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S3 Ep189: RSS - January - Gennaro
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Join Dave, Jake, and special guest Gennaro as they talk about software, PTO, bankruptcy law (#notlegaladvice), relationships and...HuniePop. Hm.
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Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:39
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How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Soapstone. My name is Jake, and I'm joined by my co-host, who's always Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? As soon as you said, like, the intro, like, how's it going, everyone? I was about to be like, oh, good. Oh, wait, not yet. Not yet. Because we have with us, for the podcast, Gennaro. Hello. What's up? He's practicing that intro. That was quality. I like that.
Work-Life Balance and Mental Health
00:01:08
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I mean, I'm doing okay. I don't have to work for several days. How about you guys?
00:01:15
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I just got back from eight days off and I didn't have enough PTO to use for the rest of the year. So I'm working two days and onto the weekend, which honestly, that's some great mental health levels of working right there. Oh yeah. As long as like the two days aren't overwhelming, like I'm going, I'm out for two weeks or not now, but I'll be out for two weeks when I go back. And it's like, I know that there's so much I'm going to have to catch up on.
00:01:44
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Yeah, everybody's out. So I'm not missing anything. So it's, you know, pretty good. Yeah. That is true. Um, like I just looking on teams, I see like so many people are like out of the office. Um, I'd like people responding to emails for threads that I'm on. They're like, Hey, what are we doing about this thing? I'm like, wait till that person gets back. I don't know what you want. Can I, uh, I'm
Communication Platforms: Pros and Cons
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sorry. I'm going to apologize to listeners. Dave should have offered a trigger warning for using the word teams.
00:02:11
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We recently switched two teams from Citrix WebEx and it is miserable. So anybody else who's experiencing the pain, I deeply apologize. What's been your issue with it amongst your work folk?
00:02:27
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Well, one issue we didn't foresee was that the voice quality is way better. So you can pick up everything going on in people's background. So whether that's, you know, someone's kid coughing excessively from covid, as I've heard in today's stand up or, you know, someone who decided to buy, you know, MX blues and town
00:02:55
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You know, that's a pretty poor result, but not the worst. The worst, I think, has been absolutely no training on it and just people unable to actually use it correctly. So they'll try to get in and then they'll actually have to call in separately through their cell phone because they don't have computer audio. And it's just like, yeah.
00:03:18
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I mean, some of that to a degree is training, some of it is IT, because like they should just be able to get in. But also a lot of people are just stupid and don't know what a mute button is. And when it's on versus off. Yeah.
00:03:33
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Yeah, I would say like, so we switched to teams a couple of years back and we switched from Skype for Business, which was not good either. It wasn't for our business, you know what I mean? Yeah, right. Skype for A Business. And I'm kind of a fan of it at this point, but it's because like you can set your notifications for different teams and different chats and different groups.
00:03:57
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stuff like that and so it's got a lot of control it was still like the type of situation where it's like man if discord supported private servers would have loved
Texting Habits and Nostalgia
00:04:05
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to use like discord um i tier slack's pretty good i guess but teams kind of had the microsoft integration which was convenient for us um so it made sense i don't hate it it does suck sometimes it has technical issues sometimes um
00:04:22
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But for the most part, people have kind of figured it out at this point and that makes it, that makes it nice. I guess I'll pick it up at some point, but it's been a month and a half and. It's really, it's really dependent on how other people use it too. Yeah. Like if other people don't know how to use the platform, um, it's like asking all of like your extended relatives to get on aim and reach out to you. Like this is it. Like you're going to use aim now. Um, not a great ask.
00:04:52
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My dad's still figuring out text messaging. That's fair. I mean, I don't really text that much either. Unless someone texts me, they initiate the conversation. I'm like, if this is the way it's going to be.
00:05:06
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Then your plan discord. Did you need something? Well, I literally use like my main number is actually my Google voice number. And so if I'm at a computer, I'll just use the Google voice in browser and type it like it's instant messaging anyways. I go very far out of my way to actually avoid texting. Damn.
00:05:33
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I've just been so used to having a phone. Like it's not like I got it super young, but texting was my default means of communication for a long time to like high school and college. Like just trying to get hold of somebody. Cause this is before discord was very normalized. 10 cents a text, baby. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. You gotta make sure you got on that unlimited thing. Otherwise you're like, it'd be very selective or just do like the giant long form texts. Mm-hmm.
00:06:02
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Hey, here's all things that we could see or I could talk about for the next three days. You get one. It's like the old calling people collect through a pay phone and just like quick get a message before. So you don't have to pay the quarter or whatever. That's such a meme at this point. Like there's literally been commercials about that, right? Like what was it? Tom had a baby eats a boy is the name or whatever. Yeah.
00:06:28
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We're dating ourselves. You know what a pay phone is. They're still around. Museums, I think.
Reflecting on Personal Milestones
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How do you guys feel about the new year now that as the people listening to this, it is a new year? Well, it's been a year since I've been on the podcast. I just checked. Is it actually January? It's been a year. Yeah. Glitch in the scheduling system.
00:06:57
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Yeah, I wonder where that shifted because we definitely had like six people that we were rotating through and we're like, oh, we'll do a guest a month. Yeah. So maybe we doubled up on somebody else. I actually I don't know. I mean, it works out for me because as you guys know, I've been in school and the break for Christmas is always the longest break. So it gives me time to
00:07:19
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relax and then talk to you too and talk video games or whatever this podcast is about food. I'm pretty sure it's about food. It starts with food and then devolves into video games every time. Devolvers into video games.
00:07:35
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But I'm excited for this year. I mean, we had a busy year. We got married in October, had our honeymoon shortly after. It's kind of a big year. Yeah, it was a big year. And then both of us got promoted like the next month. Oh, nice. So it's been a nice time in the household here.
00:08:00
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You did, uh, did you do a survey scam where like one of you filled out a survey for the other person being like, this is the best employee at your company. And they honestly deserve it. Yeah, it was one of those like anonymous, anonymous, uh, tip lines. Mr. DeMooch, he was so great. He was such a great, uh, sales person. I don't do sales at all. I don't talk to anyone outside the company. Yeah. Sales is tough. I can't do it mentally.
Interviews and Career Reflections
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I can do it, but.
00:08:29
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I almost didn't get hired at my current employer because I had said in my interview that I did not enjoy sales. And my previous boss who had just retired told me that as he was, you know, one of his last days, oh, they told HR told me not to hire you because you said you didn't like sales. But it wasn't a sales position. What does it have to do? Yeah. I mean, lack of flexibility.
