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The FarmRPG Podcast: Season 2! Episode 2, Nyx and D0rfy!
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Hey! It's another episode of your absolute favorite podcast about a text based farming sim! Join boobun and forcepath as they talk about the various updates that have occurred since the last episode! Also a fun interview with two of our help chat staff, Nyxiabel and D0rfyP0wer!
CELEBRATING OUR 5th BIRTHDAY also!!!! Happy Birthday FarmRPG!
We hope you enjoy the episode and good luck on the [[swear jar]]!
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:13
Speaker
to everybody's favorite podcast ever that's been a a little bit of a hiatus. It's the Farm RPG Podcast. Welcome back. um e Hi. I'm your host and emcee and ah my name is Bubun. I'm here with my... Emcee? Yes, I'm your emcee for the evening.
00:00:37
Speaker
I'm here with my very special co-host... Very special co-host. Force Path. Yeah, thank you. That's you. That's you. And we actually have two guests this week. It's two for one because we haven't been on in a couple of months. So I don't know which order you want to introduce yourselves in, but whoever wants to shout out first, you're welcome to do that.
00:00:57
Speaker
Talk at the same time. Do it. dare you. Hey, is Dorfee Power. Heck yeah, welcome. This is Nyx. Nyxie Bell, rather. Nick C.A. Bell and Dorphy Power, two of our our lovely staff members are here to keep us company tonight as we ah we get back on track with this podcast.
Podcast Hiatus Explained
00:01:16
Speaker
Who said we were off track? I guess we could take, you know, we take a little time off every once in a while. um You know, life really comes at you fast and we have a lot of things going on.
00:01:27
Speaker
um And, you know, nailing down a little bit of time to... ah to record is tough, but we're back. We're back at it. We promise we're going to be actually like a little bit more on top of it.
00:01:40
Speaker
So thank you for joining us. Thank you for asking me ah many times in my DMs where the next podcast episode was. Guess what? It's right now. We're having it. Where's the next podcast?
00:01:50
Speaker
Yeah, you're in it right this minute. I'm in it. You're in it. It's happening. I cannot believe that that's high doll happening. It's crazy. The last episode we recorded on January 27th. We are now recording on the 5th of May. so I'm very confident that time has passed. Time has passed. Time is a flat circle and it continues on without us. um But that's fine.
00:02:14
Speaker
ah But that just means we have a lot of stuff to talk about. You know what i mean?
Swear Jar Contest Winner Announced
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Speaker
like with Which is for us to like not ideal. I lost my voice from this weekend. Oh, yeah. I was at a dance competition and screaming. And so I'm going to talk quieter. That's fine.
00:02:30
Speaker
I can talk loud enough for the both of us. it's That's whatever. you know We know. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. is yes We know. We know. well um let's get right to it uh basically what i'm going to do first is i'm going to just give the swear jar we're going to do the swear jar we have so many comments we had 94 comments on the swear jar um and i think it was actually 97 total but like you know there was a couple of doubles on there uh so who would dare do it i don't know i didn't look i didn't look uh but
00:03:04
Speaker
Our winner is Roselle, which is R-O-S-E-L-L-E.
Awkward Restart and Podcast Flow
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Speaker
If that is you, DM me to get to claim your fat prize of some gold.
00:03:15
Speaker
um Again, you must DM me to receive it. I don't just blindly send it to you just in case you haven't logged on in, I don't know, what, four months? ah But yeah, send a DM. That was real. I know, i know.
00:03:28
Speaker
Who knows? they could have they could have They could have commented and immediately quit. But who listens to the podcast about a game that you're going to quit in three months? I don't know. Whatever. that's that's and I'm not your boss. That's neither here nor there.
00:03:40
Speaker
Enjoy what you enjoy. I'm not going lie. This has been pretty awkward so far. You've really ramped up the awkward level. Have i and you haven't talked to or You haven't even talked to our guest yet. I know. I'm just getting through the starting stuff, my guy.
00:03:54
Speaker
Come on. Maybe I'm just not in the podcast flow right now. You're not. Let's like, you know. how do we you know it's been shake it Shake it off. How do we get in the flow state for a podcast?
00:04:05
Speaker
you Or if we talked about updates? but I think that would get us into the flow state. I think that would. So you would win the swear jar and then we would talk about updates? That's usually how it goes, as far as I'm aware. I mean, other than making up excuses why we haven't been here, that's the flow state.
00:04:22
Speaker
I have no excuses. I've just been busy. I know. that I mean, that's an excuse. That's an excuse. That's an excuse enough. But let's just, like, you know, let's just do it. Let's just start with the February 1st update. Hold on, hold hold on. Dorothy Power, I want to know, is is that an excuse to be busy?
00:04:38
Speaker
It's what an excuse to be busy. The reason why the podcast hasn't run for three months. Isn't an excuse? Busy, being busy. Is that an excuse? I think the end of winter, beginning of spring always sucks and people are totally demotivated. works for Yeah, but it's classically called an excuse. as no we didn't No, no, no, no,
00:05:00
Speaker
Okay. That's what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no. Let's cut out this excuse language.
February Updates Discussion
00:05:05
Speaker
It doesn't feel good. The vibes are bad. the vibes bad? I feel like the vibes are pretty good. The vibes are bad for you, but Dory Power just had my back.
00:05:15
Speaker
Even though she historically calls me evil. I mean, she's not wrong. That's very real. Not so much as that you're evil as half the stuff you come out with is my evil.
00:05:28
Speaker
Only half? I'm slipping. Yeah, you gotta really step it up. Nope, I just... nope and You comment there, Nyx? You don't have a comment?
00:05:38
Speaker
I think the percentage is a bit higher than that, having just um gone through a couple of recent quests. m Yes, yes. The evil man. The evil questman. I don't know. I still love the fact that the red shirt Star Trek themed thing GM came out on Star Wars Day.
00:05:59
Speaker
i still find that absolutely hilarious. Well, I would love to say it was planned, but it was not planned. Sorry to ruin all of the good vibes. Hopefully that just went over my head as someone who's not very into Star Wars. Sorry to...
New Characters and Crafts
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Speaker
Or Star Trek. Wait, there... Follow-up question. Is there sci-fi that isn't space sci-fi?
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Speaker
follow-up question is there sci-fi that isn't space sci-fi Yes, because there's technological advancement sort of sci-fi fantasy that's not... I would love to hear an example of non-space sci-fi.
00:06:34
Speaker
Jurassic Park? Yeah, you mean I guess that yeah that is sci-fi. We can bring up Mr. Michael Crichton. Fair enough. Yeah, fair yeah. That is a science fiction. ah Jay Christoph's books, the Lifelike series, is more about robots and...
