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[Assistant] If you swing it around or whatever. But I would be sitting there, completely still, and maybe I'd just kinda jerk from an attack, and in the middle of a fight my character would raise his arm and give like a thumbs up, and he's like, nooo! So I can't imagine someone, you know, who suffers from involuntary movements or something like that. Like, Bloodborne was probably extremely frustrating.


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[Assistant] I think so. John? I think, uh, because of their past mistakes with the PS3 coming out for 600 and how poorly that went,


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[Assistant] They would want to avoid doing that again, so I think I'm gonna say, uh, I agree with Steve, 500 for the main console, 400 for the, uh, diskless. Sorry, DISK-LESS.


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[Assistant] Or, maybe they're trying to push the discless one, because...


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[Assistant] I've made this point before, the only reason discs exist now is for collectors because it's basically just a DRM where


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[Assistant] You put the disk in and then you still have to download most of the game. Uhm, so there is no like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm, I'm not sure, but isn't it, even if it's, say you get a game day one and you're not connected to the internet.


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[Assistant] They announced all the discless stuff being like, this is the future. And then everyone was like, no! And so they kind of backpedaled, but maybe a way of trying to push the discless future, uh, is pricing that one at 500 and the,


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[Assistant] Disc won at 600, so a lot of people may just be like, woah.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna pay $600 just to have a disk drive, I'm gonna settle for the $500 one and just be completely digital. I mean that may be, who knows, but, uh, I mean if it really is just a disk drive, it might be like a tactic.


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[Assistant] How many of those consoles that shipped have, you know, shipped before they realized everything was failing constantly?


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[Assistant] You know, I mean the fact that they're talking about it now, they'll have some sort of system for replacing it, but...


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[Assistant] You know, you'll still have to ship back a newly purchased console, uh, to get it fixed. So that would be frustrating.


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[Assistant] Uh, are any of y'all dissatisfied with the current gen consoles? I feel like when the 1 and the PS4 came out it was like, oh, we're making a huge jump.


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[Assistant] But I don't feel that way this time. It's like, I feel like.


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[Assistant] Another thing, are they gonna come out with a series XXSX, you know, in two or three years?


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[Assistant] What if tomorrow in the PlayStation conference they go, guess what? 200 games!


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[Assistant] And went to their atmosphere. There's a lot of-


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[Assistant] Cause anything that's lighter than air, like helium,


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[Assistant] Uhm, helium is a finite resource because whenever you inhale a balloon and then exhale talking like a muppet,


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[Assistant] Are primarily a result of human industry, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know exactly, you know, factories pumping out gas or whatever. Just a theory, no foundation behind it. The other theory, which I think is much more likely, Venus, the planet, is sentient. There are not creatures living on Venus. The planet itself is alive, and it let out a little toot, and we picked it up on our sensors.


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[Assistant] A lot of ways to space. I believe, uh, in, uh, not multiple dimensions but that time and space is a giant river, or not even a river, uh, ocean and that all time exists


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[Assistant] At the same time, and we are merely just experiencing it in a linear path because of how our


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[Assistant] Brains work, but yeaah, so I think aliens exist, I think an infinite number of versions of us exist, uh, and I'd love to meet an alien and just show her how much love I have to give.


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[Assistant] Uh, games in the month of July that are coming out, the Steam Summer Sale, uh, some scary news about China, and uh, some other things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. We're getting, we're going to be wholesome and then we're going to be serious. Okay. Sounds like fun. Okay. Anyways, how's everyone doing?


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[Assistant] It's a Monday, for sure. Yeah, it is a Monday. We got


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[Assistant] In the house, the Willems' Elise and James, as well as-


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[Assistant] During these times, is that video games still exist and we can escape our, our horrible, horrible reality.


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[Assistant] So this month in gaming, I'm just gonna read off some games and I want y'all to tell me which ones you're excited about or if you couldn't give a flip about any of them.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, so July 10th, we got Bloodstained, Curse of the Moon 2, Pixel Adventure, as well as Deadly Premonition 2, A Blessing in Disguise.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Curse of the Moon and Ritual of the Night. Curse of the Moon is the Castlevania OG. Yeah, yeah. Homage, and then, what's the other one?


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[Assistant] Something they gave to Kickstarter supporters because Ritual of the Night was taking so long or something. I might be wrong.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if that really was the case, but it seemed like it was, cause I remember hearing, it was like, oh, bloodstained news, like is ritual of the night coming up? No, it's this smaller 2D, like NES type game. Okay. Yeah. Um, all right. So July 14th, we got Death Stranding coming to PC.


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[Assistant] So, let me start over. July 14th, we got Death Stranding to PC.


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[Assistant] Am I not synced up with my video? Cause you guys look normal. You guys are synced up with your video.


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[Assistant] I think maybe your brains are lagging, James and Elise. You got carbon monoxide leak over there? You seen aliens?


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[Assistant] Hey everybody, welcome to Doodle Soup. Uhm, we got Death Stranding to PC, Rocket Arena, which, you know, I was very excited for during the E3 press release conference video, E3.


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[Assistant] And then Neon Abyss, a game I didn't know anything about, but it basically looks like


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[Assistant] It's a roguelite with a lot of intense fighting, except you have guns, and with it being a roguelite, I'm guessing that each time you start,


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[Assistant] You'll get different guns and you can find different guns and there's a bunch of crazy ass combinations and stuff. But it looks, the aesthetic looks really good and it looks super intense. So I'm definitely going to be checking that out. How excited are you for Rocket Arena, Lindsey?


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[Assistant] We have a, uh, dude soup dock open in, you know.


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[Assistant] So, I think, I think about the history of online multi-players. You got, you got Day of Defeat.


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[Assistant] Uh, you got all these different games where it's all about how many people can we fit into the multiplayer map.


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[Assistant] And then you have games like League of Legends, Overwatch, Counter-Strike, where it's restricted numbers, and it's all about the teamwork.


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[Assistant] It seems like, I may be wrong, but it seems like it's very hard to break into that, uhm,


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[Assistant] That more restrictive, smaller numbers combat because one, the skill ceiling is like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Much higher you could say rather than just running around shooting people.


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[Assistant] You actually have to work on teamwork and strats and everything a lot more.


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[Assistant] If you have a 32 person server, but there's only 12 people in there, you can still have a good time. Like you don't need full servers, but with a game like this, and any other game,


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[Assistant] If you don't have people to make a full team, you're not going to be able to play. And I feel like that's something that.


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[Assistant] It's really hard for these games to stay alive because, you know, a lot of people will check it out, play a little bit and then never come back. And then the people that do want to stick around


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[Assistant] Are waiting so long in queues because there's so few people actually playing that it takes a long time to queue up and actually get into a game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, or they're just still playing Overwatch. That's the other thing, Elise, uh, that Elise brings up is that there are a lot of games that


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[Assistant] Do this so well, that the people looking for that like, team-based combat,


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[Assistant] Already have a bunch of options, like the people that are going to be the real devoted fans already have some great things to choose from.


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[Assistant] Wasn't Lawbreakers that same sort of thing where they were trying to get the Unreal Tournament Quake kinda...


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[Assistant] Uh, does anyone care about Death Stranding on PC? All I really care about is maybe seeing what kind of mods come from it.


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[Assistant] See, you never, uhm, also with Death's Chain, all you're doing is walking.


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[Assistant] You could put on, you could put on a TV show or something on your PC. So you're, you're walking, multitasking.


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[Assistant] But the saying I can play as mama, just objectively, or without context, I thought was fine. It stands on its own. Uh, so July 17th.


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[Assistant] I was never able to play either of the Paper Marios because, uh, I-


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[Assistant] You've been playing with your pro controller or holding your switch?


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[Assistant] They're a little bulky and they don't have motion controls. Yea, but this is- It doesn't have the rumble either, right? No, but I don't care for that. How much you pay for those?


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[Assistant] Officially licensed Nintendo, uh, like controller maker.


