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[Assistant] And we are here today thanks to Stitchfix.com, Hims, The Complete Hair Kit, and Honey. So thank you, we'll hear from them later in the show. It's your thing, but I like to


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[Assistant] Did anyone pick up on that? That this guy's closed in all these cases?


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[Assistant] That's a great start to our topic, which is disbelief, really, because...


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[Assistant] So the week of July 1st, the administrators of the public meme page, shitposting, cause I'm in shambles, teamed up with a Twitch video game streamer named Smiley Koon to organize an event called Storm Area 51, they can't stop all of us.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so, they're asking attendees to, well, here's the thing. Okay, if we look at this from a serious, straight forward perspective, and not as a joke or a meme.


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[Assistant] The details provided on the event. So they ask attendees to fly out to Lincoln Memorial or Lincoln County, Nevada.


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[Assistant] And meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center Tours Attraction and coordinate our entry


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[Assistant] At 3am Pacific on September 20th, and the goal is to break into Area 51 with the thinking that if there's this giant mass of people headed toward the base all at once,


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[Assistant] The military can't stop them. They're right.


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[Assistant] Well, they are their own secret weapons because they're running at the base, right?


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[Assistant] So the logic, or joke logic, is if we Naruto run, uh, we can move faster than their bullets, and with the expectation of let's see them aliens.


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[Assistant] So the, the idea is this group of people will storm Area 51, see the aliens. That's right. It's a joke.


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[Assistant] We know it's a meme and it's a joke and it's not actually something that you should do or that should happen and I think the original poster is one of whom is


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[Assistant] Uh, Jackson Barnes, he's since kind of been outed as one of the posters. Internet savant, as I would call him. We all know that it's just a joke, it's funny, it's funny to think about, but there are actual people that it seems like are


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[Assistant] Considering trying this or doing this or going out to see what happens. There's the little, little.


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[Assistant] Alien Ranch in, uh, Rachel, Nevada.


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[Assistant] So it seems like there's some people that do not get that this is just a joke. To the point where even the US Air Force had to release a response, they had one of their spokespeople, Laura McAndrews, uhm, issue a warning which


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[Assistant] Again, it's a little bit vague, but it just says Area 51 is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American Armed Forces. The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would have been really fun. And so Jackson Barnes has actually sort of backtracked a little bit. He made a follow up post saying, hello US government, this is a joke, and I do not actually intend to go ahead with this plan, I just thought it would be funny and get me some thumbsy uppies on the internet.


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[Assistant] I guess my question is, do you guys think that there are actually people that are gonna go out there, and maybe not, maybe not activate to do it, but they'll go and they'll like stand and stare at one another like, are we doing this?


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[Assistant] I will say like the memes coming out of this are pretty spectacular, uhm, to the point where even Lil Nas X released his Old Town Road Area 51 music video today. His animated video. It's really great.


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[Assistant] I appreciate everything that it's doing, but I, what bothers me, or not bothers me, but what I find to be kind of dismaying is the people that are actually like, yeah!


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[Assistant] The government should tell us what's going on in there. We deserve to know. Like, and they're gonna storm it and...


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[Assistant] These little things are coming out because due to the Freedom of Information Act, these declassified documents are coming out now that talk about like the, the


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[Assistant] The thing is like, I kind of feel like anything is possible.


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[Assistant] I don't think that maybe there's aliens in the way that pop culture talks about aliens, but I do think that maybe there are.


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[Assistant] Bruce, you should look up the Avro Arrow. It was this jet, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, it was a super jet that the Canadian government developed in like the fifties?


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[Assistant] But then, like, it was the age of, you know, bombers. They, like, they scrapped the project. It was, like, this crazy expensive project, and then the rumor, the lore has it that they sank it to the bottom of Lake Ontario. Cool! Yeah. What, why?


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[Assistant] It's time for a word from Stitch Fix, our sponsor. Uh, Bruce Adam and James, how would you describe your personal styles in one word? How would you describe them? Perpetually stunted. That's two words. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Garba- these are- these are good brands, okay? I don't know what- what this- This ain't Janet brand. Mutt's is, okay?


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[Assistant] To get started, all you guys have to do is go to stitchfix.com slash dudesoup and answer some questions about your preferred style. Okay, and I know you guys have done this before. I have, yea. Cause I've seen some of the fly outfits you've been pulling.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you also know that your personal shopper will then ship you a box of clothes, shoes, and accessories. And, I know you all also know, it's no conspiracy, I know you all also know that there's no commitment required and you only pay for what you keep. James has kept some shorts before.


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[Assistant] That doesn't just go to, you know, some hoity-toity stylist, okay? It's going back into the goods. Alright? You'll never have to think about looking good again with Stitch Fix and you can get started today, guys. Adam? Listen? I'm listening. You can get started today at StitchFix.com slash Dude Soup and get an extra 25% off when you keep everything in your box.


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[Assistant] 25% off. 25% you say. That's stitchfix.com slash dude soup. It's not a conspiracy guys. That's stitchfix.com slash dude soup. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a good tagline.


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[Assistant] He, uhm, he texted me later and was like, Hey, uhm, what brand and size were those?


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[Assistant] He's not here today, but he will be in the alien show. That's right, Lawrence Sontag, believer of the, the extraterrestrial. Uh, he's actually taken hims himself. Uh, cause you know, he's got a great head of hair and he was like, I wanna keep it around. So, uh, you've probably heard him talk about it before cause he had a really great,


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[Assistant] So yeaah, so you've surely heard him talk about how hems helps guys look their best. It's time to see exactly what they're talking about because 66% of men start to lose their hair by age 35.


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[Assistant] And once you've noticed thinning hair, it could be too late. That's what Lawrence was like. He's like, I want to get ahead of this. Uhm, so the best way to...


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[Assistant] The best way to prevent more hair loss is to do something about it while you still have some time and get a handle on those precious locks. I ask you, gentlemen.


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[Assistant] Do you want a bald spot to pop up or your hairline to recede? Or do you, do you want to do something about it first?


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[Assistant] Why turn to weird solutions when you can turn to science and medicine, Adam? I believe in science. Just like aliens.


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[Assistant] The solution is 4hims.com, a one stop shop for hair loss, skin care, sexual wellness for men.


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[Assistant] And HIMSS is helping guys be the best version of themselves with licensed physicians and FDA approved products to help treat hair loss, so.


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[Assistant] No, you know, no weird, uh, guy in Nevada at the rest stop selling you alien hair pills. No. These are prescription solutions backed by science. Because HIMSS was created by a guy who knows some health, men's health conversations are easier online than in person, so he said, I'm gonna make these pills available online, okay? We're gonna connect you to real doctors online. God, I'm nervous with these.


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[Assistant] We're gonna save you, we're gonna save you hours, Adam. Thank you. Alright. Appreciate it. It's confidential and it's discreet, much like the U.S. government.


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[Assistant] He's gonna ask you a few questions. Doctor will review. And if they determine it's right for you, uh, you can have prescription medication to treat hair loss shipped directly to your door. It's the hair loss treatment that everyone is talking about.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so our listeners can get started with the Hims Complete Hair Kit for just $5 today, right now, while supplies last, and subject to doctor's approval, of course. You can see the website for full details and safety information. This could cost hundreds if you went to the doctor or pharmacy somewhere else. But with us, you're going to 4hims.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] And you're saving some money, so forhims.com slash dude, F-O-R-H-I-M-S dot com slash dude. So thank you, Hims. Just one more thing to add.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Adam, you have some experience with honey, correct? I do.


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[Assistant] I know that knowing that there's a discount out there and not worrying about overpaying every time I shop.


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[Assistant] Okay, I see some skeptics here, some tinfoil hats. Does it really work?


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[Assistant] Well, not only did Honeytest over 1 billion promo codes last year, but it actually applied, uh, 185 million, 67 thousand and 86 working codes to people's orders. That's a lot.


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[Assistant] That's a lot of savings that, you know, you know are facts. Okay, they're not whatever you've got, whatever. You're embarrassing yourself. Facts!


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[Assistant] Bypass it, okay? Uhm, Adam, do you remember how much money you saved?


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[Assistant] More time in the hot tub. You know? Hit the jacuzzi.


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[Assistant] Honey's got online savings simplified. Okay, thank you Adam for your sharing. Thank you Elise. That was very brave.


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[Assistant] Are you leaving the hat on? Yeah, of course I am.