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Speaker
automata and um things like that. Annihilation. Have you ever read those? That's that's not that's not a space. That's going right next to Mary Shelley. Dorfian makes excellent suggestions, but yours was terrible.
00:07:04
Speaker
Oh, have you not seen the movie? We have the Annihilation bear in the game as
New Endgame Zone and Features
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Speaker
a Halloween skin for the bear. Listen, I love Annihilation. i know Come on. Exactly. Anyway, let's get to these updates, dog.
00:07:16
Speaker
I'm really practicing my squirrel technique today, so you are going to... No. I'm going to start off on February 1st because that's pretty much where we left off. No, but you're missing what happened on January 28th. I don't know if that's... Is that important? The veggie juice update.
00:07:33
Speaker
Wow. And the exploring buttons and the removal of reset. Listen, we can just do... Oh, we did remove reset, didn't we? Yes. It's been that long. We haven't made a podcast in so long. Yeah.
00:07:45
Speaker
god Okay. Yeah, so we no longer do a reset. That's cool. Well, we do a reset. We don't want to do a backup. It's just, yeah, it just doesn't take us completely down for... It's like we removed eight minutes of lost time. that A lot of people that were not, you know, in the United States... a lot like I slept during that normally. that I'm a asleep.
00:08:05
Speaker
But, like, there's a lot of people that played during reset. I didn't know you slept. I'm always active during that time, and I was very confused for a few days. i was like... it's 11 30 server time why am i still in the game wait why is it still here see see so see you play so now you get a little bit of time extra uh to play so that's fun there's a lot of also little updates here a little other changes achievements for feeding pigs and incubating a raptor gold cost or get more personal help requests has been flattened out to five gold
00:08:43
Speaker
messages ah looks like you can search oh that's cool don't don't act like you don't know these i don't really know them i don't remember i remember a lot of these fish and chips to have fish okay yeah there's a lot of stuff just i got i got you i got you i got january 28th was a day that we had an update let's talk about february 1st Yes, please. Because we did our February starter pack. We added February content.
00:09:12
Speaker
You know, all of the normal stuff. Mailbox, Buddy Doll, Raptor updated the soap shop. You had the Valentine cards. You had the double starter pack, which is always, don't know. I kind of like you that we that we only do it one time. i mean The Groundhog Day.
00:09:27
Speaker
Yeah, the Groundhog Day thing feels good to me. Yeah, i like that. Big fan. Yeah. And then February 9th rolled around and we did ah chore forgiveness for Beto, which is something I have been very excited about.
00:09:42
Speaker
i have wanted us to come up
March Updates Overview
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Speaker
with a way to do chore forgiveness, a way for players to have the opportunity to keep their streak alive. I know how important that is to people. I'm very bad at streaks. I mean, like if I did chore forgiveness, it would probably cause me like 50,000 goals or something because I'm so, so bad at it.
00:10:05
Speaker
But it's there now, and i know a lot of people are really passionate about it but have real life. So it was something I was extremely excited to see happen. We also had the no GM, no MM wall.
00:10:18
Speaker
ah Some of the later game players really love tracking what items haven't been mega mastered or grand mastered. So we added that to that. We had the improved refresher pack.
00:10:30
Speaker
ah which is always a good time. And then we also had the February event, which happened a really long time ago. So the FOMO, you can't really have FOMO for something that happened that long ago, right?
00:10:43
Speaker
It did happen, though. there's hook Yeah, the FOMO for two months ago? can you Yeah, rough. Two and a half months ago. from the 12th to the 16th of February, you missed out big time. Let me tell you, you missed out big time.
00:10:57
Speaker
Oh, man.
April Updates and Lack of Jokes
00:10:58
Speaker
Can I talk about February 17th, too? Because this is something I work for. Yeah, keep going. You did this. this it's Yeah. Yeah. um So, the 17th and the 23rd, I'm going to group together. But if you're an endgamer, you'll remember that Gustav came out at this point.
00:11:16
Speaker
That's my son. do you want to tell the viewers the real name of Gustav? Yeah. Yeah, his name was going to be Gubert. That was his name. That was how I named him because he's my son. i drew him. I made him up out of my head for fun.
00:11:30
Speaker
And then the people voted against you. And then the people voted against me. We had a we had a poll and Gustav won, obviously. i still to this is his name to me. That's my son. That's my boy.
00:11:43
Speaker
To this day, the betrayal of the farm RPG community... They cut me deeply, honestly. I'm cut deeply that his name's not Goober. That's You hear it in your voice. That's okay. Listen, it's okay.
00:11:56
Speaker
it's He's not my boy anymore. He's everybody's boy, guess. He's everybody's boy now. We released Gustav slash Goober. Why is my phone blowing up? Whose idea was this?
00:12:09
Speaker
I don't know. ah ah And um he has some friendship rewards. And he also was the precursor to a couple things. You also got to see a bunch of new crafts come out.
00:12:25
Speaker
So many. More than one or two, I'm just going to say. It might have been like over
Relaunch of Titan Conquest
00:12:30
Speaker
80. I don't know. How many was it, actually? Was it 80? It was, i think k crafts were, like, in the 40s or 50s. don't remember. There's a lot of new items. That was a huge state that, during that, like, a little dev time. I don't know how we did it, honestly. There was a lot happening right then. was a lot happening.
00:12:49
Speaker
Anyways, we had a small update, and then on February 23rd, we released our first endgame zone in a long time called The Sinking Swamps. um And we made it fairly challenging to get into, ah which is kind of different for us. Mm-hmm.
00:13:07
Speaker
Challenging, of course, is is a spectrum, but this one has definitely required players to go out of their way to get there. you know Leveling up Gustav, who doesn't have any love to items available, which was a very intentional choice on my part, who has been... we could call it controversial. I kind of love the concept, but um there's always ways to make things better in the long run.
00:13:34
Speaker
ah So... Yeah. And you also need to get all of the puzzle pieces that we had available at the time, plus some friendship rewards. And then it also hearkens some new tower levels, which has been a lot of fun for me to design and work on. So I'm just really excited about having new Endgame Con.
00:13:56
Speaker
New fishing zone, new exploring zone, a bunch of new crafts. I have a literal white sheet of paper sitting right beside my desk with about 50 more sinking swamp crafts I want to put out at some point, but I've been kind of letting it breathe.
00:14:11
Speaker
ah Also because we don't have all of the tower levels out yet. hu But ah yeah, you're welcome. But i I love making new crafts. I love crafting stories and making new crafts. So it's been a lot fun.
00:14:25
Speaker
So there, that's February. February was big, man. February was big. I forgot how much work we put in in February. There's a lot going on in February. so hey, I'll let you you... I'll take over March. Listen, March is easy. It's the normal
Farm RPG's Fifth Anniversary
00:14:39
Speaker
everyday, know, content that we come out with every month.
