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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 10, Nicho/Neecho/Nacho, however you say it
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Episode 10 of your favorite text based farming MMO! This time with Special guest Nicho! We still don't know how to pronounce it and he's not telling! Join us as we talk about all things farm, updates, and what we've been up to! its been a busy January hopefully you've been enjoying all the new stuff! Thanks for listening and catch you in the next episode!
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Chaotic and Humorous Start
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um are
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it out oh my god it's happening already it's already start i wasn't prepared too bad it turned off engines are on yeah fulls sal We're doing it live. I'm doing this against my will. Yes. and We're all doing this against our will.
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i'm I'm strapped to my chair here, are you kidding?
Introductions and Name Fun
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Anyway, welcome back to everybody's favorite, FarmRPG podcast with me, your host, Buban, and my co-host here. Hey, it's me, Forest Path. We've got a special guest with us as per usual. Introduce yourself there, special guest. Hey, it's me. How are you? Good. Who's me? You know who I am.
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Yeah. We need for you to say your name there, my guy. I don't know how to say it. Well, say it in all the ways that people do pronounce it. You can pronounce it in any order, whether it's right or not right. Let's go with nycho. Nycho. Okay. We got nycho here on the circle. You realize that that means that we're just going to call you nycho all night. You can call me whatever you want to.
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How about late for dinner? yeah Oh, say rain! Wow, we really do. we hans We're in sync. Wonder twins activate. Wonder twins. Power of an ice menorah. Old school scrubs joke.
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o Anyway, well, welcome back, everybody.
New Year Celebration and Milestone
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um Happy New Year. we're we're in um Now we're in the new year, 2025. We're kicking it off with episode 10. This is episode 10 of the podcast. Did you know that? Holy sweet bee is 2025. Holy double sweet bee that it is.
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There's some blimps happening in here. Yeah, it's craziness. Just padding the gold meter for all the gold. Padding the budget out. Less people are commenting. So that means that those of you loyal listeners that comment, you're just going to rake it in. Here's the thing. Less people are commenting on like.
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on the actual episodes, but I still think we get a pretty steady flow of Swear jar commenters. I feel like people just know that that's what they should be doing. So we get I want to but yeah and verify that. Go ahead. Scroll through. I didn't just I'm not going to go count all the comments. I'll just go. You know, I can't do that right now. ever I'm I'm guessing. Anyway, welcome back. We're glad you're here. Thank you for joining me. So so much. or Nacho or nacho nico nico.
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I don't know. Alkaline battery? Who knows? Could be any of those things. So glad for you to be here. How are you today? I'm good. I'm drinking my coffee. I had a good day. Went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Ooh, why did you get coffee so late at night? Did you just stay up all night? Are you like an all up all up all night kind of guy? Is it decaf? It is not decaf. Absolutely not. It gets disgusting. I wouldn't even drink decaf.
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even if I needed to. Even if I had like a hard condition, I feel like I would just not drink coffee. It is Maxwell House breakfast blend, because that is the only light roast my grocery store sells. All right, Maxwell House, pop up. Cool. I like Dunkin Donuts coffee. If we're asking for opinions on mass-produced coffee. Are you straight up a New Englander right now? I buy ground Dunkin Donuts coffee, and it's probably the best.
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It's pretty good. I do bones, not sponsored, but I'm a bones girly. I get that bones off the internet. But we could use a sponsor. We could use a sponsor. I don't think that's a good idea. I don't think that's a good idea. I think it's a great idea. It's not just good. Yeah, I guess. I don't know who it's, but you
Merchandise Promotion and Contest Plans
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know what? This is sponsored by the farm RPG merchandise. That's what this is sponsored by. You can check that out. If you go onto the farm GP merchandise library page,
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Look, you can get a hoodie. You get a hoodie. I got my hoodie behind me. Hang it up back there. Hey, you got a hoodie too? somewhere I got the dark green one. Oh my gosh. What a good looking hoodie. We all love that zip up hoodie. It's pretty good. So if you if you are in the United States, the hoodie is available, the zip up hoodie. I'm still working on getting it for other countries. there's ah It's a problem with the website, but I'm working on it. What was that voice? yeah It's a crazy the problem with the website. Only the biggest website known to man and they can't figure something out. There's an error on it and they think that's my problem. Anyway, you can tell I'm not frustrated by this whatsoever. You're not? No. But anyway, but that's neither here nor there.
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Go get some merch. I may be having a contest very soon about merch and like people wearing their shirts So maybe look out for that and the next coming like weeks or so I just want people I get more time to like get their merchant So there's like a there's like a you're gonna have a little contest um And it's gonna probably be on the reddit. It's probably won't have anything to do with the podcast, but I'm mentioning it now Do you check the Reddit a lot? Either of you guys check the Reddit a lot? Constantly. I have push notifications any time anybody posts because if I see somebody make a vault post, I delete it immediately. That is so not true. Niko, call her out. Let's do it. I do it constantly.
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It's not true. I like multiple posts in the last week. It's usually because I'm asleep or I was just at a freaking convention, dog. The last week I've been very busy. I didn't even have, I turned off all push notifications on my phone in the last week. I had to do work on the Reddit. This is ridiculous. Listen, I do my best here. Okay. I do what I can. I stay off Reddit. Good. That's very smart. Man knows.
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smart. Isn't Nethi a Reddit mug? Can't we blame him? Yeah, you know what? you know what and He does need to be cold. It's been ah like at least a while. I told you to turn him to cold yesterday.
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Yeah, he deserves it. Anyway, while we're doing that, while we're turning Nethi to Cole, which is like a nice inside joke, I don't think anybody, does anybody get that? Have we talked about that before on the pod? Probably. I don't think so. um So every once in a while we make Nethi's emblem and game. You gotta really give a backstory. ah That would be you that needs to give that backstory, dawg. I'm not privy to it, as privy as you. Do you know it, Nico?
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think I think I heard it at one point, something about a game. Was that right? Well, okay. So I guess we're going to go in the deep mod lore for a second. um Last year, Kidian made the Farm RPG staff page, right? Where all of the mods are listed out and mods could, you know, say like a a little bit, a little blurb about themselves. blurman um And Nethi, everyone was like, hey, you have to pick an icon, like ah like ah like an item or one of the emblems. And Nethi didn't have one picked and people were razzing him about it. And he just was being very Nethi. And for those of you who listened to the podcast, you know that Nethi is very chill and
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Not much of a, you know, doesn't really have strong opinions about these things. So I said, you know, hey, as an admin, I demand that Nethi is coal. And so we assigned coal to Nethi. And then the next day he came on and was like, why am I called?
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And everyone was like, well, cause force path said you have to be coal. And he was like, no, you guys need to change it. And everyone was like, no, the admin said your coal. So we refused to change it. And it just kind of became this whole thing. And then we uploaded an emblem and made his emblem coal for a little while. And it's just kind of become a running joke about nothing in coal. So ah vaguely remember that. I don't know. I think we lost boob on.
