Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Episode 6: "My Favorite Nerd Shit" - Video Games with Ryan
37 Plays8 months ago
The last episode in our "My Favorite Nerd Shit" intro episodes has us talking about some of our favorite games of all time, what turned us into gamers, and as always, who's the hottest? Joined by our special guest, my gay daughter, Ryan!
Opinions shared by the hosts of Real Hot Nerd Shit are their own and do not represent any workplace or organization that they may or may not be affiliated with.
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction and Setting Up
00:00:00
ryanzymler
<unk>
Podcast Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:31
ryanzymler
Okay, welcome to Real Hot Nerd Shit, a pop culture podcast where real hot nerds talk about real nerd shit. I'm your host, Ryan.
00:00:40
Shauna _she_her_
I'm your co-host Shana.
00:00:42
ryanzymler
On this episode of Real Hot Nerd Shit, we'll be talking about ah our favorite nerd shit, so you probably maybe listen to our last two episodes where we talked about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and X-Men.
00:00:56
ryanzymler
This episode is going to be about video games. um So we are going to do that ah with a special guest hot nerd, Ryan Smith.
00:01:12
Snacks _he_him_
Hello. Hello.
00:01:13
ryanzymler
Hi.
00:01:13
Shauna _she_her_
Welcome.
00:01:14
Snacks _he_him_
Hi.
00:01:16
ryanzymler
Hi.
00:01:16
Shauna _she_her_
Now, if we weren't podcasting here, the chances of us then also playing Fortnite is not out of the question, because that is, let me, and exactly.
00:01:16
Snacks _he_him_
How are you?
00:01:21
ryanzymler
Great!
00:01:23
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, we're playing after this.
00:01:26
ryanzymler
I had an assumption.
00:01:27
Shauna _she_her_
This has been our, current like, this has been our, current like, it's a great opportunity, like very coincidental of us building this podcast on video games. that we've been playing for like Fortnite about every night.
00:01:38
Shauna _she_her_
And I never saw myself as like a Fortnite girl, despite my, I they and had to wear my e-girl headphones, like my cat ear, like I thought it was very appropriate.
00:01:41
Snacks _he_him_
I'm gonna
00:01:41
ryanzymler
Same.
00:01:47
ryanzymler
Very bad. Yeah, so um before we jump into our topic of of nerd shit in video games, um just in general, um you know, we like to get to know our guest hosts to find out all the things that they are nerdy about.
00:02:04
ryanzymler
So um when we talk about a nerd, we think of someone who is like,
00:02:06
Snacks _he_him_
die.
00:02:08
ryanzymler
weirdly knowledgeable and also weirdly passionate about something and that specific thing some people might kind of find uncool or weird. um So I already know the answer to this question, but what are you a nerd about, Ryan?
00:02:24
Snacks _he_him_
ah I guess a variety of things, possibly the shirt that I'm wearing, although I don't know how nerdy I am about it lately. You know, I haven't been too into Pokemon since maybe high school.
00:02:37
Snacks _he_him_
But you know, this is my favorite arcanine right here.
00:02:40
ryanzymler
That's your boy.
00:02:41
Snacks _he_him_
But like, ah in terms of like stuff that I know way too much about, probably like pop music stuff in terms of like,
00:02:52
Snacks _he_him_
billboard charts and weird stuff like that. I also could tell you um like what was number one in 2004.
Early Gaming Experiences
00:03:03
Snacks _he_him_
Weird stuff like that.
00:03:05
ryanzymler
So what was number one in 2004?
00:03:05
Snacks _he_him_
um
00:03:06
ryanzymler
You can't just set it up and then not deliver.
00:03:08
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, Laffy Taffy, you remember that song?
00:03:12
ryanzymler
Yes, of course.
00:03:12
Snacks _he_him_
That was number one hit in 2004.
00:03:14
ryanzymler
Yes. That was the number one hit.
00:03:16
Snacks _he_him_
Something like that.
00:03:17
ryanzymler
What were we going through in 2004? What was so wrong with us that that was what our number one song is?
00:03:23
Snacks _he_him_
Well, that was just one of them, I believe.
00:03:24
ryanzymler
Okay.
00:03:25
Snacks _he_him_
It might have been 2006, actually. It's one or the other. 2004 was Confessions era, so it was a lot of Usher. Yeah, Burn, Confessions, My Boo, all four of those songs were number one that year.
00:03:36
ryanzymler
Okay.
00:03:36
Shauna _she_her_
Mm.
00:03:41
ryanzymler
Yeah. So, um you know, again, I set this up knowing the answer to that question, um as I think both Sean and I love these things in particular about you, Ryan, but also about our guests. um It's just really fun to hear the weird shit that people nerd out about. um Quick historical sidebar. ah Ryan and I live near each other. And so we will just have random nights where we sit on my front porch. And ah one night we were sitting on my front porch and we were, he decided to play a game. He loves games in general. um He also loves competition. He's also very nerdy about tennis. This is my gay child and my best friend. So um I'm gonna talk for him like for like 30 seconds, but.
00:04:27
ryanzymler
um
00:04:27
Snacks _he_him_
That's right, here you're right so far.
00:04:30
ryanzymler
right um And ah he knows that I am the same way about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and so we were literally just sitting on my front porch and because he loves to turn turn everything into like a competition he wanted to quiz me on like how well I knew Buffy the Vampire Slayer via just single scene images.
00:04:53
ryanzymler
And so he would just like Google random image search for like a season number and an episode number, not, not show me and just show me a picture of the episode. And I promise you, I think I got 98.99%.
00:05:07
ryanzymler
Like, yeah.
00:05:07
Snacks _he_him_
quickly and and quickly.
00:05:10
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:05:10
Snacks _he_him_
No, didn't think about it.
00:05:11
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:05:12
Snacks _he_him_
Look, I was like, oh, that's the season finale of like, season like, I'm like, how do you, they're sitting around a bench.
00:05:15
ryanzymler
yeah
00:05:16
Snacks _he_him_
I don't understand.
00:05:21
ryanzymler
Sorry, sorry, sorry, I cackled.
00:05:21
Snacks _he_him_
So.
00:05:23
ryanzymler
I had to pull my own mic away, but I forgot about you all. um but Yeah, it's, um it is largely because that's how my brain works, but also because fashions.
00:05:28
Snacks _he_him_
yeah that's
00:05:34
ryanzymler
Hello, like Buffy, like, you know, it's in terms of um important commentary within Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's like subverting narratives around gender stereotypes and serving cunty looks.
00:05:46
ryanzymler
It's like one and one A, as Shawna would say. It's like, those are the two most important things in there. So we brought Ryan on to.
00:05:54
Shauna _she_her_
And I think it shows the way that you can be nerdy. Well, like the ways that which you can be nerdy about not necessarily inherently nerdy things. So like when I think about
00:06:01
ryanzymler
Sure.
Pandemic and Gaming Renewal
00:06:02
Shauna _she_her_
like pop music isn't really like a nerdy thing, but you can be nerdy about it.
00:06:06
Shauna _she_her_
And I think that's something I love about.
00:06:06
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, the but the billboard charts aren't anything, for sure.
00:06:10
Shauna _she_her_
Okay. Well, that's true. No, no argument there.
00:06:11
ryanzymler
hurting Yeah, Yeah.
00:06:13
Shauna _she_her_
But yeah, like the fashion of Buffy is such a great, like nerdy about fashion is such a like very valid like angle too.
00:06:15
ryanzymler
Mhm.
00:06:19
ryanzymler
Absolutely. So um we brought Ryan on to talk about our um general sort of love of video games. um So Ryan, what what's your like origin story with video games? How did you come to love them so much?
00:06:37
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah. i The first video game console I ever owned was a Game Boy Color. um And technically it was my brother's.
00:06:44
ryanzymler
There's a race joke in there somewhere. Sorry. Color.
00:06:48
Snacks _he_him_
Not until you said it.
00:06:50
ryanzymler
yeah ah
00:06:52
Snacks _he_him_
But um we my brother had got one first. And I think my parents expected us to share it and also share all the games that came with it.
00:07:00
ryanzymler
Oh.
00:07:01
Snacks _he_him_
um
Psychological Impact of Gaming
00:07:02
Snacks _he_him_
So he had a Pokemon Blue game. and had a level 100 Charizard. And what I would usually do is go in, press new gain, but never save and just go through as much as I can before I turn it off.
00:07:18
Snacks _he_him_
And I never saved. And one time I accidentally did.
00:07:22
ryanzymler
Oh
00:07:23
Shauna _she_her_
Oh no!
00:07:23
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, it was it pandemonium.
00:07:26
ryanzymler
That Game Boy is still lodged inside his large colon.
00:07:26
Snacks _he_him_
Oh my god, I got it.
00:07:30
ryanzymler
In his large intestine, they haven't been able to get it out.
00:07:33
Snacks _he_him_
Right, so my parents gave in and then I got my own gameplay color with a Pokemon yellow for my first video game. And so that was the first video game I ever owned. So that's my origin story and then falls.
00:07:44
ryanzymler
yeah That was my first Game Boy game as well, was Pokemon Yellow. I never played a i never played like a blue, a red, I only ever played Pokemon Yellow.
00:07:49
Snacks _he_him_
I think I got red later and played that as well. So we had red, blue and yellow, but usually when at least through, I think,
00:08:02
Snacks _he_him_
The third generation, we would get these separate ones. So my brother had blue, I have red. He had silver, I had gold. He had sapphire, I had ruby. So that we were able to trade between each other.
00:08:11
Shauna _she_her_
Well, that's cool.
00:08:13
ryanzymler
I can't help but keep wanting to make like stupid little puns. Like you said, one silver, one has gold. And I was like, that's both a RuPaul song and a child rhyme.
00:08:20
Snacks _he_him_
That's a song. Oh, sure.
