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[Assistant] Basically gives up his big city lifestyle to go live with the Lord. Because I, like, there's a, there's a church very prominently displayed in this, like, uh, frontier town that they've set up in the wilderness of New York or whatever. I don't know, man. I saw that and I was like, wow, the tone of this entire movie just shifted entirely to give people a shitty happy ending.


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[Assistant] Uh, seriously though, if you're fighting that young 20s game, you want to sound as smart as you can at all times. Let somebody discover that you're not as intelligent as you pretend to be.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about myself right now, not our listeners. Uh, just in case that wasn't clear.


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[Assistant] Own it, man. Take all the credit. Who cares?


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[Assistant] Uh, as we mentioned before, Audible's pretty cool. It's not actually like, uh, it's not really like a Netflix. You get tokens for being a member, and then you redeem those in audiobooks that you then own. And can, uh, can do with whatever you wish. So once more, that's audible.com slash dudesoup for a free 30 day trial.


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[Assistant] And I think that's actually it for this episode of Dude Soup. Oh wait, hold on.


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[Assistant] And coming up, we got the Dude Soup Po show. Gonna look at some fan art. Take some comments from the audience. Uh, address some comments. Gonna be a good time. Talk more about the millennial woes in today's America. No, I think we moved on from that. People are mad about us talking about fan fiction too much now.


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[Assistant] Well, no, we have to stop, because people are getting mad now. Oh. Uh, but anyway. Sorry. We'll expand upon that in the post show, so please stay tuned if you're a sponsor. If not, consider checking it out on wristgeek.com.


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[Assistant] Uh, I would argue that, I would have argued that Mega Man 1, the first one is not very good. It was really 2 that kind of took the series off and 3 was kind of a legitimate, legitimization of the whole.


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[Assistant] What did we plan to live through? That was the first good one. I played Mega Man 1 a couple of times. The platforming physics are kind of fucked up, the level design isn't so hot, the backgrounds aren't very good, the robot masters are okay, and it introduced a lot of the template that I


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[Assistant] You're just fuckin' doin' whatever! Well sure, you play as big boss, so...


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[Assistant] What's the knowing? No, I don't think it's, I'm pretty sure it's just knowing. Is it also just called Crow, or is it called the Crow? No, it's called the Crow. It's the Crow, okay.


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[Assistant] You kinda know the type of person you are, it's like, can you enjoy R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet? Or do you look at it and go, this isn't good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, nice, that's how it works. Uhm, but uh, yeah, Horus is basically being crowned, uh, king or whatever. Oh man, he's explaining the setup. No, no, no, it's just funny, cause then, who cares? That's the Jimmy Lannister.


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[Assistant] Right? None of this fucking matters. I'm just saying, this is how Gerard Butler is introduced. He just walks up and he's like, what's up? I'm so proud of you. Kills everyone and goes, actually I want to be king now. Like he read the script and said, you gotta change that. No, I want to be the bad guy. Like the acting wasn't really reflective of that, but then he goes,


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[Assistant] And then basically he and uh, Lannister turn into two bad video games. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I remember Lawrence looking at me like an audible look and he was like, what? And I was like, it was confusing. But at one point they were like, they did do a throwback line and it made sense in the end.


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[Assistant] But the process didn't really get there. We're like, yeah, so there's this giant tower.


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[Assistant] They're going up in the elevator, one guy's evil, the other guy's good, and then Lannister's like, I'm, go on up, I'm gonna climb, and he's like,


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[Assistant] It's just kind of weird of his involvement cause, uh, what's his name? Horace is like, I'm a god. And he's like, I'm just a little boy. And he's like, yeah, you're pretty good. Makes Horace look kind of like a piece of shit.


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[Assistant] I mean, the gods don't care for this guy. It's also a little weird too, where they're like, uhm, when you're god, when you're king, I guess you just make rules, so like,


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[Assistant] What's his name? Uh, Set, like whatever, Jar of Politics, whoever he goes.


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[Assistant] From now on, if you wanna, if you, if you die, you gotta pay money. And everyone's like, oh shit. And so like, yeah, and then, and uhm, and then there's, so there's one part where,


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[Assistant] First he like wraps a rope around his neck and like does like a lap around him a couple of times and then he pushes him off and as he's dying he goes, Oh by the way, the rules have changed. The guy goes, Nooooo!


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[Assistant] I'll say this actually, CGI is actually not that bad when you kinda like transformers, when you just kinda like...


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[Assistant] My mom made me walk out of Sam and Max and we went and watched Mrs. Doubtfire instead.


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[Assistant] Uh, you're a, you're a government weapon and then- Oh yeah! It was bad.


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[Assistant] The nineties were, it was a brilliant time. I mean, that's kind of my question with like, gods of Egypt, where it's like, what was that meeting like? Where they're like, what computer did Hollywood executive man punch in and go, Egypt's hot right now. Well, it's not, it's weird.


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[Assistant] You might be right. We as a people just are not ready for Gods of Egypt. I think China might enjoy it though.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a weird thing for me to be any, even a sliver of judgmental of, but like, cause I do it, but, um, Gerard Butler talks out of the side of his mouth a lot. Hey, you're right. So he's always like, all right, bruh.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here's my thing with the movie. My thing with the movie remakes. I'm okay if someone wants to make a movie that's like Point Break. Just call it Fast and the Furious. You know what I mean? Like, don't just remake the same movie and use the same name. Don't call it Point Break. Surely you understand from a marketing perspective.


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[Assistant] I understand. That's why the new Cloverfield exists. Why did you use that thing back there? Because I would have gone down. New Cloverfield? The new Cloverfield is not a Cloverfield movie.


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[Assistant] Uh, so what happened, I, there was someone, uhm, take this with a grain of salt, but it was a commenter in the reddit thread where Cloverfield 10 Lane or whatever was revealed. 10 Cloverfield Lane. Shut up. For the sake of the audience! I was just being, it was funny comedic rift. Oh, you got me. That's all. Zing.


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[Assistant] And just said like, oh, we can market this as Cloverfield if we just change X, Y, and Z. And that makes sense. I'm okay with that because now people are suddenly interested. That movie was called...


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[Assistant] They also cast two people from Game of Thrones. They did? Yeaah, one of them was, uhm, I want to say it was, uhm, what's his face is, uh, the Iron Banner dudes, uhm, uh, Iron Banner, what is it? Theon? You know Theon's, you know Theon's clan? Oh. Those people that he like invades. The Greyjoys. Yeaah, yeaah, the Greyjoys, that's right, that's what it is.


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[Assistant] They, it's one of the guys who's like the invader, he just gave him a beard, but he has a really distinct voice. He has a really good voice, but. Yea, he has a great voice. But when there's a lot of like, yeesh, thou, witch, thee, I, you're like, huh? What? Like it needed subtitles, honestly. Like it was very hard to understand. I got close, I got, yea. And then Liza, uh, Erin was in there as well. She was the mom.


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[Assistant] She's the one who's like, pit-sucking the, uh, the little baby boy who's eight years old. Oh, her ugly one. See? Yeah, the ugly one. She's in it and she plays like an ugly mother pretty well. She's not that ugly.


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[Assistant] And the, uh, the main girl's name was Thomason, which I thought was kind of a cool name. Yeah. But it was just a lot of these and thou's and that's and oof. That was a CG. Very little. Non-existent.


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[Assistant] Sure. And it takes place like 60 years before the Salem witch trials, which is kind of interesting. So it's like witches were still kind of new and like what they were and it's, it is like a sort of like just small weird little things happening, but it is a long burn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was, I think I was just more interested in the village. What?


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[Assistant] Well there was a part in the village that I thought was interesting, where I forget who it is, but like, basically there's one part where William Hurt is like explaining, he goes, he's like, yeah, we dressed up as the monsters, blah blah.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I'm glad you said that. My thing with award shows in general, I get it, it's the Oscars, it's the big one. Why do you care? Why do you care? Like, why is it that, why is it not the show that you go, this is the one, this is the one that means it, cause then there's a Spirit Award, there's an Emmy, there's a Grammy, there's a... Well, it's like the Dice Awards for video games.


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[Assistant] So that's the thing, it's not a sport, that's the thing, what ends up happening is, having done award shows and seeing this, you don't want to front load one guy, because it has always happened.


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[Assistant] This is, this is sort of my feeling, the same way I feel about, like, any time people are like, uh, Oh no, the, the, the, the Bengals lost the Super Bowl. I'm like, that guy's still driving away in a Lamborghini and I'm not.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah. We just can't show anything. We can't now. Uh, okay, good, yeaah. Working on the video now.


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[Assistant] And then there's also that one feature where they're like, like, oh, what if I send a dick back? Like, oh!


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[Assistant] You could hand me $100,000 right now, like cash, and go here we go, and I would go, I'm not gonna do that. I go, I'm just, no, this is the example.