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I'm still here. Can you hear me? No, this isn't about me though. This should be about our guest. Oh wait, first we gotta talk about the updates. We gotta talk about the updates. We gotta pick the Square jar winner and then we talked to our guest. He's, but you know, feel free to, he's chilling. He's, he's going to fill in. He's going to fill in all this information, help us out. Got like three cups of coffee here together. Three cups of coffee. Yeah. I mean,
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You're going to need it. So the last time, we
Farm RPG Updates and Events
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don't really have a lot of updates since the last time we recorded. It was like right around Christmas, wasn't it? It was before Christmas. Right. it was That's why I said right around Christmas.
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Uh, anyway, uh, so between now and Christmas, we're having a day guys. We are having a day. I'm exhausted. Again, like I said, I was at a convention this last weekend and I was selling my butt off. So like, I'm still half asleep because I cranked out so much art. It's crazy. Anyway, January 1st. starter pack, new starter pack. We had Maverick chips, that's a new thing. The Buddy Jack Maverick chips, that's neat and new so that you can reset your cheats. You can cheat more at Buddy Jack. I think you're missing a couple updates here. Am I? No, not really. The 22nd we did not cover. Brother? Sister? Are you sure about that?
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You know what? One of our faithful listeners will tell me how wrong I am. And then I will just add that to the pile of things I've encouraged. So you got more Buddy Jacks. There was more Buddy Jacks that we got on the 22nd. Subscribe to the Patreon. You can do some more Buddy Jack rolls. Pretty neat. Pretty fun. Pretty cool.
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Uh, but yeah, on the first, that's really only happened on the 22nd. So on the first, tons of stuff happened. Actually, this one's been very busy. We've got a lot of stuff popping off right now. Holy moly, hasn't it? Very many new quests. So many. So, oh, and the polar bear. That's part of this too. You get the fish biscuit and you're in your starter pack. If you've got the starter pack, the polar bear is a seasonal pet. He lasts here for two months. He's going to bring you all your frozen items.
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Accept cabbage. Accept cabbage. Accept cabbage. Okay, interesting. um You didn't know that? I don't know if I was paying attention to that, but yes, I did know that. You're welcome. You should be growing cabbages right now. Well, I'm definitely not doing that. Me and my prune juice are well aware he doesn't drop cabbages. I'll probably be doing prune juice, honestly, at the end of the month. I'll just spam them all. Anyway, um there's one, at least, minimum one. um Oh gosh darn it. You got me. So we wrapped up the December event, obviously, ah the frozen fishing. I think everything's thought out by now. It is, but it was really cool watching the community like, guys, we gotta save this. It took a while. Y'all are dedicated to this game. It's pretty sweet. Things were frozen for quite some time, which is pretty cool.
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So all that closed out the snowball event closed out. We got some new Raptors or one new Raptor. Excuse me. I shouldn't say new Raptors. It's a terrible art too. Yes. Uh, and then we got a new mailbox. We got a new, we got some new buddy dolls. Very fun.
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Frozen radishes. Oh yeah, I forgot about that frozen radish. That's a nice new one. Very proud of frozen radish. Everyone hates those like non-breakfast boosts, but also they're like, I don't want to grape juice these because it's like three minutes, but I also don't want to grow them, but also I need them. I love to grape juice stuff that takes me like five minutes. I'm so fine with that.
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Not just grape, but I grape juice everything at this point. Yeah, same. but cookies and Cookies and grape juice. Yeah. Hey, yeah, just load up on things. And then you just toss. If you still have cookie time left after you've grape juice, like four times, however many times you need it, it's breakfast boost the rest out of it. and Just like fill up fill up those coffers, baby. yeah I don't even do the breakfast boost stuff anymore. I just use my use my cookies for 20 grape juice and I'm done.
00:11:55
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Smart. Continuing on to the the seventh. It looks like we had some cow variations came out of beta. Very cool. So those was are now still understand why there's a bull that is a cow. I am still mad about it. Did you not question the rooster that is a chicken?
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I don't want to talk about the versus chicken. I want to talk about the cow. And if you have questions, go to my profile page, people, because it's ridiculous. And I am calling out this kind of problem in farm RPG. It's ridiculous. I think the Red Bull is my favorite one. The Red Bull is good. i'm Oh, it's my favorite one, too. But it is not a cow. so Let's be clear. by friend Watch out.
00:12:39
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Whoa, that was a little spicy for the former RPG podcast. I don't know if if it's spicy or not. I mean, it's probably not spicy. Now we're really going down a rabbit hole. I'm exhausted. Anyway. Oh Lee, you can tell me where you've been from lately. Listen, I just came back from my convention oh anyway a hey.
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Do you want me to talk about the rest of this? week just go for the stuff yeah dig us a deeper hole if You have already dug a very deep hole. I know. So we um we released the ability to use more protein bars in a zone for a small gold fee, plus you have to have the
Quirky Stories and Mod Lore
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protein bar. And because you probably would need more protein bars, we released a couple of the previously exclusive to starter pack items into the flea market. Oh, yeah. we intentionally put them at a very reasonable price compared to what they were going for in trade, knowing that you know trade is going to change over time. But definitely a way if you wanted some of those things, you could go to the flea market now and they're actually pretty good value if I do say so myself. so I know that some traders would argue with me, but they're not here to defend themselves right now. so ha That's true.
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Also, some people don't want to and it want to go into trade chat. Yeah, for real. Some people don't want to chat at all, period. Hands like flat. hands flat i i don't like i don't i don't like I don't like trade chat. No, I don't either. They scare me. It scares me in there. I've been trying to trade in staff chat all week. Yeah. Trying to get my meals here. But like if I want a cranberry juice, 275 gold isn't bad, as far as I know. I mean, I don't go to trade. You can't get it in trade anyway. Cranberry juice, you can't trade for. Exactly.
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So ah we did release that. ah We also fixed the ah Spanish flag art icon but shout outs to the whole thing behind that ah pretty fantastic little drive that hit our feedback and I saw it all over chat.
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ah You are a hero is there those people that care about that passion about the Spanish flag. Oh, there was an arm from me our nation There's a tar nation then So ah we also there was an uh, too. I don't think we count us Don't get counted. I'm it's just arms that get counted. I I have clarified this I told this to our editor. Thank you editor that counts are Man, the editors are going to have some work to do this episode. Sorry, guys. But we also added pine seeds. Drop pine cones now. Unharvest. Unharvest, yeah. So if you were wondering why you got some extra pine cones, because you painted some pine trees and then you cut them down. You environment destroyer. Excellent little detail. I like it.
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It's cute. You know, that's the interesting thing and wonderful thing about this game is sometimes it has cute little details like that that people recommend randomly. And it just hits on the right day and the right time. And we go, yeah, let's do that. Yeah, that was feedback. I'm pretty sure we get that as like a feedback thing. So that's fine that we did that. That was a big day on January 7th. It was. We've had some pretty big, pretty big things dropping in here. Am I covering the 20th too?
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Okay, keep going. Yeah, featured animals are in beta. Let's go. oh So you get all of these wonderful animal skins, which you say to yourself, man, I want other people to see my animal skins. Now you can do that. If you're in beta, someday it will be in life.
