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[Assistant] I mean Robin Williams is actually a great example. Now imagine having to deal with that for an hour. You as probably a normal human being who


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[Assistant] I'd say the reason why we're crotchety, bitter old men on the podcast, cause this is probably the, this is our most us. Most normal. This will be us sitting at lunch talking, just kind of bitching about life, uh, general things, being a, you know, hopefully


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[Assistant] You understand that we're, it's somewhat parody? Like, we're always trying to mock things, but we're not always super serious.


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[Assistant] Like every other podcast? My general nature is, if everyone likes a thing, I feel like something's wrong. You have to take a step back and see, okay, you have to look at every side of it. Uh, cause I, mob mentality scares me. And I, I just, I always try to see both sides of the subject.


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[Assistant] Well it's also stuff, we were talking about big discussions that everyone is talking about and trying to be even handed about it because also this stuff doesn't affect us.


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[Assistant] I guess like, if it's something that does, like we talked about YouTube in the last episode, I think. I don't know where we're at right now because we're pre-recording this, but we talked about that for a very long time because that affects our livelihood and our business, but at the same time, we're trying to be


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[Assistant] Well yeaah. This game will be the best. This one's gonna be the one. This is the one guys. And they go, can you imagine if? Yes, I can. Because our imaginations are infinite.


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[Assistant] We never really thought about it, but I guess that's kind of a weird position to put you in. Mmhm. Cause, this is- Where's the night talk?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, and it's kind of a weird thing. We, we had a pretty, it wasn't, we didn't have a hard time separating the two of


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[Assistant] And, she's gonna work with us. Are we cool with that? And it was just, yea, of course, that makes sense. Like, she's a hard worker, she's funny.


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[Assistant] And no one ever once said, well we gotta give her special treatment because it's James' wife. Like that, we never even... It's so weird, like that didn't...


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[Assistant] It was just, here's a really talented person we know, and god, I wish we could work with her. She's only gonna make this work. Get back to work, please. Get on your microphone, please. Well, I was gonna say too.


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[Assistant] Well, there's also, I had the frustration, uh, working at other places where it was always like, we need to hire a female. Yeah. And I hated that. I hate the idea that said, well, are they, are they a good editor? Are they?


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[Assistant] We didn't have to deal with that. It was just sort of like, hire whoever you want. And we said, we'll hire the best person. And the best person was-


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[Assistant] No, it was because that was the first time we ever hired somebody.


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[Assistant] Oh, right. We've- we had never- I guess you're right! Well, I'm saying, having- I- I had- I had been a beaten dog for nine plus years, uh, doing previous work, where it was always- it was like, it was G4 then Machinima, where it was always-


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[Assistant] I was never really getting anything. It was either things were given to me by someone above me said, this is your editor now or this is your thing. We never had a decision of who we can hire and how we can expand.


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[Assistant] Elise was the first time where we as a group made a decision, this is the person we want to hire, this is how we want to grow the team, and...


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[Assistant] We had no pushback. And it's, and after that, since then it's been kind of a, well yea.


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[Assistant] That's better. Well I'm saying since then it's been, we've been growing. And now our team's twice as big. We had to expand to a different room. Like this is what I've always wanted. I wanted us to be our own little company. And we're finally doing it. And it just, it took ten years.


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[Assistant] I'm glad it finally got here. Cause I mean, at one point I almost just gave up. I was just gonna stop making content and go...


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[Assistant] When they fired everyone at Machinima, and, uh, I thought I was the next one out. So, I got a little worried, and then I started looking at other jobs. That's when they brought on Bruce, but then Bruce and I started making videos again. I'm like, oh, this is fun. Like, we could do this. And they brought on James and said, oh, this is a good team. We should stick together. Love is.


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[Assistant] It, it all, it took me almost quitting, which scared me. I mean, I could've, I could've gone two different routes. And I'm glad I, I stuck with it, because...


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[Assistant] Well I was, well I was applying, I was applying at 343 to do video content for Halo and they were, they were a little hesitant like, I don't know, I don't know if you could really do it. I'm like, really? I've been working on YouTube for, okay, I'm like, hey.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I, yeah, it would have been much more difficult for me to carve my own path at a giant corporation like that as opposed to going smaller and then like working with Rooster Teeth who is much more open to us just kind of doing mostly what we want to do.


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[Assistant] Well, they were, I think initially it was, they wanted to bring us on as like new employees. And we said, well, we'd like to do our own channel because it'd be nice to have content. They said, well, we already have Achievement Hunter. We don't need another gameplay channel. And it took a little bit of explaining. And yeah, thanks. And she said, okay, we get it.


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[Assistant] That was a good moment. I remember that, because we won. That is a thing I often forget, and we're gonna get a full blast of this in the next week or so, because we're doing 11 Little Roosters. Uhm, I really like the people in Austin. It is, every time we go there, it's the family, like I wish I had growing up, where I'm like, oh, hang out with like Josh and Aaron.


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[Assistant] Just off, you know, like, the whole live action department, Blaine, Chris, all those guys, Brandon, like, it's, it's cool just being able to just go into a conversation with them and then walk across the hall.


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[Assistant] Every time I saw that shit on Kotaku, where some guy's like, I live near Akihabara. Here's a crazy new sex toy I found. Like, this is not gaming news. Yea, or just-


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[Assistant] It is kinda cr- it- it's weird to go from one place where they say...


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[Assistant] Don't do anything. Like stop, stop trying to be proactive to a place saying, what do you want?


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[Assistant] Hey, give us your ideas, like, go nuts, please tell us, like, what do you want? And, like, we, we pitched the sex swing cartoon about a year ago.


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[Assistant] And it's coming together. Like, it's weird. It's weird to see...


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[Assistant] Productivity. It's transformed, over that time, since the pitch, but. Oh yea, as most things do. I think also that's the other thing, like, hm?


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[Assistant] We've all pitched ideas and things and we're just aware that nothing ever is the original idea. We just have to accept that. And you just have to be flexible with it and try to be like, oh well how can we still make it as good as possible?


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[Assistant] I mean yea, there's always limitations, and being able to work around those is, it's art through adversity, that's always going to be an important thing if this is the sort of industry you want to get into.


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[Assistant] Well, so like an example that uhm, we've been spending the last week on this Achievement Hunter Overwatch video that you should have seen by now.


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[Assistant] And it ended up being way more ambitious than I thought. Usually our timeline is two days on a video.


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[Assistant] This thing took way longer than that, and I apologize, but, but it, but it was like, I had initial vision, I was like, I wanna do it this way, I wanna make it a certain way, and it, uhm, that, that, that makes me happy, when it's, it's sort of like, you can stretch your legs a little bit, and go, okay, how can we make this thing work?


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[Assistant] And how can we do something different that the audience is going to enjoy? I always like being able to push ourselves. That's, that to me is always fun.


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[Assistant] There's an episode of South Park that I don't like where it's all of them sitting around a newsroom talking about how they don't have any ideas. And I think that came from the fact that they were- Oh yeah. That- I think everyone has that episode, like SNL will always have that skit where they're like-


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[Assistant] It's a bunch of writers sitting around in a room going, that's their skit, saying, we don't have any ideas, and then they try to make a joke out of that, and it's not funny.


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[Assistant] And it never really works out and it just, you never want to tell the audience you don't have any ideas or you're creatively tapped.


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[Assistant] And I feel like that's, if we get too much on our own heads, that happens to us. And I never want that to happen. I don't want us to start writing skits where we're in the office talking about how hard it is to make videos. That's not relatable. That's not fun. How long does this guy go down?


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[Assistant] Uh, well, that's the other thing too, just, I think this is apt. Uh, this is a good time to bring it up. The whole, like, YouTube.


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[Assistant] That's a scary platform to be reliant on. Yeah, right? It's a awesome platform because it's free and you can make money off of it and you can grow a business, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know, we might make some changes to like things like Twits and Creds and stuff like that of whatever we're doing. Come on, thread the needle.


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[Assistant] Well, they're also looking beyond that as well now, and so is the parent company.


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[Assistant] That was, that was one of the things when I kinda looked into my crystal ball, I'm like, alright, what's this landscape gonna look like in a few years? And then...


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[Assistant] When I saw that full screen picked up Rooster Teeth, I was like, okay, there's something happening here. Something's gonna explode soon.


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[Assistant] And it was a bit of a gamble, but I'm glad we took that gamble because it's two very smart companies who have their head looking in the right direction. So it's like, it's a good place to be right now as opposed to how things have been in the past. Like, we're a video game television channel.


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[Assistant] Or how, whatever the word was, they, they ruined TechTV. There was like 100 million homes at one point. Well, cause they bought DirecTV. Yeah. Talking about G4, by the way. Or 65 million, I forget. Aye, who cares.


