[Assistant] Since you live, they still take you to jack in to cyberspace to find Alt Cunningham.


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[Assistant] I imagine if you stayed with a Netwatch agent, which is like a federal network guy who was fighting the Voodoo boys, if you stayed with him, I imagine he'd be like, great, let's bring you into the government Netwatch headquarters and then we can jack you into cyberspace from there.


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[Assistant] You literally do. You have the immunity chip in your head. And that shows up twice. Like you, you're supposed to be killed by the gang at the cutscene at the beginning when the guy chokes you out, and then you wake up in a landfill because they thought they killed you and just dropped you off. And then Keanu Reeves wakes you up.


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[Assistant] No, they shot Jackie. You survive. And then the dude like punches you in your head, ricochets off the wall.


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[Assistant] The only thing I think he's chosen is that he's okay with adventuring. Like most hobbits want to stay at home, which was, which was J.R.R. Tolkien, like, side-eyeing a bunch of English people basically, but, uh, they just want to stay at home and drink tea and gossip, whereas, uh, yeah, Bilbo and then Frodo were, they wanted to explore. So, well, Frodo less so.


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[Assistant] Uh, gamer on the street here, uh, Vias says, Adam is right, gold arm dude shoots V and then they put him in the brain melter. There you go.


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[Assistant] Maybe, yeah. And that's, that's kind of what makes your character important in the world, is that you have this miraculous tech in your head.


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[Assistant] There's a ton of that in, uh, in Ghost in the Shell. Throwing back to that again, of like, just hacking people's eyes so they don't see you, or hacking security footage and stuff like that of...


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[Assistant] It's a very like grim vision of the internet of things future where everything is controlled by the internet so you can control everything. You can change what cameras see, you can change what people see and hear. It makes reality very mutable, which I feel like we're getting there with the way that social media can kind of contort people's worldviews.


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[Assistant] Knowing how CD Projekt works with Witcher, I think, I think it's, they'll work with themes that are like human.


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[Assistant] It's closer to it. The, like, rampant commercialization and corporatization of everything. The, uh, the utter decline and decimation of any kind of public services or the fact that the government even cares about individuals.


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[Assistant] Had you in a setting that had a lot of weird stuff going on, but as Geralt, you never really passed judgment on any of it, because Geralt is so, like, deadpan, he's just after his objective.


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[Assistant] You could play him that way. I don't think that was baked into his character though. He's pretty pure mercenary.


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[Assistant] Well that's what witchers are, they have no moral compass, they just roam the countryside and kill monsters for money.


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[Assistant] So the Witcher 3 trailer, the Killing Monsters trailer, was kind of the one that was like, okay, Geralt does have a moral compass, but until then, maybe I'm off and maybe that thing was communicated earlier, but I feel in the same way that like in Cyberpunk V,


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[Assistant] Is not going to be going around like judging people or the government or anything like that. He's just, I want this chip out of my head so people leave me alone.


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[Assistant] Well, he, he, in legend, he just had the one, doesn't he just have like the one incisor in the front? And then eventually they had to fix it, but no, he's got weird teeth. It's just off center on his face.


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[Assistant] I was just scanning the Wikipedia page because I, I remember hearing about some world events in the world of cyberpunk. I think there was a world war. That I can. In a period of, like, so this is- They kept saying after the war. Yeaah. Yeaah. So, uh, hold on a minute. Following a vast socioeconomical collapse in a period of martial law, the United States government has to rely on several mega corporations to survive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, there would, I guess, maybe not in this, but apparently by 2077 there was a huge war that made everything real bad, which led to like the economic pullout of the development of Pacifica.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it's been exist, it's existed for a long time. It's true. There's so many lore bibles written about a bunch of worlds that will probably never be converted into TVs or video games or anything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I love the choice in that. Samurai is the name of a band that Johnny Silverhand was the lead singer and guitar player in. No way. That's why they had the guitar on the wall and like they actually had the- So in the waiting room for the E3 demo, they had references to all this shit.


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[Assistant] That I never knew about. So yea, Johnny Silverhand is a famous and idealistic rocker boy singer and a guitarist with a silver chrome cyber, cyberlim arm.


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[Assistant] He opposes Arasaka. This is the corp that stole Alt Cunningham.


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[Assistant] Uh, like, uh, like took her program about how to digitize consciousness and then fried her brain, but her consciousness, which was already digitized, ran away into the net and was never seen again.


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[Assistant] He was in the chromatic rock band Samurai, I don't know what chromatic rock is, but I love it, with fellow famous rocker Carey Eurodyne, and is most famous for the songs Chippin' In and Never Fade Away.


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[Assistant] There were digitized stills of like movie actors and Super Nintendo games and stuff. I guess it depends how far back you wanna, you wanna.


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[Assistant] Which is not a bad idea. I mean, it's near an international airport, so I think that's part of it, is that you can bring in clients and it's a short ride from LAX.


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[Assistant] Eh, whatever. I guess so. That's what RAM's for. Everybody likes to hand-ring when they look at their task manager. What else is it for? That's what it's for. RAM is there to be used. Geez, it's not like your desk. It's not like somebody came along and threw trash all over your desk. You can't even see it.


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[Assistant] And I'll get like, it'll get like two thirds of the way through and then it'll just bonk and say like, can't do a thing because something's not selected.


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[Assistant] It blinks up a bunch of windows and stuff because it's just a recorded set of instructions in Photoshop that you can export and then import. You can like, I used to do this way back in the day when it came to like resizing images for blogs. Yeah, you just hit record, you do actions in Photoshop, it records the history and then you hit stop and you can save that.


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[Assistant] But even if it wasn't, what's the next, what's the next step? Like what does that matter? Just if someone wants to feel smart. I guess. Oh yeah, yeah, like, I wasn't fooled!


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[Assistant] I'm worried that it's gonna be, like all the germs trying to cram through the door in the Simpsons, we're all gonna request time off and it's gonna be a melee. Omar, you better get ready to make some hard decisions, buddy.


