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The ANTiFannies 2025
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The Best and the Worst of 2025
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Introduction and Host Introductions
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BeyBlade
Hello, you are listening to the all new Anti-Fanboy podcast for the week of January 12th, 2026. But let me stop you there. We have a special edition of the podcast because this is the Anti-Fanboy, Anti-Fannies for the 2025 year. Let me hear you scream!
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BeyBlade
I said scream, not polite clapping. I need screaming. I need guttural roars.
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BeyBlade
I'm telling you, I love that. I love that. Can't get enough.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Keep, keep.
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semendemon
it sounds It sounds so like they're not too into it.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
keepb
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semendemon
You know, like, it's there're it's not, like uproarious applause.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. But then somebody's just like, no, let's keep it going. They actually tried.
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semendemon
It's very much like, yeah, all right, I guess.
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BeyBlade
They actually tried. Yeah.
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Steve-O
I'm not willing to scream, but...
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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semendemon
Yeah, like, it's it's fine.
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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semendemon
Whatever you're doing is fine.
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BeyBlade
Well, listen.
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Steve-O
I'm in a suit.
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BeyBlade
Listen, I'm in charge of this whole shit show.
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semendemon
All right.
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BeyBlade
My name's Devin Kopech, but with me is Steve O'Tierry.
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Steve-O
Hey, it's great to be here.
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BeyBlade
Chris Galanti.
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semendemon
Can't wait to talk about what's swirling around in the toilet bowls of our brains.
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BeyBlade
Yep. And the man himself who is in charge of pricing Lego products, John Suarez. How you doing?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man, it depends. Is it licensed by a multi-billion dollar most popular IP ever in the history of IPs?
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BeyBlade
650, 650. Easy.
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BeyBlade
Did you know they make the most tires? 650 Lego.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
How much is the...
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Steve-O
say waste me
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BeyBlade
so
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah lower The Lord of the Rings to set is more expensive, isn't it?
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semendemon
Is that true? Is that true?
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BeyBlade
and
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semendemon
More than Michelin, the restaurant,
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BeyBlade
ah that's been That's been the rumor that might be true for years.
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Steve-O
Yeah, yeah.
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semendemon
review
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Steve-O
It is.
The Toy Industry: Lego and Denmark
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What, that Lego makes tires?
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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Steve-O
Lego makes the most tires.
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BeyBlade
Lego is the largest manufacturer of tires in the world.
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Steve-O
They make the little rubber tires.
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semendemon
you know what You know why, guys?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah man, Riven... Devin Rivendell Rivendell is not even 650.
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semendemon
cause
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's only $500.
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semendemon
The Michelin man's too busy reviewing restaurants than to get to business making fucking tires.
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BeyBlade
See? here
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BeyBlade
Really?
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semendemon
That's all it is.
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BeyBlade
Okay, wait. Is Lego really the largest tire manufacturer? Yes.
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semendemon
Wow.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What are they?
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BeyBlade
By sheer volume producing for the cars, for the they produce hundreds of millions of miniature rubber tires annually.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What tires do they make?
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semendemon
That's crazy.
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Steve-O
They make the little tiny tires for their cars.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, there's countless tires.
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Steve-O
They count.
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BeyBlade
Dude, they're, yeah. Surpassing companies like Michelin or Bridgestone in unit count.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, I guess that makes sense.
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BeyBlade
So it's unit count. Yeah. But I just remember like that was the, that was like the, one the first factoids I ever learned as a child. Did you know?
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BeyBlade
was like, that's cute.
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Steve-O
I don't consider you a tire manufacturer unless you have a blimp.
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semendemon
I'm going to quote you on that.
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BeyBlade
There's a Lego blend, dude.
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semendemon
I'm going to quote you on that, Steve.
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BeyBlade
Don't act like there's not.
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Steve-O
Go for it.
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semendemon
All right. I'm putting that in some sort of ah biography. You said it, man. Not me. ah
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BeyBlade
Dude, you're on record, bro.
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semendemon
Yeah, dude.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, Lego lego is still a private lego still a privately owned company, which is kind of a flex, I think.
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BeyBlade
That's going to come back and haunt you.
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semendemon
You're on thin ice, bro.
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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Steve-O
Yeah.
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BeyBlade
Legos are Swedish.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um yeah
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Steve-O
day
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
of ah Danish. Oh
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BeyBlade
Oh, better watch out. We're coming for you.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
my god, 74 billion one currency.
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semendemon
they... Was it the same country that makes Ozempic?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Crones.
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semendemon
No, that's not.
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Steve-O
Oh, is that true?
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BeyBlade
but Lego? The Lego country?
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semendemon
I'm not sure. I'm not sure if that's the Lego country or not.
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BeyBlade
You know what?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know.
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BeyBlade
Dude, dude.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So many companies make Ozempic.
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BeyBlade
Lego Zempic, $250.
