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S7 E6: For Managed Democracy!
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All the latest news and reviews, from No Man's Sky's Orbital update to the release of Ghostbusters Frozen Empure and Dragon's Domga 2, we cover it all!
Beers Reviewed This Episode:
- Akasha Brewing - Canada Bay XPA
- Slow Lane Brewing - Jagged Little Pils - Pilsner
- Freshwater Brewing Co. - Stay Salty - Gose
- Akasha Brewing - Hopsmith IPA
- Black Hops Brewing - G.O.A.T. - NEIPA
- Fox Friday Brewing - False Start - IPA
- Bridge Road Brewers - Eggster - Dark Ale
- Garage Project - Escape From the Temple of Haze - NEIPA
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Overview
00:00:29
Speaker
And welcome back to another episode of Pixels and Pints. My name's Tom. I'm coming to you on a lovely, long weekend Saturday. Many years of Catholic education have taught me that right now Jesus is sitting in the lobby waiting for a respawn. His field of death ratio is zero to one. Yep. That's a good way to start. So with me as usual is Dan.
00:00:58
Speaker
And we're talking to you today about a bunch of, I think it's mainly Aussie beers. We've got some movie trailer content, game trailer content, bit of news, bit of reviews, bit of everything. It's what we like to do. Bit of everything. Bit of everything. Should we start with Dan reviewing his water? Either of you hung over today.
00:01:22
Speaker
That's my secret, Captain. I never hung up. Peter's not really. No, not really. I got pretty pissed last night, but I woke up fine. A bit late this morning. Fair enough. Why are you asking? No, I was just wondering. I mean, Saturday, Saturday, second day into a long weekend. It's usually usually falling for it. So I don't know. Just wondering. Ask me tomorrow morning. I'm afraid if I stop drinking, the cumulative hangover will catch up with me and kill me.
00:01:52
Speaker
All right. So, Dan, you're on waters this episode. I'm on waters. Tom, do you want to review yours?
Beer Reviews: Akasha Brewing and Slow Lane Brewing
00:01:59
Speaker
You can go, Pete. Okay. You're halfway into it. Well, after some bad news, Kasia, it was a Kasia. I didn't. Yep. Yep. In VA. Yeah. Voluntary administration. So, I thought I would support them by buying a couple of their beers. So, this is a Kasia Brewing's Canada Bay XPA.
00:02:22
Speaker
Now I have to admit that I might have cracked one of these last night, along with the next Akasha beer that I'll be trying later. And I chose this one first because it has a much softer flavor profile that would get wiped away by the IPA. So this is a 4.2% starting beer, light spirited citrus and stone fruit flavors.
00:02:46
Speaker
pretty much exactly what it is. Quite bitter, dry for a finish. It's fucking tasty, to be honest, for a starter beer. It's kind of a hot afternoon beer. It's not too in your face. It's not too juicy and acidic. Yeah. It's a bit warm out there. It is. Multiple ground before, and it's toasty. It is. I'm going to give that a four to kick out of the gate. Excellent. I do want it.
00:03:17
Speaker
Mr. Tomness, I am drinking. You're going to know exactly why I picked up this beer as soon as I tell you the name of it. It is the Slow Lane Brewing Jagged Little Pills, which is a great album by Lars for a set. I was like, yep, 100% I'm grabbing that. They're German pills now.
00:03:35
Speaker
And it is a true to form, true to form German pills. Now they use pills in the malt, Haller-Tau, middle for hops, and then German lager yeast. And it's got a slight little haze to it. Coming through there. Oh, look, my camera's so much lower now. This is a well done cardboard box. And yeah, it's got that nice spready taste to it. It's still nice and light enough. And yeah, like you said, it's, it's one of those enjoyable on a
00:04:01
Speaker
You definitely could smash a few of these on a hot, hot, hot day, but it's nice on a nice warm afternoon to just sip and savour and enjoy. And yeah, I'm also going to give that a four. That is a great little starter. Nice. Kick off proceedings. What was the ABV on it, please?
00:04:18
Speaker
Oh, I was going to type that in, sorry. Five. Five percent. Five percent. That's good. Should we kick off with some news? We interrupt this broadcast with some breaking news from the front.
00:04:34
Speaker
Let's kick off with some news. All right. I'm a little disappointed with this first little point.
Gaming News: Larian Studios and Embracer Group Developments
00:04:40
Speaker
Well, you can, you can read it if you want. Cause it does yours. Okay. Um, so Larian and I actually, this came out a little while ago that we're talking about it, but I think they've now confirmed it. Larian studios have confirmed they're moving on from Baldur's gate. Uh, so the CEO, uh, Sven.
00:04:57
Speaker
Vincare, I don't know. Swen Vincare. Says there's no current plans to work on expansion content and the studio isn't working towards a BG4. Now, there's no chance that they would have been working on a BG4 already. I think that was kind of.
00:05:11
Speaker
Anyone who was asking that question is a bit silly, but it is a bit disappointing they're not looking at expansion content. Or just have plans to do a PG. Yeah, there's no plans to do it. Yeah. Which doesn't mean Wizards of the Coast won't take it to somebody else, which would be, I mean, they've got the framework for it now. Yeah, but I mean, massive success. It's far too soon, yeah.
00:05:32
Speaker
It doesn't mean in the future Wizards of the Coast won't take it to somebody else. Three, four year cycle for a game like that? Yeah. Yeah. And that's if you take it to someone else. Yeah. Yeah. That's 12 months to kind of bed out or get rid of all the bugs. And then you really want to kind of drop some content for it to keep it alive. If you want to play that kind of cycle.
00:05:51
Speaker
I did like that they did say in that, that they're not going to stop support though for BT3. So if bugs do come up, they'll be like, we'll fix them. We're still, we're not, we're not leaving our baby behinds, which is good. And there was something suspicious in, I should have looked it up before this. I didn't actually see that in the news, in the way that it was worded, which made it sound like they were moving onto a dwarf IP.
00:06:14
Speaker
After after this while you guys go on with the the news I'll just have a quick look see if I can the article I saw kind of talked about how the way he worded it sound like he was Putting a dog to sleep, but then getting a new dog like the way he talked about it Strangely specific
00:06:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like even gave the dog like a, like a name, like this mythical dog that they were putting, putting to bed. I was just like, Oh, okay. You need to talk about something, man. Well, moving on with some game studio stuff, uh, embrace serve.
00:06:50
Speaker
They hit the high, they peaked early, they vicaraced and now the wax is falling off their wings and they're shedding weight where they can. So take two slash two K Studios have just acquired Gearbox and all its IPs, mainly Borderlands, from them for around 480 mil US, which is apparently half, roughly half of what
00:07:12
Speaker
I'm going to pay for it originally so well done on the fire sale good good savings there i'm a few weeks ago saver interact interactive announce they were leaving the embrace a group they are being bought by a company called beacon interactive.
00:07:28
Speaker
which interestingly is founded by the original Saber Interactive founder. So he's formed a new company to buy his own back. And they sell that for about $247 mil US. They have stated they will still continue working on the 40K Space Marines 2 game, the recently announced Jurassic Park Survival. There was another one that John Carpenter, Toxic Commando, we looked at the trailer a while ago. And
00:07:56
Speaker
They had taken over the Knights of the Old Republic remake from Aspire, which is another one of Embracer Studios, and they have said that they, well, they didn't say, they kind of alluded to the fact that they might keep working on that with companies within the Embracer group, as a bit collaborative still. There's a lot more to that sale than I can be bothered reading about now, if you want to go look it up.
00:08:18
Speaker
what embrace you get to keep getting revenue from going forward and all this other kind of stuff. It's a bit business technical and let's be honest, I zoned out. It's another surprise to anyone here. Our listeners probably don't give a shit either. I think the overall point though is there's a lot of movement in the industry. There's fuck tons of layoffs. There's buying and selling of these companies. None of it really spells anything good for us as gamers because
00:08:43
Speaker
The best guys lost a $2 billion deal or something recently that folded and that's why they've had to. Yeah, but what you want stability in your studios if they're going to turn out good quality content. Well, their whole mode for buying all those studios up was just ridiculous. I mean, they were buying it up before they'd even secured that Saudi Arabian $2 billion.
00:09:04
Speaker
deal which just fell through and i forget the exact wording of it once again we're great with our research here, but it was something like the Saudi Arabian pulled out because there wasn't that had no confidence in that it actually would make money in the long run the site of course.
00:09:19
Speaker
So like how many fucking studios did you? That's exactly what it was. It was just an arrogant, very highly arrogant business decision there. I mean, in the end, it might work out better for us if these guys can now split off again into their own, their own smaller studios and not be confined into a pigeonhole into making a certain type of game we might get. Or turning out, turning out content just to spin a dollar to make, make back, which is the kind of what I meant.
00:09:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's rather than being pushed into mobile gaming or into live service studio, live service games, microtransactions. They might put a new, get a new lease on life and, and move, move the industry into the next era. Potentially. I guess that's the golden, the, the, the gold. Well, we can go on. Yeah.
00:10:15
Speaker
Interesting you bring up live so that this titles Dan because Warner Brothers are doubling down on them Which is one of the strangest things I can think of in given their recent recent releases The president of gaming has said we're doubling down on games as an area where we think there is a lot more growth opportunity That we can tap into with the IP that we have
Industry Trends: Live Service Games and Cancellations
00:10:37
Speaker
So bleed the teak dry is essentially what that says. This is despite admitting that their latest game, which was Suicide Squad, was a disappointment. But in the same sentence, he praised the Hogwarts legacy as a huge success.
00:10:53
Speaker
Which was a sub studio key. What's it called? Keyhole studios? I think they would produce a distributor on it. Yeah. So that's where they're coming from. They're just saying that AAA games are a bit too volatile, but live services wear it out because we made a failure of one.
00:11:10
Speaker
Let's go guys. Not only that did they release it in the same month that the other will quadruple a game came out live service game in skull and bones, which both absolutely thought the Joker content for Suicide Squad drops yesterday.
00:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, like it's it's the first DLC is dropped. Yeah. And like it like it hasn't it hasn't even made a ripple in the pond. It's pissed off gamers. Apparently, it's really pissed off game is the content. So I'm going to talk a little horrible. I'm going to talk a little bit more about this later on, right at the end when we talk when I talk about helldivers, too. But yeah, this this seasonal fucking microtransaction bullshit just
00:11:56
Speaker
Yeah. Game ranks covered in a, covered it in about 20 seconds on a video I watched this morning. There's a stop motion, kind of a stop still framed intro to this Joker DLC for the suicide squad.
00:12:11
Speaker
kill the Justice League, then you have to play through a whole nother boss fight against Brainiac, which he said is just the Green Lantern fight again. And then you unlock the Joker that has a cutscene with the Suicide Squad. And then it's just the back to the standard grind of the game. Once you've, once you've already done what you've done before to unlock a character that. What a joke.
00:12:38
Speaker
So it's just, yeah, didn't even make a ripple. And I'd love to see their Steam numbers now, but it'd be super low, I would imagine. Any of their console Steam numbers would be, I'm sure, pretty low.
00:12:55
Speaker
Now, Sony, on the other hand, have appeared to be doing the opposite with this. They've cancelled a bunch of multiplayer or live action service kind of games. Last of us online, one for the Insomniac Spider-Man that was in development had got leaked and appeared online where you played as multiple Spider-Man and they were just like, no, let's not do that, which I think is a great idea.
00:13:17
Speaker
But Ben Studios, who made Days Gone, which we all loved, are developing another game and they are actively searching for someone to develop the live action side of that service. So who knows if they're going to dip another toe in and see if it goes alright given the success of Helldivers, which...
00:13:35
Speaker
Again, if you listen to the end, people tell us about. This one I really like, Pete. No Man's Sky has dropped a
Game Updates: No Man's Sky and Screen Australia Funding
00:13:42
Speaker
new update. So we were talking about this recently off chat with the Age of Conan game. 2016 No Man's Sky came out. They've just dropped a new
00:13:55
Speaker
No patches not the right word but kind of free deals i guess content yeah where they made the spaceships. Inside procedure generated cuz before they're all the same you can develop your own ships so yeah every single sci-fi ship ever made is gonna be created in that and shown on youtube in the next you know couple weeks after launches. I am every done all the guilds and stuff so i love again which is great.
00:14:21
Speaker
You have to give him credit where credit's due. Absolutely. It's clearly a passion project for the development team to be generating new content and evolving the game for this many years afterwards with no cost to consumers. And they've gone out on a limb now with this light no fires, light no fires, is that the name of it? They then use survival
00:14:48
Speaker
Oh wow. Light no fire. Light no fire. That's what it's called. I mean, they're reaching for the sky again. Is that the right term? Yeah. Reaching for the clouds, reaching for the sky, whatever. Aiming for the moon. Aiming for the moon. Yeah. Everything they've said about it.
