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[Assistant] So you walk outside, uhm, and this is, this is when they start talking about the, basically the world of the game. You're in this like mega structure, which is like from Dread. And it has its own ecology inside that building.


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[Assistant] So you walk around, they show some scenes that you see in the trailer, there's that dude like boxing the cyborg, that's just a thing you walk by, there's a lot of different like street vendors, people playing basketball, uh, cyber life happening.


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[Assistant] It's kind of cool, it's just like the resolution of the world is really high and it's very dense with stuff.


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[Assistant] And that's when it's like, man, there's just, there's like soda ads and like noodle stuff and each one of them is unique and very well done. And that's one of those things where in a game of that scope, I was curious if they'd been putting in the man hours to actually flesh it out with all the assets you need.


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[Assistant] Well, it's GTA, with a stat system, with like, the ability to approach missions in different ways, so sort of hybridizing GTA and Deus Ex.


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[Assistant] Cause GTA, it's like, go shoot the man, and you have to go shoot him. You get to choose like, what gun, and sometimes how you do it. Like, I'm gonna drive up here.


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[Assistant] But other times just run through the building and shoot everything. Which isn't bad, it's fun. But this is more like, you can bypass or circumvent entire sections of the game by talking to the right people at the right time, doing the right thing. And there is a main mission that starts later. Uh, so, you walk around the, the,


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[Assistant] You walk around the building, you go downstairs, they had this cool like title thing baked into when you walk outside for the first time. And there's just loads of crowds. And that's like the only graphical glitch that I could find is sometimes two AI would walk through each other, but whatever man. They're getting there. There were like 50 people walking around at once. Yea, they're getting there.


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[Assistant] Probably, maybe. Uhm, like all the NPCs had little like labels over their head when you looked at them, and it was like slacker or...


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[Assistant] In the trailer. It's, it's probably corporate PD. Yeah. Uhm, so if like, if you killed anyone that worked for that corporation, they might come after you. Right, yeah. But if you just kill anyone, I don't think anyone gives a shit. NCPD.


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[Assistant] I am curious, cause yea, like, your dude Jackie, your boy, if you just like try and gun him down, what happens? Right. Uh, do you get a game over? Does it just lock out most of the game? I mean, in Witcher 3, you could kill important NPCs and it would just erase the whole quest chains, but you could keep playing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think you could prevent the end of the game from happening, but you could kill off a large chunk of it.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, Cyparisus in chat. NC stands for Night City, yeah, uh, cause that's the name of the city. Right.


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[Assistant] Well, it was this weird combination, uhm, so you're right. People conflate Cyberpunk with Noir, because Blade Runner was Noir and Cyberpunk, so people think they're the same thing. Which is fine, uhm, but Cyberpunk can still happen during the day. I think they showed it during the day because they wanted to get people used to it early.


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[Assistant] And also to show that the game has a day-night cycle, which is something that...


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[Assistant] I think will be important, uhm, based on, there might be certain missions where you're like, well I don't want to go into this part of town at night because this particular gang is going to be roaming around. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you meet with your, you meet with your boy, uh, he's, he's got a connection to a fixer, his name is Dexter Deshawn. Uh, you go to him, it's this dude in a limo with a chromed out robot arm smoking a cigar. You get in and then the car starts driving around while he's briefing you on what he wants you to do. Which is pretty cool, just like openly driving around the city.


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[Assistant] He basically wants you to pass a test to become one of his mercenaries, like in a stable. All you have to do is go get a spider bot from this, uh,


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[Assistant] From the Psycho Gang. Is that the one they're showing in the trailer? Uh, yes, it is. I don't think they show the Psycho Gang in the trailer. So the gang is like, they're super into tech and body mods, so they basically half their face is just metal, and because they're enemies they glow red. But it was, they're really creepy looking when you eventually get there.


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[Assistant] So it basically says, hey pass this test and then I'll start giving you more work. This is the whole like, almost GTA aspect of, you start with like shit level jobs and you work your way up the criminal empire or whatever. Gotcha.


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[Assistant] Uh, so you get out of the car, and that's when they show the open driving. So that's when you drive around that car, they're on freeways and stuff, just going wherever they want. Uhm, they get attacked by a van full of thugs, and the implication was that you busted into this gang's hideout, shot up a bunch of dudes, so now they're sending other dudes after you, while you're just commuting around in the open world.


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[Assistant] Uh, so she told Jackie to take the wheel, leaned out of the window and started shooting while she was driving. Like bodies were falling out, they ran over one while they were like chasing, it was pretty cool. To me that implies that the long lasting, like the world implications of...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think is, could lead to really interesting scenarios where,


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[Assistant] You're gonna fuck over someone, and you have to choose who you're gonna fuck over, like who's gonna be more annoying to deal with later. Uhm, but as far as the, uh,


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[Assistant] As far as the variance, like the story effect you can have, I think that's mostly contained within specific quest sequences.


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[Assistant] So for this quest, uh, you're told go get a spider bot. You can do that any number of ways. Uh, at least that's what they say. And it, you know, it's all down to them putting in the time, the man hours to beta test everything and make sure it all works.


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[Assistant] So uhm, this was, then the demo presenter did a kind of a, well wait, so first they go to a ripper dock to install upgrades, and this is to show how you progress in the game. You get credits, you get street cred, and then you can buy like parts for your body. So V got a new cyber eye, and then like a palm upgrade that lets you use specific guns to bypass ID checks and stuff. Sweet. Yeah, basically. So it's like they have these, uh,


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[Assistant] They have these big, like, universe justifications for game mechanics. Uh, once you got the eye installed, then you got an ammo readout. Whereas before it was just shooting until it's empty.


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[Assistant] Exactly. You get an upgrade for a HUD. That's awesome. And that lets you zoom your vision, it lets you scan targets and like see what they're holding and stuff like that. That's right. Uh, yeah. And then the palm implant lets you use different guns. So it's like, okay, you can use new guns, you get new abilities. Uh, it was pretty cute. Uh, shooter-wise,


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's a good question. I think it's largely driven by stats. So I think when your stats are low, you have wobbly aim.


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[Assistant] Cause in the very intro when they rip, when they busted in and shot all these gang members, it was just like a pistol. And yea, it was just kind of spray bullets until they die. And it was like hit somebody and a number pops out kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was just the straight up shooting with pretty typical first person shooter.


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[Assistant] Like, I wanna say Borderlands is probably a good, uh, comparison, because I think Borderlands bakes in some, like, RPG fuzz into the guns. A sniper rifle's gonna shoot right in the middle of reticle, but an SMG's gonna spray.


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[Assistant] And, and later they talk, they later near the end of the combat section which is coming up, they talk about all the different things that they could do.


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[Assistant] In regards to tightness of shooting, I think that goes down to what gun you use and how you specialize your stats.


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[Assistant] I think you probably could make it a twitch shooter if you spec your character that way, but there will probably be trade-offs in that you may not have a lot of health.


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[Assistant] Uh, or like there are social conversation options you don't get because you went with these upgrades instead. Gotcha. Okay.


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[Assistant] That's my, that's my read on it. Uhm, because they showed a lot of cool guns later, like when they neared the end of the demo, they were like, okay, well, you wouldn't have this stuff yet, but we want to show it off. So they started doing that. Uh, so you take your quests, uh, you get your upgrades, and then, uhm, they called,


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[Assistant] Uh, they called a corporate representative a Militech rep. I don't know exactly, I must have missed a connecting thread.


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[Assistant] I don't know how V got this person's contact info, but they just dial this person up on the phone. They say, hey, I'd like to meet. Uh, so they set up, they arrange a meeting, and this happened, like, without prompting. The game wasn't like, hey, you can call this person if you want. They were just like, well, we know they're connected to this, so I'm gonna go call them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the, I think the fixer dropped that like, this, this, like, Militech's Convoy had been raided by this gang. So I think that was where the connection was.


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[Assistant] So you call them and you say, hey, by the way, I'm gonna raid this gang hideout. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone.


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[Assistant] So you go and meet with them, right away you get pistol whipped and like thrown to the ground, like who the fuck are you?


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[Assistant] Did you come alone, and, and your, your dude is like providing backup, and there's all these options of like, you can tell him to open fire, you can try and grab the gun, you can pull your own gun, like it gives you all these options. These are just options like this? Yeah, there's, there's moments where the dialogue will like freeze, and yeah, you get like. And they're like, they're like action moments though?


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[Assistant] And you're like looking up and yea, you get to pick dialogue options. There wasn't really like, in moments like that it can get weird when it's like there's a scene of intensity but then everything stops to wait for you to decide what to do.