00:08:56
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I guess, but at the same time, I think it makes more sense to draw a line in the sand and say, here's what I'm good at and here's what I'm comfortable with versus lying. I don't know. But I feel like that's what sales is a lot of time. It's like lying. Yeah. I mean, that's my perception. How else are you going to convince somebody that they want to spend money on a given thing that they had never heard about or considered previously without lying? You need this. This is great. This is going to change your life.
00:09:25
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cold calling just as a concept is the worst. It's the most soul destroying thing you could do. Have any of you two ever bought anything that was as a response to a cold call?
Cold Calls and Bankruptcy Insights
00:09:37
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No. If anything, I've actually been over the top route to somebody who's cold called me before.
00:09:43
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Like you get like three calls in a day, the fourth one, you're like, all right, buddy, what's up? You want to talk? Yeah, let's go. And then you just chew them out. Hey, fuck off. Delete my number from your system. Stop it. Get some help. Yeah, it's kind of a crappy line. So the only people who are more upset with a cold call happening than the people receiving the call is a lot of times those that actually have to make cold calls, right? I can't think of it.
00:10:13
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many more soul destroying jobs than just sitting there in a call center, calling people who don't want to be called and trying to convince them for something.
00:10:24
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It's interesting that you say that because I'm like, I work in a collection center. So that's literally what people do, except they're not selling people. They're literally trying to collect money that's already owed. So it's kind of in the same vein. And people love collectors. Oh, absolutely. And we have characters for sure. It takes a specific type of person. I thankfully never had to do that end of the job. So yeah.
00:10:53
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I worked on the opposite side of that back in the day. I worked in bankruptcy law, not like as an actual attorney, anybody. I did payroll for like a tiny firm of like four people, but I also would help with like the electronic filling out of bankruptcy information.
00:11:10
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One of the most satisfying people for the clients that we had were when we told them, I almost said the guy's name. Don't do that. This person is now your attorney. If collectors contact you at all, say contact this attorney instead. Do not engage with them. You're now in the process of bankruptcy. Reach out to us instead.
00:11:32
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And it was like, people were so excited about that. Oh, yeah. And a lot of people don't know about that. And I'm familiar as well, because that was literally my first job. I would do the bankruptcy handling of collection accounts for people and deal with the attorneys. And it was always just, you know,
00:11:50
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Hey, if they're represented by an attorney, just let them go. We'll handle it a different way, but no need to call them. So, hey, if you're a fear listener and you're in debt problems, get an attorney. That'll at least filter out some of the phone calls and letters. Yeah.
00:12:12
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Bankruptcy is not bad either. It's honestly- Wait, being bankrupt or working in bankruptcy? Well, the concept is- Finally or bankruptcy. Most of the people do it too late, I would say. They let things become emotionally overwhelming or they try for years to pay off all of their debt, even though it's adding up over time and mathematically, it just doesn't make sense anymore.
00:12:36
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And then they sell off their possessions, even though they might have been exempted and potentially could have been saved through bankruptcy. Most people file bankruptcy too late. It's not nearly as abused as a lot of people think.
00:12:49
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It's a good second chance for a lot of people. If you have just general credit card debt and you want to make a true change in your life, it can be embarrassing to do so because it is a public record. It stays on your credit report for seven years, and it's hard to get credit thereafter. But if you have a car, if you have a house, and you had stacked up other credit card bills,
00:13:17
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You go through bankruptcy, you get discharged and you get some more rest at night because it pretty much gets wiped away. Not so much on your house or car because they're going to get taken, they're collateralized, but other stuff. Unfortunately, that's why people can't discharge their student debt or a lot of medical debt, which tends to be the majority of the debt in this country, unfortunately.
00:13:47
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I realized we just have this back and forth. I was going to ask a question. You go ahead, David, jump in. No, I was literally just going to say, I'm going to bite my tongue on like the medical expenses type thing. I was just bitching about that as like I do every day. It's always a crock of shit, but I don't want to like.
00:14:03
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have this be like the depressing podcast episode where it's like, this country's fucked up. We know. But I don't want to just go into all the specific. I'm merely trying to be informative because it is, you know, it is a tough thing to happen in one's life and things can pile up quickly. So, Jake, you said you had a question. Oh, yeah, I had a question, a comment. The question was, can you not discharge medical debt? I knew the two you couldn't, as I was aware of, were like
00:14:31
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debt on taxes, obviously anything the IRS and student loans. I'm not 100% sure on the medical debt. I think it's pretty tough.
00:14:43
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There is other ways to get a lower amount of debt through the care provider itself. Also, none of this is financial advice. There's no financial advice. I don't offer that. I just lend you to keywords to search on Google to be your own research.
00:15:05
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But yeah, I'm not 100% sure on the medical debt. It's just credit card debt is really easily wipeable. It's the easiest. Unsecured in particular. Yeah, and that's why the unsecured debt rates are always, you know, you get that once a year letter from your credit card company, oh, your interest rate is now 24.99%.
00:15:25
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It's like, well, why is that? Well, because it's a riskier, higher risk, higher interest reward. Right. Interesting. It has a double edged sword. Yes. Yeah. And the other point I wanted to throw in here and then we could talk about something else other than literally bankruptcy, I guess.
00:15:46
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You will be like assaulted with credit card offers once you finish bankruptcy, like tons of them. Your credit, you're right. Your credit is garbage after bankruptcy because you're literally you file bankruptcy. This is the one thing they don't want you to do is, you know, not get their money. But you'll be assaulted with credit card offers from basically everybody, not necessarily the best offers, but a lot of them.
00:16:12
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because you cannot file bankruptcy for another eight years. So if you still are in that habit of not managing your money properly, they will get their money out of you for eight years. And it's literally assaulted. The mailman is outside your door with shuriken envelopes just tossing Citibank Wells Fargo here again.
00:16:35
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This kind of feels like an alcohol commercial that says at the end, like, parentheses, please drink responsibly. Okay. I don't think that's why you're marketing it to me, Heineken or Jagermeister or whatever. Yeah, please don't max out your credit card debt and then like file bankruptcy at the behest of the soapstone podcast. Yeah, it won't work for most things too. Like,
00:16:58
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Because usually when people spend money, I realize we're still in here. Usually when you spend money, you're to buy things, right? And those are the things that get tallied up when you file bankruptcy and you get like a certain number of exemptions. So like your house can be worth this much. Your car can be worth this much. Your personal belongings are this much. Here's your cash. And you file as either state or federal, usually depending on what fits you better.
