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[Assistant] I've always, since we've been talking about it for the last year or so, I'm still very interested in the blockchain technology more than the crypto. Oh, it's amazing. The blockchain technology. The cryptocurrency is the coolest thing. Yeah, the idea that you can sort of make something digital real in a weird way, right? Like I just, I would like to see that play into more than anything voting. Oh yeah. Cause I think, uh,


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[Assistant] Those, those things interest me more than anything else. I'm like, oh, that's cool, that's like...


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[Assistant] That's interesting technology that pushes things forward, I feel like.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I know some YouTube videos will do this, and they do it for fun, but what's the...


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of, I don't, I'm not going to call any channel out because I don't want to, I don't want to tell, tell teacher. Uh, but I saw like a funny video where someone was doing a very spoofy type funny video where they're making fun of something else, right? But they're sort of making fun of these like, like call out videos or something like that. And he used an image that had a clear watermark on it, but it was meant to be a joke.


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[Assistant] I thought it was a way to say, hey, you just stole our image, uh, and you can just send him a bill.


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[Assistant] I want to be hanging from the rafters.


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[Assistant] Oh, disgusting. I don't know, I feel like those two would cancel each other out at some point. Depends also if this microwaved or not.


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[Assistant] Is that Laura just facts? I'm both. Laura something can be like interpreted differently or something. It's backstory. I guess Laura just means backstory.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's sort of the connotation, right? Cause I don't know much about like, Civil War lore.


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[Assistant] I'm not paying that. It's- If anyone would like to buy that shirt for Bruce instead of here, he wears- I'll wear it. He wears a large, fashionable, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think there's like, I don't think he ever fills out the description either. There's no info in the about.


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[Assistant] You know who's really into aliens? Who? Uh, like Hardstyle. I don't belong. You know him too, but Hardstyle DJs. Like all their songs are about like going to different planets and like, like looking up to the stars and thinking someone else is on a different planet, also rocking out to Hardstyle's like, there's a, there's a podcast this guy does, he's been doing it for five years or something like that.


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[Assistant] I don't know, well that's the thing is like my head goes there sometimes when, uh, when James and I did the, uh, the Psychonauts thing, the Psychonauts camp, we went out and hung out with all those dudes in like a rock bed and there was a meteor shower going over. And it was a bunch of game devs, like half drunk, basically being like,


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[Assistant] Okay, I getcha. I know what you're saying. I don't think I've ever been hit by a burst. I've been hit by a burst. Oh. Definitely. It's fine.


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[Assistant] You may have recommended it to me. I'm trying to figure out, I'm trying to remember who recommended this podcast to me. It's good. I like it. It's called Dude Soup. Sometimes it has a woman on it.


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[Assistant] If you put huge tits on a truck, I'd be like alright. Sexy truck.


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[Assistant] Well, wouldn't that just be, what's her name?


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[Assistant] Well yea, so that they like, are still part toad, so they rule over the toads properly. Toads?


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[Assistant] You could also present the argument that


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[Assistant] If they are wearing the crown and they have sex, they can't have a child that is born genetically.


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[Assistant] I don't think Bowser has genitalia, but in theory, Bowser.


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[Assistant] And it's magic and not science, then the minute you put the hat on, the cum becomes feminine as well.


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[Assistant] But it's also, well that's a good point, but it's also that you could just like come and then instead of having to clean it up you should chuck a hattle.


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[Assistant] I subscribe to the theory in this religion that it's science based and if you put the hat on, the cum still exists.


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[Assistant] So I know people who got laid off last year, and this news doesn't surprise me at all because, you know, working in San Francisco, it's the games industry up there. I had so many friends who worked at Telltale.


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[Assistant] I can't like verify this, but I've been told by first hand sources that they were spending so much money on acquiring licenses that they didn't have


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[Assistant] Basically, they didn't have the financial backing to actually deal with those. They just kept rushing things out, like, let's pay for this license to get people, like, people care about stranger things. They're two years too late on that anyway.


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[Assistant] The complaints about management are largely, you know, someone would come in halfway through a season and be like, reanimate this, rewrite this, change this character, change the ending, but they don't hire any new people to do that. So they're just creating all of this work for people that is too much for any human to do. So they just basically had all these people who were constantly in crunch, who were constantly burned out.


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[Assistant] Who weren't ever treated like they were going to be paid or like they were going to have any long term projects because they weren't. They were just going to fire them as soon as they got their return and then hire on new contractors and just keep going like that. They never could have survived. There's no way it was going to pay off.


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[Assistant] I think it's, it's very common and, you know, crunch is, I think it's like three quarters of, uh, game devs say that they've experienced crunch, but Telltale, it was a constant state of crunch, so people who work there are like, it wasn't just crunch before release, it was literally constantly, like they never had time off. And one of the tweets that like hit me really hard after this was a person who said, you know,


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[Assistant] Was working 100 hours a week and taking time away from my family and putting all this effort in. I still fucking got laid off. I didn't get any money. Like they were all just putting so much time into making these games because they were trying to release these episodes as quickly as they possibly could with as many projects as they could. They still all got fired. And didn't get anything for it.


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[Assistant] Which is weird because so many people who work at Telltale talk about upper management and those execs coming in and being like, change this. Like they tell people to change things creatively, they don't understand how it has both of those problems. Like how do you have a company that clearly doesn't care about employees and wants to make as much money as possible, but will also piss off all of those employees by being like, change this right now. And everyone's like, fuck, okay.


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[Assistant] Well I mean, the game that really, they had games before that like Jurassic Park, but the game that really like


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[Assistant] I get that even then we should have been like, there's a problem here creatively, something is going wrong.


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[Assistant] Wolf Among Us was all at the same time as well. And then Guardians, and yeaah, they had a lot of stuff going at once, but, uh, community like often complained to be like, why don't we have a release date for this episode yet? And it was always just that they didn't, they didn't have one until it was done. Like I reviewed Season 1 of Batman,


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[Assistant] Do layoffs work that way? Like, are you like, alright, probably in about 60 days we're gonna need to shut down.


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[Assistant] Well that's the same thing, with this, like, how are they gonna, even if they have a class action lawsuit, how the fuck do they pay them if they don't have any money?


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[Assistant] They're still, they want AAA. Like they were still technically indie, self-published, like.


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[Assistant] Well, if you don't like it, this person wants to make games for a living, so fuck off. And they just like, they do that a lot and it sucks.


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[Assistant] It also spreads, like, when companies treat people that way.


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[Assistant] People get mad about EA not making the games that they want. EA doesn't care about gamers. EA's real customers is the stock market.


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[Assistant] Male family members just be male family members but now there's benefits to being married so women are joining the family.


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[Assistant] Which they don't even actually care that it's not accurate, they just don't like the idea that like, get politics in my video game.


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[Assistant] But it would have also been an ownership and a part of my identity. It would have been like I read Iron Man and I know this character and I'm invested in this and then you've put this thing out for everyone else who hasn't always read Iron Man and it is different. It just like became a thing that was...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but there are surely some of them, huh? But I don't think that's, there's a lot of different issues that are just like, keep the thing the same.


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[Assistant] I've never felt like video game marketing has ever pushed me away. Like, Nioh is one of my favorite games, and that's a game where the character gets beat up and you see more of her underwear. Nioh? Yea. Oh, I didn't know she got that.


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[Assistant] Women totally have crushes on Final Fantasy characters.


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[Assistant] I think as soon as you start thinking about relationships in any fighting game, you're in for a bad time.


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[Assistant] Well, I'd also go Geralt, which again is mostly for personality reasons.


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[Assistant] The only thing that I'm comfortable saying don't do is review bombs. I think, like, review bombing is shitty. Like, you cannot like a thing and that's okay. You can express that you're angry about it and that's okay. Review bombing is hurting every person who's ever worked at that company and it sucks.


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[Assistant] One of the coolest things I ever got from a lint crate was this, uh, Batman smartwatch. That, incredibly lame, still a big fan, would tell you if you were sitting for too long and you'd be like, Batman, you need to go on patrol!


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[Assistant] Oh, because, uh, yeaah, they, they stopped printing it. It's sold out everywhere and then they decided not to print it. Or you can't see his dick anymore again.


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[Assistant] I would guess it, like, it just passed a lot and no one really higher up realized there was a dick in it and then it kinda went viral and they were like, oh no, oh we can't have that.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's this seven story tall Toy Story Nakihabara that's called Mandarake.