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[Assistant] Now, now we're meeting with the Militech rep. And everything's high tension. Which means we need to take a break.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, you can basically find something that matches your color scheme, your style, your fit, your height, whatever you want. Do that all online. You don't have to talk to anyone because talking to people is rapidly getting outdated thanks to wonderful video games that let us live in other universes.


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[Assistant] You're going to want that ready for your ass cheeks when cyberpunk comes out because you're not going to be getting up much.


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[Assistant] This is one of those things that, uh, I got an idea for you guys. A bit of a mind freak if you will.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you don't have to hit the button no more, but you can if you want. Wouldn't stop you. There's a button for Mindfreak? Oh yea. Uh, it's basically, I just, I just MS painted my head over Chris Angel.


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[Assistant] You just wrote your name over it, I love it.


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[Assistant] Oh, you just get a Slurpee at 7-Eleven. That'll do that. What did Jay says? I saw that before, it was indeed for art.


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[Assistant] It's gotta be pressurized if it's gonna go up and fill up your bladder, right?


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[Assistant] Well I'm glad you asked, Adam. Because what stole the show was shortly after when I was going to an indie games party, and there was a tent set up.


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[Assistant] On a deck. On the second floor of this building. The party was on the roof, but I barely made it there.


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[Assistant] Uh, because there was a coven of hippies, next to, and it was all like Maharishi Dao, there was like,


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, there were these reclining pads that had dudes laying down with VR helmets on, and then a microphone shoved right into their mouth. So it looked like they were jacked in. Like, totally jacked in. Uhm, so I was like, what the fuck's going on here? And they're like, oh it's, uh, fuck what was it called? It was part of a trio of VR experiences. One was called Microdose, uh, aptly I think. And then there was, uhm,


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[Assistant] Blanking on it. It's been really memorable, you don't remember the name. Uh, I mean, I was thinking about other stuff in marketing.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're like, it's a, it's a, it's a VR experience that simulates a psychedelic event. I'm like, yes, let's do this.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, they, they slapped the VR helmet on me, they handed me a vape pen, I was like, yep, yeaah, that sounds about right. They gave you weed? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I took some hefty ass hits and then they, uh, they put me in there. So the microphone is so you basically like meditatively ohm and while you're ohming the, uh, fucking


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[Assistant] This is the video game journalism. Frequency and length and intensity of your own determines the experience you get or whatever. So I started out climbing up this tree, right? And I go into the galaxy. Literally into the galaxy. So you weren't controlling it.


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[Assistant] Sort of, with my ohms Bruce, my spirit. How long did this take? I don't know. They thought I was asleep at some point. And your wallet was gone when you came in.


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[Assistant] I guess you could- It's false. They might argue that it's like a baby step. Like you're trying to get yourself into that world now.


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[Assistant] Well, so it's interesting to bring that up. Cyberpunk, uh, what I saw, a lot of it is in other games already.


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[Assistant] It's like you could see a demo for Grand Theft Auto 5 before it came out and be like, yeah, that looks like Grand Theft Auto. And it looks like the biggest Grand Theft Auto ever.


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[Assistant] It's not, like I respect what they're trying to do and I think they'll actually be able to do it, which to me is the big twist. But, I think I know the game, and I really want to play it, but I know it.


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[Assistant] And that's kind of one of the side effects of playing games for 30 years, it gets harder to be surprised. Right. Which is why...


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[Assistant] Going into a hippie tent and drinking a lot of tea and sitting on a rumble bed and looking at spirographs flash around was kind of unique.


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[Assistant] Something like other action RPGs like Fallout 4 actually doesn't offer that much choice. It's all illusionary choice. Because...


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[Assistant] Rewarding choice takes time and effort and man hours and all that stuff and, and you gotta cut corners somewhere because you only have so much money and so many days on this planet to make a thing. Uhm, but it seems like CD Projekt is, they're really trying to bash it down.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of other people have tried algorithmic shortcuts. It's like No Man's Sky. It's like we invented a universe. You did, but there's not actually that much to do because you have to create things.


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[Assistant] No, because I've played these before, they're not good. People forget that Shonen Jump is for 13 year old boys? It's not a bad thing to be an adult and like it, but the products are targeted to kids.


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[Assistant] Cyberwatch. Yeaah, keep it warm. Alright, there it is, that's what I wanted to see. So when last we left V, she was on the ground, guns in her face, getting fucked with by Militech.


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[Assistant] Uh, you basically, and it's funny too because I think a lot of video games basically tell you that you can be a badass all the time and there will never be really any consequences for it if you're good enough at shooting people. But I think these are situations where, especially if you're talking to corporations,


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[Assistant] They can fuck with you and you let them get away with it, cause they'll just kill you.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's the implication. So there were, through this dialogue they're just like, they're just like pistol whipping her and talking shit to her. And the whole time she's having to like calm them down and basically kneel under boot. Uhm, you eventually talk them into a compromise. It's like, Militech wants to know,


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[Assistant] Who's leaking information to this gangman, this, this gang that you have to buy the spiderbot from? So you convince them to do a compromise. Basically, give me the 50k in credits to buy the spiderbot so I don't have to fight them. And then there will be a virus on that chip that will help you track whoever's leaking info. So then we both get what we want. I don't have to shoot anybody and everything's great.


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[Assistant] So, after, after like whipping your ass, they just throw credits to you and drive off. Uh, and then you meet back up with Jackie, and this is where like, the quest basically starts. So you go to the gang hideout, uhm,


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[Assistant] And right off the bat, like, they just flip out immediately. Like, you get escorted through their lair and you see all these dudes hanging out doing future cyber stuff. Uh, being gang members. And it's all tense when you get to meet with their boss. They just pull guns on you for no reason. Your guy Jackie is like, no, I'm not gonna sit down.


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[Assistant] It all plays out in first person. Okay, alright. Um, so. Does your character have a voice? Yes. Okay. Fully voiced. But I think first person might also be one of those things, they could lop off a whole lot of, uh, cause now, I think I said it earlier and I think I was mistaken, I don't think you see yourself during dialogue. Cause it's all first person.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's like that. It's what, gated? Yeaah. So, there might be a space where you can walk around while other characters are talking. If somebody's talking to you, like it's the sort of thing where it locks you to them, so you can't wazd and move around. If you're in dialogue, you're just in dialogue. So you're staring at them and you're staring at someone else. I think they take camera control away from you.


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[Assistant] In this specific circumstance, speaking to that, they were like, sit down on the couch.


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[Assistant] And you can choose not to, but that would probably make a gunfight breakout if you don't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, the player chose to and that's that thing where like, you know what the end of path 2, you get locked in that cage and you're just basically being carried through a combine. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think- Being forced to watch a thing. And yea, like sitting in the car. I think, I think for specific story beats they'll find a way to sort of lock your character in place in a way that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Probably a lot of sitting in chairs. Uh, same with the Ripper doc thing, like you had a conversation with the doc, but you're in like this, this like medical bay getting stabbed and cut apart.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think that's how most interactions will go. And then yeaah, there will like be moments where you can interrupt dialogue. I think there might.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember. There are definitely moments where you can just, like, stop the conversation, like, pull out a gun, and then combat starts. Uh, because when, yeaah, during the negotiation with the gang, like, pull gun was always at the bottom. So, when they're all freaking out and pointing guns at each other, there's a whole Mexican standoff thing.


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[Assistant] And they played it pretty cool in the demo, they were like, hey everybody, put your guns down, sit down, let's do this thing.


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[Assistant] So you talk, they take the money, you get your spider bot, everything seems like it's going okay, and then because it's a video game, uh, a virus explodes, locks all the doors down.


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[Assistant] And that's when, like, the main character V takes, like, takes another hit, slo-mos everything, he's like, pop, pop, pop, and then time resumes, everyone hits and goes down, and then you're like, fuck. You're just locked in a room, basically. So then it's like, you have to escape through this gang hideout, and that's when they start showing all the combat stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, so they found this one panel, your hacking skill wasn't high enough, uhm.


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[Assistant] So they found this like, panel that they could just rip open and then crawl through there. And then they just go through this gang layer, demonstrating different weapons and stuff like that. Uhm, some of them were super, super cool.


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[Assistant] There's a, you can upgrade your eyes so you can tag enemies and see them through walls. And then there's rifles you can use to shoot through walls basically. Uh, there's, this was super fucking cool. There's an upgrade you get where you can bounce like ricochet bullets off walls.


