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48. What We're Thankful For
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This week, we decide to get in the holiday spirit and say what we're thankful for, from family to friends to video games! Also, is Midnight's brain broken?
00:00:00 - Show Start
00:09:37 - Midnight’s brain is broken
00:15:05 - Tales of Arise
00:20:02 - Ghost of Yotei
00:22:42 - Kirby Air Riders
00:34:38 - What We're Thankful For
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Transcript
Introduction and Thanksgiving Weekend
00:00:28
Speaker
Hello and welcome to another episode of Games Over Plastic, an agnostic gamers podcast. I am hosting this week, Hodge, that is my name. Don't know why i said it that way. But anyway, I'm joined as always by my two lovely co-hosts. First up is Midnight. How you doing, brother?
00:00:44
Speaker
I'm doing good. I'm doing great. I'm still rocking the ah the Halloween Buc-ee's shirt, and I will continue to wear this because I just always support Buc-ee's. I've noticed that I'm wearing a Buc-ee's shirt now like half the week. i have I have so many of them, I'm just constantly wearing them.
00:01:00
Speaker
In fact, I wore one yesterday at Thanksgiving. We're recording this on Black Friday, everyone. ah So happy belated Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a good one. But I'm doing good. Nice. Yeah, we're hosting this Black Friday, which is why I'm decked out in Bears attire, because they're going to get whooped by Philly today. So when you hear this on Monday, just know that I'm sad that they're eight and four.
00:01:19
Speaker
They might win. I don't know. that Philly's been somewhat disappointing at times. Yeah, but literally the back seven of the Bears defense is out. They're literally on they're on third stringers for some positions. Like, like where's it at?
00:01:34
Speaker
It's in Philly, I think. Okay, yeah, that's tough then. Final score, thirty one thirteen Eagles. thank you Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Exact score, go to the score sportsbook, put it down right now, exact score. Okay, if Sean gets the exact score, let me just point out that it's 8.15 a.m. on ah Black Friday, so he doesn't actually know that. He's just a wizard.
00:01:56
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. um There was actually one
Post-Thanksgiving Reflections and Black Friday Plans
00:01:59
Speaker
time where I was there was like leading into a some Thursday night game. And I was like, this is one of those games that's probably going to end six, three with this team winning. And literally it ended six to three. i was like, I hate myself for not putting money on it. don't want so much money for getting the score right. But anyway, also joining me is our other lovely coach, Sean Mason.
00:02:19
Speaker
How doing, brother? I'm doing great. Um, to Friday after Thanksgiving, everyone's filled up on their food. we've all gained enormous amount of weight overnight. Somehow our bodies are still here. We're still alive. I cleaned my house this morning, which is nice. I said, listen, it wasn't a Tom Petty movie. Listen, a lot of Tom Petty music this morning. And I do want to say just shout out to the, um, hang on one second. Let me just bring it. I don't even know the team name, but i' just got to bring it up.
00:02:47
Speaker
Um, Shout out to – going to hit my settled bets here. Shout out the South Sudan national team for scoring over 39 points in the second quarter. It won me $986. So shout out to the South Sudan national team.
00:03:06
Speaker
Oh, my God. love it Yesterday was the first time. I've won – so like I said, I have like the worst luck, and I'll do like minus 150 bets, and I lose the majority of them. But then yesterday I hit a $5 to win $110 bet. And so I felt very happy about that. but I didn't see you post that.
00:03:26
Speaker
I posted it. Yeah. It was funny because it hit and all that was left was Jameson Williams had to get one more yard. And I'm like, I swear to God, if I lose another parlay from one yard, that will be the fourth time this year and I'm going to go ballistic. But it hit. So but I that. You guys do any Black Friday shopping or do you guys just like – nah cares i don't think i've ever been out on black friday no no like if i need something i'll take advantage of the sales usually online though i'm not going to the store uh i'm gonna buy a uh like a 43 inch tv because i've seen some that are like there was one at walmart that was literally 90 and i was like so i kind of want to get it as like a second screen next to my tv out in my living room for When there's football on, I can have two screens going. So I'm going to go buy a by nice 40-something-inch TV for like $150 less You know what I did do? i capitalized on some Black Friday savings. Not really, though. ah Verizon Fios just came to my town.
00:04:27
Speaker
And I switched from Comcast to Fios. Nice. And um my bill is like $30 less. And my internet speed is like so much faster. Nice. Yeah, dude. Comcast is horrendous. it's terrible. Everybody hates Comcast. i thought I've noticed.
00:04:42
Speaker
Oh, it's it's legitimately the worst. my yeah My current internet is two gigs fiber, but it's been slow recently. I think my modem is dying because... The way it's set up is it's like against a metal wall. So I think it's been overheating. So I need to call and see if i can get a new one because my Internet's been starting to chug, which should not be happening when I have two gig fibers. So I'm going to have to give him a call about that. But yeah, my dad, he lives out in BFE like on a lake.
00:05:09
Speaker
ah On the east part of Ohio. And he just finally got fiber. He's all excited. They installed fiber out there. He had like this shitty like satellite DS or DSL internet before. DSL 2005? Yeah. Well, he's he's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. There's like 12 people that live on that lake. So, but yeah, it's like he's got 200 megs up and down now. So that's great. There are faster speeds too, but he went for that because that's that's all you need. Let's be real.
00:05:35
Speaker
so Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I think I said this before when I made sure it's one of those things I check for. There's two things I check for when look for apartments that it has unit laundry because I don't want to go somewhere to do it. yeah hate And I look for the Internet now because when I lived in one of my old apartments back in Illinois, I didn't look at the Internet before that. So I moved in. They're like, oh, we have whatever Internet. And i was like, I want your fastest speed. And ah they're like the only speed we offer is 25 megabytes. And I'm like.
00:06:04
Speaker
im watcher well i i ended up moving there anyway but it ran fine like if i was just streaming or you know working or whatever like it ran fine but if i had a if i had an update to a game i wasn't playing the game that day because it would take hours like literally if the game had like an eight gig update i still it was still like a five hour download because of how horrible the internet was but we have we have we dialogue we had dialogue there yeah Get off the phone! Get off of the phone! internet internet i don't even remember that, but I know like that. Like, I know what it is, and I don't even remember it.
00:06:40
Speaker
Oh, we had that. I had dial-up. Yeah. I had it when I was probably like two or three, so I don't really know where like what it was. I didn't have the internet until I was in middle school, maybe. Maybe high school. I can't remember. it was I did not have it as a kid, though.
00:06:54
Speaker
Yeah, when I was a young lad, living at home with the parents, of course, because I was kid. We had America Online, AOL, and my parents had like restrictions on it, like parent parental restrictions on there. So I couldn't look up like adult content and stuff. But I, being the ingenious young person that I was, found out that you could download these other free internet service providers. There was one called Freelane.
00:07:20
Speaker
It was a free dial-up internet connection that was just ad supported. Like you had to watch an ad every now and then or it would... pull up an ad or something. And so, yeah, I started using Freelane instead of AOL to connect. And that way I could, I could browse whatever degenerate stuff I wanted.
00:07:35
Speaker
Yeah, I used to get in trouble when I was a kid because I would print, I would go on like cheatcodes.com and print out like walkthroughs and they'd be like, you know, like the HTML files, they'd be like 90 pages and it'd just be what god like a Mario 54, like 120 star walkthrough. And my my dad would be like, who is printing all this? didn't realize, I like, i didn't know. i just, and then like, I wouldn't even read it. Like I would just have it printed. I wouldn't read through it at all. Oh my God. yeah Dude, I remember back then ink was more expensive than the printer. So there are people who would literally buy a new printer. Yeah, they'd buy a new printer instead of buying ink because it was cheaper, which is insane. but Oh, my God. Yeah, I don't have a printer anymore. i have If I have to make play, you're allowed to do everything digitally now. So if I ever had to print something, I'd have to go to the library
Living with Aphantasia: Midnight's Experience
00:08:23
Speaker
or something. I have a printer in my closet and I go to the library or or whatever if I need to print something because I'm not going to buy ink. It's so expensive.
00:08:31
Speaker
And it's just a hassle to break out the printer and set it all up and get the ink in like now. yeah and go the library and spend 15 cents a page and print. That's fine. There you go. after probably go print out your 90 page, 120 star. off yeah At 15 cents a page, it wouldn't be too bad. There you All right. Let's get into some gaming, boys. Before we do that, actually, I have a confession to make real quick. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. So, Hodge, did you do the administrative and stuff and all that? Oh, I guess I can do that. Yeah, do that real quick. All right. So for those who don't know, we are a biweekly podcast every other week. Sometimes we have in between those weeks off, we'll have a DLC where we want to talk about a show, a spoiler cast or whatever the hell we want to do. ah And then you can subscribe, obviously, on YouTube if you want to watch these beautiful videos that we put together. Otherwise, we're on every single audio ah program because that's what Zencaster uploads it to. So ah think that's all.
00:09:33
Speaker
Anything else we need to say about it? No. So, yeah, i was the reason why I was going to say that, because, you know, the topic for today is stuff that we're thankful for. And I was going to segue to that, but I have a confession. One thing that I'm not thankful for.
00:09:47
Speaker
um i have realized recently that I am defective. I'm a defective person because I was watching this video and it was like, why 4% of people can't picture stuff in their mind or whatever. And I was like, Oh my God, are you one of those people? I think, I think I'm pretty sure I'm one of those people. Yeah. I always, it's funny. Cause I always thought, I always thought that I could picture stuff in my mind until I actually tried to force myself to do it. Like I closed my eyes and I'm like, let me picture my car.
00:10:15
Speaker
And it's just black. I don't actually do it. the So let me ask you guys this. If you guys like close your eyes and you imagine your car or whatever, like, do you see it like vividly? Like you can literally see your car in color. Like it's right there in front of you.
00:10:28
Speaker
I don't. It's black. So that's probably that explains why you don't. you can't That's why my memory is so bad. explains why you can't read. I can read. What are you talking about? Oh, you you can't read for fun. you don't You can't read for enjoyment. That explains it.
