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S3 Ep197: RSS - March - Jennie
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Join Dave, Jake, and Jennie as they talk about food, winter sports, family hit and runs, the weather, and even more in this week's episode!
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Transcript
Introduction and Greetings
00:00:41
Speaker
How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Superstone. My name is Jake, and I'm joined by my co-host, who's always Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? Uh, it's going a little bit sluggish. I am full of curry. How's it going tonight, Chani? I don't know who you're talking to, but I'll answer in their stead, but it's going well.
Naming Mishaps on Sandcaster
00:01:01
Speaker
Thank you for asking. Would you rather be called suffering?
00:01:04
Speaker
That is my name. Apparently, according to Sandcaster, because I forgot that I did that. Yeah, yeah. It's not even a random name. That's the only reason it might still be a cry for help. It's like there are YouTube like lobbies where you can share a YouTube video or something. And it'll just name everybody. You get an animal in like a... Future aquatic potato land or something. And it's like, no, he just chose that name.
00:01:33
Speaker
No, this is me. Well, to be fair, Jake has never once called me Dave ski. And that's been my alias on this one for about a year. Once I stopped coming up with ideas each week. It's only out of playness.
00:01:46
Speaker
And because I don't think we've ever seen you ski. So you really haven't, I would die.
Winter Sports and Childhood Sledding
00:01:53
Speaker
I'm not much of a snow sport individual. I feel it's like, it's one of those, um, cartoon like outcomes where it's like, where's Dave? And that's just like a giant snowball coming down the mountain. But you see the ski sticking out of it. So you know that I'm somewhere in there. Exactly. Exactly.
00:02:13
Speaker
Yeah, I've never done any sort of winter sports at all. I made a snowman if that counts. I mean, that's still pretty challenging. I ran my sister over with the toboggan. Yeah. I do forget about your third sister that no one talks about it anymore. Ever since the toboggan incident. How many sisters do I have? Yeah. I mean, you have like,
00:02:39
Speaker
I do have three. Yeah. I was like thinking I'm like, I've got one two and I'm like, who's the third one? And I was like, it's not me. I've met your family and I thought you just had the one in my head cannon. No, there's a lot. I had an off by one error. Yeah.
00:02:59
Speaker
Well, at least in your magical third sister with the toboggan, you don't really have to worry about burying her. She's already buried in the snow because toboggans take no prisoners. I used to have like a plastic two person one, but my parents have this rule of like, if I wanted to
00:03:18
Speaker
go and sell it to my friends. I had to take it on my own. They weren't going to drive me everywhere. I remember taking this big-ass two-person toboggan where I'm a small person in general, but I was even younger and smaller then. But I would drag it, and then once you got to the hill by the bank, you'd just cruise all the way down, and everything in your way was in
Unexpected Weather Updates
00:03:39
Speaker
trouble.
00:03:39
Speaker
You cannot steer or stop a toboggan once it has begun. It will turn, but it's not up to you. No, if it hits something, it will turn. That's it. It's bumper cars rules.
00:03:57
Speaker
A series of like snow ricochets, you kind of build down the slope to help yourself out. We had a big orange one that we had to haul around. It didn't have a rope attached to it. It was just this big hunk of orange plastic that we called the bus because it was so big and chunky. And we're just a bunch of 10 year olds carrying this giant plastic chunk around.
00:04:27
Speaker
Yeah. That very much is like how you deal with kids, I think though. Now that I'm past all of that is it's just like if go outside somewhere, just like burn yourselves out. Just exert all of your energy doing something dumb. If you survive the winter, then eventually we'll consider you an adult and that's childhood.
00:04:52
Speaker
Interesting. Those were the good old days where I could be outside for like more than five minutes before being like, it's cold out. It's cute.
Chaotic Sports and Weather Talk
00:05:03
Speaker
I mean, I feel like it has been pretty shitty this season around. Um, there have been some days where it's like PA, what are you doing? It's like insanely nice. And then it goes back to like, don't go outside. Right. Like how it was 70 degrees, literally 24 hours ago. And now it's 30 and we have a like winter weather advisor.
00:05:28
Speaker
Oh, I think I've told you guys this before, but I never changed my Alexa and where it thinks my address is. So I get literally all of your weather notifications all the time. It's like, Hey, there's a winter weather advisory here. I'm like, does that affect me? How, how far, how big is the advisory?
00:05:46
Speaker
So like if you want to see your local weather, you just look out the window. And if you want to check out your friends, you ask here. Exactly. Well, I have to say, like, what's the weather in where I live now? Gotcha. Now, if you could say that into the microphone and social security.
00:06:05
Speaker
Sub-Saharan Africa, one. One. Keep going, keep going. Oh, that's it. Dang, it was the OG, it only has one.
00:06:24
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. That was, that was a natural, uh, exit ramp off of that conversation into something else. I'm going to make it. I think we all just kind of like stared at it and then kept driving down the highway in silence. I'm going to make a U-turn on the exit ramp to go back to winter sports real quick. Okay. Um, cause I recently learned that this was a thing, but there's like, uh, you know, there's figure skating. Yeah.
00:06:51
Speaker
there's figure skiing. And I think that's neat. And I just needed to make sure people knew about it because it's very dramatic. How would that work? Um, a lot of, um, careful footwork, but yeah, it's a thing. I saw it, I watched it and I'm like, why is this not in the Olympics? It would make me care about them more than curling does. Like it would add, it would be an addition,
00:07:21
Speaker
Hmm. I feel like using giant skis and if they possibly use the poles, make it immediately more lethal. Yeah.
00:07:33
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, all right. That's just, that's it. I'm getting, I'm correcting my U-turn and I'm getting back on the ramp and we leave that. I just wanted to let you know. Sorry. I'm going to, I'm going to like dive out of the car for a second and say like, Oh yeah. Winter Olympics. Speaking of the winter Olympics, I know like nothing about them because I don't held in the winter. Typically. Yeah. It's cold.
00:07:58
Speaker
technically the Olympics. Um, but they intruded on my life because like, I don't know anything about any sort of sports. It was the weekend before the super bowl, superb owl. I don't know. Are we going to lose the podcast anyways? And the, um, I didn't realize it was going to be, I was talking to coworkers and like, yep, getting stuff for the super bowl. I'm like, wow, nice.
00:08:23
Speaker
It's that time again, and I asked them who was playing, which is how you can tell if you're someone who's a fan of the Super Bowl, someone who's not a fan of the Super Bowl. You know, who's going to be tossing them balls around? Touching balls, hitting balls. Just a bunch of guys. Really going after those. Putting guys on a field. Just really going after those balls.
