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S7 E10: Doom on a Fleshlight?!
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Another zany episode indeed! We cover the Games Fest announcements, the crazy fact that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is apparently still in development, and Kotaku shutting down, through to our thoughts on The Covenant, Aquaman 2, Gozilla Minue One, House of the Dragon S2 and much, much more!
Beers Reviewed This Episode:
- One Drop - Roar Witness - White IPA - 6.1%
- Range - Pre-Loved #3 - 3.0%
- Brick Lane - Trilogy of Fear '24: - Soul Trader: Life - Imp. Stout - 11.0%
- White Bay - Gantry Noir - Tmavé (Dark) Lager – 5.3%
- Shout - Cloud w\ a Chance of Juice - NEIPA - 6.8%
- Brick Lane - Trilogy of Fear '24: - Soul Trader: Love - Imp. Stout - 11.0%
- Hawkers - Neapolitan Bonaparte: Vanilla - White Stout - 6.0%
- Akasha - Red Again - Red IPA - 6.5%
- Rocky Ridge - Karl, I Am Your Father - Black IPA - 6.8%
- Hawkers - Neapolitan Bonaparte: Strawberry - White Stout - 6.0%
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Format
00:00:30
Speaker
Oh, sorry, I didn't see you there. Welcome back to Pixels and Pints. My name's Tom. I'll be one of your three hosts this evening. Joining me, as usual, Pete. Hello. And Dan. Hi. And we're going to do one of our news and reviews episodes tonight. So we've got a bunch of news that we've kind of scrolled through the past, well, literally today.
Movie Reviews and Beer Tasting
00:00:54
Speaker
And some reviews of- We'll last five minutes.
00:00:57
Speaker
Reviews of some movies, TV shows that we've we've watched over the last few weeks since we did one of these recordings. And at the same time, we're going to be trying some predominantly Aussie and NZ biz. It's usually our i go-to for this. um And using our very scientific rating scale to give our judgment on them. um So yes, strap in, let's fucking go.
00:01:23
Speaker
What are we drinking, gentlemen? This episode entirely written by our fucked up brain said no chat GPT. Unlike the last episode. and Back to our usual bullshit. AI is not smart enough to be this dumb.
00:01:39
Speaker
yeah All right, who's drinking what? I'll go first. I got one drop. Raw witness, white IPA 6.1%. I went down to Quakers Hill Cellars about an hour ago to see what they had. They had a bunch of one-drop ones and I'm like, oh yeah, cool. I and had many one-drop ones lately. So I had them. They were all smoothie sours or pastry this or something else. Don't eat us that. yeah yeah so Yeah. I say that and then I'll tell you what I got next. Well, you guys already know, but there was the white IPA. So I grabbed that. I don't mind a white IPA or this.
00:02:19
Speaker
the way they've done this wide IPA and there was one other but it was an eight percenter so I thought I might stick with this. So this is a blend of a Whit Beer and an IPA using Citra and Lemon Drop Hop. And you definitely get that Whit Beer yeast character to it. It's super lemony with that. Tom, you hate it, but it's it's ah it's a really good blend of a really nice hoppy, citrusy, lemony character, along with the spicy yeastiness that comes from those European yeasts. I like it very much.
00:02:53
Speaker
So like Belgian yeasty. Yeah. Yeah. But super light. Yeah. Super light. It's not, and not anywhere near as heavy as ah some of the Belgian ones kept, which was ah obviously the blend between the two, the two styles, but really grassy and herbal as well with those, the use of those hops. I've never used lemon drop, but be an interesting one to give a go one day. Hmm.
00:03:19
Speaker
Really nice, really refreshing. Probably the wrong time of year for this type of beer, but it's really it's really a spring beer. It's excellent, actually. I might have to give that one a five. Ooh. Ooh. Really enjoyable. Maybe not quite enough hop character to call it.
00:03:40
Speaker
an IPA, but I think that the whole blend of the two styles with the, uh, with that, with that level of hop character works really well. Yeah. Very enjoyable. Refreshing. Nice. Excellent. That's next. Hope you guys ah got as good a ones as this.
00:04:00
Speaker
I've got an interesting one. I'll go next. I'll jump in. I've got the range pre-loved number three. ah It's a session pale at 3.0%. So a nice light one to start with today. um Because I had a bit of a little session last night, didn't I? So this is a session pale. Obviously, I'm guessing it's the third one they've done of this. ah But they've used pre-loved hops, Citro Mosaic and Galaxy from their recent double dry hopped to triple IPA, nothing but the juice. So their second use hops.
00:04:30
Speaker
And it's, it's literally like it, you do, it does feel like a second use. It just, it feels, it's so muted. Everything you'd expect to get from those kinds of pop favors. Like there's everything just feels like it's kind of under a bit of cloth. Like you're almost like tasting it through like tissue. Like if you bite into a sandwich and there's still tissue wrapped around it, it's kind of like, it just got out that feeling of.
00:05:00
Speaker
Did you pay for that on your teeth? Yuck. like it but You don't mean that. but No, no, I don't mean that. But I mean, more like it's just yeah, everything's just no, I know what it is. It's like fucking seltzers. It's like someone thinking about the idea of the hop in the other room. And I'm getting the waft of it coming through. I get that with seltzers, whenever you like the smell, and it's so aromatic, but then you taste it and it's nothing. It's yeah like someone's thinking about the fruit flavor in the next room. And you're getting the like, reminisce their thought. It's like,
00:05:30
Speaker
Again, same thing. This would be great in warmer weather. Like, this would be a really good hot day here. But on, you know, quite a bitter Sunday evening. um It is not exactly the ah the beer I was wanting or hoping for. um But it's a nice way to to start. it is To use that had that word, it is sessionable. You could definitely have a few of these um yeah on a hotter day. But just, yeah, this is a warm weather beer. um Actually, I don't know when it was. It was packaged in March. So there you go. Probably something that I should have checked as well. Yeah. um Yeah, I'm going to give it a three.
00:06:12
Speaker
and Okay. Yeah. Dan's just blinded himself. So that was good. Sorry, Dan. What was your rating, mate? When you finished, when you put the sun away in your office. I'm giving it a five. I i think it's great. far Yeah. I think it's, I think it's yeah hour of the sun spectacular. Yeah, cool.
00:06:36
Speaker
Well, i peter I thought I'd start with something like two, Tom. This is Brick Lane's Soul Trader Life, a trilogy of fear number one for this year. This is a Hyracium Imperial Stout at 11%. And I've spent the last 60 seconds or so looking up what Hyracium is yeah and good and I wish I hadn't.
00:07:03
Speaker
Oh, go. Hyracium. Hyracium is the petrified and rock like excrement composed of both urine and feces of the rock hyrax, which is like an oversized African marmot. It's like a cave dwelling mammal. And apparently- They have a cave troll.
00:07:23
Speaker
yeah A little bitty one. Apparently, um, uh, Horaceum, also called African stone is an animal essence. It's been used in perfumery for a long, long, long, long, long long time. Like, you're right like a couple of thousand years BC, 330 BC. So not a couple of thousand years. Um, it's interesting. I mean, look, but the trilogy of fear series are always awesome, but it does have.
00:07:52
Speaker
And I've let this ah warm up over the last half an hour before I cracked it. It certainly does have some almost floral bitterness to it. It's it's it's quite weird to wrap my brain around what it is I'm tasting. You obviously get the normal imperial stout, you get um coffee notes and I think that's contributing to the bidding and bitterness. But there's just a little bit of acidity to it that's definitely not coming from coffee.
00:08:19
Speaker
So I assume that's, I don't know, more meat shit than I'm tasting. I feel like we've just gone next level, eh? Couldn't come up with anything original. I'm starting to rethink my life choices here. If this is now the path that we are needing to go. I just looked up the hyracium as well because I wanted to see what it looked like. And then one of the first people also asked points on Google was what does hyracium smell like? And the answer is the scent of hyracium is between civet and castoreum.
00:08:55
Speaker
Oh, thank God. thank god actually Fuck me. ah ah yeah did you You didn't look any further of what those two were. No, I'm i'm now angry at Google. yeah Okay. Yes. That will be a spider web of random statements. Yeah. I'm not going down that rabbit hole. yeah right yeah Yeah. Something that might lead you to somewhere you don't want to be. Yeah. Just trying to think what I'm going to write it.
00:09:24
Speaker
You don't have to write it now, you can sit on it. It's certainly not my favorite Imperial Stout from them. So I'm going to give it a four because I'm, I'm actually, the astringency is almost too much. Like you really get that.
00:09:41
Speaker
Almost, it's not metallic, but it's almost metallic. You can tell it's on the same kind of spectrum of tanginess to it. I'm not really enjoying it, so. I'll give it a four. They changed the labels as well, yeah. They did. It's kind of weird. It's like a, it's got a playing card on it. Yeah, it's like a tarot card. And it is actually, it won't focus. It's actually embossed as well.
00:10:04
Speaker
I don't know what the embossing is. I can see the embossing. I can't actually see what it is, but as the light turns off, can you pull it off? I could buy the drink first. No, no, just go straight for it. Yes, I can pull it off. Do you get a collector's edition card with your can of beer?
00:10:23
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it actually says. it It is embossed. It says end time. It's embossed in the bottom. It's cool because it's completely invisible from a, like, if you just look at the picture, you can't read anything. But if you skim over the embossing, you can just see it. So that's something that will ah entertain me when I'm madly drunk after drinking a couple of these. See how Slurry Pete goes at the end.
00:10:49
Speaker
Well, I'm not going to try and get through three, just so we can- Oh, I thought you were going to try and get through- Hell no. Hell no. I thought you were being ambitious. No, I'm looking at the show name. So try and get this episode under two hours. I don't think we'll have any problems and I'm not going to drink that bloody quickly. Yeah. Three Imperial stats in two hours is a heroic effort, especially for- For a school night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:12
Speaker
Big day tomorrow too. Big day. Yeah. All right. Well, let's, let's get cracking
Gaming News and Announcements
00:11:16
Speaker
into it then. Get through it all. We interrupt this broadcast with some breaking news from the front. Um, so yes, when we recorded last time was just before the, the games fest announcement happened. Pretty underwhelming up until Xbox decided to come through and bring the goods.
00:11:34
Speaker
um The Punchy McPunchface show was boring as batshit. PlayStation 1 was pretty average as well. um And then Xbox came and they brought brought the goods. you know Doom Dark Ages, which obviously got us got us us excited. um ah We saw the longest look we've had at Dragon Age Valeguard. We have Perfect Dark Remake. And I know i've really enjoyed Perfect Dark back on the N64.
00:12:02
Speaker
um You know it looks it looks all right you got a see shadows so they finally announced the. What on an ounce but they showed us a look at the the latest assassin's creed and then favorite of mine always but wish it was on playstation but fable i've always love the fable series. um I think they're great little games but yeah and they would like just ones I picked out and if you guys had any others that really stood out for you from any of those.
00:12:25
Speaker
i I definitely went through the three phases of that fast bender meme when the Doom Dark Ages came out and you saw the Doom Slayer pick up the shield and I'm like, yeah, a shield and it's got spikes on it. Yeah, cool. And he pulls the ripcord on it and I'm like, yeah, okay. We've got, we've got no longer got a chainsaw. We've now got a ah a shield. A chainshield.
00:12:46
Speaker
Chain, Chain Shield that has the the the chainsaw around the outside and then he threw it and it was just like, oh my God, this is excellent. I am absolutely. um mean Show me the real Doom Slayer. I mean, the real Doom Slayer. I was in anyway. Yeah, exactly. I was in anyway, but having that as the yeah the new mechanic for this one is just these, the d the devs definitely know their target audience. They know what to do to tickle the fancy of the Doom people. And that absolutely tickled everybody's fancy. So I'm super excited for Dark Ages, but that was only the teaser. We don't get it until next year. So. Yeah, no, I don't. Yeah. No, it won't come out. Yeah. So yes. The Doom people. Yeah. It's a belt buckle. It's not knuckle. I wish it was knuckle busters. That'd be so good. Break out the world. And illegal.
00:13:47
Speaker
um Yeah, no, that was definitely the highlight of the entire thing um for me. Like some other games it was cool to see, but nothing stood out for me like quite like dark ages. AC shadows are set in feudal Japan, yeah which we really didn't fucking need. Of all the places they could have gone. like it's ah it's It's a bit bit too late, isn't it? Yeah, between Ghost of Tsushima, we've had... What was the game that you guys were playing that I didn't?
00:14:14
Speaker
Um, starts with why we were talking about a couple episodes. There's another road road to Yumi or that's it. was That's it. there side scroller but yeah yeah Yeah. Um, but it's still in the same kind of feudal Japan. Ronan just came out. That was another one. yeah And then we've got a, and we've got a journey teams we got a journey to the West game coming out soon. The, um, the, um,
00:14:37
Speaker
Black Myth Wukong. Thank you. yeah This is going to be me tonight. I'm just going to fumble for words while you fill in the gaps. That's China, but anyway. True. True. Sorry. That's my bad. Yep. That's going to be me for tonight too. No, but just going off what pete's Pete's saying though, because we have had from, because that is a Souls-esque game and they've had Sekiro and a few others in in that um in that souls soul genre that are based in Japan. So yeah. I just don't think we needed any more Japanese games. There's so many other cool places that AC should have already explored long, long ago and still haven't. yeah um
00:15:13
Speaker
And they're just piling on. They're also in trouble for stealing somebody's, somebody's intellectual property. So apparently in one of the screenshots or the trailer, one of the two, they used the flag. work Yeah. So in the background of this screenshot, there's a flag and the flag was stolen from a company that do historical Japanese historical reenactments.
00:15:37
Speaker
um And it's basically the flag itself is original and theirs and registered. And and it's a modern flag, like it was invented recently to ah like to resemble something that was that was traditional feudal Japan. yeah And so Ubisoft not only used it without permission, but they put it in their special edition book. So they've printed it for all of the collector's edition nutters, myself included.
00:16:05
Speaker
So the I mean, there's there's been a lot of other the other controversies aside, there's been a lot of other ah ah historical inaccuracies that Japanese people have called out. So in the trailer, you saw the um the Yasuki and a couple a couple of other Chamberlain's. I'm not sure what rank they are kneeling in front of their, their Lord. Uh, and apparently the formation of them was wrong. Um, the, the, the directions of the Tsutami mats were, were wrong. The, some of the archways or something about the doors on the buildings were Chinese design, not Japanese design. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. it's So it's these sort of things where you go, come on, man. Like you, you, you go. Especially after.
00:16:53
Speaker
Stealing a reenactment groups flag they should have just hired them as fucking consultants. good consultants yeah Yeah well you look at ghosts and just like how much praise it got for how, like respectful it was of the Japanese culture and then you get this just being like well well you guys have wanted this for forever so here you go. like milk the fucking cowboys yeah Yeah. That's disappointing. It is disappointing. I mean, it's but it's just ghost, ghost was said' like, you say the praise that ghost got. I mean, the, the, um, the Tsushima Island has adopted it and then praise them for like increasing their tourism to that area. It's like, it's like, come on. Like, it's like, this is, this is the, this is now the gold standard. And you're talking about, yeah I mean, it's, it's Ubisoft. So I don't know why I'm surprised, but.
00:17:40
Speaker
ah if you want to If you want to play this card and play in a game where they've already made the perfect game for that style, yeah do you need to pull up your socks and yeah i really bring your A-game to that one. but yeah they fuck But Ubi haven't been on their A-game for, I don't know, 20 years now.