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[Assistant] So you know how in other games like Gears, you'll hold a grenade and it'll show you the arc of like exactly where to land? This was that with bullets. So you'll aim at the wall and then there's this other line, dotted line, and then like you can like aim it around and when it's gonna hit someone it turns red. So then you can just like plop plop plop and like bounce bullets off walls, hit people and they go down.


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[Assistant] That, that is probably how they'll gate you progress wise. Is that there'll be a dude with all these implants or whatever and you'll be shooting him and it just does one damage.


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[Assistant] That's a really smart question. I think they were very clever about not actually showing that.


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[Assistant] So, uh, they did a lot of, like, slow-mo and stacking up bullets, so it was like instant deaths. They did some other, like, open combat, where it was like brrrrat and you shoot somebody, but like the gun was in the way in shooting, so I couldn't really see, like, reaction animations. Everyone died pretty fast, which is just like numbers would spray out and they'd go down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not, I'm not sure. Like, if you tag someone on the shoulder, they're gonna be like, ah, and then like, go hide behind something? Maybe? Yeah, Combat AI, they didn't show that off very much.


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[Assistant] In the intro when you bust in on this gang hideout, they do all kind of scatter and hide behind stuff. And then it is sort of like you have to flank around them to hit them and stuff like that. But yeaah, that's an interesting question.


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[Assistant] Ton of damage, or was it? It was one guy in like a mech suit. Okay, there you go. So yes, but I think Cyberpunk enables them to be pretty video gamey about health bars. Right, right, right, right.


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[Assistant] There was like a weak point in the back, if you went back there and like blew up a fuel tank, it would knock the armor off of him. That makes sense. And then once his fleshy bits were exposed, there's a pop-pop and he's dead. Yeaah. But getting his head out was the hard part, and I think that's what it's gonna be. Gotcha. There'll be dudes with like subdermal plating and shit where you can't shoot him.


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[Assistant] I was oddly one of the things, this is, you guys actually played it in a lethplay, Binary Domain had one of the best like,


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[Assistant] Weird chippy damage systems, where like the robots would just basically explode into chunks. Yea, you'd blow an arm off and then they'd be crawling around, you'd blow their gun off and they'd just try to ram you.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping for something like that, because that stuff makes, yeaah, it makes it feel really correct with all the bullets that are flying around.


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[Assistant] Cyparsis, I hope I'm saying your name right, has a question. This is all great in all, Lawrence, but I want to know if there's a hacking minigame. Of course there is. Is there a better one? Pipe Dream? It's not Pipe Dream. They didn't show, like,


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[Assistant] So hacking is weird. There's typically like a dumb game you play to like pass-fail a skill check and then you get to like do whatever and in like Fallout you have to guess words and in Bioshock it's pipe dream.


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[Assistant] To my recollection, they didn't actually show the minigame, but they showed what it looks like when you like pass or you get into a system, and then it is very like swordfish, like it's glowing cubes that undulate and spin, and you go and dive into subsystems and there's circuitry flying all around it. That looks pretty cool, yea right?


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[Assistant] The, there was also a smart gun, cause you know, there has to be. So they described that as like, if you're not...


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[Assistant] So they said, if you're not really into shooting, you can play this game, like, discussion based, and then, and the inevitability that you will have to shoot someone, just keep a, keep a smart rifle on you, so you don't have to worry about it so much. Uhm, but that's when they were described like,


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[Assistant] There are lots of different ways to play, and this is when it gets kind of into dangerous territory, when they're not showing and they're telling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they describe combat as like, you can be like Robocop, where you just walk down the hallway and shoot everybody, or you can be like a ninja, who uh, dashes all around, clings to walls, and is mostly run on stealth.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the reward systems I thought were interesting too, uh, cause I'm pretty sure there are experience based level ups. I think I remember seeing that. But it's a tie between your character level and your street cred.


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[Assistant] So street cred grows up when you accomplish missions because like talk of you goes around and then if you get better jackets or gear, that also increases your street cred. So I'm not sure what the primary progression mechanic will be.


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[Assistant] Or even what progression means. If there- Yea, I didn't really talk about an overarching story or anything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it didn't, I don't recall, uh, I don't know, it's like, getting implants is a money thing, if you have the credits you can buy it.


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[Assistant] Stats, with like, customization of character, with branching storylines, cause like, so, so you get your spider bot, you get out, and then you talk to the Militech rep, and your V is like, you fucked me, and she's like, yea I did.


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[Assistant] Tough. Like, they fucked me, so I fucked you, and then everyone, everyone except the corp gets fucked. Welcome to cyberpunk, basically. Uh, so that she just takes off like laughing. Uhm, but you get to keep your spider bot, you just had to kill everyone. Uhm, so you, you pass the test, and now the game basically begins. You have your first, your first contract with a fixer.


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[Assistant] And then yeaah, who knows where the game goes from there, but yeaah, within that, within that bounded quest of like, find a spider bot.


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[Assistant] And just had the money, there would be no virus and presumably you could just walk right out.


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[Assistant] They said there would be some kind of online. But not like a Grand Theft Auto online. No, I'm gonna expect something like, if you get far enough in the game, maybe you can put a contract out on like a generated NPC.


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[Assistant] That'd be like bad guy that just drops into another player's world. And then if you want you can go- This is purely theory by the way. If I were to make this game and-


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[Assistant] Only had so many resources to do it, this is kind of the mechanic that would jump to my mind, is that there's like a hub where you can go take user generated missions that are essentially going to this part of town at this part of time and find this one NPC, like Assassin's Creed 4 would like just randomly generate pirate bounties for you to go kill. I'm thinking it's something like that.


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[Assistant] They're bankrolled by good old games, so they have tons of, they have a revenue stream that's funding this game, and I think they're not


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[Assistant] They're not privately owned, or I mean, they are privately owned, so I don't think they have to answer to investors, really. Yeah, no, that's why I'm asking. Let me check. They're like Polish Valve. Yeah, yeah, and that's, it's interesting because... They're Valve, but they didn't lose their taste for internal development. Ouch. They haven't, they have really, so true, you're right. They have, uh... Oh, it is public. Huh, oh, nevermind. Are they publicly traded?


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[Assistant] If they're like, I think it is different. Blade Runner 2049 is a heady movie.


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[Assistant] Which is weird because now people are playing Fortnite, which is pretty flat. In terms of just like the amount of things in it.


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[Assistant] It seems like most of that audience is like, how much stuff is in it? And this is a stuff game.


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[Assistant] We gotta do an ad read, right? Yes we do, speaking of dollars. Uh, it's summertime, gotta get your summer look. Uh, you gotta replace your eyeballs with pre-shaded eyeballs. But when you go inside, you don't want people to see that. You gotta look cool in your cyberware, so you pop on a pair of movement sunglasses.


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[Assistant] That's right. Movement is sponsoring this podcast with their summer line of sunglasses. I got these, uh, and they look good. They're called the Stranger.


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[Assistant] Which is my favorite. I wear them when I'm doing that move. Uh, so these aren't plastic, which is usually, I usually just, you know, get gas station sunglasses, keep them in my car. I'm beyond that now. I'm too good for it. Uh.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, no, they look and feel great. Um, yeaah, they're a lot better than gas station quality.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and if you've checked out Movement before, probably for watches, because they've sponsored a podcast a lot for that, you should check them out for sunglasses, because they have a lot. And if you even looked at them for sunglasses before, they put up different lines all the time. Typically whenever they run an ad, I'll just go check out their website and...


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[Assistant] Check it out, look at the, uh, look at the profiles you want, look at the shapes you want. And you can get 15% off.


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[Assistant] We're offering that to all of our listeners with free shipping and free returns in case the ones you get don't fit your face or look as cyber cool as you want them to. Uh, you can get that by going to movement.com slash dude soup. That's mvmt.com slash dude soup for 15% off your order with free shipping and free returns. Thank you, movement.


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[Assistant] For the sunglasses and for the sponsorship, once more at movement.com slash dudesoup.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, okay, so I don't know if you guys have any more follow-up questions in chat, if you guys have anything else. Uh, didn't see a whole lot in there. They're probably not going to release this gameplay for a while, right? I was curious about that. So, they...


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[Assistant] The demo that they showed was locked up pretty solid. Like I was expecting crashes, I was expecting glitches, one or two, and they were minor from what I saw. So either the ga- like either it's the, uh, what is it, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like the housing development from Arrested Development. It's just like a facade in a cardboard box. Right. It's possible the entire thing was like rigidly scripted and there's nothing behind it. It really didn't seem like it though. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] They could have, they could have cut a 50 minute video out of that gameplay and put it up, like Rockstar style with just like a, with just VO and pure gameplay.