00:08:47
Speaker
Usually, it's singular most of the time. If there's multiple footballs in play. Oh my god, that would be too exciting. Someone's activated cheat codes. It's basically just fall ball from fall guys. There's just two balls going. Where's the play-by-play happening? You don't know.
00:09:06
Speaker
You just have people talk over each other. You have two color commentators at the same time. Be it to the Winter Olympics, my computer, which runs on Windows, has these little pop-ups in the corner. It uses like a weather notification. So right now it's like, hey, it's
00:09:24
Speaker
There's an exclamation point. I don't know what that means and then 33 and cloudy But it had a different symbol for the weather that was like a bronze medal and I was looking at it and I was like I Don't know what that means
00:09:41
Speaker
Don't want to inhale bronze, probably should stay inside today. You did great this week, but you know, it's bronze. You could have done better. Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was a judgment call on me or if it was actually reflecting the weather. It's like you didn't wash behind your ears on Thursday and Friday. We're going to dock you.
00:10:02
Speaker
Yeah, but you could click it and then it would explain the result. And I guess it was whenever somebody in the US got a medal, they're like, here you go. Let's tell everybody that has a Windows computer. Wow. Which is fine. I mean, good for them, I guess. This is useless. Thanks.
Future Gaming Plans and Anecdotes
00:10:19
Speaker
I mean, I didn't get the medal. I mean, I did. I'm assuming that like,
00:10:27
Speaker
Cause they say we did it, like I'm a part of it and I helped and I will take full credit. Sharing the success. Oh yeah. Like I feel like if you're rooting, it's like we're all in it together, then you definitely get partial credit. I'll be expecting the check in the mail for my prize money.
00:10:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's a lot less common that people embrace that type of ideology in the opposite direction, though. I don't know if it's like, oh man, we really screwed up in curling. And I'll be honest, I mean, a lot of it is on the Olympic team, but I didn't contribute much this year. So put a little bit of that on me.
00:11:11
Speaker
Also, the exclamation point is because there's a weather advisory. Oh, okay. Yeah, we're gonna die. So if we die, weather. Also, you'll have to take over the edit that weekday and you'll have just your own audio.
00:11:32
Speaker
That'd be really funny. I would love if I, we've talked about, like your jokes about doing this a lot of times is just posting one side of the audio from like when I fucked up the first Overwatch record many years back. It would be funny. I still think it'd be funny. It would be funny. It's hard to listen to though. There's a lot of dead air. Yeah, but that's the funny part. You release it. But it wouldn't be on my side this time. You release it as an April Fool's thing.
00:12:00
Speaker
But what you do is you take two different recordings. This might need some timing and matching up. It won't make any sense. But two different recordings from two different podcasts. Oh, that would require so much editing. That's like a theory episode times 100. If if we did two separate talk casts. Maybe it could be a thing. Also, are you eating a peanut?
00:12:28
Speaker
Oh no. Are you eating a circus peanut right now? Yeah, it's a circus peanut. I'm judging you more than if you ate real peanuts. These ones don't kill you. I poked one in the bag and I'm like, Jake, this marshmallow is really hard. And then he like poked and was like, no, it's fine. I'm like, but it's hard. So maybe Dave knows, but like circus peanuts,
00:12:54
Speaker
dry circus peanuts get dangerously hard like same they're i don't know i'm not sure how to follow up on that one um but like you could use it to hold a brick wall together as plaster hard um
Living Situations and Moving Plans
00:13:12
Speaker
soft this is still not a selling point jake no no i'm not saying that necessarily is i'm saying it's like soft circus peanuts are just like they have some give they're never going to be like marshmallows
00:13:24
Speaker
Because that's, I assume, straight off the press. I don't know how they're made. Mind. Maybe. I don't know. But like if it has give, then it's a relatively soft circus peanut by comparison because dry ones are impossible. You have to like. It's a suck on this candy instead of a bite into this candy at that point.
00:13:47
Speaker
What does a circus peanut taste like? I was going to ask if I could taste one, so but I didn't want to have a like it's bad and then waste it. For my recollection, it is like a more tough and dry and less sweet type of marshmallow. Like it's kind of like memory foam that's edible. It's like I think that it's actually sweeter than your normal marshmallow.
00:14:16
Speaker
But it's very, so like as you get older and your appreciation of candy taste changes, I think people move more away from like pure sugar as being the only thing. Like pixie sticks, for instance, pure sugar. Anything that's not chocolate that has Wonka on the name is pure sugar, essentially.
00:14:38
Speaker
Isn't candy kind of by definition pure sugar? Like I got peach rings. I don't, there's not much else in there. I mean, yeah, it is still mostly sugar, but maybe they balance it with like gelatin or they do some other stuff. I think there's. The difference is like, sometimes they go for a flavor using sugar. That is not itself. You're biting into sugar and circus penis are basically sugar. They taste like sugar.
00:15:06
Speaker
So I guess the difference between a pixie stick and a circus peanut is the delayed release formula, where a pixie stick is directly into your veins.
00:15:21
Speaker
Then where does cotton candy fall? That's pixie stick territory. It's gotta be, yeah. You ever see raccoons try to eat cotton candy? Oh my god, yes. It's so cute because their faces look so defeated. For anybody who doesn't know, raccoons are not trash animals. They will try and wash their food. But if you try and do this with cotton candy, it will dissolve immediately in water because it's 99% air.
00:15:49
Speaker
They try to wash it and it's like, what did I do wrong? Yeah. No, it's, it's very entertaining. All I'm saying though is like, I'd rather have like a normal marshmallow or marshmallows, depending on what size it is to have like hot cocoa. Oh yeah. That's where I'm like, yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah. I'm not saying that I think even from a play with your food perspective, um,
00:16:18
Speaker
Marshmallows have a lot more utility than a circus peanut does. You can twist the circus peanut basically in half. And that's the extent of your like physical manipulation of the candy you could get. But like marshmallows, you can freaking need marshmallows until they're basically like goo. And that's great. That's very entertaining to play with circus peanuts. Don't do that for you.
00:16:42
Speaker
I would want to step on a circus peanut, I think. I don't know why. You trying to make some aside money? Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Listen, we're going to have a mortgage to pay. There's true. I take pride in my work. I'll step on a circus peanut for money. So do you guys want to talk about that all? You guys are planning to move in the near future?