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Steve-O
That's how you get yourself a minifig.
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BeyBlade
That's sad.
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BeyBlade
that's set
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Who makes Zempic?
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semendemon
Make you thin.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me see.
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semendemon
They give you something to put together with some tires. Love these people.
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Steve-O
Look at this.
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semendemon
Love these people.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
A Zempic manufacturer. Novo Nordisk. Yeah, also Danish.
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semendemon
Whoa, they're just rolling in the Lego and Ozepic cash.
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Steve-O
Dude, a bunch of skinny bastards making little blocks.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They're
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semendemon
They're going to have money like Saudi princes.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
rolling. why Yeah, why is Trump trying to invade Greenland? He should be going after Denmark, to be honest.
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semendemon
Yeah, let's get these fucking thin ass, but very efficiently created model makers and let's take them over.
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Steve-O
yes
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BeyBlade
Well, Denmark's... ah so yeah
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semendemon
And you can quote me on that.
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BeyBlade
Would you support it? Would you support it if he was able to guarantee cheaper Lego prices?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't care.
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Steve-O
Legos are expensive.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, i mean the the thing is, is like i mean i bought we bought a lot of Legos this year for Christmas.
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BeyBlade
That's not a no.
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semendemon
Legos are so expensive, Devin.
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BeyBlade
That's not an immediate no.
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Steve-O
They're very expensive.
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Steve-O
You hesitated. You did hesitate, John.
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BeyBlade
You did, dude. That was... Yeah.
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semendemon
They're so expensive, Devin.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. Listen, I said this before.
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Steve-O
I want to get that Deku tree.
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BeyBlade
I said this before. i live in a glass house. I can't speak.
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Steve-O
You do?
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BeyBlade
I can't speak about expensive tiny things.
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Steve-O
you don't have walls?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah The thing is, they're all it's they're always expensive, Legos.
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BeyBlade
I.
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semendemon
Oh, I see what he's saying.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But...
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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semendemon
He's talking about his Warhammer 40k collections.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm saying I can't be like, ah can you believe it
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Steve-O
Oh.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's too expensive. Toys expensive? Fuck that. Yeah, that's your...
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semendemon
Would you take over England? Where do they make these things?
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Steve-O
Yeah, that's like UK, right?
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BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
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Steve-O
That's...
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semendemon
You okay?
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BeyBlade
yeah it's
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah, Warhammer. Dude, Warhammer Land?
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BeyBlade
It's literally, it's like the most England, it's Nottingham, England.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
When is that coming out?
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semendemon
Dude, we could take that.
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BeyBlade
Like, it's the most.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Notting him.
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semendemon
Devin, we could take over Denmark and Nottingham in like an afternoon.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Notting him.
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Notting him. Notting him.
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Steve-O
Not to come in.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. All right. How? I think 2027.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Notting Notting him.
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semendemon
Yeah, easy, easy, easy mode.
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BeyBlade
They just announced
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wait, so Warhammer World is opening in DC when?
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BeyBlade
i think twenty twenty seven they just announced it
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, what the fuck?
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BeyBlade
this to the
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They can't do it this year? Could have gone there for your bachelor party, bro.
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BeyBlade
I mean, they might, but... du
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
do Do we even have one in um in the US at all that we can go to?
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BeyBlade
No, no, there's only one in the u k
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
In Nottingham? Nottingham?
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BeyBlade
Where is Games Workshop?
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semendemon
We can take these countries over. We can make all this a lot of cheaper for us, guys.
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BeyBlade
They are based out of...
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semendemon
And all it takes is one phone call to Donald Trump because he will do it.
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BeyBlade
Yeah, Nottingham, England. Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Warhammer World.
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semendemon
It's not hard.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, dude.
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Steve-O
Oh, for Devin? Yeah, I could do that for Devin.
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semendemon
Everybody likes the Warhammer
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wait, and they're they're they're opening it in D.C., Devin?
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BeyBlade
It said ah outside of the DC area.
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Steve-O
Washington, D.C.?
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yo, at least we can drive there, bro.
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BeyBlade
That's what I'm saying, bro.
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Steve-O
You know, I've always said Maryland is very fit for the forty j universe.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you know, I've always and I've always loved Warhammer my whole life.
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BeyBlade
if Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I've always been a huge fan.
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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semendemon
Yeah, I've been to mayor i've been to Baltimore.
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semendemon
let me tell you, there's some war hammering going on down there.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There is a lot of Warhammer going on.
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semendemon
What are you talking about, Rob?
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BeyBlade
Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Going in Baltimore.
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BeyBlade
they they Somebody war hammered my car windows.
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semendemon
Rob's back.
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Steve-O
Crack for the crack god.
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BeyBlade
Yeah, i was pretty sick.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What do you do at Warhammer Worlds? You just paint?
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BeyBlade
I don't really know. um It's kind of like a.
