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[Assistant] It was a product of its time and it's, it did not, it does not age well.


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[Assistant] I think it was Netflix. I love heavyweights. It's one of my favorites.


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[Assistant] I've enjoyed all of Noah Bombach's movies that I've seen, but I think the last one I saw was the one


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[Assistant] I avoided it because Lil Dicky, like, has collaborated with Chris Brown only recently, even though he's proven to be a very garbage person. So I was kinda, I kinda held that against Lil Dicky. I kinda held that against Lil Dicky, but I will watch Dave.


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[Assistant] That have these unique, quirky twists to them. Few studios do it better than...


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[Assistant] Arcane, and yeaah, this just looks amazing. I think it's interesting that the idea


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[Assistant] It's both an idea they had a long time ago and then they iterated on recently and now they seem to be executing in a way. Like, I don't know if you guys watched, uhm, the Noclip documentary on Arkane, but they talk about this idea that they had for a game. I think it's called The Crossing. Yeah, that's right. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, that's the movie.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. And you can see the seeds of this game in there and the story of them not being able to make it is kind of sad, but like a little while later they, you know, Arkane worked on Prey, various studios and


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[Assistant] The moon crash DLC for Prey has got an element of, uhm, repeatable content that, you know, you need to get these bunch of survivors out off the space station.


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[Assistant] So that's another, like, piece of this puzzle, and now it seems like they've been building up to this point where they make this game, uhm, this specific game Deathloop, which, one, that's...


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[Assistant] An interesting, like, look back at the history of Arcane, but also really exciting because they've been thinking about it for ages, which means they've probably been designing and iterating on it for a really long time and through, you know, uh, Prey as well, Mooncrash, they've


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[Assistant] Having said that, I literally started a Corvo run on Dishonored 2 yesterday because I was like, oh, I bet you I could do, but I realized there's only one trophy for like no kills, never been seen. I thought it was like, you get one for Emily and one for Corvo, I already got it for Emily. So I was like, eh, I'll still play. But like I went to Arcane a little while back pre Dishonored 2 and the level of


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[Assistant] They take the art stuff very seriously, like the, the, you see the way all the characters have this like almost sculpted look to them, like the edges to them and that kind of stuff. I was like, oh, that's a really interesting style. And then you go there and they have actual sculptures that they use for their stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just like really weird and like the other thing is like that that's exciting about it is like Lucy was saying with Sebastian Mitton is like the other person that was on the stream was Dengar Bacaba.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but he was like, oh, I'm going to have this, we're going to have this like this mansion and it's going to be like, you're going to be able to get in the mansion itself and go in between parts of it. And I was like, what are you talking about? And then obviously you play it and it's the clockwork mansion and you're like, oh, they actually pulled it off. Yeah. And then like.


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[Assistant] Harvey Smith as well talking about like these, uh, really tricky puzzles and how you could approach them in various different ways and if you had the right experience and the like arithmetic knowledge or even like the logic part of your brain is really strong, you could


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[Assistant] Arcane energy to this. It's just gonna be, it should be interesting. It should be really fun. So yeaah.


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[Assistant] Lady Boyle's party. Yeah. Like this whole thing reminds me of that. And I'm just like, yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much. Uhm, I, I'm, I love stealth games, like, I'm always after a good stealth game and I play Metal Gear almost weekly, uhm, just cause I enjoy the, I like, I like the idea of figuring systems out and bending them to see how far you can go, like,


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[Assistant] In Metal Gear Solid V, for example, the most powerful weapon that you can get in that game, to me, is, uh, D-Horse's poo. Because...


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[Assistant] If you think about it, like this whole game, it's got AI scripted that is just ridiculous. They know how to react to you, they know how to, like you move around one corner, they'll flank you, they'll throw certain grenades in, they're using their own gadgets and that kind of stuff. It's just like advanced level AI.


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[Assistant] But if you park a horse in the middle of the road and take a dump, it just breaks everything. They're like, what is this? What is this? What's going on? And you're like, how's that confused you? And like, you can roll up behind him and attach balloons to him. And they're just like, there's poo on the ground. Where did it come from?


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[Assistant] So like, I love that. So like, any sort of stealth game that allows me to screw with people is what I love and Dishonored is one of the best at that just by like,


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[Assistant] Throwing things and like manipulating AI. So I think that's why I started. Yeah, and poop. There's no poop in there. I hope there's poop in uhm, in a death loop. I would love that.


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[Assistant] Tango is a Bethesda studio, so it's a game. Yeah, so I think Mikami Studio is, was founded with Bethesda in partnership. So in the same way that the Evil Within is entirely a Bethesda property. So it's uhm, goes by I imagine. I believe that is the case. Uhm, double check me.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, uhm, yeaah, so I think that-


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[Assistant] What's the messaging about it? The language has been incredibly unclear. Uhm, the, the press? Go ahead.


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[Assistant] It had a console debut initially, and then we got a press release from Bethesda saying, exclusively launching for PlayStation 5. And then there's been some rumblings of it.


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[Assistant] It would be wild if they were not publishing on Xbox Series X as well, mainly because of the realities of third party development and that kind of stuff. They need to recoup those development costs and it just makes sense for them to put it everywhere. And Bethesda is traditionally a multi-platform studio as well.


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[Assistant] Watched something like Shining or It and those count as horror. So you market him as a horror writer, right? And the same for Shinji Mikami, obviously he's known for Rezi and those are traditionally marketed as survival horror. So I feel like regardless of what he does from this point, it's going to have the word horror in it to some degree, just so it.


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[Assistant] That kind of triggers those, the parts of the brains or like the nostalgia that people have for his games, uhm, in that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's also been some confusion around this one in the same way as the exclusive of the previous game, like, cause...


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[Assistant] In, in, initially they announced it, like this has got to be sadly the kind of worst part of Sony's announcement, which is unfortunate because it started off as the best part, but in the time since people are like, oh yeah, great, Spider-Man sequel of Miles Morales.


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[Assistant] It's a thing on the side and then it was like, oh, it's, it's part of a, uh, remastered version of the entire Spider-Man, the original game that has a separate chapter or a chunk of the game dedicated to Miles Morales. And then there's some confusion about whether that's still the case because Insomniac just came out and said, it's a standalone thing.


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[Assistant] A bigger Spider-Man remaster, like, be clear about it, what's going on.


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[Assistant] I do, I do still wonder whether the original Spider-Man game will be available, because obviously all the advancements in PS5 technology that they have on the hardware side, mainly the solid state or hard drive, they've been using Spider-Man as the kind of, you know, benchmark, look how it changes Spider-Man.


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[Assistant] It kind of makes you think that because of that Insomniac has been improving that game or working with that game to make most of the technology, the hardware, the new hardware, so there's decent chance that we get the original Spider-Man game on PS5 improved using the new hard drive and that kind of stuff, so.


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[Assistant] Another part of perhaps their, I don't want to sound like an anti-Sony person here, but like I am a very much, I like play everything, but like another part, another downside of their kind of presentation was the line that they said, we believe in general, generational transitions, which came across a lot of people going, uh, was that a smart thing to say?


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[Assistant] When, when Microsoft are like, hey, the games that you own, we're going to do our best to make sure that you play them everywhere. You buy them once. Whereas Sony's like, no, we think that their games for PS5 should be on PS5. Everything, all the money and time you spent investing in.


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[Assistant] One of the most successful consoles of all time is gonna be irrelevant. Uhm, so they haven't actually said it outright, but they clearly are making exceptions for certain games. Like I think Cyberpunk is...


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[Assistant] Partly a deal with CD Projekt Red, if you're gonna make, if you're gonna do it for anyone, it's gotta be for them, right? Uhm, they haven't said it outright as far as I know, whether Spider-Man is part of that. It would make sense for them, for it to be part of that, because, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's their game, but then again, if it's a remaster of that game built on new technology, perhaps the original version can't just be automatically carried forward somehow. They might just be like, we see the license on your account, you can have it.