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[Assistant] Which is awesome. It's just like full of toys, like retro toys, new toys, like retro games, there's tons of cool shit in there. But it did have an entire floor dedicated to


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[Assistant] Some of them were like customizable women. You could like swap body parts and just have them be naked and like build your own sort of like statue.


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[Assistant] Situation, a lot of toys where like women have like butt plugs in, stuff like that. Didn't expect that.


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[Assistant] Like they have tentacles on them and just, it's, it's very interesting. It's art. It's what it is. When I was walking through those floors, I kept wondering, it's like, uh, the young Japanese men here, uncomfortable with my presence here, but I don't think they were. I think everyone was just like, this is normal here, it's fine, it's whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but like same token, I had to get a train at 7.30 in the morning and they were like, you need to go to the women's only train, uh, the cabin, or whatever. Really? Like in the mornings, yeaah, because like women get assaulted on the train so often. That, it's only when it's really, really busy like rush hour and they were like, I was like, oh that doesn't sound great, thank you for the heads up, because otherwise I would have just like gone on it.


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[Assistant] One thing that they don't tell you about Japan before you go is there are spiders everywhere.


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[Assistant] That country has a lot of spiders. I'm Australian, and I went there and was like, why didn't anyone warn me about the presence of giant spiders in Japan? They're all over the shrines. They're just everywhere.


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[Assistant] We had a, uh, private, uh, bath house in, in one of the places we were staying in Hakone, which is actually based on, uhm,


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[Assistant] You can see Fuji from there, it's gorgeous, but we had this, uh, private bath that's like natural hot springs and everything, and there were, before I was willing to get in it, there were four spiders just like in those rooms just hanging out, like no one fuck told me this. Did you kill them? Yeah.


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[Assistant] enough strength that they can carry like four times their body weight or something along those lines? They can but they're also


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[Assistant] The most recent cult that I read about, I think they, they press charges cause, uh, what's the name, Gwyneth Paltrow?


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[Assistant] They have to like make the challenges for them slowly more complicated so they don't get bored because especially in captivity they're worried about them being just like horribly bored and just like bashing their heads against the wall.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right, you did tell me about this before. And I think I had the exact same reaction.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm the opposite, okay. I don't think I'm an anxious person really at all, but I love horror. It's my favorite genre of all things, including games, movies, everything. Uh, but I will be


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[Assistant] I guess kinda nervous going into a theater, but then just, no, I'll usually be excited, but I'll stay nervous the whole film.


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[Assistant] So like I can play a horror game and have to pause regularly or like look away from the screen sometimes but I love it the whole time. But otherwise don't feel anxiety. So I wonder if it's cause it's the only experience I have with anxiety?


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[Assistant] I think my favorite thing about it is mystery, because a lot of horror is based in mystery. That's true. So, anything where I can't easily predict what's going to happen, I'm generally going to enjoy.


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[Assistant] And like, generally my favorite horror games are things like Silent Hill PT or like Resident Evil, where there is a safe space of some kind that you know that you can just sort of push towards getting to. And then once you leave that room, you have no fucking idea what you're in for. And that's the kind of thing that I like. But Elise, your favorite genre of movie is horror as well, right? Or do you just like them a lot?


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[Assistant] Well, Get Out is a good example of, not necessarily a horror movie, but a social horror.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, aww. He was a really good actor.


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[Assistant] That's a good follow-up question. What would you all say the thing that you are most afraid of is? I mean, most scared of? Bees. Bees?


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[Assistant] Fine, like that's so easy to say, but then it might be irrational. I guess maybe every intense fear is irrational, but every time that I walk into my apartment, I have to look everywhere out of fear that there is someone waiting for me in my apartment.


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[Assistant] I don't have a shower curtain. Everything glass. I will always be like, check every corner of a room that I walk into if I'm alone, basically. Just be like, is there someone here to kill me?


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[Assistant] I guess I walk around alone a fair bit, and I'm always, like, if I see a cop parked on the side of the road, I'll make sure I walk on the other side, because I'm terrified of being grabbed into a car or whatever.


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[Assistant] I used to be scared of my, uh, PC chair. I have a generic PC gaming chair. And I used to like, wake up and just see the outline of it and be like, pass it! And they were like, no, still just the chair. Same thing. Same thing it's always been.


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[Assistant] My granddad had like 20 strokes and was always fine. I think it like, that taught me a lot and be like, oh, he had a stroke. And everyone would be like, is he okay? And I'd be like, yeah, he's fine.


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[Assistant] He went to hospital, he's chill. He's very lucky. That was one time where he tried to break out of the hospital though, because he was convinced that they were like, imprisoning him.


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[Assistant] Which like, you just kinda, he was a fantastic human, love him to bits, but there was just one day where he went insane and tried to break out of the hospital and like stealth his way out of there, and they were like, what the fuck you doing? He was like,


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[Assistant] I think Amygdala sounds like it's either a Star Wars character or a pop punk band.


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[Assistant] Education or even workforce doesn't take, uh, things like anxiety seriously.


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[Assistant] They're just like, harden up. You'll live with it. But if that was your thought process all the time, that would be extremely hard. Like, I have a friend who definitely has anxiety to the extent where


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[Assistant] He would have like ruined everything by being a creep, and it's like, you can't think that way, like what if you just asked her out? And he's like, but what if she thinks it's creepy? It's like, fuck man. Like, I don't know how to help you, and he'll just like a girl but never fucking tell her.


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[Assistant] You're not bringing back slavery, correct? No, no, absolutely. Okay, good. You said work at a car wash and I was like, you're making it a job. Does it earn some of the money? We are equal people.


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[Assistant] I feel like I have chronic fatigue, which means that I'm just fucking tired all the time. Like, all the time. And sometimes people will be like, you should sleep more, and I'll be like, doesn't matter, I could faint one day, and it'll just happen. Like, it doesn't matter what I do. And I feel like every company I've ever worked at, because I'm younger, has always been fine with it. They're always like, you're tired all the time, I understand. It's a thing. Never worked anyway.


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[Assistant] When I had depression the first time. It was clinically diagnosed. I think I would have been...


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[Assistant] And I said, why? I was like, why should I? And she was like, okay, you have depression. This is a fucking problem. And I was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right, but like if she had never pointed it out, I just would have spent like several years just not doing anything. Just like, it's like, I talk about that period of my life like it was static, like I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't remember most of it, don't know who I was, just nothing happened for a very long time. I was in bed playing video games, no reason to leave at any point. And I think that if I hadn't had


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[Assistant] A figure of authority be like, this is what's happening to you, get the fuck out. And I would have like just stuck, stayed that way. And I guess that means I was lucky.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's good that you stuck around with those friends stuck around though, because I feel like to some people, their friends are like, you're an asshole, I'm gonna leave, and then that person turns into the whole world hates me and everything is unfair and it just gets worse and worse and worse.


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[Assistant] Kinda comforts me because seriously I was like 13, 14, thought I was king of the edgelords, spent all my time on 4chan, was like, yea, I'm so fu- I get memes, like I thought I was so cool, and that's who those people are now.


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[Assistant] Oh man. No you don't, no, no you don't. It was there for a while. The thing with, like I regret about spending so much time on 4chan is the shit that I've seen that I can't not see. Cause they have these like,


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[Assistant] Beat the internet challenges where you try to watch really awful stuff for as long as you can, and I was like, 14, I fucking got this. And it was terrible. Like, I've seen a lot of awful stuff that will never not be in my brain, and I'm just like, I don't want it.


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[Assistant] To be willing to say it in person is great to me.


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[Assistant] So I'm not comfortable sitting like that because of the various problems that I have, I'll lose circulation in my legs. So I'm always more comfortable like this.


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[Assistant] Well I did have someone on the comments not that long ago be like, I hate that she has her shoes on the seat.


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[Assistant] I was gonna be like, well hold up now. Don't people have to put their hands inside of cows regularly to make sure that guts are okay? But then you mentioned he was master.


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[Assistant] Having done a small amount of research into kinks, very small amount, feel free to correct me.


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[Assistant] Is that he's probably turned on by the fact that what he's doing is incredibly wrong.


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[Assistant] This is kind of messed up but when I was a kid I was at a bus station and there was a bus parked like on the side and I was sitting on the seat like it was parked ready to go and there was a bus driver sitting in it, no one else on it because it was parked and I could see him through the back door because he was sitting on the like seat like right next to the back door and he just had a book.