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Steve-O
it just like a games workshop? It's just like a really big games workshop.
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BeyBlade
So it's basically, yeah, it's basically like you can go there, you can buy shit, it's you can play games there, obviously. It's where all the sick dioramas are.
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Steve-O
They got rides.
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BeyBlade
Like, no, they don't.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man.
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BeyBlade
I mean, maybe, but I don't think so.
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semendemon
Dude.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh man, Devin, the new the new year preview is coming in three days from Games work Workshop.
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semendemon
A Warhammer fucking rollercoaster would kick my fucking ass.
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BeyBlade
I know. Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, you excited?
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BeyBlade
It's a bunch of, you know, it's a bunch of, but um, there's you're on black art, uh, type models are going to start getting announced. Um, there's a
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we go.
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semendemon
Here we go.
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BeyBlade
Titus, uh, Titus got a new model from space Marine to the game. A new model guys.
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semendemon
there we go
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BeyBlade
new campaign New campaign book dropped, 500 Worlds, where he's got to he's got take back the 500 Worlds of Gilliman's mini empire they created during the Horus Heresy.
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Steve-O
Isn't this...
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah
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Steve-O
I believe this is how they...
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, you know, aren't, look, any?
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BeyBlade
You guys don't know about this?
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Steve-O
No, I did, because they did this on the Golden Globes last night for their intro.
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semendemon
Yeah, they talked about this for an hour and a half.
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BeyBlade
yeah
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Steve-O
Yeah. Ha ha ha ha
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BeyBlade
Oh, I missed the Nikki Glaser bit about it, I guess.
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semendemon
Unbelievable.
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Steve-O
but
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semendemon
There was a 30-minute UFC presentation and then an hour and a half about Warhammer 40K.
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BeyBlade
did yeah
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semendemon
I couldn't believe what I was watching. It's a bunch of theater nerds with their mouths wide open the whole time.
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BeyBlade
Yo, did I produce this in my sleep, bro?
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BeyBlade
exactly
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semendemon
What the hell is this? Guy didn't like his meal. was crazy.
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BeyBlade
What?
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semendemon
Should have watched it, Devin. You missed out, bud.
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BeyBlade
I guess I should have.
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Steve-O
This is how you get out of a rear naked choke. What the fuck?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, we can go to Otacon for your bachelor party if if you want to.
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BeyBlade
You use your chainsword.
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BeyBlade
Otacon?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
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BeyBlade
Just like my Japanese enemies.
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Steve-O
Metal Gear.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's It's basically the same thing as going to a strip club, in my opinion.
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BeyBlade
Metal Gear.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So just get it all out there.
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BeyBlade
yeah Oh, trust me.
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semendemon
Yeah, that's a good point.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know?
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BeyBlade
I agree.
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semendemon
Get all your destructive urges out.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's it's just anime.
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BeyBlade
Now, dude, you want to see you want to see a self-hating fucking nerd?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Anime boobies.
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BeyBlade
You get me sauced up at a fucking con convention like that, like a mag fest you know, classic on or an oticon.
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semendemon
You just pretend you're not not into it.
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Steve-O
Also, this past weekend.
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BeyBlade
Dude, I'm just like, I hate these fucking people out there. They be happy and feel comfortable in their own skin. Like, I become...
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semendemon
You're like that meme. You're the meme, the guy in the corner.
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BeyBlade
Dude, I become a psycho, dude.
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semendemon
There's
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Steve-O
Devin's going to be surrounded by eight berries crying, hugging each other.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
guys got Do you guys have passports? you guys have US passports?
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BeyBlade
I do.
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Steve-O
No, I got to get one.
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semendemon
I gotta get one too
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BeyBlade
You guys should...
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Get one before August 16th. PokeCon Fest at Niagara Falls. Oh no, actually you don't need it.
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semendemon
Oh my god. I gotta take off work.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's in New York.
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semendemon
Holy shit. I had no idea.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they done with it
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BeyBlade
I
Anime and Furry Conventions: Enthusiasm and Humor
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and and I have a list of anime conventions.
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BeyBlade
got to take off work for this.
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semendemon
PokeCon.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's a lot of anime conventions this year. I'm looking at an entire list.
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semendemon
Gonna meet Pikachu.
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BeyBlade
Oh, no, there's a billion of them. Yeah.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
SukiCon?
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semendemon
Squirtle's gonna be there.
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BeyBlade
You know, actually, I'll say one of one of the more wholesome things Jenny and I do.
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semendemon
He's gonna be answering questions.
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BeyBlade
She really likes like the cosplay. So like on on YouTube, there's all sorts of like channels that are just like. They just do, you know, just do photo shoots and videos of all the cosplayers.
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BeyBlade
And then she's like, who is that? What's that? Which one's that? And then, you know, we play the game because I'm like, listen, that's too deep. It's too deep for me. um I'm not I'm not that cool.