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[Assistant] So I guess we should give some sort of background to this game. Uh, it's a game that we


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's a pretty simple game, but basically we shout celebrities at Bruce, and then Bruce tells us whether he deems them to be on the


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[Assistant] His word is gospel in this. I don't know why, but. You can argue with that.


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[Assistant] He's one of the biggest Bollywood stars. Well he, I mean he, I don't know if he's been, he's older now.


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[Assistant] Absolutely not. There's a type of, you gotta be invited to Elton John's Oscar party. Elton John. You know? Absolutely Elton John is A-list.


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[Assistant] What are we waiting on? He was friends with Princess Diana. So, he was. But she's dead now.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm saying he's definitely A-list, but Tom, you would consider Kylie Jenner in the same ranks as the Tom Hanks. Yes.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, does, whether they're alive or not, like Whitney Houston, would you still consider Whitney Houston?


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[Assistant] The thing is, Jimmy Fallon has access to so many celebrities. Like a Regis.


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[Assistant] Is there a point where like you graduate into the A-list and then you can't be removed from it?


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[Assistant] Like when Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend were together and you're like-


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[Assistant] William Neeson. Remember, think of his tragic past.


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[Assistant] Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke.


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[Assistant] Uh, Stephen King. International bookseller.


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[Assistant] I'm thinking like, these people, they show up at an event and the red carpet is rolled out for them. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Granted, this is from WealthyGorilla.com. They put Stephen King at 400 million dollars net worth.


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[Assistant] Would you say that every single member of friends is A-list?


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[Assistant] Oh yea, how long, how long dead does someone get removed from the game?


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[Assistant] So apparently he's sold 75 million records worldwide.


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[Assistant] Here are the most, ten most followed celebrities on Instagram in 2019, okay? Selena Gomez.


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[Assistant] One of the highest paid celebrities of 2019, David Copperfield. That's absurd.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, thank you guys for, uh- Wayne Static.


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[Assistant] Thank you to our sponsors. Before we, uh, roll out, this week on Funhaus, we got ToeJam and Earl. We played it through and, uh, episodes going up daily.


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[Assistant] Uh, Theater Mode, The Amazing Bulk is coming to Roosterteeth.com for first members. Dauntless gameplay.


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[Assistant] Uh, visage, chapter two, we embark on. Visage? Visage! Uh, hardline, which I don't really know anything about. Oh yea, hardline's good. Me James and Lawrence. That's a Lawrence special. Lawrence found a garbage game and it's great. Gotcha. Okay, and a mid-evil is coming too.


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[Assistant] There's some diehards. They're holding on to that.


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[Assistant] I could see, I could see not right away them feeling like they want to integrate stuff, but then I could see later on.


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[Assistant] Endgame happened. I was like, I don't think I could ever, like, these are the A tier heroes.


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[Assistant] I don't like, even if we build up things again, it will be cool, but I don't think we can ever get to the point that we are here with like A tier heroes all gathering together.


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[Assistant] But then they said Moon Knight and I said, okay, there is a chance, finally, we can get another A tier, an S tier hero.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yeah, he's, we got multiple personalities. There's a lot going on with Moon Knight. Uhm, I like, I more like mentioning Moon Knight in a condescending way because it really upsets like five people who love Moon Knight.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well Taskmaster can watch anyone do whatever they do and learn how to do it.


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[Assistant] I also didn't realize, I found out recently that people always go like, Moon Knight isn't, like he's not, that's not fair to him to say that he's just Marvel's Batman. But then I found out recently that there's a, he once had a young teenage sidekick called Midnight.


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[Assistant] I could see Disney Plus is coming out really hard swinging, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of these Netflix shows aren't even continuing past two seasons if some of these Marvel shows are only one. I could see one or two seasons for some of these shows. I don't think that we're gonna be talking about


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[Assistant] That's a great fact I saw about Moon Knight. Uh, for all the people that love defending Moon Knight, I am there with you, baby. And I saw a list of the top 50 Avengers of all time.


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[Assistant] Because I don't think, I don't think that the shows didn't do well. The only one that I heard didn't perform very well was The Defenders, or like, I think Iron Fist got bad reviews, but I think it, according to Netflix, which it's all their secret numbers, I think it did well, so.


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[Assistant] Like yea, basically like we found something that's even scarier and now he has to deal with that and then Bruce Banner can't rely on this like atomic bomb inside of himself to do it. He has to step up and do it himself. But I do like the idea of someone's like, no no no, all that character development's lame. It's smoky!


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[Assistant] The whole X factor. The X-Men.


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[Assistant] Right? So she's like, finally they're gonna probably at some point start integrating that stuff. She's a big part of that world too. That's true. So I wonder if they're gonna use any of this to set up that stuff. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause he died normal. He ripped that thing out of his brain. And then he died normal way.


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[Assistant] She's a reality manipulator, so maybe it could be something where she, it's like the roles are flipped. In the comic, it's to, to make vision more complacent, they create this family for them, but maybe she's in this state post end game that they are going, oh, all right, well,


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[Assistant] She's just gonna manifest a reality where Vision is her husband and they live this beautiful life. Kinda like in, uh,


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[Assistant] So, it's really that, but it's a whole thing in her head. And it's Wanda's vision.


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[Assistant] They cited the one scene that the two of them had in the car, remember?


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[Assistant] There does seem to be a void, there's a narrative void that will be able to be filled in Captain America's role.


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel like instead of releasing a statement, they say, hey Natalie, when we announce Thor love and thunder, pick up the hammer.


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[Assistant] They had a fantasy sequence with Muppet Puppets, but then that in its own right became a pretty popular show and it's a cartoon show.


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[Assistant] They would like do, they would be like, oh, it's, it's Han Croklow. And Kermit would be dressed like Han Solo and they'd have actual footage of like Star Destroyers and they'd be like, oh no, it's a Star Destroyer and stuff.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't believe anyone anymore. I'm, I'm cynical, but like, I remember when Rogue One was coming out, they were like, it's a Star Wars heist film. Oh yea. I saw it and I was like,


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[Assistant] No it's not. No. What part? When they land on the...


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[Assistant] So now anytime a big studio says, it's this that you know, plus a different genre that's unattached to that, I go, I have my doubts. I'll believe it when I see it.


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[Assistant] I found some of the character introductions in that movie a little jarring, but like if I recall when they first, when you first meet Diego Luna's character, he's like in the middle of something else, right? Okay. Isn't he? It's like in a weird planet with a lot of steam and stuff, like running through an alley.


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[Assistant] So I can only assume that it's what they were up to before. So before? Yeah. Okay. I guess so.


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[Assistant] My hope with all this Star Wars stuff is that they start feeling comfortable not tying it to the Star Wars universe. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think the biggest shortcoming for me of Rogue One was feeling that it needed to match up


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[Assistant] Oh. Jon Favreau. So it takes place after Return of the Jedi. Mhm. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] It's weird though because like, someone will correct me, so I'm not gonna say correct me if I'm wrong. Uhm, but like, I always thought it was a big thing about Boba Fett that he wore this old armor.


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[Assistant] Uh, that this takes place after Return of the Jedi, implying that there are, other than Boba Fett, there is also another dude going around, wearing Mandalorian armor.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what I really need though, at some point, because in that trailer it's really great, but the mask is on the whole time. And we know it's Pedro Pascal.


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[Assistant] But, I really hope there's a point where he takes off his mask and he's kind of like balding.


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[Assistant] And he has glasses on and a mustache, so it can look like that still, you ever see that behind the scenes still of the guy who actually was performing Boba Fett?


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[Assistant] You ever wonder if maybe there's someone out there who could have also been great as an Obi-Wan Kenobi or people don't even want to think about that. People don't even want to consider that anymore. Once we've gotten used to something. I'm not saying that that it there is.


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[Assistant] All of this stuff, cause when does it take place? Did they say when it takes place?


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[Assistant] If you think of the prequels as the Obi-Wan story and you just focus on that aspect of it, they're really good.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I'm curious. I'm always curious where these fall because Star Wars is such a weird franchise that they feel like even though, like with the Han Solo thing, even though there's 20 years between this movie and that movie, they still need to match things up. Like they need to sew it all together. And at the end of, uh, Revenge of the Sith,


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[Assistant] Or they don't care as much. I think you get into this mess because you don't care as much.


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[Assistant] So, they might do something like that again. Who knows? They're like, eh, we're reshaping it as we go.