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um If you were holding out on that Red Bull, now's the time to fly. If you were holding out on that Red Bull, now it's time to get that Red Bull. I already got it. If you want to see what featured animals look like, go to my profile. No, don't go to Boobun's profile. She's got a big enough head. You can see Big Bungo.
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Go to my profile. I made a little rainbow. Oh, see, look, go to all of our profiles as we have very different goals for what our featured animals are and then make your own and tell us about it. We'd love to hear it. So check that out, especially if you're in beta, let us know if you find any issues. We also released a new exploration location. The, the fresh room came out kind of a ah shadow drop.
00:17:02
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a little bit of a shadow drop. Yeah, that one was, we kind of just like threw that one out of the void right right at you. I mean, it was it didn't come out of the void. We were planning it, but we just sort of were like, it's time. And then it happened. We didn't let it go. It didn't go into alpha at all. We just kind of like threw it at you. yeah Surprise! Sometimes the surprise is nice, I think. I unlike it i like him good a good surprise. Also, Gary's crush room. Yeah, Gary's crush room. There's a ton of people asking about how to get friendship with Gary.
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Imagine what that's like. o And for the record, if you are genuinely asking, how do I level up friendship with Gary? I've got two pieces of advice for you. One, yarn. Yarn is an awesome way to gift to Gary because you can put straw and and into um yarn in your craftworks.
00:17:50
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And then you can just passively give it to Gary. And then if you're feeling really desperate, that's what heart containers are for, guys. I don't know if you knew that. Heart containers give a set amount of experience to your friends, ah but could be impacted by, say, an Over the Moon or even an OMG proc. So if you really want to boost up, you got those heart containers too, guys. So those are some wise tips.
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for you if you had those questions. Anyways, what else happened? Oh yeah, you can pull the refresh library pages now. I don't know why we need that, but it sounds nifty. Okay, sure.
00:18:32
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sometimes Sometimes boss man just does something wants to take care of somebody. it's clear I'm sure someone asked for it. I just don't know where I saw that. Somebody needs that, but it's probably not me, but somebody out there probably needs that to refresh that library page. you know You're looking for a hot updates, constantly updating that library page. Then not announced yet, but is out.
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was the end of DI, um, distant illusions. So for those of you that are crazy end game, but don't haunt chat, DI 14, that's right. Um, for those of you that are end gamers that don't haunt chat, um, there is an end now to that quest line for now. So sweet. I was saying I'm still on four.
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well Oh yeah. well And then also what came out literally today ah was if you completed the ARK quest line um as well as the Temple of Fate and got buddy to 90 and completed his quest, which by the way viewers, that's all a lot of work.
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there's a new set of temples to do that all hidden temple thing maybe got spoiled a little bit. So if you don't want to get spoiled, I won't say anymore, but uh, check it out. Yeah. i am I am looking forward to grinding that out. I like it. Yeah. So there you go. Updates, updates, some that haven't even been posted yet because we were all really busy today and didn't get to type them out. Today was a busy day for everybody. Yeah. He probably needs to post about it, but that's okay.
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I was going through updating one of my library pages today, and the merchandise didn't make the update page. I noticed that. Well, that'll probably- Well, it was pushed across the top. Maybe we should put something in updates as well. Probably should. Good notes. That's a good call out. Thank you, Niko.
00:20:28
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Well, we've got a downtime minute. I'm going to pull the swear jar. So if your name is little fox That's little fox send me a DM and you're gonna get 470 gold because that's my show money Last time yeah, baby. Did we um a lot or did we yeah swear a lot? yeah I'm done for a time. We I'm so much and I think you know wish I knew how many times I owned, but I'm glad that I don't. Somebody said that you owned a lot in the comments of the swear jar, by the way. I don't know. Yeah, they said that it was you that did a lot of the umming. That sounds like um um propaganda. It's probably boob on propaganda. Somebody's like a boob on loyalist out there. What is that libel? Is it libel? Slander?
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Libels if it's are written. Oh, okay. Oh, so it was like it was libel. It was libel. It was libel. So those of you who are posting like belly as statements about me, watch yourselves. I think it was you. but um Little Fox, get at me and I will give you this gold. I'm going to change my name real quick. Is that okay?
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you just I don't know if you can be Little Fox. You didn't specify the spelling. Oh, it's it's it's spelled like it's supposed to so be spelled. It's Little Fox. wait How's it supposed to be spelled? What if I think Little Fox has ah the letter or the number one in it? You're wrong. You're wrong. That's not how you would if you looked up Little Fox in the dictionary. It's that's how it's spelled. Is there a space? Is there no space?
00:21:58
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That's a good question. actually I don't know. Let me see. No, Joe is asking the right questions. That is true. You are asking the correct questions here. Where are you, little Fox? I'm scrolling to find Joe.
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Nicco? Nicchio? I don't know.
Guest's Farm RPG Journey
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Nikon? So while Bubon is looking this up, um I'd like to welcome our guest for the but segment. It's so nice to see you, Nico. Yeah. I haven't been on camera in a very long time.
00:22:29
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Well, we are grateful for having you and, uh, just want to know how you're doing today. How'd you get involved with farm RPG? So my wife found this game, I think from the besties podcast back when oh is the mac price yeah she told me about it, said I wouldn't like it because it, because it was by the same guy that did destiny RPG. And I played that for a little bit and never really got into it.
00:22:55
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Then I started playing this and i played I've played it every day, ever since. so So she was wrong is what you're trying to say. now Was she wrong because you just want to prove her wrong or because you love the game? ah Probably you wanted to prove her wrong a little bit at the beginning, but now but but now i definitely I definitely love the game. I'm so glad. It is good game. Tell us, ah how did you become a mod? What do you what what was the story there?
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That's a good question. I have no idea why y'all picked me to be a mod.
00:23:29
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I mean, I alla i mean i got i saw um you have a message from Forcepath and I'm like, what the heck is this? Did I do something wrong? Yes. If you have a message from Forcepath, more than likely you did something wrong. Oh, that's so not true. Come on, guys. I'm just joking. It's a joke. Come on, guys. but I guess if you if anyone out there wants to be a mod, I guess sit in Global and say weird stuff for two years and then they'll ask you to be a mod.
00:23:52
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Yeah, that's pretty much it. The vibes are okay. You passed the vibe check. You passed the vibe check. We're like, who's always in global? Oh, Nico, let's get that guy in here.
00:24:03
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the You pass the vodka, it's fine. My favorite memory is is, I think when I messaged you, you sent me back a really thoughtful reply. like When i had asked you oh yeah yeah I had asked you a couple questions, and you sent back a super thoughtful reply, and then after you became a farmhand, I had to ask you a couple more things, and you sent back yet another really thoughtful reply, and I was always just like,
00:24:29
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Man, we find some really cool people in farm RPG. And so if you ever haven't had a chance to chat with Nico about anything, Guy's really smart and has a lot of good thoughts. So thank you. Appreciate you. Or he might be farting in global or something. I don't know. yeah they they Or he might say fart in global and yeah mash and if around, it really brings out the best of me. and Everyone really. In everyone.
