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[Assistant] I mean, Breath of Wild launched with the Switch, and so we're gonna get this sequel probably in a year? You think we're gonna get it in a year? Okay. I think they wouldn't show it now.


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[Assistant] I, I think it will either be out, uh, within a year or you'll get an announce, uh, you'll get a release date in a year. Okay. Something like that. I think they're, they're at least teasing it because we were talking about on Inside Gaming, uh, daily about


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[Assistant] The shareholders thing, I think they put that out there to like get people excited about Nintendo and be like, look, we're still doing stuff and Zelda was their highest selling.


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[Assistant] It's cool because they look like the ghosts from the Casper movies or 1996 or whatever.


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[Assistant] Will a dead parent continue talking to me after they pass, like, through the game? Like that one sad video?


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[Assistant] I don't know. I'm hopeful. Because I know people are still playing witchers. People are still playing Skyrim. I haven't found it. I think Matt Peake is still playing Skyrim. Probably. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There you go. Yeah, see, there you go. Yeah, there's something for everyone. Bunch of garbage.


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[Assistant] I like it. I wanted this thing right here where you could, uhm, adjust the thumbsticks. The tightness of it. I'm actually, I'm into that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I do like, I've always liked the customizable, customizable thumbsticks that you make a, you use the longer one, which I, we always joke about with the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, it's also, it looks like it's type C now, which I love. I love when, I've been pushing ever since, what, the Nexus 5? I'm like, everything be type C for the love of God. I think Apple's, the next iPhone is going to be type C.


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[Assistant] So good on them, but holy crap, it's, it's an expensive, it is a, yeah, it's a luxury item to a tee, but


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was no one else. Did anyone else go back and watch that trailer? It's powerful. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] He's not like the guy who made, uh, like Inside or anything, right?


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[Assistant] This was, we were loud and drunk and yelling at this when it happened and we saw it live. Uhm, but I went back and watched all the trailers. This one's really cool. Cause she's like, oh, here's a present. And he's like, I know what you're going to say. I know it's in the box. And she's like, what was going on? He's like, there's a guy coming in the room. He's going to be here any minute.


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[Assistant] We got two loop games, uh, at E3, cause we got this, and then we got Deathloop, I think was the other one, from, uh, Bethesda, the, uhm, arcane.


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[Assistant] They're doing a game like, there's these two characters that keep killing each other and then waking up in the same loop. That's not the one.


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[Assistant] Well, they're also doing, they have to do it in many languages, like, are they doing Japanese? They're like...


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[Assistant] He sounds like a Norwegian dude. I've only seen him in documentaries and stuff where he talks, but it's like, you're not gonna care.


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[Assistant] You don't care what he looks like, he just looks like white dude. But yea, he's nothing. He's a great, great director. He makes weird shit.


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[Assistant] I just sent Omar a couple clips. I don't know if you're able to check your email, Omar, but I got some footage of, uhm, we were using xCloud yesterday at the Xbox presser, uhm, or where they had that press event.


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[Assistant] They were, I think Engadget has a, they did it exactly where we're standing, but they were streaming it from the Bay Area, we're in LA. Uhm, so there's a...


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[Assistant] I've heard Stadia isn't so hot, but I was like, I was like, holy crap, like if you can do this, like low latency thing, that's, I'm, color me impressed.


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[Assistant] I, I just, maybe if you're traveling or something like that and you need to like, uh, we've talked about it before, like, you want to log in to Destiny or whatever and like, I need to get an item or whatever and like, you can just get on your phone real quick with like, without a controller or whatever and like, that's kinda cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, granted too, they had this dongle on the side, you can see right there. And that, uh, had a white, it had a ethernet plug going through a USB-C connection. So the phone wasn't, uh, it wasn't over the air. Yeah, yeah, it was a direct line. So that's a little telling, but.


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[Assistant] It was like, I mean, Bruce tried it too. It was one to one. No, there was no lag.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I was, like I said, it was impressive tech. Uh, whether it actually works the way they were saying and the fact that like, your console becomes part of the cloud or whatever, like that's...


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[Assistant] And now it's shoving in your face. And I just want to say like, I'm eating my own hat here because yea, we used it yesterday and I liked it. It was cool. I was like, if it works half this good, uhm.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm sorry. If it works this good, I'll be, uh, I'll be happy with it. Um, and Bruce, you were noticing too, there's like, there's a little bit of stuttering here and there, like drop frames, but like,


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[Assistant] Uh, Microsoft had a bunch of stuff that we get to, like, just play like little bits here and there. Uhm, Borderlands 3 is actually shaping out to be a lot of fun. It was fun. You played it right? Yea.


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[Assistant] But I'm just saying like it, it looks like an evolution of it. Just, just seeing the animation on characters and stuff, it's, it's almost, it's sort of uncanny valley a little bit, like how realistic these cartoons are moving.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh, like, surprisingly good games. I came out a weird time on like, I think X.


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[Assistant] I think it's a perfect switch game. Like play with your friends and stuff. I'm like, cool, awesome. I'm super down for this game. And you can be Electra. Finally! They got my email.


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[Assistant] The character you play as is basically DedSec. And DedSec is made up of all these different people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like are they going to just keep adding new characters and like without telling you like, oh, there's going to be like perpetual updates of like a couple gigs here and there where they're just adding more mocap and more voice acting and stuff like that for these new characters. I don't know. I don't think so.


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[Assistant] It looked good though. Like it, all the animation stuff, it was all very Splinter Cell Blacklist, which all looks like very like, uh, John Wick, like style executions and stuff where they're like, they're like getting into like a cool CQC fight and they like kick the guy's arm up and like shoot him like three times along the side. It's like, this is rad. Yeah, it's good stuff. And like as a grandma, it's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] That was great. Such a damn good, especially with a robot companion, you know, they did a good job, so. And the variant entry is low on Titanfall games. Yeah. Game comes out like three months, or four months, six months, a few months.


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[Assistant] I really, I thought, I mean, I am gonna go see Cyberpunk on Thursday. We're gonna go see the behind closed doors thing, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm so sold on that game now. It's so weird and this is coming from someone who's not a big Witcher fan. Uhm, I like the idea of what they've done with the Witcher games and having played them where it's just this like rabbit hole within a rabbit hole and it just keeps going.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm so much more into a first person RPG, uh, game like this. I don't know. I'm so insanely excited for this. Like it, it, it checks off all those boxes for me.


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[Assistant] Well, I would have got it whether Canaries is in it or not, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was just like, everything from the aesthetic to the music. There was a CGI trailer they put out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but just like, I went back and watched the gameplay demo they did last year and I was like, it still holds up. It looks so good and just the sheer amount of.


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[Assistant] You can go down this entirely different path. That's what they're promising. And if it delivers truly on like x cloud delivers on half of what they're trying to do, I'm like, this is going to be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think this is, that was, once again, that's, this is my problem. I could never really get into the Witcher combat. It's, it was just not my type of game. So it just felt a little stiff. It didn't really feel very, a lot of people were like, no man, keep trying, keep doing it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe I'll play it again on Switch. I don't know. Like maybe, maybe it was too deep for me, but I don't know.


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[Assistant] There's nothing actually really desirable about the cyberpunk, uh, world that they've created. It is, it is a dystopia and it is, uh, crime infested and, uh, corporate owned and all that stuff. But that to me is so much more fascinating, uh, to get lost in and sort of the crowd mechanics and,


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[Assistant] It just, it looks like such more of a, such a, such a grey game. You don't necessarily, doesn't look like you're playing as a good guy. You're not a bad guy, but you're just someone who's trying to survive in this world. And like, okay, I'm totally down. I like that. I like what you're doing. I also like the, the arm claws. They look pretty rad. So, uh, good on, good on, uh, these guys for making a, looks like a comparable first person shooter. I know that.