00:08:24
ryanzymler
um So Shauna, what's your origin story? What's the first video game you ever had? how you know When did you become a nerd about it?
00:08:32
Shauna _she_her_
so i my love of video games goes back to the original nintendo that was like my like i like playing the old mario i had a game called buy you billy i don't remember and like i like it's awful But like I immediately learned like Nintendo was like my jam like as a kid.
00:08:52
Shauna _she_her_
like it was so like I had the original Game Boy.
00:08:55
Snacks _he_him_
Of
00:08:56
Shauna _she_her_
I had the light for it, because it was that like awful like hard to see.
00:08:59
ryanzymler
yeah
00:09:00
Shauna _she_her_
And so I had it so like I could actually like look
00:09:00
Snacks _he_him_
course.
Gaming and Friendships
00:09:02
Shauna _she_her_
use it in different settings.
00:09:05
Shauna _she_her_
And ah I had this basketball. I think that was actually where my love of basketball also was fostered, was through video game playing. Because like I had Bulls versus Blazers in the 90s.
00:09:16
Shauna _she_her_
3 92 or like the 92 playoffs and the Yeah, and then oh gosh.
00:09:22
ryanzymler
Yes.
00:09:25
Shauna _she_her_
I love playing sports video games.
00:09:26
Snacks _he_him_
That was Jordan's, was that Jordan's second time you won the championship or first one?
00:09:27
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:09:27
Shauna _she_her_
I just I Think so that does sound right Yeah, but yeah, so I've just always been a big video game fan and then you know when I was in high school I started hanging out my local comic book shop or I played a lot of the hilo and
00:09:33
ryanzymler
Literally nothing.
00:09:45
Shauna _she_her_
and And I ended up turning that into at college.
00:09:45
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:09:49
Shauna _she_her_
I ended up ah convincing. We started our own video game club. because I wanted to convince, we wanted to run Halo tournaments. And this is back in the day of LAN parties.
00:09:59
Shauna _she_her_
So like we were lugging these giant TVs around like through the students that are like you know like just carrying everything on cards. And the school would basically pay us because we were the best at it, being my like three friends.
00:10:12
Shauna _she_her_
So they would like give us like money to like pizza and win our own Halo tournament. It was wonderful.
00:10:18
ryanzymler
Love that. Yeah.
00:10:19
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah. do
00:10:19
ryanzymler
i Go ahead.
00:10:20
Shauna _she_her_
so But Legion of Allegheny gamers still exists, by the way. Flag.
00:10:24
ryanzymler
That's that's really cool.
00:10:25
Shauna _she_her_
I love, like, and that is my favorite thing.
00:10:25
Snacks _he_him_
Wow, what a legacy.
00:10:27
Shauna _she_her_
It's like, right? My video game club still exists.
00:10:31
ryanzymler
That's really cool. I like i had the the the consoles growing up. like I don't really remember much of Nintendo, just because of like i I think I was a couple years too young and my sisters weren't really into video games.
00:10:46
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:10:46
ryanzymler
um But I remember enjoying Nintendo at, like, my family friend's house. Super Nintendo had...
00:10:54
Shauna _she_her_
Mm.
00:10:55
ryanzymler
It's... Super Nintendo, I have a lot of really pure childhood memories of
Competitive and Fighting Games
00:11:00
ryanzymler
playing Super Nintendo, like... Playing up you know playing um whatever game like until you fall asleep at night in the summer and then like waking up and you're my mom would always be like you have to go outside and so i would leave but i would leave my super nintendo just like up and running because you couldn't fucking save so like you would come back in your you know somebody had unplugged it or turned it off or whatever and
00:11:03
Snacks _he_him_
Okay.
00:11:25
ryanzymler
much like the Charizard story, there's been a Super Nintendo Lodge in my large intestine ever since. um But I was not like a huge, huge gamer. ah my My adolescent male friends, um there's like a really weird period, we were talking about this recently, um where I just had like a really sort of stereotypical adolescent boy experience in ways that I think people would be very surprised by my personality type now. And Like that included, you know, land parties, like we, I really was never a Halo person, but we did have like GameCube parties.
00:12:04
ryanzymler
um And because I think GameCube was the Gayer version of those, those those systems.
00:12:06
Shauna _she_her_
Let's call it.
00:12:11
ryanzymler
um But it was not until
00:12:12
Snacks _he_him_
Mr.
00:12:13
ryanzymler
the pandemic when ah we were in lockdown and everyone was talking about Zelda and it looked so cool and so pretty and so I bought a switch and was one of those people that like i I was like waiting with bated breath it was like the only thing I had to look forward to was the delivery of the switch and that was there's a subdom joke in there too.
00:12:37
ryanzymler
um that was kind of like the step into it and then I finished Zelda and I borrowed Ryan's PlayStation 4 and I was like okay well now I just stay up late night at night and play a video games and ah you know it it has been a downward spiral ever since.
00:12:57
ryanzymler
i
00:12:57
Snacks _he_him_
An upward spiral. I don't know what you're talking about.
00:13:00
ryanzymler
Sure, sure,
Challenges in Gaming Fandoms
00:13:00
ryanzymler
sure, sure. I used to say the reason I knew I wasn't a gamer was because if there were ever like um crunches for time when I was like, I don't have time to do this, like video games is pretty much always the thing that goes first.
00:13:13
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:13:15
ryanzymler
That is slipping. That is that is greatly slipping.
00:13:17
Shauna _she_her_
Ooh.
00:13:17
Snacks _he_him_
had
00:13:18
ryanzymler
like I don't want to hang out with other people. I just want to play Fortnite with my stupid friends, which is, again, the weirdest fucking sentence to say. like I just want to play Fortnite.
00:13:25
Snacks _he_him_
I wonder how long this go last.
00:13:26
Shauna _she_her_
Never work.
00:13:29
ryanzymler
It'll last a while, but if nothing else, yeah, the next battle pass.
00:13:29
Snacks _he_him_
At least until the next chapter.
00:13:29
Shauna _she_her_
Like.
00:13:35
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, like at any given point, knowing that we could run into a 14-year-old, that like I hate, it's the one thing I hate about Fortnite.
00:13:35
Snacks _he_him_
Oh my gosh.
00:13:40
Snacks _he_him_
We've run into plenty of 14 year olds.
00:13:42
Shauna _she_her_
I'm sure we have, and I'm sure they're much better than us, but you know, we do pretty well for ourselves, all things considered.
00:13:43
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:13:48
Snacks _he_him_
You're doing good.
00:13:48
Shauna _she_her_
Like, I'm really, yeah, we, absolutely, like, we're,
00:13:50
ryanzymler
Yeah, yeah, we won one yesterday. That was pretty cool.
00:13:55
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah.
00:13:56
ryanzymler
It is, you know I think, really um fortuitous that we've been you know talking about doing this like particular episode for a while before we kind of got sucked into like daily ah ah Fortnite runs.
00:14:11
ryanzymler
But um now to be talking about video games together um after we have played video games together like for the past like three or four nights consecutively, um you know it just is cool.
00:14:12
Shauna _she_her_
yeah
00:14:22
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah.
00:14:22
Snacks _he_him_
Well, it didn't start with Fortnite. It didn't start with Fortnite. It was, we've been doing this with like, well, Shauna and I have been doing this with Elden Ring.
00:14:26
ryanzymler
Right.
00:14:30
Snacks _he_him_
You and I have been doing this with Mario and, um, SatBoy, you know, um...
00:14:30
ryanzymler
Right. Yes.
00:14:34
Shauna _she_her_
We had a brief flirtation with Baldur's Gate amongst us as well.
00:14:38
ryanzymler
it We did.
00:14:40
Snacks _he_him_
We did.
00:14:40
ryanzymler
And i I am here to say um I was largely the problem.
00:14:41
Snacks _he_him_
We did.
00:14:45
ryanzymler
It was too much.
00:14:46
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah, you didn't like it.
00:14:47
ryanzymler
i don't have I don't have the attention span for that. And no, sir, why do you only do this when I am um Yeah, Baldur's Gate was not for me.
00:15:00
ryanzymler
um
Upcoming Game Releases
00:15:01
ryanzymler
I don't have the attention span for it, which also gives me big time worries about um what's the call the game called Dungeons and Dragons, but um that's a different story for a different podcast.
00:15:13
Snacks _he_him_
I booted it up the other day.
00:15:13
ryanzymler
Speaking. Did you go?
00:15:16
Snacks _he_him_
I did. I still haven't beaten it on my single player. I'm like maybe like a couple hours left.
00:15:19
Shauna _she_her_
No, and I it's the game we have with Hector. I still want to, I think because we were, that was the one where we were the furthest and we had Hector as a playoff champion.
00:15:25
Snacks _he_him_
we were that was That was the furthest one I was in in a group outside of my solo.
00:15:29
Shauna _she_her_
Damn.
00:15:30
Snacks _he_him_
I think we're close to act two.
00:15:30
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah. Like.
00:15:33
Snacks _he_him_
so But we stopped months ago.
00:15:33
Shauna _she_her_
Which is pretty good.
00:15:34
ryanzymler
So one of um the questions that we got from the internet that this is actually a ah perfect time to talk about because you just mentioned it was um a certain mutual friend of ours who also happens to play Fortnite and Baldur's Gate commented that he wants ah you all to talk about the psychological impact of Elden.
00:15:34
Shauna _she_her_
Like.
00:15:41
Shauna _she_her_
Ooh.
00:15:59
ryanzymler
So Elden rings a game that I could
00:15:59
Snacks _he_him_
you want
Advice for New Gamers
00:16:00
ryanzymler
not get into.
00:16:01
Snacks _he_him_
you you had you never do You never tried. You haven't tried. I don't know what you're talking about. You can't get into. You haven't tried. I think you'd like it.