00:15:04
Speaker
with their first trailer drop, it was like, fuck, is this just going to be No Man's Sky all over again? Are you going to release an absolute dud of a game, but then really Chloe, slow burn it over, over six years or something? I think with these sort of things that they're still doing with No Man's Sky, they've now built that goodwill back that even if it is a dud and people go, no, this is a piece of shit. They'll, they'll go, you
00:15:29
Speaker
You've seen what we've done with No Man's Sky. Just stick with us. We'll work with you, the community, with everything that we've said we want to do. We'll implement everything, but it's going to take time.
00:15:42
Speaker
Uh, yeah, to me, to me, this sorry, much of a travesty that no man's guy was to start with. It's a fuck there. I can't, I don't even, this has got to be something like 20 major updates they've done by now. It's, it's fucking easily, easily. Orbital is the 27th major update released, released on the 27th. So it is available now.
00:16:04
Speaker
I can't help but think that they're retrospectively adding content to stay modern and up to date with Star Citizen. The ability to build your own ships is something that Star Citizen actually did reasonably well. Star Citizen, by the way, still hasn't fixed the major game breaking bugs that made me leave the game. Like the cargo transfer fucking things and all the rest of it. I winched about months and months and months ago when I bought the Xbox for the game.
00:16:37
Speaker
It's actually the same it's still hasn't come out anyway so it's relevant to both of them you can buy sixty four thousand dollars a star citizens content pack but yeah i can't help but think that this is just a response to kind of.
00:16:53
Speaker
We'll check and throw it in their face. We'll cherry pick the good ideas that we haven't yet implemented out of Starfield and do it better because it's built on top of a stable foundation, whereas Starfield just isn't. Yeah. Anyway. And then lastly, last little thing, some good news. Screen Australia has announced they're giving 1.6 million of funding to 27 Aussie games and creators. Is it each? No, if only. This is to share. Not a lot of lolly.
00:17:24
Speaker
For a bunch of a small, very small Australian game studios, that'd be a massive lifeline. I mean, it's good. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's bad. It just doesn't seem like a lot. Well, maybe once they sell those French subs, they can give them some more.
00:17:39
Speaker
get some tickets on the resale market. So yeah, I think it's a great move. Most of those games that they list on the 27 Aussie games and creators, most of them have something in production already. I didn't want to read out the whole entire list, but some of them are, you know, they're all quite small projects, but, you know, they're going to be fun little indie games. And I think it's, yeah, it's a great move. There's been a lot of layoffs and just to, you know, to talk about how they want to run Tom.
00:18:08
Speaker
It's better than a kick in the nuts. If someone came to you with 60 grand, you'd be... True, but you couldn't even buy the Star Citizen content pack for a game that doesn't exist. That's probably a good thing. Maybe that's like the little star of the do not spend this on Star Citizen. Just before we go to the last little bit of news, going back to the Larian comment, I found it before, forgot to mention it. Somebody zoned in on a word that the guy said, they said they're
00:18:37
Speaker
Larian Studios is dreaming out a quote, very big RPG that dwarfs them all, that will dwarf them all. And somebody honed in on that dwarf comment and said, oh, is this what they're doing? Seems like a bit of a stretch to me, but so bad. Was he wearing a foil hat? Yeah, it's kind of that, isn't it? I'm just going to pick one word out of the sentence and make my whole conspiracy theory.
00:19:05
Speaker
Maybe they're doing a space game that's focusing on dwarf stars. You don't know. You don't know. Yes. Anyway, the last thing. This is, I think, really interesting. The PS Plus games that are coming out, they're all relatively new. And it's a sure sign that they just have not done well. Immortals of Avium, which someone wrote down as, I think Wolfenstein, but with Wizards. And I was like, that's a great description of that. So that's
00:19:32
Speaker
but I only came out August last year. That is relatively new, so that's not good when it's the free game. Minecraft Legends, if you have kids and want to play this, it's nothing like Minecraft. You don't do any of the real building that you do in Minecraft. I think it's an action strategy game. And then Skull the Hero Slayer is a 2D roguelike platformer, which flips the classic hero's tail on its head. You play as the
00:19:58
Speaker
Skeleton trying to defend your castle against the heroes, which is I think a pretty creative way to do that Yeah, and they're the games that we dropping first week of April Look, I'll probably try that immortals game because it's yeah doom but with magic and Once it's free, it's free and I'll be like, thank you very much. See ya. It's your pew pew hands out
00:20:23
Speaker
But yeah, that's kind of it for the news. I'm not up to my second beer yet. No, that's fine. Neither am I. The fastest we've ever done the news. There wasn't much and I was literally, for some of them, I was like, do you think I can get away with calling this news? Let's go. Let's throw it in. That and I've been bitching at Tom about keeping us down to time.
00:20:47
Speaker
Yep. Probably my fault. Nuts. Not at all. I blame me. Shall we list through some March releases? I think you've got some really good lists of what's been released in terms of content this month. We might just cherry pick a few to talk about. Probably should have dated them.
00:21:03
Speaker
I was a bit silly. Yeah, I've broken this down into three sections. So games at the movies, so that's cinema releases, and then streaming. With the streaming, I did make sure to pick things that were new to the streaming, not just Oppenheimer's on Binge. Yeah, that's fine. Go find it yourself when you're scrolling through. So this is all the stuff that I could find that I thought we'd be interested in over the month of March, given that it's
00:21:31
Speaker
30th of March today, so we're pretty much at the end of it. But this is all stuff you can, you know, if you're looking for something new, you can go get stuck into it now. So yeah, games, we had Dragon's Dogma 2, a massive RPG. I want to check that out. It seems really interesting. I was doing some reading on it. I played like the first level of Dragon's Dogma when it was, I think it was PS3. And I was like, one of those ones I was like, oh, this is really cool, I could get stuck into this. And then it was just before the PS4 came out. And I was like, well, I need a new console, so see you later.
00:21:59
Speaker
I just love the, I love the peons mechanic or the peasants mechanic. I think it's called peons, horns, where it takes a static clone of other players, uh, characters and spawns them into your world to become your followers. And you can, you can kind of. It's other players, pawns, not their, not their player characters. Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's because you create your own player character and then you create your own porn.
00:22:28
Speaker
and then you recruit to other pawns. And I think your pawn then goes on to basically add into the aether for other people to recruit as well. Interesting. It just seems like a cool idea. And you can respecialize. So if you get a cloned pawn from someone else and you don't quite like their attributes or setup, then you can evolve it over time. You can also send them away to go on adventures and they come back with more experience, which I think is cool.
00:22:55
Speaker
That's fun. But the whole concept just seems just stood out to me as original. I think the versatility that I've got actually in the game as well, like just watching the creativity, like you can climb on all the big monsters, you can knock it, knock down bridges. It feels like an action Baldur's Gate.
00:23:14
Speaker
It's all third-person action adventure, not turn-based combat. So that's what it feels. Looking at how it plays, that's how it feels to me. There's just so many options and combination of abilities and spells and everything together to give you that real, use your creativity to get past things.
00:23:42
Speaker
And immerse yourself. So there's no quest markers in the game. You have to listen like the pawns guide you through the quests. So you actually have to engage. And one, I think it was Game Ranks I was watching again, they were talking about there's a vendor within the world that will replicate items for you.
00:24:00
Speaker
So if you take a quest where you get given their example, is you take an early quest where you get given a certain key to go and complete the quest. And then when you complete the quest, you have to give the key back. But if you take that key to the item replicator guide, you clone the key, you give the key back, and then you've got a copy of that for
00:24:23
Speaker
like your purposes fuckery later on in the game. And same was with, uh, with an item where you were approached by a secondary party to give, I think it was like a gym or something. Um, and you could get the, the, the gym identically cloned and you could basically finish both sides of that.
00:24:43
Speaker
that question. And there seems to be a whole bunch of just options like that, just creativity. Like you said, Pete, get immersed in the world, understand how things work in the world, and then use it to make your own fun. Yeah, that's cool.
00:25:03
Speaker
Well, there's one we can check out. If you want to sync it, I'm sure a fair amount of hours into it as well. Alone in the Dark. I know Dan's talked about that one before. We've had Rise of the Ronin's come out and the graphics have not gotten any better. No, it's getting mixed reviews, that one. It is, yeah. Outcast New Beginning, which was kind of like
00:25:24
Speaker
It's a sequel to an older older game that came out a few years ago, but now they've added some like jetpack flight mechanisms I watched a trailer for it looked interesting enough Going around and you know looking after camps and all that kind of stuff They the Star Wars Battlefront collection of the originals has released and it's been a buggy fucking mess And there's a lot of complaints going on that which has been unfortunate and then South Park snow days another game in the South Park
00:25:52
Speaker
Um, RPG series, um, also getting some mixed reviews between very short and, and again, just a bit of a buggy mess. It feels a bit rushed.
00:26:03
Speaker
I think three out of those six games, from what I've heard, have all suffered from frame rate issues on console as well. That's great. That's what you want. Dragon's Dogma dropped a reasonable patch today, apparently, locking it at 30 frames a second on console. But no word on the PC yet, as far as I could.
00:26:25
Speaker
At the movies, feel like going to get some popcorn and a drink, you can go Ghostbusters Frozen Empire has released. You got Dan's most anticipated movie of 24, Godzilla versus Kong, New Empire. Every time I see that trailer, I'm just like, how many more modern day shit tropes can you jam into just this trailer?
00:26:51
Speaker
The the the swirly purple colors and the blue colors, like it's just they've just picked whatever seems to be trending at the moment. So like your neon lights back there, Pete, they're like. They're my Game of Girl lights. They just. I just get what I'm sure they talk about some reason as to why Kong, not Kong, fucking Godzilla glows purple now. And it's just. Yeah.
00:27:18
Speaker
It's just, yeah, apparently they do. And why Kong has, has the infinity gauntlet on. Yeah. Just the Transformers infinity gauntlet. Cause it looks like it's made out of truck parts, but yeah. It actually, it reminded me more of the, um, the Hulk buster, uh, iron man suit fist that wrapped around Hulk. Anyway, but it feels, it did feel very, and I know Ed mentioned it a while ago when the first trailer dropped, it did feel very modern Marvel-esque.
00:27:45
Speaker
in the way it does, and that's what I get from the trailers. It just feels, it feels like I said, it's yeah, it's not a, it's not Kong Godzilla and Kong as, as a disaster, like a natural disaster. It's them as a hero being. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Kung Fu Panda 4. Did Jack Black come for it? He did. Jack Black was recently in Sydney promoting that. He went to my fucking pub and I wasn't there. Oh no, that sucks. I would have shared a Guinness with that man in a heartbeat.
00:28:13
Speaker
Oh, that would have been so good. Yes, but no, he's back for it. He's got the whole, most of the cast are back for it. That's just an easy fun one for them. And then yes, the next installment in the Blood and Honey series before we get there, Cinematic Universe. This one features, it adds Piglet Giblets coming to a cinema near you. Is there a trial?
00:28:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Well, it's, it's out. So the first one had Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. This one has added the owl and. I just, I just clicked on the, I put it into Google and clicked on the video section. And the first, uh, the first video up is. But, uh, Winnie the plued blood and honey to preview and the guys just like slopped on his hand. Yep. Hilarious.
00:29:06
Speaker
And then if you're at home, you're on the couch. You want something you need to watch. So there's Spaceman, which is on Netflix, which Pete's going to talk about a bit later. The Roadhouse. Oh, we'll go into that after. I think I'm ready to crack my second view. Roadhouse remake, new version of Roadhouse, which is on Amazon Prime. Ricky Stenicki, which is also on Amazon Prime, looks very entertaining. I'll definitely watch that one.
00:29:31
Speaker
I love a bit of John Cena. The completely made up adventures of Dick Turpin on Apple TV. So that's got Noel Fielding in it. It looks very silly, very funny. Yeah, it looked interesting. A bit of British humor there. X-Men 97 is out on Disney Plus and The Gentleman, which is from the old mate. That's it. Thank you. It's the series following on from the movie he made with McConaughey.
00:29:56
Speaker
Is that out? Yeah, that is out. I watched the whole thing. She loved it. She said it was very, very funny and very much in the vein of how I've seen. I've seen that like they released the clip of like the first episode and it's the will reading part. And I was I was laughing watching that. I was like, oh, cool. I'm definitely going to get into that one. Yeah. Yeah. Are you ready for your second beer, Pete? You can go first. Oh, I haven't even poured them out. OK, well, why don't you start talking about
00:30:22
Speaker
Look, I'll be really quick. Have you guys seen it and or do you intend to see it? Intend to see it. I haven't seen it. I'll keep it spoiler free. But can I tell you what I thought of it without spoilers? OK, I found it disappointing. That's a challenge for you. I found it disappointing. To me, the pacing was as boring as adastrum. I think it was adastrum.