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[Assistant] Amazing. Their, their cutscene team is killing it. At least what about you?


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[Assistant] That's going to get its own press conference. Right now they're pushing Xcloud and Game Pass and they're acquiring Double Fine. Like, that's a big deal.


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[Assistant] No, it looks gorgeous. I downloaded the first, I've never beat the first Ori. I downloaded it last night, uhm, cause it's in the Xbox Game Pass thing. And I was like, oh cool, okay, I'll finally play it. Uhm, game looks, the new one looks, holy crap, I was, it's really going away. But yeah, overall it was, it wasn't a great conference, but it is like,


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[Assistant] It was weird, it's almost like, you have to do this out of sort of, uh, like, sort of like, due diligence or duty, where you're like, D3, we have to show something, and for kind of seeing the scraps of what's left, it wasn't bad.


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[Assistant] And it excites me more than anything for next year, uh, if there is a next year, uh, who knows? I think we've been saying this for years, that E3 is like...


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[Assistant] Their, uh, Christmas or whatever or their Disneyland or it's like, here's your Mecca of like.


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[Assistant] All the games, let's get crazy about it, but the reasoning for E3 doesn't make any sense anymore when you have PAX and all the, and Gamescom and all these other shows, they have to spread it out through the year. It's an antiquated show and it.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Unless it's a money making thing maybe, but... I don't know. Do game publishers and developers like?


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[Assistant] Killing themselves to get a vertical slice out there to show something that's gonna be coming out in a few months or a year? I dunno.


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[Assistant] Okay, what would be like a clean alternative to, you know, hamburgers or cheeseburgers or whatever?


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[Assistant] I think there'll be one more, it'll be the kid with the broom. Oh, well. At the end. No thanks.


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[Assistant] That it's superior technology, and the reason people would pick a PC gaming system over a console is because consoles are limited in their ability to do more, but once the playing field is even, people will go back to consoles.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, but it feels naive as to what a PC gaming consumer is. I think we're talking about outliers, people that only go after these specs. I think most people are PC gamers because it is already a machine that is already going to be in their home that they're already going to use on a daily basis. So why not play football manager?


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[Assistant] You know, like, which doesn't need ray tracing or any of that shit. Why not play Train Simulator, or the games that are probably the most popular games across all PC, across the world. The free games you can get on PC. And the free stuff, like, it just...


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[Assistant] It's like, it's, I feel like it's always gonna lean more towards the convenience side of it, cause I feel like this, we kind of cross this path or something similar to it.


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[Assistant] When you used to have to go to the arcade to play the actual version of Mortal Kombat 2 knowing that the one you were playing at home was a port.


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[Assistant] And a, like, less good version of it. But then once it got to the points where you didn't have to go to the arcade anymore...


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[Assistant] To play the exact same game, like arcades died basically immediately. I think that was a convenience issue less than it was a finally fidelity. Like it was, you know, I just feel like at a certain point, maybe PC gaming will just become the standard.


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[Assistant] of gaming as opposed to the one that's always the graphical one, like that people are so tired of it.


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[Assistant] I think more than that, when was the last time the most popular games were the ones that looked the best?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I feel like most developers know that doesn't matter. I think there's like a couple hardcore developers, just like there's a couple hardcore consumers that re- that matters a lot too, but the rest of them are trying to figure out


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[Assistant] Speaking of Adam, I saw this like really late one night and I was gonna send it to you, but then I was like, eh, it's too late. I'll remember to send it to him later. I saw like top 10 best.


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[Assistant] Uh, Marvel mods for Street Fighter V. Oh. It's incredible. Let's do it. It's incredible. We can, we can do our own, we can do like, our own Marvel tournament. Absurd what they've done with these characters. Give me an example. Hulkbuster. Using Zangief?


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[Assistant] No, using Abigail, who is the character that fills the whole screen already. Okay. It's insane. It's absurd.


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[Assistant] The thing is, ultimately this discussion should be had not just with a technologist, but also an economist.


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[Assistant] And someone who studies consumer pattern, like- Or like a games publisher. Anything, like there's a lot of- it would be a discussion amongst at least-


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[Assistant] Never spinning top. Fucking boutique top. Elise and I were driving, uh, to Austin.


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[Assistant] And we stopped in El Paso and ended up at a library using the restroom. When I- there was a computer lab or whatever, like basically a line of people to use computers for free. Like what kind of person uses a computer for free? Are you trying to access or whatever? Motherfucker was watching SmackDown. Like, nice, nice bro. I almost sat down with him.


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[Assistant] And there's another guy just- No, I'm saying that guy though was like, I'm gonna put hardcore porn on and be like, hmm, I'm thinking about this iMac so that way I can get a good look. It's probably, I bet he was UCB. Tell you that much.


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[Assistant] It's strapped to a giant box, so. Whatever, the Oculus S? The Quest? Is that what it is? The one that doesn't require a computer? Right, yea. I saw a bunch of influencers influencing about it today. Cool. How did they influence you?


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[Assistant] Sonic is number one. That's a success story if I've ever seen it.


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[Assistant] Well yea, like, there's more official Sonic games that look way worse than this trailer that people have tolerated, I guess.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, yea. If we have the trailer for Monster Trucks, put it up next to this trailer, it looks like it was made by the same people. Did they do the same thing? No, I don't think so. I don't know what studio released Monster Trucks, but it just feels like this is what happens when


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[Assistant] IP is all that matters. Cause it doesn't feel like anyone wanted to make a sonic movie. No one felt compelled to make a sonic movie. He's been around for 45 fucking years, and they're just getting around to it now.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, to be fair. That is a good question. What was it for?


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[Assistant] Is the best Transformers movie, and I would say a genuinely good movie. Like, I enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing though, you have to remember that the people that do know Sonic have kids.


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[Assistant] I think it will. I think it's gonna grab- I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. I think Lawrence is right. I think Elise is right. Uhm, but I know what Adam's saying. The problem is there's a disconnect in that kids aren't the one who are deciding what they consume and watch and see.


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[Assistant] That's what Monster Trucks was. Monster Trucks was pitched by the son of the studio executive at Paramount or whatever and he was like ooooh and then they made the movie and it flopped.


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[Assistant] Kids, for the most part, other than monster trucks, aren't the ones who are greenlighting movies. So the people that are greenlighting movies are adults who have to pick things that are known because that's the only way you can convince a stupid person that anything has worth is to show them that it has made money before in the past and has some sort of awareness or a Twitter account or whatever.


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[Assistant] So, that disconnect creates this movie, which is a known IP for a completely different demographic.


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[Assistant] That is going to be made for that other demographic because that's the only way it makes any business sense to do it. Kind of? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no I get it. So like, there is a leap there. There are no winners.


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[Assistant] That's so weird because Ted looks like a teddy bear.


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[Assistant] You wanna hear the real boom here? I got it on good authority.


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[Assistant] Let me finish. So, Sonic comes through into our world, which is why the military's like, what's this big, this boom, the Sonic boom that happened? And then it's because Robotnik let him through, which is why Robotnik feels compelled to get his experiment back, a la Lilo and Stitch.


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[Assistant] They'll go back to Sonic's realm, because if you notice Sonic has magic powers, he can throw rings with which open portals. Just like in the game.


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[Assistant] What? Don't tell movie details that. Uhm, there we go. So, by the end of it,


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[Assistant] Jim Carrey is gonna get caught in probably the machine that goes though, Whirtle or whatever, and that's why he's gonna end up looking like Robotnik at the end, and there's probably gonna be a Tails post-credit scene. Yeah, absolutely.