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[Assistant] And I always love when people twist their metrics like that. Oh yea. Vanity metrics. Yea. We are, uh, we are in 150 million homes. So how many of you are watching? That's not important. The important thing is how many homes we're in. No it's not.


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[Assistant] That's actually, that works against you, because if I find out your actual number, it's something like a channel having 80 million subs, and each video gets 100,000 views. If I'm an advertiser, I'm gonna look at that and go, no.


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[Assistant] I hope that's changing, because that's how we looked at things for years.


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[Assistant] And after, after years of people telling me, no, uh,


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[Assistant] Spam the channel, views, views, views, views. I'm like, well the video I'm producing that I spent a week on only got 13,000 views. Because you put it up on a day where you spammed it with six Mortal Kombat ads. Yeah, but total views. Yeah, but total views.


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[Assistant] I kept thinking, well, someone's gonna look at it at the channel one day and do the math and just say, what the hell? Like, that's not, that's not right. Man, I think...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you just remember that moment like, man, to the bitter end, huh? Yeah, basically.


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[Assistant] Uh, well shit. I was on the uh, the train yesterday going home and I saw a guy watching a YouTube video.


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[Assistant] And then he turned his phone over and then uhm, first I was standing and then I got a seat and then I saw him turn his phone and he was leaving a comment on the YouTube video. I've never seen anyone do that. Good for him.


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[Assistant] Wait, after he saw the video? Yeaah. I saw him watching it. He's like, cool. What was the video? Is that one dude who's just rich and does rich things? Casey Neistat? Is the big nose guy?


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[Assistant] That's the one video I saw. There are so many people on YouTube, and I think this is just how disconnected I am from everything. There'll be some channel, some dude, just named like, Speaker Beaker, and he's got 15 million subs and gets 12 million views per video. I've never heard of him. No idea.


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[Assistant] There was a video I saw of the guy, he was like wearing a tux at like a award show. I was like, he looks rich.


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[Assistant] Like chrysograt, they explain that you're in, uh, we're in the year 12,000.


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[Assistant] The first, I think that's, what do they say, the, uhm, the Stone Age, like officially started, when they-


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[Assistant] Yes, I believe so. You should watch the video, it's really good. Nah, no thanks. I learned a lot, clearly. That's how I learned.


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[Assistant] There's so much more though! No there's not. Oh you're almost at the edge! That's it, that's as far as I can go. Really? That was the- that was the-


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[Assistant] My mom was a cop, and her roommate was a cop. So I was only around women who were authority figures. Yea, they're pretty authoritative. Yea, so in my mind I'm like, I wasn't, you know, looking for any escapism to be like, I need to be a woman in a video game. But I also wasn't surprised when I found out that


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, I liked- I liked League of- League of their own a lot. I guess- I appreciated the older I got. Yeah. Much like Gina Davis.


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[Assistant] Which is, yeaah. I mean like, it's not like he's stopping every 45 minutes to like, do like a pump or like yell at women. And on the flip side, if they made it, the woman's like, not stopping to change his tampon or her tampon or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I was just saying like, very, very rarely playing as a male or female in a video game comes with any real life...


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[Assistant] Responsibilities that, you know, come with being a man or a woman. You know, it's never like, uhm...


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[Assistant] Oh, panty party's over. It's not like, in Mirror's Edge, you know, it's like, uh oh, you're pregnant, can't roll around anymore.


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe they wanna include- I mean, really makes no difference if faith is-


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[Assistant] I guess to bring it back around though, I'm all for all sorts of representation in games. I don't care. Uhm, as long as it's the, the creator feels like they got their vision across. And it's a big reason why I do love Overwatch is that it made old women cool.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, it is kinda cool when there's a lot of grandparents in Overwatch, like, when you got Reinhardt, Soldier, and Ana hanging out in a room, and they're all like, man, the old crew's back together, then you go out there and you just kick ass. I'm like, cool.


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[Assistant] What'd I say? Alan. Alan Alda, sorry. And uh, and they're like, we're gonna rob the banks and give it back to the people. It's like, but you're stealing.


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[Assistant] You will. There's always like movies that come out every year where they're like, we need to market this to the oldest people because they feel represented. Speaking of representation. Yeah. So I hope old people play Overwatch and feel something.


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[Assistant] I just, whatever happens, I hope this doesn't influence Blizzard to think that they have to include like, like, we need to put in fat women now. I don't want that to influence them, I want them to create the characters they want to create. There's no one in a wheelchair yet.


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[Assistant] I always try to pick a game to play over, like, our break. Oh, okay. And when I was... I got through a lot of Marvel puzzle quests while watching the 30 minute, uh, made-for-TV movie that they add. Oh, yeah. For, uh, Quantum Break, and that was live-action and very bad and unnecessary. It wasn't that bad. I don't...


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[Assistant] I know. It's okay, it's an okay- It was TV quality, which yeah, most TV is bad. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I was thinking that's kinda where he's going with it, where it is, like imagine including like, imagine an ARG that didn't suck.


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[Assistant] This is a really dumb idea, but something, your character in the game needs milk.


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[Assistant] And so they're like, go to your fridge and get milk, and you're like, oh shit, and you're gonna like, scan in milk, or something like that, and like, prove to the game you have your milk, and then like, and then all of a sudden, like, then you can like, progress, and you're like, oh, I just, the game just got me out of this world, and now all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] Like, it becomes kinda like Black Mirror, where you're like, oh shit, when does reality in the game end? That's probably where his brain's at.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. And then you turn the box around and there's the codec number. That's cool. And then the thing where Hideo would pop up and you need to switch your controller because of Psycho Manus. And I was like, I-


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[Assistant] Uh, Only Time Will Tell, which is on the Metal Gear Solid 5 soundtrack. I just listened to it this morning, cause it's on like my oldies playlist, and I was like, I didn't know about, I only knew one song from Asia until I listened to, the Metal Gear Solid soundtrack's like, probably Hideo's like, mixtape from 1982. I'm like, it's really good. It's got Maneater on there.


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[Assistant] Well, Metal Gear felt like an obligation, and I enjoyed most of it, but it got super repetitive, super fast, and at some points it just felt like a mobile game that you were grinding out. Oh, Five? Did I say? Oh, Phantom Pain, whatever, either one.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry, yeah, the last one. And like, I never even finished it, cause I just kinda didn't care anymore. Uh, the gameplay was solid, really good, and that engine is fantastic. But, uhm, man, it felt like he was sort of like, okay, I just need to get this thing done so I can move on. Yeah, so that does excite me for Death Stranding.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, you can, there's a Q&A with some of the cast. Oh, Kiefer Sullivan's gonna be there. Oh my god, oh my god. Of course he wasn't there. Uhm, but it was that girl and Kojima and she just sat there looking at the ground like a doll. Quiet. Perfect. She was very quiet. Maybe she wasn't cared.


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[Assistant] Nice. She's the first character you meet. This is weird now.


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[Assistant] We're in another country. Yeah, that's why we're not on the set.


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[Assistant] You know how they always say, oh, mostly Elise says, don't meet your heroes? I don't say that. Oh, no, I do say that. Because they'll spit on you? Yep. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Kojima is definitely one of my heroes, but it's funny because no matter what I say to him, he won't understand.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, he'll have a translator. But even then, when it's like, it's hard to say something to someone like, hey, you've made two of my favorite games of all time, and...


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[Assistant] Uh, Carrie Fisher, God rest her soul. I remember, uh, Blaine and I were talking about this. We're like, Blaine, you're a good looking guy. This is when we went to, uh-


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[Assistant] Right, yea, and I'm like, uh, we went to, uh, what was that called? Celebration? The, uh, Star Wars convention?


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[Assistant] And, they were like doing a panel or something like that, I'm like, Blaine, like,


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[Assistant] Imagine if you, you got to have sex with Princess Leia and he's like, too weird man, too weird. No way. No way. Yeah, and he was really like, face full of muff. Come on.


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[Assistant] It's all about names. Well it's always a fun question, or a fun game that couples can play together. I highly recommend you get in on this. Let me know if you guys have ever done this before, but you pick your, uhm,


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[Assistant] I can't speak for her, cause she's in the ground. Oh, I can.


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[Assistant] But we should ask her grandchildren. Yea, they'd know. Would your grandmama want to put things in my peepee? She'd better. They're like, 55 years old.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Let me just watch panties dance for the next five minutes.


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[Assistant] At least their early marketing is at least doing its job, right? Because Wii U sucks so bad. They've been driving the Switch name over and over and they're also doing the, uh, the frickin' Fallout reveal, basically. Here's the console, now buy it.


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[Assistant] Well you were just telling me today though, cause you're confused about this. They released some of the specs for it. And the specs are kind of vague. Like, it features a Tegra processor. Like, well what kind of Tegra? Yay! You know, a one. Yea. And then it says, it has two USB ports that will be upgraded through software to be USB 3. Yea.