00:16:11
ryanzymler
I'm sure but it just looks really hard.
00:16:11
Shauna _she_her_
Well this is why I'm saying like Ninja Turtles is the baby step on it because it does the same kind of dodge and dodge attack.
00:16:13
Snacks _he_him_
Yes, so what?
00:16:17
ryanzymler
to
00:16:24
ryanzymler
John has been trying to tell us...
00:16:25
Shauna _she_her_
So where they're laughing because I've tried to get them to play the new, like, it's the roguelite Hades-esque multiplayer Ninja Turtle game that just came out for the Switch. And I think it it it's so much fun.
00:16:37
Shauna _she_her_
And I'm like, ooh.
00:16:37
Snacks _he_him_
Well, yeah, we, but that's not, that's, I don't know if that's a baby step to Elden Ring.
00:16:43
Shauna _she_her_
Just let me see if we can get them there, OK? Like, it's like, it's the It's filled up to everyone.
00:16:48
Snacks _he_him_
I want you to, it's like the hard part, the difficult part is taken away when you're playing with other people.
00:16:49
ryanzymler
So...
00:16:55
Snacks _he_him_
I mean, not completely, not completely, but.
00:16:56
Shauna _she_her_
That's true. No, that is absolutely true. It is a much less, like,
Debating the Hottest Video Game Characters
00:17:01
Shauna _she_her_
difficult on so many ways. Not the least of which is because having, you know, both Snex and our other friend Uxy to, like, guide me through everything and, like they're like, oh, well, you need this weapon and we're gonna go here and then we're doing this and we'll go there.
00:17:10
Snacks _he_him_
Mm-hmm.
00:17:14
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, yeah, here, I'll take out this bad guy. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. And I helped the whole time.
00:17:20
Snacks _he_him_
I have a proposition.
00:17:20
Shauna _she_her_
Like, it's
00:17:21
Snacks _he_him_
I have a proposition, Ryan. I have a proposition. All right. Are you muted?
00:17:27
ryanzymler
Because I had to yell at Toad.
00:17:29
Snacks _he_him_
I'm so sorry.
00:17:30
ryanzymler
It's okay.
00:17:30
Snacks _he_him_
It's okay, baby.
00:17:34
Snacks _he_him_
You play Elden Ring. All the way through, you can't just stop after like an hour or two, because then I will also do the same thing. You play Elden Ring all the way through, and I'll watch Buffy in entirety.
00:17:52
Shauna _she_her_
Well, okay. So is this, I say, I presume that this has been something that you've been reluctant.
00:17:58
Snacks _he_him_
I've been thinking about this and thinking about this since you asked me to be on this podcast.
00:17:58
ryanzymler
right yeah right Ryan has used Buffy as um a ah both a threat and a reward more than once in deal making.
00:17:58
Shauna _she_her_
soon
00:18:12
ryanzymler
This is not the first time he's offered to watch a show that I think he will love.
00:18:15
Snacks _he_him_
But this is the most, I think this is the best one yet. This is the best one yet.
00:18:20
ryanzymler
It very well could be. But okay, so then why is Ooxie talking about the psychological impact of it? Is it just him being silly
00:18:26
Snacks _he_him_
Oh!
00:18:26
Shauna _she_her_
So it.
00:18:28
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, it's terrifying sometimes, sure.
00:18:29
ryanzymler
Okay, I'm out!
00:18:30
Snacks _he_him_
um
00:18:31
ryanzymler
I'm out! I'm out! I'm out! I'm out! I don't wanna be scared, too!
00:18:37
Shauna _she_her_
And it absolutely like there's this one creepy bird monster and the whole of like, no, no, get the fuck away from me.
00:18:44
Snacks _he_him_
It's a monster game.
00:18:46
Shauna _she_her_
I hate this.
00:18:46
Snacks _he_him_
It's a monster game. that You're fighting monsters.
00:18:48
Shauna _she_her_
Okay, yeah, but I don't want this weird bird without wing fucking monstrosity asshole coming out after me flapping its fucking skeleton wings like touch my weird, no get the fuck out of here, fuck that noise.
00:18:49
Snacks _he_him_
The monsters are scary. Okay.
00:19:01
Snacks _he_him_
Well, that birdhood noise everyone.
00:19:02
Shauna _she_her_
Like, stop doing it, including myself.
00:19:04
ryanzymler
Also, hard... Smash cut to Ryan playing whatever that... What's the game?
00:19:14
Shauna _she_her_
Okay.
00:19:15
ryanzymler
Metroid Prime game?
00:19:16
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, Metroid Dread.
00:19:17
ryanzymler
With those...
00:19:17
Shauna _she_her_
Shout out to.
00:19:18
ryanzymler
Metroid Dread with those terrifying monsters that chase you down hallways, I was like screaming at the top of my lungs.
00:19:25
Snacks _he_him_
You were, you were on the edge of life when you
00:19:28
ryanzymler
I was on the edge of life and glory.
00:19:31
Shauna _she_her_
All right, here's a question that actually on that topic. Is there any video game character or bad guy historically who scared the shit out of you?
00:19:42
Shauna _she_her_
Like was there anything like as a kid especially but like or even like through modern times?
00:19:46
Snacks _he_him_
Like a bad guy?
00:19:47
Shauna _she_her_
Like obviously this Metroid Dread like creepy asshole.
00:19:51
ryanzymler
Or maybe, yeah, and maybe if it's not necessarily like a bad guy or villain, but like impactful scary shit. Cause I have a feeling you're, you have, you have a um specific answer that you are prepared to give, but yeah,
00:19:56
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah.
00:20:01
Shauna _she_her_
I absolutely do. I do have one that I thought of that I was like, I think there's one that immediately comes to mind when we're talking about scary things and it's so silly. So the thing I've always been scared of is Dayanagas from Star Wars video games.
00:20:10
ryanzymler
yeah share it and we'll share it.
00:20:16
Shauna _she_her_
So the Dayanaga, for those who aren't sure, is the tentacle monster that comes up in the garbage, the trash compactor scene, in A New Hope. And it like has like an eye, and like it grabs, yeah.
00:20:27
ryanzymler
Sure.
00:20:29
Shauna _she_her_
but And so in video games, though, like it's this octopussy, tentacle-y monster, and it is scared the shit out of me.
00:20:36
Snacks _he_him_
oh
00:20:38
Shauna _she_her_
And I was always so afraid of water levels.
00:20:39
Snacks _he_him_
I got it now.
00:20:40
Shauna _she_her_
Like I would get stuck in Star Wars games all the damn time because I would just be like, no, I don't want to fuck with this water level. It's like always heated water level.
00:20:48
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:20:49
Shauna _she_her_
And specifically because of Deinagas.
00:20:53
ryanzymler
and I, um, Ry, do you have one? I have a video game that I'm scared of.
00:20:58
Snacks _he_him_
not i played The first first-person shooter I ever played was Doom on the PC.
00:21:06
ryanzymler
Oh, terrifying.
00:21:07
Shauna _she_her_
Ooh.
00:21:07
Snacks _he_him_
It was surprisingly my was my dad's game.
00:21:10
ryanzymler
Graphic? Oh. Oh, what?
00:21:13
Snacks _he_him_
i my dad beat i know right My dad hates video games, but he he played Doom randomly.
00:21:19
Shauna _she_her_
Interesting.
00:21:20
Snacks _he_him_
It was when we first got the Windows PC with Solitaire and all that on there.
00:21:23
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, yeah.
00:21:24
Snacks _he_him_
And we played Doom. And I remember playing and enjoying it, but I was always just so afraid of just monsters jumping out at me.
00:21:31
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:21:31
Snacks _he_him_
You know, these 16 pixel looking things. If you look at the monsters now, it's hilariously bad.
00:21:35
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, yeah.
00:21:36
Snacks _he_him_
But like back then it was, you know, you know all the rage.
00:21:38
Shauna _she_her_
Oh yeah, i I would kill Nazis in Wolfenstein, but I hated, like Doom scared the shit out of me.
00:21:39
Snacks _he_him_
Doom's a very important first person shooter in history.
00:21:45
Shauna _she_her_
I wouldn't play it.
00:21:47
ryanzymler
um Yeah, my I remember playing PlayStation um and there was a game that was really similar to Resident Evil that was called Parasite Eve um and it was just it was really similar to Resident Evil from what I can remember in that like these things were kind of like deformed.
00:22:09
ryanzymler
zombie-looking things. um But the only thing I remember is that it had something to do with the mitochondria, um which as we all know is the powerhouse of itself.
00:22:15
Shauna _she_her_
our house of the cell yeah
00:22:18
ryanzymler
Why is that such a universal experience? Um, but uh, cause we're both chronically online too.
00:22:23
Shauna _she_her_
oh
00:22:25
ryanzymler
Um, so the video game that game scared the shit out of me.
00:22:26
Shauna _she_her_
ah
00:22:31
ryanzymler
There is a current like PlayStation game. I'm called control that in theory is so many of my favorite things you play as a girl character, which is a pretty much immediate interest point for me.
00:22:43
ryanzymler
Um, and you have like, uh, Psychokinetic powers so you have like telekinesis and some other stuff and I was like, this is my dream video game like it's like perfect for me and It's so fucking scary.
00:22:53
Shauna _she_her_
That does seem very on your leg.
00:22:55
Snacks _he_him_
Amen.
00:23:00
ryanzymler
It's so fucking scary you it's like this you work for this like um sort of metaphysical FBI type organization and um
00:23:01
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, I hate it.
00:23:14
ryanzymler
There's, like, people just, like, weirdly hanging from the ceiling, but they're not hanging, they're floating, but they look like they're hanging, and then, like, all the monsters are really scary.
00:23:22
Shauna _she_her_
Nope.
