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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 18 - The one where we ramble too much AGAIN!
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Hey thanks for coming back for another thrilling FarmRPG Podcast episode with boobun and forcepath! It's just us this month and we have no one to keep up on track, so please enjoy a long off topic rambling of two mad people. Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for listening in! Good luck with the swear jar!
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Transcript
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Podcast Beginnings and Host Introductions
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down now. I mean, I just don't really know how I feel about doing a podcast without a guest. It's been a minute since we've done it like that. I don't know that we've ever in this iteration done it without a guest.
00:00:25
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I think the first episode we did. That was before... That was like session zero. Yeah, that's before you slept. Session zero. Oh, yeah. Well, anyway, welcome back, everybody, to um another another thrilling episode of the Farm RPG Podcast with me, your beautiful and gracious host, Bubun, with my... Can confirm.
00:00:48
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With my so stellar co-host here. Stellar. oh Yes, stellar. it's me, ah Force Path. And we're back at it again. We're a little bit late this month. was like you know I think we're a little bit late every month, which is fine. It kind of like just like sort of compounds, and then eventually we just like skip them.
00:01:06
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And I mean, like that's not a good for our numbers, right? like i think I think it's hurting our viewership. I don't think it actually is. I think it's pretty good. we had
Swear Jar Saga
00:01:18
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We had like a record number of people commenting on the swear jar this month, which was crazy. Oh, for real? How many people commented? It was 75 when I did my count, which is a lot. Usually it's like 50.
00:01:30
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So I feel like 75 seconds, that's a solid. I feel like this is an opportunity to break that record again. Yeah, we could. I mean, just comment, I guess. um Oh, and I said comment on that swear jar.
00:01:43
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just Just comment on that swear jar, ah y'all, because ah then, you know, you could potentially win the swear jar like our lovely winner that we just had. let me Hang on. Let me scroll up.
00:01:55
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I pulled it and I don't remember who it was. It was a very apt name, which I thought was very funny. It was. I i remember the name. Do you remember the name off the top? Hang on. Let's see. that there's ah ah I think the capital letters were T and G. T and G. T and G. I'm looking. I'm just scrolling back because we talk a lot.
00:02:15
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We talk a lot. so Honestly, we haven't. There it is. It's groovy turkey. Groovy turkey. I was right. Yeah. I was You right. just had it backwards. You had it backwards. It's fine. It's groovy turkey, and which is so apt, and it's completely random. I did random number generator, and you know I counted it out. It was crazy. I loved it. I love that.
00:02:33
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I love that for you. i love that you're using a random number generator, and we no longer We've beaten the allegations. I know. We are stuffing the ballot. here You know what? What's funny is like we have an Amazon Alexa in the house and I was like, Alexa, give me a random number between one and 75. And she was like, well, I'm going to pick 42 because it's my favorite number. i'm like, that's not flipping random.
00:02:55
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That's not giving me a random number. You're giving me your favorite number. You're not just coming up with a number off the top of your head, Alexa. um Anyway, sorry. um Strong opinions. Let's not go there.
00:03:07
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I know. It's not good. i don't, I mean, it turns my lights on and off and that's really all that's good for. Anyway.
Life Updates and Farm RPG News
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It's nice to be back on the podcast though. It's good to talk. And it's just us buddies. Yeah. It's just the two of us. We've been like crazy busy for like the last two months. There's been a lot of more than all that. well Right. I mean like,
00:03:28
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It's just been jobs and, and yeah, yeah it's been, but we're here and we get a chance to kind of step away from the, The chaos and just be the chaos gremlins of farm.
00:03:45
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Yeah, exactly. And I haven't been able to really be a chaos gremlin farm lately just because I've been so busy like doing things outside of farm. We miss in chat. I know. I got to get back in there. I'm just like not chatting as much because life's been crazy, as you well know. We just had some day job shakeups.
00:03:59
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So I'm not going even get into it. But so the the world doesn't need to know. I just I'm OK. I have a job. Thank you. Would everyone like to know all the intimate details about Boobun's job? If so, DM me Force Path. And here's what I'll do.
00:04:12
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i won't tell you anything. Yeah, because you won't hear a word. You won't hear a word. um That's true. But you can try. and I would respect you for that. And also maybe disrespect you a little bit.
00:04:23
Speaker
Yeah, a little bit. I would disrespect you. um You could come to me and try to ask me, but I won't tell you. I'll just roll my eyes. This the top tier banter. People come to the Farm RPG podcast. We haven't even talked about real farm yet. Hey, we should talk about Farm RPG. Let's do that. Let's talk about Farm RPG. It's been so long.
00:04:41
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When I was sitting here and I was thinking about, okay, how many updates are we going to have to talk through? a lot. There's a lot. It wasn't a small amount. no so we've been one busy outside a farm two busy inside of farm um putting out some some content october was so busy and then because we recorded what on the 6th i said so like there's a there's a there's a lot and that's actually me to kick it kick it 40 days 42 days since the pod or something like that i know
00:05:14
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I'm really disappointed in us. I know. It's fine. We usually do like, you know, it's so like 35 days. there was a little extra of this time. We had to push it off. It's okay. It's okay. We're allowed to do that every once in a while. I'm sorry. It's not my fault I got sick. No, I know. You were sick and it was just not a good time. So, you know, yeah and also we both forgot that one day that we're supposed to record and we' like, oops. And then I was in Chicago. Yep.
00:05:36
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I know. It was just a tragedy. Life comes at you fast, everyone.
Farm RPG Mechanics and Events
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but let me Let's go over. We're going to go over the October 15th update. um I'm not going to go over any of the stuff about the the event because it's been it's over. It's long over. So we're not going even bothering to talk about that stuff. It's over. You missed it Anyway, FOMO. buty FOMO. fomo fomo But there was some mailbox code that was reworked on the 15th of October that really made stuff really fast. So if you've been seeing, how feeling that heckin' fast ah mailbox update, I mean, if you're a big trader or you hang on giveaways, you're feeling that update. It's pretty good. It's true. I got a chance to like look at the code, and I have to say, it's pretty shiny.
00:06:25
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It is shiny. It goes quickly. There's also a change that came in where help requests that have predecessor quests show at the bottom of the quest detail screen so you can tap and go back to the previous quest.
00:06:37
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So that's kind of fun. So if you like to reread quests, because sometimes I like to go back. People read the quests? I mean, sometimes I do. If you're cool, you read the quests. If you're a true fan, you read the quests. uh yeah so you could do that there's also a few recent alerts on the profile it's kind of moved and made littler because it used to be like a bar at the top and now it's like a little bell off to the side uh the welcome page when logged out has received some small visual changes i don't know who logs out i don't log out ah And we actually added two new farm hands for help chat, which was... yeah well I'm gonna i want to i going to try to like... Butcher the names. I think it's... Is it Nixia Bell?
00:07:18
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i can't I think that's how it is. Nixia Bell and Dorphy Power. Both two very lovely humans. Yes, they're very Who've been so very helpful ah in the game. We should ask them to join the podcast. Oh, maybe. We got we had new blood. There's new blood in the water. New blood. we can We can ask them to join the podcast and they can be like, oh, guys aren't that interesting. And we'll go, yeah, we know.