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[Assistant] Where that came from is that it's running on a Nvidia Shield. Basically a reworked Nvidia Shield. Uh, which is a pretty, you know, pretty good piece of hardware. So, my hope was like, well maybe the interface would be Android-esque, which would be very iOS-esque. So, god I'm just hoping it's a very simplified something.


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[Assistant] I guess my simplified, I mean, not very taxing on the machine, can it multitask? Like, I think for us we're all on NuGet now, right? On Android N?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like being able to multitask and switch between stuff, especially on the pixels, like...


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[Assistant] Well, and then especially with the touch screen and everything, I was hoping that would be the advantage it has over consoles, because even with like, the Xbox One, they're getting rid of the snap menu because it's stupid.


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[Assistant] I get it. Avatar was the one movie I saw in 3D where I was like, I'm there. Me too. I'm there. That was the one movie and still remains the one movie. The only one that's come close is I did when they re-released Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Double Feature. They did that and I was like, oh, but they did such a subtle thing with it. Like, it was barely noticeable.


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[Assistant] It's not a standalone Star Wars film, that's completely inaccurate, but a movie that is just like...


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[Assistant] You're still gonna get all the, the stuff you want, like there's no, there's no want for Star Destroyers or anything like that in this. Uhm, other major characters are obviously...


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[Assistant] Insanely at play within this storyline.


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[Assistant] Even though, again, R2-D2, C-3PO, we're in, have been in all of the Star Wars movies this whole time.


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[Assistant] I, I, I certainly was too. I feel the same way as you where it's like, okay, we're gonna get one of these every year. They don't all gotta be home runs.


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[Assistant] Is kind of like, like you're like, I hope this pays off, and I'm not sure that it does. Uhm, the biggest, the biggest shortcoming of Think of the Movie are the characters, which are


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[Assistant] Like, we walked out of the theater and we were like, I only know one of their names. Like, I only want to know one of their names and the only one I cared about was a robot.


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[Assistant] I think, I think in terms of like some of the other characters, because I can tell you what they all look like. I know, minus, so it's kind of like Suicide Squad in a way where the movie has its like palette of characters, but then also on the adventure,


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[Assistant] There's this whole other group of disposable soldiers that are there too, like remember the military guys that escort the Suicide Squad and you're never introduced to them and you're never given their names but they just kind of die off occasionally and also fill in the scenes. Yea, like your red shirt or whatever. They do that kind of with Rogue One where there's like


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[Assistant] Here are the people we know in the front row, but then there's also two rows of other soldiers who they never even introduced you to. That's totally fine. I'm totally fine and-


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[Assistant] In terms of an eclectic mix, it was cool, there's blind guy, there's big gun, there's pilot, there's other pilot, there's robot, and then there's gen or so, right?


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[Assistant] I was thinking about it, I was like, why did they make so many people look so similar in this movie?


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[Assistant] It was weird casting, but I think it's a symptom of, it's a bigger picture. We're thinking too small.


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[Assistant] It's a bigger picture. It's not, we're beyond the phase of, here is the token black guy, here is the token white guy, here is the white woman, and here is the Asian man, right? That's never gonna be the squad ever again. Globalization across cultures and races has changed.


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[Assistant] Everyone is just kind of hint of brown with some facial hair. Which I like. Which is actually kind of cool. Yea, I like it. It's progressive in a lot of ways. That's probably how most of us are all gonna look in a couple hundred years.


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[Assistant] I still think it's an awesome, it's a valiant effort to try whether or not she...


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[Assistant] For me, it was, it not necessarily made it curious, but I think one of the things that it utterly excelled at was production design. Uhm, this movie takes place before A New Hope and they made a, clearly made a conscious decision to mimic


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[Assistant] So like, despite having technology and whatever, you can 3D print anything you want to, they still make the control panels look like cardboard boxes, spray painted black with buttons hot glued onto them, and it's so genuine.


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[Assistant] It's, it's way better than a, than a C-3PO, uhm, like, cameo.


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[Assistant] In terms of getting me back into the, oh I'm excited, I'm a fan again. That kind of thing that's just ever-present and it's never highlighted, it's just always there.


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[Assistant] Is so much better than, like, a call out to a Star Wars character. If the Millennium Falcon flew by and the whole theater was, errrr, that doesn't count for me nearly as much as this counted. And it was such a, the way they made things, they have, it's weird, they have tons of great special effects in this movie and tons of shitty special effects, but uhm, the way they made


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[Assistant] Battles confuse me as to whether or not they were actual models.


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[Assistant] That's like, to me that's a much more genuine, cool way to acknowledge the journey and things you loved about past films than it is to have like,


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[Assistant] I think, I think, and this is, this is, uh, not necessarily a positive or a negative, just an observation. Rogue One has almost identical pacing to a Transformers movie.


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[Assistant] Almost identical pacing. There's stuff at the beginning, you're like, what is going on? What, why do I give a shit about any of this? And then, and then it go, and then just as you're about to go,


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[Assistant] I don't think, it starts and then it just, it's a roller coaster ride for the next 45 minutes and, and then that, and the roller coaster is the best roller coaster you've ever been on and then, and then at the end you come out and you're like, you're like


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[Assistant] Right? It's like, it's not 245, which would be horrific. That would be terrible. Right? That would be Batman v Superman, kinda like, you're wasting my time with this movie. And the Transformers movies are getting up there too, they're way too long. But in terms of pacing, it kinda matches that, and I think it ties back to kinda what you were saying.


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[Assistant] And Adam, you also, this is a standalone thing, think they made a conscious decision to make an action movie.


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[Assistant] Because they weren't setting up a franchise. Think if they were setting up a franchise you would have had a lot more of them hammering in the pilot's name, making sure you knew who all the characters were, and I think that's kind of unfortunate because just because


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[Assistant] Like, doesn't mean that you shouldn't want to know their motivations and care about them. That's pretty lazy writing, but like,


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[Assistant] In Rogue One, the end action is so good, and it's so well done, and it brings you in so much that it's like, like,


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[Assistant] Okay, I guess I will watch this again and I'll just watch it again knowing that none of this stuff at the beginning matters nearly as much as how much I'm going to enjoy.


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[Assistant] Storming that beach and like the action sequence at the end of the movie. I dunno.


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[Assistant] It made, it made it, it kind of muddled it a little about how it ties into a new hope. Immediately after. How so?


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[Assistant] Because, because of their treatment of Vader's pursuit of Leia, and basically the whole tone of the Empire at the beginning of A New Hope doesn't necessarily match up with the fact that they nearly lost a massive space battle to the Rebel Alliance.


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[Assistant] Like, hours, let's say maybe a day earlier, like, it doesn't match up tonally. And also, also the way they treat Darth Vader in the beginning of A New Hope is like, is this antiquity? Like, this old guard?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like this old guard, but when he was the most pivotal military...


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[Assistant] Element of the last battle that the last battle clash between rebels and empires and basically single-handedly save their asses from that you would imagine there'd be some sort of


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[Assistant] Thing there, it kind of, to me it's fine, I don't care, like it really doesn't bother me. Later didn't really do that though.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about how the, the generals and admirals within the empire treat Vader at the beginning of A New Hope.


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[Assistant] They treat him as like some sort of like just, just dog or whatever. Like, oh well it's just someone that Moff Tarkin just calls in, you know, who just does this weird thing or whatever. Except that it's like, I mean he clearly has military prowess. He clearly was pivotal in this last battle that you guys just fought. It was like- Well except that he failed.


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[Assistant] So for an example, this is another movie that I think is great.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm bad for no reason and you got shot somehow and it's really anti-climactic because we knew we only had three minutes left in this movie and we had to make it match.


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[Assistant] Ben Mendelsohn's character could have easily been set up. He was a very imposing, creepy, kind of like, polit- political villain. That was like, would have been perfectly slated to be like, and then he became Grand Moff Tarkin. Do your thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and uh, if you find the, the wealth of things to watch there a little overwhelming, uh, the best way you can sort through it is by watching fanservice.


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[Assistant] We're heroes. This is all the brainchild of, uh, Josh and Blake.


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[Assistant] I gotta say, I was quite surprised when we showed up for our costume fitting to discover that none of my stuff was skin-tight at all. Yeah, that was interesting. I thought that was actually kinda funny. I think that was a Blaine thing. I think he wanted to be... You feel threatened? Yeah, I think he didn't want me to be in skin-tight stuff. That makes sense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jeffrey is a very deep moaner. Jeffrey is making, uh, the sounds of pleasure during this sequence.


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[Assistant] I just want them to release more of those games. That's my only thing. Like more mainline? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] We're probably gonna have to play Achievement Hunter in like, Splatoon.


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[Assistant] I created the game and people have tried to take it.


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[Assistant] I'm Melissa Williams. I know you wanted Bruce here. He couldn't be here today. He wanted to be here, but he couldn't be.


