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[Assistant] To me it seemed like some, like, uh, some really really good fight choreography in a movie. Because like, the good fight choreography you see in good movies, like good action movies, kung fu movies, whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's pretty amazing and dudes are getting hurt and dudes are exerting themselves over and over and over and over and that's the kind of stuff that it reminded me of. And that's very, very hard to do. Uhm, regardless of whether or not it's fake. Uh, and so that's, that's what to me it reminded me of and it's just a, it's a deadly dance.


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[Assistant] I'm putting it out there right now. Uh, I would like to be your manager.


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[Assistant] Gotcha, so what you're saying is I should probably spend money. That's the idea, right? So let's see here. Here's the math. I think it's just kind of funny. No, that's absolutely what it is. Yea, he's like, I did it. I cracked the code.


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[Assistant] You don't have to play the game, but if you find yourself playing any game for that amount of time, God, I hope you're getting a little bit of enjoyment out of it.


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[Assistant] That's, I, I, look, I prefer this opposed to the, I guess the other model is the free to play and then the other one is like, I guess the Call of Duty and then the, the optional DLC option. I don't like either of those. I'm not, I'm not crazy.


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[Assistant] Oh, real quick, what game are we playing for our audience? Little Nightmares. Little Nightmares, sorry you said it. Sorry, I forgot the name. No, that's cool. It looks beautiful, by the way. It's really cool.


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[Assistant] But they all seem like pretty down to earth guys and it seems to be right now, I've definitely, I'm using this word jokingly, but I fell victim to the bad loot boxes where I got


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[Assistant] Two duplicate items already? Uh, but they were both player icons?


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[Assistant] I was like, really? Like, okay, uh, but I get it.


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[Assistant] They want my money. Yeah. And they're probably gonna get it. Uh, cause I'm okay supporting this game that I still put hours into every week, so. Uhm, but that, I'm not saying you should do that, that's your own personal choice. Don't let mine, uh, influence yours and make your own decision, obviously. But, it's still a good game, and, oh, that's fucking frightening.


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[Assistant] They're definitely, well they're creating scarcity in the market, right?


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[Assistant] A digital scarcity where they want, they want you to feel that.


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[Assistant] This, this is the, the dirty trick of video games, and it always will be, is that it is an addictive form of entertainment. I feel like we've, we've talked about this non-stop. Congratulations, Bruce. Yeah, Bruce escaped the melty face man. And so, I, I guess if you're, if you're an individual where you're thinking, this digital item is making me feel a different way, and I'm feeling compelled to pay for it,


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[Assistant] We definitely, we've all grown up in a time when a game would launch and they just forgot about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we played it on a demo disc recently, but, uh, that game is Section 8.


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[Assistant] That's, that was kind of the era of, it's out and if not enough people are playing it, they're just, everyone's checked out. And Overwatch, well, it lives and dies based on...


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[Assistant] Because there will be a small player base. You could always be strong-willed and say no to an optional cosmetic item that does not affect the game in one way or the other other than I want to dress up my Barbie doll. Look, they must have hacked James' email or something because they made a Super Sentai Genji.


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[Assistant] Like, or, you know, like Stephanie's, uh, likes and tastes. It's kinda weird when it's like, that's very, like, seems like they're targeting one person. Yeah. Or that, I don't know. I mean, Tracer does the Charles, Charleston now. You know, Joel's gonna play Tracer now.


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[Assistant] Her name used to be Mercy as well. Oh yea, she was Mercy originally. There's a bunch of cool stuff in there. So like, I remember around the time Sombra was coming around, people were getting really hyped up and looking like an old, remember when they released like original like concept art and there was like a line of characters and there was a red dude, like this big red guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of fun to see, like, the thought process that goes into these characters that


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[Assistant] Because a lot of it was cosmetic, and I'm like, oh, okay, that was pretty good, but I think they ended up having sold DLC for maps, as all Halo games did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Halo 5 is actually pretty good about its DLC since it actually separates the game modes. Uhm, but it still has items that tilt the gameplay one way or the other and you need to get those ret cards and it's sort of a, it's a fun mess. It can be.


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[Assistant] It's just weird because the game did come out a year ago and the fandom has only risen, I feel like, and people are still


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[Assistant] Itching for new things, we're typically, like in the case of Halo Reach.


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[Assistant] You have one side as the story, one side the multiplayer, and you're never playing the multiplayer to hope for more story, whereas with the character Arisa comes in.


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[Assistant] Now the opening part of new Bonnie changes. Now, now pieces of the levels change and people are like discussing it and talking about like, oh wow, what does this mean? And it's, it's all very subtle and it's not really in your face and you end up wanting more. And I was like, that's sort of like, this is next level.


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[Assistant] I think, I think ultimately you want to keep it simple though. You don't want to smiteify it. And get it to where you're like, this is the jumbo pack of the week. And then it just becomes, the realization is that these loot boxes are supporting the game entirely. Whereas right now it seems to just be aiding it right now. I don't think the game is solely dependent on people buying loot boxes.


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[Assistant] If you move to China you'll get your odds. They have to tell you now the odds of what you're gonna get.


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[Assistant] A mix of Twitch and like sort of what Streamlabs integrates, and they just sort of integrate it into the whole, I guess now it's called Mixer. Mixer system. Ecosystem. The mix system. The mix system. It uhm, I don't know, it sounds interesting. Give him a hug. Awww.


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[Assistant] Twitch definitely has the, the, we've talked about this before, but it has the clubhouse feel. Uhm, there's a thing every time, so we'll watch Overwatch streamers usually, and so say a guy like Seagull is playing.


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[Assistant] And he dies and kind of like a, like he'll, he'll do a Genji slash off the edge and he dies. You know, this is a pro player. He falls and dies. I always imagine it's the uhm...


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[Assistant] The seagulls from Finding Nemo. The like, the mine, mine. Because the chat just, it all becomes the same. Yea. And it's everyone saying, lol. People spamming emotes and stuff. Yea, it is this weird hive mind, like chat, chat is sort of this super gelatinous blob being.


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[Assistant] And it's all just, it's just spamming, it's so, it's such a weird thing.


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[Assistant] The chat, the chat culture is definitely something fascinating. I get it, and I don't at the same time. I just click that little arrow. And hide it. I go into theater mode. Oh man, I love chat. I know you do.


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[Assistant] Well, like, it is funny seeing how the gaming culture then interact with, like, the Mr. Rogers stuff of the world. They're like, yea, Nerf King Puppet. And you're like, okay, that's funny, I get it. But that only really makes sense if you're part of this clubhouse, because you show that to, let's call him a normie.


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[Assistant] I feel like a mix, or mixer, I almost called it mixify, which is a different service. I feel like the only way, I'm not trying to be doom and gloom, the only way they can survive


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[Assistant] Is if Twitch royally fucks up in the next year or so where...


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to think, like, you need a dig moment, right? Where you make such a colossal fuck up that everyone digitally gets on a boat, sails away, and goes to Reddit. And I think Reddit was always the better service, it was just uglier, so people used dig.


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[Assistant] You know, is that Kevin Rose behind us? Pretty cool. But uhm, yeaah, I think it's something like if all the...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. It's curious. I can't see them taking any market share.


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[Assistant] Like, what do you do? How do you, how do you gain that? Do you just pay top Twitch creators?


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[Assistant] They're also at the best, or they're at the beck and call of, uh, Microsoft. Yeah. So they are Microsoft's own entity. So no matter what they say, I, I bet there is a, an Xbox initiative. They're, they're already given a front page. Oh yeah, that's true. Uh, and they're probably going to,


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[Assistant] I don't know, reward you for saying like, you know, streaming Halo 6 or whatever, you know, Halo Wars over someone who's like the top Overwatch player. Somehow, magically, they get Siegel or someone, uhm, you know. Well, that's what owned TV.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, yea, it's accurately short. As long as it should be. That's fine. I mean, like, you beat Limbo in a day. So, that's what Seaman looks like. Seaman!


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[Assistant] What does that mean? I'll be the voice, I'll be the voice. This legendary game developer gets, uh, taken down by Bruce Green, like some YouTube trash honky just takes your place. There actually was a scene.


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[Assistant] I haven't watched it yet. I thought it was like, pretty metal. No, no, no, the intro.


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[Assistant] So you're saying Spore ripped this off? Yes.


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[Assistant] All sorts of frightening. This is pretty cool. I like, I mean it's- This came out of fuckin' nowhere though.


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[Assistant] This is the most recent upload, but they're all great. Every time I see a sweet neckbeard, uh, at like a convention, he has that shirt that says, Strong Female Characters. I imagine this is, this is, this is what- WOAH! Yeah. Oh my gosh, she's ripped! That's, this is what they want in games, and I agree.


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[Assistant] I think they look like clouds. Those titties though. Beautiful clouds. Ugh. This is disgusting. Disgusting.


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[Assistant] It's a tough, it's a tough contender. Sorry, Babaloonie.


