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35: Three-Cheekin' These Movies
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This week’s show notes are dedicated to the esteemed listeners 🫶 (yes you 🫵 💕).
For our esteemed listeners’ consideration:
- Weeks (more or less 😅) in Snap
- 🤖 Infinity Ultron ☄️ Cannonball 🧚♀️ Pixie (bonus 💎 Topaz)
- High Voltage 🔌 (aka surprise-card-grind-week), already?! How Toxie Doxie ☣️ of SD
- Secret Homework: $3.99 rentals 📼 and mild hypocrisy 😏
Mentioned Movies:
- Bottoms
- Dicks: The Musical
- House of Flying Daggers
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- The Ten
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Wolf Children
Listener-Recommended Movies:
- Kneecap
- Night at the Museum
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Kraven
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- Snap Decisions
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Featured decks:
- Ben - Wave Flourish
- Ben - Silk Scream 2
- Frank Puddle - Goblin Queens
- Lauren - HV 5s and 6s
- Lauren - HV Tribunal
Credits:
- Cover art by Lauren
- Snap On This!! Theme by Ben
- YouTube thumbnail by Lauren’s kid, Reggi
Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 Intro / Our Week in Snap
- 0:38:58 Infinity Ultron
- 0:52:39 High Voltage Redux
- 1:00:03 Secret Homework: The SoT Cinematic Universe
- 1:22:54 Next Week's Secret Homework
- 1:24:24 Housekeeping / Closing Remarks
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Transcript
Introduction and Weekend Stories
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 35 of Snap on This, a Marvel Snap podcast. I'm your host, Lauren Woodevs, here with my usual co-hosts.
00:00:12
Speaker
It's an odd numbered episode, so we're going to throw it to Re first. Re, how was your weekend snap? And keep it snappy.
00:00:20
Speaker
um Okay, it will be incredibly... That's okay. I was a very terrible ah co-host. i um I had some... Like, my dog's ah surgery for a torn ACL. It is Marvel-related because she's named Murdoch after Matt Murdoch.
00:00:40
Speaker
There you go. Not the Murdoch that is trying to destroy the world. But we also constantly get from the standard. And not the one from Gorillaz.
00:00:51
Speaker
Yeah, but nobody gets the Daredevil connection there. but ah you know um Anyway, so that got moved up a week early, and it's like, my house is different. Anyway, and a lot of other stuff. So I have like, um my snap, the only snap I've played has been like late night fevered.
00:01:10
Speaker
Like, honestly, it's been like, Like, I don't really remember playing except for that it was like like stumbling through a nightmare of losing like eight games in a row, being like, or at least are the missions done yet?
00:01:23
Speaker
Like, is he growing up? Growing through the trenches? Like, have we achieved the mission yet? I'm dying here over and over. um Like, ah for real. i was like And it's so unusual for me, too. I don't lose that much, to be honest.
00:01:40
Speaker
Like, I usually win more than half of the time when I play. So, like, when I have, like, a losing streak, it feels extra, extra bad. But I'm like, but not me, though.
00:01:50
Speaker
I am the main character my own story. I usually read forward progression. Okay. um So, no character development this week. um So, yeah, i um did other things.
00:02:06
Speaker
Like, so okay, no, was that'll that'll be an outro thing. It's with so off topic. Okay. You mentioned your dog surgery. I think you said off air. It went well, right? Yes. That's a a good thing for everybody to hear. Okay.
00:02:18
Speaker
Yes. I'm glad to hear it I hope recovery goes well too. Thank you. Okay. Of course. Yeah. Okay. Did you say you're done?
00:02:32
Speaker
Um, yes, I think I'll save it. I'll save for outro. It's very random. For some reason, I first thought outro of your intro.
00:02:43
Speaker
I think you should do it as the outro of your intro. That's what I think. Yeah. outuch Sure. Okay. All right. We need something for when the guitars are rolling. If you're here for snappage only, skip ahead four-ish minutes, please.
00:03:00
Speaker
That's probably how long you're going to take. Okay, so this weekend I went on a little adventure. It's how I think of of taking extremely long walks because I used to have to walk everywhere in college.
00:03:12
Speaker
And my most frequent walk I would divide by um the Lord of the Rings trilogy plus plus the prequel. So it would be like this section would be the Hobbit. When I got there, the next landmark, it was what anyway.
00:03:24
Speaker
that and So that's why all walking things are adventures now. But um I was going far the bookstore and also to get the most delicious macarons I've ever had. I found this little, like...
00:03:37
Speaker
ah I found it on Reddit of all places, but it's this local place that makes macarons and they're the most delicious cookies I've ever had. The only cookie that is worth like, it's like five, whatever it is. i don't even know for this tiny cookie. It is worth it. Every time I take a bite, I experienced five emotions at once.
00:03:53
Speaker
It's like, okay. Anyway, sorry. If you're ever in Columbus, Ohio, you must get these macarons. The only thing you must do. um okay Okay, but the point was, point of the adventure was to go to the bookstore, used bookstore, um to look for books about crocheting because I was gifted a Woobles kit some amount of time ago. Time flips too rapidly for me to measure it.
00:04:23
Speaker
And um I finally got around to doing it. And I was like, I'm into this. I need more stuff. I will go to the used bookstore. um We're surely place where all abandoned hobby books go, you know, like, so um i went there and I found, okay.
00:04:42
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I found this absolute treasure. I do just have it right by my book. And it's called, it is from 1971 and it's called like a treasury of crochet patterns. It is literally just, okay. Also, I found like a wedding picture from this.
00:04:58
Speaker
Someone jammed this full of like, there's like this like Chinese paper art from like the seventies in here. It's insane. Okay. Oh, just like as a book, people were bookmarking things, but it's literally just like a list of like, here's a picture of the pattern and here's the pattern.
00:05:12
Speaker
And you know what realized and how stoked I was? for this book was like, on the internet, do you know how much ads I would have to scroll around to get this data?
00:05:23
Speaker
Right? How much avoiding of clicking on a thing and then accidentally clicking the ad and then hitting the back button and then trying to escape the new pop-up ad and then going to the next link to get more.
00:05:35
Speaker
and like it's like it's so The internet has been in-shittified so thoroughly. I mean, it's still glorious. We're still better off... With it, I think, even for all its fallacies.
00:05:46
Speaker
But like, but it is, you know, we are not in the days of GeoCities, my friends. We're in, you know, corporate rules, everything. And to just get straight data, just straight data.
00:05:59
Speaker
Like no ads. Oh, the printed page. Just the sheer functionality of that tome. Right? And we know how close we are to the the zombie apocalypse minus the zombies.
00:06:12
Speaker
So then we'll all need, you know, this is what we need to have. Preserve your good books. One of my crochet books. So one of the things I always like read intros of books until they bore me or like they're just about thanking people or whatever. And in this one this lady was like, hey.
00:06:31
Speaker
We all know as crocheters that in the zombie apocalypse, we will be the ones who are clothed. And I was like, yes, this why I do most things that I do in most hobbies and get my eyes laser surgery. So then zombie apocalypse, i have a chance.
00:06:47
Speaker
To survive or maybe even thrive, you know, for the conditions. Okay, I am sorry. This was like, this is why I tried not to launch into it. I don't stream anymore, so I don't have these, like, outlets for speaking. i just don't speak that much anymore. Okay, so, ah hopefully that was four minutes. wasn't even that long. If you were skipping ahead, are now returning to your regularly scheduled Snap on this programming.
Marvel Snap Achievements and Strategies
00:07:15
Speaker
Back to you, Lauren. look at that. Well, we'll throw it to Ben. How was your weekend snap? My weekend snap? Endeavoring to keep it snappy? ah You know, it was pretty good.
00:07:27
Speaker
i I hit infinite. I did the thing. i I barely retreated against humans. That was just... ah If you were a human, I was sticking it out to the end with you because I was not seeing so many of them.
00:07:42
Speaker
And I just... I wanted the interaction, honestly. I mean... I think there's there's a perception that maybe I'm i'm not the most interactive player, ah but that's that's... I don't know.
00:07:55
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I don't play the most interactive decks, but like, gosh dang it, there's got to be another... There's got to be a human on the other end because the bots are not interesting and they're not fun and they're all...
00:08:08
Speaker
playing wave and stuff in decks where wave doesn't go and all the, all this nonsense and sunspot, just so so, so many sunspots. Um, anyway, it was, it was a fine climb.
00:08:26
Speaker
i did the things I played a lot of my, Classic ass still nocturne in it, having ah wave flourish, silver surfer lists, the flagship, the the old faithful.
00:08:43
Speaker
the The reliable standard. ah But i did I did have one major innovation in that I swapped one card from one of my decks.
00:08:55
Speaker
ah it wasn't It wasn't that Silver Surfer deck, but my Scream deck. I cut Angela because we were just talking about it last week. She just... I mean, like she was like sort of like central to my particular scream list, the the silk scream thing that I was doing. Like Angela, like it this deck was like built to like maximize what you can get out of Angela.
00:09:20
Speaker
And she was just not get like it had Hydra Bob and like Spider-Man and like all these all these cards that scoot off the lane and stuff. And I was still not making Angela worth my while.
00:09:31
Speaker
um So it's just a Hope Summers kind of thing now. I like playing them together. i think it's always fun when you can, but Angela's just not feeling very practical in this moment.