00:07:42
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Yeah. aren't interesting. But hey, it's new blood. We can ask we could just like... and the practice Yeah, it's your turn to come up. Instead of like taking volunteers, why don't we volunteer?
00:07:54
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Yeah, getting voluntold to be on this pod. yeah Anyways, I'm sorry. No, you're good. you're good October 20th, do you want to take it? Yeah, because it's the sugar mill. so yours yeah Dude, sugar mill was one of my babies. I worked heavy, heavy on sugar mill. So sugar mill is out now when you get to Farming 85. You grow sugar cane, and then you put sugar cane in the sugar mill.
00:08:17
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And then the sugar mill will refine that sugar. And then you can refine that further into different kinds of sugar, which we will be using more in the coming month. So if you haven't started that process of refinement, this is your spoiler.
00:08:33
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Find some sugar. Get some sugar going. I drew all the sugars, which I like doing. It's like so I don't do very many like the I know a lot of items, but I don't do that many items that like it's noticeable. I feel like so like when I do a bunch I'm in game i i have I love. No, I love using the packs. don't get Don't get me wrong. gives me time to draw the animals. So but when I draw the items, I'm like, hey, look at my and go guys. Yeah.
00:08:58
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Oh, boy. So, yeah, we had we put the sugar melon out. We did more improvements to the mailbox. um It was good, and then it was even... True. then we added just some other random things. You can post item codes in chat. They link to the town hall now. So when the when the farm ah when the town's folk are like, hey, come get this in giveaways, which, by the way, if you didn't know, the town's folk will sometimes just be like, hey, go enter this code in um from giveaways chat and you'll get items. So you can do that if you just like in giveaways chat. It works.
00:09:35
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So, well yeah, that was that's a pretty good summary. I'll even do the 31st because I was also heavily involved in this one. Go good. Yeah, go for it. Yeah. So ah that was the end of Halloween. And we released Jill's Corn Maze 2, an amazing adventure, which was delightful. um Another Redenburg adventure. I had been really pining to make one of those again.
00:09:58
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so I got a chance to do it ah with the Halloween fall theme. And i man, it is so much fun watching players kind of fumble around a little bit, come up with theories.
00:10:14
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Absolute blast. It took a while for them to solve that one, too. but Yeah, I was surprised, to be honest, because I definitely did not make it as difficult as my previous one. And it still took a little bit longer. than I think more that is more a function of how big it was. so that was actually um twice as big is my last one. So my last one was like a 12 by 12 grid. um And this one was on a 30 by 30 grid. Wow. Yeah.
00:10:43
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And it's cool. And it's cool. And I helped i helped you with this. And Boobman helped with this one, too. um There's a there's like a meta puzzle in it, which I think if you've been on the Reddit, you might see it. But it draws out to a picture.
00:10:58
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You figure out the meta puzzle. It's cool. ah So I just ah I love the adventures. I love meta. I love. We should do another one like that. hi next time. i I have really perfected this. I haven't perfected it.
00:11:11
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But I'm much better than I have been at making these. like I did this in a much more truncated time frame than I have historically. You were trucking on this. trucked. You did truck hard. And it's very cool and fun. I feel like people really enjoyed it.
00:11:27
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The people who really enjoy... Those adventures. if you haven't If you haven't had a chance to check out the Redbrook adventures, it is... so creating them is a lot of fun, but if you have never tried to like make a map, what you do in this um is All the directions are cardinal directions. And all you need to do is is draw out a grid, right? And then follow that grid. And you just kind of have to piece together what's going on.
00:11:54
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um You'll see the walls fill in and you can kind of write down various texts if you want. um Just like a really fun ah like little side adventure. i definitely wouldn't try to do it without a piece of paper.
00:12:07
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Get some graph paper. Or, you know, maybe like Excel. Some people really like doing it in Excel. Yeah, that's smart. More like Google Sheets, yeah if you are if that is more your style. Your spreadsheet of choice.
00:12:19
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um Love making those. Love talking about adventures. I used a little bit of new tech again. Every time we make an adventure, I get a chance to kind of make a small request or something new.
00:12:31
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So, you know, there's always just a lot of fun. Some fun stuff. So now beyond that... um You can, oh we changed the way the change emblem thing worked, which is super nice. Oh, yeah. see your Your current emblem now sticks as you scroll.
00:12:44
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So it's easy for you to kind of see what different emblems look like. many emblems now. Yeah. We had some craftables and other things. So that was the twenty seventh
00:12:56
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You want to handle the 31st? Give me a second to take a drink. and Yeah. So the 31st, we had, I mean, it's mostly the bonuses, but there's a bunch of there's a bunch of bug fixes where there was an issue with apple cider,
00:13:11
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um which would incorrectly show a zero win out of stamina. but So that was fixed. Fixed issue where long help request titles could get cut off. So you would like lose it on those ones. that if you your're screen Firestream always yells at me when I make really long titles. Yeah. He's always like, it doesn't look good on mobile. And I'm like, yeah. It's very anime of you to do like, you know, my husband is a slime turned into this the refrigerator. and Very anime of me I was thinking...
00:13:38
Speaker
I think it's more emo, right? I mean, yeah, I guess that's an emo thing too. But like anime has like very long titles now. Yeah, that's true. Except Freeran.
00:13:48
Speaker
Well, Freeran, A Journey Beyond. being on the two's end yeah Beyond the Journey's End. Yeah, it's still pretty long. Season two. Oh, dog, I know, dog, don't start. In a month and a half. I know. Don't get me started. Freeran homies, rise up yeah in the chat. I'm so excited.
00:14:07
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Listen. my I watched the first two episodes of that. And then i was like, actually, this is so good. I have to get my wife to watch it. Yeah. So I immediately was like, hey, come downstairs. orre watching an episode of this show. And she's like, what? We don't like ever watch anime.
00:14:23
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And she was hooked. Also, I love the dubs. I love the dubs. The voice actor for Freelance Voice. Oh, yeah. She's really good. She's so good. Anyway. Anyways, I'm sorry. We're getting on top of the grade. I know this is going to be the most 80, because it's just us. There's nobody else here that we need keep on tap. There's no one here to make look at them and go, oh, right, we invited a guest here. I have to talk about farm. Yeah, and we don't. We can just... Sorry, this is... I mean, we're in the middle of talking about farm, but it's not really a very farm-heavy...
Charity Initiatives and Beta Features
00:14:49
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It's going to be a very farm-heavy endeavor tonight. Anyway, back to these bug fix Friday.
00:14:56
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ah ah There was an issue that ah basically hid the cancel meal option when you had zero of that meal in your inventory. so that was fixed. ah There was an issue fixed where Acorn Pie, um when using Acorn Pie so that it now correctly interacts with the inventory monitor and displays red when exploring. So it wouldn't show red if you're exploring and going over your probably...
00:15:21
Speaker
Hide, I guess. I don't know. I didn't run into that one myself. Fixed an issue when preventing the same meal from being used to extend charges if you didn't have enough meal slots.