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[Assistant] Oh, what's not safe about this? If my manager walked in and saw me looking this way, what are you doing, like, aspiring? That's a naked person. What, were you? Huh?


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[Assistant] It's gotta just be a timer app. Unless you have a timer app that's not good.


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[Assistant] Because they don't have holes. If you put holes, then they immediately become for fucked up.


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[Assistant] No offense, this is taken into deep extremes, but Hitler probably didn't realize he was being a dick.


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[Assistant] Uh, but uh, Monday Night Raw was really really cool. He was really cute.


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[Assistant] But then afterwards I got to go backstage. I got to, I was invited backstage of Monday Night Raw, but I was told beforehand that the person who was escorting us was like, it's the end of the show.


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[Assistant] Most people like when they're done, they're like, eh, I'm going to head back to the hotel or whatever and relax. And so it might not be that busy. And I was like, I don't care, whatever. So we go backstage and then, uh, I got to, there was still a match going on.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause what they do is they'll do the show and then they'll do a dark match.


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[Assistant] I like to give the crowd something to go out excitedly with. And then during the dark match, I basically got to walk out to right next to the stage where the wrestlers come out. Saw Seth Rollins come out to his whole entrance and everything from right on the stage and then got yelled at by the cameraman because he was like, you're gonna be on camera, get out there.


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[Assistant] Did a walk of fame, where I, well first person I noticed was, uh, Jim Ross. Jim Ross is back there talking to a bunch of people.


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[Assistant] And then I looked to my right and I saw, uh, Stephanie McMahon and then Triple H.


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[Assistant] Women's division wrestler in Raw right now, she's, she's pretty excellent, so I'm a fan of hers. Uhm, she had just wrestled in the main, in the main event, and then, uh, kept going, and I was like, man, I can't believe I saw ev- and then Kurt Angle came out, came out of a doorway right in front of me, in like his sweats, he was done for the night, and I was like, oooooh,


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[Assistant] Oh absolutely not. Oh absolutely not. The only person I spoke to was Bray Wyatt. Okay. Uhm, who was like major contender champion, former champion and stuff who, who finished his match and walked by at the end and told him. I like that.


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[Assistant] Hey, my experience was being back there, and it was pretty awesome.


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[Assistant] Uh, that times a hundred. Six hundred people or something, like working all backstage.


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[Assistant] We, so, there's a, there, throughout the show there was a scene where Kurt Angle was doing a ball roller, cause people had to be, pick a ball to see where they were gonna be. Like a lottery? Yea, see where they were gonna be in the Women's Raw, uh, Battle Royale.


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[Assistant] Topscotch away because Smackdown was in San Diego I think the next night, so.


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[Assistant] It was, that was a pretty, pretty cool experience. Can't wait to be on the show.


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[Assistant] What venue was that at? Staples Center.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, the way wrestling events work is they only need a portion, like so, they need to block off, it can't be like a basketball game where everyone's watching all around 360. Because they need the stage and they need to use that whole backstage area. So there's basically like a big V.


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[Assistant] We had really good seats, but there were some people that were like, their backs were against the wall at the very top of the venue. And I'm like, wow, like, that must be quite a view. Awesome. Anyway. James.


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[Assistant] Now, I think I've told this story before, but there was a new kid that moved into town, uh, when I was going to high school. I really wanted Sonic to pop up, because we got some Sonic shit to talk about. I didn't mean to interrupt, I'm sorry about that. Uh, and his, his name was Mike, and uh...


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[Assistant] He was from New Jersey. Those are like his two shining attributes. That and he was jacked. He was like a football player and he was huge. Uhm, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Aluminum shards. Fidget spinners just seem like the kind of thing where like you can see, it's something that came on so fast that you can see the end by the beginning, you know? And so, so for me it's just, this is something that I can just see.


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[Assistant] This is something that I can just pass on by. Like, I don't need to be a part of this. It's a fad. It's a fad. If I could go back in time and then like pogs were a thing, I would be like...


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[Assistant] I'm just not gonna buy pogs, I'm not gonna think about pogs, I'm not gonna have pogs affect my life in any way because they're gonna be gone and in a dumpster somewhere.


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[Assistant] He's a mainstay. He's stood the test of time. I agree. Listen, if fidget spinners are around...


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[Assistant] Tweaking nipples? It's better than writing emails or something destructive. That's true. Cause I like, as a kid, as like a toddler, I had to learn how to stop sucking my thumb.


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[Assistant] No, but I looked into it afterwards, it's like a developmental thing, like they're like touching, it's why kids put shit in their mouths and stuff like that. I never did that either, but that was my thing, so I had like a blanket I'd like knot up shit and I'd do stuff and sometimes if I have like a string on my pants, I'll like without thinking like knot it up and then like fuck with it. But then I had to work so hard to break those habits.


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[Assistant] And like, like as a kid I was like, well I can't take my blanket with me wherever I go. I'm not gonna go to school, like preschool with my blanket. So I had to like break those habits. So I don't want things that encourage them.


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[Assistant] I do, yea here I can just share my notes here. There's some like, it's like, it looks like something that would be written on Albert Einstein's chalkboard. There it is. It's like just equations.


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[Assistant] This isn't even him as supersonic. No it's not, and I'm glad you brought that up.


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[Assistant] Nooo. That's impossible. I don't know what that even means. Infinite speed poten- top speed potential. Yeah. Not, okay. That's impossible.


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[Assistant] Thus, other dimensions may have different dimensions of time, thus maybe for that sake of time, it took him longer to do it. I think we're saying- I think we can throw out that once the time.


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[Assistant] But if time is faster in other dimensions, then it changes, then the ground isn't covered equally. So Sonic would have to take a measurement in every... Yes.


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[Assistant] Is there music? Turn on the music. When super, this character can really do it all. Reaching...


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[Assistant] How do we know that? I do know that Shadow the Hedgehog lost to Vegeta. That makes sense.


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[Assistant] We came up with something today that, if we're alive in six months, is hopefully going to be pretty amazing. That's right. So, uh, stay tuned for that six months from now, Funhaus has a big announcement.


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[Assistant] The backstory for Jurassic Park is no different. John Hammond was on GTA and he said, I got an idea for dinosaurs.


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[Assistant] We were talking about how it was almost a year ago that we were at the greatest party in the history of parties, which is the Sonic 25th anniversary party. And the game that they announced is still not out. Sonic Mania takes a long time to make. It's this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he's right, and I-I agree, but I think, like, again, that's at a certain line.


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[Assistant] Once you're above a certain point, that's how it works for most, most people in the industry. They're still, you know, just because you wrapped shooting in Vancouver and you're, uh, gripped.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause there's like, I mean, certain roles, obviously, it's like, you can ship out something and then be like, like a director, you know, Steven Spielberg, and be like, alright, I finished that. Now I'm going to kind of lightly see what I'm interested in next before I dive headlong into something and do something else, but. But I know what he's saying.


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[Assistant] Because like, we here are constantly in a shooting, editing, like, we're in pre, post, and production mode. All the time, every single day, and like, that is very, very exhausting.


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[Assistant] I think also if you're in a very creative role, it's pretty daunting to, to be like, like being creative is fun.


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[Assistant] Being creative every single day and like having to come up with new ways of being creative because there's saturation and stuff like that, that's, it's daunting. It's frightening and daunting.


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[Assistant] Well, have you ever heard, uh, Dan Harmon or someone that worked with him around that time period, uh, when he made, uh, what was it? Something TV?


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[Assistant] Uhm. Acceptable TV. Acceptable TV. Dot TV. Uhm, and it was a skit show which had a bunch of wacky skits and stuff in it. But then he also, one of the skits was a long running cartoon that went through it.


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[Assistant] And like, I guess him working on that cartoon, because that's a completely different creative endeavor that he was helming.


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[Assistant] He like barely slept for most of that time period because there was him running the show, the day to day of the show, and then he'd go to work with a completely different production team, a very small team, to then go oversee the cartoons development as that was happening too.


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[Assistant] Damn it. He thought he got disconnected. Oh sure he did, yea.


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[Assistant] Sonic the Hedgehog is just zipping back and forth between present, past, and future. Willy nilly, without effort.


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[Assistant] That's interesting though, I didn't even think about the time shoes. The equipment he wears factors into it.


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[Assistant] And says, I'd like to buy a desert eagle. You go, absolutely, just give me a moment. The guy walks into the back office and then blacklists them from ever owning guns.


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[Assistant] That's the test. That's all. If someone goes, I want a Desert Eagle, that's the test.


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[Assistant] For the record, I'm voting for Game Girl Power, uhm, because to me hard netting is about celebration and not the dark side of the internet. Uhm, and I feel like this encourages bad


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[Assistant] Bad stuff. Can I just throw my vote away? The award, awarding of something like this feels like it encourages.