00:09:43
Speaker
But the card that I replaced Angela with was Cannonball. And i you know that that was another thing about this Scream deck, is that it plays Magneto instead of Cannonball, but... like come on.
00:09:55
Speaker
like for that That's the cool thing. like You do the turn five Magneto. That's always been like part of the plan. And then like I found myself very often following it up with a Crafty Stegron on six or something. But like it should just be Cannonball. And i've i've played a lot of I've built a lot of other like fun Scream decks with their own personality, and some of them had Cannonball. And I liked that this one didn't have Cannonball in it.
00:10:18
Speaker
But like sometimes you just gotta to give in and put Cannonball in there. Because like Magneto on five into Cannonball on six is just so good. It's pretty cool. um It's a fun play.
00:10:29
Speaker
um Yeah. So in case you're wondering, like, how's that Magneto happening on five? It's the Hope Summers that I mentioned. That's the whole thing. yeah I think Cannonball sounds like a good choice.
00:10:43
Speaker
Oh, yeah. But the list Kingpin, Hydro Bob, Scream, Kraven, Spider-Man, Silk, Red Guardian, Hope Summers, Polaris, Stagron, Cannonball and Magneto.
00:10:55
Speaker
That's, ah yeah. Okay. Well, that's that's them. That's cool. i I played them in Conquest. I haven't ah been playing post-Infinite Ladder or anything, but yeah, that that was the deck I was playing during Hot Locations recently.
00:11:10
Speaker
So that's what's up.
00:11:14
Speaker
I think that's about... oh wait. Wait, Reed, did you have a question? I have more things I could talk about, but did you have a question? Yeah, it was for you and Lauren. though Okay, when you talked about returning to Old Faithful, I know this doesn't seem like it's related all, but really made me wonder, like, when you're playing a video game and you're given, like, an array of the typical, like, classes, do you always go, like, for, what do you have, like, an Old Faithful class? Like, hey, I just generally always play. Where do always end up playing a sneaky archer, long-range?
00:11:43
Speaker
I was just curious, like, yeah, Lauren. No, what you knew right off the bat. What is you? I mean, ah depending on the context, and first up, I'm some kind of support. I think support's fun. I think healing or buffing or whatever is fun.
00:11:58
Speaker
um But then, yeah, i prefer I prefer a sneaky style. Like, I'm thinking, like, in ah an Assassin's Creed or whatever, where they started adding skill trees. I would much rather be um clever than just overwhelm with brute strength.
00:12:15
Speaker
Ben!
00:12:18
Speaker
I probably want to play all of them eventually to appreciate the, like, you know, the fullness of the game. Before you know it's a game you're going to love and want to, like, 100% where do you start? Well, I try to treat all of them like I might love them.
00:12:35
Speaker
You know what I mean? um But I guess usually i go with the one... i try to go, like
00:12:48
Speaker
if there's If there's a bar of blue stuff and one of the classes or whatever can ignore the bar of blue stuff largely, or like if if there's a ah build that involves ignoring the blue stuff at first, that's what I'll do.
00:13:06
Speaker
um But the thing is, usually the blue stuff is very good. And so by... like by By the end of my involvement with the game, I will be i'll be all about the blue stuff by the end.
00:13:19
Speaker
ah So like I try to start like not doing that. like Wherever there are complicated resources, try the more direct... stay on the so ah the the more direct ah like honest thing before I start making deals with the devil for insane magical power.
00:13:43
Speaker
um I don't know. That's... i guess I guess maybe I play warrior first. Also, like I don't know if this is an exploration, like kind of open world situation.
00:13:54
Speaker
i like being able to open all the doors and chests. So I guess like yeah I start building a rogue right away because I don't like having the the content hidden from me. you know like okay I what's in all those closets.
00:14:10
Speaker
In the character creator, carefully reading all the classes. Yeah. Based on skills of the class, you know what might benefit you most. I also spend a lot of time in the character creator, but based on and how I'm making my character. Oh yeah, and even if I'm not a warrior, I'm probably trying to have high health because I like to...
00:14:34
Speaker
write a... That's so funny. I'm so opposite. I would like... i'm Maxing out my health is the last thing I will do. like I'm thinking, you know, like, a yeah i don't know, the the Zelda open world games. I'm like, I want full stamina first.
00:14:46
Speaker
I will touch my very first health upgrade after I have full stamina. Yeah. ah I'm like, I could just have skill and not get hit. like It doesn't always work out that way, but that's the way brain works. I tend to assume that like I will get hit, especially at first.
00:15:02
Speaker
Um... Yeah, like, i the I don't know. when i even Even though there are not classes in, like, Hades or whatever, like, my initial approach to both games, my initial approach was, like, I'm going to get hit a lot.
00:15:21
Speaker
So, like, I'm going to try to, like, have health and things and not... I'm going to try to give myself the best chance I can, acknowledging that I'm going to get hit a lot.
00:15:31
Speaker
And like eventually, as you just master more of the systems and like you become more aware of all the factors you have to manage, like then you just sort of stop getting hit. And then you can assume that you won't get hit a lot. And then different things become... you could just sprint into death repeatedly. Because you know you have it unlimited.
00:15:53
Speaker
You're like, we can spend those in the s sparkly categories instead. Yeah, I guess what I'm saying is, like, the first time I play a game or something, like, if, if yeah, i I assume that I will get hit. And then, like, maybe by the end of my journey with a game, i will go with the assumption that I can...
00:16:13
Speaker
you know, target a play style that rewards not getting hit, you know, like I'll get, I'll get there. But like, I assume at the beginning I'm going to get hit a lot. Cause I'm kind of so smart. I started out bad at things.
00:16:24
Speaker
I'm like, I'm a naturally clumsy person, but I tend to have like a ah pretty high ceiling on, ah you know, I get good at tasks. And once I like learn the rules, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm not a, I don't know.
00:16:39
Speaker
I do. All right. I got some horsies under the hood. That seems wise to me, but my thought process is like, oh if I build myself super tanky, I'm going to learn bad habits where I can just take the hits. And I want to I want to learn from the beginning how to avoid the hits.
00:16:55
Speaker
No, that's good too. Rhi, to hear your default. Thank you for indulging me. Oh, me? Well, of course, mine is reading all the classes and inventing a character in my head for the world and then choosing a class based on that. But then second guessing myself and inventing 10 other characters, trying every single class. I've seen the opening Skyrim so many fucking times.
00:17:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So many times. And be like, Rui, could you memorize the speech of the old man in the cart wheeling you slowly to the character creator? You just want to get there and spend an hour creating a character you're going to play for 10 hours before wondering if there was a better way.
00:17:33
Speaker
um But no, can't. I've tuned it out. I stopped paying attention because i'm it's so I'm so bored of it. Like I'm the problem in Skyrim. I'm so tuned out of the politics of what's happening in the land because this guy just wants to go on and on at me.
00:17:48
Speaker
And I'm so tired of hearing it for the millionth time. i'm I'm just trying to you know. and you know, once again, try to convince myself not to play the prettiest character. can make I'm so vain with my characters.
00:18:02
Speaker
Okay. um That's okay. That's how I do. That's generally how I do. um You know, because I tried to total it up and it's just like, I've done it, you know, and don't gravitate towards, I've done them all, but I have remade.
00:18:20
Speaker
Okay. Sorry sorry for derailing us. It's just one of those weeks. No, that was a fun conversation. No, that was very fun. I have more. I also really... Oh, no, no, Lauren, you continue. was going to tell Lauren about my classes. will come back weekend snap at some point, but no, Lauren, I want to hear more about your classes. My subclasses. Okay, I love a Beastmaster. I played one in Star Wars Galaxies. just started Borderlands 3 with my fiancé yesterday.
00:18:46
Speaker
obviously picked the beast master i think so lauren can we talk ah after the show if you i i i would be i've i've long contemplated trying some borderlands 3 maybe we could play some borderlands 3 sometime that would be fun i played a lot of borderlands 2 back in the day so i was like what what if what if i what if i So Jess and I finished one and two, all the DLC, everything like that. And then we went to the pre-sequel and we've been banging our head against that for a while. She's been having fun in it, but I just I find it extremely difficult. And I don't know if it's just taking way too long for me to find a gun that like clicks for me. But I had a miserable time. And finally, I was like, can we just skip this game? Like, it's not made by the same studio. Can we just...
00:19:30
Speaker
can we just skip to three and and maybe, maybe someday come back to the pre-sequel. Maybe I need to try a different class. I don't know. So it just was not vibing with me. um So yeah, we just started three and I'm excited to be having fun again in Borderlands instead of feeling like after 20 minutes, I'm extremely frustrated.
00:19:49
Speaker
Well, if you're, if you're doing it like together and you're not like going, are are you like going for like multiple playthroughs and things? Cause I was, I was, I don't know.
00:20:00
Speaker
We're not that level of grindy. We're like, see all the content once, but we're not like grind the final. What's his name? Chrome. Chrome racks or something like that. so bad that I don't remember. It's a giant crab thing in Borderlands 2 that has excellent loot.
00:20:14
Speaker
um We're not like grind that guy over and over again to get the best guns in the game. i was I was never, like, that good either. I, like, mostly liked to play primarily by myself, and I would just, like, I loved handing down cool loot from character to character, and, yeah, just, you know, I'd i'd have, like, three of each character class, and I'd...