00:24:59
Speaker
I haven't talked about it in a while. How's that man doing? ah he He shows up every now and then and just does some crops and then says something and jumps out. But I love him. He's great. A lot of people do that now. Hedda is good. Good folks. so That segues into the next question. What is your favorite chat? like What chat is your home? Your home away from home? Your absolute favorite?
Favorite Chat Rooms Discussion
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You don't have to be loyal here. It's got to be global. Global? You're globule? You're so weird. I know you're the only one that I think said global so far.
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I mean, i know there I know there's other staff who's global is their favorite too. They just haven't got a podcast. Okay, that that's valid. I don't know anybody else who really talks to global other than you. You're like the global mod. Oh yeah, yeah. Link sometimes. Yeah, Link does sometimes. It's true. That's true.
00:25:53
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ah Spoilers is to, I don't know, what's the word? Serious? Serious? Okay, serious. Start start talking about min-maxing and stuff like that and all that. I don't mind the salt really. It's just, you know, I just laugh at them. Yeah. that That is really what you can do. but Truly. Helpchats, but helpchats cool. Giveaways and trade are too hectic for me.
00:26:17
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Giveaways move so fast your eyes like cross by the time you can read a single thing. It's already gone like five messages up. So yeah, like we love to give ways people too. I love giving us y'all no just not my favorite chat ah like to go and give away sometimes to just honor every whatever what everyone's asking for but sometimes I just can't keep up.
00:26:36
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There's the days where I just go into giveaways and anyone that types in chat for like five minutes, I just give them a mailbox full of something. This is fun. and think I think giveaways is such a fun idea. It's totally, totally insane in there. But it's fun. That's true. That's a good place. Now, the age old question. Who is your favorite moderator? Seth.
00:26:58
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Saff, Saff's not a moderator I love the ice cream library page. Saff had some bangers, let's be real. Saff did have some really good pages. Also, some not good um pages that were like kind of scary, Saff. Like the ice cream page.
00:27:19
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Yeah, the one she's like scooping her head out like it's like a creepypasta. Yeah, you know, he had some he had some bangers, but some also some not bangers. hello My favorite mod. I don't think anyone has said this particular mod yet, but I think it's going to be FFFF.
00:27:38
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but for for aar has Has been around forever. oh gee man'am one he ah Well, not OG, but very close. I'm pretty sure that when by the time I joined, he was already a farmhand. and I think that was before that I actually joined the game. He's been staffed forever. It's super helpful. Always fun to chat with. ah Great rival for Trout. o Yes, Trout Rivals. Who's winning right now?
00:28:05
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So last I checked, I have a higher Trout Mastery. His production is higher right now, though. Okay. So that'll meet you eventually. I recently bought the $10 trillion storehouse upgrade rather than investing in Trout. More Trout, yeah. Did that cause a rift in your friendship? I don't think so. If you told him that, he might be mad.
00:28:29
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No, he'd probably be happy because he gives him more time to catch up. Yeah, that's so true. Listen, he's such an OG though. Those of you who don't know who F is. It's four F's, just four F's. I was told to pronounce it Fuh. Oh, Fuh. Or something like that. Fuh.
00:28:49
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I don't know. He'll never come on to any platform to tell us, but we can just make it up. He doesn't even have Discord. I don't even think he listens to this. Only mod without a Discord. i I don't think he does anything but farm like on his phone. yeah is I feel like I'm calling him out a little bit, but he is a Luddite, as far as I'm aware. If he didn't play farm RPG, he wouldn't have a smartphone. Right. Real Luddite. It's pretty cool.
00:29:15
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Has lots of interesting stories too. He does. He does have a lot of interesting stories. He's a very cool guy. Very cool guy. So I guess I get the honor of asking who your least favorite mod is. I won't say it too excitedly. ah Oh, come on. We know you know. You're just delaying the... Me.
00:29:41
Speaker
Does that work? Oh, I don't know. I don't know if you could say yourself. What a cop out answer. Yeah. Well, you know, I'll let it slide. Oh, and okay. Okay. Oh, I'm going to say link because he won't play lethal company with us. Oh gosh. All right. Yeah. Get him crazy about lethal company. I played it. I played it with you guys a couple of times. Yeah, I did too. It just is not my jam man. I liked it. I just, I guess play too late at night. ah we Two times a week, every week for basically a year of now.
00:30:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's ah it's very fun. I had fun playing it with you guys, but yeah, it was like you just start at like 10 PM or 9 PM and I'm a big baby and I go to bed early. So we gotta wait. I wait for G dubs to be ready. I know and ah that's central time. Gotta get that kid in bed. That little kids gotta to get in bed. Sometimes a week if we get started early enough, Casey jumps in, but not very often Casey's another early bird. I've been trying to get him to play hell divers.
00:30:44
Speaker
because a couple of us have been playing Helldivers and he's always like, I'm already in bed. I'm like, really? I think eventually the number of people who play Helldivers is going to convince me to buy it because I like Starship Troopers and that's basically what it is. so I really enjoy Helldivers. Yeah, Helldivers. I enjoy it a lot. I play it a couple of times a week with some buddies. Nethi is one of them. ah so If any of you guys want to play Helldivers, podcasters too, just hit me up.
00:31:12
Speaker
and yeah Try to be around, so. did i That's a fun game. yeah the hell divers Get on Get on the helldivers. Spread democracy. h but very So, Nico, any other advice you would give to new or long-term farmers? ah what are What are your thoughts about Farm RPG? What do you like about it? What don't you like? What advice would you give? Upgrade your trout farm early and often.
00:31:42
Speaker
Okay, editors, mute this man. It's the it's the most important part of your farm. Everything else is gravy on top of that. So I don't know how much how much trout am I making? I'm actually curious now. But I don't think it's very many. I think it's like 900 or something silly. Let's see. Trout farm. Oh, no, it's not too bad. It's 8543.
00:32:11
Speaker
See, I'm at half a million right now. Eric, that's insanity to me. That's so much. I get a mega mastery of travel every two days. That's insane. What's your travel mastery? Have you hit the energy limit?
00:32:27
Speaker
And the mastery? Not even close. That's interesting. yeah If pumpkin juice worked on items that were already mega mastered, that's where all of mine would go. No way. so I knew ahead of time that I was going to be like, we are not letting that happen. That's hilarious. Let's see what is my trout master and pull it up. I'm curious.
00:32:48
Speaker
280,439,866. It is still about 130 million underboards.
00:33:01
Speaker
That's crazy. And I don't think it's going to catch up. Well, it would be very difficult since boards come once every hour and try to come once a night. So you're going to really have to scale up to ah make that up. Yeah.
00:33:15
Speaker
ah and um Ooh, big ooh, big ooh. So what's your favorite thing about Farm Roach, you know, Nico? Chat, community, people, friends, hanging out. It is a really cool community. I feel like we say it every time, but it doesn't change. I've made so many friends in Farm. It's insane. Just like so many people that I talk to daily. Like it's crazy. It's it's a big community and there's so many fun people. I don't know. It rules. It is good.