00:23:23
ryanzymler
I had to stop playing. I literally was like, I can't do this, this is too scary.
00:23:25
Shauna _she_her_
I was like, yeah, honestly, I think that's the biggest reason why I don't play Elden Ring more by myself is because I'm just like, it's a little too creepy.
00:23:36
Shauna _she_her_
And I'm like, when I want to play it, it's late at night.
00:23:37
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:23:38
Shauna _she_her_
And I'm like, no, thank you.
00:23:42
ryanzymler
You might have to figure out a new, uh, bargaining tactic, right guy?
00:23:46
Snacks _he_him_
We're gonna play Fortnite you'd be more scared of guns and monsters you're gonna die from a gun where they're gonna die from a monster
00:23:46
ryanzymler
Cuz, scary a-card?
00:23:53
ryanzymler
Alright!
00:23:54
Shauna _she_her_
ma
00:23:54
ryanzymler
Alright!
00:23:55
Shauna _she_her_
It got a real here a monster with a gunner for being all like but like Buffy
00:23:59
ryanzymler
And do you know what stops a monster with a gun? Nothing, honestly. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
00:24:06
Snacks _he_him_
definite
00:24:06
ryanzymler
God damn it, great response, Shauna. That's why you're the fucking pun queen. Okay, so, um Ryan, when did you sort of, like, become a gamer?
00:24:18
ryanzymler
So, like, you know, we both got Game Boys, for example, but, like, it didn't really stick with me.
00:24:21
Snacks _he_him_
Right.
00:24:22
ryanzymler
When did you become a game the gamer?
00:24:24
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah, I mean, saying that you play Pokemon as a kid isn't going to say that you're a gamer because that was literally every child.
00:24:28
ryanzymler
Right.
00:24:29
Snacks _he_him_
um But I've never had a council until I graduated college and had my own money.
00:24:30
ryanzymler
Right.
00:24:41
Shauna _she_her_
Mm.
00:24:43
Snacks _he_him_
But I would still go over to my friend's house and play like, you know, Nintendo 64, Smash, Halo stuff like that. um I think when I became like a nerdy gamer is when I got into Fire Emblem. It was probably middle school. Really I was only playing like the the typical Pokemon, Mario games on my Gameboy and not really adventuring out doing anything else. But then when I got into Fire Emblem,
00:25:09
Snacks _he_him_
And then that brought me into the Final Fantasy world, because I i heard when I played Fire Emblem, another game that someone said that I might like would be Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I was also on the Game Boy, and so I started doing more tactic games on my handheld systems.
00:25:24
Snacks _he_him_
And then I got to college, and then we did nothing but Super Smash, and we played all the time. And that's how I probably got good at the game.
00:25:31
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:25:34
ryanzymler
Which version of Super Smash was your first one?
00:25:34
Snacks _he_him_
And so now,
00:25:37
Snacks _he_him_
The furwell first one I ever played was on the 64, but it was a friend. The one we had in our college house was Melee from the GameCube.
00:25:47
ryanzymler
I really maintain that i I mean, I don't think I still could, but there was a while when I could whoop some serious ass on Super Smash Brothers Melee.
00:25:51
Snacks _he_him_
Who was your main?
00:25:54
ryanzymler
It was like Link, Zelda,
00:26:00
Snacks _he_him_
Oh.
00:26:01
ryanzymler
Samus, mostly girls.
00:26:02
Snacks _he_him_
Link's mine. Not Melee, though. And some pink juice, my meat needed, really.
00:26:05
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:26:09
ryanzymler
So Trana, when did you become like a gamer? When did it really stick for you?
00:26:13
Shauna _she_her_
Honestly, it was probably that high school college time. Like that was really where like I found like my group of friends and that like circle and like, especially like then hanging out with like my nerdy comic book store friends back home.
00:26:17
ryanzymler
Mm-hmm.
00:26:23
Snacks _he_him_
Mm.
00:26:26
Shauna _she_her_
And they were always like, Halo was like the thing. And like even once Halo 2 and Halo 3 came out, they still would hook up their original Xboxes and play Halo 1.
00:26:37
Shauna _she_her_
And it was like, that was the the game, like was playing this old Halo game.
00:26:37
ryanzymler
Mm hmm.
00:26:42
Shauna _she_her_
And so definitely like it just really home to like where I kind of found my love of like being competitive and wanting to get better and like seeing like the like professional like they got paid for it like back then in the day like people at Halo and like it was always my like if I didn't have to like do all this school stuff maybe this could be me but like I always thought like
00:26:45
Snacks _he_him_
I don't think I paid hell a lot now.
00:27:06
Shauna _she_her_
that was always just something that I found really interesting was getting involved in like, that's where like first person shooters were always my jam. Like I never really got into fighting games as heavily except for Tekken. I love Tekken for that's like my fighting game.
00:27:18
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah.
00:27:19
ryanzymler
You did kind of reawaken something in me. I loved fighting games.
00:27:21
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:27:23
ryanzymler
I love fighting games.
00:27:24
Shauna _she_her_
Interesting. Okay. Okay.
00:27:25
ryanzymler
Especially if they had a broad character of girl care like a broadcast of girl characters.
00:27:30
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:27:30
ryanzymler
Again, I don't even feel like I need to say that. um But I feel like I do need to say that.
00:27:33
Shauna _she_her_
Well, that's
00:27:34
ryanzymler
um
00:27:35
Shauna _she_her_
but Honestly, it's why I always, like in a very similar way, it's why I liked like the like the DOA, the Dead or Alive fighting games.
00:27:41
ryanzymler
Yeah. Oh, so fucking cunty.
00:27:42
Shauna _she_her_
I think it was always like very like, oh, it's so like, you know, like it has like boob engine for physics and like, well, like, but also like, I want to play like playing, it it was like the acceptable way of playing as hot women, and like,
00:27:48
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:27:55
ryanzymler
Right, for sure.
00:27:56
Shauna _she_her_
Were they very, like, but it' same for that exact same principle? of Like, oh no, I just, like, I don't want to do it to be, like, weirdly voyeuristic. I just think, like, oh yeah, this is very, like, fulfilling and fun.
00:28:05
ryanzymler
Yeah, this feels fitting.
00:28:08
Shauna _she_her_
Well, and honestly, that kind of makes me think of something to, going back to something that Snack said about like thinking about like RPGs and everything and like where, like before I, while I was still like coming to terms with like my gender, I would use RPGs to like create a character as like to play as a girl character.
00:28:08
ryanzymler
um
00:28:28
Shauna _she_her_
And I was always very like, I didn't want anyone to see, like I was always worried and nervous cause like, you know, it even though it was such a common thing, but like I was always something that I knew there was like more to it, but it was definitely an avenue of exploring gender for sure.
00:28:35
Snacks _he_him_
And.
00:28:44
ryanzymler
And I think the non-binary identity for B is um but much in the same vein. where it's like you can And i I think specifically what feels maybe important about it is like
00:28:52
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah.
00:29:01
ryanzymler
um the fact that you could kick ass as a girl. Like it wasn't necessarily just like I, you know, if I've had Sims characters, I probably made girls, I guess, but like I love the idea of fucking beating some dude up in four inch heels. Um, and again, there's also a subdom thing there too. It keeps coming up, but, um,
00:29:27
ryanzymler
the You mentioned like having people see, um and it kind of brought back a thought I was having earlier around when like playing video games with friends. um like Did you all have like specific games you played with, specific friends, or like that you associate with people.
00:29:49
ryanzymler
like When I think of like ah growing up with my best friend Anthony, Goldeneye is like so intimately woven into our friendship, but like part of the reason I was really
00:29:57
Shauna _she_her_
oh
00:30:04
ryanzymler
nervous I think to even start getting into playing video games was like with Zelda. Zelda intimidated me so much because I remembered playing you know the Super Nintendo one And then Anthony would play, and by that time, like when we had N64s and like Zelda games were coming out, I wasn't really like playing video games as often, but um Anthony loved them.
00:30:23
Snacks _he_him_
And then.
00:30:23
Shauna _she_her_
Oh. Yeah.
00:30:29
ryanzymler
And so he would play Zelda, and I would sit and be like, oh my god, that looks so hard. Holy shit, I can never do that. like He has, you know, he's a hockey player so he has great hand-eye coordination. I don't have that. I can't do that. And I was like very doubtful about how capable I was. um And that still kind of shows up like even like Ryan corrected me the other day when we were playing Fortnite. I was like kind of talking shit about myself not playing well.
00:30:59
ryanzymler
And I have played pretty well. i just I don't know what it is that makes me like feel nervous about it, but anyways, I'm really trying to get into like playing video games with friends and like those core memories of like you know Halo and shit. What were what were your um video game friends like?
00:31:17
Snacks _he_him_
um I mean, the only really person I played video games with outside my brother as a kid was my friends across the street who had Halo and the councils and stuff. So I guess I connect Halo with him. um I connect Mario Kart with my choir in college.
00:31:36
Snacks _he_him_
Um, we would, uh, at least my fli freshman sophomore year, when we would go on tour, on the tour bus, a bunch of us would bring our DS's and we had Mario Kart DS and we would play it like locally on the bus, like it's all like eight of us.
00:31:50
Snacks _he_him_
And I never really, outside of like, you know,
00:31:50
Shauna _she_her_
Oh.
00:31:54
Snacks _he_him_
Super Smash or Mario Party at like video at like summer parties.
00:31:57
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:31:57
Snacks _he_him_
I never really played video games against People, you know, I don't ever really played against my brother and like we're just playing against like ghosts and stuff So I didn't know I didn't know anything but I was like winning a lot um on the tour bus and so and I didn't like It's not that I didn't like I wasn't like happy but it felt it felt like I
00:32:01
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:32:19
Snacks _he_him_
something because like that at that time i wasn't really doing well in um college and so i was like pretty down to myself it was like that one little thing that i could look back first and i was actually like better at than these freaking nerds and geniuses so i connect mario kurt to like my my glee club days and then i also connect uh this game called Monster Hunter to this guy named Pat and he was already like the first person I played online when I was like an adult adult.