00:18:01
Speaker
take us into punching with It'll still sell moons or copies. Oh yeah, I'll play the shit out of it, but yeah, that's fine. Um, yeah, I thought this was interesting. I didn't realize how much he was charging, but yeah, for the, um, this is for the summer game fest. If you want to have your trailer shown, uh, this is the costs, uh, to being in Jeff Keeley's, uh, little, little puns first.
00:18:24
Speaker
Punchfest, yeah. so For a minute, it'll cost you US $250,000. For a minute and a half, it goes up by 100 grand. ah Two minutes, it's $450,000 and US $550,000 for a two and a half minute trailer to show it.
00:18:41
Speaker
There are other costs involved as well. If you wanted to have a booth ah per day, it was 20 grand depending on the size and equipment needed. but And you wonder why we don't see many indie developers at that. Half a million dollars for two and a half minutes of of advertising is just mental. It's not the fucking Super Bowl.
00:19:01
Speaker
He's obviously trying to claim that it is for the gaming industry, like, you know, taking over like from E3 and saying, Oh, you know, I'm going to make a better version of that. And then he does this. That's why he deserves a punch to the face. the earls Yes. Um, well, we'll keep on the Ubisoft train going from strength to strength.
00:19:17
Speaker
They claim they're still working on Beyond Good and Evil 2 in a yearly tweet
Ubisoft Projects and Controversies
00:19:21
Speaker
around it. So they are still working on it, apparently. ah This came because they've just released the 20th anniversary edition of the ah the original, ah the which is out, came out like a couple of weeks ago.
00:19:32
Speaker
um Yeah, they also they then did like a bit of this was in their showcase as well. I had an interview with whatever ah the CEO is where and where's Mrs or whatever is Quasimodo. She's something Yeah, that's something that um and he did ah reveal that everyone should be excited about the AC remakes are that are coming.
00:19:53
Speaker
um So apparently gonna go back and try and polish to know milk the cow of some of the the time periods they've already visited although doing full rebuild remakes of older titles. Black Flag's meant to be the forerunner, um but I don't know if they'll go back to AC2 and redo it a little bit. I wouldn't mind playing the original if it was properly treated and maintained the original game mechanics and expanded upon.
00:20:18
Speaker
but if they knew how to rebuild the Rebuild the textures and and and character models and everything. well Even if they wanted to expand the content somewhat, um as long as it was respectful to the original game mechanics and style, but then if they knew how to do that, then they their annual releases wouldn't be such massive fucking turds. So I'd kind of prefer them to leave it the hell alone. Yeah.
00:20:40
Speaker
But, uh, we'll see. It was just in there. I thought it was interesting little tidbit that he's, yeah, they obviously haven't shown anything and said which ones they're going to, but who knows which one it'll be. But yes. Um, and continuing on that, uh, magic gathering in the AC, uh, decks have been released. They've done a full collab, had a look at them. They look pretty fucking schmick.
00:21:02
Speaker
Um, and everyone's saying that they're the mechanism they built using the, there's, there's two different colored decks. I don't know much about magic games. I'm wading into unknown territory here. Um, but they're, they're like lovingly crafted. They're really well done. Um, people are actually raving about it and it's not just a.
00:21:21
Speaker
surprisingly, not just a cash grab, you know, mashing these two things together. They've they've built a pretty cool mechanic to to play Magic the Gathering with these. So for any Magic the Gathering fans, um slash AC fans out there there, they've just released last week on the 7th of July. so Yeah, right. um So i I've been playing a an absolute cash grab of a game on my phone because I haven't had a lot of time to actually sit down and play. I've got like five minutes here and there. I've been playing Warhammer 40K Tacticus.
00:21:50
Speaker
which is yeah Which is a ah i phone game that is free to play, but there is a lot of paywalls if you want to kind of accelerate your um progress. but yeah sure Game mechanics are pretty cool. There's a shitload of variety in it. It's fun if you've got 10 minutes to spare and you you know if you don't actually care about the game and therefore you're not going to invest real life money.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, you play it, you know, once for 10 minutes, twice, like two times a day, like one in the morning, one in the afternoon, where all your shit recharges for free and off you go. Bit of fun. It reminds me a little bit of the old um tactics game you used to get on the PSP. You know, you had D and D tactics and what were you going to say, Dan?
00:22:32
Speaker
Do you feel dirty playing mobile games over here? Yeah, I kind of do. I was crying while I was doing it. Yeah. Well, for that, if you did feel like shelling out for the portal, the PlayStation portal, they have upgraded up to the software now that it will run on public Wi-Fi networks. I found that out the other day. I've still got a bigger space out here.
00:22:58
Speaker
Has that pushed me more in the direction of getting one of those before a suit international travel. um but Yeah so there you go that's that's what's happening in the Magic the Gathering world.
00:23:11
Speaker
Things I never thought I'd say. um You heard it here first, folks. If you don't wear deodorant, you love card games.
00:23:21
Speaker
ah So if you don't come to us for your news, and that's probably fair, um don't bother crying to go to Kotaku Australia anymore because they've been shut down. No, they haven't. um They're still up now. They might be being shut down. They are being shut down. They're being dropped by their parent group, which is the pedestrian, which is owned by nine. um But yeah, it's a bit sad because they have 40 people who are being let go as a result. um ah They're shutting down multiple web pages that they license. But yes, they've they've ceased the license in Australia. Do we know why? They're rebranding or reshuffling their licenses. Kotaku's bleeding overall.
00:24:00
Speaker
Well, I mean, I put this in mainly because I know how much Dan hates reading that website. so
00:24:06
Speaker
With all the ad pop-ups. Oh, my yeah God. I refuse to open any of those links. You know that. It's just ah you put one up a couple of months ago and I really wanted to read whatever the article was and I just opened it and it was just a fucking bombardment of shit.
00:24:21
Speaker
It's like you can't get past two lines with either a video popping up over the top. Full screen ad that you have to scroll through. yeah Those ones do shit me. Yeah. Or something like you get two lines and then it's a lie. It's not two lines. It's about a paragraph and then an in text ad and then another paragraph and then an in text ad and then pop ups over the top of that. There's fucking top and bottom banners and it's just. This must be on mobile, Dan, because I'm looking at it on the web right now and there's a video ad, granted, after the first paragraph in an image, there's there's a video ad. No, it's definitely the mobile experience. of yeah I know what he's talking about. But as someone who frequently goes to game wikis, that's kind of, you just, you have to tune that out because all those game wikis are like that. Any any yeah any ah like tactical guides or strategy guides for video games are always horrendously littered with ads.
00:25:15
Speaker
And they're always fucking obnoxiously designed ads too. You know, I've looked up a guide. Just dog food. I'm like, yeah, I know I need to buy dog food, but shut up. Let me play my game. ah don't Who's talking about this?
00:25:34
Speaker
Who is mainly mainly platinum guides, Dan? I know, I know, I know. I just given you shit. oh There was actually, anyway, this is not even the time for that conversation. I was thinking of something. Oh, me and Tom were talking about ah yesterday, he sent me a link to a YouTube video that showed the different reactions or different animations of Siri at the end of Witcher 3, depending on The ending that you have when she becomes a Witcher and Geralt brings her a sword he has made for you her and the inscription that goes on the sword. So you can either have Swallow or a an old witch's her nickname, or it's what Sorella means. um and Or you can have an old Witcher proverb.
00:26:18
Speaker
engraved into it and the different facial and, um, uh, animations to her when she reads it, she's happier when he gets her name inscribed on it than when when she reads also she reads it. Like she's like instantly, like that says swallow. And when she looks at the Witcher product, she's like, uh, what does that say? Yeah. Yeah. She asked him. And then, uh, I sent back to so Tom, the, uh, the,
00:26:44
Speaker
the you haven't played the expansion, the blood and white expansion, but there's a mission within that that you release the curse on a person. ah And because of what has to be done to release the curse, I'm being spoiler free for this, even though it's been out for years, because it's a very good um little side mission. The he says, oh, you probably only have X amount of years left to live. And Someone worked out after seven years that that the game had been out that if you, you can find, you can actually find that person's dead body after seven years within the game. What the fuck? Yeah. It doesn't trigger anything. It won't show up in one of your platinum guides. It's literally just something.
00:27:30
Speaker
Thank you. And this is where, this is the long winded story of what made me think of that is we've spoken about a content that is in the Witcher that like potentially you've seen or haven't seen depended on how you played, how you went into a certain area. And you said one time that, Oh, well I've, I've platen of it. So I've seen everything. And I'm like, this triggered in my head. Like, well, no, you haven't seen that because that's not in a, that's not in the guide. Can you imagine writing a platform?
00:27:58
Speaker
but Can you imagine running a game and having no idea if it's going to hit the critical success that Witcher 3 did? And then putting into the code. Oh, fuck it. If people are still playing it in seven years time, then, you know, I'll just put this little, this little nugget of code in here. Like it's just, it just shows you.
00:28:16
Speaker
how dedicated to the game and living within that realm and the lore that they had created that those developers were. Yep. That's, that's crazy. That's awesome. And yeah you can cheese it. You can just wind your PlayStation date forward seven years. Okay. ah And, and do it because well, it works on the internal date of your PlayStation. Same as the ah calendar man in Arkham city. yeah but You could just wind it forward to those dates and go and visit calendar man and get all the extra little conversations yeah right calendar man has. Um, it's the same sort of thing. It works on that internal clock, but yeah it didn't get discovered until literally seven years had passed from the three coming out. And then people go, Oh, well now, if you want to see that, you can just want to play station. I'll just watch it on YouTube. Oh, it' listen to that load up because I won't even load up the game again. Fuck it. Last bit of news.
00:29:13
Speaker
Oh, there was um that was me slapping a cat. Just so we clear. Whatever you want to call it these days. Just derail.
00:29:27
Speaker
Nobody, nobody wants to die that detective, uh, detective future blade run kind of thing. got I'm looking forward to this game. I was and until I saw the gameplay. Yeah, I was going to say I haven't seen the gameplay. And they say it several times through the gameplay because it's got a little bit of a narration from a dev over the top that it's a narrative, it's a narrative gameplay story. Like they only show adventure games.
00:30:02
Speaker
Yeah. Like you play through a scene once and then you know where all the clues are. But the first time you play through it, it's it's a game of discovery and trial and error and shit. Exactly. And the... You know what? If that's what it is, I'm down, Dan. ah i'll I'll definitely play it. 100% I'll play it. I just hope that there's a little bit more. There's so much potential for it that I hope that it's not just locked into continuously going through those detective scenes. I don't mind if it's linear.
00:30:31
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I absolutely don't mind if it's linear and it will have to be to keep you on on track with the the the murder story that they sort of set up in this cabinet game. Yeah, but there's there's there's linear and then there's linear on rails in the sense that if 500 people play the game, they're all going to get the exact same experience every time they play it, as opposed to linear where your choices still have some sort of impact. So the old school traditional like adventure games,
00:30:59
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you like If you knew where to click, it was the same on everyone else's elsa's version of the game. and We probably pass that these days. ah well It does feel a little bit like that. okay it's like each each ah Each thing that you can comment on in the world has a little icon once you get close to it that lets you interact. so kind of like Kind of like one of the Telltale games? Did you guys ever play any of those?
00:31:21
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No. Sort of. It kind of had that mixed in with BioShock. It was it wasn't quite as pigeonholed as the Telltale stuff. It was a little bit more free roaming. Like even Hero's Quest was like that. and Space Quest and all those kind of Lucasfilm games back in the day. LucasArts. Sorry. it It feels like a Batman Arkham detective environment in a Bioshock
00:31:53
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kind of world. I would have really liked to have seen them show something, like even if it's at the end of that gameplay trailer where sometimes they show you clips of things that are further in the game that something could be a bit punchy, a chase scene or something like that, I would have liked to have seen that thrown in there just to know that you're not just going to go from murder scene to murder scene to detective scene, that there was There was something a bit more to it. I don't know, actually. I actually, honestly, I really was looking forward to this one. And after watching that 10 minute gameplay, I didn't even make it to the end of it because um and i i I was skimming it. I was, I didn't even watch it play through. I skimmed it because it really didn't hold my attention. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. It was out 17th or something. Yeah. 17th. Yeah. So I'll definitely be paying it.
00:32:46
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yeah Like I want to give these people money for something that looks great and as a bit original to something that I really enjoy, like a whole bunch of genres mashed together. So I'm definitely going to give them my money. So it'll be interesting to see how it plays out in a few days. but Yeah, cool. That's a bit of a far, far cry from what the trailer almost kind of insinuated yeah would be more like a Bioshock, like first person shooter with the detective element kind of thing.
00:33:15
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Yeah. And that's, that's what I thought too. And that's why I was a bit disappointed with this really, and I don't mind a slow pace game. I really don't. A really slow place game that really absorbs you into the world. And it looks like they do have those mechanics there that absorb you into the world.
00:33:31
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um There was a few elements I didn't like because you've got someone in your ear. Um, you're, you're constantly, though he was on a murder scene and he was constantly basically talking to somebody back ko at base. Um, Cortana from Halo, the the AI in his head.
00:33:51
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and No, I was just talking to Farber from Super Troopers. i ah Funnily enough, cortaana Cortana ended up being Siri, right? So Cortana was the voice inside um the Master Chief's head for the original Halo games. And now Windows has the AI assistant and her name is Cortana and it's used as the same voice, yeah which I thought was kind of a cool little little hint, considering you've got a bunch of business people who've never played a video game in their life that have Cortana on their Windows machine.
00:34:23
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Anyway, just a little and then it's, you know, probably says to every once in a while. black
00:34:30
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I'll tell you a scary thing about the new, um, the new co-pilot, uh, windows PC at some point soon. It's kind of a, as a, as a follow one from our AI episode, uh, that's a, that's a device that I hope dies quickly and it's not baked into their core operating system like windows 11.
00:34:48
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Because that's a dark, dark place. Anyway, you guys are going to have your second beers. I've just poured it. yeah i'm sneak I'm going to skip this one. um I should say, but and you probably can't say it because it's full of black stuff, but this is my brand new Brick Lane Brewing. Oh, that's a lovely glass. Trilogy of fear glass with the trilogy. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's nice. Anywho. I'll go, give me two seconds and then I'll have a little sip and I'll go first.
00:35:19
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A little sip out of his and trophy mug. Yep. Tom's obviously feeling better, but blowing out those cobwebs from last night. Yeah. Yes. Well, I had a, maybe had a wind rose or two in the park. with just I am drinking a beer that I've been sitting in my, for I've been, I've looked at this every day to drink and I've known that I want to have this on recording because I've been so excited for this beer. And it's, as you can tell, lived up to the hype. I have gotten the gantry noir, the dark check lager from white Bay. Um, when I first saw they were doing, doing this one, um, I'm a sucker for a dark check lager. I think it's one of the,
00:36:03
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greatest styles known to man. um And I'm obviously coming from what would you probably assume is more of a, an ale drinker to this, this just speaks to me. It speaks to my heart and soul and I absolutely fucking love it. And so I saw it and I was like, yep. Ran to the, union ran to the union.
00:36:20
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And I was like, I can just imagine the little kid. right I was doing that wrong. I must get it. Um, and then, yeah, took it home and I was like, can't wait till we record next. And that was about a month ago. Um, out so yes, I've looked at it and every time I'm like, Oh, I could really go. That was like, na no, no, no. I'm going to have it for the first time with the boys. Um, and it is, it is beautiful. That is, that is delicious.
00:36:48
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Um, it's pause more of a, you can so i kind of see it's a, forget the light behind it, but it's, it's a really nice ready Brown. Yeah. You just bought it as you put it down. You just caught the bottom of it was the nice. Yeah. kind of yeah If you go back to the corner, yeah, just a little, yeah. You can see that like that yeah rubiness in the bottom of it. Yeah.