00:30:46
Speaker
Adastra was a long ass movie with I think it was Brad Pitt that got all the way to the end and just seemed not to have anything. Adastra, sorry, just didn't really seem to say anything. He was having a weird time based or recording based relationship with his dad. To me, Spaceman was kind of similar. It was slow. It didn't really have a climax.
00:31:10
Speaker
And it just went batshit crazy right at the end. It kind of reminded me of event horizon where you've got this, not event horizon, sorry, contact. We have a really grounded science-based movie all the way through and wandering, you know, the existence of extraterrestrials. And then right at the end, she gets in the fucking ship and has a, as an LSD trip for the final sequence. It was kind of like that. To me, it was just disappointing. Yeah, right. That's the end of my story.
00:31:40
Speaker
Okay. Well, I guess we can't really go. Yeah, you know, I guess, yeah, that's fair. I just, yeah. Spoiler. It was just like a fever dream as well. I thought it sucked. How's that for an opinion? Whoa. Yeah, it was just like a fever dream. Just some shit. Just yeah. Anyway. Um, do you want to talk about your next beer mate? Well, I skull this.
00:32:08
Speaker
Oh, yes, I do. Well, Dan disappeared. Bye, Dan. Well, maybe he's going to get some more water from the well. He's going to draw a bucket of water. I am drinking the Freshwater Brewing Co. Stay salty, Watermelon Sour, which is a lovely printed can and it's on kind of
00:32:36
Speaker
tactile paper. Yeah. Um, it is clear and light as day. Like almost see me through that. If it wasn't for a little bit of the chill on the glass. Um, and look, it's salty, zingy, watermelon, sour. Absolutely. This is one of, this is a fantastic summer beer. It comes in at 4.2. Okay. Even in a four 40 mil can you'd,
00:33:03
Speaker
easily get through a four-pack of that and just enjoy your sunny day. 100% take that to the beach and enjoy the crap out of it. He's back. He's drawn his water from the well. Yeah, that's got a really nice light watermelon flavor to it, but a really like the sourness of it is accentuated by the saltiness of it. Very, very well made. I'm really enjoying this.
00:33:30
Speaker
You know, I don't like 30 degree, 35 degree days, but I would like this on a 35 degree day. That was definitely a penguin in a past life. So I'm with you there, mate. Yeah. Uh, cool. This is fantastic. I'm going to give that a four and a half. Yeah. Wowzers. Yeah. That's delicious. Oh, just moreish. Give it to me more. What do you got?
00:33:52
Speaker
Is it so when you when you talk about salt balanced against sweetness or sourness, is it almost like a what's the word I'm thinking of that no one can pronounce? Thank you. A Gozer? Oh, it is. Yes, sorry. It says sour on the front, but they definitely say Gozer on the back. It is a Gozer based. Okay. Well, it counters the Gozer salt, they say. So, yeah. No, definitely.
00:34:16
Speaker
The lightness of that watermelon is great, but it's still there, very much there. Nice. I'm drinking Akasha Brewing Hopsmith IPA.
00:34:30
Speaker
which is a 6.8% fucking smashable as fuck IPA. Um, and really interesting coming out of the XPA. Cause like I said before, the XPA is quite, quite soft and even tempered in terms of personality. Um, it doesn't yell at you. The hop Smith. I don't know. I almost want to say I get a lot of yeast out of it. It's super, it's crystal clear. It's quite a, quite an amber color rather than a light, light pale.
00:35:00
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It's got a sweet finish and quite a almost a Belgian-y Esther character about it. Really fucking nice, actually. I like that because I'm not a big fan of the really super juicy punch you in the face with hops expression. Citrus pine and fruit notes backed by an earthy bit of finish that makes
00:35:22
Speaker
The heavens sing. Well, it's certainly making me sing. I'm impressed. And like I said, just a little bit of sweetness to it at the end, which is somewhat surprising in an IPA. I'm going to give that a 425. That's a lovely beer. I miss the old cans. I hate that design. I hate that brand. Yeah. What happened to the lines? I miss the lines.
00:35:45
Speaker
I just miss the colors. I just don't like the pastels. Yeah. And so it's kind of Illuminati a little bit, isn't it? Oh, yes. Anyway, massive Illuminati was the whole rebrand, I thought. I just fucking hope they come out of VA. Shall we get on to some, we don't do trailers anymore, but here's 16 trailers.
00:36:10
Speaker
It's just talking about stuff that we, you know, we've kept an eye on, or new stuff that's taking our eye. We're not going to go frame by frame in these like we used to, but... Yeah, no, I was taking the piss out of myself. Oh, okay. Dune Awakening. This is your only... There's four game trailers. This is the only one that showed any gameplay, so that was nice. That's definitely why I throw it in there. Fuck, I hope they get it right, because I would love to play a Dune game after the two...
00:36:38
Speaker
Fantastic movies. Sorry. Loki is currently attacking Kara who's sleeping peacefully. He's such an asshole. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I think when it first was announced, it sounded a bit more.
00:36:53
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survivally base building than, but that showed a bit of that in terms of like, you have to go out and hunt for elements and cut them out of rocks and then build your little base and stuff. Um, idea. If they pull it off. Yeah, definitely. I think the only thing that worried me about, well, the only thing that worried me about that trailer was the way they made it out to be your characters. Suddenly this like Godlike hero. Um, Oh, you're going to be more deep because everyone's going to be a Jedi in the Jedi game, right? Yeah. Um, well, is that not a reasonable comparison?
00:37:23
Speaker
If you're going to play a June game, then you want to be the all powerful fucking. Yeah, I mean, I don't think they'll give you any of that ability. I mean, you'll be the said you can pick your house and they'll be. It sounds like they're trying to get a certain level of community involvement.
00:37:40
Speaker
They'll never reach the levels that Eve Online is, but it feels like they're trying to get people to build the houses and have the communities run the houses and infiltrate the bases. The corporations. Yeah, I don't know how much of that will be, they'll have to script and have NPCs.
00:38:04
Speaker
occupying bases and things like that or whether there's going to be there really is going to be a certain level of spy infiltration which is obviously heavily. Implied in the in the books would they have would they have to reckon like. Kind of what all the scores online did where you could be the emperor of tamriel.
00:38:23
Speaker
If you like, if you could be like you could be head to houses and stuff. Yeah, the emperor. Yeah, I think that I think they have talked about a hierarchy structure similar to that. From what I've seen, they haven't gone too far into that. But they've definitely said about being whatever class you pick, you can in some way be a spy to infiltrate the other houses and the other factions and things like that. So
00:38:48
Speaker
I've got to tell you, a EVE Online style June universe would be quite interesting. It's not something I'd probably throw myself at, but it would be cool. Yeah. I mean, it depends on it. It all depends on how much player base they get and committed player base as well. You can't be building these things if you've only got a low number of people and everyone wants to play the same class and not actually run a faction.
00:39:17
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Yep. So a bit, I agree. I think the base building and that looks, looks pretty cool. They did a good, really good job on base building in Conan. Um, so it'd be really interesting to see how they expand on what everything they built there and the years of the years of, um, knowledge and, uh, game engines and systems that they have there and converting that over. So I'll play. I mean, I'm not, I'm not fast on the MMO side of it, but, uh, I'll, I'll give it a go and see what happens. Yeah.
00:39:48
Speaker
Yes, because there are a lot of dicks in the online universe of games like this, who like, you know, you'll spend forever building your base and someone will just come and. That's the thing too. If you're only a casual player, you get out, you get out done so fast with, with those sort of things. So always the challenge for builders of MMOs.
00:40:10
Speaker
I think we can blitz through these ones. I'm excited by this one, 1943 Riser Hydra. The Marvel games just don't, maybe it's because the Marvel movies don't capture my imagination anymore, but it's like, oh look, it's Captain America being a wanker and telling everyone how he's the fucking Highlander and there can be no other heroes around him. Yawn.
00:40:34
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OK, for those who haven't seen it, because I'd like to explain the trailer first before we get Pete's take on it. It could be only one. It is 1943 in France. Cap is on the ground, obviously, being in World War Two and the World War Two hero. You've got Black Panther running around doing his own thing, and each of them have a kind of sidekick with them. But as Dan said in chat, it's written or directed, produced by Amy Hennig.
00:41:03
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I'm off of the uncharted game so there's a yeah we haven't seen any gameplay and that's the thing i'm i would like to see before i jump. You know fully on board with this idea was apparently. In game rendered cut scenes.
00:41:19
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Which is all possible these days with Unreal 5. It doesn't give us any information. I think actually most of these games we are looking at the story trailers we saw all set at the start in-game engine using Unreal 5. Because that's the state of the art at the moment, right? Yeah.
00:41:39
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So, yeah, we haven't seen any gameplay for it. Definitely want to keep an eye on if it's I don't know if it's going to go down the uncharted route or, you know, will you play as all four characters? Will you play as the two sidekicks and you'll have Cap and Black Panther running through and doing their thing in the side or what they're going to do? I'm sure they'll have. Yeah. But I'm not I'm hoping I'm just like a decent story. So that's exactly what I want.
00:42:01
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Sorry, I just interrupt the flow. No, just interrupt the flow. So the next trailer we're about to talk about is Nobody Wants to Die. I just thought nobody wants to die into the search bar of YouTube and it's popped up with You're Not Alone. If you or someone you know is having a hard time, talk to somebody today and it's linked me to Lifeline Australia. Like, I mean, good. Yeah, YouTube. Anyway.
00:42:27
Speaker
Nobody wants to die looks like a fucking like I'm. Yeah, like it was, it just had so many Blade Runner meets the Fifth Element vibes. I love that tiered city look. There's obviously a lot of time control going on. I'm keen for this one.
00:42:46
Speaker
I mean, it's promising a lot. Let's see if it can deliver. It's always away these days, right? Yeah. Wait and see. It's once again, no gameplay, got nothing to judge it on. And it doesn't even give you an inkling and what sort of gameplay it is. Like, is it going to be an action adventure? Is it going to be a... True. Is it? Yeah.
00:43:06
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I got the impression it was a detective noir set in a Blade Runner kind of universe with some time control. Yeah, but that's your aesthetic that doesn't give you any idea of what game mechanics. You're absolutely right. Do we write it down on a coaster here now? I would like third person perspective and cover shooting mechanics. Thank you very much.
00:43:36
Speaker
That's that's my prediction for me a pedal for a time crisis ripoff. Oh, yeah, that's pretty cool. And lastly, sinking city too. So Dan's played the first one and it's always one that I keep saying I'm like, oh, damn right about that. I should play it one day. World War One. Is it sitting World War One?
00:43:57
Speaker
Yeah, Dan's played the first one. Yeah, it would be roughly around that time. I couldn't tell you exactly what year but 20s or something like that. The studio has said this is moving to more of a survival horror game as opposed to the original was more detective based. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of survival horror. Yeah, I mean, there was
00:44:20
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The combat wasn't, was definitely the letdown of it. It was pretty, a pretty, pretty clunky, uh, combat third person shooting system. Um, so it will be interesting to see how they advance on what they did. I think the once again, set up for the bones of what I've got there is really good to build on. I'm glad they've been able to get a second one and the underwater sequence stuff in that was fucking terrifying too. It made you feel so claustrophobic.
00:44:46
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The trailer is kind of similar. I mean, to me, I got vibes from there's a Warhammer fantasy race that were that are kind of based on skinks. I think they're actually called the skinks. And that's the that's the the aesthetic that I got from the underwater creatures in the second trailer. So well, they're all interesting to see what happens. Yeah, it leans really heavily into the
00:45:10
Speaker
the hybrid people in Lovecraft. So Dagon and things like that. It's the real focus of the human side of it. Cthulhu is the main backdrop of it. But Dagon, the Dagon side of it plays a big thing, which is the fishy lizard people. The fishy lizard. Give us some Hermaeus Mora. What a guy. What a great lady. They are called the Skinks.
00:45:38
Speaker
So yeah, there's four little games coming out. Movies. Betelgeuse is back. Oh, it looks so good. All the original cast. Yeah. Like, I would have, I would have, I would have, he does. I would have panned it if they had replaced the characters, the actors. I'm so glad they've got the original cast back.
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, this was a short 120 little teaser. Yeah, it's just a reveal trailer. Basically, yeah. And good old... I feel a bit bad for General Ortega's kind of getting quickly typecast in to have to be in all the remakes of all these classic horror... Well, not horror, but you know, that kind of fun family horror kind of vibes. But no, it does look very good. And the next one, in Romulus, looks right back to the...
00:46:28
Speaker
the roots of what Alien was. Yeah. What's this? No? Yeah. No, no, no. Definitely. Oh, you're agreeing with me. OK. Yeah. That was more like a yeah. Sure, Tom. You can drink. So it's the director from Don't Breathe. Don't Breathe? Yeah. Which I think it was an excellent movie in terms of building tension. So if they can. I mean, that's what made the original movie as horrifying and successful as it was. Ridley Scott's obviously a part of it.