00:14:44
Speaker
Starter pack, ah which included the hummingbird feeder, ah spring seeds, which were back, and the egg of tree, which is a new item, which allows you to add on to your orchard. It just gives you a random tree. So if you're at max trees, which is what I would recommend cracking these egg trees. But I mean, it's up to you when you want to do it.
00:15:06
Speaker
it will It will give you a random one of any of the orchard trees, apple, orange, or lemon. One of each, or not one of each, one of any of those could happen randomly. It's like a blind bag, but for trees.
00:15:22
Speaker
ah Which is fun. who's got I'm not sure if that was the right choice, but it was fun. It was good. It was a good time. And then, you know, the normal monthly stuff, Buddy Doll Raptor mailbox. And um we also announced a March event, which you also missed around St. Patrick's Day.
00:15:42
Speaker
ah March 15th, this is announcing our what's it called? deep the The event that happened from March 17th through the 20th, which you got a bunch of bonuses, but also if you take a look, there's gold potatoes. There was like an increased 17% chance for those to drop. So if you're trying to farm those out, it made a little bit easier for you. But again, you missed that. Sorry.
00:16:06
Speaker
you remember when some potatoes came out? Oh God, do I? Oh man, they were such a pain in the butt. i They took forever. I should not smile as big as I do. I know. You like to torture everybody. It's fine.
00:16:20
Speaker
I'm not sure you fought this one. He's completely evil. I know. He's completely
Humorous Parenting Anecdotes
00:16:24
Speaker
evil. Listen, we already know that. We know this about this man. Yeah. but Evil laughter in the background as he cackles to himself.
00:16:34
Speaker
I cackle to myself more than I should with a relaxed farming simulation game. I i' you dont You don't understand like how evil one man can be in a in a relaxing farm sim, but he can be pretty evil. You can add like an underlying bit of that cackle to the intro music to the podcast, and it will just make it really scary. There you go, Pelagin, you got your request.
00:17:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. So March 24th, it was another big day. We've been having a lot of big days, dog. ah Multi-use for veggie juice, which is um highly anticipated. There were some more tower levels. 311 to 320 were available.
00:17:17
Speaker
Steak market price history charts, which is in beta, which you can go look and like see the history of the steak market. Or the correct pronunciation, which I just learned, which is beta.
May Updates and Events
00:17:29
Speaker
Is it beta? No, it's beta, isn't it? Nick's would agree with me. Beta? Who said beta and who said beta? There it is. it's bit look at Look how wrong you are there, Mr. Force Path. Anyway, there was a new bucket mailbox, which was fun. um Updated hold menu. um that like If you hold on that home menu button, like the house. I love that feature. I always forget that it exists.
00:17:54
Speaker
It's extremely good. And then also, this is huge. Titan Conquest is back. I don't know if you've like, if the farm masses are aware of Titan Conquest, but it was the game that Firestream made prior to this one. It had gotten shut down due to like some so issues that we were having. So it was shut down for about, what was it? Two years?
00:18:16
Speaker
Three years? Three. Three years? Yeah, we shut it down. and And now it is back miraculous like a phoenix rising from the from the embers. ah So if you ever wanted to try Firestream's old game out, go download that, bad boy. It's very fun. i I was playing it very heavily when I had a lot of time um when it first came out. Well, re-came back out.
00:18:40
Speaker
I have yet to get... Hmm? what does it mean to have time? I don't know. I don't have it anymore. It's gone. But that's okay. And that actually brings us up in April. Do you want to take some April time? Oh my gosh, we're already... We're blasting through. Blasting. So then I started blasting.
00:19:00
Speaker
And I started blasting. Yeah, no. I love that show. Anyway. but How about an egg in this trying time? Yeah.
00:19:12
Speaker
and Oh my God. All right. Anyway. April 1st, probably the first time in a while that we haven't done joke notes for April. i am wow sorry about that. It is my fault. Normally I write the joke notes and I've just been so overwhelmed that I had not had a chance to do it. And that's really a bummer for me.
00:19:34
Speaker
So we did the normal April stuff, April Fools, eggs, fuzzy chicks, added some new eggs this month. You know, we here at Farm RPG enjoy building upon the things that already exist and adding new things to those things.
00:19:50
Speaker
So we added seven new eggs. We added fuzzy trout, which was in addition to all of the eggs. And, you know, we do love our silly trouts around here. There was also the big giant hole ah where you could throw corn in. That was a fun one. The corn hole, yeah. I was sitting in the wings for a while and we thought April was a good time to bust that bad boy out. It may come back. You know it all. it's You may see it again.
00:20:14
Speaker
It will come back. Spoilers. Spoilers. Spoilers. it's It's coming back at some point, but keep your eyes peeled for that giant hole. Yeah. So then on April 13th, which I believe was a Friday, Friday, April Oh, was it a Friday the 13th? People get so mad on that day. People get so mad on that day. No, it wasn't.
00:20:33
Speaker
February and March because it was my birthday on Friday the 13th. ah Oh, yeah. No, April was on Monday. like it was on Monday. yeah Oh, no, it was March that was the third the Friday the 13th. March and February, I think, both.
00:20:47
Speaker
Yep, we had murky walls both months. Yeah. Oh, look at that. Thank you, guys. um So we updated the tracking panel and again. um so I believe that's when you can do the zoop,
00:20:59
Speaker
which is neat. Thank you to a certain individual for making that. i don't know if they listen to this podcast.
00:21:08
Speaker
I mean, i think, I think he does. Does he? If you listen to this podcast, you have to message us now and then you have to be on the podcast. Yeah, that's right. We also added account age rewards. We really like adding rewards to like every feature.
00:21:25
Speaker
This is a very Firestream coded thing, and we love him for
Guests' Farm RPG Experiences
00:21:30
Speaker
it. He's really good at understanding what makes people happy. ah We also added the day off voucher, which you allows you to instantly complete your chores for the day, which was fun one.
00:21:42
Speaker
I like that a lot. ah We also added some new staff. ah So we added ah four new farmhands, then promoted Broman, and then someone, I can't read this here, like Nixia Bell.
00:21:59
Speaker
i don't know who that is. i don't know. I don't know that. If you... If you do know those people, you should send them fish. um We love it when you bombard people with fish. It's very fun.
00:22:10
Speaker
So congratulations, Nix, by the way. Thank you so much for everything you do for our game. h And ah we also had a new bear mayor badge for exploring. We um do add sales specials from time and different times.
00:22:26
Speaker
And that's what we did there. So I will let you kind of roll through it. Let me get us through the rest of it. We're going to get... It's what? April... April twentieth there was another event you missed. I'm so sorry to tell you, but you've missed at least three events since the last time we had a podcast. So ah April 24th to the 27th, there was a nice, cool event. Also, we had some more staff changes, which was cool and fun.