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[Assistant] Or at least for a long time it was. Is this company called Hori, H-O-R-I. And they've been making dope ass third party controllers. I think it's second party or something like that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But they made an amazing N64 controller where you're not holding it like a stupid gun. It's like a normal controller. They have the Game Boy SNES, uh, or sorry, the GameCube.


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[Assistant] SNES controller, which is amazing, those still sell online for like $200 on eBay, because they're such good controllers for doing retro stuff.


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[Assistant] And this is the Hori Split Pad Pro 6. It's basically a pro controller that's split in half with Joy-Con slots. So you, you, you slide it onto your switch and it basically turns the switch into like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like a full controller, uh, switch. So it's mobile. It's mobile switch. So you got the switch with the choice joy cons locked in, but you got.


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[Assistant] Oh, such, such control. It's so sweet and so beautiful.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. I think you can, but it's just weird. If you're gonna do it that way, just use your pro controller if you've got one.


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[Assistant] It comes with a switch where you just slide the joycons in and make it a controller.


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[Assistant] All the way. Paper Mario, I'll be playing Thousand Year Door. Mhm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so those are the big hitters. We just got one more date of some games. You know, there are a lot of other games, but I'm just doing that.


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[Assistant] The Destroy All Humans remake. A game called Other Side, which basically looks like Gothic XCOM. Uh, and then Grounded.


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[Assistant] A game that looks very cool, cause it's basically, honey, I shrunk the kids, the game.


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[Assistant] I was going to make another reference which was if you go up to water and you try to drink from it but then the surface tension sucks you in and then you're stuck inside the water like Woody Allen. The droplets.


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[Assistant] So, those are- Thank you for that. That's every single game that's coming out in July. There are no other games. Don't think that's true. I will not acknowledge them.


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[Assistant] Mmhm. No other games. I don't think that, uh.


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[Assistant] It's time for the Steam Summer Sale. That's right. Steam Summer Sale is live. James keeps throwing a wrench into my works. What did I do? I haven't done anything. But before we talk about the Steam Summer Sale, let's possibly hear a word from our sponsors.


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[Assistant] Before we talk about the Steam summer sale, let's hear a word from our sponsors. Hello everyone.


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[Assistant] Who is ready for the summer of animation? That's right, HBO Max.


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[Assistant] Is fully loaded with every type of animated show you could like. They got kid stuff. They got adult stuff. They got basically most of the good Studio Ghibli movies and a whole buttload of anime.


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[Assistant] I got some highlights here. I've been using HBO Max, been loving it.


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[Assistant] Went through and found all of the animated shows I could personally recommend. If you are not familiar with the early 2000s animation boom of Cartoon Network, we got Chowder.


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[Assistant] We got Marvelous Adventures of Flapjack. We got a bunch of other titles but those are the two that I want to hone in on and recommend to you. They were ahead of their time. They are bonkers.


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[Assistant] Ridiculous, hilarious, nothing else like them. Uhm, in terms of anime.


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[Assistant] We got Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, the loyal adaptation of the manga, not the first one that strayed from the path. Uh, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is one of the best shows ever.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's also Death Note, which is a classic, and Erased, something I did not think I would be into. And then by the end I was crying my eyes out. Alright, so.


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[Assistant] You know, just, they also have whole, what, 60 seasons of South Park or whatever. It's nuts. But yeah, so it's Summer of Animation, HBO Max.


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[Assistant] I highly recommend it. All of this stuff is exclusive to HBO Max as well, so you're not gonna find it anywhere else. There's something for everybody.


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[Assistant] So if you want to get a free trial of HBO Max right now, you can either click the link in the description or you can go to bit.ly slash HBO Max soup.


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[Assistant] Personally, I can't handle the sickly, uh, aesthetics of that game when they're sitting at the table and there's worms and roaches and stuff. Can't do it. Can't do it.


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[Assistant] Game Maker's Toolkit. Amazing. Oh, you have video essays, Elise.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Game Maker's Toolkit. So cool. So great. A lot of Nintendo.


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[Assistant] Uh, videos, which are always great. They talk about, he does a whole video talking about Mario's jump and stuff. It's wonderful.


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[Assistant] Next up is me, your host for the evening. That's right, John Smith's Seam Summer Sale recommendations. By the way, we're not sponsored by Steam.


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[Assistant] It's just, we're sponsored by video games, and our love for video games. Now!


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[Assistant] First on the list. James is shaking his head. First on the list.


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[Assistant] Doom Eternal, 50% off, 30 bucks. Uhm, so in Doom, Eternal came out.


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[Assistant] I was like, looks like a great game. Don't really want to spend $60 on it. And I sat and I waited.


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[Assistant] And guess what? Now it's $30 and I got it. Played it last night. It's great. A little too gory for me.


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[Assistant] It's great. The nightmares that come with it are a little intense, but uh.


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[Assistant] It's looking good and like the platforming and or just the whole movement and everything is so great. And I actually, I haven't, I...


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[Assistant] A few years ago I was playing a bunch of Overwatch and a bunch of PUBG.


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[Assistant] And then I took a break from first person shooters and I haven't really come back.


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[Assistant] Uh, so then when Doom's, when I got Doom, I figured out the DPI on my mouse and everything again, and I was like,


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[Assistant] I thought I was feeling like a pro. I was jumping in the air with the rifle, getting headshots, mid-air headshots and I was like...


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[Assistant] This is badass. So I actually downloaded Overwatch again and started playing Overwatch because of that.


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[Assistant] That's my story. That's something, Elise, that I feel is a lot better, uh, in number two. Not only does it have the individual, like the solely platforming stuff, but in terms of the combat arenas, whenever you have an encounter,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the fight feels like a puzzle and there's a lot more like, traversal.


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[Assistant] Uh, traversalness, uh, to the combat, right James? I agree, John.


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[Assistant] Now next, we got the other side of the gaming spectrum. That's right, it's Baba Is You for 12 bucks. If you're not familiar with Baba Is You, uhm, this is a game made, uh, from


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's the same people, but it's the same kind of shared team, uh, of the guys who made...


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[Assistant] Noita, which, as you know, was one of my top games of last year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I got, I'm on the speedruns leaderboard from the run that we did.


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[Assistant] In the recording at Funhaus. Being in 12 minutes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, anyways, Babaizu, basically, it's like, if you know anything about programming, you can basically, there's a lot of like, if-then statements, and Babaizu basically turns that into a game where like, you can,


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[Assistant] There's like rocks and uh, keys and doors and all these things, but then there's words that say like, is, uh, so you can push it, you can push things around where like wall is rock and then all the rocks become walls and stuff. It's, it's hard to explain. If you watch the trailer for it, it all makes sense, but it's just like a brain bender.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, really, you know, really melt your brain.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm hearing. Sounds like you'd love, Baba is you.


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[Assistant] Uh, last but not least, my last recommendation, and this isn't even a recommendation, this is just a game I picked up, which seems like it's up my alley.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I'm not recommending it, but I'm saying it is on sale. If you like Final Fantasy Tactics,


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[Assistant] And this is a very similar game. Yeah. So, so one of my favorite games of all time.


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[Assistant] It's called Fel Seal Arbiters Mark.


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[Assistant] It's, yeaah, it's a weird title, but it's basically, it uses the same kind of, or at least from what it looks like, it's like an homage to Final Fantasy Tactics and the way the combat works and everything.


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[Assistant] Leveling and everything like that. Uhm, the art style I'm not super big on. It's like higher res. It almost looks like, I think it's pixel art, but it's higher res pixel art. Uhm, I prefer


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[Assistant] Smaller pixel grids, you know what I'm saying? Once you get too big, it's basically just a low res drawing.


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[Assistant] So uhm, but yeaah, I'm gonna be playing that. I've played some of Doom is Eternal, have not started playing Bob Azir or Fel, Seal, but I'll definitely be playing those.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was actually thinking of streaming Final Fantasy Tactics.