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[Assistant] Most people would go, HOLY SHIT! Oh my god! Well, I would look at it and go, okay.


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[Assistant] You're stressing it out. This pot, oh wait, welcome to, uh, uh, uh, piano wiry bowl of dude soup. There it is. We're gonna play Hitman. Wait, what's the, shit, it's not called the piano wire. Is that what it's called? Uh, Twine. What's it called, uh, Joel? It's got a specific name in Hitman that it's always called. Garrot, right?


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[Assistant] It's called something. It has, it's a word. I think it's the piano. Fiber wire. Fiber wire, that's it, thank you Adam. It's called a garotte. I mean, I don't care what it's called, I was saying specifically in the context of Hitman. James Hitman. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Down to the point where it's like a pseudo MMO, so it has MMO progression mechanics, there are player hubs, like the tower, where you can see other players, essentially in the division every safe house you go to is the matchmaking hub of the game. Instead of a helmet that's on fire, though,


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[Assistant] And ever so slightly more billowy, and ever slightly less billowy. Wait, this is the scene from the stupid movie! You're in here with me! I'm gonna kick this table, shoot my handcuffs, and kill people while drowning, hopefully.


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[Assistant] I think honestly that's part of it and that's, that's maybe the one thing that seems a little strange to me about, about the division. Uh, is that the world itself has a good look and everyone looks like they fit in it. Like there's not somebody running around with flaming pants or, or like a cheese helmet. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, the game, uh, is it, is it locking up there? Good, good. Uh, but at the same time, the universe itself is a little, can be a little goofy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at the same time apparently there are these sleeper agents in American society called the division that wear these cool little apple watches that light up whenever they're, whenever they have to heed the call and save the American government from any threats to her sovereignty. So essentially everybody gets real sick, people start dying, and then all these watches go off, so.


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[Assistant] Pretty much, yeah. You have access to a progression system? So, and this is the weird thing because I feel like when the game starts, okay, and I feel like this kind of is exactly


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[Assistant] The thematic schism in the division, and this isn't even touching the gameplay or anything but, so you have this, it opens with this montage that's pretty real, like people yelling, like cars on fire, uh, clips of news programs, like,


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[Assistant] Is that, uh, man, the interface in this game is pretty cool looking, of Hitman. Well, the motion graphics. Yeah, that's what it is. Uh, so the gameplay, such as it is, is, I think Adam, you were saying it, it's essentially like Destiny, but what Destiny is to Halo?


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[Assistant] I'll go a little more definite. I'll say it is better than Destiny.


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[Assistant] Ah, okay. Uh, it seems that when Destiny came out, most people's big problem with it was that it just didn't have the raw volume of content that they needed a game to have. Especially an MMO style game. And to a degree I totally understood. It was like,


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[Assistant] You had, you had, you know, if you could fill up your hands with stuff, it had that much stuff. And you had to play that stuff over and over again, and the progression mechanics is what incentivized you to do that. Personally, uh, the way I felt was Destiny is so fun to play on a moment to moment basis, I don't really mind playing through the same content over and over again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, especially when you can play it on hard and that kind of changes experience. You can play with different people. Destiny on the other hand...


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[Assistant] And then you find these other echoes like up and down the building as they're like going to different rooms and talking to people and then out into the street again. It was kind of a cool, cool little experience. It didn't involve shooting anybody. It was kind of story focused. You get experience for doing it. I was like, man, that's...


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[Assistant] Uh, stuff. And then it has the Dark Zone, which is a whole other, almost basically a whole other game. But, uh, so yea, that's kind of where I'm at. To me it feels like it's all the mechanics and the progression systems of Destiny, which itself is even almost like...


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[Assistant] Like the progression systems of a mobile game just ported up to the AAA space. Uhm, aww.


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[Assistant] Keep talking. About five minutes in, Adam's stabbing innocent people. He walked in on me. He did. It's his own fault.


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[Assistant] Not just like super tailored. It doesn't all have like voice acting and mocap and intricate stories. Uhm, it's still there. There's a lot of dots on the map and in that way it's a very Ubisoft game. It's kinda like Assassin's Creed. You look at that minimap and it's just


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[Assistant] Well, uh, okay, I mean Adam and I are going to do an interview on it, or try to, soon. So I didn't want to like taint my opinion by reading other critical, critical write-ups of it. Taint is the wrong word, maybe influence. You don't want to touch a taint. Yeah, rub my nose in it. But it seems to be getting reviewed well.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, a big complaint people had in Assassin's Creed 1 was there wasn't enough stuff. Like, oh, there's only three or four types of submissions and then the assassinations and then the game's over. And then yea, I can climb all the towers and collect all the little bits of light. But people wanted more things. So in Assassin's Creed 2,


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[Assistant] You got two out of twenty things. Each thing has a bit of narrative value to it. So whether it's just like a text message from a phone or like an audio log of like a video that kinda just shows you a little more of the world.


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[Assistant] They did- they really did try, whether or not this is valuable to you as a player can- can change, but they really did try to make-


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[Assistant] I don't really have a fix on the tone of that world, because it can alternate between being really dour and sad, but also kind of human and quirky. Which I guess is kind of a neat thing, it's not Last of Us, like it's not just sadness everywhere.


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[Assistant] Or whatever. I think it's once you max out your home base, really.


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[Assistant] Which... Depends how good you are at, at, like, short-cutting the metagame of leveling. Yeah. Cause you can, and that's, that's some, some, a lot of people find that enjoyable, is to figure out how to, uh...


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[Assistant] This is, this is something we've been checking in on every so often. Lenovo is running their, uh, game state program, in which they have partnered with, uh, 12 industry veterans, a lot of whom are ex-Blizzard, actually, at, uh, Dark Rift to create a tower defense game. And, uh, you know, these guys are, they're developing it on Lenovo Y series gaming computers, which is pretty cool. We got to mess with one for about 10 minutes, seemed pretty neat.


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[Assistant] You intentionally miss, and then somebody is so humiliated that they just decide to stop fighting. They feel bad for me. Yeaah. And they go home. So what would be your catchphrase? What would you scream out every time you perform this attack?


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[Assistant] So if you think you can top Adam's humiliation attack and smell this as an intimidating


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[Assistant] Uh, but you can go to, uh, Lenovo Game State and, uh, take on Mission 4, Rain Down Her Wrath. We've also got a link in the description, so check that out. But yes, please submit your catchphrase, your, your attack design.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I still think mine's the best. It was a, it was a laser grid that would sheer somebody's clothes off. Leave them wearing assless chaps. Utterly humiliated. Oddly, uh, both of our attacks are about being humiliated on the battlefield. Strange. Interesting.


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[Assistant] So yea, thank you Lenovo, uh, for sponsoring this podcast, and best of luck to Dark Rift. And their as yet to be titled game. We thought it was called Dark Rift for a while, at least I did. Turns out it wasn't. Woah, you get to- oh.


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[Assistant] Your home base has three different wings that you build out by using supplies that you get for accomplishing missions tied to that. It's a little Assassin's Creed-y. A little, yea, yea. Except it's even more subdivided because in Assassin's Creed you just spend florens or whatever local currency to upgrade your base. This has three different currencies that you earn by completing the three different mission types. And then...


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[Assistant] You can play The Division as, as like a Ubisoft open world action game for a while. Like, and you can probably get $60 of entertainment out of that, especially if you like that kind of game.


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[Assistant] The guy who's the healer on your team, like he comes and revives people, he throws out health packs. You can have the dude who sets up defenses, like I'm gonna set up my turrets and sticky bombs here to make sure we don't get flanked. That can be that person's job. The other guy can be the one who sets up shields and stuff so you can protect yourself while you're extracting gear from the dark zone.


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[Assistant] It's, it's all meant to, to be that. Like I can see the design behind it. I don't know if it actually plays out that way yet though, cause I don't have like, I don't have a run and crew for the Dark Zone yet. Uhm, I'm not that high level, I'm still going through kind of the early game, so. What level are you by the way?


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[Assistant] I'm, eh, to me it seems like it's, it's maybe, it's two pretty big games combined into one.


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[Assistant] Game mechanic that cross over a little bit, like the progression from one will also progress in the other.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but still, this is, this is, I think...


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[Assistant] This is a step towards the kind of game that people hoped would exist by now, right? Like the massive world with just shitloads of stuff to do. And it's just so cool.


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[Assistant] Well see, I wonder if you really get into the Dark Zone aspect of it. Like you get a team and you spec out and each person has their role and the particular skills they've individually tailored to complement how your team plays and operates together. And then you guys just roll around, just a wrecking crew in the Dark Zone because everyone else is kind of scattered and not really playing together all that well.


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[Assistant] That, you're, you're exactly right, cause I was trying to think what's the closest analog in the division, cause no matter what, you're gonna be crouching behind cover.