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[Assistant] They broke off from Warner a little while back and took VIP with them, which is great because they have been doing amazing things with this franchise since now that they've got like full control over it again.


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[Assistant] Do you remember when this game first got announced and the people, and they were like, oh, it's episodic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the amount of piss it boiled was insane. And like that, that has become like one of its defining features and they, the studio has shown.


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[Assistant] They're a studio that I think is gonna benefit hugely from the power of the new consoles. Like they, they love a good crowd. They love a good simulated like, um, AI kind of routine. So seeing the new power and seeing what they do with it is probably the thing I'm most excited about. They create, they create these like,


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[Assistant] Intricate clock like systems where you see these gears turning and this just means like they've got an opportunity to put even more gears in there and make it even more intricate so you can pick apart. Like I said, I love the stealth games so picking apart these worlds are like some of the most enjoyable. I had to stop playing this game because I spent 20 hours on one level I think it was.


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[Assistant] Huh? It was, it was a while, like, uhm, uh, blessing from, uhm, uh, Kinda Funny and, uh, Yusuf over at Ubisoft were talking about playing it the other day and they were like, oh yeah, for some reason, Tam's done this perfectly in nine minutes. This is pretty cool. And I was like, no, that was 20 hours of nonstop, like trial and error. Which mission was it? After I did that, I was like, I'm done.


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[Assistant] I've been trying to get this, and Lucy's tired of hearing about this feature that I've been trying to do on the Hitman, but like, uhm, I've been trying to get it going properly, but like, Hitman is...


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[Assistant] And it's, it's the kind of feature idea was like Hitman is basically Looney Tunes for video games. Because if you think about it, Agent 47 is Bugs Bunny. He exists in a world, but only he's able to break the rules of the world for some reason. And the rules, the world continues as usual. Like you can, he's the only one that can run off a cliff and carry on moving.


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[Assistant] For example, he can throw a briefcase that tracks you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it ends with a spoiler, the arrival of, uh, Chris Redfield. So he, he hops out of a, so he's working on a kind of anti-umbrella, working at an anti-umbrella task force.


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[Assistant] He's the instigating factor and you see in the trailer where he shows up and shoots someone. So he's a bad guy now for some reason. Uhm, and that's why, that's why Ethan is on this again. So apparently like, as far as I can tell from the trailer and some of the stuff that I read, like Ethan has moved on with his life until Chris shows up again and is like,


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[Assistant] I think it kind of harkens back to the style of Rezzy 4, like they are very trying to evoke Rezzy 4, cause Rezzy 4 for-


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[Assistant] Um, I bet in the long run, like the transitions from one area to the next will feel a little more natural way, like it kind of makes more sense. Um, but yeah, I, I do see what you were saying, like the kind of.


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[Assistant] The style of it looks not as focused as Seven had.


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[Assistant] Dude, dude, that game is so good. If I can recommend a playthrough, like, uh, this is, this is pimping our own content, but Resident Evil, we had a show with Mike Mahadi and, um, uh, Mary Kish called Resident Knievel. Their, Resident Evil 7 playthrough is fantastic because


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[Assistant] Mike is obviously very, very familiar with Resident Evil. Mary wasn't at the time and she freaks out constantly.


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[Assistant] But it's just a push and pull between Mike knowing what's coming and knowing that he's not going to react to it and then accidentally being scared by Mary's like ridiculous reaction to it. So it's just a load of people going, ah, ah, ah, ah, but like it's, it's like so much fun to watch. If you want to watch one, give that one a shot. It's real good. It's real fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm very, very excited. What you were saying earlier, what you were saying earlier about, you know, studios that, you know, they experiment with new ideas in like smaller games, like that kind of counts for Demon's Souls, the Souls genre as it is now.


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[Assistant] Most of, most of it is born and refined in this game. Some people will say, you know, Kingsfield before it, but, uhm, Demon's Souls was where a lot of the things that the Souls franchise and the genre as a whole has


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[Assistant] As kind of like, um, has its roots. It's just a phenomenal game. I think I talked about this in, um, on our own, uh, like live stream, uh, after the event, but.


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[Assistant] This is a game that is so interesting but so few people got a chance to play it because it was before the genre blew up. And Dark Souls was the kind of moment where it was, you know, this is a franchise you need to pay attention to and it's what everyone caught on to. So, and because Demon's Souls was PS3,


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[Assistant] Generation before and really tricky to track down. A lot of people didn't really bother.


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[Assistant] It's so niche. Yeah, it's so niche. I had to like import it from Japan to play it and it was incredibly brutal even back then. It's probably one of the hardest still, uhm, Souls games. But it's also got such a really fascinating design and a world ambience that few other games


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[Assistant] Like Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls 1 has this mood which you can feel immediately when you get there. But there's areas outside of Firelink Shrine that don't have that. They just feel like kind of the absence of a mood is what the mood is. Whereas Demon's Souls, every area you go to has a distinct feel.


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[Assistant] Also, like, the way I, before we had Soul, I was describing why someone should be excited or trying to tell someone what it kind of like is, uhm, that hadn't played it before.


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[Assistant] And, uh, my, that kind of like, conversation with him was like, this existed before we had Souls, like, as a franchise or a genre or a name, yeaah. So when I first played it, I was like, oh, this is kind of fantasy Super Mario 64, which is what that game kind of is format-wise. You have these,


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[Assistant] Kind of archstones that you go into which are basically the equivalent of paintings in Super Mario 64. You walk into a castle-like structure.


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[Assistant] You're going traveling to these distant worlds. Every world has like a unique system or something like that there or an idea that it's exploring there. You do that thing, you get, you beat the boss and then you come back into this central hub, the castle as it were, and then find a new painting or an archstone to jump through. Like this is the original.


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[Assistant] But this is a game where they wanted to do that, they did that, and they executed on it really really well. So it's like, it's got a unique flavor to the Souls genre, uhm, to the rest of the games that they've done, and like, I'm just so happy that people can, one, play it, two,


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[Assistant] Fingers crossed, you know, Bluepoint doesn't miss, they haven't so far, so it should be like a good version of it.


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[Assistant] I think it's a genre that everyone can love, but the hurdles you have to overcome to like,


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[Assistant] Get comfortable, or like, it's not even skill, like I think skill is a...


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[Assistant] It's definitely a requirement, but it's, I feel like the skill everyone can get.


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[Assistant] Just because the way those games work, like you can find a build that works for you that has, uh, gives you the skill necessary. I think it's the patience that's the really, really difficult part. The first time you go really deep into a Demon's Souls level, or a Dark Souls level, get killed and you spawn all the way at the back, your brain goes, I have to do, fight all those things again?


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[Assistant] That's where I think people drop off, but I always like-


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[Assistant] And that was it, I was just gonna say like I always encourage people like to push past, like stay patient with it and don't assume it's your lack of skill, that's why you're not able to do it, it's more like you're learning the world, you're learning the language of that game and it's alien to everything else that you may have in games.


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[Assistant] And also like it's like the micro, like every single encounter you have with an enemy is, it feels impactful. You kill one enemy in that game.


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[Assistant] And you feel like you've grown, you've taken a, like a meaningful step forward. So when you come back, you know exactly how to encounter and how to approach that stuff. And then you just discover new corners of these worlds and, and they're just like fully enrapturing.


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[Assistant] I feel like a lot, I think that definitely is true but I also feel like some element of it is, this is gonna sound incredibly pretentious but like,


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[Assistant] It's really hard for people like to see, to see the value. I don't think you can, you can see the value of a From Software game immediately on a single playthrough. I think it's one of those games that you need to play through, step away from, and then really truly understand it. Like the Bed of Chaos stuff is very obviously bad.


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[Assistant] The jumping element of it and like even the boss itself, it feels bad. I felt like enough people called it out back then. Uhm, but like as time has passed, more people are like comfortable with saying it and


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[Assistant] It now has value in its narrative implications and lore than specifically the game. Uhm, Dark Souls 2, I feel like that was a game where you're kind of right, where people were reacting.