00:17:20
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And all of those nice things you bought with credit cards go away unless it was food and you ate it. So that's the loophole I guess.
Gaming Discussions: Honey Pop and More
00:17:29
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You know, speaking of bankrupt, I am morally bankrupt because I recently purchased for $2 honey pop on Steam. Welcome, brother. I looked at my Steam friends and I have two other people who own it.
00:17:49
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One being Dave and one other being a friend who's somewhat religious. They played it for 13 minutes and have not opened it since. So they might have gotten it as a gift and thought it was a puzzle game purely.
00:18:04
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and realized 13 minutes in. I like the idea more so of like, they're like, I want to buy this game in secret. And they had 13 minutes before like a significant other or like somebody else came home and they're like, I was it out.
00:18:21
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I just like, it gets brought up so much as a meme. I was like, okay, for $2, let me actually see it. And I remember, you know, talking to Jenny that she believed that the game was actually garbage and just to play peggle instead. The game, the puzzle game itself, not terrible.
00:18:44
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But my God, the quote unquote story behind it. People, if you need advice to pick up women, do not learn it from this game. Oh, my God. No, I don't learn it from any game. I can't think of super seducer. Come on. Specifically the games that you would put in that genre. You should pay the least attention. Yeah, for sure.
00:19:10
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Just like relationship advice and just like pick up artist people, they're all just scams in general. Remember what we said about how we didn't feel good about sales? That's what I kind of feel like being a pick up artist is. I'm not saying there's absolutely no truth in anything that they do for socially networking, but a lot of it feels very scummy off the cuff and it's just not a good vibe. Yeah.
00:19:41
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This is a relationship advice podcast though. No, no, zero financial advice, 100% relationship. That's the disclaimer. But I mean like it, it's okay as a bejeweled game, right? Yeah. I mean, it's.
00:19:57
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I was expecting more, I guess, sort of linear movements. I was able to sort of move the gems in a little bit more different places than I'm used to and the gems do different things. So, you know, there's like this blue circle gem that lets you use items once you get X amount in there and then there's a...
00:20:19
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I guess certain dates prefer certain types of gem mixes. And you have to fill up the bar at the bottom. I failed a lot, surprisingly, on normal difficulty. I was surprised just constantly losing. And they insult you. They're like, why did I waste my time dating you? I'm like, oh. You can't even play bejeweled. Yeah.
00:20:41
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And I actually went out and bought like the bejeweled package, like on sale, like directly afterwards, just so I could play, you know, a game like that without without condescension. Yes. That's really funny. So I've got that experience out of the way. Yeah. I know Connect three games, like a lot of times they'll ramp up in difficulty to get you to like buy things.
00:21:07
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Like they start out and it's like, Oh yeah, you cleared that. No problem. You cleared that. No problem. Okay. It's time to get these. It's time to get the power ups. If you really want a chance at clearing this, does honey pop like use that or is it kind of a different system? Yeah, there's like, there's like, so as I talked about before, if you get a certain amount of like a specific gem, it'll let you use items in each item. I think you carry like six or eight, uh,
00:21:32
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will help you in different ways. So like one item I would constantly use is if you get four or more in a row, it would add a move. So you only get X amount of moves when you start. So if you have to fill up a bar that's worth 300 points, and you only have
00:21:52
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11 moves, if you're only making, you know, three matches, well, that's not going to get you to the 300 points. And you'll run out of moves. But if you use this item, you won't lose a move. So it's, it's, it's tactical.
00:22:10
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Yeah, it's like strategy. Yeah, there definitely is because like the base game is not as easy as bejeweled. Like it definitely seems like it definitely feels like they're setting up to fail if you don't use your in game currency from like progression to get those items to help you out with it for sure. But it's not. There's no type of microtransaction. It's all in game.
00:22:32
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Yeah, and I don't remember the exact currency you get to up your traits. So you have like X amount of traits that you increased yourself so that maybe if you are using, you're matching a lot of the red gems together, when you match those up, you get more points.
00:22:51
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uh compared to if you didn't have that trait and to get the currency you have to talk to your dates and you have to answer the correct questions so this is where it gets interesting because you have to sort of get a vibe of the dates you're seeing so there's like this specific like cougar and she's clearly just like out to sleep with as many men as possible so she'll ask you question like hey dave so
00:23:20
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What do you think about people seeing other people while you're dating? And you have to clearly say, yeah, I'm totally OK with that. Or she's going to be like, yeah, no. And you'll get no points. So you're just constantly giving them answers to what they want to hear rather than what you actually feel, which is, again, terrible relationship advice. Be yourself, people. Don't mold yourself. Unless you're a terrible person.
00:23:46
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Oh, this is not a good segue then. Because I was going to ask for Gennaro, and this would extend to Jake as well, but Jake, to my knowledge, you've had one relationship in your life pretty much? Basically. So my question, I guess more so for Gennaro, but Jake, please feel free to answer is,
00:24:05
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As a guy, I've definitely felt myself kind of chameleon to a degree when going on a date with somebody or dating somebody early on because I want to try and make things work or I don't know exactly where I end and she begins type thing.
Relationships and Personal Growth
00:24:22
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But I find myself acquiescing a little bit, a bit of that
00:24:26
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not changing my nature per se, but like going along with the flow of something. Have you encountered that? Have you ever felt the same way or is that completely out of left field?
00:24:37
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Yeah, I think there's like a fine line between making changes to yourself for the better and making changes to yourself just because of the other person. I've made the wrong choice in previous relationships with my current lady who happened to... Wife? Wife was just going to bring up on the screen here. But, you know,
00:25:03
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as everybody sort of knows, Mel is such a nicer, nice person. And I've learned to be a nicer person because of her. So you have changed. I've changed myself for the better. So I was always like ruthless businessman and like constantly on the career grind and all that matters is, you know, that. And then, you know, I've I've met more people through her.
