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[Assistant] But you want the whole history of Respawn Entertainment. It started back when they were 2015 studios when they were making Medal of Honor for EA. And then they said, we want to do some more stuff. We're tired of World War II. This is how the story goes apparently.


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[Assistant] Well there's the thing, they left EA to go to Activision and they started a little thing called Infinity War.


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[Assistant] So, either way, those guys left, started Respawn, and now they're right back where they all started.


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[Assistant] Once it comes down to what the game is, if it's a force unleashed style, beat em up.


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[Assistant] Uh, admit it, you think that cybercrime is something that happens to other people, right Omar? How dare you? You may think that no one wants your data, or that hackers can't grab your passwords or credit card details, but you know what Omar? You'd be wrong. I am.


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[Assistant] Stealing data from unsuspecting people on public wifi is one of the simplest and cheapest ways for hackers to make money. When you leave your internet connection unencrypted, you might as well be writing your passwords and credit card numbers on a huge billboard for the rest of the world to see.


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[Assistant] And, uh, our drunk game plays. That was nice. Thank you. They finally turned a profit. I was like, someone said yes. Yeah, crazy. You guys are awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're pretty much at the end of the show here. Unfortunately, I did want to mention there was some cool future stuff happening in case you were wondering, hey, technology's not moving fast.


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[Assistant] Where's my foldable phone? Where's my self-driving car? Well, I got a couple answers for you. The foldable phone's not coming because it kept breaking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, Dieter did a really good review on The Verge. Uh, say what you will about The Verge, but Dieter is awesome. He's one of my favorite, uh, tech, uh, analysis reviewers, whatever out there. And he did a, he did, he said something really great. He said, this thing's not, it's not great. It's got a lot of flaws, but I'm really glad it exists.


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[Assistant] That's very good. Hard to see through his sunglasses. But, either way, foldable screens is something that's a, it's an exciting technology. No one asked for it, but here it is.


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[Assistant] We were, uh, we were, when we were doing Arizona Circle, we were like going through all the movies, and I think they were watching, uh, James Williams was watching that, that, like the last night or that one, that new, yeah, and then I was going through it and said, hey, I'm gonna play this, and like, what movie? I'm like, I'm just gonna play it, and we're gonna watch it, and we're gonna enjoy it, and it was Devilish.


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[Assistant] Demolition man is more right than it is wrong. Self driving electric cars, VR sex.


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[Assistant] I like that Sandra Bullock hands so much as to hold a towel before they start the cyber sex.


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[Assistant] Well, we grew up watching it as kids when we loved it. This movie was awesome. It was the shit.


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[Assistant] But I enjoyed it a lot. I love it a lot. But there's just, there's a lot of funny things that I just didn't notice. The first time I had ever seen it, the last time I had seen it until we watched it in Austin was, uhm, I saw it on VHS. So I was like, it's been a long time since I've watched this thing. And now there's only the digital version, which you can rent or buy, which, it's not Taco Bell in the future, it's Pizza Hut. What the fuck?


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[Assistant] I don't need to, just watch the movie, it's there. If you wanna see Sylvester Stallone get naked in one of his many films where he's pretty sure he's rubbing his balls against that glass while they're drowning.


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[Assistant] His ass is all over that movie. Yeah. Well it's the best movie to show Alana who's like never seen any of these movies where the movie starts out in the far off distant year of 1996. Yeah. And Los Angeles is on fire and it's this big action movie and you're like I don't know what's going on and then they're like you broke the law.


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[Assistant] You've broken this law, you're now frozen. And then James pointed this out because Alan kept asking and he said, every dumb question you have will be answered. Cause these are all, these are all your questions of like, why is this happening? Cause they're all dumb things in the movie. Like why would they freeze him? But he even explains in the movie where he's like pretty much awake the whole time.


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[Assistant] They are quick to process him on this, but look, we just have to get him to the future. That's why we're doing it. But the best part is, when they unfreeze him, they're explaining, uhm, as per the condition of your probation, or whatever, uhm,


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[Assistant] You have to follow these rules, as if there's a guideline for unfreezing cops in the future, who must stop other super villains, like this has happened before? It's...


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's aged poorly, but still there's like a lot of stuff you're watching.


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[Assistant] We have self-driving electric cars. They're all over that movie. It's crazy. Oh, that was the other, your future bit. Your demolition man moment of the year. Uh, apparently we're gonna have self-driving cars, completely self-driving by 2020. Blows my mind.


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[Assistant] There was one where the woman was crossing the road late at night in like a highway or something like that in Arizona. Walked in front of the car. The guy with his self driving car was being controlled by a guy.


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[Assistant] Or sorry, self-driving car, but he was, there was someone in the car. Piloted. Piloted. He's clearly on his phone during the thing. Hit someone's like, what the fuck? But uhm, they ruled that even had someone been driving, they would hit that person anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, there's a great YouTube channel, actually, like, I'll recommend them. Um, CGP Grey.


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[Assistant] I have an answer for you. The car will explode in a jolly full of foam.


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[Assistant] Which will then protect everyone inside of it. Demolition man. All the demolition man, they predicted it. Yeah, I believe you almost showed a little bit of it and there's a man just getting out of a giant fist.


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[Assistant] Oh, that was the other prediction they actually got right. Uh, they have these Taco Bell Cantina's now.


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[Assistant] What you do is... Are Taco Bells 24 hour? Some of them are.


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[Assistant] That is my, that is my guilty food right there. Anyways, uh, thank you so much everyone for watching, listening, however you choose to check out the show. Uh, check out our many sponsors that actually helps us out a lot. That means the sponsors said they basically find out we did a good job.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so check some of them out, that's, uh, if you're gonna try any of those services anyway, use our promo codes, they help us out a lot. Tell a friend, maybe tell two, and if you don't have two friends, maybe you should make one.


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[Assistant] We got a new thumbs up for the gift pile. We're into the post show. Stay tuned for that. If you are roosterteeth first member, uh, for everyone else, we will see you later. Goodbye. Bye. Be well. Here.


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[Assistant] Bruce has a theory about guys and when they communicate with women.


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[Assistant] I also heard some weird secrets that we can talk about later that I'm astounded by.


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[Assistant] Then you read the last phrase. Talk to you later. Adeo Kojima.


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[Assistant] There was a time when we were children where we thought, man, it's so cool that I didn't like, bathe today. And you reach a certain age, you're like, no, not cool. Like, you know, you gotta take those vitamins.


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[Assistant] I know you're, you get scuzzy no matter what. You just, you sort of collectively just no matter what. You get oils and cells and. I found if you force yourself to go to the gym then it's like well then you have to take a shower. That is true. You should. So like there are like rest days where you don't and then it's like well, on the flip side there were people who lived in


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[Assistant] You know they tell people to wear like sandals and stuff in the gym cause you get athlete's foot?


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[Assistant] 50% of the party is gonna be suffering for the next week.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, but I guess we should pinprick em and then just- Yeah.


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[Assistant] I guess we're most likely, I think I have a weird feeling that we're going to talk about Cyberpunk most of this podcast, right? I feel like that was the more.


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[Assistant] Okay, I heard some people got into it. Quite good. Lucky sons of bitches. I just showed up. Cyberpunk though.


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[Assistant] There's a very Witcher-like, uh, upgrade tree, except it looks like a giant circuit board, which is awesome. Yeaah. And it just keeps branching out and out and out, and it's just like, yeaah, they kept saying over and over, it's classless, you play, you upgrade it however you want.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like you're like, I want to be more pro corporate or I want to be street thug or, and it's like, it's kind of cool where there was one character, one of like the voodoo boys or whatever with like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I keep forgetting that it is like GTA RPG basically.


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[Assistant] He's your mission target or whatever, and he does the thing where he says, no, I'm...


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[Assistant] They're gonna betray you, and then you can choose, I can side with this guy, or I can side with my employers, and then you go.


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[Assistant] Basically you go, no, fuck you, you hack into his brain, and then you get betrayed. And you're like, oh, he was right, he told the truth.


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[Assistant] But it was a story beat because the story then progressed after that that hit a major plot point.


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[Assistant] So, feels like that's gonna happen no matter what. Uhm, because then you had to go meet this one person and then you were introduced to like, kind of the main thrust of the story of like-


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[Assistant] And she was tough. That entire level, because we didn't really get a chance to talk about it, but like, they're basically repurposing a gym for their like hideout. And so the one of the very first thing is the whole thing was a mole. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] The very first thing they do, cause you're playing as a netrunner, so you're all like hacking all this stuff.