00:22:53
Speaker
um So we actually, we added on everybody's favorite staff member into the admin team, Koala Corgi. He's joined us.
00:23:04
Speaker
We know who you love him. He's everyone's favorite. That's not sarcasm at all. um And also Milk Bark has been added as well to the admin team um to help with ah writing quests. So Qualicorgi is a general analyst and he's helping to create some content at some old stages of the game and working on the balance and marketing and bunch of stuff. He's kind of like...
00:23:28
Speaker
He's kind of like the rest of us where we kind of do everything, a little bit of everything. And Milkbark's here to do right quests. I don't know if you remember Milkbark. He was a farmhand, but he's been with Firestream for forever. He's like, you know, he's known the man for a good long time.
00:23:43
Speaker
so So he's joining us to help us write some quists. A lot of quists. Quists. Yeah. Quists. Quists.
00:23:54
Speaker
And then we had another small update here for trophies, which they have been moved to their own box on the profile. So you can see all your little trophies all in one space. Isn't that fun?
00:24:06
Speaker
Love that. Then we have another first of the month. Listen, I think you know the drill here and what these mean. It means you're going to get a new buddy doll, a new mailbox, a new the but the Raptor.
00:24:19
Speaker
Cool. lot of stuff. But guess what? This month, it's our birthday month. It's our birthday month. We're five this year, five years old.
Favorite Game Items Discussion
00:24:27
Speaker
That's like a real human being. I'm pretty sure when they're born, they're already. Yes, I know, but they start becoming like ah becoming like a sentient creature. They remember who they are. They can look in the mirror and they can see themselves. You know what I mean? They can see the light in their eyes. As a childless adult, i you know you know what I mean?
00:24:48
Speaker
There's a spark. There's like something there where they know they can tell that you're a person and they're a person.
00:24:55
Speaker
a few years before five otherwise i think got an alien living in my house you probably have an alien living in your house let's be real let's be honest here let's be honest but anyway five five is when i start considering a child like something i can talk to personally as a childless adult i'm like oh my nieces and nephews can actually speak to you now you actually understand my words cool So let it be known, if you know Booba and you are below the age of five, you're not real. You're not real. You're not you're just an NPC at that point.
00:25:29
Speaker
Like, I don't know you. You're not a human being yet. You have no thoughts in your head other than i need food, I need water, mommy, mommy, mommy, I'm peeing my pants.
Gameplay and Chat Room Preferences
00:25:38
Speaker
that's
00:25:41
Speaker
That's a child under the age of five to me. i can't. That's just ah ah just me being honest. I'm so sorry. I mean, you guys are parents. You should know. like Is it not mommy, mommy, mommy, I'm peeing my pants before five? I think it is.
00:25:59
Speaker
was sitting down doing a hundred-piece jigsaw, and that's with my three-year-old. Okay. And then know all the times it is mummy, mummy, mummy. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. No, I don't want to eat that. I do want to eat that. Not hungry, mummy. I'm not hungry, mummy. I'm hungry, mummy. It's like arguing with like a Furby. Really? That's really what it is. You live you live with a tiny terrorist.
00:26:22
Speaker
Right. Well, listen, listen i can i could put my dog in her crate at any point and it's not abuse. So that's... ah I try that. It's called abuse. Hmm? Did I try that? And it's called abuse. Yes. See, exactly. That's what I'm saying. I can put my dog away. That's fine. i Listen, parents, I give you all the credit in the world. You're you are a stronger human being than me. You are digging yourself a giant hole right now. No, it's not hole. It's fine. You guys are all laughing your butts off. let Listen, I know when I'm a clown.
00:26:52
Speaker
That's fine. and I'm continuing on. We're five years old. Can we the face over boobun for that part? Because... Listen, that's what I am. I'm literally, I want to go to clown college, actually. I feel like I should, and I i want to do it.
00:27:07
Speaker
there's There's so many clown colleges. i just want to go. i want to become an actual clown. Anyway, the Mace Starter Pack obviously is available. ah Roomba's Nest is in beta. Roomba's Nest is... ah There's an update in beta, actually, I should say. Excuse me. You can now set the hour when that happens. So say you wake up at 3 in the morning and you want it to happen at 3 in the morning.
00:27:30
Speaker
That's when it can happen for you instead of at reset. But if you leave it alone, it'll just happen at reset when everything else happens. ah Red Diamond Fish are back. That's cool. yeah That's like what else is in here.
00:27:43
Speaker
Not a lot. Not anything else. I'm just continuing on. Okay, and then yesterday, that was yesterday, yeah, May the 4th be with you.
Closing Remarks and Shoutouts
00:27:52
Speaker
ah it was obviously May the 4th. We had a little bit of a, you know, Star Wars-y day.
00:27:57
Speaker
ah You can craft blue milk now. That's cool. ah There's a new quiz for Star Wars people. and If you like Star Wars, you can do your Star Wars quiz. Every answer is Jar Jar Binks.
00:28:08
Speaker
ah But that's just for me. There's a new issue of the Redbrook Times, which is kind of like our... it quarterly? We're going to talk about that here in just minute. Is it quarterly? I think it's quarterly. Yeah, it is. actually says it right here. It's quarterly. Anyway, I should continue reading before I just make guesses.
00:28:27
Speaker
But yes, it's our quarterly newsletter. And it's just kind of a fun way to like read about what's happening. This is kind of like us doing our own quarterly newsletter right now because we haven't had an episode in four months. But, you know...
00:28:41
Speaker
Yeah, and then there's some new tower levels. Tower levels. Those are yours. You can talk about them. Go ahead. people are already done with 330, I'm starting to think they need to drop 340. You know what I'm trying to say? Yeah, sure. Let's do it. I'm never getting there, ever. long as I live, it's not happening.
00:28:58
Speaker
I'm looking forward to doing some tower climbing. i have not had the chance in quite some time. and But i love making tower levels. towers Tower levels are...
00:29:10
Speaker
don't tell the player base this because then they're going to revolt. But tower levels are like a different form of quest that don't have to write a story for. And I still get to be evil. It's amazing.
00:29:21
Speaker
Right, it's like being evil without ah without any of the extra creativity. I know, it's so fantastic. We do have, a you know, for anyone wondering, there is an artifact at tower level 350.
00:29:34
Speaker
It is already designed, and think we just need to do a little bit of code cleanup or writing for it. ah So don't worry, there's a plan. um The feedback that I've received from the people I've shared it with are like, hey, that's pretty cool.
00:29:49
Speaker
So I'm just saying, There's reasons to climb the tower. your sailing spoilers are available? ah Well, you would have to know the right people. Yeah, you'd have to like guess who his who his like people he spills the beans to are. And what unfortunately for you, those people are in NDAs, so... They ain't telling nobody.