00:46:58
Speaker
Um, there was another person that was a direct producer. I can't remember. Um, no, to me, this, this looks good. Promising after so many fucking letdown movies in the alien universe. It'd be good if we can get back to the roots and do it without a gosh darn reboot.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yeah. I know, I know nothing on this. Um, I saw, I saw the trailer. I didn't look into any of the backstory. I didn't even realize it was coming out or I didn't even realize they were making it. I'd never heard of it before the trailer dropped about four or five days ago. Um, I thought the trailer looked fine. Um, I was a bit confused about what the whole thing was. I originally thought it was a show, a show just streaming. Um, and then realized it was a cinema release. Um,
00:47:48
Speaker
So yeah, it'll be, I know, I know nothing about the timeline of when it's meant to be set or anything like that. So if they, if it's just a direct continue on at some stage, I hope they get all the aesthetic of the, the, the retro futuristic stuff all right around the, um, around the actual good alien horror story, survival horror story as well. So there's, there's, there's a lot riding on it there. So I,
00:48:17
Speaker
I'm going into it skeptical. Um, so I think it's fair after the, um,
00:48:25
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kind of burning we've had previously. We didn't actually say that in either of those things. So Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice is being released in Australia on the 5th of September, 24. Alien Remus is the 16th of August, 24. So they are both coming out this year. Dead Don't Hurt, which is, I only just stumbled onto it. I was today. Bigger and more intense.
00:48:49
Speaker
Yeah, written and directed by Vigo. Looks tense as shit from that trailer in some parts. Vigo's from the... Oh God, he's an old actor, isn't he?
00:49:04
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Aragorn son of Arathorn. Oh, that's right. That's what I think. Sorry. You know what I liked? It's my Alzheimer's. I would follow you to the end, my brother. Where was I going with that? Oh, not entirely sure. Oh, I was going, I was going with the original. Hidalgo? No, the guy, um, uh, it's on the tip of my brain. Carry on. They made a really bad TV series recently of a, of a movie from 20 years ago with the Peck in it, with the short people. Um,
00:49:34
Speaker
Willow. Thank you. Um, the, one of the actors in Willow, the main barbarian got, no, that was Val Kilner. Did you just have a word association? You're doing a really good job there, Pete. Anyway, rebel moon part two. No, I'm not done. I'm not done on dead don't hurt. I think dead don't hurt needs more time than anything fucking rebel moonish. Um, it is written, directed, produced, composed by, and starring Bigo.
00:50:02
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This is something he released to a lot of those fancy film, like cards, film festivals and stuff. I think it looks fantastic. It's set in the US Civil War. And it looks, obviously, I'm gonna think there's gonna be some beautiful landscape shots. You already know that he's adopted that horse if you didn't already own it, because that's what he does. He's a good human being. So yeah, this is one like completely again came out of the blue excited for it. It was
00:50:32
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It was released last year to Film Festival, so it is coming out in the next few weeks, I think, from memory. It was initially released since September last year. So I don't know how it kind of slipped under the radar until now. Yes. Oh yeah, and there's Rob Moon Part 2's coming, so yeah. Even more slow-mo. More like, more light sabers. Even more slow-mo. But it's all light sabers. Like, all of that. Yeah, anyway. I didn't watch it. I'm not going to watch it.
00:51:03
Speaker
The trailer running. It's pretty funny. I'll eventually watch the movie. Clarisse. At least he actually comes out of his fucking shell and starts Mac and C words left and right. He does. And then, yeah, some new TV shows coming on the horizon. So the Fallout, we've got the bigger trailer. It's still looking fucking good to me.
00:51:30
Speaker
Yeah. It needed a filter. I think there were a couple of sequences in that when they were doing the panning shot of the post-apocalyptic world. It needed just a smoky yellow greenish filter like you get in the games. Yeah. In my opinion, it just looked a little too clean.
00:51:47
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Walter Goggins is looking great in that. I'm hoping he's gonna have the breakout role in that. It is all episodes, 12th of April. All episodes are dropping on Amazon Prime.
00:52:03
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Yes, even to the point where Emma sent me the trailer for it and said, I've watched this. And I was like, really? I was like, you watched me play the game. So yeah, sure. Let's let's yeah. So yes, that's that's one of the new shows coming out. We did get the trailer for Star Wars Acolyte.
00:52:21
Speaker
I was surprised with the way they went with it, seeing as they talked about the whole time about being from a Sith perspective and it was very Jedi heavy. And we'll see if it delivers. I'm just rewatching it now. I don't want to get my hopes up for anything Star Wars related anymore. It just looks like the Witch of Blood origins to me.
00:52:44
Speaker
Which I'm taking into account and I will definitely report back on and tell you, yeah. Anything with Kathleen Kennedy associated with it is, yeah. It just, it kind of hit all those, hit all those beats in the trailer of the original trailer or the trailer for Witcher Blood Origins, where you had Michelle,
00:53:05
Speaker
Yo fighting the main character. So now you got Carrie and Moss fighting the main character. It's just, and then the, the, even the city structures of the outer rim street cities in there reminded me of the fantasy cities out of which are blood origin. So it's, uh, I hope they, I hope they make proper use of Trinity because she doesn't, she hasn't been in a whole lot.
00:53:30
Speaker
I mean, she's done movies, but she hasn't been in a whole lot. So it'd be a waste of a really fucking good actress if they don't. They don't use her effectively. Oh, and what's his name from King? The Asian guy? Yeah, the Korean actor. Yeah, he's excellent. I like him.
00:53:51
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reason for the life of me now, that's off my head. But yeah, um, yeah, well, it's two big names attached to it. But again, it's kind of similar for Dan's point. It's kind of similar what they did with Blood Ores. They attached some big names to it. And then it was kind of like, well, those guys kind of were just like, sweet paycheck. Thank you. Yeah. Um, you can kind of tell, but yeah, we'll see. We'll wait and see. I will, uh, I will report back to Dan for it. Um, you know, see, uh, cause he, yeah, he says not going to watch it. And then penguin, the penguin trail looked fantastic.
00:54:17
Speaker
Yeah, it looks great. It looked exactly filmed how the Batman was. I first started watching that track. I almost for a second thought that was the sequel for the sequel movie was in. Yeah. Colin Farrell looks fucking awesome in that makeup. It's just incredible. It's so seamless. I remember people talking about when the Batman was first released that
00:54:43
Speaker
No one recognized him. Even knowing it's him, I still struggle to be like, that's him. Yeah. But it's a, it is a Matt Reeves movie. So it, the continuity from the Batman should be in terms of artistic and creative direction for the cinematography. It should be quite seamless from the movie.
00:55:01
Speaker
And they're the kind of characters that i absolutely love and i know i've said it before too but like he fledges joker where you can't see anything of the actor in the character and not just not just physically but also in their actual performance you just doesn't come across and it's the kind of characters that i really love.
00:55:23
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, that is that is coming to HBO Max later this year, I think it was. Without going to the Jared Leto level of of character acting, mailing, mailing dead animals to their fucking actors, fellow actors.
00:55:41
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. I agree that was knowing when to stop method acting when you leave when you leave the studio. Yeah, that's always a good thing. But a lot of people were saying like Heath Ledger was playing as the like he was acting as the Joker even outside of filming. He just needed to stay in that character zone the whole whole sequence of shots. And so while they were filming, he was always the Joker.
00:56:05
Speaker
So, I guess kind of when you need to immerse yourself in that level of depth, it's kind of hard to just pop back in and out. I think it would make you a psychopath if you could just put it on, take it off. Which is interesting because Austin Butler was talking about that's exactly what he did for June 2. He stopped when he left. He's like, I can't take that home. I can't take that out.
00:56:25
Speaker
Like that guy needs to stay. That's a conscious choice that he's making because the guy plays a fucking psychopathic serial killer. But compared to say when he was Elvis, like he said Elvis bled into his outside life. Have you seen his, have you seen the video that compares his voice from before and after Elvis? No.
00:56:43
Speaker
So I don't really understand and I haven't done any research because it wasn't that interesting, but it was mildly interesting that if you watch videos like interviews with him in the years leading up to Elvis and then during Elvis and then after Elvis, it's permanently changed his voice.
00:57:01
Speaker
And he has this raspy whiskey-ness quality to his voice now, just while he's talking normally, not when he's acting, that he never had before Elvis. But apparently he spent 12 months doing singing lessons nonstop before Elvis, practicing the accent and the voice and the movements, and it's permanently changed his vocal chords. Well, I don't know if damaged is the right word, but certainly changed the quality of them. It's really interesting, but not.
00:57:29
Speaker
Because that man needed to be made any more appealing to women. I know some people are born holding all the cards. Talented, good looking, and now he's got the voice down pat as well. He's just, uh, there's an absolute magnet these days, wouldn't he be? Motherfucker. We're all shook up. All right.
00:57:54
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That's break time. I think that'll do us. I think that'll do us for a couple of minutes and we'll be back after these messages from our sponsors.
00:58:06
Speaker
Squarespace? Where is Squarespace? Everyone does Squarespace. I don't know. Do you have a rectal dysfunction? And we're back. And Dan's drinking green tea. Green tea. Wild night, wild long weekend.
00:58:37
Speaker
It's going to drop acid later though, folks. Don't, don't believe what he says. I wish, but no. I'm drinking a very dangerous beer. Do you want me to go first time? Danger! Danger Will Robinson. Okay. I am drinking black, black, black, black hops, brewery, goat, hazy IPA coming in at 6%.
00:59:05
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This is lethal. You're just doing all the sympathetic reviews this week, aren't you? Digging into all the VA's this week. Look at you. What a good boy supporting. It's really fucking nice. For a hazy IPA, it's certainly juicy, but without being offensively so. I get melon and tropical juice. It's got quite a bitter finish, which is kind of nice in this heat, to be honest with you.
00:59:35
Speaker
But it's not loud, so I'm a big fan of not loud beers at the moment. I don't have much more to say about it other than it's a four to five. Nice. Very dangerous because I could easily drink a six pack of those. Yeah, it doesn't taste like six percent, does it? Definitely not. Does it say what hops are in it there?
00:59:58
Speaker
I've never actually had one. I've only drunk very few black op beers. They never seem to be anything that was ever at Quaker Cellars or anything like that. Yeah. I used to get a few of them through the union. They used to have a few in the bottle shop, but they stopped dropping the limiteds down here. Maybe they lost a rep down here or something. It won a gold medal and used the cheat code to get it. Mosaic, Amarillo, and El Dorado. El Dorado. Yeah.
01:00:28
Speaker
tells you everything you need to know. No, it's just it's just really nicely combined into a absolutely fucking smashable beer. Greatest of all time, one might even say. It's no Tom Brady, but hey, I can dream. Tom, what are you drinking, mate? I'm having the false start IPA from Fox Friday down in Tassie.
01:00:53
Speaker
can't show you much except green and brown does tell you though the moths have used a pale and golden promise the hops ryfield centennial mosaic cryo mosaic and cryo citra and the yeast is uso five sorry what was that first one ryfield centennial must be a low
01:01:16
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You cut out for a second there for me. He muted himself half way through. I muted myself a little too quick so you didn't have to hear my clickety-clackety keyboard while I look it up. Yes, Ryfield Centennial. It's pouring a nice golden, not too overly thick hazy number. Just calling it an IPA now. I guess that definitely feels, it's a juicy, yeah. I mean, given the hops that it's used, you would expect that.
01:01:44
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But it's very, very nice. It comes in at 6%. Again, doesn't taste like 6%. This is dangerously quaffable. What a great word.
01:01:57
Speaker
Um, yeah, it's, it's got a nice, it's, it's overly citrusy, I guess is the, is the way to put it. Um, but it's, it's balanced throughout kind of way. So it's like a bit of heat, like right at the front and then it kind of smooths and mellows out. Uh, Brifield, uh, right field hops, uh, from Bem Boca, New South Wales. Hey, there you go. Yeah. Um, never heard of them. Never heard of them. I'll have to look into that.
01:02:24
Speaker
That's my gift to you. The gift from Fox Friday though is just how smack bang on the can. Look at it, Dan. Look at it. It is very bang on. Yeah. Yeah. Good job. Yes. That is, that is very enjoyable. Would be dangerous. It's a 440 mil can. So even two of those, you'd be like, woo hoo, we're on party time.
01:02:48
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Um, you end up dancing in a Star Wars helmet in a shower. Um, so yes, no, I'm going to give that a 4.25. That's good. That's good. I'm going to enjoy the rest of this. I'm going to enjoy this. Should we kick off with some reviews? Yeah. Who wants to go first?
01:03:10
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Pete, you've got more, you can go first. I do, but I'm going to blitz through mine. So Masters Masters of the Skies, which was a continuation of Band of Brothers and Band of Brothers, the Pacific, was focused on World War. Shit. World War One. Two.