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[Assistant] That's shockingly responsible of you. And then you, well I, I was definitely panicked. And I went home and told my parents and I had like freaked out for sure. Like I was not okay, but it was like, first number, figure out what happened. And I think once he saw my reaction, he stopped, he put the book back. I don't remember, but I was alarmed.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm guessing has happened here. They were off the side, they're just staring at it like, is that dude fucking a cow? That dude's fucking a cow. And then they have the thing that's like, holy shit, that dude's fucking a cow! But it's like, you don't quite realize something is shocking until it registers. That makes sense.


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[Assistant] Maybe the, the princess of wherever he's from had been kidnapped and he had to fuck a cow on live television to get away.


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[Assistant] The one way you can recount everything with the contact lenses, that one fucks me up. Cause it's like just a dude who's a real piece of shit. Like, looking at another thing.


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[Assistant] I really want to watch Haunting Hill House, but I live by myself and I keep being like, is it too scary to watch by myself?


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[Assistant] But it's still good though, like, it's like if I even see an episode that I don't remember ever seeing before, I'll still be like, that was a damn good episode of television.


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[Assistant] Your ball soap's still pretty gross. It's just the extra precaution.


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[Assistant] But it is complicated because I remember at one point in last year I had, I had,


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[Assistant] I felt like I had to confront someone because they kept working all the time.


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[Assistant] And could work on very little sleep, and other people couldn't. They're in a senior position.


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[Assistant] And I had been like traveling for a month and I got sick and if he had done a similar thing he would just keep coming to work and I had to be like


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[Assistant] The fact that you do this and that you brag about the fact that you do this in front of Junious Starz. That's different. I was like, you have to stop fucking doing this because it makes other people think, but he still comes in if he's sick and he can sleep, like he can like get in internationally and come into the office two hours later and keep working. I was like, you have to, if you do it.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I feel like Funhouse has very good team composition. Like I don't want to call anyone out explicitly, but at least two other companies that I've worked for.


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[Assistant] It has been clear that there are some people who don't do shit, and a lot of people who do a lot, and that the people who are doing a lot are holding up to people who don't do anything, and that creates this really gross culture as well, because it's like,


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[Assistant] When he goes to the gym at three and doesn't come back, like it's stuff like that that I think like Funhouse has a very good composition of that in that, uh, I feel like if there was something that I need help with, I could depend on literally anyone and be like, I need help, can you help me? And everyone else would be like, let's figure out how to take that off your plate. I haven't had that yet because I'm new, but it's still like,


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[Assistant] I feel like the balance here is really good and it is probably largely hiring, making sure you hire the right people, but part of this article mentions, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, not the games media whatever the hell we are entertainment bullshit side of it. The actual games industry where they're making video games. You just need producers. People don't think about producers enough. It's like those people should be figuring out exactly


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[Assistant] I'm gonna disagree with you saying it's not so bad, just because it depends on the context. For some people it is terrible, the pressure gets to them and then they burn out. It can be bad. I just want to clarify before anyone jumps on it.


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[Assistant] Like they have a lot of benefits that are really, really helpful for that kind of stuff that other companies don't have. But I think because the industry is so new, it's like everyone's still just fighting to get a job that they just so badly want to work in games that no one's trying to unionize. Because then you'd also have the like,


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[Assistant] Like 50% very supportive, 50% you should fire all of them. And some people even inside the company were like, they should all be fired for walking out. It was like, you know, it's like, we technically made Union Action


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[Assistant] Ziff Davis, IGN's parent company responded to it beautifully. They were like, we will do whatever you want, we totally understand. Phrases however you want, we can get sued, do it. And it was like, it was fantastic the way they dealt with it, but that's what unions do and it's still a lot of people will be like, you shall be fired, I deserve your job more than you do.


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[Assistant] It's like working in games media slash journalism. I hate calling it that, but.


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[Assistant] November and October and November are fucked because all the games come out. So it's like, okay, Red Dead's coming out this week. We need to have seven videos planned for launch day. We need to have a review done. We need to have all these op-eds done. And then like, it's Fallout 76 beta this week as well. So it's like, this week,


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[Assistant] I would hope they have some kind of structure that allows some of the team leads to be like, this isn't possible, we can't. How about this? Like maybe they can compromise on some of it?


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[Assistant] I only, I use only the picture that's there unless it's gut wrenching slash impossible like Graveler. Shout out to Graveler, one of my favorite Pokemon.


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[Assistant] I'm more impressed if he's just staring at the image, making sure he has nothing else in his head, and just furiously chucked it.


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[Assistant] Cause I guess, if my friend was rule 34, then in theory they'd all have tits.


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[Assistant] What'd they masturbate them to? Well, I guess it depends on a woman, but it's more like a situation.


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[Assistant] Well, it doesn't have to be huge. Alright, well normal sized hard dick. Probably a hard dick. Is fair.


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[Assistant] Some women maybe get off the flaccid ones, I don't know. I can't speak for all women.


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[Assistant] And women don't necessarily masturbate to just romance. They're like, oh wine, oh-


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[Assistant] Is it like one of those cum tributes where you just came on a printed out picture of a venomoth?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's also that, like, okay, clearly the Atomatone thing is extremely impressive, but is it as impressive as emasubating to every single Pokemon?


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[Assistant] I do appreciate it. Jigglypuff seems easy. Togepi is a weird one because that's basically an infant.


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[Assistant] Cause my thing is like, it depends on the context of the big dick. If it's just a photo of a big dick, nope.


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[Assistant] But he's, but he's also masturbating, right? It's not just a still bit.


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[Assistant] Listen, I just want you all to know that NotIntoDick's sari is currently winning.


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[Assistant] Well that's the same as like, somebody came out of a conversation about it just the other day, where it's like, instead of just a naked girl standing there, you prefer a girl in like lingerie, right? So that's the same thing. It's like if it's in underwear, that's why that grey sweatpants thing took off.


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[Assistant] Bye everybody. Australians work to live, and Americans live to work. And that's like a thing that everyone says all the time because Americans tend to work constantly, earn less money, and take less vacation because it's like 10 days here or something. Australia, it's four weeks. So it's like, it's just so different.


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[Assistant] Well they discussed it, because it talks about it's the shape, like it's a lot of different factors. You know, you don't have to like one type of boob. You don't have to like one type of boob.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, despite, y-you know, you said it yourself, Flopitron has been, they've been adding parts over time, improving the system, whereas we already saw, Big Knee Lover hasn't gotten any better.


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[Assistant] I like that you were like, oh yea, I'll turn this down. And you turned it down by one decibel.


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[Assistant] Uh, I believe in a traditional marriage between two men.


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[Assistant] I'm voting for the cat piano. What? Yes, there's commitment there. There's a commitment to a craft and a skill. This is just, the gadget cult is just taking something they didn't make and using it in a way it was never intended. The cat piano was made to make people happy, and that's what this person is using it for.


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[Assistant] They did. Listen, if you show me a picture of them fucking the shrine, I'll change my vote.


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[Assistant] Well, not only for the sake of extending tension, but also because I believe in it, and we saw what it did to this room, I was gonna go Flopitron.


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[Assistant] No Man's Sky isn't that great. There I said it. If that made you mad, don't worry because I also might have cancer. Or whatever this squishy thing in my mouth is. We'll talk about all that and more on this stuck on the damn ground because I'm out of fuel again bullet dude soup.


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[Assistant] I have to, I have to seem like I'm not invested in the outcome of my anger. But then I give them an avenue of attack to dismantle my anger.


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[Assistant] Uh, people who I clickbaited into this video, hopefully.


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[Assistant] Ah, the notion is funny. We got a pretty packed show coming up.


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[Assistant] I'm Lawrence, I'm your host, I'll take you through space and, uh, bodily injury, uh, lump extractions, all this and more, joined by an expert panelist to discuss these issues today.


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[Assistant] So Elise, I promised myself that I'd do this. You got a little thing in your tooth.


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[Assistant] You can go to StitchFix.com slash Dude Soup and get a 25% discount when you keep all five items in your Stitch Fix box.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, dammit. If you send me a link to that, I can put it up on the-


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[Assistant] Anyway, sorry audio listeners, it was a disgusting photo, but you can check it out on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Banter ceased. Let's talk about No Man's Sky. Cause, as far as I can estimate, it's the most attention grabbing headline of the week.


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[Assistant] That's coming up later. Everything you're doing is wrong. I've got Fortnite corner, I should make a- Why don't you guys play more Fortnite? I should make a shitty corner out of that, like a bumper.


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[Assistant] This show lives and dies on its bumpers. Uh. This is when Funhaus died. So I claim No Man's Sky.


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[Assistant] Well, let me tell you why you're wrong, Adam. Thanks. Uh, no, I think you pretty much nailed it in that this is a...