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[Assistant] This is what this little boy is from. Yeaah. Sorry audio listeners, but there's a cute little plushie angry man.


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[Assistant] It's kind of like a cheekier cyberpunk in the way that corporations dominate everything. Yeaah. Uh, I really like the look at the war of the name.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I'm reading too much into this, but in one of the demos, Doomslayer was like grunting a lot.


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[Assistant] Whenever he got hit, he would make these weird little, uuuh. And I was like, what is that? Maybe that was just something for that one video then.


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[Assistant] I'm sure they're shoving everyone to game pass as opposed to charging all to card for any of that.


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah, so on Game Pass, they'll give you a warning if a game's about to leave. They actually have a whole category of like, about to leave Game Pass. But if you have Game Pass, then they'll give you a discount on buying it. That's the whole, that's the whole grift, really. They get you into a game, they take it off Game Pass.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Whatever. I mean, it's the best way to play a lot of games. I still think it's a fantastic service. It's a great idea. Uhm, I just wonder how that's going to shake out, kind of like movies and TV now, with Ubisoft launching their own service. Every publisher's going to want to do it too. So how's something like Game Pass going to work? Because they're all going to pull their stuff from Game Pass, or Microsoft's going to have to make it worth their while.


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[Assistant] Well, my understanding of the operative mechanic is that there's something forcing you to move forward all the time.


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[Assistant] So like Gears is very much how you sit behind this wall and shoot things until they're dead and then you hear the guitar riff and then you can move? It's mostly just a timer. Really? Yea. You're trying to get out as fast as you can. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought there was some kind of death ball. If there is, I never even saw it. No, I guess you were too good. Gamer skill too turnt.


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[Assistant] No, the beat-em-up section of that demo was pretty straightforward. There's like a Devil May Cry kind of yank mechanic, you use your tongue to yank enemies around.


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[Assistant] But you can do that to an enemy that's getting combo'd by somebody else. So there's kind of a...


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[Assistant] It's more of a, to me that was more of a MOBA crossover, because mounting and unmounting is a thing. Yeah. Trig and Dota. Just to make you move faster.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, the mode that we played, you have to like, capture and hold three points that turn on and off. Yeah. And there were like, trains that went through the map, so... Trains got me so many times.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of, like, it's interesting. You have to be very situationally aware, which I actually appreciated. But it was all about, like, uh, yeaah. It was all about cooldowns and abilities and when you use them and how you use them in tandem with your teammates. Very, like, communication focused and role focused. I played a healer and I was... I did too, I think. Yeaah. Cause nobody else in my team wanted to play him.


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[Assistant] I think it's, yeaah, I think it's for a different audience. It's going to be on Game Pass, which means for a slight group of people it's going to be available to play day and date. Uhm, and if they're looking for a competitive multiplayer game that's very mechanic focused, yeaah, I feel like there is an audience there and we're probably not it.


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[Assistant] Getting our asses kicked online, cause it's probably gonna have that MOBA thing too, where...


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[Assistant] If there's a team and they work really well together and they know how to synchronize with their abilities, you're just gonna get blasted and have no idea why. I look forward to seeing that.


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[Assistant] Played Fall Guys. That is awesome. I've never heard of that. It's basically like Takashi's Castle across Genghis. Oh, sweet! So you play, it matches you with a hundred other people and they throw you into these wacky minigames. Oh, I love that. Each one like cuts about 50 people out.


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[Assistant] And then it goes through three rounds of like just stupid minigames of giant boulders and stuff. Cool.


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[Assistant] I'm finding off a lot of like, uh, experimental development lately. Early Accessible Hades and the Episodic there. Yea, Hades fucking rules though.


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[Assistant] And the DLC, you know that each one is like what?


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[Assistant] How does that work? Cause fridges are so moist. The water just bleeeep. Wicked out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they had like, Cascade, DJ'd their like, Twitch party. I don't think he did GDC, but they have, they paid for it. I love Cascade. It's just wapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapap


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[Assistant] I want knives. They're all kinds of different styles. That's not a knife, this is a knife. Yea, Australia. Yea, mate. Australia. Sick. Peak, Australia. What'd you find, personal?


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[Assistant] But the thing is, we already knew what he looked like from leaked stuff and then the weird outline where he had human legs. But we'd never seen him move and talk. Sure, but I'm just saying like, there was enough early outcry where we were like, this is wrong, this is bad.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying there were early red flags, but I guess it was only, I guess you had to have been paying attention or they were just like, no, that's just early outcry.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, when you're adapting Dune, for example,


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[Assistant] Let's say years ago, where all you had was a book and some art that Jaroslawski did or whatever. You know, so you're David Lynch, you go.


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[Assistant] Okay, this is a little tough. With Sonic, you type in Sonic the Hedgehog-o.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's what he looks like. Just, just a, just a look as, as a, I'm not like, you're right. You shouldn't just solely blame the director, but I'm just saying, as the director, don't you go, that doesn't really look like all the stuff I've seen from the old Genesis commercials. No offense to him.


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[Assistant] It's gonna look like this. No, we're gonna rebrand. It's confusing because at some point you go, who is this for? And they go, well...


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[Assistant] But I'm saying that's who you're making it for, because these are the only people who are going to see your trash movie.


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[Assistant] Which I thought was, oh that's smart, you're saving on animation budget. Cause all the other ones like, boy Optimus, I have lips! And it's like weird, but Optimus Prime who does most of the talking, they cover his mouth and it's like,


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[Assistant] It's at least still Transformers. It's a commercial product, which it was meant to be. But we all, I thought, agreed Bumblebee.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be maybe kind of... It might be sadder?


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[Assistant] It's, it's a weird, it's, it reminds me a lot of the first, I guess the only, uh, Mario Brothers movie, where it was made by people who had a...