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semendemon
What's your percentage rate for that?
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah. What's your hit rate?
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Steve-O
Yeah.
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BeyBlade
um It kind of depends on the con, right? Like a ah New York Comic Con.
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BeyBlade
Pretty good.
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Steve-O
Can you pull up one of these videos and we watch it right now and see how many you can get?
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BeyBlade
No, they take too long, unfortunately.
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Steve-O
Okay, that's fair. That's fair.
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BeyBlade
Like, they they just do, right?
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Steve-O
That's fair.
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genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what's the What's the deepest cut you had in there? Like, what's the most obscure one that you knew?
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semendemon
What was the thing that ah made her the most disgusted when you knew it
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BeyBlade
Oh.
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BeyBlade
Disgusted? i don't know
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semendemon
Yeah, when youre when you were like, they didn't see me standing here. And she just was like, you know?
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BeyBlade
You know what? I'll be honest. I think I've successfully have avoided disgusting. Like, don't think she's ever been disgusted by my...
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semendemon
Okay.
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Steve-O
Or she just hasn't told you.
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BeyBlade
My knowledge.
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semendemon
Yeah, I kind of believe that.
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BeyBlade
Yeah. But like, like, ah
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Steve-O
How many times have you had to pretend like you didn't know someone, even though you did?
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BeyBlade
oh, you know what?
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semendemon
Ooh, that's a good one.
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BeyBlade
i I don't think I have. I think we're past that. You know, I think our relationship is past that point.
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semendemon
Okay, I'm glad that you're open enough.
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Steve-O
You know what? That's good. That's good.
00:10:29
semendemon
Yeah, but you you had to be.
00:10:29
Steve-O
That's good.
00:10:31
semendemon
You've had to be.
00:10:32
BeyBlade
but ah But it's funny because she like she's into it. but then So, of course, like my algorithm blows up. And then she like fucking calls me out because like then it's on my, you know, hey, you would like this.
00:10:42
BeyBlade
And it's just like a chicken fucking swimsuit cosplay.
00:10:46
semendemon
But yeah, you didn't you didn't say percentage. What's your what's your what's your hit rate?
00:10:49
BeyBlade
Well, like it depends. Like a Comic-Con, like New York Comic-Con, and I'm pretty high. But like a MagFest or like a WonderCon or something like that, like something I'm not really super familiar with.
00:10:57
semendemon
Oh boy. The deep cuts.
00:11:00
BeyBlade
they like um half the Genshin impact cast is on there. And I'm like, I have no fucking clue. Like I got nothing for you, dude.
00:11:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I would have suggested this one, but it's too late, unfortunately.
00:11:13
Steve-O
What's that?
00:11:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Here, I'm pasting it and here. I'll let you read it.
00:11:17
semendemon
Some weird fucking con. Is that what this is?
00:11:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I really would have liked to do this for Devon's Bachelor Party for Pocalypse 2026. How
00:11:27
semendemon
Oh, dude, Devin.
00:11:29
Steve-O
in Stanford.
00:11:30
BeyBlade
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on on Is this what I...
00:11:31
Steve-O
Well, I can drive it.
00:11:32
BeyBlade
If this is what I think it is, i watched a YouTube video about this.
00:11:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
how many did you know in this one?
00:11:38
BeyBlade
Oh, for...
00:11:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And this one's in Stanford, Connecticut, so it's like right between us and Sten.
00:11:39
BeyBlade
Never mind. Never mind.
00:11:41
semendemon
Oh, you watched the YouTube video about that, did you?
00:11:42
BeyBlade
no.
00:11:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah.
00:11:44
BeyBlade
No, I didn't. I didn't know about that one.
00:11:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh yeah.
00:11:45
semendemon
Oh, did you now?
00:11:47
semendemon
Was it on YouTube?
00:11:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah.
00:11:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:11:48
semendemon
Was it not Pornhub?
00:11:48
BeyBlade
No, no, no. So the one i thought you were talking about was like literally like a Mad Max type con.
00:11:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh yeah.
00:11:56
BeyBlade
That's like out in the desert because I heard I heard apocalypse and I was like, oh, OK.
00:11:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
so not Furpocalypse.
00:11:58
semendemon
You wish. No, we're not talking about Burning Man. We're talking about for Apocalypse, okay?
00:12:02
BeyBlade
Yeah, for.
00:12:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're talking about Furpocalypse. Furpocalypse.
00:12:05
BeyBlade
As we we all know that Steve's the secret, he's the secret weapon here.
00:12:08
semendemon
Oh, yeah, of course, but you would get turned.
00:12:10
BeyBlade
Come on.
00:12:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Guys, maybe this isn't a bachelor party, but we'll just go to this one.
00:12:12
semendemon
That's the Jersey one.
00:12:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's in Fairfield, New Jersey.