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[Assistant] It is best enjoyed as a social experience, because prior to this it wasn't. And the thing, I kinda like, you guys were saying, I get a little, I kinda dig into the game design of stuff. No Man's Sky is a game about slowing you down and frustrating you with...


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[Assistant] Steps you've done a million times. So, if you want to explore the galaxy, that's fine, except you've gotta get fuel.


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[Assistant] And then in the process of getting fuel, you run out of another kind of fuel. And in the process of getting that, you run out of oxygen. And it's just a series of running out of stuff.


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[Assistant] And then just moving things around in inventory and picking up a bunch of garbage while you're trying to get the thing you want. You need to go back and forth to ditch it all. To me the time spent doing the task that I wanted to do


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[Assistant] As opposed to doing all the side things the game design forces me to do to really drag out the experience. It's not a good trade.


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[Assistant] So, so you're kind of hitting on a different topic, which is the perception of the game, because that was a whole monster unto itself.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, people perceived that when No Man's Sky was going to come out and everybody was super hyped for it, people perceived that it was going to be a do everything game. Live in space, uh, run into players who can help or hurt you, team up with them, fly across the galaxy, be a space pirate, steal some stuff, bang an alien broad.


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[Assistant] None of that was the game. Uhm, and none of that was really promised in the trailers, but none of it was not promised, so people sort of filled it in with their own imaginations.


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[Assistant] I, I played Spore, and before that I played Star Control, so I'm kind of used to games, or I was familiar with what No Man's Sky was trying to be. I'm familiar with procedurally generated stuff. And when they were showing the trailers for it, I was waiting for the gameplay loop.


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[Assistant] Cause every game has a loop, a series of actions you do over and over again with minor variations.


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[Assistant] I don't know, when you reach an impasse of player volition and then player expression, that's a problem. So, some of the games I want to compare a game like this to, Final Fantasy XV and Breath of the Wild.


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[Assistant] Both were games that allowed you to set a destination. I want to go to the top of that mountain, I want to go to this city. Along that path,


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[Assistant] You would either, you would be tempted by other things. So, in Zelda for instance, you're going down a road and then there's a cave. There might be treasure in that cave. You don't have to stop.


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[Assistant] There are enemies along the path, maybe. You don't have to fight them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a lot of people bring up weapon degradation in Zelda as sort of an example. It's a little different, I won't get into that, but. And like Final Fantasy XV is the same way. You get in your car, you're driving, and then you see things on the side of the road you could stop for.


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[Assistant] No Man's Sky is like that except you have to stop for every single one because it won't let you go forward until you stop and shoot a rock again.


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[Assistant] And when the whole payoff of the game, like the payoff of the game should be making a decision, not being forced into a decision.


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[Assistant] That's what interactivity is all about. So a No Man's Sky basically gates you over and over again for basic resources.


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[Assistant] Boy, it really just, to me it just throws water on what the experience has been.


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[Assistant] And if you're playing in multiplayer, the spawning of those gets really weird. Cause there were, there were, when I was, when we were playing with Bruce, uh, I would try to scan stuff and the animal would just blink out of existence while I was staring at it.


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[Assistant] Isn't quite, still isn't quite the multiplayer experience that you might be imagining. For a free update, it's hard to complain. And I still think, especially if you have friends, it's worth 30 bucks, easily. But as far as like being a video game, mmmm.


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[Assistant] Still not quite yet. Then again, I'm on the page with you in terms of survival stones and rust in the forest. I just... You're a dime a dozen, man. I played that game so much. I don't need it again.


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[Assistant] But, I will say, flying in space is still awesome. It gets old, but it's still awesome. Going to warp is cool. Yeaah, this trailer sort of implies that these are all player characters that just sort of seamlessly fly with you.


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[Assistant] And then you like fly to other planets, which you can still do. I don't know that it shows you who discovered it.


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[Assistant] Going off Steam reviews, uh, there does seem to be an interesting redemption arc going on right now for this game. Which I am fascinated with, because it's still the same game. It has multiplayer now, but they didn't fundamentally change any of the design principles or the gameplay experience.


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[Assistant] And yet, yeaah, there's blog articles that say like, oh, No Man's Sky is good now, oh, I just love this game so much, here's this planet I found.


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[Assistant] You could have done that when the game launched, uh, and then yeaah, the Steam reviews have gone from very, like, very negative to mixed. The most recent reviews are very positive, so whatever


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[Assistant] I don't know, I have my own theories, I feel like the gaming audience at large. This is like the high school reunion, uh, ten years later. They picked on No Man's Sky so bad in high school, and then they've had ten years to mature and they're like, you know what, I was really mean to No Man's Sky back then.


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[Assistant] At this reunion, I'm gonna buy No Man's Sky a beer, and I'm gonna be really nice and say, hey what's up No Man's Sky, you look great. What's been going on, you got a family? Man, that's great. And then you tweet about it, you're like, No Man's Sky is doing so well now, I'm so proud of that game.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's this weird like hidden guilt complex in the gaming audience that they're trying to express by suddenly being very nice to No Man's Sky when it was kind of like


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[Assistant] They improved it, yes, but not to the tune of like completely changing the game.


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[Assistant] Well, you already had it. Paid 60 bucks for it when it came out. That kinda sucked.


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[Assistant] It was very cool. No, the embargo's not around yet. Rise of the Tomb Raider coming up. Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Sorry. I've been playing Rise a lot.


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[Assistant] I started it and just never finished it for some reason, but going back to it, damn.


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[Assistant] Either, either like one way or the other. Like maybe somebody at Sunday was like, hey, Sean, you might want to like back off on, like speak more specifically about what the game can and can't do as opposed to saying, like, oh yeah, you can do this and that. Cause he seemed to...


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[Assistant] Those interviews are weird. It seems like now retrospectively or retroactively, he was talking about potential as opposed to what was going to be in the game at launch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean to that point, uhm, oh boy, Adairus, I don't know how to say the name, but somebody in chat, uh, had a good point, I get that No Man's Sky isn't the greatest game ever, but you gotta give credit to those devs for taking the criticism they got at launch and kept on working. So yeah, it's, uh,


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[Assistant] I do appreciate that they launched a platform and stuck with it, didn't just like bail out. Yes, what's the other option? Uh, just wait, your job again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause you, Adam, you are describing something that is sort of a hidden desire of a lot of video game players as kind of a single player crafted experience that is eternal. Or that there is a series of computers making a game as you play it.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, that doesn't exist yet. And to a point, computers as we know them now can never do that.


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[Assistant] Only, as far as we know, and kind of as exemplified by the internet,


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[Assistant] You either, the only way a game can be single-player forever if it's something like Tetris. Where there's, or like to a degree even chess or something like that, where


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[Assistant] There is an upper bound on the human limit of the ability to play that game and it's people pushing against that boundary as hard as they can. Some rhythm games do that too. Or it has to be multiplayer. You have to have a thinking human on the other end of well-crafted set of rules that will consistently apply a new and a fresh challenge for your brain to try to solve.


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[Assistant] So it's weird, it's uhm, and I feel like, uh, Sky, or Star Citizen, excuse me. It's kind of in the same crowd, people bring up Elite Dangerous in this, in this too.


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[Assistant] We're still in this era where humans have to make the content that other humans consume. For now.


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[Assistant] Man, once we cross over that gap, then our jobs get automated and then we're like, we're like automotive workers that are


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[Assistant] Asking for our jobs back. Gosh, what's gonna happen then? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the robots make the games and the robots play the games. So what do we need us for? Nothing.


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[Assistant] All because we remain a no man's sky. I love Pleasure Future.


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[Assistant] So fight back is what I'm telling you, audience. If you don't want the robots to take over, develop a more middling opinion about No Man's Sky next.


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[Assistant] Uh, putting all that aside though, it is a nice way to spend time with friends, like you were talking about the Sea of Thieves experience. All the need for context and meaning and interest to go out the door when you're just hanging with friends and talking. So, and it's half the price.


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[Assistant] That's why. Create more tension on behalf of the viewership. That's why Bruce and I did it.


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[Assistant] That's the internet, man. Human behavior. Uh, speaking of which, there's actually a really cool article about weird human behavior. Or we can talk about body lumps or whatever. We'll get to it in a minute. First, we gotta hear from a sponsor, Mint Mobile.


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[Assistant] Yes, you can applaud now. Alright. So what would you guys like to talk about next? We got, uh, weird body lumps. Uhm, I'm fascinated to hear Adam's weird tooth story. Tooth.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Yea. Wow. That's it. So did they tell you what the lumps were?