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on. Ninja Turtles 2. Yeah. But I'm just saying- Ninja Turtles 1 is garbage, Ninja Turtles 2 out of the shadows was fun.


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[Assistant] Well just remember, actors have no idea what movie they are making every time. So if a movie turns out great,


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[Assistant] Don't thank the actor because they had no idea. The odds of it being trash and fantastic were the same.


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[Assistant] So, so Ben Schwartz recording his VO, doing probably an amazing job. Jim Carrey coming in on set for however many days of shooting he was on there.


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[Assistant] He may have, there may have been some points where he was like, seems like a lot of human beings around this set and we've only been shooting in the middle of roads.


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[Assistant] But I still think maybe there's a chance that I'm still gonna give it all 110% as I sit in a green booth.


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[Assistant] Well, they didn't change inherently any of the designs of the Pokemon.


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[Assistant] Because they didn't make a movie until they figured out a premise that made sense for them to make a movie. Yes. They're like, oh, here's an interesting take on Pokemon as Booster is making Pokemon the movie.


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[Assistant] I wish they would, some of these people would ask a single animator, just ask any animator a question when they're making these characters. Cause they're like, well we should make them realistic and an animator will go, well, realism and


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[Assistant] I don't know, it has come back around though. But that was every single band that was popular in the 90s.


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[Assistant] I think, I think the late nineties with like any, if you were popular.


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[Assistant] It didn't matter if you were a genuine musician or not. You still got put into this label because they think that was during the same phase of hyper commercialization. It was coming off of grunge and it was like during this phase of hyper commercialization where we were going like,


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[Assistant] Oh, that embryo will be a great pop star in five years, and then you just like, breed them into it, like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] Even if you were Blink 182, a band naturally formed, naturally learning to play music, playing their own music, but then being successful, you ultimately get grouped into this whole late 90s, early 2000s thing of...


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[Assistant] I just always thought it was funny, the thing that even as like a kid, I listen to Blake Wady too, I go, why are these 30 year old men thinking about my freshman year of high school? Because that's what I was going through.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't see, you wouldn't see a Blink-182 screen printed shirt next to a Mudvane screen printed shirt, but you might see an Alkaline Trio. Maybe. It might be. Or at least there'd be fewer degrees. It'd maybe go Alkaline Trio, then like Perfect Circle,


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[Assistant] What? He, he, he showed us something on this bit of song. Oh I missed it, I dunno.


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[Assistant] Well it's impossible because every single band has one extra guy who dances. I know you're trying to segue into an ad read.


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[Assistant] And I had my arms crossed, I said, that's not my Gamora. Yeah. It literally isn't. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's gotta be almost exactly, yea. Maybe, maybe a couple minutes to spare. But I feel like we walked in at 9 and we got out at 12.


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[Assistant] Like, I got teary-eyed, like, I don't know exactly how many times, but Chris Evans said he did, I think, six. During shooting? No, while they were watching it. Oh shit. Yeah, it's super emotional.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it has this, this one flaw in it that I keep being like, how did you guys screw that up? It's just this one thing that I'm stuck on that's just, it ignores its own logic to do this one thing.


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[Assistant] What? I'm sorry. That's all good, that's all good. I just got very startled. Uhm, is it better or worse? I really don't know, but I'm very satisfied.


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[Assistant] It's for sure the saddest of all of them, but like not to even imply they're at death. It's not because of stuff like that, it's just the way that


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[Assistant] Like a lot of it's shot is in a way that's like trying to make you feel sad. Like it's well, I mean, you have to think that the way that it takes place is after all of these people have vanished. So a lot of the opening of the film is just like dealing with.


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[Assistant] And because a lot happens, uh, it's a mix of everything, right? So parts of it are really sad, parts of it are really high action. They still have like, good jokes. It's like, one of my favorite jokes in the movie is about a sandwich and it's really dumb, but it's just like, stupid stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a, it's a mix. I feel like they actually paced it very, very well and then it didn't feel like three hours, didn't feel like it dragged and it was all of the things that all the movies before have had all spaced apart for this one complete package.


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[Assistant] They're not, they're not trying to bring people in. I wonder how much sense it would make to you. No, I think that, I think it still would make sense. There are relationships that don't though.


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[Assistant] There are things that, that are open or have been opened or whatever to like allude to what further films might be.


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[Assistant] Your question was, uh, if, if, if it left me wanting more from Marvel.


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[Assistant] It felt more like an ending than any other Marvel movie I had ever seen.


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[Assistant] Done. Than I expected. Okay. But it for sure leaves stuff open. That said, it feeling so done made me like, I'm good. Like maybe I won't watch the next few.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in a way that, because I've been trying to kind of jump off for a little bit because I feel like I got a little bit fatigued by the amount of them. Like I didn't see, um, Ant-Man and the Wasp. And I didn't, I wasn't excited about Captain Marvel very much, uh, so I might like maybe just pick and choose them going forward, but it really is a like,


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[Assistant] That's, that's it. Okay. We did the thing, done. But yea, there are still holes left open for sure.


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[Assistant] I'm very excited for everyone to see it. I think there's lots of stuff that I didn't expect in it.


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[Assistant] Most people aren't gonna buy monthly merchandise. That's why they keep changing their outfits, right? Just so like, they'll buy like, oh, the new Captain America figure based on this movie rather than this movie. If there are too many Captain America movies, people are gonna be like, there's too many, I'm not gonna buy them all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which is in theory because they aren't updating enough.


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[Assistant] I think that's the idea, is they're constantly updating to drip feed people this information that they feel like if they take two weeks off then they can't play the game anymore because they won't understand what they've missed.


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[Assistant] It's only one game mode, right? For both of these games. No, no, no, actually Fortnite has more. But if it's, if they're running on Battle Royale, it is just one thing. And if you don't update it, you can only do that one thing so many times. So I fully get that you need to make some changes to keep people feeling like they're not doing the same thing over and over and over again.


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[Assistant] But I've played a ton of Apex. I'm slowly playing less and less.


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[Assistant] I think it was reports from inside the company, like, people spoke to journalists that basically, I could pull it up real quick.


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[Assistant] I think Xbox is just gonna have, like, they'll probably show Jedi fall and all. They'll just have tons.


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[Assistant] No, because funnily enough, they're also not in the hall. The hall is mixer. Xbox isn't, they're in the Microsoft building thing outside. No, no, they're, they're, they're, they're in LA live down the street. Yea, they're in LA live.


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[Assistant] Well, especially right now they probably can, because I think consoles are going to be a lot more iterative. We'll get them every four years.


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[Assistant] So the article I'm reading right now is on Gamasutra, but it seems like Polygon's the original source. The headline is, constant development means a perpetual push to crunch at epic.


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[Assistant] The biggest problem is that we're patching all the time. The executives are focused on keeping Fortnite popular for as long as possible, especially with all the new competition that's coming in. It's basically about developers from Epic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the developers even in QA just constantly have to work because there's so many patches rolling out, uh, so they're just basically constantly in crunch. It would be like a company constantly feeling how we have felt during Arizona Circle. Right. Which is intense. Right.


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[Assistant] These companies know that people are expendable because I think it's like there are say for every 300 jobs there are in game development every year.


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[Assistant] There are 13,000 people leaving university looking for game development jobs. So if you're trying to get into QA, which is most starting positions as QA, you don't care. So they're just going to lay off anyone who gets burnt out, hire the next student from a pool of a thousand unemployed students who've studied game development.