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[Assistant] Really? Yeah, I think it's fine. Why is Arnold Schwarzenegger there? It doesn't make any sense. You already have that character. Why would you do that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I always said that my opinion of the movie doesn't nearly matter as much that it was bad improv. Like, if you're part of a trilogy and you and other filmmakers are all telling one story together,


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[Assistant] Doesn't that entire, I don't know, I have no idea. Maybe Kathleen Kennedy has it all figured out. Maybe it's gonna totally pay off. But it just feels like by introducing Palpatine,


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[Assistant] It means that you are admitting that, oh shit, we killed off our bad guy.


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[Assistant] And if they, if they said to Rian Johnson, we want you to do the last two, then I'm sure it would have probably been really cool. Cause you'd be like, he would have killed off Snoke, but then he would have had some other plan for what was to come afterwards. That was even greater. And you're like, Oh, that was such a, that was a pawn compared to this. But going into this last one, I'm like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they're fighting for.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's weird. I think that's why it's, I'll go see it obviously.


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[Assistant] The only thing that I think could really salvage it for me is introducing Jack Sparrow into Star Wars. Like, could you imagine if there's a scene, Rey and Kylo are spaceships crashing the crash-plan on a deserted planet. They're like, oh no, we're both trapped here.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's weird. It's gonna be, it's gonna be, I think I'm hyped for it. I'm really happy for, uh, lightsaber manufacturers. Yep. Cause it did seem like there was a lull in that business for like assault, like the original trilogy period. Yeah. Cause you get all kinds of cool lightsabers in the prequels.


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[Assistant] I was gonna swing it, but no. Not to take it from cool, fun, whatever talk, but I do think there's a conversation about...


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[Assistant] The business side of it, because if there's a bubble, I'm pretty certain and I think everyone here is probably pretty certain that there's a VOD bubble coming.


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[Assistant] But now is like everyone's doing Amazon, HBO, Rooster Teeth, like Crunchyroll, uhm, and basically like I think there's Disney Plus and then basically every single major network is at least trying to develop their own


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[Assistant] Vod too, and it's like, it used to be, it was a cool alternative to paying $50 a month for cable.


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[Assistant] And a bunch of stuff that you could just pay $10 a month or whatever for Netflix, and you get way more that you can actually choose from. But when it's Netflix plus Disney Plus plus Hulu, and now you're paying $65 a month for everything again, I think we're gonna, people are gonna react and be like, wait a minute, and the bubble's gonna pop.


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[Assistant] But, but why? Like, I think something like Verve only exists because they're a conduit. They're using their technology because they've already figured it out before these other big companies can.


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[Assistant] I think once all those other companies have figured out a solid streaming platform that works with an app and Chromecast and all those things, Apple TV support, like, then I go, well we don't need Verve anymore. We've reverse engineered whatever you could offer us.


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[Assistant] In terms of announcing a VOD platform goes...


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[Assistant] Very good. Like, they did a pretty good job. They're clearly planning to support it and- There's more than I want. At no point did they even bother listing the back catalog of just shit that Disney owns and has made anyway that they can throw up there that you can watch whenever you want to that maybe you couldn't, like, uh, Lion King one and a half or whatever. The one with Scar's Kid.


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[Assistant] It's still 89, so they're still hanging on to like the 80s where it's like, let's do this seriously, but we're doing it so fucking stupid because it's the 80s.


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[Assistant] Conceptually, I would update it with the millennial lifestyle in mind. So I would say that you're late for the show because you got high before you were supposed to go do it. So you're already ready.


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[Assistant] With the proverbage, I think they're selling an identity as well because they want you to think, okay, well, I'm not an amateur.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I was not in the market for it, but then I was like, oh jeez, I mean I've had this phone for like two years maybe? Now I've forced my hand that I need to replace it.


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[Assistant] Or it's the last step to find the treasure. How many paces west?


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[Assistant] I have an Instagram group message, Lord of the Rings memes, that coming up this November is gonna be YEAR STRONG!


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[Assistant] So, the most recent meme from today was, my family when they see me coming out of my room for the family gathering, and then it's Gandalf saying, go back to the shadow!


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[Assistant] Oh no, I was gonna say Knives Out got an incredible reaction at Tiff.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, you're telling me you would prefer to play Overwatch on the Switch. It's not about preferring.


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[Assistant] They're a lot, they're also doing a really, really good job of selecting


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, the levels just have pinball elements throughout them, but like,


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[Assistant] I will say, like, the way those Gooigi boys are glistening under the light.


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[Assistant] Well I guess the pinky nail grows faster than say the thumb. I think they grow faster.


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[Assistant] I have a question. Why was this cat replaced by Pounceable?


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[Assistant] Is, is Heavyside, Heavyside's just a place. Oh no, we know this, we know this one. No, we know this. I know we know this. Fuck, I know, I know that we know this answer. It's like in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, we've talked about it.


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[Assistant] Give me the first letter. J. Jellicles. This is Jellicles.


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[Assistant] Or you don't. Or you don't. Or you don't. That was an option. That's the whole thing! Choose to not shoot.


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[Assistant] Except like, uh, it's in the Dominican Republic this year, so, uh, we'll see how that goes. I've never been.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's gonna be like a looting stuff, so they specifically called out the London terrorist attacks, and I don't think that they're gonna just copy-paste the same situation, but I think they're gonna acknowledge that like this is a very real thing that's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] You know, I like as a fan, like I grew up playing Call of Duty and that's where I got my start on YouTube and creating content as when I was younger trying to get my parents to let me buy a game like that because they were a little bit on the stricter side, like I had to go out of my way and be like, eh, it's war, it's like more historical than, you know, than whatever.


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[Assistant] This brutal Call of Duty game, gonna be a tough sell. Whereas you have games like Fortnite that are not only free, but like it's a cultural shift. People, like the kids are growing up thinking, Fortnite.


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[Assistant] You know, I'd be interested in seeing the ROI, the return on investment on like an individual person buying the game now versus Call of Duty 4 when there's only two map pack DLCs and that's it. Now you have microtransactions. Like are they making the same amount? I don't know.


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[Assistant] In its own right, stood up for, I think they ended up selling it for like 25 bucks standalone, towards the later cycle, but like, we're talking about competing with like a PUBG, which was 30 bucks until recently, and it's like, well one is inherently a good game, and one is,


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[Assistant] I mean, so no season pass is different than a battle pass, and somebody might correct me. The season pass, I believe, used to be a way that you could get all access to all the maps that they would have, and then a battle pass was a way to get unlockable cosmetics and whatever.


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[Assistant] Could be wrong, but that stood out that they made


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah, I think that, I mean, you know, I guess I'm not like a whale, but I'll buy like 40 bucks in cosmetics I have for like Destiny 2, etc. Knowing full well that I'm not going to play this game in a couple weeks.


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[Assistant] You're right in that if I've already spent money, even if I got like a press copy, I'm still like hesitant to put more money into it when I've already, you know, used up what you could argue is like.


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[Assistant] Sorry. Oh, go ahead. I was going to say made by the original development team for Call of Duty, Respawn Entertainment. Who, so that's why, and this may be getting off in a tangent, we were talking about sales numbers, how like the best selling Call of Duties were the original Respawn Entertainment and I guess subsequently like, uhm, on Warfare 2 and 3.


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[Assistant] I think the variety homes sell it. I think that, have you seen that infograph, which I wish I would have remembered prior to this, uh, of the amount of people that complete the campaign in every quality. It's like under 14%. It's outrageously low. Yeah, so it's like,


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[Assistant] No, but I'm wondering if there were standalone missions that didn't interact with the single player story? Because I know you can co-op the story, but-


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[Assistant] I think, I think that focusing on, you know, like looking at the driving sale, or sales factor behind Call of Duty and not focusing on the multiplayer is like, inherently, you know, it's like,


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[Assistant] So they got new game engine, they're changing it up and it inherently will play a little bit differently. Like I watched the 2v2 that they weirdly tried, demoed the game and announced it around this like new game mode, the 2v2. It just looks like it's a little bit more tactical.


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[Assistant] I agree, like they probably don't measure it by unit sales, but I also, I also think that they're trying to make more of a, like Call of Duty Competitive has been as big as it ever could be right now. I mean like they're franchising the teams and stuff, like there's a lot of money behind it.