00:37:06
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i ah And like I didn't do, I would say that the best of pause for this kind of beer, but it still poured a really nice, thick, foamy white head, um which is hanging round. So it's like, it's, I don't have one of the side pour taps that everyone's raving about that I would, you know, I'm sure this would taste amazing off it. um It's,
00:37:28
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Yeah, it's the, the, the flavor profile is it's, it's exactly what I wanted on a day like today. It's warming, but it's got like that nice breadiness to it. But then like like a little bit of spice, there's a little bite to it, which is coming through. Um, yeah, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. And as much as I would love to just not chug it because I just want to get rid of it. It's like, you know, I just want to keep drinking. I want the never, I want the never ending Tim Tam glass right now, just for the next like 10 minutes. Um,
00:37:56
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Yeah, I'm, I'm definitely like a tomorrow I'm going to go buy more cans of it. Um, now that I know that it's as good as I hoped it was. Um, but then, yeah, I'm, I'm giving that a five and I'm double handling it.
00:38:11
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Nice. Very nice. It's really funny. I was having a conversation with one of my brewers the other day, James, um about Czech lagers or dark Czech dark lagers, because we got some from ah Sunday Road and great beer.
Beer Reviews: Czech Dark Lagers and More
00:38:26
Speaker
Fantastic, but beautifully made, bang on style. Really, really wonderful made beers. I just don't find the appeal in them. I just, I just, I've liked the ones that I've had that have been good. Um, but I just, it, it's not something that if I was out and I had any form of other choice, I would, I would order. I just, uh, I just do not find gravitate towards them. Yeah. They're literally, they just, they just told us James, James loves them. Yeah. Yeah. But I would, I would much rather have, and it's not just the, like, I understand that.
00:39:04
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the the complexity in making something that that is um has to be clean and have really good flavor expression because it's got nothing to hide behind. ye But I would much, much prefer a really simple, really well-made American pale ale.
00:39:22
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over a Czech lager, a Czech dark lager. And I know it's just personal preference, um but the Czech dark lagers are huge at the moment. um I just ah just really don't find anything inspiring about them. they they're The ones I've had, like I said, mixed one from Sunday road was brilliantly made. It was absolutely a flawless product. um But I'm like, yeah, cool. um This one's got a really nice like hidden, almost hidden bitterness to it too. And I think that's, that's probably an explanation of why I like this style that brings me in because obviously I'm a massive fan of West coast. Like I love a West coast, I bet. Cause they're the big and bitter, but this has got it like enough of it that it's, it's, it's, it's not power fatiguing. Like, like, like the West coast can get as much as I love to drink them. Um, but like.
00:40:17
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Yeah, I could definitely have a couple of these and like, I'd get that bitterness, that hit, that bitterness fix I need, um, without just completely wiping out my entire palette. Did you say before that it was bready or bready? Bready, bready. They did say, I just read the back of the can, that it's- Made from beer. Made from beer. Unfiltered, naturally carbonated, and undergoing 10 weeks of cold conditioning. This flips the script on their house pils not. And then I like, this is exactly it. Think brooding older sibling who introduced you to metal. I was like, yeah, that's a good description. I attempted to be that guy, but didn't stick with any of my brothers.
00:40:57
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Dan? I've got a beer from Shout Brewing in Newcastle, cloudy with a chance of juice. It's their, it's their Nipah at 6.8%. Uh, I think it has Citra and something else in it. Can't remember what it's in. There you go.
00:41:17
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No, I was guessing. Oh, I ah i thought yeah thought you were looking it up. ah Yeah, I thought you were looking it up on untapped or something. Doesn't say what's on here, but it's got a really nice pillowy mouthfield that Anipa should have with the the amount of oats and ah it's got a really good hot character level with nothing being over the top or palette fatiguing or anything like that.
00:41:37
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6.8%, it's bang on for for that style. I just like it. It's ah it's a... It's a... Sigmund Vosk, Vyk yeast. Vyk yeast, yes. How do you make touch to the satisfying ale? Yeah, that's exactly what bring it back bring exactly what it says on the the the can label. So it didn't I didn't see any hop written on there. but No, there's nothing on mine either.
00:42:05
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Jake, who is the brewer for them, did some crazy shit for, uh, he was telling us what he did for gabs and how he did it. And I'm like, oh man, he threw up, just got bucket loads of nerds and threw the nerds into the meter and did them that way for his nerds beer. And it came out green.
00:42:22
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ah And he threw a whole bunch of minties in there as well, or for a different one, and did as well. So I just, he was telling me about this and I'm like, oh man. And he knows, he knows I hate that sort of stuff. So he was very reluctantly telling me this. No worries. um But if good for him, they sold, they sold really well and he was really happy with the Midgabs.
00:42:46
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um ah He's, he's burned through those, but this, this niep is one of his core range ones. So yeah, give it a go and go visit them if you're in Newcastle at some stage. Got to tell you, it's, ah I mean, out of the four beers on their website, it's probably the, the more, it's, it's probably the the least out there beer description.
00:43:05
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um They've got to be called keep newy weird west coast IPA and their description is have you ever eaten a pine cone? Yeah, me neither. This is nothing like that. This beer tastes like pristine beaches mixed with cold dust and memories of phallic lookouts. This beer tastes like this beard tastes like red and blue, like triumph in the face of adversity. It's better than Lego and it tastes best shared with mates. Real beer for real Novocastrians.
00:43:32
Speaker
is it Is there a phallic shaped lookout in Newcastle? I don't know. Lighthouse at some point. I'm thinking more like Pride Rock, like Lion King. Yeah. um the Newcastle Queen's Wharf Tower is a large phallic shaped tower. It does genuinely look like a massive schlong. So that's probably what it's a reference to.
00:43:59
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Anyway. Well done. How good. Cool. What was it out of five? Sorry, Dan. I think I'll give that one a four. Four. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Now we're not doing trailer trash. No, I haven't, you know. Let's talk about some trailers. It's our reactions to them. Blade Eater 2. Why? Yeah. Fucking O's. Why? Why? Good actors in it. I watched it without Sam. Is it a sequel? Is it not? I don't know.
00:44:28
Speaker
I don't know. It is a sequel. It's definitely a sequel. It makes a reference to his wife. car Well, it's got the same actress in it. I guess it's not his wife because she died in the first movie. um She most definitely did. But somebody handed it husband to a murdered wife. Some lady handed him a murdered son. some Some lady handed him the ring that Aurelius had or owned or some shit. I don't know. That was Commodus's sister that he had a thing with. Yeah.
00:44:58
Speaker
That's what started all the strife, wasn't it? No, no. Commodus wanted to get Jiggy with his sister um and she had a thing for Maximus. and Keeping it in the family. Yeah, I just don't see the reason. I i will. ah Yeah, obviously they do, because the two Emperor Princelings you see in the trailer there look like the most inbred things known to man. Yeah. Slightly green skin like that. Oh, it was creepy. they looked oh gold I think it was gold leaf tinged. I think that was the idea. It's probably his copper heavy metal poisoning.
00:45:30
Speaker
I meant to look up who the emperors were after Commodus. Did either of you guys look at or did they say? Yeah, I went on a historic fact-finding mission after seeing that terrible fucking trailer. I think the ah the single the trailer wasn't bad. It was just more the concept of it was like, why? Yeah, that's what I mean. um god i Got to admit, I will. I will watch it for the for the denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal.
00:45:54
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Call a scene being flooded, like I'll watch it for that scene. Sure, yeah. But I love those two actors, they're brilliant. Everything that ah Denzel Washington's in, I enjoy, including, what was that third movie that he made? he made Equalizer 3.
00:46:10
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Yep. I mean, as far as action films go, it's got its own little take on it and I've enjoyed them all, all three. Hey, I think this is the, uh, the highest brow we have been because I'm on Encyclopedia Britannica webpage. So I'm low not not even on Wikipedia. to Sign in with your old UNSW creds and start trolling some research articles. yeah I'm actually surprised Dan didn't go to the actual Encyclopedia Britannica that every family owned in Australia called out one of the volumes. We never had Britannica. We had the Funken Wagnalls, which were like the, yeah, that was the no frills version, basically. Oh, like i'm all for that. Still probably sold to you by door-to-door sales oh hundred percent a Still sold to my mum by a door to door salesman. And my dad came home and fucking spat chips. I've got no doubt. Next one.
00:47:03
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I think it looks pretty good. I think that's exactly what that's what we needed from Mark. We need to go back to the the Winter Soldier vibes. Is Thor done? That's what I got. Is is is th thoughtw is the actor Hemsworth?
00:47:16
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um he's on He's teetering on the fence. he apparently I saw something on his Instagram that he he's had some really promising- Or he wants an observatorium extension in his 20-hectare house, so he needs to do do another movie. No, no. He's been seeing, because he he was obviously really worried about the diagnosis of his family history with the yeah ah dementia coming in, but he's he's been doing some sort of out there therapy like medical therapy and he's he's seeing promising results. But he did the limitless, limitless series about yeah extending his longevity and it pretty much amounted to continue doing the training that he had to do for the movies. And then he has continued to do the training and he's, I mean, he's not as cut as he was, but he's not even cut. He's not even as cut as he is in Thor when he's filming Thor.
00:48:03
Speaker
You know, a lot of those shots are digitally enhanced and he gets a pump on five seconds before him. But yeah if you see that dude that night, he's not going to have the rippling six pack that he has when he's shooting. So, you know, because we saw him and we'll we'll get to it later on. We saw him in Furiosa or whatever it's called. Yeah, Furiosa. It's been in a couple of other movies recently too. So for a guy who doesn't want to do that stuff, he's clearly doing a lot of it.
00:48:29
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yeah Anyway, Captain America. Anyway, he's not in this one, so I don't know why we've got on a Chris Hemsworth. i'll just yeah Bring back Nick Offerman. He was the president in Civil War and I reckon he made a mad president, actually. A mad, mad president. Yeah, take it or leave it. I mean, Marvel movies don't really grab my attention anymore.
00:48:52
Speaker
No, and and that's the thing. I haven't really been brought ah grabbed by them recently either. Some of the recent more recent ones to come out have just been like, like ah but mail them I still even watched a few of them. But um look, winter Winter Soldier was such a good film. True. If they can recapture some of the magic of that, I think that's what and the MCU, if we're going to still go on that path, that's that's what they need to bring people back in.
00:49:16
Speaker
And like Cap's the perfect person, the perfect character to do that, whether it's Sam Wilson or or or Steve Rogers. um Yeah. And then, hey, look, we love a Hulk too, so yeah I'm happy to see the red Hulk. Yeah, the red Hulk. Yeah, I saw that right. Yeah, my friend Karl, who is a Hulk fanatic, he loves Hulk. But he's I've never seen him more ex excited than when they first like he saw the the red leg and he's just like,
00:49:41
Speaker
for years. He's every time I see him and he has a few beers, he's just like, World War Hulk is coming. And it's going to be the greatest cinematic experience you've ever seen. He's usually a bit high when he gets this as well. But God, he hasn't he's he has not stopped. He's just like, he's so ready, so ready for for for a World War Hulk to finally hit hit now that we've got a few hogs in the thing. Well, we've got like four different actors playing the original Hulk.
00:50:06
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That's true. But yeah, but I think yeah, if you what you need is what that that universe, expansion, whatever you want to call it, what the MCU needs now is something like. One of their greats, like I'm sure it won't be as good as Winter Soldier, don't get me wrong, but you need to try and recapture some of the magic of that. And, you know, they did, so they did such a good job with that kind of being a- The magic was exploring- Political thriller, hero- Yeah. But in my opinion, they lost the magic when they replaced good storytelling and discovery and the miss- like revealing the mystery through, through narrative storytelling telling and have just turned it into turn the wheel and the cookie comes out.
00:50:45
Speaker
Yeah, sorry. They're going to, they're going to live and die by the line that they put in their own trailer. Uh, you're not Steve Rogers. Yeah. they They're going to live in, they're going to live or die by that line and that line alone. agree That's the, that's the, that's the only thing if Mackie, I don't mind Mackie. I've got nothing against him whatsoever, but unfortunately I haven't seen a movie that he has been the lead in that he's been compelling in.
00:51:13
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Yeah, ah no I know. I go what you're saying. because you've so we've We've had this discussion before around um Altered Carbon, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah. Altered Carbon. Literally. He did another movie where he was a cyborg or a artificial. ah Yeah. Yeah. I remember the one. Yeah. so lose a wall oh bog yeah i I liked that because it seemed it felt indie. It was perfectly fine. The movie was perfectly fine, but he was He was interchangeable.
00:51:47
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he's he's He's not a bad actor. I'm not saying he's a bad actor, but you could take any one of those characters that he has been and they're absolutely all interchangeable. And whether or not that's a writing fault or whether that's his range or they're not allowing him to do things, um but he just feels so locked into this as Pete says it, cookie cutter. And if they just want him to be that cookie cutter, then it's, it's just going to fall flat on its face. Um, as where Steve Rogers was, I mean, you you can't beat it. I mean, it just coming, coming through where they set him up and going through everything. I mean, you look at how also Chris Evans does have kind of has shown the the range that he has. He's come from that. Not another team movie dipshit up through to doing, um, Snowpiercer, which was
00:52:39
Speaker
like, grueling to being the hero that, you know, like, carried carried an ensemble. But but even does even as Steve Rogers, you see him go through all of that, and Mackie is now going to have to show that in a much, much, much smaller timeframe. ah He's going to have to win everybody now to make this work, because if he doesn't win it and win them, it's not going to work, as where Steve Rogers was and Chris chris Evans was able to show everything that he was capable of,
00:53:09
Speaker
in the first one and then. But he also got an origin story. And before a follow-up film and and Anthony Mackey's kind of had, I guess he had an old TV series spinoff to introduce him, I guess. But if they don't give him the material and the story to work with, it is absolutely not going to work for him. And he's going to get blamed for it, which is not right. Outside the Wire, was that the name of the film? and Yeah. That's the one I think. Yep. Yep. I haven't watched it, but I know that's definitely the one and I think you're thinking of. I can't remember the name of it, but it is outside the wire. And it was, it was a fine movie. It was absolutely fine. It was a Netflix film. Yeah. And from memory, I'd probably watch it again. Um, but I just, uh, he just, it was big. It was, it was interchangeable. From one. From one Red Hulk to another.
00:54:03
Speaker
from one red halt to another Yeah. Hellboy Crooked, Crooked the Crooked Man. That looks great. It looks great. i it's one of those i It's one of those weird things where it looks better being... I don't want to say downgraded, but it it's... It is though.
00:54:22
Speaker
Well, I think it's more just, it's not focusing on the big CGI monster or army of monsters, depending on which film you're talking about. I hope it's fucking R rated. That's, that's what we need is an R rated Hellboy. Cause it is a Sin City style fucking dark vertigo comic style. I don't know. It's the last one R rated with, um, David Harbour and Mila Jopovich.
00:54:45
Speaker
Hang on, I don't think so, but I'm just checking now. That was that was thatward's leaning more into the Ron Perlman one started to get a bit kitty and kitschy towards the end of... Badly. Like the end of Elvoy 2 was like... I'm pretty sure it's the exact ending. He he pulls that face of like like... He pulls that face at one point, but yeah. um it it's It's a smaller story. It needs to be that small story. um Yeah.