00:30:14
Speaker
ah i mean, they could, I guess, but that would we'd probably we' probably come for them. Negative. So I did want to take a quick moment to shout out the Red Book Times before we um chat with our before we chat with our guests.
00:30:30
Speaker
But if you haven't read the Red Book Times before, It's just a quick way for us to kind of do what we do on the podcast, but at a higher level. So we talk about the things like all of the content that we've added. We also talk about things that are maybe coming up in the future.
00:30:47
Speaker
So, you know, if you are wondering maybe what the next piece of content is, I'm going to give you a spoiler. It's probably called Borgens Lost and Found, and we mention it here. Uh, on the Redbrook Times. So it's a good thing for you to kind of understand ah what we're thinking about, some ah some funny some funny stories that we have, and here's just a chance for us to kind of chat with you guys. So i just want to make sure that if you haven't read this before, you should definitely take some time out of your day. Go check out the Redbrook Times.
00:31:25
Speaker
Yeah. It's not a long read. It's pretty quick. You can just like look at it fast and it definitely will take you a lot shorter amount of time than to listen to us like ramble about it for the 30 minutes that it took us to talk about all the updates. Let's talk to our guests instead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go.
00:31:42
Speaker
Welcome in. Thank you, guests. Thank you for coming on. I appreciate both of you. um so let's Let's just talk a little about you guys, about your your favorite parts of Farm RPG.
00:31:57
Speaker
So starting off, I usually like to do... What? What? What? An introduction. Who are our guests? Who are you? We heard them. We know who they are. We introduced them the top of the episode. swear I'm going to throw something at you. Go ahead. You take over. You do it. And you know what? This is all you. Take over, my guy. Let's go. Go ahead.
00:32:17
Speaker
Let's go. You know what? Are we really going to fight on the podcast? I'm not fighting. Do people really want to see mom and dad fight? I'm relinquishing control to you. You've got this. Oh, I have this? Oh, okay. You've got it. Hey!
00:32:30
Speaker
said Can I keep a straight face tonight? This is... well
00:32:38
Speaker
Um, okay, fine, fine. I'll take control. Control. Rested and using it. Hi, ah could you guys take a moment, introduce yourself, how you found FarmRPG?
00:32:50
Speaker
and ah And just tell us a little bit about both who you are, how you found FarmRPG, and what you really like about FarmRPG. Let's start with Thorphy. So i came across FarmRPG just searching for a farming game. It was early summer of 2024.
00:33:08
Speaker
And i tried a few and it's the, you play it for a month and then it's boring. you don't want to do it anymore. and you unload it or delete it, whatever.
00:33:20
Speaker
I started playing this and i was like, Oh, this is a lot of fun. Wow. I spent a lot of gold on things that I probably shouldn't have. So I actually deleted my account. It restarted in August of 2024.
00:33:32
Speaker
And I haven't left since you're not getting rid of me. Huh, so you're actually an account booster in disguise.
00:33:42
Speaker
I just restarted. i do have some of my kids who play, but in all fairness, I think I sent more to them than they have to me. Oh, well, what's ah what what is it about Farm RPG that you love so much? What's kept you coming back all these years?
00:33:57
Speaker
All these years? Not even been to yet, dude. um listen Wow. Wow. Wow, she she's coming through your throat. Thank you, Dorfee. I appreciate that. Everyone comes for Force Path. That's true. Good. At some point. As they should. And you better not miss, is what I'm trying to say. Honestly, I started playing and it was a lot of fun. i am one of those weird people who actually likes the grind most of the time. Yes, I complain about it, but it's fun.
00:34:25
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um But honestly, once I started into help chat, I was like, and I'm here at home. This is where I'm going to be. And i go visit the other chat, but help chat is really home for me.
00:34:39
Speaker
like we have a help chatter And we appreciate all the people that are in help chat. You guys answer the same question over and over again. And also, yeah, and all day I'm very grateful for the people in help chat.
00:34:53
Speaker
Really quite grateful. Speaking of people that are in help chat, how about our other guest? Introduce yourself, how you found Farm, what you love about it. It's kind of similar. i was I was doing a lot of a late night, middle of the night feeding of the alien that lives in my house.
00:35:15
Speaker
And had something to do with his way. So I was going through all the different things. And then that an ad for Farm RPG popped up and I was like, Does it look like this? It does look like this in the game. It is ad-free. And kind of just, yeah, I just got really into that. And I was playing it around the clock a lot of the time.
00:35:35
Speaker
Keep myself going. And one day decided to stumble into chat and talk about gold eggplants because I was like, yeah, I know how to get those. Didn't know they were so easy to get later on. Someone gave some to me and I stuck around help chat forever.
00:35:50
Speaker
And I've been in here just over two years now. som I'm not going anywhere. My chore streak is like 750 something. i don't know. I'm here all the time. Yeah.
00:36:03
Speaker
oh Oh, are you just going to not talk? Hey, no, no, i'm I'm listening. And listen, you took the reins, my guy. you took the reins over. i should get it i mean, listen, we already know what their favorite chat room is.
00:36:16
Speaker
yeah you said These are help chat. This is the help chat. This is the help chat group. So my, hey, what's your favorite chat? that's That's kind of off the table. But here's my question. Actually, I will take, you know, I'm going rest control little bit. What if we were just a team?
00:36:31
Speaker
Listen, we are a team, buddy. You're the one that's... You're criticizing my method. So you know what? if If mommy's method isn't good, then you can take it over. But listen, anyway... Listen... These are fairly chaotic.
00:36:47
Speaker
loa I have fun here. well Listen, if I can't just like... be i I live with just my husband and I work from home and I don't talk to anybody at all. I just sit here all day. and If I can't just be funny on on a podcast for like two seconds, what can I do? Anyway, what are your favorite items? Like what's your favorite in-game item?
00:37:06
Speaker
Like that is like, oh, i because I had like an ah obsession with popcorn when I was, when I first started, I was like, oh, I got to have every piece of popcorn. What's your favorite in-game item that you're like, I have to collect this every single time I see it?
00:37:20
Speaker
Every single time it's up for trade. I am always... i I'm going with mayonnaise. I'm really happy about the mayonnaise. I wanted something to do with eggs, and I'm still i still waiting for it in the tower. I'm waiting for my GM mayonnaise in this tower to come up. No, no, no, no,
00:37:41
Speaker
I'm ready for it, sort of. I'm only on 80K. And I'm also really, really pleased about the new black shirt because I think it's awesome.
00:37:49
Speaker
I love that. Good choices. Good choices. Dorfie? I have been doing the dad jokes of the day, though, in giveaway chat lately, because I absolutely love dad jokes. So when people guess on that, I've been giving, excuse me i've been giving away the Hickory omelette.