01:03:28
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Two. Banner Brothers is two, so if it's continuing, I hope it's the same war. Yeah, I have to think about that. They've done a time jump already. It seems World War One was biplanes and triplanes. Yeah, true. For sure, it's World War Two. Well, the P-52 came in right at the end. Eight episodes, very easy to consume, lots of atmosphere, lots of nice, like, realistic depiction of
01:03:56
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the horror that they experienced in the skies as well, the fear, the tension. Yeah, you know, and they had, I think, three episodes at the end where a couple of the main characters were in a concentration camp and they gave you an inside view of those and what the POWs went through in a concentration camp. Is it not called a concentration camp if they're POWs? No, no, no, no, no, no. You called it Master of the Skies. It's called Masters of the Air.
01:04:22
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Oh, okay. Sorry. Just for people if I wanted to watch it and they look at the wrong thing. It was excellent, but it's, I don't think any, any series that they do now is ever going to compare to the first one or ever beat the first one in terms of atmosphere, romanticness, or a romantic depiction of the troops in World War I. That was just an amazing story. World War II, gee.
01:04:49
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And they filmed Band of Brothers in Europe, didn't they? They did.
01:04:57
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And I think that like so much of that obviously not having masters have seen Masters of the Air or even seen a trailer and I think outside of the thumbnail that shows up on the PlayStation when I turn it on. That original Band of Brothers series just had so much practical and on location stuff that if you don't do that these days, it always has that
01:05:21
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fakeness to it. And I say that in very loose quotation marks because I know it's all Hollywood and it's all fake, but it just goes back to me, me always banging on about practical and on location stuff.
01:05:36
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They actually did quite a lot of practical filming. They went back to the various military bases because you got the US guys posted out of England. So a lot of it was filmed in Dalton Barracks in Abingdon. Excellent. So, yeah, I mean, look, Tom, Tom Hanks.
01:05:52
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And Steven Spielberg, they've kind of got the formula down pat of the way that they want to tell the stories. I actually think Band of Brothers was as successful as it was, not just because of the way that it was filmed and directed, but also because the actual real world story of Easy Company was so interesting and amazing and defying of all odds that they focused on that because the true story was so spectacular.
01:06:20
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Not that the real life stories of the people depicted in Masters of the Air isn't also amazing and heroic and all the rest of it, but I just don't think it's ever going to have the same hit.
01:06:33
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The next one I wanted to talk about was Avatar The Last Airbender season one on Netflix. This is the second attempt at a live action kind of interpretation of the cartoon. The first movie was pretty fucking atrocious and it got panned for being whitewashed quite significantly.
01:06:53
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Um, the, the TV series doesn't, doesn't suffer from the same. It is aimed at kids. It's, it's, it's a kids like TV series. So don't expect, you know, complex themes and those sorts of things, but I actually think it was really well made for what it was. It's a.
01:07:10
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You know, it reminds me of my, the movies and TV series that I loved growing up in the sense that it's quite playful. It's a bit, it's a bit janky in places and there's a lot of tell don't show. But I think that's probably because of the target audience. So I can forgive it for that. But yeah, overall.
01:07:30
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easy to watch, enjoyable, throw it on in the background. It's not a thinker, but, you know, it's quite a complex world that they've created for the for the original cartoon series. So there's quite a lot of content to draw on there. And the last one I wanted to do, do you want me to break it up? Tom, do you want to talk about Roadhouse or do you want me to jump into this? I mean, I can I can do a quick rundown of Roadhouse. Roadhouse.
01:07:56
Speaker
Um, look, we, I wasn't intending to watch this and Emma said, I want to watch this. And I said, you want to watch this? Cause Jake Gyllenhaal is ripped to shit and half new for half the time. And she goes, Sue fucking Lutely. And I said, all right, let's do it. Um, so we did, uh, look, it's what an hour and 45, two hours long. Uh, there's some, you said, you said once before in another episode that you have your lounge room salt. I just imagine your lounge room moisturizer now.
01:08:25
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Yes, because I was masturbating furiously. For you. Yeah, I was talking about you. Yeah, you just see Jake Gyllenhaal's cum gutters and you're just like, fuck, I'm on. Yep, I just learned a new word to some people that listen to this, namely my father. I'll explain it at Easter lunch tomorrow.
01:08:49
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Look, it's it's so similar to the original. The only difference is now instead of being a karate master, he's an ex UFC fighter. It's the same thing where he's a little bit philosophical. He's for someone who gets punched in the face multiple times in his career. He's reasonably intelligent for what he does. It's all set in Florida now. The only thing that was really weird was there was some really
01:09:17
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oddly placed CGI bits. So it opens the opening scene is a fight with Post Malone, the singer is sure and they haven't like they haven't made him look fit at all. He is still all like jiggly bits and everything go on shirtless fighting. But there's bits of it where like he throws a punch and you can tell they've CGI'd his arm in so that he didn't like hurt his hand or anything.
01:09:42
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Oh, super weird. Yeah, there's bits where it's like, or it's like, if it's not that it's the way they've edited it post it like make it look maybe a bit faster. But it's super weird. It's portal crew break that they might imagine they probably have but it was just it was there was some really janky it's perfect janky janky bits in it like that. The story is very simple. They try and alluded to
01:10:08
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The main guy's story, I can't remember the character's name, Jake Gyllenhaal's whatever character is called. His story is meant to be Dalton. That's it, Dalton. He's like a Western hero, so he like rolls into the town, tries to fix it, and then he rolls on. There were some cool moments in the fight choreography, obviously, is very good. It is very UFC based. So if you like that kind of that fighting, then you're going to have a reasonably good time.
01:10:37
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surprisingly small, not small amount. Um, they kept the bits where Jake Gyllenhaal fights UFC style to certain sections. There's a big patch in the middle where it's like showing him being the bouncer at the road house. And he's actually teaching the young guys how to be fight like him, like for a bit. So he's like passing it on and they get really like, you know, into it. Um, but the scenes where so many broken bones and limbs and stuff that there's points where you're just like, Oh, like I was feeling it.
01:11:08
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Not not as bad as like some other things you see, but it's like you just, you know, he just grabs a dude's fingers and snaps them off. And he just like, fuck me, man. He could have, ah, shit. He did warn me anyway, but I didn't, I wasn't ready for it. Um, and then one of the coolest, there's like, there's a massive fight scene at the end. Um, but they kind of went to like a GoPro angle for it. So like they had a GoPro on obviously the stunt double as Jake Gyllenhaal's Dalton fighting Conor McGregor, who is.
01:11:35
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I don't know if he was just high, if he was on speed, whatever he was on. He phoned it in? No, it wasn't phoning it in. He was told to act crazy and he went, finally, it's my turn to let loose and I'm just going to act absolute bonkers. You've got to use bonkers. Yeah, but more than I've ever seen him before. There's a point where it was just weird. There was one tag on it I heard that he dialed it up to 11 and everybody was too scared to tell him
01:12:02
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Did you pull it back a little bit? Just pull it back. I'm sure he's a fucking good sport. No, it's not that. He's this way and he walks bowlegged. The whole time everyone was like, he walks like an orc. But then he's just got these massive pecs and he looks almost guerilla-ish in the
01:12:27
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I'm sure he's rolling his shoulder forward for it. The best scene I found was one big fight scene. It's from Dalton, who's Jake Gyllenhaal's viewpoint. It's just up close to Conor McGregor's face, throwing punches at you.
01:12:43
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Oh, okay. Yeah. I imagine that's what it's like. VR boxing. Basically. Yeah. Look, enjoyable. Put it on. I had a few beers throughout. I had a, I had a bit of a laugh, you know, Emma enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. It was, it was fun hour and a half to our movie. Yeah. Yeah. So look, get amongst it on Amazon prime. It's worth it. Um, there was nothing, there was a real weird Western soundtrack to it, like cowboy soundtrack, but yeah, sure. Whatever. It's Florida. Nothing matters down there.
01:13:13
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Anyway, that's Roadhouse. The, uh, the family guy Roadhouse episode. Have you guys seen that? No. Yeah. That's what Tom's referring to. That's Peter. Peter watches Roadhouse and they do a little clip of Patrick Swayze kicking people. Uh, and then Peter just spends the next, the rest of the episode going Roadhouse and kicking people as he goes through. It's fucking hilarious. It's me and Louise quote all the time. This is one of those classic episodes. Yeah. Uh,
01:13:43
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That's a nice job and get paid speech pops me next I watched a fantastic movie last week called nefarious It's once again things I bang on about little stories I think not including the extras that don't say anything in the background and maybe a prison guard or two that might have two words there's
01:14:04
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three people that have any sort of significant lines in this
Movie Discussion: Prison Drama and Surprise Quality
01:14:08
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movie. It's primarily two guys in a room in a prison talking to each other, a serial killer, a serial killer prisoner.
01:14:18
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who's on death row and a psychologist that has come to evaluate him at the 11th hour and deem him sane or insane to get executed that evening. And it's them having a conversation in the prison
01:14:39
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interrogation room, I guess. Just two guys, a couple of steel chairs and a steel table. And that's that's all it is for 90% of the movie. There's a little breakup in between where the the psychologist goes out to the prison yard has a cigarette. But that's all about five minutes. And there's about 10 minutes at the end where the whole conclusion happens where it's outside of that room. And it's just
01:15:04
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has to stand on the back of the actors the script and the filming and it just the guy that plays the serial killer who and this is this is no spoiler cuz in the subtext of the movie if you go on amazon says he's possessed by a demon and the psychologist is there to
01:15:24
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to deem whether he is insane and if he is insane, he cannot go to the execution. But if he's sane and the psychologist signs off, he has to go to the execution. So they obviously think it's an 11th-hour ploy to get declared insane and not go to the electric chair.
01:15:42
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Yeah, avoid the execution. And so the guy that plays the prisoner plays the two personalities and switches between them. He plays the the the demons possessing and the the prisoner who is unpossessed and he flip-flops between these two extreme different personalities.
01:16:04
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Without without a break in the camera without a cut like he'll do it. He'll do it on screen in in frame and it's just it's it's magical to watch I love these sort of things where it's just captivating all the way through and the story that like that
01:16:20
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him telling the story of the demon that he is, is just captivating and talking about philosophical religion all the way through it and the good versus evil and the hierarchy of heaven and hell. And it's just, I just loved it. I thought it was just a brilliant start to finish. And it was one of those ones that I knew nothing about going in. It was an absolute roll of the dice when we saw it. We were looking for something new and different and obviously
01:16:48
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ever contents a little scant at the moment, because we're still coming off the back of the strikes and everything. So it was it was 110% of roll the dice. Didn't know the people in it. They say this in quotation mark, no names, I'm sure they're not. But I don't remember them from anything I'd seen before. I just looked them up. They've they're relatively new. Yeah, okay. Well, they've been in other stuff, but background. Yeah.
01:17:16
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And just, I cannot recommend it more. It is, I will 100% go and watch it again. Now that I've seen the story through, I want to go back and watch any of those clues. It's kind of like the
01:17:31
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kind of reminded me a little bit of Primal Fear with Edward Norton and Richard Gere. If you go back and watch it again, you start to see the cues because you know where the ending is going and everything like that. I'm very interested to go back through and watch it again and just listen, sort of settle in, listen to the dialogue, watch the actors and just see how all that plays out again.
01:17:55
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It was great. Amazon Prime has been doing a few of these films recently where they do that, where it's like, it's a film version of a play almost, like a one room set play. That's right up Dan's alley. Yeah, that one with Chris Pine that I watched a few months ago, and it's him and Fandy Newton as their ex-spies, and it's just them in a restaurant. And sure, you get some panning shots around the rest of the restaurant, but it's focused on their table the entire time. Do you remember what that was for? What was that? It was on part of that conversation.
01:18:24
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It's called all the old knives. It's on prime. Okay. Um, yeah. And it was just, but it's that same thing of like, it, it, it definitely feels like you're watching a film version of a, of a screen. Uh, and that's great. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent. Loved it. So, um, how did stack against James McAvoy in split in terms of the, the multiple personality acting? Cause to me, that's the fucking benchmark. Yeah. Um, I.
01:18:57
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I'd say they're both fantastic, multiple personality. Uh, McAvoy had more to play with and the personalities were more flamboyant in their way. Um, each one was, I mean, I guess this, this guy does flip-flop between two extreme personalities. Um, but McAvoy's were really extreme. Very extreme. Yeah, they were.
01:19:22
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I would say they're both great in their own ways. I would happily say neither of them is better than the other. OK, cool. I'm keen to check it out.
TV Series Reviews: 'What We Do in the Shadows' and Others
01:19:37
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And my other quick one is just the TV series of What We Do in the Shadows, which is done off the Taika Waititi mockumentary movie of three vampires in a house that was filmed quite a few years ago, probably 10 or 12 years ago now.