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[Assistant] I also don't want that game to be updated as much as Fortnite. I would like some more updates but I don't want it that much.


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[Assistant] Yeah, basically it's like, uh, you finish a chapter and then there's like a half hour TV segment based on what you did.


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[Assistant] And it is in the game, and it is really cool. There's another game that did that, it's a, it's a, it's a online game.


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[Assistant] A lot of people really didn't like it. I actually enjoyed it because it felt to me like I was playing a chapter a night that I would sit there, I would play it and then I would watch it and then go to bed and it was just defiance. That's it.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of zombies falling through the sky in that game actually.


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[Assistant] I have a friend whose credit card debt is so high that he just can't do anything.


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[Assistant] I'm very curious to see, uh, review scores will be up Thursday.


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[Assistant] Right now I am guessing. This is not my opinion. I'm not the one saying it, just a guess. It'll get sixes and sevens.


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[Assistant] I think it's, 10 is masterpiece, there's no perfect. 9 is great. 8 is good. 7 is, maybe even 7 is good. It's like, 7's like, okay.


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[Assistant] They're generally not reviewed because a lot of bad games come out and people don't play all of them. So like people are less likely to play the games that aren't going to be good anyway. But yeah, I'm not expecting days gone to be received terribly well by critics, but we'll see. There's definitely stuff that I'm enjoying about it.


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[Assistant] I would guess like 6 or 7 hours. Oh, perfect. Yea, I don't think it's super long either, so. Yea, I like those.


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[Assistant] Well, I wasn't excited about it before it came out, so like...


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[Assistant] This is not out, but even at E3 Lost, I would have guessed 6 or 7. Uhm, for most outlets. What other books have you judged by their covers? Sometimes I'm very good at it with video games. Okay. Like I guess I've been in the industry for long enough that like, Mass Effect Andromeda, I was like, game's gonna be bad, everyone was like, BULLSHIT! And I was like, it's not gonna be good.


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[Assistant] It was an interesting cycle because the bad press, I think that...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but nobody reads the articles where you issue the update. And I'm like, well EA actually took them all out. People just read the angry ones. So.


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[Assistant] EA's always published their games. No. Titanfall was always published by EA.


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[Assistant] Royalties and video games are really bad, FYI. Yes. Like...


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[Assistant] In theory, you shouldn't have a lightsaber for too much of that game, because it's supposed to be the character hiding that they're a Jedi.


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[Assistant] So, I would guess they get it towards the end when they're fighting like a big bad guy, but for the most part I think you would not have one.


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[Assistant] My favorite quote from a review of that was Casey Neistat, and he was like, So when you have it folded out, it's about the thickness of one phone, but when you fold it together, it's more like the thickness of two phones. And they're like, is it Casey? Astute.


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[Assistant] Okay, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to like it because James kept making fun of it. I was like, okay, but I like this film. Am I wrong?


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[Assistant] Bruce made the point that the two main characters, I don't remember either of their names,


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[Assistant] But he's tortured for 36 years because he didn't save people.


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[Assistant] In theory, self-driving cars will reduce traffic by quite a bit, right? Because the biggest problem with traffic is merging, at least in LA.


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[Assistant] The thing that gets me about self-driving cars that I've always wanted to talk to someone about, I've emailed multiple websites about it and tried to get someone to reply to me.


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[Assistant] We have two self-driving cars, something happens, a collision is unavoidable, but they have the ability to detect how to minimize the, uh, danger. How do they do that?


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[Assistant] I started DJing every week, just recently, and that seems like a thing where I could end up at Taco Bell one night.


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[Assistant] I hit the microphone. Wait, wait, like, actually high-fiving? Oh yeah! It's a demolition man, I've seen that film.


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[Assistant] Despite all the rumors, YouTube has a dark side and they're making our kids racist? Also, we're gonna talk about San Diego Comic Con on this week's episode of Dude Soup.


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[Assistant] Can't do that, they're driving. Don't look at your phone. Hey, I'm your host Adam Kovac this week talking about dude soup. I'm joined by Alana Pierce on my left, James Williams also to my left, and Lee somewhere in my middle. Co-host.


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[Assistant] Yeah, imagine the vampire trying to get him while he can't jack off. How are you, Adam? I'm doing great. Uhm, little, little under the weather, but I'm doing okay. With what? You should have checked the weather this morning. Sleep deprivation. Oh. I don't know. Yeah, I know. Actually, I do the thing. You know this. We should talk. This is a whole other podcast, but. Great.


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[Assistant] Turns out, uhm, I've been doing a lot of like sleep studies trying to figure out how to sleep better. Turns out there's this thing in the front of your head called like a frontal lobe. It's part of this brain thing. It only goes, it only rests when you rest. So like even if you're


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[Assistant] Other parts of your brain can kind of shut down or whatever, but this part will only rest when you rest, and so if you run that too hard, you can kill yourself.


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[Assistant] Well today, today in particular, I, I feel I was trying to get this, this podcast pushed today just cause this week has been insane. We literally were in a meeting.


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[Assistant] That's my question. We have a story about racist cartoons, but more importantly, how did the cavemen do it?


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[Assistant] How did they go? I'm being hunted by saber-toothed tigers all the time. Well they didn't sleep here.


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[Assistant] I want to go, I want to take James' suggestion of doing shifts. I need to find a good, like yeaah.


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[Assistant] They're watching this podcast right now. There was something though that I did. I watched a video, it was a PBS video, but they were talking about how, about circadian rhythm, exactly what you were talking about, the whole sleep cycle, all that stuff. Because of artificial light and stimulants, we have like fucked our evolution in a weird way.


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[Assistant] Where our, we're sort of like, our brains are ruined now, because...


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[Assistant] We have messed up the circadian rhythm, is that what it's called? Yeah, where it's just like, our brains are like, time to stay awake all the time, and you're not supposed to be doing that.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, we aren't. We, for years, we thought we were born racist, but we found out, it's the YouTube channel MyPinguTV. That's doing it, yea.


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[Assistant] Uh, this popped up just this morning. I had originally had a whole idea about just talking about Comic Con and the future of like...


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[Assistant] What's gonna happen with conventions? Boring. But then a racist cartoon popped up this morning and it made things so much better. Brilliant. Thank God. Uh, so this comes from the episode of, uh, I don't know if you wanna put it up Omar. Yeah, shout it out. Yeah. Hey, shout out to, uh, MyPinguTV for being just the worst.


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[Assistant] Which also, it did, I guess it, one of those things where they screen capped it, but they also screen capped it in, um, portrait instead of landscape, which is, I think it's the, when the, a feature length film will come out in portrait one day. It's not a, it's not like it's a good looking cartoon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's around the, uhm, 1130 minute mark, 1130 seconds. Uhm, there's a part where the character, Dyna, Dyna, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's, uhm, so a lot of people, rightly so, are calling this, uh, racist. I read some of the, uhm, Facebook comments on this channel's TV. It's actually called, uh, Wings Animation. They're from, uh, they're in Mumbai, India. Their whole YouTube page is sort of a mystery because


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[Assistant] It says it's made, it's a different company, but then it's saying like for business inquiries. Their address is in the UAE. Yeah, so it's the United Emirates, Arab Emirates, I butcher that.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, so, that's a little, I was trying to get some info on their social blade, but it's all over the place. But the animation studio isn't moving by, but yeaah, some of their uhm,


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[Assistant] As far as I could tell, I went back and looked on this channel.


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[Assistant] The only thing I can find offensive other than them ripping off characters from Tangled?