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[Assistant] Does this degrade women in the respect of like, will this change how a 13 year old boy then perceives of how he can like, speak to, treat women?


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[Assistant] And it's funny, it's funny and I, I mean I do it too and I think it's, it's funny. Then, then I noticed like on YouTube and


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[Assistant] We are friends. I know Lawrence is thinking of a comeback right now at all.


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[Assistant] I, I know it because I am the kind of person that always struggle with like, accepting compliments or like, uh,


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[Assistant] Anything that's like complimentary about the work I do or even like thinking that you do a good job about anything or that like you're entitled to feel like you do well in something.


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[Assistant] You've sort of had this mentality, like, bred into you, like, some women, at least I think, where you're like, well I shouldn't really, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, it's okay for boys to be boisterous and like rambunctious in class and kind of like be a little louder, speak out, be a little jokier, but I feel like girls definitely get chastised for that kind of behaviour more or it's like look down on them to be that way in any kind of way.


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[Assistant] I'm sort of in the Lawrence camp on this, that like, yes, there are gonna be more violent games. And, and I don't necessarily think that those will be like any worse than this. And I actually don't really, me personally, like, as an adult woman, if I were to play that, I'd probably laugh a lot.


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[Assistant] Playing it, and like, doesn't particularly bother me, to be quite honest. Do I think that like,


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[Assistant] A 10 year old that probably shouldn't play it might play it and then it will like...


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any like real answer to this, but I do think it's a culture that, that perceives sex in a different way and embraces it in a different way.


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[Assistant] I uhm, once listened to an episode of, I believe it was Radiolab, where there was this man who was like a really gifted musician and he got into an accident or something where he was experiencing seizures.


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[Assistant] And following that, it completely changed who he was fundamentally as a person. And he started developing a ton of urges for like,


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[Assistant] Child porn, bestiality, like, all these, like, just terrible, like, perverse things that he never, ever, prior to that, had before. Other things changed about him where, like, he was also, like, playing music, like, eight hours a day, like, he just could not stop.


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[Assistant] There was clearly something that changed in his, in his brain.


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[Assistant] And the FBI like raided his house cause he, he was like, he was like, I just could not stop. I was downloading.


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[Assistant] All this type- these types of pornography, and it was- I could not stop. They raided him.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think he went to prison or he was on probation for some time. But like, in that situation, it's kinda like,


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[Assistant] There was something chemically altered in him, something biologically changed in his brain, and it's like,


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[Assistant] I see what you're saying, which is a sort of non-invasive thing that doesn't fundamentally screw you up like a lobotomy would, where it's just sort of isolating the bad out with the bad in with the good.


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[Assistant] That would happen at the end of There Will Be Blood. Mhm. Pull up the lanes. I'm finished!


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[Assistant] So I was gonna say, when Adam was talking about VR, I'm like, it's almost like Nintendo's trying to sell us on the merits and wizardry of touchscreen technology, and we're like, we know!


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[Assistant] We developed a technology that we can reverse our own current global situation and that future generations look back at us and see that we are in the shit times.


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[Assistant] I hear Omar saying fuck over the speaker. Uh oh. What's wrong Omar?


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[Assistant] So whoever has the best one, let's see what happens. One, two, three.


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[Assistant] What I don't want to do is I don't want to buy sh- like shitty stuff. I want to spend a lot of money on it. I know. Uhm, so-


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, I saw them in 2003. I saw them in 2003 in a club with about 150 people and it was fucking awesome. But, now it's pretty fair to say I think they're probably not very good.


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[Assistant] It's, it's one of those things where like, uh, I occasionally will say, if somebody's talking to me, I'll be like, oh really? Yeah, obviously really, right? Like, but that's a thing that you're, you're prompting them to say more. And, and like, you know, I understand that that response is asinine, but at the same time.


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[Assistant] I'll hear that, because I usually hear you do that, and I usually hear Elise do that, and like, people keep talking and I'll be like, okay hold on, I have to stop the conversation for Lawrence and Elise, and I'll think, think, think, think, think, and as soon as I get, alright, hold on a second, I heard Lawrence, Lawrence, go ahead and say what you want to say.


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[Assistant] Well, it's totally different on camera. On camera, you have to sort of continue the conversation, so we can't just all pause and wait for the other person. Or talk over each other. Yea, that's the thing that you have to actually do. We're really good.


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[Assistant] There's a really important line there, what you're saying though. This is getting really deep. This is awesome, this is the best podcast I've ever done. Which is basically like,


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[Assistant] That's what I thought we were supposed to imagine with the Hunger Games. I'm giving the Hunger Games a lot of credit here.


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[Assistant] Where eventually they, everybody just, uh, ended up going into, you know, being poor. Entirely poor, and it didn't matter if they were giving McDonald's or not. It was just sort of like, ah, fuck, like, we're totally poor. And they got beaten to submission eventually, and the rich became richer, the poor became poorer, and then it, from there.


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[Assistant] I'll look it up, I'll look it up right now. I thought it was Ron Howard, but I think that changed. That changed, right?


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[Assistant] We are only on four, right? Five and six have to be made.


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[Assistant] Well, but that's not the interesting part of the story. The interesting part of the story is how they got there. I know.


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[Assistant] So I- That's why it's a good movie. We should talk about movies that are not from four years ago. I watched cause I- I- Two movies that I don't think you guys have seen. And I keep forgetting to tell you. Uh, I saw- Hardcore Henry.


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[Assistant] It's good, I mean like it's not amazing, but it's good. Uh, Hardcore Henry is absolutely worth a watch though. Is there a sex scene? Uh, in Hardcore Henry? I don't think there is a sex scene with Henry, but there is sex that you see.


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[Assistant] I mean, also, also, I'm very biased. I love Sheryl Tocqueville, so it's like really great to see him do a bunch of crazy shit. Yeah. Cause he always does.


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[Assistant] They made it make sense in the movie, I thought. Uhm, but yeaah, it's good. You guys should definitely watch it.


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[Assistant] Good. I will just continue to choose to ignore it. One thing I can say definitively is that trailer is garbage. The trailer is not good.


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[Assistant] We should go camping and hunt for Pokemon. Which in and of itself is kind of a sad statement. But, like, you can't do that. It's like, we have to go to Hollywood and Highland.


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[Assistant] That's still there. The effectiveness and not effectiveness. Types are still at play. But you type to get it to attack.


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[Assistant] Because they want it to feel like a mobile game, I guess. And they don't want matches to take 20 minutes where you're


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[Assistant] The app isn't perfect, but I think it indicates something very unique that we're going to get out of our, tied to our tiny little computers that are with everybody all the time, uh, culture.


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[Assistant] So, yes, we're getting there. But, here's the thing. Infrastructure and society has not caught up with it. No, not, yea, nowhere close. Elise and I went to the beach just to, like, walk around with Benson. And play Pokemon. No, we, no, we were not, I, this is,


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[Assistant] And so, uh, this was just, we went for a walk with Benson, came back, got in the car in the parking lot, and there was a guy on a skateboard who was like in the parking lot just


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[Assistant] Just like this? And he just kinda skated in front of the car and I just slowed to a stop and he had no clue I was there. He didn't have headphones on. He had no clue I was there in a moving vehicle and he was just skateboarding around looking for Pokemon, clearly. And then, and then I was like, I'm gonna give him


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[Assistant] One handed peddling, swiping, and I knew what he was doing, and I'm like, we just as a society, like I know it's a huge app, but we as a society are not prepared.


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[Assistant] I've done, I've done like a stream or like a gameplay where I've played as Mercy and it's hard because


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[Assistant] Well there's also things you can do as a non-Mercy player where if you're getting hit from the back, say there's like a Genji or a Tracer bullying you from the back line, right? You should be aware that if you have a Mercy on your team, that's who they're trying to get.


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[Assistant] So, there is a moment where you can take, you can stop down, you can go like, I'm gonna check for you, Mercy. That way you don't have to flee from this situation. Like, I'm just gonna try and be aware of the things going on so that way you aren't totally on your own.


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[Assistant] Is that by design? Here's what you do. No. Here's, here's what you need to do and this is a pro tip to anyone that's interested in any sort of game ever. Find the subreddit for it. Oh. Pokemon Go subreddit has all the answers you could ever need about the game and more. Damn it, I googled it and why didn't that come up when I googled it? Subreddit, that's the problem. Subreddits are the best, like,


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[Assistant] So the, the GPS aspect of the game is kind of borked. I think that's what's supposed to happen, but it's not always right. Sometimes the game will think you're facing one way and you're not.


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[Assistant] You'll get one of those little beeps. The big thing is, yea, you have three steps means they are over


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[Assistant] One means within one, or sorry, one means within one, as in there's your sphere and then an additional sphere, right? And then when there's no steps, that means they're in your sphere and if you just stand in place, they're probably gonna pop up. If you make sure you have them selected. So the idea is, if you get something, walk in a direction until it gets to two.