00:17:12
Speaker
I feel like this could...
Childhood Curiosity and Experiments
00:17:15
Speaker
Oh yeah, he's currently eating a... I don't know if you know this, he's eating a circus peanut. But I feel like we can... This is a great segue. We're getting on another exit ramp here.
00:17:27
Speaker
So I'm very proud of you in this moment for calling out the segue. You never let it be a natural switch. You call out the segue and then you call out the fact that you called out the segue and you never get back to the original topic. You basically just like leave Dave in the dust and he's just like, I was trying to help. Anyways.
00:17:48
Speaker
Mm hmm. Oh, yeah, I feel like this this goes well with the water being off for six to eight hours. I don't know how long all day. And it has us very excited to move.
00:18:08
Speaker
The bonus is like, so they turned the apartment water off and they sent an email and they're like, it's going to be off for four hours. Here's the range of time it will be off. And then that range completed and the water was still off and they turned it on for like a couple of minutes, maybe. Yeah. And they turned it off again and then hours passed and we just left to get some food and literally buy water.
00:18:33
Speaker
And then came back and it was back on. Yeah, you don't know with them. Also, it gets like, oh, I can't shower. Oh, it's gonna make some pause. I can't do that. Yeah, no, I'm looking at all the dirty dishes and I'm like, I can't do anything about it. I'm sorry. You're gonna be dirty for a while because there's no water. If you take a can of compressed air, you can you can clean a lot of dishes.
00:18:58
Speaker
It just depends what's on the dishes. Right. Like if it's dried soup, it'll take at least two cans. It's kind of salty. Like that you have the metric for that. I'm imagining that this isn't even your backup strategy anymore. This is your primary go-to when you need to clean your dishes up. Should I rinse in the sink? Nah, we've still got compressed air left. I mean, keyboard doesn't eat it right now, so.
00:19:27
Speaker
Yeah. Sorry. A circus peanut. Um, where'd you get those? Um, I imagine you're talking about like using the aerosol cans to clean stuff. You're that guy that's like standing outside with a cans pointing up at the, at the sky. You're just like F U O zone and just like a very quiet gust of air. Right.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yeah, I will say I also have, if you turn it upside down, it's obviously like a very condensed cold liquid. Um, so it makes it like a kind of frost effect if you do that, cause it's not leaving the can the way it should just as pure air air quotes. Um, so I used, I used it once like frost my glasses when I had like a pair of like $5 plastic shades back when I was in high school.
00:20:23
Speaker
I thought this was a recent thing. I'm like, no, no, no, no. This is so expensive. No, I know. I paid way too much for my pair and going forward, I will need to find a new obstetrician. No, no, no. Optometrics. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Optical. OBGYO. OBGYO. That's the one. But yeah, it's it was like a very cool effect for me being 15. It did smell like chemicals, though. Yeah.
00:20:53
Speaker
When I was younger and we had compressed air, I did the thing you shouldn't do because occasionally we were unsupervised children who found compressed air at seven in the morning on a Saturday. And you turn it upside down, it gets frosty, right? We would do that to our skin. Be like, it's cold. Here, you next.
00:21:18
Speaker
I'm not going to say I didn't do it to the skin as well, but like it was like a one and done thing. Oh, that feels bad. No, we did that a lot. This is before the days of icy hot. They just had icy. This is basically why you should never expose kids to science. No. Hot take. Don't teach them science at all. There's a lot of dangerous stuff there.
00:21:44
Speaker
Yeah, once I learned what you can do with a magnifying glass on a hot summer day, I started a lot of fires in the backyard that my parents didn't know about. But I had a bucket of water with me and sand at all times when I did it because I was responsible. Right. And the neighbors made out on insurance. But how do you set the sand on fire? You don't set the sand on fire.
00:22:05
Speaker
Oh, the water. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, you use the sand. You make a little ring around what you're going to set on fire so that, you know, it's not like the wind's containment zone. Yeah. The wind's definitely not going to blow away the dead leaves you put in there. And you have the water to drink. You just sip as the fire spreads out of control. Got it. Sure wish somebody would do something about this here. A catastrophe.
00:22:34
Speaker
That's a shame. I wasn't here to see it. I have to go inside. It's my curfew. I'm just imagining that you do use the magnifying glass in the sand and you're like making obsidian in the backyard. I think it probably has to get pretty hot for that. I don't know. No one science has not figured out.
00:22:55
Speaker
We don't teach science. I don't know what the melting temperature of sand is to turn it into glass, but it's probably a lot. Anytime I've heard about it, it's within like the context of a meteorite landing.
00:23:15
Speaker
in like the desert and then just like flashing everything to glass. Oh, that would be so fucking cool. Another reason to wear your shoes in the desert. Am I right, guys? No probate glass on these feats. I thought you need to do more for glass. To make sand melt, you need to heat it to roughly 1700 Celsius or 30, 90 Fahrenheit. That seems hot.
00:23:43
Speaker
which is approximately the same temperature a space shuttle reaches as it reenters Earth's atmosphere. I don't know if I could have done that in my backyard, but I would have tried. So my crockpot probably won't cut it. Obsidian is igneous, isn't it?
00:24:02
Speaker
I might actually be categorically using. We've jumped out of my field of expertise from video games into geology. And I just remember cleavage and finding that term amusing. And that's literally it. Also, you need soda, ash, and limestone to make glass with sand. Just in case you wanted to try that in your own sandbox at home, you need a little bit more.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, it can't be categorically obsidian because obsidian is igneous. It's volcanic glass, specifically. I was going to say, isn't that just strictly lava, which is, or magma, magma's out. Lava's wait. No, magma's inside. Lava's outside. Yes. And that's why in Minecraft you need to figure out how to do the lava into obsidian.
00:24:59
Speaker
without ruining your source block and getting really sad about it.
Minecraft and Gaming Discussions
00:25:03
Speaker
Yeah. I'm surprised they didn't teach us about source blocks and geology course. Yeah, but I went to public school. When we grew up, I think.
00:25:14
Speaker
Yeah. Didn't know about it yet. That would be hilarious. They're just like, all right, now that Minecraft's out, let's make this relatable. I mean, I do think they teach some kids some things using Minecraft as a tool. Oh yeah. There's an educational edition of Minecraft. Do you think that the Earth's core counts as a source block? Ooh.