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[Assistant] A little more to the reputation of it. I think the fans eventually were like, and it's hard to like, you almost have to put the right position person in charge of talking about those games, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, like if you're an embedded member of the community, you're more likely to think on a level that's perhaps deeper than most people would be able to under the time pressure of a review. Uhm, Dark Souls 2 for example is like,


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[Assistant] Fans were pretty vocal almost immediately about the world itself and that hub and spoke system where it didn't fold in on itself and it didn't feel good in that way.


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[Assistant] Because the lore implications you get out of those enemies don't make sense when they're there. And that's why the Scholar of the First Sin came around where like they, you know, Miyazaki got more involved and was like,


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[Assistant] This should be here, this should be here, this means this, so remix all this stuff, put it all there, and then people are like, okay, now it feels a little closer. But I definitely do feel what you say about, you know, how much of it is like putting, that's one that I reviewed Sekiro and I was like so worried about whether I was


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[Assistant] The thing that stressed me out was like, am I missing something? Is there something smarter happening here that I'm missing? Is there something...


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[Assistant] Am I putting too much stock into what I'm seeing and maybe I'm, because I believe from software, I make these really smart games and really like nuance narratives that aren't like overly explained. Am I putting too much of myself into expecting that from them and then giving them the credit for it? It is really, really tricky. And like, it was only like,


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[Assistant] Three or four months later that I felt good about the score that I gave it having played it maybe three or four times and then I argue for it in game of the year and I felt good about that but there is definitely that element of


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[Assistant] Are you reacting to just the reputation more than what it actually is?


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[Assistant] I think I definitely could, so immediately the things that I'm picking up on is it looks quite different. The atmosphere I said is super important, but you can see the section with the knight. If you look at the original and you look at the one that has been remade,


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[Assistant] But because of it, it looks, when you go there, in the original Demon's Souls, it feels oppressive. It feels like you're being funneled into a corridor, and then when a giant knight with a shield appears, you're like, oh my god, how do I fight this? I have nowhere to move, it's dark, and it's, you know, like, restrictive, and I feel like I can't breathe right now. But then you look at the one in the remake, and it's like,


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[Assistant] There's certain things I'm worried about in terms of how does improving the visual fidelity and remaking it impact the mood of the game and the atmosphere of the game.


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[Assistant] But there, there's also stuff like, you can see like extra details in the background, like in that night scene, for example, you can make out ivy vines on the, on the walls and that kind of speaks to, oh like, you know, nature is somewhat prevalent in this area, which is, wasn't immediately, uhm, kind of visible in the original game. And then there's stuff that,


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[Assistant] Is like fan speculation where they show to start the, uh, uh, the trailer, it's like an icy area, icy mountain area. And there was originally a, an area which was like the frozen North. So where you'd go to fight the giants and various other enemies that was entirely cut.


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[Assistant] So uhm, like, they might be reintroducing that stuff, and if they were, they would be wholly Bluepoint making new content for the game. I'm not saying-


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I mean, like, the only reason people are kind of speculating that it might be happening is because Bluepoint, like, it's in a Pinocchio situation where everyone wants it to be a real boy and make their own game, and this is like, kind of...


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[Assistant] People are like, maybe this is what they'll do. They'll make a unique piece of content for Demon's Souls. I fully expect that that's just like a nice nod to the original because there was like a short section of an icy area shown in the original Demon's Souls opening.


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[Assistant] So I think it was just that, but uhm, there is speculation that they might introduce new content. And I'm not saying I'd necessarily be disappointed by it, but there is potentially for a, an opportunity for it to be like a, this kinda sucks, it shouldn't have been in here. But, I'm treating it as its own game.


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[Assistant] The original Demon's Souls still exists for me, and I still think it's incredible, and if I really desperately want to play it, I can make that happen via money and buying all the other stuff.


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[Assistant] Jog on here. Yeah, jog on. I was like, just processing it. That's not an American thing, is it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like unwatchable. Like that's, if you wanna, if you wanna never watch that, just watch that one scene, Sherlock Holmes, Mind Palace, and it's one of the most awful scripted, edited, acted, written things in existence. It's just like, why did you do this?


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[Assistant] I'm like super into that. I do wonder how it holds up over the course of multiple hours though. That's going to be the true test of it.


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[Assistant] I see exactly what you're saying. It's like that, it's got like the, the, the Persona 5 like upbeat.


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[Assistant] Now more than ever, it is mainly because of Persona, the franchise and Shin Megami Tensei, like, it's gonna sound weird but like, I'm looking for games that can almost...


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[Assistant] Make me obsessed with, like, the aesthetic for a really long time. Like, I don't mind if a game's like, okay, but like, if it's, if I'm gonna be thinking about the soundtrack for a really long time, or like, the visual style for a really long time, I really, that's what I love about Persona 4, 3, 4 and 5, it's like,


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[Assistant] I played those games, enjoyed them, but then like I listened to the soundtrack.


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[Assistant] Forever, still do. Like anytime I see that style of like art, I'm like excited by it. So I'm kind of looking for those, sounds weird to say, but like a game to define my, my lifestyle and art and the things that aesthetic that I'm into for the next year or so.


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[Assistant] And that very much was Persona 5, like, for the last year and a half, two years.


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[Assistant] Almost impossible to play at this point, uhm, I remember when I played it after the fact, I played it a long time after its release, uhm, on PC and I had to jump through some hoops to even get that thing working, but I think I remember playing it because I was


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[Assistant] On an RPG kick and I wanted a world to escape to and have like a Biowave vibe to it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think that's what the original vampire had in there. It had this really fascinating exploration of a vampire community in LA, was it, I think?


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[Assistant] And I remember playing that game and feeling like I was stuck in, in that world, like there was a seedier element to, to this LA that I was seeing and you'd walk around at night and it felt kind of dangerous and it felt kind of like you were at any moment you could be set upon by a gang of vampires and have to talk your way out of it and


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[Assistant] It's one of the few games that I feel like, um, that does vampire fiction super well. And it's because it doesn't try and make a gimmick out of it. It just creates these like factions and this society that you


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[Assistant] Is there and has always existed and is familiar and has touch points, but actually it's incredibly dark and there's like weird shit happening.


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[Assistant] And the only way back to the hotel or my home was like through a dark alley. Like that sense of apprehension that you get when you're like, I've got to walk through this alley to get where I need to and I don't know what could happen in there. That's the kind of feel and mood that I got from that game.


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[Assistant] It's like around every corner is like, ah, is this, is this a good idea to talk to this person or not? Should I say this? I don't really show. I'm not really sure. Like if I upset this faction later on down the line, will they be angry at me? And it's just like that kind of like on edge RPG feel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you could like manually swing your limb, your darkness limb. But like that's what this, your darkness limbs. But that's what this vampire, the masquerade currently looks like and that's not what I want from it. So I'm hoping that they show off like more conversational, more exploration style stuff where it's just like figure out the RPG aspects. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] I think there's a couple mods, there's a couple mods that improve it, but I feel like you could get a good feel for the atmosphere, even though the graphics will obviously look dated. Another kind of touchdown that just popped into my mind is like, you know, the club scene from Blade.


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[Assistant] I was, I was just, I was just speaking to my roommate, um, about that and she was like, yeah, there's a bit where they talk to Wesley Snaps and I was like, excuse me? They do what? Where can I watch this?


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's like it is improv where everyone takes it deadly serious. They pick a celebrity who is


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[Assistant] And like, they, like, that's the whole conceit of it. And it is like, escalating levels of weirdness, where sometimes they do feel like they'll have a celebrity, like, someone from, you know, The Only Way is Essex, or it would be equivalent to like, uh, Jersey Shore. And like, they're, they're like, in the middle of a...