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[Assistant] Isn't that the opposite of lumps? That's when your skin rots and falls off. Well, it lumps up first. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Just so you know where it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've got a lump now. What happened to your lump? Uh, well, I've had two lumps in my life. Uh, this is second lump. Uh, so, I don't know. I got it tight. Punch in on that, Omar. Ah, there she is. Hmm, you can kinda see it.


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[Assistant] Well, I'd be pretty delayed. I had my teeth whitened a while ago. Uh, but no, this is, so I had one of these in college. I was just eating like a do, chomped the hell out of my lip, swelled up, was eating like,


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[Assistant] Two hours later, uh, chomped it again and then it was swirled up and stayed that way. Uhm, and it stayed that way for like a month. I'd eventually go to an ENT, ear, nose and throat doctor.


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[Assistant] They chopped it out of my face, sent it off to a lab, turns out it's something called a mucocele.


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[Assistant] So in your lip, you have all these little ducts that carry saliva and junk, and if one of them gets pinched off, like a hose, it just bulbs up under your lip. And sometimes it will heal, and then the saliva will just drain out. If it doesn't, then it just stays there forever, and they have to chop it out of your face.


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[Assistant] Much like Home Improvement, we're converting mundane medical problems into blockbuster entertainment. Uh, I don't know. Is that what we're calling it now? Yeah, sure.


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[Assistant] Does it have to have a boy in the title, or does it literally have to be about a small male child? Lost Boys could be on there, except...


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[Assistant] Which is good. Which is good. So wait, what's the category? Horror. I see dead people in movies? Oh, just horror in general?


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, Jerry O'Connell, no, Chris O'Donnell. Yeah.


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[Assistant] There was a stretch of really bad movies. I guess some good ones came out, I guess.


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[Assistant] Trench coats, rap rock, sunglasses, and then hyper, like, a lot of quick cuts is what you need. I need to watch Ballistix X vs. Sever. We need to watch Ballistix X vs. Sever. We need to watch that.


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[Assistant] I should be covered up by that man's ass. I like that in a movie that wasn't about him, Rocky V, he still managed to get his ass in there. Really? Yeah. In the prologue, like, they show those post-Ivan Drago scenes and he's in the shower like, I'm shaking, I can't stand shaking. He should've get his ass out there. Woo! Good for him. Yeah, good for him.


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[Assistant] You can, uh, fill out a style profile, and then, uh, a stylist will be assigned to you, and then they'll pick out clothes according to that, put it in a box, ship it to you. Uh, that fee is $20, but if you decide to keep any of those articles of clothing, that fee is applied to that article of clothing.


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[Assistant] So it's essentially free styling if you decide you want anything and if you do end up shipping it back, it's a $20 fee. It's honestly not that bad to have somebody with style and taste.


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[Assistant] So you can get it, uh, scheduled, or you can just, a la carte, go on and say, I feel like another box. Please send me one.


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[Assistant] Uh, just if you're feeling fancy on a given weekend, do a little, uh, little makeover in your bedroom. Gotta put on cover, girl. Or vogue.


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[Assistant] Put on all those clothes if we're talking like late 90s, uh, makeover sequences. I should make a video that's a hyper cut down of like all of those. Anyway, uh, you should go to StitchFix.com slash DudeSoup to check it out. Uh, you get, you will get a 25% discount on your box when you keep all five items in it.


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[Assistant] Once more, that's StitchFix.com slash DudeSoup.


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[Assistant] To get started, it's actually kind of fun to take a little quiz. I learned a lot about myself, honestly, in terms of like themes that I like and colors that I like and cuts that I like. One had to actually stare at them all in a grid and pick the ones that I liked, so. Once more, that's stitchfix.com slash dudesoup and get 25% off when you keep all five items in your box. Thank you Stitch Fix for the sponsorship.


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[Assistant] Is he trying to make it pretty? I think when you land, it recycles or regenerates certain things in your, in your freedom. Oh god.


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[Assistant] No man's sky, alright, uh, I guess on to Fortnite Corner, uh, which I really should develop a graphic for. That, again, lives and dies on those graphics. Uh, Wall Street Journalist is a sign of the times kind of thing. Has an article about hiring Fortnite coaches.


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[Assistant] For your childrens, kind of like you'd hire like a piano instructor or something like that. Uh, yeaah, yeaah. People are getting, people are paying other people like 20, 30 bucks an hour to tutor their kids about how to win at Fortnite. Yeah, you didn't, you didn't think it was gonna get to this, so.


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[Assistant] Basically, I pulled out a few quotes from the article of like parents explaining their motivations and also kids talking about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, quote, there's pressure not to just play it but to be really good at it. Uh, said Mrs. Hicks, or Ms. Hicks, a project manager from Winchester, England. You can imagine what it was like for him at school.


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[Assistant] So yea, kids are giving each other shit because they haven't gotten a victory royale yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, Rob hopes his friends find out, or, excuse me, Rob hopes his friends don't find out how he upped his game. Quote, they'll probably think I'm cheating or something, he said. That's how 10-year-old kids work.


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[Assistant] The debt is currently already dreaming of a scholarship or at least some tournament money. Uh, Fortnite creator Epic Games recently did put a hundred million dollars in tournament prizes. Some colleges court gamers with financial incentives to join their varsity teams. This is happening. Also just if you're good at Fortnite, you can maybe turn some cash on Twitch. These are becoming career options.


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[Assistant] That's millennials, dude. Or I guess these are Gen Z'ers. But, also I have those blinds and they suck.


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[Assistant] Cause the people who put him in before I moved in didn't do a good job making them, cutting them, or whatever. Yeaah, take that, uuuh, take that humans.


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[Assistant] So, Mr. Giles' 13-year-old daughter Morgan says, quote, It's kind of cool but weird at the same time. She dislikes how her dad screams with the light whenever he wins a match. Quote, It's annoying. So.


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[Assistant] Let me, let me spin a, spin a scenario for you. Sure. You sink to your kid's level, but you're always better than them.


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[Assistant] Well then again, I mean, that's it. You have to wait for the headline when there's an esports pro that's skating through college and his grades have been given a pass because he's so good at Fortnite. Sorry, they. Shouldn't be gendered.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the quote from the parents, like, well they keep their grades up, and this is what they want to do and they want to be good at it, so.


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[Assistant] Wait, you pay for it. We pay for it. Collectively. Funhouse does. I'm paying for it? Yes you are.


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[Assistant] Uh, also in other, like, this is the world we live in, uh, headlines, this actually really is really fascinating to me. So, there was a game, uh, called Abstractism that was on the Steam Marketplace. It was later found to have a, what is highly suspected to be a cryptocurrency miner in it.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is going to take a bit of an explanation. So, you guys know Steam Trading Cards, right? They are generated as you play a game, and that led to something called Idlemaster.


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[Assistant] And then you could sell those cards on the Steam Marketplace and generate money out of the games you bought.


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[Assistant] Then that started this weird meta game where people would try to buy games at cheaper prices than they could sell the cards for. And essentially,


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[Assistant] Essentially, Steam's marketplaces opened up weird financial loopholes before, and it happened again. So this game, not only did it ship with malware, uh, it also generated Steam items. Which are not cards, so these are like Team Fortress weapons or stuff like that, there's digital inventory. It would generate a bunch of like, meme stupid items.


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[Assistant] Initially, actually, it generated an item that was visibly identical to a very rare item from Team Fortress, so people would sell it.


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[Assistant] And other people would accept the trade when they didn't really fully inspect the listing. So they would get a junk item for like $200. Pretty smart. But then that started drawing attention so they changed it.


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[Assistant] Now it's just a bunch of meme items like Gaben's banhammer and uh,


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[Assistant] Actually, I have to look them up because they're kind of funny. Uh, this, this all originally comes from a YouTuber, Sid Alpha. I originally did a whole expose on this. Let me see if I can find the items because, uh, yeaah, so there's the band hammer. There's also the, uh, gay box. Open if gay. Uh, should come with gay key. Let me find the gay key. It's very exciting. Anyway, it's, it's just a bunch of, like, internet meme stuff.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's a gay, yeah, do you understand? I mean, that's, that's universal though. Uh, sort of. So here's, here's, here's where it all gets like, criminal mastermind territory. The items are dropped at a specific time while the game is running.


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[Assistant] And that time gets longer and longer. And it resets every week.