00:33:45
Speaker
So for but three years, I've basically had form RPG up on one monitor with chat and then whatever else I'm doing on my other monitor. Just hang out on chat. I feel that in my bones, my friend. It's always on my iPad. Like I have an iPad like right here next to my desk. It's literally unless I'm drawing something, it's up. It's like on my screen constantly. I'm just monitoring it nonstop.
00:34:08
Speaker
People are always wondering if I'm watching farm RPG and the answer is yes, but I'm not always responding because I like to stay. Yeah, I do a lot of lurking, but if I'm on my computer, I've got all my chats up.
00:34:22
Speaker
Yeah, same. I can see you no matter where you are. Oh my lord. Sometimes I'm not paying attention. So like if somebody's screaming, I used to just sit in spoilers and have it up on my screen. I'm just in spoilers. So I would see it happening all the time. But like a lot of times now I'm kind of just sitting in staff.
00:34:42
Speaker
because I can't you've become what you hate. I know. And I shouldn't be like, I used should just be sitting in spoilers like I used to, but it's it sometimes it moves too fast and I'm, I'm busy. Day job is busier than old day job was. So that I can't, I can't keep as close of an eye on it as I used to. R.I.P. Guess we're going to have to recruit someone else to be a spoilers mom then. Yeah, just spoilers admin signing off like um man.
00:35:09
Speaker
No, it's OK. I still look at it. I'm still in there like probably about 40 percent of the day, I'd say. Of the day. We're being honest with each other. I know it's true. It is true. It's a lot. I feel like I missed an interview question and I'm sorry. No, I think it's fine. I think, that you know, you hit the you hit the major points, the major milestone ones. Oh, I know. Any favorite like movie or band or book?
Musical Tastes Revealed
00:35:39
Speaker
Like, tell us a little bit about what you do in your free time other than Farm RPG. Anything that you want to share? My favorite band is My Bloody Valentine. Okay. I could see you as an MBV fan. I really like two days, noise pop, 80s, 90s, that kind of stuff. I've been listening to a lot of medicine lately. Okay. Like on repeat. Fair. My favorite movie is Synecdoche, New York.
00:36:05
Speaker
I don't think I know that movie. I don't know that one. It's a Charlie Kaufman movie. It's got a, what's this? I can't remember his name right now. The, the guy. He's a, he's a, that guy. It's a movie about, about death and love and everything really, really interesting kind of dream like movie. Okay.
00:36:26
Speaker
Very cool. I knew Nico was cool because he was listening to Kate Bush one day. I remember we were talking about Kate Bush, and I was just like, oh, Nico's cool. He's listening to Kate Bush. He's that guy. I love Kate Bush. Yeah, I do too. I love Kate Bush also. I'm like, this guy's cool. He's listening to Kate Bush. This is the guy's on the level. He's on the level. That's that's how you i that's how I recognize. If somebody listens to some of the same music I do, because I listen to some weird yeah a lot of that weird but but but it is good weird crap it's good weird crap it's good weird crap she's not weird she's good would you like to share some of the other weird crap that you listen to a lot of jethro toll lately that's good that je toler has been i've been hooked on just playing thick as a brick okay just the whole thing in my car um i do like
00:37:17
Speaker
I do actually like some Yoko Ono music. OK. OK. No, I mean, Yoko's legit. People usually act surprised about that. But the thing about Yoko that people don't get is that she did not break up the beat. The beat was broken up long before she showed up. So like, oh, yeah. Oh, are you Yoko Ono, Stan? I'm not. No, no, no. She's she's a little cuckoo. But, you know, give her her give her her props. She was she's an actual artist. She actually is an artist doing art stuff.
00:37:46
Speaker
yes So I'm not judging. I was just asking. She is. but Let her live. People gave her flack because they hated her because she broke up the Beatles. written She's I mean. What else lately? A little bit of affects twin. Oh, come to daddy. E.P. was like a jam of mine ah many, many years ago.
00:38:09
Speaker
I had a Richard D. James album on the car the other day. it's a good That's a good one. This guy's got some deep cuts. Guys, if you haven't heard some of these, ah maybe make sure some of your kids aren't around for some of them, but they're good songs. yeah The and ah band I was listening to du today, I really like the Manhattan Love Suicides. They are ah someone I've never really heard much about, but I really like them. More noisy stuff. Love noisy stuff.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, I like we need to make a group chat with you and shred. And then we can all share our super weird music. um And we can play a song that is very near and dear to our hearts, which is called supermarket. You can listen to it and you can say what interesting I've looked up. a look at But basically, if the music causes my wife to have a headache, I'm probably gonna like it.
00:39:01
Speaker
Oh, you should check out Joanna Newsom, if you haven't already. Joanna Newsom, every time I'm listening to her Vinny makes fun of me because he says it sounds like she's a dying cat. She doesn't sound like a dying cat. She plays she plays the harp. She's actually married to Andy Samberg. which here Like, this is Andy Samberg's wife, but I've been listening to her music for like decades at this point. Yeah, sure. And before she married Andy Samberg.
00:39:25
Speaker
But her music is wonderful. I love her very much. Many think she sounds like Bjork, but she does not. I promise. Just go listen to some of her music. Some of her songs are like 12 to 15 minutes long. Crazy. Long songs. Very long. Very good. Love her. She's like a weird, like...
00:39:45
Speaker
folk. I don't know how to describe it. It's like fairy music. Just give me some Godspeed you Emperor. I don't know that I want hard. I haven't listened to them in like 15 years or however long it's been since I was in college. Guys, are we old? Are we the baddies? Yeah, i'm I'm very old. Ancient elderly, if you will.
00:40:08
Speaker
Should we talk about the mailbox? We should probably do the mailbox, yes. Don't say the other word. Don't say the other word, because people... Oh, people search for that, yeah. Yeah, we should do the mailbox. Don't say the other word. So, what do you want to put in the mailbox, Chief? yeah yeah You got a specific phrase in mind? Yes. So, I think I want the password to be, send this to someone you care about. Ooh, all one word? ah they can There can be spaces, that's fun.
00:40:37
Speaker
okay Okay If we can even be that long yeah, yeah, I can't We already discussed what it's gonna be Before so you guys are gonna just get a surprise. There you go. That works. Yeah, I think that's cute a little surprise. It's cute ah like Very very clever. Well done and Get that and get that and mail it to your favorite player your favorite staff member or friend You have someone who helped you out?
00:41:05
Speaker
Love that. Spent a little joy out here. Niko. You can't say that while I'm drinking water. I can say a lot of things.
00:41:20
Speaker
Let's move on to, you know, it's tea time, a little tea time. We'll talk about, you know, what have you been what have you guys been working on in farm? We need like a riff, a tea time riff. We used to have we used to have an opening song Freakonomics lately again. I just go through a podcast kick with that specific podcast.
00:41:47
Speaker
They got like all these like cute little riffs and stuff and I keep thinking to myself, it'd be cool if we had like little riffs for each section. Are you musically inclined? Could you make us little riffs?