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[Assistant] Then you know you're headed in the right direction. Continue walking if it goes to three.


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[Assistant] Then you know that you passed it, so you have to go back to 2, change the direction.


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[Assistant] The footsteps will go from 3 to 1, 0 and then that means once it's 0 they are within your sphere. Okay.


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[Assistant] In the world! I used to have his poster on my closet door.


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[Assistant] We could just get the things we wanted to how we wanted. We're almost there. I have Hulu, right? That has ads, but I still have it, right? You don't have that free? It's only a couple more dollars. Yeah, but it's a couple more dollars.


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[Assistant] That makes it easier for me to like, kind of tune it out though, because I know the beats of everything, so it's like I know exactly how long it's going to last. But, that's why I have Hulu, I have Netflix, and then occasionally I'll use my Google rewards to rent a movie, if I don't have access to that. And then, uh, and then I have WWE Network, and that's everything!


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[Assistant] Right? I personally, I personally do not like when other YouTubers or other media outlets think that they are the judge, jury, and executioner on


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[Assistant] Things that are actual crimes, right? Things that should be settled in a court of law, right? And then actual justice should be served through the means that we've set up in this country to handle it.


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[Assistant] So, but a lot of, a lot of other people will actively take a point and say, this is what should be done. I hate this. I'm angry about this. It's like, that's fine. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna be, I'm not gonna be your fist. I can be upset. We can inform you.


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[Assistant] I mean, obviously you can't now, but it's not like, it's not like we said something that I recall that was so flattering or whatever that someone would go, someone would go, you know what? And then someone else now can be harmed by our lack of enthusiasm over condemning people or whatever. But to me it's just like, it doesn't matter the situation.


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[Assistant] I don't ever want to get to that point where I feel like I have a right to demand punishment


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[Assistant] And, and specifically, be the one punishing someone else for breaking a law. Especially when it doesn't


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[Assistant] Like if a law is broken, do I think that they probably broke a law? Yea, it obviously looks like they did. Am I gonna be the one saying this is what should happen to them? No, because I have no fucking idea if they should go to jail or if they should get sued to hell. Like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] And if you listen to us talk about it and then you felt compelled to, uh, use a website that got you into trouble, I guess, I guess we should have called that out? I don't really know. I thought it was implied.


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[Assistant] I thought it was implied too. Also, this is literally the last thing, but you guys were pretty upfront about the fact that you're friendly with them, you know.


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[Assistant] I've never met T-Martin a number of times. I've never met T-Martin, I've met Syndicate I think two or three times.


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[Assistant] I wish this wasn't a show where we just address stuff. I guess we got a good Pokemon description. Well yea, I mean we don't have to.


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[Assistant] Afternoon-ish, right? Did it? Was it Friday or Thursday?


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[Assistant] Schedule the video and then flew away to Boston where we can't even where sure you can get things But like we didn't have tools to be able to change things after that or whatever didn't really matter But like as soon as we are away from the office and things are locked and we had prepared all this content ahead of time so that way we could go to packs and kind of just


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[Assistant] Just like, meet people and like, do stuff while we're there. Not have to worry about responsibilities in the office. And China dies. And it's like, okay. Can we not do that?


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[Assistant] Well, we couldn't help it, so why should we bother? Like, that one, that one kind of like shit in our face, and so here we go. So hence all the post-China


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[Assistant] So yes, there are times where we do say things that are inflammatory or like offensive or whatever, right? This is not one of those times, do not accuse us of that.


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[Assistant] I mean, I was a little bit disappointed that there wasn't a lot of, uhm,


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[Assistant] I am excited about that. I thought it was pretty classy as fuck.


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[Assistant] How many rehearsals did that take to get it synced up perfectly? That was so awesome. But I'm excited for, like we said, the new Resident Evil game and also the new Kojima game.


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[Assistant] I mean, there was so many questions that I had to ask after that trailer. Mostly, why is Norman Reedus naked?


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[Assistant] Why was he holding a ghost baby that came out of him? There were a lot of questions. There were so many questions, but the questions made me more interested in the game and I'm pretty excited to see where they're going with this because that man's a genius, he knows what he's doing.


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[Assistant] Being the engineer or the pilot or whatever and working with your friends.


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[Assistant] And I think if I heard, uh, my dad correctly, he was saying that you can create your own character and stuff. Really? Yeah, like you can be whoever you want.


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[Assistant] Because I feel like a lot of fallout is wandering the wasteland, and if you can only teleport, I feel like that might kill it.


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[Assistant] I would love just exploring the wasteland in VR. Just looking around, even if I'm not doing anything. Just seeing all the details for myself would be really cool. Aren't they doing Doom in VR as well?


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[Assistant] Do you think there's gonna be a point in time where every game, just like how they do multiple releases on PS4 or Xbox is gonna be also compatible with VR? Like, everything will be VR?


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[Assistant] I hope VR gets to the point where we can have games like GTA, you know, that are, but we can freely move around. Like it's the VR of, you know our childhood when you see like those 90s movies where it's like everything's virtual reality, you put it on and then you're in the game. You know, that's what I'm hoping that can be with


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[Assistant] GTA or Saints Row or something like that where you can actually like get a gun, shoot the gun in virtual reality and get in some sort of open world combat. I think that would be the coolest thing. I want to do that before I die.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and also just seeing it in 360 VR isn't enough sometimes. You wanna like, if there was a horseback riding game where you had phantom reins and actually


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[Assistant] Like, move the horse. You know, the VR that we all hope is, it's the one-to-one movement equals game thing. That's what I'm hoping for is just complete compatibility. You know, like, uh, maybe they'll get rid of the wires and it'll be a wireless headset so you can really move around. Just, once VR is...


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[Assistant] 100% top notch done is when I can die happy.


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[Assistant] It's, I think it's the, people always ask, you know, what do you want more augmented or virtual? And I think augmented is much better. Only because I would, I, like,


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[Assistant] That is the HoloLens, because I did that last year in year 3, and I think-


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[Assistant] More than I, cause Halo 5 I was really excited to play, but the fact that when you put on the HoloLens,


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[Assistant] And there was a waypoint that appeared in front of you. And then I walked forward and it changed. I walked backwards and it changed. They had to pry that HoloLens off my face because I was just like, no, no, no, I just want to be here with this waypoint. It's just such a simple, incredible technology and where you focused on this one model.


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[Assistant] Do you guys remember back in the day when Audible used to have brick and mortar stores? Really? You would have to go and rent audiobooks? Yeah, I used to do that because I remember there was one over by my elementary school and my mom and I would get Harry Potter. Oh wow. And so on our commute we would listen to Harry Potter together.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, but the fact that that was actually a thing is we would go, we would rent an audiobook and put it in.


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[Assistant] I can respect that, being super honest about games. Especially was, was it during the Sony presentation that one game was like, out now, in two weeks. And I was like,


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[Assistant] I think people are learning that, you know, we're here at E3 to hear about games, to talk about games. What are the games?


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[Assistant] Also, if you guys get a chance to play that eagle flight game, I know it seemed like


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[Assistant] The way that it was presented, it kind of, I was kind of let down because I played the super alpha back last year and it was incredible. And I know people were like, bird guns? Okay. But for some reason the bird guns actually work kind of well and it's really fun because you do feel like you're flying and you can look around and it's not just like,


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[Assistant] The screen is on your face and you're playing a game, which is what disappointed me before I put it on. Because if you're flying and you look back, it's actually a little disorienting and it's really fun and you feel like you're a bird and I don't know, I'm excited for it to come out.


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[Assistant] They're on unskippable cutscenes. I think I like when you can discover the story yourself if you so choose.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Also, uhm, the Division did that. I think they did that very well. I didn't mind finding the collectibles because I wanted to know what the story behind the collectibles were. When you got the, you know, the phone calls, you got to hear more about it and it's like, I'm discovering the story if I feel like it. But there's enough of the story that gets told to me on the missions that I'm not confused.


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[Assistant] So I think that that's a good mix for us old jaded get-off-my-lawn gamers, is if you wanna know, you can. If you don't, fuck it.


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[Assistant] I've definitely been burned by too many games where I get so hyped about it, it comes out and I'm like, oh.


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[Assistant] But let's wait and see until like you said a month before release and then the hype can be real or not real because I feel like if


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[Assistant] Two years before a game comes out, you start screaming and ripping your face off because you're so fucking excited, and then Watch Dogs happens. It's just, you're gonna get even more jaded even more quickly.


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[Assistant] So I always like to, you know, kind of like a proud parent. I'm like, you did great game developers. You're doing your best. Pat them on the head and say, good for you. You know, you, you show them.