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[Assistant] I did not. They're like, I had a friend growing up who was really into RPGs and he was all about min-maxing and everything and I guess like,


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[Assistant] There's ways that you, you know, you have to grind a bunch, but you can get like the best class of all characters. You can basically just plow through everything in that game.


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[Assistant] That was what my friend did and he's like, I can tell you how to do it. And then he tried and I was like, I'm just going to be a lancer.


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[Assistant] This is a great, great, great, great question here. Uh, I will look into it. I will look into that. Okay.


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[Assistant] Let us know in the comments. Yee-haw! Lindsay, it's your turn. What are you looking to play this summer?


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[Assistant] So we picked that game up because they just released like the final update. It's this huge, it was the last like big update that's the last content, uh, the one, the last update that includes new content.


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[Assistant] I found, uh, that if I, once I didn't have like a goal or a mission, I kind of lost interest in that game hard.


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[Assistant] For those of you that aren't aware, I spent like a month building out and planning


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[Assistant] A game show inside of Animal Crossing and we had a great time.


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[Assistant] But once I was done with that, I was like, my job here is done, goodbye spork and dumpy, my favorite villagers.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, we are coming up on an hour here, uh, so it looks like we won't have time to talk about the scary China news or the wholesome lemonade news, but I'll just give you some synopses of both.


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[Assistant] Uh, some guy reverse engineered TikTok, turns out it's full of malicious, uh, tracking software and basically, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you're right. The world's already over. Why fight for it? Uhm, so the wholesome news...


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[Assistant] Uh, the wholesome news is that, uh, there are these two seven-year-old twins, that's right, two twins, uh, that were selling lemonade. Someone made a post about it online and some motherfucking troll or a Karen or somebody was like,


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[Assistant] Do they even have a permit? So guess what the parents did? They went and they got a permit and it's a huge story blew up. They had an hour long line waiting to get their lemonade.


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[Assistant] And I saw, I saw a video of it. They had like eight different kinds of lemonade, all different colors. It was amazing. I wanna go there.


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[Assistant] There are so many Karens in this world that just, ugh. Ugh. Anyways.


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[Assistant] I know a Karen that I love too, but she is a Karen.


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[Assistant] Because I remember, do you remember his Comedy Central special back in like 2001 where he was just in the black tank top and he was jumping around on stage?


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[Assistant] I remember, I remember in that, he mentioned, he's like, you know in that friend group, there's always that one friend that no one likes, but they're still in that friend group, and if you don't know who we're talking about, that's you.


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[Assistant] I think in that, he referred to that person as Karen. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that, from my perspective, Karen is anyone who has the, can I speak to the manager attitude. It's, it's the, uh, towards anything in life.


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[Assistant] What are we all watching right now? What are we streaming? What are we getting by? What are we consuming?


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[Assistant] At least I saw that and I was like pass, but then you spoke so highly of it that I decided to check it out. I loved it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. That was, that was such a cool sequence that I was like, okay, here they go singing. But then I really enjoyed it. It was really fun.


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[Assistant] Well, I was gonna say, uh, James, Summer Camp Island is something I've been waiting for for a long time, but I forgot about. Uhm, it's made by Julia Pot.


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[Assistant] Who's this person that I've been following on Vimeo since like 2008.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's great to see she got a show. Like the original pilot went up online like a year or two ago.


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[Assistant] I love it. Great to hear that it's out now.


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[Assistant] Are her pajamas still alive? Is that?


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[Assistant] Uhm, just real quick, I've been watching, I've been rewatching The Wire because I love it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I've also been watching, what's the other thing I've been watching? I can't remember. I can't remember. The wire's the only thing that matters.


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[Assistant] Yep, Dark Season 3. I watched half of that over the weekend for anyone who's not aware of Dark.


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[Assistant] You gotta watch it in German, because the American English voice acting is terrible.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a show that starts off simple and then just becomes more and more complex each season, but in a beautiful, amazing way. And I'm loving it.


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[Assistant] Lindsay, can you do something real quick for me? Just a little technical thing. Can you right click on your tab and make sure that it's not muted? The vMix tab?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, cause I know that historically we've had to mute it.


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[Assistant] Right click on the tab, make sure that it's not muted.


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[Assistant] Uh, Elise, uh, you said you had something. Do you wanna?


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[Assistant] Today on the show we're talking about Cyberpunk getting delayed about a week ago, Mixer's untimely death, and of course, some Last of Us 2 talk. Stay tuned, it's an all new episode of DudeSoup.


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe, yeah, we'll, we'll talk about it. So, uh, hello everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of DoSoup. I'm joined by Alana Pierce and John Smith. How you guys doing?


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[Assistant] Good. How are you doing? Hello. I'm doing a-okay. Good to have you guys here. So, uh, we are live streaming this as we do. You can always watch us live on roosterteeth.com. Uh, Tuesdays when we record this, two o'clock Pacific Standard Time. I put a little straw poll in there.


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[Assistant] Saying, hey, should we talk about Last of Us 2 spoilers or not? Both you guys have finished it. I have not. I'm halfway through.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we'll see. We'll see by the time we get there. That's the last thing we're going to discuss today.


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[Assistant] Well, Alana, you had the review copy, so you've had time with it. Uh, John texted me at midnight saying, I finished game. I was just like, thanks dude. While I'm playing at 1am.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm actually, I was happy to play the game with everyone else. I think, yeah, John also texted me, randomly texted me. He's like, hey, when, if I pre-order the game, can I download it? Do you know? I'm like, no, I don't know because I didn't pre-order the game. Like he, he was asking me like I was tech support. Uh.


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[Assistant] Uh, but let's get to the news. Uh, this was a story late last week. Real sad, happy. Uh, we'll figure that out, but Cyberpunk has been delayed. Uh, this time it's being moved from September 17th to November 19th. Uh, this came out via tweet. Uh, here's the, I will just put a little screenshot up, but basically it says you


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[Assistant] You know, your basic press release. We want to spend more time on the game. We want to make it great. Uh, you know, a broken game is broken forever. A great game is the best thing you could ever have. Miyamoto said that, I believe.


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[Assistant] So, yeah, how do you guys, how do you guys feel about, uhm, Cyberpunk getting delayed?


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[Assistant] Mhm. John, you okay with this or is your heart broken?


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[Assistant] Release it broken and then just patch it over time until the next one comes out the next year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, some good news though from their tweet they did say at the time.


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[Assistant] And we're writing these words, Cyberpunk 2077 is finished, both content and gameplay wise.


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[Assistant] The quest, the cutscenes, the skills, the items, all the adventures, nice that he has to offer. It's all there, but with such an abundance of content and complex systems, interweaving with each other, we need to properly go through everything, balance game mechanics, and fix a lot of bugs. Well, so good stuff. Polish is basically what they're talking about. Some Polish polish.


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[Assistant] I think so. Uhm, so yeaah, I think we all kind of stand by this. We've been burned too many times by games releasing a little too early and I feel like Cyberpunk's probably...


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[Assistant] A little, it feels precious on the internet. I think everyone's pretty excited about it.


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[Assistant] That was a, that's actually a great comparison to No Man's Sky because I'm seeing some similarities between cyberpunk


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's, it's safe to say, you know, temper your expectations, go in just expecting a decent.


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[Assistant] Okay time, just going with very little to no expectations. I know that's hard with a game like this because of the hype behind it, but I've learned to just kind of go in


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[Assistant] Without hyping myself up and I ultimately leave less disappointed. And if I, if I'm just satisfied, if it's just like a decent time at the, uh, you know, the soup plantation, it wasn't great. There weren't a lot. It wasn't a lot of protein there. It's mostly bread and empty calories, but you know what? I didn't go and expecting anything. So I'm not upset.


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[Assistant] We live in a very overhyped society at this point. I didn't want to say society.