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[Assistant] There's a animal dude, uh, fighting a robot, and then they're like, so you hack the robot to fight a little bit harder, and he essentially just punches the dude's head off. Yep. And then it's just all the other guys like, oh man, that sucks. Like, oh shit. Yeah, you, there's another guy benching, and you hack the bench, and it falls on him, and it's like, that's a lot of cool context-sensitive things that like, if you're just going and guns blazing, you miss all of that.


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[Assistant] Right in the next row? Yeah. Very 2001 like Space Odyssey sort of where you're like, just going to work on the moon, like, or, you know, somewhere in space. To our flight. Yeah, maybe planes in the future do orbital flights so they're faster or whatever. Like, I don't know. So much cool stuff. Looks freaking rad.


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[Assistant] And like, the whole thing is, it's, cyberpunk is also aesthetically, it's a lot of...


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[Assistant] Uh, he gets hacked, then he shoots that girl, and then I think- That's the flashback to the thing that happened before the- Yeah, that's what I thought was leading up to, like, them getting dumped in the- either way. I mean, yeah.


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[Assistant] I get, like, our question last year was like, okay, well what's the main story here? What's gonna happen? And now it seems to be, okay, well at least they have this, this MacGuffin now. We have a chip in your character's head, so now we understand why you're special. You're not supposed to, because you're not the chosen one. It's just, you just happen to be a...


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[Assistant] You're almost like, like, uh, someone said Fallout New Vegas in that sense where it's like, yeah, you're just a courier. Like, so I kind of prefer that, um, you know, ordinary person in an extra ordinary situation.


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[Assistant] Well, I do like to that it's not a world ending main story. I mean, it might end up being that, but just the idea of seeking immortality through digital consciousness is such a cool idea.


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[Assistant] It's a big deal now that like billionaires have been trying to figure this out because they don't want to die.


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[Assistant] Okay, Jeff Bezos, you can live forever, but you have to be, there has to be 3500 people on food stamps that are pumping their blood into your body. Exactly. And he would say yes.


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[Assistant] All I know is the next thing was you waking up in a dump and then, uh, Keanu Reeves being like, wake up samurai. You gotta get up. Yeah. Keanu Reeves.


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[Assistant] Or it's like, yes, we can do whatever we want because you're in cyberspace. So I, they're creative dudes over there, so.


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[Assistant] It is a sci-fi game, but it's still a fantasy world. It is a world that doesn't exist, but it is a reflection around society. That's the whole thing.


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[Assistant] What is, well yeaah, but like what happens when it goes five steps too far? So yeaah, we have lobbyists right now, which is like a strange thing that should not be.


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[Assistant] I mean, I guess to whoever, hey, it's up to you, but personal belief is like, well, you should probably keep.


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[Assistant] Corporations out of the government, but for some reason it just works that way and like.


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[Assistant] That's how pharmaceuticals work and that like has effects on people's actual lives.


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[Assistant] I mean, privatizing military is nuts, like, those sorts of things. Or prisons, yeaah. So then when they do cyberpunk, they, they privatize, uh, healthcare.


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[Assistant] In the first one, yeaah. I was, the most redeemable thing about it was there's like a pop song in the thing which I'm like, sounds like Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails, that's so weird. Cool. And then at the end, it is Head Like a Hole. Got me.


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[Assistant] If you take all the f-bombs out of that episode, it could have been on Nickelodeon.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I like a lot of third, third, three seasons, Metalhead and those other ones, like, the one where the, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah. Scared the shit out of me please. I'm also, I'm just kinda sorta curious what the world looks like, cause we know what the city looks like. Yeah, true. So, it's like, in Dread, you know, they do a pretty good...


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[Assistant] Over, you know, an airplane shot or whatever and they're like, a little flyover and they're like,


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[Assistant] If you had a chance to kiss Tom Cruise, you would.


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[Assistant] If you see the outsiders, he had bad teeth. And then he got them fixed.


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[Assistant] The draw distance was ridiculous and you felt like you're in this concrete jungle where


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[Assistant] The level we saw, what we talked about in the IG Daily, but it's like, it's supposed to be this like paradise, would you say? It was like that one Japanese town?


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[Assistant] And so you, there's the part when they're on the motorcycle and they go into third person and then you see the billboard where it's like


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[Assistant] Yeah, like it's just something that fell through and so like there is a back story to this place but then you see an airship just firing bullets into one of the rooms and you're like, there's stuff going on that I'm not a part of and that's cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm, uh, the, uh, the translation software I thought was really cool.


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[Assistant] Adapting it. Fantastic job of adapting it. You could say the same thing to The Witcher. Yea, for sure. They adapted books, but, I mean, good on them for...


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[Assistant] Two got a lot of hype because they completely redid the game, and then it was this, I remember this like, it was a graphical powerhouse.


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[Assistant] Yeah. He's like, I want to make these movies called John Wick. Got up to three. They're probably going to make a fourth.


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[Assistant] Sure, why not? Keep it going. Why not? Hex looks pretty cool though.


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[Assistant] He's, uh, the, like, yeaah, the fact that he's in cyberpunk is, it's weird, kind of jarring. He's earned it.


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[Assistant] It's like, oh, that's Keanu Reece. When did this start other than that shitty PS1 game, uh, with Bruce Willis?


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[Assistant] No, but I'm, I'm saying like where you just, you're just using that likeness now. Sort of like Death Stranding, how it's distracting to see Guillermo del Toro, not be Guillermo del Toro.


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[Assistant] I mean like Sam Witwer being in Force Unleashed, me knowing him from Battlestar, so it's like if you didn't know, the character crashed down from Battlestar Galactica, but he has a very defined face, so you're like, oh it's weird, it's like they're putting celebrities into the game now.


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[Assistant] Well, it's weird because you see real life faces on GTA four bodies. So it's a lot of like, Hey, how are you the next stretch? Yeah, it's like, but it's


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[Assistant] I think Square Enix tried to pull this shit too, where they started an animation studio in Hawaii.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, I would have loved to be in the room when they did, they're like, we need an animation studio in a beautiful city.


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[Assistant] Well, this is Konami or Kojima had their studio, their multiplayer studio up the street from us. I remember I went to the opening of that.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. And it was, I remember just being like, this isn't going to last. Like, they're like, this is for multiplayer support for Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain.


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[Assistant] No, it's not like that. You, do you think that's going to be so successful that you need a 24 hour team?


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[Assistant] Look, just saying we do Funhaus, we do Satellite Office in Hawaii. Funhaus Hawaiian style.


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[Assistant] Someone gets it over Christmas. That's gonna be a weird expense report.


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[Assistant] So I gotta buy that $6,000 Mac so I can get 128 gigs of RAM or whatever. Does a $600, $6,000 Mac? Well, I mean, do you want the $6,000 flat screen with stand or not?


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[Assistant] Are you editing this stuff raw? Like, you can do it offline? It's... Yea, you can.


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[Assistant] Similar to, yeaah, Chrome, people jumping because of other, you know, people going back to Firefox or going to Edge because it's like, Chrome's killing my computer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, seeing people go to affinity, affinity now, cause like, uh,


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[Assistant] What is it, uh, Photoshop and Illustrator is getting kind of bloated. Yeah. So there's these like smaller apps. It's only like 15 bucks. You pay for it once and it's done. So like I use only iPad. It's actually pretty nice. That's right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm like, oh wow, other people can do what Adobe do. Neat.


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[Assistant] I've been saying this for months, uhm, maybe years even now, but now that uhm, we have a little bit of like conference space now.


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[Assistant] I was talking to Omar about this yesterday, I'm like, we need a schedule time, maybe it's once a week or something like that. I sit the interns down and I have like a display monitor. I didn't get it one time, but it's like, I'm doing, whenever I have any free time, I'm doing thumbnails or something either for IG Daily.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, no, that, I mean, honestly, I took an 8 hour crash course on Illustrator because I didn't know the basics of it.


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[Assistant] It's all good things, but I'm not a professional when I say that. Because I didn't go to school for this stuff.


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[Assistant] I've been self-taught since high school.


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[Assistant] Yeah, those are a little wacky. So I've recently discovered Photoshop actions, which you can just buy online now. People make like really cool, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's cool, like if you want to do a, like I have a GTA 5, like filter one. And it's, you could do it yourself, it's not hard. But also you can buy an action from someone for five bucks. And I go, you know what bud, worth it. And all you gotta do is, it's literally a two layer project. So you have a background layer and you have your paint layer and you just like trace the part that you want.


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[Assistant] The image like trace and do the thing. You just run this action and it's.


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[Assistant] It's fundamentally not. I've overwritten files. Only because for some reason my computer crashes once a week. Cool. I don't know why. That's good. I'm guessing someone unplugged something or the power just goes out. I don't know. And so Photoshop is smart enough that it'll do a recovery file.