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[Assistant] Somewhat of an understanding of the character. Not that I think there's a deep lore of Sonic. There's obviously more story material. There's comic books and shows and all the stuff that you can pull from to go, okay, it's about...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and they're like, how the fuck do we make this into it? And as a cutie played Mario, you went, well, that's not what I was expecting, but their names were Mario and Luigi, and they had a Yoshi in there, so I'm okay. But the Sonic movie was like, you've had years of original ideas to pull from, you have Sonic Boom, all these other things, Sonic has always been


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[Assistant] Always been bad. But there are people who love Sonic despite it being trash. And so it's like well just dig into the stuff that those people like which is like the furry culture and knuckles and don't have a story.


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[Assistant] Let me paint a quick photo for you. There's a lone animator there whose wife is probably seven months pregnant right now.


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[Assistant] Lawrence had a theory, we did a, we did a insight gaming on it today, but he was saying that when it goes into public record, you can now see all the horrific things that are being said.


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[Assistant] It's just being, a giant light is being shown on it, and so I think people are paying more attention, which is, I think, obviously a good thing.


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[Assistant] Which is something Lawrence talked about and I think is something we can all, I guess, talk personally about, because I think everyone here has worked a contract job where they do dangle that carrot, uhm, it's happening to someone I know very personally.


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[Assistant] Personally right now they're doing that, where a company has had this person, this person in particular for two years on a contract, which I think is illegal.


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[Assistant] It's a great, it's a great system, especially when we don't really have healthcare in this country. It's a whole different debate, but it's like, you kind of have to get it from your employer or get it in some other way.


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[Assistant] The inside game in walk away was the best thing ever because we said, we're gonna leave and then they told us, yeah, but we can replace you because we still have the name idiot and we're like, okay, we're like, okay, let's do that. And then so then we left and then everyone got mad at the guy who said,


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[Assistant] It was okay for us to leave because they still had sold content that they were on the hook for. So they, they're like, oh fuck. So they had to scramble, get people to do a podcast that was already pre-sold. They did it and then immediately got all the dislikes and then went, what's going on? It's the same name. Why you don't, I don't understand. And I was like, well, that was a good.


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[Assistant] That's a nice lesson that was, well it was cemented in history, but now it's off YouTube, dammit.


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[Assistant] There's like the Wolf Wall Street sort of thing. They were all thriving, but then it becomes a boys club and then just like...


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[Assistant] Well most companies, most, will have some sort of human resources department, HR for short. But what a lot of people forget is that HR is there to protect the company, not you. So uhm, another example, I won't say the place, pretty big place, a friend of mine works there and he's


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[Assistant] This person, I said he, doesn't matter, uh, has issued many HR complaints about


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[Assistant] Basically being abused by someone else. And the company is more than willing to just kind of


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[Assistant] Push it under the rug and just be like, maybe we just move you away from this person. And it's like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's, it's, and that, that's a, it's a pretty big corporation where this person works and it's like, that's so obvious there where it's like they're, the company's trying to protect itself and not the person.


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[Assistant] I think it's something that's led by example. And from what it sounds like, allegedly the CEO and the top brass has this sort of bro-ish attitude. That's sort of what's happening. When you do that, young, impressionable people come in and go, oh, that's okay.


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[Assistant] So it's like a young kid saying to their dad, talk shitty to a waitress.


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[Assistant] It's instilled in their mind that, oh, this is okay, I can do this. When you shouldn't.


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[Assistant] I'm sure it's probably on the scale of somewhat normal things that have been going on at this boys and not girls club. Uhm, yeaah. I think people around there, impressionable people tend to think that's okay and they're gonna go with the flow and there's sort of a mob mentality there.


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[Assistant] We're small enough though, and yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's hypocritical or whatever, but we never looked at each other and went, we need more women here. It's like, it sort of worked out that way, I guess.


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[Assistant] Are you worried about being blacklisted because of all your communist ideas and thoughts that you're clearly leaning towards? Do you mean socialists?


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[Assistant] Real quick, do you know when Nintendo Land is opening up in Japan?


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[Assistant] For Olympics? Also Akira, uh. Akira. Um, predicted the 2020 Olympics in Japan. Watch it.


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[Assistant] I say Akira, I'm sorry. I say Kaneda, I'm sorry. Gaijin.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like you're in the- I think we all did this. It's one of those three goggles. You're spinning around. It's the shooting gallery.


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[Assistant] Yeah, something like going to like, if, imagine the Stark Foundation did like a, uh, a museum that was like dedicated to the Avengers. I think they even have something like that in Vegas where like, try to pull Thor's hammer. You know what I do?


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[Assistant] Yeah, a Thor ride would be great. The first one's kind of, the first part of it's kind of interesting. It's like where it's just a snore, and then it ends on a high note.


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[Assistant] I wish Jacob the best. I know he got his tickets and he's gonna go do it, but it's like, I also appreciate all the hard work they put in making it immersive, but when you're just a sardine, you're like, oh wow, the Millennium Falcon and 18 people are trying to get selfies with it. It's probably, but that's our fault.


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[Assistant] He was the original Doug Jones. He just happened to be president.


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[Assistant] I thought you just had a thick neck, like you can't do it. I don't think you've ever seen him nod. Okay, I think that's true. I'm gonna say true as well. It's true.


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[Assistant] That sounds true. That sounds false. Because I, I don't, I don't, I can't think of Vince McMahon admitting defeat.


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[Assistant] There's other people who are pretty passionate. Is there a baby in here?


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[Assistant] I don't know why that would be false. It's true.


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[Assistant] Wow. So people did see. He usually wears like a grey suit.


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[Assistant] I thought I shit myself jogging the other day. I didn't, but I was scared.


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[Assistant] That's... I'm gonna say false. That seems...


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[Assistant] He should just write a book. He should. Just put it out. Called Attack of the Book. And go, what the fuck does it mean?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And then she said, go sleep on the couch. And he said, I already am.