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[Assistant] We have pretty, we have a pretty solid crossover of our audience. You know, people come to me from, because they're fans of Eleven Little Roosters and people come to Elise because they're fans of Spooky Tony Tofu. So they have, you know, all, it's basically, it's pretty much a good


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[Assistant] For me, it's closer than ever. I might actually win the game. I'm just close to beating it.


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[Assistant] And there are people in the comments going like, I hate when they have guests.


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[Assistant] And, and, and several number of reasons, but like one of the things was you were underutilized here. The things you were doing here, you, you were more, you had more experience than, than you should be doing. You were extremely valuable to just everyone here in the creative process, but your day to day stuff was, it wasn't really honestly worth your time. Right.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and so, it made sense when you decided to leave, but, uh,


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[Assistant] I think the irony is that as soon as you did, a lot of other opportunities like opened up and then all of us were looking at each other like, like, we don't have enough time to do these things. We really needed Joel.


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[Assistant] Well, beyond that too, there's a certain aspect, you know, obviously we're all friends, and then we've added some people since, like, you just met Don. Yeah. And it's like, we love Don, like, people like John, Bones, Jacob, like, Jacob was an intern when you were here, so you knew Jacob and every stuff. But like, like, we've added a bunch of people that are all, like, now part of the family.


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[Assistant] And there's moments where it's like, oh man, Joel would have gotten along so, the thing, oh man, the thing Omar just said, Joel would have loved, like stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there was a certain dynamic also that I think that it changed, you know?


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[Assistant] Also, also, when asked, Bruce frequently cites, uh, the GTA where you're throwing the bottles somehow behind you. By the way, we haven't been able to reproduce. One of my favorite videos of all time.


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[Assistant] But then there's other stuff too that I think we've made some really amazing, some of our funniest stuff has happened since you've left, not because you left, but like, and we're like, oh man, I wonder what Joel was, and there have been times actually where I've seen you on the weekend or whatever and I'd be like, though, did you see that yet? And you're like, oh I did and I really liked it or whatever.


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[Assistant] What's your favorite show? What's your favorite show on Funhaus? It's a YouTube channel. AUS.


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[Assistant] I always think, I always think the fact that billboards still exist, and I'm like...


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[Assistant] How? How do billboards still exist? There's no, like, there's literally no measurement for how that turns over people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you have no idea how many of that- how that ma- There's Ghost in the Shell billboards on every single street corner in Los Angeles.


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[Assistant] Well I was just gonna say I think that is part of it too. It's like you want to think the best about life. I mean it's the same with any sort of community or whatever like that. You assume that everyone thinks the way you do and thinks within tone. But it's like, no. People use your product. People watch our videos that


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[Assistant] That I'm sure we wouldn't agree with on anything, especially like ideologically or whatever.


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[Assistant] It's weird too because it's like, it's a convenience thing. It's like, alright, Tesla introduced a car that'll drive for you.


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[Assistant] But you need to stay awake, right? Like, you know, like you need to stay awake behind the wheel, like there's these certain stipulations, but it's a super, it's super convenient. As long as you just stay awake, you're good. And then the next thing you see are human beings like asleep as it perils down the highway at 90 miles an hour, you know, like.


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[Assistant] No, yea, I totally agree with you, Bruce. I definitely, like, this is gonna be way out of date by the time anyone listens to the podcast, but the Bill O'Reilly situation, no matter how you feel about, like, his politics, like,


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[Assistant] Everything was cool, like paying out sexual harassment, like settlements, until the sponsors dropped out. And then that's when things started getting really bad. I think it's foolish to assume that any sort of big business


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[Assistant] Sounds like the conversation got away from him. Like in the first part of it, I was like, okay, I guess he's saying the different things, and then he's like, why is definitively better? Bullshit!


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[Assistant] Well, I think Joel just inadvertently disproved that because it sounds like they sh- at least when the very first Witcher game came out, they shipped books with it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So, so something tells me he sees that the numbers for these, his books are not going up as the games are gaining popularity. And he's blaming it on the...


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[Assistant] Can we do something? Can we look up Metacritic? I know Metacritic is just an aggregate or whatever, it's not the best place, but I'm curious what the Metacritic score would be for the books over time versus the games over time.


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[Assistant] It's weird, it's like as though someone drew an anime version of me who had like six pack and a giant cock and then I was like well that's not fair because now if a woman sees that she's gonna expect me to have a six pack and a giant cock but what I'm left with is me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, one that you control for sure. Well, I think the creator maybe isn't in charge of it anymore.


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[Assistant] Transcendental narrative that it applies to what you're going through at that point in your life. People do it with books too. Where, oh, I read The Hobbit when I was a kid and I remember being terrified under my sheets when Gollum showed up and stuff like that. People make those relationships.


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[Assistant] I would say that maybe more than other mediums, video games rely on those kind of your relationship with the material to do it, but that isn't to say that you can't have a narrative.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, yeah. It's not necessarily on the creator's job to make the narrative.


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[Assistant] For me, for me personally, what gets in the way of it is when there is a video game that feels like it has narrative intention, and it seems like it knows how it wants you


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[Assistant] Like it's building, building, building, and then you're supposed to just barely escape, but I failed that.


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[Assistant] Is because they clearly wanted me to get past it and feel a sense of relief, but I can't get past this moment and so now I'm done. You've ripped me out of it because you had narrative and pacing intentions with this moment in the game, but then you didn't build the game to necessarily execute on that. You relied on me and I'm not good enough.


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[Assistant] Have you, you have, so Hard Netting is Lawrence's new thing. You know what Hard Netting is? It's a new segment on Dudesuit, very popular segment.


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[Assistant] How many comments? Huh. This is a low view episode. This is before he blew up, I guess. There he is, smiling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just want to know what he thinks. Oh, nothing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I guess, I guess we can vote. Yeah? Well hold on, I wanna see the webpage. It's how he activates his community. Oh, he just embeds these. A white page with just the videos. Just the videos embedded. It's so simple.


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[Assistant] Yeah? Alright. He's utilizing every tool of the internet. He's achieving great success. Yeah, I got it, I got it. Alright. He's bettering himself through the process.


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[Assistant] I want you to admire the fact that each, each corner of the frame


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[Assistant] That where the floor from the perspective. Yea, he set it up real nice. It's a perfect shape.


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[Assistant] I was gonna throw some serious doubt into the validity of them being hard net and champions if there isn't a new photo by the time we do it.


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[Assistant] Why not? It doesn't have a motor. Now let's go to the plane.


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[Assistant] No motor. No. You could be Kid Cuddy to My Air and Paul. Woah, did he have a plane? Remember?


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[Assistant] Have they made a Fast and Furious movie about boats yet?


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[Assistant] More rabbids. To the rabbids. No. This is, no this isn't part right. I can see the prompter.


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[Assistant] It's like, I was sailing no problem for 60 years, and then this happened.


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[Assistant] Okay, here we go. Can you control it though? Or does this just show a cutscene? Yeah, yeah, it's a cutscene. It's boats only. What? Boats only.


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[Assistant] But all of Canada is south. Exactly.


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[Assistant] I like that monkey.


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[Assistant] They're holding, they're hiding her face. Which means she's relevant.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Gabe had Half-Life 3 on a laptop and he played the whole game for him or whatever.


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[Assistant] The lights went down and when they came up, Half-Life 3, ay, ay, ay, ay. That's probably the closest to what seeing another Half-Life, like, or a Portal or anything will get, right? It's gonna be some VR demo. We kinda got that with, we got that with the Vive when it's like, oh, GLaDOS is here, cool. It's like a, it was, it felt like a haunted house sort of thing, or like a Disney attraction.


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[Assistant] It's just not there. There's not much you can do. Oh, it's funny to think anyone would think like, I want to know the end of Gordon's tale. It's like the character never says a word. And I mean, I guess he has a degree from MIT. Like, okay, that's the backstory that you've


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[Assistant] That someone told you and then you filled in the blanks of your head because it is a...


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[Assistant] It's just a husk. But Gman's his father. Sure. I'm like, you fill in the blanks yourself, right? And you go, okay, it's sort of like most video games, like this is how...


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[Assistant] This is how you identify with it, is you fill the, you fill in the blanks as yourself, and like, oh, it was me experiencing these stories, but, like, the, the idea is that it is a video game, and that's...


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[Assistant] You're supposed to, it's supposed to be something empty. You're supposed to do that. You're supposed to be experiencing it yourself as the player. So there is no Gordon Freeman story.


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[Assistant] Here's uh, here's 40 million dollars. Oh man. You do whatever you want. How are you going to write the story? Who are you going to hire to write it? That's a, that's so much pressure. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I have no idea how game development works precisely, or especially how it works at Valve, but I can take a guess. And I think it goes something along the lines of this. All of us sit in a room, we come up with some really cool gun ideas.


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[Assistant] And some cool weapons and some cool gameplay. Things that we want to do. So let's go ahead and say airship and laser gun.


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[Assistant] Maybe not lasers. I'm just trying to think of a gun that hasn't been in Half-Life yet.