00:25:38
Speaker
Okay, this is, this one's interesting. Cause like the Earth's core, again, I don't know anything cause we shouldn't teach science, but it's molten because of the pressure exerted of gravity pulling everything in, right? I don't think Minecraft has any sort of
00:26:01
Speaker
Way to model that. No. Because if you dig too far down and you hit bedrock and you find a way to get past it, you just kind of fall. I don't know. Yeah. So I can only assume that's what happens in real life, considering it happens in Minecraft. And Minecraft's educational. Yeah, I've learned a lot.
00:26:26
Speaker
Fun fact about the reality of Minecraft. I don't remember if we covered this in the Minecraft episode or not. It doesn't matter. It's been forever. But I remember I was making a mob farm in the Nether. In the Nether, it's been a while since I played Minecraft. Maybe it works differently now.
00:26:42
Speaker
But it has bedrock above, right? Because you don't spawn on the surface, you're underground. So you can't escape the nether because there's a layer of bedrock above it and then sky above that like nothing else. But you could like use something like a mine cart and like TNT and some weird interaction to destroy a bedrock block and then escape
00:27:09
Speaker
through to this top layer above the nether and then build up into the sky and make giant donut platforms for the mobs to spawn and just kill them all and get all their stuff. It's freaking great. I think I remember this. I remember you did something very complicated.
00:27:29
Speaker
It was a lot of effort. I, it was for experience. It was an experience farm because a bunch of, um, you would get gassed. If you built it in one way and you would get zombie pigment. If you built it the other way, I had like pigment were so many sorts. I think the easiest, because like once they all spawned, you could just piss off one. They're all like, who did that? And then they all just kind of like swarm. So it's really easy to make like a pitfall trap.
00:27:56
Speaker
Yeah, ghasts, you specifically made a zone with a ghast-shaped shell essentially, so it would spawn in one spot and be unable to move. Didn't the zombie pigmen fall to their deaths, or am I thinking of something else?
00:28:12
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You would, you would have like a, a kill floor, a killing floor going, going back to previous episodes. And, uh, it would be just far enough that they would die from the impact and then just gather all the drops there at the bottom. I still love like the death animation is like, they hit the ground and go, and then they just kind of like tilt sideways, 90 degrees. It's like real life. It all comes back to Minecraft. I've, I've definitely landed once or twice where it's felt like that.
00:28:42
Speaker
Uh-huh. You just wanted to like fall at a 90 degree, 90 degrees to the side, make a Roblox sound and that'd be the end of it. It's like specifically when you think, um, there's an extra step. There's one more step. So you're like getting ready. And then it just, you just make contact with the pavement and you knock the air out of yourself a little bit. Off by one errors with stairs. That's dangerous.
00:29:11
Speaker
Oh yeah. It's a lot, it's a lot more tolerable going up the stairs than down the stairs. Up the stairs you're like, Oh, we're not sure. No, I'll fall forever. Guess I'll die. But enough of Felix Baumgartner Baumgartner. What have you guys been playing recently? Should I answer? Do you want to answer? You guys want to draw straws quick.
00:29:41
Speaker
I'll buy you a little bit of time. I have been playing mostly, literally Heroes of the Storm and Ender Roll. I think I know what Heroes of the Storm is. Do you want to say what Ender Roll is, quick? Ender Roll is a full conversion mod for Skyrim. It's free. There's a version for the special edition on Steam, which was the Skyrim 64-bit executable, and a standard edition. It's got achievements. It's free.
00:30:10
Speaker
If you like Skyrim, it's free. I think it has a better story than Skyrim, but that's not saying a whole lot. I like a lot of the systems. And it's cool. If you don't like Skyrim, is it still free? Yes. It's more the ownership of Skyrim. That is the thing that may or may not cost money. Gotcha. You just get one of the 50 editions on sale for like five, 10 bucks. I was going to say, which Skyrim do you have to buy? Yeah.
00:30:39
Speaker
I think it's like the base edition works, but you probably at this point, I mean, Skyrim is over.
00:30:47
Speaker
over 10 years old at this point. Um, that's, that's good. Locked out there, Jay. Um, and the special edition is 64 bit, which usually plays a little bit better with Ram and things like that. So I would wait for a sale on the Skyrim special edition. I don't think it works with the anniversary edition though. It could be wrong on that.
00:31:14
Speaker
Um, but I don't believe that would be the case. So I don't know. Do your research. Don't take my word for it. Read a book. As we've been saying, do your own research. Don't rely on science bad and wrong. It's true. It's really good. I don't want to go into a lot of details on it, so I won't, but, um,
00:31:38
Speaker
Yeah. If you ever like get the urge, Oh, I will say one thing about it, but I didn't mention in my spiel about it and just curt earlier. Um, but it has a bunch of quality of life mods baked in, including like a UI mod that makes everything much more manageable. Um, to the point where like, you basically don't need to mod it, even if you're the type of person that usually mods Skyrim like I am. So that's nice. You don't have to worry about it. That's cool. It's baked in. Yeah.
00:32:07
Speaker
And then hots, which is a dead mobile. I'm still playing for some reason. I'm started playing after it died for the most part too. There you go. Scratch the edge. A little more laid back, casual. It's definitely that. Definitely casual. We had like the most toxic round ever. I think that I've played in that game and we were like,
00:32:33
Speaker
This is gonna just end in like a couple minutes though, right? It was like 10 or 11 minutes and the entire thing was done. We got stomped, teammates were being super toxic and we're like, is it even worth getting invested in? This will literally be done in like 120 seconds. No, okay, next one. GG, go next. I bought enough time, it's your turn.
00:32:59
Speaker
Go, go, go. I've been doing seven days to die. I haven't played in the past few days just because busy, but I think we're picking it up again tonight. But that's been fun. Once every four years we play for a while. I do the same thing each time because it's fun, which is I let everyone else do all of the complicated tech.
00:33:30
Speaker
and building. And I have my cornfield and do my farming and make food. And then I just say, hey, can I take this motorbike and then steal gas out of the chest? And I leave. And I come back at the end of the day and I'm like, look what I found. And then, you know, I ask, I'm like, hey, I'm not going to be here.
00:33:59
Speaker
for like the whole seven days to die day, what do you guys need? And then I'll go chop down some trees, keep an eye out for certain things, but otherwise it's like, thanks for your stuff all going outside now. And I have a specific playlist for seven days because
00:34:21
Speaker
90% of my time is on a motorbike just driving around exploring and getting scared because there's bears. That's true. And they upset me.