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[Assistant] We're not at that point right now where we're like, man, I can't wait for games to look good. Yea, that's the other thing. I mean, it could be because I'm getting older, but like, there was a huge deal when


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[Assistant] xbox was the thing and playstation 2 is the thing and then they'd launch xbox 360 and ps3 and you're like oh my god everything's pretty now look at it and it only got


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[Assistant] Does it teach you in those campaigns how to use the game to make other little games? No. No.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it seems to me that it is, and it's almost like they're releasing a new console.


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[Assistant] Strangely, it's like the, it's the same, uh, analogy there, which is like when VR came out. Everyone's like, yeah, VR is neat.


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[Assistant] And like, oh, it does lots of cool stuff, but also, it needs a killer app. It needs something that somebody's gonna go in and be like, okay, well we made Portal 3 in VR. And everyone's like, oh shit, Portal 3, I gotta play it in VR, blah blah blah. And it's the same with Dreams, where like,


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[Assistant] I'm never going to pick up Dreams, just like VR, unless there's something in Dreams that I really want. Then I'm like, for example, let's say Tim Schafer made something that everyone's raving about, and you have to go into Dreams to play it. Okay, alright, I'm in.


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[Assistant] Well, LittleBigPlanet was kinda the same way, like, I was like, I kept expecting that killer app to hit, where somebody was gonna be like, you've gotta play this level of LittleBigPlanet, you have to play this thing. Just never happened.


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[Assistant] But to your point, you're asking kind of like how, what this means for other developers, I guess? It depends on how strong the tools are in Dreams. So it's like, I mean, another developer could hop on it. I mean, you could get a team from Valve to get in there and be like, hey, let's make a little game in Dreams. And then again, that's their killer app. Like all of a sudden, everyone's playing Dreams because of that, but there's no way to


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[Assistant] I'm surprised that they don't, I mean, well, it's a beta, so I was going to say I'm surprised they don't have that now in Dreams, because that would be the first thing I would think of, is like, have a Dream Store.


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[Assistant] That's what it sounds like for LittleBigPlanet. Those games, I kept trying to figure out, where are they making money on this game? I mean, I guess when they sold maybe millions of copies, I don't know. But for this, that would be the first thing I would say is like, this is so cool, there's so many cool tools. I don't understand, why don't we just make it so that other people can sell their games on this, just like Steam.


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[Assistant] And then we're basically only the platform for them to just take stuff.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like parody, or it can't, like legally. You can say, oh no this is just parody.


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[Assistant] Adam, your analogy of what you just said that I just forgot, not Gmod, thank you, holy shit, was a great analogy because Gmod has a ton of copywritten properties in that and you can use it anytime you want.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but those are both like kid-friendly things. And that's like Nintendo and Nintendo wants to keep its thing kid-friendly. And that's the, that's the, usually the complaint from the biggest brands is that, oh well, Star Wars would never be in Dead Space. Or, you know, the X-Men would never be in, you know, some little big planet thing.


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[Assistant] I envy, I envy Dreams actually and Media Molecule because they're in a really good space right now where they, it's a, it's a gray area. So they can be like, make whatever you want and do whatever you want. And like if people start making Star Wars stuff, everyone's gonna like, oh my gosh, you can make all this really cool stuff? Wow, you can play Star Wars Battlefront. But in Dreams,


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[Assistant] In five years time, when they're monetizing it, that's when everybody's gonna clamp down on it. Like, it's like YouTube ten years ago. When YouTube was like, you can do whatever the fuck you want on YouTube, it doesn't matter what it is.


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[Assistant] It's not the world, it's more about the fact that I don't want to get, like, it's so daunting. I don't want to walk in and be like, okay, now start making your own level. I'm like, what the fuck? No, I'm not going to do any of that. Like, I want to play other people's stuff.


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[Assistant] Maybe, but also if I'm spending $60 it's gotta have something huge inside it that I really want.


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[Assistant] I've got an idea. How about we put a hundred of those little triangle men in one giant map, and they battle till the end, only once or twice.


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[Assistant] Have you guys seen that extreme video of a guy that gets in a catapult, human catapult? It's fucking awesome.


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[Assistant] Let's check it out. It's kinda like Sea of Thieves where you get shot out of a cannon. So, they put him in a, it's like a giant slingshot. They call, I think it's called a human catapult.


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[Assistant] And then they launch him out of it with some feathers, and he launches himself off the edge of a cliff, and then parachutes. And it's all first person.


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[Assistant] So you get to see his perspective as, like, sorry, not first person, it's, it's facing him. Oh, he's like- So the camera's here and he's looking at it. Is he a New Zealand guy? Probably. That sounds right. Yeah, uhm, and he gets shot off the edge and then, like, pulls the, pulls the- Was this recent? Or is this- It was recent, I saw it recently, maybe it's old, but it's awesome. Uh, hold on.


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[Assistant] So what he's doing is he's holding the camera, and then he pulls the shoot. Gotcha, gotcha. It's fucking wild.


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[Assistant] I can do it. You want me to do it? Please do, yeaah. Uhm, usually what I try and do is, uh, like on YouTube comments and stuff like that. Most of the time if I see a YouTube comment that is like blatantly wrong, and I know the facts, I'll get in there and correct them, and then I wait for them to respond.


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[Assistant] Cause I'll correct them with just the facts. Uh, and then if they respond with like, oh shit, I'm really sorry. I was just having a bad day, which is usually normal. That's generally what people do.


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[Assistant] Then I'm like, hey, it's cool, no problem, and move on. Uhm, that's hopefully the way to defuse this situation, is to be...


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[Assistant] First of all, straight forward and honest and factual, and then beyond that, just be positive. Uh, but I have seen people that will double down. And then once they double down, then I get in there and go like, hey man, we're all just talking about the same thing here, try to, again, defuse it with the, it's, we're all on the same team.


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[Assistant] And that's the, that usually works. Not always, but usually. It depends on the subject matter. Some of the subject matters that we've had on the subreddit.