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[Assistant] This is the best version of Half-Life I've ever seen. It really is. This is really cool.


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[Assistant] I had a dumb moment. No spoilers from the episode. You can spoil it. I don't care. There's a part with uhm. Maybe the audience cares. There's a part with Sam.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you remember in the last season, he goes to, what town does he go to? Old Town. He goes to Old Town. It's like one of the oldest, it's like the oldest city in the Westeros or whatever. And it's like, it's where all the books are and all the history of Westeros. And there's this part where he's with, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's almost like a doctor slash scientist is another maester. An apothecary? Kinda yea, but they're almost doing like science. They have a cadaver, he's cutting all the pieces out and they're like, weigh that liver. And in my mind I said, there's no science in this world. And I was like, wait, I don't know, it's a fantasy land, it's all made up, it can be whatever the fuck they want.


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[Assistant] Interdimensional or whatever you want to call it. It's all in someone's head. Uh, so.


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[Assistant] But that's the thing is, we as viewers get so invested, we want this thing to be so real because, because reality in a lot of ways sucks. It has Shrek. Boy, there's a lot of Shrek. Oh, I love Shrek. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was gonna say, we have so many good things. We have a lot of things that Kings didn't have. I'm pretty sure I've gone on this rant before, but all the time. There's so many moments where I think where...


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[Assistant] I'm so sorry. Yeah, you really blew that. Well that's the thing, we'd all be Sean Claude in a heartbeat, because he lived many lives. But would you be Dolph? Anyway, we don't need to get back into that. Dolph, I think was just very, the reason we picked Dolph was, it was just kind of middle of the road, like, it's a complicated proposition. Yeah, he never hit ALA.


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[Assistant] Edgy Jean-Claude Van Damme gets jealous cause soft and, uh, loving Jean-Claude Van Damme goes and talks to a girl that badass Jean-Claude Van Damme wants to like bang and he gets drunk and angry cause of this vision he has in his head. And that's what they based the music video for Mr. Brightside on.


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[Assistant] The guy, the one take wonder who like fucked up when he fell. I always thought about that, like today when you make a film, you've got the, the, the 55 inch monitor and six people watching it and then went.


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[Assistant] Uh, a moth went by. Can we re-shoot that? Back then, they shot it and went, how'd it look? And one guy went, I don't know. Watch him.


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[Assistant] Action films are a lot like, I think the way video games are made. A lot of people sit around and go,


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[Assistant] Oh, I think there's two sides of it. There's the John Wick side where you go, oh wow, what a pretty compelling movie. Interesting storyline. I actually care what this guy's doing. And then there's the ninja series that Lawrence likes where I think a guy literally digs up a ninja costume in the woods and says, my turn. And then, now I am a ninja. I can't, for the life of me, remember what story was in there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember seeing a chart of just basically showing like, this is before net neutrality, this is without it, and it's certain things like, do you want access to, uh,


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[Assistant] Websites like Gmail, well that's going to cost you extra, and they'll, they'll lock you out of speci-


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[Assistant] Right now we live in this wonderful golden age of the wild west where it's just everything and there's almost no restrictions and that could be good and bad. But uhm. That's kind of what the internet was founded on though. No, exactly. And I think, I think it honestly, I, I'm of the personal mind that


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[Assistant] You just, you let the people, you let people figure it out. You don't, you don't get corporations involved to, uh, figure out what is locked down and what, how, how things are priced. So yeaah, I, I obviously support that.


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[Assistant] You don't do that with any other utility. You don't go, oh you want the good water?


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[Assistant] That's gonna cost you some more. Cause it was like, well, what have you been giving me before up until now? Like, oh, that's the sludge water.


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[Assistant] You got your upstairs neighbor's water, you get his stuff, that's why it's so cheap. Uhm, you don't, why would you, like...


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[Assistant] It's, it's a strange, it's a strange thing we deal with, especially with, uh, other types of media where they're like, oh, you want cable? The base package is $20 a month. I'm like, sweet. And they're like, well, why does it look like shit? Oh, you want HD? You're like, well, n-


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[Assistant] I mean, I want something that works on my TV and what, uh, I believe the government deemed to be standard in like 2000 and fucking one. Uhm, why do I have to pay more for it to be in a normal picture? And like, well, it's high definition. Like, that has lost all meaning. I think, I think.


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[Assistant] The elite will have access to Pornhub.


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[Assistant] But not when there are no competitors because it's all the same company.


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[Assistant] What did Comcast, Comcast bought Spectrum? Time Warner, which is now Spectrum.


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[Assistant] It was, uh, Time Warner. They just rebranded it. And they rebranded it as Spectrum. So, if you go, fuck Comcast, I'm going Time Warner. They're like, okay, good luck.


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[Assistant] It's like what James is saying or like most of us that we live in a neighborhood and


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm just saying like, there's the perception of choice, but it's all the same company, so you still have to deal with the same BS.


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[Assistant] The three of us. We did our last one last night. Lawrence is right. It's fantastic.


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[Assistant] Do it. Provided they're clean. Wash those things off. We say this every time we do an ad-read, but it's like, we should do a cooking class, or like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] Dude, it's, it's a fun thing. Even when you eff up, uhm. Still food. Yeah, as long as it's not burned.


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[Assistant] I can't, I cannot see food go to waste. I just, I feel like even if I'm not hungry, I'm like, well, when will I eat again?


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[Assistant] Is there a crowdfunding campaign right now? Not yet.


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[Assistant] They didn't even make it, they just said we plan on doing it.


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[Assistant] The 80s are cool again. Yeah, it looks good in a t-shirt. Uh, the box, if that design does end up coming looking like that, it is sleek and it would look cool in a house. But if it costs more than $25, it's... Whoa! 1.2 million. I'm telling you, was that coming today? No, no. It's disabled. It's been out for a month.


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[Assistant] Here wait, do me a favor Lawrence, look up the uhm, okay, it's spelled, it's the seed, but with three E's.


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[Assistant] Uh, RP LIDAR. That's R-P-L-I-D-A-R-A2. Uh, it's the thinnest LIDAR.


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[Assistant] Look it up. I'm just saying, uh, because OMAR is always my barometer for like things that should be bought. Did you find it?


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[Assistant] There it is, the LiDAR. What the hell is that? Does it detect lies? I don't know. So, uh, what does it do?


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[Assistant] Like a fries, like, deal of the week or whatever, but it's like, it's never anything really, it's always just gaming chairs. It's a sensor for robots? Maybe. So like a Roomba, basically. But this, this was one of the funniest emails I ever got because they're like, seed RP LIDAR A2, the thinnest LIDAR, and I sent it to, and then it's like, it cost $379, and it's like, oh.


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[Assistant] But it was the first time this thing came up and I'm like, I don't know if this isn't the more I read about it, the less I know. It was just like perfect for triangulation and human interaction.


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[Assistant] Interesting thoughts, witticisms. Do the sex sexual one. I changed my mind, I'm against net neutrality. Oh yeaah, I think you got a bit of a following from the ASMR crew because of his low...


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[Assistant] It's kinda weird how YouTube doesn't tell you how many videos someone has. It is weird. So wait, where? Just click there. And then he'll show up there. Oh, 195. Isn't that weird? That's how you figure out videos. This guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, Adam, where you fall? Uhm, I will vote for Ivan, and since Elise isn't here, I'll vote for her as well. Fair. She's voting for the buff chicks again.


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[Assistant] Anyway. Also, I never like when, like, especially main characters in shows will have a scene where someone enters their scene, does all the dialogue, they don't have to even say a single word, and the person ends the scene.


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[Assistant] A lot of it, I mean, a lot of that movie is Mel Gibson going, hey, this, this has gotta be a film, bros. It's gotta be a movie. It can't just be a historical piece.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well you mentioned the fact that it looks like they make a big deal about the main character, let's call him Ben.


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[Assistant] Well, but in Odysseus' defense, he was kind of enchanted by her. Like, she was not just a hot chick. She had magical powers.


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[Assistant] Also, he was never, he was, I don't, he didn't spend a lot of it being like, I love my wife. He was like, I gotta get back home. Like, I have genetic material that I need to ensure has a legacy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a game. We should declare right now that we're all pretty uninformed, so we're gonna be more picking your brain, and you're offering our completely uninformed opinions.


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[Assistant] As a 32 year old man, every single time they, they basically introduce a new game that they say you can disappear into and let's lose months of your life ago. Okay, well that's something I'm not gonna be playing. Because I don't have time for it.


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[Assistant] In college or on summer break, like, while these games, like, during this era of gaming.


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[Assistant] Boy oh boy, you've got it made in the shade. Cause you got nothing but time, and you got, and you don't need to spend that much money, and it's just gonna be fun. What you've said before, you're like, I just play Overwatch or Marvel Puzzle Quest, which is-


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[Assistant] Because I only have increments of maybe...