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[Assistant] I've seen a phenomenon with video games lately, maybe this is just me noticing this more and let me know if you guys have seen this as well, but I have seen people starting to be more precious with like games like cyberpunk where they feel like this game was specifically made for me even though millions of people are going to play it.


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[Assistant] I've seen this sort of attitude shift lately where it's sort of like, you can't talk about this game or don't try to talk over me or talk to me about this game because this game is for me. It's for everybody. I don't understand this mentality of,


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[Assistant] Well, it's tough too. I know there's situations where...


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[Assistant] A couple examples I can think of, uhm, the internet willing the film Serenity into existence and then it failing at the box office, uhm, X-Men Origins Wolverine leaking early and people saying this is a horrible movie, look how bad it is and then it was one of the highest grossing films of that year. Uhm, similar situation, remember Lana, you saw Infinity War, not Infinity War, I'm sorry, uhm,


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[Assistant] What was the last one called? Endgame. You saw it earlier and you're like, I remember you going, there's a Fortnite scene in this movie and it's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it, it's, it was, and I remember you saying that and being like, oh my God, I think people are going to hate this movie. It's going to flop and then.


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[Assistant] Charlie's Angels comes to mind where I think two kids are playing Final Fantasy VIII, which I think it did have a minor co-op mechanic, but they weren't doing it right. It's just mashing it up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, the thing is, the, the, I thought, the more I thought about it, the more it actually made sense, because remember, the version they're playing is, it's the current version, right? But the movie takes place five plus years later. But I thought, oh, maybe in this post-apocalyptic world, post-snap,


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[Assistant] But, so they're saying Fortnite would still be the most popular game five years later without any updates.


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[Assistant] They thought about it. I think they went beyond. Uh, I'm going to move on to our next story, but first a quick word from our sponsor, Mint Mobile.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Mint Mobile. Okay, next up, I don't know if you guys heard this sad, sad story, but one of our very own has passed. That's right, Mixer, the streaming service that was started back, I want to say in 2016 when it was renamed Mixer from Beam.


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[Assistant] Uh, is no longer going to be in service coming July.


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[Assistant] On top of that, any of their partners who are signed are being released from their contracts as of a couple days ago, and they're free to go wherever they want that most notably include Shroud and Ninja. So they are.


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[Assistant] I, I know. What the hell? This is old man yelling at cloud. I'm sorry. I know it's, it's hip and new. Uh, so yeah. And then, uh, I didn't know this. GG is apparently Facebook's new desktop home for gaming video.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. Mixer broadcasting on Xbox One will be temporarily disabled and the Mixer apps will notify our redirect viewers to continue watching their favorite streamers on Facebook.


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[Assistant] Gaming. Uh, so yeaah. Pour one out for Mixer, guys. Sorry, they couldn't make it work.


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[Assistant] And that is, that's post ninja acquisition, so.


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[Assistant] Well, you got about a month, so yeah, you'd be the only, uh, cyberpunk streamer that everyone throws their embers at.


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[Assistant] They won a $50,000, the original creators I believe when they were 18 went to a tech disrupt where they showed off Beam as it was known at the time and it had the interactive technology where


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[Assistant] You could basically what parsec does in these other programs that we're going into and like, uh, the PlayStation does where you can take over a person's game or you can play together. Um, I mean, James and I were messing around with parsec earlier this week.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that we had set up because when we were doing the Final Fantasy speedrun we were trying to do air guys versus.


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[Assistant] And we couldn't get it to work with, um, uh, RetroArch. And so we tried it with Parsec and it worked flawlessly.


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[Assistant] And it is pretty crazy. It's a game on his end that I'm the second player on.


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[Assistant] From my home and it's happening through the internet and so that was sort of beams original pitch microsoft technology but then made it and they renamed it mixer in twenty sixteen and are twenty fifteen and then they did this big push of we're gonna go after twitch and it obviously.


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[Assistant] I don't think they were pushing those interactive elements as much or no one was interested in them.


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[Assistant] You could, you know, mix your friends. It's like a mixer. Everyone's hanging out. Someone's like, yeah, that's good. I mean, look, Adam Curry's- go ahead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I mean, there's also the, um, the Kevin Roses of the world, if you remember him. He used to be at Attack of the Show and he starred in Dig.


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[Assistant] Back in the day, and then he tried to do a Twitter, uh, alternative called Pounce.


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[Assistant] And because I remember, yeah, because I signed up for it and it was almost identical to Twitter, but no one, no one used it. And that we saw Vero, which is a thing, I guess.


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[Assistant] And I'm, I'm, I totally understand why something like Twitch, like, like you said, John, what you said was when someone gets it right.


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[Assistant] You don't want to change. Usually, you know, if you can't find a video on YouTube, you kind of give up.


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[Assistant] And I had to pay money through it, except you don't pay through the normal Vimeo site, you have to go through like a secondary site.


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[Assistant] And you're just like, oh dear god. Yeah, it's like the amount of gymnastics I had to do just to legally watch this guy's movie.


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[Assistant] I did it, but it's like, it's not part of your actual Vimeo account. It's like your Vimeo plus, but they're on two separate webs.


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[Assistant] Regardless, I understand why Beam, aka


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[Assistant] Mixer didn't work and Alana, you talked about the FTL functionality. That was something that we were utilizing. Uhm, a lot more.


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[Assistant] So, uh, but it's like we were utilizing because it has like the same lag as Discord essentially. Perfect. It's like a couple milliseconds where...


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[Assistant] The, the, the small delay that I'm having in my voice right now between you guys was basically exactly what the video was doing on a separate platform. And you guys could watch, we could watch each other play games, which is, which we're probably gonna move to Parsec.


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[Assistant] At this point, uhm, or use Discord's video thing, which is the same technology, I believe, but, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, I remember some story where Microsoft has


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[Assistant] The Bezos is supposed to be a trillionaire, I forget exactly how it works out, liquid versus assets, yadda yadda yadda. But yea, Microsoft at the end of the day has Windows and that's just on every PC, typically unless you're a Linux user, more power to you, hey.


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[Assistant] I didn't think Kevin Rose would be the butt of a joke in, you know, 2018. I know.


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[Assistant] I know, I know Microsoft can throw money at a streamer with different colored hair depending on the day of the week and not lose any sleep over it.


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[Assistant] I just, I think when our civilization is eroded and people look back like us, like the Greeks, where we look at their gods, our gods will be the Amazons, the Apples, and the Microsofts. Who were these, who were these gods that lived among them? Like, well, just giant buildings that people basically lived at.


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[Assistant] Uhm, making software and foldable things, uh, before we all died of a mysterious plague.


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[Assistant] I misread that, I thought she was referring to her employees as that, which is, it's not good anyway, you cut it.


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[Assistant] I mean, even on the smaller scale things, the sweater you received, uh, was probably manufactured months ago before there was a quarantine in place. So, cause it's like, here's a sweater you can wear in your home by yourself.


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[Assistant] Or with maybe one other significant other, and you can just go eh, eh.


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[Assistant] From the bathroom to the bedroom, I guess. Have it in the shower.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, things are opening up, but uh, anyway, that's our, that's our second story. Uh, we're going to talk a little bit about the last of us too, but first a quick word from our sponsor, Orby Parker. Orby Parker is committed to providing exceptional vision care online and in stores offering eyeglasses, sunglasses, eye exams, and contact lenses


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[Assistant] Pointy ones, you know, as much as you want to make it a cool new fashion accessory, cool might not be for you.


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[Assistant] I'm refreshing it right now. So earlier at the beginning of this stream, we asked our users, it's a little too close. We asked, should we talk about, Last of Us 2 spoilers, the biggest game out.


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[Assistant] Currently, uh, 60%, which is 33 votes, uh, set aside spoilers, 22 votes, which, uh, is 40%, says no spoilers, total 55 votes. I am afraid 55, I mean, I guess this is just like real life voting, a very small percentage of the people are actually speaking for the masses.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think, I think we're gonna do what they almost never do in elections. We're gonna use our best judgement. Uh, so I think we're gonna go, let's go very light on the spoilers. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, the game has been out for way less than a week, but, uh, Alana, you've been playing it and then John, you finished it. Uhm, what are your guys's overall thoughts? How do you, how do you feel about it, especially compared to the first one?