00:55:13
Speaker
yeah It needs to be the Hellboy just hunting hunting a a malevolent something. ye it ah Instead of the the world is at stake and in cities and yeah and the exposing Hellboy for who he is, it's like, no, it just go to a little village, what looks like Eastern Europe, and do a wonderful- To a Dracula story. stubble story Yeah. yeah Absolutely. like um um so We'll see when that comes out. ah The next two, both from WB animation, so they're they redoing Watchmen, because it's been what? How long since- 10 minutes? Yeah, since- At least 10 minutes. Since Snyder's Watchmen come out. it is The trailer for that is looking pretty shot for shot, but it is animated version. It's a nice animation. It looks and look schmick, um but it's a little
00:56:07
Speaker
I thought if if they were going to do a Watchmen animated that's shot for shot, they'd try and capture some a bit more of the art style um that is in the the ah actual comic book. um It's weirdly fluid. It looks weirdly, it might it might be the like the lighting they're using in this trailer. I don't know if you guys watch it, but yeah, it's it's for me, it looks like a bit too fluid. I wanted it to be a bit more pulpy, I guess.
00:56:31
Speaker
yeah um ah But look wv animation haven't as has got a good for absolute winners. Yeah. So yeah, I think that'll be a good. um A good one to do. So it's chapter one. So I'm not sure how far into the story they're going. um But they at least cover Dr. Manhattan getting to Mars. So that's that's. two of the books ah the from from memory. I haven't read Rochman in forever. And then the next one was the next, they're doing a Batman ninja two, for lack of a better word. So they have the Yakuza League, which is the ah Japanese reimagining of the Justice League. So they had a
00:57:06
Speaker
a Flash, a Wonder Woman, a Green Lantern, and Aquaman in there. um And the designs look, they look fucking cool. Like, yeah, this is that, I want this to be made in, like, if we need a new Batman game, let's do a Batman Ninja game. it looks That's like a really cool, I know what you're saying, we over overdone the feudal Japan. this But come on, it looks funny it looks pretty cool. Batman Ninja was so freaking out there. It was yeah so weird. I really enjoyed it though. I didn't mind it. Yeah, it was, it was,
00:57:35
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It was something that you could just, just watch. I don't think you could do it live action, Tom. I said a game. Game. Oh, game, sorry. Oh, I definitely couldn't do a live action. No, God, no. um Yeah, so there there's just some some things that I saw um because there wasn't much else happening out in in the the world of gaming and movies um in terms of releases.
00:57:59
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Nothing really coming out this month that would excite any of us. um I know our our mate, Ed, got his new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, so Hope Ed's enjoying that. um He's been livestreaming it, so. There we go. ah Elder Ring dropped the DLC um Shadow of the Earth Tree, and apparently it's very, very hard. Yes, lots of people are crying. That means it's good. Yeah.
00:58:22
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Um, otherwise there wasn't, there wasn't much else in in the June, July, um, August and things start coming out that we, you know, that's when the, um, some more games start getting released. We lead up to that. That's that summer for us release. Yeah. Um, but we do like play stay one is out. Twisters is out, which two movies we didn't fucking need.
00:58:44
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wait i'm and fireplace day one is very very good though I'm hoping, to return form I'm hoping it is. Is Krasinski, I can't always call him Krasinski, is that his name? Krasinski. Krasinski. Jonathan. Is he, is he part of it? Krasinski. Is he, because he directed and wrote the first couple. He's not, he's definitely not starring in it. it's it's No, I know he's he hasn't been in, he hasn't been in it since the first one. Yeah, no, he was in the second one.
00:59:13
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ah was he was because there was some cameo in it because he No, there was flashbacks to how we got the family out ah in the initial invasion. yeah Yeah, he was in the first one. A second one. They might do like, you I haven't seen it. Have you seen it, Tom? What? Which? the The new one. the No, I haven't seen any of them. yeah I haven't yeah but ah even say any of them. So he was a producer in ah day one. I'm just seeing if he's directed it.
00:59:43
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No, he directed A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place 2, and he directed if, in case anyone's interested. um I reckon the day one will have like the the the traditional shot of like him and the family in the distance, but the Easter egg hunters. like car yeah yeah you can someone to do Someone at home watching with a beard, do the Leona de Caprio. Yeah. yeah
01:00:11
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Cool. And then, yeah, the only other thing I mean, Wolverine and Deadpool's out a week too. That I am going to thoroughly enjoy. Yeah, it's going to be fun. I love it. Yeah. Can't wait. Yeah. Go into it. Sabertooth trailer, we got Tyler Dain. I was so happy it was Tyler Dain. It was the right Sabertooth. Oh man, it was just when, i I don't know whether it was you or Sui that put it up, Tom. It's like when that trailer, when you put that leak of the trailer and I've seen Sabertooth in there, I'm like, I've got nothing against Leaf Shriver, but Tyler Dain in the X-Men first one was like fantastic. as saber It's such a good choice. And I've heard nothing of him since who knows what he's doing. He's just probably living on his wrestling money. And oh man, I was so fucking happy to see him. And like I was, I was on
01:01:00
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I wasn't quite on the fence with this movie, but I was i was leaning to going to see it. um And then as soon as I saw that, I'm like, yeah, you got me. I'm actually, i'm I'm starting to do a, I like to call it the Dan. I'm starting to do a Dan where I'm just, I'm not watching anything else now. Cause I don't, yeah like yeah yeah they did, it they did, it they did a media viewing of the first 30 minutes and people have put up like spoiler fill, like what happened? I was like, I don't want to read. Don't do that. People are fucked just to to make a dollar out of this bullshit. um Ray Park's in it too, apparently. Yeah, there's a shot. You see him in in one of the shots. He's back as Toad. Toad, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Juggernauts in there, apparently. So I don't know if it's going to be ah Vinnie Jones back as the Juggernaut. Patrick Stewart's um rumored to be in it.
01:01:50
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Oh, there's going to be every man and his dog's going to be in it. Like Ryan Reynolds is going to take the absolute like, yeah hey he's going to bring anyone and everything he can. Oh, did he? More power to him too. Oh man. You got it. Yeah. Okay. Cool. that I mean, this, this rightfully will be the biggest blockbuster movie of the year without a doubt. It'll break in the feeding money um yeah i most That got me. That was good.
01:02:24
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um I just I just hope that he continues to push the line in the because if you go back to Deadpool and how far he pushed the barrier on what you can get away with saying in a movie.
01:02:37
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um In today's landscape, it's actually changed quite a lot since the first movie in terms of, you know, the message and the snowflakes out there complaining about stuff in cancel culture. and And I'm not even talking about the bad stuff that should legitimately not be a part of our Hollywood, but um just some of the commentary that he made to Negasonic 10 Age Warhead that he made to, um ah what's her name? He called the Angry Rosie Rosie O'Donnell? Yeah, Rosie, yeah. Gina Carrera. That's right. Just those types of quips. I fucking hope that they continue to push the boundaries. I assume that he will. I'm pretty sure he has. I'm pretty sure he has. I think the thing, the big thing being Disney was the drugs. So there'll be no shoving kilo bags of cocaine into his face and punching him. They did make comment about the coke.
01:03:36
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Yeah. That was in those in the the trailer. Exactly. So they'll, they'll, though he won't be able to do that. But I mean, that's, that's one of the funniest things in the first movie. you can like pun In the mask. Yeah. yeah you All right. I think on that note, will did i get I get it. I get it. i get Yeah.
01:03:53
Speaker
Yeah. He gets it. He gets it. He gets it. Let's get the episode trailer Tyler. Not smacking your pussy. And that's break time.
01:04:07
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ah that then ten then it then then and and and and hey and then then then then and then then and and and and hey hit the third and and and then then and Hey, we're back. We're so fucking back. So back.
01:04:24
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um Beers, gentlemen. Peter, what have you, have you gone onto your second one? I, I have. This is, there's no point holding it up because it's exactly the same, but ah this is Brick Lane, Soul Trader, uh, love. What did I say the first, I thought I said the first one, no, it was life. So they, they've done the candles. but So we did life. This would be love. And I'm sure the third one will be despair instead of hope.
01:04:48
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Um, um, love yeah like no, it's, it's yeah no know it's just those, those, uh, third one's fate. I just looked up the website. ah So this is a Cascara and chocolate Imperial stout again at 11%. And I have yet to taste it. Ooh. Ooh.
01:05:17
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oh oh Okay. Um, I don't know what Cascara is. I'm sure it's the turd of some other fucking mammalian animal. It's a coffee bean, isn't it? Is that the one the cat shits out? It could well be. It could well be. I think- What the fuck?
01:05:35
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Oh, this is the scat episode. Yeah. It's the exotic cat that they eat the coffee beans and then they poop them out. Cascara, which means husk, peel, or skin on Spanish. It's the dried skins of coffee cherries. Right. That's- I only know this because Batch used to do beers with Cascara. I remember them having the little things in the bag here. Yeah. This one, i h it's it's very, very bitter, but not in a traditional beer bitter way. um It's got that real back palate hang around. If you, if you were to, if you can imagine, you wouldn't have done it. But if you can imagine just having half a teaspoon of like, Macona coffee ground or instant coffee, get that real horrible bitterness in the back of your throat. That's kind of what this is. I have done that. There's no, yeah, I have to. Otherwise I wouldn't have the reference. There's no chocolate. I get zero chocolate, just a shit ton of coffee.
01:06:33
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it's It's not terrible, I guess it's like drinking a long black in a coffee, in ah in a beer. Yeah, right. I had to be like that last night. It was it was literally, was I was like, is this a beer or is it just cold drip coffee?
01:06:46
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Oh, it's not quite that bad, but i yeah, i the reference is definitely the right one. um It's quite sweet at the start and then just turns into back palette bitterness. I think this is going to be palette fatiguing, to be honest. I'm going to give this a 375.
01:07:06
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So, I was just ashamed of what I typed into Google and it came up with what I wanted right off the bat. Cat shit coffee beans? I said, what is the coffee that comes from cat shit? And it's Kupi, K-O-P-I, Luwak, L. Kupi Luwak? Okay. Yeah. Kupi Luwak is made from the coffee beans plucked from the shivets feces.
01:07:29
Speaker
Bad news for shivots. It's the world's most expensive copy and it's made from their poop. I thought it was elephant. Elephants shut out coffee beans and made the world's most expensive coffee. I remember somebody gave this coffee, whatever country it comes from. um Looks like it might be Indian. I remember the um One time they gave some of that coffee to like Kevin Rudd or somebody, whoever was prime minister at the time. And I remember it was a, it was a big thing. Another relevant old guy. Yeah. Okay. was More thinking irrelevant story. Yeah. She bets a pretty cute. Look at them. Look at the little spotty bastards.
01:08:11
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they like ah What I found, they're kind of cool. Black Ivory is the, Black Ivory is the world's most expensive coffee, surpassing even Kopi Luwak, produced in Antara resorts in the Maldives and Thailand. This red coffee involves nearly 30 elephants consuming Thai Arabic coffee beans. So yes, it's, it why, why, why what do you?
01:08:35
Speaker
What do you reckon the lifespan of that elephant is, if he's eaten that much coffee? I don't know. but' just going to Two and a half thousand dollars a kilogram for black ivory coffee. Wow. What is our predisposition to having animals eat the stuff that we want and then pooping it out and then we eat it? It's got it's got to be something to do with the digestive tract. Oh, yeah. A hundred percent of the enzymes in the stomach changes, change yeah changed the nature of it.
01:09:02
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shitz or Now I'm just thinking of the way they harvest it is just Jurassic Park. You are going to wash your hands before you eat anything, right?
01:09:14
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I love that line. All right, Dan, what are you drinking? I so I picked up the Hawker's Neapolitan something series Neapolitan. I want to say what it says Bonanza or something, but I can't quite read it on the ah font in this light.
01:09:34
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So there's obviously the three, it's ah it's vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. So I'm currently drinking the vanilla one, which is vanilla caramel ice cream white stout. They're all bourbon barrel aged. They're all 6% ABV and they all come in 440 cans.
01:09:50
Speaker
This just oozes vanilla and caramel. It's a, I cracked it open and I picked the vanilla, vanilla caramel and the strawberry. Is it just straight strawberry? Yeah, it's just strawberry. I picked those two because they were the most different. We've had chocolate based outs before. So I thought these two, these two were the most different ones that we had. Um, I don't get much of the barrel, but there is so much vanilla and, uh, vanilla and caramel in there. It's not funny.
01:10:22
Speaker
Even just that, um, they do say on the website to try and drink them, drink them as a mix as well. Before I, well, I live a little bit with the ice cream bowl. You took a scoop, scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla, and then a scoop of the strawberry. Yeah. I'm definitely not opening the chocolate one tonight, but I'll leave a little bit in the can for the vanilla and caramel and a little bit of the, uh, strawberry one. and I'll combine them at the end for actually, you know what? That can be, I was going to say that can be my fourth beer, but these are always going to be already.
01:10:50
Speaker
it's It's Neapolitan Bonaparte, which is... it but It says Bonaparte, does it? Slightly entertaining. It's... It's so the... In this lot, I mean, you're not gonna be able to see it. Oh no, yeah like even looking on the website, it's really hard to read on the can. Yeah. It's so blurred together, I can't even make out the letters.
01:11:10
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It's definitely what I say it is. it's It's definitely ice cream. It's super sweet. The vanilla and caramel flavors are extremely prominent. Like the whole room smells like vanilla and caramel, which is great.
01:11:27
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ah I would have, this this is such a me comment. I would like some of that, more of that barrel, that traditional, if you're going to say barrel aged, bourbon barrel aged, I want more of that bourbon barrel there. Like I want to i want that to cut through the vanilla and the caramel. and The sweetness like that, that barrel is what meant is meant to be the cohesive element to all this and and pulling it together through tannins and bitterness and that multi-layered complexity. At the moment, it's just... does' It doesn't say what bourbon they use, does it? Ice cream and sweet. like I I can't read that, sorry.
01:12:11
Speaker
It just says... No, I mean, I'm looking on the website and it doesn't doesn't say anything. inspired by the age old famous tri-coloured ice cream colloquially known as Neapolitan. This vanilla caramel ice cream edition. Don't get me wrong, this was the ice cream that was always in the ah the family fridge. Yeah. But yeah, no, it doesn't describe anything other than enjoy as a trifecta. I'm the weirdo that likes the strawberry. i I really like strawberry ice cream. um So I'm quite excited to get to that one. That checks.
01:12:41
Speaker
There was never, was a caramel in, no, there's no caramel in. No, it's vanilla. No, but I think they wanted to dress, they wanted to dress the, it's vanilla caramel. Ah, I see. I'd say they wanted to dress the vanilla up, so they've done a flavor combination there, which I get. Well, it's about time someone did. It doesn't say mix them. It says, best enjoy it as a trifecta, drink them together, but keep them separate. Yeah.
01:13:05
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It's not like you're pouring all three into the same glass. No, I'm going to, I'm going to make sense. That's what it means. No respect for your taste buds. No, no, no. I mean, Hawkes has done that before where they've, they've done a three part series and then they've said, yeah, blend, blend at the end. Ben's contemplating his scoring. He looks, he looks troubled. He is troubled. Like big red in the corner. Yeah, it is.
01:13:35
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Uh, it, it definitely in my is what they say it is. Oh, no, is it? Because they definitely, the bourbon barrel aged is on there. So it's half of what they say it is.
01:13:53
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I think it's well made. I think it's well made. for for For linking it to ice cream and having it be an ice cream beer, it's well made. It's far too fucking sweet for me. um So I'm not going to finish that again.
01:14:06
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ah But they the flavors are fun. it's It's good. It is the ice cream side of it is. um So i think I think it's worthy of a four. Dan's locked in a store that he's not allowed to lock in. Yes, you. Sorry? That he's not allowed to lock in. Oh, it's very light. Yeah, the the clarity is ah really well yeah really well done on it. So um I'm interested to see what the strawberry one's like and if it's got the same level of clarity to it.