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[Assistant] So, once you start playing enough and you start getting used to these enemy behaviors,


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[Assistant] Then you start to size up an encounter and you're like, okay, there were three snipers up there and two, two guys here, so I'm gonna sweep over here so the snipers don't have a line of shot on me, take out these ground guys, then move from cover to cover to get up on these snipers and take them out.


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[Assistant] It's sort of similar to if you're playing something like Devil Daggers like we were playing the other day or something like Geometry Wars. You're like, okay, I've got a lot of these little green squares that are going to chase me so I have to move in this particular way to take care of them and then take care of these other targets that are not as dangerous or high priority.


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[Assistant] It's just interesting to see how game concepts that worked in the 80s still work now. It's just a lot prettier, and there's a huge leveling mechanic behind it. There's no high scoreboard, but you do get a better beanie. Just kind of interesting to see how that shit happens. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, Squarespace is a pretty, pretty great set of tools to help you design a professional website. One of the things that I bring up a lot is if you are, if you're in school or maybe in college and you wanna, you wanna show yourself off, uh, make a portfolio website, man. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Cover letters are fine, but especially in media or if you want to get into games design or anything like that, it's much easier, if you're going to a job fair or something like that, to just give somebody a business card with a website on it, and then they can go there to just see everything. And if it looks great, that's a good first impression, can't really ask for more than that.


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[Assistant] You just go to squarespace.com slash dudesub, tell them we sent ya. Tell, tell all your beanie babies. Carl, Otis, Milo, Tom, Thomas, Thaum, You gone? I'm listening. Where's, where's Marley? MARLEY!


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[Assistant] Man, I tell you, you get a fucking mission going and you can't stop. It, it, it got, it got hooks in me more than Destiny ever did.


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[Assistant] This the, uh, this month's theme is Versus! Celebrating some of the greatest rivalries in pop culture. We got Dark Knight vs. The Man of Steel, Alien vs. Predator, Spock vs. Mirror Universe Spock, Daredevil vs. Punisher, and Harley Quinn vs. Everybody. I don't quite understand that. Man, Harley Quinn's a weird character.


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[Assistant] Uh, so for twenty, for less than twenty dollars a month, you get four to eight items that include licensed gear, a pairable, collectibles, unique, one of a kind items, and more. Uh, and if all that, all that sweet versus swag has got you interested, please go to lootcrate.com slash dudesoup and enter our code dudesoup to get three dollars off any new subscription.


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[Assistant] So once again, that's lootcrate.com slash dudesoup and enter code dudesoup. To get three dollars off new subscriptions today, thank you for your sponsorship, Loot Crate. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Finally, uh, on the subject of paying a lot of money so people send you things in boxes, I would like to discuss privilege for a moment. Okay. And the fact that Elise, Elise, Elise, did the best thing over the weekend.


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[Assistant] So Elise, I understand that you tried out a particular subscription service over the weekend. Maybe not subscription, but...


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[Assistant] Like, there were certain earth-shattering moments of like, holy shit, I have it pretty good. Uh, I'm not saying that was this moment for you. Maybe it should have been, but for me, uh, there was this, so there's this, there's this, uh, barcade downtown called 82, and it's all like 80s decked out. Expensive cocktails, they have functioning arcade cabinets from the 80s and stuff.


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[Assistant] And, uh, one time I took the bus downtown and the bus start dropping me off like, on the west side of downtown, had to walk across downtown to get to the arcade. Not a big deal. But on the way I crossed some colorful characters. Nice. Some, uh, some not, not so...


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[Assistant] I can feel every moment of sorrow he's ever felt. Uh, oh boy, I wonder what he's thinking about. He's thinking about how he got, he got fucked over by his business partner.


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[Assistant] But yes, uh, and I was like, gosh, boy he must be thinking about what she's up to and just wishes he could say he loves her and just apologize, just one last time. And then he's like, he just stops for a second and he's like, oh, the emotions got the better of him, he's been overwhelmed. And then all of a sudden you just see like,


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[Assistant] I just see a puddle start to spread out. Yeah. I was like, oh, he's pissing himself. He just stopped so he could piss himself.


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[Assistant] Goodness, no. Nope. My costume is done. The world is not so, the world is not so romantic. Nope. It's just uh, Mendeley had to get a man pissing himself while I paid $12 for cocktails and played video games from the 80s because I'm privileged enough


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[Assistant] So, I'm going to be posting immediately after the livestream of this episode, I'm going to be posting on both my journal, on the RT site, and on our funhouse subreddit with a little bit more information.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I've been talking through a lot with the guys here.


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[Assistant] Over the last few months. Now, I don't think really anyone knew that I was this close to leaving until last week when you guys were about to go to Austin. Uhm, but Bruce and I have been talking about it for a while, and what it really comes down to for me is, uhm, what I do here at Funhaus.


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[Assistant] What a lot of people have been asking me since I started working with you guys is what do you do? Because I'm never on camera and I don't edit and I don't really produce the way I used to produce. Uhm, what I do is I program the channel. I help uhm, obviously schedule and upload the videos, I write the descriptions. Uhm, but I also help


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[Assistant] Explain why shows are performing well. I explore why things do well and why things don't do well. I help figure out what does what on YouTube, and we adjust what we do based on that information. And, really for the last year or so,


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[Assistant] You guys know exactly what to do, uhm. We're getting there, we're not perfect. Well, no one's perfect except for Joel Rubin.


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[Assistant] There's really not much more I have that I can contribute, uh, the way that I want to. I mean, I really enjoy being part of the team, obviously. It's a lot of fun. Every time I get to be on camera, I love writing the descriptions. I love going to conventions and meeting all the fans. All of that's really fun, but it's not professionally gratifying in the way that that is important to me. And so,


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[Assistant] Because I'm not able to sort of flex those actual work muscles, uhm, that I need to be able to flex in order to be satisfied, uhm, I have decided to take on a much, uhm, more challenging challenge. I haven't decided- I haven't-


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[Assistant] I haven't said where I'm going yet, and I'm not going to, uhm, until next week, I don't think, when I'm preparing to start that new job, but I do have an opportunity lined up, and it's going to be, uhm, getting back to sort of some of those nuts and bolts working on YouTube, trying to fix something that, uhm,


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[Assistant] So this isn't just me leaving Funhaus, it's me leaving Earth. This plus Matt Peake are sort of the core group of guys that I've been working with for the last three years and that I've known for some of you for five years. Um, Bruce I've known, I've vaguely known for a little bit long, for a little bit longer. Um, but, um,


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[Assistant] Some of my treasured memories, uhm, are sharing in like a tiny little office with you and with Bruce and Adam, uh, at Machinima and there are a lot of farting and that was sort of like where we first started doing gameplay videos which was like


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean, I'm definitely gonna miss, I don't think I'm gonna be on camera as much, and I'm not on camera that much here, but I don't think I'm gonna be on camera as much at my new job, and uhm, like,


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[Assistant] There's part of me that's going to miss it because it is gratifying in a weird way. And like, I can see why it's such an attractive job for people who like being on camera all the time because...


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[Assistant] But in terms of like how I see my on-camera persona, I don't know. I'll be glad to sort of put some of that away and become an actual person again.


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[Assistant] But I'd like to eventually start doing more drawing and, you know,


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[Assistant] Do it, you know, have commissions and do the kind of things that people do to make a little bit of side, little side hustle cash. Hustle cash.


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[Assistant] There's like a Tesla shop down the street from where we work. And so I was like, I'm gonna be smart. I'm gonna go to that shop. And there's gonna be nobody down there, cause...


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[Assistant] All the time. This is Tesla, sponsor of this podcast. God, I wish. They each sent us a free Tesla to try out.


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[Assistant] I know. When I was in middle school, we had a housekeeper and I had found old nudie magazines in the attic.


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[Assistant] We're, like, they're always like, no, he's just an awkward dork who likes what he likes. Uhm. There you go. He's not gay.


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[Assistant] And it's not just underwear, I got, I'm, I'm, I'm wearing socks. And I wear the shirts to the gym all the time. I like that shirt a lot.


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[Assistant] I don't think anyone who's working in this room thought that they would be in digital media when they moved to LA. Uhm, maybe Lawrence a little bit.