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[Assistant] It's curious that they didn't, and I'm trying to figure out why.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it is expectation management to a degree. I think if they put the whole thing up, people would dissect it frame by frame.


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[Assistant] They would like dismantle sentences to derive every last little bit of promise that they could from the trailer, which is not


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[Assistant] And that makes CD Projekt not face the wrath of it. So, I think to a degree doing it like this put like a buffer zone between them and their own audience, which is really smart considering how people get about games like this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I, I, I don't think, did they ever do like an extended gameplay demo for Witcher 3?


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[Assistant] This was, well this, so this is a gameplay demo, uhm, interestingly at the Xbox briefing.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, it's, it's, maybe that gameplay demo will show up in its entirety next year's E3?


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna say holiday 2019 delayed to mid 2020. Gotcha. I mean, that would make it exactly like Witcher 3 and that, I don't think that that's necessarily a justification. But I think, I think CD Projekt was probably gonna get like, what would come out in 2019? I guess we don't know yet.


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[Assistant] That's, and that's the thing that I, yeaah, does deserve special mention. Witcher 3 came out and...


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[Assistant] There were some bugs, like Roach would get on top of the house or whatever. Sure. But those are cute. Skyrim, that's a feature. Yeaah, Skyrim crashed a lot, and like was bugged to the point where you couldn't complete quests. Like I, Stephanie started playing Fallout 4 again, and on Xbox, that shit still crashes. Just hard crashes. Cool. Occasionally.


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[Assistant] So, they get credit, I think, for releasing a game with the breadth and openness of Witcher 3.


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[Assistant] Well it still technically hangs together well and is balanced and can be played all the way through.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and yeaah, for something like cyberpunk, that's gonna be...


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[Assistant] It's gonna be an ordeal. Oh, Ryder, Cyberpunk has been in dev for well over two years. It was announced, like they did their announcement trailer in 2013. I think that was just that they got the IP though. I think it was, I think it was in dev before that. I think. Well, I mean...


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[Assistant] You, even if you get an IP, that's still way too early to tell the world you're making something out of it. I think you have to be well into dev and like, committed to it.


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[Assistant] To, uh, to tell the world, yes, this is coming, we are totally making it. I assume they were very excited. It's possible. But yea, people would, uh, I think people would hold them accountable if they announced it 2013 and then you never heard from it again.


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[Assistant] So yea, really interesting stuff. Uh, yea, okay, well, uh, I got a hard net for you guys. Oh yea, that guy's still dying. Woop. Dang it. What's going on with the...


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[Assistant] We want to see Snatcher? Yeaah. Back to Snatcher? It's what the kids want. They can't wait for more Snatcher.


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[Assistant] Hold on, I gotta put my dock back up. I've always been curious. This is totally irrelevant to everything. But when you're Ctrl-W, like closing tabs, how does Chrome know which one is the next one it's going to put focus on to?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. We should write Google. Google tell me. Dear Google.


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[Assistant] That counts. Occasionally I'll think of things that are like


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[Assistant] These are, these are ideas that I think would be great, but no one else would find interesting. And one is like, Bruce at Gunpoint, where I make him play a game, like Kingdom Hearts was the first one we tried way back when. It was fun. I wanna make you play Kingdom, or sorry, Metal Gear Solid 4. Ooh.


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[Assistant] Cause you'd have fun for the first hour and then you wouldn't know what the fuck is happening. You'd know what was happening. But you wouldn't have played for the last 25 minutes. Remember when they kept cutting that girl on the plane who kept trying to cook eggs?


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[Assistant] Uh, Versex got it, the Beauty and the Beast unit.


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[Assistant] That was auto-populated. Vampires there. They knew exactly where I was going. Oh yeaah. That was a weird character.


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[Assistant] Google search changed and now it's tough. The bosses in Snake are pretty awesome.


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[Assistant] It turns out Ocelot is like the most important character of all. He was actually, uh, he was working with the Patriots to defeat them! So confused. And the arm took over his body! Let's do some hard netting. That's why you walked away. Thank you Omar, boys. You're a hair trigger on that. Cause she's bored of it too. Sorry. She's trying to get us...


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, current reigning champion, if wishers were horses. Uh, yeaah. Yeaah, this is the number one destination to human equine shapeshifting. Uh, yeaah, the gif up there tells the story. That's great. Show em some gifs. Alright, sure. Well, it can get a little network safe. Uh, yeaah, please don't.


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[Assistant] Uh, I have not ever been a horse, oh sorry.


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[Assistant] Anything going up against If Wishers Were Horses is going to be a soft volley, but I'll try, I'm trying my best here, so. No one is soft about that. So this is, this is Nicky Crush, which I think is, uh, Nike Crush, if we were to pronounce it that way. Uh, it kind of tells the tale.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that does look kind of like a feminine ankle. Oh yeah, definitely.


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[Assistant] We're on BR versus Pairs. Six and a half minutes. Pairs out there. Actually, wait, hold on.


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[Assistant] You gotta skip ahead of that. There it is, that was it. God bless thumbnails, huh? She's already, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Horses, City Vol. 2? Ooh, there's a sequel. Christmas Cake.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a woman who smashes her face into bread. Different kinds of bread, obviously. Like a slice or a loaf? Uh, largely a loaf. Okay.


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[Assistant] I've never really seen her do hard crust because I feel like that would, that would be damaging.


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[Assistant] Zoom ahead. Alright, skip ahead. No, no, the titillation is part of the experience. Now here's the, is it a lava cake? I don't have three minutes. Oh, oh, she stepped on part of it.


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[Assistant] Nikki Crush takes it. Incredible. I thought we'd be, we'd be in horse, horse territory for quite a while.


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[Assistant] Spin it around. Those padded socks. Everything's right.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, so to close the show out, we got one last sponsor to tell you guys about.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's Blue Apron. Uh, Blue Apron, if you don't know, if perhaps this is the first podcast you've ever listened to in your life.


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[Assistant] Is a service that will send you, uh, recipes by mail. And they'll prepackage pre-


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[Assistant] So you can get ready for six weeks of wildly fun, flavorful cooking, featuring recipes like garlic and soy, glazed shrimp with charred broccoli and hot green pepper sauce, and sesame chicken noodles with bok choy. Uh, since, uh, Blair print has sponsored this show a lot. I got to dive in deep, except for cooking with Lawrence. Oh boy. Do you have a header for that?


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[Assistant] Not yet, uh, I don't, I don't, hey, if they want a specialty dude soup stinger, they gotta pay for it. But I come to you, all of you,


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[Assistant] A humble man. I have been king of cooking with Lawrence for a long time, doling out my tips, my top of the line advice, and now I have to admit that I need to ask for some help.


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[Assistant] Okay. Those are good. Not quite where I was going. I have a searing problem. Uhm, no problem with searing. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Except, there are a lot of recipes in Bluriprint that will have you cook meat in a pan, remove the meat, and then use the fond, like the little meaty bits stuck to the pan. You deglaze with like a, uh, some kind of liquid to pull it all off the pan, you mix it with something else. I know, I know, right? Uh, yeaah. Bruce knows about it. Here's my problem.


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[Assistant] When you sear, you cook at super high temperatures and you just like, hit the outsides.


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[Assistant] But then the meaty bits burn, basically, since the temperature's high. They turn black because you're having to cook for a long time or something like that. So then if I use the fond later, all the little meaty bits are already burned and I get like a really kind of smoky, burny flavor, which I'm not super hot on. So how do I sear meat in a pan without burning all the little meat ribbons?


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[Assistant] It's a good guess, uhm. I thought a wrong one though. Maybe it should, maybe it should be hotter. Cause yeaah, I did it with steak and the steak was actually cooked very well. It was super rare, delicious. But even still with the shorter cook time, cause I even took like two minutes off the cook time cause I liked it rare and I've been experimenting with meat prep cause I typically overcook meat.


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[Assistant] Came out just like I want, except yeaah, the, yeah, Bruce knows about it. Except yeaah, the, the font was, was black by the time I mixed it with the next thing. Didn't look right.


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[Assistant] So it's not, there was never a time where it was sitting without stuff. It's like while the meat's in the pan searing, the stuff around it is also burning. Uhm, so I don't know how to, I don't know how to deal with that. Make sure the meat is dry at room temperature, says Miniman in chat.