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[Assistant] Even though it looks similar, it has taken the mantle. I'd say it's probably bigger than Call of Duty Esports in certain events. Maybe not in terms of production value, but Siege has Cloud, so maybe they're just trying to replicate that more realistic, slower,


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[Assistant] I don't think you can. It has to be free. I don't think you can. I don't even think if it's free, like it's just, like Alana says, it's like a cultural shift between kids get home or get to school and they're like, I got a 13 kill victory royale. Like, without question, that's a discussion that happens. Versus when I would go to school, I'd be like,


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[Assistant] I think there's always gonna, like, in Call of Duty especially, there's always gonna be an inherent skill curve for FPS games that are always gonna be trended towards, like, the more extreme side of things. Like, if you wanna play Mario Kart, there's a skill curve there, but I pro-, you know, it's probably not as gaping as, you know. I like that word. My brain also went, nice.


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[Assistant] Past modern work, like Black Ops 2 combined. Like, that's like nine years, eight years of Call of Duty that I just kinda like-


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[Assistant] Uh, COD 2 was pretty popular with my friend groups, but uh, COD 3 was just terrible. When COD 4 came out, it was like the first new engine, um, uh, uh, like modern shooter. I don't, I can't remember. There was like maybe Socom. It was like 2007, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Right, exactly, yeah, truly. So I remember, you know, getting on, getting on Xbox Live Party Chat and just talking with my friends there, even if we weren't playing in the same game or playing the same game, like that was the social aspect. So I think it did a good job of just kind of being there when social networking on Xbox and PlayStation kind of happened.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, I agree, I don't think, I'm hopeful that by this time tomorrow I will be on board the train because we get to play it.


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[Assistant] I would be happy if they just appeased me. You know, like somebody who's played almost every single Call of Duty and actually does want to see, you know, some more playtime than I traditionally got. If they can do that for me, I'll be happy regardless of if I get my $60 worth out of it, you know?


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[Assistant] That is one of the better, uhm, if not the, like, one of the best like to dislike ratios on YouTube trailer.


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[Assistant] If this one fails, wait five years and then just give me COD 4, Mine Warfare 2, Mine Warfare 3, fuck every other game, just package that up and give it to me again. And then do that every five years like Disney.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we, we were talking about this. The longest vacation I've ever took, uh, was this past winter. I took, uh, 12 days off. But prior to that, oh god, I was so stressed. But prior to that, the, uh, that's why I was like, I have fun with a month.


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[Assistant] I can almost guarantee you will have, like you've never been on like your trip to Hawaii, you never woke up and you're like, eh, I could do something right now.


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[Assistant] How about you set up the confirm go live option in OBS, which is right there in the settings. I don't wanna.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, like see, 10 years ago was, was, you know, I was cutting edge, but...


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[Assistant] Sucking on those little piggies. I don't like that. I'm so glad I didn't watch more of that.


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[Assistant] I think most female creators have a wiki feed page.


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[Assistant] Oh, you have nearly perfect feet.


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[Assistant] Wow. It's never been updated, huh?


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[Assistant] I don't think you, I don't think you're just bi, Bruce. You're bi. I don't think you want to belittle it by saying just bi.


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[Assistant] Also, the proportion of, look, from an artistic point of view, the proportion of his head, anatomically, is off. His head is bigger than it should be.


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[Assistant] Like in a pre-YouTube world in the 1990s, how did you get into Robbie Williams if it wasn't popular and it wasn't being played on the radio?


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[Assistant] Did he do like, did he just sing the songs or did he do Frank Sinatra? Did he like sing it in the style, oh.


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[Assistant] I was thinking that originally when you were telling this that it was all like tourists who were in Vegas to be in Vegas like, Oh, Rob Williams. Yeah, sure. Like whatever. I know him from back home. But no, these are people who came specifically to this.


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[Assistant] I don't get it. Do you cut the fingers off your gloves, or do they come that way? You buy them that way? Okay, yeah. Uh, from Orphans Unlimited. Uhm, so, where all my friends, like,


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[Assistant] In third, fourth, fifth grade when all my friends were listening to...


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[Assistant] Paula Abdul and Michael Jackson, we were listening to Cats in South Pacific.


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[Assistant] Yeah, growing up, like, I was never able to participate in, like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like singing at like lunch, everyone was like singing vanilla ice or whatever and I like never knew the lyrics but, but I was like fucking there for music class when we were singing, uh, you know, whatever from Oklahoma. And it's, you know, sort of continuing my life, none of my, most of my,


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[Assistant] It's been a very, like, sort of self-imposed exile into the island of misfit musicals.


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[Assistant] This sort of pairs with this other philosophy that I have which is, uh, as a kid,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna take a little bit of a divergent track here. As a kid, you would really enjoy things all the time because you're experiencing them everything for the first time. Everything that you experience as a kid is like a wonderment because you've never had a fucking lollipop before. Or if you've had a lollipop and you've never had one with bubble gum in the center!


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[Assistant] And as an adult you have fewer new experiences and so I try to limit my exposure to things before I can experience them so that I can enjoy things for the first time for the first time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I do that specifically, I started doing that with musicals, uhm, so,


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[Assistant] I went to go see A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, uh, like two or three years after it came out and it was touring, but it blew my mind. I didn't expect there's a big twist in the show where like, um, both, there's a plot twist in the show, but there's also a meta twist about like how the show is, uh, constructed. That's like awesome and like amazing and like, it's really funny and I would not have gotten that.


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[Assistant] I would argue that's a show that's super funny watching it. Like the soundtrack, I wouldn't want to listen to it.


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[Assistant] Broadway musicals have always, Broadway live theatre has always been about ten times the price of a contemporary movie ticket, which holds true. For most shows, like not like a superstar film. Oh, so it scales as movie tickets? It's always scaled with time, so like when a movie was ten cents, a Broadway show would be a dollar. Interesting.


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[Assistant] I read the Jedi Academy Trilogy, uh, there's a lot in there to love, there's a lot in there to love. I also read the, they go in like the abandoned catacombs of Coruscant, it's very cool.


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[Assistant] Did you, were you on, as a Star Wars fan and purist, were you on the side of, were you young enough to enjoy the re-release Remastered or were you a purist and like, no, I want to see the outlines. I wasn't.


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[Assistant] I would imagine, I did not like Battlestar Galactica either old or new, but I would imagine it would be akin to being a huge Battlestar Galactica fan in the 90s when it was a laughable idea. It was laughable, yea. And then it came back and people who made fun of it for years and years and years suddenly fell in love.


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[Assistant] I didn't know about Monty Python until my friends put me into Monty Python and then like, then you discover it together and then you go into like the sh- like, and the show only at the time was, you know, Deep Cut VHS, but there's got to be that experience still where maybe kids are discovering old episodes of The Simpsons, like, like,


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[Assistant] First four seasons or something where, yeah, it's a show that's been on forever, but like, have you seen these old episodes? I dunno, like, maybe, maybe they exist. Hey kids!


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[Assistant] Isn't this whole conversation basically like, we're talking about the experience of Tumblr, isn't it? Like, niche interests and finding those communities and like, realizing that you're not alone, kinda sort of?


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[Assistant] What years when I was in middle school, I built prior there being any, um, fully functioning, like fully, you know, licensed, uh, Lego kits.


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[Assistant] I kept it out for a long time in my bedroom, and then years later, I was here in L.A. This has been like eight or nine years ago, my parents sent a whole tub of my old shit out to L.A. in like a storage thing.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yes, I would, because I wanted to be- Listen, the year was like 2007 or 8, and we were all hyper-masculine back then. We were wearing Von Dutch hats, we were wearing Axe bodies all the way.


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[Assistant] Uh, I also felt the same way. Like, my family liked Muppets, and we were a Muppets take Manhattan family, obviously.


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[Assistant] Two experiences of mine like really fulfilled my muppet like craving when I moved out to LA and one was like one of my first


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[Assistant] And so like whenever I would come in to take a meeting with them and like give them my coverage, uh, I would go sit in the main waiting room which


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[Assistant] Was just a cavalcade of retired Muppets and all their Emmys and Oscars, which was like mind-blowing at the time. A few years later, I became a PA on a pilot. Have I told you this story?


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[Assistant] It was a pilot that TBS was doing called Late Night Buffet with Augie and Dell and it was Muppets and they'd be shot four episodes and it was the writers from Animaniacs making a Muppets show with full body like


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[Assistant] Big Italian like, uh, you know, full body muppets on behind a desk. And there was like a monkey band and being a PA on the show was amazing. Like it paid nothing, but you're on the lot and the writers would be like, oh, uh, go grab, like go to the creature shop, grab some eyes and we need to like, you know, approve whatever. And I'd be like, yes.