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[Assistant] Right, exactly. Maybe Lawrence a little bit, but, but, uh, I don't think the rest of us did. And one of the things that's been really interesting about, uh,


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[Assistant] That's sort of our careers in LA is that we were, we've been here for the like growth and bloom of digital media and entertainment, which is super interesting. Uhm, it, it's totally changing how people consume entertainment and in a way that like,


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[Assistant] Uh, and we're really lucky because we get to, like, not just witness it and, like, uh, like, be the beneficiaries of, you know, all of the great entertainment that's out there now, like- Are we trailblazers? Uhm, but we are also able-


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, so it's uhm, and so we've been lucky not just to be able to like, be the beneficiaries of consuming it, but also we've been able to like,


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[Assistant] Be like a participant and be like sort of a mover and shaper of the things that are to come in digital media, uhm, because I see a huge amount of potential, not just for the distribution of it, but also like,


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[Assistant] Being sort of semi-native YouTube talent and, you know, being on YouTube since almost, you know, the beginning of professional YouTube, uhm, the number of people that have come up who are really good,


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[Assistant] I think anybody in here could work on a professional TV style show online. I think that like, we have the writing production.


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[Assistant] I think so too, and I think, I mean, obviously I think Rooster Teeth is a huge mover and shaker in that, uhm, and a lot of what we're doing at Rooster Teeth right now is sort of reflective of that in terms of, you know, not just the gameplay stuff that we do, but a lot of the stuff like, that we've gotten the works for this year, some of the pitches that we've been putting in, uhm, and some of the, like, additional plus content that we're planning on doing in the next 6 to 18 months or so.


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[Assistant] Dick Van Dyke is a creative type, he's kind of funny, he's not your go-to star, for sure, but he's a singing man, he can dance, he doesn't have great accents, you know, same thing, and I think when he looked at Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, you could tell that he kind of wanted to nail her, and I kind of wanted to nail Julie Andrews at one point in my life as well.


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[Assistant] Uh, the other big news from this week is the creatures. Oh yeaah. That's big stuff. Yesterday, yeah.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, you were all Southern California cool, I assume.


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[Assistant] Her body was facing away from the wall. Like her face was facing away. Her back was to the wall.


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[Assistant] Well, we talked about, uh, I mean like, I am, you know, I'm in LA. You're around. I'm in LA.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so they showed up, but I was eating my bacon while they were cleaning.


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[Assistant] In terms of a game, I can't speak to whether or not the game is good. I have heard that Mass Effect 2 is the best. Really? That's what I've heard the same through other people.


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[Assistant] The internet talks about how rehashed and dumb and recycled. There's a, someone posted a side by side showing how there's, they use the exact same animations of a character dying in the trailer, in the trailer for the new Call of Duty as from, I'm pretty sure Modern Warfare.


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[Assistant] I hate, I hate to be the one that always brings it up, but like if you watch the, the talks with uh, Jeff Kaplan from Overwatch. Oh yea. He's, he's mostly like, well we tried this and we realized we weren't having fun doing this, that or the other thing. He doesn't, they don't, they're not like, they're not like, we have the greatest animators ever.


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[Assistant] And to, uhm, to the expectations of that game for what they're trying to achieve in their audience.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know, I think you're right, and I think, I think it's a product, you know, obviously Overwatch is the first, and they have to kind of create a business model for themselves, and Call of Duty has their business model. They've developed it over ten years.


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[Assistant] And then, and then that's, and then that's where you put your own mini home gym. The problem is it's not very well ventilated, it's only mildly secure, and you have to work on the


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[Assistant] It like, the uh, the 24 hour fitness that I go to has the things that I want. Which is the most important thing. Having to wait kinda sucks.


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[Assistant] Well, there's this douche, there's a douche, and the thing is he's a trainer, which means he barely even works there.


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[Assistant] He's a 24 hour fitness trainer. Some of them at the one I go to, they're really good. They actually work with their clients. This guy fucking does bullshit.


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[Assistant] Deadlifts with a fair amount of weight.


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[Assistant] And by the way, this 24 hour fitness is actually so good that they have rubber weights. Oh wow. Rubber weights on rubber floors. This is olympic level shit. That's really nice. That's designed to last.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry that I pay, uh, $30 a month to enter your kingdom and watch you do bullshit. Fuck that guy, man.


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[Assistant] But it's not just a regular person hopping in and then trying to do squats because that's not how the body works.


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[Assistant] Easiest way, this is the easiest barometer to figure out if they're bullshit and they're bullshitting you. If they never ask you to grab any weights for yourself.


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[Assistant] They're bullshitting you. If they ask you to just sit on the bench and just like...


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[Assistant] Check your phone or whatever while they go and grab dumbbells and set them up in front of you. Fuck that guy or fuck that girl. They are just pandering to you, right? And then also if they have no expectations for where you'll be in like a month.


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[Assistant] Like, then, then they, they don't care. They're taking your, they're taking your, you probably bought a five session package, they considered that as their investment, and then that's that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, getting a second opinion is good. When I first moved out to LA, not when I first but shortly after I moved out to Los Angeles and got health insurance but was still very poor, right? I went to a dentist because I hadn't been in like a year or two. And I went to a dentist and I just went to the closest one to me and I went in there and then the dentist sat down and he's like, well, I'm not gonna do your cleaning.


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[Assistant] I was like, why? He's like, well, it says here on your chart that you haven't been to a dentist in a year and a half, two years. And so, I'd have to do a deep cleaning before I could do a regular cleaning.


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[Assistant] And I was like, I was like, okay, well I just want the, the health insurance one. And he goes, he goes, he goes, well that's not covered, the deep cleaning is not covered by the health insurance one. Like how much is it? And he goes, he goes, it's about, it's just about like $2,500.


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[Assistant] Please, free teeth, free teeth. Like, free teeth, please. Like, the way he was just so cavalier about it, I was like, I was like, okay, so then I scheduled an appointment to do it, got into my car, and then canceled the appointment and never went back. That being said, when I had, uh, I had some wisdom teeth stuff, like at the end of last year, the dentist that I went to was


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[Assistant] Fantastic. Like, she did the work. That was all covered by health insurance stuff. And then, and then she was like, I'll just throw in a cleaning while we're waiting. And then she was like, hey, you got no cavities. Awesome. Like, so, and that was, that was her, she was a very good dentist. She seemed very straightforward and honest. And she was actually,


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna throw this in real quick, I won't interrupt for too long, but you know how you know sherry's berries are good.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you think of it the right way, I'll trash our toys. Just need to find the right kid to play with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it is kinda crazy where it's like, so this is, this is kinda where my brain is going. Uhm,


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[Assistant] It's all becoming, and I say this every time, it's all becoming the same thing. Uh, the example was I was just up in the room while we were waiting, uh, for our panel, I brought a laptop with us, all I did was pop in a little dongle that connected an Xbox controller to it, and I was playing Broforce, like,


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[Assistant] I think I've told this story before, but I was at a friend's house, she had a daughter who was watching a Minecraft video, and she put that thing up on Chromecast or Apple TV or whatever, easier than any, I think one of us could. And it is that thing, everyone, you will feel this eventually, because we're all gonna die, sorry to bring you all down.


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[Assistant] Well isn't the argument that gaming is so good now, you have those choices, whereas when most of us grew up, we didn't. Like when I grew up, I had a Mac. That's all I could game on. I only had LucasArts games. And Blizzard?


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[Assistant] Where does Australia get its internet? And he's like, pipes. I'll show you.


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[Assistant] Fuck you. Like, no, no, no, no. You dig up your own internet and it's there. It's in the hole. You make your internet. And he's like, no, it's in pipes. And he showed me a map, and apparently, not, not to, you know, bum you all out, but apparently you're stealing all your internet from Japan.


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[Assistant] And your thumbprint and your ID is gonna be what's being charged. It's all just gonna be just stuff that's just handed out because they can just nickel and dime you for little things that you do.


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[Assistant] And also, I'd compare it to, I, I mean, a lot of people probably, I don't know if you're too young for this, but like, remember having a flip phone? And then you met that one friend with an iPhone and you're like,


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[Assistant] Fuuuck, I want that. It's that. So, PC gaming right now is a flip phone. VR is a touch screen, where you go, I can never go back. It's the thing, once you get a taste of it,


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[Assistant] Welcome to a three panel bullet dude soup on all comic books. Uh, Comic Con happened.


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[Assistant] That's about it. Don't do that. Okay. I was complimented when he introduced me. He said something about Mad Men.


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[Assistant] So I wonder how much of it is the hump of dudes only liking something and just the marketing belief that only dudes like something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, something similar happened in video games. And just like video games, it's interesting to hear people talk about it because, you know, a year and a half, two years ago when Gamergate was in full swing, people that were super into comic and nerd culture


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[Assistant] We're writing about it and said this exact thing happened in comic books and they won. Like they pushed everyone else out. They made it really toxic for anyone else to be in this community. So we just had to, the people who were super into it just had to kind of shut up for a while because it was just so shitty.


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[Assistant] Luckily, it doesn't seem like that exact thing happened in games. There was a huge dust-up, but in the end, I guess, diversity still is prevalent.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I love Michael Bay, that's okay. And especially like, before Bay had a reputation or really was able to, I guess, put a stake in what he wanted. That seems like that magic window.