00:12:21
Steve-O
I've heard of people talk about Colossal.
00:12:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Forget about
00:12:23
Steve-O
Whoa.
00:12:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Forget about it.
00:12:24
BeyBlade
Oh, you hurt you heard?
00:12:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let's go!
00:12:25
semendemon
that's the jersey one
00:12:26
BeyBlade
you were ah Hold on.
00:12:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's at the bubble tree in Fairfield.
00:12:28
semendemon
That's the Jersey one.
00:12:30
Steve-O
whoa Okay.
00:12:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh
00:12:32
Steve-O
All right.
00:12:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's the bubble tree in fairfield
00:12:32
semendemon
I think we all get that. I think we understand.
00:12:35
BeyBlade
You know what Listen, listen.
00:12:37
semendemon
I think I'm going to dress up as the fur version of Tony Soprano like I was planning.
00:12:37
BeyBlade
I'm going to take the hit here. going to tell you right now.
00:12:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We can all dress up.
00:12:41
BeyBlade
i'm I'm going to take the hit here, and I'm going to Google this to see what location we're at.
00:12:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Forget about it.
00:12:49
BeyBlade
Do you wait for about it?
00:12:50
semendemon
Big fur bear Tony Soprano.
00:12:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This would be perfect. Here's the convention site.
00:12:54
BeyBlade
2026.
00:12:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm watching the video now.
00:12:57
semendemon
Man, it's at a hotel.
00:12:57
BeyBlade
Dude, oh, you're watching the video.
00:12:58
semendemon
It's going wild.
00:12:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah. We got to this.
00:12:59
BeyBlade
okay
00:13:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We have to, I think. Hold on.
00:13:03
BeyBlade
OK. Do we have to.
00:13:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me show you the Let me show you the picture.
00:13:05
Steve-O
I like that Devin's like, do it.
00:13:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i say the vi Oh, okay.
00:13:09
Steve-O
Yeah, do it.
00:13:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
that That's not the picture. That's not the picture.
00:13:11
BeyBlade
do all right.
00:13:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Where is it?
00:13:12
BeyBlade
This is my concern, right? It's just like at a double tree. It's like, bro, that grouping is too small.
00:13:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, no, but look at this.
00:13:16
semendemon
Yeah, dude, it's going get real.
00:13:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
look at this Look at this picture from from last year.
00:13:18
semendemon
It's going to get real. We're going to get to know a lot of people. Or I'm sorry, furries.
00:13:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, it's 80s. It's 80s themed this year, Devin.
00:13:25
semendemon
Like fur personas.
00:13:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's 80s themed.
00:13:27
BeyBlade
Alright. Alright.
00:13:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay? Look at all those happy for fur babies.
00:13:30
semendemon
Oh, it's AC.
00:13:31
BeyBlade
You know what?
00:13:32
semendemon
That's a lot of people. that They can't fit comfortably in that convention.
00:13:35
BeyBlade
Could you imagine because gilani can you imagine just Galani in the middle of that?
00:13:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And a double tree. Look at that.
00:13:39
BeyBlade
Like, just out of costume? Like, hey! Just waving.
00:13:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That would be so sick.
00:13:41
BeyBlade
Like, who's that guy?
00:13:44
Steve-O
No, they'd make you wear wear one of the masks, like the one guy to the left who is just...
00:13:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we'd have to be. Yeah, we'd have to. Dude, know i would I might go all in if we go to one of these things. I might just buy a whole suit.
00:13:51
semendemon
There's a guy who's wearing what I can imagine is a teal or aquamarine lizard mask.
00:13:52
BeyBlade
You might get...
00:13:58
semendemon
That'd probably be me.
00:14:01
semendemon
That's more of a where of Waldo situation.
00:14:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I feel like Stin and Michelle would be down.
00:14:04
semendemon
I don't want to do that.
00:14:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm just saying.
00:14:06
Steve-O
Ooh, I don't know I don't know.
00:14:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
be that You don't think they'd do this?
00:14:09
BeyBlade
Now i you know what, now I'm invested because i I want to see how uncomfortable we can make, we can make some people.
00:14:13
Steve-O
You want to see how other people handle it.
00:14:19
Steve-O
Whoa, i okay.
00:14:19
semendemon
Yeah.
00:14:20
Steve-O
I see what someone without a without a mask on over there. Look at that.
00:14:23
semendemon
Woo!
00:14:23
BeyBlade
Oh, oh, is that a, that's a cardinal sin, right?
00:14:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah, let me see. Oh, yeah, there's a couple.
00:14:26
semendemon
Damn. Oh, I see one.
00:14:26
Steve-O
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:27
semendemon
I see one. Yep.
00:14:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's a couple baldies in here, non-fur babies.
00:14:32
semendemon
Oh, I see one, if two.