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[Assistant] The first game had those, like those isolated sort of hallways you go through, and there was never really like an open world, and I'm not saying Last of Us 2 is open world, but they do have sections that are hub-esque.


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[Assistant] I know when you, yeah, Seattle is like, basically here's all these points and they don't put way points up unless you get really lost. Uh, and I, I like that. I like that sort of, it's very immersive. I thought that was really cool. And it reminded me a little bit of God of War, which I guess is also to say that a lot of Sony games are a little samey. Um, not in a bad way, but it's always like, you've got a sidekick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, I, I get so far that the, the message is that like, you know, this world is violence and you, you live through violence, but, uh, there was a moment where,


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[Assistant] I was sort of tricked into being violent. I accidentally shot a, uh, a gun out of a guy's hand and he started begging, no, no, no, don't kill me. And they gave me the option to strike, which in my mind, strike is, you know, a gentleman's, you know, two, two guys about to dueling pistols and they're like, I strike thee.


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[Assistant] I thought it was just like knockout because as far as I can tell the game doesn't have any mechanic in there where the person just runs away.


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[Assistant] This is slightly unrelated, but there was again, it's been out long enough. Uh, spoiler for God of War 3, if you've never played it. One of my favorite moments from that game is they had those first person scenes when you're bashing people's heads in and the final bossing, you just keep mashing square and you're bashing this boss's head in.


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[Assistant] But then you realize when the screen goes red that you can stop at any point and that you're like, you kind of stop and go, what have I become? Uh, I thought that was kind of cool. Whereas this game does sort of the opposite where they have these like those pseudo like cut scene moments where they're like,


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[Assistant] John, you went through a similar thing where it won't progress until you hit the button. And I'm like, don't, don't make me do this. Like I kind of wish there was a choice there.


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[Assistant] Thank you ExpressVPN and we're back. So, uh, real quick, I do actually want to say, um, I am enjoying the game. I'm with you guys gameplay wise.


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[Assistant] I am enjoying it a lot more than the last of us one. I think just the ability to go prone makes it feel a lot more like Metal Gear Solid 5 in a good way. The ability to like get on your back, roll around, hide in grass. I love all that stuff and the bigger world makes it a lot more fun. It feels a lot more tense.


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[Assistant] I like the idea that you can go into buildings and you don't know what's going to happen. It has that immersion aspect that I think people are really enjoying games like DayZ and PUBG and those sort of survival sims. I'm definitely digging that aspect.


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[Assistant] Uh, feels very dire. The thing I don't like is so far it is feeling like it feels like a pretty subpar episode of The Walking Dead.


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[Assistant] I just do a quick comparison. I thought the intro to the original Last of Us gets you in so quickly. It introduces you to the main character Joel and a very traumatic experience that he goes through and you fast forward and so I feel like you understand this character you're already in.


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[Assistant] This game does some stuff where there are two characters I've never met who are upset at each other. And when he goes, he goes, uh, my girlfriend's pregnant. It's like, when were you going to tell me like, who are you and why do I care? And why, and also why do you care in this, this world where you could be eaten or turned into a mushroom creature at any moment?


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[Assistant] I would love some DLC where you play as all the characters moments before death have to scribble out a note detailing how you're dying and why you're dying and everything. It just, there's so many of those moments where I'm like,


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[Assistant] At some point you're like, okay, that's fine. Like I said, on a technical level, I think the game is gorgeous. I cannot believe that it's playing on current gen hardware. It is glorious to look at and it's a lot of fun to play. I still can't aim very well on a controller.


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[Assistant] Mouse and keyboard. It has ruined me. Uhm, I'm glad they have the lock-on functionality.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I ended up using that for Uncharted 4 because like my, my aiming on controller ever since just switching over to mouse is like full time.


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[Assistant] So you're also digging through so many things. You're trying to find as many supplies as there's a point where I'm like, I'm just going to barrel through this, but then I'm like, oh, but I really need a new bottle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well the game seems smart enough, the game seems smart enough to know when to give you items so that you're never underpowered for certain moments, but uhm, I think also pacing level design is really well done where


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[Assistant] The last game I can remember doing this really well was Bastion, where like, it's very hard to know your own pacing, one in a movie, second in a book, and almost even harder in a video game, where


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[Assistant] You know, like you go to these workbenches, you find them to upgrade your guns and sometimes something different might happen. And those are kind of cool moments where the game developers has their finger on the pulse of their own game where they go, you know, it'd be good here. This would surprise the player and make it feel more organic. And I've been enjoying those moments where.


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[Assistant] You kind of can't know what to expect most of the time. And that's just good game design.


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[Assistant] I just don't like that when you hit a window, it takes, uhm, the durability of your melee item down by one. It does? No it doesn't.


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[Assistant] It just takes, like, just a small bit, but I was just like, hey, that sucks, I guess I should be throwing bricks or bottles at the windows.


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[Assistant] I look forward to getting to that end, the one you two have already made. I'm sure many of our...


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[Assistant] Audiences have gone through. Uh, let us know what you guys think in the comments below. We'll skim them and probably use it in a future episode of open house. But for now, that is the end of our podcast together. Alana, John, thank you so much for being here today. Thank you. Chat everyone from richardjeet.com for watching us live and everyone else watching or listening wherever you are in the world today.


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[Assistant] Did you have sweltering heat in Canada or was it just nice?


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[Assistant] It's all up north near where all the ice comes from. Did you also think that as a kid when you saw that map of Antarctica and it looks like water is coming out of it because it has like a little tail? No.


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[Assistant] On the map, if you look at it, I always was like, I was like, oh, that's where water comes from. It comes out of Antarctica.


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[Assistant] Look, I was a young 19 year old learning all sorts of new things about the world. That water doesn't come out of a continent. That's basically just a frozen tectonic plate.


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[Assistant] I'm into this actually. Can we play this this summer?


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[Assistant] I love women's beach volleyball. It's one of the best things to watch during the Olympics.


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[Assistant] Do they have the animation where they have to get the sand out of the small swimsuits they make them wear? All the sand that goes up their ass crack. I feel bad for them. Like a lot of them wear shorts for the love of god.


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[Assistant] So you asked this question and like I legitimately thought about it and most of my childhood has become a blur. And I think I've talked about this before.


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[Assistant] My life in video games has always been a very torrid affair.


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[Assistant] Where I was given video games and then they were taken away from me. So I'd have to go to a friend's house and play them. It was some weird psychological damage. Uh, my mom was trying to play on me. I don't really understand it. So, uh, and like I, I started working full time. Like I started working basically as soon as I could.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I got like my first job when I was 16, so like I had a summer job. If I wasn't going to summer school, I was going to football practice. I wasn't going to football practice. I was, um.


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[Assistant] You know, working like, I would play games when I could, but it was like, I never really got to have like that summer where I just got to dick around and you know.


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[Assistant] Play a game all summer, uhm, and I don't really remember being able to do much of that as a kid because when you live with your, uh, authoritarian, uh, family, they don't let you do anything. And it's like go outside and play, which maybe ended up being better for me in the long term, but.


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[Assistant] The last game I could think of that reminded me of summer was Vicious Circle when we did the Vicious Summer thing and I was like, that felt like summer because it was hot and it was called Vicious Summer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it could have been. I don't really recall, but there's that joke on the Simpsons where they go, you know, uh, Homer tells Bart, like, when you become my age, you miss every summer. You're like, it's sort of a, it is true. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's not the first time Pokémon have been involved with child labor and it won't be the last. True.


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[Assistant] It had to have been at least like the Charizard pack, right? Like, I dunno.