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[Assistant] Where Pearl Harbor happened, where Hollywood was like, we need another Titanic. Who's the next up and comer? This guy.


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[Assistant] Really? Yeaah. I, I, I'm on board for all of the action sequences, which is kind of DC's thing so far. Kenny Clarkson? Uh, at least, at least post Nolan. Um, cause yeaah, the clips they showed of like the Amazons fighting and stuff was like, fuck yeaah, that looks awesome. Yeaah. The plot, I'm not, I'm not holding out for, but it's a comic book movie. It's DC.


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[Assistant] I c- It's both. And that's like an easy...


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[Assistant] What was that? There was some shitty movie that had one good shot in it. Fuck. Trying to remember.


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[Assistant] Guys, how have we made it this far in the podcast and not mention the return of Xander Cage? Who? Forgot to watch it.


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[Assistant] Let me set a stage for you. It's a trailer composed entirely of like extreme individuals shouting things, but splicing up this trailer, giving it a narrative, a throughput if you will, this triple X pulling a sweet trick on skis in slow motion.


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[Assistant] In a forest. He's back. He's not even on snow, man! He's skiing on dirt! In a forest somewhere. Why would he do that?


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[Assistant] What is, what is, like what is, what is Doctor Strange's nemesis? Probably Doctor Strange.


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[Assistant] Guys, guys, Scott Atkins is in this movie and he's billed above, she will, she would tell. That's a mistake.


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[Assistant] And then it fixes everything. Did you read the synopsis or the comics? I read the comics. Nice. Which is kind of the synopsis. Yeah, I mean, yeah, if you read the right ones. I just like the art of those fights, like the two page spreads of just everybody getting their asses kicked. Oh sure, yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool. Captain America was the last one left alive, right?


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[Assistant] So, there's one kind of suit you don't have to worry about fitting your hair into. And that's a suit from Indaccino. That was from a long time ago. That was a suit, yea, sorry. A long time ago. Apologize. It's good though.


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[Assistant] I wish you'd talked a little more about Iron Man, cause then I could have made a sterner connection there, but. Whatcha gonna do? He's playing right now. Come on man, give it a break. Do your read.


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[Assistant] Uh, Indicino is a fine clothier for men of class. They'll make suits to your measurements. If you don't have them, you can just go to pretty much any tuxedo rental place, ask your measurements, say that you're going to a wedding and then just don't rent a suit.


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[Assistant] Uh, but then you'll have your measurements written down on a nice sheet of paper and then you can send those in and get your...


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[Assistant] Yes, good clothes cost money. That's one of the shitty parts about living on this godforsaken planet. The things that are good cost


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[Assistant] And sh- actually like a shitty t-shirt or a crappy button down. Wear a nice suit. It'll- it'll distinguish you and make it- make it clear that at least you can pretend to be an adult. Uh, I don't mean that as condescending as it sounded, cause I think, uh, basically all adults are pretending until they die. And then that last bitter moment when you realize your entire life has just been a dream, but you can live your dream out loud with an Indochino suit.


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[Assistant] So, uh, once more that's up to 50% off for $399.


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[Assistant] A fine suit from Indochino, that's at indochino.com and enter dude at checkout. That's uh, i-n-d-o-c-h-i-n-o dot com and enter promo code dude at checkout.


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[Assistant] Please look nice. Uh, we uh, so, we got some offers there. I think we might have a suit cast pretty soon. Dude suit.


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[Assistant] You were watching all this live. Well, it was even better on Twi- Well, maybe not better on Twitch, because I didn't get chili dogs, but...


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[Assistant] And it was like, it was like playing the whole time, and then you'd hear like some audio crackling and be like, oh they're gonna fix it. And then the stage audio would drop out and the whine would get louder. You're like, what?


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[Assistant] I'd like a kid in the 80s who just fuckin' loved silent film. That's a- I mean that's pretty stark, but there are kids now who like retro games that did not grow up with them. Because they're still solid games, they're still fun to play. That's fun.


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[Assistant] Well, no, no, no, I mean like 14 year olds. Not emotionally 14 year olds.


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[Assistant] Culture, man. I had a great time. Okay, parting thought. Cult. Sure. Well, I was about to say, so we talked about this before, you're describing religious behavior.


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[Assistant] And it's fascinating to me how people who grow up maybe outside of traditional, traditional, which is to say old religions, find new spiritual belief in a blue hedgehog that eats chili dogs. It brings them happiness.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I can dig a little bit deeper. But the common thread to what you said, Adam, is that in all of those cultures,


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[Assistant] More often than not, the people, like the people that get interviewed, they're like not really into that thing specifically, they just like the community. And the community was kind of driven together by being rejected out of other communities. So in that way, universal acceptance is one of the tent poles of their particular culture.


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[Assistant] I can clear the way real quick. Uhm, so, uh, don't you hate it when you're late for your furry convention?


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[Assistant] Movement watch, sorry. Thank you. I was, scrolled to the wrong thing.


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[Assistant] I got your back. Thank you. Appreciate that. No, movement makes fine watches. Apologies. Uh, they're MVMT, which shows you just how progressive and forward thinking they are. They don't really sell through stores. They just sell direct to consumer, which affords them to make simple, high quality, elegant timepieces without much cost. There's one.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, it's not gaudy, it's uh, it's not ostentatious, it's not a calculator watch, which, you know, if that's your style, that's fine. But maybe consider something a little more contemporary.


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[Assistant] Uh, they, uh, they have genuine leather or steel bands, three-hand quartz movement, and stainless steel casing. So basically classic sensibilities, a good look, and all for $95 or less.


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[Assistant] It sucks because for the longest time I kind of refused to play the game of being in society, which is a weird thing to say. It's just like, why do people do all these things? They're just copying each other. No one's an individual. You know, like really, really fucking groundbreaking high school thoughts. Uh, but then after a while I realized that...


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[Assistant] Showing, demonstrating that you are, like, that you can play the society game puts people at ease.


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[Assistant] People want to know that you at least know how to talk and interact and, and then they don't have to be so uncomfortable around you. So doing simple things like wearing nice clothes, wearing a nice what? It, it actually does substantially change the texture of your interactions with human beings on this planet. In a positive way. And, you know, uh, there was a time when I would have considered that compromise, and I'm trading away part of myself, but...


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[Assistant] Speaking of Dr. Strange. It's my furry name. Things that are unsettling, not to interrupt real quick. It was a time I was talking to a furry and the helmet actually like wobbled when he talked. Except when his furry mouth opened I could see his normal mouth inside.


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[Assistant] So it was kind of an alien situation where he had like a, seemed like a, like a, like a teeth would just jump out and get ya. Were his lips really dry and chapped? It was, I could just see, I could just see the light glinting off of like wet teeth through the mouth hole, except they were like, he had a giant furry head and then tiny little human teeth inside and it was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Why isn't any superhero sneezed in his mask in a superhero film yet? It has to have happened, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, well, let's see your other Comic Con things. That Legion trailer was pretty cool. I also just really loved Dan Stevens. Yea, it's a Marvel TV show. To my knowledge, which is not complete, I don't think it's based off an existing property, but it's like, they talk about him being a mutant, and he's like in an insane asylum.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, that's something to aspire to. Uh, speaking of, speaking of probably boring ensemble movies, uh, Justice League collection of clips. He's loving these clips. Are they? Who's everyone? Who? Really?


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[Assistant] With the exception of the Avengers, it's like, it's the only other superhero, uh, ensemble movie you can do, right? Aside from, you know, like you can do X-Force and shit nobody cares about, but. I guess it's unclear what's happening because there's just kinda- Superman isn't there and it seems so weird


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, we got the Dujutsu postcode coming up, where we look at some fan art. Oh boy, that's big. Uh, look at some fan art, talk to you guys, accept live questions, uh, check it out. Uh, if you're watching live, please stay tuned.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you're watching on YouTube or maybe listening to the audio feed, check it out on fun.house. Uhm, there's a little show drop down, post show there. Gotta be a Rooster Teeth First member. Or, we make a couple of them public, so just check that out too. Cool. Uh, it's a fun time, so we'll see you there.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I hadn't thought of that yet. Welcome, welcome to a stormtrooper dick sucking bowl of dude soup. Nice, I like that. Man. It's getting more and more literal as time goes by.


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[Assistant] And by the fine mobile game Clash of Kings. So thank you Clash of Kings and Lenovo for sponsoring this podcast. Uh, first up, we got the Keelys coming up this Thursday.


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[Assistant] Oh fuck me! It's the fine, the fine event once a year, where some award, some like golden monkeys get tossed to people, and we get to see a lot of trailers. Talking about the Spike Awards.