00:25:28
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And I've become a more generous, giving person. You know, not everything that matters in life is just, you know, hoarding a bunch of money and climbing the corporate ladder. And it's, you know, they're playing just Scrooge McDuck. Yeah. And there's joy in like, you know, making other people smile and not just like, you know, yourself being the person who benefits out of everything. So,
00:25:52
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I've changed in that way, but previously I've tried to change myself where deep down I knew like, do I really feel that way? Or am I just trying to make sure I don't ruffle any feathers with this person? And that was the wrong decision. What about you, Jake? Have there been any situations where if you look back on, you're like, I guess I kind of
00:26:20
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I mean, for me, it was much more, I was kind of in a different situation. Like you said, I've really only had the one real relationship. You don't count like, uh, and like internet, like preteen relationship on MSN messenger, somebody in Australia, then that had no, no, like anything other than emotions involved, right? Um, emoticons. I think you meant emoticons. Yeah. Um, I think for me, it was a lot more,
00:26:48
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having interactions and meaningful relationships around me that taught me more of how I should act in society, coming from homeschool and all that, and just feel like, how do I express myself and how do I not be a freaking 100% introverted weirdo? Being introverted is fine. 100% is too high of a ratio of introversion.
00:27:12
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where you're not actually communicating with people. And that's the problem I had early on. And I would second Janira's point of the positive change coming out of a relationship. Being with somebody who makes you want to be a better person or gives you focus for the things in life that you actually cared about in the background and you just didn't realize it yet, that's much more positive than like, I don't like your dog. You're like, okay, I guess I'll get rid of the dog. That's bad.
00:27:41
Speaker
Yeah. And as you know, we're talking about this more, more things have popped up in my mind. Literally behind me, as you can see, and as many of you know, I'm a very avid Lego Star Wars collector. And in my last relationship, I remember being told I was in Toys R Us and I was like, Hey, look at that. That's so cool. I'd love to buy that. I'm able to purchase that.
00:28:04
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I was told that's immature. You're an adult. You should not purchase that. And red flag. I just want to make that very clear at the time. I was just like, yeah, no, I guess you're right. And, you know, fast forward years, you know, with Mel and like, hey, you know, I'm thinking about getting this stuff. I just want to let you know, you know, it costs a lot. Are you comfortable with that? And she's like.
00:28:28
Speaker
Yeah, dude, go ahead. That's totally fine with me. Like that's your money. Like you're enjoying it, whatever. And that's nice because, you know, get to be myself, get to explore new things. And it's not like it's a toxic habit. Right. So, yeah.
00:28:46
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You don't have to be with someone that 100% shares your hobbies. Like a lot of people play games. They're with someone who doesn't play games. That's fine. You do need to be with someone that accepts your hobbies. Yes. If you don't have that baseline, that's going to be a divide that continues to grow.
00:29:00
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Yeah, because a lot of times in situations where they don't accept you for who you are, it becomes this really weird toxic bargaining tool of like, OK, we did your thing. We did your video whatevers. We've got to do the thing that I like. But really, if it's not a shared thing, maybe you can enjoy it on your own separately if you can't enjoy it together. That's fine, but you guys should both be good with each other's hobbies and habits.
00:29:29
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you know, accepting the other as a fucking person. So I think we'd spit off of honey pop relationship stuff. Yeah. I guess we should go on to the raunchy part of honey pop now, right? We got to the wholesome part. Do I want to do that? Does the game have booba? Yes, but you know, it's.
00:29:56
Speaker
As many of you are versed in using of the internet, there's a lot worse stuff to run into just even on Reddit than in this game. So, you know, I wouldn't give this game to like a teenager. But, you know, if you're if you're playing it and your significant other just walks in on you playing it,
00:30:17
Speaker
everything should be fine because for the most part they're just clothed there's just like a very small percentage that uh the the wind clauses you bringing them back home and of course uh yeah and honestly that was the worst part of the game for me because it gives it puts you into a uh a puzzle mode where you just have to constantly
00:30:40
Speaker
Uh, go as fast as you can solving the puzzle to win out. So it's just constantly collapsing, uh, gems. And as they're collapsing, the woman you're with is, uh, uh, getting louder, uh, vocalizing. Yeah. Vocalizing. And you know, it's, you're just playing and you're just trying to get through it. And the game's lasting too long and the audio's up. It's just, you know, the vocalization and it's just like, all right,
00:31:08
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Right. I want to get through this. I just want 100 percent the game just to say I did. Yeah. Yeah. It's so if you're getting the game to unlock, you know, your horny meter. Mm hmm. I'd say find a better game, honestly. Like there's probably stuff on new grounds. If new grounds even still exist, that is more raunchy than this game. Yeah, I was going to say.
00:31:35
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I was just going to say, I thought, I thought that honey pop was added to steam prior to them explicitly allowing like adult content. Cause there was definitely an event where they were like, Hey, now you can literally just put adult games on steam. Um, and I think how do you hop was up before that just because an earlier edition. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was on steam before all of that. I don't know if it required a patch or something like that to unlock the explicit stuff, but.
00:32:03
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It's been around, right? Like, I don't think it's. Yeah, I could totally see it being partially censored, too, like not a lot of work being done to partially censor it, because the only nudity in it is right at the end just for that one game. And then also they will send you, I think, like the last. So there's like four picture slots. And as you get to know them, they'll send you a selfie or whatever.
00:32:30
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And out of the four for each person, the last two are raunchy. But again, if you've been on even Reddit for five minutes of your life, you're seeing worse stuff. So it's fine. Again, there's better puzzle games out there. And I plan on probably playing some of them myself.
00:32:53
Speaker
Even without Booba, that's a strong commitment. Seriously, there's so many puzzle games I've talked about on here that I'm like, these are great. And then Honey Pop just falls under the weird category of, in Honey Pop 2, one of the girls had an outfit that I also have in my closet. And I'm like, huh. I didn't realize you were one of the datable characters in Honey Pop 2. I am. It requires a very intensive mod, but it exists.
00:33:20
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It wouldn't be that hard to put together a PowerPoint slideshow of just honey pop questions for you, Dave. We'll just get a Photoshop picture of you on the side and just go through each slide. I know. Hey, all I'm saying is our whole group of friends, very talented group of individuals in different areas, and really all it takes is some motivation.
00:33:45
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Really, all it takes is some motivation. Yes, you, listener. We could make this happen as a funny. Write that down, Jenny. Write that down. I know you're listening. Write it down. What you have to do is take all the questions from the cougar and just copy paste them for Dave.
00:34:02
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I sure do love smoking Lucky Strikes. And who doesn't? Friend of the show, Lucky Strikes. What else have you guys been playing recently besides Honey Booba? I do want to acknowledge the strength of character it takes too.