00:10:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah because I'm not able to see it. And yeah, like in color acting in front of me. Yeah, I do still enjoy reading sometimes. But yeah, yeah, it's weird. um I think I still like picture stuff when I dream, but who knows? But yeah, like for me, like instead of actually seeing it, I just kind of like have an understanding of what it looks like. So if I picture my car, like I just know what my car looks like. OK, it's like it's a white car, you know, but I'm not actually seeing it in my mind. And sometimes if I think of something like I'll see like I'll see like a trace out in my mind, like the trace out of the car, like as if you were drawing it or something, but not like a 3D color picture of it. It's really weird. And that might explain why my memory is so bad with games and stuff, because I don't have like a mental picture in my head of it.
00:11:24
Speaker
I don't think there's a cure for it, son. I remember reading something that said there's like a certain... Some wired that way. I remember reading that there was like a certain percentage of people who can't, who don't have inner thoughts. Yeah, that's that's crazy. that's fucking weird to me. Like, you don't think in your head what you're going to say, or like, you don't think like, hmm, I need to go over here. Like, kind of you don't have that thought in your head that confuses me. i Like, how do you not think? Luckily, I do have an internal monologue. And in fact, it's like a hyperactive internal monologue, maybe because it's making up for there's no pictures. Like, I'm always like having conversation and thoughts in my head. it keeps me up at night sometimes.
00:12:03
Speaker
The internal monologue in my head, the voice is Will Ferrell. na yeah just as buddy As Buddy the Elf. as It goes back to what's between Buddy the Elf and Chaz, Michaels Michaels from Quakey.
00:12:21
Speaker
ah It gets the people going. Yeah, so you guys you guys are like reading Harry Potter and stuff, and in your head, you're actually seeing like Hogwarts and like like shooting lightning and stuff. See, i I don't. But like I imagine it, though. like I still enjoy reading it. like I can imagine that Hogwarts is there and people are shooting it. and like I do still enjoy reading, but it probably would be cooler if I could see should go read The Grapes of Wrath and tell me if you can picture the Midwest Dust Bowl of the right.
00:12:50
Speaker
I'll read it. I'll read it today. By John Steinduck. There you go. Yeah. Audiobooks are good, though. So. yeah i've I just, I feel i want to do more audiobooks and I will, but I was so spoiled with that Harry Potter one because it's so well done that going to another one where it's a single person reading it, it's going to feel like such a letdown compared to it. Well, do I have the audiobook for you? And that is called The Grapes of Wrath by John Stanton.
00:13:17
Speaker
Sean, you should do audiobooks, man. I've thought about it. i thought about it putting up There's a YouTube um video. This guy has a playlist of YouTube videos. and's some You know the book, The Outsiders? Mm-hmm. Like that? Yeah. And he just read all the chapters and like every single video. I'm pretty sure like all the different like schools use it because he has like over hundreds of thousands of views on each chapter, there but those are his only videos.
00:13:43
Speaker
There's nothing else. He probably just randomly uploaded one day and was like, you know what? Here we go. There you go. I should do that for a random book. So listeners, let us know in the comments if you can actually see images in your mind because I can't. I'm defective. I'm broken.
00:13:58
Speaker
yeah And I don't think going to the doctor is going to help me. I'm pretty sure that's not something they can treat. It's just the way my brain is wired. And it's funny because like when I saw the topic, I was like, oh, that would suck. And then I thought to myself, I'm like, wait, am I that person? Because, you know, like I never really realized it. I'm like, yeah, of course I can imagine. I can picture my car. But then like when I actually tried to force myself, I'm like, it's pretty much just black.
00:14:19
Speaker
I'm not seeing anything. So that's crazy to me. Yeah, so I don't know. can I guess it's I don't know. Part of me being an artist is I imagine shit in my head before I put it on paper. So I couldn't imagine not imagining what I want to put on paper.
00:14:34
Speaker
I'm good well, I'm good at imagining and and like visualizing it without seeing it, I guess. Yeah. Like I said, I can see like tracing out the artwork and stuff and like I know exactly what stuff looks like. I can I can picture it in my mind just from knowing what it would look like. like I can imagine a car going down the street and and a person walking in front of it to see.
00:14:53
Speaker
You know, it's things that you know and you've seen, but I'm not literally seeing it like a movie. So it's weird. Alright, so that was a fun one. Anyway, yeah we can carry on. Yeah, so let's let's continue on you, Midnight. What have you been playing? Let's get into that. Oh yeah, I've been playing something. Alright. So I finished Tales of Arise. I beat the game, Sean, and everyone else. And...
00:15:17
Speaker
Not only did I beat Tales of Arise, which was awesome, by the way. What a great game. I loved it. um I also finished the expansion, the Beyond the Dawn expansion deck, which was another like eight to ten hours. And it was also good, although it wasn't as good as the main game, of course, but it was good. um Overall, I would say that Tales of Arise is going to get a 90 on Midnight Critic.
00:15:42
Speaker
I enjoyed it quite a bit. And the expansion was like, don't know, like an 83 or something, an 82 or something. It was all right. It was cool.
JRPGs and Game Reviews
00:15:49
Speaker
But yeah, the game was fantastic. I absolutely love the game. Like I said, I love every single character. They're all awesome. The voice acting was great. I played in English. I've been doing that a lot more.
00:16:00
Speaker
um I actually used to play a lot of like Japanese games in Japanese, but lately, i don't know. I'm just enjoying playing them in my native English, unless the dub is just horrible, and then I'll switch it. Like with what's it Metaphor Re-Fantasio, when I go back to that game, I am not going to play that in English because I cannot stand the main character's voice. But anyway, Tales of Arise, though.
00:16:22
Speaker
Awesome game, dude. This was one of the best JRPGs I've ever played. It's probably my third favorite JRPG right now or something like that. It just really it just really resonated with me, man. I really liked the story, the world, the combat. It was great. Shout out to Shion. Shion is an awesome waifu, if you will.
00:16:40
Speaker
But yeah, I love everything about it. um Yeah, so that's that's pretty much all I've been playing. I beat that, and then I beat the expansion, and that was it. I'm now moving on to my next game, which I'll tell i'll tell you I'm playing The Outer Worlds 2, but that's all I'm going to say because I've just started, and there's nothing to say yet.
00:16:57
Speaker
But there'll be more on a future episode, so look forward to that. than Other than your character looks like Justin Timberlake with a beard. Yeah, yeah. I tried to give him like the little zoomer, like broccoli hair kind of, but that was the best I could do. but yeah, Justin Timberlake with a beard. Yep, my character.
00:17:13
Speaker
Can't stop feeling. And so far, so far it's pretty good. But like I said, I'm not really going say anything. But yeah, I really Tails is awesome, Sean. What a great game. It's a yeah. Tails rise is great. I think it was a return to form for the series for a lot of people and it brought a lot of new people in. It's actually, you look at the sales numbers wise, it's like with the best selling tails game yeah over time. And I, it's one of those games that has sold like,
00:17:36
Speaker
It hasn't just dropped off. it's like It it didn't didn't like wasn't a huge hit when it came out, but it just slowly just been selling and selling. And a lot of people a lot of people resonate with it. So I'm glad you liked it. And now you can move on. The next Tales games you can play is Tales of Auxilia. Yeah, I added Auxilia Remastered to my watch list on both Steam and PlayStation. So we'll see if it goes on sale. You know you know me, I'll grab it on sale. ah And if I want to play it sooner, then I'll grab it at full price. But... But yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I was going to say ah Tales of Arise goes on sale a lot. I saw it on sale like 100 times, so that probably helps too. But I recommend it, guys. If you are into JRPGs and you haven't played it for some reason, or if you're just into RPGs at all, like not even so much the Japanese portion, Tales of Arise is awesome and you should play it.
00:18:21
Speaker
There you go. oh Oh, I want to address some criticism. I saw some people were hating on the pacing and how it drags on, especially. And I will say that I do kind of agree, but it didn't bother me that much. Some people were saying that the game was too long. It drags on. and it is There is like three points where they probably could have ended the game, but they you know they keep going for the ultimate final conclusion, losing which was great. I will say that the pacing was slightly bad in the last third of the game. In the last third of the game, they hit you with a ton of cut scenes and exposition, and it kind of drags on a bit. But honestly, I didn't mind it, and it wasn't that long. I mean, I beat it well.
00:18:56
Speaker
Hodge will probably say this is a lot. But I beat it in 38 hours, and to me, that's not that bad. So I thought i thought it was great. I love it. ah Yeah, i mean, it is the longest Tales of game. That's why people said that. It's like it's on the longer end. I don't think the Tales games are like and compared to like other JRPGs, I don't think the Tales games are like super beefy and super long. So I actually really liked the all the stuff they added in Tales of Rye to make it longer and make it more expansive. I didn't find it dragged that much.
00:19:24
Speaker
No, no. Like I said, my only complaint, if you will, is that, like I said, they do hit you with a ton of exposition and cut scenes in the last third, but it was still good. I enjoyed it. i don't mind watching some good cut scenes. um Oh, yeah. And I'll just say, too, for the Beyond the Dawn expansion, they they basically turned it into like a sad dad simulator in that. They gave you like a like a ah child, basically, who's.
00:19:45
Speaker
you know, I don't know, abused or depressed or whatever that you have to care for. So that was cool. But ah yeah, the main game is yeah I don't know if you need the expansion, but it is it's worth playing. But the main game, chef's kiss.
00:19:58
Speaker
And yeah, that's that's it. That's all I've been playing. So there you go. Alright, I'm gonna just really quickly say with me, I've but just been playing Ghost of Yote still.
Gaming Frustrations and Highlights
00:20:10
Speaker
I'm kind of getting to the point where the main plot is annoying me, but I'm enjoying still playing the game and finding all the you know stuff on the map. But...
00:20:21
Speaker
I've done I've I've approached two of the six or five that are remaining and both of them you fight them and then they run away and you have to keep finding them and I'm like are it's all five gonna be this where I find them they get away and I have to find them again because this is really fucking annoying and I just want to kill them and move on. Because it's getting a little long in the tooth and I don't want to have to yeah each person be its own 10 hour freaking story. I just want want to kill the people, get the story over, platinum it and move on at this point. But I'm enjoying the game. It's just that I'm getting kind of tired of because I knew it was going to happen with Saito because he's the main bad. So i was like, I know yeah i'm not going to be able to kill him like immediately because he is the bad guy. But when when I did it with Oni, I'm like, are you kidding me?