00:20:37
Speaker
prioritize the different skill tree of like i I had so many different characters that were passing items around i the just like a ridiculous little art project for myself that no one would ever see or care about just a little thing and even even pra the other thing I love I've got tons I just love being off meta and weird right like any I mean you can look at the kind of cards I like in Marvel snap I like Cersei and Valkyrie and Supergiant and the hood and Mysterio.
00:21:07
Speaker
um But I've always been that way. Competitive Pokemon, the video game, always liked playing off meta stuff and and you know winning by surprise. Fighting games, i've played I've played tons of fighting games, but Super Smash Bros. especially, I always want to play the weirdo.
00:21:21
Speaker
want to play... not just Bowser Jr., but Wendy the Koopaling. I want to play Wii Fit Trainer, right? Like ah Mr. Game & Watch. Like I love playing the weirdo or the character who's got an unusual mechanic. Like I think I crave novelty. And if I'm honest with myself, I'm a little bit of a hipster.
00:21:38
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're such hipsters, to be honest. Also, there this this question about classes and characters and things, I was going to probably mention the Bazaar anyway, but in that game, the character that I've had the most success with, I've unlocked all of them now.
00:22:00
Speaker
i ah the character I'm playing a lot is one of these tricky magic types, ah the alchemist Mac. I don't know. He's, he's got some sort of immortal ass Dorian gray type situation going on. He's got potions. He doesn't do armor, but he does the heavy regeneration.
00:22:20
Speaker
so like you just like get so much regeneration per second going that like you're undoing the damage done to you. And I don't know, big fan of staff of the moose. That's my, ah that's my,
00:22:33
Speaker
Insider tip to you. Also, knee brace. Get that knee brace early. Upgrade it to silver. Then you're gaining 200 every day, 200 You really want to get that max HP up because, like, really, it'll it'll all come down to, like, one giant blow at the end of the fight that'll take you down. That's how they overcome your incredible regeneration.
00:22:52
Speaker
They get some sort of scaling weapon up to a, you know, very high four digit number and then they bonk you real hard. And that's that's how they that's how they take you out. um Anyway, point is, so, yeah, I guess I guess in that game I went for a magical one, not not a high health one. He's kind of squishy, in fact. Yeah.
00:23:12
Speaker
But wow, I'm getting a lot of 10 win runs there. i'm I'm starting to suspect that ah things then um I might be an above average player of the bazaar.
Card Game Balance and Strategy Discussions
00:23:23
Speaker
I'm shocked to hear that.
00:23:26
Speaker
There's like... Just the statistical indication, you can check your profile and see how many runs have been ended by your ghost and how many runs you've done. And at first, I was, you know, i had not learned the things and I was playing against people who had, you know, they understood the systems and stuff.
00:23:44
Speaker
And so like... my run count when I had 50 runs, I had not ended 50 runs with my Ghost. But now that I am at 100 runs, I have ended more than 100 runs with my Ghost. So like I'm um um catching back up. That's ratio. Yeah. Yeah. When when I think of like how far behind, how much of a deficit I was running in the the early ones, like I was never, I mean, I got like one 10 win run on like my second day playing. but Then like I had a week without a 10-win run. And like now now I'm getting them like every day, like back-to-backs. I had back-to-backs with my boy Mac the Alchemist. Dang, oh these potions. These potions. This this Moose Staff, I'm telling you.
00:24:28
Speaker
um ah He's got a couple cool daggers. There's one of them. Very, very strong. Anyway. if you if you ever want some bizarre tips, folks, uh, find me in the speakeasy and I will, uh, I'll, I'll tell you about my favorite cards and items and things. And I looked it up. It's like PC only.
00:24:48
Speaker
it's on the Mac. It's, it's, it's on the Macintosh and it will be coming to mobile eventually. don't know. I'm having a blast with it. I'm still not sure. I heartily recommend it for everyone ever, but like, if it sounds like your cup of tea,
00:25:03
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. I'm having a lot of fun. Fun is still fun. go But I still love snap. I still love building decks. That's the thing. You, you gotta, ah every run of the bizarre is different. You gotta like be adaptive and just like, yeah, yeah.
00:25:18
Speaker
identify the the currents of plausibility and snatch a thing out of thin air and you know figure it out. ah But yeah, Snap, I still love building my own deck and having a ah project and all that stuff. have...
00:25:34
Speaker
i still have inquisitive threads to pull over here i'm not i'm not like uprooting my my snap existence uh or anything um i'm not replacing snap with the bizarre i'm just also very interested in the bizarre right now and frankly having a bit more fun but yes yes that's exactly it i do contain multitudes You know, we covered the OTA last week and I don't, I don't know how much we criticize the OTA as a whole, where it's like, it wasn't a very exciting one. Every change was one point. And I'm like, well, when you're having more fun in the bizarre, first of all, it's fine. Right? Like games come and go. Oh my gosh. They do. ah They do an update every week and it's always like big and significant. And like they, they, There was one like yesterday and oh they reworked some things and like some some cards that were just bad and that I was like frustrated about the the little robot guy. He had some bad cards and some way too good cards and they brought down the way too good cards and they brought up the the two bad cards. There were like 45% of his cards that were like unplayably bad and 45% of his cards that were must pick every time.
00:26:46
Speaker
And then 10% of the cards that were interesting and like in between. But like, oh my gosh, yeah, they're they're doing balance updates every week and it's very interesting. Okay, sorry. You're fine, I'm just saying like, I think we want...
00:27:00
Speaker
Snap, historically, the OTAs and the patches often came with balances also. That's kind of changed as their OTA technology has improved. But, like, OTAs are content.
00:27:10
Speaker
And lately, they haven't been. Like, it isn't changing the meta. It isn't driving... it isn't driving um you know, new deck building or like exploring old cards or something like that. and that was like, that was something that Snap was so excellent for was the frequent, you know, the the high, the high pace of change.
00:27:30
Speaker
That's something I love. I know not every player does. I'm sure it's difficult for casual players have ambivalent about it But I think that if you're going to do these frequent changes, they should at least be good and like interesting and impactful. I think that maybe like changing things every week or two is perhaps not always, for every game, like the right thing. But like if you're going to change it with this frequency, at least like make them feel like something happened or some some problem was addressed or fixed. It leaked! Just...
00:28:02
Speaker
Yeah, i want a little more changing cards. They're still changing cards mostly by little, like, dinky one-ups or one-downs. I feel like how they do... I mean, obviously, changed in the big way where they can make more changes in the OTAs.
00:28:17
Speaker
But overall, the style of which they... do OTAs I feel like hasn't changed the effect of those changes is much less right like it's just like so many cards it feels like anymore pinging them up by one or down doesn't like change their viability as much as it used to you know like it's like unless it's making it Ravonna card now or something yeah you know but we just look at it and it's like and then we play it and like it doesn't feel that much different either I don't know Yeah, the small changes can be really impactful, but it's more fun when there's one or two big changes in the OTA, like something new to play with, something to shake up the meta.
00:28:58
Speaker
I would also like to see them be a little bit more aggressive with trying to balance the top end of the meta. um Not that, you know, I'm not like in high infinite. I don't see a lot of like, I shouldn't say, I was going I don't see a lot of Screamin' Bullseye, but I do see a lot of Screamin' Bullseye. Especially Bullseye. I see Yes!
00:29:16
Speaker
Bullseye is everywhere. He's so annoying. He's not the most interesting deck to play against. He probably is too good, but even if he's not too good, like let's change him just because it is i is such a high play rate, or at least that's what it feels like.
00:29:33
Speaker
um I don't know if they need ah a way to measure the feel on top of play rate. mean, it's a bad feeling deck to yeah match against. It's not fun.
00:29:46
Speaker
Like, right yeah. For reasons that I think are obvious to anyone who's played against it. And I like some unfun decks. We've talked about this before. There are some types of sandcastle kicking that I think are fun, but there's a really big difference when it's the same type of castle kicking happening over and over again versus like a diversity and not every deck is doing that. And,
00:30:06
Speaker
I don't know. I think playwrights, mean, they need to be very ah vigilant of. Speaking of decks that may not be the most fun, I've had a ton of success with Clog this week. That was my answer to Infinity Ultron, but also it turns out very good against Bullseye and some other stuff. So I've been running a classic. I've featured it here before. ah Frank Puddle's Clog deck. It'll be in the show notes. It's very fun.
00:30:30
Speaker
um The main plan is Clog one lane, and then the other lane you win with Cannonball. That's the Clog thing to Yeah. that's the clog thing to do yeah this one This one uses a Titania heavily, which i don't know that every clogged deck does that, but um this one does it very effectively and it's super fun. i Rhi!
00:30:52
Speaker
Wait, were you done with your weakened snapback? Uh, yeah, sure. Pretty much, you know. I'm an infinite now. I did the thing. i changed one card in my Scream deck. It's a whole new beast. Feels pretty strong when I was playing it on Hot Location Day in Conquest. um Yeah, ah you know.
00:31:13
Speaker
Okay. I re-mentioned her late night feverish snap gaming and and i I had some late night fevered snap experience last night where I've been working for months on getting my entire collection to either Uncommon, The Green Border, or Infinity.
00:31:33
Speaker
I just have tons of cards that are stuck. I have tons of cards stuck in between because before we could customize borders, I would stop cards at borders that looked good with them. so I have tons of stuff ah in between.
00:31:46
Speaker
And I don't know. I must have gotten frustrated with it last night because i bought, I think, three. It was either two or three of the pro bundles. And finish that off.