00:41:58
Speaker
i mean I'm not musically inclined whatsoever. so i Can I play instruments? Sure. Should I play instruments? Absolutely not. i a fully load You know the old high school special? I used to play the flute in high school and then I stopped. Because I'm bad at playing any kind of instrument whatsoever. I don't think I'm very good. I don't know that I would be. I actually did record a song for a Quest one time though. I wrote and recorded a song and thought about putting it in the Quest. You should have. Why didn't you?
00:42:34
Speaker
I just didn't think that people would be interested, and it seemed a little self-indulgent. I mean, what is art but self-indulgence? It's true, too. Listen. Now we've got to start demanding the force bath song. Right. I think it's been deleted, actually. It was on my old hard drive. Lost media. Lost media. That I didn't necessarily care. Lost media. True lost media. Yes, true lost media. Mm-hmm.
00:43:00
Speaker
So, yeah, Nico, what have you been working on from RPG? Trying not to forget to do my daily stuff every day. but that oh That is a struggle. I have been forgetting often. Is that tough for you you? Are you a daily struggler? No, not really. um a It's been kind of busy with life stuff lately, so every now and then I've got to actually make an effort to check stuff.
00:43:28
Speaker
I'm working on frozen crops slowly. I've just been doing tomatoes, trying to get some frozen tomatoes every and now and then. um I need to start working on DI. I need to start working on PSA. I'm still on PSA 3. I think I'm on PSA 3 also. <unk> really twins I'm like on DI 1 and PSA 3, I believe. Let me look hang on. Yes, I'm slowly building up the yeah whatever. The exact same spot.
00:43:55
Speaker
And then I got to go get beans because I gave some beans away to another quest. Well, yeah. Gotcha. I didn't i didn't even look. it was It was all the requirements were all green. So I read the quest and then clicked it.
00:44:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's how I do things too. And then I realized like, oops. Wow. Thanks for reading the quest, guys. I read the quest. I don't read the, what's it's asking for. Oh, interesting. I always read the quest, but I don't read the requirements. Same. That's it. If it's green, I'm looking for the opposite of the average. former impeachment player Yeah. The people in chat are talking about like they've got like whatever in their PHRs and they had to give up so and so for it. If it's green, I just click it.
00:44:37
Speaker
if In fairness, I kind of agree with that strategy. Just full send. Full send it. Full send. Thank you for sharing. I'm also a daily struggler. So for all of you, for Niko and any of you players out there, this is not a farm RPG specific. Any game that I play that has a dailies.
00:44:59
Speaker
Boy, it is tough for me. Even though I know that there's a reward for doing so, good lord do I struggle to remember it on the daily. I gave up on the Pokemon card game thing. Well, I did that one. I will admit, there is something magical about opening a pack of cards every day that has kept me doing those dailies. We'll see how it lasts. Vinny's forgotten. He's left in the dust.
00:45:23
Speaker
like Are you are you not playing it anymore Nico? No, I installed it cuz I hadn't touched it in like a month or something Yeah, I'm still paying for that bad boy. They got me. They got me. They got me actually I just unsubscribed though to Pokemon sleep. So I'm no longer subscribed to that one ah did download but I downloaded that like a long time ago when you mentioned it, never even opened it. Yeah. That's valid. It's so slow. Like I, I finally was like, I'm getting tired of this, uh, Pokemon sleep paying for $10 a month or whatever I was paying per month for that. So I was like, I'm going to cancel that one. Yeah. I, I had a 15 month streak though. So they, they really got me, they got me for a good long time.
00:46:03
Speaker
I think what turned me off from the card game is when they started of requiring you to battle for stuff. And I'm like, I don't want to do that. It's just a ribbon. Who cares? like and I want to collect the cards. yeah Yeah, but battling got you hourglasses that got you more card opens. That's true. I don't have the patience to battle anymore than hitting the auto button, and the auto button's not good enough for real players. Oh, yeah, well, that's 100% true. I don't even think it exists for real players, honestly. I don't think you can turn auto on. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't think you can do auto with the real players. the real players ah i I did, like, hundreds of battles against real players, and yeah, it gets boring after a while because everybody's got the same, like, three decks.
00:46:42
Speaker
So you're I'm using like my deck that was meticulously crafted and everybody's got the same like Mewtwo, Pikachu, like whatever the other one is that people use. Celebi. Celebi, yeah. And I'm out here with mine. There's some Blaine decks now too. Yeah, that's pretty good. Is this a Pokemon TCG podcast now? Now it is, yeah. we We were talking about what we were working on in the game and we moved on to Pokemon TCG.
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine. It's a good game. It's cute. I really like the cards. I don't know how it happened, but I actually got like some guy on ah YouTube recommended to me that's a Pokemon card collector. And now I like look at Pokemon cards sometimes and things maybe. i What if Pokemon cards? They're so expensive. Oh, my word. It's like five bucks a pack. I'm like, what the heck? I can't afford these.
00:47:33
Speaker
I think McDonald's is giving away Pokemon cards and they're getting to know right now. In fact, my daughter got McDonald's tonight and got Pokemon cards. And I have never seen her eyes light up quite like that because she got a Jigglypuff, which is her favorite Pokemon. Is it like a full pack or just like one card? It was four cards. It was four cards. We do the same thing at Halloween. We give out the trick or trade packs, the Pokemon packs. We get them every year and we give those out at Halloween along with candy. We don't get to give out Pokemon cards, but kids freak out. They freak out for those. They're like, can I take more than one? I'm like, yeah, I got like 50 of these. Go ahead, take as many as you want. I don't care. There's not 50 kids in this neighborhood. Take two.
00:48:16
Speaker
I'm gonna, whatever you don't take, I'm opening. We opened up so many this year. So we have like a stack of the Halloween ones. It's very good. It's fun. Yeah. What are you working on? Bubun in Farm RPG? um Right now I'm trying to buy meals because I'm not cooking because I'm lazy. um Yeah. I'm working on trying to buy meals from staff mostly because ah that train scares me and So I just, I just was asking, I got, I probably paid way over market. I think Raven gave me a bunch of meals yesterday and I sent her 400 gold. Cause I was like, I don't know what this goes for. So here's 400 gold. I don't know what, what else to spend this gold on. If you're listening to this podcast, your listeners, DM boo, bud, it sounds like she will give you very good value for your meals right now. little
00:49:08
Speaker
I don't know what they go for. I don't know what the trade rates are. I could ask, but I'm too scared. I think it's 10 gold per meal, right? No, I thought it was 15. I'm pretty sure it. I just checked trades recently and it's 15. I don't trust anybody. I won't trust anybody now. I saw some people selling in there. They were selling stuff I didn't need for a specific rate. I was like, I don't know what's going on. They're selling crunchies. I think it was crunchy omelets or something.
00:49:36
Speaker
for probably more money because you can't get some. Actually went into a trade chat. I think it was on Christmas day and bought, I think about a hundred thousand large nets at 30 gold per thousand. Wow. That's pretty. Yeah.