00:21:10
Speaker
yeah i had like I had to escape the fort or whatever. Not trying to spoil shit. But I'm like, he's still... So I'm like, because when it's like, oh, you got in and he's there and you're getting... I knew once you got the jump on him, you wouldn't be able to kill him immediately. But I didn't think you'd have to fucking leave and do it again. I'm like, ugh.
00:21:27
Speaker
So I'm just kind of... i just that that The pacing of that is kind of annoying me. But overall, it's still beautiful game. It's still fun to play. I love... I have all four weapons now and everything. So I'm, I'm enjoying the gameplay and stuff, but yeah, that I'm just, I'm like, if I have to do this with every other boss where i up where I meet them and then they get away, I'm like, I'm like, this needs to not do this.
00:21:51
Speaker
But yeah, that's all I got really to say about you. okay I would say for that, please keep going. Please finish it. Cause the story is, is good. and But finish it it's just, it's just getting to the point where now I'm going to power through it. I'm not going to like, I don't want to,
00:22:04
Speaker
I don't want to milk it anymore at this point. Yeah, what I would say, I don't think every single boss is like that, but what you should expect is when you go to each area, you're probably going to have like four to five missions for each main missions for each area, and then you'll be done with that area. So if it's only the second mission, just know you're probably not finishing on them right then. So just expect about four to five missions per zone. But yeah, the the narrative does twist and turn a bit, and usually I think it pays off. It is annoying when the dude gets away when you run and kill him right then, but usually like it does pay off narratively, and it's pretty cool where it goes.
00:22:37
Speaker
yeah ah But yeah, and then finally, Sean, what do you play? Alright, I've been playing a little game called Kirby Air Riders. This is the long-awaited sequel that I've been waiting for since the year 2003 when the old Kirby Air Ride came out. This game is freaking awesome. It is legitimately the old Kirby Air Ride with like some quality of life improvements. ah They added so City Trial, which is like the It was originally supposed to be like the side mode in the original Kirby Air Ride, but that be then it became like the main mode. That's what everyone wants to play. No one wants to do the actual races. City Trials are f freaking blast. um They offered multiple maps this time. You can play with 16 people. There's like dynamic. There's new dynamic events that go on it. There's like dynamic events.
00:23:26
Speaker
a little mini events that happen during it. It's super fun. I love playing on, like I've been playing online with just six, like 15 randos and just like going and just like finding one and making him my enemy. And I go around and try to, I target him the entire match. I kill his board and he goes flying and he gets pissed at me. Oh, it's great. I freaking love it. um It's a freaking blast. I mean, I've been in kind of a gaming rut right now where I've been trying to play like some single player games and really nothing is really clicking. I'm kind of just blah. blah right now. So Kirby Air Ride a great game where I can just play it and not worry about like you know paying attention to fine details or paying attention to like the dialogue and the dialogue choices. and
00:24:05
Speaker
It's legitimately just a game I can pick up and play and it brings me right back to when I was a kid. It's super fun. I actually played with my sister a little bit too because me and her are both big Kirby Air Ride fans. So we've been playing online together. it's ah It's a blast and I'm trying to do all the different challenges because it's like ah there's like a challenge board on it which The first game I remember having that and like a Nintendo game was Kirby, the original Kirby era where you had to do like, it it was been basically achievements. Oh, do this and you unlock this. And they, ah they, they keep track of it and everything. And they, they brought that back to this game. And I just love how big the city trial maps are.
00:24:39
Speaker
They have the original map in there, but then they also add in, like I said, some new ones. They added some new characters you can use. So like you can actually use like Meta Knight, King Day to Day. You have so you can do waddle you can do some like random Kirby enemies that Hodge you'd probably recognize. Um, that I have no idea who they are, but I like, I like the play as them. Uh, shout out to my scooter bike. It's back in the game. That's my favorite board of all time. And Kirby, I freaking love it. Uh, get like a million glide power by a million. I mean like get like 20 glide power ups on that in that city trial and your board will go up and it will just like float in the air, but you're on a scooter it has like no flight. So like you're just floating, but it can't really go anywhere. It's awesome. Um,
00:25:21
Speaker
And shout out to the Silk Star. I freaking love that thing. It's often hated. And the Shadow Star is back. So all you Kirby, original Kirby Air Ride fans know everyone thinks the Shadow Star is like the S tier board in the game. It's back.
00:25:33
Speaker
I still hate it
00:25:36
Speaker
Shout out to the scooter. I didn't even realize that this game was out. And um it upsets me that I completely forgot it was It came out a week ago. Yeah, I might have to i was going to go sell some stuff at GameStop here. I got the two Silent Hill games that I'm probably going to sell. So maybe I'll get enough that I can swap it out for Kirby Air Riders. It's so much fun. It's so much. City Trials the best.
00:25:59
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Yeah. You know, I've never played a Kirby game in my entire life. What's wrong what's wrong with me? kirby's Kirby's Dream Land for OG NES is just peak. I love that game so much. But, ah sweet. Anything else you got to add to Riders? If I'm playing as a regular Kirby, I play as the blue Kirby.
00:26:21
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Oh, yeah. I was like black and white Kirby in a Smash. Also, it's fun fact, in Super Smash Bros. Melee, you how you can name your – you know how you can give a nickname for your person? You put your name over yourself, and keeps track all your stats?
00:26:36
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I randomly one night was playing as Black and White Kirby, and I created the name Kryn, C-R-I-N. And um I called him Kryn, the Black and White Kirby, and that became my Smash Bros. name to this day.
00:26:48
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So I still go as Kryn. yeah So what kind of game is this? Is this like gar air riders it's like a kart racer? There's a kart racing aspect, but then there's like a It's almost like a battle roy... Not even a battle roy... It's like a giant sandbox. You're in like ah like a mini city and you're riding around on boards. You have to like pick up these... like power up things that like will be like plus one to your glide plus one to your boost plus one your speed there's like little like power ups and you can get items and stuff and then at the end of like the seven minute like run that like you're in like a seven minute like seven minutes to get all these power ups and like collect these things uh there's like an event at the end so let's say like you are collecting a bunch of glides and then the event is like ah oh you're in it you're doing a drag race right now well glides really not gonna help you because you're you know you're not going to go really fast Um, so like you're kind of preparing for like you you can, you can like, it's kind of like a risk at reward. It's like a, you know you high risk, high reward where, you oh I'm going to go all in and get a bunch of glides. And I'm hoping that the event is like something with gliding, or going to go up and get all these top speed. So my speed is super fast, but then there's, that's like, that's one example. Then there's also like a racing mode where it's like a main racing mode, similar to Mario cart where you're just racing. And then there's a, there's game called, um, it's called, um, top mode. And it's like, um,
00:28:01
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Like ah it's like top down and um the way you control your board is like you don't control like you just tilt up on a control stick to go forward.
00:28:11
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But it doesn't matter like like. You don't, it's hard to explain with that. And you can't picture things in your mind. So that makes it even harder. I just look up top. I can imagine things in my mind. Just look up top ride, Kirby air ride. That's all you gotta do. Look up top ride, Kirby air ride.
00:28:28
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It's funny. The main mode in the original was called air ride. And that was just like the racing mode. That is like the least popular mode. yeah And they they knew it they knew it going into this Kirby Air Riders mode because they really have heavily emphasized City Trial, which is like the like the best mode. And there's like a little story mode that I have not played yet, but I guess it's like Kirby going around and like you're trying to like race people.
Manga, Anime, and Cultural Impact
00:28:50
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and so I don't know. Seems pretty cool.
00:28:51
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Yeah. Don't underestimate my ability to imagine things. All right. just because i'm not seeing it like i i understand in your mind picture a pink blob on a star-shaped board flying around a city i see it and and i i don't literally see it but i see it yeah like i totally can like picture it just without seeing it it's weird it's hard to explain like my mind understands it like i was like okay i see these shapes i understand these shapes are moving uh Yeah, you know, it's funny too, since we brought that back. You would think that since I can't picture stuff in my mind that I would like really and get into comics and and manga, but I don't. I hate them. So never got into those.
00:29:32
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Manga is so good. Manga. Manga. My bad. I still call it manga because that's what I called it growing up because obviously no one had ever said it. The first so manga slash manga, however you said, I really don't care, I ever encountered was all my friends reading Naruto.
00:29:49
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not is this And I remember in our library, there was like a Naruto manga slash manga, and it was a naked girl in it. And we're like, this is in our library. We're in third grade. Whoa.
00:30:01
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They had the censored and uncensored versions of it. It was wild. was in our library. Fun fact, there was also a book in our library that we randomly found that was like how to teach sex using animals.
00:30:16
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yeah's ah it was like ah It was like a picture book. It was crazy. It was in all right it was our library. but I had a... remember I got a... I had an unrated ah issue of Dragon Ball because Bulma shows her boobs in the original Dragon Ball.
00:30:33
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So I had the uncensored one and I was like, whoa, boobs! Shout out to Bulma's boobs. Yeah, shout out. I did love Naruto Shippuden, the anime.
00:30:45
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That was awesome. Yeah, I've never watched Naruto. I can never get into it. oh Well, the original series... Oh, go ahead, Hodge. I was to say, Shippuden is just the second half of the Naruto manga. it's It's all one story. It's just that there's a time jump, and that's when... It's like dragonbo Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z, kind of. Yeah, the original Naruto was... It was just okay to me. But once it hits Shippuden, like, oh, it it's fire. I loved it.
00:31:08
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Also, there that that rumor about every elementary school from basically like 2004 on of having a kid running like Naruto. Yeah, it was true. My school had it. My school had it.
00:31:21
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You guys remember when dudes were going to do the Naruto run on Area 51 or whatever? There was like that big event that was planned. That's funny. How do you know i wasn't signed up for it? Hey, you should have went, it Sean. You would have got in there and found that alien. I know you would have. Oh, yeah. You would have did some jitsu on the alien.