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[Assistant] Uh, even if I try and get in there and say, you know, like something like, look, this is just our perspective, we're the content creators, or whatever, when it has to do with funhouse stuff, and people still disagree, there isn't much you can do. Uhm, and you just sort of back off and go like,


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[Assistant] I remember specifically there was one time I had an interaction where I got all the way down, down the throat of this person, just kept going, arguing about fun house stuff, and it was about hymns actually. And at the very end, I was just like,


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[Assistant] You know what? Normally I interact with the community, and I really like doing it, but you are turning me off to this. So, if that's what you want, then you've got it. And it wasn't positive, but for me that was sort of the way I felt, which I was like, you're kind of turning me off to talking to people here. And a bunch of other people came into that thread and said, no no no no no, this person doesn't speak for us.


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[Assistant] Like, we want you here, we want to talk to you, etc., etc. So, so that, that reinforced me, that helped me a little bit. Uhm, but I try to be factual, but at the same time positive. So, it's tough. It's tough.


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[Assistant] Nine times out of ten I think that works. I think that actually works when you're like, look, I'm really sorry you're having a bad day. Or not even that condescending, it's more of just like, if you're having a bad day, let's talk about it. Or if you want to DM me or whatever, we're cool, everything's fine, don't sweat it. Usually people are like, you know what, you're right, I'm sorry, I was being a hassle.


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[Assistant] I read ahead. So, but you didn't, are you the verdict, you're the judge of this? Oh, I know.


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[Assistant] They knew what year it was. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say shitty. I'm gonna say shitty movie.


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[Assistant] No, that's a real movie detail. See, I would have said this is real as well, cause I read ahead. Uh huh. And I think this one's real. Okay, Alana.


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[Assistant] I just realized, instead of putting together, uh, a reel, I should just send a photo of me, like, rap-squatting next to my motorcycle. That's gotta guarantee me a part in cyberpunk, right?


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[Assistant] I think that's the idea, like there's a grand hatching every year and then birds just come by and start snapping them up. I think they got eaten by lizards. Oh, that's cute. Is it? Sort of. I mean that's like a dinosaur eating another dinosaur.


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[Assistant] Turns out two houses down though is just a derelict house. There's some old lady that owns it but doesn't live in it. She just comes by like once every three weeks. It's cool. She let me know that someone on our block has a turtle and walks it.


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[Assistant] Cause either you, the only way you can demo it is to like choose the introductory dungeon, where they like teach you how to crouch and throw grenades, otherwise it's like a very mechanically complicated RPG with stats and abilities and just dropping somebody in the middle of that saying okay go, they're pretty much gonna have a negative experience and then they're gonna go home and tweet about how annoying it was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, put in a bunch of invisible walls or like NPCs that say don't come over here yet, which takes time and effort for a demo to hype something that a trailer is gonna get you just as much mileage out of.


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[Assistant] Well, he makes videos out of everything now. Even things that aren't really cringe-ridden. He made like an E3 package last year and everyone watches them, which he's really good at editing, but last year's E3 wasn't super cringy, like at all. No, it wasn't. It's true actually. Just EA.


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[Assistant] Well, VO is probably one of the last things. It is, yeaah. Cause script, script can change, scenario can change. Like if you just have to cut a whole section from the game, then you have to write the script around it, and then you have to change VO lines, and if you record early, then you have to call those people back.


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[Assistant] It's big, but I mean, you can scale things. Game engines are pretty good at scaling, so something can be huge and it can just scale way down in the distance, so. Buildings can be reduced in poly, like you can reduce the tick rate or frame rate on animations and stuff. Slide everything down. Yea, just sliders. It's easy. Get rid of the puddles.


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[Assistant] Makes Minecraft shiny. I uh, I keep meaning to put together like a big ol' feature piece about what ray tracing is and how it works for inside gaming, but it's gonna take a lot of like drawing on whiteboards and stuff.


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[Assistant] Shadows of the Empire slash Jedi Knight era, where a lot of Star Wars games, like single-player games, had huge, like, solitary maps, almost like Metroid-style maps. I want that back.


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[Assistant] There have been rumors about FromSoft's next title. Yeah. A great rune. Yeah. Oh. Well, I mean, so FromSoft, they cr- they crank out software. It's ridiculous how fast they work. Uhm, but yeah, they're collaborating with George R.R. Martin.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, uh, George RR Martin's supposed to be writing the lore for their next game, which is an open world, uh, Nordic mythology game. Can he write the fucking books he's supposed to write for you guys?


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[Assistant] I haven't hooked up my PSVR, cause I need HDR, and the HDR doesn't go through the passthrough, so I gotta juggle around some HDR, or HDMI cables, you know how it is. Your life is hard. It's tough.


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[Assistant] That's why Titanfall is still a thing, it's because Apex actually hit.


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[Assistant] Tasked with something else, right? Didn't they get taken off? They've gone on a new IP. Oh, a new IP. Oh, that's interesting.


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[Assistant] Or like some Sith artifact that drives people crazy with Sith power? I mean, you can, you can ride around it easily enough, but I do think, yea, I think Battlefront 2, or the campaign of Battlefront 2 is evidence that Disney puts a lot of restrictions on what developers can and can't do with Star Wars lore.


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[Assistant] Like, no spoilers, because it's in the first 20 minutes, but they make shell of, like,


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[Assistant] I think it's a little bit of both. I think, I think what my read on it, which is not informed by anything aside from just hearsay and happenstance, but feels like


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[Assistant] Lucas's control over Star Wars narrative makes any narrative development so long and costly that it just becomes not worth it at a certain point. When they won't say yes to anything and you have a gameplay prototype but you can't make a game out of it because they're holding things up or asking for rounds of approvals and suddenly you're three years in and you haven't gotten a solid yes to any of the concept art.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just as a fun, as a fun little experiment, for all of the listeners, this is a dude soup challenge of the week. Go back and watch an E3 press conference from Sony, like before 2009.