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[Assistant] So, you have to keep the game running, which means that the crypto miner is running. You have to launch it at specific times every week to get the item reset in, which will upload the hashes that


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[Assistant] Theoretically upload the hashes you've crushed and download new ones to work on in the coming week.


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[Assistant] The items that it drops, the rare ones you can probably sell on Steam for positive money, or you can convert them into gems that can generate Steam trading cards, which also turn into money. Also the game is one dollar.


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[Assistant] So they've basically made this pyramid scheme where they want a lot of people to run the game to generate revenue for the creator, but also generate revenue for themselves by making items. And then what you can do,


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[Assistant] Is buy further copies of the game, install them on other computers, have those generate items,


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[Assistant] Yea, right? So, uh, Steam recently got very libertarian about its own marketplace. Uh, they, they got into trouble for like, willingly pulling some games for being too sex, too sex driven or too violent. Too sexy. Yea. Too sexy. It's just too sexy for Gabe. Gabe is just too sexy.


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[Assistant] So it did violate Steam's terms of use, but at the same time, it's a pretty masterful exploitation of the system and the marketplace that exists. And it came in a very unassuming package. So...


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[Assistant] It kind of begs an age-old question. We are in the microcosm of Steam running into very big ideas about marketplace and guidance.


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[Assistant] What's friendless slots? You can upgrade, the more badges you generate,


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[Assistant] That gives you experience that levels up your Steam profile. And then that increases the number of slots you have in your friends list as well as a bunch of other fringe benefits that don't actually matter. I want less friends.


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[Assistant] God, you're so proud of the fact that you did a thing to Steam. You have to launch it every- ehhh. Anyway, sorry. No, I'm just- But yes.


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[Assistant] That's fine. The thing that always bugged me is you cannot possibly get enough cards to make a badge on your own. You have to, it was meant to drive money through the steam marketplace. You have to buy and sell them. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh sorry, I thought you had a foil badge. I've only seen like one foil card in my life. Sold it for like $2.50. That was a good day.


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[Assistant] The argument to be made in this, in this favor is that to my knowledge I haven't seen anything like this before.


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[Assistant] I mean, there have been crypto miners distributed as malware with a bunch of stuff, but,


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[Assistant] For them to exploit the marketplace in this way, it did require a lack of rules, and now we know that this can be done. So it's almost like with too much oversight, you open yourself up to attacks because you're not allowing them to happen at a small scale.


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[Assistant] But I, I mean it would be nice to believe that I could go to the marketplace and buy a game and I don't have to like run bug check on it every time.


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[Assistant] Not that I would buy a one dollar game. Like, it actually started because, uh, CidAlpha noticed that this game was using way higher resources on his CPU and GPU than it should for a game that is line art.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they post, he posted this on Steam, they posted something like, oh, there's complex shaders and post processes. And they were like, really dude? It's a, it's a stick figure game.


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[Assistant] But that's the thing though, if enough people are on the inside, they'll all boost to games reviews, because if they're in the like pyramid scheme of weird Steam marketplace stuff, they can manipulate that too.


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[Assistant] He was head of security and he would just like go into the airport bathroom and stuff them in his pockets and then hand them out to, or he would give them to his butcher, like people in his intimate circle that could basically launder the money and give him a cut of it.


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[Assistant] He made good though, he like mailed one of them to a hospital. Uh, he mailed like a million dollar piece to a hospital, a St. Jude hospital.


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[Assistant] So like, the hospital announced it, then McDonald's went over and they were like, something's off here.


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[Assistant] They said it out loud so we can't yank a million dollars away from a fucking hospital. So he did, that was an interesting play. I like that stuff. Ah. Oh, I left my zombie scripts in the other room. God damn it. It was okay.


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[Assistant] We were gonna experience the next exciting chapter of zombies, Elise's hit screenplay.


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[Assistant] No, he said Adam do it. Adam? Yea, go ahead Adam.


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[Assistant] Ha ha ha! You may have noticed my shirt's changed. That's because when we recorded this podcast, I completely forgot to do an ad read. So we're doing it now, from the future. This podcast is brought to you by Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club has everything you need to get ready in the bathroom.


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[Assistant] And because I enjoy listing scents, let me do so now. They have the mint cedarwood body cleanser, they have the citrus hawaiian ginger daily face cleanser, the sage and black pepper hair and scalp shampoo,


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[Assistant] And the sage and black pepper hair and scalp conditioner. If that hasn't encouraged you to explore your scent experience in the bathroom, I don't know what will.


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[Assistant] Uh, but they also have a special offer for you. Uh, they have the $5 Dollar Shave Club Starter Kit. That comes with, uh, Amber Lavender Body Cleanser. Comes with the Six Blade Executive Razor, Dr. Carver's Shave Butter, and


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[Assistant] One wipe Charlie's. If you don't know what those are, you should find out. Or rather, your anus should. They're basically peppermint scented ass wipes. And if you've never felt the calm, cool, cleansing experience of mint,


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[Assistant] On your raw red and irritated anus, you owe it to yourself. Think about how, just think about your butt cheeks right now.


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[Assistant] Think about how irritated they are. And think about how it would be a cool sip of oasis water in the middle of a desert to have a cool mint breeze flying right through.


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[Assistant] That wet and irritated chasm. I get very passionate when it comes to talking about ass, uh, ass comfort. Because I believe you're worth it. And you should believe you're worth it too.


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[Assistant] Uh, they also have all sorts of other products for the bathroom. That includes, as previously mentioned, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothpaste, hair gel.


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[Assistant] And the previously mentioned wipes that will give you a tingle in the place you deserve it most.


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[Assistant] Uh, but if you want to get started, again, a five dollar starter kit comes with a body cleanser, one wipe Charlie's, uh, shave butter, and a six blade executive razor. Uh, and then after that, you can get in on a subscription plan for the razors to keep them coming every month. Or just buy them whenever you need. You can do it one way or the other. On the cart, subscription,


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[Assistant] Either way, Dollar Shave Club wants to keep your bathroom stocked with the finest smelling and finest, uh, grooming products. You can get all that at dollarshaveclub.com slash dude. What's more, that's five dollars for a sampler pack of really interesting bathroom products at dollarshaveclub.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] Thank you Dollar Shave Club, and let's return to the podcast.


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[Assistant] I promise the rest will be perfectly executed. Time for Hard Dead. Somewhere in there.


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[Assistant] Then I didn't. Alright, this will work, fine, fuck it. Demolition, man, that's pretty hard netting. It is, yeaah. Might be the hardest netting. Uh, alright, this is...


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[Assistant] Hmm, alright, this is kind of a softball-y, but I'll take it anyway. So this is, uh, this is from... Instagram. It's the Hot Pokemon Trainer.


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[Assistant] Well, I think he's Pokemon fighting Selena Gomez, who is changing outfits during the battle, which is an interesting, interesting tactic. Huh.


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[Assistant] Anybody picking down my Haunter is truly on another level.


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[Assistant] My name is Selena, I'm the Gym Leader of the Celadon City Pokemon Gym. I'm impressed you made it up here, but you're foolish to think you can win.


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[Assistant] Ha ha ha! Another No Man's Sky video is still playing.


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[Assistant] Ladies, if you grew up with Pokemon, you can grow up even further with Hot Pokemon Trainer.


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[Assistant] So yeah, here we go. He's all battle-damaged after getting lasered in the stomach. Poor guy.


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[Assistant] What I wanted to do is, is read, read through the arcs so I could bottom line it for you guys, but I'm a little behind the eight ball here. I apologize about that. That's okay.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, I'll read through arcs 1 and 2 and just do a little summary later. Okay, great. Just so we can catch up.


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[Assistant] James, what do you think? Final Fantasy VII House or Hot Final Fantasy VII House? Elise, what do you think?


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[Assistant] No, I guess. It's sad. Every little peripheral bit of information about that makes it more sad. A lot of, a lot of people in their mental duress.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's crazy how humans can invent very bad situations for each other.


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[Assistant] Well, that's good, because there's plenty of, plenty of material here. Uh, he only just recently got to the point where he started labeling his arcs. So I don't know if there's, nope, that's pretty much it. It's just him hanging out with Pokemon, and then it gets real.


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[Assistant] With live action sketches, uh, entire Pokemon battles.


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[Assistant] You get to choose two, the other will go to your little bro, plasma gun, electrical restrainer, or an elemental sword that looks kinda like a razor blade? What is that? Whatever you care. I'm pretty sure that's from Ratchet and Clank. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And get muscle definition. We're millennials. I don't know if he's a millennial.


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[Assistant] Is he younger? He's probably post-millennial. Post-millennial, yeaah. What are those, what are they gonna be called? Post-millonials?