01:19:53
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This is a new set of three vampires that live in a house together in Staten Island. It's the the three traditional vampires, blood blood sucking vampires and their energy vampire roommate, who is by far the best, second best to best character in the show, because he's just we've all known someone like him in our lives. And he's just he goes out of his way to have these enormously
01:20:21
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boring conversations so he can sap the life out of people as they listen to him just ramble on about these stupid topics. Fantastic. Yeah. Definitely no people like that. Because it's a mockumentary, they have the documentary makers with them. He'll be boring these people to sleep because he's sucking the life out of them and he'll turn to the camera and laugh and give a little nod or a thumbs up or something like that. It's almost like an office.
01:20:48
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Yeah, most definitely is and it's just great the the all of the actors are absolutely fantastic. And it it we're up to season four now and there's five seasons and they haven't repeated themselves. It's you feel like this story could get sort of stale if they just sort of stick with the same thing. But the story evolves as they go through the Taika Waititi and one of the original guys from the movie is in
01:21:17
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the TV show. They appear every now and then because they're on the World Supreme Vampire Council. So they appear every now again to judge certain people throughout the TV series. They're 20 to 24 minutes long. You just basically don't want it to end. It's so well written and just- I've seen so many clips from that for Lazlo. Yeah, Lazlo.
01:21:41
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Yeah. Just Matt Barry as an actor and just the way he pronounces certain things and the way he delivers lines. It's just like, yeah, they're very good. He really finds his stride in about season three. And yeah, just, you could just see one of the, I think it's season three comes back and he's got slightly longer hair and he just, he just moves differently. You can just see that something absolutely
01:22:08
Speaker
tweaked in his head after the first two seasons. And he just falls into this role and just absolutely chews up the scene and just hands it up as big as he can all the way through. It's just fantastic. You're talking about Matt Berry, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I fucking love him in IT crowd. Yeah. He's fantastic. That was the Colin and Laszlo were my two
01:22:34
Speaker
which one is the better character in the later seasons, which one is the better character. But Nadia and Nandor, the other two vampires are great. And Guillermo, they're familiar who his story evolves through as well. It's just shit loads of fun. It's so off the wall, unserious and just some weird crazy shit just happens. And it's just enjoyable.
01:23:03
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It's one thing that we, Em and I, we need to go back and to finish the show, but I don't know if either of you were saying it, but did you watch Our Flag Means Death, speaking of Taika comedies? Not yet. No, I started to watch it, but I started to watch it while I've been watching What We Do in Shadows, and I watched the first episode and it just didn't have that.
01:23:21
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um no it's it's a hook yeah it's it's too much of uh tykoness yes i feel into it but apparently i what i've read is because i've kept an eye on it we got halfway through it's like oh we should just go back and finish that eventually but it's just that eventually tyker like kind of falls into a rhythm and actually kind of realizes being a bit too tyker and then it gets better as as it goes on but yeah it it's it's a similar kind of vein of comedy if if you wanted to
01:23:49
Speaker
another show. Yeah, because I love Rhys Davies. I think he's fantastic. And he played the werewolf in the What We Do in the Shadows mockumentary movie. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Arj Barker plays the main werewolf guy in the in the first series. I like Arj Barker. Yeah, yeah, he's not in at March, but it was just fun to see him in in that sort of
01:24:11
Speaker
character. I love how he is one of the most American comedians that you get these days, but he's so connected with New Zealand and Australian comedy. I think that's fantastic. His wife's Australian, isn't she? I think. Oh, there you go. I think she is. I'm sure he's, didn't he start, didn't he start his career in Australia? Yeah, he lived here for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably why. Yeah. Definitely. Um, Peter, what's next?
01:24:39
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So I'm going to quickly talk about constellation season one, which we talked about a couple of episodes ago when it was a trailer. It's an apple plus series.
01:24:52
Speaker
I'm really struggling to put my finger on what I think about it. I watched the last episode last night. Actually watched the last two episodes last night. It was an interesting theory that drove the story forward. You know, I'm going to try not to go through too many spoilers in terms of what the characters go through. But overall, it's it's based on quantum superposition. So the multiple universes theory.
01:25:19
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The thing that I struggle with and it switches between Swedish and English. It's based around the European Space Agency. The USSR slash Russia is kind of features pretty prominently because they are talking about space exploration. And it starts on ISS and there's an accident on ISS and everything else kind of splits off from there.
01:25:44
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The thing that really bugged me about it, and I don't know if it's a fair indictment of the series or not, so I'm assuming you guys will happily tell me your opinion on my thoughts. Astronauts, to me, are the best of the best of humanity.
01:26:06
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Like you think about NASA astronauts specifically, to get to be a NASA astronaut, you need to be in your 30s because you need enough practical experience that basically it's impossible to get in into the astronaut program in your 20s because you don't have a decade of practical experience flying jets in the military or, you know, in a STEM field. You need a master's degree to even apply for the astronaut program in America.
01:26:34
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You need it's like two and a half years of training before you even get into mission specific training these are the best humans that this species turns out. If you have a look at the twitch.
01:26:47
Speaker
Like if you look at if you do any research into the response time and the twitch response times of like top gun pilots who feed into astronaut training. Yeah. These guys are superhuman in their ability to respond to physical stimuli. They they survive g forces. Normal humans literally just cannot survive. And so I know that's a really long lead in. But when you watch a series with a bunch of astronauts where the main astronaut character
01:27:16
Speaker
falls to pieces every time there's a minor emotional spur. To me, it just ruins the realism of the whole series. No, counterpoint. The astronaut who put on diapers and chased her ex-husband across America. Yes, I do remember that story. But was she actually an astronaut? Yeah. I remember the story. I know she was in NASA. Ben Folds wrote a song about her.
01:27:46
Speaker
But it was a pretty famous story. I get exactly where you're going from in terms of like the peak of physical performance. And you assume mental performance in terms of. Yeah. Well, I know for a fact that they deal with like real time trigonometry and maths issues, like maths problems they have to solve in real time that you, the three of us have no fucking hope in hell of ever being able to solve.
01:28:08
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in real time. I sometimes forget my time stable. Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. I can't even do my time stables anymore. So these guys are incredibly stable. They're vetted by psychologists and psychiatrists. They're, you know, they're extremely emotional stable because they have to be. If you're going to go up to ISS for a year or two, they're going to assess you for your ability to deal with emotional stimuli. Right. And so when you were looking at an astronaut as a main character,
01:28:33
Speaker
And it particularly bug me that she was female just every single time anything was a little weird or emotional she just fall to pieces and just wouldn't be able to deal with it. And so the story one itself is interesting and she was certainly put in stressful situations but. I just felt it was utterly unrealistic that she was crying for night ninety percent of a screen time the main character.
01:28:56
Speaker
It's just, just couldn't handle it. Yeah. And that's exactly what it is. Cause the actress who plays the main character, her name is Numi Rapace. Yeah. I recognize her as soon as a kind of quickly looked up in series. Yeah. She's an excellent actress. Jonathan Banks plays kind of a secondary main character. He's, he's excellent. Um, he's just a grumpy old fuck and I love him for it. Um, but yeah, no, that's his role in most things. He's totally typecast. Yeah.
01:29:26
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I don't know the series was interesting but I wouldn't call it enjoyable. Okay. If that makes sense. So worth watching but it's not something you're going to get to the end and go, oh, that was really fucking cool. But there was the writing of the character to let you down. Yes. In terms of just not being able to handle stuff or whatever. But the overall concept of- And were they doing that for the sake of like drama beats or like-
01:29:48
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What's a heightened tension? I think it was too, it was too, no, the storyline is pretty messed up, but like I'm not an astronaut and I figured out what was going on in episode two and it took, and it took her another six episodes in the series to finally figure out what the fuck was going on. It's like, I'm sorry, but if you're being flown to space and you spend a year in ISS, you understand the basic mechanics of quantum physics.
01:30:15
Speaker
Right. And so it's not that big a draw. Like it was pretty fucking obvious from two episodes in what was really going on. And it just took way too long for her to figure it out. So I think the core premise like the, yeah, I think the core premise of the series was actually quite intelligent and interesting. And it was a cool exploration of quantum super superposition, but the execution was just kind of lacking for me.
01:30:41
Speaker
I did not understand what you meant by quantum super positioning and I don't need you to explain it to me because I probably still don't understand it, but I'm happy for you that you know what it means. Okay. Well, my brother is an astrophysicist, so he's got a PhD in the topic and I have been bored at many a family dinner listening to him talk about it. My brother's a drunk, but hey, we don't know about you.
01:31:05
Speaker
He's not, I'm sorry. And listens to the show. He's a lovely man. Does he? I don't know. Sometimes. He does. Anyway, okay, cool. Right. Well, and that is on... Apple. Apple. Apple teammate. Very good.
Personal Gaming Experiences: Banishes, Baldur's Gate, and More
01:31:20
Speaker
Yep. Are you ready for your fourth beer? I'm just cracking them off. I am not. Okay. So, do you want to plow ahead and we'll... Well, you fill in some filler and I'll pour and taste.
01:31:31
Speaker
Well, we're into are you winning, son? And for the first time in history, we've got like a full 30 minutes to explore it. So. Excellent. I'm going to talk about every single minute. No, no, no. With your 46 games you played this week. I haven't had any time. It's been very depressing over the last month.
01:31:49
Speaker
Dan, do you want to kick us off, Dan? Yeah, let Dan go. Yeah, I mean, I actually haven't been playing anything different in the last several weeks. Actually, I haven't actually really been playing much until the last two weeks. I just, I got a bit in a bit of a rut.
01:32:05
Speaker
It's been been just not that's not right. Just didn't feel like doing much gaming wise and didn't have anything on the PlayStation to play after I finished whatever I was playing last which I cannot even remember what I was playing last. We've talked about it. Yeah, I don't remember either. I think was one of the Lord of the Rings.
01:32:29
Speaker
You were playing shadows. No, I still did played something after that too. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Uh, I will be going to pick up, um, look it up in the old show notes. I get it. I get to go and pick up banishes tomorrow, uh, and get into banishes. You bastard. I thought I'd get into that while they sort out all the bits and pieces with dragon's dog went to let them come out with some patches and do that. So I'm going to dive into banish. Did you play the first game?
01:32:54
Speaker
No, no, I thought about it, but never. In the last episode we recorded with A. Wing Sun, you were talking about Cyberpunk, Phantom Liberty, Conan Exiles and Trek to Yumi.
01:33:03
Speaker
Yes, okay. Well, I haven't touched Conan or Trakty Yumi, so I'm still playing Blacksmith's Song of Two Kings. The single dev that released the Blacksmith game I was playing is slowly releasing elements. I'm part of his Discord group and he's taking on board people's suggestions for what they'd like added to the game and whatever he can manage he's adding in.
01:33:29
Speaker
And it's really coming down to how the tools work and setting up lines. He's adding in like a chalk marker so you can actually mark the materials before you cut them and everything like that. Because at the moment you're kind of doing it by eyeball, like looking at the design. You can't draw on it first to make sure it looks right and then
01:33:48
Speaker
cut it or work it and you can't overlay the blueprint on top of the material. So you got to put the material either on top of the blueprint, which is in the top left corner in a little smaller. You can move the blueprint wherever. So you can move it down and put it wherever. So it's quite hard if you've got a chunk of metal and you've got to cut 12 gear teeth into a chunk of metal, you kind of
01:34:13
Speaker
line the saw up with the blueprint and then move the material on and then do the cut to where you think it should stop and then move it off and then like realign it, realign the saw. So it's a bit tedious. So he's putting in like a chalk marker. Um, he's refined on how some of the other tools work, the accuracy of some of the other tools, which is great. I'm good on him. And he's still getting absolutely handed on discord and I wish the people would just leave him the fuck alone.
01:34:38
Speaker
because there's one or two guys on there. Haters gonna hate. Oh, but they're just like, Oh, why haven't you done this yet? And he's, he's, he comes on, he's super polite about it and just says, look, this isn't my full-time job. I have to do this outside of work. I'm trying to do everything I can to help you guys. That pisses me off though. Like this. Yeah. I'll defend the fuck out of him. I'll fight those guys. I'll fight them all. Let's fight them. Let's fight them all.
01:35:05
Speaker
And, uh, good on him for doing that. Still love the game. It's fantastic. Uh, and after my, my first 40 hours in Baldur's gate, I've finally decided to start it. Uh, and golf clubs, are you enjoying it? I'm loving it. It's, it's so different to see. What has like, I only played like, I think two versions before the full release. And there was so much that they hadn't put in at like two versions beforehand.
01:35:36
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It's, it's, it's same, same, but different. So they're like, we've first spoken about Pete, like characters that weren't in the version that I played. Yeah. Carla was in the first version that I played, but never joined your party.
01:35:49
Speaker
So you could do the first little mission that is when you meet her, won't spoil it for anybody. But after you finish that mission, she wasn't around to join your group. And she wouldn't come to do that mission with you either. So she was just a character there. She was just an NPC in the world. So I never thought anything of it until she joins my party to complete that mission on this playthrough. She's one of my favorite characters now.