00:34:34
Speaker
Um, and I lost my trail of thought, but yeah. Oh, the playlist. Yeah. I have, it's my night drive playlist and. It's my 80s vaporwave night drive type. Yes. Pretty much. Nice. Let's check this out. I don't know. Probably. Probably.
00:34:56
Speaker
But when I leave, as soon as I hear the, hey, it's daytime music, I'm like, I'm freaking out of here. I'm getting away from these guys. And I would get on my little motorbike. I hit play on my playlist. I have a specific song that I play. There's two, depending on how we're feeling that particular morning. I put that song on and I'm like, all right, I'm about to have a really good time.
00:35:23
Speaker
And sometimes I see a zombie and I shoot it and I'm like, nice experience. I helped the colony. I'm helping. I guess I was also playing that. I'm also playing in the seven days group. Um, and it's still good. I mean, we had an episode on it. I'm pretty sure you can correct me if I'm wrong, Dave, but I feel like we had an episode on, I know we definitely talked about it at some point. It probably was an episode. Well,
00:35:51
Speaker
because back when we first played it, I think we played it for like probably two or three weeks straight before we were like, and we're done.
00:36:00
Speaker
We're doing this weird thing in this playthrough where we meet irregularly, but it's scheduled when people play, so people aren't really burning out on it. It's good to do it that way because then it's not like, hey, can you guys hop on in 20 minutes? I've been playing for the past six hours and it's day seven. We specifically said that when we sign off, at least I
00:36:26
Speaker
encouraged it when we sign off. Like, don't sign off on the seventh day or like the night before. Because in case someone wants to pop in for a minute, they're not going to be faced with a bad time of a Sunday horde.
00:36:44
Speaker
But I think even beyond that, we're not even really playing individually. Because when I was hosting the server back in the day, I literally was just setting the day back, using console commands to keep time from moving forward so that everyone would be around when the horde happened. But it's not ideal, because the game still tracks the numbers of days that are passing in the background. So it's like, welcome to the first horde. And it's like end game monsters and stuff coming at you. And you're like, I feel like.
00:37:12
Speaker
This isn't day seven. It's definitely a day. Yeah. And they're not doing that. Like for the most part, people are just playing when everybody's on, which is nice. And I think that's it's such a good game because it hits the middle point for me. Like there's some stuff in Minecraft where I'm like, I want a technology mod because I just want to like pursue this and have fun with it and go factorial brain basically. Right. But.
00:37:43
Speaker
Dave doesn't like that if I can put words in Dave's mouth for a second. That's not the only thing you put in my mouth. This goddamn circus peanut. I wasn't making it inappropriate. I wonder if you'd be allergic to circus peanuts just because it's peanuts in the name. I'm not. I just I really don't like how they taste. I don't think they're good. I think they're one of the worst candies probably. I just had a craving for it.
00:38:10
Speaker
So yeah, Seven Days hits that middle spot where it's like, it has technology, it has reason to go loot, it has a huge incentive to build. There is an actual survival aspect to it, which like Minecraft for the most part doesn't really have. They've added it maybe more recently, but it's just such a good balance and I just wish.
00:38:34
Speaker
It's stupid to say, I think, given that, like, I love all these things about the game, but, like, I wish someone else was making it because it's an alpha and it will be in an alpha forever. And there's, like, basic things that they don't have done in the game and they rework skill trees and stuff like that. And then they're like, yeah, and Twitch integration, if you want, like, to control all the monsters popping out at people.
00:38:58
Speaker
That's not that Twitch integration's bad. They should probably do more ground floor stuff. Yeah, in an alpha, in an early access alpha. Their problem might be is that, I don't know if it's a telltale game, but they were working with them. And then telltale kind of pooped all over the place and stopped being a thing. Is that the term for running out of money? Is that pooping all over the place? Yeah. Those pores pooping all over the place.
00:39:28
Speaker
I've definitely like, I definitely have some money, but also have pooped all over the place. So I don't know where I fall in that. See, when you have money, you can't poop all over the place because you hire somebody to clean it. Right. I should look into that. That might contribute to why maybe nothing is getting done.
Humor in Hotel Traditions
00:39:49
Speaker
Wow. But here's the thing. 2013, that's when I graduated college.
00:39:54
Speaker
Oh. Same. Here's the thing though, Telltale is coming back. Right. They are doing a Wolf Among Us 2. Right? Which I would definitely check out. I'm just curious to see where the story goes. There are two wolves among us. Oh my god, Among Us. It's us.
00:40:20
Speaker
That would be so dumb. He transforms into like red crew member. I had never associated those titles. I think we may have actually released an episode on the Wolf Among Us after Among Us was a game. And I still didn't make the association.
00:40:39
Speaker
Sometimes good jokes hit you later, I don't know. Yeah. That idea is free. I will be charging for the next one. So, you know, act accordingly. Think about it. Set aside funds. Invest now. If I can't step on Circus Peanuts, then, you know, this is going to have to be it.
00:41:02
Speaker
No one said that you can't, just not on this good Christian podcast. I don't think it would translate well in the media mainly. I am baptized Roman Catholic, so I think I'm good, actually. I think I can kind of do whatever I want. I didn't read the rules. I was too young to read, so that kind of went over my head because my head was underwater.
00:41:28
Speaker
We all just circle rushed forward into the joke. Just like they rushed me into the holy water. I will say I'm covered on two religions fronts, so come at me. That's good. Got to catch them all. Weirdly, both are from the same God. I don't know how that worked out. It's a different update.
00:41:51
Speaker
I guess. Oh yeah, technically. It's not the anniversary edition. You don't really have the New Testament DLC. Yeah, that's like the legacy or something. They're like, hey, when's that savior coming for us? And they're like, did you not download the DLC? The DLC, they've got an anniversary edition. Yeah.
00:42:12
Speaker
It's just Skyrim. It's, I don't know, Skyrim is around for longer than we even realized. They release a new edition every once in a while and it's like, this is the same guy. And it's like, yeah, but you can change his outfit now. No, this is the new King James. Oh, my bad. Sorry. He looked like the old one. I still love that you can find Bibles literally everywhere.
00:42:39
Speaker
Oh yeah. Most popular book in A. Yeah. Also just book.
00:42:44
Speaker
The fun thing is hotels have like contracts with whoever the publisher is for a bunch of Bibles. And it's like, hey, we'll give you money if we can put a Bible in your hotel. I feel like America has to be the only country that does that. I've never heard of like, oh, somewhere in Asia or like the Middle East that they have like, oh, yeah, we put copies of the Quran just, you know, everywhere. And we have a deal to put those in.