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[Assistant] Uhm, honestly like I think, uh, they're all kind of, they're kind of like just games that I'm interested in seeing how they pan out. They're less like obvious, obviously something I'm definitely going to check out. Like Gory Cuddly Carnage is just because it's got a


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[Assistant] realistic cat sounds. So like it looks in the camera and it's not like, hey, I'm a cat. It's like meow. And you're like, oh, that's, that's adorable.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I tweeted about this, but like I'm so happy that cats are finally getting some respect from video games. Like it's, it's, it's like I've been tweeting about, I can't remember where that phrase came from, attack and dethrone God, it was in some sort of like,


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[Assistant] The wild irony of all this is, we reached a point before, like, uhm, uh, the great collapse of 2020 where everyone was kind of looking at each other and going,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, Lucy, myself and Chastity have been booking guests, but the event as a whole is called Play For All. So originally we were doing it to kind of,


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[Assistant] Make the world feel a bit smaller in the gaming community because everyone feels isolated right now and we want to raise money for healthcare workers who are at the front line of battling COVID.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, you know, need PPE and that kind of stuff and we partnered with Direct Relief to do that. So we are still doing that. But in the weekend before launch, obviously, the stuff with George Floyd happened and then the Black Lives Matter protests happened and.


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[Assistant] We've lined up a bunch of guests, we're gonna have you guys on as well soon, but we know we're playing with, you know, today was the voice actor for Alex in Call of Duty.


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[Assistant] We just wanted to take the opportunity to do the normal thing where we cover an E3, but try and put something good behind it as well and raise money for causes that really need it and would really benefit from it.


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[Assistant] So that's, that's our kind of event, Play For All. You can go to Gamespot.com and see that schedule there or you can just follow, find one of us on Twitter. Anyone from Gamespot is always sweet about it. So yeaah, come join us.


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[Assistant] Although they've started sending us links to like weird movies as part of these, this kind of, uh, we merge with Viacom and now like, they're like, hey, here's a Mission Impossible if you want to watch it.


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[Assistant] What could it be? Countdown to Cats, a surprise edition of Countdown to Cats, guys. We did it. Wait, I thought Mount Jump from Morbius.


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[Assistant] Funhouse has all grown up. Or is it? Was that a question? Why do we keep numbering our podcast episodes this far in? Who shot JR? Find out today on this anniversary laden episode of Doop Stoop.


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[Assistant] The man across from me asking whether I have food on me is of course James Willems. Hello! Uh, here with his work wife, Adam Bulliard. Hi everybody. Also known as Bones, or Buckshot, or, we need to have it, we'll have a new nickname for you.


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[Assistant] I don't want to spoil it. We shot a thing earlier today where James had us put a lot of greasy calories into our bodies very quickly. Uhm, and it actually served as entertainment, believe it or not. It wasn't just a weird


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[Assistant] Uh, this, uh, this episode we're talking about Dude Soup and celebrating five years. Uh, as of February 5th, we are now a five year old baby. Can we get those balloons to drop?


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[Assistant] Balloons, bones, bones, balloons. Nothing. Anyway. Maybe later. We're gonna talk more about that.


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[Assistant] It's weird though, because we swapped offices so quickly, but it felt like such a long period of time, but it was only less than six months, maybe.


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[Assistant] Until we moved into this place because they kept talking about, we're going to get you guys a place, we're going to get you a place. Uhm, the whole move over here was crazy. I know you guys weren't here for it, Bones. No.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was uhm, it was a crazy time. The whole journey from leaving Machinima to starting here was...


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[Assistant] Right, but they were building out different parts because Fullscreen was doing their SFOD.


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[Assistant] That was the gold rush though. It's really interesting seeing the internet landscape of entertainment go from one thing to another where it used to be like,


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[Assistant] Well, since it's our fifth anniversary, it'll be February 5th, 2015.


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[Assistant] Well, first, uhm, it was Joel or Spool left first. Spool. Spool went on, he wanted to move back home, uhm, and we said goodbye little bird, we will miss you, and that was sad, and then Joel wanted to leave.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and then, and then Joel, I believe left shortly after and then...


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[Assistant] Joel did a lot of the programming, and that's I remember when Bruce said, oh I have a friend, I think he'd be great at this, and then, uh.


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[Assistant] Well, he's always like, well, we have a problem. His name's Adam. And we're like, oh no, no, no. For the first time ever, I was the first Adam anywhere. Yeah. Uh, unlike, you know, my high school when there was 22 of us or whatever.


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah, that's back when we were all shoved in the office now where Inside Gaming is. Uhm, but then, as I forget how it happened, we're like, we need a nickname for...


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[Assistant] I'm potato-esque. Uh, but anyway, yeah, it was just, it was funny. We're driving. It's like, ugh. I'm like, yeah, I'm getting old. Uh, I'm just like, she has a father.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then it got way too crowded because...


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[Assistant] I believe we, this is one of those things where the audience has an issue with where they go, it's really great when everyone's in the office and you guys are recording like, yes, but those people are working.


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[Assistant] And we feel terrible disrupting their day because when you're in an editing groove and then you hit a lease with a stick and you go, hey, hey, what do you think about this? And he's like, okay.


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[Assistant] Sort of beefing up at one point, like once, yeaah, I think Joel was the problem.


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[Assistant] He was the damn that broke. Yeah, it took 8 people to replace him. Basically, yeah. In a way, it was like, well, shoot, now we're behind on someone who is a, he was an on-camera personality, kinda not real, yes, he was, like, we never were like, Joel, you're only on camera. He was like, well, I have a job to do, but I'll, I will perform when I need to perform.


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[Assistant] Um, and then he was a fantastic programmer. He was like an all around great person. So I was like, yeah, we have a, there's a lot to replace him.


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[Assistant] Uh, we were lucky that we were finding people, and it started with you and Elise, so it's actually pretty cool that it like...


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[Assistant] I guess for those who don't know what a bungalow is, if you've ever been to an overcrowded school and you went to Spanish 101 somewhere, it was typically in this...


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[Assistant] Well so, in the next chapter of what happened, that thing James was talking about earlier, where they were building rooms that looked like rooms.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I still remember that day, it was like, the CEO full screen came in like, hey team, gather around, and like, we kinda poked our heads in and saw, and it was like a big group, and we were like, oh fuck, I know what this is, and like, you, you feel that feeling in the bottom of your stomach, like, you're, it's the sort of the survivor's guilt, where you're like,


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[Assistant] That sucks because I've been on both sides of it or it's like layoffs frickin' blow. But then it was basically like, well, you guys have a lot more room now. What would you like to do? And then so we just.


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[Assistant] Basically did a land grab and we're like, take this room, take this room. Like it was so crazy. We're like, this room had one desk in it and now it's our single cam room.


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[Assistant] I got some questions, uh, from some folks on Twitter. Uh, we'll be hearing from those shortly. But first, I want to give a little shout out to our sponsor, Stitch Fix, right now.


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[Assistant] Stitchfix.com slash dudesuit. Thank you, Stitchfix. Okay, yeaah. So before this podcast started, I, uh, I asked like, hey, we're doing this podcast celebrating five years. Got any questions? Uh, most questions are like, when y'all quitting? Bones.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I have nowhere to go. Uhm, but no, some actually really good questions. Uhm, this one's from, uh, Brent Erlen. So, do you have a favorite running gag? Anyone here?


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[Assistant] I know there's a few, I didn't realize there was the, there is a compilation made by our friend Personal Gravity, where it's the huh and hmm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which I didn't even realize we...


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[Assistant] I, well, so this was another thing too where, uh, I was just talking to Jess about this over the weekend where, cause she's been recording podcasts on her own.


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[Assistant] And then she was like, did we talk about this, Mike? Welcome to my world where I don't, I record so many things and I don't know if I've said it in a video real life or I dreamed it. So yeah, that's so many times where they go, people go, you guys make a lot of the same jokes. Like we hang out a lot and that's what happens in a strong, healthy relationship. It's easier than new jokes.