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[Assistant] And so it'll just, it'll take your file and say the name of it, dash recovered.


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[Assistant] But regardless, I always have to go back, delete recovered, and then save, and then it overwrites the file. So.


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[Assistant] Yep, end of August, around September. That's when you guys will see what we saw. I don't know how much of that will change.


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[Assistant] I guess it sounded like we all had slightly different demos, but that's because they were live game plays. Like it was someone sitting in the room playing.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I was in the, you were in the second to last one, I was in the very last screening of the day and they were a little tired and delirious and making jokes and


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[Assistant] But it was a dark room. It was hot. We're sitting in the back and Witcher, the demo wasn't anything to like write home about. It was just a lot of like walk. It was beautiful. Gorgeous. But then it's also like quiet and serene. So we're like, oh, it's like we fell on each other's shoulders and fell asleep. Yeah. I mean, we fell asleep in a, uh, was it Chris Roberts talking about star citizen.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say seamlessly work together because at one part, uh, one part, the uh, was the NCR, New California Republic, whatever, I had pissed them off. I didn't know how or why, and they just shot at me for no reason. I'm like, well, that's fine. That happens. And then I remember using a sniper scope and zooming at something really far away and it crashed the game. Listen, it's still a fallout.


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[Assistant] Still some mess there. I imagine it's going to be a little buggy, but... Probably. Yeah, I think after Fallout 4, and especially after 76, people are realizing that it's like, the game kind of became a bit more linear.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I like the base building. I actually ended up doing that more than playing the game. Same.


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[Assistant] I was like, I want to make this really cool. I made a really cool like garage thing where you put all your armor and stuff. It was rad. Yea, it was pretty rad. But Outer Worlds looks good.


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[Assistant] Just the demo. I'm curious what that game looks like from a gameplay perspective.


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[Assistant] Yeah, holy crap, uhm, that was weird. We did the, uh, we did the Xbox booth tour, the little like showcase thing. We tried to xCloud, which is working. This is so weird. But then yeah, that Halo Reach on PC and.


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[Assistant] Looks great. Uh, control the little funky only because it's this pre-alpha thing that they're doing where...


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[Assistant] They're like, uh, you can change your settings before you play the game, but you can't change it during the game.


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[Assistant] So they're like, figure out your mouth sensitivity now. But how do you know? I, that was sort of the hard part. So I set my sensitivity probably too low.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was the thing I forgot about Reach. They overwhelm you with enemies. That was when they upgraded their tech in Reach to just do like, so many enemies in one area. It's so cool. I guess so. It just feels a bit more brutal. The whole game is more desaturated and it has this sort of like,


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[Assistant] Impending doom feeling in the game and I was like, I miss this, I miss this game. It sort of came as like, oh here's a little bonus game before we leave, but it was honestly one of the best ones.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I have such a positive memory of that game.


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[Assistant] It looks great. So yeaah, I think that's going to be like 10 bucks or whatever, like Master Chief collection.


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[Assistant] The gamepad stuff's, it's looking cool, but I saw that they were going to be taking games off of it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I was unaware of it. But then, I guess the trick there is, if Netflix is like, hey we're taking this movie down, they don't give you the chance to buy it.


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[Assistant] It feels scummy, but at the same time... If you're enjoying the game...


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[Assistant] So James and I downloaded it and we're trying to get into a lobby together and we're like, there's no way the servers are up. There's no freaking way.


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[Assistant] It has an old version, an emulated version of Xbox Live. So the old dashboard comes up, and I had to go there and add James as a friend.


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[Assistant] I remember playing that when it came out. I was like, man, what a missed opportunity.


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[Assistant] I would say like that and Burnout Takedown were my two favorite like racing games of all time. And maybe... And Needs for Speed, Underground.


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[Assistant] Anyway, that was, uh, but yeaah. That was Halo Reach. That was yeaah, and I guess sort of my Xbox life, uh, or my, my show.


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[Assistant] James and Bruce did, I think, and they said they were very confused.


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[Assistant] I, I got the distinction that it was being made by the, uh, BattleBlock guys, or the, uh, what's their name, Newgrounds.


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[Assistant] They also have the surfboard mechanic from Unreal 2004. I like that. I don't.


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[Assistant] I went, I went tank, but it was like, it was almost like a battle tank, so I was like, it's sort of like how you play Roadhog, where you're like, like, you're a tank, but you do a shitload of damage. Yea, you can still kill everything. Yea, you can just kind of one shot most people, if you do it right.


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[Assistant] Nothing, I like Ninja Theory a lot and this is like one of the first games where I went like, well I'm not exactly blown away by this. No, I suspect it was them


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[Assistant] I knew I wanted more. This one I was like, I'm not really sure what I'm doing, I don't know if I want to keep playing this.


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[Assistant] Dude, snipers that kill you in one hit, like with a mouse and keyboard, it's, it's unfair. And then when every other character's a bot too.


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[Assistant] You're currently doing a gameplay series on, but it's a first person shooter on PlayStation 2. And...


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[Assistant] God damn it, I hate Amy with her controller. I was just like, god, unless it's Call of Duty, it's near impossible. And even then, it's not that easy. I think it's better on.


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[Assistant] I think if my life was just on console, I could get used to it because I did play a lot of Halo and like you get kinda used to it.


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[Assistant] Gotcha. Uh, real quick, I heard Sony was at E3, but they were like secretly showing stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, holy shit. I thought that was super massive. Uh, quick shout out to two games that came out recently. Katana Zero is amazing. If you get a chance to play that. And, uh, Hades.


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[Assistant] I typically don't like roguelikes, but this is like the best roguelike I've ever played.


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[Assistant] They, I saw they had it on sale, so I was like, oh, I'll buy it. I like, uh, I don't really typically like buying early access games, but like, the fact that you keep dying in the game, but it's progressing the story, cause that's part of the story that you do keep dying, so they know you're gonna keep dying. It's like, this is smart.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like. I like it, I don't know, I always forget Supergiant makes amazing games, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's on Switch now, so I was like, well, I should play it again.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what, that's what I got on. It's a perfect, like, airplane game.


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[Assistant] It's possible for a guy to have multiple orgasms, true or false.


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[Assistant] Who cares? For me, one is enough, baby. Oh, okay. It's all about you. So you- Damn right. You do or don't think-


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[Assistant] We've been saying from the very beginning that this was going to be garbage. We've been saying that it was going to be hot trash. And when the trailer came out, I thought we were all vindicated. I was like, yea, of course it's going to be hot trash as Sonic. So why do people complain about it? Of course, garbage guys.


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[Assistant] Also, to be fair though, that Sonic character, if he was like, oh, it looks like this, then a bunch of other people that had millions and billions of dollars were like, hey, uh, no, it's gonna look like this.


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[Assistant] Sure. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Michael Bay is a genius. Because he managed to do what Jeff Fowler isn't doing, which is turn the Transformers into a property that kids and adults saw.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what worried me about this. It was like, I don't like the fact that everybody could call me, we'll change Sonic. And they're like, we'll change Sonic. Because what about the next time when they come out and they're like, none is good.


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[Assistant] And then if we, if it happens to be on Netflix, I'll watch it, maybe. And if I'm on a plane, probably.


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[Assistant] It was a lot, it was a lot of crunch, uh, related stuff, so meaning like a lot of crazy overtime, seven days a week work. There was sexism involved, just, uh, I think the emphasis for Mortal Kombat was more of crunch. But either way they're both bad.


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[Assistant] It's interesting because you're not supposed to, I think it's like 18 months is how long that should be, but they get around it. Every large company that I've seen somehow gets around it.


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[Assistant] I've had that vocalized to me in meetings. Like they've said it out loud to like a group of us. They've been like, if you guys don't want to be here, then you know what? We've got five other people waiting in line and they're going to take your jobs. And to me, like when I was younger, it threatened me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the older that I get, the more I'm like, ah, you know, I guess if they want to pay someone less, with less experience, I can find a job somewhere else. That's the way I... And they go, don't go! Yeah, yeah, no, exactly.


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[Assistant] The point I made in the inside game, but I'll say it again because it's really important, is generally companies are going to take advantage of you.


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[Assistant] Generally speaking, almost every company is going to take advantage of you in some way or another. Small ways, big ways, whatever, and they're gonna do it for as long as they can. Until...


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[Assistant] Wasn't exposed. And so even in forced private arbitration, they don't get to say, it's this person, they should be losing their job or they should be, you know, like somewhere else away from me. And Riot was just like,


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[Assistant] Hear me out, I want a suit that I can get into that has rocket boots and blasters on the hands and something like a computer in my eyes that I can fly around like a jet. Can I have that? Uh, let's see.