01:14:33
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Thomas. All right. I'm going to jump right in. I'm i'm having the Akasha, which I haven't had an Akasha beer in fucking ages. This is their red again, red IPA. well You're not going to be able to get them for too much longer. Why?
01:14:48
Speaker
Didn't Akasha shut down or am I smoking? No, they went into VA. They went into VA. 13 weeks later. Okay. Good. Good. Like two months ago. Oh, sorry. Yeah. It's a lighter, lighter red than I would have hoped for. It is six and a half percent. Um, it's definitely not as, as, as like chewy, chewy toffee caramel as I would have liked for. Um,
01:15:14
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Actually no i'm gonna come out and say i'm ah i'm a bit disappointed i have always been. Like the ipa like forward brewery um and i.
01:15:27
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really think this could have more to it. It's, it's it very light. It, it falls off very quickly. There's a nice bitterness there, but it's, when I think back to some of the previous red IPAs I've had from Akasha, um, this literally pales in comparison. Um, I just, I don't know if it's something they mixed in their multbill, like they, they just missed the mark in that. Um, the hops they use, they, so they use nectar on and cryo citra, like.
01:15:56
Speaker
Yeah, it's just not as not as not as big and and and as and as resinous and it definitely doesn't have that body that I'd expect from Akasha bringing a red IPA. so It's a shame. i I haven't picked up to Nakasha Limited in a long time, I will admit. um i I felt like a lot of their Limited's had fallen off the mark.
01:16:16
Speaker
um but and This does not instill confidence that they're they're coming back. like I will still look for them and and try them. um but yeah this one yeah I'm just i'm ah um a bit upset. i want I wanted a lot from this. I love a red IPA as well.
01:16:35
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um But yeah, I think, I think it's one of the most nectar on and nectar on and Citra aren't bold enough hops to be um yeah they're both bold hops, but they're not bold enough hop to be a red IPA. In in my opinion, but no, no, it's like, there's a really nice pleasant aroma there, but that's kind of where it stops.
01:16:59
Speaker
Like that's, that's why I'm disappointed. Like I really would expect more from this. Um, don't get me wrong. I'm still going to finish the entire glass. Um, but like.
01:17:10
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Yeah. Just think about some previous red IPAs that that Akasha have done. It's, it's, it's, it's not their best work. It's not their worst. Like they've definitely worse beers. Um, and there's definitely worse red IPAs out there. Don't get me wrong. Um, but I think I'd, I'd elevated what I would expect from this camp before opening it in, in my own, in my own head. Um, out of five ah for just the actual beer, putting aside all my, my prejudice for it. It's.
01:17:42
Speaker
It's a three and a half. It's a three and a half. Like, yeah, it's got a really nice aroma. There is some hot character there, but it's- Just doesn't deliver on the promise. And I think it's the body. It's mainly the molt build just doesn't hold up everything else. Yeah.
01:18:00
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oh
01:18:03
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Say, Livy. Say, on to rapid fire reviews. All right. So i got as everyone knows, I got a hardcore delay for Tom. I don't, so sorry to interrupt you, Dan, are you getting like a full one and a half second delay on Tom? Should we?
01:18:21
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Pause and record. Tom, dan you're on mute, so you're just <unk>re confusing me now. Yeah, sorry. Yes. Yes. There is a huge delay on Tom. Yeah. It's really throwing me out. We really we might just pause. Yeah, we might just pause. We'll be right back. All right.
Film Reviews: Statham's 'The Beekeeper' and More
01:18:37
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We've had, and we've overcome our technical difficulties and we're into rapid fire reviews. We've reloaded. Tom.
01:18:43
Speaker
ah Yes, so I went i went away um and I got to sit on flights for 22 hours or something stupid like that over to the US, which actually gave me time to review and watch a whole bunch of shit that I probably won't do at home because I'll just go and play games instead of watching stuff. So yes, I have What is it seven films in and seventy so three series okay it's actually gonna be pretty pretty pretty fast fast track so we'll start with the first film which is ah the beekeeper starring Jason Statham.
01:19:18
Speaker
um Look, it's Statham being Statham against every sort of military division that the US have. You then have also, he's kind of backed up by Emmy Ravel Lapman. If any of you guys watched the Umbrella Academy, she was the older of the kind of the sister siblings. Yeah. She plays a really, really jaded like ah FBI agent um who is also a hardcore alcoholic, um but functioning. So that's good. ah Yeah. The only other highlight of the film, a great amount of beef facts. I learned something from that film. So that was really good. Bees are um really interesting creatures. And they're also very, very important to the ecosystem. But scare the shit out of me because I'm allergic.
01:20:04
Speaker
So am I. Look at us, twinning. but i um But I'll still watch whole videos on beekeeping and shit on YouTube just randomly. I find it fascinating. Jasper and I often walk to the carriage works and there's, um, some beehives, uh, like that are in one of the old train carriages. What, Daniel? I clicked the, I clicked the hand up instead of the mute button. I was going no, cause he's like, no, no, no. I didn't mean to. He just kept popping though. Yeah. Anyway. Um, so yeah, look, enjoyable, but it's, it's, it's just, and it's another Statham action film. It's just, yes.
01:20:38
Speaker
um Does he do any actual beekeeping in it? Yes. Oh, he does. I guess. So that's the very respectful of the bee. that's the pey respect That's the peaceful opening sequence that's interrupted by the bad guys. Like Arnie building a log cabin. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. But he also, yeah. he Or Mark Wahlberg at the start of shooter where he's in the cabin, the log cabin with his dog. Yeah, it's a hundred percent that. Look, great on great on a plane. Also have a couple of beers and just watch at home. it's It's an hour and a half. So it's ah a popcorn action flip.
01:21:12
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Oh, absolutely. yeah Absolutely. Without a doubt. Uh, next on my list, expendables four. I have a soft spot for the expendable series. Stallone is getting far too old to do them. His face is just starting to like just drop off. Speaking of melting faces, Megan Fox stars in this film. Hey, actually Fox is good. Fox is a really welcome addition. She refreshes this fucking franchise. I never said she was a bad actress, but she does not look like Megan Fox. She looks like she's a Decepticon now.
01:21:42
Speaker
She's just mad at God they've fully infiltrated. Sam with Wiki. um Anyway, yes, they've added Megan Foxes in it now and then they've added 50 cent ah because why not? Because ah Marshall Mathers wasn't around at the time.
01:21:58
Speaker
Um, look, the notes I wrote, Expendables 4, now with added 50 cent and Megan Fox, guns go boom. Um, but they were missing some key characters from previous installments and the banter just didn't carry. Like the one thing that I enjoyed about that franchise was the action, all these old action heroes got together and they could fire off on each other. They talked about how fucking old they were. Yeah. yeah i Terry Crews wasn't in it. Um,
01:22:25
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Dolph Lundgren was still in it. Uh, what's the name of the Bruce Willis clearly won't be. No, Bruce wasn't in it. Arnie wasn't in it. Um, uh, who else wasn't in it? There was one of the other main ones wasn't in it. Um, they brought in some young guy who just wouldn't shut up and that was really annoying, but it it also ended up by design watching it. Yeah. His whole thing is like his character. magic dick is Yeah. Okay. Um, I watched it directly after watching the beekeeper and the whole,
01:22:54
Speaker
kind of plot of this, plot of this film is like Jason Statham kind of takes over of it. So Sly is not in it that much. Um, well, for for story reasons. So after watching beekeeper, I was just like, Oh, cool. I'm watching another Statham film. I'm just looking does have a really good shootout on a ship though.
01:23:12
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it's It's enjoyable. Just looking at the cast for number three, um Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Harrison Ford, Arnie Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, and Randy Korta. Kortu. Randy Korta's still in it. Who's has a cauliflower here? He has his little rant about cauliflowers here again, which is always fun. um are they get the the The new guy they bring in is uh he's a a tie actor and i think he's in a bunch of those like really like hectic tie action films um but he's on back on buck yeah i think it's that guy they bring him in and he's johnny joy he's got that curved blade and it's just him going fucking bananas with that best 10 minutes of the flight he's easily he's incredible tony joe yeah he's yeah
01:23:58
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Tony, say tony child they are, they are just a very, a very enjoyable. It's a really enjoyable series because it's just so dumb. Um, but. They've always been dumb. Yeah. I know. And that's why, that's why they're so enjoyable, but they're so good just to have a beer, crack it on, just be like, this is stupid. I love it. Yeah.
01:24:17
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All right, moving next time. What do we got next on this? We got the coverve Covenant. Covenant. This was fantastic. I really enjoyed this. I didn't watch this on the flight. I watched this when I got to, we got to Boston. um So Guy Ritchie directed it. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Darcy Lim. I enjoyed it less than I thought I was going to.
01:24:36
Speaker
I enjoyed it more than I did. Because I love war films, particularly modern war films. And I love Guy Ritchie and I just didn't tickle my pickle the way that I thought I was. I was surprised at how tense I was throughout the entire thing. I find it to be a surprisingly, this is my review, surprisingly tense war film with moments of Guy Ritchie flair.
01:24:58
Speaker
It didn't feel much like a Guy Ritchie film, to be honest, it didn't have. But I could feel his, his peppering of the flavor there. Yeah, yeah, that I can see, but I was, I guess I probably walked in expecting more of a Guy Ritchie film. like said I don't think one of the Guy Ritchie montages would have been appropriate for the Afghanistan war. Yeah, but like that's what I was expecting, a something that didn't take itself too serious. It was a bit of referent and and kind of applied his his shtick to, ah you know, a modern. I kind of got it in this in the in the the there was that like almost montage like.
01:25:34
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Uh, just before, um, he gets, uh, Salim gets Gyllenhaal's character back to that last camp and he's finally pushing the thing up the mountain. There was a bit in that of him him dragging along, but yeah, I was surprised. I was surprised. Like.
01:25:50
Speaker
I didn't think Guy Ritchie could pull off a war film and I think he actually did a pretty bang up job. From what I understand, it was purposely taken away from it but and not advertised as a like i richitch main a mainstream Guy Ritchie film. It was meant to be something different. I mean, look, if if it's an opportunity for him to kind of expand into new territory, then yeah, awesome. Cause he's a great director and it was a good film. It just wasn't what I expected going in. That's all. That's fair. Okay.
01:26:20
Speaker
um Next one. Speaking of getting exactly what you expect going in. Aquaman 2. So I was very sleep deprived by the time I ended up watching this. It was on the flight from LA back to Sydney. um First point, just as bad as the first. um Actually, though, Tamara Morrison, to his credit, gives a really solid performance as Aquaman's dad. um And the best part of his performance, I found, was the fact that he, throughout the film, consumed four to six Guinness cans. At one point, he opened up a fridge and it was just 80 Guinness cans in the fridge.
01:27:01
Speaker
It was the weirdest product placement i've ever seen but it was just great they just keep cracking in this case i was like yeah i feel like a fucking Guinness right now um i couldn't get one on the flight. i What else happened in that ah there was the scene of the Atlanta Atlanta gets attacked.
01:27:18
Speaker
And it just felt like they'd ripped a bunch of things from the turtle scene in Finding Nemo. There was like, ah there was even like the the the East Current. They were like going through these ports. It was just very bad. um The other problem was.
01:27:36
Speaker
I don't know why I'm treating this like a serious film, but I am. um So Momoa is fine as the like bro-y chatty Aquaman, but when he tries to play it serious or give something that's a really emotionally driven, it doesn't even get close to hitting. And it's so jarring in this film when he goes from being like the, yeah, bro. Like we just killed a bunch of guys to him being like, my son is gone. It's just like,
01:28:02
Speaker
it it doesn't work at all. Isn't that very interesting because the same could be said for the Affleck Batman in the opposite. because we know Affleck and comic timing very well in things that he's been in, but I think the Affleck Batman is like his poignant is his serious moments are yeah incredible. And then when you throw those broy mommicky moments, yeah it it throws it out the opposite way. Yeah. Well, this is exactly flipped that way. Yeah. Um, dude. Anyway, what I watched it, it was fine. Patrick Wilson, like,
01:28:42
Speaker
I don't do good for that. Yeah. It was like, man, like how desperate for cash are you? um Nicole Kidman was in it as well. Looking like a Barbie doll. Yeah. Um, and Amber Heard didn't shit the bed. did she um ah Next on, on, on the fast review list. I'm trying to get thrown, Pete. Um, fast Charlie.
01:29:08
Speaker
This was, a ah that I'd never heard of this film, I ah don't know where it came from, um but it's Pierce Brosnan and Marina Bakkerin and it's set in the south, ah like Louisiana.
01:29:20
Speaker
um And it's like a gangster film. It's, it's, it's someone trying to do a ah Guy Ritchie film. Um, it starts off really like fast-paced quippy. Um, not like, but like in, in reference kind of thing, like it works in, in the scenarios. Um, but then it.
01:29:41
Speaker
Uh, really quickly moved into your kind of standard popcorn action flick kind of flair. Um, the combat style, because it's obviously there's just body start piling up. It's less John wick and more taken. So he's very deliberate and precise with his, with his, with his shots. He's not like proper close combat.
01:30:04
Speaker
Yeah he's too old to do the John Wick style, it's what you'd expect. Did we lose Tom? We did just lose Tom's audio. Shot. We got it back? We're back? You're back on get the shot. Get the shot. Anything before get the shot we missed. He just lines up his shots and he takes them. That's the whole thing. Yeah okay. There is a fantastic. Very Jason Ball on CCW.
01:30:30
Speaker
But and well, it's all shooting. It's this very minimal close combat kind of thing, that kind of thing, which you don't expect from a lot of action films these days. um There is one of the best Bond references, though. ah Obviously, you had to throw it in with Pierce Brosnan having played Bond through through the 90s. And it's just him going through a through. a It's not a spoiler at all. It's it's just a fantastic blink and you miss it moment. And he just pulls out like the, the, the cache of weapons and he goes through and he pulls out the wall for PPK and he just like, yeah, hell yeah. Yeah. It's, it's the Leo like, Oh, I seen it. I seen it. Um, he does pull off one of the worst Southern accents I've ever heard though. And it was super distracting. Yeah. Anyway, uh, that was that, uh, Godzilla.
TV Show Highlights: 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' and 'Reacher' Season 2
01:31:23
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Have you guys watched it yet?
01:31:26
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No. We're not going to talk about it until you guys watch it. You need to watch it. It's amazing. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to park that one. Talk about Furiosa and then we're going to take another quick break because you've got some technical difficulties again. I'm going to literally push my modem. Either of you, you've only seen half of Furiosa as well. I've seen half. I don't usually only watch half a film in one sitting, but I was too drunk. And Daniel didn't mind it.
01:31:56
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OK, I'm going to park that one as well, because I'd really like to talk about both those films with both of you having seen it. Let's do that in in depth. I think Furio said we can spend a good 10, 15 minutes on once we've all seen it. Yeah, we were going to watch it last night, but we disappointedly chose to watch another movie because of reasons.
01:32:13
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Because of reasons. So far, so good is all I'm going to say on that. i I was expecting a shining turd. It may still be a horrible, horrible mess at the end, but so far, so good. All right, we're gonna going to have to take a quick break again. Yeah. On to Tom's shows. ah Yes, shows. Let's go. I didn't write as many notes on these. um you Have you guys watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Prime? No.