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[Assistant] 45 minutes, sometimes an hour, if Elise is gonna like, Elise is like, I'm gonna do something else entirely, and I'm like, okay, well I have an hour, so I might as well play something that can start and end whenever I needed to, and I don't have to worry about feeling like I'm completing something along the way.


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[Assistant] So that's, I was just gonna say, from the beginning to me the game has appeared to be the kind of, like one of those phones that you can put pieces onto.


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[Assistant] It's, but except it's just, it's just the framework and since, since it's announcement, people have been attaching their hopes and dreams to it and basically designing the game that they want to play, not actually the game that, that they've been making the whole time. And, and, you know, part of that could be put on, um, the, uh, the developers for,


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[Assistant] Probably intentionally being vague about what the game is because it's so procedural and it's so kind of random and it's so kind of, yea, zen, it's like whatever, but like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, it seems like people basically saw this, they're like, oh my god, it's gonna be a space game where I can do this, this, and they would describe it to their friends, and without actually ever talking to Sean Murray.


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[Assistant] This is the same thing that happened with Battlefront, this is the same thing that happens every single year with almost every single AAA title, and every single time there's some big post about how it's just a company trying to take our money, it's just another example of how they're nickel and diming us for everything, and it's always like,


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[Assistant] May not be that simple, it's not, it's not always cut and dry. People aren't villains and people aren't heroes. Sometimes it's just a grey matter, like, situation in the middle, and I think this is a pretty good case for that grey matter situation in the middle. Like, does Sean Murray seem like a money-grubbing


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[Assistant] Which he, he reviewed technology and stuff on Attack of the Show. That was like part of his, his, that was his job basically, right? To review, review technology. And it was technology that, I think 99% of the time, the company would say, we're gonna send you a product.


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[Assistant] Whereas Bruce, who was reviewing it and hadn't put down...


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[Assistant] $2,000 of his own money into it would look at it and go,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's another risk of being an early adopter, I guess. And, I don't know, it's weird. Like, cause probably stuff like Rock Band or Civilization are games that I put like,


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[Assistant] In the hundreds of hundreds of hours mark, and it'd be weird if I just logged in to Civilization one day, and they're like, oh no no no, it's not a game like that, no no. Like you don't do that anymore.


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[Assistant] Question for you, Lawrence, having played it, how much can you, like say you land on a planet, can you do anything to change it or can you just rip it to shreds and then take what you need and fly away? You can... Can you like...


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[Assistant] On almost infinite wealth of different planets and just explore at your leisure and have stuff and people go, I've been ripped off.


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[Assistant] Here's the problem, you use the example of the Wii, right?


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[Assistant] I had way more fun with Twilight Princess and the limited Wii controls than I did with Skyward Sword and the one to one. Wanna know why?


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[Assistant] Because I'm not a sword fighter. And I'm not a good sword fighter. So when you want me to cut something horizontally, and I'm sitting on the couch like this, with one hand in popcorn, and then I go like that, I miss it. And then I miss it, and now I'm taking damage. Whereas before, it's like, okay, I felt like I was maybe kind of a sword fighter, because I go like, HYAH!


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[Assistant] The game too, they also understood that not everyone is a sword fighter. So it was basically limited to cut them this way or cut them that way.


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[Assistant] Dan, our very own Dan, sometimes will play, like, seems like sacrilege, but like this. Oh, he'll throw index fingers up? He'll do that, and I'm like, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] I mean, I commend him for coming out and saying such things, but I hope that he says it with a long sigh, understanding that like, it's like shouting into the wild wild west and saying like, stop robbing carriages.


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[Assistant] I think you have mature people who can see things in a mature way.


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[Assistant] But you will never have an entire like media press outlet like a whole industry which is mature like that when you continue to pay games media as much as they get paid.


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[Assistant] Like, how much money did you make writing for...


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[Assistant] Writing about video games. Uh, almost nothing. Almost nothing. It was really hardtacking.


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[Assistant] But I think what Adam's saying is that if the Prime Minister or the President of your country is funneling funds through an illegal intermediary, like, that's maybe a bigger deal than if No Man's Sky doesn't have the quests.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, I don't think so. I think we are just in one, there's a lot of swimming pools. Yea, you're right. And we are just in that swimming pool.


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[Assistant] A lot of games that come out are pretty much miracles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the fact that they get done and they work. Like, and what they are compared to what games were 10, 15 years ago, it's like, like it's pretty cool and that's not a free pass, you know, but like, there is junk, we've played junk.


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[Assistant] But, like No Man's Sky doesn't seem like junk. It just seems like something that was misinterpreted to be...


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[Assistant] People keep pullin' off these damn boats. Yeaah. There were many people that fell off the Santa Maria. Oh, the Pinta. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but at least he's having fun. This didn't feel like this. This felt like David Ayer maybe had some sort of...


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[Assistant] Oh, woah. It's a singer, okay. Okay. Is this singer Call Me Master?


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[Assistant] Oh god, welcome to, uh, welcome to a, uh, non-visually complimented Bullet Dude Soup. I have no idea what to play today, but I'll figure it out, we'll figure it out. Alright, put a randomizer on there. Harley Quinn. Put on some salty dine or something.


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[Assistant] Uh, this week's Bullet Dude Soup is brought to you by Mack Weldon and Acorns. Uh, Mack Weldon makes underwear. You can get 20% off by using promo code soup. And you can sign up today by going to acorns.com slash dude. And since no one knows what that is, I'll even include the offer. You'll receive $5 when you make your first investment. Oh, what? We'll talk more about that later, bro. Okay.


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[Assistant] It's funny cause like, this stuff hit like last Wednesday and I was like, nope, shit. By the time Dudesuper rolls around...


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[Assistant] Uh, so there was, there was one picture, which is a screen cap from the


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[Assistant] You should avoid sexually suggestive content, violence, including displays of serious injury, inappropriate language, promotion of drugs, controversial or sensitive subjects and events.


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[Assistant] Which everyone was like, huh, how can I do news? Well, yeaah. Advertisers don't like this stuff, and that's always been the case, so that's pretty on point. The terms of service have nothing to do with that and say nothing about that sort of thing. So you will not get banned from YouTube by talking about current events. Uhm, the issue it seems, or rather the statement that YouTube has provided,


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[Assistant] But YouTube will still host your video, people can still watch it and comment on it. So if you're concerned about the, the like, purity of freedom of speech and all that stuff, it's still there. And it doesn't necessarily get age gated, right? Uh, age gating is another thing. That's another way video can be demonetized.


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[Assistant] Absolutely true, no, this has nothing to do with videos being, uh, removed. But it could in a way be construed as a form of censorship, where if a certain kind of discussion earns no money, then people and professionals would obviously not spend any time on creating.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, but all that's a little mooted because, as we understand now, as YouTube said, they have always routinely gone back and demonetized videos that sponsors are not happy with. So, so here's, and in this situation,


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[Assistant] And I, this is probably something I'm gonna get yelled at. YouTube's kind of caught in the middle here. Cause they have advertising partners that they sell inventory against. Uh, and if that advertising partner happens to see their video in front of some 12 year old screaming racial obscenities for 5 minutes.


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[Assistant] That advertiser's gonna say, YouTube, what the fuck? We gave you very clear, got, like, content guidelines for what our content should run on, and then YouTube's like, shit dude, five billion minutes get uploaded every second, we can't, what do you want us to do? Like, we, you want your ad to get seen, but you have this narrow window about content appropriateness that you


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[Assistant] Whatever, you know, like, fucking Procter & Gamble wants your shit running on.


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[Assistant] We're trying, uhm, and I guess, I guess the demonetization situation was part of that, is that, uhm, when videos through metrics that YouTube didn't share, which is what I think is interesting, maybe hit certain metrics automatically, they get flagged to be demonetized. In the past, no one was ever told. There was no mo-, there was no notification system. So, uh, as it was said, or rather, as I heard through Phil DeFranco, who apparently talked to YouTube,


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[Assistant] It's just the revenue would drop and that was it. Uh, now they, uh, have changed the icon in the video manager to indicate that it's been demonetized. They'll actually email you directly, which is what kind of caused the panic. A bunch of YouTubers got this batch of emails that these videos had gotten demonetized when they never would have otherwise.


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[Assistant] I think it's just, that's a really good question, I don't know because. I got one. Okay. I'm trying to find it right now. Oh, you got one of the notices from YouTube? I got a notice because I had a video. You called it live.


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[Assistant] You could argue that's censorship in a way, but that's, that's the free market turning. If advertisers want friendly content, that's what they're gonna get. And that's been the case on the radio and television for the past hundred years.


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[Assistant] Sorry, go ahead. I have a follow-up question for that, but first, we should hear from our mysterious sponsor Acorns. So, most of the time when we have a sponsor on the podcast, we have an opportunity to use it, or better yet, we're given the thing for free just to figure out what the hell's going on with it.