00:31:38
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The best was when there was like a news anchor there like talking about it. And just in the background, there is a kid Naruto running across the back of the screen. See, it's funny. Growing up, there I mean, now I i always call it the Naruto run. But like it's also like Sonic the Hedgehog kind of runs like that, too.
00:31:56
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Yeah. There's a lot of people who do. Yeah. yeah It's just, i don't know. It became the Naruto run because it's just what nerds did. So it's just, it's a really stupid way to run because you're just completely undefended. Like if something crosses in front of you, you're just going smack into it with no defense, you know? Yeah. But you would think a ninja would need defense, but anyway, exactly. I digress.
00:32:18
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Yeah. um Oh, so before we get into our topic for the day, I
Black Friday Gaming Hauls and Nostalgia
00:32:22
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had a quick question. I was going to ask you guys, did you get any games or anything on like for black? Because I know Black Friday has been going on for a while, so there's a bunch of games on sale. So do you guys grab anything or do anything on your watch list that's going on sale you want?
00:32:36
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Not really. No, no. just buy things that I want them. There's a bunch of sales, but I'm feeling cheap right now. Like I'm not. I bought Tales of Arise, the combo edition for like $18, $19 while back. That was good. Nice. Now I'm playing The Outer Worlds 2 via Game Pass. So there's a sale for you. I will go look at the PSN Black Friday i sale and find some really, really crazy indie game that's supposed to be like $8.99. And I'll get it for $1.99. And I'll play that. And I'll report that next episode. Don't say I won't. I will.
00:33:09
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Oh, I know you will. The only ones I bought were the two Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor games combined for like eight bucks. So I bought those. Good games. I 100% the first one on Xbox. So I'm like, you know what I'll platinum the first one because I really love that game. And then I'll hop back into Survivor at some point and platinum that one. I think the best Black Friday gaming deal I ever got was like probably when I was in college. I think I'm pretty sure I bought so this is during in the ps4 era but it was a ps3 game and it was the infamous like you know infamous how they they they ended up releasing like one and two together in like one package and it was originally like 1999 when they released it and i think i got it for like one dollar 99 cents it was great very nice and i i saw it was like i already own them but i yeah
00:34:03
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like I did see that the the Bioshock like trilogy on PlayStation, it's like five bucks right now, but I already own it. i was like damn, that's such a good deal. Great games.
00:34:14
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If anyone hasn't played the Bioshock games, one, what are you doing with your life? for two, go pick it up because, yeah, they're on sale or on PSN right now. And all three are excellent, even two. Yes. Two two is underrated. The plot's very underrated, but the gameplay fantastic in that game. Yeah. And the plot's decent. It's just not one in three level. Yeah. yeah One in three are perfect, and that was just good. Yeah. So...
00:34:38
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Anyway, let's get thankful, boys. Let's hop into our topic. We're just going to kind of quickly, since obviously Thanksgiving's already come and gone, but still, we're in the holiday season, holiday ah mentality. We're feeling happy and thankful. So we figured let's just do like four things gaming-wise in terms of it could be in the game or just...
00:35:01
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you know, in your life, something you're thankful for with gaming and stuff. And just go around the horn and do forth it for each. Let's start with you, Sean. What's the first thing you would think you're thankful for? throw right on the spot right here. Okay. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to not anger people, but I'm going to, I'm going to get people going here. Ah, this isn't like number one. I didn't really number them in any words. More of just like whatever came to mind. Yeah. Um,
00:35:29
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My one thing, something that I am thankful for is to knit um Tetsuya Nomura, a.k.a. the creator of Kingdom Hearts and the leader of like some of the Final Fantasy games, like the Final Fantasy VII Remake project. I am thankful for him bringing...
00:35:45
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the great the greatness that is kingdom hearts into my life um as a young child i discovered kingdom hearts through a random disney channel commercial and uh if if um hodge if i showed you the commercial you'd probably remember it probably um it was like the first ever like time i saw it and i like freaked out and i really wanted it and i remember being disappointed when i first got it because it wasn't turn-based combat Like that was like like this, love like it's not turn-based. What is this? Cause I used to run around thinking I was, you know, how I was weird and would play turn-based combat in my yard. I would, before I got the game, I would play and pretend to be Aladdin. And my, ah one of my main attacks as Aladdin would be to light a torch and throw it at enemies. That would be my main turn-based attack. But I quickly got over that and fell in love with the series, obviously. And it created, you know, one of the best franchises of all time where there's no such thing as a spinoff game. And every side game is actually a mainline game. Um...
00:36:41
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And I just freaking love the series. So I want to say shout out to him. He's actually a really, if you like ever do any like, ah like reading about him, he's an extremely, extremely hard worker. Like he works like 16 or 17 hour days, like almost every day of the year. um He's just constantly writing, constantly building. He works in the bouncer. He worked in the world ends with you.
00:37:03
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His time dates back to 1992 with Square Enix where he worked on the Final Fantasy V game. And it's just, it's wild to see how many games he's had a hand in. And that he created this series that has captured the zeitgeist with Kingdom Hearts. That people have been loving this series since 2002. And come to think of it, 2002, Kingdom Hearts 1 comes out.
00:37:27
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I'm in first grade and then Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out and I'm in my first year of teaching. That was in twenty ninth January 2019, which is just wild to think about. And now we're waiting for Kingdom Hearts 4.
00:37:41
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And the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy. He basically saved the remake because remember was originally going to be with CyberConnect? Yeah, I think it was called CyberConnect. And apparently it was awful. Yeah, so he kind of saved it. So yeah, I'm going to like I said, Tetsuya Nomura, I am thankful for you.
00:37:59
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It's funny, my first thankful moment here in the Thanksgiving season is not even an American thing. Just hilarious. Eh, who cares? Midnight. Unless you have – I know you're a big fan of Tetsuya Nomoro. I mean, I guess you do like remakes. Well, I mean, yeah our game of the year last year he did, right? Yeah. Rebirth. Yeah, Unanimous game of the year last year. Yeah, and I'm just going to proclaim that if it was if we had the show in 2019, the game of the year have been Kingdom Hearts 3. So that would have been two two so two of the games for him, game of the year. It's wild. I guess he's the best. All right, can moving on. You don't know that. You have you don't know. You've not played it.
00:38:35
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Well, exactly. so I'm not going to play it. You never played it. So so it wouldn't be my game of the year. it wouldn't have been unanimous. um But I get what you're saying. I guess if I played it, maybe it would have been. a Gotcha.
00:38:47
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Okay. So something I'm thankful for. Here we go. And this is going to go into Christmas here. I am very thankful for my grandma. She got me my first two gaming consoles and really got me into gaming. She gave me the Nintendo Entertainment System, the and NES. uh, when I was just a wee little lad, ah she got me that. And I remember playing, of course, Mario and duck hunt and having a great time.
00:39:09
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Um, and then she also got me the Sega Genesis, which I also enjoyed quite a bit, you know, getting my Sonic on and all kinds of other stuff on there. Uh, so my grandma got me into gaming two very expensive purchases, uh, that she, she got me. So shout out to my grandma, rest in peace. Love you.
00:39:27
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Uh, great woman. And, uh, If it weren't for her, would I be a gamer? I don't know. I probably still would. I would have got one later. But she got it started. So that's awesome. So she got you the n NES with the Mario Duck Hunt bundle thing? Yeah, oh she sure did. Classic.
00:39:42
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Can't beat it. One of the best consoles of all time. ye Definitely. Where did that rank in our list? I don't remember. But it's a great. It's an all-time great. I don't remember. I'd have to look it up. It was bought it was below N64, which is a travesty. I know that. And 64 had some great games, though.
00:40:00
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Yeah, and also some. But yeah, that's a great no that's a great memory. Yeah, I mean, grandmothers rock. They do. great Yeah, they're great. I have some very fond memories of yeah getting stuff from my grandmother for Christmas. Like in 2003, where my grandma used to get everyone, the say every boy got the same Christmas Eve gift. Every girl got the same Christmas Eve gift, some QVC crap. But ah for some reason, 2003, she got me a Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga on Game Boy Advance. And all my cousins were like, why is Sean getting something else? This is not fair. It's great.
00:40:34
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Yeah, that's hilarious. I'll just say, too, by the way, for all you people out there who still have your grandparents, um do something with them. don't Go go out to lunch with them sometime. Do something with them because grandparents tend to tend to go away and you'll miss them. So.
00:40:50
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ah do so If you still have your grandparents, appreciate that. Go visit them. I don't mean to laugh at that, but it's just so funny that you're like, yeah, the oldest people in your family do tend to die. They go away at some point. So take advantage of the fact that they're here. Go go out to lunch with them sometime. You'll appreciate those memories.
00:41:07
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Trust me. Yeah. my ah My grandparents, all four of them, have sadly passed away. But... uh i'll leave kind of into my first thing then it ties in a little bit so my grandparents they weren't the ones who buy us games uh my the grandparents on my dad's side they both passed away before i was eight so i barely really remember them i i do remember going over and staying at their house and stuff like when my parents wanted a date night or whatever and my gram would feed us uh sour cream and sour cream pringles which are delicious good and
00:41:38
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Yeah, so I remember that and my parents would always talk about how like they'd come pick us up at like 10 a.m. m the next day and we'd be walking outside with ice cream and they're like why i have ice cream? And like, no, they wanted it So they were grandparents that spilled this. the My grandparents on my ah mom's side were a little more strict, but I mean, obviously still London, they were nice. They were lovely people, but they, they were like no video games. No, they did barely even watch movies. Like they were very strict people. And so my grandparents did not buy me stuff, but who did was even though we had like a Genesis and I think even maybe a PS one before this, I'll always be thankful for when my mom,
00:42:16
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I think I've told the story. She went to a garage sale and she came back with an n NES with like 20 games in it. And she's just like, I don't know. I saw this at a garage sale. I thought guys might want it. It had both Zelda games and all the Mario games that Kirby had duck hunt with the gun. it had everything in there. It was incredible. And so, and it's so funny to think like,
00:42:39
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I don't know, I guess, how kids are today now that they have like phones and shit. But as a kid with me, it was just something new. Like, I didn't really think of like, this is actually an older console than other stuff I have or anything like that. It was just a new console to me. So as a kid, I loved it. And like, I'm the kind of person that if I ever have kids, I'm going to raise them on the games I grew up on. They're not going to just be like Fortnite Minecraft kids. They're going to they're going to appreciate great games from back in the day. And so I just love my mom for getting us that NES just at a garage sale randomly and whatever dumb sucker sold it for like 20 bucks with a bunch of games. Like, so I, I just remember that. And I'm always thankful for my parents were very, you know, they're kind of like go outside and play kind of parents, you know, like normal parents were, especially back in the nineties. That's just kind of how it was. But They'd always buy us like a Game Boy or if if we're having a sleepover, Streetlight comes on, you come inside, eat dinner, and then you go play video games with each other. and so My parents were very lax like that. where They loved letting us play games, but obviously at the same time, they were like, get your homework done and then you play games kind of people. but
00:43:46
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They definitely didn't like shoo poo-poo video games from us. They they they let us have our our enjoyment with them. and so Buying like that n NES and stuff like that was... was awesome. And i love my parents for letting us be nerdy gamers as children. And now I'm a nerdy adult.