00:34:21
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Reference that as the game you played recently Well, well, I wanted the transition I was like, oh I could do a sweet transition just naturally over from bankruptcy to booba somehow it worked but Boob reps Really bad That's a medical condition you're gonna be without booba for seven years Oh
00:34:47
Speaker
Maybe fewer people would file bankruptcy if that was a requirement. Also, you can't look at porn for eight years. Okay, government. We're wiping away your debt, but also you can no longer access online porn. Government knows when you master porn.
00:35:06
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Well, as for games, I've restarted Witcher 3 because I learned that I can continue my playthrough using the items I got in my first playthrough.
Game Reviews and Experiences
00:35:17
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And it's been such a long time since I've played it.
00:35:20
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And since that time, the Witcher show on Netflix has come out. So it's replaying. It's been more enjoyable because I can actually kind of know what's going on, you know, who like Nilfgaard is better than when you kind of get dropped in the game immediately. And, you know, you're talking to like the king and something's going on. You're not quite clear. So I thought Nilfgaard was a character in honey pop. Yeah. Oh, yes. Nilfgaard.
00:35:50
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I thought about it. I was like, I don't know how to make the reference, but no, I'll burn that bridge for you. Dave always finds a way. Yeah, no, I definitely thought like playing through the game that they did a much better job in three of being like, hey, you're in this circumstance. You don't need to understand everything here to get like enough of a field to keep through, keep playing the game. And like two, they just over explained everything. They're like, here's a bunch of information you don't know.
00:36:19
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We're going to tell it to you. Three is like, you don't care. We'll just go. It's nice though, because like I didn't have any history with one or two, so I didn't know the Lord going in. But it's nice just to like, don't kind of allude to things or give like a vague reference. And I'm like, Oh, cool. This universe is deeper than what they're showing at face value. That makes me more interested to find out what it's what it is. Yeah.
00:36:43
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But I think it's it's fair to say, like, you know, watching the show. Being immersed in the world building of The Witcher has got to improve all of the aspects of it. Like you're getting stuff from the show because you played the game, you're getting stuff from the game because you've seen the show. That's always really cool. Yeah, it's a very unique thing to have, because as we've known from a lot of other, you know, video games to shows or animes to shows, having a good version of that
00:37:13
Speaker
with the original good version, uh, doesn't happen often. Uh, so, um, no, it's, it's, it's, it's been great. Um, still got some ways to go on that. Uh, but outside of that, just, you know, some civ five booting that back up just because you can, when you have hours to waste civ is just a good option. It will eat those hours. One more time.
00:37:41
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How about you, Jake? Oh, my gosh, it got directed straight at me. So I've been playing Mountain Blade II Bannerlord. Fair amount. I don't know if you guys have played Mountain Blade at all. No, I have not. Basically, you just you play as a person who's essentially a peasant and eventually try to like form an army and pay the money and then like form a kingdom and pay them money. And lots of people just want your money.
00:38:10
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and try to carve out a niche in some of the politics of this medieval place. And the difference between that and Crusader Kings is it's not just focused on the relationship aspect, it's actual real-time battles also.
00:38:27
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But it's easy to forget that you're just a person. So like, when you're sieging a castle, for instance, and like your, your army's like putting ladders up, you don't want to be the first person up the ladder. That person 100% of the time always dies. And if it's you, you're not special, you'll die. Or be knocked out in this game, at least, which takes you out of the battle until it results.
00:38:53
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So you're not you're basically not a hero, you know, you're very much just a person throughout the game. Yeah, there's like skill trees, but like high tier units that are in your army will very likely have skills as high as what you have. So like if there's a really good swords part, like swordsmen.
00:39:11
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they can probably kill you with a sword. There's nothing special about you. You don't have hero DNA. But because of that, it feels good to actually overcome. You fight bandits until you've recruited enough villagers, trained them up that you have soldiers that can actually contribute to someone else's war effort and eventually becomes yours. It's just really cool.
00:39:38
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I'm just you're just making me think about, you know, the the ladder meta of sieging castles. And it's like you think about any sort of movie, whether it's like Home Alone or Lord of the Rings and like easy. The latter is going up. You know, the first guy is he's going to either get immediately, you know, the headed or they're just going to push the ladder away and they'll be that awkward. Ah.
00:40:05
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They do have some other siege tools you can use. Like you can build the big things on wheels, the big towers that just like have a full film. They're kind of like D-Day gates. What is the name for this? I have no idea what it's called. Yeah, but like they're towers that are rolled and like basically there's like a ladder in it and they kind of like make a bridge to get on top of the castle wall.
00:40:28
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Exactly. I don't know what that's called. They recognize the weakness of the ladder method and they're like, let's pre-build the ladder, get to the top and then just go in. That's literally what it has. It has like four ladders inside of it that people can climb up and then cross over into the keep. And that helps a little bit. Yeah. It's still very, you do not want to go into a siege with equal numbers. This is just life advice. Again, relationship advice for the people out there.
00:40:57
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Like you have 200 attackers, there's 200 defenders, they're gonna catch you in half, like with archers before you even close. Again, relationship advice. Apparently, like I went to some like civil, like something around Civil War era, museum or something.
00:41:14
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But this is at the time where they shifted from high structures to wider, deeper structures, because a lot of the warfare at the time was with cannons. So just having really thick fucking dirt made your structure more sturdy. It didn't need to be as high because people weren't mounting it. It was like, here's your assaulting army with cannons and rifles and cavalry. So it was just having those deeper lines versus higher.
00:41:44
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That was pretty cool. Also, there's portcullises back in castle days. They had these little kill hallways where it's just like, hey, somebody could aim a bow through here. Yeah, murder holes. Murder holes. That's what they're called.
00:42:00
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Yeah, this game has also relationship advice. There was a I built a battering ram because I was like, these walls seem like it's a losing proposition. We're losing too many people on the walls battering ram. They push it up. You know, some of the people still died because they got shot with arrows. Get through the main gate. I'm like, excellent. We're good. I look forward into the area beyond and there's like a hallway with murder holes like horizontal along the entire thing and then another door. And I was like,
00:42:29
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I don't know if I made the right call in this castle, but ultimately they made it. Um, a lot of people died. That's medieval times. What are you going to do? I mean, is that, that is a plague really? So yeah, they'll get through the murder holes pretty easily. Play grats. Just throwing them at it. You can't play skaven and fan air lured. Unfortunately, but what about you, Dave?