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[Assistant] Uhm, like the animation, it reminds me of like Olafvids. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is this like sort of, uh,


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[Assistant] A, as far as I can tell, a non-American animation studio from somewhere else trying to get in on possibly an American audience, young kids. Or it's one of these channels where it's like, just put it on for your kids and you watch it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then somehow this insanely racist scene just sort of made its way in there and I wonder if that comes from ignorance or that comes from, like, where they actually-


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[Assistant] As of right now, the video has 3.4 thousand up votes, thumbs up, and then 11 thousand thumbs down. So it's making its way around. I'm just curious what...


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[Assistant] The YouTube channel, MyPinguTV is gonna do, and they go, what's going on? What happened?


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[Assistant] He's a swish British thought motion animated children's comedy TV series. Okay. It went from 1990 to 2000. Uh, I did not ever watch this.


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[Assistant] Really? Teaching kids what races are like based on saying having dark skin is bad?


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[Assistant] Uh, not exactly where obviously it was going to go this way regardless. Uhm, I'm just sort of curious what you guys think is going to happen.


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[Assistant] Was it early? Oh yea, it was, yea. It was just funny too because it is one of those things you wear.


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[Assistant] Families would do this apparently. They'd do this at all sorts of conventions. They'd just leave their kids. They'd just drop them off and go, good luck. I was talking to Gus and Jeff about this. That when they would have a booth, they would just leave a kid there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I would see this similar at Comic-Con where I went to the Happy Tree Friends booth, and for those who don't know, is it Mondo? I think it was the name of the company, but for those who don't know, Happy Tree Friends, it is a very kid-friendly looking cartoon, but


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[Assistant] That they were watching hyper violent stuff and they were just kinda like, oh it's cute how he got his throat slashed and he tried to turn on the windshield wipers and it didn't work.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, but I mean, this is also the sort of content that is, it's meant to be put on for your kids just to binge.


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[Assistant] They were just like, yeah, whatever. But it's like, they're going to get a $200 bill or something and just be like,


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[Assistant] What did you do in there? Because all the kids that talked about was what skins they needed. They weren't good at the game. They sucked. They're also like seven.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, what could have saved you a lot of time is taking care of your teeth. Hey, good point.


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[Assistant] Love that you sponsor this podcast. I use it every day. Yea, me too.


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[Assistant] I got mine too. It's coming from me. I like that. Actually, so, we don't need to talk about stuff. I like when you can, in general, when you can buy things. This goes back to when Bruce gave me his Roomba. He was like, it's broken or something, who cares? You can have it.


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[Assistant] What's wrong with these? Like, battery always dies. I go, oh, okay, so I just need to replace the battery. Totally fine. Some things that you buy, you can't replace the battery. They make it impossible. I have an Nvidia Shield


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[Assistant] It seems to be changing, thankfully, like with Apple's whole new system of like, hey maybe hold on to it longer, uh, we'll have a repair program where you just take it into our store and we'll fix it for you, but it's also people are figuring out that their phones aren't truly waterproof, which I think is great. They're water resistant, like once.


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[Assistant] So like, I think most electronics will actually survive when you throw them in water these days, the resistance to a level, but like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Countless is the answer. Thank you. Speaking of countless, let me tell you, counting the ways in which I love you, Kat's trailer, uh,


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[Assistant] Different panels. Very different panel. Uh, I went to the Rooster Teeth panel. We talked about, uh, a little show we're working on called Ruby.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, there were many shows we talked about, uhm, most importantly, one got a release date, Genlock coming to Adult Swim.


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[Assistant] There was a- plenty of things. Vicious Circle was one of them. That was another thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that one's just gonna roll. Did you ever get that one, Omar? He did. Excellent. Good to know. Uhm, but, uh, Arizona Circle got a release date. Yeah. A lease. October 23rd. Why'd you pick that day?


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[Assistant] Partly yea. Was it? I, I, I did a, as I do with most things, I go, I'm gonna look up, I'm gonna curate the, the, the list of the best


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[Assistant] Uhm, I can only say that it is an adaptation of a book by T.S. Eliot, which is a series of short stories about like the lives of cats and he would do a little bit about these cats. Andrew Lloyd Webber,


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[Assistant] Insane person. The. The Andrew Lloyd Webber. Uh, who made. Thank you.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it, people in the, uh, theater, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. Oh, that's, I, actually that's the first time I ever saw a play. It was as a kid in London. I know. I, and I, I whined the whole time.


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[Assistant] So this trailer came out for cats, uhm, bridging...


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[Assistant] The Uncanny Valley, into what I can only describe as if Avatar fucked a furry. I guess if a furry fucked a furry, yea, cause Avatar is sort of a furry.


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[Assistant] Chrome was doing a funny thing where it's like, no, no, no, no. And I was like, cause it kept sending it to the wrong account. I was like, send it to my work account. I was like, no, other one. It's like, I guess Gmail. Rum Tum Tugger loves to be the center of it.


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[Assistant] Uh, what is it? Eternals. We all, we all care about Eternals. Uh, next up they had the Witcher trailer come out. Uh, I don't know if you guys had a chance to watch this one. I did, yea. What'd you think?


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[Assistant] Okay, I think you go with low expectations, so when the best show ever made is released on Netflix, you don't act surprised.


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[Assistant] So I'm with Elise. I think The Witcher is terrible. I think it's one of the worst things ever made. And I think this show actually looks different enough from everything else that I might enjoy it.


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[Assistant] I like Henry Cavill usually in roles where he's not Superman.


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[Assistant] Man, how dare you. His wingspan alone!


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[Assistant] I don't have many, uh, opinions on the immortals, but it's there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, ripped though. Shredded, sorry. Yeah, if you ever want to see porn for men, I guess gay porn, watch The Immortals. It's a great film starring Tarzam.


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[Assistant] Alright. I like directors with one name. Tarzan- no, it's Tarzan Singh. He has two names. That's one name.


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[Assistant] Uh, he likes horses being killed. That's something. That is true. Uh, next up we got the Watchmen trailer. Uh, something else.


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[Assistant] It is, uh, this is the, uh, Damon, was it Lindelof? Yeah. He's doing this series. Uh, it looks like it takes place after the movie or the comics.


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[Assistant] Have you ever read or seen Watchmen? Okay, I was curious. I didn't know if...


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[Assistant] You know who didn't like it? Alan Moore! No, he did not. What? Oh.


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[Assistant] He takes his name off of it and then he has opinions about it and then Zack Snyder cries and goes on his Vero account and goes...


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[Assistant] It's good to have in a pinch where you're like, I'm okay traveling these glasses. They're, uh, they're not the super expensive ones you get from the doctor. Uhm, but they're.


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[Assistant] Just as good. So yeaah. Check em out. Uh, so, I have a bunch of other trailers. We can talk about Comic-Con. I kinda wanna talk about Comic-Con in general, cause I had some, we had some interesting discussions.


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[Assistant] What would you guys consider to be the trailer that you have to watch? We're not gonna watch it.


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[Assistant] Age of Ultron, I thought. Um, uh, Terminator Dark Fate, there's like a little promo thing where they say the word fuck 35 times. And there's also the J and Sine Bob Reboot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're all wrong. It was Snowpiercer. Snowpiercer was the winner. It actually looks kind of okay.


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[Assistant] It's really crazy because they go from train to train and each train is a different place. So like there's like a sushi place and then there's like the butchers and it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't even make any sense for me.


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[Assistant] What used to be the intention of Comic Con was for, it was in the heyday of television where the only way you could hear from your audience was through letters or fan mail or anything like that. Comic Con was a way for creators to meet the people who watch their content.


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[Assistant] And that idea sort of has become perverse to the point where now the creators are not showing up anymore because they are fearful of their audience. As seen with the Game of Thrones creators, uh, was it D.B. Benioff? David Benioff and D.B. Wise.