01:32:43
Speaker
Very enjoyable. um Really enjoyed it. Obviously a big fan of Donald Glover. I love his music, but I also, I think he's a great actor. It was actually a really clever ah way they they did the series and the way they presented it all. So the episodes are all structured around your, I guess the stages of a relationship. So you start with the the the awkward stage, like getting to know someone, then you go into like,
01:33:09
Speaker
The rampant morning stage and then you go into like the kind of honeymoon phase and then it's like, you know, the fights start happening all this. um But they're all stays around different missions. So it's actually very, very fun way of showing that kind of side of the story. um Yeah, the the the action was tight. The the each story is kind of its own monster of the week kind of thing. Like there is an overarching kind of kind of thing, but it's more about the agency they work for rather than the mission they're on. Um, yeah. And, and the, the, so Donald Glover is one of the, one of the main actors and my her scheme is the other one. And they have a really great, really great chemistry together. Um, so would you obviously need for a Mr. And Mrs. Yeah. Yeah. Show. Um,
01:33:56
Speaker
and And look, let's say it far better than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were ever going to get. So, yeah, they are. It's fun. It's and like, also fuck fucking fucking afford the house they have in New York. I'd be fucking cheering. um There are some fun moments where they have to put a body into a decomposer and the way they both react to that. It's like their first.
01:34:18
Speaker
Dealing with the body and it's just like while they're navigating this relationship. They're starting um but Yeah, it's really good. It's eight episodes. They're 40 minutes long There's some great there's some really great shots of scenery when they like go to Italy and stuff and it's very bond-esque kind of thing but yeah, I recommend checking it out if you want something kind of um You don't have to pay too much attention but it it drew you in. yeah there wasn't You weren't distracted while watching. I didn't find myself distracted. I wasn't trying to pick up my phone to look at anything else because I was like, oh, this is boring and dragging on. It was it was very very well done and and and the rapport between the two was great. Next one we all know about, Reacher.
01:34:58
Speaker
um Yeah, Pete, it was really solid. I found season one way better than season two. Yeah. And do you think it was because there were too many, too many cooks in the kitchen in yeah season two? Yep. It just became a generic team based, um, yeah, special forces film.
01:35:17
Speaker
It started off also his motivation like the way he was motivated to do certain things. Really didn't, it didn't carry through in the second series. Yeah. Like in season one, it was the death, death of his brother. It was like, of course motivated for events. The second one was like.
01:35:33
Speaker
Some guys you serve with and yeah I guess you guys are tight but it doesn't really. And there are a bunch of assholes for the most part. And it doesn't really justify what you're doing now. Yeah. And I just don't think they portrayed him as the, the, you know, impervious action hero that's just better than everyone else around him the way that they did the first film. They made him seem a bit of a dick at times. It's like, Rachael, come on bro, you're better than that. Yeah.
01:35:58
Speaker
But aen Alan, Alan Richardson is a a fucking beast of a human. Like he terrifies me to look out. Like it's just too big. Um, but, uh, yeah, but there was moments in the first season that I really enjoyed the, there were a nice yeah counterpoint to how hardcore he was. And the second film just lacked, ah sorry, the second series just lacks soul for me. Absolutely. Yeah, no, that's 100%. Yeah. i just become generic and we publish it Yeah. It was just like,
01:36:28
Speaker
They never felt any justification for his actions. And it just didn't have any depth anymore. Yeah. It just became a generic action show. And yeah, and I think that was definitely because there were just, yeah, there were too many main characters and they didn't have enough time to spend on any of them. um But it's still, it was an enjoyable watch. We, we, we lapped up every episode. but It was just like, towards the end of it, we're just like, oh, it's a bit fatigued. Yeah, it's a bit the same. The same again. Yeah.
01:36:53
Speaker
um And then last one, ah I finally caught up on Fallout, thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was fantastic. I still haven't done Last of Us, but um in terms of a adaptation of a video game to a TV or movie, I definitely think it's up there as one of the best. I thought all the characters really, really were great. I liked how pathetic they made the um Brotherhood of Steel guy. and like yeah You just cuz obviously playing the games you know how like hardcore the brotherhood of steel is and so you want him to be and it's just the fact that he can't ever really get there. Yeah. um Bunch of calories in a in a suit basically exactly yeah um they're all in co in suits. But i think the suits on that they that really came through your initial fear was the hundred percent wrong yeah. yeah
01:37:46
Speaker
Nah, it was really, really well done. There were so many great little references. um The Ghoul guy was fantastic. ah Not Walter Goggins, but the other one becoming the Ghoul. I thought that was that was a nice little touch.
01:37:59
Speaker
um And yeah, I think I guess my main main problem was still I had to wait until episode five to finally get the fallout theme. Yeah. Through that. I was like, come on, man. I needed that five episodes ago. Give me that war never changes. wal indulg Was amazing. fuck you He was 100% agree. He made that series and aley ellip in in both elements. Absolutely. and is absolutely yeah In his human form and in his goal form.
01:38:25
Speaker
It just the disgusted at discovering what his wife was doing and all the rest of it and Ella panel for someone I've never seen on screen before she did a phenomenal job absolutely carrying that series. Yeah so yeah yeah that was great. yeah know All the sets were fantastic I really yeah. They they did a bang up job of the sets I've got to say that um like that seems to be a really nice like.
01:38:49
Speaker
overarching, everything picks from every, every game that's come out so far. So there was enough of four out four in there for me to really get it. But I know for other people, there was a lot of four out three in there. for ah and that was yeah um um And yeah, and yeah, there there was a good variety and it was an important story. Like they didn't just tell some inane story in it. um So I thought that was, that was, I just hope they don't paint themselves into a corner where they've got to beat it for season two.
01:39:20
Speaker
Yeah, and and and then I mean, that's that's always the rub, isn't it? Like you don't. You got to pull the audience in, but if you overdo it, you got nowhere to go. Yeah. It's, it's it's you want that to be like at the level, but yeah, as you said, don't don't need to go overboard to do the next bit. There's lots of interesting stories to tell in that universe, I think. So yeah, I'm hoping it stays good. um That's me.
Doctor Who Series Discussion
01:39:44
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I'm done. I'm going to show up now.
01:39:45
Speaker
Yeah, I've got a couple that I'm going to talk really quickly about. um Doctor Who season one, which it's so different from the previous Doctor Who relaunch from 2005 that they've, it's got its own entry in IMDB and it started again from season one instead of season 14. I guess I'm at that age where I can declare that they're not making that show for me anymore. It's not aimed at me as an audience.
01:40:11
Speaker
Yeah, the first, I'm going to say the first half of the season was all about the message in air quotes. It was way too woke for me. It was too politically charged. It was, it it had, it was delivering a point and the point had nothing to do with the show that was on the, on the screen. It was, it was a comment on society and trying to, trying to jam too much into it that I really don't have an opinion, a strong opinion on.
01:40:41
Speaker
The second half of the season got better, but it's just it's not. There were moments where, like, if you if you go back to even the David Tennant episodes and the Matt Smith episodes, the good ones that stick out in memory, the poignant ones that really talk about humanity and deal with existentialism and and all that sort of good stuff. But a lot of the filler episodes in between were just kooky, funny, irreverent, just episodes. And the second half of this season kind of had a few of those that I just kind of got caught up in the ah fun of it.
01:41:18
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, i've I've got no issue with the actors themselves, but I think their portrayal of the characters, whether it's direction script or their own little personality injected into it. Just not, not Doctor Who for me. Like the Doctor's just too whiny. He's too, he's too, he cries in almost every episode.
01:41:46
Speaker
You know, and for me, the doctor is in control on top of everything, 17 steps ahead, not three steps ahead. Above all that. And, and, and just, just way too emotionally charged to me and everything made him emotional. And it just, like I said, I'm not criticizing it. I'm just saying it's, it's not made for my generation of audience or or me, my type of audience. My generation's probably unfair to say.
01:42:17
Speaker
No, that's entirely fair. i think i ah well i have I had that with Eccleston. I didn't think Eccleston was for me and then Tenet came in and I was hooked back in. and it's I think that's that's always been the kind of, I guess the beauty of Doctor Who is that you can can almost skip a generation if the Doctor doesn't sit with you because you might get drawn back into the next one. But I've skipped for four now.
01:42:40
Speaker
3. 3. No, John Hurt was the last good one. Matt Smith and John Hurt, then Peter Capaldi was just the wrong- That was just poorly written. Yeah, the wrong kind of writing. Jodie Whittaker was- horrible, not because it was a female doctor. I wouldn't really gotten behind that. I just, they just didn't write it well. Um, and then those two seasons back to back, like they just dropped the writing just dropped off. And then Nakuti, I don't, again, I don't think it's the actor. I just think it's the writing. I think Stephen Moffat just needs to tell a good story like he used to, instead of trying to tell his story. Yeah, that's fair. Because his story is not the story that
01:43:22
Speaker
appeals to everybody. His story is his story. That's the problem. Yeah. Um, and if you want to, yeah, anyway, um, house of the dragon season two, on the other hand is fucking spectacular. I've heard it's gone back to like the heyday of game of thrones. yeah There are moments to start it.
01:43:42
Speaker
There are moments in season two where I'm literally like, and, you know, you may judge me for making this statement or I'm okay with that, but it reminds me of seeing statements, Peter. you It reminds me of seeing Bell's Shakespeare, like Bell's Theatre Company, like,
01:43:59
Speaker
The creme de la creme Shakespeare. There are some some dialogues and some monologues between Matt Smith and the actress that plays the the final version of of Renara, Renara, Renara, Targaryen and their brother and sister or their uncle and niece, rather. Emma Darcy, Da Arcy. I'm going to assume it's Darcy, not Da Arcy, because that just wouldn't work.
01:44:27
Speaker
ah um She is brilliant in her. She reminds me of of um Janeway from Voyager. It's a very fine line to play a strong feminine character that borders masculine at times without ending up in some weird areas that obviously are superfluous to the story. She does an excellent job of being very hard, very very set in her way is very assertive at times aggressive without being too masculine. I think she's a really written strong female character um yeah and then Matt Smith. Like you know already being a fan.
01:45:15
Speaker
I've got to say he's, he has impressed me again in his ability to deliver complex, emotional lines in a believable sense. And like I said, the dialogue between those two in season two, especially, um, feels Shakespearean. It's just fucking written magnificently thoroughly enjoying it. We're only about halfway through. I think we're season four, season five, ah sorry, episode four, episode five.
01:45:44
Speaker
Um, yeah, really thoroughly enjoying it. Yeah. Look at someone who was obviously severely burnt by the end of the main series. ah I've been really just getting into it. Yeah. Well, it pops up on binge and I'm like, Oh, I could. Cause you're like, I love a bit of high fantasy. Let's go. But like, I remember how, shit how shit it got at the end there. And he's just like, yeah, um'm I'm glad it's settled into a rhythm now because season one was a bit janky.
01:46:13
Speaker
they Yeah, they were trying to cover the period from Reneres going from like a little girl to an adolescent, like a ah almost prepubescent to adolescent to adult. And they did that in the span of six or seven episodes. And it was a bit janky.
01:46:33
Speaker
um And every time you like to you started to learn and like the actress that's what we're out for another character for another actress to play the older version. yeah um Season two has been a lot more stable it's telling one story. And it's you've established the characters you've established the relationships and it's just. Fucking excellent I just realized how dark I went it's because my cats in front of the.
01:46:56
Speaker
front of the light. She kind of looks like the bat that like the bat wing in front of the moon at the moment. It's just this awesome silhouette of this perfect sphinx based. Yeah, sphinx ish cat. Anyway.
01:47:10
Speaker
No, that's good to know because like, um i'd I'd heard just how, yeah, like you said, janky season one was. Yeah. But knowing that season two like really settles into its rhythm. It's like, oh, cool. I can get through season one if it's janky, like to get to that. Got to tell you, it's, it's probably better written than most of Game of Thrones, including some of the good stuff. Cool. Great. Excellent.
01:47:31
Speaker
Yeah. In terms of the power of delivery, it's, it's probably a bad example and it's in my head, it makes sense, but the original Robin Hood, like the 1920s? No, when was, no, not 1920s. Not the Kevin Costner, not Prince of Fame. No, no, no, no. Oh, come on, man. Errol Flynn. I'm going to, I'm going to. Oh yeah. Yeah, he was Errol Flynn was the black and white.
01:47:57
Speaker
yeah Yes, it reminds me of that. Some of the the some of the shots, some of the fine scenes, some of the background. I was like, yep. Yeah, it it's just, yeah, i'm I'm very impressed. Yeah, okay, sick. no That's exciting. That's great.
01:48:17
Speaker
I'm, I, yeah, I think, I think I might get stuck into it because we've kind of, well, we've, we've hit a bit of a patch with, you know, we're back into taskmaster and like, like we're catching up on some of the older seasons, but it's just like, we don't have a.
01:48:31
Speaker
Yeah. A regular. A story series. A story series, like, you know, you can watch a comedy thing, but yeah. I'm just about. Oh, okay. All right. Sweet. I'm just about finished watching House MD for the like fifth time from season one through to season eight. So. That's a big investment. Yeah. I think I'm at season seven. Yeah. But it's the sort of thing you throw at the background when you've sent that many times. It's still, it's still one of the best series for making me laugh out loud. Like that full on belly laugh. Just that sarcastic, instant wit. Anyway, over to Dan.
01:49:02
Speaker
ah So I haven't done much lately, but I did start two days ago Vox Machina the legend of Vox Machina season two ah Because I saw that season three was coming out and I'm like I better get into season two and to finish that off Seems we have prime
'Vox Machina' Season 2 and Storytelling
01:49:17
Speaker
at the moment. ah Love it. I just it was I thought I'd watched episode one and not been too fast with it a while ago and then I watched episode one again, I'm like I I haven't seen this because this is really good and I would have continued on. And so and then I punched out. I mean, there are only 20, 30 minute episodes. Yeah. I punched out six episodes in two days. I'll just stay up for an hour and a half. Watch a couple couple at night when Louise gets a Clone Wars style filler. It's solid.
01:49:48
Speaker
You can't take it too seriously. It's also ongoing too. It's not like the one was where it's called a monster of the week stuff. But i i I love it. I think it's great. I mean, you can see how it was also done on later campaigns of D and&D where they start to bring in more magic items and different different kind different groups and things like that. And people are leveling up and getting different abilities and picking up bits and pieces. But Interesting, original, wonderfully written, well voice acted. The animation really grabs me. I really like that. I love that style. It's clean, but it has something to it. there's a It reminds me the old D and&D, the original D and&D comic from the 90s. An X-Men. X-Men cartoons. Maybe that's what it a little bit is. Maybe it is a little bit X-Men-ish that it gets me.
01:50:41
Speaker
ah And they've they've because they're later levels too, so they're starting to evolve the actual characters rather than just giving them new abilities, they're they're finding ways to ah to expand the character arc on them. So I'm enjoying that, looking forward to finishing it off in season three. They must have done i um they must have done a-season break for that cartoon because I stopped when Vax, Vaxilden, um, the male Vax, um, bathes in blood and meets his God. I haven't seen that. So thanks for that one. but It's like Ghostbusters all over again. i just seen You've seen season two. I haven't finished season two. but it's and start I'm six episodes in.
01:51:27
Speaker
You've got to be on the episode then. I didn't tell you what happens and what the conversation's about. but If he ends up as a like ah a champion of one of the gods or one of the upper beings, yeah, he doesn't bathe in any blood, but yeah, that he does become a champion. It's what I did yesterday. I bathed in blood and met my god. Yeah, here doing the the whole Elizabeth Bathroy thing.
01:51:52
Speaker
when When you see, you'll realize I actually didn't spoil anything really, but he, yeah. And and I'm fairly certain they took a mid-season break and that's where I stopped and I never really picked it back up. So I've still got the second half of the season to watch. okay yeah I think it's 12 or 13 episodes or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, I mean, it's a good length for 20, 20 minute, 30 minute episodes. It's good fun. They're great. They're great voice acting. I mean, obviously that's, that's what those people do. So yeah they just convince you, like, nobody, nobody lets the team down on that side of it. And they're all so fucking different that it just acts it enjoyable.