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[Assistant] But it's, you know, the game will speak for itself, I feel. Once it comes out, it'll speak for itself. And I will play it. I will spend my money. Will I play it for five months or will I play it for five minutes? I don't know. We'll see. Yeah, no, I...


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[Assistant] So, I got burned out on Kingdom Hearts Story a little bit. Okay, well yea, so did everybody else, I'm sure. I love Kingdom Hearts as a game and I love it because it's kind of my childhood, but when I saw the preview for 2.8 and they're like, people in unicorn masks, we're ancient people, Keyblade War. I'm like, okay guys, can we just...


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[Assistant] I want the nobodies and their somebodies plot to just be solid. Because everything has so much uuuh around it. Because then once, what was it, Birth By Sleep that came out with like


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[Assistant] Lee is Axel's somebody, but who is he really? And it's just like, okay, there's only so much mystery you can put in like five games. So I just kind of want the whole nobody's thing to be cleared up and figure out.


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[Assistant] The mangas are based on the first game, and they're pretty good. They don't really clear up any questions, but it's like, if you go to a Kingdom Hearts wiki and try and catch up on what's been going on, you'll never know.


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[Assistant] It's physically impossible. And so much of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is, this is unknown to us at this point. This is unknown to us at this point. It's like, I just want those holes to be filled up, it to be wrapped up in a neat little bow, and just be done with it.


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[Assistant] Disney keeps buying things. Disney keeps making things. So then they think, shit, we need a new world. There's gonna be a starch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's gonna be a Star Wars world, there's gonna be a Marvel world, I'm pretty sure. Now they're adding like Disney rides and Kingdom Hearts as- Oh that's right, as summons? Yeah, as summons and stuff, so I feel like-


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[Assistant] When Disney keeps doing more, Kingdom Hearts feels like, oh shit, oh shit, we gotta do it too. So I think that once Kingdom Hearts realizes, you know what?


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[Assistant] We can chill a little bit. That's when they'll kind of get back to the story and finish it. Cause like, I don't want to see Kingdom Hearts become the lost that should have been dead. You know? I just kind of want it to end and then fans be happy with it.


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[Assistant] But, you know what? Whatcha gonna do? Japan, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm excited for the new soundtrack as well. Oh man. Every time, no matter what. If it's a Zelda game, the soundtrack is going to be incredible, so.


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[Assistant] Dark Souls-esque. I feel like Nintendo's gotten the rap of, we're kid-friendly, so not hand-holding necessarily, but a little bit more direction. Sure. That comes with Nintendo, like modern Nintendo nowadays. Uhm, but I would love to go back to that, like.


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[Assistant] Not Nintendo's scared to, but they've just gotten that reputation of, you can give this to your small child and they can figure it out. You know, and I don't think kids would really...


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[Assistant] I think that's what I liked about Twilight Princess so much. That's why personally my favorite Zelda game is Twilight Princess. Uhm, I think because all of a sudden they, they did a different story. Like something was different about it. And I know that it got a lot of flack because it was dark and it wasn't like, cartoony Zelda, but I, I liked the,


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[Assistant] Other side to it, and I thought the combat was great, and I thought the level design was great. It wasn't as adventure-y and explore-y, it was very linear.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I, I dunno, there was something about Twilight Princess that'll always have like...


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[Assistant] A soft place in my heart and I hope that this new Zelda, when I turn it on and I- and I-


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[Assistant] I think the thing about the COD preview was it was just, it kind of just happened, all of a sudden it just started and everybody was so...


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[Assistant] But like you said, this is a surprise. This is something that it's an established IP. We all know it. Everybody knows what COD is. But it's something different. And, you know, that's what everybody is trying to push developers to do. Everybody's begging for something different, something different. I feel like, I don't know. Maybe they got something going on here.


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[Assistant] So it's not like I'm bored of the content or I will be at any time because it's a great game. I just do hope that eventually there will be some, some new stuff to play around with and to be real,


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[Assistant] If it's paid to get a new character, I'd do it. I would too. They have their hands just like gripped tight around my soul at this point.


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[Assistant] I'm such an aesthetic person when it comes to video games, so I wanted that certain McCree skin, I wanted that certain Mercy skin, so I put my money in that and I would say I regret it, but I don't.


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[Assistant] But that, I hate that. I hate the duplicates so much. I feel like, okay, listen, just either give me new shit or let me buy coins. Because I would not mind buying coins to buy what I want because I think I have a fully decked out character for someone that I don't play. Ever. And it's kind of insult to injury because like,


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[Assistant] I have two unlocks for McCree, who's one of my mains, and then all the unlocks for Roadhog.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I worked really hard to get Mercy's skin and everything but I feel like the leveling up takes so long that-


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[Assistant] Well, they made an achievement out of it. Yeah. That was the, that was the trade-off is you can't buy what you want because we've made chance and luck an achievement.


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[Assistant] That would be cool if they start unlocking more skins or start giving you more things, cause...


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[Assistant] Normal now, so that they could unlock or release some new stuff, I think. That would just keep it fresh, just every few months or so, just, well, something.


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[Assistant] It was just funny because Bruce was saying all that stuff, and I do remember, uh, in a history class, I had a teacher who was, uh, maybe didn't have a popular opinion on this matter, but he was talking about how when slavery was abolished, there was a period of time where the slaves were like, uh, so can I still sleep here? And the guy was like, no, get out.


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[Assistant] He was like, I'll employ you, I have to pay you money now, but you can't stay here. And they're like, but I don't, I don't know how to pay for stuff.


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[Assistant] Apparently, slaves are like, I kinda like the other way, but then, you know, obviously, it's more of a human rights thing.


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[Assistant] The travel beerism or whatever of, uh, I said that all wrong. I'm really tired. I know, my brain's all fucked up right now, but I was thinking South Carolina's like trying to get Bruce's number right now like, we need this guy. Good spokesperson.


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[Assistant] The comic book stuff around it, all the fluff around it, all the things that people, the reason why people are looking forward to it, all the additions, all the stuff, it's just, it's poorly edited, it's poorly directed.


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[Assistant] There was a thing that came out today where I think it's like Jared Leto said that, he said like, I filmed a movie's worth of scenes and they only use like a few cuts, but like watching that movie it feels like they didn't film


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[Assistant] Joker might as well have just been in Harley Quinn's head because she's the only one who interacts with him. And like, she's the only one who really sees him because they'll do a scene where like, the helicopter pulls up and they're like, look out! It's the Joker! And then...


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[Assistant] They set the movie up in kind of a dumb way, an interesting way, where they go, okay, what if Superman was bad? Okay.


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[Assistant] Huh, I guess Captain Boomerang should fight the Flash. What do we got, two hours? We could do that. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] When I was just watching, I'm like, oh yeaah. Am I cool? They're fighting the putty patrol. Neat. That's like Sheldon Man of Steel.


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[Assistant] It's strange that they would have moments like that where you could explain things but then they would


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[Assistant] You didn't do that man who dresses up as a giant bat because his parents got killed once and he's rich. Seriously.


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[Assistant] And it's dumb. It's all just shock value. Like, and I get it where people are like, why does he have a grill? Well, Batman punched his teeth in. And get veneers. Like, why would he, why does he need a metal grill? Why does he need a tattoo on it? Like, it's just to say like, I'm Joker, I'm bad, here's a list of all the things that I will do in the movie. Like, just some sort of subtle.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, I always land on just being a big Batman fan. It's just something that I watched as a kid and read as a kid and it's like it always meant something to me.


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[Assistant] I always thought Iron Man was stupid. I didn't really give a shit about Captain America, and I sure as hell did not give a fuck about Thor. But...


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[Assistant] In the movie Avengers, the first Avengers, 2012 Avengers, whatever, there is a scene in the forest where


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[Assistant] On the flip side though, Dark Knight Returns, when they adapted the Frank Miller thing, which is two parts, is great. It's really, it's like, it's almost like line for line, the whole thing, and I was like, it's really well done. And they got the frickin' Robocop to do the voice of Batman.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that's kind of a weird thing. It's like, if I were to write a book and go, well, just don't judge it like a book, guys. I know it's a book, but don't judge it like a book. Like, but you wrote a book. Yeah, I know. But, that's not fair. And like, eh.


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[Assistant] Sure, but I mean, okay, here's three examples. I'm just using films, but uhm, The Shining, Jurassic Park, and Where the Wild Things Are. Those are three things that were adapted, and I would argue successfully on all fronts, but deviate wildly from the source material because Where the Wild Things Are is a three-page book.


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[Assistant] And, uh, what's his face, uh, Spike Jones is like, well okay, what if we go like really deep with this and make it like a sad story about a kid going through divorce and this is all going in his head, it's like, holy shit, feelings, wow. And then like Jurassic Park is, I mean the source is there, but a lot of it's way different.


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[Assistant] Well because, it's, when you're a master of your medium, you go, okay, if I adapt this one for one, it's probably not gonna work.