00:38:06
Speaker
Because I think a lot of times, too, in giveaways, a lot of the new players really have no idea just how useful those can be. And it's payment for them having to deal with my horrible dad jokes. so So do you think maybe that your favorite item could be the cornball?
00:38:23
Speaker
yeah Oh, because of cornball jokes? Because that if you look, that is actually like the on the description of the cornball. Where the cornball? This is where all dad jokes eventually end up.
00:38:38
Speaker
That's the cornball. That's the one I love. I have a cornball in my inventory. You don't have a cornball? i do not. Oh, no.
00:38:49
Speaker
i mean, i think there was a that was a i I think that was a limited time Akira Toriyama questline, but yeah you know, you could i I'm assuming you can probably come back at some point.
00:39:00
Speaker
Yes, and we did that was that was for the Akira Toriyama memorial. In memoriam. In memoriam, yes, but yes. That's very funny. A funny, funny item.
00:39:13
Speaker
But yeah the recent Astrochick is also absolutely adorable. Oh, yeah. The Astrochick is a good time. I'm going to agree with that statement. You don't like him?
00:39:25
Speaker
No, I'm going to agree with that statement. going to. i was going to say. If you don't like him, that's fine. I don't mind. You're not going to hurt my feelings. I hurt my feelings. Well, if we're talking favorite buddy doll, I absolutely love the slimed buddy doll from this month.
00:39:40
Speaker
Oh yeah, that was fun. It played on Double Dare. in the nine Yes. I love that one. He got gacked fully. um Yeah.
00:39:52
Speaker
so I'm glad you like him. He's a good one. so many So many buddy dolls. she's God, so many. I just like look at all these items that I've drawn and it's just like, this is way too many.
00:40:03
Speaker
So many, so many, so many. But yeah, all right. Well, thank you for sharing your favorite items with me. i appreciate that. ah Force has? Yeah, so the other question, well, there's two more questions that we typically ask. I'm going to ask one that we don't typically ask. What's your favorite thing to do in Farm RPG? What is your favorite skill or the thing that you're most excited about when you're playing the game?
00:40:29
Speaker
But it can be chat. If you just want to bail out and be like, i love chat, I will accept that answer.
00:40:38
Speaker
I think I love... most I love working on the tower because then I get my spreadsheet going and then I have it all color-coded and conditionally formatted and happy and I see number go up and I see colors go green and towerut tower is my happy place. So just working on that. Mastery Tracker is constantly up. Quest Tracker doesn't exist anymore.
00:41:01
Speaker
Mastery Tracker. Fair. about you, Dorfee? ah I'm one of those crazy people who still fishes for stamina.
00:41:15
Speaker
I never have enough of it. I just, I like the grind. Lately I've been like using up my bank farmhouse stamina and then fishing for more because I'm always out because use it.
00:41:31
Speaker
I know where to play Horde RPG. I can't, I use it. You know what? I appreciate a person that uses their resources. One, it's much more fun to design content for people that aren't just hoarding all the time. But two, I just think it's nice to see a different perspective sometimes. So really do appreciate that quite heavily.
00:41:53
Speaker
do agree with this. I see people post their like 100 cranberry juice and then I'm like, I have two. You have two? I've never been over 10 million seminars. All these people say hundreds of millions of stamina. I've never made up. I haven't even had 10 million stamina.
00:42:09
Speaker
My goodness. Goodness me. That's like, ken I like that though for you guys. That's cool. I, I always have way too much stamina. So somebody thinking that somebody could have, you know, just like their actual max stamina or not even be under.
00:42:26
Speaker
That's great. Like you're playing the game, like play the game, how you play the game. That's cool. Yes, I love that. It's something that I've always appreciated. So good on you. Thanks for being you. I appreciate you guys.
00:42:38
Speaker
Do you want to ask the do you want to ask the the standard final question? The standard final question, which is who is your least favorite or your favorite? I'll give you either one.
00:42:50
Speaker
Staff member. And it can't be each other. I feel like that would be not fair. So if that's if that's where you're going to go with it, we got to pick somebody else that's not here. But favorite or least favorite, or both, if you want.
00:43:03
Speaker
I think I'm going have to say my least favorite is going to be Link Jason. Because we have an ongoing feud about Rick. Oh, yeah. I left some feedback about that a while ago. oh Favorite, though?
00:43:21
Speaker
Jules is Since the start, I've would just always been like, you're so... I appreciate that choice. and Good choice. but firm And just, and she's an amazing person. She's just very, very good.
00:43:36
Speaker
worst' We're Jules Stance here on the podcast. We love Jules. And we love Jules's mom, who also is an avid podcast listener. yeah jules Jules and Jules's mom, both.
00:43:48
Speaker
they're they' That's T right there. That's perfect. I absolutely love Jules's mom, too. She's so nice. She's the best.
00:43:57
Speaker
Dorphy. Dorphy. You're on the spot. right ah Can I still go to the Paula Court? I'll allow it. I will allow it.
00:44:07
Speaker
I will. so mean to me all the time.
00:44:11
Speaker
yeah i have it coming most of the time and I know that. um
00:44:18
Speaker
As far as favorite staff member... Jules is definitely up there. RKM too. He's the one who really got me into a lot of the chatting and he's just a lot of fun to make fun of because half of it goes over his head.
00:44:37
Speaker
doesn't, he doesn't. RKM is just a wonderful, wonderful human. And he definitely does. He definitely does live with his head in the clouds sometimes.
00:44:48
Speaker
um just didn i know He was supposed to be on the pod at one point. Yeah, he forgot. He forgot. ah and I had to get like another another person on last minute.
00:44:58
Speaker
Someday we'll get him on the podcast. Oh, RKM. All of these are not said in in negative. We love you very much. love you, RKM. We do. RKM is fabulous. That's awesome work with the library and everything else.
00:45:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah. yeah
00:45:15
Speaker
Very good librarian. We love him. Well, do you guys have any closing interview comments? Things you want to say? Shoutouts? you know, want to criticize quest design.
00:45:27
Speaker
ah feel like I've got, I've got to shout out my my OG buddy here of APETS. We've had this ongoing feud since the start. And if I do this, maybe he'll be nice to me for a week.
00:45:38
Speaker
No, he won't.
00:45:41
Speaker
I do love APET. He's pretty cool. And I'll just shout out all of my grades that I've adopted. I'm like, unofficially the help chat mom.
00:45:54
Speaker
It sounds like you're making it official right now. so Officially unofficial. Yeah, but I actually have to like you enough to adopt you. m so Some of you, you know.
00:46:07
Speaker
Alright. I also find I'm releasing all these yellow butterflies into your house, Forth Star. I have had them all ready to craft at the next event. I'm just going to release them all into your house and you can find them.