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[Assistant] That's the Splatfest right now. Pulp or no pulp. Uh, now we know. Now we know. Well anyway, uh, these are the adventures you could go on, uh, if you start your Blue Apron journey today. You can do that by going to blueapron.com slash soup. You can check out the meals available to you right now and also get your first three meals for free.


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[Assistant] And thank you, listener, for joining us for the


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[Assistant] Get it tattooed on your body. Weird odd number. Speaking of, I think, I think, uh, because cyberpunk fever is sweeping the nation, I think I've finally decided what my first tattoo will be. That's an actual- Oh! Yeah.


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[Assistant] Now I, uh, I wanna get some kind of, like, everyone has a heart piece, right? So I want something over the heart that symbolizes that I don't have one, that it's just a cold robot. Everyone has a heart piece? Yeah, people usually get tattooed over their heart, right? You have something over your heart? Yeah. Two or three things, actually.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, something like that, and then I want like little dumbass circuitry, like, just like one coming up the neck and then one down the arm. So it's just a little thing, but there's something else in there.


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[Assistant] Boston. In chat. Blacklighting. That's something you can do apparently.


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[Assistant] Okay, and how, if I can't make it, how can I watch it later?


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[Assistant] Alright, well yeaah, please tune in for that, that's this coming Sunday, uh, June 24th, yep.


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[Assistant] Alright, thanks to everybody for watching Dude's Soup this week. If you have any follow-up questions, you know, shoot them to me or anyone else. I usually keep an eye on the comments, keep an eye on Twitter, all that stuff. I'll answer them to the best of my ability.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so thank you for watching, uhm, thank you for being a first member if you are, and maybe look into it if you aren't. We're trying to do more cool stuff there, uh, trying to make it worth it, so they got a 7-day free trial, you can check that out, bit.ly slash rtfirst. Uhm, but yeah, thank you guys, and we'll see you next week. And if you're watching live, stay tuned for the Dudesuit post show. I got some fun comments to read this week, so that'll be cool.


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[Assistant] Anyway, thanks for watching, we'll see you next week. Bye everybody. Bye. I'm just like- I have no idea. That means there's no dialogue trees, which means a lot of the stats in special don't mean anything, unless they get reconstituted. Why wouldn't there be dialogue trees? Who are you gonna talk to?


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[Assistant] Greg Miller has one, Lindsay Jones has one, where they got like binders and then they put all of their blue apron, like, it's like a thing that you can like, fully organize, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I think it's like a collectus thing, it's like you gotta catch them all. It's a Pokemon situation. Interesting. They're all mine though. Every last one of them.


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[Assistant] I had a friend who worked in a hospital basically over like a summer period. He would go and work in a hospital. And most of what would happen was he would have to like, clean up.


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[Assistant] Well yea, no, I mean, it depends how mad she would be that you hadn't told her immediately. It's a balance, right? Is it, it's like, would she be super mad and feel betrayed? Cause then that would be bad or would she just, am I just avoiding anxiousness? I guess it depends on what.


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[Assistant] I think I would, yes. I think I would wait, yeaah.


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[Assistant] That would be a weird environment to walk in where everyone is always stressed and panicked and like you have to deal with family members who are stressed and panicked like, that'd be tough.


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[Assistant] Or they wouldn't get stressed about basic stuff because they see terrible shit happen to other people everyday.


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[Assistant] I tried to one time when I was in Boston and they wouldn't take me because I didn't have insurance there. It was like I had California insurance and I was like, but I'm really sick. They were like, well, like, oh boy.


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[Assistant] It was pretty bad, man. It was during PAX, too, and I was just like, well, I guess I just, again, keep working.


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[Assistant] Kind of, I think this is just an interesting story and I'm thinking about it because of traffic accidents, so uhm, sort of off topic, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, I had a car back in Australia and the guy that I was dating at the time would like borrow the car and I was, because I was in the games industry in Australia and I lived in Brisbane, the games industry was in Sydney, I very often had to travel. So I was in Sydney all the time and I would let him borrow my car. And I always thought he was a bad driver but it like never really thought about it very much.


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[Assistant] Got back from Sydney one day, he picked me up from the airport and was just like weird. He was just being very strange. Something was weird and I was just like, something is going on but I don't know what it is. Uhm, he dropped me home, left my car and then I think he went home.


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[Assistant] That he did not tell me about and he had said, I was like, why didn't you tell me about this? He was like, oh, someone just like reversed into your car when I was parked or whatever. And I was like, you know what?


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[Assistant] Okay, so he like got mad at me for saying that he had lied about this thing, damaged my car, which was the most expensive thing that I owned, and I had to pay the bill. So I called him and was like, hey, you owe me this money and we're breaking up. Like that was the end of that relationship. I was like, well, cause how would I ever trust anything he'd ever say ever again? It was just like, I am super done. But it was like a thing that I turned out.


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[Assistant] He was like, oh, I was like, don't you have rugby at some point? You haven't been. And he was like, oh yea, I have to go tomorrow. So he puts on his rugby gear and I drop him at the train station. He was never playing rugby.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I only caught him out about lying for the rugby because I had to lie to him. I was like, hey, I'm not someone on your rugby team and they said you don't play rugby. And he was like, what was his name? And I was like, Matt.


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[Assistant] He knew that I was studying with this guy friend, it's like my oldest friend that I've had for a really long time, and he called me and was like, oh, I got in trouble at rugby tonight, the coach was really mad at me, he was just like giving me this sob story that retrospectively I was like, he was clearly mad I was hanging out with a dude and called me to make me feel bad about a rugby team he was never a part of! He was just like, oh my god!


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[Assistant] I think pathological liars are just like, you would never know until, until it happens and then you're just like, how, why? Like, that's the biggest thing is always, why did you lie about any of this? If he had been like, I got in a car accident and I'll pay for it, I would've been like, cool. Like, alright, I don't lie, it's not a big deal.


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[Assistant] Lying about having a drivers license, like, he drove me places. You could have killed me. It's not just like lying, I don't know. It was crazy, it was crazy.


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[Assistant] I've been in games media for seven years now. Uhm, I started out as a volunteer writer.


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[Assistant] And then moved on to like volunteer working on radio and video in Australia. And then started studying journalism and entertainment while I was still volunteering. And then I started writing freelance for magazines and I did that for about two years. Uhm, and then just freelancing, writing, working on TV.


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[Assistant] Uh, working on radio and then I eventually got a full-time job working on TV in Australia, still hosting a radio show, um, occasionally writing for places and then...


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[Assistant] So the company that I was working at before IGN directly before was called RealFeed, which is technically a network. Uhm, but I had written for, like, I'd written for Kotaku, I'd written for, I think I'd written for IGN before I started, I had, yea. Cool.


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[Assistant] The freelance stuff was like everything, but uhm, the first magazine that I had written for was called Hypermagazine, which is a popular games magazine in Australia. Cool.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I reached out to him when he had published the video because it was like, oh, this is the worst apology video I've ever seen. And then, uh, he called out.


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[Assistant] You don't make an apology from the perspective of being defensive, like at least wait until you're not defensive anymore, and I messaged him, didn't know him very well, but you know, worked with him for I think it was nine months or so, and I was like, you should take this down and you should apologize properly, this is not going to go well for you, like I highly advise against doing this, this is bad, like you need to own this.


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[Assistant] And he, I think, like, and I said this as well, I was like, I'm not sure if he did this for views, like I called him out on that and he was like, I didn't, I didn't do it for views. I think it was monetized though. It was monetized.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna, you know, continue making content for you guys, so like, it is promotional. Uhm, I don't think he's that conniving as a person, but it's like, hard for me to say. Uhm, but, I did call him out for that, and he was like, absolutely not, and then he was just like, I don't know what I'm doing, like, I don't know how to approach this, and I was like, I understand, just take a break. And apologize.


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[Assistant] Oh, I totally agree with that, and I could see how it would be unintentional.


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[Assistant] You can take someone's idea accidentally and because it validated your own or you thought that it was yours. That can happen. It can't happen in a thing that's written the same. Like it doesn't work that way.


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[Assistant] I think it's a terrible idea. But it's also, it's crazy with that one because that was technically the only other review up because the YouTuber had broken an embargo by a week. If that hadn't happened, Philip never would have been caught. Because I think for IGN, he had only reviewed ports. He reviewed Switch ports. I'm not sure if that's 100% true, but I'm of the impression he'd only reviewed like the Wolfenstein port and the Doom port and the way that port reviews work there is...