00:44:03
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So, yeah. Excellent. Excellent. I'll just say, because you mentioned just a random thought that stuck in my mind. ah You mentioned the ah the sour cream or whatever Pringles.
00:44:17
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Dude, when I was on my road trip with my dad, we went out to visit mom in California. We picked up the Lay's stacked like their version of Pringles. Oh, yeah. The Lay's stacked. The sour cream and onion.
00:44:29
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flavor oh my god dude this was 10 out of 10 dude you you gotta try it dude the flavor on those was like super powerful and super perfect and delicious it was so good sour cream and onion is such an underrated yeah like you gotta try the lay stack dude they're so good the cheese and sour cream ones are also great those ones i love that flavor too but yeah anyway sean what's another thing you're thankful for You make me look like a jerk. You guys say like these loving things. I say Tetsuya Nomura. I mean, I'm like a jerk. I mean, some of mine are less personal. I'm going to switch it up. All right. Well, I'm going go to a personal one now. I just thought, I know was saving my personal ones for later, but that's fine. There you go. I am going with, I'm thankful for, you know, just my, both my parents were gaming. I mean, uh you know those who listen or know like my dad was a big gamer growing up well like in my lifetime he's a big gamer he's the reason why i'm a gamer he never shied away from you know letting me play video games or letting me my sister they were integral part of our life that's some of my like earliest memories just you know sitting on his lap watching him play games and he still plays today so i need to say thanks to him he really melt molded me into the gamer i am today why i love jrpgs and why love, you know, PlayStation in general, because you're such a PlayStation guy and, uh, original big original Nintendo guy. And, um,
00:45:47
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But yeah, like I really had to say thanks to both of them. just like you know i don't you know Now I realize just like how lucky I was to have such great parents. But i I was actually talking to my students about this, about taking things for granted around this time. you kind of like ah Growing up, I kind of took for granted just how great my how much how hard my parents worked and how great they were to me. i you know you know We would go on vacation at least once a year. we would I wouldn't have to worry about...
00:46:17
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like what I wanted for dinner. Like I had that luxury of complaining, Oh, i hate this. I don't want to eat this. Like, why are we eating this? Whereas other kids would be like, Oh, they come home from school. They don't even know if they're gonna get dinner. And i kind of took that for granted. I didn't really realize just how good I had it until later in life when, you know, you're, you're older and you start talking to other kids, like in high school and college and you start realizing like, wow, like I had such a, i had such great parents and like, i didn't realize like how,
00:46:45
Speaker
how much they must have sacrificed for us. Like, I didn't have to worry about, like, I could go home and be like, hey, mom, I really want to play this travel sport. And it costs us, like, they'd be like, yeah, you know, we're going sign you up. We'll we'll sign up You can try out. We'll, you know. And I didn't think about how much it cost. And now, like, now that I know how much these things cost, it's like, wow, they must have been, like, working so much. And now that I think about it, like, I remember, like, my dad used to work when I was really little.
00:47:06
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um He'd work, like, over time twice a week every week it would be like he'd work a double shift every single week and i just thought oh yeah it's just a normal thing and like i don't realize he was doing that so that we can afford these things um but you know parents are really great they they really it's pretty crazy to think about how much they sacrifice like becoming a parent you sacrifice so much like just putting your child first like you're basically taking your life and be like okay my life is not over but like i'm gonna put my life on hold for the next you know
00:47:39
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30, 40 years to just, you know, and just like be with my kids and, you know, help them out. Even, even, even now, like parents still help us out all the time. Even, you know, you know, we're in our late twenties, early thirties, late thirties for some of us. um And, you know, our parents are still there for us. I mean, I'm sure if, if we called our parents right now said like, you know, Hey, I'm like, and I'm really, I'm in a bind. I'm in a really tough spot. I'm sure they they'd offer us help. I mean, that's just goes to show you how great,
00:48:07
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um parents can be and they they want to do well. And I'll never forget, my dad always used to say, like, my goal as a parent is to make your life better than when I had it. Like, I want you to have a better life than I did. And he goes, when you have a kid, I want you to be like, that's like, that's going to be your mantra for your kid. You want your kid to have a better life than you did. And he goes, eventually, because you're, everyone's going to keep having a better life it's just going to make it even better as generations go on.
00:48:33
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Yeah, I i thought I always think about that. My my dad worked full time. My mom was a stay at home mom growing up, and that's really hard to do nowadays. I mean, that's not anything different. That's just because economy is way worse than was when we were kids. But ah yeah, like i had my parents. They're not gamers at all. They they'll never listen to this podcast. They like they listen to my country music one because they like me.
00:48:56
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They like music and they wanted to support that, but they won't listen to this one. They don't care about games. Like I've told my dad, he he's retired now. He's still working, but he retired. And I'm like, just start gaming, get, get into reading, finding out some new stories from video games. like, i don't know use those controllers. Like he can't figure out how to use it, hold an Xbox or PlayStation controller. But no, that you're right with that. With the parents being, like I said, with my dad, he was a working all the time. My mom was able to be a stay at home mom because of how hard my dad worked. He, Anytime it stormed, he was getting called in into work because he was a lineman. So he any time it was every time the power went out, he was getting a call to go. So he hated storms for so long because he knew he was going to be working. But yeah, he worked his ass off for 30 plus years.
00:49:39
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And eventually, by the time i think it was when me and my brothers all were middle school, high school age, that's when my mom just decided to go back to work because she didn't need to be home anymore. We were kind of, you know, functional as humans at that point. So. She went back to work, became a, went back to school, became a nurse. And now she's, she still does nursing and stuff and and she'll be retiring in the next few years as well. And yeah, they, they worked like crazy to, cause I, yeah, I think the same thing, like all the presents we had as kids, like I was definitely very privileged in that sense of, I had parents that worked their asses off to make good Christmases for us and good holidays and good, put meals on the table and stuff. And
00:50:18
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Yeah, you know, i fucking love my parents and they helped me just recently with a huge problem I had. And and I told him, like, I'm, you know, ill obviously in payback and all that. And my parents just go, ah you're gonna be wiping our asses in a few years. Like they're they're kind of that of like, Yeah, you guys will be taking care of us when we're old and in a home and all that stuff. So you'll you'll pay us back in that way. I'm like, yeah, obviously, i love you guys. But I like they've been there for me more than anyone who needs to be there for anyone. But yeah, i mean they they just do things without even like, like, it's just the unconditional love they have. for yeah It's great. Yeah.
00:50:54
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It's funny. I remember like I said, so my mom had, my mom worked three different jobs and, but they were all related to teaching. So I just always thought she only worked one job. I'm like, Oh, she just doing a bunch of stuff for teaching. But then I realized later on, I'm like, Oh, those were three separate things.
00:51:09
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Like they were three separate jobs she was working. And I'm like, that's crazy. Like I can't even imagine that. yeah I've had two jobs at once before and that's tiring. So I can't imagine having three did three different jobs. I remember that. Yeah.
00:51:22
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Yeah. yeah i don't even want to have one. yeah Yeah. Shout out to the parents. That's a good one. Yeah. So a midnight, you got anything else to say about that or onto your next one.
00:51:34
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No, no. I mean, not really. I mean, I just I second everything you guys said Parents are awesome. I'm thankful that I still have both of mine. Of course, my mom's sick, but she's still with me and we're having a good time together right now. So um but yeah it's great.
00:51:48
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um Unfortunately, i mean, i well, unfortunately, whatever. Both of my parents are both. kind of kind of poor. So I'm actually more supporting them. Like if I needed money, I couldn't really go to them. But if I need anything else, if I need advice, if I need help with something, they're definitely there. They're awesome. um Love my parents. They're great. But really quick, that's that's also, that's not a bad lesson that people have. Like obviously me and Sean had you know parents who kind of They work their ass off to spoil us and stuff. But having parents who weren't well off teaches you to be more frugal as an adult. Like, yeah, I know you are a very frugal person, which is not a bad thing at all. My my brother's girlfriend, she grew up broke as shit. And so she's very good with money. She has a lot. She's very good at holding on to her money because she grew up needing to. And so it teaches you a lot of good lessons, even in that sense. And and it's not like not like your parents are like bums. It's just they didn't make it. You know, they didn't. They didn't.
00:52:43
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get as successful as other people and stuff, which there's nothing wrong with that. But yeah, it's it teaches you another ah different type of lesson, which is good. Yeah. I mean, I, I didn't grow up like in the streets or anything. but Yeah. Like in my twenties, I was horrible with money because I did grow up in that, like ah Kevin or Kevin, sorry, Sean, I know you were saving up for a house since you were like four years old or whatever you said, but like I was spending all my money. i was like eight. I've been, I started saving up my money.
00:53:10
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Well, then that was another thing. I really value that. My parents taught me like, listen, like money is it's, it's valuable. Like you don't want to waste it. Like, I i was so happy that when I would come up with something, like I wanted to buy something, they would be like, are you sure? like you look like Before you buy, we really got to think here.
00:53:26
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Are you really, do you really want that? Is it one of those, you want it right now, but then you're not, you're never going to use it. So they, they kind of, they, they taught me a very valuable lesson about money. Yeah, that's good.