00:15:31
Speaker
Interesting. Fixed an issue where the Townsfolk gift wouldn't list when excuse me refresh properly after being given a liked or loved item. That was a bug the mailbox fixes. Yeah.
00:15:44
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And then fixed issue where Friendship XP bars could update or jump incorrectly when returning to the Townsfolk screen. So that's fun. Yep. Kind the bug fixes. I think you should talk about, wait, no. I think I'll talk about this one. So you can talk about the 10th update since that one's very near and dear to you. It it is to me too.
00:16:04
Speaker
But I've been, I've appreciated your coverage a lot. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. um So anyways, ah November 1st rolled around. We had the new starter pack. So we did Cornucopia 03.
00:16:17
Speaker
um You got this new thing called a travel voucher. which allows you to do charters or expeditions for 48 hours. Really cool. um Something I really think is undervalued by our player base are of the expeditions, although um could make an argument and I would, you know, have very little argument with you that you really need to use the star map perk with it um to really get your value. i love expeditions. Yeah.
00:16:47
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Just something that we don't use and didn't enough and encourage people to do. i know there's a lot of hesitation because it costs gold. We do think that they are better than people realize. Also the gravy boat, which oh yeah and a brown chat message.
00:17:08
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It's so good. It's brown and glowing also. Brown and glowing. In fact, you know what? I'm going to use one in chat you should right now. Well, and no, I can't because i have to read the update notes, but I'm going to use it here in the next five to 10 minutes. Yeah. All right.
00:17:24
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We also, you can now, when you buy a starter pack, you get limited time emblems. I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, these are drawn by a very famous artist. Yeah. So famous. Yeah.
00:17:37
Speaker
So famous. Yes, they are exclusive emblems just for buying the starter pack. And you can only get them from the starter pack. so Yeah, pretty cool. Don't let the FOMO get you too bad, but they are pretty neat if you want that. ah Just another way to to thank people for supporting us. We're we're not the biggest operation, and every purchase we're very grateful for. it' This is true. Thank you. yeah We do appreciate it.
00:18:02
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to to say thank you and kind of show that you support the game too if that is something you desire. Obviously, you don't have to. No ads. Just don't forget. never when We don't have any ads in game. so No ads. All right. um We'll talk the November content. We added the 11th leaf centerpiece that uses Pearl Berries.
00:18:24
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Pearl Berries ended up dropping a little less frequently than I planned, um but that's okay. ah Still a really cool centerpiece also drawn by Bubun. Poor Bubun.
00:18:36
Speaker
You always get the weirdest request from me and then I'm like, we just got to do it this way. and That's fine. I'm okay with it. let Hey, i don't I don't have to do very much again. I've said this before, but the amount redraws I have to do are are very few and far between. So I don't mind if it's a weird request. I need to remember that because I think one of the jokes I've made is I'm going to randomly at some point, like just like flip out and make you redraw the whole thing. Because normally I just think you've done a great job.
00:19:07
Speaker
How long would it take me? 10 minutes, probably. 15 minutes. It really doesn't take long. It's being amazing, isn't it? It's hard to be like a human, like digital printer. A talented artist. No, no, no. Let's not go there. Don't start with me, buddy.
00:19:22
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but Do not start. It's early. It's still early, yeah. and We also released the typical buddy dolls and mailboxes and Raptor and all of that good stuff. um Just nice to constantly have a trickle of new things in. I'm going to let you talk about this last point, though. Yeah, yeah because we listen. This goes into the next update anyway.
00:19:47
Speaker
So during the month of November, we are doing something special this year where you can buy the Giving Box 01 in the flea market, and it's 200 gold. And what this does is it is going to donate to two real-life charities.
00:20:02
Speaker
ah So a dollar is going to go to each one of them from your 200 gold purchase of the Giving Box, is $1. $1 would go to Feeding America, which is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. And the second one is Heifer International, which is a nonprofit organization that works to end global hunger and poverty by partnering with families to create sustainable livelihoods. So they like you're basically buying somebody like some goats or a cow. You're buying a family somewhere, a couple farm animals, which is cool.
00:20:32
Speaker
So basically, we're working... um with the With the flea market, you just buy you know you're the the giving box, and that you will give $1 to each one of these charities. And right now, we're actually doing pretty good here. We've slowed down a little bit.
00:20:49
Speaker
We've slowed down a bit, but really not too much. Because on Monday, we were at about, I think... $8,000 and we're about $9,000 right now raised for charity. So that's like, like you know, $9,140 at this very moment.
00:21:03
Speaker
So check and see where it's at once this episode comes out, but Hopefully we're, you know, I'm hoping for at least, you know, I want 15,000. I want to like, that's my that's what I personally would like to see. think it's cool. 2,800 players have bought
Craftables and Mini Events
00:21:20
Speaker
this. and Maybe you bought it just because it has really good benefits and we tried to make it really good, but we are really grateful. It was a really cool idea.
00:21:27
Speaker
ah really hope to see more people kind of get in that mood buy that. Yeah, it's a great way to get those prune juices. If you need prune juice, because everybody should buy the prune juices anyway, it's a warrior's drink.
00:21:39
Speaker
ah You need to get... I mean, if you want to be able to reuse your... Well played. I love... a Listen, TNG, I love Worf. It's a warrior's drink. I... I knew exactly where you were going with that. know. You and I are always in sync with the references. It's the Wonder Twins. Well, not only that, I did the Spaceballs thing earlier today and everyone else went over their heads. When is now? Well, now was then. exactly. I know.
00:22:04
Speaker
well now was then exactly i know Listen, we just get each other. like you get it. Yeah, it's it's I'm sorry. Anyways, I distracted. and just No, I know. It's fine. oh but And i'm I've lost the update where I was at. Anyway. You were talking about the giving box. The giving box. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, the giving box. So if you have it in you and you have extra gold right now, go pick up a couple. And, you know, each the purchase of each one will give $2, you know, $1 at to each one of the charities per box you buy. and You know, I really appreciate anybody picking those up.
00:22:36
Speaker
It's very cool. ah And on the 10th, we're going to just stick on the 10th because that's part of that update too. So there's some cool stuff for beta, if you have beta, where you can visit the item details and look at the mastery counts.
00:22:49
Speaker
And beta players can now um see a little button. If you click on it, you'll basically be able to go in and look at like actual cool little stats. Stats for cool beta beta people.
00:23:00
Speaker
ah And this will also... Let's see here. Oh, yeah. It gives you item counts, more to come, a list of players that have mastered and grandmastered and mega-mastered the item for that day.
00:23:10
Speaker
um and we plan to do some more stuff with this, so beta expects a more kind of, like, in-depth... It's really fun to look at, especially we ah getting ahead of ourselves a little bit. We just released some new items. so i've been I've been watching the item mastery page and you know seeing who has mastered this. like Just looked at ship mast and no one has mastered this one yet, which is great.
00:23:40
Speaker
That's good. but But yeah, I mean, everyone's like, oh, anyways. um But yeah, the Mastery Sats page is really fun. um I love data. So i love being able to see data.