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[Assistant] This one was unique in that we actually couldn't use it because it is an investment service. And there's apparently some legal shit about plugging services that make you money.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we can't use this, uh, but it sounds pretty cool. So the idea is that you connect your favorite credit or debit card to the app.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's diversified across thousands of stocks and bonds, acorns, takes your loose change, and turns it into something valuable. It's a, a lot of banks have done this too, where they'll like round up and put it in a savings account. This is invested, they didn't quite say specifically where or who's doing the investing, which is kind of interesting, uh, but, I suppose it has to be okay. Uh, I wanna look into that actually, see if


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, if you're thinking about someday that you'll die watching awesome games done quick, you should look into Acorns because pizza's not gonna get delivered for free forever. Uh, so that's uh, it's an app, so just search Acorns on any uh, Acorns on any app provider.


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[Assistant] And you can join the more than 1 million investors who have already started using Acorn. You can call yourself an investor! How's that? Investor at 22. Oh, I do investments.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, so my, uh, I'll go with this one. Episode 4. Follow-up question? Yea, follow-up question. So, the, the one thing it seems like you could point to YouTube at, at being at fault here, I guess there's a lot. I mean there's a lot of things, yea. In this specific instance, so they didn't change their terms of service.


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[Assistant] Uh, according to their explanation, this is not a new policy, it's not a new practice. It's purely terms of communication. They didn't tell anyone that these notifications were coming, so when they hit, people assumed something had changed, as opposed to just hearing about something that was already going on. YouTube, uh,


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[Assistant] What, uh, what YouTube and Google have always done is explain the spirit of their rules, but never the, like, word of their rules.


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[Assistant] Every possible thing. This is the ghost. Yeaah, the ghost of, the ghost of the production room. Uh, usually just riding around in the AC event. Uh, you're just kind of left to interpret the spirit based on how it's enforced because the rules are so broad they can basically demonetize anything they want whenever they want. Um, which, by the way, they're right, platform holder.


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[Assistant] Uh, so it seems like, based on the videos that have been demonetized and not appealed properly,


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[Assistant] The thing that I interpret YouTube as trying to discourage is YouTube talking about YouTube in a negative way.


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[Assistant] Which sadly does very well, and if it didn't do very well, that probably would not have been an issue or enforced in the first place. I think what they want to discourage is the sort of insular talking and fighting that happens in every culture once it gets to a certain size. Uhm, and it was happening, and it was a big deal. And popular YouTubers were speaking out.


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[Assistant] So, there are a couple of fixes. Theoretic. Uhm, one is it depends on the machine works, because it seems like demonetization happens on older content. So theoretically, the peak of viewing has come and gone for that piece of media, you're just losing on legacy money, which is tens of dollars. Depending.


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[Assistant] Definitely depending, but, so, one is it doesn't seem like it'd be that bad. If you get demonetized in the first week, terrible. Absolutely terrible, totally agreed. Uh, the other one is that, um, shit, I had another call out point and I just lost it. Well anyway.


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[Assistant] You're talking about networks that carry many channels that you have to subscribe to.


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[Assistant] Uh, it was one that you had already made, direct revenue, so. Oh, okay. But I think, I think...


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[Assistant] This, this doesn't affect a lot of people. I can understand why it's extremely worrisome for people who don't have the option of diversifying. If you're just a solo creator and you're trying to make it, or you want that to be your job, you can't just say, we'll be on another platform. I mean, you can upload to Vimeo, sure, but...


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[Assistant] Not everybody has that luxury. And to a degree, that means you're under somebody's thumb, and that sucks, but, you know, welcome to life, to a degree. You're always gonna have a boss, and that boss is always gonna change it on you.


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[Assistant] You're including us, right? It's just like, can I go back to the hotel? I'm like, you rich motherfucker, you have no idea. That's fine, that's fine. But it's just like the whole vibe of the show being like, hey, we're just having fun and taking gift pictures and like, no. It was fun. No, they're selling your children's stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, Nintendo's still killing it, but what I would guess is, Infinity was out long enough for Disney to make projections.


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[Assistant] So they did their waves, they gave them Star Wars, they gave them Marvel, they gave them all the IPs, they saw the results from that. And then once, once they had it up there and it's like, we've given you our best IPs, we've done a number of huge launches, and we see that graph going down. And it's gonna keep going down.


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[Assistant] Alright, before you continue advertising a mobile game that's not giving us money, let's advertise a service that is, uh, you know what's more important than playing mobile games? Not shitting your pants.


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[Assistant] Kind of like spending a lot of money on ridiculous gym equipment. One way you can do that is by wearing good underwear. Think about it.


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[Assistant] You're gonna pinch it up. That's true. So look to Mack Weldon to solve all of your pant-soiling problems. Uh, they make, they make space-age underwear, and I mean that. It's really stretchy, it's nice, it snaps where it needs to snap. It's anti-microbial, which I enjoy. Uh, and that, and that way they recommend it for people that work out a lot or, doesn't that mean you can poop into it? Maybe. So here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Maybe. Mmm, boy, that's actually. Yeah. You give me a different experiment. The Mack Weldon challenge. Yeah. Because what? Shit yourself. Uh, yeah, I mean, uh, I was on a brand call from people with Mack Weldon and they were kind of explaining it. They said that, that if, you know, as long as you wash it, it won't stink. You will, but it won't. So.


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[Assistant] Maybe. Maybe you could drop a load in some mack weldens. Throw them through the dishwasher and be okay.


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[Assistant] At any rate, it's fantastic underwear and outerwear.


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[Assistant] You'll, I think you'll really like it, and they have a pretty great return policy. Uh, they want you to be comfortable, so if you don't like your first pair, you can keep it, and they will still refund you no questions asked. And you can get that pair at a discount by going to, uh, macwellland.com and using our promo code SUP, S-O-U-P. It's 20% off your entire order, so I'm not telling you to go buy underwear and then shit in it. But if you were to do that and then let me know what happened, I would be grateful.


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[Assistant] You know what people like on the internet? They like segments. You're talking about how the legacy of TV programming is a pox upon internet programming. Well, I'm bringing it back. Just like G4. We're going to do it. We're going to make it work. Oh man, G4 made it work. Bring back G4.


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[Assistant] That's not the segment. This isn't our, this isn't our reminisce over G4 segment. That's, that's another segment. This is YouTube theater, where I read something from the internet.


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[Assistant] Reddit user GnomeFolder, uhm, submitted this on a particular thread. I posted a thread to our subreddit asking submissions for FunHouseRule34, and GnomeFolder didn't have it and couldn't draw, but decided to exercise his or her talents in another way. So, with that in mind, please let me whisk you away to a place of fantasy and romance.


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[Assistant] He stops halfway down the block and reaches into his pocket, pulling out one coin. He winds back and lobs it at a window. Adam! He whispers, oh, whispers out. Adam! He whispers out. He throws another coin. Adam! Another coin. Adam! Another. He shouts again and winds back, but stops as the window opened. Adam pokes his awesome head of hair out the window. Bruce, what are you doing here?


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[Assistant] I got kicked out of Chuck E. Cheese again. You come down here, I need you.


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[Assistant] Adam replies, you can come up actually, the wife's out. Was there a wife's dot dot dot out? The door buzzes and Bruce lets himself in and heads upstairs, loosing a few golden Chuck E. Cheese coins in the process.


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[Assistant] I dunno where that's going. He stops before Adam's door, checks his breath, smells his armpits, and knocks twice. A moment later, the door creaks open and Adam stands there, eyeing him closely.


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[Assistant] What can I do for you, Bruce? I, I need someone. Someone to talk to, and you've always listened to me. Come in.


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[Assistant] Can I get you a vodka? I probably shouldn't, Bruce answers. Adam begins pouring himself a glass. One drink can't hurt, can it?


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[Assistant] Maybe. Maybe it won't work out, maybe it will. You can't know that. What I do know right now is that I need you. And that you need me. So.


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[Assistant] Which is not an easy adjustment from now. I mean, it's easy for us, but for you guys, it's hard to explain exactly what that means. Uhm, but I guess-


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[Assistant] Monday at 3pm Pacific, please go to a time zone calculator and figure out when that is for you. I understand that for some of our European viewers, that's gonna suck. I apologize. The good news is that it's not gonna be any later, so the video will be up by the time you would have normally watched it. I think.


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[Assistant] Uh, just so you guys know the bigger picture, we're actually developing a block of podcasts. So, ScrewTac, RT, and FunHouse will all be in one giant chunk. So, on your Monday nights, you can curl up with a pizza, watch people talk about stuff. Block party. Six hours straight. I think that's basically what it's amounting to. So, yeaah, huge podcast block party. Good times. So yeaah, thanks everybody for listening again. Just like Snick.


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[Assistant] Look into that. First member only has a lot of benefits. You get to watch crunch time and you get to see the podcast live and send in comments for us to talk to on the post show. So thanks everybody for listening this week. If you enjoyed it, please recommend it to a friend. And yeah, next week we'll be back a little bit earlier than usual. So thanks everybody for watching. We'll see you next time. Stay tuned.