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[Assistant] I will go into the creature shop where they build muppets and grab the eyes of the muppets and hold them in my hands and bring them to you. That is a thing that I, making minimum wage, would be, would pay you to allow me to do.


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[Assistant] So it was the most popular show on the planet in the 90s, so it wasn't like it was niche, but it still felt like you were in this community of people that liked the same thing that you liked. And when we went to the Simpsons live show at the Hollywood Bowl, like that was so cool, like Conan O'Brien was up there singing the monorail song, Hank Azaria was there, like.


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[Assistant] You don't get, like, I went to go see, um, uh, at the El Capitan Theater, which is a movie theater that's owned by Disney, uh, they showed the, um, Black Cauldron, which they never show in theaters. I had never seen it on a big screen before. It's hard to get a VHS copy of it. And not only do they show it in theater, in the theater, one night only, they had the animation team


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[Assistant] It was so, like, if you're a fan of especially entertainment niche, uh, interests, like L.A.


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[Assistant] I think there's something really wonderful about arcs, like the time that we grew up, it was like a really wonderful, like it was probably the last generation to be able to truly discover something and make you feel like you discovered it. The other side of that though is that like, I remember really wanting to play it, really interested in Dungeons and Dragons, really wanting to play it, really into fantasy, but


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[Assistant] I was already so bullied enough in middle school that I knew that if I went, if I walked into the Dungeons and Dragons store in Baton Rouge, that I would just, I would be grounded in the dirt. And so I, I didn't want to do that.


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[Assistant] The difference between now and then is that now, there-


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[Assistant] There are so many ways to find like communities online and while you might not have that same moment of like pure discovery and feeling like you've, you've chartered unchartered territory, you can also


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[Assistant] Not be embarrassed, like potentially be embarrassed because there are other people out there like you and that's like a really cool experience.


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[Assistant] Guess how much money got, uh, uh, on a production budget of, uh, 140 million dollars. Reportedly. Could be less. Guess how much money the domestic box office take of Gods of Egypt was. Domestic?


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[Assistant] I think a game where, uh, or an attraction where in an overpopulated post-apocalyptic world children fight for food is really perfect for China.


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[Assistant] I know. They don't have any other. They have Aladdin and Weibo and...


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[Assistant] It's not animated, it's digital artistry? Digital effects. Action.


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[Assistant] No, that's different, that's Simba. Okay, yeah, Simba. That's Simba.


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[Assistant] Yes. Young Simba. Good job. It's digital, listen, this is perfect animation, there's nothing wrong with it, you can tell the characters apart. Alright, let's see who it is.


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[Assistant] If we believe that at the very core the world wasn't compelling people,


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[Assistant] If we believed at the very core that the characters weren't compelling for people,


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[Assistant] Or the javelin suits weren't compelling, or traversing, this is one sentence, or traversing the world and participating in the world wasn't compelling.


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[Assistant] IP lives for generations and runs in these 7 to 10 year cycles. So if I think about Anthem on a 7 to 10 year cycle, it may not have had the start that many of us wanted, including our players.


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[Assistant] I feel like that team is really going to get there with something special and something great because they've demonstrated that they can. Have they?


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[Assistant] From YouTube. From YouTube, Twitch, word, world renowned, uh, entertainer. Thank you for having me on Dude Soup. He is on the, he is, I guess around the world, but only because he's on Twitch and YouTube.


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[Assistant] Since the show came out, I never read the books, but uhm, I was there episode one, all the way through, so I consider myself a hardcore fan.


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[Assistant] In general, yes. I think it is, it's kind of born from a place of just people wanting their ending. And I'm one of those people, I, I, excuse me.


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[Assistant] I didn't get the ending I would have wanted. I think the writing kind of fell apart this season. Uhm, and that was really frustrating.


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[Assistant] I'm, I think mature enough and also as a creator, I know every, all the work that goes into these sort of things and it's not as simple, you know, a thousand mile high view as it is as people on the ground working it.


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[Assistant] And you know, it's not as easy as just, oh, make it again. So, like, I'm...


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[Assistant] I'm totally for people advocating for change or, you know, as you said, petitions are important and for people to have their voice heard. But I think for anyone to actually expect this to get done and to hold people accountable for that is totally unrealistic and just shows you have no understanding of how production works.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a very different beast from the first few seasons to now. And, you know, bad or good is, again, subjective, but you can definitely, I think, objectively say it's different. I think the first five seasons, first three seasons, wherever you made the cutoff.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, when you're a fan of something, you feel a sense of ownership over that, that, you know, that entity. And all these petitions that are popping up for, you know, uh, was it Patterson as Batman?


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[Assistant] I don't put much stock in that. I feel like they just needed more people for the massive whiteboard and they're like, how are we gonna bring all these together for these last episodes? And so they just had more people on staff to help.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a lot of stuff like that. Like the whole, you know, Aria going literally across the sea and learning to become a master class assassin. You can turn herself into anyone. She uses that skill once and then is like, I guess that's, I've used it enough. And it's like, it could have been useful many different times in the last two episodes.


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[Assistant] I will, something will have been worth it, because we've gone eight seasons of like, this-


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[Assistant] So that is, that is why I'm not super upset about, I mean, it seems out of character from what I know of Bran and have been led to believe about Bran, but it is at least an end that seems like, okay, maybe if I go back and rewatch things, I can


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[Assistant] I guess I'm curious on who's, like, onus it was on in this situation, you know? I mean, ultimately it's the showrunners because it's their show, but like, did they expect that George R. R. Martin would have an answer as they were moving past the books or were they just like, this doesn't matter as much, you know? Because you're right, they added every little detail.


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[Assistant] They could have just checked with George and be like, does this like, should we, does this matter? And he could have probably guided them like, yeah, maybe not. I mean, I think it's clear when they, sorry, go ahead.


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[Assistant] It's the, it's the water cooler talk of both the internet and, you know, social life where your friends are watching it and like maybe they don't, aren't as angry as you are, but you want to be part of the conversation and you just be like the sour guy that keeps complaining, which was me for a while.


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[Assistant] There's also something to be said about spoilers and the fact that we're living in an age now where like...


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[Assistant] I'm not as, I'm not as worried about that too. And that's also kind of like, I mean, I'm a D&D nerd, but like, you know, when you're like a low level, like when you're traveling from one city to another, you can be attacked by like, you know, a goblin on the way and it's like, that's a big deal. But then you're level like 20 and it's like, you don't have to see every goblin.


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[Assistant] But, uh, I think my biggest problem is like the red herrings of this season or just the whole show in general. Mostly just the White Walkers in general. It's like this entire story seemed to be building up about life versus death. You know, the throne, it is the Game of Thrones, but that's secondary because what really matters is it's the living versus the dead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and it just felt so, like I, you know, that may be a twist to some. I don't know if you, if you felt like that was a twist, a satisfying twist, but.


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[Assistant] I just, like, I don't know, it felt like they're, it just felt like they were delineated, they're moving far off from the original, like, just energy of the show at the entire point.


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[Assistant] I'm actually with him on this, Bruce. This show is known for not caring about plot armor. If you look at like, you know, the previous season, yeah, Ned the first season, but even like, like,


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[Assistant] In the Dothraki like, like Jorah fighting the Dothraki hero in like the first season. The Dothraki comes at him with like his sickle, it sticks in his armor and he just cuts his throat and that's like, oh shit, we're dealing with like a new type of warrior here and that becomes like a whole


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[Assistant] And then you go, you fast forward in time to this battle and he gets stabbed through the breastplate of his plate armor by like a rusty knife.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so you can say that Nixing's like crazy strong, like I, sure, but like, yeah, the idea is like armor sometimes relevant, sometimes it's not relevant, like, you know.


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[Assistant] He definitely implied he could, which is why he gave the whole dagger to Arya and like did a whole bunch of really subtle things that were like very precise with their timing. Like, you know, revealing, uh, Jon's, you know.


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[Assistant] At the moment I was like, maybe he still recognizes that Jon's like the closest thing to a Targaryen that he's got and therefore like, I can't really harm you or like, you know.


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[Assistant] He didn't, but he also was like, I don't trust you via all of his ongoing looks. And then when John pays it off by killing her.


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[Assistant] He's like, ah dammit, I was right. And then he like, just leaves.