01:52:30
Speaker
They won a golden tomato award for their first season two, which is the rotten tomatoes, best ranked films. As they should. On a um on ah a similar, I don't know if you guys saw that, um, arcane season two is ah did coming in November, but it is the final season, which is a bit sad. Cause that was a really good first season. It reminded me of Aeon flux, that series. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
01:52:55
Speaker
Uh, so I've now got the best and worst movie me and Louise have watched in the last, uh, last couple of months. Um, and I did, I did not, uh, mistype the second title. So the first one, the best one, Uplight with the devil is fucking Uplight with the devil is excellent.
Film Critique: Writing and Execution Issues
01:53:13
Speaker
Um, I cannot pronounce this does. It's very, very good. Isn't that the like 60s or 70s TV series? TV show. Yeah. Where the, yeah, talk, update talk show. Yeah. The thing that I like. Late night with the devil. Late night with the devil. Sorry. Um, small story. It's set on the TV set, the update talk show. It's only set on the TV set there and backstage. So front of stage and backstage are the only two areas, the only, well, until I guess the last five minutes, but
01:53:43
Speaker
The two primary stages um sets are front and back of this TV show. um It's meant to be the found footage of the the the the yeah the behind the scenes footage of yeah this. this some this devil possession or this this demon possession that comes out on stage. And it's all about a TV show, a a late night TV show host who is going up against his biggest rival for ratings. He is falling off after being the king of late night TV for so long. He's falling off and all of a sudden this ah Halloween special um comes around that ah he is
01:54:26
Speaker
presenting and is what is meant to get him back to get a new contract and continue the the the the the late night series and win him win him the ratings all over again. Win the race, yeah. And it's just great. like it's it's It's such a fun little ride until you get to the poignant moments. And then there's poignant moments around the characters that have just sat on stage and spoken to each other.
01:54:53
Speaker
It's a couple of people in a room talking to each other, the shit that I love that is well scripted and excellently acted with bits and pieces happening in the background that if you blink, you miss it. Like I had to rewind it a couple of times and go, did I just see that? And I'm like, yeah, okay. I did see that. And then it just continues. People go along. God, you'd be annoying to watch a film with then. I don't usually do it, but it was it it was one of those movies where I'm like, I'm not sure whether that was meant to be there or whether it was meant or whether it was a lower budget mistake. I'm not here to watch a film with Tom, just so you know. Oh, I know that. um I'm the sort of person that if I'm on my couch within the first five minutes, I'm predicting the ending of the film. And that's not what makes me annoying.
01:55:48
Speaker
Can you guys look up the cast for this? Because I cannot pronounce this guy's last name. ah David Dasmachelyan. Dasmachelyan? Yeah. Whoever you pronounce that, he always plays side characters and the support characters. in that but For those playing at home, is the he's the like Russian dude in Ant-Man.
01:56:09
Speaker
yeah ah yeah yeah He's also a main character in Oppenheimer. I haven't seen that. In The Dark Knight, he's one of the guys that are Joker users. He's in June part one. He's the Mentat for the Harkenons. He's Polka Dot Man in fucking Suicide Squad. He's all that, but he's always a side character, but he can absolutely Call the film on his own. Like he's such a wonderful, charismatic, range, like full spectrum range actor that you love him in one minute and you fucking hate him in the next. Like that he's such a, he's so good. I hope this is one this is one of those films. That's it's, it's stage play film. Like it is it absolutely. is Rocky horror picture show.
01:56:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, I mean more like, i could like it's, it's, it's, it's watching a play, but watching a film. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah And andka did you you do you guys ever watch that, that Chris Pine one? i I told you guys about the, the, the, um, all the old knives. No, if you really liked this, you'd need to watch that one, Dan. I really want to get your opinion on it. I think, I think you and Louise would love it. I think I did see that one in the end.
01:57:22
Speaker
It's the one, it's like setting the, it's them, it's two spies talking like in a restaurant, but it's all kind of set in the restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and But no, and I think, I think it's, it's so hard to pull off a film that is that kind of stage play in a film because it doesn't always translate so well. So if they've done such a good job with this, like that's, that's, that's.
01:57:44
Speaker
a really good sign for that guy's his career. Like yeah he can like skyrocket. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I so hope they give him more roles like this. yeah just yeah so it's Absolutely wonderful. Um, any supporting cast was absolutely fantastic as well. Um, especially the little girl who plays the, um, the possessed one who's, she's great.
01:58:04
Speaker
the The worst movie we've watched in ages. The flip side to this. The counterpoint is we were out with um Louisa's, my brother-in-law last night. and We were talking about really shit big-raid movies that we just loved because Jamie and his son, they love the Sharknado movies and we were talking about the Meg and this and that. so I came home, me and Louise got home from dinner and we're like, you know what, let's watch a really shit B grade horror movie that potentially is going to be good. So we watched Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey.
01:58:35
Speaker
Far out. The first one. Fuck me. Like I could have a hundred percent written a better movie than what that was. Like it was so forgettable and horrible that it wasn't even enjoyable. Like it was just, it was just, it was just bad all the way through from the acting to the characters to nothing made sense to the character motivations. Nothing made sense. There was i other than Christopher Robin. Sorry, my light's just gone out. I'll fix it in a sec.
01:59:05
Speaker
It's OK. Other than Christopher Robin and who would take the clap.
01:59:13
Speaker
There was, there was, um, female victim one to five. There was male victim one to three. And that was, that was it. Like I could not tell you out of any of the others. I could not tell you their fucking names. Like it was so bad. The motivation for any of the characters doing anything was just horrendous. It was just a cash in on the fucking name then.
01:59:35
Speaker
Also, can we just say this this lighting scheme is very good for what you're talking about? Yeah, because now I turn this on and poo with an axe murderer turns up behind me. um be I know it's my fucked up brain, but I just pictured Mr. Hankey with an axe behind you. Yes. fuck oh But I mean, you know what, Tom, that would have been better because it was it was such a bad movie. I'm not joking when I said I could have written something better because
02:00:08
Speaker
the The introduction where Christopher Robin is taking his wife into try and find poo in the the other animals or the other hybrids, whatever they fucking are.
02:00:19
Speaker
that it felt They were his soft toys in the book, but yeah. it It felt like they filmed three different introductions to the character's motivation for going in there, but then they didn't decide which one they wanted to put in. So they just threw three in. So you had the first five to 10 minutes after the little monologue at the start of these two characters going and stopping in different parts of the woods and having the same conversation from a slightly different point of view.
02:00:52
Speaker
And it just, it was from there on, it was just fucking infuriating. It was just, it was so poorly written. The acting was horrendous, but it was so poorly written and just the, the character motivations. So it was, had traditional, I'm going to get off this for a minute because I've already spoken too far along about, but to show the, the, the idiotic. Cause it just reminded me of a really shitty film I watched last week that I'm going to throw in after this. Okay.
02:01:22
Speaker
The really idiotic things that people do in horror movies is one thing. so yes And this had some stereotypical slasher, but really 90s, 80s, 90s slasher, early, Friday the 13th elements to it.
02:01:38
Speaker
So there was this girl in a bikini in a hot tub, which is your typical Instagram girl. She's taken photos of herself in the hot tub and she goes back through the photos. They're in this isolated cabin in the woods. There's no meant to be no there's no other houses around. They're in a hundred acre woods.
02:01:55
Speaker
She's going through the photos and she zooms in and sticking his head around the corner of the shed behind her is fucking poo bear. And she's like fucking creep. And so she gets out of the hot tub. She starts going, oh, what do you want? like Blah, blah, blah, blah. And then she gets back.
02:02:15
Speaker
She gets back in the hot tub and fucking puts her back to the same point of view that where she took the photo where the fucking creep 60s head around the shed. Like it was like, you're not going to go in. I'm also just picturing the Winnie the Pooh head coming out of the corner like, hello. And that's what it's like. If he had that voice, it would have made perfect sense. But she gets in the hot tub and Like, lies. You know, it's cold once you get out of the hot tub. You gotta get back in to be warm again. No, no. Okay. The getting back in, ah whatever. I mean, script, yes. But like, have her face the the position where, so she can look at where the creep was behind the shed. like But it was, it it's things like that where you just go, this is just so fucking idiotic. Did she get out of the hot tub, grab a toaster and just jump back in? Oh, you know what? That would have been more entertaining.
02:03:08
Speaker
yeah she just Yeah, she just knocked off something to electrocute herself in the meantime. There's one point where the main female character, I say that in quotation marks because she was just so forgettable with the others that were in it that like there was no real main one. They're getting hunted by Pooh and Piglet and she's gone, oh, I've bought a gun with me.
02:03:29
Speaker
Okay you bought a gun with you to a girl's weekend away to a cabin she runs up to the room she can't fucking find it she can't even remember where she put a firearm like firearm safety one oh one like no where your fucking gun is and she gets it out it's not this little revolver it's a fucking magnum.
02:03:49
Speaker
Yes, it's like the biggest boss bitch. It's the biggest gun you could ever have. And it was just so pathetically bad yeah that it was it wasn't even that bad. It's good. It was just pathetically bad.
02:04:04
Speaker
All right, we need to move on from this. All right. I'm going to really quickly talk about a shitty film that I forgot that I watched, but Dan brought that memory back to me um as a public service announcement to not watch it. It's called The 355. It was on Netflix. um It stars Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nwongo and Sebastian Stan. Like you think that's a pretty decent cast.
02:04:31
Speaker
Horrible it's fucking shit it's the worst written thing i've ever seen it's meant to be like this super spy but like female lead version and it's.
02:04:42
Speaker
They've just skipped over it. They didn't write any of the characters well. Not one single character written well. You saw the ending coming well before it even happened. Um, the action scenes were pretty poorly executed. The, yeah, it was just, it's horrible. I watched it. we will do I was very hungover. The cover looks like a girl power film.
02:05:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's- It's five women on the cover of the movie. I think I've seen the trailer for this and it was made out like- It wasn't that long ago. No, no, no. But no one, no one saves it. Not one of them can attempt to save it. From the studio that bought you Jason Bourne. Yeah. It just looks like it be a girl in our film.
02:05:27
Speaker
It, but it's even not, it's not that girl powery in the sense. It's just, it's just the way it's written from every angle is shit. it was just it was So just avoid it. Public service announcement. Like obviously they're all getting paid by Netflix and that's the reason they did it because I don't think any of the people who started in that really wanted to be in it. Everyone felt like they were phoning it in. The ah trailer didn't look horrible.
02:05:51
Speaker
Yeah, well, the movie's fucking terrible. okay So save yourself, Pete. I've done, I've done, I've taken that bullet for you. The public service announcement. Yeah, um dislodged it from my shoulder. All right. We're going to, we're going to move into fourth beers because we're in overtime yeah at the moment. So we have to rip through fourth beers. I'm skipping through fourth beers. And then we're going to, no well Dan's disappeared. So I think guess, I guess it's my turn. I guess it's your turn. I am having a beer that, uh,
02:06:21
Speaker
Kieran, our friend from the catfish sent to us the other day in the chat. I'm having the, Carl, I am your father. Um, black IPA from Rocky Ridge. Um, sorry if you haven't put the info in this sheet. I can do it.
02:06:33
Speaker
so good ah i don't I don't get many beers from Rocky Bridge over here, so it's it's nice to get get one of their beers. It is very dank. It is nice and roasty. It is it's the definition of U1 of a black IPA. It's hitting all the notes ah fantastically. i'm I'm really enjoying it. 6.8%.
02:06:58
Speaker
it's Yeah, it's not breaking ground, but it's it's it's hitting some needs. No, no, no, it's doing a fantastic job. I'm going to give that a four and a half. Yeah, cool. This has been very enjoyable to sip on and I will, I will happily continue to sip on it. Yes, get through the rest of that class.
02:07:17
Speaker
Nice. Dan, what are you drinking, mate? What's your last one? So I'm drinking the the Hawker's, the strawberry ice cream white stout at a six point, ah no, just straight six percent again, barrel bourbon age, bourbon barrel age.
02:07:33
Speaker
It smells like strawberries and cream. it's a Does it taste like it? It does. It smells and tastes like strawberry and cream. Once again, bourbon barrel aged. I don't i think they probably wasted their time and their money putting in its barrels if they even did put it in. I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did. I really would like to know what bourbon they use because that could really change things. like They used a really shitty bourbon. like But it just, it doesn't have any of that tanany woodiness to, I guess it's got to get a little bit of dryness to it. But once again, it's it's very sweet. It smells and tastes like strawberries and cream. It it smells and tastes like
02:08:10
Speaker
liquid strawberry ice cream, which is exactly what it's meant to smell like. So um I don't think that one's as distinct as the vanilla caramel. I think it's good, but not as good. So I think I think it's 375 on that one. I mean, okay they're fine. They're worth having, but they've definitely share cans.
02:08:29
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, and it's the sweetness alone. Like I saw it in the shop yesterday and I was like, no. Yeah. ah um That's not an individual can. Um, I've probably poured half of these, the the vanilla caramel one, I've probably poured a little bit more, but yeah, they're four forties. Um, absolutely no way am I drinking a full can of them. Too sweet. Yeah. Too sweet. Way too sweet. But well made. They do what they do other than the the bourbon barrel, but yeah. Nice. Yeah.
02:08:59
Speaker
Gotta rip through, are you winning, son? Yes. um Who wants to go first? Who's winning? then I'm winning. Tom? Yeah, i'll i'll go I'll go first because Tom's going to be longer. um I haven't actually played that much recently, been doing other things. so But I did dive a little bit longer into, I bought Warhammer 40K bolt gun ages ago and sort of never really got into it, but um jumped in jumped into it the same weekend that Al jumped into it as well. That's that's the the that's the old school graphics modernized, isn't it? The Boomer shooter. Yeah. yeah they They're 2D sprites. yeah um So no matter what way you scroll around them. I think we might have lost Dan.
02:09:48
Speaker
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Did I drop out? You're back up. It's all good. Okay. Bodgun. Yes. Boomer shooter, 2D sprites, no matter what way you scroll around them. They're the same from the same angle.
Game Reviews: Fast-paced Combat and World-building
02:10:01
Speaker
It's just fine. It's fast paced. It's less acrobatic than Doom is, but you do still jump and like shoot from all angles. Jump and dash. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm just in that mindset from Doom when it's that now, that fast paced shooter.
02:10:18
Speaker
Yeah, the sounds are chunky. The the running of the Space Marine is chunky. and The clunk clunk clunk of the suit and ah the bolter is um I've only gotten two or three weapons as it is, but still the bolt gun is by far the best. And it just heads explode.
02:10:37
Speaker
And there's blood and guts and giblets and it's just fun. And- Who are you fighting against, Tyranids? Chaos? Uh, you know what? I've got absolutely no idea because they all explode far too quickly for me to see what they are. ah come on good come on I think there's, there's a couple of those squiddy ones, which are the, um,
02:10:59
Speaker
Squiddy ones. They're Tyranids. No Tyranids, are they? There's a couple of them. Which is what the new game's all about. So there's a bunch of cultists too that are just, that's kind of where I am at the moment, but you know what the sound is. No, they're chaos. yeah you're You're fighting against um one of the four chaos gods, which is the god of pestilence.
02:11:23
Speaker
Which is why they make sense of their squiddies. The one thing I love about it is it blows my e-drums out. I can turn the volume all the way up on my PC. Great. I love that. And it's so fucking loud. And I haven't played a game that will actually allow me to play it that loud in a long time. You're actually finding all of the chaos bosses.