00:23:51
Speaker
So the fact that we're displaying more of it is really... Now, mind you, you don't have to show, even if you are beta and you don't want to be on these, you can set yourself to not be shown. yeah if you like If you do the profile hiding stuff. So that set you off, you can hide yourself from those things. ah Staff might be able to still see it, but that's probably it.
00:24:10
Speaker
ah Why are you giving away our secrets? I thought that was known. Whatever. Anyway. ah Other small updates. I think that gold purchase thing, is I think that expired already, so I'm not to go over it.
00:24:23
Speaker
But we're thinking about doing There's another one, possibly, but I don't know when that's going to pop up. I think it's going to in December. Yeah. Maybe. i thought God, i maybe I shouldn't promise stuff like that. Yeah, don't promise. We're not promising anything. That's not a promise. That's a preview of a possibility. Anyway, there might be another Skulled special, so just keep an eye out.
00:24:41
Speaker
ah There's a lot of things in the work. There's a new phishing alerts in the phishing and exploring zones that are gold and bolder now to match the new alerts in and the country store as you level up and unlock things.
00:24:52
Speaker
um staff and librarians can use little icons now around the game which is kind of fun and cool in the library that was an update from bb code and fire stream fixed a few tiny k nits that don't really matter which i don't know what that means but uh i'm sure it's something good and that's what i think today this is a today update hey that's today twentieth so that you can take that one away that's kind of your sure for sure sure It's not my baby. It's it it's a team effort.
00:25:20
Speaker
But it maybe a little bit. um We just added eight new craftables. My goal was ten, but we only got to eight. But that's okay. That just means an opportunity to add more soon.
00:25:30
Speaker
um We added eight new craftables. I... I'm going to mess up the name, so I'm going to try it anyways. We have the seashell necklace. um we have the fancy sword. We have the leather helmet. We have the reinforced helmet. We have the ship mask. We have the spiky bracelet. We have the retop pail, and we have the red scarf.
00:25:51
Speaker
ah So i'd love adding new craftables to the game. Another opportunity to ask for things around quests or for people to master and get a little bit extra gold from it ah More things to do.
Holiday Plans and Updates
00:26:04
Speaker
just Don't, it's just, it's just fun, man.
00:26:09
Speaker
So we did that. ah We also announced our mini event. um Theoretically, the podcast will be out by then. So hopefully you're hearing this.
00:26:20
Speaker
Before or during the event, which is 10% more skill XP, 10% silver at the market, and 10% mastery bonus. Mastery bonus is a big deal. We'll have some special help requests. We also have something new coming called the Turkey Trot.
00:26:34
Speaker
ah Just another fun little community thing. We love trying to find new ways to keep people interested and chatting about things. Yeah. Certainly not a quiz or a poll hour right now that will impact the turkey trot. Not even a little bit.
00:26:49
Speaker
Not a bit. I mean, not, not anymore. Yeah. i mean not not more But it did it for a minute. Yeah. And then ah we did fix the max button in the flea market so that it accounts your inventory size. It was actually working off of something else.
00:27:06
Speaker
Fix that. We also added more beautification, essentially. So we've been busy. It's just it just doesn't feel like it when you look at the updates. Sometimes don't feel like I've been busy. Like when I like try to distill it, you know.
00:27:22
Speaker
I know, but like think about all the stuff that you did. like that that are That adventure was huge. It's true. you know There's like so much stuff that was so big. We've got rumors of masks coming up. Was that a holiday Sprite I saw you enjoying? It was not.
00:27:38
Speaker
Oh, man, I thought it was. I just had one myself. It's very similar can, though. It is, yes. It's actually a ah it's actually a holiday okay Well, looks kind of like a crispy, like holiday seasonal spice. Like a cranberry Sprite. cranberry The cranberry Sprite. I just had one of those with my dinner. of Cranberry Sprite. Me too. It's so good. Anyway. It's so flavorful and wonderful. It is. It's delicious. Sprite is like...
00:28:04
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my number one soda of choice. So anytime there's a... Fresca number one soda choice. Oh, Fresca's pretty good too. You know what I kind of like is a squirt also. Have you had squirt before? I haven't had a squirt in probably 20 years. It's similar to a Fresca, I feel like. It is. It's just like a diet.
00:28:21
Speaker
It's not a diet. Yeah. It's a non-diet Fresca. It's just... Yeah, it's like a grapefruit sugar drink. Yeah, it's so good. Anyway, soda.
00:28:32
Speaker
Oh, you know what? we we don't We don't have anybody to pick a password, and I didn't even think of anything. i don't think we should do one this time. No password? i think I think it would be nice to have a ah quick break. one An off password day.
00:28:46
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No password, then. Sorry, everybody. Okay. Sorry. No password. Sorry. i love You know me, agent of chaos. I like doing things that are different. I can't do the same thing over and over again.
00:28:58
Speaker
you know, like once I've done that bit, can't do the bit again. Right. I mean, like it's fine. People don't understand that. Some people are like, ah i mean, if it works, just do it again. Keep going. Keep doing the bit forever and ever. You know, like.
00:29:12
Speaker
ah you know, we've done that thing before. but's That's true. Try something new. That is true. Let's try something new. Let's not do a password. No password this time. Sorry. I mean, it's just junk anyway.
00:29:24
Speaker
Nothing really good that we're handing out. I mean, sometimes it's fun, but. Yeah. It's like. We should, you know what we should do? What? We should really get people's goats.
00:29:35
Speaker
Next podcast. Let's draw up a super rare podcast. Super rare. Okay. Yeah. That you can only get from the password.
00:29:46
Speaker
Yeah. I'm down for that. That's that's. I'm down for that. Let's be an agent of chaos. And then let's say in the podcast, please don't say anything in chat for seven days.
00:29:59
Speaker
but Don't say anything in chat ever. You can tell each other privately. but Don't say ever. and if And if we ever see that word in chat, we get to chat, man. Yeah, that's the that's the deal we make.
00:30:10
Speaker
I like that deal. Tell us in the comments if you think that sounds terrible and we'll ignore it and do it anyways, yeah or maybe we'll listen to you. What if we make the password like, if I post this in chat, I'll get banned.
00:30:25
Speaker
this like the early one which was i listened to the podcast that was the first one yeah was the first one yeah so and let's think we'll think about it we have we have another we have like a month and god knows that we probably who knows if we get a podcast out before the new year december is gonna be it's gonna be wild so if we get a podcast out before christmas i will i think we we deserve a pat on the back but with i don't think it's gonna happen i think we'll probably see y'all in the new year Yeah, we're going to give Kirby a pat right here. No, look good. I don't. I can give Buddy a pat. There we go.
00:31:00
Speaker
little boo boo. My daughter brought home a little boo boo. Oh, really? Evidently. Which one? didn't I don't know. Why would I know that? I don't know. I don't know.
00:31:10
Speaker
i've been trying to make her ask I've been trying to make her cringe with the whole 6-7 thing. Oh, 6-7. you know. and if if we're saying it, it means it's not cool anymore. Oh, I know. It's so beautiful. i um It actually happened because my daughter 6-7 me, she's 5 for the record, everyone.