00:32:00
Speaker
um Well, I shouldn't say I didn't finish it off yet. i didn't have enough boosters to get my last Hercules to green. So I have one Hercules sitting at gray right now.
00:32:11
Speaker
um And then the bonus booster section of the shop rotated to area. Wait, one Hercules? So you don't mean just your base cards? You just mean all your cards? Every card I want either green or infinity. That's like optimized credits, right?
00:32:25
Speaker
um I was down to like, I don't know, 35 or 36, and i just Went a little ah when ah wacky last night. Now, to late night fever Lauren's credit, I mean, first of all, should not have stayed up as late as I did. It was a work night. I work early in the morning. It was a bad choice. It really was.
00:32:48
Speaker
But to her credit, she used ah credit card rewards to convert those to Apple gift card points. So that's like that's something. At least, that you know, have a wedding to pay for. like I'm glad I'm not just, you know...
00:33:02
Speaker
burning cash, but I mean, kind of, because I could use the credit card points for better things. But I don't know. Somehow that makes it feel more people-free to Most money spent could be used for better things, so.
00:33:13
Speaker
Something.
00:33:16
Speaker
So this is ah me um confessing, i'm reporting my shame. Oh, don't don't look at it like that. i try try to Try to at least frame it for you. I don't know. maybe Currently, i am excited. and i'm excited that I'm done with that project.
00:33:34
Speaker
I don't want you to feel bad about it. um i'm i'm ah I'm excited. i had like ah just a few splits of credits left over when I was done. i And I was like, I'm going to start chasing crackle on cards that I play a lot, but I haven't split very much.
00:33:52
Speaker
I did two splits on magic and my very, my fourth split of all time with magic was gold foil with blue crackle. And it's just, Beautiful. And to get that in four b splits total, awesome. You couldn't even do that before Mastery.
00:34:06
Speaker
um But i I expect that going back to like chasing splits with the new Mastery system, I ah expect that will wear out my excitement pretty quickly. Because, i don't know, people don't seem super thrilled with the Mastery system. Yeah. The banananing, if you will.
00:34:23
Speaker
Banananing. yeah I think the that's like a whole Benjamin Roller snap career that you just you just purchased there. Yeah, that's like the whole thing. You you bought a whole but like that's a whole complete collection.
00:34:39
Speaker
that's that's what you paid for. I know I had that thought. I was like three pro bundles or even if it was two. It's like it's a fraction of what I spent when I started the game 2022. And I was and I was whaling and then I i curbed that.
00:34:53
Speaker
I really did. um But then I was like, oh, but if that was season passes only, that's like two or three years of season passes. It feels really different when you think about it that way.
00:35:03
Speaker
Pro Bundle is not even the most efficient bundle. It was just the only thing that had credits in the shop at the time. i like i know that like my my claims that like cosmetics could like pay for it or like basically is paying for it.
00:35:16
Speaker
If you're spending more than $10 a month on like the game and you're not... Like, if you have the same collection level I have, or if you have the same, like, if you're missing the same number of cards I am paying $10 a month, and you're paying more than $10 a month, the difference that you're spending was spent on cosmetics, whether, like, you, like, see it that way or not. Like, it's because you, like, stop to smell the roses progression-wise, and, like, you're was 100% thinking you last night. I was like...
00:35:48
Speaker
one hundred percent thinking of you last night i was like You know, I don't how far off our CL is, but any, like, Ben's ability to even moderately keep up with my CL is strictly because all of the gold that I have spent on cosmetics, he has spent on actual progress. like and It's not like I don't have fun cosmetics to, like, I've got, like, variants on variants on variants. Like, occasionally...
00:36:15
Speaker
ah Yeah, like three or four times I've spent 700 gold on a variant like on on at least one occasion. I've thrown extra spotlight keys because I liked a pretty picture like I haven't even been perfect. And I'm saying like, yeah if if you're not more collection complete than I am and you're spending more than $10, like the difference is money you spent on cosmetics.
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah. which is fine, right? but is It is fine. I'm i'm just saying, like to know like, they're making so much money on the cosmetics is all I'm saying. like i'm I'm not like trying to shame anybody for giving them money for cosmetics. I'm just saying, like, that's where they are extracting the, like, that's where they're getting the money.
00:36:55
Speaker
It's just that simple. I love that I have your example because I will argue with people online about how close to collection complete you can be on a budget. People say, no, that's not possible. And I'm like, I have. I'm missing four cards and I have not been. i have not been flawless in my execution. Like right I've stumbled.
00:37:15
Speaker
Yeah, and not only have you gotten cosmetics a few times, but I'm sure you haven't gotten, say, every single Twitch drop, right? or like No, no, skipped some. Are you spinning the Galactus spin every single day? I mean, maybe you are. I'm pretty good about that. I mean, like, ah more than once a week, but not every day. That's for sure. Yeah.
00:37:30
Speaker
So just like there's some credits and stuff that you're just leaving on the table. And it's like if someone was really super diligent, I think you could either be at 100% or dang near it. this season pass if If I'd made better choices, i I do believe I could at this point, especially after that Sanctum Showdown business, I could be at 100 right now if I'd made better choices.
00:37:51
Speaker
I'm very interested in seeing if those series four five cards come back to the next Sanctum Showdown. Like, was that a one-time thing to make Showdown exciting? Or is that going to be like every quarter or so there's the big event that has big prizes?
00:38:09
Speaker
don't know. Anyway. Should we talk about Infinity Ultron? Absolutely. For the record, I love my cosmetics and I have a few regrets, so...
00:38:22
Speaker
Yeah, no, I don't think you should. i it it bothered me that you you seem to you seem to be grappling with. I was like, no, you have to you can't allow yourself to think this was a mistake or that would that like that would drive me like, oh, my gosh, you you got to make this necessary. Oh, I've like I've yeah, I've learned to not like it's gone. Like I need to you know, embrace it and probably just not stay up so late at night.
00:38:46
Speaker
um Late Night Lauren doesn't, it's not usually a spending problem. That's ah that's a pretty unusual situation. um Not that I stay up too late, but it's unusual that that translates to spending money. Anyway.
00:38:59
Speaker
Infinity Ultron. Infinity Ultron. Five, Okay.
00:39:05
Speaker
30-something minutes later. On reveal, add two of Ultron's stones to your hand. And there's a bunch of stones. We've talked about them several times. I'm not going to talk about them again um in specific.
00:39:15
Speaker
Anyway, did you get them? What do you think? No, no, I did not get him. Oh, re did did you get him? Infinity Ultron? I will, but I haven't yet, as I said. haven't gotten OpenSact. Have you encountered Infinity Ultron?
00:39:33
Speaker
No, I haven't played and today. I encountered one. I played against one Infinity Ultron on my climb to Infinite at the very end in the 90s. And he definitely kicked your ass.
00:39:45
Speaker
This card has a 100% win rate. Oh my gosh. Infinity Ultron? Cracked? Best card ever? I don't know. It beat me, the one game that I played against it. ah They didn't play any of the stones.
00:39:59
Speaker
But they did play Infinity Ultron. And then they did normal surface shit at the end. Mm-hmm. But yeah, it's undefeated against me, so I've got no room to criticize it. It is probably the best card they've ever printed, statistically.
00:40:17
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yep. I did not get him. I have been tempted because I'm like, there's some fun clips I could do with this card, maybe. But I i think...
00:40:31
Speaker
I think I'm going to save one or two series five cards for snap packs experience. so I can talk about that when that comes out. That's my justification for skipping this card.
00:40:46
Speaker
He seems bad. I thought he was going to be the worst card this season, and mostly stats and people seem to agree with me. ah I think we all thought, yeah, yep. I think everybody everyone called a stinker, and a stinker has come.
00:41:00
Speaker
I don't know. I've seen people who've had, like, decent stats. stats with him but it's still like he's just making the deck he's making an already good deck slightly worse like he's not and don't know his highs are definitely high he's a high variance card right like if he if you if you get the purple stone and the red stone i believe he doubles his power and then you get a 12 power drone like that's cool but that's so rare But also, like, if if this were a good card, would we even know?
00:41:29
Speaker
i just don't think there are a million people trying a million ideas with Infinity Ultron. I just don't think i don't think there are enough cooks in the kitchen. You know, sometimes there are too many cooks in the kitchen. I think there are insufficient cooks in Marvel Snaps Kitchen lately.
00:41:45
Speaker
That's what I think. also think, I mean, the easiest way to cook is throw new card into old deck, right? And I think that's certainly the lowest hanging version of it.
00:41:57
Speaker
But, you know, and I think that's probably the right thing for most cards. And that's ah ideally most cards are support cards, not build around. Like if every single card to build around there, that's weird.
00:42:07
Speaker
Mm hmm.
00:42:10
Speaker
But yeah, Infinity Ultron to me feels like a card that probably the at his best should be build-around card. i don't know if he is, but don't know.
00:42:22
Speaker
He's just... I mean, one one thing that I've heard from the people enthusiastic about the card is that, like, it's a ramp card, right? You want to play Infinity Ultron on, like, 4, don't you?
00:42:34
Speaker
is it just that, like, the dream, i guess? Absolutely. I struggle to put myself in the the shoes of the person excited about Infinity Ultron, but that's the job. that's but We're podcasting about Marvel Snap. It gives you more time to do stuff with him. i think that that's definitely what you want to do is... is Luna or Wave or Arishem.