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[Assistant] I just don't know, like, tell me, look, you tell me if I'm being too jaded. Okay. I feel like Marvel is just gonna be like, oh cool Marvel, you're gonna go and see an Iron Man suit, you're like whoa neat, and then it's gonna be Star Tours again.


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[Assistant] I'm not even- Did you get your tickets? No, I didn't even know it opened. I was at that YouTube thing. And then it closed and I was like, sad.


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[Assistant] Illinois, that's it. Whatever. Abraham Lincoln was said to have a pretty high pitched voice. Like he was like, he kinda sounded like a, like a little bit like a woman.


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[Assistant] It actually does sound like something, it's true. It is true, yeaah. It sounds like Vince McMahon would be the type of man at some point in his life. The older he gets, the more he's probably like, I should admit that I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] I know I'm going false last year. I'm gonna go false one more time. One more time. It's true. It is true. Damn it.


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[Assistant] That's like what, uh, I don't know if you guys ever saw it, but Scott Michelle tweeted a bunch of stories about the attack of the show. You should read that, because it's a fantastic story.


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[Assistant] Lawrence, you specifically would fucking love that game.


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[Assistant] I want to see the director's commentary early. It's always, I want to see the movie. What about the people who worked on it? You selfish, I'm making it all about you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how dare you. This is sarcasm. Nobody cares. This is a bit. Alright.


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[Assistant] I saw a snake eating a frog I was trying to get away and it was eating its legs first so it couldn't hop away.


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[Assistant] It's like them in African Greys or something. They're like Macaws or something. They live for 80 years and it's like, do they get a pension? I don't know. Like what do you do with them after you pass?


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[Assistant] Was Witcher 3 ever made playable to play?


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[Assistant] A sweet journalist may get our time in the sun where we down the line, but yeah, same sort of thing. Like we've done those sorts of events where it's like, so we've dropped you anything. We've given you 10,000 stat points. Well, like you having never played this game, you're like, I don't know what's what. I don't know what's going on. And then if you went back and started on your, you go, Oh, I see what they were trying to do for me.


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[Assistant] It's still, this is an early build. This is earlier than what we're at right now. We just wanted to show you something. It's an early preview and then you see the negative stuff and it's like...


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[Assistant] You don't want to be in a crowby cat video, I guess.


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[Assistant] I love it too. Well then, I mean, they had, what, Tobias? Tobuscus for a while too, earlier before that? But then, was it last year where they all stood up on stage and everybody said, fuck you, Sierra, like, you can't buy us?


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[Assistant] The original Cyberpunk, correct me if I'm wrong, Lawrence, you know this, is called Cyberpunk 2020.


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[Assistant] The movie 1984 came out based on the book that was written in 1948, he just flipped the years, that's why he did it. But the movie came out in 1984 because they were like, oh we gotta do, we gotta do this. That's why Dracula 2000 came out in the year 2000.


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[Assistant] The table top was 2020, so they're gonna- Number one, they want as much time as possible. They've been working on it since uh, when were we born?


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[Assistant] For an open world RPG, first person shooter, another type of game they haven't made before, like...


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[Assistant] Forest only said that was silly when your lightsaber was basically a baseball bat. Like, I hit that Ewok in the face, he shouldn't have a head anymore. What's happening? And they're like, Forest kick! And I'm like, oh god.


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[Assistant] We like to believe that their feelings are so hurt by Flute Guy and like, all the weird stuff that they did last year where they're like, it's just some weird press conference. They just don't have anything to show. That's my assumption.


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[Assistant] And then, and then they have a new console that they're working on.


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[Assistant] I mean, you could- I only ever saw the cover of that one Stormtrooper book, but there was basically like a- before the Disney buyout there was like a Stormtrooper zombie.


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[Assistant] I just, yeaah, it would be nice if the video games didn't have to tie in directly to the movies like, bring back old republic sort of stuff or go, go new republic, go 4000 years in the future.


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[Assistant] Stop this! You stop it! But then she was corrupted and became a spider? Is that what's-


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[Assistant] This got the hell out of me when I was a kid. The Fallen Order though makes sense because you're playing a character that survived Order 66 or whatever, so then it's like, it makes sense that you're a rookie starting with nothing. So for, okay, that works for me, but I'm with you, Elise, where it's like, just let the devs have fun. Republic Commando was awesome.


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[Assistant] It was good, but it still was like, it was still like a loot box sort of extravaganza or whatever, but like, I thought the modes were cool and stuff, but then like,


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[Assistant] It just got too e-sports-y and it just, it didn't really seem like there was a lot of love into the series. And then the fact that they were like, let's put Master Chief out of the side and introduce Locke! And like no one cared about Locke. Like he was just...


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[Assistant] Not that the chief is a really... He's not a deep character or anything like that. He's nostalgic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. And you, it's like, oh, I remember him from the other games, and there's books written about him, or yada yada, so you can at least have something to go off of, whereas Locke is like, I'm all attitude. And you're like, isn't that the guy who plays, uh, Luke Cage? Like, is it? Yeah, so it's kind of weird to just be like, an actor is now in this, whereas Chief is voiced by some DJ from Chicago.


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[Assistant] Which apparently was either scrapped or not even considered to put in, like...


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[Assistant] Is it like the bad rap, or the bad reception it was getting at E3 when they, didn't people audibly boo, uh, Battlefield's thing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're like, and Battlefield will have Battle Royale. I was like, they got booed, and then they're like, oh shit, but apparently it's not bad. I don't know, whatever.


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[Assistant] I haven't touched it. It's weird that Battle Royale is a selling point. It's just like, hey, we added a multiplayer mode, cool, whatever, everyone's doing it, here you go, it's fine, but not making a big deal about it. I don't know. What else? Oh wait.


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[Assistant] I think because they get like a message or whatever from Cortana and he's like, we gotta go get Cortana and they said, no you can't!


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[Assistant] I don't know. Hey, I think you, I guess you could almost just like remake the first game and really hone in on those moments that worked really well. Like uhm, what's the first one when you land on, uh, well it's Silent Cartographer, you know, big battle come in and then it's just a big level.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, like first start on Pillar of Autumn and then you land and then all of a sudden it's like, these are your three missions. Go figure them out in order, whichever order you want. I hope someone at, uh, I almost said Bungie, 343 looked at that and went, we could do that but bigger. And like imagine,


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[Assistant] I'll throw this out there. You know, it's gonna be a big surprise that no one's gonna be see coming. A new Bioshock. No. Oh, that's dead.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know they're doing the System Shock remake or whatever, but like, and then I know Prey... Prey was basically... Prey was very System Shock. It was actually...


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[Assistant] You know what would be nice, and I know everyone hates Konami, which is fine, we're allowed to, I would have liked them to remake all the Metal Gear solids with the Fox Engine.


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[Assistant] No, I mean like NES Metal Gear. Snake's Revenge. Fuck it, why not? Remake all of them. Yeah, like just remake them all with the new one and just be like, here we go, here's our remaster, our Metal Gear remasters. Yes, remake the original Metal Gear Solid and Twin Snakes.


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[Assistant] The Dave Lang memorial. I hate how self-aware it is. Really? It's too much? It's too much. I mean, I like it. Watching it is intense. Yeah, I wish we weren't, you know, co-streaming it or whatever, because then it's like, well, the audience should just watch it.


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[Assistant] As long as you got ray tracing, I don't care.


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[Assistant] I saw that. That's the one thing where people are like, oh, I can actually see the difference. As opposed to like, Battlefield, uh, whatever we called it. What was it, Battlefield 2?


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[Assistant] Look, it's the game we all wanted, finally a sequel to Mirror's Edge. Can someone please make that?


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[Assistant] No one cared. I didn't finish it. Oh, actually EA took away my access.


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[Assistant] No, I bought it digitally. Trade it in. You can trade in digital games. Watch Dogs 3.


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[Assistant] James and I played a lot of the co-op, cause we kept getting invited to like events to do stuff, like early coverage stuff. And like, we always enjoyed it. Like, Watch Dogs co-op was stupid fun. Cause it's like, you hack this, I'll hack that. And then we're just like, trying to run into each other and...


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[Assistant] I think I got to the very end and it got stupid hard for some reason. They just ramped up the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I was just like, this just isn't fun. And I just stopped and I was like, I'll just watch the ending online, but...


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[Assistant] He's the hard-ass, like, come on, McGruber, we gotta get the team back together. That's Powers Booth, not Michael Ironside, sorry. Similar guys, older gentlemen with amazing voices, but I'm like, I don't know how much longer we have with Michael Ironside. He's Canadian, so he's got good healthcare, but I don't know.