00:31:30
Speaker
We were practicing some math problems and I asked her to do something that added up to 67 and she was like, 67? 67, dad. And I was like, oh my lord God. And I was like, all right, you've brought this chaos upon yourself, child. And so I 67 every.
00:31:48
Speaker
Good. As you should. And she actually thinks it's funny. It's such a dad thing to It is such a dad thing to do. Such a dad thing to do. How are we doing in farm, though? like how you know Oh, I did want to mention before we go into the how are we doing in farm.
00:32:02
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um We do have something coming out that's in alpha that Firestream talked about last podcast, which is Roomba's Nest. And we're we're coming along on that. We've made some iterate iterative changes that I think are really improvements to the process.
00:32:18
Speaker
I'm really excited about that. Yeah, I like it. i' I'm a big fan of it. I feel like it will help me as a I'm not going to say what it is, but it'll help me as more of a casual farm enjoyer in the last couple of months.
00:32:32
Speaker
It'll definitely help me too because, you know, as you know, try to separate and not be on my computer on the weekends. So I very rarely have time or think about farm on the weekends unless someone kind of gives me the alert. It's usually me being like, help me, something's happening and I need your help.
00:32:53
Speaker
Yeah. And I wish I'm glad to do. Yeah, usually, you no, it's still only when, you know, stuff's hitting the fan. ah That ever happens. And that doesn't happen that well. I'm not going to jinx it, actually. Wow.
00:33:06
Speaker
I'm not doing knock on wood. i know. Throw some salt over your back. Yeah, i'm not ah I'm not going to jinx it on anything later. but So, anyways, um we have the turkey trot coming out.
00:33:18
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we We may even have another new crop. I don't know. Maybe like a really early I'm looking at so much stuff for December. i know. I have a pile of things I got to get done. And this weekend's freeze, luckily for me. So I have so much work to do. It's not even funny.
00:33:35
Speaker
I have to get some less ready for December. I i will... with With the podcast as my witness, I have have slacked a little bit on quests. I've been working on so much other stuff. I haven't done one of my core features.
00:33:50
Speaker
Right. I really need to get back to that. It's time. Maybe you should yell at me. Yeah, I can do that. I'm good at that. I appreciate it. I'm so good at it. I appreciate that motivation. Yeah, no i'll i'll I'll crack the whip. that Christmas is a fun time around farm. We have, I think it is the second most number of special help requests besides Halloween. Halloween, yeah. Which you how should be the very obvious that us here on the team love these two Hallow.
00:34:20
Speaker
Yeah, I'm a huge Christmas fan. I'm a huge Halloween fan. Like, really big. My dog's named Elvira. Like, come on. But my bathroom downstairs is fully Santa-themed all year round. I don't know if you knew that, but... Do you have your Christmas tree up yet? Not yet, no. Here's the thing. I do. I i respect the bird.
00:34:39
Speaker
We respect the turkey in this house, and we put it up the day after Thanksgiving every year. The turkey celebrates with us. It's not disrespect. It's an addition to the celebration. The turkey needs its own time.
00:34:52
Speaker
And I need like another, i need like another week to have my like pumpkin stuff up because I like have, why can't you just have Christmas and pumpkin stuff up? o They don't really go together.
00:35:05
Speaker
and Don't tell my spouse. Why? Does she have chrisp pumpkins and Christmas up at the same time? We tore all the pumpkin stuff down. so yeah. i need I have my little fall pumpkins out still because it's still... Nah, we love our Christmas.
00:35:20
Speaker
And like, I can't put my yard flags out that are Christmas yet because I still have my like my Thanksgiving yard flags out. My HOA would have a heart attack if I put out our ah Christmas stuff right now.
00:35:31
Speaker
Oh, God. Yeah, no. I mean, my neighbor just put out her...
Community Engagement and Reflections
00:35:35
Speaker
What's it called? um they In the window... ah candles, the electric candles. They're very cute, but I'm not putting mine out until after Christmas or after Thanksgiving.
00:35:47
Speaker
That's fair. I'm not judging you. I was just asking. No, I know. if If I was judging you, I would tell you. Yeah, I know you would. that's the That's the kind of friendship we have is where you would tell me and I would tell you if I was judging you as well.
00:36:02
Speaker
And I have told you on occasion. Yeah, and i I actually sobbed manly tears at some of those judgments. Good, as you should. As you should. As you should, you son of a bleep. Yeah, yeah.
00:36:18
Speaker
But what else in form? What's going on? I mean, this is kind of tea time now because we don't have a guest, so there's nobody ask questions about. i can ask questions about you. i mean, if you want to. Hmm. What's your favorite chat?
00:36:31
Speaker
You know, it is kind of funny. We've never interviewed each other. The two of us. I know about it. I know. I never really thought about that. ah You know, i am a spoilers guy. I've been in spoilers since the channel was created. yeah I've had such a contentious relationship with that channel, but sort of Stockholm syndrome.
00:36:54
Speaker
But I love it there. If I'm in the game, that's where you'll find listen But I'm not always in the game. i you know i I'm just a lot busier than I have been in the past.
00:37:05
Speaker
So I definitely keep an eye on spoilers, especially during the workday. but I'm just not as capable of... chatting as i long are the days gone where I could sit and chat and like just sit there all day like I used to ah my position at work has changed too much to be like I can't keep an eye on it like I have so much more on my plate but yeah spoilers is the channel ah that I hung out in only like exclusively I never went anywhere else. Sometimes you'd catch me in giveaways, but very rarely. i i like to go into help chat sometimes um for multiple reasons. yeah I like the people there. um They're all generally pretty nice. And also, it's kind of nice to see what advice is being given out.
00:37:49
Speaker
It helps you keep a vibe for the different parts of the game that maybe you haven't experienced. Right. So I do like to go pop into help chat, but i you know... You know, I got to do like a play test or something and go back to the the old days. Those those are fun. i haven't done one. I've never done ah a play test since I started.
00:38:10
Speaker
Farm RPG is very different today compared to when i did, you know, my first run, which at that point, Plant All didn't even exist. Oh, I know. It didn't for me either. And like peppers took a minute to grow.
00:38:26
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Old Farm RPG is ah not at all what current Farm RPG is, which is really fun. um It is. It's different. So i want to I want to give it the shot. I did i did a playtest last year, but i I have not had time to do one this year. so Game changes a lot. I will tell you that Firestream does that.
00:38:43
Speaker
I know he does. I need disgust i think he discussed it on the last episode that he was in the playtest. So I want to do that because i need to like I feel like I would be more helpful if I knew more about early game.
00:38:54
Speaker
um because i've been so far gone from early game but yeah as well as just the channel you just need to be better i know i need to get i need to get good if you would speaking of getting good who's your favorite mod actually was it do we do favorite mod annie's favorite right yeah so do give me your favorite look at that transit first of all professional i i'm so good now podcast transitions you might give me a run for my money probably I'll be honest, the reason why I didn't do a transition is because I couldn't remember the next question. Oh, yeah. No, I got you. got you, dog yeary i was like like I was like, okay, I got to transition to the next question, but I can't remember what the next question It's usually like who your favorite... What's your favorite item in the game is also another one we like to go over, but...