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[Assistant] If you can't, if you can't see audio listeners, both of my hands are pointing heaven's word in victory. Mhm. He won, somehow? You won the podcast? I did! I win every podcast! Where's my trophy? All my losers.


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[Assistant] Yes, thank you for listening this week, everyone. Uh, feel free to leave a comment yelling at me about No Man's Sky or whatever, since everyone loves it now. Uh, it doesn't make it right. It's a good game!


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[Assistant] Yeah, if, uh, if you enjoyed this podcast, uh, I'd appreciate it if you recommended it to a friend. That's how we can grow, get bigger, do live shows. We also got a couple plugs for you, got some new merch coming up!


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[Assistant] You might have seen this on Twitter, but we got a cool baseball jersey. The back's pretty cool too.


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[Assistant] The, uh, unfortunately the camera doesn't sell how like, actually well made this thing is. It's pretty heavy, it's well stitched.


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[Assistant] Let's leave it up in the air. Okay. Maybe it will. We're currently working on and hoping to provide a syringe full of, syringe full of steroids with every order. Maybe it will. That will be available at RTX, uh, if you're going, so please stay.


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[Assistant] Please dig around in the uuh. Adam's trying to pin the jersey to the table with a coffee mug. I want you to be able to read it. That's how heavy it is. It's pulling a coffee mug off the table. That's quality ladies and gentlemen. An empty coffee mug. An empty mug pulled off the table by this quality jersey.


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[Assistant] Have you ever like opened a flash drive and it just has like bolts in it to make it heavier so you have the perception of it? Thank you. Heavy doors.


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[Assistant] Well, he did the, he did the 100 times gravity, which is essentially the same.


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[Assistant] They feel good. Nice. Also, if you're coming to RTX, please join us on first night for the first screening of Arizona Circle. It's a sketch comedy show that we've been working on for a while. Very proud of it. Like to get in front of as many eyeballs as possible. And, uh, put this little note in here for myself. Please laugh. Even if it's pity laughter, that's fine too. Just laugh. Don't get everyone else laughing. I'll take it, alright? I need it. I need this.


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[Assistant] It's just got two meters, at least hired, at least fired.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. There you go. Uplifting. Gotta end on an uplifting note. Globe is an alright show.


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[Assistant] But yes, thank you guys for watching. Really appreciate it. Again, recommend it to a friend, leave a review if you'd like. And we'll catch you next week. Until then.


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[Assistant] No, please no, absolutely not. But watch my show, uh, Sportsball on Rooster Teeth, that's as its own YouTube channel as well, Sportsball. Uh, you can watch it every Tuesday morning at 8am, uh, with me and my co-host Mia Khalifa of SportsFame.


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[Assistant] I could, uh, piggyback off that actually, talking about both thumb injuries and bleeding a lot. So like, uh, I used to work in barbecue. I'm from Austin, Texas. Uh, did barbecue for five years and was one of the guys that used to cut meat.


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[Assistant] So I had just gone to college, uh, literally day one of college, like I went in this morning, uh, that morning to this new job I got at a barbecue joint and was cutting brisket and didn't have a cut glove on.


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[Assistant] Good job though. They said they didn't allow cut gloves, which is bullshit. What is a cut glove? A cut glove is like, kinda like a mesh glove that you can have just in case if you jump apart, like it'll, you'll be fine.


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[Assistant] Bone is the correct word. I cut my tendon in half.


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[Assistant] Uh, so basically I cut it open, I knew how bad it was gonna be right away.


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[Assistant] Uh, didn't really bleed a lot, but I was like, the first thing I gotta do is I gotta wash this out. So I go to the, this, uh, the kitchen, and of course they have those industrial sized sinks.


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[Assistant] So I do have something that I don't know if this helps you or if you've ever tried it out, but like uhm,


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[Assistant] If I'm ever at the gym or even have this at home, I have a bucket of rice, of dry rice.


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[Assistant] And what you can do is you put your hands in and you grab to the bottom of it and it like, it stretches out your fingers and everything. But it's a very odd thing to do if anybody ever catches you like...


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[Assistant] The food thing though, that's, that's something there. I mean yeah, like traveling overseas, like you feel like such an asshole as an American cause you go there and you're like,


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[Assistant] I think you're right, I mean, it just, that's the way it goes. I don't know if it's really that big of a deal to like freak out about it right now, especially when it comes to like Netflix, cause like you were saying with HBO, I actually look forward to those HBO trailers. They're really well done, they're awesome.


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[Assistant] If you don't have, uh, this toothpaste, your teeth aren't gonna be white, that girl's not gonna fuck you. You know, if you don't smell good, if you don't look good, like it's, it's never any of it's, none of it's positive whatsoever.


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[Assistant] There's always platforms that move away from that and like, there'll be some new thing.


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[Assistant] So I think there will always be something that comes up or like, like you said, like something new for a while will take a hit and then eventually they'll go to it as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they only show you the scoring plays of the exciting bits. You don't see guys lining up or talking in a huddle. Oh, that sounds great. They're lined up, they're about to score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] No I did not because I'm not going to waste an hour of my night almost of like watching strictly commercials, which if you go by case by case basis with certain sports that are longer than others, you're looking at three to four hour games where there's actually only 45 minutes of actual play.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, almost all of them do worse, like specifically just for that network or this package or whatever you want, so.


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[Assistant] Isn't that what Hulu originally did where it's like you can watch this ad free if you watch 3 minutes of ads for like every 5-10 minutes. You know what it was? It was like intermittently.


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[Assistant] I've made a tweet regarding the WarioWare character Ashley that, due to a lack of integrity and exceedingly poor wording on my part, has been regarded as a form of insult by some of my readers. The original tweet presented the following issues.


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[Assistant] Made an assumption that was not backed by any kind of source and thus went against my policy.


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[Assistant] It was written in a manner that implied an attack on certain groups of people such as WarioWare players. Three, it was taken by many as a joke, despite my best efforts to make it clear that no post on my account is a joke.


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[Assistant] Thus, the tweet in question had to be deleted. However, to clear up the situation, I will now present both the original tweet and revised version of it that I can hope can convey my original intent and comply with my account standards. Do you want me to read the original?


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[Assistant] Ashley's theme from the WarioWare series has her saying, quote, I don't have as many friends as you, end quote to the listener. However, in WarioWare Gold, Ashley is shown to have at least nine friends, which is not an insignificant amount and likely to be more friends than many listeners would have.


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[Assistant] But, again, to reiterate, Ashley is shown to have at least nine friends. That's a significant


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[Assistant] Ashley's theme from the WarioWare series includes the lyric, quote, I don't have as many friends as you, end quote.


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[Assistant] It was taken as many by a joke, but it was not a joke. Very serious. Still sounds like a joke.


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[Assistant] You think of the activities old people are forced to go to in some situations as far as a nursing home or facilities. There's tons of golfing, there's bridge, there's, you know, uh, bingo. There's lots of fucking. Old people love to do that. Constantly.


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[Assistant] Well, I find this to be very interesting. This one has a million views, just a dude sitting at a chair. This one with the thumbnail, only 44.


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[Assistant] If you already, if you already won, yeaah, I'll probably stick with AJ, or HJ, end job. HJ Freaks.


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[Assistant] That is zero fucks. I'm wearing a dress, playing guitar.


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[Assistant] Let's hope nobody's in that room. Maybe he is giving personal shows? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Shit. I swear to god that made the rounds like a couple weeks ago.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I can't remember, I think it was here in the States.


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[Assistant] Uh, Roosterteeth.com, uh, airs every Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Central Time. Uh, it also has its own YouTube channel, simply called Sports Ball, uh, with myself and Mia Khalifa. So, uh, talk sports stuff, but not too serious. Sports, uh, I hate a lot of sports, we talk about that too, so.


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[Assistant] They're, right now they're two for two, as far as I'm concerned. That is true. But they're actually really good at adapting properties with


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[Assistant] Big loud pieces of lore and then making a pretty fun video game out of it. So I think just based on that track record.


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[Assistant] Everybody, it's the biggest, longest cyberwatch ever. Is Cyberpunk 2077 a real game? What's in it? And most of all, when will we get to play it? We got release date speculations. Because everyone's Google searching that. Uh, join us, you cyberpunks, for a deep dive into what might be considered the biggest RPG ever on the cybernetically enhanced Bullet Dude Soup. Thank you. Stay tuned.


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[Assistant] This episode is brought to you by three sponsors. We got Burrow, Movement and Blue Apron.