00:42:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:00
Speaker
I feel like Arishem sounds the most, like, the best fit of those that you mentioned to me anyway. Because, like, it, you know, has the most nebulous game plan.
00:43:10
Speaker
And Infinity Ultron is, you know, intrinsically, like, an unpredictable card that's just going to give you... some value in some form but like you don't know what so like what's the point of building around the the stones in particular like you just have to hope they give you some of the good ones and right yeah it and it feels like arishem has to be like the most practical home it gives you more chances right like if if you have a bad arishem draw maybe the ultron stones will synergize with him well and if you've got good arishem cards then who cares just don't play ultron or don't play the stones um
00:43:51
Speaker
Plus Ultron, plus Arsham's like running Quinjet and stuff anyway, Eson. So like there's, there's some free synergy there. Well, do we have any other interesting infinity Ultron thoughts or can I say one brief thought about next week's card, even though we don't do that anymore?
00:44:10
Speaker
Well, let's talk about the spotlight, friends, briefly. Cannonball and Pixie. Cannonball's a 5-8 that moves the highest power enemy card off the location on reveal, and if it's full, turns it into a rock.
00:44:23
Speaker
Pixie's a 2-2 that shuffles the costs of the cards in your deck that started there. Cannonball's still great and not just in like screenwere move decks.
00:44:34
Speaker
I mean decks where he can be utilized, but it's just a way to get rid of like a high power card at a location. oh but because eyes a single card lane winner. Lane winner. That's a very desirable effect.
00:44:45
Speaker
Like, yeah. And in all sorts of, yeah. that's That's a good thing within the rules of Marblesnap to do. Move away the highest power card from a location. That's cool. Yeah. Highly recommend Cannonball, except to note that both of these cards are Series 4. And so it's kind of a weird proposition because if they only cost you one key, that's 3,000 tokens. like Yeah, you are not getting your tokens worth if you That's the price that you're getting if you just wait until your keys turn into tokens and you wait for them to rotate into your token shop. like
00:45:18
Speaker
It's a weird proposition. um But like if you're getting Infinity Ultron anyway and you get them along the way, that's all right.
00:45:28
Speaker
Pixie is really fun. don't know if she's good. I don't think that the buff from 2-1 to 2-2 made the difference. I doubt it. She's a tough card. Yeah.
00:45:38
Speaker
Anyway. She's hard to deck build with. she really like i When she was coming out, I thought she was going to be much better because it's a lot of energy cheat if it works out. But it's weird building a deck that has like lot of low cards and a lot of high cards.
00:45:53
Speaker
And what do you do if you don't hit Pixie? You know what? I think they should make her two three Do it. Do it. Make her yeah I don't know about that.
00:46:03
Speaker
i don't know about that. ah indeed Do you think it would be safe? Like, would one one Pixie be too good? I kind of feel like she might be too good. Well, you think so? I mean, I imagine that's why she's a two is because they thought though she'd be too good at one.
00:46:21
Speaker
But if Loki can be one, Pixie can be one. Well, feel like pixie can be like two three or something just like to be like more substantial and also like it's the magneto rule you did a thing that's like i mean sure it's like there's no way it's actually a drawback because you did it on purpose yourself and it's like a powerful effect but like if you squint it's a double-edged sword or whatever so like you can give her good stats because of the magneto rule What I would like to see them do with Pixie, and I don't think they will, but this is what I would do. I would change it so that instead of being shuffle the costs, it rotates the costs.
00:47:00
Speaker
Currently, the shuffle can give, if you only have one six card, six cost card in your deck, it can get the six back. And I think that's weird. If you have two sixes, I'm fine. If they swap the sixes, that's fine.
00:47:11
Speaker
But I think that it would be a better card if every card definitely got the cost of a different card. But when you say rotated, do you mean like every five becomes the six if there's a six? And if you have like a six, it becomes the one like like a conveyor belt situation or like. OK, so it's going to get more technical than I meant, but I would probably even keep the word a shuffle unless somebody wanted to be technical about that. Be like, well, it's not a true shuffle if a card can't land up back in the exact same position.
00:47:42
Speaker
But um would just... Oh, but you're saying, like, assign each one of them, like, a random number and then, like, have them each scoot over one position or something? Yes. Rotate, like, a musical chair whatever. So, basically, you save the order of the deck, you shuffle it then you move them all up one card, and then you restore the order of the deck.
00:47:58
Speaker
Um... i just I would make her more interesting if every card definitely picked up the cost from a different card instead of having a chance. like I mean, it's a very low chance, but there's technically a chance that she shuffles the cost and nothing changes. And that's just, I don't know. It's dumb.
00:48:16
Speaker
I agree. You want to tell us about next week's card, Strange Supreme? Oh, not next week's card. Week after next week's card. Hydra Stomper. Why are we getting Hydra Stomper before Topaz? Can't we get Topaz first?
00:48:31
Speaker
ah that's that's That's my big thought. Sorry, it's not not even next week's card. I'm just like... I'm trying to get excited about Hydra Stomper, but the more I think about Hydra Stomper, the more I'm just like... But like the mouse has been given a cookie, but I...
00:48:46
Speaker
like yeah Tell me what Topaz does. and forget. Topaz bounces cards to the center. Oh yeah. You play cards on Topaz and she moves them to the center.
00:49:01
Speaker
she's She's like and who Hercules wishes Hercules was. Is my feeling. yeah Have you noticed this trend where they always make the female characters more reliable? I just don't like this as something we have to live up to.
00:49:17
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like, as woman? Like, completely do, yes. No, like, for real. Okay, look, Lady Sif, right? Regular, like, three cost, always discards your top cards. Super reliable. apartment Always does the job.
00:49:32
Speaker
Her counterparts, her co-workers, Moon Knight, Corvus Glaive, not reliable. These boys are Not always discarding what you want. Right. And it's just like the same.
00:49:43
Speaker
It's like in the one party episode where Sory just wants to have fun and all the women just say, like, all responsible about it and shit. And it's just like, don't.
00:49:56
Speaker
Why? Like, I don't. It's hard. It's a hard reputation to live up to. It's tough responsibility. Sometimes girls just want to have fun. Stop making us always be the reliable ones. Okay, I'm just saying, why does Hercules get to have fun while Topaz has to always just do do the thing? relate okay yeah but she's going to be so good at that job, and I i am going to be...
00:50:21
Speaker
it's singing her praises from the rooftops just trumpeting her valor and like she seems great honestly she's spectacular she's gonna be so good better than madam webb like you just get the move for free yeah like madam webb is like the activate to topaz is on reveal you know oh you can do some like red wing shenanigans okay yeah yeah you can yeah
00:50:49
Speaker
And she's so predictable and manageable, like always to the middle. no No room for RNG. g just ah I just i love i love a card that's good at its job.
00:51:02
Speaker
But you want to let a card have a little serendipity, you know? Like a little spontaneity. too We're going to be doing some spontaneous things with Topaz. Ugh.
00:51:14
Speaker
it's Such an exciting card. So much more exciting than Hydra Stomper. Why do we get Hydra Stomper first? Hydra Stomper is going to become so much more exciting once we've got Topaz. All right. So temper your expectations about Hydra Stomper. It's not going to pop off at its full potential. It's tough work, it's not. It's stomping Hydra.
00:51:31
Speaker
No, they need it. ah hey They're up to no good, I'm telling you. ain't much, but it's not. High voltage is back.
00:51:42
Speaker
I knew it was coming. I didn't know when. I opened my game today and it was there. ah Even more interestingly, the prize wasn't Dum Dum Dugan as said in the blog, but... Also, i really love i really love the stink you put on Dum Dum Dugan's name. Dugan. don't know how to say it!
00:52:04
Speaker
No, that's the thing. i don't know. I sort of assume it's Dugan. I feel like that's that's how I've heard it. That's how I've heard it in Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the PlayStation 2. There's an escort mission. He really wants to die.
00:52:18
Speaker
ah You really got to protect him. Oh, man. that would That's one of my all-time least favorite escort missions up there with the one in Jack 2 where you're escorting your younger self. Spoilers for Jack 2.
00:52:30
Speaker
It came out in like 2003,
00:52:33
Speaker
Maybe play it. I don't know.
00:52:38
Speaker
Ringing endorsement. um are you Are you ready for high voltage again right now?
00:52:46
Speaker
No. Thanks for asking. I haven't opened the client today. i will i will need to at some point do some dailies. But like, ooh, did it have to be already high voltage now again?
00:53:00
Speaker
Second dinner just isn't matching us in, like, this relationship. Like, there's a point where I'm, like, need more stuff, not enough stuff, you know? Like, play this game too much.
00:53:12
Speaker
ah second And dinner, chill out. We just had, you know, a little special moment last Saturday. Sorry, what are you saying, Lauren? ah I will say one nice thing. I like... I think this is the second event like this. I like the event starting not on Tuesday. I like it being offbeat from the like reset cycle, the season cycle, all that. It's starting on Thursday. do we feel about the same one twice in a row and like so close together? Just like, I...
00:53:44
Speaker
i was I didn't think we were due for another one so soon. It's just... And and they are an imposition, like these limited time modes. like you know like i I do like now have to make time for it. like I'm going to be traveling. There's there's a like a family. like you know I got like stuff to do. i like There are other things in life besides Marvel Snap.