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[Assistant] But if I make it for a film, then okay, because I'm not relying on the audience to fill in the gaps, I have to do it for them. Suicide Squad just, it kind of felt like, or I would say a lot of the modern Batman vs. Zuman being one of them.


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[Assistant] I think they're, they're missing out on the subtleties of what makes it great. Like where the wild things are.


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[Assistant] Rather than going, the pictures are good. That's why people like it. It's like, you need to get someone who's actually smarter than everyone else and go, well, let me pick apart the things that make these things great. And that goes back to that Batman episode where they're like,


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[Assistant] Okay, here's a love letter to everything about Batman and why I love Batman. And Bruce Timm always hit that right on that head. Where Zack Snyder goes, I like big buff dudes hitting each other. Put that on screen.


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[Assistant] This will never happen again and it can't if it wants to live within this vision. But god how smart was that movie with the Joker and everything else where they just said what is the Joker? Well imagine a thing just appeared.


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[Assistant] Oh no, exactly, and it's frustrating. You as a viewer are frustrated, and even the music is like, it's the stinging noise, but I like that they just went to the core of what made that and said, okay, how do we make this work within a realistic world? I don't think they did that with the Joker, they just, they went with, uh, style over substance.


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[Assistant] After Suicide Squad, I'm a little worried because now they're making him into Tony Stark, and I'm like that...


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[Assistant] The, the thing with, I mean, and once again, you're allowed to do whatever the hell you want, because that's actually one of the things that I really have enjoyed with DC through the years, is that people take a lot of artistic liberty with their version of Batman, or their version of Justice League, and like, you know, do whatever you want, like that's fine, uh, do like a Red Sun version of whatever, but,


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[Assistant] Batman typically made more sense to be the guy who was like, call me if you need me.


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[Assistant] I'll fund your little project, but he's like, he's always the badass in the background.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was Superman, or someone else being like, come on guys, join the team, and now that...


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[Assistant] Batman's going up to Amanda Waller and kinda like, okay, I get that. And he's sorta doing that because Superman's not around right now.


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[Assistant] It may have been. I'm getting it mixed up. I'm just going to spoil the whole thing, but you should watch it.


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[Assistant] It's great because someone starts offing off all the Justice League members. Like a coordinated perfect attack. They do all these things that


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[Assistant] Pretty much almost kill everyone, like how do you outsmart the Flash? How do you kill Superman? How do you kill Batman? How do you do this? How do you do that? And then you find out that it was Batman's plans that he had made, and like Lex Luthor stole them from him. And they're like, the Justice League's like,


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[Assistant] You're done with the ad-read? Yes. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I remember there was like a GQ thing or something like that where they said like...


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[Assistant] I didn't see movies but I saw a Weezer and Panic at the Disco show.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where I'm not really a big panic at the disco fan, I know one song, but I can say, uh, holy hell they put on a live show.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't know. What? Are you making panic at the disco?


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, it was cool. There was actually a lot of fans there. A lot of like, uhm, sorry, a lot of, uhm, like, Rooster Teeth fans. I saw a guy with a Let's Play Live shirt there. I was like, hey, nice to meet you.


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[Assistant] It's weird because Star Trek and Jason Bourne I think are in theaters and I don't care.


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[Assistant] Terrible comments that start with V. I'm just kidding. I just want, I want to just get Alan Moore upset one day. Easy. He's always upset. You don't have to do anything.


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[Assistant] Wait, I have a question. Why are some places still cash only in this day and age?


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[Assistant] Yeah. And so in my, and there is a bit of like wall jumping in this game. So in my mind, I ran to the left for audio listeners right now. There's a wall to the left. I ran to it and he just goes,


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[Assistant] No, no, they're like air dash over him, except the amount of room you have to jump over Robo Digger is about two inches. What did you just call me? Air dash! I'm trying man. You gotta air dash more.


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[Assistant] It's for kids, man. Yeah, it's for little kids. For those who don't know, what is VidCon? Oh, I still don't know what VidCon is. Okay, I mean, it's video conference, right? Sure, yeaah. Video convention, I guess? All things video.


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[Assistant] 12 of these, like, kids that all look the same with the hair fluff to the side, and they're all yelling over each other, like, hey mama, and they're all fighting in the background, and they're like, in a hotel room for some reason, like, what are you doing in there?


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[Assistant] Every street corner turn around, someone will go, Hey, I know you, can I get a photo? Which is totally fine. It's like, that's what you're coming for. You like, we're down for that. VidCon was great because we're like, we just look like old people. Yeah, we were old people.


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[Assistant] There would be a young girl who would come up to us and be like, oh my god, my brother is the biggest fan, please sign this thing.


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[Assistant] Well, we had two obligations during VidCon. The first one was, uh, James and I were on a panel for... What was it?


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[Assistant] He was, he was very, yeaah, he was actually very insightful when it came to communities and everything. It was funny that we all kind of agreed on the same thing.


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[Assistant] But yea, it was kind of interesting to talk about like, how to grow a community when James and I were mostly like, uh, just let him do it man. Like, just make the content.


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[Assistant] Don't. Don't. Let your comments be your comments. Yeah, don't police yo. Uhm, but anyway, and then we had another one where we had to do a gameplay for 45 minutes. Uh, Mario Kart on stage, which is what we are known for. Uh, so. Top Mario Kart gameplays? Yeah, I mean, we, I don't think we even knew what we were doing. We thought we were playing Rocket League at one point.


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[Assistant] Well YouTube's not putting on VidCon, right?


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[Assistant] But I mean, that's the stuff that people want. Like, like, uh. Younger people. Well, uh, advertisers.


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[Assistant] There's no, there's no level of pretense there. This kind of goes back to the, you know, four or five people in, uh, in my life who have said, we've gone corporate. And then I project that as being...


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[Assistant] And once again, this is like two people who said this and I'm just like losing sleep over this like, what the fuck do they think they are? Uhm, yea exactly. But I'm like, we would be playing mobile games. We would, uhm, we would be much younger. None of us would have facial hair. We'd be really buttoned up. We'd all be like Steve from Blue's Clues. Free suicide.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and we're just like old and disheveled and like, my foot hurts, fuck you.


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[Assistant] So if we did want to go corporate, yes, we would go that way. Thankfully, we are allowed to be ourselves, and just do whatever we want, and we have fine sponsors, like on this show, who are like, yeah, it's cool, do what you want to do. Uh, we'll sponsor it.


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[Assistant] So Jess is dealing with this right now. She's, she's doing her collective with her group, the Cosmic Confetti thing, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, well it's like you're doing uhm, you're doing like makeup tutorials and stuff, and she's like, she's like, I'll get a comment from someone who's like my age and they're like, hey cool stuff, she's like, I like those, but every once in a while there's like a four year old who's like,


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[Assistant] Give me Tiffany's email, and it's just like, okay, weird. Uh, and I'm always thankful that we don't have to deal with that most of the time. Most of the time. Yeah, Achievement Hunter has to deal with that because of all the Minecraft gameplays they do, so.


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[Assistant] You got all the fun children. We should go to Minecon sometime. But like, in caution, so we don't have to like...


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[Assistant] There's a little girl wanting to download more RAM. It's fantastic. I want to download more RAM. Download more WAM.


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[Assistant] Well, you were talking about this last week, you were saying, will Mighty No. 9 be remembered as this like, like the pro gamer's like, uh, like wet dream. I was just like, man, you gotta be so good at this game for it to work.


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[Assistant] So now that we've reviewed Mighty No. 9, what would you review VidCon?


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[Assistant] Stay tuned after the podcast to get fisted.


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[Assistant] And so I had the same exact issue. I went to registration. I'm like, I don't know where to go. And they're like, follow these signs. Okay, sign for registration. So I went and I went to press speakers and guests. That's where I went. Yeah, and I was like, hey, so we have a panel at 930.


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[Assistant] That's it. And he goes, okay, okay, I found you, you're under, uhm, like, future creator of the future. Featured creator. Featured creator, yea, some millennial BS name. And I'm like, cool, okay, neat.


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[Assistant] But either way, no one told us to go to a hotel or do anything weird like that because then we're backstage and we're like, where is Lawrence? His panel's starting right now. And this guy comes up and he goes, he probably went to the hotel to register. I was supposed to. Well we're like, we registered over there. We can see where we registered.


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[Assistant] At one point, Greg Miller texted me, and he's like, where's Laurence? Give me Laurence's phone number. Yea, I know. He's like, uh, not happening.


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[Assistant] I changed it because I was using the same control scheme as basically Halo 5, which is B is like dash for the default. And it's like, I'm just used to that. It's like, cause like right bumper is like, it's an awkward place.


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[Assistant] Sure. So, I'm glad we went to VidCon. I'm really glad. Yeah, me too. Uh, because now I'm really excited for RTX.