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[Assistant] On that note, uhm, this name, this lovely name, Pike Old Mowers, wants to know our favorite series that we have ever made.


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[Assistant] That is maybe a misnomer. Some people have some sort of misinformation where they go, like, oh, you know, they write their sketches. No.


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[Assistant] Let it come up naturally. It'll be fine. If you have an idea, use it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like I, I went into a, uh, my summer car, which is another fun series, where I found a stack of paper and I was like, the joke will be the guide is this big.


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[Assistant] That is as far as the joke will go. If it lands, it lands. If it doesn't, we move on. That's, that's about as far as we think. Otherwise, yeah, I think it doesn't become as much fun.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't want to step on your shoes. There was something, oh, I was going to say Speed Up for Sonic.


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[Assistant] 15 years ago. Wait, that's true. Crap. Yea, because I'm 35 this month. You were 20.


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[Assistant] And I remember being like, I was working at a clothing store, uh, that's when I first met Jess. And I remember I saw the thing.


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[Assistant] Oh, I, when I, when I worked in the clothing store, I found out I was allergic to ink dye, or like too much of it, so my hands like just, like it was just scabby.


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[Assistant] That's fine. Uh, but I remember, I remember requesting time off and going, I need to drive down to Santa Monica this Thursday or whatever. I'm trying out to be the host of G4's attack at the show. Just a blank stare.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I remember going there and being super nervous and then I did the thing where you read the teleprompter and then I remember apologizing going, that was terrible, I'm really sorry. Uhm. You still do that by the way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, no, that was the irony, because I remember doing that and then I remember walking in and going, I never want to be on camera ever again. That was miserable. And I focused more on editing and writing and everything in between. And then I landed at this place in Michigan, we're like, hey, we need you to be on camera. I was like, god damn it.


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[Assistant] Basically yea, because I hated my face and everything about it and the only reason why I showed my face was one time they sent a guy to Germany


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[Assistant] I stopped holding close. Long after that. Yeaah, that was uhm, so that was wild. But yeaah, I almost went to film school, I like, at the last minute said I'm not gonna go, and then I just started working at like, I was 19 I think?


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[Assistant] It was weird, yeaah. I did not think I'd end up here, but it just sorta snowballed into this direction.


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[Assistant] I think, not to speak for both of you, but seeing you guys at RTX last year doing stand up was like, proud father moment for me. Just like, I was like, so, it's so weird when you see a friend of yours have a talent you were like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know if I have the- Jess always says I should, and I'm just like, I don't know if I have the brain for it. No, I do. You do.


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[Assistant] What about that 9-11 joke? That was fine. That was her joke. I know, but you said it. And then the person from New York's like, don't say it, don't say it.


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[Assistant] This is so difficult. Like, you know. Because you can see everyone's individual face. It's not like you see them.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, I think some of my favorite things have more or less been our failures.


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[Assistant] Like, Tiberius method was, like, in my mind it was a success, but then when you look at it on paper you go, well you did one of them.


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[Assistant] And no, like only a handful of people have seen it, but I'm like, yeah, it makes it kind of special.


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[Assistant] It just turned into this thing and I was like, it was this really fun collaborative project. Same with Sexwing and Arizona Circle and all these things that were like.


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[Assistant] The rest, you know, shooting for the stars and like maybe not landing it, but I'm like, I'm so glad I got to do this because these are things I dreamed of doing elsewhere and I got a shot to do it and it was like, well, you know what, that cartoon you worked on, we're not asking for another one and you're fired. It's like,


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[Assistant] They're like, just go back to work. Keep doing what you're doing and...


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[Assistant] Like, I enjoyed going back to doing gameplays when we came back from Arizona Circle, where I was like, oh, I like being able to switch things up, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's been rad that we get to do these sorts of things, and I hope we get to do more or something similar, which we already kind of have late last year. You guys will be seeing, I guess you can see some of it now, but soon, soon there will be more.


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[Assistant] Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, viral, viral. Yeah, the things, uh, my cousins say, hey, I saw you on the front page of Reddit. I'm like, we have a subreddit. Like, I dunno. Too much. I don't subscribe.


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[Assistant] I got two more questions here before we finish out talking about the history.


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[Assistant] I mean, time management? Maybe? We always think like, one day, one day we'll take those Fridays off.


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[Assistant] No, I'm, and after Adpocalypse and that thing happened, it is a...


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[Assistant] I remember when it was happening, I was like, this is a touchstone. This is a, this is a really important moment because I knew this day was coming. Like when I was first at Machinima, I'm like, this ain't going.


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[Assistant] So like, you can't do this forever. And it was, and then when they first, they're like, well now it's watch time. Now it's not just clicks, it's watch time. Okay, well there's the first one. And then once it was, okay.


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[Assistant] Do twice as much work to go where you were a year ago. And it's like, it is exactly what James described as like the most perfect metaphor of what we're doing, but.


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[Assistant] We're, we're fortunate that it's like, we do have different part of a business where it's like, we have a merch department that.


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[Assistant] Go into Disney World and I remember showing Jess and she was laughing at it. I'm like, that's a good sign. Like when you can make a sales video.


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[Assistant] We had a sales thing and at the last minute some world cultural event happened.


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[Assistant] Totally understand. Your integrity is worth more than the money you would make from this. Totally awesome. And I remember, can you get me real quick? I'm getting real greasy talking about work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, I mean, it was, it was kinda, it sucks cause it was actually a pretty good video and I hope it, I hope we can show it one day, but yeaah, there were just, there were some things that were like, we're not, we're not comfortable.


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[Assistant] Putting this up in our audience going, oh, you just did that for money. I was like, well.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm grateful for them, like in my thirties I have a lot of people I consider friends I get to hang out with and like yeaah, I don't see Joel half as much as I wish, uhm, but I'm always grateful for when I have those times where I can hang out with him. So, I dunno, we need to do another trip with him or something, you know, just kidnap him, do something like that.


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[Assistant] And I was wearing short shorts, like these short like lululemon shorts. And I was stretching at the light and I was looking like an idiot just for James because I just wanted to make him laugh.


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[Assistant] And then a car pulled- I had my headphones in so I couldn't hear, but I guess a car was like honking at me.


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[Assistant] And I was like, what is this? And they were like, they were like, uh, hey, can we go? And I was like,


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[Assistant] Man, I don't know if we'll get through the rest. I mean, so much of the history of Funhaus has been recent, uh, with obviously like Lawrence and Bruce moving on, which has been, we've been covering that tirelessly in the last few months and you can go back and watch those podcasts talking about like, there was this weird, like, it feels like,


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[Assistant] It was like the early years and then it was like three years of


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[Assistant] Fast forward and now today and I'm just like, oh my god, it's been a blur and there's been so much happening and like, oh god, might as well just do another podcast and talk.


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[Assistant] More about this, but I want to talk about things that have happened in the time span that Funhaus has been a thing since it started in 2015, now it's 2020. Uhm, since then Machinima has collapsed our old job and the place we work for has absorbed it into itself like an amoeba.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, and I wrote in here, GameTrailers now a shelf corporation. The irony of GameTrailers was, they sued YouTube.


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[Assistant] Because YouTube was uploading Viacom clips or whatever and then it created this whole thing where there was a court case that said, YouTube is not, uhm, responsible for what gets uploaded, it's on the user.


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[Assistant] That is, that created that whole thing. If I comment, huh, great. And then someone like Elise was like, we should really start a YouTube channel. Like, no, we refuse.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it is basically just a YouTube channel now that's still in my RSS feed. Yeah, I mean that, that is really it.


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[Assistant] No, but yeaah, I'm, I bet they have a Dawn. Uhm, yeaah, Star Wars was rebooted within that time, and


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[Assistant] We got a Rogue one, we got a Mandalorian. I just thought it was so weird that it was like in that time period.