00:32:45
Snacks _he_him_
It's like when I graduated I played, I think Sean is might be familiar, are you familiar with Monster Hunter, Sean?
00:32:45
ryanzymler
Mm hmm.
00:32:50
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, I was actually thinking, I was like, ooh, that actually I bet is a game that we would have fun playing together, honestly.
00:32:54
Snacks _he_him_
Right. And there's a new game coming out next, uh, next year. Um, I, I, I have been trying to convince Oopsie. I don't think I'm going to get there anymore because the new one's coming out next year, but one came out for the switch like three or four years ago.
00:33:07
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, no, i like I think it might even be out for the PlayStation, too.
00:33:08
Snacks _he_him_
And yes, it is.
00:33:10
Shauna _she_her_
like Just saying, like it has a very fun, like similar like like weapon created character, selling monsters.
00:33:14
Snacks _he_him_
It's very good. But like, if we play, can we play in the switch? Cause I already have it on the switch.
00:33:21
Shauna _she_her_
That's fair.
00:33:21
Snacks _he_him_
Um, but, um, yeah.
00:33:23
ryanzymler
Yeah, online friends, you're saying?
00:33:26
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah, so like Pat was probably the first person I played online and then I connect Elvin Ring with Uxy and I think I will for the rest. Well, because he's just, it was, he was one of those people, he house also had the same exact lack of confidence that you did. He thought he was bad at video games. I don't know where that came from. Like he always, like he said, like, when I get a game, I stay on the easiest level of difficulty and it's fine. And I was like, what's fine? That's, you enjoy it that way. It doesn't mean you're bad at video games. And so I was trying to convince him to play Elden Ring because I saw him play like Horizon. I saw him play, oh God, what's that other game?
00:34:04
Snacks _he_him_
that Star Wars game.
00:34:08
Snacks _he_him_
Help me out.
00:34:08
ryanzymler
Me?
00:34:09
Snacks _he_him_
Yes, you played it.
00:34:09
Shauna _she_her_
that's the old republic oh um ah je yeah yeah all in order
00:34:11
ryanzymler
Oh, um, the force unleashed and like ah the one with the guy from shameless in it.
00:34:14
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah. Right.
00:34:16
ryanzymler
Jedi... something.
00:34:19
Snacks _he_him_
So I'm seeing him play. Yeah, I'm seeing him play these like RPGs and he's good at them. He's having a great time in Spider-Man. I'm like, you need to play Elden Ring. He's like, no, it's too hard. I'm like, yeah, it's hard.
00:34:29
Snacks _he_him_
But like, it's it's fine it's everything that you like about these games is something that you can find in this game and he's obsessed. He has strategy guys because I bought it for him but he would have probably got them eventually.
00:34:39
ryanzymler
yeah
00:34:42
Snacks _he_him_
You know he's just, it's it's such a good game that like I honestly think people would find joy in it even if you don't like video games.
00:34:52
Snacks _he_him_
I honestly do. that's how that's how good i think this game is You don't have to beat it, you know, to like it. But it's just so beautiful.
00:34:59
ryanzymler
It's a good sell.
00:35:01
Snacks _he_him_
It's it's it's they're like scary monsters. And yes, but there's also just beautiful scenery. It's if you care if you care to even look into the story, the story is crazy.
00:35:07
Shauna _she_her_
It's a gorgeous game.
00:35:11
Snacks _he_him_
and The guy who co-wrote it is the same guy who wrote the Game of Thrones series.
00:35:15
ryanzymler
Oh shit!
00:35:18
Snacks _he_him_
It's so good. It's so good.
00:35:20
Shauna _she_her_
Few agree that it's queer.
00:35:21
Snacks _he_him_
And you get to be
00:35:24
Shauna _she_her_
Because it it seems very it is very popular amongst queer people, generally. And I feel like there's a different element like where people find a lot of gendery, queer themes in it.
00:35:27
Snacks _he_him_
Uh, I... Right. Yeah, I just don't find a lot of
00:35:37
Snacks _he_him_
Really, anything in that? Like, I'm not... I don't look at any of these characters and be like, I wonder, I wonder what they're like in bed.
00:35:42
Shauna _she_her_
So fair.
00:35:47
Snacks _he_him_
I wonder, like, if I, if I, if I, um... You know, I don't, I don't find... myself thinking that it's too queer as opposed to like a Hades or a uh even a uh even a Spider-Man um because yeah are there are there romance options in all of it?
00:36:04
Shauna _she_her_
Interesting. Well, cause you ever played like a mass effects or like those kinds of RPGs where you get like the romance options and all that fun stuff as like, obviously like mass effects, one of my favorite series personally.
00:36:06
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:36:20
Shauna _she_her_
I don't know if there are.
00:36:22
Snacks _he_him_
I do well there is That's more incest than anything.
00:36:27
ryanzymler
Oh, Jesus. Again, really quick ways to lose me. You're like, you're three out of the ten hidden ah ah hard passes.
00:36:37
ryanzymler
I don't know what the other seven are, but Elden Ring might have them.
00:36:41
Snacks _he_him_
What incest?
00:36:41
Shauna _she_her_
Um.
00:36:42
ryanzymler
Well, she but yeah, that's that's up there.
00:36:44
Snacks _he_him_
maybe The guy who wrote Game of Thrones wrote this so what do you expect?
00:36:47
ryanzymler
m um There's something there too. um There was something that you just said about um like oh queerness in video games. so like who are Who are your favorite characters? Are there any characters that you've like decided are canonically queer? like Actually, let's take one step back before we go there. Very simple question. um What's your favorite video game of all time?
00:37:17
Snacks _he_him_
that that was but I didn't expect that was the question you were going to ask.
00:37:18
Shauna _she_her_
Mass Effect 2.
00:37:22
Shauna _she_her_
Mass Effect 2 is probably my favorite video game of all time.
00:37:23
Snacks _he_him_
um
00:37:26
Shauna _she_her_
it has just I love the companions, the story. it's a great you know like of I love the just so much of it.
00:37:36
Shauna _she_her_
like The gameplay of it is fun. I've probably played it one of the most of any game. like I think, especially for a single player experience, Mass Effect 2.
00:37:48
ryanzymler
Okay. Try again.
00:37:50
Snacks _he_him_
It's hard.
00:37:53
Snacks _he_him_
I want to say Fire Emblem. If you asked me which one, in terms of if nostalgia didn't play a factor, it would be three houses. But if nostalgia played a factor, it would be the one that I regular Fire Emblem. But it's Fire Emblem, I think, seven. It was the first one of recent in recent America.
00:38:15
Snacks _he_him_
um
00:38:15
ryanzymler
Oh, oh, you've told me that before.
00:38:17
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah, they had six in Japan before it came here, and they released it in America because they had two Fire Emblem characters in Super Smash, and so in America it was like, who's Marth and Roy?
00:38:25
ryanzymler
Oh, right, right, right.
00:38:27
Snacks _he_him_
Where are these characters coming from?
00:38:28
ryanzymler
Right, right.
00:38:29
Snacks _he_him_
And so then they released Fire Emblem in America, and that's when I start playing.
00:38:33
ryanzymler
That's an interesting tidbit because I do remember, I just thought it was like an old Super Nintendo game that like, I didn't know about, I didn't know.
00:38:40
Snacks _he_him_
this
00:38:42
ryanzymler
Oh, is it really?
00:38:42
Snacks _he_him_
It is. Marth is from, they're not from the same video game. Marth was from the first Scar emblem and Roy was from the sixth one, which was the most recent at the time.
00:38:46
ryanzymler
oh
00:38:50
ryanzymler
Got it.
00:38:50
Shauna _she_her_
Oh,
00:38:51
Snacks _he_him_
Marth was the first one I believe was released in like 1990 on the re original Super Nintendo.
00:38:55
Shauna _she_her_
oh, I didn't know that.
00:38:57
Snacks _he_him_
And they released it on the Switch and I tried to play it and it's so bad. I just was like, knowing how to play how much this game has evolved over the years and the different strategies they put into it,
00:39:12
Snacks _he_him_
the first try that they had. I'm sure it was fun at the time, but you know, I don't recommend that.
00:39:15
ryanzymler
Fur. Fur. so I don't think I have a favorite video game. um I mean, i I think I have games that I like a lot, but I don't think I have um one that like immediately comes to mind. um Do you have a video game that you immediately think of and you're like, I fucking hate that game. I can't believe if I waste money on it.
00:39:43
Shauna _she_her_
Ooh.
00:39:45
Shauna _she_her_
um I'm sure I do, first of all, like.
00:39:48
Snacks _he_him_
Maybe as a kid?
00:39:51
Shauna _she_her_
I have a thing that I will always say, fuck you, too, is the turbo tunnel and Battletoads.
00:39:57
ryanzymler
He even mentioned that before.
00:39:58
Shauna _she_her_
I fucking hate that damn turbo tunnel. It is the most frustrating maddening level.
00:40:01
Snacks _he_him_
Mine might be maybe the most recent.
00:40:03
Shauna _she_her_
I like love the conceit of the Battletoads. I think it's so cool. But my goodness, aggravating is shit. Hate it.
00:40:11
ryanzymler
That's hysterical.
00:40:14
Snacks _he_him_
like Pokemon games maybe, but I've beaten all of them and I will always play those Pokemon games and find some joy in it. I don't know, I rarely buy something that I think I'm not gonna like in terms of video games.
00:40:25
ryanzymler
Sure.