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[Assistant] I know under that too. I was thinking like- Back to Valyria? Yeah, back across the sea or to Eater was what my first bet was.


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[Assistant] Wow. Hi, I'm Nick Cage. This is- Don't call the IRS.


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[Assistant] How did one of his spines quills come out? It never happens. It never happens. You just can't see them because they're pixels.


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[Assistant] Since we're getting into cinematic discussion, right off the top here as we play.


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[Assistant] Uh, do you guys think that everyone in Last Skywalker will be astral projected, including the audience?


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[Assistant] That's what it was, yea. That's ironically what it is, and we'll get to that in a minute.


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[Assistant] Exactly. You know? Arguably that makes you more of a parent. The best parent. That's what my dad said. Stan for something. He said he cared and didn't- chose not to express that through money because that's what the capitalist system wanted him to do. Sure. There. Okay. Gamer.


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[Assistant] No, it's, there are certain hard limits with electromagnetics that are starting to get butted into with how small they're making processors. They're hitting 7 nanometer now, which is wild, but still it's not enough to continue the march of Moore's Law. So basically, yeaah. That was true for about 20 years, 25 years, and now it's falling apart. It's also not necessary anymore.


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[Assistant] Thank you Adam. The thing is this, like all of these talking points are kind of rooted in a very dated appreciation of the landscape such as it is.


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[Assistant] So yeah, you're kinda hitting on the ebb and flow of the marketplace. Part of this, uh, part of this is I'm sure due to the fact that there's a new wave of consoles coming out and that huge TVs are getting cheaper. So that value proposition seems so much better than building a big ass PC just to see water reflections in Battlefield 5.


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[Assistant] Uh, however, once new consoles come out, then all the graphical specs hit that new minimum. PCs are like light years ahead of whatever PS4 Pro or Xbox One X could do right now. Maybe.


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[Assistant] But they have to write to those specs because they're the most common and then those get ported over to PC and they just land however they land.


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[Assistant] But whenever PS5 comes out, then you might have to upgrade your computer to play whatever launch titles come out on that, because it's hitting a much higher spec. So I think that's kind of what this is implying, is that PC, over the next couple of years, it's going to be tougher for it to replicate what consoles can do and do it better, because prices are, because parts are more expensive. Meanwhile, you can just get a PS5 and a 4K TV.


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[Assistant] That subsidy like has a microphone in it and broadcasts all your shit back to China so they can sell it to you for $600.


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[Assistant] Well, so PC hasn't been a graphical front-runner for a while. I mean, it does in the sense that it runs console games at a higher resolution. But...


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[Assistant] There was a time when games had like CD-ROM before consoles did, and had 3D acceleration before consoles did, so they were technologically advanced, but...


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[Assistant] Like that doesn't happen anymore because of the Star Citizen problem. Uh, the more graphically-replated game is, the longer it takes to make. So they started making Star Citizen targeting for it to release five years down the road. They had to make a lot of guesses about what tech would be there when it landed.


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[Assistant] By the time they got five years later, the engine had changed under their feet. All the circumstances changed. They had to like restart game development. Now they're in the sort of washing machine about trying to get this game done when the specs keep moving around them. I think high-end PC gaming has hit that point. You can't really make a PC exclusive to a really high spec anymore.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that is kind of weird. You can't do it on console because the spec is locked and it's in everybody's house. So I think console will always have that going for it now. Console is like God of War, which is a technologically amazing game that they would never make for PC.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because the spec is so distributed and it will cost too much and by the time you actually finish it, it would look dated and crappy. Like, Crysis was really the last game that released before the hardware was there to actually run it, which is why there were people who remember memes about it.


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[Assistant] So when PlayStation 5 comes out, it will be technologically advanced. People will be able to have made games for it. There'll be a lot of tech demos in the early days, that's how it always is. But since you can write to a definite hardware spec, it'll always probably look better than just the family computer that's running Fortnite.


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[Assistant] I don't know that games can't get popular looking bad, but I do, I don't think that just like, yeah, throwing polygons at something doesn't work anymore.


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[Assistant] I have. I know you have. I learned last night you can turn on the AI and make them beat the game for you. It's awesome. And you still get coins for it.


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[Assistant] They won't invite Notch. They won't invite Notch. Yeah. Like he- Whatever. He stole the idea. Whatever, he cares. Uh, the vibrancy of PC has always been, or has been, ever since I want to say crisis, has always been like, mods? The fact that it's an open ecosystem so you can fuck with your game and make everyone naked, which is what every game does. And then also like, the weird kind of mid-tier indie.


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[Assistant] So games like Undertale come out on PC because Toby Fox holed himself up with RPG Maker for 12 years and made this whole thing. And that kind of thing is always going to hit PC first because it doesn't have the barriers to entry that console space does.


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[Assistant] He's going home and eating his mashed potatoes and peas.


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[Assistant] I just, my, there, there are- Well, I'm glad you brought that up, James. What? Porn. Okay. Cause porn, like, kind of like the mod scene, PC is still a haven for porn projects. To wit! Hold on. Why are you showing us evidence? What is that?


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[Assistant] Porn related projects, porn mods, like just porn video gaming. Oh sure. So specifically there's a game called Subverse that looks like it's going to break the 2 million barrier on Kickstarter. This is basically just like porn mass effects.


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[Assistant] Damascus Steel Top? Omar, what kind of cookies are you getting your computer over there? Uhm. This ain't my computer.


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[Assistant] Through VR, PC is still a tech-forward platform, and it offers experiences you can't get anywhere else, provided that you want to pay the $5,000 to set up a room and like install lighthouses in every corner and stuff like that. Yeah, it's still there. It's still just as dumb as getting like two video cards in 1998 to play Quake 1 at a reasonable frame rate.


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[Assistant] I was. Most of them came with knives. And that's awesome. Cause there is no box in this world that is not awesome if it has a knife in it.


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[Assistant] That's true. I'm flipping these, my hands are cut up, it's not because I'm sad, it's because I'm Arya Stark.


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[Assistant] That's true, but even got more awesome after the fact. They actually had some cool stuff. There was a wine decanter that I didn't really need, but it looked awesome. Got some beer glasses that are cool. Uh, yeah, in addition to the many knives, there was a throwing knife set complete with a target that you can put on something. Dartboard.


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[Assistant] It's just cool like adult stuff. Uh, it's like, I don't know, I've signed up for a lot of box services and usually it's just like a lot of...


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[Assistant] Like toys and things that are neat, but you don't really use, but this is actually adult stuff you could use in your actual adult life. So that's cool.


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[Assistant] So that's just where we happen to drop in. Is 76 an important number? We need to dissect this. Sonic trailer analysis, 10 things you might have missed.


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[Assistant] No, I guess it isn't. Remember the thing that got you into Sonic and if you can go back and watch or play it again and really ask yourself if it was actually all that great when you did it the first time. If he was fast the Mario.


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[Assistant] No, I'm saying that there are many entry points into Sonic and Sonic's universe. They're not all great. Most of them are not.


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[Assistant] I didn't think it was Audit, and it didn't occur to me until about an hour after the trailer ended, but there's, I'm pretty sure, wait, maybe in the scene where they arrive at the military base, but I think it takes until the elevator gag for a woman to have a line in the trailer? Not that that matters, Sonic is just, it's for us boys, but it seems a little odd.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they didn't, there were no stakes for Cyclops. Is he like, is he down and out? Did his wife die? Is his kid gone? We'll find out.


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[Assistant] It only makes business sense to keep making products for children. Because if you get them right and you get them early, then they're Sonic fans for life, like we all are. Not with this!


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Here's a question for you. Cause when you talk about demographic appeal, I thought it was fascinating that they used a lot of original 16-bit sound effects in the trailer. Like the ring sound and the spin dash sound. It fits because those are actually really good sound effects from the game. But it does seem like it is...


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[Assistant] That at least seems like it's an attempt to like, span the gap of like, hey, we, for all the Sonic video game fans, we have these like, sound effects in here, but nothing else really seems to jive with the video game sensibilities of it, aside from his roots.


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[Assistant] If you sign up, I might get to read the Sonic the Hedgehog story. So do that.


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[Assistant] I think that movie is gonna be awesome enough.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say there's a tent pole movie, but like the writing and directing is pretty like, not...


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[Assistant] Oh yea, we're owned by Warner. I keep forgetting that. You shouldn't. They didn't forget that they own you.


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[Assistant] The tree is not very edgy. The tree is not super edgy.