02:11:46
Speaker
I'm just looking at ah Warhammer 40k bolt gun, all bosses and enemies. And I can see Angrax, who was a chaos space Marine in Terminator armor. I can see one of, I can't remember the, the pestilence boss. And then you've got slarnish, the, uh, keeper of slarnish. Yeah. So nice see he's the God of God, God of change. So he's all psych attacks and yeah. Anyway.
02:12:15
Speaker
Yeah. Cool. Very good. It's fun. it It feels, it feels like doom mashed up with ah original dark forces. Like old school doom though. Yeah. Oh no, no, no. But I mean more the movement because it's yeah really, it's really fast. Yeah. Cool. Really, really fast. Um, but mashed up with, um, yeah, dark forces. That's what it kind of feels like. Hmm. But chainsaw looks satisfying though.
02:12:41
Speaker
Yeah, but it's a little hard to use. it's ah ah it's It's not bound to a good key and you don't, you kind of splatter them all before you get that close anyway. I've got to say, got but Space Marine did a knock-up job of of the chainsaw and I'm hoping Space Marine 2 does too. yeah yeah Yeah, well that's out soon. Yeah, it is very soon.
02:13:02
Speaker
Yeah, but outside of that, I haven't even turned like I pulled the HDMI cable out of my PlayStation 5 two weeks ago to use it and I haven't plugged it back in. Fair enough. Yep. So that's me. I've heard of someone in my house that pulled my HDMI cable out of my PlayStation. Peter, are you winning? Have you had a chance to play anything? You've been so busy, mate. I haven't turned my PS5 on since I kind of got a little bit bored of ah Holdovers. Holdovers too. Thank you for rescuing me there. Um, I, um, I did, I didn't want to put in the, in the, in the news, but it's, um, I saw those two has seen a 97% player drop. Yeah. And, and I think that was just steam though. Uh, I would have been staying here. Yeah. But I imagine it's also.
02:13:49
Speaker
on I think it just had a half-life, like there's nothing, I don't think the game did anything wrong. like not so Sorry, that's very dismissive of a very good game, but it's that kind of like, it's a life so ah more live service. Yeah, yeah I wouldn't wouldn't have classified it as a looter shooter, but yeah yeah, it is. um Yeah, I think it just had, you're right, it just had a half-life, people were going to get bored because it was pretty repetitive um and it was interestingly repetitive for a while and then kind of falls off a cliff.
02:14:17
Speaker
um And also interestingly, the other live service games that would have seen massive drops because everyone jumped to hell divers to released either new content or a new loot, like live service game drops. So destiny dropped its last, its last version, the final shape that dropped a month ago. And then, uh, there's another game called the final descent, which is a three person looter shooter, very similar destiny. It's also in a lot of trouble because it's essentially been borrowing a lot of the, um,
02:14:47
Speaker
Logos from Destiny, like people like comparing them, they are exact copies. Oh, wow. They're like, people are calling out copyright. Why do people think they're going to get away with shit like that these days? It's just it this is not the era for trying to just get away with shit. Be lazy. Yeah. yeah um No, the only game I've been playing, like I said before, was Tacitus on mobile. And I got to say, like, for somebody who's been stupidly busy lately, it's actually surprisingly good. I i haven't played a mobile phone game since that stupid Fallout Dig Dug game.
02:15:24
Speaker
Well, yeah, the little, little rooms on your mobile, like it was like a- Shelter, full of shelter. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't played a mobile game since then. And so to be able to collect faction characters, level them up, and then their play style is decidedly different. So you can play as like any of the factions in the real game and like,
02:15:49
Speaker
Playing a mission as the orcs is completely different thematically and like in terms of their abilities and the way that they act compared to the ultramarines is totally different.
02:16:02
Speaker
So I've actually been impressed. I haven't played a mobile game forever and I thought they'd all be shining fucking turds. And this one, this one is less than a shining turd. I wouldn't call it a good game. It's not, you know, it's, it's captured my attention, but that's only because I've got a five minute, yeah five minute attention span at the moment. So yeah. I just, I'd jump in. Um, the, the album, my Friday night crew, we've been playing and shrouded.
02:16:30
Speaker
which is a, it's a fantasy world building survival game. There's not too many survival elements to it, but it's a, it's, it's, uh, yeah, a building kind of, kind of like Valheim, uh, a little bit, uh, but set in a more fantasy world where you've got, uh, like a, uh, a wingman suit that you can glide in and that. So traversal is a lot more fun. Um,
02:16:59
Speaker
But I've got to call it out. like it's good It didn't grab me for the first few weeks that we were playing it. It was fine. It was fun enough. It was just a gap filler, um pretty graphics, ah a little bit on that Fortnite side of graphic graphical kind of thing. But the more we got into it, the further we got.
02:17:21
Speaker
There's a good amount of content there, but my God, the size of the world that these people have built, it's a fully voxel world. so we we um Our favorite thing is ah when we can't get to a point, we dig up. ah So we we dig we dig diagonally up through mountainsides to get to our points where we could just probably run around the mountain and find a better way in. But we we which side so the four of us take turns and we dip we dig this enormous passage up through mountains.
02:17:53
Speaker
But it has in an enormous under surface, like subsurface world to it. um You find these entrances to caves. You've got to watch yourself as you're running through the world sometimes because you might fall down a mine shaft. ah There's massive tunnels that look like they've been dug by Shai Halud himself and like other girth and depth of these. And if you go down one, you can go down to this subterranean world that takes you into an enshrouded area, which is a kind of an um a a poisoned area where you have a limited time in it and and pick up certain supplies in the enshrouded area and that.
02:18:29
Speaker
ah and yeah it's an incredible construction world. Like they've done they've done incredible world of creating the biomes and the depth and the size to this world. So you've got to call them out for that. But it also falls into that PC early access hole where it's not a full game. It's not a complete game done. um They're using all of us that want to jump in it now as play testers and they're going to hit this point where they're going to want to go
02:19:01
Speaker
full release and they're going to have quarter the amount of players they had when they went early access 12 months ago sort of thing. So it'll be interesting how it all plays out once the full release comes out. so But it's, uh, it, it is, it is fun so far, but we're basically done with it after a couple of weeks and so it, it hasn't engaged us like Valheim did and Valheim was early access as well. But there was, there was some absolute beauty to Valheim. Um, just, there was something, it was something. That's the one that's called my parents. Like they've been playing that since, since beta. Yeah. Val, Val, Valheim is the secret sauce.
02:19:44
Speaker
yeah Whatever that secret source is, they've discovered what that is, whether it's the feel, the sound design, the character, the world build, the character evolution, the the character growth of it. it's um've they've They've got the secret source there that a lot of others are trying to catch.
02:20:03
Speaker
Yeah, that's a lot about the crafting, right? like yeah like Oh, it definitely is, yeah. And there's the all of these other ones try to capture that as well, but what I find, and it's funny, like I compare the graphics to Fortnite, but they kind of speed a lot of other things up, like when you start doing the farming in Shrouded, it takes basically a day to plant a seedling to harvest.
02:20:30
Speaker
kind of thing. So that there's there's something there that is for the short attention span. Yeah. Yeah. That was my two cents on that.
02:20:41
Speaker
Excellent. Tom, are you winning? Oh, I'm always winning. We'll get to Dwarf Tank. I'm continuing the the Assassin's Creed playthrough.
Lore Expansion: Tolkien's World and Game Mechanics
02:20:52
Speaker
So I finished three. I finished Liberation. I finished the story of Rogue today. So I've just got to do the cleanup of collectibles and the islands. and Which is fun, I get to sail around in my ship again and have fun with that. Singing the sea shanties. Yeah, it's a lot of sea shanties, it's good. um And then, um yeah, are they the three in Liberation were fine. Liberation was a very buggy, the remaster was super buggy version, so it was really frustrating to play. Have you played Mirage yet?
02:21:25
Speaker
No, no, no, I'm going through. I will get to it. Chop, chop, because I'm at a point where I'm just about ready to play Mirage. Well, I'll give you a copy back. I'll drop it off to you. Like, fuck. I'm still going to get through Origins. Oh, Jesus. you Unity, Origins and Valhalla. Have you played Odyssey?
02:21:42
Speaker
Yeah, I've done Odyssey. How can you play Odyssey before Origins? That's just not right. I had Odyssey years before I cared about the Assassin's Creed series. Do you care now? Yeah, I still don't care about the outside story. Not enough to get tattooed on your calf though, right? No, no. I enjoy the assassinating. I enjoy the parkour aspect. I enjoy the where it is right now in terms of where I'm playing, like I'm enjoying being kind of back in that black flag world, but I, as I've always said to you, I don't care about the outside story. Like when it brings me to the present, I just couldn't give a rat's fucking ass. I just want to get through those bits as much as possible. I care more about the historical story than I do. Yeah, I totally get it. And I've talked about this ad nauseam with Dan.
02:22:35
Speaker
You know, Desmond was engaging as a through line for a story that was set in history. and But obviously, when you're in the Animus, it's so much more enjoyable than Desmond's story. yes yeah Yeah. I'm at the point now where it's, it's back to the black flag thing where you're like just the generic Abstergo employee walker. Yeah. Which I just thought it was very mean. Like if you're going to, if you're going to break me out of, of the historical something interesting that I actually care about yeah yeah like or ah or a through line that levels that provides a level of continuity between games. And I think that's what's been missing since Desmond is just continuity.
02:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, I have started compiling, which Pete, I can't wait to read to you when I'm finally done, but i've I've started compiling a list of my least favorite things about each Assassin's Creed entry um yeah as I'm going through. um And I think you'll enjoy it once um I finally catch up to the series. um But on the PS3 front, I did jump back into Law of the Rings War in the North. um It's very, the only, the best interesting thing about that was what we were talking about off air about um expanding worlds, but no content in them kind of thing. Like we were talking about this just in messages about, about some, like some universes and stuff.
02:23:56
Speaker
um So it was a hack and slash game that came out in 2011. Um, obviously I'm finally finishing it 13 years later, but it's, it's enjoyable enough. It's a nice little parallel story to what happens in the war of the ring in terms of your, your three characters are the alternate fellowship. Sure. We go off into the north. Everyone else goes to the south. Fine.
02:24:19
Speaker
Cool. Tolkien did write about that there were some things that happened in the North during the War of the Ring. He never went into it. He didn't have time um to to write all that out. But there is mention of you know the Lonely Mountain was besieged during the War of the Ring. But you don't see that in the movies or the books. He wrote it in letters that like, yeah, definitely during the War of the Ring.
02:24:40
Speaker
they besieged Erebor, you're far north, you're above the Shire, um for anyone who knows the the map of of Middle-earth. um So you're north of that, so you visit there, you you visit Mirkwood, you end up at Khan Doom, which is the um the keep that the Witch-King had yeah in the Kingdom of Angmar when they took over Arnor. I could go real defenses and water and so on, but I'm not going to do that. um But what we were talking about in terms of um when someone else writes a story from a well-established law, this is one of the best examples of how to do it wrong.
02:25:21
Speaker
so I played through my last playthrough of it because you have to do it three times. You have to play through each level, each difficulty level. I played through my last playthrough as the dwarf. So I'm a dwarf from Erebor. I'm Farron. I'm, I'm, I'm this big champion. Like I'm the tank. I'm the tank. I eventually get a explosive crossbow, which is unbeatable. So unbeatable is so dumb. Um, but in terms of like, this there is fun. When you, when you've slogged through the game,
02:25:51
Speaker
Yeah, but i slogged I slugged through a hard playthrough, like I did a hard playthrough, so I felt the accomplishment of doing it. But the problem for me was. they They try to be so lawful. Lawful, yeah. Let's use lawful as the word. Okay. L-O-R-E, full. Yeah, and and and knowing, but then they have a dwarf from Erebor who is talking to his northern cousins um and he doesn't know about their entire dwarf kingdom because they're trying to explain it to Joblo who's never read any expanded Lord the Rings-ness.
02:26:30
Speaker
So, someone stop sending messages. um Whatever you're doing. Hey, you asked me to put it in the AI art generator, all right? So I did. Oh, about fucking time. I asked you three weeks ago. But it'll be like yeah this is this is the thing. I'll post that as the Instagram artwork. at all i'll put I will put him in the Instagram artwork. Yeah, so i eventually I created the So long story short, I created this dwarf tank where I could just shoot this explosive bolt and kill anyone like the the end game boss. i This is how much I was ready to show you guys how much I did. I put my phone between my knees, put my legs up on the desk so I could film my PS3 while I was fighting the last boss. I wonder where that was going. Because I killed him in three shots.
02:27:16
Speaker
I shouldn't be able to kill an end game boss on the hardest difficulty in three shots, but that's how overpowered I made this explosive shot. But I think the thing that really lost me. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The dexterity was through the roof. But the thing was, it was just for a game that was trying to be like, Hey, we we we know the law and we're we're we're expanding on the existing law of of of the movies and everything. And then they were just the most like,
02:27:43
Speaker
this dwarf being like, what do you mean there's a kingdom of northern dwarves? And it's like, northern bat is known. Like, everyone knows where it is. It's just like, it was so explanatory for the generic gamer that it really, it killed any of the story elements.
Online Gaming and Nostalgia
02:28:01
Speaker
Um, but I ended up, uh, I played through it again. I played it. I had to play online with three guys on a PS3, which I didn't think I'd ever be able to do, but we did it. And it was very, actually very fun. It was very wholesome. Us trying to get this like one particular thing. And I was coaching these, a dude from Canada who lived in London and a dude in Texas at the same time on how to play the games. They're like, we just picked it up. Like we don't know what we're doing. And I was like, let's go guys. I'm the dwarf, by the way. I'm the dwarf. Cause I am the most powerful. And yeah. yeah So it's been fun, it's been great. but it's it's ah it may it And both love this. It really made me miss playing Red Dead, so I'm very happy to jump back into Red Dead now. Yeah, nice. But yeah, I am winning, it's been great. um yeah And I can't wait to give you my list of the worst things from each Assassin's Creed game peak, because I really want to see your reaction to every point. Yeah, yeah nice. um I've got a challenge for Dan. Next time you're looking for a Steam game,
02:28:58
Speaker
I don't know if it's multiplayer. I hope it is. It's an old school Steam game no called The Legend of Grimrock. Yeah. Have you played it? I haven't played it, but I know it. Yeah. ah You should play.
02:29:14
Speaker
Um, if it's muing at challenges again oh if it's eight dangerous territory it's not multiplier it's so it's all single player yeah it's, um, like if you, if, yeah, it's right up your alley. It's right up our alley, frankly. Um, but if you don't look up game guides, you don't, if you you sit down and figure out what the fucking puzzles are, they're probably some of the most engaging puzzles I've played in a game in 20 years.
02:29:43
Speaker
since like the old school 80s, 90s games on Omega. Yeah, cool. um Yeah, ah Tom, ah I hope it captures your your your imagination. Like i it'll be one of those games you'll look at the the trailer or the gameplay trailer and say 100% I'm in or 100% not for me. And I'm not actually sure where you fall on that spectrum.
02:30:07
Speaker
Oh, same, same with the link and I'll, I'll, well, I'll see if my laptop, laptop can
Episode Conclusion and Farewell
02:30:11
Speaker
load it. Oh, it's it's a 2012 game. I'm pretty sure you'd be fine. I can probably run that on on your mobile. i saw it I saw a thing today that Doom is now running on a flashlight, so I think I can probably run this game on my laptop. I got the BFG 9000! Just imagine what the inputs are for that. ah Yeah, I really don't want to. Thank you. I think on that, penus on that yeah input the is the penis. There's your episode title, Doom on a Fleshlight, question mark.
02:30:45
Speaker
All right. I think that's it for us.
02:30:51
Speaker
Uh, thank you everybody for listening to our bullshit. Yes. Thank you.