00:53:37
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Yeah, I am very frugal, I guess, because of my upbringing. There's two things that really I got from my parents. ah I guess number one, I'm very frugal. um I love saving money and I like i love, you know, that's what i get into instead of like spending a whole bunch. um I like to save like I'm very against like getting a new car and having a car payment and stuff like I would much rather get like a cheap like use like Toyota or something, pay it off quick and then not have a car payment because you just save so much money in the long run on interest and all that stuff. um
00:54:09
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And the other thing is like I don't I won't use drugs like at all. Like I'll have a beer every now and then, but that's pretty much it. because my dad, he battled addiction and stuff. So you know seeing that um made me be like, no, I'm not doing any of that stuff. so um But yeah, anyway.
00:54:27
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Let's get a little more positive here. Am I up? I think yeah you said All right. So I guess I'll keep it with the family theme here. So I have family and friends to game with throughout the year. So I have a couple of moments here that I just wanted to showcase. When I was really young, ah none of my parents gamed or anything, but I had an aunt. I had an aunt that I used to go over to her house and we would play Mario Brothers together a lot. We would pass the controller back and forth. I remember on Super and NES, we were playing Super Mario. What was it? Land or World?
00:54:55
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What was that? Super Nintendo? The SNES one. Yeah, World. we We played the hell out of Super Mario World, and we would just pass the controller back and forth. Once you die, you pass it on. We had so much fun, and I remember my ah my niece or whatever, my cousin, it would be my cousin, I guess. She was really young, and she would like get in front of the TV and like block the TV because she wanted attention while we were playing, and we would both get annoyed, but it was funny, though. um But yeah, so that's one memory. Another one I had is playing with my brother and and my other brother. Not really, but Daniel, we used to play NBA 2K crew mode and we used play Call of Duty a lot and just having gaming nights and just playing together ah a whole ton was a lot of fun. Uh, and then last but not least, of course, playing with my, my best friend, former best friend, still friends, but whatever, who cares? Uh, Henry, we used to play MMOs a lot back in the day. You know, was playing, uh, like I talked about dark age of Cam a lot and shadow Bane and all these old school um MMOs together with him. So just like these memories that you have of gaming with close friends and family, uh, that really define like a set part of your life, at least gaming wise, uh, thankful and shout out to that.
00:56:01
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Great one. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I mean, i can just, it's kind of the same with the other one. I can lead that into my next one of, in a way, I'm thankful. It's a weird thing to say, but I'm thankful for Fortnite, not in the sense of like the game itself, but,
00:56:20
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Growing up, like in the 360 days, Call Duty and Halo like that, you had your friends online all the time and you were playing these games constantly. But as we got older, we all kind of fell off game. A lot of my friends fell off gaming completely like they were very casual in, you know, in general, they were Madden, Cod type people growing up and. So they fell off gaming. And but when Fortnite came out, it was such a huge thing that it got so many of my friends back into gaming.
00:56:46
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And it brought me back to like those days of high school, college of being up playing Halo all night or COD with my friends all night. And it it brought back that feeling of like, hey, let's squad up like at we're done with work. Let's go home.
00:56:59
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squad up and you know play some fortnite and it led into hell divers fall guys uh even a little bit that arc raiders game i forgot to include that in my thing it's a fine game but i'm not huge on it but like it brought it brought back all the multiplayer stuff and it it reinvigorated my love for playing multiplayer games with friends like obviously i'm a big story person i love stories and games like that's why i love indies because they're all interesting you know different analogies on depression or whatever they're all the same but uh i like i love stories and games but fortnite reinvigorated my love of squading up and playing with people online and so in a way i just have to shout out fortnite for that because it's
00:57:41
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Like, even though I still do play it with my friends here and there, I don't play as much as I used to, but I still do play it. And yeah, it just, it got so many of my friends back into gaming. And I love that I'm able to hop on and play that. Or like I said, Helldivers or Call of Duty or Battlefield or whatever, because they're they're back to gaming. They like playing multiplayer games with with other people. I try and get a lot of them single player games. It's hard to, because they don't really care about those, but they just are more of the social aspect of it. But yeah. Yeah, I just love that it it Fortnite helped get my friends back into gaming and get me having friends online to play with. So, yeah, Fortnite.
00:58:18
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All right. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. No? Yeah.
00:58:24
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all right sean all right um i'm gonna uh continue like a more personal one and that is i'm gonna be thankful for my sister again i grew up in a household of gamers and my sister was um big time gamer as well um and just growing up we were such we're so close in age you know three years apart from each other and um and um Yeah, no, we we just were... We we would play a lot of the same games. We would play, like, games together. We would, you know, with Pokemon, like, she'd get one copy, I'd get the other. We'd help each other complete, like, the Pokedex. Oh, I want this. I need this. Let's trade with each other. Oh, can you you help me out? I want to do a trade evolution. Or, you know, we'd be playing... Mario Sunshine together and it's not like oh we're fighting over um whose whose turn is it no we take turns we'd actually take turns we talk to each other hey I'm gonna play for a couple hours and you can play for a couple hours and we have different save files like oh how far did you get oh you get here I'm not gonna spoil that and we would just like have discussions about what we were playing and it kind of brought me into that uh kind of like pre-internet where I would have people actually to talk to about video games and she was one of the first people that I could and she was a big influence on me like
00:59:36
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learning how to play like certain games too um she would often help me in certain times and again she was you know she she she might have played a game before me and she would help me with certain games um but yeah shout out to her she's she's great i we have a really really close relationship uh me and my sister we never it's one of those things like we never fought like we weren't one of those like kids who would like fight with each other or like get get an arguments um she was always friendly with my friends i was always friendly with her friends it was never one of those like oh I don't want to be with you. And it was a good time. And, you know, we both had a fondness of video games. And I remember like going on like like road trips or vacations. And like we would each be playing like Game Boy and we had our link cable out and we'd play with each other on the link cable or just like I remember. um
01:00:22
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when WarioWare Mega, like the WarioWare Inc. game came out for Game Boy Advance, I remember it was right before we were going to Virginia and we were driving because my sister as a kid was afraid of flying. So a lot of times we weren't, we would have to drive everywhere, which was kind of,
01:00:39
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It was good. But then like right when I turned 18, when I was moving out to college, we finally got to go get her on a plane to go like mark to go to Marquette to like see me. And she was like, wow, flying so easy. We should. I should. I wish I could have done this my whole life. I'm like, really?
01:00:52
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We drew all that. All those times we drove, we drove to Ohio like four or five times, drove to freaking Virginia and Delaware and all these different places. But my parents would always say, OK, we're going to get you guys each like a Game Boy game for the for the car ride. And I remember we both got WarioWare and we had no idea what it was, but it was such like a fun like game, just like pick up and play game for like a car ride where and they had like a versus mode. And I vividly remember for like four hours driving down to Virginia, me and her played like the versus mode of WarioWare and just going back and forth and having so much fun. So, yeah, shout out to my sister. She's great. She's awesome. And yeah.
01:01:31
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Yeah. Shout out to your sister. I remember the infamous dance dance revolution battle that you talked about. Oh yeah. We would be played DDR all the time. Shout out to my broken. You got the one up on her with that one song song or whatever. Oh yeah. um Speed by Beethoven. Yeah.
01:01:45
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Speed over Beethoven. But she she was so much – she was a better DDR player than me. Much better. I could just be – don't know why. i Speed over Beethoven. Great song, by the way. That's, like, on my Spotify playlist still. But, ah yeah, she actually introduced me to DDR. That was one of those things she
RPG Love and Gaming Traditions
01:01:59
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introduced me to. Like, oh, I think you're going really like this. And i got hooked on it. and Yeah, DDR. dan state Wow, I really want to play some DDR now.
01:02:06
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There you go. I'm going go to an arcade and find one. If there's still an arcade, like, around – Well, every arcade is basically like it's either a David Buster's or there's like an arcade at like a Topgolf. that's true that's kind that's kind of where the the arcades exist now there's definitely not like the old school just it's an arcade it's just a part of something bigger now yeah but all right midnight number three what's all right two number two yeah the third thing this is the third thing yeah um so the third thing that i'm thankful for or i'm gonna bring this back to gaming
01:02:44
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a little bit less personal and serious. So I have RPGs because they are the greatest of all the genres of games out there. And with a side shout out to Fire Emblem Awakening because it saved the franchise. And I love Fire Emblem. As I've mentioned countless times on this podcast, I can't wait for that new Fire Emblem that they teased ah that's coming. Oh my God, I can't wait. But yeah, RPGs, in my opinion,
01:03:10
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for me anyway, by far the greatest genre of video games. I absolutely love them. I just can't imagine a world where I'm just playing like shooters and racing games and platformers and stuff. I just think that would get like, just kind of boring. Like I really love RPGs. love, you know, assuming a role of a character, exploring a world, you know, often making choices and just seeing where the story and the world plays out and what's going to happen and what, what impact you have on it. It's just awesome. Uh, Hodge, you need to play mass effect too. It's awesome. Uh, that's one of the best RPGs of all time. And I, uh, I can't wait till you finally play it. I know you're busy though, but yeah, I just love RPGs and that's what I put RPGs because the greatest of genres, I'm very thankful for them. Uh, what a great world we live in. Yeah. I second that the RPGs are freaking awesome. They're great. They're like my favorite genre as well. specifically, you know, I lean more towards JRPG, you lean more towards the Western RPG, but we both like both of them. I mean, it's great.
01:04:11
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They're amazing. So, yeah, great, great pick. Yeah. i used to The world would be darker if we're just playing, sorry, it was just like racing games and platforms and stuff. You need to get immersed and lost in a world, you know?
01:04:22
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Go ahead, Hodge. I was just going to say, I used to be like, other than like Final Fantasy VII, I loved that as a kid and Kingdom Hearts, but other than that, I was I like hated RPGs for so long. Actually, the first game that got me into liking RPGs. I think I've said this before, but it was Dead Island, the first Dead Island. I love that game so much. It really got me into kind of those exploring open world type games and.