00:46:20
Speaker
Tower level 339. Edit... remove black purse, add black butterfly. That's not a thing.
00:46:31
Speaker
It isn't? It can be. Are you sure it's not? Okay, it's not a thing in game yet. To be fair, like butterfly would be, look, absolutely. Oh my God, we could have monarch butterflies.
00:46:45
Speaker
that for i should shut up. I should really shut up. Yeah, you should probably close your mouth before we like actually start making that. At Firestream, can we add black and orange butterfly? I'm sorry, everybody!
00:47:00
Speaker
ah Before we move on to our next, just ah the tea time section, I don't know if you guys want to release your your very special you know phrase here that people can enter and get an item.
00:47:17
Speaker
Yes. You go, Dwarfie, because... i think It is help chat best cats. So very on theme for the two of you. i love it.
00:47:29
Speaker
So help chat best cats with an S, right? Is there an S at the end? Is there an S or is there no S? Well, there's more than one of them. That's true. There's two. There's two cats.
00:47:40
Speaker
I better go change it real quick. Hold on. br b Just scroll through this list of passwords. Of the million or so passwords. Yeah. There are so many. oh I know. There's so, so many of them.
00:47:51
Speaker
Edit password. Let's add an S. Perfect. Done. All right. Boom. Boom, baby. all right. There it is. And then it is now live.
00:48:04
Speaker
It's live. Let's see how long it takes for somebody to actually notice. Keep keep your eyes peeled. You guys can go turn that in now. That will take like five minutes max. Yeah, usually it doesn't take very long. 11 minutes for a tea time? Yeah, we got a little bit of time. That's pretty good. That's like what we usually need. We only need like 10 or 15 for the tea time. So we're good. We're on track. we're on track Can you confirm that I did officially request the art for a Monarch Butterfly?
00:48:31
Speaker
you did You did put that in dev chat. It is in dev chat. He is asking for ah both but black and orange butterfly, monarch butterfly in parentheses. So that a thing that he did ask. So this will be your fault if it does happen.
00:48:47
Speaker
Oh, I will make Maybe black and orange ones go together, then they can be crafting bonus and makes the other one. Oh, you think I would be that kind? Absolutely not. No, he's not going to be that nice. No, no, no, no, no. I know how this works. I've been around the block.
00:49:07
Speaker
We are here to add this as the MM requirement for Tower 350. Oh, my gosh. Get some swan plants swan plants and Red Brook first. I need the swan plants.
00:49:18
Speaker
Hmm. So let's just like let's do a little tea time. but got a little tea time popping. What have you all been working on in Farm RPG? i'm going to start with our guests just to give Forrest Bat time to think.
00:49:33
Speaker
ah Dorfee? Here's the backhanded slap you needed.
00:49:42
Speaker
of you got to do it, do you? Some absolute... When the gold rings came out in the swamp, decided to make a ton of gold rings, and I made a bunch of gold diamond rings. So I am still stuck on the stealth boat part of the PSA quest line.
00:50:01
Speaker
Thank you, Greg. Oh, no. Okay, turned in one. Now I'm on two, and I'm like, it's going be months before I have enough diamonds again. oh God. Brutal. brutal Crafting up but whatever I can. i really like the double expedition time that we were able to do with this last event.
00:50:22
Speaker
thing that One of my more favorite bonuses we've ever created. ah yeah. It's like, okay, I can send off a whole month of expeditions. I could have sent more, but I didn't have the gold.
00:50:33
Speaker
But I can send off a whole month worth of expeditions and just slowly craft things out of it. So it's been... Slowly working on cooking enough stuff for a later quests.
00:50:46
Speaker
Working slowly on the tower and making my paper list because I'm, I knew much better with a paper list. I know Nick loves spreadsheets, but I like my paper list.
00:50:57
Speaker
Listen, real media, tactile stuff. That's that, you know, I appreciate that personally. So, so I have my list of what I still need to do. And it's to be a while.
00:51:10
Speaker
fair enough fair enough nix what have you been working on in farm rpg i just finished the end of psa 2.0 collectively about last night for me here so that was got got out of my cooking jail and then i got stuck on wood on the last one of all things to finish my hourglasses while everything else was ready But got that, got there. So i've yeah, I finished that, which was awesome. I really loved the rewards in that with the 30 Borg and bags of each thing because opening that was just a massive hit of dopamine every time.
00:51:44
Speaker
um Koala Corgi will say, no, don't open Borg and bags. man I use my stuff. Don't listen to him. yeah i don't listen to him. And now, so now I am, am fully, fully tower focused. I'm kind of pleased those new tower levels came out just now because it kind of really good timing for me and I've,
00:52:02
Speaker
updated it all here and and it looks okay i'm gonna go spend some time in the swamp and do a lot of crafting of cloth by the looks of it um yeah and pair of boots pair boots nice yeah that's a lot of lot of corn oil on my maid
00:52:23
Speaker
e e Actually, do I spent a lot of oil on Fancy Table while I was doing The Vice because I am scared that Fancy Table might be one. So I'm future-proofing, guys.
00:52:34
Speaker
I tell you what. That's where I'm at. yeah i I'm just going to take a moment to say i enjoy all the people that try to metagame me by saying, oh, I think Force Path would do this, or I think Force Path is going to do this, or like fancy tables are going to be here. I love that, and I greatly encourage it. I think it is a fun metagame aspect of FarmRPG.
00:52:56
Speaker
ah So if you are out there and you're trying to metagame me, go after it. Feel free to send me ideas. I might use them, or more often than not, I'm just going to laugh silently and already have a plan.
00:53:09
Speaker
thank you. spent months MMMing snowshoes because I was being scared of that. i had Hickory's literally running 24-7 from the start of December to the end of March, and MMM snowshoes.
00:53:24
Speaker
I love the dedication there. love it. Yeah, I don't remember if I have snowshoes in the final 20 levels. i have to go look. It might come smack me in the face and just be a GM and I'll be like, well, it may be many.
00:53:42
Speaker
May as well. You be ah it's you know, if you've you've done it now. like you you know You can say that you've done it. That's the best part. You done did it. You done did it. Force Path, what have you been working on?
00:53:54
Speaker
Well, i think yeah. So um Farm RPG has been fully development focused. There's a couple of quests that I have in the wings. um I did some storyboarding for there's two new artifact items that will come out in the next month or two um that will be just related to it will be more similar to like the monster hunter a situation where it's like a quest and you get an item that kind of just like helps you with like there and then further on. So there's been some storyboarding there. Um, obviously a lot of my time has been spent, uh, chatting to, milk bark and quality, kind of getting those guys up to speed, uh, on everything. So I have not really spent a ton of time actually playing farm RPG as much as like, I would love pretend like I have, I got me on. Yeah. I have not.