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[Assistant] I believe their headline was, uh, y'all being babies, which I don't agree with. I think that is a very pompous way of looking down at the audience you're trying to appease. So uhm, maybe be careful bloggers. You don't want to upset your base. Just saying.


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[Assistant] I was talking to Eric Badour yesterday and we were just talking about Sonic Spinball and how he got that as a kid and there was those times when you got a game and like that was it. It was like, you know, all your friends would


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[Assistant] So we were talking about games that reminded me of Summer, and then he said, oh, Sonic Spinball. I remember playing it and being like, this game sucks, but I have to play it because...


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[Assistant] I spent my, I don't have money and I spent it all on this cause it was called Sonic and it doesn't play like Sonic, but I gotta play it. So.


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[Assistant] I hated it. I hated it so much. I did that thing. I booted it up and went, oh, it's a pinball game. I hate this. Well, here goes the next 20 hours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well once you saw what it is and then they're like, this is a high level area. Can't go here. I just went.


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[Assistant] I've played this before and I think this game looks great and I think it's got a cool, some cool mechanics to it but I don't, I don't have time for it. Yeah. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I felt like overwhelmed. I don't know if that's sort of what you went through, John.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's what happened with PS3, Xbox 360 when the games went up to 60 bucks. The PS2 games were still $50.


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[Assistant] That's, that just seems to be the trend. It goes up every, it goes up $10 every generation. And then we've talked about this before. As far as hobbies go, gaming is a bit on the more affordable side. It's still, obviously it's costly. But as far as like being able to get a taste of


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[Assistant] PC gaming starts, you know, it starts to get a bit crazier and then, you know, you can, once you go into that world, it starts to get a lot more expensive and it's, it's a bit.


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[Assistant] More daunting, I think, but like console gaming I think has always been...


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[Assistant] Uh, golfing, there's all these things that like, I think you forget about, um, gaming tries to be affordable and that's typically why I think the console manufacturers take a loss on the hardware, even though it seems like it's fairly expensive for what's going into it. Yeah, well even right now.


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[Assistant] I'm also, I'm not saying gaming is like, it isn't.


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[Assistant] I mean, the most affordable thing you could do is like exercise without equipment. Like go, you know, run. That's probably like the one of the...


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[Assistant] I'm just saying like any sort of like hiking. Hiking is a great hobby that is super affordable. Uhm, basic, I mean art is also a, that's another, that's a rabbit hole you can go down where it's like all you need is a pencil and some paper but then art supplies get super expensive. Most hobbies have different thresholds but


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[Assistant] As far as gaming goes, uhm, they keep trying to make it affordable and I think that's why you're seeing a lot of the...


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[Assistant] When they first started making consoles, it was like, we're going to release this thing called the Odyssey or the Atari 2600 or the NES, and we're going to make a profit off the hardware. Except...


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[Assistant] So they want to find a way to get around that entirely where they go, well, the hardware just falls. It's, it plays on whatever it plays on your phone. Everyone has a phone. We don't need to make consoles anymore.


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[Assistant] Except the streaming technology is not even close to where we need it to be for that to work. But when you wonder why so many companies are trying to jump into that market, that's why.


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[Assistant] Except now we need it more than ever and we're still using internet that's probably 10 to 15 years behind where it should be. Yeaah. Uh, some people more than that, you know, when some people are still using dial up.


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[Assistant] What I, what I love in this, even in this day and age, we still don't know how to properly


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[Assistant] Network things in between that, but then it just, I can just imagine the day of the shoot where the guy goes, the guy goes, okay, now you just won your, you won the game. React. And he goes, yes.


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[Assistant] You win a game because you're spending $150 on your internet a month and you're like, I'm, I was faster than him. I have a, it's better. It's like, well, no, you still have to go through the server, whatever. However you want to market your product, go for it.


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[Assistant] This is a hobby that always has the latest, greatest, right? There's always something new. It's like the tech industry. There's always.


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[Assistant] The next iPhone, there's always the next Mac or the next PC, the next Nvidia card, all these sorts of things.


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[Assistant] And they have found that there is a more casual player who's into sports games. There's obviously crossover there, but there are people who say, new number, I want it. That's the one game I'm going to buy. It's there. And they have proven year after year that they will continue to do that.


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[Assistant] So it falls on the consumer in a way, it's a two way street, but enough people said, I'm okay paying $60 a year for the same thing because the number has increased.


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[Assistant] I think other, more the hardcore gaming audience is a lot more vocal about those sorts of things and, uh, rest, rest his logic but, uhm, Spool made his argument for the one dollar one hour.


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[Assistant] Like sports packages. People will spend whatever it is. I'm actually not sure. I know. I think Omar's the only person I know who are in that P coupé for MLB and it's something like $150 a year or something just to watch baseball. The most boring sport in the world, which I also enjoy.


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[Assistant] But it is boring and I was like, you spend how much to watch man throw a ball and hit with stick? Oh, mercy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, his colors match my, he's not from that city, no. He, they flew him in from somewhere else and gave him more money, but he played for my color. Yes.


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[Assistant] That is something too that I think the gaming industry is different than many others. Maybe not. Maybe it is similar to golf and skateboarding and other things where if you wait long enough things go down in price.


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[Assistant] But I always thought that made the gaming industry unique, where yeaah, they're charging this much for these games, but if you wait...


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[Assistant] Six months. Sometimes even three months. You wait to a holiday sale. Sometimes you get these things for half off. And that's what I do with Doom. Doom Eternal.


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[Assistant] I mean, I bought that day off, but I mean, that's, that's, that's what the industry does. It preys upon that feeling of you need it now. Oh, what are your friends playing? Yeah. You see all your friends playing and there's like, Oh, let's make a friends list so we can see what our friends are playing and make you feel left out. You idiot. Now buy it.


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[Assistant] But I'm just saying like, Cyberpunk will be $30.


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[Assistant] You know, come holiday or you'll be able to get a, there'll be some sort of deal.


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[Assistant] Or if you wait long enough. And it usually comes down to that where it's like, well, I don't want to wait. It's like, well, then you have to pay more money.


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[Assistant] It's on Netflix. You played the waiting game. That was smart.


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[Assistant] That's what you, what did you wait for Bill Paxton to die? Was that what it was? It lost all value. You're a monster.


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[Assistant] You're right, it's so much more, it's becoming more and more like a PC. Where it would be odd.


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[Assistant] If you wanted to play Control with RTX abilities, then you'd have to buy the game for $10 more.


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[Assistant] Because you already, you ate the cost when you bought a, a 2080.


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[Assistant] You know, like, so the software's, it's, it doesn't really matter, that, that's not exactly consequential, but like,


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[Assistant] Now with the consoles, like, well, you want to utilize that solid state and those new ray tracing abilities in 8K. Now the software cost more. You go, wait, what? I don't, that doesn't make a lot of sense because the game is basically the same. It just has a few bells and whistles. Now there's nothing I guess. Yeah, maybe graphically it's a bit more produced, but.


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[Assistant] The consoles aren't as different as I feel like we were when we were jumping from like PS1 to PS2.


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[Assistant] That's the hope, right? Yeah, it's the hope. You see, what's the game, Godfall, and it just looks kind of okay? You know, I don't know if that's a $70.


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[Assistant] I guess it's pretty, you know. You're gonna have to wait a little bit before...


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[Assistant] Those, those consoles are actually utilizing the new tech anyway. This always happens. That's, that's the other thing too. It's like when the, when the 360 came out, we're like, oh my God, it's, it's a next gen console. It's high definition. Perfect darts. Dark is awful. Like it, it looks pretty or it got me in looking pretty, but it controls like crap and it looks like crap.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it was Rogue, and then they did Black Flag at the same time, so like- Maybe.


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[Assistant] You can play as Haytham and this one, I forget, I think it may have been a last gen title. And then they eventually ported it over.


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[Assistant] I could be wrong though. I, I, I faintly recall what you're saying though, at least.