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[Assistant] A channel that had nine months of experience that just managed to get a job. Like, he didn't have writing experience. It was a thing that like, some people called out when he was like, first hired me, like, I don't think this guy can write, his work had to be edited a lot, so it was like, blatantly he was not a writer. Like, straight up. He wasn't trying to be, I don't think.


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[Assistant] Check YouTube videos everywhere for plagiarism. It's just not a thing. They could do a better job of hiring someone who has written experience. Obviously, that's a no-brainer, but you can't put


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[Assistant] I wrote a few things at IGN that took me like 6 months to write, like 6 months to interview 20 people, which is what I would actually consider journalism, but even that doesn't necessarily pay well because it takes you a really long time and won't guarantee views, so any employee is going to be like, well, how do we know this is what that time? It's like, sure.


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[Assistant] I think there's probably a split. Yeah, I do think that uhm, a lot of games media is because they love games, not necessarily because they love journalism.


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[Assistant] Someone had made a joke about me once, uh, that was like, oh, one of the rarest degrees in games journalism. Journalism. He's like, yeah, it's like, it's really, it's really uncommon just because you don't need it to get into the industry because everyone wants to get into the industry. So it's like, they just keep hiring up these younger people over and over again and training them up and then just moving on to the next ones. It's like, that cycle just never ends.


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[Assistant] So you play every game so you're like, I know what this is, but actually going back into a history of something, probably not.


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[Assistant] I'm writing this because my peers on Twitter will find it interesting and not because the audience will find it interesting. And that is, like, I've always been caught in this war. I started a YouTube channel three years after I was working in games media. So as soon as that happened, I was in this strange war of where YouTube meets


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[Assistant] How do you think they dealt with Minecraft? They're like, you know, for the first two years when it was alpha, it was great, and now it sucks. Like, what was the switch for them when they're like, it's not cool anymore? Yea, you're right, it is.


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[Assistant] I don't know, that all of the big games media sites aren't trying to go into the direction of personality? Like I feel like that's the way the industry is headed in. I've seen them try. Yeah, and they just can't. It just doesn't work.


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[Assistant] Well we should, we should broaden this though, because like again, we don't want to keep this to be an internal circle jerk, but basically,


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[Assistant] Towards the end of last year, Bruce and Elise both made identical posts on Rooster Teeth and the Funhaus subreddit about how we are just going to prepare you because in 2018 we're going to change some things because we almost died in 2017 trying to meet


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[Assistant] Video goals and stuff like that. And we also want to explore some new things creatively and that meant less videos on the channel per week overall.


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[Assistant] I think, I mean, I think it's, it's a confusion over how things have been labeled, which I understand. Uhm, it, the community as a whole, by and large, just, I mean, again, we're mostly sourcing the subreddit and some YouTube comments. There's, there's, I always like to remember that there is like,


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[Assistant] 60% audience member that they watch it and they move on and they don't like, they're not too invested. They don't watch everything. Like they're not hardcore, but they, they just watch it and they don't care. And they don't, they don't even know about the less videos or the subreddit posts or anything like that.


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[Assistant] I feel like at a certain point, the community defined high production value.


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[Assistant] But it didn't, it didn't though because there was live action stuff leading into things, I mean there were certain bigger things that happened, uhm, a lot of people talk about blue shift, right, as like a thing. Holy shit. But uhm, but I think that, so just to be clear, just so it's stated,


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[Assistant] Live action bits in our videos is not higher quality content.


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[Assistant] It's easier for them, and even though things have been loosened up, we're still under really tight deadlines, and there's no end in sight, but we want to keep the train going as long as we can stay on our feet, right, while also exploring other avenues of creativity.


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[Assistant] That, but like, for speaking with editors and stuff that work on the videos, sometimes getting a Photoshop, animating the Photoshop, even if it's just stupid mouth flapping, like, that ends up taking more time than if you just film someone on a green screen and then use it. And so,


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[Assistant] And you know, and like Adam said, I think it's about allowing some people to flex their muscles creatively. We want them like, oh, I have this really cool idea for something.


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[Assistant] Well basically it was scale back on content so that way we could create opportunities to try and work on bigger projects too is another thing. To be clear. So like. That's true, those projects hadn't been greenlit yet. There's stuff that we've been working on that


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[Assistant] That hasn't really been said. Yes, we're going to finish it. We're going to get it to a point where anyone can see it. It's tough for us because it's frustrating because like, you know, we, we all really love working for this company, but we're not going to go, listen, like,


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[Assistant] Whereas we're on the other side of it and we see a hundred opinions. So while this person says Hitman is getting stale, totally understand, totally get it, but we've seen


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[Assistant] Two thousand comments that ask us why we don't finish games that we start.


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[Assistant] You know, or why we don't, like, why don't we just find a bad game and just stick with it? Just like, play that, like. So, you know, when we went into the Hitman series, we actually finished one, like, that's it.


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[Assistant] We're going to be finishing Hitman at the very least. We're going to be finishing these games. So, you know, it's, it's tough. And also our production cycle isn't similar to like a Game Grumps.


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[Assistant] Like, the way it seems that they do it is they'll record for like five hours. They're like, we're gonna play Ocarina of Time for five hours.


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[Assistant] I think, I think cause they're better let's players. We make comedy videos out of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they'll go in and they'll be like, today is ocarina of time day and they'll do five or more hours of ocarina of time. But then when they walk away from it, they have like episodes 35 through 68.


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[Assistant] I mean, there may be rooms for it, but I think that's why it's cool to acknowledge people's...


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[Assistant] Comments and their opinions because it's like, okay, well, we're not going to change the whole channel to be something like that. But maybe we can find this right game and like Adam and I wanted to do that. I think with Dead Rising.


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[Assistant] But then, we could not find a single other moment where we could sit down and just the two of us go play Dead Rising. Maybe a little different now, but like... Portal, we went...


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[Assistant] Why, I mean I would also counter with we are not.


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[Assistant] We're supposed to be making the content and someone else is supposed to figure out how to market the product, you know?


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[Assistant] Like I get it, like I, but we, if we don't, like Lawrence said, get marching orders and say, these are the things like, it's hard for us to determine what is the most customer value centric aspect of something and then push that.


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[Assistant] Like do it again? I guess technically, so we use, we use webcams for it. Now this, I think this is also an example of the two, like juggling two opinions. I get it. I think for a long time I've been like, man it'd be so fucking sweet if we could just get a handy cam back there and do it. The problem is our setup is like so jerry-rigged.


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[Assistant] That like adding that element means now we have to spend.


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[Assistant] They get upset because it's not, it's not the lo-fi basement tech that they're used to.


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[Assistant] So, it's tough. It's tough to try and juggle, juggle that, I think. If it were up to me, man, we'd have like...


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[Assistant] DSLRs and shit on every computer. One, I think one time we did the, when we did Let's Play Spring Break, they just had like a monitor with a GoPro on top.


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[Assistant] But then the one day that GoPro doesn't work or it starts drifting in the editors, we basically found a very shaky system that's, that's, it's a Jenga tower, but it's barely standing up and we're like, let's just not play Jenga with it.


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[Assistant] And he just wants us to play the characters. But the sad truth is that we have to juggle the fact that we are human beings who turn our personalities to about two ticks more than they are when the camera turns on for the sake of producing content. So like certain things that he wants from it are


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I think part of that goes back to the 2018 shift though. I think we acknowledged that that was part of it. Everyone would be coming from a different meeting or a different call.


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[Assistant] And then meeting in a room and be like, alright, time for demo disk.


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[Assistant] It's like, like I don't even know what Bruce was up to this weekend because I haven't gotten to speak to him like a friend and a human being all day because he's been busy, you know? So like, that's, when it started it was like, you know, just kind of a thing that we did for fun.


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[Assistant] But now it is, it is a business, so you have to, you have to film at 10.30.


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[Assistant] On this day, every single time of the week, you know, it's not, you can't be fluid with it and stuff. So it's tough to resolve those, but I think that was part of the shift was to honestly try and like Lawrence doing stuff like, like 5pm.


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[Assistant] On, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm going to hang out and it's a no sweat hangout fun gameplay.


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[Assistant] And like, but those are the types of actions that we can take now because...


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[Assistant] The schedule isn't so demanding, and then I think it does free us up to feel more natural and feel like, okay, I'm just gonna hang out on the couch and have fun with Lawrence for an hour. I can't. I mean, I personally can't do that.


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[Assistant] There's also a, you know, we digest things that we are given, right? So whether that's a game or a new type of game or whatever, like we digest it and then what we spit out is a byproduct of that. We've been doing this long enough now with so many episodes of so many things that we've seen


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[Assistant] Like, you know, you can genuinely tell when we're surprised by something. There's like a video that I'm thinking of that we watched.