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[Assistant] That, that, yeaah, I don't really go to apply all.


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[Assistant] I don't really attribute that to VidCon as much. Cause I was like, that was offsite.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they had, actually it was funny because it was like, they had good chemistry. It was like, he was like, his brother was like kind of the razzer, but like, he's obviously the kid's so young, he doesn't really know that he's on camera, so he's just being silly. I was like, he is. But I also like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. Communicate to me. That's why, like, um, Jeff's kidding. At least so much. He's like, you talk to her, she's like an adult. Yeah. I always sit there and she'll like, she'll just, she's like kinda no bullshit.


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[Assistant] I've been to like, I've been to like family events where like, there's that one like kid that the parents talk to them and let them baby them.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, so here's one thing, uh, here's a life pro tip for y'all. Whenever you feel bashful, like, uh, cause every young man will have that moment where you have to buy condoms. I guess you can buy them online now, so it's not that big of a deal. And you'll buy them and there's always that-


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[Assistant] And one of which is like basically you always feel embarrassed about stuff. Okay. And, but the one thing you have to realize is that people have more empathy than you give them credit for. So the person giving you the condoms nine times out of ten are more embarrassed to sell you the condoms than you are to buy them. It's like a bear. So you, well, you just gotta, you gotta just be so proud of those.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I go so far that I'm no longer embarrassed, and to the point where I'm being an embarrassing person. I see. Okay. So you just take the power back. Well, I'm like, be prideful of that piece of plastic that's going over your dick hole. Like, that's... It's latex.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say like, don't you, and then it's odd to go like near like a sex clinic or something like that where they're like, free condoms inside, please take them. Do they ever lock up tampons? Maybe not tampons, like feminine hygiene things.


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[Assistant] A great barometer for the whole world. Exactly, well I'm saying you can go two blocks from each other, one near Skid Row, one just a little bit further, and it'll be all the alcohols locked behind there's another one it's just free to take.


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[Assistant] Two homeless person. At least that's what they're thinking. It's not free, I'm just saying. It's out in the open. It's a knowing going to a store and being like,


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[Assistant] Just, you know what? CVS, you can lose the 20 bucks on the box of condoms.


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[Assistant] Wait, that's the big dragon with the headphones. Yes. Cool. Dragon may cry. There was a lot of discussion about that.


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[Assistant] Well, James was talking about this wrestling match that he showed us during VidCon that was like, one of the funniest things.


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[Assistant] What was it called? The PwC? The Pro Wrestling Gorilla? Pro Wrestling Gorilla, yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's, it's funny to think like, not, I'm not saying like Japanese games are better than Western, but like, I do like that people are thinking about this now, where it's like, okay, Batman beat up this, uh, this henchman, well what if he had a backstory? What's his story? Now all of a sudden you go, shit, maybe Batman's in the wrong, like I don't know.


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[Assistant] Well, so it's kind of a funny thing too, I'm realizing this. So remember Roger Rabbit and how people were like, well I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] Okay, what a neat idea, right? Let's shoot live action, and then we'll just, we'll put cartoons over the live action slate, and then that way it's like this weird blend.


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[Assistant] That's really all Transformers and Ninja Turtles are right now, where it's like, but animation instead of doing cell shaded, it's this 3D model. It's close to realistic. It's getting pretty close, where you're like, now you can't really, you can almost, you can tell the difference, but like,


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[Assistant] It's just becoming that. So like, when I watch movies like that, I go, ah, it's just like Roger Rabbit. I feel...


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[Assistant] I feel like I'm just watching a, this is like, these are how cartoons are made now.


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[Assistant] Also, uhm, not, I won't spoil it, but, so Veep ended, uh, the season ended, and it's, it's not the happiest of endings, it leaves it kinda open, but like, I went on, I was reading, I went on the subreddit, I'm just like, I wonder what people are saying about it, kinda curious, and one guy goes, I don't like when people do this.


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[Assistant] He was trying to say that entertainment should be fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it shouldn't be real. Whereas like, Veep is one of the more like, it's not a realistic show, but it's like, it is kind of, it is grounded. I've always liked Veep.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that's why people, it is a thing, people always, if you'll see like test audiences and they'll be like, I didn't like the sad ending of Brazil, make it happy.


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[Assistant] I've never read the book, I read the Wikipedia entry of like, cause everyone's like, book's so much better, and I'm one of those people where I'm like, look, you can make changes, obviously. Like, read Lord of the Rings, you wanna see that adapted one to one? How much singing do you want?


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[Assistant] I fall somewhere in the middle of you guys. I don't necessarily think it's part of the problem at all. I don't mind that movies get made and that they like, are commercial successes and things like that. That's, I think that's great. Uhm, but at the same time, there are thousands of clones of this film.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, the only thing I would say that's good about that movie is that it has unique action. In the sense that-


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, I will, if this movie were free to me, I would absolutely see it in theaters.


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[Assistant] I'm not paying money, I'm not paying money, I'm not giving this movie money, is what I'm saying. Uhm, and I have no problem paying $15 to another garbage film. Uhm, but for some reason this one, I was like, this is just, it seems like it's not buoyed by anything other than CG. And that's not very good.


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[Assistant] That kind of stuff doesn't bother me. I can suspend my disbelief for a very long time. That doesn't bother me at all. But again, it's like, if the centerpiece of the film, the CG, is not good, generally speaking, across all of you, then why the fuck am I watching this?


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[Assistant] Well yes, but again, there's something else there that like, there's like a magic to the film. And it doesn't sound like this film has that.


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[Assistant] You get both for $10 a month. You get YouTube Red and Google Play Music.


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[Assistant] They were volunteer- basically they were like, one of those, like, sign up for a free movie for Ghost Dad. But they, uh, but they had it right then. They were like, come and watch Ghost Dad, it's Bill Cosby. And my dad was like, I like Bill Cosby. So we all walked in to watch Ghost Dad and we all walked out. Wait, what? And we all looked like ghosts. That doesn't look right. It was terrible. Ghost Dad was horrible. Stop it. No, no, I'm not trying to look at those. I'm just trying to get them to float down the river.


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[Assistant] The only credit I can give to this movie is that they were trying to establish a trend.


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[Assistant] Hold on, he's directed a lot of movies, made a lot of money.


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[Assistant] It's kind of interesting because sometimes it's exactly the opposite. Sometimes, like, Mad Max should have won Best Picture, but then they wouldn't have given it all the technical awards.


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[Assistant] You should. That's one of the reasons why I still listen to the radio. Because I really like listening to the radio. I really like listening to what people are actually- Oh, you mean in terms of pop music? Yeah. Okay, I was about to say-


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[Assistant] I think I got like the special pre-order edition or something cause I went to my like loot crate thing or my crate and it was like, you got all these things. I was like, oh neat. And I was like, I had a SWAT jacket. Looked like a jacket.


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[Assistant] It's just a weird thing where the opening video is just so like, everything is dire, everything sucks, and then the very beginning is like, some guy with his family and his watch goes off, he's like, sorry kids, I gotta go. So it's like they're still doing like kind of the cheesy Sam Fisher stuff. It's just the difference is everyone's dead from a disease.


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[Assistant] Definitely, I noticed the carrot dangling, I played a little bit last night, and it was like, okay, you kind of do the same four or five things over and over, and they're just kind of stringing you along, you're getting slightly, it's a progression system, and like, it's there. Uhm, but it's funny because I asked the question this morning, I said, is it better than Destiny, and Peek, you said,


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, the game loop. And like, uhm, I forget who talked about it, but like, Bungie, one of the guys at Bungie would always talk about like, the 30 seconds of fun, or no, sorry, it was Cliff, Cliff Blazinski was always talking about like, you need that 30 seconds of fun, you need that 30 seconds of fun. It's like, yeah, of course, that's what keeps the needle going in the arm, and that's what keeps you, keeps you going. So like, I think,


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[Assistant] For me, I'm like, do I like this, or do I not? And like, in my mind, if you didn't make the comparison, I personally prefer the Destiny style, uh, first person shooter, like, James, you and I, we're kinda talking about this, like the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Okay, I did it last night and I got to a part that was like a level 7 area and I'm like a level 5.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, well, I guess this guy takes 30 headshots for some reason, even though he only has a hat on. You've got that white health bar. I get it. It's an MMO, or it's an RPG-style thing. I get it, it's just borrowing a bunch of game mechanics from different things, and that's just how it works. There's really no rhyme or reason, you know, why he can take so many bullets to the fucking head. Oh, that. Other than he's a higher level than you, but...


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[Assistant] What bothered me was, I was in the middle of this thing and I kept dying over and over and finally I'm like, okay, I got it. This is kind of a hard part, but uhm, this, this makes sense to me. Uh, and then it said, server going down. Uhm, sorry. So, I'm pretty, I don't know if I'm still there or not, but.