00:40:27
Snacks _he_him_
It's, you know, they're so expensive now, but that's 60, 70 bucks. It's like, I need to know I'm gonna like this.
00:40:32
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:40:32
Snacks _he_him_
So I, you know, watch, I might watch the trailers and get to see the hype and watch the reviews and stuff like that before I, you know, jump in and buy something.
00:40:42
ryanzymler
You do love a review ahead of time.
00:40:46
Snacks _he_him_
I do. I do.
00:40:47
ryanzymler
Ryan likes to know what he's getting into.
00:40:49
Snacks _he_him_
I do, you know? and I don't know what I'm spending money on. You know, I...
00:40:53
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:40:53
Shauna _she_her_
you like I mean, but I think that you're, so in our recent Fortnite playing, I think it's very important that we bring up the fact that we were sent maps of all of like the main treasure chest locations, and they were all compiled
00:41:03
Snacks _he_him_
and and and and and and and I'm not usually like this, I promise.
00:41:03
ryanzymler
Oh
00:41:08
Shauna _she_her_
And I was like, put that attention to detail and strategy is I think one of the things that I've grown, like, that I didn't necessarily know the depth and degree of about snacks and have grown to really love and appreciate about him and being friends with him and the way that he's like, I come in with this knowledge, here you go.
00:41:22
ryanzymler
yeah Yeah.
00:41:25
Shauna _she_her_
And like, and wanting to do, like, share that research.
00:41:27
ryanzymler
yeah and
00:41:28
Shauna _she_her_
I think that's such an important, like, friend trait and like, such a cool, like, thing that I've grown to really like.
00:41:35
ryanzymler
Yeah, there's something special about someone who can A, make you want to play a game and B will also be like fun and helpful to teach you. Like it's not, you're not always perfect. Like you're a human being, but in general, like one of my favorite activities is like playing a game with my friends and like just watching Ryan just be absolutely emotionally erect the entire time because like all eyes are on him all eyes are on him he gets to tell everyone how to play and we're all relying on his useful teaching tactics and uh i think it's equal parts about playing the game and just watching my friend do something that they really like i think it's very endearing not to just gas you up it's kind of weird that we did that for you but
00:42:21
Snacks _he_him_
No. But that's why you need to give me that gift again, so that when you play Elden Ring, I get to have that experience one more time. But then Uxy also gets to have that experience, and he will. Like, I love Elden Ring. Ooxie lives Elden Ring.
00:42:37
ryanzymler
Yeah, that's that's that's a thing. um um who's your Who are some of your favorite video game characters? and This was so full circle back to what I was saying about like queer characters, because I'm certain that Shauna has some like in the fucking chamber of her favorite queer coded characters, but um any favorite characters in general?
00:42:58
Snacks _he_him_
uh i'll always have a um always have a soft spot for for link um so because he's he's been not just like my main and smash i played most of the games um you know he's been he had a poster i had a poster of him on my wall
00:43:07
ryanzymler
Yes, I was thinking the same thing.
00:43:20
Snacks _he_him_
You know, people had like celebrities and stuff like that on their walls. Mine were all like nerdy stuff. It was like Buzz Lightyear, uh, freaking, uh, Link, Dragon Ball Z, you know, stuff like that.
00:43:30
ryanzymler
as opposed to your Black Panther and ah your adult versions of those.
00:43:32
Snacks _he_him_
Harry Potter.
00:43:36
ryanzymler
Meanwhile, just a soft visual read of my own self.
00:43:36
Snacks _he_him_
Oh, sure.
00:43:40
Snacks _he_him_
Right.
00:43:40
Shauna _she_her_
All
00:43:46
ryanzymler
Shauna, what about you?
00:43:46
Snacks _he_him_
Like,
00:43:46
ryanzymler
Who are some of your favorite characters?
00:43:47
Snacks _he_him_
yeah
00:43:48
Shauna _she_her_
Let's see, we have Iron Bull here, voiced by Mr. Buffy himself, Freddy Prince Jr.
00:43:54
ryanzymler
Oh, where are Freddie Perkins, Jr.?
00:43:55
Shauna _she_her_
So that's Dragon Age 3, and he is like one of the characters that is in your party, and he's like a romance option, and it's speaking of things you've alluded to multiple times, a great little, like, if that's something, that romance, very fun.
00:44:00
Shauna _she_her_
right.
00:44:12
Shauna _she_her_
but
00:44:12
ryanzymler
Oh yeah?
00:44:13
Shauna _she_her_
I also love you characters that aren't queer that should be in Mass Effect 2, the character Jack. ah If it's possible, we can put up like right here a picture of Jack and you will see her with her shaved head and tattoos and be like, oh yeah, that very heterosexual woman, of course.
00:44:30
Shauna _she_her_
And like and the reason is because there was a ah
00:44:30
Snacks _he_him_
Oh.
00:44:33
Shauna _she_her_
ah Bioware was worried about pushback from Republicans when it came out and so they made all of the romances only straight in it is the way downside of it, but also like she's so clearly like should have been a romance at least romanceable by both like femmeshep and broshep which are the names for
00:44:50
ryanzymler
Sure.
00:44:51
Shauna _she_her_
whether you are voiced by Jennifer Hale, who is also, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you're voiced by an absolute icon in Jennifer Hale, like is what also adds to why I love the Mass Effect series.
00:44:57
Snacks _he_him_
I can't, I can't.
00:45:04
Shauna _she_her_
And then Tali over here is like, she's so adorable, but also painfully straight in the game, but and I love it.
00:45:12
ryanzymler
Yeah. um i Link definitely, like Ryan said, has a soft spot in my heart, as does Princess Zelda.
00:45:16
Shauna _she_her_
Oh wait.
00:45:19
ryanzymler
um and i was And when she came out as non-binary as Sheik, really kind of a game changer.
00:45:19
Shauna _she_her_
And she, oh.
00:45:26
ryanzymler
I think Sheik was one of my main even though I just like the speed of Sheik on ah a melee.
00:45:31
Shauna _she_her_
Mm.
00:45:34
ryanzymler
um
00:45:34
Shauna _she_her_
I was gonna say, do you prefer to play with like fast characters is your like fighting game style?
00:45:36
ryanzymler
I do.
00:45:38
Shauna _she_her_
OK.
00:45:39
ryanzymler
Yeah, yeah. um So Shauna, you kind of alluded to it. um ah I don't even know if this is like a ah topic to talk about, but it's I think it's kind of relevant to all the things that we talk about on this podcast, which is how the fandom has ruined shit. um Just in general, like, you know, missing out on the opportunity to be able to romance a character just because Republicans are afraid or, you know, kind of thinking about adaptation of video games when they have that, like,
00:46:12
ryanzymler
full episode of the queer couple falling in love on The Last of Us, which was arguably one of the most beautiful fucking pieces of television released in the last few years. And of course, because they put someone gay in it, they, you know, lost their mind. It's unreal.
00:46:31
Snacks _he_him_
They must not have played the part two then.
00:46:32
Shauna _she_her_
And.
00:46:34
ryanzymler
Right, right. That's the other fucking thing that really
00:46:36
Snacks _he_him_
part Part two is very, part two is very gay.
00:46:40
ryanzymler
That's the thing that really gets me about the fandoms in general.
00:46:41
Snacks _he_him_
but
00:46:44
ryanzymler
like More often than not, they don't actually know what they're talking about. like they will literally One of my favorite things to see is when you know like nerd asshole toxic fans on the internet start talking shit about someone or talking shit to someone and then the person responds like kindly and with like factual information and the nerd's like oh fuck you you don't know anything and they're like i literally made this game like i literally wrote this book i wrote the dialogue for this and it's like yeah shut the fuck up you don't know what you're talking about you're just a dick bag
00:47:22
Shauna _she_her_
And there are so many dick bags on the internet. And honestly, that's I think been the thing that's growing up online and like playing on Xbox live, like the fucking no notorious like space for vitriol and hate where anyone with any perceived difference is immediately a target on like voice comms and like, especially like,
00:47:33
ryanzymler
Mhm.
00:47:37
ryanzymler
Mhm.
00:47:45
Snacks _he_him_
Alright,
00:47:46
Shauna _she_her_
you you know, once transitioning and then trying to play video games, like it was definitely something that was very like, you know, like I had to, I would always be aware of, cause like, I didn't want to make sure that like, it was like, cause it's one of those like, Oh, if I get less gendered and someone says something, then they're going to be shittier about it.
00:47:48
Snacks _he_him_
alright.
00:48:04
Shauna _she_her_
Then if I just like, be like, don't say anything and like, no, like it is like having to like figure out how to play all of that as such a, because there is such,
00:48:05
ryanzymler
Mm-hmm.
00:48:13
Shauna _she_her_
a toxic element to video games, despite it being such a beautiful and diverse medium both in terms of like, like in so much of his fandom.
00:48:23
Shauna _she_her_
And I think that there's something to be said for that.
00:48:24
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:48:27
ryanzymler
Yeah, and go ahead, Ray.
00:48:28
Snacks _he_him_
so So it's its you know it's's still like, as I feel like a lot of it is, like a male dominated area.
00:48:39
Snacks _he_him_
And a lot of those can can can bring out those awful stereotypes.
00:48:39
Shauna _she_her_
Absolutely.
00:48:48
Snacks _he_him_
That stereotype of the video gamer in their basement exists for a reason, because there's a lot of them.
00:48:51
ryanzymler
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and that's definitely a yes and, and this is, you know, the facilitator part of me coming out, but like,
00:49:02
ryanzymler
Yes, stereotypes are often based on like generalizable things, but then it also erases the rest of us. you know So it's like just as you know being tall and black, everyone just assumed that I you know play basketball. it's It's not truthful for everyone, but then the people that it is true and they don't fall into the like in category. So like us, for example, as gamers, like it's just,
00:49:30
ryanzymler
it's It's the definition of taking up space. like If you can't understand how people take up space or what it means to like dominate something, the fact that a person was afraid to speak because of how the other person was behaving is literally like the definition of it.