00:14:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but there's a guy thats that's just wearing a mask. I could be that guy. We could be that guy. He's just wearing a mask.
00:14:37
semendemon
There's a guy in a top hat. Yeah, he's just wearing a mask all the way to little to the left.
00:14:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Who would I be?
00:14:42
semendemon
He looks like a fun character.
00:14:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what What mask would I wear at Forget About 2027. twenty twenty
00:14:48
semendemon
telling you, man, I'm that teal lizard guy.
00:14:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, i would I would pay for like the professional photos and shit, too.
00:14:53
BeyBlade
Chris, there's like literally 150 furries in this photo. You can't say I'm the.
00:14:57
Steve-O
No, you're looking at the one with the Loki t-shirt, right?
00:14:57
semendemon
I know. Yeah, dude, exactly.
00:15:00
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:15:00
BeyBlade
Dude, what are you?
00:15:02
semendemon
Nailed it, man.
00:15:03
Steve-O
Dude, nailed it.
00:15:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yo!
00:15:04
BeyBlade
What are you talking about, dude?
00:15:05
Steve-O
Zoomed right in.
00:15:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um Devin, would Jenny be uncomfortable with this?
00:15:11
BeyBlade
I don't.
00:15:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we If we went to a furry convention.
00:15:12
BeyBlade
If like without her.
00:15:15
semendemon
more so than a strip club.
00:15:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:15:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I think this might be a little bit more dangerous than a strip club.
00:15:19
BeyBlade
I think, yeah, I think she'd rather me go to a strip club.
00:15:24
semendemon
At least she can like, be like oh, he went to a strip club.
00:15:25
BeyBlade
I'll ask her.
00:15:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn it.
00:15:27
semendemon
She can't tell anybody about what it is.
00:15:28
Steve-O
All right, Devin, either way, you have to dress up as Crash Bandicoot to both.
00:15:31
BeyBlade
Well, remember, remember.
00:15:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, where are you?
00:15:32
semendemon
Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
00:15:33
BeyBlade
I
00:15:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You have to wear a King. you have to wear a Tekken King mask wherever we go.
00:15:36
BeyBlade
i mean, remember, like a very prominent on my social media is that picture with me hanging like laying with those furries. It was I always had asked to answer that question.
00:15:48
BeyBlade
So you like, uh, I'm like, no, no, I just, I just, it was a sick fucking photo.
00:15:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Are you one of those guys?
00:15:50
semendemon
Definitely. Definitely.
00:15:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you one of those guys?
00:15:52
Steve-O
No, i'm I'm just hanging out.
00:15:53
BeyBlade
They're like, okay.
00:15:54
Steve-O
I'm chill.
00:15:54
semendemon
Definitely.
00:15:55
Steve-O
I'm chill.
00:15:55
semendemon
I'm all the way in.
00:15:56
BeyBlade
I bet you somebody probably snooped in my closet when I was sleeping.
00:15:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
would tim Would Tim come with us to this? Would Tim come with us to this is the question.
00:16:00
Steve-O
um No. But then again, it's hard it's hard to get Tim.
00:16:02
BeyBlade
Tim would say yes.
00:16:03
semendemon
Listen, I...
00:16:03
BeyBlade
And then an emergency would come up.
00:16:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:16:05
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:16:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Tim would say yes.
00:16:06
semendemon
At every...
00:16:06
BeyBlade
That's what.
00:16:06
semendemon
Almost every job that I've had in my life, I've shown them my men in yoga pants picture. Like, I make it a point to Google myself.
00:16:12
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:16:15
semendemon
Or just Google.
00:16:15
BeyBlade
I feel like that's that's your resume. No words. You just go here.
00:16:21
semendemon
I'd be proud.
00:16:22
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:16:22
semendemon
I'd be proud to wave this flag.
00:16:26
Steve-O
I feel like the SEO for that, Chris, has dropped a lot.
00:16:29
semendemon
Yeah, well, I...
00:16:29
BeyBlade
What? but Furries?
00:16:30
semendemon
Listen...
00:16:31
Steve-O
No, the men in yoga pants.
00:16:33
BeyBlade
Oh, Okay.
00:16:34
semendemon
You're right.
00:16:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:16:34
semendemon
I mean, it's not as um you know controversial. you know But still.
00:16:40
Steve-O
You were number one on Google Images for like years and years. Now you're your second row.
00:16:44
semendemon
I'm still... I'll take second row. I'll take it. I have no problem with that.
00:16:50
BeyBlade
That's the internet, bro.
00:16:52
semendemon
That's the way of the world, my friend.
00:16:54
BeyBlade
Yeah, he's a dinosaur.
00:16:54
Steve-O
But also very impressive, very impressive for what, 15 years plus?
00:17:01
semendemon
You know, i That's why I have Google products. Because they put me up top.
00:17:08
Steve-O
ah
00:17:09
BeyBlade
yeah
00:17:09
semendemon
And they paid me a good amount of money for that.