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[Assistant] I thought Black Flag was a PS- I remember being a PS4 launch out, but that was also one of those games where...


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[Assistant] It, it came out, it came out close enough to get each other, like, uhm, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, where, remember that game launched on PS2, but then like, it's a launch out on Xbox 360, and it's like, yeaah, but it doesn't, it, it doesn't really do anything.


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[Assistant] We still remember you, old console friends. And play this for a discounted rate.


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[Assistant] It's a nice controller. Well, but then the other thing is, yes, the prices haven't changed much, but then there's all these sort of invisible...


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[Assistant] It's also, it's only, it's also, I keep, I'm, you know, this is how you justify these things. You have, it's only $30 a year or something, but that's how, that's how they get you. So yeah, there's.


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[Assistant] There are more microtransactions than ever. There are more, uh, there's more DLC. There's more, there's all these things where they're, they're trying to make games, you know, as a service, these sorts of things keep coming back. So it's like, yeah, the prices haven't really changed, but the, the way they monetize them has significantly. And whether it's.


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[Assistant] I, I always see it as this is, these are necessary evils in a way to try to keep things from getting too out of control price wise. But at the same time it is also, it always feels like your, your hobby is under, under attack of becoming too costly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you can start getting into the nitty gritty on that one too. We're like, well, how often are you doing the same thing over and over? Well, that's most video games. Like you can play Tetris. Like as, as my brain went, ooh, wow. And you know, the last 20 hours and it did not, I am upset. I will like a refund now. Oops. I put in 300 hours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I still need like my shoot things fix and that's like, you know, a few minutes over our watch here and there and then I'm trying to finish last of us so I can be part of the, uh,


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[Assistant] So that's just a game that, uh, so I discovered Tetris 99 over the weekend and then I remembered that Tetris 99, I'm sorry Tetris Effect had come out on PC and I wanted to give that a try and I installed it and it is very kind of therapeutic.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's just kind of a nice way to unwind. It's a great game. The unfortunate thing is...


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[Assistant] Uh, it is, this is the first time I found a way to complain about the Epic Games Store, but it's very specific to me, so forgive my rant being very, very Adam specific, but because it's on the Epic Games Store,


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[Assistant] You cannot stream the game from your PC to a living room like situation if you have like a Nvidia shield or any of those like a, uh, uh, what, what, uh, steam had their own like steam link. Steam link.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And so Tetris Effect, since it is on the Epic Games Store, you can add it to Steam and when you launch it, it crashes out because it tries to do a DRM check, which is the dumbest thing in the world.


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[Assistant] That when it launches, it doesn't launch correctly. So that's a bummer. Uhm, so I'm, I'm, it's, it's a game that I feel like should be played on a couch in a couch situation. So, uh, probably get a refund and then just buy it on PS4. But I wanted to do the, the whole PC experience because apparently,


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[Assistant] Had some bells and whistles on it, like HDR and some other fancy things, but.


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[Assistant] Now I don't think it, I think it was only on PlayStation, uh, and then yeaah, it'll be on Steam eventually, but yeaah, just kind of a bummer. But like I said, it, I, when I, when I Google searched the problem, I was like,


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[Assistant] Uh, tetris, uh, effect, nvidia shield, no work, and you know, there's one reddit thread with no answers on it. So I'm like, there's threes of us!


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[Assistant] There are people who need to stream games from their computer to their living room and waste it a bunch of time running a hardline cable from one room to the other.


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[Assistant] Uh, there, there are, uh, but yeaah, I'm looking forward to Ghost of Tsushima next week, or this week actually, three days. Crap.


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[Assistant] And Halo Infinite at the end of the year. I think those are my two most, uh, well, ghosts because I think it's just coming out so soon and it's getting some hype behind it. And I like Sucker Bunch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they seem, they seem kind of all over the place, but I really enjoyed Second Son, uh, the last Infamous and I just, I like that studio. I think they do some good stuff and game looks gorgeous and I've heard it's like a Sekiro light. Uh, I'm into it. Fluke guy, Fluke guy, remember Fluke guy?


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[Assistant] Oh, that's the new one or that's the older one?


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[Assistant] I'm aware of his existence, but I don't, I don't actively seek, uh, I already forgot his name. Will Coulter.


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[Assistant] But he was good in it. I enjoyed him. Yeah, okay. He was less blonde than the photo you sent me. Well, sad. The Tolkien verse will miss him. I wish him the best. He was gonna play Gollum.


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[Assistant] Always a blast. And thank you for watching, Elise.


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[Assistant] How's it going everyone? Could I offer you some raspberries or blueberries?


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[Assistant] How'd I get them between all my fingers? For the audio listeners, I've done a magic trick where I have berries between every single finger. How'd I do it?


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[Assistant] A magician never reveals his tricks, Elise.


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[Assistant] I've noticed raspberry flavoring is a lot more tart than raspberries themselves.


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[Assistant] Raspberries are sweet as fuck with a little bit of tartness, whereas raspberry flavoring, it's like, it makes you do that sucker face, you know.


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[Assistant] I like huffing toilet cleaner. It makes you feel happy. And it kind of burns your nose. Sorry, that was a joke. No one do that. That was making a joke.


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[Assistant] Past beyond New York, that now Toronto was cool New York and New York was being left in the dust.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say that, uh, I don't remember if it was in Tony Hawk 2, but one of the Tony Hawks I played had a level creator. And I remember doing that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, not being able to share it with anyone. So, it's pretty interesting that the level creator is going to come back in a modern world where we have Super Mario Maker, things like that where I'm very excited just to see the kind of levels that people make. It's probably going to be nuts.


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[Assistant] Something that I didn't know, uh, because I grew up in it, was that...


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[Assistant] Before the success, and I heard this, this is something they kind of cover in the documentary that came out recently. Uh, well I guess it's not out. It, it was made recently and it just recently got publishing rights. Uhm, someone got them and so it will be coming out soon. Uhm, but it's a documentary about Tony Hawk and about the success of the video games. Skateboarding was like...


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[Assistant] I mean, video games even back then had such a large impact on society and culture, at least for kids in like a big way and changed probably a lot of people.


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[Assistant] You know, even though they're, you know, in their thirties now are still skating cause of Tony Hawk.


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[Assistant] Random anecdote, uh, he, Tony Hawk is from San Diego, where I'm from, and I guess...


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[Assistant] This guy from my church had kids that were into skating and he was like a carpenter and so he built a half pipe in his backyard for his kids and this is back when Tony Hawk was like really young and Tony Hawk would come over to his house and like skate on his little half pipe.


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[Assistant] But he, you know, he was like 13 or something. I learned that, you know, when I was...


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[Assistant] Yeah, that guy, Mr. Hyden is responsible for Tony Hawk's career.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I actually, I'm very excited for it, uh, but also


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[Assistant] Probably every year or so, I, I, I bought, a while back I bought a USB N64 controller and I'll just boot up, you know, old games that I owned, uh, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 specifically is something that


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[Assistant] You know, I've, I've revisited many, many times and just blasted through. So I'm very excited, uh, for this remake cause I can actually play it at 60 frames and not in like a 320 by 240 resolution.


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[Assistant] I'm curious, uh, if another, like, you know, depending on how big it is, because also back then, there weren't as many video games. Uhm, and so when something like this came out, especially this was one of the first games of its kind, I feel like, or at least one of the first ones that really did it right,


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[Assistant] It blew up. Whereas now, uhm, you know, even though it's going to be a nostalgia thing, there's so many games, like the whole skate series, like, uh, you know, people have kind of credited as like one of the best skate games. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's gonna be as big of an impact for younger kids now because there are so many options, uh, compared to back then.


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[Assistant] There's that one guy, uhm, who's like, he's the only soap shoe pro skater or like pro st- that he's still doing stuff, like he has a YouTube channel in life.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I just saw in your, in this dude soup doc you put together, um, Vicarious Visions developed all the


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[Assistant] The Gameboy Advance Nintendo DS titles for Tony Hawk Pro Skater. That's something that it seems like they'd be wonky, but the GBA version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 is like really good. It's isometric and it's, it's really fun. So.