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[Assistant] Did they do the thing where Dave1 gets like a chromed


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[Assistant] This week on Dude Soup, Alana saw Avengers early, we got some...


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[Assistant] Horrific Kickstarter games and some other news about a self-driving car, perhaps. Also Omar's here, all together on this week's episode of Dude Soup.


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[Assistant] Well, we're gonna get into some stuff, uh, right up here in a second, but first let me let you know that this show is brought to you by Quip. If you go to quip.com slash dude right now, get your first refill pack for free with a Quip electric toothbrush.


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[Assistant] What's dude.com? What's dude.com? So, uh, first up, Lana. Hi, welcome back. Thank you. Yes, I've been on a journey. Yeah, fresh off the Burbank boat where you got to see an early screening of Avengers Endgame.


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[Assistant] It's a three hour film. We're all going to see it Friday. I think Bruce is going Thursday. Some people are going the night before, but we as a fun loving group as we do as a family workhorse actually think


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[Assistant] You were not here when you did this last year, Alana, but...


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[Assistant] We all, we all take the day off, or the lunch. We go see the movie, then come back here and record a podcast about it.


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[Assistant] So uhm, I'm looking forward to that, but, you said, I hate you guys, I'm gonna go see it early, because. So yea, just blah. Middle fingers everywhere, like, look what I get to do.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go really dark on this stuff, like, I just, I can't, not, I'm going to go dark, I am going dark. I don't wanna see any of this stuff. Full media blackout.


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[Assistant] Okay, damn. As good, better, or worse than, uh, Avengers Infinity War. The one we saw last year.


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[Assistant] Well the uh, the trailers have shown us next to nothing, thank god. Uhm, I really appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even the things that they've shown on TV or like they show, they've been showing very little and they've been showing sort of like flashes of other stuff. I actually appreciate that for a three hour movie that we've only seen, scenes that I can guess were from like the opening of the movie, perhaps, I don't want to know, don't tell me, it's fine.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, but I know they sort of did this misdirection with the Last of Any War where they're like, look at Hulk running out in the big fight. It wasn't Hulk, it was Bruce Banner or Hulkbuster armor.


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[Assistant] I think, I mean the movie sort of draws you in with Thanos on a, you know, on Titan fighting.


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[Assistant] The Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man and Iron Man and everyone in this big fight that they kept alluding to, they showed you pieces of that in early trailers. In this one, they've shown you nothing.


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[Assistant] There's nothing in there for me, like everyone needs to know how this ends. Is that sort of how you felt going into it?


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[Assistant] There are people who went into Infinity War who knew nothing of the other movies, which is fine. You're allowed to do that.


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[Assistant] Chapter of this whole phase three or four.


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[Assistant] I forget where we're at, but I mean, either way, it's a bookend, right? To this big...


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[Assistant] Sorry, the more broad question is, does it feel like it leaves anything open that you want to see whatever next movie they're setting up?


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[Assistant] Hey, sorry, real quick. Someone's saying there's no audio on the live feed. Oh yeah, they're all saying that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, is there anything, anything lingering that they sort of leave like where you're like, man, I can't wait to be back here in six months to a year when Spider-Man comes out and Black Panther 2 comes out and Doctor Strange 2 comes out. Of course they are. Made money. Yeah.


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[Assistant] If he doesn't make the money, there's no reason for him to do it. And then Venom made a billion dollars. They said, ooh, there is something here. Let's continue doing it.


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[Assistant] Fantastic. Having, having time to sit on it and buying on Blu-ray and rewatching it three more times, it is so perfect.


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[Assistant] The crux there is, uh, Chris Lord, or was it, uh, Miller, Miller and Lord. I get their names mixed up, sorry. Uh, Phil Lord, Chris Miller. I think those are the names. They're the Clone High guys, they did, uh, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Lego Movie, uhm, basically a lot, uh, 21 Jump Street. They're really good at taking things that- Wait, they did something?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well they, I believe they were writers on it? Or producers? They were definitely attached to it. They were also the ones who originally did the Han Solo movie, which...


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[Assistant] Those are all really good movies. Those are great movies. Both of them back to back were great, and I think they worked on both of them. Uhm, also there's a...


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[Assistant] Season two, maybe two seasons of Clone High, should definitely watch. What is Clone High? It was an MTV2 cartoon that aired in like the 2000s, the early aughts, where it's an entire high school of cloned historical figures. And one of the main characters is Abraham Lincoln.


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[Assistant] Excellent. There's The Jock, JFK. Of course. Abraham Lincoln, Abe has a real crush on Cleopatra. Yeah, had a lot of the Scrubs people involved with it too at some point. It's a damn good show.


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[Assistant] Yes. Same with Aquatine. Like I tried watching Aquatine when we were in Austin. Uh, there's this one arc that I love with, uh, their landlord Mockula shows up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's also a commentary on so many things. It's snarky commentary on all sorts of- It's political.


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[Assistant] So they're like, there's a big explosion in like an alley, and they're like, they try to rebuild this cop, but they're like, you-


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[Assistant] Like in MTV2, when they were trying this whole thing. There's like the whole liquid television and that sort of era. Post Max, post the head. And Aeon Flux. Yeah, all that sort of stuff. Where it's like...


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[Assistant] It's, I don't know, there's some really good program that came out of it, but damn on damn, I don't know. RIP.


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[Assistant] Pretends to be a man, pretending to be a woman, pretending to be a man, or something like that, where it just, it's just layers on layers and then it's just non-stop dialogue, it's...


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll talk, so anyway, uh, Alana, any final thoughts on Avengers Infinity War Endgame Part 2 The Final Summoning? I think that's the whole title. Yea, that's the whole title. Yea, Wrath of Thanos. I don't know, I'm excited. Can't Man the Butt Plug.


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[Assistant] They'll find a way. I don't know how they'll do it. Like, I mean, they can make-


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[Assistant] I'm with you. I think over saturation is a thing and I'm actually glad they're taking a break. So I think this is like I said, this is, this is the marathon. You're finally getting to the end, but you had a lot of fun running it. So I'm excited. I'm glad.


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[Assistant] Grip has a built in two minute timer, which pulses every 30 seconds to remind you when to switch sides, which helps you guide to get a full and even clean mouth.


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[Assistant] Question is why would you do this? Well, up to 90% of us do not brush for a full two minutes or do not clean evenly. I actually personally love this feature. It's fantastic.


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[Assistant] Uh, brush heads are also automatically delivered on a dentist recommended schedule every three months for just five dollars. Another question, why do that? Three out of four of us use bristles that are old, worn out, and ineffective. I can attest to that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they have a little bit here of telling, they ask me, why do I love quip? And I'm actually being honest here, uh, we just traveled for this big long shoot. There's on a circle. I never travel, would travel with an electric toothbrush until now because of that.


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[Assistant] You have to have like a charger with you and all that stuff. They just give you a little battery.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the quip one is, it's very tiny, it's like a normal toothbrush. And it's like, this is the first electric toothbrush that I've traveled with that I, like, I'm not worried that it's gonna die. I do have a little extra AAA battery if it's about to go, but I've had it for months now. It's great. My new head's coming in this week. It's great. My mouth has never been cleaner. I actually really like it.


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[Assistant] They are backed by over 20,000 dental professionals. Quip starts at just $25. And if you go to getquip.com slash dude right now, you get your first refill pack for free with Quip electric toothbrush. That's your first refill pack.


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[Assistant] For free, if you go to G-E-T-Q-U-I-P dot com slash dude. Thank you Quip, you're awesome. Thanks for supporting the show and our mouths.


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[Assistant] That's not in the ad read, I just said that. That sounds good though. Uh, this does lead into my, I have two, we can talk about two different things. This is the path we can choose, the timeline. Avengers is coming to Fortnite.


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[Assistant] We did a story today on Inside Gaming about Apex, uhm, not doing so hot.


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[Assistant] Right. Also- How long has that game been out? Fortnite?


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[Assistant] The thing there is Epic has a thousand, uhm, employees I think they said and most of them are working on Fortnite right now and they are doing constant updates.


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[Assistant] I just watched a stream today. The game looks radically different from when I first played it. It's, there's like an ice level and people have big robot packs on them and stuff and like they look like steampunk men. New animations or stuff. I'm just like, it's, it's still the same game, but I'm like, it's just looks different updated.


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[Assistant] Apex is still the same game. They've changed very little.