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[Assistant] Even in Conviction, uh, James and I did that whole co-op series. So much fun. I'm so glad you got to the end of that. That was, yeah. Well, I knew what was happening, but it's like, yes, it's one of those things where I'm like, I knew James would enjoy this.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, not outcast. Outcast is the one we played the old that game. This one was like a side-scroller and it had that, uh...


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[Assistant] Sorry, yeah, but like, it's that same thing as that one, um, shooter everyone loves, uh, Ikikara. Oh, Ikaruga? Ikaruga, yeah, where it's like, you can, if you're one color, you absorb it, and then you have to be the other color to fight it, basically. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, and it was like a side scroll, it was actually pretty well done. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I played on Vita, that's how long ago it was.


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[Assistant] It's a drop in the bucket for them, they're so rich they can just do whatever they want, but they're also like, it's just worth our time.


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[Assistant] I think they should do Kingdom Hearts DLC, hear me out. Okay. We got a new Aladdin. Let's get a new level. But it's like, real.


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[Assistant] They're going to spin it off, like that other game. What's that? The one, uhm, it was like a- Oh, The World Ends With You? Yeaah. I think they're just gonna go- It's just gonna be square stuff. It's just gonna be called like, Hearts. I know.


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[Assistant] But I assume that's what they're doing, is they're just trying to separate themselves from Disney, and they're gonna get rid of the Disney stuff, cause...


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[Assistant] I don't know, they seem to be really into, you know, Organization 13 and those things and they're like, let's just, whatever, we'll take the Disney out of it and we can just make these things faster. That's what they did with, uh.


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[Assistant] No, that's why I play it. Yeah, I mean when the selling point for, uh, Kingdom Hearts 2 is that it had Tron in it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it had two K-blades, it had a Tron, well, I mean Mulan was there.


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[Assistant] I like that it was Final Fantasy and Disney. I like that, uh, Cloud showed up. It was the first time I ever heard him talk. Like, I thought that was cool. And like, Final Fantasy characters are here and all these other things. And then, and then Disney was there as well, which is like, oh cool, you're making like, Jafar a villain or whatever. Was Jafar a villain? Maybe, I forget.


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[Assistant] Either way, I love the marriage of those two things, which also apparently happened because they just worked in the same building. It was literally like an elevator conversation, like, hey, you're here, we're here.


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[Assistant] Final Fantasy things about Final Fantasy the less I want to play them.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, I like the fantasy elements from like Final Fantasy IX. I miss that. But it just, when it's all, but now it's all beautiful boys and like,


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[Assistant] I thought 7 was that nice blend of cyberpunk future and like fantasy elements and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Wasn't the big reveal recently, they're like, it will have forklifts. And half the audience went boo, and the other half went yay.


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[Assistant] Master Chief, or sorry, uh, Minecraft Steve. Yeah, Steve. God damn it.


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[Assistant] I, Link's Awakening is actually perfect because my brother had it, he, he was the Gameboy one, he had, he played Pokemon and stuff like that and I was like more like PC or console or whatever. Uhm, but he had Link's Awakening and I tried playing it and I'm like, I can't see what I'm doing. Like it's so, it's just not.


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[Assistant] I don't know when it came out, but like, I played around the same time Ocarina of Time was out. So it's like, Zelda looks like this for me now.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, Jess actually played it too. She was like, she had a gameboy growing up. She was like, yeah, I played Lynsa Wickney, I actually really like it. I was like, oh shit. I'm like, well, I'm finally gonna get to play it. So, finally it's my turn.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but I think they're gonna do a, uhm, Twilight Princess sorta thing with it. Where they're like, PS5 launching with Death Stranding, and then they're like,


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[Assistant] Two months later. So what's on that? Oh, it's on PS4, but it's, he, he delivers things slower, and like the load times are bad.


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[Assistant] Did he galactically love it? He hated it.


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[Assistant] It's about people serving food on dumb things, like, yeah, it's just like a wood board, it's like, okay cool, but then like, shit, like on frisbees, it's like, we want plates!


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[Assistant] What are we talking about? If you jack off on something, does it count as having sex? Yes, that's what it is.


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[Assistant] And just the manner that it happened, the lack of warning, communication, or explanation is always a bummer.


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[Assistant] That's an interesting- I kind of made my piece a long time ago with the fact that the kind of content production I'm in is...


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[Assistant] Is, uh, recurring and disposable. So it- while I still invest a lot of effort into it, I don't- I'm not under any illusions that people are gonna be watching this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and while I put my heart and soul into it or whatever, when I did it, I'm now working on other stuff, so. That's true.


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[Assistant] It's understandable, I think, that a whole generation grew up with online media. And I think part of the promise of that is, given that it's so accessible, is that it will be accessible forever. And this is a good reminder that that's not true either. The business realities that affected every other medium leading till now are still in effect right now.


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[Assistant] Which means that yeaah, uh, licenses are hard to transfer, it makes things hard to find sometimes, especially when things change hands, uh, it gets messy. And I think this is just a sign of that.


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[Assistant] One thing you guys did point out is, uh, if G4 is backed up on Betamax tapes in somebody's basement somewhere...


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[Assistant] I mean, Machinima's a channel, probably backed up somewhere on a YouTube server.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I think, I understand the reaction given the lack of warning. Uhm, and I also understand the lack of warning to a degree.


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[Assistant] These, these situations are more complicated than I think anyone will ever know, the public eye. Uh, it, it, it does just seem like some, somebody was just like, make it go away! Nobody wants to do that, nobody wants to make people angry for no reason, so there was a reason. It's just, we don't know what it was. Uh, the good news is, is that, you know, since we're part of the same family now, we're talking about it, we're trying to figure out what we can do going forward.


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[Assistant] I mean it's more likely, I mean dudes, dudes will blast out of a stall after taking a hefty dump and just blaze right out the door with their washing hands. I'd be more worried about that than a little cum.


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[Assistant] I wanna follow that person around, and you, you only get one, but I wanna like slip into casual conversation and be like, hey, by the way, this guy's got dick hands. You know that, right?


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[Assistant] If you check it excessively, it implies that you're nervous about it. Which makes it worse.


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[Assistant] So here's the problem with that, Alana. Uh, well, you can lock it up like a Chinese finger trap, but I thought a lot about Portal, and whether or not you could fuck your own butt in Portal.


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[Assistant] The answer is you can't, unless the walls move, cause whenever you go into that butt, you're going away, so it's always chasing you, it's like a great torture.


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[Assistant] Was it good? What was your rating? What review did you get?


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[Assistant] How come you haven't, wait, you haven't been to Bad Dragon? They got horse penis on there. I don't even know what that is. Oh no.


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[Assistant] Also, is it so bad to acknowledge context as a thing? I know that bites off a whole other conversation, but...


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[Assistant] The context of that movie is important, and its success in movies is important.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Black Panther probably doesn't deserve it, but the context is why it's there.


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[Assistant] Well, so Bruce, you hit on an interesting, uhm, I feel like the core of it is, is popularism versus, like, critics and intellectuals deciding what valid, or what has pushed the medium forward. Right. So, I thought, I always thought the Oscars fall, always fell,


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[Assistant] As a, as a statement of purpose on the critic, intellectual side of it. Which is that


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[Assistant] People are gonna like dumb movies about farts. Whatever. We're here to celebrate the movies that deserve more attention by people who love film.


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[Assistant] And I don't- that's a weird way to strike the balance in between the two by nominating popular films.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, if you're the eighth guy, you want an award for that, but. No, it's more like, I feel like celebrity now is somebody who's approachable. They're not residing on Mount Olympus with all the other celebrities. So, this image of like, a bunch of titan-like celebrities all in a building jerking each other off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's now, it's now seen as opulent. Uh, which it always was, but now like opulent in a negative way. While all us boots to the ground creators are making the content people really want to watch. So I feel like there's been a bit of a schism there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, horror is one of those weird things where, cause I agree, Hereditary was about stuff, it did new things and I think it introduced new ways to terrify an audience or get them thinking about certain themes, which to me is what a good movie is.


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[Assistant] But yeah, yeah, uh, but I think there's always been this, kind of like with superhero movies, I think there's a bit of a stigma towards horror that is popcorn entertainment.


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[Assistant] I'm still listening to that. I feel like Spider-Verse, in all the ways Black Panther was important, if you just look at the execution and the meaning behind it, I think Spider-Verse probably out tops it in all of those categories.


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[Assistant] I do. Uh, I, I elected myself as guinea pig. Uh, so yeah, I'm, I'm on their finasteride, uh, subscription service, which is a prescription to prevent hair loss. Uh, and it's clinically proven to do so.