00:54:08
Speaker
And when they tell me that they need so much of my time in this one week window with like no notice, it's ah it not very courteous. That's what I'll say. And I'll add, I'm on the record, I don't like High Voltage. It's my least favorite game mode.
00:54:23
Speaker
i I think it really suffers from the fact that optimizing it makes it extremely unfun because the missions matter so much more than winning. It's like, don't know, like 40 times more or something like that.
00:54:36
Speaker
So on that note, I will have in the show notes, I have two decks that I that i used in High Voltage last time. One of them is a negative deck, and the whole point is playing as many fives and sixes as you can. The other one is tribunal deck.
00:54:47
Speaker
I was going that's like... Sorry, but that's like the meme lore and it's like, ah hey, it's time to play. It's time to to lose like six games. Will you get all the like play five cards missions? stuff I don't know. You're just like, yes, man. It's a negative deck.
00:55:06
Speaker
It's a negative deck that runs Hobgoblin. And somebody was like, why are you doing that? Do you just not use it? And I'm like, I don't care. i will send you my zero five Hobgoblin. I'm just trying to play as many fives and sixes as possible so I can knock out the missions as quickly as possible.
00:55:19
Speaker
If you like high voltage, great. I know that there are people who love it. I know people, it's their favorite game mode, and I love that for you. i think there should be an unranked mode in the game, but I just, I think that the, like, incentives for high voltage are all out of whack, and it is just, I can't convince myself to play to win, because it's so, it's so dramatically inferior to just focusing on the missions.
00:55:42
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Anyway, the other deck is a height is a living tribunal deck because there's a mission that asks you to win all three locations, which is probably the biggest pain in the ass out of all the high. that's smart. I just remember that.
00:55:57
Speaker
Yeah. So, like, as long as you draw right, you make a huge stack with Iron Man and Onslaught and Mystique, whatever. Like, it's great. Both of these decks can win, but the point is to knock out missions as fast as possible. They will be in the show notes if you are like me and would like to optimize high voltage or minimize how long you have to play it in order to be Toxie Doxie. It's just such a chore.
00:56:18
Speaker
Toxie Doxie is once again, like like with First Writer, she's at the 12,000, like the top prize. And I really wish that they would make the card the second prize that I can stop playing if I don't care about the variant. Why are they doing this to us?
00:56:30
Speaker
Ugh.
00:56:34
Speaker
Anyway, let's talk about Toxie Doxie. I at least think she's more exciting than Dugan. A two one Toxie Doxie has on reveal give two cards in your hand plus two power.
00:56:46
Speaker
You can't play them next turn. Wow, I love this card. It's really fun. I haven't read this version of Toxie Doxie. That's not what she did last time I read her. She changed since we talked about her last. Yeah, that's my honest reaction. First time reading the card.
00:57:00
Speaker
I love it. Very good. Cool card. Great, great card. Want it very much. it's It's very good. This is a very strong card. Kind of a Gwenpool. I'm not surprised Ben likes it because I think it does fit into a low, like a small card stack where you can be more flexible. Also friends with Scarlet Spider. You weren't going to play Scarlet Spider next turn. You're going to play Scarlet Spider on turn four. So yum, yum, yum.
00:57:25
Speaker
But see a deck that has like a more careful curve, not being able to play them next turn might be a ah too costly. But I do think there are decks that are really going to like this card. But this is very much for my play style. I'm not about that that strict curve. I like to keep it modular, nonlinear, just like assembling my play lines a la carte. Yum, yum, yum.
00:57:44
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ah yeah Sorry, that's my catchphrase this week. I'm i'm leaning heavy on the yum, yum, yums. They're always present, but this week I'm just voracious. I don't know what to tell you.
00:57:57
Speaker
you listened to Hello from the Magic Tavern? Yeah, it's a chunt yum yum yum. That's exactly what it is. yup That's the one that's always in my head. I love that one. yeah yeah mi Yum yum yum. I heard you do it last week and I wondered is lauren does Lauren think she's doing ah me yum yum yum or was that a chunt yum yum yum?
00:58:18
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But yeah but yeah the answer is like, it's it's certainly a shunt yum yum yum. Anyway, we we that's that's our other podcast talk for this week. We must quickly move on lest we linger too long.
00:58:31
Speaker
Can I talk? Can I give my. I want to hear you talk about Toxie Doxie. Yes. Thank you. OK. So think what I want to do with her is see if we can finally break Ravonna free of negative because like, you know, something like an Iron Man two is something you want to give plus two power to.
00:58:51
Speaker
as well. um But I can't argue against the whole just going in on the buff thing. was great I've played a lot of buff Scarlet Spider decks, so it's also very enticing. gar that's That's why you're the best, There are many reasons, but that's one of them.
00:59:09
Speaker
The Scarlet Spider. yeah
00:59:12
Speaker
I'm going to play this card with Mysterio. Oh, that's phenomenal. Oh, wow. That's yeah. Oh, oh.
00:59:24
Speaker
These are the hand buff cards? These are like these are these are the the usual suspects. i'm I forget about Mysterio every single time. Like you say it, I'm like, oh man, I must. There's so much potential. I love buffing and I forget about him until next.
00:59:40
Speaker
Until next, Lauren. Every time I mention Mysterio, you're like, I gotta play more. My boy Clinton.
00:59:49
Speaker
Mysterio just like in a court and a party like they don't know. They don't know I put out two other cards with buffed power. Sorry, my head is just full of memes at all times.
01:00:04
Speaker
On to our side quests.
Movie and Anime Discussions
01:00:06
Speaker
First up, and only this week, are, as far as I know anyway, maybe somebody will surprise me, ah our weekly secret homework. This one was a continuation from last week's, which was Ben's. Do you do you want to take it ah It was, uh, what's a movie you wish I'd seen? I think that's how I phrased it. Yep.
01:00:31
Speaker
Uh, yeah. What's a movie you wish I'd seen? And. i I wasn't sure how to participate in that secret homework myself, so I i recommended the first two movies that came to mind.
01:00:44
Speaker
that that i that i both I do recommend both of those movies. I stand by those recommendations. I'm not trying to distance myself. I'm just saying, like I really did not like... These are not like my two like number one dearest... like these These are both recent films. These were not like formative to to my you know personhood or anything.
01:01:02
Speaker
um But anyhow... Yeah, so I brought a couple of recommendations. My co-hosts brought a couple of recommendations. We tried to watch some movies, and I think we mostly did.
01:01:14
Speaker
Some of us second screened it, as as I learned. ah ah can't believe throw somebody under the bus like that. Well, second screening all those movies is better than watching one of them twice and then watching part of another one.
01:01:32
Speaker
I watched exactly two, one from each of you. Okay. That was what I wanted to do. i failed. I didn't stick the landing. I'm sorry. That's all right. Should we go by a movie? or by Yeah. you do yeah In recommendation order, tell us about you're your picks, Ben.
01:01:51
Speaker
Oh, me? I recommended Bottoms and Dick's the Musical. um Bottoms is a comedy about a couple of high school gals.
01:02:06
Speaker
um It's kind of an important plot point that they are horny lesbians. um They live in sort of a heightened reality. Things are...
01:02:18
Speaker
things are yeah it's It's like the real world, but not real. Things get a little extreme. It's got the the funny football man.
01:02:29
Speaker
ah And, um you know, it i I found it to be very ah very entertaining. It's got, is it Ayo Adeburi?
01:02:43
Speaker
um From The Bear. Um, you know, that's a cool film. The other one I recommended was, uh, Dick's the musical adapted from an off Broadway musical called, uh, fucking identical twins.
01:02:59
Speaker
I believe, um, that tracks it, uh, it, uh, And the Marvel connection is that, like She-Hulk, attorney at law, there's a small but significant role for Megan Thee Stallion.
01:03:15
Speaker
and It's true. um and And also a lot of just Bowen Yangs there, Megan Mullally. mean, we're supposed to talk about them like we've already seen them, right? You're not like hiding details. you watch either of these, Ray?
01:03:34
Speaker
I watched both of them. oh Bottoms was super charming. It's like super bad for queer lesbians. Yeah. you know lesbians um And I very much enjoyed it.
01:03:50
Speaker
And then Dix the Musical was insane. It was also a time. i i never ever in my life thought I would see a flying snail pussy. And now now I have. now it is Check that off the old bucket list.
01:04:07
Speaker
That was a surprise. But yeah, Megan Mullally was, ah ah she's hilarious. Okay. Oh, she's great. She's crushing it on Righteous Gemstones right now. She's got a very large role this season. She's doing fantastic. Is that the mom? she is.
01:04:25
Speaker
She plays the deceased mom's best friend. Righteous Gemstones. Oh, yes. In Dix the Musical, yes. Okay. um I didn't watch Bottoms because I'd seen it before and I loved it. And yeah, it's very charming was the word I was going to use for it. So yes, Dix the Musical is the Ben pick that I watched. ah I'm so glad to get my fiance involved in it too, because i like weird movies. Like this was this was my shit. But for her, it was just like...
01:04:50
Speaker
are i watching yeah I was afraid of that. was eating it up. oh I could have picked something a little more down the middle. I'm sorry. I i ruined our four quadrant appeal.
01:05:03
Speaker
Not at all. ah This was a delight. It's definitely raunchy. If you're sensitive to that sort of thing, just heads up. um But i loved it. And the Sewer Boys just killed me. i was laugh for boys I was laughing hysterically. um And I'm not often and a laugh out loud movie goer, especially in my own home.