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[Assistant] It was like, yeah, it all happened within these five years. Like, oh God, uhm, we're still playing on the same game consoles that came out in 2011. We're about to be done with that. And the switch came out and I think.


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[Assistant] Man, uhm, in terms of PC gaming, I don't feel like a lot has changed.


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[Assistant] The biggest change I can think of is M2 cards, which are these tiny little solid states that go into your motherboard. Boring. Who cares. Anyway, uh, quantum computing. It'll be here one day.


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[Assistant] And then we'll see. So yea, I mean like overall, I was thinking technology today, has anything really changed for you guys?


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[Assistant] I was talking to Lindsay about this right before I started filming, but it's like, I don't really go on Twitter anymore. It feels to me like the new Facebook where it's just a sea of voices and you're trying to get attention and I'm like, I don't want to be that person. And I think it's bad for my mental health. So.


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[Assistant] Or if I, if I have a funny thought, I'm going to save it for a GTA and make it a talking point or a podcast.


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[Assistant] I like the barely legal thing we talked about earlier. I'm like, I could do that and go, 16 retweets, you're doing great. But it's like, what did I get from that? I just gave away free content when I can make it part of my job and.


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[Assistant] Provide some actual entertainment to people rather than go, huh, huh.


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[Assistant] Just move on. It's so, it's just so empty. I dunno.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I got some, uh, that's about as much time as we have to talk about ourselves. I didn't, I had Super Bowl on here. I had the story that Elise sent me about how Disney's suing schools. Oh, I know.


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[Assistant] Uh, I wanna talk about some stuff coming out this weekend. Uh, so we got Project Winter. This is a video James and I shot two and a half years ago. No. Yeah, pretty good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, and then, uh, on Monday, we got another episode of Lights Camera Trash. This is our new Monday slot video, which is like, you know, sort of a wheelhouse demo-disc style thing.


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[Assistant] Can you? What's the hint? I forget his name. Uh, no, the one Lindsey thinks it is.


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[Assistant] Billy Zane? Billy Zane. Oh, okay. Is the hint.


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[Assistant] And Lindsay is laughing. Rude. Because you're kind of racist. I don't know. Yeah, you're white racist. What is Billy Zane? He's uh, he's fantastic.


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[Assistant] He's good at everything he does. He's phantom. That's what he is. Uh, and then one of the last videos I want to shout out. When is this one coming out? We're doing another, um, gift. Friday. This Friday? So tomorrow when you're watching this on YouTube, or, you know, maybe years later after the earth has imploded and you found a little micro drive with humanity's remains and go, what the hell is this?


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[Assistant] Yeah, why are they sit weird? Are the men big or small? I can't tell. Uh, but you will find this video, uh, that Lindsay is loading at a clip for us. This is our Five Below Gift Guide for Valentine's Day. We did it again.


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[Assistant] Now, you know me, I'm a huge, uh, proponent of plastics. Okay, yeaah. Because it's everywhere and you can use it for everything. So why not make a humidifier out of it?


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[Assistant] Who picked that clip? I did, about four minutes before we started filming, I just picked a random part. Uh, it is, it is bonkers, it's madness, I have a lot of fun making that show, hope we can keep this going.


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[Assistant] Yes. Uh, we, and we, we definitely have a night. We want to make it monthly at the very least. We'll see what happens. I love making that show. It is, we do it in one go. It's a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, look forward to that. Uh, thank you guys for watching, listening, however you enjoy your podcast. If you enjoy this, please share it with a friend or two. Or, you know, just make some extra accounts, just download it, you know, just get it going. I don't encourage that. No. Does that work? I didn't, I was a joke. That's a big joke. Anyway, we'll see you guys next time. Enjoy the channel. Tell a friend. Bye. See you in six years.


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[Assistant] Uh, Elise and Lindsay here, we just want to tell you to stay off our island, uh, during the stream. Please, thank you, our, our Animal Crossing island. Yes, I am.


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[Assistant] That's, people, I, I did see that and people have to understand that she was just a host. She wasn't pulling all the strings. I've worked on a lot of reality TV shows. I don't know if you all know this, but I, before Funhaus I did about five years in uh, reality TV.


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[Assistant] Do shoots in open graves. It's like super fucked up. Tyra wasn't even there.


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[Assistant] So. Oh wow. That was a producer in the interview going, oh really? You had a friend who died. How can I capitalize on this for the show? So.


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[Assistant] I was just going to say it might be a little crass, but from what I've heard, I don't own a sex doll. You can't prove it, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know that there are removable parts.


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[Assistant] So, it's possible they just provided the arms and legs and heads. Like, you know, maybe they were just dolls.


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[Assistant] Well I have a question, if the, if like all the mid tier seats are empty, are the chauffeurs actually gonna check your ticket? Or can you just go sit in an empty seat? If there's...


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[Assistant] Like, two thousand empty seats and you sit in one of them, are they gonna come up and be like, get back up to the nosebleeds, poor person?


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[Assistant] It's a, it's also, you think about it, it takes, it must have so much more pre-production than a traditional movie because a lot of times with movies, they'll shoot everything and then they'll rearrange the scenes because it's like, oh, this conversation, you know, isn't specifically connected to the timeline. They can have this emotional moment or this arc.


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[Assistant] I think sex dolls are great, everyone should have one.


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[Assistant] I've never used one. You can't prove anything.


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[Assistant] I didn't even know if there were minigames. It was basically, I think it was based in Flash and it kind of had its boom back during the Flash days where you could log in with a penguin and you could just walk around this cartoon world and interact with people and it was basically kid oriented so it was like, it was like a visual chat room.


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[Assistant] Like maybe there were many games, I don't remember, I think I only went there once, you know, in like high school or something, I was like, this is fucking stupid.


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[Assistant] Because I didn't read this article, but I did hear about a month ago about this Club Penguin Online, and I remember reading that there were separate servers, one that was child-friendly and one that was unfiltered.


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[Assistant] And so uhm, I'm curious if, you know, there was one that was marked basically 18 and up.


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[Assistant] I'm curious if all this stuff that was occurring, if it was only in the adult server.


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[Assistant] The uncensored one, or if it was also happening.


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[Assistant] So, I'm, I'm curious, uh, you know, what's this thing like?


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[Assistant] Well, cause there, you know, there's porn sites that have, you know, they have the page that's, are you 18 and over, and you have to click it to enter it.


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[Assistant] I'm curious if it was a similar situation with Club Penguin where, uh, I mean still, it's a thing that's oriented towards children in, like, adults


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[Assistant] I mean also back when Club Penguin was a thing, you still had edgelords trying to get in there and circumvent the rules. Same thing happened with Habbo Hotel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the internet historian has a great little, uh, short documentary, uh, talking about the history of the, like, 4chan invasion of Habba Hotel. Hmm.


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[Assistant] It was, it was similar to Club Penguin except it was human avatars and like you could go to like...


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[Assistant] You know, nightclubs and stuff, but it was all, it was an isometric one.


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[Assistant] And I remember, the only thing I specifically remember from it was you could have different skin colors and hairstyles. And so what 4chan was doing was they were all choosing, um, you know, uh, dark brown skin in afros and then all congregating together and like,


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[Assistant] They're like, culminated in them like surrounding the pool so that no one could get to the pool because you can't cross over someone else's avatar. So they're basically like...


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[Assistant] Well, what I think is crazy is that, you know, even though they are doing these, you know, offensive, insensitive, terrible things, it is also many times, uh, an incredible example of


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[Assistant] All over the United States they released like 20 red balloons and then they just told people, you know, work with each other, how quickly can you all find these red balloons and they thought it was going to take like a month.


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[Assistant] People had found them all in like a day because everyone on the internet connected and found them all. And that's a similar thing that 4chan did where when Shia LaBeouf was doing his like stand together thing, the live stream.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they basically were like, they started trolling him.


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[Assistant] And then they repeatedly kept moving the location and then...