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[Assistant] I personally, just speaking personally, I get how that can, that's the perfect sales pitch, right? Like, I've got these hair prevention rocks, you better buy one, because if you, if you don't have this rock, you'll lose your hair, but if you already do, I can't help you. But no, it's, there are clinical trials about finesse, right? It is proven to prevent hair loss, so.


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[Assistant] Which is proven or it shows to prevent the accumulation of DHT, dihydrotestosterone, which is what causes hair follicles to stop growing. So they have shampoo that like keeps your hair follicles all tingly and active. There's the finasteride which blocks that. Also good for preventing, uh,


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[Assistant] When I did it, I just took a blurry cell phone photo and the doctor that was paired with me was actually like, I can't make out your hairline in that photo, please take another. Which was nice, which means that a living human who was actually looking for real information reviewed my case file and was like, I need more, I need this stuff. So I took another one based on my age and I think some thinning that even I noticed before that.


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[Assistant] They were like, yeah, it looks like you're thinning out a little bit, I'll give you this and hopefully it'll slow the thinning process. So, hit me up in 15 years and we'll see where I'm at.


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[Assistant] Love your vanity url. Makes so much sense for him. It is good. Kinda like blue apron for soup. Oh yea. We got it. Oh yea.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeaah. I'm sure that it will. I've tried to rack my brain about what that could, like what kind of parable that could be about, about seeing like a twisted version of yourself.


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[Assistant] Oh! Oh! Okay, well the way it was pictured in Get Out was that you were in the sunken place. That's how they kind of visualized it in that movie. So whenever you were being mind controlled, you were still in there. But I could see like, maybe that's another factor of it. Yeaah, that if you're buried in your own psyche, that you're seeing the dark and twisted side of yourself as a personification for your public persona.


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[Assistant] I'm really excited. I don't need it to be about something. And I kinda hope that Jordan Peele doesn't get pegged as like a twist writer. Not in like a Shyamalan way. I think Get Out was not that kind of movie. There's no twist in that movie really. Not really, no. But it did have layers. And I really hope that people don't come to expect that.


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[Assistant] Hold on, I'm running the math real quick on that. Six inch dicks, if we're being generous. More like three.


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[Assistant] Seven dudes, that's under four feet of dick length. Do you think that, like, a forearms worth of dick is enough to split up between seven guys and form a locked circle?


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, that has to have left a scar on the planet. Maybe it's at the bottom of an ocean or something.


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[Assistant] There was a, man, speaking of getting locked in an executive office while they pitch you on ideas, uh, this is an old machinima thing. I remember, uh, one of the Debois always wanted his calendar on the wall. It was like this dry erase board.


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[Assistant] It's like, what about YouTube, uh, but better and people have to pay for it?


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[Assistant] It's like, oh, so like a subscription service, like yeah, we're gonna make premium stuff and then charge people for it. And I remember as I was writing thinking no one's gonna pay for that.


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[Assistant] I've come to accept that that's kind of part of having a job, sometimes. Is that-


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[Assistant] Yeah, everyone has their own position and their own visibility and their own knowledge about a certain set of all of the data. No one has it all. Nobody. So everybody makes decisions based on what they know.


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[Assistant] And given that people are making information on different data sets, they're gonna come to different conclusions. And that doesn't mean that anyone's wrong. Sometimes it absolutely does. But it's been difficult to accept that.


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[Assistant] What I see and what I think is the best course of action may not actually be the best because I don't have all the information.


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[Assistant] In like, like masturbatory thing ever. Where all the awards are. They found a way to get 7 ad reads in 45 minutes of a podcast. Wow.


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[Assistant] I don't like when we show children on our content. Like actual children.


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[Assistant] What do you want to go? What's the big deal? I think it's pretty cool. Oh, gotta deliver this gas. Watch out for my monkey on the steering wheel. To me this is pretty neat because I actually think this is a testament to humanity.


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[Assistant] So you get a, you get a, you know those little trains that go around the zoo? Yeaah. Getting them as a conductor of that train. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'm looking forward to this, I think what I want to do is turn...


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[Assistant] Our Monday series into this. That's, so, you know, sneak preview for all of you people who are watching Monday. We just finished our season of Wheelhouse. We're moving on to something fun.


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[Assistant] Which is a surprise. And then ideally we move on to Hitman and hopefully Hitman will give us a lot of content to finish off the year. So.


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[Assistant] I guess that's true for an actual hitman.


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[Assistant] They have one up on most normal people who are not looking to kill or


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[Assistant] Look, I hope that it gives us as many good episodes as the other Hitman did. I hope so too, yeaah. Because Blood Money was awesome.


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[Assistant] Or the, what's the resolution of the, is it 1080? No.


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[Assistant] Maybe they're shifting though. Like, that's the one thing that Google's now doing with the Pixel, and obviously iPhone's been doing for years, which is releasing the S, right? The iPhone 3S or whatever the fuck.


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[Assistant] Nintendo may have been trying to follow that lead and be like,


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[Assistant] That's what I was just thinking. To me, it's like, Breath of the Wild, was it 720p30?


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[Assistant] Right? I don't think it was- It was variable frame rate on docked. It was. And even docked it, it would dip sometimes. And then docked it was, yea docked it dipped so I was like maybe, maybe it's just a performance boost? I know that that's counter to what we were just talking about, but it's like-


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[Assistant] It, it never looked good to me when I was playing Docked, ever. Like I was not, I was not like, oh this looks great. It looked really nice for what I had. Like I was always like, oh wow, I can't believe this tiny little thing is giving me this.


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[Assistant] That would be wild. Stupid. That would be wild if Nintendo did that.


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[Assistant] I think James is right, I think it's going to be more of a gimmick. Like, blow on your Switch to do this thing.


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[Assistant] I think that's possible. And you'd still be able to dock it in all the existing hardware, it would just be larger.


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[Assistant] That's also way bigger. So larger would make a lot of sense. That's the best guess.


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[Assistant] Which doesn't, yea, which never made any sense cause then if you had, like I would play on an airplane and I would, it would be plugged in with the jack. So like two wires coming out of it. I was like, I was like sitting there with all wired up and trying to get tangled. I mean again, first of all problems, but it's, but it's, you're right. You're absolutely right. They need the air buds.


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[Assistant] I can't think of any cause they've gotten Mario Odyssey, they got Zelda, they got- Diablo 3?


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[Assistant] Animal Crossing is a semi-big deal. There you go. Semi-big deal. FIFA 19?


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[Assistant] Pokemon, Civilization VI. Oh yea, Civ VI. See? Pokemon, Pokemon and the other one, Civ VI.


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[Assistant] He caught everybody's eye. They all know about fat bear. I don't like the shame in his eyes. He can't help that he's fat. He looks kinda hot. He's just tired.


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[Assistant] He's just tired. He's about to hibernate. He's about to hibernate.


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[Assistant] Nice! A lot of salmon. It's a round bear. This is, this one's good. So he starts out like that.


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[Assistant] He's having a great day. They're just big old dogs. Yeah, they are. Bears are the best.


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[Assistant] I like possums. They're frightening and scary.


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[Assistant] I like it because they got big dumb eyes, even though they look scary. Oh, is it opossum? Opossum. Even though they look dumb, or I'm sorry, even though they look scary, they're really stupid and they fall off stuff and I love watching them.


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[Assistant] Or he's hungover, or they're on drugs. Or they're trying to look, like, not suspicious. But that makes them the most suspicious when they put on sunglasses. Well, then they're the only one, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Alright. Oh, it's on the one page. Great. Yeah, it's a lot of book like it usually is. Okay.


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[Assistant] The title of the post, my girlfriend wouldn't have sex with me, so I made her watch me masturbate.


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[Assistant] This is under remorse. This is a remorseful post. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] By the third day I was getting fed up with constantly being shut down.


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[Assistant] So when we went to sleep that night, I told her that if she wasn't go to have sex with me, she could at least help me cum.


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[Assistant] I took out my laptop to play the porn and in a split second I had a terrible idea. I don't know why I decided to do this.


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[Assistant] I pressed play and put the laptop in a place we could both see.


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[Assistant] Now, it took her a few seconds to realize what was on the screen, but the second she did, she went all quiet.


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[Assistant] She tried to look away, but I kept yelling at her to look at me while I jerked off. I finished in a towel and went to sleep.


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[Assistant] I don't know why I did it, but I've since deleted all the old pics and videos I had of exes, and I feel terrible that I did this to my girl.


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[Assistant] Probably not very good. I feel bad for all the women that are anywhere near this man. Yeah. Cause he's filmed them and he's keeping them. He's a sociopath. They're like, after three days! That's it! I'm fed up! It's past my limit! How dare she! I've asked her constantly!