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[Assistant] Um, that is a new type of, like something we haven't seen before and it's obvious. It's obvious in the video and in the content that everyone is excited by it.


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[Assistant] And it makes me laugh just thinking about it now. I'm excited to see what people think. But like, this is the...


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[Assistant] Yeah, those types of things still happen, but we don't have control over them. We don't have people making games for us and for our content. So basically everything is an adaptation of what's out there. And then it's like, oh, what about this game? Uh, it's another farming sim.


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[Assistant] They're new, is there something new here? Like, you know, people were upset, I saw a little while ago that the WWE videos stopped.


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[Assistant] And I was like, dude, we did everything.


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[Assistant] And they even, they made some of the aspects of the new game worse, but it involved me going and rebuilding. I was like, it's not worth it.


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[Assistant] I think, I think what they're queuing into is that we have a flow chart of our comedy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I mean, I think with stuff like that especially, we'd make a conscious effort to not share our...


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[Assistant] If we have, if we're like, I'm gonna say this thing about Adam today. I'm not gonna say, hey Adam, I'm gonna say this thing about you today. You know, like, or if Elise is like, I wanna do Canada gameplay. She, as an individual, goes to us as individuals and says, what do you want? Like, I didn't know.


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[Assistant] Necessarily who everyone was gonna be until I was putting the tattoo on Bruce's back.


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[Assistant] I do agree though that if we did get together and we all discussed and were like, we're gonna do this bit, it would never probably be as good as whatever we came up with. It'd feel very, very forced.


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[Assistant] Something I didn't think about was uh, one of the high quality things that we intended to be a high quality production was the Tiberius method.


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[Assistant] There was one point, because that was shortly into the new year.


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[Assistant] And I think, I think I came into the office 14 days in a row. Oh, I'm sure you did. I think I came in 14 days in a row to the office to work on that stuff for that. And at some point I closed Premiere and then looked at a YouTube comment that was like,


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[Assistant] Man, they're really taking it easy like, like it was already like starting like, and this was just obviously a troll because nothing had changed by this point. They're like, and I was like, I looked at it and I just went back.


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[Assistant] On his own channel. It was not for funhouse. It wasn't a funhouse thing. Yeah. And so, it's weird, I think it's, I think part of the problem too is that I don't think any of us were like, you know what I want to be? An influencer.


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[Assistant] Most of us were like, we like to make things. You know, for a long time, I worked behind the scenes in production more than I worked in front of a camera. And so just because of the nature of the content that made us successful. Now it's like, oh, well, we should be influencers. We should be doing vlogs about our.


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[Assistant] Our weekend beach parties and stuff like that and it's like...


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[Assistant] I would, I would, I would rather prefer just for myself, and I'm not saying that the person's wrong, but for me personally as a human being, I would rather have my weekend and go to the beach and just quietly enjoy it with myself and my friends, and then not feel like I have to share it with everyone else.


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[Assistant] How about this? We love Chad. Your opinion's wrong. We're gonna keep him coming on as much as possible. I don't wanna put him on again.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people that we've worked with that as soon as you hit record, you're like, I don't recognize you anymore. Why did you change? But Chad is very natural. He's just Chad. He's just Chad and we like Chad and he is, he is a skater and we admire those attributes in him.


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[Assistant] And then that's what's funny, and then that self perpetuates us doing it to try and shhh out low brow each other.


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[Assistant] So I get it, it's not good, it's not good comedy, but it amuses, in terms of us being naturally ourselves, it amuses us to see how bad we can be at these jokes sometimes.


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[Assistant] I think also something we've noticed with the people that work here is that like, you'll be like, oh, I want to do this creative thing for this video. And we're like, okay, go do it. And you know, whether or not it makes the video better.


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[Assistant] Is, is kind of a moot point because then the next thing, that's like a small test of confidence.


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[Assistant] And then the next thing gets even better. So like a lot of times it'll be like, oh, well they, like they, we did a live action thing or tried something completely different with the Photoshop in this one or, or something. But then the next one is like, oh, now you're confident because you were able to try this one and you do something even better.


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[Assistant] So, or you know you can come forward. When you work with people who know that they can come forward and say, I have this idea, you're always going to get way better ideas than if people feel like they can't share their ideas because it might get shot down.


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[Assistant] We love those humans. And a couple non-humans too. Who are you talking about? Guess who? Uh, uh, Gorgon.


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[Assistant] First of all, I've absolutely been racist with way other racists.


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[Assistant] Also, just so it's clear, I'm not racist, my wife is white.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think, I, I, I mean, the beginning what you're saying about Funhouse TV, I think it's more of a...


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[Assistant] If you already know that you like this video from two years ago that we made, I don't think that you're gonna find something. Our comedy isn't so nuanced that I don't think you're gonna find something.


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[Assistant] After two years and go, wait, I didn't find that funny. You're just going to think about how funny it was the first time you saw it and how much you enjoyed watching it back with your friends and stuff like that. So I guess I see how, what you're saying, but I don't know that funhouse TV is going to make that any worse than it would be with people having access to VODs anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and also I'm trying to think about series that we've canned recently.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've ever said that. Well like, like Sherlock is probably the closest one. You know what's coming up. But, but even that, you were just like, you were just like, let's let it breathe. Let's not create an urgency over burning through Sherlock.


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[Assistant] Didn't do great, so let's just wait until we really know that we want to play it again. And then that way, and then that way it's, it will come back and we will get through it over time, but we will never feel obligated to play. Cause that sometimes happens with other videos. Uhm, also as far as Ellie Noir goes. Oh yea, Ellie Noir.


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[Assistant] Uh, a lot of people have asked for more LA Noir. That, we got fucked.


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[Assistant] There's an issue where LA Noire deletes your save. So I was like, let's do LA Noire! And then I booted up and it was gone. So...


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[Assistant] I mean, in defense of the comment though, sometimes I get excited. Because like, and then I'll be like, let's just do this today. Instead of going back and playing LA Noire, but like, it would be like Judge Dredd.


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[Assistant] But even the edit might happen two or three weeks after it's been recorded.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, so, but it's like the kind of thing where just because, it would be unfair to the people that have to cut it, for them to sit there and wait.


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[Assistant] And they're like, okay, gameplay's done, and then they start working on it. Like, that's just inefficient. It's more, makes more sense for them to kind of piecemeal all the stuff, so. That's the thing too.


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[Assistant] A safety net, then we would, we would be boned and we'd be like a week without, but now we have it. So we have to kind of hold onto that and keep pushing that cart of content until it's time to start expending it.


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[Assistant] He could be Batman, except Ben Affleck wants it back. What? I don't know, man.


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[Assistant] I'm more muscular now than I was. That is absolutely true.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's, I mean, not tough. It's, it's a full-time job, so.


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[Assistant] You have to justify it just like you would any other project or if you went to a network and you said I have an idea for a television show, you'd have to justify it in some way and then ultimately they would have to look at it and say this is something we want or this isn't something we want.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, I would say we're actually very lucky because we have an audience like we have. So, you know, I think there are people at Rooster Teeth with some amazing ideas that don't even get to...


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[Assistant] Get inline for that because they don't have an intrinsic brand value to the content that they're bringing to the table.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but yeaah, we, we, that's part of the bigger projects is like trying to figure out what we can justify making using greater resources to see what happens when it does, you know?


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[Assistant] And also, I think there's an aspect of, we've always been, like, since Insight Gaming, we've been very transparent. And anytime we go anywhere, or like, we're like, we want to be transparent.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, this deal's coming through. Yeah, but we want to be transparent. We would like communicating with our audience and doing that stuff like that.


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[Assistant] So, there's a certain aspect of that, and it is frustrating for us. I know that we have conversations in the room where we're like, ah, it'd be so resolved if we could just say this, say, explain it, but we can't because it's just, it's a faux pas. And so I understand there's a, there's a, I'm used to this kind of level of access, but I know I feel like I'm in this level of access.


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[Assistant] But you have to manage that along, so that's only 50%. Then there's also the, well I'll do what YouTube wants me to do. Do I even want to do that? Like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] But according to YouTube, what they put out there in terms of like, we've been YouTube certified, right?


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[Assistant] The message they send there is like, if you love pickles, by God, other people that love pickles will find you too. Speak about pickles! You know, and it's like that's not true.