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[Assistant] Correct. I should stop going down this hallway. So, would I, the conversation, we can run down the, the uhm,


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[Assistant] The nominations or whatever. Uh, but moreover I'm interested in, so there's this kind of culture around


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[Assistant] What is objectively the best game that came out this year? And- It's gonna be Witcher 3, but go ahead. Maybe, uh, people seem to think it's gonna come down to Witcher 3 or Fallout 4. Minecraft. Uh, or Minecraft. Sure. But what I would like- Story adventure or whatever. What I would like to talk about is instead, like throwing out how much games cost or how much content was in them or whatever.


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[Assistant] What, personally, what games do you remember from this year most, uh,


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[Assistant] Man, those discussions were torture. It was like going to, to like, it was like going to, uhm, jury duty? When someone's like, well, hey, I know the accused was covered in blood and holds a knife, but he works at a fruit stand, and my uncle works at a fruit stand, and my uncle's a pretty good guy, so I think he's innocent. And you're like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Also, wasn't Axiom Verge published by Sony? Again, like- It says Tom Hap. The description of- of- I dunno. The description of what Indie is.


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[Assistant] Wait, they had to put Life is Strange on there before episode 5 was out. They had to. Because those combinations were in.


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[Assistant] That had a really good soundtrack. That was more than that.


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[Assistant] They actually didn't use that. Uh, wait. Yeah, they did. It was like during the last level, right? When you were playing as chief.


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[Assistant] So, here's the problem, ish. Out of all of those, oh boy. Undertale is the only game, well Sabelle is actually pretty different.


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[Assistant] Most of those games are like games that have existed already and just like have worked in like more progressive themes. I want a game that is actually like unique in gameplay and in theme. And Undertale and Sabelle are both like that. Her story is, it's an interactive movie game. We had those like 15 years ago. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I think CSGO's, like, story over 2014-15 was fucking phenomenal.


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[Assistant] You hear the nominees and they say your name is Gamer of the Year. And you're like, ahhh. And you walk up on stage and they hand you your trophy that says Gamer of the Year with your name on it. And you look at it and you're like,


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[Assistant] What is, what's happening right now? What does this mean? What does this, what does this mean? And then later you're at the hotel bar and you got your trophy in front of you that says gamer of the year and you're just staring at it with a vodka soda in your hand.


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[Assistant] Lawrence would actually win the award and go, What the fuck are you doing?


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[Assistant] I don't know what it is, man, and it's something I've fought for a long time, but there are times where I'm just like, I can't, I can't be diplomatic right now. I have, I have to say the thing. And then my brain just takes over, and then there's a little voice in the back that's like, you gotta stop! Like, this is not okay, and you know that, and my brain's like, sorry, this is just too strong.


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[Assistant] Well, and this is what I was getting at when we kicked off the conversation, is that, like, just throw out all that bullshit about what is the objectively best game, like what had the most stuff, what had the most graphics, what is the most hype, and just like, just personally,


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[Assistant] What, like, it can even be, like, thoroughly reliant on context. Like, I was in the mood for this and it hit at just the right time. That's a big part of it. Yeah, yeah. Uhm, so for you guys, and you as well, Chad, like, what were your big games of the year? Like, what really stood out to you? What struck in your memory?


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[Assistant] Isn't there like some kind of underwater kingdom you go to and some kind of fish man you do quests for?


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[Assistant] They basically made it a full on MMO. I don't know why they were like shying away from that early on. Let's give them a quest log, finally.


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[Assistant] Well sort of like, so the, I guess I don't want to get into it too hard, but if you get Taken King, all of those changes and improvements they made reflect back on the original game too.


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[Assistant] So, it's like an $80 game, but it's a pretty fucking big MMO, and it doesn't have a subscription fee, so essentially...


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[Assistant] Uh, we suggest that you get involved with Lenovo's Game State program. Uh, we did. Actually, the video that we were in just went up. And it was pretty good, except they left out a lot of interesting aspects of the conversation.


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[Assistant] Uh, milestones of game development is missions. This one is, uh, good guys, bad guys, and weapons. So you can vote on, like, uh, concept art and things like that and get involved with the process. And, uh, I encourage you guys to do that because holy shit, people-


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[Assistant] Not in a bad way, but people have no idea what it takes to make a game and how like, how like, just hairy it is. Uh, a lot of our jobs on a day-to-day basis is just solving all of the problems and that's where the work is. Like, it seems easy to just make a video and get it up, but then like, oh, the computer crashed and we lost all of our cap and now we have to get that. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] Just everything breaks, and your ability to solve those problems kinda determines the quality of the end product. So, uh, I encourage you to go to GameState, uh, lenovogamestate.com to kind of see that process happen. Uh, you can spread the word by using the hashtag GameState and follow updates on at lenovo gaming.


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[Assistant] And it's easy to get cynical about that kind of thing, but these guys are pretty genuine. Uh, so. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's not, I, to be honest, when we were approached about it, I was like, oh shit, this is just gonna be some big publicity thing. They're just gonna make their game and there's gonna be this token level of involvement, but after talking to them,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty, it's got great music. And also, I feel like the Blizzard magic is, even when you get your ass kicked, you know why. And that's something that's really hard to do with competitive games. And that's something that I particularly hate about MOBAs.


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[Assistant] They're so complicated that when you get your ass handed to you, there's about five million reasons why it happened and you don't really know what to take away or what to work on.


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[Assistant] And like, go all at the same time, but none of those games mean anything to each other, but you're forced to play them all. So it's like, what's the point of an item meta game in League? Aside from just another layer of competitiveness that you have to be aware of.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's just a question of mental bandwidth. I would prefer to have...


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[Assistant] I've gotten pretty deep in this before, but I prefer to have a simple game that has an almost unlimited, like, input ceiling. So, the faster you can hit buttons, like at the right time, means you're better. And to a degree, like, fighting games can be like that, a game like Quake is like that.


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[Assistant] Where if you're like, if you have pixel accurate precision, you're a better player than somebody who doesn't. But League, like, at a certain APM, you've maxed out your APM. Like you just can't click more, cause it won't do anything.


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[Assistant] Left, left, right in the crater. I can barely see that. Yea, I know. You never see it when you're playing.


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[Assistant] I've got a mouse, I gotta shoot. San Holo, he's here. What happened to your nose? He should have his ear piercing in.


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[Assistant] He's got that Jason walk, he doesn't have to run. He's just always on you no matter what. Alright Adam, what was your personal Adam in the Heartfields game?


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[Assistant] And then at, yea, at the end of like, at the end of Solid, like he had his big diatribe about embracing today and living for tomorrow or whatever, cause he was, he had cancer. He had Fox cancer.


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[Assistant] A lot of the text, like the specs I've seen, it's like, it's a difference of 40 seconds and 30 seconds. If you have an SSHD in there.


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[Assistant] So, if you would like an Elite Controller for your crotch, we suggest that you go to Mack Weldon and buy some of their delicious, wonderful underwear. Uh, Mack Weldon also sponsors this podcast. Uhm, and they also make, uh, fine clothes for your crotch and your feet and your, uh, upper torso. They do like t-shirts, underwears, and socks.


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[Assistant] Uh, they suggest that it could make for good stocking stuffer material. Which, yeaah, so that's a lot better than like, uh, I don't know, toothpaste or some lame ass crap your parents probably get.


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[Assistant] They're not only a gift that every man needs, it's a gift that every man is excited to get.


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[Assistant] Uh, and if, you know, if you have a man in your life and you're trying to buy gifts for him, can't go wrong with good underwears. Cause God, God help us, we do not buy good underwear for ourselves. Or pretty much get anything for ourselves. It's a weird dude thing. We just like-


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[Assistant] I used to save all my money for video games, still do to an extent, but I'm learning to spread it out a little bit. Maybe that means I'm becoming a filthy casual, but... Don't let your penis be a filthy casual by wearing shitty underwear.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. So, you know when Bruce is venting, uh, it's like a little shitscreen.


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[Assistant] And they also make shirts and socks too, so if you have, you know, odor problems anywhere else, first of all, shower, you filthy person, but second of all, buy Mack Weldon cloth ears. So please go to Mack Weldon, Mack Weldon dot com, that's M-A-C-K-W-E-L-D-O-N dot com, and get 20% off your order by using promo code DUDESOUP. 20% off!


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[Assistant] And they also have like a, uh, like a guaranteed satisfaction program, so if you buy some underwear and you don't like it, they'll give you a refund, and you get to keep the underwear.


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[Assistant] Don't try to abuse it though. Be normal. Buy, buy your gifts. And get 20% off using promo code DUDESUPE.


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[Assistant] Eish. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, that'll soak it up. But anyway, thank you for the sponsorship, Mackle Weldon. Uh, and that actually makes me think, the Keelys don't really have like a best peripheral category, do they? Best underwear.