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[Assistant] You adopt a lot of that stuff from media. Uhm, and I did that, and I think it's natural, I don't know healthy, but I think natural is a good way to say it. What did you do?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I grew up with kind of the 80s vision of cliques and stuff, so I thought, I'm a nerd, therefore, there are certain, there are certain social, you know, strata that I fit into. And then I got into high school, and like all the football players were super nice, and one of them even tried to talk about GTA with me. When that happened, I like kind of froze up, because I was like, this is outside of my...


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[Assistant] I mean, there are straight people who have long relationships where they don't have sex. And that doesn't necessarily make them, you know, that doesn't define them.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Cause there's lots of dicks. Yeaah. I mean, not everything has to be... I know sex is like the driving force that is behind basically everything, anything you do in your life, uh, supposedly according to certain Freud. Freud. According to me. And James. And James, yeaah. But not everything's gotta be sex, you know?


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[Assistant] Well, it's like, uh, was it Upton Sinclair with the jungle? He put it out there and he was like, it's about...


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think there's another way of going about it.


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[Assistant] So like, one of the coolest rock and roll bands of all time, Queen, was called Queen, and it was in your face, and it was some of the best music ever made.


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[Assistant] I mean, Freddie Mercury is most likely bi, I don't know, it doesn't really matter, but like, I love the fact that it was like, this is music that kicks the shit out of like, a lot of rock out there, and it was called Queen, and it's like, it's just, so the straightest dude in the world who could be the biggest homophobe is like, yeah, I fucking love Queen, Queen rocks, and it's like, and there's a bunch of gay dudes, and he's like, okay.


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[Assistant] Can only be playable at his studio apartment.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, I said this when it was first, you know, being popularized, but we're still in the alpha or the beta.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, actually, so to James' point, this could go straight or gay either way, but like how, that's kind of cool that you could have a VR sex experience without actually having to, it can go both ways, it can be good or bad, but like,


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, so like some kid is maybe having trouble trying to figure out their sexuality and they can go...


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[Assistant] I wanna know what it's like to be with a man that can be like, I don't like that. Or, oh, maybe I do like this. And then get on Craigslist and do the rest.


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[Assistant] Oh, it was, it was for dudes, it's for like hairy dudes only.


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[Assistant] Here's the comment. Well, the fact that it's the third female protagonist that Disney has pushed into a major Star Wars product and completely ignores the fact that a majority of the people that buy these games are male and panders to a political group that wants to see the destruction of the West known as feminism. Yeah, I'd say that's a problem.


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[Assistant] The Battlefront thing that's got me interested is that they're actually kind of doing what Battlef- the original Battlefront 2 did was they added like a pretty cool single player mode, which I think in that one you play as the 5-0.


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[Assistant] It's kind of cool because you started as clones and then you become like, like elite stormtroopers. And then you actually end up, like you go on Kamino and you like destroy the clone factory and you're like, you fight alongside Boba Fett and stuff. I was like, oh, that's kind of a neat way of like following these clones throughout history. So like this one, you're, you're part of the, uh,


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[Assistant] They, uh, it's, it ends with her on Starkiller base. And so she's just like, they do like kind of, uhm, a Rogue one.


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[Assistant] Where they have to get the plans off of StarKiller base to deliver them to the last order, or was it first order? Be like, we gotta get the plans off of here, hurry! And it's sort of like- Before StarKiller explodes. Yea, it's like a flipped version of, we gotta save the plans, and that's like a suicide mission. Yea, there you go, TIE Fighter.


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[Assistant] It's also really cool to see what they're doing. They've, they've explored this before in all the novels and stuff where they did the remnant, where it was all the stormtroopers that were left behind after the empire was gone. But now they've threw all the, the cannon out and the dumpster fire behind Disney Studios. And my house. Because the street. All the novels.


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[Assistant] But apparently yea, the game is canon. So this is sort of your way to see what the, uh, how the empire became the first order, uh, over that 30 year span. That's a fun way of bridging it.


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[Assistant] I hope not. I'm telling you, she will. No, die. Die for the empire.


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[Assistant] The game was the most fun as a demo. When it was like a free beta over the weekend, we had so much fun. And then the game came out and went, eh. I mean, I thought it was fun. I played like 20 hours. We had a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] I know the single player has been written by the Spec Ops The Line author, which I don't know what he's done since then. But it was really good though, right? Yeah, Spec Ops was good. I mean, I'm curious if it's aged well. I remember really liking it when we played it and I feel like maybe a lot of it hinged on the twist. Yeah. Uhm, you're a yeti.


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[Assistant] The end. You're a yeti? Yeah, you're like a ba- you're, you're sasquatch. You're a sasquatch. That's a spoiler? That spec ops the line. That's, what a switch. No. Did you ever play spec ops? No. I don't want to. I know we had PTSD. Basically. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I guess it depends if it's a good single player experience. I'm not saying it has to be long. That's a good point. I dunno.


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[Assistant] He did? Yea. Did you take it, actually? No, I gave it to him. Oh, that's nice of you. Oh, that's right, you did. Cause he worked so hard and I had an extra one, I said, hey buddy, you deserve it.


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[Assistant] So I watched the whole thing. I sat there watching Bruce watch the celebration because Jack, Lindsay and Jeremy were recording a video on the other side, like at Jeremy's desk. So Bruce and I were on the other side and I'm just watching Bruce while he watches the screen. And then they're like, and here's the poster.


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[Assistant] We had like a big meeting at 11, yea, and then it was like, did we watch it? Before we went to the meeting? Yea, so like, yea we watched it once. And I watched it mute because I was watching Bruce watch it. And I went, that looked cool. It looked like they were going to be on that island for a while.


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[Assistant] So, Lawrence had a really good piece of speculation when you were recording your No episode. I don't know if you were there when he was yelling at everybody. He was drunk. Yeaah. But he was saying how uhm...


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[Assistant] He had this interesting speculation about how, cause there's Luke's line at the end where he's like, you know, the Jedi has the end or whatever, but like Luke has come to the conclusion that the force is this ever present force that has its own agenda and Luke's just sick of it. And he's like, I, I don't want anything to do with the force. Like it's.


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[Assistant] Murdered my family, essentially, and I, I want nothing, I want no part of it.


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[Assistant] Um, and so like everything is a cycle, obviously, like the way everything's been going. And that's sort of why, like the last movie was so similar. And he starts to see the trend or he's seeing the similarities of like what you bloops are killer base. We did that. And then it leads into this and you have Kylo Ren who's basically.


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[Assistant] Darth Vader's like, you guys gotta just stop. Just stop it all. And it's gonna be, I don't know, that was sort of an interesting insight, but who knows if they're gonna go that deep in the movie.


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[Assistant] What if there was a middle management power struggle between Randmuff Tarkin and, uh, weird talking guy?


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[Assistant] The stark reds and the high contrast, so.


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[Assistant] I'm interested. They got my money already. It's like the Matrix trilogy all over again.


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[Assistant] I, I, so, I've, I've learned two things. First, uhm, this giraffe. I had heard that when a giraffe was born, it plopped out like, and it just fell on its legs. No. And immediately had to start walking around. Oh yea, I thought I, I thought I knew that too. Like a biology teacher.


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[Assistant] No, no, I know, but I'm just saying it's funny that like, you get a picture painted in your head when you're young, like in your high school. Teacher's like, you know those drafts come out, they land right on their feet, and you're like, yes they do, thank you teacher. And then now with the beauty of the internet, we can watch things go, oh, no, it's disgusting.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, the other thing I came to terms with was, uh, we're watching that 1960s series on, uh, Netflix and they talk about the whole JFK assassination. I was always taught that Jack Ruby, the guy who killed, um, Oswald, uh, hung himself in his gel cells. Like, no, he died of lung cancer.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe we'll save it for the post show. Post show? Well, because people can submit questions then. Well, we gotta name them, but we gotta get the... We'll do hours, but we can keep submitting all day.


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[Assistant] P.A.C. What about- Oh yea, Tupac. He's back!


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[Assistant] How about Jeffrey the Elephant? That's good. That'll confuse people. Not the Elephant.


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[Assistant] How'd she die? She died of AIDS, right? No! She got shot. Shot with an AIDS ball. Oh no. She hanged herself in her jail cell. Oh no, sorry.


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[Assistant] I walked down a neighbor, I was walking in a neighborhood where there was a church picnic going on and the kids threw their soccer ball into the street and I bravely ran in the middle of the street, which was empty, and threw the soccer ball back and they thanked me. That's great.


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[Assistant] So we got Women's Star Wars. Well again, well I can just draw the giraffe, Feather or Fuse or Kano.


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[Assistant] Very strange. There is a scene with him and, um, Michelle Rodriguez in bed and they're kissing. I'm like, that's some solid acting from both of them. Both of those homosexuals are really acting like they're straight. I applaud them and I hope their Oscar is in the mail.