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[Assistant] Well, I just wanted to add one little note, which was that, like, obviously Lawrence was the one who posted the thread. So, you know, it wasn't, so it's obviously like, oh, I know someone's going to see this kind of thing, but my god.


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[Assistant] How wonderful everyone was in that thread, like compared to the Rooster Teeth thread.


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[Assistant] Like, I just, I'm very grateful for our community, and I know there's overlap, obviously, but, you know, whatever everyone is doing to facilitate the type of people and how they communicate on our subreddit, it's like, I'm really happy about that.


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[Assistant] There's an opportunity to just re-evaluate, like reset the barometer or whatever for yourself, you know. It's a calibration. So I probably shouldn't read most of the stuff that I do, but I...


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[Assistant] Do read it, and I try and take it as a recalibration, because everyone thinks their worldview is the only worldview, but it's really not. And so.


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[Assistant] And it's your right as an audience member to say, well, I'm not going to watch that. It's, you know, no hard feelings.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but like, it's completely your right to do so. We're not encouraging that. We'd like for you to try and discover something that, oh, I didn't think I'd like this, but I actually did. But, you know.


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[Assistant] I know, none of us are gonna come to your apartment or home and say, why the fuck did you turn that off? Put it back on. What a scub. He's pro scub, he's anti-scub. This is nothing.


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[Assistant] I couldn't get out, he had basically pinned me against a wall, I was like, good boy, move boy, move! But he couldn't, and so I'd like, I think I had to restart from a checkpoint, because he was not going to go. But, they get, oh they go in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I was, but the game is really good about sliding him at- when it's important, you notice he did-


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[Assistant] This is like the climax of Bollywood films. They just take any property and they make it for everyone, and I feel like anytime you make something for any, everyone, it's worthless.


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[Assistant] Everybody Indian though, right? Not just, no, I mean, you don't have to be Indian, but


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[Assistant] Like there's a, like Bollywood, not all Bollywood films, but a lot of Bollywood films are like, it has to be dramatic, but it also has to have dancing. And action.


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[Assistant] Which is like one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of all time and it won basically every single award that Bollywood can ever give and it's trash. How much did it make?


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[Assistant] Like Manchurian candidate. Oh, it's like a thriller. It was every, I mean, it's everything. It's every genre. It was basically, it was, think of Arnie from What's Eating Gilbert Grape.


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[Assistant] Uh, so. She's like a Twitter person now. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, she's like smart and she's a Twitter commentator. Yeah, good for her.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it didn't deter really. No, it didn't really change anything. Uhm, I don't know, most people in Las Vegas? I think there's, yeah, I don't know. I think there's still, uh, I don't think that, I think, I understand why you think that.


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[Assistant] I don't know, boxing names? To your point though, I think the perception is that white people have shifted to MMA.


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[Assistant] I always like reading, you ever read about like, the early phase, not necessarily early, so I'm sure it goes back to who knows when, but like,


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[Assistant] Except that boxing is really technical and I think that's why it's persistent. It's, it's, MMA is technical too, but because there's so many variables with grappling and submission and striking,


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[Assistant] It's, there's way more, there's way more of a larger Paper Rock Scissors game. Like, boxing is rock versus rock.


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[Assistant] No, yeah, most, most general fans are just there to see the disaster.


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[Assistant] That's an interesting feeling though. There's something about that. You had that happen to you? Yeaah, I had.


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[Assistant] But yea, we basically went out behind like the dormitories in like an empty basketball court with boxing gloves and we were like, alright, who's going? Who wants to go? Who wants to go? And then people would pair up.


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[Assistant] Wow. And I was like, okay, I'm going to treat this like an opportunity to be like, to not be a bitch. Not that if you don't want to get hit, you're a bitch. But I was like, for me, I'm like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to. So then I just basically walked up to the guy and he hit me like four or five times.


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[Assistant] I did football a little bit in high school and got once hit so hard that my helmet just shot off.


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[Assistant] That could just be what gets through though. I'm sure there's plenty of South Korean films that are joy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause like, you think Brazilian, I was like, City of God! Right? But like, when I was studying Portuguese, we watched a bunch of, and there was like, the equivalent of You've Got Mail. But it was just in Portuguese.


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[Assistant] So this is another thing too, and I guess it's culturally preferential. It's interesting to examine, but right now we're just watching a fight scene from Fight Club, the Bollywood version.


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[Assistant] And there's certain things that certain cultures do where they don't pace things the same way.


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[Assistant] So there's a point where a guy climbed on top of him and he hit him like this. Right? And then they showed it again.


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[Assistant] And they showed it again, and they showed it again, and they showed it again, and I was like, I'm bored of it now. Why would you show it to me so many times that I'm bored of it? Because the movie's four hours long. Is it four hours?


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[Assistant] It's the tiny, it's the jabs that basically destroys your brain.


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[Assistant] I knew very little about Mike Tyson in the documentary.


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[Assistant] I'm taking a photo of it. What's his name? Seth Green. A lot of houses.


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[Assistant] It's weird when they have someone who's basically like, like an emotionless model, and you're like, what's he doing with her?


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[Assistant] I think they probably filmed all this stuff and now one of their friends is basically the main character from a found footage movie where he's like, I want to be a filmmaker. Which means I film everything, everyone says.


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[Assistant] There's a great moment in Cloverfield where they're running away and they're like, why are you still filming? And he's like, cause we have to document this thing that happened in New York City that people might forget about.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was a found footage movie that came out ten years after people had stopped making them, and it wasn't a twist, it was just another found footage one. The little girl who films everything, do you know why? Why? She wants to be a filmmaker.


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[Assistant] I was not expecting to have such an exciting weekend, but I did.


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[Assistant] There is a bowling alley in Koreatown that on Saturday night was not that busy.


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[Assistant] So if anyone here ever wants to go bowling, we should go do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, at least got a video, but I wish that she had supplied me with it.


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[Assistant] They had, they had this thing and it was already pre-set up at our lane. I don't know if they knew we were coming, but it was a slide.


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[Assistant] It was like just a big red slide and a bowling ball slot and then, and then like a dragon's tail. It goes down onto the lane. And you could just like line it up and then push the ball to go. Except that there was this kid next to us who was probably, I mean he was probably like six or seven. And he went like, and he pushed it and he went.


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[Assistant] Yes, of course I did. I was just asking. It was close. Joel and I were close in the second game, but then I got, I got two strikes in a row and then that just means you win basically.


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[Assistant] Nah, I missed, I missed the next one. I got like, I think nine on the next one. But still, like, bowling, the scoring in bowling is absurd.


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[Assistant] So it's like you get, it's like, it's like you can get nine pins or you can get a strike.


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[Assistant] There was an arcade there and they had pinball machines too, and side by side there was, uh, Star Wars A New Hope pinball machine.


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[Assistant] But I did notice that the Phantom Menace one was one quarter and A New Hope was four quarters, which I don't know if I agree with.


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[Assistant] There were weird things like that as a teenager that I did too. Cause like, I did a lot of bowling when I was a teenager.


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[Assistant] Something you can do that doesn't involve drinking. It doesn't involve drinking and like, since your schedule, since you have such a whatever schedule, like you have class until 3 or 3.30, it's like you can hit like matinee pricing everywhere. So like my friends and I would like leave school.


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[Assistant] And then we go to this bowling alley on the other side of town where you could like


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[Assistant] I half a year, six months or whatever, where every single day after school, like a couple of my friends and I would go to the driving range. We get a bunch of balls for like half price or quarter price.


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[Assistant] None of us really knew how to golf and we just, but we just learn and just keep hitting them. And then once we finished that, we'd go inside and then we'd get chicken wings at the, it wasn't at clubhouse cause it was just a driving range. It wasn't like, like a,


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[Assistant] That's more storage, man. Can you tuck stuff back in? Are you, I don't, I'm sure you've tried, but the stuff where you put down border things, like when you're trying to ward off spirits and they say put salt on it? Yea, that works, that works. Have you tried putting that like around the outlet so like they could come out but they'll touch the border and they have to go back in?


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[Assistant] I mean yea, it was already a repurposed version of a different sketch that people may actually get to see some day.


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[Assistant] I was going to say if you just, what I would do is I would just wait for the demo to come up and then I would just time it to make it look like I was skiing with them.


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[Assistant] But like the arcade that I used to go to growing up, like I remember when Mortal Kombat 2 showed up and there was the same cool dude who was probably


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[Assistant] I don't know how that shit works, how it worked back then, but it must have been someone knew someone who made the game.


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[Assistant] And then he went to jail for uh, statutory rape. So, no, I don't, I don't. Statutory is not that...