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[Assistant] I also feel like they should have like a best, a best like, soft, gaming software category, cause what makes me think about it, the new Xbox experience is pretty good. Like, it actually makes playing games on Xbox a lot better. But what about the Illuma Room? Oh yea, that's not happening.


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[Assistant] But just like, why not make it a setting? You sync everything else, why not just sync that? Also, uh, so I'm still, again, this is an industry-specific gripe, but you can't make party chat go to headset and TV at the same time?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, like, we got to mess with it a little bit and it's just, it's astounding. It's, it's...


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[Assistant] There's, there's so many times in tech where like, there'll be this, this, this communal vision of what technology should be or could be. So like in the early 90s, you started to have shitty visions of VR. Right. And you have like, you know, lawnmower man and shit like that. You remember VR troopers? Yes, of course. Come on. Troopers teens for the reality. That was, that was not.


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[Assistant] But they, they had stuff like that then because they were like, oh we can make that now! Except it was totally terrible. Like all the motion tracking was bad, the graphics were terrible, it was just like, it was, it was money for nothing box men. And like a really blaggy like head mounted display.


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[Assistant] Now, yeaah. But now, it's real. It's really real. And it's, it's like, it's here, it's in a box over there! And that's really exciting that in my own lifetime I got to see something travel the gamut from, like, fever dream of pop culture to being really real and really happening.


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[Assistant] Oh yea? Somebody just gets a crazy hero run? That makes sense. This game's weird.


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[Assistant] Speaking of heroes, uh, this podcast is also sponsored by Clash of Kings.


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[Assistant] Do you have what it takes to stand amongst lords and lead your army?


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[Assistant] Well, it's so, it's so strange because, and this goes back to one of the comments we read before the podcast started, but I genuinely believe in my just passive observation of the human race that, you know, a lot of us still are afraid of getting shoved in lockers to some degree and


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[Assistant] They don't, they never have. Uh, but, and I think that's why it kind of extends to this kind of negative reaction you get when suddenly you're like your chosen thought leader


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[Assistant] So I can see how it would be, you get into this weird, like, kind of negative mental tailspin where you're like, wait, I thought you were on my side, and now you're taking the boobs out, but I want boobs. Why are you doing that? Oh, it's because these other people are trying to tell you to do it. You sold out.


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[Assistant] It's total subversion and if you've, if any of you guys have ever played like a tabletop D&D game, this shit happens and people don't even know it's happening where


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[Assistant] They'll, like, whenever somebody roleplays, especially the first few times they play, they tend to play the idealized version of themself. And, but that's their character, and they're throwing it out there. And then suddenly, like, if the DM, like, ever criticizes or does anything that's perceived as unfair, suddenly, you're not, you're not like,


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[Assistant] And then they take it super personally, and they get really weird and kind of standoffish, and even they don't know why they're doing it.


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[Assistant] And I think that's kind of what happens with games too, people kind of impress their own personalities on these like heroes and characters and, and then when something, when somebody says something off, off color about them on the internet they're like, WOAH!


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[Assistant] Well, it does, it does when you're a certain age. Remember, like, I remember when I was young, I defined myself by my, my likes. Like, I like this band, I like this kind of music, and that makes me this kind of person.


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[Assistant] The last time I skated I was, I was on this like trail around a lake. Oh jeez.


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[Assistant] There was this point at which there was this lady walking her dog and she had it on that like telescoping leash. And so she was on one side of the trail and the dog ran to the other side making this tripwire. And I was skating up on her and I was like, if, well I had to, I was like, if I go through this leash.


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[Assistant] So I had to like take off my skates and walk all the way back, which was like five miles back to my car. So yeah, my skates broke and I was like, fuck this. You didn't want to just one- Do it easy or tumbling?


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[Assistant] So wait, what are all the details about side scrollers? Tell the audience!


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[Assistant] Censorship in the media. Cause we censor ourselves all the time. Yeah. Do you? Yeah. We bleep that. Oh bleep it. That just got bleeped. Sorry. Uh, sorry everybody, but we're bleeping everything. Uhm, and all games are gone forever. Good. Because, uh, the censorers are getting their way.


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[Assistant] Uh, it turns out that Dead or Alive Extreme 3...


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[Assistant] The very valid, very important video game is not coming out in the Americas. What?!


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[Assistant] Uh, The Witness from Jonathan Blow. Elise?


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[Assistant] I feel like I've been seeing it for so long and there's so much promise and it looks so neat and then nothing. Nothing for so long. Is anybody here still interested in the division?


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[Assistant] Like if you're at a dinner party and you've had like a glass of wine and you're up to somebody like, so do you like me or not?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that works out. Uh, so I'm glad you brought that up, Joel, because, uh, you know, it's getting on to holiday time. Uh, we're all feeling certain kinds of spirits related to our various denominations, one of which might be alcohol.


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[Assistant] That's the Xbox logo. That's what it looks like. You're thinking of the achievement logo.


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[Assistant] We have to use the term anonymous source because we know who the source is. Right. We've...


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[Assistant] We actually did the work, we covered the story, and we did it the best we could, but because it is a source that we're not allowed to reveal, because someone's job could be in jeopardy, or multiple jobs,


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay. I'm gonna believe Half-Life 3 will come out.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't want, and it's that sort of, you know, this term has existed since I don't know how long, but you know, don't kill the messenger.


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[Assistant] The whole time I was thinking, I was like, well,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know it usually is soul sucking and it takes a lot out of people and it's usually not very rewarding and then you sometimes get yelled at at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] I mean at the end of the day too, it's like we're reporting on what's given to us. And so what I took from that was there's a miscommunication between the word script, outline and template. Yes.


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[Assistant] Man, Joel was really excited for those cheesy bits. Good start. I wanna eat these things here. Welcome to a segmented, rimmed bowl of dude soup. All the good stuff's on the edge.


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[Assistant] Or so, uh, so we're led to believe. Uh, along with that, we have to mention that this episode is brought to you by Pizza Hut. And they're amazing! Cheesy Bites Pizza! Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, the cheesy bites are back, now with choice of one of seven crust flavors like ranch or smokehouse barbecue.


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[Assistant] Pizza Tech is getting pretty out there, I'm not gonna lie. It's pretty insane. We ordered this yesterday, and you can order like all kinds of crust flavors, a flavor drizzle, which we got. Show them that spiral. Uh, yeah. Damn! That's the drizzle spiral there. That's a vinaigrette, baby. Oh, is that what it is?


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[Assistant] These, these fellas are gonna be demolishing that thing throughout the podcast, so thank you B-Tut for your sponsorship. Now, give me a bite.


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[Assistant] Doesn't revolve around battlefront or screenshots. Oh. Or uh, or uh, don't do that please. Gross. I was gonna mention please nobody smack into the microphone cause that stuff makes me sick. Who would do that? Who would do that?


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[Assistant] Uh, but it, it, it's uhm, actual news about actual human lives that are being affected by actual trends in the industry, which means nobody's talking about it. Battlefront? Nope. Oh. No battlefront today. Uh, first of all,


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[Assistant] Uhm, so this actually was talked about a little bit, so don't let my, uh, my cynicism affect it too much.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chris Pranger, a localizer for Nintendo, was fired for being on a podcast. And he didn't really say anything incendiary, it's just that he was on a podcast.


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[Assistant] What was the podcast? The podcast was the part-time gamer's podcast and on it he talked about the practicalities of localization. Uhm, he basically tried to lay out for the audience like we do so many times here.


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[Assistant] Uh, they have to appreciate that just because they want it doesn't mean that there's a market big enough for it. And then Nintendo as a company can't localize everything because they have to make a...


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[Assistant] You're allowed to have a social media account, you are just at no point allowed to speak for the company. You're not allowed to be, I think what they call it, a thought leader. Like, you're not allowed to sit out here and say, this is what Nintendo thinks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and whether or not you make it very clear that you're speaking from your own opinion, I think we all, you know, we know that people on the internet tend to go a little insane with that stuff. They'll take any comment and read it as doctrine from the company, even if it's just one guy saying, this is just what I think. Which is basically what happened.


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[Assistant] Good job, Joel. Man, this pizza is lighting your comedy nerves on fire.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's uh, there were a few people crying censorship. Not too many, which kinda surprised me to be honest. People, people seem to love throwing that word around these days.


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[Assistant] That's very, very eloquently stated. Echo chamber.


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[Assistant] No, no, I love the internet, it's wonderful, but the only thing about this particular story is that it's, I have said this a lot, basically that, uh,


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[Assistant] Developers and like people that work at game companies are basically allowed to speak up a lot less than they ever have before.


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[Assistant] And it's, I can understand why based on how, how people have reacted to things that have been said in the past. It's just not good for the bottom line. It basically doesn't help anybody, but it does create a situation in which there's...


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[Assistant] People are getting some warped ideas about how all this stuff works, and I'm not saying that I have all the answers, just that maybe-


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[Assistant] And this is why. Not because people get fired, but because nobody's allowed to talk.