00:43:13
Speaker
We do have a problem when it comes to object permanence. So, you know, when they open the dresser, it's like, oh, okay, yeah, that's still a thing. Okay, good, good. I'm gonna keep this dresser open. I can only assume. It's... That or we're just like super gung-ho about it.
00:43:34
Speaker
I think the people who are for it are super gung-ho. Cause at least when I grew up, the explanation to me was, Oh, it's like, if somebody's like on like their last legs and they have to go up in a motel to thinking about like ending it all or like doing something really crazy or shitty, they would, you know, see that Bible, maybe like start reading cause they're bored and then be like, Oh my God, I should change my life.
00:44:00
Speaker
I don't know anybody who that's ever happened to. I think if I was dying, I wouldn't want to read anything because I'd be like kind of dying, but I haven't gotten there yet fully. I mean, we're all on a clock, right? I go by the logic that since I haven't put it in my planner, it's not going to happen. So that's kind of my loophole around it for myself.
00:44:28
Speaker
So when I'm scheduling things in to-do list, it's like, I'm already not hitting everything that I scheduled today. There's no way that I'm going to die. It's not even on the list. Yeah, pretty much. It's basically the logic. OK. Yeah. Or you put it on the list and you're constantly like, snooze. Snooze, delay, weekend, Monday. Yeah.
00:44:50
Speaker
Okay. I also, um, found the real reason that there are Bibles everywhere in hotel rooms. Okay. Uh, where is it? So there were, no, I can't find it. Okay. There are two Christian salesmen. Um, and every time a new hotel would open up, uh, say the, what?
00:45:17
Speaker
Gideons, the Gideons, I think, was the Gyrpia. Yeah. They would be like, you want a Bible? It's free. You could read it. And, uh, it was basically evangelizing. Yeah. And now they just do it. Cause you can just have a Bible, right? You're like, okay, we have a basic hotel room, but now there's a religious scripture in it, which makes the hotel room itself a little bit higher class.
00:45:46
Speaker
You're safe here. And to keep vampires out. Be not afraid. I also have to do a shout out and say, you're not safe here. You're not safe here.
Gaming Experiences and Preferences
00:46:00
Speaker
Did you guys ask what I was playing? What were you playing?
00:46:06
Speaker
Oh, yes, it's fine. Whatever it's. OK, great. Next thing, going into news for a bit here. It says here that Dave's been playing games here, but it doesn't it doesn't detail exactly what games are playing. Let's go on the ground now with Dave. Dave, what have you been playing?
00:46:31
Speaker
Uh, recently, probably most has been lost arc. I know we talked about it. That's the thing. That's the damnedest thing. I, I don't fucking know. We just got done talking about biblical stuff though, Dave. So you have Noah idea where the artist. I wish I had like a Bible joke to riff back with you right now. And I don't. Wow.
00:46:55
Speaker
Well, I'm being crucified in this podcast. Anyway, it's just been like a major time sink and work has been really slow. I mean, not that I've been playing on work hours, if you're listening. Right. But it's just very hard work.
00:47:10
Speaker
I am. But it's been very much like a time sink of like MMO type stuff, collectathon, fill in some stuff out. But also like I'll play with people. So like it has like a nice social aspect. I'm still fun or still looking forward to what fun things we can do with late game once everybody gets there. I may be doing some like guild content together. But that's been the majority of the time, for sure.
00:47:36
Speaker
Then vampire survivors will occasionally be like, hey, we've added another achievement. I'm like, let's go. Yeah. Let me top that off. I do. It's it's kind of like it's occupying a little space of I want to play something and then just not like the lowest commitment thing imaginable. Like the game could crash and I'd be like, oh, okay, it sucks.
00:47:58
Speaker
And then just do literally anything else, right? Yeah. It's just a, there are times where you don't want to like fully get in to something. Like there's certain other games on my list that I'm definitely going to like delve into really hard as soon as we're done recording this podcast. But there are other things you're just like, Oh, I just want to play something for like five, 10, 30 minutes. Yeah.
00:48:19
Speaker
So I still recommend it for anybody. That's a recent episode. That one I could remember we did. And actually also Lost Ark. It was Lost Ark in Vampire Survivors actually. Dave is stuck in time stations. I feel like I should play Vampire Survivor because you bought it for me. I know. I spent a lot of money on you. I forgot all about it.
00:48:46
Speaker
Because I get the opposite sometimes when it's like, oh, I want to do something for 30 minutes. I just start drawing. Or I find like a random 30 minute video essay on YouTube about something really weird and obscure. Or like a wendigoon video. I was literally going to say a wendigoon. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I have two hours to spare in the next 30 minutes. I can listen to this again. Tell me about Dante's Inferno.
00:49:14
Speaker
Jake's there with the system commands rolling back time again so she can finish the video in time. Yeah, it's still entertaining enough that I will still spend time on it.
00:49:29
Speaker
If we're counting other activities, though, you mentioned like YouTube stuff. I'm trying desperately to just get out of games in the podcast and talk about other things. I've spent a lot of time passively over lunches, after work, whatever, like watching Dead by Daylight clips.
00:49:52
Speaker
It's true. I've seen it. Like a lot. And I don't entirely know why, but it's very entertaining. I kind of get the sentiment because I've definitely watched a lot of fighting game clips or something for a game that I've not experienced myself.
Feeding Wildlife and Animal Stories
00:50:10
Speaker
But I'm like, oh, that looks kind of cool. What's some of the tech that they're doing or how does the game systems operate? So as a passive observer, you can be like, oh, that looks cool. And then kind of get immersed into that a little bit
00:50:21
Speaker
fully investing in it. I feel like I've never played that game, but I know what kind of game it is. And I feel like the appeal could be, there's not much going on with it in terms of it's not an ever changing storyline. It's I'm going to put someone on a hook.
00:50:43
Speaker
And then I'm going to chase them down or you're running. So it's not like you can have it on. And it's like, yeah, I can like look over, pay attention to it. But you're not like missing an important story beat. So it's like, yeah, this makes for like easy, nice viewing and listening, which isn't about. It has intensity. It has like it touches on some of the. This is literally a game I don't own. This is just commentary based off of the clips I've seen. But it's like.