01:04:47
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I'm still not huge in ah RPGs, i but I don't dislike them. Like I used to just be like, i I don't understand why anyone likes this kind of game. And then I started playing them and I'm like, all right, I get it. I get it. I mean, really the only thing that keeps me away from like really playing RPGs, as I've said a million times, is the length. I don't want to play a hundred hour games. I don't like having to sink that much time into finishing a game. But on that, like how they play, I've I've grown to enjoy them over time.
01:05:15
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But. Yeah. um There's so many of them that you so many RPGs are like 20 to 30 hours. but Yeah. Yeah, like I want to play Fantasio at some point. i want to play i I want to play Persona at some point. I just know I have to get into the mindset that I'm going to play. Yeah, that I'm going to play like a four hour on a hundred hour game. I just have to mentally get into that space. Play Persona 4 Golden right now. I'm debating, waiting for that remake one to come out.
01:05:42
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And then maybe how you kill you could. I do own it on the Vita, which it's so good. i got Like the original Golden, it's just so great. Yeah, I should. But um yeah i ah yeah, I'm not against them by any stretch, but vida but um yeah, I eventually want to get to those. It's just I know that it's going to be such a time commitment.
01:06:07
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And it takes it takes me like, i kind of put it in like like five hours, five to 10 hours ah per week. So I think about that and it's like 10 weeks. It would take me to beat that at least. So it would take a while.
01:06:20
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But ah anyway, next thing I am thankful for, I didn't actually have this on my list, but Sean made me think of it when you said your sister. And I got definitely shout out to my brothers because we both have our own little traditions together. So as I've said on this before, me and my older brother, we play every Lego game together. That's just a thing we've done. We've done ever since the original so Lego Star Wars on PlayStation two way back in the day. We have played every single Lego game together. And actually Lego Horizons is coming to or Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PS Plus next month. And we found out it's online multiplayer. So me and him are going to play that probably next month when it comes to that. So. I'm very excited for that. But yeah, it's a tradition that me and him have had forever. We love just playing because most of the games are really dumb. Most of them are really easy. And so it's just a really fun thing that we would do
01:07:12
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Like as a kid, we'd play him just as they came out. But then eventually he went off to college. I was still in high school and we'd have, so we'd have to wait for like Thanksgiving break or Christmas break when he'd come home and then we'd play another one. And then eventually, obviously I went to college and then he graduated college. So it would just be whenever we were able to get home for a holiday or something, we'd, just smash through a Lego game.
01:07:33
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And it's just a lot of fun. And I love doing that. And I'm going to continue doing that until his, he now has a daughter. And once she's old enough, hopefully he can continue some gaming traditions with her. And maybe I'll spoil my niece with some nerd shit when she's old enough, but.
01:07:47
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um But then my younger brother, he's always been like a PC gamer. He loved World Warcraft, Guild Wars. What's that free one on RuneScape? He was obsessed with those kind of games growing up. So me and him really never gamed together that much. But as he got older, me and him play Helldivers all the time. We're usually playing Fortnite together. So we're always online playing and those get kind of games together. We're more of the multiplayer online type games. And so me and him have grown.
01:08:16
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I mean, obviously, I've been close to my brothers my entire life, but me and him have grown closer in terms of gaming because we'll hop on and play multiplayer games together. Whereas my older brother, he's a lot busier. He does other games that I don't really play that much anymore. So me and him are just kind of the Lego games. But yeah, I love gaming with my brothers when I can. Occasionally we will get all three of us together to gatee do something, but it's it's more rare that we're all playing together. So we both have our own little things. And yeah, i just love gaming. My older brother, when we were growing up, we also played man together all time and he'd always beat me. But I still remember one time I was down by a touchdown with zero seconds left. I got the kickoff and returned it. And he unplugged the PlayStation before I got to the end zone because he was so mad.
01:08:59
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Typical older brother put behavior there. but ah yes But yeah, I love game with my brothers. So i Sean, you're saying your sister made me think of that. And so yeah, I got a shout out to my brothers with a game with them with our own little traditions together.
01:09:14
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yeah Yeah, actually, I thought about you and your brother the other day because I saw, I don't know if you know this, but next month on the PlayStation Plus free games, they're giving away the Lego Horizon game.
01:09:26
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Yeah. So you and your brother can play Lego Horizon. Oh, you just said that? You literally just said that. oh Oh, my God. Wow, I was zoning out. My bad. good No, you're good. He couldn't picture in mind, that's why. Yeah, yeah I couldn't. Yeah, we're definitely going to play that, because I heard the game's alright, but the fact that we can play it online is just a good excuse to hop on and play it together, but... Yeah. But so yeah, ah Midnight. or Sorry, Sean, you're up.
01:09:52
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what's your What's your final thankful thing? All right. My final thankful thing is it's interesting. You know, I was going, you know, I just did. I started out with a game one that I kind of did the two personal ones. I'm going to end with a but they gaming one. cause I had an extensive list, but I'm gonna end with a a gaming one. And I'm just thankful for.
01:10:13
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Nintendo. I'm thankful for Nintendo in general. um Nintendo is a...
01:10:21
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Nintendo is, it's interesting. I have always been a huge Nintendo fan. You know, I've, I've gravitated towards PlayStation as well, but Nintendo has always been there for me throughout my entire life. I mean, I've always gravitated towards their games. And even like when they were down, like with the Wii U, I was there day one, I was supporting the Wii U all the time. And Nintendo has rewarded me for my loyalty by giving me such great switch games. And they, they came back in this generation and,
01:10:48
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Some of my greatest gaming memories of all time come from Nintendo, whether that be multiplayer with friends, multiplayer with my sister, or just playing single player by myself. They have so many, they have a plethora of gaming genres where they have so many different games in these genres. And yeah, i just want to say I'm really thankful for Nintendo. Like, i come to like think ah think about it. Like, as much as a PlayStation guy i am today and as much as I was when I was a kid, um that used to just be where i played like rpgs like i wouldn't really play anything else other than yeah rpgs on playstation everything else was in crash bandicoot but everything else was basically i just played on nintendo that was it nintendo nintendo and nintendo so if it wasn't that i don't even know like my dad would play games i don't even know how much i would have what am i would i have stuck with it like i have no idea that's like that's the thing for me um
01:11:40
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So I'm really thankful for them, just thankful for all the stuff they they offer to people. I mean, you know you do a lot of history about, if you do a lot of research on Nintendo, they're an extremely generous company as well. like They're really good to their employees. they're They're really good to just the community in general. and they I think they're, obviously businesses want to make money, but I still view them as like they they really want they really put the consumer first on a lot of things, with a lot of things. They they really value what people think about them and what their public perception is. They don't want to be known as like the big bad corporation. um
01:12:16
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Whereas like Sony and Microsoft, we often see them as, Oh, the big bad guys, the big baddies. Whereas with Nintendo, we really don't see them that way. Other than when they sue people. I mean, there's that, but hey, I mean, it's their right to sue them. I mean, you know. yeah i And never put in games on sale, but yeah. It actually is a big Black Friday Nintendo game sale right now. I saw that, what was it? Echoes of Wisdom's on sale, I think. yeah i seen There's a lot of games on sale, yeah. yeah who Might have to check that out. Yeah. um You kind of made me think. i'm not this was It was on my list, but I'm not going to include it, going to kind of cheat and put it here. ah
01:12:53
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In a way, I am thankful for Nintendo as well because, like I said, with the n NES from my mom and all that stuff. Hang on. They also saved video games from you know crashing and dying. Oh, yeah first i was gonna yeah. I was going to mention that. yeah They literally did save gaming with the NES. Yeah. Yeah. And so i love that. But I was actually going to say the same kind of with Xbox because the 360 was my first Xbox. I saved up my money to do it in the same with the Xbox one. I saved up my money for it. And I loved both those systems. Obviously, I am a few one of the few apologists for the Xbox one. I liked that system. But I kind of felt the same way with like the 360, even though Fortnite was what kind of revived my online gaming. 360 is what started the online gaming and playing Fortnite or not Fortnite, Call of Duty or Halo online. with My friends playing rock band when having friends over, we all jam out in a rock band together. And it was such a great system of that I kind of feel that way, how you feel about Nintendo, about Xbox and Xbox.
01:13:48
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even though the series X has been kind of, you know, this whole generation has kind of killed the Xbox overall. Uh, I loved it. I love that console. It meant a lot to me in terms of gaming. I love the PlayStation. Obviously PS one was my first, either my first or second. remember if we got the Genesis or the PS one first, but I loved it. Obviously Spyro and everything. Like I just, I mean, I love gaming in general, but so I'm thankful for it all, but, Yeah. Xbox is always the one that I kind of think of the most. So I still always have a soft spot, even though it's not my primary anymore. My primary is my PS five. Now and my Xbox is mostly just used for online live service kind of stuff. But, uh, yeah, I just love all these systems and Nintendo, even though I play my switch, the least of all my, of my three consoles, I still, I love Nintendo. It's, It was my childhood. it I've loved it forever. And even though I wish they would put a little more effort into graphically making their games a little better, that's not the important part of what makes it. Yeah. If Pokemon, they could get their shit together. That series would be the best series on in video games. But right now it's kind of mid. But yeah, Midnight, you anything say about Nintendo? And then your last thing thingy.
01:15:01
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Yeah, great. ah a Great choice. Sean, Nintendo's goaded say literally save gaming, as we know from the crash when everyone was just putting out shitty shovelware games and people had no faith. And then Nintendo came out with the Nintendo seal of quality and limiting how many games people could put on the system. And Nintendo is awesome.
01:15:20
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um You know, they've made some of the greatest games and franchises of all time. They're still awesome today. So, yeah, great choice. Also, shout out Hodge. Like you mentioned, the Xbox 360 was an extra special console for me and my friends, you know playing online and doing all this stuff. Amazing console, peak console.
01:15:39
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But yeah, that was a good one. ah All right. So for my last one, I guess for today. um I put, and this is a kind of a lighter one too, I put my Discord, gaming Discord friends I'm thankful for. The Spank Bank, shout out to the Spank Bank. And also shout out to the Happy Friends server with Lockmort. Just awesome people, awesome times in those Discords, hanging out, you know sharing memes. sharing a laugh, raging about sports and our fantasy teams, whatever else that we get into. It's good times. Also, I do think that we should, one of these nights here soon, we should get back together. We should get the ah Switch hitters back together one time and maybe hop on Mario Kart because we haven't done that in months. um I think, you know, this Mario Kart game, I don't know. It's not like the best ever, but it would be fun to get the boys back together one more time and even just for an hour. an hour, hour, hour.