01:36:15
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Like I said to you, the hilarity that comes out of just thinking and using the game mechanics to your advantage. Like I said, I was all out of action points. I had a goblin warlock that was on a platform that was really pissing me off because they really
01:36:34
Speaker
hit quite hard with their spells. And I couldn't get to him with the movement. So Carla has got a throw option because she's an improvised throw option because she's a barbarian. I had nothing within my reach that I could improvise throw. So I looked at in the inventory and I had a spare great axe because I just swapped it out for another weapon. And she actually grips the great axe by the handle and throws it end over end and just took this warlock out with a great axe to the head. I thought it was one of the funnest moments I'd had.
01:37:03
Speaker
Was that on the bridge to the goblin camp? No, it was inside the goblin camp. Okay, because one of the goblin spellcasters loves to stand up in a bugged kind of tower that you can't actually reach, and he throws spells across the long bridge over the moat, and that caused me no end of headache.
01:37:27
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But I mean, what a perfect example of how flexible and dynamic the rule set is for fifth edition D&D and how you can tell a genuinely interesting and intricate story within that framework.
01:37:40
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Yeah, and a lot of that story has played out much more now for me than was ever in the first two sections, well, same section, but the first two playthroughs of Act One that I did are still not at the end of Act One, because there's so much extra content in the Act One area than it was beforehand. Nice. Yeah, there's a lot happening in that world, and I'm very glad I've stayed away from
01:38:09
Speaker
90% of people talking about it on YouTube and things like that because I just hit something in the story and I'm like, I don't know how this is going to play out. So good. Good. Yeah. Sorry. That was a lot of talking and I needed to cough. That's right. I just have some strong, strong tea there, buddy. Yeah. Um, yeah. So who's winning next? Hey, winning Tom, you're next up on the list.
01:38:34
Speaker
Do we want, do you want to do this first? We can do this first. I can, I can see that I'm going to sit on this beer so we can either split through reviews and then do be as the end. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that. Okay. Let's do that. Um, yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, uh, and this is a great little joke that I wrote for myself that Pete's picked up on in the show notes that I'm, uh, I'm, I am winning through ACCR, which is Assassin's Creedence Clearwater Revival. Um, because it hasn't been released yet. So what the fuck are you smoking?
01:39:03
Speaker
No, no, no, because it's you know, it's a group of guys. So they're a brotherhood. And it's a revelations to me that you didn't get that joke. Oh, Europe. Give yourself. Yes, yes. Well done, Tom. Yeah, brotherhood was fine. I got sick of rowing very quickly. And I really struggled through the end of that game. I actually
01:39:22
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. Something about Brotherhood just really didn't sit well with me. Didn't sit well? No, it's not that didn't sit well. I just, I got bored. Like I think it's because it's the same location. It is a bit repetitive. Yeah. Yeah. And I just finished through AC2. Um, much more enjoying Revelations. Uh, I like it going to, it's in Constantinople, the music, I think that was it. It was the music as well. Cause it was, it was the same, basically same soundtrack in two and Brotherhood. Um, and then moving to the same soundtrack. I didn't realize that.
01:39:49
Speaker
Not the same, but same themes came through. Yeah. Whereas when you're in Revelations, they do have a bit of a, that, that Middle Eastern. Yeah. They start to kind of climb into it. And that key that you talk about, that minor key that comes through really strongly and it's actually really beautiful music. So yeah, I'm really enjoying being in Revelations. Seven tone octave. Yeah. Um, I don't know if, did you ever play the, there was a DLC that was released for Revelations, which was all about the subject 16 dude.
01:40:15
Speaker
But it's from that first person, first person perspective. It's called the Lost Archive. Now you had those weird missions. I might have played it. Those weird missions where it's, you're literally, it's, you don't see, it's like, it's almost like VR kind of perspective, but it's, you're running through these, the animus thing. Most boring is.
01:40:33
Speaker
That shit fucking horrible. There's a whole DLC around it. It was horrible. I just got, I spent all day yesterday getting through it just cause I have to cause it's part of the, the remaster. Oh, okay. They've included it. There's a whole DLC with you not being an assassin.
01:40:47
Speaker
No, you're literally running through learning about like how this dude that you never play as and you if you don't care about the external story, like I don't I care about the historical story of it, but not the like modern day story. So you're running through as this clay who's subject 16. I couldn't Oh, you're ringing bells. I couldn't give two flying shits about it. And I had to do seven missions. And one of them was get through this entire laser grid fucking
01:41:15
Speaker
Are you getting kid and i just i almost through the control through the wall yesterday but i find it. Yeah the rest of the revelations is being great it's it's a lot of really interesting list and country.
01:41:28
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I'm really interested to see if you get a dopamine hit from the story climax. Dan knows exactly what I'm talking about. Well, Dan has experienced it. I don't know if he knows what I'm talking about. Yeah. I think I'm about halfway through Revelations, and it's refreshing. I was getting really stagnant with Brotherhood, so this has actually kind of gone cool. I'm actually keen to go back to the rest of them now.
01:41:51
Speaker
I'm going to keep plugging away. And then I finally turned on the PS3 again last weekend after a massive hiatus. I haven't been able to play games much because of the new job, but Emma was very hungover on the couch. So she was watching some show that I had no interest in. So I was like, I'll go in the front room. I jump back into spec ops the line. I don't know if you guys ever played that on PS3.
01:42:12
Speaker
Man it's it's it's like a it's a fantastic commentary and I it's the games. I'm unfortunately delisted now I don't know if you'd be able to find it on Steam. It'd be great if you could I think it's I know a lot about it, but I'll never yeah, but it's a great commentary like like on a
01:42:35
Speaker
It's like cross between mid 2000s US being in Afghanistan and all those kinds of countries, but then also going back to Vietnam. And these guys are like kind of cross-referencing that in one game. And there are many sequences where you commit war crimes.
01:42:53
Speaker
I have committed a war crime of the white phosphorus variety. One of the big ones, as they say in the Geneva community. Putin will be congratulating you shortly. He actually called me yesterday to say, well done. What a great guy. You slowly watch the main soldier go through
01:43:17
Speaker
He just loses his mind. But at the same time through a cover-based shooter where you control two other guys that you can control and stuff. It's great. And look, it's one of those games that really deserves a remaster. I doubt they will. But even playing the PS3 version, I was playing it before we signed on today, it still holds up. It still looks like it's for what it is. It looks good for a
01:43:38
Speaker
I'm easily 12, 13 year old game. Um, but I'm, I'm, it's one of those ones that like, I played it originally. I don't think the story affected me as much when I was, when I was, you know, my mid twenties going through it. And so going back now and playing through, I was like, holy shit, this shit is heavy. Um, and it's, it's kind of nice to be able to have to play it from the start and go through again. But yeah, so it's, it's, yeah, it's very modern, like, um,
01:44:02
Speaker
It's set in Dubai after a let's say post-apocalyptic Desert storm that has ripped through the city and destroyed it like a sandstorm kind of thing But it's got a Vietnam soundtrack. So that's where that kind of element creeps into it. So yeah Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. It's good to go through but um, yeah, that's what I that's what I am winning I'm winning. I'm slowly getting thrown As I find time nice Peter. What about you? truly winning um
01:44:31
Speaker
Yeah, so I finished Elden Ring and hit the platinum trophy on that. Fuck, that was a good game. Yeah. Like it was challenging. The final boss caused me.
01:44:43
Speaker
to stop. Your message around the final boss was entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. Because the final boss in the game is a double boss. You have to fight a dude and then the Elden Ring itself. And I won't go into any more detail than that, like the avatar of the Elden Ring. And so you kind of
01:45:03
Speaker
spend a lot of your resources killing the first boss who's no walk in the park by himself. Yeah. And so by the time you get to the big boss with his like ludicrous arsenal of shit to fuck you up with. Yeah. Yeah. You kind of already out of all of all of your consumables or your time based consumables have already expired. So and this boss, like this final boss, to give you some examples without going into
01:45:33
Speaker
gory detail, casts this Elden Ring in the sky above you. He kind of flies up. He's like a plesiosaur almost, like an ocean based dinosaur that floats in the world. And you're transported to this world where like it's an out of universe experience. And then he jumps up and floats through the air.
01:45:58
Speaker
Cast this golden Elden ring in the sky and then it falls to earth and you basically have to jump over these reciprocating rings that are moving and you have to jump over it three times to avoid damage and it's nuke damage that'll take you from 100% health to like 10% health. And that's just one of about 12 moves that he has.
01:46:19
Speaker
That sounds so Final Fantasy. It's not funny. He's got a skyscraper sized sword that he swings at you if you get too close to him. Yeah. No, I. Weird looking boss.
01:46:31
Speaker
Yeah. The Olden Beast. Is that what you're looking at? Yeah. Dan, is this your first foray into like, like JBRG kind of monster bosses? Because I'm sure they get weirder. Oh, yeah. No, I know they're weird. I definitely do. Yeah. Yeah. Just that, just almost, it almost like a static Bodo really doesn't do it justice because of, you can see that there's a whole bunch of moving parts to it.
01:46:58
Speaker
There's like a universe inside his body, which is constantly in motion too, so he looks beautiful. Yeah, like the whole game is gorgeous in terms of its artistic direction. I've actually considered buying the art book to go next to the World of Warcraft art books because it really is quite inspirational in terms of the back plates and all the rest of it.
01:47:20
Speaker
But I crashed against that wall numerous times to a point where, I basically respect my entire character from scratch and had to go back and grab new armor, new weapons, new consumables, new cookbooks to build the consumables. I had to rebuild my character from scratch just to beat this boss because my focus for the entire game had been a bleed build which relies on,
01:47:48
Speaker
The bad guys being able to bleed and then the final boss doesn't bleed, he's made out of crystal. So I kind of had to restructure my entire build around him.
01:48:02
Speaker
So that was enjoyable. I've prepped myself. I really hope you said that to your TV at one point. Just when it wasn't working, you just did that. Do you bleed? I'm in a good spot for the DLC, but I will probably do some DLC prep before I actually launch it. So. Yeah. Okay.
01:48:22
Speaker
Um, like my new build is probably like, sorry, unquestionably superior to my old build. So I'm going to stick with it, but I have a unique weapon that the only way to get a second version of it and you'll weld it is to do a new game plus. So.
01:48:37
Speaker
I'll probably launch in a new game plus, rush around, grab all the bits that I want. There's a few armor pieces that I locked myself out of in the first playthrough because I either progressed the main storyline past a quest point, so a side quest point to get the armor that I want.
01:48:55
Speaker
Or they just unique items that I want to have. So I'll, I'll do some prep for the DLC. But I stopped playing and like you Dan, and I've talked about this on the, on the podcast before where we've had, are you winning sons where I've just said, I haven't even turned on the PS five. And that's happened quite a lot. Um, I turned off the PS five at the end of Elden ring, hitting the platinum and just didn't even think about it for two weeks.
01:49:18
Speaker
And then for all the furor around Helldivers 2, I thought, fuck it, I'll try that. And Jesus Christ, am I glad I did. See, it's weird you guys say that because like, I haven't been able to play my PS5 in two weeks and I've been like, fuck this new job. I'm just going to quit and play my PS5 all day because that's what I want to do. I've got to say, Helldivers 2 is so much goddamn fun. It's
01:49:45
Speaker
It's not, you couldn't describe it as arcadey, but it is arcadey in the sense that you get into the thick of it instantly. There's no fucking around. You don't have to explore the world. You just kind of launch into a mission and start playing.
01:50:01
Speaker
Literally launch into a mission. Yeah. Um, it's cinematic in the sense that you, you get the Starship trooper slo-mo cinematic events in almost every mission. You have to kind of like, it's not like the game forces you into a cinematic mid game, but there are so many moments where you'll be shooting a dude with a fucking, uh, machine gun and someone will dive across your screen and just cop a bullet, straighten them or, or intercept a rocket that was coming for you.
01:50:32
Speaker
I have laughed my arse off throughout the game, particularly where you've got voice comms with other players. There's so much fun stuff to explore. The bugs, so the Starship Troopers style bugs slash tyrannids from Warhammer 40K, all those kinds of things combined into the bugs are one force.
01:50:57
Speaker
You have the, so they call the terminates, you have the automatons, which are a hundred percent terminators. Yeah. But, but, but not like it starts with terminators. That's the base guy. Like that's the, the minimum, like the lowest level troop. And then you have max.
01:51:15
Speaker
and their forces are primarily based around robotic mechs, usually with silver skulls in the middle of them. But there's a real skull, no teeth. But the teeth at hundreds were the grunts as well. And then you had the hunter killers and then the big tank things and yeah.