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[Assistant] But you ghosted the- Yeaah. Be a man, and just say you don't want to date her anymore.


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[Assistant] According to this article, they dated for three years and lived together for two.


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[Assistant] So I don't necessarily know that that's true. I know that Omar was already laughing.


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[Assistant] It's not a crime. I mean it is, probably. You should make a segment where James sucks all the fun out of an internet thing.


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[Assistant] That's hilarious! I would be worried that he was an actual doctor and he was operating on people. That's what I would be worried about.


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[Assistant] Also, giant monkeys or chimpanzees will rip your balls off. So I don't want them anywhere near me.


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[Assistant] They can't be hygienic either. They've gotta be covered with diseases. So are you. Okay, and so am I.


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[Assistant] I have titanium in my face, Lawrence. I've had cyber implants for years.


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[Assistant] No, it does not. No, versus the mesh that holds in your guts. Yeah, that's worthless.


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[Assistant] Well that was in, uh, what was that? Was it First Man?


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[Assistant] Alright boys, I'm missing these bears fighting. Bears have watched this for hours. That's great. Bears are just fighting.


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[Assistant] I like Dan and I actually respect his opinion almost all the time. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Uh, verify or justify anything that I've thought about the show.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna go watch it, and then if I agree with you, I'll let you know. Yeah, please do.


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[Assistant] Home Earth buttons are a little messed up. He's figuring it out.


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[Assistant] You guys are, so that's your sugar mama. High fives to being kept men. Yeah, that's awesome. Oh, if we were kept, we wouldn't be working, probably.


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[Assistant] Does he really? He just added the fart sound effect to it, right? And the like, oh!


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[Assistant] Click Cassie Dragonite. Is this another channel of farting?


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[Assistant] No, I'd treat you on that. Diarrhea five. Private shorts.


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[Assistant] I'm still voting for Otamatone. Okay. Even, even over private shards. Oh, okay. Wow, okay. Alright. Uh, because Otamatone at least is providing some sort of original content. Yeah. No diarrhea sounds the same. There's gotta be more than one guy.


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[Assistant] They aren't working very hard, whereas diarrhea, I mean I could start a channel where it's just me diarrhea-ing. That's easy.


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[Assistant] I didn't expect him to say that at all. Yeah. I don't think John's gonna do that. You don't think?


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[Assistant] Lots of theater modes coming up. Yeaah, so check out theater mode. Six weeks? Seven weeks? Yeaah. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wanted it to be a surprise. I mean, like- Bruce likes surprises. It'll be a surprise- I do. It'll be a surprise for the people that follow him.


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[Assistant] I know, that's why I started saying only like last year, I've had it since I was 14, and I only started saying it's my name in the middle of Charizard like a year ago.


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[Assistant] That's why I don't know how old the word duds is, because that one makes sense to me. If it's duds with attitude, meaning like, we're a bunch of idiots and we have attitude. That makes sense.


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[Assistant] Like they'll want a job at the studio so bad that they'll work more than anyone else and some of them


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[Assistant] Well, we should mention that a couple of years ago there was a letter from the wives of Rockstar San Diego that was basically this thing that all of these women had written regarding their husbands who worked at Rockstar San Diego.


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[Assistant] Uh, complaining about how much they all worked. So it's, this is something along the lines of, it seems like Rockstar has had sort of a history of this, it's not just...


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[Assistant] So the one time that I was so down to work and sleep only four hours and sleep at the office was when we got Breath of the Wild early. I was like, I don't care. I will cover the hell out of this game. I will finish it before it comes out. Like, cause I was so excited about it that I was fine with doing that. We were literally sleeping at the office, two of us playing in the same room because we only had two codes, or three I think. Sleeping there, waking up, doing the same thing the next day.


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[Assistant] But then there are also times where I'd be there till 3am and I would tell my manager and be like, oh woah.


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[Assistant] Games media is totally brutal at work, and for the exact same reasons that development is, in that you can work absurd hours, November is a really hard time for anyone who's reviewing games because you have to play so much and cover so much, but


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[Assistant] And I would totally prefer to talk about video games than to be an accountant, so I get it. But it just comes from this mentality that employers are like, well, you're replaceable, everyone wants your job, so we don't care how hard you work, just keep going.


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[Assistant] It seems like from the top down that it would have to change, that you would have to rethink that Al was put in


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[Assistant] 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 like today I came in late and it was way easier because I've written the entire of Gaming Weekly.


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[Assistant] You can't do that otherwise. And that's the thing that I always tried to do at IGN and the job I had before that be like, can I just have one day where I just write stuff? But it generally tended to be easier that I would go to a coffee shop nearby so I could still like come in for meetings or whatever. But that is a thing that I feel like more companies are slowly adapting to.


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[Assistant] It's still very distracting yesterday. Adam and I were having a conversation and your puppy walked past the door. Adam, mid-conversation went, ooh, is that the puppy? And ran out of the room.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but some of them who are publicly traded, it pisses people off when you delay something. And that's really the only way you can go around it. So it's, you know, if it affects the stock market, but for those who are privately traded, it's people who are mad on Twitter. It's a PR disaster if you have to delay something. So people are like, I would prefer that you get this goddamn game out right now.


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[Assistant] They pre-ordered it, right? And it's like they feel like they were promised something and I kind of wish that everyone would just announce things later than they do. I think Bethesda's gotten really good at that. Privately traded company, Zenimax, so they're different, but they...


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[Assistant] Basically announce something and then release it four months later. It like works really well for them.


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[Assistant] Because they don't have PR. So they were just very open about talking about it and it was like...


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[Assistant] Kind of gut wrenching, like they were talking about like crying at the office and people breaking down and like yelling at each other in this period of time.


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[Assistant] And for them it was a lot of pressure to release because that's what they had told the public. Like they had told people they would be doing it and when they delayed for...


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[Assistant] I think two days people will be furious at them. You have all eyes on you. It's getting death threats and they're like, we have to get this game out. So it's like they're being harassed or also crying and just being mad at each other and it just sounds so awful. That's probably very common though. I think so. They're just the only people to willingly talk about it.


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[Assistant] I telltale games sucked to review because you would get a code 6pm Friday because that's when they finished it. You play it over the weekend, you got to play it three times generally to make sure you're seeing all the different choices. And then you have to write the review and then you have to have it up Monday morning. So you have to do all your capture, do all your edit. And that amount of time, it's just like every time that I get one on a Friday,


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[Assistant] My Assassin's Creed Origins review was, uh, it was an event so we had to go there and play it and then leave and it was five days and the game took like 45 hours to finish and you're just sitting in this room playing it while also having to figure out how to write it and everything that you need to capture just in this goddamn room just like, uuuhhh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my first job at a university I was earning $18 an hour. And then I came here and was like, you can earn $6 an hour? It was just a call center. It was a crappy job. It's just the wages are high.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Gamestop is, like I worked there as well, and some of the bad stuff about working there is like, you know, I was still in school, I was a kid when I was working there.


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[Assistant] With them, it's also KPIs, like, if you don't pre-order this, get this many pre-orders in this amount of time, then you're fired. It's like, I can't make people do things, so they have this culture of making people lie.


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[Assistant] I remember the first time I cleaned up vomit at McDonald's when I worked there. I didn't know how to do it. And so I just like sort of put a mop on this chunky vomit.


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[Assistant] So, I've said this publicly before, but the IGN show, the show that we did for Disney was a daily show, was the worst


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[Assistant] Professional experience in my life. The three months that we made that show. Thinking about doing that for several years.


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[Assistant] Six weeks in a row, no weekend and I remember having a conversation with, uh, like one of the executive producers and was like, when am I gonna have time to see my boyfriend? And they were like,


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[Assistant] The thing that gets you is uhm, I spoke about this on the podcast when we were talking about the telltale thing, that someone's tweet was something along the lines of like, no matter how much overtime I put in,


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[Assistant] I think that's what my first year in the US was like, is like I don't associate.


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[Assistant] I feel like I never lived in San Francisco because I lived in IGN. Like I feel like I didn't live in that city at all. I was always just there. It's like, it's so weird to think about. And I had plenty of like awesome experiences there, but so much of it is just like, didn't really have a life, didn't really do very much, just work. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like I don't know anything about hunting primates. How do baboons work? I don't know if they work that way.


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[Assistant] I've never had camelmeat. I don't know. I'm not an expo. I've had kangaroo meat. I've had kangaroo meat.


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[Assistant] You can't really call it roadkill because they're so, they're so muscular that if you actually hit a car with a kangaroo, it'll more likely kill you than the kangaroo. Wow. Because they're just bricks. Then it's literal roadkill. Yes.