01:16:32
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Yeah, well, i don't have that, but, you know, an hour, an hour, hour and a half. Let's get the boys back together and let's do some Mario Kart and just have some fun. But yeah, shout out to the Spank Bank and the Happy Friends server.
01:16:43
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ah I'm thankful for them. There you go. Yeah, Sean, got anything? Otherwise, I love it. No, it's a great one. I am thankful for everyone. I mean, it's why we're here. I mean, yeah.
01:16:55
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Yeah, we all met on Discord. Yeah, that's why i was going to say for my last one, I'm going to say, in a way, Last Stand Media I got to be thankful for. Even though I'm not huge, I don't listen to all their shows anymore. It's just i don't have time. then Every show they do is four hours. so I love them, but guys, little too long. um But without Last Stand, I wouldn't have met you guys. i wouldn't Spank Bank wouldn't exist.
01:17:20
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I wouldn't even be on Discord because i i have I've had Discord for a while, for even a couple of years before, because I actually downloaded it when Pokemon Go came out because people would use Discord to like meet up and do raids and stuff way back in 2016 or whatever it was So I was doing that's the only reason I had discord and so I didn't use it until LSM ah launched theirs and then I went in there and that's how I met you guys that's how i met everyone who's in the spank bank other than my family members who are in there. So I without a an LSM, they they still employ me to this day of doing their graphics and stuff, which there may or may not be another piece of merch coming out next year that I designed. But I can't I can and cannot say whether that is true or not. So ah and then recently I had their Christmas sweater, which is public and that's out. And I'm a big fan of that design. And I like that. And obviously they've been good friends to us. I'm friends with a handful of them. They've joined us on our podcast, Locke, Cog, Dustin, Brad. did I say Locke? I forget. I'm just shooting out names. But Ben and everyone, yeah, they've all been on our show and they helped support us in that in that way. and ah It brought a lot of people here. and So yeah, LSM, without them, none of this would be here. So I got to be thankful for them and
01:18:46
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you know the community they helped build even if i'm not too ingrained in that community anymore uh it found me a lot of good friends that we talk to constantly on discord all day so it's it's the most yeah it's the dumbest group chat i've ever been a part of but i love it i i met hodge basically five years ago which is wild to think about yeah hodge was the first lsm person i met in person oh yeah back get back in good old butler pa yeah early september 2021 we're hanging out yeah that was such a fun weekend yeah it feels like yesterday i know it's incredible that it's five years ago at this point that's that's unbelievable i remember everyone asking me so what's it like teaching with uh covid right and i was like the first thing everyone everyone asked me i'm like oh well it's an experience yeah
01:19:35
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and Yeah, that that was one of the first weekends that people were really traveling. I mean, it was a year and a half into it, so it was kind of everyone was little more free and willing to go travel and stuff. Like those who flew to Butler, you still had to wear a mask on the plane. I remember, like, you still had to wear masks the plane, yeah. Yeah, I drove because it was only a 10-hour drive. I flew because I i came right there. It was like a nice one-and-a-half-hour flight, but I remember that. It was like, God, it's so weird to think about.
01:20:03
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wearing masks yeah again. It's so weird to think about it. I saw someone in the store. I'm not saying this to shit on someone, but I saw someone in the store with a mask on the other day, but they had a beard bigger than mine, so it was over that, but all the air is coming out the beard. It's not blocking anything. Whatever. not going to tell people I'll live their lives. But yeah, LSM and without them, none of this would be here, so I'm happy. Obviously,
01:20:33
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It's not what it's meant to be, but I'm thankful for you two being able to the show together. It's a lot of fun. I can't believe we've already been we're closing in on two years of doing this. I know it's wild, which is crazy. Yeah.
01:20:44
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But yeah yeah, that's all. That's all I got. ah Obviously, we'll do some more. We'll probably do another thankful episode next year. Just and Sean, you had what? Thirty seven. i had Thirty seven. Thirty eight. Thirty eight. Yeah. So I had a couple that I didn't do. Yeah, I had a couple I didn't do and stuff. So.
01:21:01
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Yeah, that'll be fun. But yeah, that's all I really got ah for this. I guess we could get into our final thoughts. Midnight, what are you thinking? What'd you think of this episode?
01:21:12
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Yeah. What's in your mind? I'm sorry to imagine it. now it's It's very easy to imagine it. It's hard to see it. ah I've been expert at imagining stuff, ah but yeah, no, it's, ah it's great.
01:21:24
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This has been a great episode. Thank you guys for accommodating my schedule, by the way. We usually record on Saturdays, but for those of you that don't know, of course, by the time this comes out, it will have already happened. But there's a pretty big game for me. Ohio state versus Michigan is tomorrow. And, you know It would have been happening when we were normally recording, and I didn't want that.
01:21:44
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so ah Normally, I don't mind watching i don't normally mind normally watching Ohio State games a little bit late after we record, but not Ohio State, Michigan. You know what i mean? Cat's excited about Ohio State, Michigan.
01:21:56
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i am thankful for my cat, too, by the way. Shout out to my cat. He's awesome. That's him running around yelling, Go Blue! Go Blue! No, he's saying, he's playing Fuck Michigan. That's what he's saying. Are they going to finally win? No.
01:22:09
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Yeah, I hope so. We better. They'll win by 30. Michigan's going to win, and then they're going to win. They're going to go to the playoffs, and then they're going upset Ohio State in the playoffs.
01:22:20
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no No chance. Indiana's going to set them both. If that happens, this podcast will become a two-person podcast. i don't know if Midnight will be here anymore. Yeah, I won't be here anymore. I'll be deceased. That's my final thoughts. There you go. Shout out to Ohio State. where They finally beat Michigan, guys. You're listening to this on Monday. It happened. Michigan is down because they suck.
01:22:41
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Yeah, and the Bears are 8-4. There you go. Well, if that's a laughter. And what was the score again, Sean? Do you remember? 31-13. thirty one thirty one thirteen There you go. It happened. Crazy. How did we know? How did we predict this all? Script's written. Script is written. Yeah. yeah yeah I did actually a Bears podcast for a
Thanksgiving Memories and Historical Reflections
01:23:00
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little bit. It was called Unbearable because the Bears were horrible. The Bears.
01:23:03
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and uh no one listened because such an original man yeah it was no one listened because that is such a flooded market sports podcast is so flooded i've been granted gaming podcast r2 but whatever i would argue sports is more flooded yeah oh yeah it's yeah that we i we got very few listeners on that one that no one came to shit But ah yeah, anyway, Sean, you got any final thoughts before we get of Great episode. I love being thankful. I do want to say thank you to Miles Standish and the Pilgrims, 1621, that first Thanksgiving dinner. So thank you, Miles Standish at ah Plymouth Rock. You know, you you crash that Mayflower into that rock.
01:23:42
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All third graders know in Massachusetts, you go um you go on vacation on'm vacation. You go on a field trip to the ah Plymouth, Massachusetts, and you walk through, um you know, you basically, they recreate the Thanksgiving dinner and you You talk to the Native Americans and the pilgrims and they they're like, they're like acting and they actually get into full character and they do not break character. It's freaking awesome. That's like, that's such a memorable field trip. And every single Massachusetts kid like knows what I'm talking about.
01:24:08
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Everyone knows like, oh yeah, third grade, you go on that field trip. It's great. That's funny. Talk to Squanto. Yeah, you could talk to Squanto. Yeah, when when we went on field trips when we were younger, it was always to like, because being in Illinois, there's a lot of prairie. And so you'd go and look at buffalo and stuff like that. thats That was what we did when we were younger. Yeah, we went to we went to we like we got to go to the Science Museum. We got to go to the Boston Aquarium. We got to go to that Plymouth plymouth Rock. Yeah, you could see the rock of the deploymet that the Mayflower essentially crashed into. It's like this it's legitimately not big at all. And they're like, yeah, this stopped the Mayflower. It's like, no, it didn't.
01:24:46
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I wonder. Maybe it was slightly bigger then. 400 years of erosion? It's not true. That boat did not crash. that boat did not crash. Oh, fun, too. They recreated the Mayflower. They called it Mayflower 2, so you get to walk on the Mayflower. Oh, this is great.
01:25:04
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We're really living in the old times here. Yeah, we also would go to Springfield, which was like three hours from us, but we'd go there and look at all the Lincoln stuff because that's where Lincoln was and all that. so And Bart Simpson. And Bart Simpson, yeah. We'd go and hang out with Homer and we'd go to Moe's, have a beer. But ah yeah, that was what we would do as as kids. Being from Illinois.
01:25:27
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But yeah, I got it again. I'm thankful for you guys. That's all I really got to say is this is a fun episode. and i I enjoyed the episodes where we just get to reminisce and be positive, even though obviously it's fun to criticize stuff too. But being reminiscent and enjoying stuff is it's a lot of fun.
01:25:44
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We'll have to have a negative episode soon where we just shit on stuff, but yeah not today. It's not today. Today is not that day. yeah I mean, we got our we got our schedule set for the rest of the year I'm looking at it right now. It's going to be a fun fun rest of the year. we got i cannot wait for the second annual GAPI.
01:26:00
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Yeah, we got the Goppy's showing. You getting it ready? already have it. And the TGAs. That'll be our next episode, actually. The TGAs are coming up soon. we'll be watching those and talking about some games. I was thinking maybe we could do we don't have to, but maybe do predictions episode. we could do that for DLC next year if we want or next week if we wanted. But ah yeah, it'll be fun talking about that, seeing what trailers have been unveiled and whatnot. But it's all i got for this episode. ah Thank you again for everyone listening. Please subscribe on YouTube. Give us a like. Give us a comment. Tell Sean how much you love the Mets. And let's get up on out of here. i hope Shall we, boys? We shall. by All right. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. And I'm happy it's Christmas season. So that's all I got to say. Bye.
01:26:53
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Bye. Duval.