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[Assistant] I don't want to get into discussion about how you feel about the ending of Game of Thrones. I think everyone's made it very clear.


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[Assistant] I've, I've moved on. The show's over. I'm, I'm okay with my life, but a lot of people have not.


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[Assistant] And to the point where I don't know if there were quite really death threats or anything like that, but


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[Assistant] This is a show that a lot of people really care about and the creators don't want to be anywhere near their audience.


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[Assistant] Despite how you feel of what they did, one way or the other, uhm, I just think that sends a really strange message.


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[Assistant] To a point, James and I were having a discussion yesterday, uhm, with


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[Assistant] Social media and everything else. This stuff leaks out immediately.


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[Assistant] It's becoming less and less. And like I said, I'm...


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[Assistant] It, it, it's obviously a lot different with social media and stuff. It's sort of the question of like, why does this sort of show exist and why are people willing


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[Assistant] One of my greatest memories was that of uhm, oh who's the actor? Uhm, he was the original Kirk.


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[Assistant] William Shatner. William Shatner. Just hanging out in the hall, William Shatner just there by himself and his 16 bodyguards as they mow down a short overweight dude dressed as a Mandalorian and then him screaming at San Diego Comic-Con staff saying, uh, Kirk hit me!


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[Assistant] Not the stunt- I just met one of the guys who was in the Boba Fett costume.


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[Assistant] Didn't feel like it was as big of a spectacle, but like, one year my brother and I just sort of dipped into the...


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[Assistant] Uh, Star Wars Episode 2 panel. It was just there. We were like, we hopped in and James Cameron showed up for no reason. He was like, I'm working on a thing called Avatar and Battle Angel. This is...


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[Assistant] 15 years ago or something. Freakin' crazy. Uhm, just dip into a Futurama panel where they showed an entire episode of Futurama. Like, you didn't have to wait in line for this stuff. It was just there. But that wasn't even that long ago. That's the crazy part.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like, I don't really have a problem with Comic-Con being as big as it is, I just wish it was instead of spilling out into the streets where it literally goes over train tracks. So bad. There's a part where like a freight train was going by for about 45 minutes because you couldn't cross over. So bad.


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[Assistant] We relocate. I love San Diego. I think it's a lovely town. Uhm, but there's gotta be.


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[Assistant] I-I-I do actually think a lot of good comes from these sorts of conventions where there is a like-minded, uh, sense. So like, typically, not a lot of douchebags go to


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[Assistant] Comic cons. It's always really nice people. I've only run into nice people, these sorts of things, but...


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[Assistant] I mean, more often than not, people are very kind and nice. Like, it's not like, uh...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it's not, you know, bro con or, you know, uh, beat your wife con.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I guess Comic-Con has become this sort of thing that's like, it's like this orgy of information. It's sort of like E3. It is the Super Bowl of...


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[Assistant] Every big company putting out there. Are there any smaller conventions that you guys would recommend people go to if you are still looking for like, the cosplay and sort of the community aspect?


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[Assistant] Is that like a dream hack? I want to go to dream hack. Cause you hack.


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[Assistant] There was a, actually an event, I think you guys both went there. Jess was at DesignerCon.


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[Assistant] What used to be in Pasadena is now in Anaheim. Actually, if you have any sort of...


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[Assistant] Interesting art, uh, I always say, like, designer con is a really cool place to go because you find a lot of, like, smaller artists. I've reached out to a few of them for, like, designs and stuff. Did you work with us? Because, like, I think it's...


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[Assistant] It is very focused on just, these are just designers, and since they moved to Anaheim it's a bigger space.


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[Assistant] Okay, but like, what do they buy? Cause I've been to CatCon.


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[Assistant] And then it just cuts and it's not in the movie. It's mind-blowing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and like I said, uh, personally I would say try Greylock, some of the other.


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[Assistant] Well guys, that brings us sadly to the end of this show. I'll miss you all. I'll be thinking of you.


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[Assistant] And I'll have to see you all the time. Uh, so thank you, audience. Elise, is there anything happening on the channel this week that you'd like to let us all know about?


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[Assistant] Grim repair? Oh, Five Nights at Freddy's. Oh yea, part two. That's right. Uhm, but that's really it for the really super exciting stuff, except for Hong Kong Massacre. Oh, Hong Kong Massacre, yea. Yes, it's been a, it's been an exciting week.


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[Assistant] Who was counting it? We have 13, uh, GTAs in the queue right now.


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[Assistant] Today on Dude Soup, we discuss the future of Stan Lee's online legacy. I'm your host, Sam Antics. Roll it, Omar!


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[Assistant] I don't know. What's your problem with Elise? She's one of our favorite people. Too smart. Too beautiful.


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[Assistant] Uh, some other fun stuff. I, unfortunately, I need to, I need to go.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, oh. How do you know I take bus?


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[Assistant] Yea, I'm all legs. Sexy. Well, I gotta go. Okay, alright.


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[Assistant] Adam, I think you're gonna, uh, do a little ad read for us.


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[Assistant] The new Xbox is supposedly going to be available for pre-order next month. Apex Legends is smashing world records and also all of our free time. And Anthem is falling apart so badly that EA needs your help. Let's get extra video gamey on this week's bowl of dude soup.


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[Assistant] Bruce, because this doesn't make sense to the audio listeners, can I get you to describe the poster in as much detail as possible?


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[Assistant] Uh, rumors say Xbox is planning on releasing a new console this year, and it will be completely diskless. These rumors started back in November 2018, at which point it was known as Maverick. You'd probably still call it Maverick, because that's way easier than the actual title. Windows Central reported that Microsoft has been experimenting with this.


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[Assistant] Uh, for several years now, and is expected to launch Q1 2019. They are set to call it, apparently, the Xbox One S All Digital Edition. Which I hate.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, Crayon is, uh, aiming to go up mid-April 2019 with general availability becoming, will be coming in May 2019.


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[Assistant] So the reason it can't be the X is because this ties in with, you guys hear about Project Xcloud?


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[Assistant] So that was their, uh, streaming service that, you know, Phil Spencer said they were aiming to have like full video games streaming like Netflix. You can't really do that with 4K.


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[Assistant] Like that's gonna be very, very hard for a lot of people, so it wouldn't really make sense for them to do that.


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[Assistant] Sort of, uhm, and they've been working on it for a really, really long time. Uh, yeah, initial prototypes went back to 2013.


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[Assistant] That was just a cloud. That was just a cloud. I think that was in theory a different thing. This is supposed to just be like, like Netflix, you would stream video games to your console. Gotcha. Through the internet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's some stuff here that I don't understand that you might, Bruce, which said Microsoft reportedly reduced latency to just 45 milliseconds on a Lumia 520 handset showcasing its flexibility for low-end hardware.


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[Assistant] Basically back then they said it was too expensive. Uhm, for them to even manage to do that. And they would have to wait until the...


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[Assistant] Basically the landscape changed, till HODWI changed to actually be able to do it again.


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[Assistant] So yea, the biggest thing about this is that it should be cheaper than a regular Xbox. If it comes out, it doesn't have a disc. It should be cheaper. Uh, the initial report said that it would be under $200, but that's kind of weird because you can still just order an original Xbox One used completely refurbished for $50 at this point. Like, I don't really know.


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[Assistant] With everything that Microsoft has been doing for the past three years, especially with uhm,


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[Assistant] Game Pass? This is for them to bridge the landscape to be like, let's put this out while we still have everything else so it's not too soon, because they obviously got burnt on the original Xbox One reveal. It was just way too much shit that people weren't ready for. If they put this out now, then at least the idea of a streaming box exists so that when they finally do get rid of their disc trays, people aren't as mad.