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[Assistant] At one point all it was was just a shot of a flag on a pole and they used like the sun and like a research property that they owned and all this different stuff to find it and then they took it down and then the next thing they did was it was just a flag on a wall inside of an apartment and they found that too and it's like


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[Assistant] It wa- you know, it is trolling, and it is kind of shitty what they did, but still, it's like, humankind...


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[Assistant] Like that's what makes humans strong is when, rather than one human, a collection, a community coming together to work together to accomplish a task.


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[Assistant] This is, this is that. But for, you know, random trolling bullshit, it's really interesting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like for months this robot was hitchhiking across Canada because people were just picking it up, driving it somewhere, dropping it off. And then yeah, I think on like its second or third day in the United States.


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[Assistant] I mean it's a good reflection of our different kind of societies I think.


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[Assistant] James, I'm gonna have to disagree. I think, uh, 100% conspiracy. Because here's the thing. Disneyland is closed.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of companies might be, and this is a term I learned from when I was up in Silicon Valley, pivoting, uh, to find- You didn't wait.


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[Assistant] But really, like, in all seriousness, I mean, I'm, I think that a lot of businesses are looking for ways that, you know, they can provide, they can still make a profit or provide, uh, different business solutions, uh, without


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[Assistant] Having a brick and mortar, you know, like. Yea, yea. They're embracing the situation and understanding that even though it is going to go away, it is something that could happen.


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[Assistant] Disney bought the website. Just like Yahoo bought Neopets. Okay. They both bought it and then did nothing with it and let it die. Got it. Perfect. That's what I like. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It was a minimum viable product of doing it, cause you can't do anything in Club Penguin. Back when I was there, all you could do was walk around and talk to people. I went in and I was like, fuck this. N-word.


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[Assistant] It'll be making a return, maybe they'll bring back Toontown online.


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[Assistant] We gotta find this gold! I don't- I don't- I can't do impressions like you, Elise.


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[Assistant] I am, I got my shirt, came in the mail, hula house. Nice, good shirt.


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[Assistant] Often times, uh, hermited, uh, I, uh, you know, most of my early twenties was freelance working from home. So this is something that I'm very familiar with, uh, and I feel like it didn't kind of strike me as hard as a lot of other people because


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[Assistant] Uh, it's something that I had experienced before, uh, and kind of like gravitate towards, you know, I don't, I don't go out a lot, um, by choice. I have a lot of invitations to parties. True. Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.


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[Assistant] But, uh, I've definitely, uh, it definitely was hard in the beginning, uhm, just not having that cushion, uh, of, you know, interacting with people and breaking it up. And like, like you said, Elise, I kind of had to find ways, like, things to do to kind of, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, break it up, uhm, I did, I mean, I don't want to talk about it a lot, but I did mention that, uhm, I started taking, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, lamictal, some mood stabilizers, cause I've been, uh, I, I found out I'm, uh, I was undiagnosed bipolar for 32 years. Uhm, but something that's come from that is I've actually been able to like focus on some, something for more than like 30 minutes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and I would do here and there, but would never be able to stick with it, is uhm, just making little prototypes in game development.


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[Assistant] And that was something this weekend I spent like two and a half days straight working on it, which is like.


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[Assistant] Uh, something I've never, for a long time I've never really been able to do is like stick with a project.


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[Assistant] And so my plan now is basically most weekends I'm just kind of like try to think of a little prototype and kind of slap it together. You know, nothing too grandiose, but uh. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I mean, well that's basically what happened this weekend was, uhm, something I've often done, uh, which is my scope was too large. You know, these game jams you're supposed to make a very small, simple game, and I basically came up with like a full platformer, and so like,


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[Assistant] I got all the movement down over the course of a day and then I started working on like asset design and level design and I was just like, this, I can't.


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[Assistant] Oh no, sorry, no, no, go ahead, please. I was gonna say, uh, that's something I learned, uh, it took me a long time to learn, uh, is that just cause you have good ideas, it does not fucking matter to anyone. No one cares.


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[Assistant] Cause like, someone can sit there and write out good ideas. It's actually executing on them and delivering.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that was something I never understood for a long time. I would just sit there and like, I have this, I have this master document full of like this universe that I was building. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And like, there's so much timeline and...


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[Assistant] Like all this stuff thought out, but like I never did anything with it. Uhm, maybe I should now.


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[Assistant] Foreign topics. Foreign topics to get to. I just wanted to say one thing, uh, which is, uh,


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[Assistant] You look at the first letter and try to guess what the word


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[Assistant] It's crazy that you're talking about this because I actually just saw, it was a, it was a random TikTok and the guy talked about go to my YouTube and I didn't, uh, but he interviewed someone because have you heard that


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[Assistant] Yeah, they don't have an inner monologue. And he, the one thing he asked, well in the TikTok one thing he asked was, how do you read? And she basically described what you just said where she sees the words like form in her head and she can actually see


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, it broken up in the different subjects and so yea, when she's reading a paragraph, she can actually like break it apart and see it in its different parts and like what's important and stuff. It was like holy fuck.


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[Assistant] I had a bit of a realization, uh, which is that like throughout my life,


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[Assistant] There were years where I would sell off all my video games and then I wouldn't have them anymore. And then I'd buy them again and go, why? You know, recently I go, why did I do that? And you know, it was partially short-sightedness and irresponsibility.


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[Assistant] A lack of funds, uhm, but also


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[Assistant] Like, since I started getting back into these hobbies, uhm, like the whole reason I want to make games is cause, uh, I originally wanted to be an animator and I have, like, experience, you know, drawing characters and animating them, uhm,


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[Assistant] I love making music and a lot of the music I make kind of sounds like it fits in a video game. And then I love programming because you're basically building your own puzzle to solve. Uhm, so video games are like an amalgam of all of my favorite skills and hobbies.


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[Assistant] But, a while back, uh, I went through like kind of a dark period, and I stopped doing all of that stuff. Uhm, and so I've been trying to get back into it, and I've realized that the more I do that, the less I play video games.


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[Assistant] And I think maybe those times where I wasn't playing video games and I sold them all off, it was because I wasn't using them, uh, because I was, I would spend most of my free time, you know, making beats or, uh, you know, drawing and doing different creative projects, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's almost a thing where even though we're just at home and all we're doing is we're at home, I've actually been playing less video games than I normally would because I've actually been spending my time elsewhere, uh, on these hobbies. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I miss video games. I know.


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[Assistant] Well, I was gonna say something about that, which is, a lot of people criticize, I feel like when it first came along, a lot of people were criticizing the same thing, like, just because you play rock band and guitar hero, you're not learning guitar.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I would beg to differ. You are learning certain skills that are required in Tarkus. I knew this guy. Left and right coordination. Yea, senior year of high school.


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[Assistant] Picked up a guitar and was just a savant where he would tune it to like an open tuning and just jam out and could do all this crazy stuff. And I was like, dude, and he was one of my good friends, he was like, we gotta start, you know, making music together.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause I had been like recording and making songs, like making drums and reason and then recording my guitar over that.


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[Assistant] And so, uh, we like made this, we came up with this song and then went to record it and he could not keep with the rhythm.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, after we recorded, I was like, okay, thanks, and I had to go back and re-record it all myself.


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[Assistant] Cause it just wasn't on tempo. And so, you know, even though you're not learning, uh, like finger placements and, you know, music theory or, you know, how chords and everything like that works, you are definitely learning rhythm, um, which is a very important part of music.


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[Assistant] Oh, I was just gonna say I saw, I don't remember if it was just on like r slash videos or if it was on one of the random subreddits that I'm subscribed to, but.


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[Assistant] A video got posted, I think it was yesterday, where it was this, uh, older, old lady who...


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[Assistant] Learned that she had taught herself guitar and he, I guess he was like a music producer or something, so they recorded it and then she became like this like folk, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, icon, uhm, but she wasn't left handed, but she taught herself to play guitar upside down because she hadn't, you know, been taught traditionally. She just taught herself.