00:39:40
Speaker
that that's kind of That's kind of cheating when we have our own items. But for me, it's popcorn always. Baby girl popcorn. I will love the popcorn. And you know what? I've been made fun of for saying popcorn the way I say popcorn because it sounds like popcorn.
00:39:54
Speaker
I guess it's i guess i like it's a Massachusetts thing. I didn't know that. Pop, pop, popcorn. Popcorn. Not popcorn. Popcorn. It's a BDG reference. Oh, I don't know and you're just not on that one.
00:40:07
Speaker
I don't know. What is BDG? Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes. Brian Gilbert, David Gilbert, whatever. Yes. BDG. The boy-o.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yes. One of my many man crushes. o He's good. He is good. the um ge stuff was So who is your favorite? Who's yours? I asked you first.
00:40:29
Speaker
And I asked you second. All right. um oh This is tough, but I know that's part of what I'm stalling. I think it has to be Jules for me. Personally, okay I'm going Jules just because Jules keeps it so chill.
00:40:43
Speaker
Jules has got the most level head. And also ah my like my Northeastern like I need like a a Northeastern person. And then, you know, New York and Boston, you know.
00:40:57
Speaker
Now I have to pick, though. i really don't want to pick. Should I do it like really heartfelt or should i go old school? You call. um
00:41:08
Speaker
don't know. I feel like that the the the children yearn for heartfelt. Okay. um My favorite mod is Lunarific.
00:41:20
Speaker
Okay. That's a great choice. Luna has been a fast friend. ah She's a really thoughtful mod. um and just someone that I'm very glad to know um has helped me with a lot of problems that I've had with with balance in the game, and it's just a cool person.
00:41:42
Speaker
and She's so good with math. her math is like Her math game is so insane. So, yes, from a you know i don't mean that to offend any of the other mods, but i just Luna has been a very good friend to me.
00:41:58
Speaker
Listen, I don't think that's going to offend anybody. Okay, least favorite, go. It's Koala Corgi. Yeah, of course it is. Why wouldn't it be? I don't i don't know why, but like, boom, out of a hole. Koala Corgi. Yeah, no, Koala Corgi is a good choice.
00:42:11
Speaker
I would say Wade, but I also love Wade. So it's Koala Corgi. Here's the thing, though. Maybe Nethy. Nethy's mean to me. Nethy is a heel. I know.
00:42:23
Speaker
I would accept Nethy, but for me, my second favorite mod is Koala Koryi, and he's also my least favorite mod. Yeah, that's a great choice. And then really all the other Rangers are too close to judge.
00:42:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's tough. It's a tough one. It's tough. But don't tell anyone I said that, because I feel like I'm going to get like comments. you know No, oh they know where they stand.
00:42:48
Speaker
They know.
00:42:51
Speaker
I love all of our mods though. know, I do too. When Sponge messages me, always have wonderful conversations with Sponge. Sponge is good. Or Wade. known Wade. God knows how long. I've known Wade too long looking through this whole list. It's like five years Wade. Fuh has been around almost as long as I have. He's a beast.
00:43:13
Speaker
He's a beast. He's so good. He's the best. I still secretly think he doesn't because he's like ah he's But like, Fuh has been around almost as long as I have.
00:43:23
Speaker
I know. i know he has. He's smart. He's like the longest standing... mod in the game, like completely active the whole time also. Oh yes, true. Like never is not active, like is always around for for as long as I played the game, period. Dude, I swear Phuh has a secret identity.
00:43:47
Speaker
that Like Phuh is like maybe secretly like a movie star. I don't know what he is. Like I've often wondered if Phuh is like wildly famous and just like, it's like, you know what?
00:43:59
Speaker
I also play Farm RPG. we were We were talking about chainsaw sculptures in Staff Chat the other day. love pho. It was very good. Pho, pho, pho, pho, shout out. You're not going to listen to this, but shout out. Lichman and LJ.
00:44:18
Speaker
know, Nico, Nacho, RKM. There's so many good ones. So many good ones. I don't know if she's going to listen to this.
00:44:30
Speaker
Come on, Kityan. know where they stand you know where you who you are and ah we love all of them we do they're great and is there we didn' are there questions that we ask uh again what was your favorite item you didn't tell me your favorite item i said popcorn well um if i have to pick something other than force paths book of quest requirements i quite love other than your own item
Gaming Adventures and Recommendations
00:44:53
Speaker
oh okay well then it has to be orange geckos orange geckos all right that's a good choice
00:45:01
Speaker
uh they i don't know why they're cute and i don't know there's they're just little guys little guys like they're i guess i guess part of why i really like them is one they're hard to find two they're let's be honest a little out of place and i love it that much more because it's just sort of like there's like theme theme theme orange gecko theme theme theme and you're just sort of like And the art for them is a little weird. It looks like a little it looks like a little weird guy. i know. i don't know.
00:45:31
Speaker
it's ah it's It's a relic from early farm. I just fond fond memories of Orange Gecko. It is good. i only have three right now for some reason. Did I do a quest that asked for a lot of orange geckos?
00:45:44
Speaker
Probably. I must have. Jeez. I know. I've been doing, like, quests very slowly, so. To tell you the honest, I was doing amazing. i was pushing tower, and then i got so busy. I've had no time to play, and I feel so guilty about it because I was doing so well.
00:46:05
Speaker
Oh.
00:46:07
Speaker
You know, I'm just now realizing i didn't even open Borgens Treasure Hut today. What the heck, dog It's just everything everything everywhere all at once.
00:46:20
Speaker
it's That's the truth, though. Really, it is true. So, you know, I'm just sitting here and I'm thinking to myself, gosh, I... i i was I thought I would be past Tower 290 by now, and the truth is is that I'm not.
00:46:35
Speaker
Oh, I'm never going to get there. It's going to take me a long time to do it, so we'll see. It's frustrating to be like completely transparent. Like, I wish I just had more time to do this on. but i just I know. And I haven't even been playing like anything else either. Not to get into the the tea time of it all. But like, I haven't even had a minute to like think about playing another game. Like just playing the new Pokemon game for like a little bit.
00:47:02
Speaker
Actually, you know what? That's a lie. I've played a couple of games. I've played a few games. Okay. Tell me about I played the new Pokemon. I haven't played it yet, but I played it. I played a good portion of it. I'm like, you know, most of the way through then. But I played this batch, which I've heard such good reviews about this. fun i I don't really like the romance options, but it's fun. It was good. It's like if you like that, like telltale game, you'll like it. It's good. um i And i the voice acting is insane. It's so good. and They have like a crazy cast, right? Crazy, crazy cast. ah It's so good. Aaron Paul, come on. And like so many people, so many people.
00:47:41
Speaker
Laura Bailey. Laura Bailey. Yep. Who doesn't love Laura Bailey? Who doesn't? That's that like weirdos. Weirdos is right. um That's good. Then I was playing Date Everything a little bit. I saw you playing that. I think I remember that being like a wildly meme-y game that got popular a couple months ago. it was It's very meme-y. So here's the thing. I had a friend come over. we' were hanging out. I was like, ah we want to play game. Usually it's like a FNAF. I'll do like a FNAF with this friend that comes over every once in a while. But like I wasn't feeling it. i was like, let's just play Date Everything because it's a silly sit-on-the-couch game. And we did, and it was very good. it's I haven't beat it. obviously I don't know if you can beat that game. ah But it's good. i The character design's insane. Like, there's insane, like, your bed is a living person. Like, everybody so everything in your house is a living person. you can date everything. You can date everything. You can date everything in your house. It's wild.