01:51:30
Speaker
Yeah, true. The game mechanics in terms of playing the game, earning experience, there's several tiers of coins to spend. You earn various credits and there's multiple tiers of credit system. There's multiple layers of credit system, so you can spend some on upgrades to your ship, which allows you to do orbital bombardments,
01:51:58
Speaker
more frequently or more effectively. There's gear that you can unlock like guns and armor and stuff that uses a different currency. Currency was what I was looking for. But what impresses me the most about the game is that it is an indie game. It's not really indie. Arrowhead Studios has been around for about 10 years and they've made three or four other games. So it's not technically indie. But it's a $60 game. It's a fucking cheap game. There's
01:52:26
Speaker
A minimum of of three hundred thousand people playing it at any given moment when i've been playing the game and you can see them distributed across the universe. What is what's most impressive is it's a hundred percent curated so you started with earth in the middle and the. Two or three sectors around it and players had to defeat enough missions in a specific time frame to.
01:52:51
Speaker
like, um, push back the terminus and the automatons from those regions. And then it's getting on it too. And like the things they talk about where you, you want a certain battle plan and now everyone can get max.
01:53:02
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, and it's gone out in concentric rings with super earth in the center and we're on the very edges of space now and we're pushing into terminated home planets and automaton home planets. There's and yet there's counter strikes as well. So, like, I'll wake up in the morning and we'll have lost a planet and now we have to defend it.
01:53:27
Speaker
All days where we're pushing back that the automatons at the moment and so they've released two new weapons that we've never heard of before that if you're a certain level you can unlock to like they've unlocked them from the arsenal to help help push manage democracy the whole thing is a really.
01:53:48
Speaker
entertaining parody or satire of current government systems, you're pushing managed democracy out into the universe and you're invading these planets. And the whole the whole campaign talks about how you have to push back the alien scum because they're wasting resources and us humans, you know, us humans are superior democracy and for super earth. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
01:54:14
Speaker
But it's all curated, somebody like the development team have to sit there and go, OK, well, enough people threw themselves at liberating a planet because it is called liberating the planet. Now it's time for a counter push or we'll let them encroach on the next level of territory.
01:54:32
Speaker
Now, I've never played Heldover's 1, but there is a major enemy like the main bad guy in Heldover's 1 isn't even present in Heldover's 2. But people have done some data file mining and found that they've started introducing the models, like the Unreal 5 models for them. So they're definitely coming. But someone's curating this as a storyline.
01:54:54
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's just I mean, and that's how you do a live service. Well, exactly. But there's no cost in it like you. So the main unlocked tree for your armor and weapons and grenades and your cosmetics because you have helmets and you have capes. You have to have a cape. You're going to push out manage democracy.
01:55:18
Speaker
And you have a few other unlocks, that's all included in the base game. And then I think for eight dollars, Australian, you can unlock. They've now pushed out two extra packs.
01:55:34
Speaker
You still have to spend in-game currency, so you earn medals for being valorious in your combat, and you can spend those medals to unlock bits, armor pieces, weapons, etc. There's two packs that they've released for $8 each.
01:55:52
Speaker
In your main unlocked tree, you can buy items that give you the credits that you can use to buy these extra two packs. So you actually don't have to spend a goddamn cent to unlock everything. But if you want them now, you can spend the money. Well, if you want access to them now, you still need medals to buy the items. You can unlock the tree. So it costs you $8 to unlock the tree, but you still need to spend 20 medals to buy the gun in that new tree that you unlocked.
01:56:19
Speaker
But you could unlock the tree without spending the $8.
01:56:25
Speaker
But the thing is that you talk about, it doesn't cost you anything more. And if you look at it from the counterpoint of view, you haven't spent any more, but you've probably just made the company another $120 because if we now go and buy it, we've spent $60, which is potentially a hell of a lot more money than a small player base buying a few microtransactions here and there, a massive player base buying, buying the game ongoing.
01:56:53
Speaker
and getting more people to jump in on it continuously. Yeah. But it's a game that earned its crust. It's breaking records on Steam at the moment and has since day one in terms of player base. It actually broke the servers. They didn't expect the response that they got. But this is a company that demonstrates that if you make a enjoyable game, to me, this is the next PUBG.
01:57:19
Speaker
This is it's also done a great thing in that it's it's driven a lot of people to go watch the original Starship Troopers. Yeah, that too. Yeah. Yeah. But to me, it's PUBG in the sense that a small development studio who didn't have a long series of successful, you know, recycling of the same old IP and multi, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of budget built a game that was just genuinely fun to play and redefine the genre. You could bet your bottom dollar.
01:57:48
Speaker
All of the big studios right now are looking at cloning it and adding like the fucking Call of Duty seasons where it's all FOMO, like, oh my God, I have to play the game and get to the end of the season before the next season, or else I'm going to miss out on the green gun that isn't red. Like all these, all these games in that genre have just been based on this macro transaction where it's not micro. It's like you pay 30, $40 to unlock an item.
01:58:18
Speaker
Whereas Helldivers 2 has created this just genuinely fun game that you don't have to spend another cent on. It's 60 bucks to start with. So it's half the price of a triple A title. Yeah. And it's just fucking fun. I mean, it's not, it's not perfect. I, the pickup groups, I play with idiots all the fucking time.
01:58:36
Speaker
You have groups that are not on comms, and it is a game where the game is easy to play if you're talking to three other people who know how the game works, and you can speak to them. You two go over there, blow up that base. We're going over here to blow up this base. We'll meet back in the middle. You can actually coordinate your attacks. You can coordinate your cooldowns and all the rest of it. So if you get a good team with no comms,
01:59:04
Speaker
generally come through okay. But I've found teams are low level characters that, you know, as soon as they start dying, they just drop out straight away. You still get the Call of Duty kids. Yeah. So it's a bit hit and miss sometimes, but it's cross play between PC. So Steam PC and PS5. You've got friend lists that are cross play as well. So you can kind of grab pick up groups with those, those friends again. And so I've had about
01:59:32
Speaker
15 people that I've been playing with pretty regularly, all on comms, none of them Australian. It's two New Zealander guys who you never see online without the other. They're hilarious. Some Swedish guys, a German guy, and a bunch of Americans. Man, I played some great, like, as much as I shit on Destiny now, I played some great Destiny with some New Zealand guys. They were so much fun to play with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're cool. So yeah, no, I honestly recommend if you just want a game that you can pick up,
02:00:01
Speaker
You can't play it in 10 minutes. Like each mission is 40 minutes long. There's a 40 minute timer. And as you get into the harder difficulties, you have series like mission series is where you've got to do like I'm at level six out of nine in difficulty. I've got to do two 40 minute missions and a 15 minute mission in a sequence to get the maximum medals.
02:00:24
Speaker
So that's a that's a two hour commitment if you're going to play all the way through. Yeah. And you can drop out and people can jump in midway through the mission. So it's pretty flexible in that sense. But it's but it is a pickup put down game that you could play a couple of games today, play a couple of rounds tomorrow and then drop it for a week. The planets will have moved in terms of where we are in terms of pushing back the terminus and the automatons. But you're not going to miss out on anything.
02:00:53
Speaker
So, yeah, super fun to play. Yeah. I'm definitely going to play it. Definitely. I actually probably won't. No. It's, it's for me, I, I, I lost so much gaming time through destiny. I just can't do it. It's not destiny though. I know it's not totally different style of game, but it's one of those things that will suck me in again and I'll lose another year of my life.
02:01:16
Speaker
It's like every first person. I miss so many games for the years. That's a looter shooter. That's a game that keeps you on the treadmill as its core game mechanic. This is a first person action shooter.
02:01:33
Speaker
I'm sorry third person you can switch between but yeah you're right third person action shooter. No it's the call to get that planet. Did I have upgraded I haven't changed my loadout in 20 missions because I really like my loadout yeah that's not that's not what's interesting what's interesting is.
02:01:51
Speaker
The mission variety is crazy. It's all generative AI, so every mission is a different landscape. The planets have interesting atmospheric effects. The bad guys have different effects. Yeah, you're not playing for the next unlock. That's a Call of Duty mechanic. You're playing because you're enjoying yourself.
02:02:17
Speaker
Anyway, I'm still too traumatized, so I'm not doing it, so yeah. No. That's the end of my story. OK. That's us. What were you drinking while you were talking about that? Oh, you still got some good TV. Yeah, shut up. Get in your lane, tea boy.
Beer Reviews: Bridge Road Brewers and Garage Project
02:02:30
Speaker
Green tea boy. I'm drinking my only Easter. Oh, Dan's gone. I thought it was rude if I sat here and told Louise I was almost ready for dinner, but fuck it. I'll do that now.
02:02:46
Speaker
Um, so I'm drinking, I'm drinking bridge road brewers, eggster triple chocolate ale. Oh, just my season. Um, it is a super dark, like black Brown ale and it is chocolate, chocolate and a little bit of chocolate on top just to change it up. So you, it's funny. You don't get any coffee whatsoever in the flavor.
02:03:16
Speaker
but you definitely can smell it.
02:03:18
Speaker
Like it's got quite a lot of coffee notes in the in the aroma. Drinking it, it's a super sweet chocolate base, but it kind of mellows into cocoa like a like a hot chocolate, like proper bitter hot chocolate at the end of the palate. It's fucking spectacular. I could drink 10 of these. Like it's not palate fatiguing at all. It's just really goddamn tasty. It's like chocolate milk, but with bite to it.
02:03:48
Speaker
6%, so it's no laughing matter to drink a six pack of them. I'm going to give that a 475. That's thoroughly enjoyable as a dark ale. Also knowing most independent craft breweries, whatever you want to call them these days, it's going to be a four pack, not a six pack. It is. It is a four pack. Very good. How good? Do you have another one of them? I do.
02:04:15
Speaker
Are you going to drink it out of a bunny? Do the classic little Easter hack. Break the ears off and pour it into the... Yeah, break the ears off and pour the beer in. Yeah. Can't say we've ever done that. And no, I will not be starting. Oh, well, you know, it's a trend on the social medias. I'm not trendy. Come on, man. I'm in my forties. No, that's not something none of us have ever accused you of.
02:04:42
Speaker
Got him. I am drinking the sequel to a beer we had, all had, a little while ago. I'm drinking the garage project, Escape from the Temple of Haze. And it's the same kind of really cool artwork that is going to be peeled off the can. This is the dandy beer. Yep. And it's going to be peeled off the can and put on my beer fridge because it's right next to the other one. I got mine right here. There it is. Hey.
02:05:07
Speaker
Um, so this is East Coast IPA. I got two beers, two beers up here. The one the way he's got the sobering thought from New Zealand, the Lord of the Rings. That's all I've got.
02:05:22
Speaker
Um, this is 7%, uh, it is, it starts off very well. Um, the little blurb on the back, what do your LFI see? Um, and then it says bugger all through this haze, um, which I thought was a very last little take on it. Um, look, it pours a very, very light, light color. Um, it looks a bit more lighter in, in, in front of me there. Um, it's.
02:05:45
Speaker
Super citrus juicy so they said that's they use light lager malt juicy jumbo oats strata simcoe rwaka and citra and yeah they all come through it's look i'm much preferred the other one okay.
02:06:01
Speaker
I say much referred out of the two, like they're very close, but I prefer the other one that we had. I thought that was a really, really good example of a garage project beer and the styles of beer they can produce. This one, I don't know if they've just used a bit too much Citra or it's like the ratios they put it in, but it's like that
02:06:21
Speaker
That citrus overpowering where it kind of becomes like a little bitey on top and then a little too acidic. Well, the citrus flavor kind of falls away halfway through like, and then you're left with this kind of, yeah, there's that oaty mouthfeel at the same time at the back, but it's not the same level of smoothness that the prequel was.
02:06:41
Speaker
So I'm not going to rate it as highly as that one. I have given it a 4.5. I think it's good. I think it's not the best, best example of the style the garage project can do, seeing as they are kind of, at least in our hemisphere, some of the pioneers of the east coast style. But it is still very, very good. I just think it could have been
02:07:06
Speaker
like the hops they could have used potentially could have been a bit more boundary pushing, interesting, however they used them, whatever, like something like that. It's just a little too much of that bitey Citra, like oranginess coming through and it's throwing out the balance of the beer a little bit, but yeah.
02:07:24
Speaker
Look, for 7%, it's going to get me through the rest of the night. So yeah, it's otherwise enjoyable. Yeah. And the artwork though, like 10 out of 10. Yeah, it's beautiful. There is a golem in the background. I don't know if you guys could see that, but there is a nice little angry golem in the background. Bring the elf and the dwarf. So yeah, it's cool. Anyway, let's be done. I think that's us done. That is us done. Well done, gentlemen. Thank you very much for listening.
02:07:53
Speaker
Yep. Till next time. No. Yeah. I might be back for the next one. Okay. Just, you know, if you could be fucked, I'll be here. Yeah, sure. Yeah. We'll call him. We'll see if he answers and then we'll, we'll know. Yes. Thanks for listening. Thank you very much. And yeah, see you next time. Bye-bye. Bye.