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[Assistant] I think the fact that they were able to translate it to a medium where it doesn't seem like it should work, uh, is encouraging.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's just a weird fucking word, or sorry, it's a weird word. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it, it almost seems like they went, wow, look at all these successful companies and what they've done to create these like, you, like these platforms that everybody's using.


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[Assistant] I mean, how many people, even commuters, a lot of people are commuting in their cars. So, their supposed demographic is solely people that are using public transport to commute. With an iPhone. Yeah, with an iPhone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, like, in, like what Adam was saying with, like,


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[Assistant] With, you know, competing with YouTube, but also just competing with the like cultural shift of, you know, back when YouTube first came around, if a video was over two minutes, most people wouldn't click on it. Like it was all about creating short little content. If the video was too long, no one wanted to watch it. Whereas now,


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[Assistant] You know, bon appetit, for example. All their videos were around 20 minutes. Now they're putting out 50 minute long videos because


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[Assistant] People just want more content to consume and, you know, like Netflix and stuff. How many people watch one episode of a show and they're like, that's good. No, people are binging.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in another point, Brock in a recently chat says, most streaming sites remember where you left off anyways. So even if it's a, you know, an hour long show, you can watch it in 10 minute chunks and you're not like, it's not like you gotta go, Oh no, gotta start from the beginning. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, I was just gonna say one other thing. I heard about, what is it, Most Dangerous Game with Liam Hemsworth and there's the Sophie Turner show where she's out trapped in the wilderness. It's called something like Wilderness, I think.


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[Assistant] But, I learned about these shows and I was like, wow, like, I'm very, like, most dangerous game. You know, I love all of the hundreds of adaptations of that show. And then I looked it up, I literally looked up, and I was like, alright, I'm gonna subscribe to this and watch it.


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[Assistant] And then I got there and I went, huh, it's only on my phone. I don't own an iPad.


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[Assistant] You know, I would literally only be able to watch it on my tiny phone and I was like, well, guess I'm not going to sign up for Quibi.


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[Assistant] I mean, yea, like, walled garden, I, for me it was discovering that it's only on a phone, but at least I didn't know that they were, like, blocking it all out from social media too. That's just like...


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[Assistant] Oh hey Uncle Bob, yeah, the ad read went great. Wow, what an incredible ad read that was.


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[Assistant] You know? I felt like I just, I heard a don't and then I looked out and I, the words just came to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and by that I mean, Elise sent me copy over Slack.


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[Assistant] But also, I put a little bit of my heart in there myself because I am a Mint Mobile user. This isn't an ad read anymore, let's move on.


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[Assistant] I haven't, I haven't played it. I wanna check it out.


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[Assistant] Oh, I just realized I had a friend growing up. This kid, Chris, who was-


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[Assistant] He was obsessed with Predator and Alien and that whole, like that whole franchise or crossover or whatever.


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[Assistant] I like, I mean this is totally random, but I just realized he's probably so stoked that this game exists, he's probably playing it all the freaking time.


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[Assistant] I, I, is one of them when you loaded it, like did it have custom voices?


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[Assistant] I know there's one, uh, cause I used to watch Shroud back in the day and, uh, his like, uh, donation alert was a voice from that thing where it would, it would just go, where the fuck I am.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Sorry, I got nervous because you said, uh, that CSGO is gonna be the Monday video and I'm editing that and I was like, wait, I have to have it done by Monday? But uh, it's not the case.


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[Assistant] I thought it was because I had told you about that, uh, Hilary Duff, uh, screenplay that I had written in 6th grade about how her and I get locked out of my house and we have to spend a whole night, you know, out on the town.


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[Assistant] It didn't go very far, I just remember that I got locked out of my house and I went to my friend Matt's house who lived down the street, uh, Chris was there, uhm, and then because of some shenanigans I got kicked out, uh, and then I ran into Hilary Duff and then we ended up gallivanting, this was in sixth grade.


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[Assistant] Cause I also didn't really know what I could do overnight. So that was kind of where I got, I got to the point where I was like, well, we're locked out all night. And then that was kind of.


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[Assistant] But I remember at one point being like, I wonder if I can find an email for her agent or something.


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[Assistant] I was like, sorry, I'm married to God. Cause I was at the time.


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[Assistant] That was something he brought up that I had never thought about and I, I'm not sure has ever, I've never seen it in like an apocalyptic type media or that's like a plot point or something. So.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a female version of Florida Flies. I remember reading.


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[Assistant] Well there's a game that did that where if you were like cheating or being an asshole or whatever, it would just put you in a server with all the cheating assholes. But it wouldn't tell you.


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[Assistant] Elise, for clarification, this Twitter thing they're doing isn't going to censor it to the people that the hateful messages are being sent to. It's just going to like ask the people sending the dehumanizing, degrading messages.


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[Assistant] I think it's just an example of how, kind of, Twitter for a long time doesn't really


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[Assistant] I mean, not that they don't know what to do, but they maybe don't have much recourse to like, prevent this, like, everyone just shitting on each other on their platform. Uhm, and I mean, that's something that,


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[Assistant] In a number of social media, you know, they've done studies that like the more people scroll social media, the more extreme their views get, the more biased they get, the more entrenched they get into their own views, the less open-minded they are. It's kind of just a universal...


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[Assistant] Product of social media that people become kind of shittier.


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[Assistant] It's a bummer, because, you know, we, like, we all use social media and there's a lot of great stuff on it, but, you know, it also has, seems to have some negative effects on people's mental well-being in some ways.


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[Assistant] I was actually watching Simpsons recently, I've been going back, I'm starting to see, I basically looked up when Conan was a writer on The Simpsons, and it started with season 4 I think, and I started at season 4, and I'm kind of watching Spotted throughout there, kind of remembering episodes that I do remember and rewatching them.


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[Assistant] In season, episode one of season four, Ralph is introduced, but he's not the character that he is at all. He's just kinda, he's not even like as round as, as he is. He's just kind of just this little kid. I don't even know if he's Ralph Wiggum at that point. Might have just been.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I mean they refer to him as Ralph and he has the same like string hair, but apart from that, it's like...


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[Assistant] These characters that from my perspective were like iconic staples of the show.


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[Assistant] That like, I know, you guys were telling me about this podcast for so long and I finally, finally just binged a bunch of it. And yea, like that was something I realized was like, oh snap, he was a writer on SNL and most of the people, or a lot of his guests were either writers or, you know, uh, on camera.


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[Assistant] Like cast members of SNL and that's basically all they talk about during the episode. And it's like, I didn't realize the insight that we were getting with Conan's podcast until I listened to it.


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[Assistant] There was that, but then in that same story he talks about how like, you know, he came in in the morning on like his first day or it was the day before they do all the pitches because basically it's known that


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[Assistant] The writers, I think it's on, they do all the pitches Wednesday morning maybe and on Tuesday night everyone stays up all night working on everything and then on Wednesday morning they pitch it and like Tuesday at like 6 or 7 or whatever Larry's like packing up to leave and he's like, he goes to leave and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, shit, what is his name? Lauren. Yeah, Lauren Michaels is like, oh, so you're leaving. He's like, that's not really how we do it here. Yeah. And Larry was like, well.


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[Assistant] I've worked a full day of work, so I'm just gonna go home.


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[Assistant] I, I think I saw, I saw a Howard Stern show clip where, you know, he's always trying to create dramas like


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[Assistant] So, how did you feel Dana Carvey when Mike Myers like bit your, bit your Lorne Michaels impersonation? And Dana was basically just like, you know, I was maybe the first one to do it like on camera, but everyone kind of had their own Lorne Michaels impersonation. And yeah, maybe he did bite mine a little bit, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Didn't buy into the shit that Howard Stern was trying to get him to throw.