00:49:52
Speaker
Just because I wanted to get some of the fish out of the way because I knew I wouldn't have time to do it later on. Yeah, no that's smart. I'll be honest with you. Anytime I go into trade chat, I feel like people are never going to give me a good deal because they're like, Oh, he's an admin. He has infinite gold or whatever. So I'm going to not give him a good deal. So I just and don't even try anymore. yeah I'm scared to go in there. I'm just scared. Yeah.
00:50:16
Speaker
Paid way too much just because I wanted to get it done. Yeah, that's how it was like. I needed a bunch of caterpillars at one point. I paid a bunch. You know, I usually send LJ in. LJ used to be my like trade liaison and say, hey, LJ, I need a certain amount of something. And then LJ would go and figure it out for me and tell me how much to pay. So the spoilers did that for me recently. McAllen. I was like, yeah, I need this. Probably outing him.
00:50:45
Speaker
oh wow oops ah But he actually helped me out and bought some stuff for me. And I think I gave him over value plus a tip because I really was just like, I don't want to go into a trading account. So um thank you, McCallen. I hope this doesn't have negative impacts on your trading in the future.
00:51:05
Speaker
doubt it well i it well Yeah, he's being a helpful player. That's that's called being helpful and kind. That's a community member. there That's a community member right there. So but that's what I'm working on in farm. What are you working on in farm there? Force path.
00:51:22
Speaker
Finished up PSA, working my way through the AI right now. I have been just unbelievably swamped with real life work and farm RPG content. Yeah, you're telling me. You have been cranking stuff out lately. Yeah. So I haven't had as much time to actually play farm RPG, but which is always a bummer. um But it was super fun getting all the content out. And I mean, we got more planned.
00:51:47
Speaker
so My hope this is not over i'm I'm actually clicking right now ah for DI. So like as where I'm just exploring right now on the other screen. So I'm just as much of a farm RPG as other people sometimes. That's what I'm working on right now. What are you working on outside of farm RPG? Wow, that's such a great question.
00:52:11
Speaker
It's like that normal question that we usually ask. Is there a normal question that we usually ask? Yes. We talk about what we're working on outside. Like, what games are you playing right now? Or what? Wait, tell me about your life. Let me. Nico first. Whatever. Whoever goes first. Gentlemen first. I don't want to dominate. Sirs? Sirs? I would love to talk about video games. Please tell me. Tell me what you're playing right now. I have been playing a lot of Leaf Blower Revolution.
00:52:38
Speaker
I love that game. every Every year or so, I get hooked on it. Yeah. get Do you do the seasons as well, or do you just ah just play the base game? the the um like the Like the ladders and stuff. I've never never dealt with those. Fair. I don't really like that kind of competition thing. People are very intense about it, just like in every game with a leaderboard. But I love Leaf Blower Revolution. What else have I been playing lately?
00:53:06
Speaker
I got the sci-fi game I play on my phone.
00:53:13
Speaker
It's the idle factory incremental. yeah If they'll ever release it for iOS, I'll play it. But until that day, I can't. They are working on it from what I saw in their Discord, they but they have to do some like changes to the way the game is structured for Apple to put it on their store. in the in the I think I've heard that they've been working on it for iOS for a while.
00:53:33
Speaker
yeah Part of the issue is the the dead space around the screen or something. They can't have stuff in it and they've got to fix that. But, yeah. Well, I mean, I can appreciate why it's very difficult to do and why keeping content flowing and trying to release for a new platform is very difficult. So I will cut them. Tough. Plenty of slack, but I really wish they would because I won't play it. Everyone talks so highly about it.
00:53:56
Speaker
They're a small team too, but it's, it's, you know, you make your numbers go up, so you get more numbers and then they go up. Man, I love numbers. That's what we like here. Numbers being big. That's like premium. Chef's kiss. I've been wanting to play some Nintendo 64 games lately. I've been wanting to be playing some of those, but I might have to get that set up yeah when I have the chance. Heck yeah. Nintendo 64. Nintendo Lethal Company.
00:54:25
Speaker
Company, right, right, right Fight tomorrow fight tomorrow when the other day Morrowind, you know, I really love what's the I love oblivion Morrowind a little top to go back to but oblivion I've never got into oblivion Never finished it the black hand quest like crushes my soul every time Crushes but with ah with Lucian le chance. Is that his name? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's like devastating. I that quest line. Yeah, and as everyone should. You should really get your heart broken by the Black Hand quest line at some point in your life if you haven't before, because it's it's really sad. it's it's really it's It's like, I don't know, gutting, it guts you. The the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Skyrim too is one of the best quest lines in that game, isn't it? It is, yes. Yeah, they're good. It's it's not as good as I think the, personally, I think the Oblivion one's better, but yes, it's just it's good, it's good.
00:55:22
Speaker
they are They are as good as the mages guild questlines are bad. Yeah, I don't do any of those. i I'm like a straight killer in those games. I just am like out there for blood. you know As one sometimes is. Are you a us s stealth orchard?
00:55:38
Speaker
yeah Sometimes, yeah, but mostly it's like stealth and like little swords, knives. you know yeah Everybody likes the stealth archer though. The dual-willed sneak attack daggers in Skyrim is so much fun. Yes, it's good. It really is good. You really can like lay people flat with that. I'm hanging out with psychopaths. Yeah. I mean, I'm talking about the Black Hand quest. It's like the Dark Brotherhood, it's the Murderer's Guild. I don't know. I've never played any of them.
00:56:08
Speaker
Oh, no. I think I played a little bit of Skyrim. When it came out, but no, I never played any of those games. Sorry. That's OK. So I'm letting you guys talk about it and reminisce. I cannot really. That's completely fine. ah With the open play. Yeah. You know what? I'll go just because I have been
Current Gaming Experiences
00:56:29
Speaker
playing. ah I got dragged back in. So I playing flight rising right now, which I don't know if you know what this is, but it's a browser game.
00:56:37
Speaker
It's like a dragon breeding browser game. It's pretty good. I used to play it back in like 2014 and i I stopped, I quit, and I sold everything on my account and I quit and I left like two dragons or three dragons or however many I had. Then somebody was mentioning it and I logged back in and now like they got me again. like They got me again, I'm back in it.
00:57:03
Speaker
I'm getting strong Neopets for this web page. Yeah, it's very Neopets, but it's about breeding, about breeding your dragons and getting crazy genetics. They become very cool and very Lisa Frank. I just want to make the ugliest dragons don't tell man. Yeah. That's my strong goal. I was wondering. Hit me up. I'm boob on on there as per the use, you could be my friend. I doubt anybody here plays it. But there might be a little crossover, who knows?
00:57:32
Speaker
Uh, yeah, it's good. Uh, it's, but it's, I think it's got about the same amount of play, like daily players as we do. It's like, you know, we should do a crossover. Oh my God. That'd be hilarious. I don't think they'd probably go for it. We don't have enough. We don't have enough cool visuals, not saying anything about my own stuff, but like, you know, their game is all about cool dragons. Like like dragons just look bomb. know We've got buddy.
00:57:59
Speaker
That's true. we you A buddy dragon would go hard. A buddy dragon would go hard, actually. Oh, and I just preordered Hello Kitty Island Adventure, which comes out on the 30th, which I'm very excited about. I heard it's very good. I've heard such good things about Hello Kitty Island Adventure. I'm very excited to play it. This is not a joke.