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[Assistant] When's the last time any of you guys bought a video game?


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[Assistant] I'd do it for collectives editions. But that's why there's tons of collectives editions that come out now that don't have discs in them. Resident Evil 7 didn't.


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[Assistant] Well you can control your Xbox with Cortana. You can do that anyway.


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[Assistant] The definitive is that my parents had no idea how to use Netflix or anything. The only way they could do it is if they yelled at Connect.


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[Assistant] To bring this back around to the actual point, which was disc-less Xbox.


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[Assistant] How do we feel about it? Do we care? No. It feels completely fine to me and I feel like I'm ready for it.


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[Assistant] I also wonder, like, I don't know how this works, but since so many games now are online anyway, like people put 50 million players on Apex within a month or whatever, if the games are online anyway and then you're also streaming them, does that just mean twice the load?


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[Assistant] I swear at my mum all the time, and I wonder if she's maybe...


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[Assistant] Thank you, Bruce, I'm glad you asked. Okay, so according to Eurogamer, Anthem Sublisher finally acknowledged the game was hard-crashing PS4s. Uh, this has been ongoing since launch. It's people's, like, it's effectively breaking consoles. They asked fans for help diagnosing the issue via the EA Answers message board.


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[Assistant] Uh, people have reported this happening multiple times per play session. Some people claim that PS4s have been completely bricked by it, aka unusable. Some people reported that PS4s were being thrown into safe mode.


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[Assistant] EA said, we are currently in the process of gathering information about the PS4 issue so we can determine the root cause. If you're experiencing hard crashes of your console, please reply with the following information. Then it's like,


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[Assistant] So that's the interesting part. So a top post on the PS4 subreddit from someone called James Peterson 91 said.


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[Assistant] After about five hours of playing, uh, Anthem, my PS4 froze and crashed. After 4.3 starting the console, it would not turn on no matter what I did. The lights didn't even come on and I cannot go into safe mode.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeaah, for that guy, they also said they wouldn't refund Anthem because technically he downloaded it and played it, which violates their refund policy because he had played it. It's not eligible for refund, apparently. But then other Reddit users have reported that Sony is offering no questions asked refunds for Anthem, so it's unclear whether that's actually happening or not.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I wanted to talk about this one because we had a ton of issues playing it on PC. Uh, James's Hodwick?


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[Assistant] I mean, we couldn't use webcams while playing that game. Like when we were playing it in beta, not calling it VIP demo. Like we, it was too much, does it, I feel like it's just designed inefficiently? It's taking up too much space. It's a resource hog.


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[Assistant] But I mean that's also a clusterfuck is that PUBG refused help from Epic on the Unreal Engine because they were so mad at them for making Fortnite that they refused to let them help optimize the engine. Really? I didn't know that. So it's like part of their own fault.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you didn't actually do the whole thing, you just went to that lost drum hole. Oh wow. We just skipped all the way through it.


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[Assistant] So far there have been 158 million finishes, 1.23 billion ultimates activated, 31 billion pings, which, I would have thought that was more, I feel like I'd do that many in a match, but whatever. 170 million respawns, 16.5 million deathbox graveyards found, and, is that not what I said?


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[Assistant] So the thing with the Mozambique is that if you aim for the neck, it works really well because it shoots like a three.


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[Assistant] Gears of War 4. Battlefield 1 was also out, and Mafia 3, which no one played.


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[Assistant] Related, within its first 8 hours, uh, Apex Legends had 1 million players by the end of its first day, 2.5 million people.


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[Assistant] According to Polygon, the popular comparison to make is that Apex Legends is growing at a much quicker rate than its closest competitor, which is Fortnite, Battle Royale obviously, because it took Fortnite's free Battle Royale mode several months to hit 45 million players, and Apex did it in a month.


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[Assistant] I've put a lot of time into it at this point, and I was telling Bruce my strategy just really changed, that if I don't have level 4 armor, then I don't care. Like if I don't have purple armor, then I'm just like, I'm going for it, I do not give a fuck.


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[Assistant] It was me and one other squad mate and the circle was tiny and there was for sure only one person left because the circle was so small and we couldn't find the other team. And it turned out that they were underneath a bridge because I saw the smoke go off from uhm, what's the- Bangalore? Yeah, Bangalore.


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[Assistant] It's for sure the ping system that does it for me, but I also really like the weapon upgrades and how they just, everything auto attaches, cause PUBG is the one that I played the most before that.


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[Assistant] You use him really well. I do? You do. I've only used him once, I think. But you, cause you use his, uh, oh no, I'm thinking of Caustic, sorry. Different, yeah. No, Caustic, yeah. You use Caustic really well. So you like use his smoke things to put them behind you so you know when an enemy team is coming. I was playing with someone the other day who used those in the room we were in and we were one of two squads left. And so it just smoked his teammates.


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[Assistant] Well, curse words that are not, that are not bad. You're probably wondering why we're talking like this, uh, more on that. But first, uh, before I introduce my guests and everything that we do for this show, Dude Soup, let you know that this, uh,


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[Assistant] They can't see. They are, I don't know. People watch this podcast, but it's on another monitor. It's on another monitor. I always wonder what, what is the visual?


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[Assistant] Every time we're catching up to the Austin team, I'll catch what they're, I used to listen to the Rooster Teeth podcast more than I watch it, but everyone's all to see, what are they doing? They're doing like picture in picture now. Yeah, they're doing cool stuff. When, so now it's like, oh, when Gus talks to, uhm, Bernie or whoever's on the other couch, it's two heads looking at each other. It looks like CNN.


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[Assistant] Oh, eighty, hundred, thousand, or whatever they are. Uh, but you're probably wondering why we haven't said a single curse word yet. Has it been thirty seconds? Fuck! Fuck, shit, cunt, whore! That's twenty-eight seconds. Dick bag!


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[Assistant] Uhm, so a video came out recently, uh, where you basically, YouTube is telling us, they're clearing up.


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[Assistant] Turns out, it has always been this way, and they just want to make things more clear, but in typical YouTube fashion, this brought up more questions than answers. I think anytime you try to explain the robot in the cave,


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[Assistant] So they broke down all those really hard to understand facts for us knuckle dragon folk who curse a lot and they told us the do's and don'ts of YouTubes. No, we swear it's always been this way. Explanation.


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[Assistant] There is good news. Words like heck darn and choke me daddy. Uh, also gosh darn it are still a-okay.


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[Assistant] So more crass language is much more taboo.


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[Assistant] It almost feels like you're now misleading people. You're purposely trying to trick them into getting your video thinking it's all cool and fine and...


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[Assistant] Sparkly, and then you get us, these haggard, you know, 30 year olds cursing at you. But we, but you do want you to sort of lie.


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[Assistant] Um, so also, uh, just to reiterate any video promoting hate speech. Oh yeah, there's the screen.


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[Assistant] Oh, there it is, okay, yeaah. Oh, those are fun words. Shit, bullshit, bitch, whore, hoe, slut, son of a bitch. Asshole, douchebag, fuck, motherfucker, cock, dick, pussy.


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm more curious, what does the committee look like of people who come together and say these are the words we would not like to see?


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[Assistant] I think that's probably what this has mostly exposed is our...


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[Assistant] Uh, I guess this brings up another question too. What if, like what language?


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[Assistant] So if I say a word that, in English, is totally fine, or another, but in another country, it is a curse word or it's a, uh,


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[Assistant] Some sort of slang or racial slur. Does that now get demonetized because...