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[Assistant] Whatever. I just assume if you're in Hollywood you fuck anything that moves. I would. Well yea, cause it's like nothing feels good anymore cause you're dead inside because you're constantly playing someone else. Also everything- That's how you lose your soul.


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[Assistant] I wish they would pan down, because in that scene he hands her, uh, the last Witch Hunter 2 script. Yeah, he puts it in her back pocket and goes, just something to read on the way home.


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[Assistant] Maybe two months. She's mostly in a control room for the entire movie.


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[Assistant] So I kissed him. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Most people watching this don't speak the language. Yeah, I played for 10. Who cares?


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[Assistant] Well, Zac Efron's like this beautiful man who can act. And he's actually a good guy. This guy, he just has a famous dad. And I remember, I was sitting next to Josh Flanagan. His dog's name is Eastwood. Oh yea, that's right.


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[Assistant] That's like, kind of. But so I remember-


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[Assistant] I've been Scott Eastwood on the boat. I've seen that one. Well, people were sharing pictures when they were talking about uh, the uh,


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[Assistant] Well no, Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood was the original inspiration for the Gunslinger. So they're like, Scott Eastwood's perfect. And I was like, oh, well if he can act, that would be kind of cool.


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[Assistant] Who cares? That's, oh man. Oh yeaah. So that's before steroids. That was before steroids. That could be some white steroid usage. And then on the top left is steroids. What movie is that?


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[Assistant] There you go. Glistening. Look at that. I could finish to that. Holy shit. Jesus Christ. Man, steroids are awesome. I gotta start doing steroids. I know. Then I can be, uh, Captain America. Man. You have to be Canadian.


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[Assistant] There you go. Yeah, so, uh, yeah, Scott Eastwood, I guess he's perfect for the Furious franchise because there's really no- Doesn't matter. I mean, yeah. Someone could flub a line and no one would notice.


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[Assistant] It looks like a video that was never meant to be seen by the public. Like it was just a birthday present for you and Lawrence.


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[Assistant] He had, he had a robot shooting a robot!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that was kind of the writing on the wall for a long time after the acquisition. We talked about this in that episode. Yeah. I mean, I had kind of seen the writing on the wall and when you guys contacted me, I thought, well, you know,


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[Assistant] I guess I should take an opportunity because you know, those guys have been doing Patreon and they're doing really well it seems and still getting to do what they like doing. Uhm.


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[Assistant] They can give it to you first from the source, so you don't necessarily need a third party saying, I went to Nintendo and got you the scoop.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I was also Nintendo delivering a very specific thing to people without giving them any choice.


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[Assistant] Definitely with like PT's cancellation and then the uncertain future of Allison Road. When we were kind of getting our hopes up, it was a nice little...


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[Assistant] Alright, not next yet, but let's see the last one. Panty party. That one. Yeah? Yeah, that's gonna be distracting, but whatever. So what? Panty party to panty party.


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[Assistant] It's educating my lips with saliva. That's perfect.


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[Assistant] Do we have pictures? Can we pull up pictures? I don't want to delay the panty party, but I'd love to see the difference with my own eyes. Yeah, absolutely.


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[Assistant] Cause people are all upset because her costume didn't change enough the last time. And now if they're saying her costume changed too much. Okay.


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[Assistant] And so they must know, I think she's been this skinny all along, this is just the first costume where she isn't dressed for the winter season, thus she isn't layered. I mean she's, she's, none of them have realistic body types, but comparatively she still is a


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[Assistant] Uhm, for me personally, and this is something I've actually thought about, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think me now, I don't care. Like I'll play Tomb Raider and just like enjoy playing as her. She is just the, she's just the


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[Assistant] That I could imprint myself onto. Whether or not it was making a wrestling game and then immediately making the absolute coolest created character version of myself that I could. I was never the kind of person who made a wrestling game and was like, I'm Meg Blanca.


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[Assistant] So I think, I think it may have something to do with your maturity and, and the fact that like, there's a period in your life where you don't, you haven't come to terms with who you are and what you are yet. And that's maybe when you're looking around and trying to see other examples of things that you could be or people that you want to be or things you want to aspire to.


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[Assistant] As opposed to now, I know who I am, I feel pretty good in my own skin, and so, I don't, like, I'm okay playing as anything else.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like, say when, I guess, it may be different, this may be a good example, but it may be different for you.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like when you were growing up, when you were playing Link to the Past, like were you looking to those types of things to find representations of who you were or who you wanted to be? Or...


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[Assistant] Well, I think that's kind of a question though. I wonder if it's the kind of thing where someone who feels comfortable in their own skin is way more likely to be welcoming and open to the prospect of something that's fully inclusive over someone who isn't, you know?


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[Assistant] I really have a hard time believing that someone is gonna say...


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[Assistant] Maybe if we slip in in this next update of Skinny May, we'll sell another 25 million copies of this game or whatever. And it's like, I don't, I don't think so. I think, I think she probably had a character model. I think they have a lot of attention to detail. I think she's covered in winter clothing. And so when they designed her, she's covered in winter clothing.


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[Assistant] I mean, either she's wearing a skin tight suit and is the shape of her clothes.


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[Assistant] Or she's a kind of a curvy person who wears actual practical clothes. So it's either, it's either the battle armor type scenario, lady battle armor type scenario, or it's kind of a whatever different portrayal.


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[Assistant] I think that's a problem though, I think you're kinda touching on it though. Television is getting better. I mean there's a lot more of it, but the good stuff is way better than the good stuff used to be. And so now when you're like, we're gonna make a video game that's also kind of like most television, it's like...


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[Assistant] I agree with that, I think that makes a lot of sense. I think we're all getting close. I think we're all very close. I think it's important to remember that Hideo Kojima...


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[Assistant] But what if, Adam, like, and like Bruce is saying, you're playing a PT-like experience, it cuts to a scene, you start playing on your mobile phone, and kinda like the way Psycho Mantis reads your memory cards.


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[Assistant] And like Elise said, he's big, like, the music he picks is like, yeah, it's like people will start listening, it'll be a song he puts in a trailer, and then it'll be on the radio, like, six months after the game comes out, you know?


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[Assistant] I trust him more than I trust some rando indie developer that I've never heard of before coming out. And also, thus far there's no Patreon for it too. The only two times you really don't want to trust someone is when it's a small indie developer and or they're trying to get you to donate to their Patreon.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's both? I was just right. Oh, maybe, I was clicking both. This has basically got a war.


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[Assistant] But for every, for every Cindy, there's an, whatever her name is, whatever the- Meh. Oh.


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[Assistant] It's cause his penis is- I know, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hold on, have you seen Return of the Dragon? Chuck Norris is kinda ew then too. That's his prime. I'm having trouble because


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[Assistant] Well yeah, nothing is new, but that doesn't mean people acted on it all the time. That's why we have rises and falls. In shit. Oh, fucking little boys and not fucking little boys? Basically, yeah.


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[Assistant] Just because the Romans fuck little boys doesn't mean we do it today. Yeah, that's true. Well, I don't know. Do you fuck little boys, Lawrence? I use the term we, so.


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[Assistant] It's absolutely true. Just say yes, and then, whatever, uh, click on the microphone and then type in. I've never tried, hold on, now I'm curious, I've never tried that. You've never tried sneezing while you're in a woman? Hey, congratulations, you're a functional adult.


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[Assistant] You can't trust yourself. No one can trust yourself. If you put your dick in your hand and you go, how big is my dick? You're gonna go,


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[Assistant] Excuse me? No, I think you have to do the, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Boy I should have written this down. Yeaah. That's like one of the first v- you can look at it. You have an internet computer right there. That's true.


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[Assistant] So, to, to reminisce, first we started in the old JASH building, right? At the old Culver Studio. JASH rooms. We moved three times in about three months. JASH room, conference room.


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[Assistant] And it'll be echoey. I don't know what it is, I was- I just went to the bathroom and there was a dude out there telling the hilarious story of how he tried so hard over the summer to grow a mustache. And the person he was telling to, a young female, went, that is hilarious! Which is the thing you say when it's not funny.


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[Assistant] Some people out there though might think it's funny. So people always ask like why I have a grimace at all times, just because I have to put up with shit like that. But the rest of us do as well. Yea, we all do. Yea, yea. But I show it more. You guys have happy faces. I gotcha. And I'm perpetually depressed. This was us at RTX Sydney?


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[Assistant] I've also discovered that this building is a building of extremes. Yeah. It's, we're either on the surface of the sun or it's Antarctica. I know. There is no in-between. No middle. We have a thermostat in the room and it says 73. But it's not. And you set it to 74 and all of a sudden it becomes a sauna.


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[Assistant] This is a fun game for those of you listening at home or watching or, you know, you might be on a bus, I don't know.


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[Assistant] But think of- think of someone you f- yea, play that game. Uhm, think of someone you find very entertaining, who's always high energy, that you think is- you enjoy watching. Robin Williams. Well, not anymore. But someone at that level.