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[Assistant] I was playing the title theme song to Final Fantasy Tactics.


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[Assistant] Hey, welcome everybody to a new episode of Dude Soup. First of all, huge thank you to all of our first members watching right now. You can actually sign up for a free research youth account right now, uhm, and get access to a lot of cool stuff. So please do join us in chat.


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[Assistant] I'm your host today, Elise Willems, and I am joined by a great panel of guests. Emphasis on the guests this week, James Willems.


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[Assistant] And, uh, before I get to the real special guest.


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[Assistant] Goddamnit. Let me just tell you this episode is brought to you by Hims Honey and The Last Laugh. We'll hear from them more later in the show.


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[Assistant] But now, the pièce de résistance, the people you have been waiting for.


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[Assistant] You give, it's like, you give people the bad up front, so that way the good shines even brighter.


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[Assistant] I hope all our viewers know who you are. Uh, one, because we don't have that many viewers. So, you know.


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[Assistant] And two, uh, because you guys are great and we love what you do and, and uh, you've done some stuff with us before. We're always happy to have you. For the people who don't know what you do.


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[Assistant] Gus, uh, I looked up your YouTube about page.


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[Assistant] And it says, it says, I do comedy, I create skits, I craft memes, I make music, I crap out bad vlogs. Is there anything else that has changed or that you would add?


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[Assistant] Uhm, Eddie, your YouTube about page said, my name is Eddie Burback and I make content. Whenever I go to sleep, I wake up as a small Vietnamese boy and live his life. Then I go to sleep and wake up as me again.


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[Assistant] I think your about description doesn't do justice to what you do, Eddie, and so Nicholas, roll a clip.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's your sex education show that you do. It's very funny. You're very charming and endearing.


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[Assistant] Can I pitch you guys on a sketch? Yes. That you could do so you guys film it from your respective apartments which are like, you know, above and below one another and it's like Gus in his apartment and he's like


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[Assistant] Oh, what's so- what's happening up there? It was so loud! And then, you know, he starts like banging on the- the-


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[Assistant] Uh, if I couldn't sleep during the night, I was like coming out here and like secretly like, it's like in the IT crowd when, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the IT crowd, but Roy.


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[Assistant] To figure out how this happened and she walks in on him and she's like, what are you doing? And he's like, masturbating.


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[Assistant] And like, that's how I felt was like, oh, like, I can't have him catch me doing this. And there were times when like his back was like turned to me and I'm like secretly editing this video, uhm, because there was, there was like no way to do it.


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[Assistant] Tim and Eric and, uh, Nathan Fielder, uh, Fielder are always like, great at, which is finding impressionists that are just, they're just a shade not there.


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[Assistant] Thank you Himms for your sponsorship and thank you Gus for that story of the week.


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[Assistant] No, that was a really nice story. I, I uhm, what's his name? David? Leapheart? David Leapheart is always like at the Hollywood Bowl, plugging and selling his CDs, yeah, his puppets.


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[Assistant] Oh man. First of all, you do have friends, and if you guys want to live with us in a YouTube cameo house, let us know. Could you imagine a YouTube cameo house full of all of us? We spent all day. Well, we're all in the background of each other's cameos because we're all trying to film cameos at the same time.


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[Assistant] I would get the not too shabby guy. Who's that?


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[Assistant] Uh, he was discovered? Discovered. Uhm, he appeared in an episode of Dude's Soup. And, uh.


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[Assistant] Which is my, you guys know my usual segment, my hot takes hot cake.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we're probably gonna get a lot of flack in the comments. It's gonna be a little political. Don't mean it to be, but...


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[Assistant] How do you feel about people clapping on airplanes after emergency landings?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean some people, that's a loaded question. Let's just say landings of emergency. Just regular landings.


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[Assistant] I personally can't even like think of being on a plane where this has happened.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like people just boil that down to you don't, you won't know what the...


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[Assistant] Content of the twist is, you won't know what the actual, you'll know that there's a twist, but you won't know.


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[Assistant] Oh, this can't be it. This can't be it. James, you also do this to my detriment because like a movie will start and, uh,


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[Assistant] Is I have crafted scenarios wherein two of us will perform out a little scene doing impressions.


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[Assistant] And uh, they're very, you know, you can do this one minute. We're all professional, we're all comedy professionals here, okay?


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[Assistant] You know, beginning, middle, and end. Just make your little scene and move on. Okay, we don't have to drag it out. You know, respect this other scene time here. But okay, so anyway.


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[Assistant] Pizzeria owner Jack Nicholson, Gus, can't find the pepperoni, and he's got a gun.


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[Assistant] I did ask James, I said, do you, you know, how do you feel about doing Eddie Murphy? And he said yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you can't find the pepperoni. He wants an extra pepperoni for his kids.


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[Assistant] Alright, we got another scenario. Nick, you'll roll in, uh, number two here.


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[Assistant] So, uh, Andre the Giant, played by Adam. And Owen Wilson, Elise.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, yeaah, you can come sit right next to me in this log ride.


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[Assistant] Oh, well uh, given that you carry quite a bit of weight there, probably you're going to want to position yourself in the front.


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[Assistant] Well hang on, I'll just put it in my po- Oh no, I dropped it!


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[Assistant] The Rick Flair one and the Beyond the Mat and the Hart family one.


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[Assistant] Let's bring up the mood again though, cause we got more of these.


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[Assistant] Arnold Schwarzenegger Gus is skydiving with Gwen Stefani Elise, but they're arguing over who will jump from the plane first.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna have to give it to, uh, Jack and Eddie, I think.


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[Assistant] Well, I hope that wasn't too painful for everyone participating.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but if you want to watch some great comedy, you can watch our new show on Rooster Teeth, Last Laugh. Let's roll the clip.


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[Assistant] And we're back with the show. Uh, thank you Gus and Eddie so much for like coming on. We love you guys. Thanks for having us. It was such a fun time. Can you guys push and promote anything that you wanna put out there and have people watch or listen to?


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[Assistant] And do you guys have like a discord that people hang out in or anything like that?


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[Assistant] The audio listeners, you know, I'm sorry, I described this, but... You gotta watch it. You gotta, you just gotta see it. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. I can't. Fuck you, audio listeners.


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[Assistant] Thank you guys so much. Uh, this is really, really fun. I gotta do some housekeeping just for fun house. Uhm, so to everyone watching and listening,


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[Assistant] If you're looking for something else to fill your time right now, be sure to check out the Police Stories gameplay with Adam and James. I don't, I haven't gotten to see that one.


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[Assistant] It is coming up in a little bit, so stay tuned for our friends from there.


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[Assistant] And thank you for everyone watching on first and the VOD. We appreciate it. We love you guys. Uh, we hope that everyone's staying safe. And Gus and Eddie, can't thank you guys enough.


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[Assistant] Oh, thank you guys, take care of yourselves. Yeah, yeah. Out there, in there.


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[Assistant] You guys are doing audio only, right? That's right. That's, I like that. That's good. We're going back to the radio play days.


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[Assistant] There's just like the trendy, like, in-home thing right now.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't know why I know about them, but I do.


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[Assistant] This is in the same mall, by the way, that has a Tesla dealership, an Apple store, and a Microsoft store. Oh, so an Everyday Man mall. It's your common strip mall. Go through and get everything you need all at once. Melitons, Teslas. A Lululemon, too.


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[Assistant] We know who you are, whatever you take, we'll just debit from your account. You're like, you're walking out with all your Alexas or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, there's a lot we don't know about this relationship. Like, I get a 50 Shades of Grey kind of vibe based on the look of the guy. So I think like, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you don't see the part where he's like, filling her with butt plugs and stuff. That's downstairs.


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[Assistant] That's why she's like, I hope I get in shape for you, master. And it's like, okay, that's, that they're trying to cater to that crowd. I don't, that's probably a part of the missed part in the marketing.