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[Assistant] How do we advertise better or how do we like sell our content in other countries? So like remember the whole inside gaming Brazil thing.


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[Assistant] That was all they were like, hey, could you guys like learn another language? And then like, you know, do the news again in Portuguese? Like, no, okay, we'll just hire some local.


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[Assistant] Uh, so anyway, that's really it for the story, like...


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[Assistant] What was the movie Tall Tale, where like, they all come together? It was the original LXG.


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[Assistant] It's an AI, it's an algorithm that YouTube can never admit is broken. It's always right. That's sort of the thing. It's sort of like, remember when Gmail was in beta?


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[Assistant] We forgave all its mistakes, cause we're like, well it's in beta, it's been in beta for 10 years, ha ha ha.


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[Assistant] YouTube's always in beta, they just can't ever admit that because the system's always changing and the algorithm is always advancing and becoming different or worse. We still see people getting their own videos claimed by themselves or


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[Assistant] Other people who don't exist, uhm, or people who do not own the actual copyright. YouTube can't come out and say, it's a work in progress. They just have to go, we have to believe in the machine because if we don't believe in it, it won't work.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, when even YouTube tries to curate it and they make their own rewind and everyone hates it, does that show that maybe YouTube's out of touch with its own platform?


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[Assistant] Uh, real quick, I just want to let you know that the, uh, synopsis of, uh, Tall Tale as a young boy draws on inspiration from legendary western characters to find the strength to fight evil, uh, fight an evil land bear in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idealic community.


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[Assistant] Patrick Swayze plays Bagos Bill, uh, Oliver Platts, Paul Bunyan, Roger Aaron Brown, uh, I'm not sure if he was probably played a president or something, it's John Henry, Nick Stahl's in it, he's Daniel Hackett, he's the main character.


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[Assistant] Pecos Bill may have also been a real person, not really sure. And then there's a character named Zeb.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we can keep talking about YouTube, or we can move on to much more. Well, I wanted to check in on you guys.


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[Assistant] What are you talking about right now? Why? This is over? Have you guys been following the internet? What's happening? No, what's happening on the internet? Well the super best friends are no longer best friends. Game Grumps had to put out like a 17 minute video explaining that they're only gonna


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I don't, I, and I love those guys dearly. They're like brothers from another mother and that like breaks my heart when I, I couldn't even watch the whole thing. It was like these poor guys pour so much into their work and they have to,


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[Assistant] Apologize for focusing on their own mental health.


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[Assistant] Groups like that breaking up or taking a step back. Uhm, but I just want to make sure you guys are okay because I mean, celebrity deaths always happen in three. So.


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[Assistant] Because we've been working together so long, there's something brewing, right? There's, there's some deep like resentment, something, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, in front of a green screen. It's, uh, it says the, uh, the great Cypress Hill, uh. Oh yeah, I know what you're gonna say. The artist said at one time, it's a fun job, but still a job.


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[Assistant] To be fair. I would, I guess maybe a lot of groups aren't as big as us. I think I often forget about that. The pool is spread much more. I mean Super Best Friends is as big as us.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I've ever even actually met them. I met them once or twice, very briefly. I think they came by our booth one time at Machinima and I'm like, I'm very shy around new people. You guys know that about me.


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[Assistant] Things to say, I had never met them and I only kind of knew about their channel. I obviously any creator online, I wish them the best luck and I want them to do well and succeed because it's a tough business. But I know the sort of thing I see everywhere is a lot of people say like, oh, we should never mix friendship and business.


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[Assistant] I've seen that a lot too. Which is, I guess kind of true, but you should still like the people you're working with. Oh, absolutely.


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[Assistant] Well, I always kind of assumed too that the viewership is sort of attained by you representing sort of the everyman.


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[Assistant] Living everyday life, not being a multi-millionaire. Like, the minute someone goes,


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[Assistant] Dude, my butler was so snooty to me this morning. Right? Why's chat yelling at me? Once again, those things like...


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[Assistant] These Ferraris, man, these Ferrari dealerships, they charge you so much. You'd think by the time you get your fourth one, the fifth one would be free, but no. God, my life's so hard. Anyway, I'm playing Black Ops.


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[Assistant] And then you sort of become enveloped in your own world and you start to believe that you're as big as you think you are. That's sort of when the fall begins.


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[Assistant] We've seen it, we've seen it happen where some people become the character.


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[Assistant] Like maybe that was them all the time and that was sort of a way to-


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[Assistant] Let it out, but then on the other side there's like, uhm, there's a great quote from Hank Azaria where he says like,


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[Assistant] He is so uncomfortable being himself, the only way he can be sort of a, uh, extrovert is play a different character. And that's why he thrives.


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[Assistant] Being in content, or you know, creating content because he's never himself.


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[Assistant] But I, like, I think I had this conversation with Elise, like, I feel the same way, where, like,


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[Assistant] Myself, I'm just sort of a boring, normal person. But when we all...


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[Assistant] When we all, when we kind of get together and we're out at an event or whatever, I feel like, oh, I can, you guys all kind of lift me up a little bit and it's like, yeah, it's a little easier instead of like,


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[Assistant] I'll just be out here and I'll dance. I don't know what you want from me, but I don't know. I guess part of that I'm trying to say too is like, it helps if you have a support team. A support staff instead of a group. It's just you and you're constantly second guessing what you're doing and then you get to the point where


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[Assistant] I always, I always wonder how much of it is just sort of like, I enjoy the train wreck.


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[Assistant] Or do I enjoy the person? It's sort of like watching Real Housewives of Atlanta or something like that.


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[Assistant] I, I had this panic moment, um, FYI, um, Zquill or any of those, like, those non-prescription Nyquil substitutes or whatever, the purple drank, uhm, they say non-habit forming, but they don't talk about the crippling, like, dependency you rely on.


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[Assistant] Hey, what's up? I didn't sleep last night. So, I don't know, something like 1am? I was like, I had already taken like, I've been trying to take less and less. Cause I'm like, I need to wean off of this stuff. I was just wide awake.


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[Assistant] I'm not. And then then it's like, okay, I'm going to stretch a little bit. Okay. Okay. Maybe I went to the blanket wrong. One of the cats are sleeping on me. Weird. Like everything's weird. I got to get out of here. And then it's like,


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[Assistant] I have something I can focus on, like, oh, I have a project, or I have, you know, something I'm looking forward to, like, oh man, Infinity War tomorrow, can't wait, and then I bang, happy dreams.


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[Assistant] Being a subject to that and I was like, I woke up with this like, feeling of dread and then I, I watched the YouTube video of the uhm,


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[Assistant] The evil chick from, uh, I forget her name. Wolfenstein? Mmhm. The evil, the bag. The one with her face gone. Yeah, I got like half-crushed over the first one, but the, the final murder scene over like on live TV in Wolfenstein 2, which is awesome. I was like, okay, there's some, there's something therapeutic about that. It's cathartic, yeah. Yeah, I just had to see her head get chopped in half. So that was my day. Or night.


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[Assistant] I think I'm just always anxious. That's sort of my issue. And more so now, I don't know if I can talk about this, but the work thing we have to do right now is basically Hunger Games.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where we have to like, we have to do these peer reviews. Oh yea. And nothing scares me and upsets me more than other people judging me. And all, and it's all, it's like, hey everyone, write a review for each other. And I'm like, all I can think of is like,


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[Assistant] I appreciate the utopia you're trying to build. Sure. Uhm, but it has an inverse effect on me and it's very negative and like I'm like stressed out over this. Okay, well you should tell them. Okay. I really think you should tell them. So like all, I'm just saying all my stress related stuff is all.