00:42:57
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Uh, nothing so tactical. My recent stuff has been like, I finally get around to playing inscription. I mean, like after the hype has finally died down. That was really solid. Uh, if you like subversive.
00:43:13
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card games that's made by the same people who did Pony Island, use that for reference. That's really solid though. Pony Island's very simple in its design because granted, it's like an earlier edition, but I really enjoyed it for sure. Pony Island's like a psychological trip though, mostly.
00:43:36
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Yeah, I've seen some gameplay of it. I've never played it myself. An inscription looked pretty cool. Just haven't picked it up. I'm usually one to wait until it's like, you know, 50% or less. Oh yeah, like gamers subreddit. That's why I don't have any Rockstar games. Or Nintendo games.
00:43:58
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i think like base it's 20 bucks but like i got it for like 15 i think on sale and then it gets even cheaper um but yeah i would definitely pick up at 10 or 15 easy peasy super solid um the other one was actually so far back in my list now but i played through omori
00:44:18
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which is a, an RPG game. And I won't say more than that because both of these games definitely have more going on than what they show at the surface. Um, but they're like really good experiences. I really liked going through it. And then afterwards just having like that weird sense of on we, or just like, what is life? It's not the most popular, but yeah.
00:44:47
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There's not that many games on the Wii. That's true. Must are going to switch now. And see, Dave, I always trust your recommendations, but it's always so hard when you're like, this is a game and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Well, but it's a game and I play the game. Usually, I mean, that's all my description. Because he'll tell you if it sucks. But if he's like, yeah.
00:45:13
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I've had a few games recommended to me where it was literally like, don't look at the Steam page, just play it. And if it's from the people who recommended this, Ian, friend of the show Ian, for Outer Wilds, which was correct in his case, like good advice from him. And then Amori from Dave. So I haven't played it yet. It's in the library.
00:45:37
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Yeah, it's I mean, I could definitely describe more things about it, but it's just like if you like RPGs, go check it out. Like it's not crazy long. It's not like a full JRPG or anything crazy like that.
00:45:52
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These are more like classic sort of Earthbound style RPG. It is much more Earthbound style. Like you'll have your enemy in the middle. You don't know exactly what they're going to do. You kind of make your character turn order and you kind of see where it goes from there. And then you eventually develop some strategy of how you want to do things. But that's just kind of like a thing that exists in the game. But you're caring more about the story as it goes.
00:46:18
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But I will say part of the battle mechanic is you have emotions. So based on your emotional state, it has different features. So if you're sad, you take less damage because some of your damage gets input to your juice because you play as little kids and juice is like your mana pool. So it gets kind of distributed so you don't take as much direct health damage.
00:46:42
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It's interesting that sad means less damage because you'd think that it'd mean more damage. Well, that's angry. Anger, you don't take more damage and then happy. I think you're more evasive, but have like a better hit rate chance. I forget what that is. And there's like a chart to give you early on of like, Oh, this one's more advantageous versus this one. And I forgot that entirely. Um, and just again, bulldoze my way through the whole game. But.
00:47:13
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Huh, it's really cute and really fun, but also like there's there's some deeper fields in there. But it was just a solid time all around. Yeah, I'll say just like you describing the description of the like the emotion and how that was part of the gameplay, I think that gives better context as to, you know, what someone would expect to pick it up. OK, here's how a conversation that goes. Dave, how's your day? That's right. What'd you do today? You know, work, ate some stuff. And then I needed to be like,
00:47:43
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I need alcohol in me to be like, all right, let me just share everything. I'm very much like, here's the baseline of information that you need for me to answer the question. That's a bad habit I have, but. You start an evasive stance. My day was fine. Why are you asking?
00:48:07
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Also, shout out to Jenny. She also got me a game called The Haunted Island, a frog detective game. There is a VOD of it on Twitch at the moment if anybody wants to go and watch me play it. It is a very short game.
00:48:20
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It is not worth a lot of money. You're going to spend money. But it was a cute experience for like 45 minutes. And it was surprisingly charming for how short it was. I was not expecting anything. But this is another one of those quotes where I'd love to see it like on the box for an indie game. Just be like surprisingly charming and then like ellipsis not worth a lot of money. Like that would be a great box quote.
00:48:52
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Yeah, it looked cute just from the, you know, the screen grabs out and I did see like it on sale on Steam. It was what, like three bucks or something like that. I didn't. I didn't. I don't know. But it looked like it had good enough reviews. So I'll probably check out the VOD myself. Oh, yeah. Do it. I'm on Twitch TV.
00:49:15
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Yeah, you'll find me. If he's screaming, he's on the front page. Just keep adding letters, eventually you'll get there. That's really good. That's my main stuff. Do you guys have any other things that have been going on? Whether that's with games or otherwise?
00:49:32
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I've been playing one other game but I'm not going to talk about it because I'm going to force it to be an episode in the future. I know which one that is. Based on clues I've been receiving. I'm also going to go back and claim credit for giving you inscription.
00:49:48
Speaker
I had to check because I doubted myself. You literally mentioned how much it cost. I was like, did I buy it for? No, it was gifted. I know you got me that other game and something else and I forgot and that's my bad. No, it's all good. I just could not let you live. So confirmed. Good purchase. Thank you, Jake. Excellent. Excellent. But I would also recommend you check it out. I'm not sure if we could do a full episode on it, but I think you'd like it.
00:50:13
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Yeah, it's kind of the type of game that seems like explaining too much about it, like Amore, explaining too much about it does hamper the experience as opposed to going in blind. But like, generic, did you play Pony Island at all? No, I watched like maybe like 40 minutes of play through in the beginning. So I know the the some some of the mini games involved and just like the
00:50:41
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the general feel it sort of gives. It's like, okay, you're going to start off with this game. You know, you hear the word pony and it's like, oh, this is just going to be a baby's game. And it's like, Oh, no, it's, it's not. So, uh, yeah. It's an anti baby game, if anything.
00:50:58
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Yeah, you're actively killing babies. But if you like that type of thing, it's like one thing on the surface, different thing entirely elsewhere. I really highly do recommend inscription. And inscription builds on an idea a lot of like, as you're going through, like your base level is uncomfortable as you're playing the game. And they ride that line really well.
00:51:27
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I'll put in the backlog for sure. The other game I recently picked up, which I know Jake will be happy about, is Hotline Miami. So I started that, had no idea going into it what it was about other than, you know, I've heard you talk about it. And I started playing it and I'm, you know, a little, I only have maybe about like an hour and a half into it.