00:17:11
Steve-O
Oh, man, we're getting the backstory. white
00:17:13
semendemon
listen
00:17:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh
00:17:14
semendemon
I got paid for those. No, I didn't.
00:17:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, there's a Warhammer convention in Atlantic City in June.
00:17:22
semendemon
And they're all dressed as furries, too.
00:17:23
Steve-O
Yo, Furhammer 40K?
00:17:25
BeyBlade
Wait, what's it called?
00:17:26
Steve-O
Fur DK?
00:17:27
BeyBlade
Is it wait, is it a tournament or is it like a just a convention?
00:17:28
semendemon
Furry. Furry.
00:17:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It just says events calendar. i don't know if it's a good.
00:17:33
BeyBlade
why do we
00:17:33
Steve-O
Oh, it's probably just a corner, man.
00:17:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's a depth icon.
00:17:35
BeyBlade
Oh, that's the kind of thing.
00:17:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
A depth icons in Milwaukee, though, we could drive to Milwaukee.
00:17:36
BeyBlade
Yeah. Oh, I don't know.
00:17:39
semendemon
easy drive.
00:17:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we might That is the serial killer capital of the world, though. ah
00:17:45
BeyBlade
Milwaukee, really?
00:17:45
semendemon
and meet me Me and John could take some side trips to some some famous like spot spots.
00:17:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wisconsin? Yeah, yeah i mean yeah we'll go you guys go on your ghost tours. Me and Chris are going on our serial killer tours.
00:17:55
semendemon
Oh my god, it's Chef's House.
00:17:59
Steve-O
decent.
00:18:00
semendemon
Amazing.
00:18:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's jeff It's Jeff's apartment building that they didn't demolish because it smelled so bad.
00:18:06
BeyBlade
if you
00:18:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Interesting.
00:18:08
BeyBlade
So, by the way, I'm just kind of, i just kind of have one of those cosplay videos playing in like in the background as we've been talking.
00:18:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Israel Keys? Anyone?
00:18:16
BeyBlade
I'm saying, I'm going to say about 60% so far.
00:18:19
Steve-O
pretty decent
00:18:20
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:18:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
c but Yeah, I figured it was around 60%.
00:18:23
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:18:23
semendemon
Yeah, that that was where I went to.
00:18:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It had to be enough to be like a passing grade, but not enough for you to be a complete degenerate.
00:18:28
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:18:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I feel like you you threw a couple of those that you knew just to save face.
00:18:32
BeyBlade
Yeah, you know, like I'm like, there's Bumblebee, right? Pretty obvious it's Bumblebee that these I don't really know. oh no, I do.
00:18:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah,
00:18:42
BeyBlade
Okay.
00:18:43
semendemon
Oh boy, he knew.
00:18:43
BeyBlade
good
00:18:44
Steve-O
All right. Well, we have a whole heck of an award show we need to do
00:18:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yes sorry.
00:18:48
semendemon
We'll let Devin just keep watching anime convention videos.
00:18:49
Steve-O
our
00:18:51
BeyBlade
Just keep silently gooning like, yeah, that was.
00:18:53
semendemon
And he's going to give us at the end, a nice big percentage that we can put in a, in a calculator and figure this out.
00:18:57
BeyBlade
It's Pilatro. I know that one.
00:18:59
Steve-O
but
00:19:00
BeyBlade
let' be Yelling random.
00:19:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Beloved Bellatro.
00:19:03
Steve-O
We do love the law.
00:19:03
BeyBlade
Oh, a lot of Bellatro.
00:19:04
Steve-O
True.
00:19:05
BeyBlade
We're in a Bellatro block right now.
00:19:09
semendemon
Guys, is everybody, uh,
00:19:10
BeyBlade
You know, John, I think you'd be impressed with yourself.
00:19:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what with how many i knew mean i feel like i could get around 50 55 to 60 percent of that probably 80 for steve i would i feel 80 all the engine impact characters he would know yeah chris chris would be like 30 30 would say
00:19:14
BeyBlade
um ah That, yeah, how many of these you'd catch?
00:19:21
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:19:26
Steve-O
I don't know, dude.
00:19:27
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah, Steve knows all those Genshin Impact games.
00:19:27
Steve-O
I'm pretty bad with some anime.
00:19:30
BeyBlade
You all those gotcha girls.
00:19:30
semendemon
I'm going to go low.
00:19:32
BeyBlade
All those Genshin Impact.
00:19:32
semendemon
I'm going to be honest. I'm going to go low 40. Low 40.
00:19:37
Steve-O
Y'all don't realize, though, but if you do just say Genshin Impact at a Genshin Impact character, it does count.
00:19:37
semendemon
I'm not.
00:19:44
BeyBlade
That's what I mean.
00:19:47
BeyBlade
You'd nail all of them.