01:05:25
Speaker
So, yeah, that was a it was a great experience. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad you enjoyed it. three Okay. and i Briefly introduce your movies. um Okay. So I guess first we had a second, like we had ah a pre podcast discussion about enjoying Chinese fantasy. I was really into Chinese fantasy in younger phase of my life. And Lauren hadn't seen house of flying daggers. So um I told her watch that. I don't know if that's the one she picked.
01:05:53
Speaker
um And then it's okay. Not it's hard to find. I actually looked for it to find it again. um and it's not I mean, really sad. I used have a giant ass DVD collection.
01:06:06
Speaker
ah i think I could rent it for like four bucks, which I would totally do. Okay, but yeah, it's not like on one of the, if you already have a streaming service, you have to run it separately. But it's a really fun, it's like um in the vein of a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
01:06:24
Speaker
um but I just mentioned because I always talk about how I'm not like into romance, generally speaking. But when I was young, I was really into this one. I'm trying to remember if the lovers die at the end. I really cannot fucking remember.
01:06:36
Speaker
Sorry, spoilers. Maybe they live, maybe they don't. You don't know either now. But I just, it's like, it's because love, think, thinking about this when when I was recommending made me realize, I think what I like about romance is sparring.
01:06:54
Speaker
Like, it's foreplay, you know? like yeah Like, think about the scene from Shang-Chi where, like, his parents are meeting and it's like, they're not even, like, talking, but it's like, hmm.
01:07:05
Speaker
You know, chemistry is happening. Yeah, I think it started because I was like, like with like pride and prejudice. and You know, so like words, you know, wit as flirting.
01:07:20
Speaker
Then moving into like, you know, when girls have to pretend to be boys in order to be able to be knights. lot of love. Oh, yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yep. Classic. Yeah.
01:07:33
Speaker
Generally, when I was little, there was most of what you had as a girl genre was girls needing to prove themselves by ditching the rest of their gender and being one among the boys.
01:07:45
Speaker
To be honest with you, that was most of the literature I... So it's sad, but true. So anyway, moving on from the one that Lauren didn't watch that I've now talked too long about.
01:07:58
Speaker
ah The two I recommended were Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer. um i think Shane Black directed it.
01:08:08
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um And it's just one of those that i I always have in my back pocket. when Back in the days when we used to be able to recommend things because there were fewer good things people hadn't seen. I'd always be like, this is one most people haven't seen. And it's one I really enjoy. It's a lot of little witty dialogue.
01:08:25
Speaker
So like shows with little funny witty dialogues like Arrested Development stuff. I rewatched this this week because I hadn't seen it in a while. i'm like, oh, I can quote this whole thing. And I did.
01:08:37
Speaker
Fortunately, it was by myself. No one had to... ah You know, be like, no one had to have the movie ruined for them. Okay. um And then the other one I'll introduce because I don't know who watched what um was the 10, which is just a ah collection of comedy skits loosely connected. ah This is like early 2000s. So, you know, I think so like that kind of era comedy, but it's like David Wayne, Michael short. And what I was surprised when I rewatched
01:09:08
Speaker
This week, I forgot how many other celebrities are in it, like Winona Ryder, Jean Grey. you know that's not who she is. She's an actress. But the first Jean Grey.
01:09:22
Speaker
OK. And um a lot of other... and celebrities kind of played minor roles in that also surprising it had it has extremely bad reviews which you know i guess it's not a type of viewer what i saw do you mean famka jansen that's that gene gray or or the gene gray who's friends with john hodgman the one who's um the second one oh gosh never mind too many gene grays Yeah, okay, you're right. You missed the X-Men one, right?
01:09:55
Speaker
Yeah. Bryan Singer's X-Men. Yeah. good chance and yeah yeah phone could Okay, i don't know your name. is It's like, ah!
01:10:06
Speaker
Jean Goulet! Paul Rudd is like your host connecting things. So, okay, wait, which one did you guys watch then?
01:10:17
Speaker
I... Speaking of renting movies for $4, that's what I had to do because Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is not on any of those dang streaming services anywhere.
01:10:28
Speaker
And so because I spent the $4 on it and I am frugally minded, I did watch it twice. Yes, I did. um The first time I wasn't, I wasn't i mean, like I was paying attention, but like I had it on while I walked to the grocery store.
01:10:46
Speaker
ah You know, like that of thing. Wait, you're trying to blame me for second screening stuff and you're watching through your phone while you're walking through the door. watched it twice, though. I watched it twice because I'm thorough.
01:11:01
Speaker
I'm thorough. Because it's a great movie and you loved it because it's so clever and hilarious. That too. i did I did enjoy it very much. There were some aspects of it that I was not entirely on board with.
01:11:14
Speaker
mean, that's every movie that exists more than like five years ago. That's the thing. that's the thing ah for for it's i I found some of the the gender politics to be a little...
01:11:26
Speaker
I'm not sufficiently educated to disassemble what was going on there. I would tell you he has an speech about broken in it. Oh my god. was like, what is even going on here?
01:11:45
Speaker
Yes. And it's very terrible. But I want to point out that much later in the film, there's a moment right at the end where they're discussing their fathers and how like, you know, like they beat him. And then and it's like, I feel like that's kind of that is a non to be like he is trying to project this.
01:12:05
Speaker
onto these women. know what I mean? So it's that kind of thing is that just because a narrator or a protagonist says doesn't mean it's the message I think. No, I i am aware of that. He's a bad dude.
01:12:20
Speaker
But he's, yeah, he's, he's, Kind of a turd. But you know who fucking rules? Val Kilmer. Oh my god. Very entertaining. Hugely entertaining.
01:12:31
Speaker
Some of those line deliveries were so good. Like, oh, like, like there are some like moments where he like sort of splutters when he's like saying something. Oh man.
01:12:43
Speaker
yeah Very fun. just Oh wow. The talent and charisma on display there. God damn. When they say, they're like, oh, you're gay parent. And he's like, what, still gay?
01:12:55
Speaker
And Val Kilmer just, like, rolls it off. Like, nah, knee deep in pussy. thats just like the name so much I can't get rid of it. I didn't even do that. Like, he's just got so many, like, but all the little dialogues in that are great. Yeah.
01:13:11
Speaker
yeah That's the one I watched. I found it delightful. I also... Yeah, hugely entertaining. i like, I open with, like, a a complaint, but, like, wow, on the whole, I found it to be just so enjoyable.
01:13:23
Speaker
yeah I saw the appeal. i i I ran back through my mind and identified the friends I had that were clearly obsessed with this movie at the time and that I just like I've never gotten around to watching it. I'm like, oh, yes, this was, you know, so and so's favorite movie, you know, like that sort of thing. I was like, I've been like aware I've been swimming in the cultural ripples of of this movie, like for the a long time and all that. And You know, like it did it is it is why we have Iron Man 3 in the form that we have Iron Man 3. It's a Shane Black joint. Robert Downey Jr. fought to get him on that project. Also, apparently, according to the blank check fellows, I believe I heard them mention that Shane Black did punch up on the the script for Iron Man 1. And that's why the dialogue snaps so hard.
01:14:15
Speaker
Anywho, these are things I heard on other podcasts. I am. Okay, the movie had so much witty banter. When Robert Downey Jr. comes to, i don't know her name, the girl's door. Harmony?
01:14:30
Speaker
Yes. Harmony Faithlings. Not the actress's name, but that's the character's name. That's all know. And she slams the door and she's like, did I just cut off your finger or whatever she says? Like, I thought it was witty banter. And let's just, I mean, minor spoilers, I suppose. But like everything that follows from that just tickled me endlessly.
01:14:50
Speaker
Um... Yes. It was very fun movie. That was also one that Jess liked. Doesn't it make you every time, like, say, drop your sunglasses, you just want to pick it up? That's not dramatic.
01:15:05
Speaker
I was glad to see the actor who played ah Harmony Faith Lane. Is that her name? Is that the name of the character? Yeah. OK. That actor was on this real, real mediocre ah show, The Path, on Hulu.
01:15:22
Speaker
And her character was never any fun on that show. She never got to like do anything fun. It was probably like the worst character to play on that show. And like if if you had to play one, was probably the least fun.
01:15:34
Speaker
um Only bad things seem to happen to her and she never got to be like wait to put a fun character. Wait, real downer on the end of the session. a real bummer. i like i I was just like pleased that the actor got to do fun. I don't know her. and Is it Michelle Monaghan? Is that it? i like I'm never confident that I have people's names right until I have them like really like locked in.
01:15:58
Speaker
But I think that's the actor's name. But yeah, this seemed like a more fun role to play. ah that So I'm i'm always like rooting for people to get fun work. It was great. And I think Jess and I both genuinely enjoyed it. like There's plenty of space for us to compromise, but it's, ah I don't know, I feel like it's a rare movie that we both like really enjoy.
01:16:20
Speaker
um So yeah, I fully intend to watch your other two recommendations. Yeah, I'm going to watch all these gosh dang movies, even if I have to spend $4 to rent world. Maybe if I spend $4 for them. What if you have to pirate it? may This may have been your one, Ree, but if if Wolf Children ever $4 for that, I'll do that.
01:16:39
Speaker
I won't lie. The other movie is mostly a trick so that you'll to ah so get my... I did it for goof references. Okay, good.
01:16:54
Speaker
Just to help us get your references. I know! It's very cool, Alice. Okay. Sorry, tell us your... My movies are both anime.