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[Assistant] It was, it was bar graphs and numbers and sales figures.


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[Assistant] So Adam, I'm curious, cause you kinda mentioned that they had fucked up. Aside from the Master Chief collection being unplayable.


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[Assistant] I mean, nothing happened. It was in Act 2 of like, what was, I assume it was to be a trilogy, but...


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[Assistant] I guess they're banning that now, but aside from just the narrative beats, what would you say was like fail- what was a failure in Halo 5?


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[Assistant] It's, it's tough because it means so many things to so many people. For me, I enjoyed most the campaign. So for me, a spiritual wee bit of Halo would be a...


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[Assistant] Massive open world shooter, like something like Darksiders, but shooter.


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[Assistant] Where like, maybe you get, you get super Spartan legs so you can traverse open ground really quickly. But then there are like, single player levels like Dungeon, kind of like Rage.


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[Assistant] I mean, if it's a spiritual reboot, I don't know what Master Chief's story is at this point.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeaah, there is, there is purity there. What I was trying to think of is like, what series, cause you were talking about introducing a lock, what series can swap a silent protagonist with anything else? Like, Zelda games are always Link, Metroid games are always Samus.


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[Assistant] Whatever. I just feel like people develop, uh, strong emotional identities to games like that. Dark Souls is another one where you have a non-protagonist that is an avatar for your feelings and experiences. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, when you bring a named character and try to like, boop, then that doesn't match what people think about it. And furthermore, how do you make a spiritual reboot to something that's so personal and nebulous to a lot of people? That's what's weird. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yay! Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for dumping money into the things.


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[Assistant] And there was like- It's definitely not playable. Yeah, I think they said it's delayed, it's super delayed, and also it's not gonna be at E3 this year. I think they said that it could be wrong.


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[Assistant] Well, that's gonna be part of their Scarlet Pitch, I assume. Cloud processing and cloud rendering. I think they'll probably be pretty vague.


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[Assistant] We made this 4 hour thing, it's really heady, it's like an art piece, it's about cancer, whatever. It's not on Game Pass for free right now, well free, but you gotta see.


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[Assistant] We haven't touched on the thing that I know everyone's waiting for. Is the next installment in the Devolver E3 presentation cinematic universe.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sunday, it's only those two. Sunday's also Devolver. And Devolver. But, yea, Monday is PC Gaming Square. All press conferences are in


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[Assistant] Doom Eternal's weird because they're gonna start a Quakecon, which happens like a month after. And this is like the year of Doom, so I don't think it's gonna be out before Quakecon.


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[Assistant] Also on the subject of Dead Space, like those games, the game, they tried as hard as they could to make those games worth money.


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[Assistant] I think that was, they were testing the waters, or, somebody was testing the waters with Tony Hawk.


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[Assistant] He does the thing that people ask them sometimes and no one ever buys it.


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[Assistant] We should keep playing it. Watch Dogs 1 is really fascinating. I like it a lot. And like, it's weird because the main character is not good. Aiden Pierce. Yea, Aiden Pierce is kind of a shitbag and never not- is not a shitbag. Kinda reminds me of-


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[Assistant] Yeah, it kinda pitched itself as being like Hitman. Which, like, that looks really cool when you play it well, but if that game, the trailer version, was the game that it was, everyone would have hated it.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna guess they're gonna release a prologue demo, like a one hour thing, in two months.


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[Assistant] Like two months from June, like I'm gonna say August, they're gonna release a Final Fantasy remake, like prologue. Check back, audience. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like, there was some weird stuff about the last- about human revolution.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember the name. Mon- It was uh, Square Monterell, right?


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[Assistant] That's the, that is the FMV slash beat em up about a deaf man that beats up people. It was considered one of the worst games last year. I haven't played it yet even though it's, everything about it is what I would love.


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[Assistant] That was square. Yeah, let's bring back the bouncer. Bouncer, cross quiet man. Bouncer was


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[Assistant] I think, I think kind of in the way that collaboration with Lucas can add cost onto any Star Wars game, I think Kingdom Hearts took forever, in part because Nomura can't ship a title.


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[Assistant] Even though I know nothing about the manor as Rick Ethic or anything. He's not good at that. Uhm, but also, I swear to God, going back and forth with Disney to get approvals on everything must have taken years.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure that's zero Disney, because like in canon it takes place before all the worlds get introduced. And then yea, the narrative at the end of Kingdom Hearts 3 has nothing to do with anything Disney at all. It's all internal Kingdom Hearts lore.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what's left after Shenmue 3? Cause Kingdom Hearts 3 came out, Final Fantasy 15 came out.


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[Assistant] 100% no way. That game's being made. I'm gonna put my money on it. I mean, it's being made, but by like four people.


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[Assistant] 6 to 8 weeks and then the camera will turn left.


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[Assistant] Well, there's a reason they're delayed. There's a reason games get cancelled, too. Everyone likes to be like, man, I wish we got the real Prey 2. Wasn't a game. There's a reason it was cancelled. Nobody walks into a room, sees an amazing game, they're like, oh my god, shut it down. I don't want this to earn any money and I don't want gamers to play it.


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[Assistant] You can't bring your friends into online matchmaking. You go play online and it's like, cool, don't worry about the rest, we'll find randos for you to play with.


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[Assistant] Maybe if you're on this, well if you're on the same console, you can at least like trade controllers. Yep. That's kinda like Splitscreen.


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[Assistant] I'm excited to see how they modernize it. Cause Link's Awakening is weird. It has a lot of side scrolling, right? Yea, it's got side scrolling elements. The story is weird too. The story is super funky. Every character on the island is like way more expressive and stra- like, NPCs in Zelda are often weird. Like whether it's bug collectors or something, they're like always, yea, they're always a little off.


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[Assistant] There was some article, uh, like it came out about the height of like David Lynch movies and stuff. So a lot of the writing in Link's Awakening was derived from the weird...