00:49:46
Snacks _he_him_
You're in.
00:49:47
ryanzymler
And it's so fucked up because all it does is limit who gets to enjoy something or attempts to limit to who gets to enjoy something.
00:49:59
Shauna _she_her_
Absolutely. Like.
00:50:01
ryanzymler
So um I guess one of the the final things um in our agenda for our conversation, um one of the other questions from the internet was about the controversy around the new Mortal Kombat.
00:50:15
Shauna _she_her_
What's the new Mortal Kombat?
00:50:16
ryanzymler
I don't know a lot, I'm not sure, maybe,
00:50:18
Shauna _she_her_
What's the new Kombat Proversity?
00:50:21
ryanzymler
Maybe the thing that I Googled, so this was a person that um I was interacting with on um Instagram, and so I did some quick Googles, and it seems like in the last installment of Mortal Kombat for Jax's storyline video, this little man is about to start barking, Toadstool Fiona.
00:50:24
Shauna _she_her_
No.
00:50:43
ryanzymler
leave it. um At the end of the last Mortal Kombat, Jax's video has him like go back in time and basically like stop slavery and like set but set right the course of like um of of like historical racism.
00:51:00
ryanzymler
i This is just what I got from watching the video.
00:51:02
Shauna _she_her_
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
00:51:03
ryanzymler
up But I think it then results in like major changes in the game or something. And so white dudes are pissed about it. And i that's that's all I could really glean. But I was wondering if either of you knew anything.
00:51:14
Shauna _she_her_
No, I've not. And maybe that's just one of those like, but like that sounds, that sounds like something a lot of white gamers would get upset about.
00:51:16
Snacks _he_him_
Never heard this.
00:51:20
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:51:21
Shauna _she_her_
That does check out like the math ads, the math is math thing, unfortunately.
00:51:25
ryanzymler
The math is maffing.
00:51:27
Shauna _she_her_
But like, but again,
00:51:27
ryanzymler
um
00:51:30
Shauna _she_her_
And I think that's one of those things with like, when you think of time travel and all of those kinds of like, like, yeah, I mean, I do, my favorite show is about time travel.
00:51:36
ryanzymler
And we often and do.
00:51:40
Shauna _she_her_
So absolutely.
00:51:41
ryanzymler
Dr. Who?
00:51:42
Shauna _she_her_
I've got no, the American gay one, Legends of Tomorrow, but yeah.
00:51:44
ryanzymler
Oh, I don't know.
00:51:47
ryanzymler
Oh, right. the That is the show that Shauna has been hard selling me on. One of our future podcast episodes or one of our future podcast themes is going to be you just have to get through the first season.
00:51:53
Shauna _she_her_
It's so good.
00:51:59
ryanzymler
um And Shauna says that Legends of Tomorrow has to be on that.
00:52:03
Shauna _she_her_
The best show you've never watched, absolutely.
00:52:03
ryanzymler
So I'm excited about that. Yes. Any um exciting news in the world of gaming? Anything you're excited that's coming out?
00:52:14
ryanzymler
ah Anything? Like, I know obviously as we're playing Fortnite, we've been talking about Marvel Rivals that's supposed to come out in December.
00:52:21
Shauna _she_her_
that And i was so I was like something that I wanted to get to. I was a big Overwatch girlie in the time before, and especially during the pandemic. like that was like I was friends with people in California, so I was staying up until West Coast times. and like it was i love ah I love a shooter, I love a team strategy, and all having different roles and getting to do different things.
00:52:46
Shauna _she_her_
I'm so excited for the Marvel Rivals game. i can like I'm literally like, I've got my chair on wheels. I'm very, I can't wait for this.
00:52:53
ryanzymler
I see.
00:52:54
Shauna _she_her_
like I think it'll be so much fun. like I think you all will really enjoy like that.
00:52:57
ryanzymler
Oh, I'm so stoked.
00:52:59
Shauna _she_her_
oh i think you would love and I think you would love Overwatch like as a general. like
00:53:04
ryanzymler
I'm curious about it. um ah i I only ever saw people like playing it on the internet, so I don't know much about it.
00:53:05
Shauna _she_her_
i
00:53:10
ryanzymler
But look, I thought i would never like fork i i thought Fortnite was for my nephews, and that that's it. So here we are with me being like, all right, can we hurry up so we can get some Fortnite in there?
00:53:24
ryanzymler
Brian, what what about you? Anything you're excited about?
00:53:27
Snacks _he_him_
ae Really, there's not too much coming up this year. A lot of stuff coming out next year. I think there's rumors going around that the new Switch will be released sometime next year.
00:53:43
Snacks _he_him_
There's a new Pokemon game coming out that's kind of in the same vein as what they tried to do for Legends Arceus, which was like more of like an open world type. It was a very different type of Pokemon game, it was a lot of fun.
00:53:57
Snacks _he_him_
A Monster Hunter comes out next year as well in the summer. I believe Wolverine also comes out next year.
00:54:03
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:54:03
Shauna _she_her_
Well, I forgot that that's still coming out. like
00:54:06
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:54:07
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, I still need to beat. so I still need to beat Spider-Man one and then play Spider-Man two.
00:54:12
ryanzymler
Oh, it's so fucking good.
00:54:14
Snacks _he_him_
So, so good.
00:54:14
Shauna _she_her_
I'm so like, and I know like those games aren't going anywhere, so I'm not worried about it, like.
00:54:19
ryanzymler
Yeah. ah A thrilling game. um Yeah.
00:54:24
Snacks _he_him_
I'll tell you something that I was maybe a bit disappointed with. The Miles Morales game.
00:54:29
ryanzymler
Mm hmm.
00:54:29
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:54:30
Snacks _he_him_
It was like full price and I beat it in like 10 hours.
00:54:33
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:54:33
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, yeah, it is a very.
00:54:34
Snacks _he_him_
It was super short. And I was like, why would you charge me full for this?
00:54:36
Shauna _she_her_
Because that's.
00:54:39
Shauna _she_her_
My kid is playing through it, because Miles Morales is his favorite Spider-Man. So he's like, I love playing. in it's And I still think it's funny that it's spin.
00:54:47
ryanzymler
Mm hmm.
00:54:47
Shauna _she_her_
And he's like, I love spin, because that's what his name is in the like little kid from the school of Spidey and his amazing friendship, which is adorable.
00:54:50
ryanzymler
That's so cute.
00:54:53
Snacks _he_him_
Thank you.
00:54:54
ryanzymler
Is it because he's like a DJ because he's like a a sound mixer in?
00:54:54
Shauna _she_her_
But yeah.
00:54:58
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, I think it's just because he has a spin move like that he does, is I think where the origin of it is in the first episode.
00:54:58
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:55:02
ryanzymler
OK.
00:55:06
Shauna _she_her_
i think's I'm not mistaken. Because he's really they really play up his um artisticness as like his niche, because um Gwen is the music one.
00:55:08
ryanzymler
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:16
ryanzymler
eight
00:55:16
Shauna _she_her_
And then Peter is the more sciency, nerdy one in that very regard.
00:55:22
ryanzymler
you um So if someone were trying to get into gaming, what's like a good suggestion that you have um for people that are maybe like,
00:55:23
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah.
00:55:36
ryanzymler
Uh, not ready to dive all the way in, but like a soft launch maybe.
00:55:42
Shauna _she_her_
Honestly, find friends that you want to be playing games with. I think that's the biggest way to get into it is to find friends who are passionate about the games and things they love and let them share that passion with you because it's, you know, it's very easy to get wrapped up in it.
00:55:47
ryanzymler
Yes.
00:56:03
Shauna _she_her_
So yeah, that would be my saying.
00:56:05
ryanzymler
Yeah, Fry, what about you? Sorry, that toad just screamed. That was so loud.
00:56:12
Snacks _he_him_
Yeah, this there's there's something for everyone, I think. you know If you don't like shooting games, they have like party games. If you like party games, they have strategy games. If the strategy is too hard, they have very simple games that require like like you can just turn off and still play them. you know there's there's There's games for everyone.
00:56:33
Snacks _he_him_
so um
00:56:34
ryanzymler
the games as I've heard them called where they just make you feel warm.
00:56:36
Snacks _he_him_
Right, so like if we if you if you if you know what you like and you tell your friends what you like, it's like a gamer and friend what you like, they might be able to push you in the right direction.
00:56:47
ryanzymler
For sure. So um one of the actually the most important question that we are asking our guests, that is like the definition of our podcast, who is the hottest video game character?
00:57:07
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:57:09
Snacks _he_him_
this is, I was going back to, um, cause I thought when you were, when you went back, who was your, what was your favorite video game the whole time?
00:57:15
Snacks _he_him_
I thought you're going to ask who was your favorite, um, queer video game character of all time, or someone who is considered queer.
00:57:20
ryanzymler
Sure, but you can still share that.
00:57:23
Snacks _he_him_
But I also think that this person is probably also liking of the hottest, and it's Ike from Fire Emblem, at least.
00:57:26
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm.
00:57:29
Snacks _he_him_
like from Ike from Radiant Dawn, not Path of Radiance. So Ike from Super Smash Brothers, you can actually have him in two different characters. There's one where he's like from Path of Radiance, where he's kind of a twink. and there's one in Radiant Dawn where he's a hunk and it's funny because he also has this really close relationship with this other character named Soren who's a small little mage and it's it's it's it's if you read their conversation together and you thought and like you would you would think they were like in a gay relationship but you know it's Japan in 2004 so right but uh i would say Ike
00:58:01
ryanzymler
Don't know.
00:58:05
ryanzymler
Good answer. Was he in um ah one of the Super Smash games?