01:17:05
Speaker
um Kiki's Delivery Service is, like, my all-time number one favorite movie. um This is a Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli teen witch who moves from the countryside to the city, and the city has kind of forgotten about witches, and so she's kind of... ah I don't know, a novelty there. And it's just, you know, her, her dealing with growing up in the city and it is absolutely lovely. The animation is stunning and the story is beautiful.
01:17:33
Speaker
And then Wolf Children didn't realize this until after I recommended it. You can't get it anywhere. You can't buy it. You can't rent it. You could probably buy it on physical media. But um I saw on their website that they are doing a 4K release in May. And I wonder if that's why you can't get it anywhere right now. Because they're about to re-release it.
01:17:53
Speaker
um This movie is absolutely beautiful. I'd recommend it to anybody. This is Mamoru jo so Hosoda, who founded his own... uh he's the director he he founded his own studio to make this movie but he's done a bunch of great ones uh before and since including the girl who left through time and mirai uh i've seen a bunch of his stuff and i love it all um but wolf children in particular is just like one of the most touching movies i've ever seen it is an extremely strong story of like the connection between parent and child and so i think it's ah especially touching for anybody who's a parent but like
01:18:30
Speaker
everybody has some relationship like that, right? You were, you were raised by somebody. um or maybe you have like a younger sibling that you were involved in the raising of.
01:18:41
Speaker
Um, but it's just a beautiful countryside woman has two children with a man who can turn into a wolf. And then it turns out that their children can turn into wolves and she's raising them as a single mother. And it's not the easiest thing to be a human mother of wolf children.
01:19:01
Speaker
I'm assuming neither of you saw it because it's... You are correct. You have to pirate it, basically. I am. I'm sure there would have been a way if I were willing to, you know... I'm getting all these ads for the 4K version now, though. Since I was searching for it, it keeps recommending that. I was like, oh, in May.
01:19:23
Speaker
Dimension on the podcast, but of course you have this. like I have seen Kiki's Delivery Service, of course. I love the studio Ghibli. The first thing to mention about it is that all of us would, like, it's like, Liz Lemon, I want to go to there. I would live anywhere that they depict in that, like, anime. Any single place, any building, any house.
01:19:48
Speaker
I would like to live there, please. Yes. ah So beautiful. Um, it's just, it's, yeah, it's it's wearable so, I even, so usually I hate, um, sorry, I'm always like, I hate, but like, uh, usually like happy biological family stories bum me out.
01:20:08
Speaker
Cause I don't have one, but, um, but this one it's cool because, you know, she, she leaves them immediately. Not a bad way. Yeah. But instead of going off on her own and finding her own way and her own place.
01:20:24
Speaker
And those are always, like in the co in the cozy way. It's like Kiki's Delivery Service is like how we all grew up. Like... you know dealing with all of our attention and rage problems by, like, mass murdering and video games. And then we got to adulthood and COVID and whatever, and we're like, ah but what if we just imagined we lived on an island where it was possible to pay off all our debts and, like, you know, like, slowly make a place better.
01:20:54
Speaker
and it's like Kiki's Delivery Service is that cozy feeling of, like, Animal Crossing New Horizons of, like, ah What if flake people were mostly kind and ah that people were slightly selfish?
01:21:08
Speaker
Okay, also a distant war that we're like kind of... It's in the background. All studio Ghibli films. There's modernization, industrialization, but like yeah I think it's such an achievement of this film that yeah there isn't... like I don't know. There's not like clear antagonists. It's so cozy.
01:21:28
Speaker
Everything's cozy, but there's still like a story... Yes. But also don't spoil it for me because I've only seen part of it far. you haven't watched it. Okay, well then. haven't finished it yet. Although I have seen, believe I've seen it on Cartoon Network on television.
01:21:43
Speaker
um Well, first I started it playing while I was doing things and getting ready. And then I backed it Oh but you were, at least you were in second screening it then.
01:21:55
Speaker
ah Hey, I'm just saying i'm I'm going back and giving them my full and undivided. I'm like being more thorough than than a single first screen watch.
01:22:08
Speaker
i'm I'm giving them more of my ultimate attention. You know, like ultimately, I'm giving them more of my attention. That's all I'm saying. i'm saying I'll get there in the end. I don't like leaving things undone or like I don't i don't enjoy half-assing.
01:22:24
Speaker
I enjoy one and a half-assing. So I'm one and a half. I'm three cheek in these movies.
01:22:31
Speaker
This is one you want to watch. It's beautiful. The animation is too gorgeous. ah Yeah, also just like remembering that people can be kind to each other and to strangers. Because like, sometimes it's hard to remember that. um Okay.
Creative Challenges and Game Proposals
01:22:55
Speaker
We'll go on to the secret homework. Or not, the secret homework's done. Assign the new secret homework. Simple, but we're going to bring it back to Snap. This is one that I've had in my pocket for a while because it's interesting to me.
01:23:08
Speaker
I want you to design zero-cost card. think it's a very tricky design space. Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, especially to you know to make something interesting that's not Wasp or Yellowjacket.
01:23:21
Speaker
okay We got skills now. I'm interested to see what y'all do. Oh, I meant to say there were a few movies recommended by viewers. oh it's so good okay
01:23:33
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Ben's like, Jen!
01:23:36
Speaker
He's been cooking on this. ah A handful of movies that I saw viewers recommend. Kneecap, Night at the Museum, Kung Fu Hustle, and Craven. I don't know how serious that recommendation was.
01:23:50
Speaker
I heard it's not good, but like maybe not the worst ever. feel like Ben said it was more fun than Madame Webber. um no like now Now I'm thinking about my zero cost card and i'm like, oh, the design is good, but what character is it? i'm like and and And I just blurted out that I thought it was good. So like now now the expectations are... i I really dug myself quite a hole.
01:24:17
Speaker
It's fine if you want to design bottom up or top down. That's fine. um i I have done both. um Okay. If you liked what you heard, tune in a like, comment, subscribe.
01:24:30
Speaker
leave comments on YouTube or Spotify, leave reviews on, i don't know, Apple or Spotify. I don't know where the reviews go. Um, you can join us on the discord and briefly mentioned the speakeasy earlier. It's our little corner of the snap judgments lead some snap judgments league discord. Say that 10 times fast.
01:24:48
Speaker
Um, there are instructions to get there in the show notes or video description. ah just like, you know, where all the decks will be and, and movies and stuff like that. It's always a good place to check.
01:24:58
Speaker
Anyway, if you want to find out what Ben's incredibly well-designed zero-cost card is... Honestly, I'm pretty enthusiastic about it. It's a cool design. I'm i'm quite proud of it.
01:25:10
Speaker
Tune in next week. Same Snap time, same Snap channel. Oh, we didn't. I think it might be zero negative one.
01:25:22
Speaker
I think that might be the stat line I have to go with. That's wacky. um I'm sorry if I was insensitive about families. I did not mean to be. i i know not everybody has happy family relationships.
01:25:34
Speaker
I didn't mean in like a super triggering way. I just mean that like... Maybe you're... Maybe... Well, but somebody out there has an even worse familial relationships than you, right? And so it's like, you know, maybe it's you and your pet or something. like But somewhere you can relate to like... Or chosen family, but you can relate to familial love that is not, you know...
01:25:54
Speaker
separate from romantic love or friend love. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I'm just saying I always go for, like, the found family ah things. But, no, I was thinking that when I rewatched The Ten, i was like, oh, man, like, there's some dark humor here. But it's so over the top that, for me, it takes it out of the context where it would be upsetting, you know, as a humor. But I did think I'm like, should have plastered some, ah so maybe some warnings on some of the topics. Although some of those jokes,
01:26:25
Speaker
in that territory were made in some of the films that I watched in Bottoms and Decks, but they're more modern, so it's you know slightly more tasteful. but like um But I think if you you need, it's like this is your entertainment, and this was the original point of ah like Trigger Warnings, which really annoys me how that that got co-opted for me.
01:26:51
Speaker
mockery was that like it's like if you need to avoid a topic in your entertainment temporarily or forever because this is a thing for fun not a thing where you get surprised by like something that was you know traumatic for you and then it's like that's totally fine like it's totally fine totally different emotional response than what the artist intended that bothers you yeah Okay, also, side note.
01:27:15
Speaker
I had this thought earlier on Snap related I want to make a game you play as a NPC, or not as an NPC, but like you're the main character and you know how you always find NPC skeletons?
01:27:30
Speaker
What if instead of just looting them, you know, to get your starting equipment and then later to get like random, usually not rare, good stuff, because that's usually in chess. But instead, what if you were a detective that investigated who they were to go like, you know, bring closure to their loved ones or like unfinished mission?
01:27:49
Speaker
think you need to make a detective game. Yeah, I'm putting it in my list of things. Anyway. I was just like, that's what I want to do. These poor NBC skeletons.
01:28:00
Speaker
Who were they? What were their lives? How did they end here? That's very fun. Okay. Is this like a fantasy environment? mean, it doesn't have to be. Yes. Well, because it's like where you want to take the cliche stereotype.
01:28:12
Speaker
It's like, It's like where, you know, like, well, what if I was just running a shop, you know, in a fantasy world? Or what if I was like a ground level detective in a fantasy city? And this is like, what if I was an empathetic adventurer instead of one that just wanted to clutch?
01:28:29
Speaker
Murder hobo. Yeah, murder hobo.