00:51:51
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I was like, wait, I recognize that, Al. Wait, that's Jake's profile picture. I know what that is. And then realizing that each different sort of mask you get gives you a couple different, I guess, powers. And obviously, I'm an hour and a half into this. I don't know the names of things going on or exactly what the story is about. But right now, my objective is to kill people. And right now, I'm killing people with doors.
00:52:21
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So I'm very heavy, you know, run in, sucker punch someone and just wait by doors until someone walks by. So you might be using the horse mask. Yes, it is. That's one instinct kills people with doors. Yeah. Yeah. So looking forward to playing that a bit more. And then Dave gave me a nice little Christmas gift of it takes two.
00:52:46
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which inspired me to, despite having a cold this past weekend, went and got my wife's computer that, again, Dave gave her. And I just rebuilt the entire thing because she had recently got a new graphics card.
00:53:06
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Installed that, realized power supply wasn't powerful enough, swapped in power supply, redid all the wires. And I'm like, here you go, honey. Here's a computer you can play. It takes two of me. And we forgot to update the drivers. So it won't turn on. And she's like, I'm not dealing with this right now. So it takes two. We'll take a couple of days until we actually start playing that. It takes two. It'll take at least two business days to start playing.
00:53:36
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It'll take two more months at which point it'll be Valentine's Day. There you go. Yeah. It checks out, I think. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that because I actually recommended it. I was going to give you credit for that. Yeah.
00:53:51
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And then he played it, and I still haven't played it, and he's like, all right, well, here you go. You recommended a game that you hadn't played, and then we played, and I was like, he's got to play this. He's going to love it. So I'm looking forward to when you guys are both able to play that. I think you'll love it as much as we did for sure, and probably more so because I'm not a couple with Jake.
00:54:14
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I'm told not like in that way. No, we smash, but it's purely physical. Occasionally magical, depending on who I'm playing. But yeah, I specifically wanted to wait to play with Mel and she's been very busy and, you know, doing doing what we can. But we'll get there for sure.
00:54:35
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It's a lot better if you both have like a weekend or some relaxed time to play, I think, where you're less stressed out for sure. It sucks like when anytime like if you're trying to like hamfish something in, even if it is like enjoyable thing, but if you feel like you're forced to do it rather than just choosing to do it, it really just strips away a lot of the enjoyment.
00:55:00
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It's like when someone shows you a YouTube video, they're like, hey look, this is really funny. You need to watch it. No, you need to watch it. No, you need to watch it. Right, yeah. It's like, am I really going to find it funny after you made me do it? I won't send you links anymore, then all right. I saw this skit about it. Go back when, you know.
00:55:17
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more of this was in person. But I think everyone's been in the position where you're like, hey, I have this video I really want to show you on YouTube. And you like, like, put the phone in front of them. And like, in this particular scale, it was basically the horror story of this, where they're kind of just like watching the video blank faced. And it's just you're just like, yeah, and they don't respond at all. And they're still just blank faced watching the video. No comments. They're like, they're watching it out. And you realize that you made a terrible mistake.
00:55:44
Speaker
And they are not invested in one of the same things you are invested in. Also, Tony the Tiger, get that mask. It's really good. One of my favorites. Okay. Lethal fists, instant kills. Really good. All right. All right. Yeah. Very violent. I could not do that. I need range on my weapons to a degree. Yeah. I didn't like using guns in it. I just always wanted to do like the stealth, like either hit someone with a pipe, throw a knife at them, or just punch them.
00:56:14
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Some of the best use for guns is just to screw with the enemy AI, draw them to a room or something. Oh, you shoot by a door and they're like, what's that? And you're like, check it. Check the door. Hit the door. And then throw the gun at them for a stun if you want to go like full gun food with it. And that's pretty good.
00:56:31
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Anyways, I mean, I'm not stuck. That's really freaking good. Also Hotline Miami 2. If you enjoy the first one, I will say that 2 is the one that has a lot more comprehensive of a story. Okay. I didn't know there was a second, honestly. So, yeah. Good to know. Wrong number, Hotline Miami 2, wrong number. Okay. And that has more content to it, more music, and makes more story sense.
00:56:53
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Then after that, you can play Payday 2. There's a Hotline Miami DLC. Yes. And then you play Fall Guys, which has a skin for jacket as well. Yes. Oh, actually, Fall Guys is the sequel to a billion games at this point. Oh, my God. Near Automata, apparently there's some storyline content in there. It's just like how Fortnite just sort of keeps getting other IPs, like, hey, use our game as a way to advertise. That's the thing.
00:57:21
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Literally, when fall guys came out, they're like, hey, here's all this cute stuff. And then they had like one guest thing of like, oh, it's this character from this thing. And like, they should monetize the fuck out of this. And they have. Yeah, because it's so easy. Wasn't it? Doom, I think, was one of the later ones. OK.
00:57:39
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I forget what they had early on, but like they had something with Doom. They had something with I think Horizon. Yeah, I think some Aloy thing. They probably, they had a TF2 one, I think.
00:57:52
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They just had a lot of stuff and it fits in. It's cute. You can do it all in game and it just drives up interest for the game, but then they get advertising money from that other company. TF2 used to do that when they sculpted content for TF2. This is back probably a decade at this point, but I remember when Deus Ex Human Revolution came out.
00:58:16
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Um, they added like the sniper gun ex machina, I think something like that. Like literally for the people who own the game or glasses, I think for the spy, uh, you got the retractable glasses. And like, I kind of like that. If it's, if it's sort of, if it's not, you know,
00:58:35
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Disrupting balance at all, you know, why not? There's a tasteful way of doing it. I kind of like how Blizzard does some things. I mean, I know that's a statement to say, but some things. He said some things. Some things, yeah. So like you'll get some sort of battle pass or whatever with Overwatch and they'll say, hey, you know, since you bought Overwatch Deluxe, you get like a mount in World of Warcraft or you get some, you know, skin in Heroes of the Storm.
00:59:03
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And that's great because it's all in-house product and it makes sense for them. Master Chief isn't coming into World of Warcraft and doing a dance with MLK. But it's an interesting way for them to advertise their own stuff. Yeah.
00:59:27
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I don't hate it. Although I will say Blizzard specifically does probably do it too much with their own IP. It's just like, what are the next 12 characters in Heroes of the Storm going to be? But there's 12 characters in Overwatch. Here you go. Right. You know, like, yeah, they're not coming up with. That's a terrible example. Yeah, it's all their other characters.