00:48:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's crazy. i don't know how i feel about all that. I don't know. It's whatever. It's fine. If you like it, have fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was playing a slot machine game and I remember what that one's called. Was that? It's Clover. It's Clover oh clover Pit.
00:48:54
Speaker
Clover Pit. Yeah, I was playing that. And I'm waiting for this one. i like these kind of like like gambly kind of arcade-y games. It's called Ratcoin. I'm waiting for to come out. I just played the demo.
00:49:07
Speaker
Oh, Ratcoin's out. what are you talking about? Ratcoin is not out. The demo is out. I'm like No, it's a coin pusher. I'm telling you. It's not out. I promise. I just played the demo. The demo just came out.
00:49:21
Speaker
Oh, I'm thinking of Racketeer, which is a raccoon incremental. Oh, well, I might like that too. So I was thinking that one, but I am going to go ahead and add Raccoon to my Steam wish list. You should. I played the demo. It's very cute, and it's just a coin pusher. If you like...
00:49:39
Speaker
like it's you know those games play well in the steam deck yeah it does play well in the steam deck that's all i care about that's what i was playing it on so i i spend most of my time playing video games on the steam deck uh what do you think about that that steam the steam steam machine steam machine or the steam box yeah great question this feels like very adjacent to farm rpg it does So i don't know if you saw the news that came out literally today that Valve plans to price it like a PC as opposed to a console. So it's not going to be a loss leader to get you into Steam. It's just going to be like that.
00:50:19
Speaker
And I find myself intrigued at the notion, but like, I'm not really sure i want to pay... what is likely to be like $800 to $1,000 for something to play games on my TV.
00:50:32
Speaker
Like, I love the concept, but I don't know that I love the price. So kind of I'm just going to kind of wait and see. I'll probably buy it, honestly. Really?
00:50:42
Speaker
Yeah. And if you don't like it, you can sell it to me. Exactly. could sell it to anybody at that point. I mean, if I... but you Right, right, right. But I'm sure I like it because me and Vinny both have Steam. We have a family plant. We have the family, you know, where we just share games because I had a huge library before he even set his up.
00:51:01
Speaker
But we plug our Steam Deck into the... The doc? The doc in play. It's kind of janky, a little bit janky. it's It's a smidge janky. I won't argue that.
00:51:11
Speaker
Yeah. So like, if it's not janky, that's like, that's worth the money to me to be able to pay any, like, and log in on his account. And, you know, he can do whatever he wants and I can do whatever I want, you know?
00:51:24
Speaker
Yeah. sort It'll probably be an investment for the household that I will make with the the furry dollars, my dog dollars. So we'll see. We'll see how it goes.
00:51:35
Speaker
that's Also, there's some really cute skins for it. Did you see like and i mean, there's cute skins for the Steam Deck. I guess. I have like a purple thing on my Steam Deck. It's cute, but it's not that cute. Mine's like... I have like the translucent shell from like the N64 days. Oh, yeah. you put You put a case on your... I'm not that brave. I don't want to take mine apart. Oh, it's so much fun. I love I'm scared. you have to unplug stuff. I don't want to do that.
00:52:00
Speaker
No, Doug. See, this is one of those things that if I lived closer to you, I'd be like, hey, here's like 50 bucks. Can you just do it for me? and Honestly, why not just like call me on Discord? and I'm too scared to do it.
00:52:15
Speaker
I'm just a big baby and I don't want to... I'm a skilled. I'm schooled. don't want to do That's totally fair, though. I get... If I messed it up, I'd be like... Upset? I peeved. Peeved at myself.
00:52:26
Speaker
So... I've built computers. I just don't want to deal with like little tiny... but You know, ribbon cables. Scary. Scary. Really talked a lot about video games.
00:52:37
Speaker
We did. Video games are good. What are you playing right now? Tell me. i know you play games. I don't know how much you've been playing games lately because you've been so busy, but you play anything? Yeah, i have been playing some games. Um...
00:52:51
Speaker
Played Ball Pit. i don't remember if we talked about Ball Pit last um last podcast. I don't think so. Maybe we did and I don't remember. oh my gosh. Have you played Ball Pit? No.
00:53:01
Speaker
Oh my god. Okay. It's called Ball X Pit. It's just known as Ball Pit. um Came out ahs either in September or mid-October.
00:53:13
Speaker
And it is like Brick Breaker. okay. But, like, ah the enemies are trying to kill you, and they're, like, coming at you, and you, like, are let you like bounce stuff off your like your paddle. it is, oh, my God. Like, one of the tightest, best game loops, um especially for $15.
00:53:33
Speaker
$10 or $15. Oh, that's cheap. All right. I'll have to look at it Let me... can see here. It looks like me with a link on that bad boy. i got 100% achievements in this game.
00:53:45
Speaker
oh And I've played it for 30 hours. ah what ah What a banger of a game. I was obsessed with it. I was bringing my Steam Deck to work and playing it during lunch.
00:53:57
Speaker
Okay. That good. I'll have to look. Yeah. So Bald Pit, I've been playing. um I also picked up a game called Dead Zone Rogue, another roguelike. um Kind of plays like Borderlands 4.
00:54:11
Speaker
With the way that it plays. so I really enjoyed it. um I did play Borderlands 4 as well. Yeah, how was that? Yeah, um it was it was a game. yeah Yeah, I gave up on Borderlands games. They they kind of burned me.
00:54:26
Speaker
um do I think i'm i I've talked about it with you before specifically. but yeah Yeah, so i I got it because the homies wanted to play Borderlands. of course. Sometimes you're just giving to peer pressure.
00:54:39
Speaker
ah So I got it. I would probably give it like a 6 out of 10. Woof. All right. That good, huh? I mean, definitely not something I wish I would have paid what I paid for it.
00:54:49
Speaker
So I played Borderlands 4. I'm just looking through here. um oh yeah. So then i played Halls of Torment again. They came out with a new DLC, ah which is like, um it's another like a bullet heaven, ah vampire survivors like.
00:55:08
Speaker
um But like a like a Diablo vibe, for lack of a better term. very Just, you know, it's really mindless, something you can play and put down when your child runs up to you. and Right. for that Something not non ah not really big commitment.
00:55:25
Speaker
I've been playing um i mean with the homies. When I have time, i play we've been playing Fellowship. don't know if you've heard of Fellowship. No. The Fellowship is like, they they were like, what if we got rid of everything about and MMOs except doing dungeons?
00:55:43
Speaker
Okay. ah It's a very hardcore, like much more hardcore than I expected. It's a lot of fun. Sounds fun. I've been playing that with homies. Then, i you know, I still play Eidolon, which is maybe my guilty pleasure game.