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[Assistant] And you can check out this week's menu and get your first three meals for free at BlueApron.com slash soup.


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[Assistant] And you will now treat me as such, thank you. You did it. I did it. Uhm, alright. We fell asleep in the Witcher 3 one. That's not our fault.


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[Assistant] I know you didn't fall asleep in the cyberpunk one. No, absolutely not. I was wrapped and also like just crammed in. It was the last demo of E3, so I think a lot of people are pulling strings to get in there. It was packed house, wall to wall.


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[Assistant] But first of all, considering that we have to title the podcast a certain way to get people to click on it, um, speculation about release date, uh, so this- 2035! Could be.


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[Assistant] If you want, uhm, you can all throw out your stuff. Basically, having seen the game in with my own, my own, uh, game, gaming mind. Humanized. Laser focused upon it. I, I have a guess based on how CD Projekt goes and how long they take to make games like this and stuff like that. So I would put, I'm gonna say, I'm putting my chips on.


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[Assistant] Alright, Wild Speculation also advises more watch time on YouTube. Keep watching!


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[Assistant] It was delayed, you're right. Witcher 3 was delayed from Q4 2014 to February 2015. Missed that and then came out summer 2015.


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[Assistant] Game demos can be deceiving. And I was trying to keep an eye out for that. How much of this looks like it's rigidly scripted, how much are they cheating. And I guess we can get into it.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright. So here's basically how this is going to work. I'll just lightly narrate things and to you the audience and to you guys sitting at this table, I'm sure you've already heard accounts of this demo multiple times, especially if you're a fan. So I don't want this to be another retry to the same ideas and the same facts. I'll just rattle through the like,


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[Assistant] Bits and pieces of the demo and then if I'm gonna spend a lot of time on anything it'll just be what I read between the lines or what you guys ask. Sure. Also if you're in chat right now, if you're a first member, feel free to ask questions and I'll source from there as well.


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[Assistant] Uh, so hopefully in between all of that, there will be new information contained within that you haven't heard yet. Or if you just want to spend more vicarious time with cyberpunk, the ghost of a game, this is how to do it too. Alright, so.


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[Assistant] The presentation opened with a character creator. You play V, uh, male or female. Wait, did you create a character? Uh, no. They basically went through some screens that


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[Assistant] We're kind of a hybrid between what looked like rigid mockups of character creation and had some interactivity. Some of the beats from character creation, you can be male or female. You assign stats, but there's no like explicit classes. Those come based on how you play.


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[Assistant] Uh, so whatever skills you put in, whatever cyber upgrades you get, basically dictate your abilities.


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[Assistant] Uh, one of the interesting things I thought, this reminded me a bit of like Dragon Age Origins, was there was a, uh, there's some boxes to sort of just set up the loose backbeats of your character, like what event brought them to Night City.


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[Assistant] Uhm, some examples are unfinished business, ex-lover in town, something to prove, just like little snippets of a phrase that sort of flesh out the background of your character. So they're just normal, like a, they're a normal person? They're not like a hero yet? You're a cyberpunk. Uh, so, I mean it's dumb to say, but that is... Anything but normal.


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[Assistant] So in the world of cyberpunk, uh, to broaden it out a bit, there's like no law, there's no real society, it's just a bunch of corporations fighting each other for domination of society. And then like the lower caste that basically just fucks around and there's really no police, cause who cares. As long as you don't infringe on the interests of a corporation, no one gives a fuck if you live or die. That's the vibe.


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[Assistant] So I guess to your original question, like, who are you and what is your motivation? You're just, you're a nobody. You're a dude. Trying to make your means in this world of lawlessness. So Scarface vibes, Grand Theft Auto vibes for sure. The trailer kind of set it out. It's a city of dreams and I'm a dreamer. It's first person though, right?


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[Assistant] I don't, yeaah, you see part of yourself in dialogue. There's like the two camera shots. And then you see yourself in your like stats screen and stuff like that. Gotcha. But yeaah, you kind of touched on something. There are people who are very mad that they can't switch between first and third person. I think because they want to see their avatars.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so driving can be both. When you're on your feet, it's all first person.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not in the game spec, like you're not going to be able to do that. And they said that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, not explicitly, but they said it's going to be a first person game multiple times.


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[Assistant] There are, uh, there are combat mechanics that play really well in first person. Like what? Well, uh, I guess I don't have to run through it chronologically. Wall runs. Uh, there are wall runs. Good. What? What are you so shocked about? I didn't think there would actually be wall runs.


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[Assistant] There's, there's, there's some cool shit in cyberpunk. Uh, so here, I'll get back into it, alright. So you roll your character, you are, you're just some, some nameless asshole V. In Night City, which is in the free state of Northern California, uh, I guess they've separated from United States, whatever, just like real world.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. Uh, six districts in the city, the city center, the corporate dystopia of Watson, luxurious Westbrook, I mean, it does seem like it's kind of broken out like Grand Theft Auto.


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[Assistant] Scene opens, you just have like a shit job.


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[Assistant] There are gangs that like abduct people and harvest their implants and sell them on the black market.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of those people actually had like a medical contract out on themselves. So if you ever get fucked with, this corporation will come in, like shoot everyone and save you.


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[Assistant] Except that their transponder is being blocked by a virus. Like this, it's all very 80's sci-fi.


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[Assistant] So you is just some asshole with a gun, they're like, whatever, here's 50 credits, go in and save them. So you go in and you, uh, you shoot up just a bunch of gang members, uh, and that's like the first combat they showed, you take a hit off an inhaler, it like gives you temporary stat boosts and temporary abilities.


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[Assistant] And that was manifested in like these slow motion quick dodges. So if someone is shooting at you, you'd be like BOOSH, and then you'd see all the bullets kind of like fly by. And then you could like shoot some bullets and queue them up on people, and then when time restored, they'd all hit. Your analogy of Dishonored sounds even more appropriate. I think Dishonored is a pretty good, uhm, pretty good relationship. Except with like fully automatic guns.


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[Assistant] So you kill all the stupid gang members, uh, you go in with a buddy who's like this


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[Assistant] This, like, Hispanic dude with a samurai cut. You actually see him in the trailer. And speaking of, there actually is a lot of things in the trailer that were in the gameplay demo. That trailer...


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[Assistant] Oh yea, that's the one shot. So we're watching a gameplay of Snatcher in the background because it is also cyberpunk.


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[Assistant] So let me see here, let's see if I can scrub through and find it.


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[Assistant] This scene right here is actually a different, it's like a variant of what happened in the demo. Uh, so, yeaah, there's a skyrise. This, that is the medical corp.


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[Assistant] And they just fuckin' open fire, and this is the dude you go in with. Uh, his name is Jackie. So, in the version that they played in the game,


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[Assistant] You go in, you shoot all the gang members, you extract the person who, oh yeaah, I'll just hear it, let me put it in.


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[Assistant] Uh, you go and you extract the person who had the contract out, uh, there was like a virus blocking their transponder, you unblock it, so the corporation's like, okay, we found them, let's come and get them.


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[Assistant] Uh, so you carry her out to the ledge, this, uh, this medical corp sweeps in, they like staple this defibrillator to her.


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[Assistant] And yank her away. They show that in the trailer, yeaah. Oh they do? Oh they do! Yeaah, that's from that too. It's crazy cause yeaah, there are a number of scenes in this that are, that dude is your A number one homie. Yeaah. There's a number of scenes in this that come from the gameplay demo, or are different versions of what happened in the gameplay demo, which is weird. Uh, yeaah. That's just cool as hell.


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[Assistant] Uh, so you, uh, you successfully complete your, your mission, and that goes in, and then your character V goes on like a three day fuck drink bender, basically, with, with her cash. Uh, cause they, they chose to play as female in the demo. Uh, it like, it goes to black, it comes up, and she's like kicking some dude out of her apartment, uhm,


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[Assistant] And then Jackie contacts you saying like, hey, I got a lead on like, a good fixer. Fixers are people who just like, fix problems.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, so you, you, you're in your cyber apartment, they poke around there for a bit, they play some music, they like buy a soda from like the vending machine in the wall. Uh, you put on your, your cool cyberpunk jacket, which gives you street cred, which is one of the stats in the game.


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[Assistant] Uh, the gear you put on makes you look cooler, and the cooler you look you get more access to like, uh, vendors, different missions. If you just look legit in the streets, that's part of the game.


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[Assistant] This is where the world is heading. I'm gonna get a cool jacket with a lot of blinky lights on it. See, he says cool, but it's actually just a jacket.