00:51:12
Speaker
customization between the killers and survivors when it comes to perks and all this stuff and all there's all these different killers that play different ways and the maps are like Different in some ways, but you know for the most part the core gameplay is fundamentally the same
00:51:29
Speaker
like the heroes heroes the survivors want to finish repairing five generators and then leave the map by opening up an escape gate which takes some time but then they're free and they they win they escape the killer wants to kill the survivors but can't just outright do so you have to either hook them three times by like catching them hitting them with like a melee attack or like grabbing them when they try to go through a window or something
00:51:59
Speaker
at which point they're sacrificed to the entity and then we're getting into lore. I'm not gonna go too far on that but basically a tentacle monster like kills them and they're out. What a way to go. Some of the killers have completely different mechanics where they go for like mores which is like a
00:52:19
Speaker
Actual lethal blow. Yeah, amore. Actual lethal blow. And the combination of all these effects reminds me of... It reminds me of Dota, actually, because the idea is the same construct exists in every match, but there's a lot of variables that go into it, where you want to focus your time during the match.
00:52:47
Speaker
Do you want to chase down one person and just like tunnel them out like this one person will die? Or is that a bad strategy, you know? Yeah, a lot of variation and strategy comes into play depending on how you build, how you approach it, who you're playing type thing. So like as a passive observer, you're like, interesting. Here's how I would think about doing it if I were in this theoretical situation. Exactly. And like I watch, so the streamer I watch on YouTube, I've never visited his Twitch channel.
00:53:15
Speaker
I don't look at Twitch that much, but it's Otstarva. And he has tons of content on YouTube and he's good at the game. And that's kind of nice too, because you're just watching somebody who's really good at the game. He has compilations of times that he tries really sweaty streaks with a particular hero and is like, okay, I'm going to get 50 wins with this hero back to back.
00:53:44
Speaker
in random pub matches, which is statistically difficult to do. And it's just, I don't know, it's entertaining to watch. Jesus, the only thing I'll do back to back or prom photos, am I right? For modesty. For modesty. Basketball space for Jesus. Who was also the bread?
00:54:09
Speaker
Oh, tasty. What kind, though? If Jesus were a bread. I guess I guess I'd ask if he was a bread, what would he be? But I guess he's technically technically a wafer. So that's unfortunate. Wafer thing.
00:54:27
Speaker
I'm imagining there's got to be, not to disparage the poverty level of certain churches in the United States, but we did have basically crackers or wafers or something like that. Not like saltines, but communion. The thin wafers. Without the salt, yeah, yeah, yeah. But slightly styrofoam wafers.
00:54:45
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, they were, they were, they were fine. Um, but they were clearly purposeful. There's gotta be churches that literally use white bread, right? Like slice a white bread, get it up into pieces. Don't feed it to pigeons, feed it to people, that type of situation. Don't feed it to pigeons either. It's bad for them.
00:55:05
Speaker
Oh, really? Yeah, PSA. Don't feed birds bread. It's not good for them. It's like feeding your child consistently like chocolate cake. It's just bad for them.
00:55:20
Speaker
So wait, what about ducks as well? Yeah. Feed them peas. They like peas and strawberries. Dude, I remember after church, we used to take a loaf of bread, go down to the local creek, where you're like, ducks will probably be here. And you'd feed the ducks. It was like a magical, wholesome family moment. Yeah. It's a good thing you went to church, or else you'd be a sinner. You'd be going to hell. Yeah, see you there, bud. You should have thrown my duck murder.
00:55:45
Speaker
You should have paid more attention though, Dave, like when the adults were like, you kids want to go poison the birds? And you're like, yeah. Momma, what's poison? It's like, it's bread. Poison is the bread. Anyway, that's your PSA.
00:56:04
Speaker
learning a lot today. If that's an actual fact, I'm actually, I'm also learning things today. When's the next time you're going to feed birds? I feed crows, but I feed them peanuts and hazelnuts and they yell at me. I'm like so ungrateful, but I learned the duck thing because there's like a
00:56:30
Speaker
like a very cute white duck that gets posted around a lot. And it's usually this duck eating strawberries in ice water. And they do like kind of like, Hey, here's a PSA about birds. And like, if you want to feed wild birds, give them this, give them that. And that's how I learned that, uh, Brett's bad. Hmm.
00:56:53
Speaker
I guess it's because, cause I was curious what the rationale was. It's because they don't, it doesn't like provide a lot of things. People feed birds don't provide calories, but they don't have like stomach space like humans do where it's just like, Oh yeah. We'll like layer some bread in there and then like five pounds of lasagna or something. And it's like, all right, I've had my couple of crumbs of bread. Yeah, it fills them up without giving them anything, which is why it's like just.
00:57:20
Speaker
feeding your kid chocolate cake. It's not giving them anything. There's no nutritional value and it will fill them up very quickly. And then they'll eat the other half of the cake when you're not looking anyway, which is probably fine. I am looking at the
00:57:37
Speaker
website here, the spruce. And they say there are some good bread options, things that actually have nutrition to them. But they also mention you can make the bread healthier by adding peanut butter or other nut butters, beef fat drippings or softened suet, suet, suet, suet, suet, suet. I found the word animal feed, I think. Okay. Suit.
00:58:09
Speaker
A grape or apple jelly or orange marmalade. If you were putting orange marmalade on bread, then feeding it to birds, these are some high class birds. Right. When we were in Florida visiting my grandparents in the winters when we were younger, there was a
00:58:29
Speaker
blue heron that would stop by every morning for breakfast and we fed him cheese.
00:58:35
Speaker
And it was very cute. And then one day, um, when my grandmother was not looking, my grandfather opened the door and let him inside the house. It was great. He would not leave for like 20 minutes. He's like, I know you have more cheese in there. He was just vibing around where all the food was like, is this for me?
Reflections and Sign-off
00:59:00
Speaker
Is that for me? My grandma got mad.
00:59:04
Speaker
I'm just imagining in my head cannon. He just gets on one of the like dining room chairs. It's just like, all right. Second course. So long and thanks for all the cheese. On your mark. Or if he just like sits down comfortably, grandmother walks in and just like honks at her. Like, what's up? Did I mention? Did I mention what we named him? No, no. George. He was golden George.
00:59:33
Speaker
I don't know why that's so funny to me. That just seems wholesome. We gave him a slice of sharp cheddar every morning. And I mean, he lived for a long time, so I guess it was okay. Jesus is good for birds. That was on the list, right? I found the article you were referencing.
00:59:57
Speaker
I mean, if peanut butter is on the list, that's like, that's mostly cheese. If beef fat is on the list, beef comes from cows, which cheese you need milk for like a dairy cheese. So I think it's okay.