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[Assistant] Stuff in David Lynch, uh, movies like Twin Peaks was at its all time high or whatever. So there's a lot of very surrealist dialogue and stuff in that game.


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[Assistant] I hope it, I hope, I don't know how you package that up and translate it into another platform on modern sensibilities, but I hope they do it. Looks good.


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[Assistant] Because people are gonna take a picture of Psyduck on their dick. And like, no, probably not. I do that now. Yeah, I do now too, but it's not an official Nintendo product.


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[Assistant] I hope it's just four hours like slowly zooming into an 8k photo of Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus hanging out. Just like toasting a beer and it's just slow push with like the smiths over it.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, Drunky 3 is happening. I'm gonna make an inform- hopefully by the time you're listening to this.


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[Assistant] Current plan right now is for Funhaus, all of us here, to stream on Sunday. So we're gonna be covering the Sunday conferences. That's Bethesda, Microsoft, and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're gonna do that, and then in between, we might take it easier, we might stream some gameplays and stuff. It's gonna be pretty loosey-goosey, but we invite you to hang out with us on Sunday. Then Monday's gonna be Inside Gaming's day. Uh, so we're gonna be...


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[Assistant] The Inside Gaming crew is gonna be, uh, co-streaming those. Again, drinking.


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[Assistant] Because who doesn't want to drink on the clock and yell at video games? So uhm, but as far as in between conferences, probably not going to be too much of that because we're going to be working in addition to drinking on the clock.


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[Assistant] Because we're professionals. So yea, Strengthy 3 is happening this year. Still need to finalize some, some, uh, some rules. I feel like last year I was a little kind to you people. All of you disgusting sober assholes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. It was trying to accommodate a lot of factors last year. Also, we have our gear this year. We get to use our studio. So we'll have good mics and good equipment and there won't be echo and like, well, everything will be great. Omar will work.


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[Assistant] A little bit, yeaah, it's, it's, so, behind the scenes, it is, it is a growth driver, so there is, there is a bit of strategy to what we're streaming and when and to where. So yeaah, if we simulcast to both, that'll probably work, but it's always been a fun house thing. Yeaah. So we want to kind of keep it there to start so we get the, and also the big day is going to fun house, Sunday fun day, so.


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[Assistant] Show us your snack boards, your dish jam snack boards. Frisbees, flip them upside down, put bean dip in there. That's a great idea.


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[Assistant] I love dogs too, but also like, I just didn't ever see them so for me I was like, I would always ask the question almost every episode I'd be like,


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[Assistant] Where, what happened to like Ghost or what happened to the other, you know, like Arya's Dire Wolf?


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[Assistant] Both Machinima and Inside Gaming's channels have had every single one of their videos removed. If only we could talk to people who maybe had, uh, content on those channels. We can on this week's episode of Dude Suit.


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[Assistant] Today's podcast is brought to you by Upstart, Hymns, and Squarespace, and we will hear from them from, hear from them in a little bit, but I'm Alana, I'm hosting today because we started rotating hosts around, which happened recently, joined by Lawrence and Bruce. Hello. Hello. Hi everyone.


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[Assistant] Pretty much, yeaah. But today we're gonna talk about, cause it's a big, uh, thread on the subreddit about it, about...


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[Assistant] All the videos being taken down off Machinima's channel and Inside Gaming. Talk about some Oscar nominations and then I had a really cool science thing that I wanted to share with you guys because I think it's really cool.


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[Assistant] You sure you don't want to talk about jacking off on the Omjax 5?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I'm gonna read a story from The Verge to make this as objective as possible because we are owned by the same company, so talking about this is a little bit sticky. Uhm, so basically I'm just reading what The Verge said and not giving you any of my own input.


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[Assistant] Uh, so nearly every video on Machinima's YouTube channel has seemingly been deleted following its sale to full screen media earlier last week.


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[Assistant] The channel currently has 18 videos listed, although most of those don't actually play. Those are videos from Machinima. Official Machinima Productions, not independent uploads from creators who worked on the company's multi-channel network known as Machinima Creators.


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[Assistant] Uh, a report filed from Tubefilter stated that fullscreen's acquisition will result in the layoff of machinima employees, with some joining other units within water media and auto, though it is unclear how many staffies or staffers were.


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[Assistant] Had trouble finding out where they stand now. Uhm, had a little trouble getting responses to emails. It's all kind of rough and people are, I think, rightfully upset about their content being deleted. Uhm...


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[Assistant] I know that there have been tweets of just, people disappointed that stuff that they worked on is now not there, which obviously happened too.


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[Assistant] I mean, how does that stuff feel to you guys? Cause I, some of my earliest videos are up cause I was hosting for just this indie company and I wish those videos were not there. Cause they're just bad. It's not, it's mostly embarrassing and they're there and I can't do anything about it. I'm like, what if those went away? That'd be cool.


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[Assistant] They 100% dude, people would be like, did you know that they're using that? And I'm like, they've made that content, they own it, like, I have no problem with it, and there's nothing I can do about it, even if I did have a problem.


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[Assistant] Is there like a weird sense of nostalgia that sure, maybe you didn't look back at those videos, but you had the option to and now you can't. Is that weird?


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[Assistant] It's just weird that you could have a video that you're really proud of that you'd like show people but then you just can't after a certain point.


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[Assistant] It's not, it's not like it's the worst thing in the world, like people didn't have records of everything they did, you know, prior to a decade ago.


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[Assistant] 12 million subscribers, it's so weird looking at the channel and being like 12 million subs and no content. It's really strange.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing that I've heard from, like, a friend of mine, I guess, reviewed Skyrim, and it had a few million views, and he was like, it's weird that that's gone now. We're like, I get why you feel that that's weird. It is really strange.


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[Assistant] Look at that, look at that. 173 million views.


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[Assistant] Looking at options and things that we can do with old Mishima Shows that people really loved.