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[Assistant] I would be okay if they changed the map a little bit or... Change the map or add a new one. Add a new gun, something, please, anything.


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[Assistant] The Apex audience is burnt out. I do know that. Just...


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[Assistant] I mean, it's always the same map, it's always the same characters, same abilities, same guns, and you kind of know the meta, whatever that is. Uhm, you know, if you get a Havoc early on without a turbocharger, you're boned, maybe you'll make it, I don't know. Uhm, but if you're, it is sort of the same.


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[Assistant] They're noticing Apex numbers are way down. They're like- On like Twitch. Twitch. It's like 20,000 people just watching Apex now where there's 200,000 people still watching Fortnite. So like, the king has reigned, the king is still there, but, uh, this story is actually new to me. They're overworking their staff. Yeaah. Where's this coming from?


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[Assistant] But yeaah, going back to what we were saying earlier, I was talking to Brian this morning about it because we were trying to fit this piece for the new story that I thought I was going to record, but then Lawrence being the champion that he is.


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[Assistant] I'll film it while I'm doing a monologue in Austin, killing himself. But I was like, oh, more power to you. I helped him with the thumbnail, that's about all I care. Uhm, but the numbers was about...


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[Assistant] Epic is mostly just focused on Fortnite right now, where Respawn is focused on two games. So that 250 is spread across the Star Wars thing? Jedi Fallen Order and Apex. And Apex was sort of a...


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[Assistant] A tiny project, apparently the team was working on it at one point, but then obviously they shifted, takes what, two, three years to make a game like Jedi Fallen Order, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, especially when they're reusing assets from Titanfall.


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[Assistant] Probably because of the negative response I got last year. The press conference is becoming more and more pointless.


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[Assistant] I still stand by this. They should have done this with the Xbox One. I still say they should have just called it Xbox.


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[Assistant] Just call it an Xbox, like at this point you know you're not gonna have anymore.


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[Assistant] Respawn is probably at 250 to 300 people right now, mostly working on Jedi Fallen Order, whereas Epic has about 1000 people mostly working on Fortnite.


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[Assistant] They probably didn't anticipate staffing up and they probably aren't ready to do so. I mean, we're guilty of this all the time where you're in the weeds and you're very busy.


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[Assistant] I guess on that note, I hope the guys working on Apex aren't killing themselves.


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[Assistant] Titanfall had, I think, one level where there were like these weird alien creatures that would like, I don't think it would do anything. It was in Titanfall 1.


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[Assistant] I will never play down the importance of Fortnite. It's unfortunate that it hasn't stuck with me because of the building mechanics.


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[Assistant] It feels like a pretty even playing field, but it has those sort of like Overwatch elements. I don't know. It's something that I think-


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[Assistant] Anyone, does anyone else think that? Nice. Damn it. They announced, they finally announced their Master Chief. Did you see that? No. This story blew my mind.


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[Assistant] When they were doing those promos? Uhm, this was back when Xbox One launched.


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[Assistant] It's a weird time. Do you remember growing up when a movie would come out and then, I don't know, you know, the total recall NES game would come out and it would barely resemble what you watch and it's like there's one game.


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[Assistant] So uhm, getting to that, I'm saying, we're in this very weird time where people are still trying to do these...


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[Assistant] Movie tie-ins. Movie tie-ins, I forget exactly, cross-media synergistic bullshit, uhm, where they're like, play the movie, see the game, they try to do all these things, but then things like Batman Arkham City or Arkham Asylum, those sort of things happen where they go, these things can,


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[Assistant] Exists individually on their own. They don't have to come out around the same time. EA says that, but man, they're still pushing for those games to come out around the times of the movies.


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[Assistant] You're not losing anything by watching one of the other, only playing one, only watching, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's a little derpy at times, but we had fun.


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[Assistant] They do the, the only thing they have associated with the movie is that they do the zombie pile up thing.


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[Assistant] Like at a high school slash college. Was selling credit cards? No, no, like consolidating debt. This is actually something I learned early on in my life. No, it's actually, this happens to a lot of people.


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[Assistant] Uhm, going off a little bit of the ad read, I'm just sure stressing the importance of this. A lot of people have a mortgage and then credit card debt. It is actually very wise to consolidate said debt so that your credit card debt doesn't take over your life because credit card debt can tend to be insanely high.


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[Assistant] Whereas your mortgage rate can be pretty low. So if you can combine that, consolidate it, get a lower mortgage rate, then rather than...


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[Assistant] This is, uh, probably for him. So see why upstart is ranked at number one in their category with over 300 businesses on trust pilot and hurry to upstart.com slash dude to find out how low your upstart rate is. Checking your rate only takes a few minutes and won't affect your credit. That's upstart.com slash dude. Um, yeah, no joke. I was into that, but then.


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[Assistant] I have been debt free for 15 years now and I actually was able to save money. I cannot stress that enough if you're


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[Assistant] Young and you're swimming in credit card debt, that is something that you need to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is important stuff, but you don't want to be swimming in debt. So I just bet that is a me caring about you audience. We love you. Please do not get into debt. It's really crazy. Uh, sorry. Day's gone. Do you like it?


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[Assistant] I wanna say it came out like they showed at E3 or something, but you're basically, um, Norman Reedus in Walking Dead, right? That's sort of the character.


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[Assistant] What is a good game that you would have given a 7? That's not a fantastic game.


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[Assistant] Recently? In general. Like, in your life. What's like a good example?


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[Assistant] I'm curious, uhm, but I will wait too for scores only because I'm so behind on Sekiro and 10 other games.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the story in Mortal Kombat 9 was actually pretty damn good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like those like Hyper Light Drifter type games, like real quick to get into, just sort of play it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's easy to play. You can just pick up and put it down whenever you want. And I enjoyed the hell out of that game. It was really good. But uh, day's gone. That is one that I may not be making time for. Oh!


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[Assistant] It's a claim to get rid of my stress and anxiety, but damn it, it's still there. Wow. Uhm, uhm, oh yeaah. So I actually wanted Jacob on the podcast today, because I wanted to yell at him, even though he told us to do this already, but I wanted to yell at him for not telling us to play Battlefront.


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[Assistant] Uh, I played Battlefront 2 last night, just cause I'd heard the new Supremacy mode is pretty awesome. It is awesome! The game is beautiful. It is also a gorgeous game, yes. But they, they have this like never ending war mode.


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[Assistant] In uh, Battlefront 2 now, and I'm still unclear of how the card system works and all that stuff, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's still some really quirky things, like that game is a mess, UI-wise. Yeah, it's all over the place. Yeah, and you can do the FOV slider on PC, and on first person looks fine, but then there's characters that you can only use in third person, like special units, and it is just warp vision, and it looks terrible, and there's all these UI elements, but like, I don't


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[Assistant] It looks terrible. Yeah, so you have to switch back every time you do it. I was trying to find that middle ground. Like I said, I just picked it up like I was like, I just want to try it. I heard this mode is cool and it was pretty damn cool and it didn't feel like it when it first launched. It's weird.


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[Assistant] I mean, I got a lot of negative press, which bums me out because the original Battlefront series of that, it was like, it's a pretty simple formula. You just copy Battlefield, like real basic Battlefield, like you strip away all the unlocks and all the perks and stuff, like just make a pretty simple game, but no EA's gotta make their money back, so they...


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[Assistant] Yeah, my memory is fuzzy on it because I just sort of wrote it off. But then, I heard that Dice has been trying hard to sort of rectify it.


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[Assistant] General Grievous is in it now and he can like crawl around like a little bug man and then like, it's like you fight along with him and count Dooku against, uh, Anakin and Chewbacca while like everyone's on this. So it's like pretty cool. There's a big ground battle. It was, I played the map on Geonosis. There's a big ground battle and you have to take all these places, like all these, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, basically capture enough of them and then you can go up to the enemy ship and then now it's your job to push in the enemy ship to get ahead. But then if the other team pushes you, you're back on the battlefield.


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[Assistant] It actually reminded me of old Battlefront, like Battlefront 2, where it was just a very pretty version of it. And it may have been because it was Clone Wars Saga, it was prequel stuff, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I really enjoyed it. It was like having a good time. So that's my recommendation for the week. This game you can get for 20 bucks. Uhm, it put a pretty cool mode in it. And here's hoping for Battlefront 3 to launch without a hitch.


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[Assistant] We're about to hit the hump, yeah. And then, I don't know, I would love to see someone else get a hold of it and just, I don't know why.