00:58:18
Speaker
I know it's not a joke, and the right ah but my wife would like that. I've heard yes i've heard it's like ah an Animal Crossing-esque scenario, but like you can be an animal also, which is like, you know, if you know me, that's what I want to do. So I definitely preordered that for the Switch. So I'm going to be playing that on the 30th when it comes out. That's awesome. Excited. Yeah. But that's it. That's it. I don't really play a lot of games.
00:58:46
Speaker
I don't, you know, busy making art and being awesome. Making art, but not really being awesome. It's usually I'm making art or sleeping. when is talk we all know What have you been playing? Tell me about your life. Tell me your game's goals here. Oh gosh. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, boo buns husband and I, uh, had a conversation, um, between Christmas and new year about, uh, game goals that we had for 2025.
00:59:14
Speaker
And I don't typically participate in these because I'm very bad at completing them, but I just got the urge to do it. um So I've actually already completed two games on my list, actually three now. Oh my goodness. How many games are on your list? You did a solid 12? I think I did like seven or nine because they're like really long games. And I know that I'm going to have other things that pop in. I've already had two pop in.
00:59:39
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ah So I beat Dark Souls, the OG Dark Souls. That was your first time playing it, right? That was my first time playing it. ah So that was a really good time. um I'm currently working on cassette beasts.
00:59:52
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ah which is a Pokemon-style game, and it is a boatload of fun if you've never played it before. I highly recommend it. I had a total blast, or I'm still having a blast playing it, and I'm playing it sort of in tandem with Bubun's husband, but sort you know pi pacing can be a challenge. It's tough as an adult human being. Yeah.
01:00:20
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So and then ah the other game that I beat was ah Stranger of Paradise, Final Fantasy Origin. Oh, which it was another really fun game that I was like, I don't know if this is going to be any good. It turned out to be just really wonderful and kids. No, no, no, no, no, this is if this is ah this one has Jack in it and he says chaos all the time. You know, remember when chaos was a meme like in 23, they're all named after cards.
01:00:49
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I don't know them. No, I don't remember this one. No, this one was done by Team Ninja. So it has a good pedigree. um they They made ah a prequel to the original Final Fantasy. You don't need to know anything, but it's a lot of fun. Really, really enjoyed that game.
01:01:03
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So those are the three that I've beaten, a couple other games I've been playing. So for those of you like incremental games, I've been playing synergism. I don't know if any of you guys played synergism before. Wonderful little idle game, one of the OGs. I'm also playing Dodeca Dragons right now. So these are games that I play at work, you know, because you don't really need to pay too much attention. So you just pop them up on the web browser and kind of lean back and forth. And then obviously I'm playing Helldivers as well.
01:01:31
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We're working on a puzzle right now, a 2000 piece puzzle pause with my wife. um it And we're watching Ted Lasso while we do the puzzle. What's the puzzle? I've already doing upside down like a freak.
01:01:43
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yeah It's ah it's it is a poster, it's a Ravensburg puzzle of the Lord of the Rings Return of the King. And it is fire, um but it's also really difficult, especially if you haven't done a puzzle in like 10 years.
Balancing Hobbies
01:01:59
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I don't know half what possessed me to be like, let's do a 2000 piece puzzle. Me and my friends do a puzzle. We used to go on vacation and we used to do ah like a 1500 piece puzzle while we were on vacation together every year. um And that's bomb. That's always fun. We love a puzzle.
01:02:12
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yeah You put a movie on and you just do a puzzle and you're like, yeah. Here's the problem though is that Ted Lasso is so good that we end up but starting the puzzle and then just watching Ted Lasso. Yeah. You end up on something you've seen a hundred times. Like we would watch Lord of the Rings and do a puzzle and then, you know, we've seen it a hundred times and you don't really need to watch it because you, yeah, the bomb, the bomb.com.
01:02:37
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I don't think I've done a puzzle in about 10 years since we found a John Stamos puzzle at Goodwill. Oh, that's good. That that sounds awesome. That does sound awesome.
Episode Conclusion and Gratitude
01:02:47
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You know, I think we may have, we've may have, uh, hit the end of the podcast here. It was just kind of like when, when, when, when, and then we just kind of like. We wandered into it. We wandered into it. Meandered right into the wall of the end of the episode. don't think of it there's everything that we Have we, have we gone over everything that we need to go over? I think so.
01:03:07
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we've done a password we haven't banned anybody oh that's not sure eye ban well okay yeah You got to get it at least once while we're in here. You got to have a dominance. I think we got it all. I think we got it all in there. So I think this might be goodbye. But thank you, Nico, Niko, Nicho, Nacho for joining us on this ah adventure on episode 10 of the podcast. So glad that you could pop on the podcast. So nice to have you as a one. I don't think I mentioned on the podcast, but my
01:03:42
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Moniversary, so one anniniversary of one year. Me and Gideon and Casey are a little bunch. we should have a little We have to have a pizza party or something. Yeah, can we throw a pizza party? Is that in the budget? I think it could be. I think we could have a pizza party in Snapchat. I actually kind of love that idea. Let's see for how fast we can workshop that. and Just put a slice of pizza in the game.
01:04:10
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Oh man, that's already in the game. We have a pizza. Yeah, I think we have pizza. Yeah, pizza's right. Yeah, we did because it was a reference to a movie that had come out at the time.
01:04:23
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so But thank you again to everybody for listening. We appreciate you being here. Happy New Year. Hope your January is going well and we'll catch you in February. Drop a note on the... We still read all your comments. We read the long comment about you really loving the game and the hater like 30 seconds later. Don't be a suck up. I had a good laugh about that. We did have a laugh about that. Somebody on the YouTube said it's a whole bunch of nice stuff about us and Luna.
01:04:53
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And somebody replied, don't be a suck up. We know the game's good. And then we laugh. We all laughed very hardly at that. So thank you. But be nice. Be nice to each other.
The Value of Niceness and Sassiness
01:05:03
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there's There's nothing wrong with being nice. I love it. It's fine. I like the sassiness too. I guess it's fine. be Be yourselves out there. But again, thank you. We love you. Thanks for listening and um hope you have a lovely farming month.
Listener Engagement Encouragement
01:05:18
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Yeah. If you need anything post on the You message one of us, post on the podcast page, post in chat. We're all right. There is a podcast. ah There's a podcast.
01:05:31
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Approve loop. You can hit us up on the improve loop. If you really have something, you know, we got it there, we check it. There's not anything on there. So the stuff it was months
Playful Outro with Silly Voices
01:05:42
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ago. So feel free to hit us on the improve loop with any questions you might have you want us to answer. That'd be nice. What is that? Yes, I'm just doing some character acting here. Do we do some do we do some silly voices for the outro?
01:05:55
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i like Okay, we can do a silly voice for the outro. Nick, are you done with that? I don't really know any silly voices. I can try. All right. Perfect. It's just one word that y'all have to say. Goodbye, everybody.