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[Assistant] You are allowed to say I have an approved quote. Ooh. Announcement. Almost an announcement. Almost, but not quite is.


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[Assistant] We're working on some stuff that'll make you guys that have followed us from machinima really nostalgic.


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[Assistant] Before I do an ad read, I wanted to ask you guys. Mishima has 12 million subscribers, his channel was started in 2006. How many of those people do you think are dead? 12 million.


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[Assistant] Supposedly, annually, 600,000 people die of heart disease.


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[Assistant] So, uh, Upstart sponsored the podcast today. Upstart is a company that lets you apply for loans.


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[Assistant] Uh, in a way that's a lot like applying for a job that you don't get an interview for, but instead, long companies make their decisions based off your credit score and history without getting to know the whole you. Now thanks to Upstart.com, it never has to be that way again. Upstart is revolutionizing the way you borrow money by rewarding you for your job experience and education.


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[Assistant] They're like, you don't have any credit history. Upstart is, because they don't do credit in a traditional way is helpful for people like me, probably helpful for students as well.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're basically not biased against people with a short credit history and instead go beyond the traditional FICO score when assessing your credit.


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[Assistant] Worthiness. They believe you're more than just your credit score and they make it far simple and easy to check your credit rate.


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[Assistant] In less than two minutes without affecting your credit score, which is the thing that I guess happens in the US, I don't really- It does.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can hurt your credit by checking your credit.


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[Assistant] So apparently, they will not affect your score. Uhm, and once your loan is approved, if you're applying for a loan, the funds will be transferred to you the very next business day, so you can get those loans.


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[Assistant] Real quick, uh, people use Upstart to pay off credit cards, student loans, fund a wedding, or make a large purchase. Maybe you want a new TV or something, I don't know. So, hurry! Pfft. I'm more of a 5 TV guy.


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[Assistant] So hurry to upstart.com slash dude to find out how low your upstart rate is. Checking your rate only takes two minutes and won't affect your credit. That's upstart.com slash dude. Thank you for sponsoring this podcast. Since we were just talking about


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[Assistant] We had shit that we think about regularly, uh, in relation to masturbation. One thing that I always think about is how many men would it take to make


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[Assistant] You've also got an issue of like, dicks being slightly higher than butts.


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[Assistant] Speaking of good programming, I wanted to talk about the Oscars. Nominations came out.


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[Assistant] Oh. How many stars? I mean I played through it a lot, so.


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[Assistant] It's a good question. It does some interesting shit. I haven't seen it yet. Bird Box is good.


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[Assistant] There is a highlight reel of me just screaming at objects moving. See, that's a thing that won't exist on the internet at some point. I need to download that.


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[Assistant] I understand the issues with it. I enjoyed watching it as the thing.


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[Assistant] Best pictures, Black Panther, Black Klansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favorite, Green Book, Roma, A Star is Born, and Vice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Rome is an interesting one because I'm pretty sure that's not in English, is fully black and white and doesn't have any like big name actors?


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[Assistant] It just seems like a hard thing to get in there, but I think Black Panther getting in there is crazy.


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[Assistant] Once again. The favorite will probably win. Old Bohemian Rhapsody. Maybe A Star is Born. Those are valid points.


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[Assistant] I will say for best picture, I would have put Paddington 2.


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[Assistant] It's really, really good. Just unironically excellent.


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[Assistant] I didn't see it because I thought it would make me sad. No, it's really good. It didn't- It's not sad?


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[Assistant] I'm distracted by you saying something. I wanted to leave you guys with this really cool science thing that I found. I thought that I would just talk about cool science shit.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, alright. Okay, so this is an explanation of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. That I just think is really fucking cool. Metal. So, ahem, uh, uh, I need to make sure I have this in order.


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[Assistant] So the meteorite itself was so massive that it didn't notice any atmosphere whatsoever. It was traveling 20 to 40 kilometers per second, 10 kilometers, probably 14 kilometers wide, pushing the atmosphere and building in such incredible pressure that the ocean in front of it just went away.


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[Assistant] These numbers are precise without usually conveying the scale of the calamity. What they mean is that a rock larger than Mount Everest hit planet Earth traveling 20 times faster than a bullet. This is so fast that it would have traversed the distance from the cruising altitude of 747 to the ground in 0.3 seconds.


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[Assistant] The asteroid itself was so large that even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered more than a mile above the cruising altitude of the 747.


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[Assistant] Then when it touched ground zero, it was totally intact. It was so massive that the atmosphere didn't even make a scratch on it. So unlike, and this is the coolest part to me, unlike the typical Hollywood CGI depictions of asteroid impacts where an extraterrestrial charcoal brigette


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[Assistant] And then as the asteroid collided with the earth in the sky above it where it should have been air, the rocket punched a hole in the outer space vacuum in the atmosphere. So as the heavens rushed in to close the hole, enormous volumes of earth were expelled into orbit and beyond all within a second or two of impact. So there's probably little bits of dinosaur up on the moon.


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[Assistant] Oh no, they know where it is, it's a place called, uh, it's, I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's Yucatan?


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[Assistant] I mean, I sort of have one of those with the company that I worked at before IGN was, I was on a TV show and I guess the guy who ran it sort of had a gambling problem and it was, I technically worked for Star.


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[Assistant] It's like not even close. And this one is everyone knows.


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[Assistant] You did all the Valkyries? Yeah. That last one's tough, man. And especially because she's unpredictable.


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[Assistant] Delicious. And that is it for episode 210.


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[Assistant] You leap up out of your sleep in the middle of the night when the lights come on?


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[Assistant] Instead of just following a map to a point, a mini map, you actually have to figure out what's going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's exactly, exactly. Uhm, so it wouldn't be, I don't think anything they would necessarily do with this switch that would make me buy one. It's just that I would be buying my switch when this is out. I see. That would make me get it. There's no game, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, Zelda was it. That was the reason for me to do it. I honestly, I need to take like two weeks off of work so I can...