01:00:14
Speaker
They say processed lunch meat, sugar free or low sugar spreads, soft cheeses and bacon are good for humans, but they're not great for birds. Well, George lived, so I think the article is wrong because I have anecdotal evidence that proves otherwise.
01:00:32
Speaker
I misread the second, the point after this, because this was sandwich foods to avoid. The next section was when to feed bread to birds. And I misread it as when to feed birds to birds. I mean, you can. When you want the strongest to survive. This is a chicken type situation. Chickens will eat anything. Chickens are great. Yeah. I have one question for the class.
01:01:02
Speaker
What is a game you'd like to play in the new future? This will be our exit strategy. And you can't say Elden Ring. Oh no. That's literally my status right now. It's like Elden Ring is out, but I'm apparently recording a podcast.
01:01:24
Speaker
Yeah, you can't say Elden Ring. Does it have to be a game that I haven't already played? I think she said coming out, right? It doesn't have to be coming out. Just like, what's the game you're wanting to play? And you're like, yeah, that's on my list and I'm excited about it. I'll go first. I'll give you time to think. I want to play Bloodlines because I want to play the second one that's coming out eventually, maybe. Oh, yeah.
01:01:53
Speaker
And I watched through Redemption playthrough on Outstar's YouTube channel, which she's great. These are vampire games? Friend of the show. Outstar's, yeah. Yeah. She's great. But yeah, it's, uh, then put her in the masquerade.
01:02:11
Speaker
Mm hmm. So that's a good answer. That's that's an episode that we'll probably never cover. But if we ever just had Ian on and we're like nothing to talk about and 75 percent of the episode to go, I'd be like, Ian, talk about vampire. And Dave and I could both leave.
01:02:28
Speaker
Yeah, that's mine. I watched The Redemption and now I got to play all of the first Bloodlines. Is it Bloodlines? Am I saying it? Yeah, I don't remember. Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines. Yeah. What am I confusing it with? I think the Battle Royale one, whatever it is, which I don't remember. Blood Hunt. Yeah, I'm not going to play that one. But yeah, that's my answer because I want to
01:02:54
Speaker
We started playing the tabletop and then we stopped and I'm like, dang it, I want more. I'd like seconds. Technically we completed our campaign. It was just a short campaign.
01:03:04
Speaker
Oh, I actually thought of a good answer. It's not a shitty one because it's going to say maybe Horizon Forbidden West, but like I'm aware of it, but it's not like I'm not excited to like go check it out. I'm sure it'll be good. Yeah. But Baldur's Gate 3, when it finally releases, I've had an interest to do something like that since Divinity Original Sin 2 and the three times I played it. I like that type of thing. I think I would enjoy it, but I want it to be fully out and not go back every patch. I'm in the same boat.
01:03:34
Speaker
I think they mentioned, um, I read an article not too long ago. I think they're aiming to leave early access either next year or the following 2022.
01:03:47
Speaker
I mean, I think they're planning to leave early access either next year over the phone. They added barbarian as a class, which is cool. I did hear that. I'm good to wait for it because I don't really know what's in it currently. Yeah, it'll be nice to get back. I watched Ian play it when I think it was super early access or at least more than it is now. And he was like,
01:04:12
Speaker
little wonky. And that's why I was like, I am not paying $60 for a half baked game. But I think by now it's probably better. Are we talking about cyberpunk? Well, it is actually also technically better. They're supposed to have improved performance. They did a massive patch recently. They added a bunch of animations and stuff like that. But
01:04:37
Speaker
I'm going to give it a little more time. I'm going to wait until those cookies are absolutely burned before we take them out of the oven at this point. As we said, Jake likes hard food, which is why I'm playing Elden Ring difficulties up there. Ah, just kidding. You can't say Elden Ring. No, it's forbidden. It is forbidden. Um,
01:05:02
Speaker
I'll eventually get to death stranding. That's kind of a cop out answer, but it's on the list. Is that something like you're looking forward to? No. Okay. I'm just kidding. I mean, I'll probably enjoy it. Um, what was dumb is before you even made the cyberpunk joke, I was like thinking about starting another play through at some point, but honestly, it's not a high priority. You could just go back and do pray instead.
01:05:32
Speaker
That's true. Start speed running, pray. Be freaking great. It's harder to pick one that's upcoming that I haven't played, but same answers as dedicated listeners would anticipate from earlier, or a year in preview, I think, but like Yakuza, like a dragon, is probably the best game that I have that I haven't played yet as far as hype is concerned.
01:05:54
Speaker
Because, again, I actually have launched Elden Ring and it's just calling for it to be me. I will say, as we're closing out, around 6.10, I went invisible on Steam and launched Elden Ring and kept looking over at Discord every five minutes. At 6.20, I saw that Jake launched Elden Ring. I'm like, let's see if he remembers and we're doing 7 p.m. I periodically looked over and was like,
01:06:22
Speaker
Huh. How much, how much time before we need to start up this call? I would have remembered because we got back. It was like six, six, 10. I was like, I have 50 minutes before I have to be somewhere. AKA sitting down right here. And then I didn't leave this spot. And then if Jake forgot to be like, Jake, are we still doing the podcast? Do we miss it? Am I late?
01:06:52
Speaker
No, I think I think we sent out the Sin Caster invite literally at seven. So all according to plan. It's going well. Let's see. I don't need you to the audit. But it was. Yeah.
01:07:10
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, I suppose we'll have impressions on Elden Ring later, but I mean, I already have impressions, but they're obviously too early. Everyone else's impressions are already out. And so I will mention that it's just one of the highly, most highly rated games ever on Metacritic. Um, I think it's 97, which like for comparison is up there with like
01:07:34
Speaker
I think higher than OG Bioshock, we're talking like Half-Life PC release scores. Like Super Mario, the best games in Super Mario series scores. It's really freaking high up there. It basically has to have that same situation Undertale had when there was like one reviewer that was like freaking give it a zero, you know? He's trash. It's a really get pulled down. So I mean, the critical reception is it's good.
01:08:04
Speaker
I hope you two have fun. Thank you. And I hope that everybody out there has fun, that has or has not played Elden Ring or other games. But if you has or has not played a game, you could or could has not tell us at soapstonepodcast.gmail.com or join the discussion on Facebook at facebook.com slash soapstonepodcast. Tell us what game are you looking forward to play, whether it's out or not.
01:08:34
Speaker
Yeah, that's probably a better question to answer. And as always, we'll see you in the next one. Have a good night. Bye.