00:58:10
Snacks _he_him_
and No, he was yeah he was in Super Smash Brawl.
00:58:14
ryanzymler
Yeah.
00:58:16
Snacks _he_him_
but so that's where he was and That's where he was introduced.
00:58:16
ryanzymler
sha
00:58:18
Snacks _he_him_
He's been in every one since, I think.
00:58:22
Shauna _she_her_
and so like trying to think of like the hottest like honestly iron bull is definitely up there like there's just something about the confidence and the way he carries himself and he's you know big strong imposing and i think that's probably like my favorite like male character that like really is like okay i don't like it like as for like i was trying to think who is like because there's so many like hot women in video games like it's obviously like and i think it's almost like
00:58:30
Snacks _he_him_
that
00:58:34
ryanzymler
Mm-hmm. So many.
00:58:50
Shauna _she_her_
It's very difficult to try and narrow down who actually I have a really a more recent one. The ah love interest in those Jedi games is so hot and I love their relationship.
00:59:03
ryanzymler
The one that's voiced by Debra Wilson.
00:59:06
Shauna _she_her_
Yeah, the word no, no, no, not Deborah Wilson, the one who's the like, yeah, the way to like very like I love.
00:59:09
ryanzymler
Oh, the witch. Yeah. See, Johnna, I'm disappointed. I fully would thought you were going to say the Debra... I mean, she is also very kind of...
00:59:17
Shauna _she_her_
I mean, that's fair, like, yeah.
00:59:19
ryanzymler
But when you said the love interest...
00:59:19
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, but I love, like, a jockey, like, oh, like that, like, that is what it is.
00:59:22
ryanzymler
Yeah, I love Agath. But Debra Wilson's character is just like modeled after her, so she's like bald-headed and so fucking studly, like, ugh, worked, I am.
00:59:28
Shauna _she_her_
Oh, yeah, it looks great, like.
00:59:35
ryanzymler
Love her.
00:59:35
Shauna _she_her_
Hmm, yeah.
00:59:37
ryanzymler
um I think, again, I don't have as, um, uh, like in depth of knowledge, but when Shauna mentioned Tekken earlier, um I immediately went to um Eddie, the breakdancing, like Eddie Gordo, I think he's he's Caribbean, he he does capoeira, and every time you say capoeira, you have to say it like that, um which is the art of dance fighting, which I remember some, wait, what is it, sex dance fighting?
00:59:55
Shauna _she_her_
Eddie Gordo.
01:00:03
Snacks _he_him_
fact
01:00:07
Shauna _she_her_
Sexy dance fighting, to quote Bob's Burgers. Big one, sexy dance fighting, capoeira.
01:00:14
ryanzymler
Yeah. Correct, correct, correct. I forgot that that was a thing on Bob's Burgers.
01:00:16
Shauna _she_her_
um
01:00:18
ryanzymler
The only reason, maybe that is actually where I remember it from. And also this weird, this white man that did it in college and I was on him. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:00:30
ryanzymler
Whoa, I was on the escalator with him and he was wearing a gi.
01:00:30
Shauna _she_her_
And.
01:00:36
ryanzymler
And I was like, I don't know if it's called a gi in Capoeira, but um I asked him what he was doing. He says, oh, I'm going to do Capoeira on College Green.
01:00:41
Shauna _she_her_
Oh.
01:00:45
ryanzymler
So just imagine this white theater guy doing Capoeira on, oh, he was College Green. um Yeah, I think i'm goingnna say I'm gonna say Eddie is up there in The Hottest Characters.
01:00:58
ryanzymler
The Tekken cast was actually really hot.
01:01:00
Shauna _she_her_
I can it's probably just a generally very hot like group of people.
01:01:05
ryanzymler
Yeah, I went and looked at, um I googled really quick Tekken characters, because I wanted to make sure his name was Eddie. And I was reminded of Heihachi, who was the daddy, like thick daddy.
01:01:17
Shauna _she_her_
Hachi, oh.
01:01:20
ryanzymler
ah And then, um ah oh, Waurong, even though I don't know if I'm saying that name wrong, he had the orang.
01:01:26
Shauna _she_her_
Ring.
01:01:28
ryanzymler
Yeah, I haven't played it in a very long time, so.
01:01:31
Shauna _she_her_
No no no I just like the oh gosh I always liked Bayek because I always thought he was a very hot like older guy like B-A-E-K yeah Bayek totally Oh
01:01:40
ryanzymler
Yeah. um The only other one that I was going to mention was King. the um but i hi Yeah, it was kind of hot.
01:01:46
Shauna _she_her_
with the mask the furry um
01:01:49
Snacks _he_him_
They start, just they started making Pokemon professors hot as well. Like the most recent, they like from the, if from like, I think they took the Alolan region, which is like the, like based off of Hawaii, the professor literally has like an open shirt as his like lab.
01:01:55
ryanzymler
Ooh.
01:02:06
ryanzymler
Working.
01:02:07
Snacks _he_him_
There's like this like app showing and he has apps. Like I was like, I'm like, what are we doing? so They know their audience.
01:02:13
Shauna _she_her_
So you're saying you want him to take of a special move?
01:02:15
Snacks _he_him_
They're like, we know how many gay people play this, should play this game.
01:02:18
ryanzymler
exactly yes yes and yes shauna he wants him to teach him his special move um so that'll wrap up it's super effective uh and actually before
01:02:26
Shauna _she_her_
It's super effective.
01:02:30
Snacks _he_him_
Body slam, body slam.
01:02:32
ryanzymler
yeah
01:02:35
ryanzymler
Before we sign off, let's agree to jump on Fortnite in like 20 minutes, but I have to eat dinner.
01:02:40
Shauna _she_her_
um
01:02:41
ryanzymler
um So thanks ah to Snacks for joining us. Ryan, do you want to promote anything? Share your social media. You don't have to if you don't want to.
01:02:50
Snacks _he_him_
Uh,
01:02:51
ryanzymler
I know you're private anyways.
01:02:52
Shauna _she_her_
Welcome.
01:02:56
Snacks _he_him_
I feel like if you want to hit me up on like play some video games, sure.
01:03:01
Shauna _she_her_
Oh yeah, he goes to your PlayStation.
01:03:01
ryanzymler
what's your What's your PlayStation username? Yeah,
01:03:03
Snacks _he_him_
like I think it's snacks so much.
01:03:07
ryanzymler
yeah that sounds right.
01:03:09
Shauna _she_her_
That does sound right.
01:03:10
ryanzymler
Yeah, hit him up on on PlayStation at snacks0909. He's usually playing with Helen Pastels and Call Me Mother. So Shauna, where can folks ah hear more from you if they want?
01:03:23
Shauna _she_her_
Well, I'm Helen pastels on Instagram and so come check me out. Give us a follow and also add on. Wait, what's our what is our podcast handle?
01:03:32
ryanzymler
Real hot nerd pod.
01:03:34
Shauna _she_her_
Thank you. I was like I knew I I do most of it, but I was like all of them together.
01:03:35
ryanzymler
Mm-hmm.
01:03:37
ryanzymler
Yeah. Decided to keep the word shit out of the handle. um You can follow me.
01:03:43
Snacks _he_him_
i't think I don't think you're allowed it to have it in your handle.
01:03:45
ryanzymler
Yeah, no.
01:03:45
Shauna _she_her_
Because you could do like ish, but like it's like you're.
01:03:46
ryanzymler
um
01:03:48
Snacks _he_him_
Mm-hmm.
01:03:49
ryanzymler
Yeah. Follow me at Intuitive Blurred or ah at RealHotNerdPod.
01:03:51
Shauna _she_her_
But yeah, no, we can play Fortnite.
01:03:56
ryanzymler
And if you want to follow us on PlayStation. Actually, I do have video that I think I'm going to try to edit for some YouTube footage of when we recorded ourselves um playing, ah was it Sackboy?
01:04:10
Shauna _she_her_
It was Sackboy. We were we were definitely having a lot of fun as in gosh it is a very fun solving puzzles together and also like we have to then do so like you're playing but oh god that is so me as like as a kid I used to be like standing and like and like it's
01:04:11
ryanzymler
Yeah.
01:04:22
Snacks _he_him_
I was off screen for half of it.
01:04:24
ryanzymler
Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:25
Snacks _he_him_
Because I stand up and play video games. I don't usually sit and play video games. If I'm in my living room, I'm i'm like standing behind the couch playing.
01:04:28
ryanzymler
Yeah, he likes to pace.
01:04:32
Snacks _he_him_
It's crazy.
01:04:33
ryanzymler
All right.
01:04:39
ryanzymler
ah It's not just the momentum thing. You're like, I think a lot of us, like when you're playing something hard, you're like standing up, you're like getting into it, you're using, but no, Ryan just prefers to play standing. He just stands.
01:04:48
Snacks _he_him_
I do. and do I will, I will, I will sit and play, I will sit and play like Baldur's Gate. But like if I'm playing Elden Ring or like Fort, in Fortnite, like I have a hard time sitting down.
01:04:56
Shauna _she_her_
who
01:05:00
Snacks _he_him_
Like I, when I, when I killed Doom, I was like standing in front of my television, like in front of my couch and I'm like looking up like this.
01:05:08
ryanzymler
Yeah, maybe I should try that, because I do feel like it probably makes you like more alert and shit, but you know I'm also usually weeded out by that time, so...
01:05:11
Snacks _he_him_
For sure.
01:05:17
ryanzymler
Okay, think thanks...
01:05:18
Shauna _she_her_
Austin the weed
01:05:20
ryanzymler
Yes, Lost in the Weed. Thanks, everyone, for listening. Check us out at RealHotNerdPod. See you next time.
01:05:28
Snacks _he_him_
Bye.
01:05:28
ryanzymler
Bye, cuties.