00:55:57
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Yeah, I see you pop up on that sometimes. Is that you play on a Steam Deck or is that just running on your computer? It's just running on your computer. It's an idle game, like an idle active game. It's my guilty pleasure game. Number go up.
00:56:10
Speaker
I love stuff like that. I was playing that fishing, that idle fishing game for a really long time. Oh, yeah. What was that? Real something, something real. I don't remember. It's so good. Like, it's beautiful. I would just keep it up on my computer and like just work and it'd be fishing while I was like sitting here working.
00:56:25
Speaker
So good. And it was beautiful to look at. It's kind of funny because you ask all those questions and the truth is, is that I feel like I've been in kind of a gaming rut, like a bunch of games that I want to play, but I just can't like get the momentum to play them. Like every time I sit down, I'm like, I don't know that I really have the energy to like. You're going to do Air Riders, by the way? I should have. I really, really wish I had a Switch 2 so I could. You can't do it. It doesn't didn't come out on the Switch 1.
00:56:50
Speaker
I don't know. This is a Switch 2 only game. I thought it was Switch. I thought it was both. Pretty sure it's both. I haven't put anything out yet that you can only play on the Switch 2. Vinny just went to the mall to pick it up because he had pre-ordered it. Like, he literally... it's exclusively a Switch 2 game. Oh, boo. Okay. um Yeah, it looks insane. I didn't get to release... Vinny was going to boot it up, like, right before we started.
00:57:12
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he had, like, rushed to the mall and rushed back in order to get it in time because they close at 8 p.m. but like If it was a Switch game, I would absolutely get it and play it. but It looks crazy. It looks crazy. I loved the first one.
00:57:26
Speaker
So, you know, Kirby. Kirby. Yeah. Yeah. that's That's kind of my I've been really busy. I've been trying to get back into reading too. I've been rereading some old books. I'm going to think my next, I tried reading a Joe Abercrombie book.
00:57:43
Speaker
I truly couldn't get into it. So my buddy said I i should try reading lit RPGs. Okay. so That's kind of fun. there's ah There's two that he suggested. It was Dungeon Crawler Carl, which I think is like wildly popular.
Balancing Life and Gaming
00:57:57
Speaker
I've heard that's really good. I've heard that's really, really And then there's ah something there there there are animals among us or something like that. So is a lit RPG, is it like at a little game that you're playing? or You're not playing it, but it' like it like tells a story...
00:58:12
Speaker
ah so i haven't read it yet but my understanding is is it kind of tells a story like in a like as a video game like the characters have stats and things like that um i don't know i just wanting something different so i'm gonna give that a try yeah i hear that case week that book is very good i've my friend i've heard good things right you know hilarious yeah there we go that's cool but Look at this. We've like really rounded it up. we We were able to talk for the full hour, just me and you. It was mostly about video games, not Farm RPG. Well, we talked a lot. We talked a good amount. At least half of this was about Farm RPG. and i I do love Farm RPG. I really wish I had. It's funny because I talk about how i just don't have time. And I feel like maybe people have the wrong impression. Like my Farm RPG time is like during working. working
00:58:59
Speaker
yeah now i You know, you know, it was a I got into farm RPG at my last job, like, and it was just a really nice like way to like turn my brain off for 10, 15 minutes in the right day. No, but when I get home, I don't really, i play farm RPG only on the computer. So the only time I would even think about playing is on the PC. I'm just not a mobile phone game guy. Oh, see, I was playing on my phone pretty much exclusively. and then, um or having it up on my iPad, like all day.
00:59:31
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ah And then, like, you know, now that I'm working on it, I feel like i still I just have dev chat up most of the day. I'm i'm doing stuff. Yeah, it's just that's it.
00:59:43
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You know, I'm still I'm still fully locked in a farm. It's just not in the same way as I used to be as a player.
00:59:51
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Hey, we did really good. I think we did great. If you guys like this episode, let us know. There might be more episodes, just me and me and old FP here, just, you know, shooting the shooting the turds ah about Farm RPG and video games and, you know, all the good stuff.
Audience Interaction and Closing Remarks
01:00:07
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But thank you guys for listening. And if we don't come back before the holiday break, have a happy holiday. Have a good new year. Happy Thanksgiving.
01:00:15
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you know yeah you know and things we love all the comments by the way i love reading through comment sections sending us uh individual dms um i know there's one dm i have not responded to and a slew of dms i actually feel really bad for it uh so i'm gonna read it right now so that people know that i read these and i pay attention um Hello, I've really been enjoying your game so far. i have a polite question suggestion. I'm not at the point where our friendship levels with my NPCs is high.
01:00:46
Speaker
But as a sucker for a bit of romance, I would love if there are romance options at higher friendship levels. Are there? And if not, would you ever consider such a thing? Kindest regards. You know who you are. I'm not going to you know blat put you on blast in front of audience.
01:00:59
Speaker
Let us date the NPCs. Yes. And the answer to your question is there are not romance options. That's very intentional on our part. uh both from a game mechanic complexity standpoint and i think we just kind of like it being all very platonic uh there is like some semi-flirting relationship with two npcs and that's about as much as we've done in terms of romance they're kind of some of them are dating each other right like it's like yeah you know there's something going on with a few of them
01:01:30
Speaker
So like, they they're not interested in you, farmer. They want to be like, you know, Rosalie is like interested in wherever she's interested, you know? the She's not that, just that not into you.
01:01:41
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the The answer is is, is it's not, and we're not particularly interested in adding anything like that at this time, at least. You know, I just that never say never, of course. Like my gut is that it's just not something that I think.
01:01:54
Speaker
They're all focusing on their careers right now. So I do, I read every DM people DM me all kinds of stuff. Um, but I do really feel bad to this particular person who messaged me this. And i was, I think I got it while I was sick and then I was on vacation and then I was traveling for work.
01:02:13
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And so it just kind of got away from me. Well, that's still a great question. Yeah. And people, people leave me full comments on the swear jar, even though you're just, I mean, i don't mind that either. Like I read every single one of them cause I'm scrolling through counting. um ah the um right before you record usually. So keep the fun comments coming.
01:02:33
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I read them all. You can even cheer me on on the counting. That'd be fun too. Yeah, or say different numbers. but Don't do that. Please don't do that. Say different numbers to really confuse Bubun. No, then I'll just go back to the Bubun method and be scrolling and you won't want that. Nobody wants that.
01:02:54
Speaker
Don't make it harder for me to make it make it easier for you to win. ah You know what? This has been such a fun episode. i'm going to donate 500 gold to the swear jar. Wow! 500 gold! all right.
01:03:12
Speaker
So, I know I didn't swear, but I know I ummed a lot. But I'm going to donate 500 of my own. Can you write that down? Can you pin that in our chat so that we can remember when I put page up? 500 of my own.
01:03:28
Speaker
So that means it's a minimum of 600 gold this month. Minimum. That's crazy. All right. I'm like, you know, trying something different. Trying to little something different. No password this month, but 500 gold in the swear jar. 600 gold in the swear jar, technically.
01:03:44
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Yeah. All you have to do is leave a comment on the swear jar page. All right. Well, let's wrap it up. Thanks for listening. Have a happy holidays. We love you.