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[Assistant] And if you're a game developer and you're not really allowed to tell people and you're just slaving away and especially with the ecosystem as it is now where you spend four or five years on your life in a project, it comes out for one reason or another. People are like, this is the worst thing that human kinds have ever made.


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[Assistant] And you just wanna be like, guys, no, like, I made this and I'm your friend, like, I like games too, and I wanted to make a cool game for you guys, and I'm sorry, but the marketing guy, I could eat three, promise this feature.


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[Assistant] And we didn't know, and we didn't want him to, but he did it, so we had to put it in the game, and it doesn't work, because we had four months to make it. So I'm sorry, like, I wanted to make a good game too! It's just, it's mostly empathy, honestly, is why people try to speak out.


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[Assistant] Typically, like, the thing is, if you have over 500,000 followers on Twitter, you are allowed to say what you want. Because, if you get, you're basically immune from getting fired at that point. Uh, so it's just kind of funny how the politics have shaken out as far as that goes.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. I didn't know if watching all of his works and back to back was giving you any new perspective on his career or his style.


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[Assistant] Not, not that it's necessary in this case, but there is, there is a important news story that's actually about censorship this week. Has nothing to do with video games.


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[Assistant] But I just wanted to present it for the sake of, of like trying to drive a stake in what is censorship and what isn't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's informal, like they didn't show me their employment contract either, so I haven't verified it, but you know, I don't believe they have any reason to lie about that stuff. So, but my point is like,


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[Assistant] If he didn't want to do that, he could work for a company that didn't have those and presumably if there were enough demand for that kind of freedom that a company would come along and fulfill it and they would get the best employees in the market. Uhm, that's not censorship because there are options.


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[Assistant] There was, uh, there was some, some element, some, some sort of, uh, controversy at that school that I'm not aware of, I didn't really read up on it. But, uhm...


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[Assistant] The tweet, the tweet in question is, did Rsagehorn, this is, this is on Twitter by the way, actually make out with, uhm, and then redacted the name of a teacher, uhm, cause apparently there was some, there was some scandal about it.


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[Assistant] Stay tuned and reply to that saying actually yes. That was his tweet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so he's claiming to have made out with his teacher, uhm, that I assume was part of some kind of scandal at the school.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he's claiming that the tweet was obviously fake and tweeted in jest. However, uhm,


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[Assistant] After his suspension got extended for several months, he was transferred to a different school. His parents transferred him out of that school. And now he is suing the school district, claiming, uhm, punitive damages, an expungement of all disciplinary actions on his school record, and attorney's fees.


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[Assistant] So, he expressed his right to free speech, he was punished for it, and now he is suing to recover those damages. Oh, so Reed is suing? Yes, Reed is suing the school district, he is not being sued. He was, uhm,


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[Assistant] He was suspended for several months by the school district, but not sued. So, uh, he was, he's suing for punitive damages, recovery of attorney's fees, and then, uhm, he wants the infraction taken off of his school record. Basically, he wants the suspension taken off.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, you know, the US court found that actually, yes, you were exercising your right to free speech and a government institution punished you for it. Right. Uhm, that is what censorship is. And that is a violation of First Amendment rights. Not getting fired from a job because you were on a podcast when you agreed not to do it.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what? There's not a whole lot of free speech issues in Tarantino movies. It's mostly just people getting shot and speaking really cool. No, there's a lot more talking than shooting.


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[Assistant] Yes. Well, that's also the thing, like, uh, a company can fire you for any reason other than a number of protected classes. Sex, race, uh, pregnancy status. Like, there are a number of things that companies are not allowed to fire you for, but making an ass of yourself on the internet is not a protected state.


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[Assistant] He was being... He was just being snide about the Xbox connectivity.


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[Assistant] Yes. So there's a lot of things that got rid of him. But he's publishing, he's publishing a game now, so you know, he landed on his feet. Yeah, it's a Drift, the space floating around Oculus game. Oh, that. Holy shit.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I mean, you know, silver linings, uh, but that said, that was an excellent case study on how not to use social media if you are connected to a giant company who is concerned about their online image.


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[Assistant] There are games that Nintendo will never localize because it's just not good business. And you know, he was a little flip about it, like we tend to be. He kind of jokingly derided


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[Assistant] And to me, that's what the tone was. And I could be wrong about that, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, there's a certain, there's a certain thing that happens, and we do it all the time, where once you, once you know something, and you know it very well, you start to, you start to kind of jokingly make fun of the people that say they know what it is. That's true. And then yea, people that, people that lobby for very obscure Japanese Nintendo games to be localized.


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[Assistant] I'm there every day, and I run the metrics, and no, turns out 2,000 people is not-


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[Assistant] It's a crowded workplace. It's kind of like being a GameStop employee, you're paid shit because there are millions of high school students that want to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like VP publishing or something like that, but he was very clear in like saying this is just something that I've noticed in the gaming industry. This is not corporate policy, but yeah, you're right.


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[Assistant] Shareholders, man. So as a corollary, uhm, on this discussion of what is and isn't censorship, a copyright claim on YouTube is not censorship.


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[Assistant] Because it's, it's several layers deep in private corporations. Uhm, it is not the government restricting your right to speech.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it is a private company that has guidelines about how copyright is enforced and then other private companies using those tools. Uhm, at best you could say it's corporate warfare if it's used maliciously, but I have never, I still haven't seen a case of it actually being used maliciously.


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[Assistant] It could just disappear. And if you're going to, you gotta know the rules and play it safe. Like, it's the whole, it's the whole adage like, ignorance of the law is no excuse, uh. I use it all the time. Yeah, right?


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[Assistant] I aligned with something off a long time ago, so, you know, although, those old, those old, uh, Hatfield and McCoy raids don't die. Uh, so, I'm gonna ask the...


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[Assistant] And then you run, yeaah, you run into the problem of setting a precedent, uh, which is, it's, we, we've, we've learned that about like copyright as well. So like if a company, say like the ludicrous lawsuits over the, like Bethesda suing over scrolls.


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[Assistant] I had no idea and somebody made this point to me, it's like, it's not that they think this is particularly egregious, it's that if they don't pursue this now, then somebody else can release something called The Eldest Scrolls. And then if they get sued, they can just point to, there's this other game called Scrolls and you didn't pursue them, so why are you coming after us? Like, you've clearly showed that you don't want to protect your copyright.


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[Assistant] Well that, yeaah, you're right though, that's the power of precedent. Uhm, and that, that, that is everything when it comes to legal matters, like it, it's... Roy V Wade, man.


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[Assistant] Oh, Notch. Well, he would have won that Quake 3 match though.


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[Assistant] Remember, check out the Cheesy Bites Pizza on PizzaHut.com. Get a one topping for $11.99.


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[Assistant] It's like garlic knots at the end of a pizza. We'd also like to remind you to, uh, to eat responsibly.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, while we're on the subject of Cheesy Bites and selling out, uh, we have a special announcement for anyone that managed to get into this stream of DudeSuit.


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[Assistant] But since you guys are listening live now, you have the chance to buy it before anyone else hears about it because we haven't announced it yet. So if you'll be at PAX, if you will be at PAX and you want to go, we got a link for you. I can't really link it in chat so I'm going to have to read it. It's tiny.cc slash dudesouplive.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess the thing, uh, to cut to the root of it, the thing that I was uncomfortable about and don't want to do is charge people for access to us.


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[Assistant] It's just, uh, it's like, so when we were at RTX, like we were just, like when we got there, you know, crowds started descending, which is weird. But also we ended up just like chilling in the drive-through of a hotel and like cars were trying to drive through and we ended up packed into this hot sweaty corner.


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[Assistant] Uh, and this is just like, it's a way for us to have a dedicated space for that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] We're gonna lose out on production time. Uh, yeah, it should be fun. So again, kaini.cc slash dudesouplive. And you know what, uh, you guys can, if somebody is in chat and they're like, oh, people should know about that, you guys can go ahead and tweet it out or whatever. Or tell your friends if you want to make sure they get tickets if you're going to PAX.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then moving on, we've got, uh,


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[Assistant] A couple of interesting kind of connected stories about the progress of technology and how it affects PC gaming. Technology! Technology! And you! Somebody found out that two extremely outdated forms of DRM from like 2006 don't work in Windows 10 anymore. Woohoo! Sekiroam and Safedisc, both of which were just like...


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[Assistant] It basically needed firmware level access to your CD or DVD drive so that it could read certain markers on the disc. The idea was that it would be all hardware, there's no way that software could spoof it, and to a degree that was true, but then people figured out how to just rip out that authentication and everything got pirated anyway.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even back then it was a pain in the fucking ass because not every drive supported it. I remember, I can't remember what game it was, Company of Heroes I think?