00:59:49
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Oh, what's this next one from Super Smash Brothers? Is it a Nintendo character? Nintendo, yeah. They stopped doing that though. That's true. They did reach out for the DLC's stuff for a bit. Yeah.
00:59:59
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When is Sonic going to be a Smash character? He is. Is he? Yeah, I thought that was a joke question. Okay. Okay. As someone who does not play Smash. So he was actually in Smash Brothers Brawl and then was also put in Ultimate because they, they carried over a lot of characters. Okay. If you've, if there's ever a character in a Smash game, they put them in Ultimate. That was their tagline. Everyone's here.
01:00:27
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And he runs really fast in-game. If you can get a nice flat stage from left side to right side, really fast. He's also very obnoxious in the air to the point where people hate Sonic. He is probably the most... You would suspect, and I think in previous titles, more characters were known for timing you out. Jigglypuff, I think, was especially hated for it. Sonic's worse than all of them. Sonic can time people out. Nobody's business.
01:00:54
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Again, as someone not who doesn't play Smash, I knew Jigglypuff was a bane of people's existence, and then I didn't know anything about Sonic, so just goes to show Jigglypuff's fame.
01:01:10
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Yeah, I mean, Jigglypuff is Hungrybox is the best Jigglypuff player like in the world. And he basically may lay in melee and melee. Yeah. Well, in melee. So this this particular character, just a little side lore before we close stuff out. Final thoughts. He literally picked a character that like nobody thought was good. They were like, there's eight good characters and Jigglypuff's not one of them. Maybe fewer than eight, really. Definitely fewer than eight. Yeah. There's probably like four. It's like two or three. It's Fox, Barth.
01:01:40
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And people have made Sheik competitive, but I'm not sure if they're considered a top tier. Yeah. And then he's just like jigglypuff, this kind of like slower, floaty, super light character.
Advice for a Positive Year Ahead
01:01:53
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And then like literally for a period of time became like the best melee player in the world. So it's really, really crazy. But that's the lore. That's the background. It's part of the Smash history.
01:02:08
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I could always just talk about Smash for like other like fighting game IPs for like two hours because I'm like so enamored by like what people can do because like I'll go back and watch Melee and be like they're on they're on PCP compared to like what you see in Ultimate like I understand what's going on in Ultimate I've done this and then in Melee it's just like how does this game work oh it doesn't oh it doesn't work okay
01:02:33
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Yeah. Oh, you see there, they got phantom footstooled and they actually DI'd a certain way. So like they only got three hits instead of four and you're like, what? Meanwhile, this is all happening at like light speed. Yeah, it's insanity.
01:02:48
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Well, I think, I don't know, we've covered a lot of good topics here. We hit relationship advice, honey pop, bankruptcy law, relationships, not legal advice, smash bros, games you played. That's a lot, that's a lot of content. I think that basically sums up 2021. I think that's, that's, that's a fair assessment for sure. We didn't talk about a Sonic stinky feet, but we can leave that to 2022.
01:03:17
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I gave you such a t-ball set up there. It was too easy, you know? You just gotta take the dunk yourself. You don't alley-oop every single one. It's been a while since I played a basketball game. It's probably on the PlayStation, like, one. And the A Street.
01:03:41
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All right. Well, I don't think any of the notes that I wrote matter. So as always, we can just carry those to another episode. I don't though. I rewrite them. I look at my check again. It's really funny. I think that that actually just helps the motivation knowing that you could fall back on any of these topics. You're then empowered to not use them at all and make them completely pointless.
01:04:03
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That's why on my other monitor, I just have like medical receipts. Worst case scenario, got a talking point. 500 milligrams Ivermectin. But do you guys have any closing thoughts or advice for these people coming into 2022, the most unknown of years so far?
01:04:30
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Dave. I figured I'd just drop that on you. OK. Really awkwardly. I'll start here. Could be food, could be relationship, video games. I mean, pandemic stuff still going on, obviously. No surprise to anybody. And it probably still will for a bit. So in general, try and hang out with friends who are also vaccinated. Try and do some face-to-face stuff from time to time just to get yourself out there and not feel like you're always cooped up.
01:04:59
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Also, maybe like find a new hobby, try some new food. The world is shitty, but it's not over yet. So let's live it up and take ivermectin together.
01:05:09
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I'll agree with most of that except the horse medicine. Get boosted people. It's free. It's very helpful as someone who has dear friends and relatives in the healthcare sector. I think everybody listening is very responsible for the most part, but if you aren't one of those people,
01:05:30
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We have a diverse audience. Yes. Hopefully, we can get them less diverse in the vaccinated slash unvaccinated category. But let's all be our own hotspots. Come on, it'll be fun.
01:05:48
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Yeah, no, that's good advice. I would second that. Get boosted. You can have a more homogenous audience. My advice is you may not, I don't believe people can be good people, but you can do good. So this year, try to focus on doing good. Be good to other people, be good to yourself. Try to take it easy. If you can, don't overstress the little things. It's all dust in the end. And yeah.
01:06:15
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Have a good time with it. Play some good games. We'll tell you the good ones. We'll also tell you a lot of the ones that are bad. Because I'll force Dave to play them this year. It'll be great. But thank you, Dimuch, special guest, for coming on here and helping usher us into a new year, a new era, perhaps, in the podcast. Season three. It's coming. Let's go. I will say that
01:06:43
Speaker
I'm not going to reappear. Now, this is going to be a meme. This is going to be a similar meme to a meme that started with myself and Jenny. She messages me once a year on Instagram on December 28th. I will now only appear once a year on the Soap Tums podcast. So take that. We're continuing the trend. And see you guys next year. I'll be ready to give you advice for 2023. And if you don't want it, just tell me. Didn't ask.
01:07:13
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I didn't ask. I did hear that story and I love that. We'll have to share that one next year when you come back. But thanks for coming on. But for everybody else, thank you guys for sticking with us for a year. Again, another one of them. Crazy that you all do that. We all appreciate you. If you would like to send in feedback, which you could do. I mean, you don't have to, but you could. We would read it technically.
01:07:42
Speaker
You could do so. Soapstonepodcast.gmail.com. Or you could join the discussion on Facebook, which is not yet owned by Elon Musk. Facebook.com slash Soapstone Podcast. And as always, we'll see you in the next one. Have a good night. Bye.