00:54:48
Speaker
So need to, I need to dig back into it. Um, just ah Just haven't yet, but I will. i always I always make the time. so yeah, that's kind of like a high level what I've been working on thinking about.
00:55:03
Speaker
Heck yeah. Love that. Personally, I'm in the same boat. I ain't been doing nothing in FarmRBG other than dev stuff. But it's like a busy time of year for dev stuff. I have a lot of things to draw. So, you know, we out here. We out here getting work done.
00:55:17
Speaker
June through August is my favorite because that's when things are a little bit slower. It's the summertime. and then we kind of get into event season. So this is true.
00:55:28
Speaker
It's kind of glad that we brought on people before event season. So I'm not trying to come up with limericks and, you know, long quest chains and stuff before we have, you know, so I'm very excited that we.
00:55:42
Speaker
We get some newbies in. Newbies in, you know, blood. Yeah, other than birthday month. so Yes, birthday month. Very exciting. Very fun. a lot of new stuff. not A lot of stuff coming. Not new stuff, stuff but maybe new stuff. Who knows?
00:55:56
Speaker
Stuff is coming. Uh, well, let's talk about stuff that we've been doing outside of Farmer VG. Have you been playing any games lately? I'm going to just, uh, you know, or work or movies or any, like any fun stuff that you've been doing outside of the game and the real world touching grass.
00:56:13
Speaker
Uh, you could be doing that. I don't know. Not me. That's for damn sure. I got no time to touch grass, but i'll we'll do it in the order, the same order may as well. Okay. Sure. Dorphy.
00:56:26
Speaker
Oh, go to Nick's first. Okay. yes I got this. I got this. I am. I've just started Hades 2 because I've decided to give up on Hades 1, 32 heat, right? I've done the 16 heat, decided, you know what?
00:56:40
Speaker
I want to play Hades 2. So now we're cracking into that. And I'm also up to book five on the Dungeon Crawler Carl's. at the moment so I am loving that and having a good time and also just finished a book about calculus on the other side which was also enjoyable I like maths those of you talk to me know I like maths I read books about maths for fun maths maths that's fun don't know if I could read a book about calculus but ah power to you power to you
00:57:10
Speaker
It's like, hmm, kind of. sweet numbers have you ever read um Have you ever read Zero, the biography of a dangerous idea by Charles Seif? I have not. I might need to.
00:57:23
Speaker
You are, as as someone who enjoys math, ah it is just a wonderful book. Talking about the concept of the number zero. I think you might very much enjoy it.
00:57:34
Speaker
I will write this down beside me or I will forget. No worries. Dorfie, do you, you um would you like to go or would you like a skip? No, I am, lately I've been on a true podcast binge.
00:57:52
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a I find fascinating is probably the wrong word, but I very much a how did somebody get from this teeny tiny innocent little child who for me that's kind of the the draw of it and won't shout out the podcast here but the one that i've listened to he says that he prefers to have it be um more csi and less saw so it's a lot more the technical side of things than the gory gross side of things and as far as other gaming i've been on a dwarf fortress kick lately we're not talking like the game version we're talking like the old ascii version
00:58:37
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Yeah. It was a 4.7. Love that. um It's one of those ones that I pick it up times a year and go back and build a fortress and Death made all the goblins and then decide to flood the place with lava just to see what happens.
00:58:57
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um Might be a little bit of chaos. That's fun, though. Chaos is good. Chaos is a good time. I love that. Force path? Oh, me? Okay. You? um I've been doing a lot of gaming and a lot of media-ing and a lot of dissociating. So, um game-wise,
00:59:19
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i Played through all of Mugenics after that came out. Absolutely loved it. Mm-hmm. Let's see here. Played some Ratcoin. Played some Vampire Crawlers. I'm just looking at my Steam list, to be honest with you. Yeah, I mean... Got back into Rabbit and Steel for a little bit. I've been doing another run Elden Ring. i find Elden Ring very relaxing when I'm stressed out. Mm-hmm.
00:59:43
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Yeah, I've been reading. I just finished a book um by Brian McClellan called In the Shadow of the Lightning, which was really good. ah don't know if this next book in that series is out yet, but I really enjoyed it.
00:59:56
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I've been rereading ah the Codex Alaris series by Jim Butcher, which is a nice palate cleanser series. Then I was, i was also reading a math book. I like probability um and economics.
01:00:12
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So those are the kind of books I like to read. So I just finished rereading Freakonomics. ah ah Very old school book.
01:00:23
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Yeah. I just keep myself. engaged and busy uh need to spend a little more time uh not doing that stuff but have a good good you need to have like a some relaxation ah apart from all the other busy stuff happening in your life truth what about you so i've been playing so many games lately it's not even funny ah but since the last time to tomo well tomodachi life Let's be real. That has taken up so much of my life over the last like two weeks.
01:00:53
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I love that game. It's so good. I'm a big fan of the old one, the old Tomodachi Life on the 3DS. I was a huge fan of that. I'm a huge fan of this one. I just like making my little freaks. I made a bunch of Planet of the Apes apes.
01:01:06
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I made a bunch of Pokemon. It's crazy. My island is nuts. It's got my friends and like Leon Kennedy and Planet of the Apes guys. I got like Dr. Zaius out here falling in love with my best friend.
01:01:16
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it's it's awesome anyway uh that i've been playing vampire crawlers that's great um forbidden solitaire oh yeah i heard about that i heard really good things about that game good uh it's it's just uh it's just fun it's like it really reminds me of inscription like in a like in that kind of like it's a weird horror card game it's great um And what I'll put that on my wish list because I heard about it. You should. It's good. I was playing it Vinny's account, which is why it's probably nobody saw me playing it. But it's it's extremely good. It's very... it's It's fun. And it's like weird, like old 90s, like CD-ROM game. it's It's a good time.
01:02:00
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And before that, all Pocopia. I played it so much Pocopia, which I am now done with, which is, you know, excellent. But, you know, I'm a Nintendo freak at heart. know are. So...
01:02:11
Speaker
It is what it is. But that's it. Really, I haven't been doing anything else. ah Playing video games, you know, walking the dog. And that's about it. That's most my weekends a dance competition, so, you know.
01:02:23
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That's fun. I'm not really around. but That's fun. That's good. That's a good time. But that's about it. I mean, I think that's the podcast, y'all. What do you think? Anything else you'd like to say before we, you know, sign off for another four months? i just I'm just kidding. We're going back.
01:02:38
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No, we'll be back next month. We'll be back next month. I promised i promise. I Ooh, you promised. I know. I don't know if I can keep it, but we'll see. I'll do my absolute best to be back next month.
01:02:51
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But if any if there's nothing else anywhere else to stay, we can just say what we normally do, which is just bye. got nothing. All right. It's bye then. Bye.