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[Assistant] One thing that gets me at kangaroos is if, like, you walk past a pack of them, like there's tons of them, they'll- they're fine, they won't-


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[Assistant] They're not aggressive, they're not gonna attack you out of nowhere, but you'll walk past and they'll all just like be eating and they're on their fours and then they'll all just look at you.


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[Assistant] If Hentai were successful, in theory, there would be more animators, it would be more highly paid, meaning that sure we would get more Hentai, but we would also get better anime, better cartoons, etc. He could have made that case, he didn't.


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[Assistant] There's a case to be made, if pawn succeeds, mediums succeed. So I get it, he was just like, I really just like it.


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[Assistant] I would really like to, like, read an article from someone like that on hentai versus real porn.


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[Assistant] I like read one of those about a guy who was supposed to do like double anal for the first time and he like, he wasn't clean enough and so just like kind of...


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[Assistant] There's also apparently technology that can identify a butthole and like AI-wise lighten it.


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[Assistant] I ju- I looked at this just the other day, and I saw the thread, and it was like, out. Not looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. No thank you.


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[Assistant] Things can be simulated so well that we literally are not going to stand with truth. It's like that Google phone call with AI, like that stuff is going to be happening more and more. And I don't know like 20 years from now, will we have any concept of what is real and what is not? Like it's not that far away.


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[Assistant] People already do it about like fake tweets, stuff like that, like comments they read, like it's already kind of skewed that everyone has different understanding of what is real and what isn't. It's just as soon as it comes to be someone's face that is made on something else digitally and then


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[Assistant] Their words put together to sound like something is when it's like, how do we discern what's real and what's not?


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[Assistant] Well that's like, there was a VR game where you could touch women in bikinis.


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[Assistant] I feel like based on this that my suggestion from last week did not win.


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[Assistant] My vote doesn't count because they already voted. So I'm going to vote for Kako Kaya, I really appreciate the effort that you put in, uh, the free smut in this pot.


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[Assistant] There's always another level, yeaah. It's, you gotta, I don't know, or it's more disappointing like the Patriots or something from Metal Gear where it's like. Just a bunch of brains in jars. Yeaah. Geez. God, that sucked.


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[Assistant] Throws the story across your desk or your laptop at whatever cafe you're at while you're, you know, sipping your...


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[Assistant] I mean, you do this, we do this every day. Headlines and you're talking about a news story podcast. What, what kind of headline would you go with that wouldn't be so salacious?


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[Assistant] Does it not benefit someone in this sort of situation, whether they know it or not, that they know the apology video will do really well?


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[Assistant] That's how quick this stuff moves though, and it's happening faster and faster.


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[Assistant] Come through this person's entire backlog, which I mean, yeah, if you're, I guess if.


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[Assistant] Double check all these channels, but I don't know. I imagine if you're making daily content, that's one of those things that easily gets...


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[Assistant] That falls on the individual. Do you wanna be, uh, someone who's responsible for children? Uh, if so, then own it. If not, uh, keep doing your thing. That's, it's honestly, it's like,


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[Assistant] How you want to deal with those consequences is up to you. I think we all know the bigger you get, you should just be more aware of the sort of influence you have. Like, that's why I wish Gwyneth Paltrow was up saying such stupid things.


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[Assistant] But if that's what she wants to keep doing, cause also it keeps her in the news, so whatever, it's totally fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I am not the person to tell someone else how they should be. Not that I'm a religious person anyway, but it's always the he who threw the first stone. You know, it's like, or sorry, he without sin may cast the first stone, so it's like,


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[Assistant] I am not better than anyone else, so who am I to wag my finger or shake my tail and say, how dare you influence my children better?


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[Assistant] With stuff where we're like, let's just put a little bit of a clip from Miami Vice in there.


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[Assistant] Okay. And it is, does technically fall under fair use, but we are still, it's still someone else's platform. So we're like, we're waiting for this axe to fall any day.


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[Assistant] I wasn't, I didn't want to just point at one person and go, how dare you. Cause it's like, if it wasn't him, it was going to be someone else. Like it was always going to happen. Something was going to, when things get so big, they eventually topple over. That's just sort of the general rule.


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[Assistant] Watch a movie called The Boiler Room. It's a great film where you can learn where it's a bunch of dudes getting away with a bunch of shady shit. It's obviously, they're doing way worse things than...


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[Assistant] What we're doing on YouTube, but it was like, these are guys who thought they were invincible, and they're like, it's gonna be great forever. They're like, no!


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[Assistant] God help you if you follow their career. You end up seeing them just doing nothing but succeeding and you're like, why are they doing this? Like, because they're just, they're just, I don't know, they're being a dick their entire life and just being rewarded for it.


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[Assistant] There's a, there's a comparison here. I was just thinking this. So, PewDiePie got big, bing.


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[Assistant] I was just saying, PewDiePie got to where he is being who he is, right? He's always been kind of an edgy...


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[Assistant] If you want to say edgy, kids thought he's edgy or whatever. He's, he got to where he is being who he is. And...


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[Assistant] For him to then switch gears would probably be jarring for the audience. For him to go, Hey guys.


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[Assistant] I-I'm really big now, I have personal responsibility, I'm gonna-


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[Assistant] YouTube Rewind started out as this somewhat pure thing, which was, we're gonna celebrate all the things that reflect the internet, or what we think like made YouTube. And then they put out this trash heap, which I watched on mute, I just sort of skimmed through.


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[Assistant] That's it. Just say you want to be Disney Channel so that life would be easier. Yeah. I don't know. I, yeah, it's, it will forever...


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[Assistant] Blow my mind that, uh, that the YouTube monster, because it, YouTube is a, it is humanity holding a mirror up to itself, because it's everything. It's...


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[Assistant] Whatever, the app's been downloaded seven billion times or whatever on just the Play Store, you know, on Android devices, so it's like...


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[Assistant] Everyone uses YouTube. It is, it is synonymous with...


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[Assistant] And so, it's gonna have a lot of good stuff, it's gonna have a lot of bad stuff, and it's gonna have a lot of in between. So when you do this, the rewind is almost, I think at some point they just go...


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[Assistant] You know what? We're not gonna do it anymore. They should just not do it. Because, because to do a rewind now would just be like basically let's just do a year in review because CNN has a channel, you know? Like...


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[Assistant] Everyone has a channel. Jimmy Fallon has a channel. All this stuff. It's television and internet, or you know, internet videos are just becoming the same thing. So, this sort of video is just pointless.


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[Assistant] They started out with, hey look at this neat little thing with a little band you've never heard of called Ok Go, to now being, now it's a gelatinous monster that has everything.


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[Assistant] I guess when the Daily Show hosts is flossing, and John Oliver's doing Fortnite dances, we just, maybe we, maybe we, the creators of this thing just look at, take a long look in the mirror and go.


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[Assistant] What are we doing, man? Why? Why? Why do this? Who's it for? It's for nobody. There's no passion behind this. This was a checklist.


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[Assistant] So. Yea, you're right. I dunno, and once again, I've only seen it on mute because... You should watch it.


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[Assistant] Just show me. Yeaah. I don't know. I don't know. I guess at some point it's just, yeaah, it goes beyond, maybe YouTube needs to just realize that their platform is bigger than them, if that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Don't, isn't, aren't you just upsetting snowflakes by calling them snowflakes?


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[Assistant] Look, just chain me up, you know, put some hot wax on me and call it a day.


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[Assistant] I'm an average American, I like my, I like it just normal, you know?


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[Assistant] No, I got that. It looks like giant candles. I love it. He's getting it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I intend to read through it and highlight the good stuff. Red's sort of like a, uh, full life consequences from, uh, the Freeman's, whatever, what is it, the, uh, it's like the Gmod fan fiction stuff. Freeman's Mind? Freeman's Mind was a different show.


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[Assistant] I thought it was a former, what is it, Army Ranger? Yea, it's their own GI Bill or something. Oh, it was a college? Yea. Okay, sorry, I thought this was high school.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And that should not be one of the books. No. I don't know. I feel bad. There's a lot of good literature out there. I've missed out on. Oh, let's see here. William F. Johnstone.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, it was pretty good. I read, I was, I had a journalism class and they gave us like a sign, they were like, you must read a book on the best, the New York Times bestseller list. I saw Tom Clancy one, I was like, oh, I'll check that out. And it was the biggest fawn I've ever seen in a book. But it's still, like, it was a thick book, but.


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[Assistant] It is an awful, awful little book. You know, it's a real easy read. I can imagine. It's an excerpt. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] What did Terry tell you? Oh, well, whatever. I don't know. It's not great. I think Jack Ryan's the president at that point or something. He bet he is.