00:19:47
semendemon
Maybe even low 30.
00:19:49
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:19:50
Steve-O
2025 was a year with many ups and downs. But also... A lot of ups.
00:19:58
semendemon
We got some ups here. you guys you guys have some legitimate ups. Some not so legitimate, but, you know, we'll get to that.
00:20:02
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:20:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah,
00:20:04
BeyBlade
And I would say ah as we get started here, we we kind of reconfigured the fannies. So we cut a lot, cut a lot shaft just so you know so you don't have to listen to three episodes to figure out what we what we cared about.
00:20:15
Steve-O
Cut the fat.
00:20:19
semendemon
So in in replacement for that, we're all going to give out our phone numbers at the end of this. And you could just text us. Like, what did you think was the most disgusting movie of the year?
00:20:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what'd you think?
00:20:28
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:29
semendemon
And Steve's going to have something rolled up immediately, you know?
00:20:32
BeyBlade
You know what?
00:20:32
Steve-O
It's true.
00:20:32
BeyBlade
I took a page out of ah Steve's book.
00:20:33
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:20:35
BeyBlade
I made myself a 2026 tracker. Yeah. It took
00:20:39
Steve-O
You know what?
00:20:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
of things.
00:20:39
BeyBlade
and
00:20:39
Steve-O
Great idea.
00:20:39
Steve-O
Great idea.
00:20:40
BeyBlade
yeah it took a little, I was like, oh.
00:20:40
Steve-O
mean,
00:20:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Share the tracker. Share it.
00:20:43
BeyBlade
Want to share a tracker?
00:20:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, share it so we can all put our stuff in.
00:20:44
Steve-O
mine is just, mine's just like a notes page in my, my phone.
00:20:46
BeyBlade
A tracker, tracker.
00:20:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sticky notes.
00:20:49
BeyBlade
mineset Mine's a sheets. Mine's a Google.
00:20:52
Steve-O
But you know what? We can honestly, we can make this a,
00:20:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, mine's wa mind's Wawa.
00:20:54
semendemon
Oh,
00:20:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mine's Wawa.
00:20:56
Steve-O
Oh, yeah. Mine's not a Royal Farms, thankfully, because that place sucks.
00:20:59
BeyBlade
Well, well. Can I tell you how
00:21:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mine's a Taco Bell KFC.
00:21:05
BeyBlade
Chris, what's yours?
00:21:07
BeyBlade
Yeah. I had a, ah yeah, i had like a little scoring algorithm in here, but I broke the, broke the formula.
00:21:07
semendemon
oh nice combo.
00:21:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I need access, Devin.
00:21:16
BeyBlade
I just sent you the, the share the share link.
00:21:16
semendemon
Give me access.
00:21:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, but you need to grant me.
00:21:18
Steve-O
Hold I'm making a Google Doc for us all to share.
00:21:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay, good. But I'm still going to request access to Devin's.
00:21:24
semendemon
Yeah,
00:21:24
Steve-O
So that way we can oversee Devin's choices and be like, Marty Supreme.
00:21:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was de denied.
00:21:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
so are we just going to go down? Like we're to go left to right, left to right, left to right.
00:21:37
Steve-O
We go left or right. And you know what? We'll we'll do snake. We'll do snake award show ceremony. So we'll start from the top.
00:21:44
BeyBlade
Oh yeah?
00:21:45
Steve-O
We're going down and then down.
00:21:45
BeyBlade
Wait
00:21:46
semendemon
yeah I think that's, that's pretty, that's a pretty good, pretty good collection.
00:21:47
Steve-O
up
00:21:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh snake Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Snake. Snake draft.
00:21:52
semendemon
Cause you start off with something strong and then you gotta,
00:21:52
Steve-O
So.
00:21:55
semendemon
and They're all strong.
00:21:56
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:21:57
semendemon
We kind of carried down.
00:21:57
Steve-O
john John said this year that, you know, we're just going to tell you what our show of the year, our movie of the year, and our game of the year were at the start. Because the...
00:22:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I think that's better, because then we can talk about it in a little bit in depth in the beginning.
00:22:09
semendemon
Oh, okay.
00:22:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and but instead of Because like I feel like when we start at the lower the the lower ones
00:22:12
BeyBlade
a minute.
00:22:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like the the not the not not as important awards, we still end up talking about what our game of the year or movie of the year or show of the year end up end up being as being anyway.
00:22:25
Steve-O
Right.
00:22:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
so
00:22:28
semendemon
I think that's a good idea because we're nice and fresh and we can get, you know, some really good fresh take on the, on the most important things.
00:22:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. Yeah, and then we can just be like, well, as I said before, of the Worlds was an excellent film, and it's my goodest city of the year today, too.
00:22:38
semendemon
Okay.
00:22:43
semendemon
Yeah. We don't, nobody put, nobody had the the worst of the year, so we all liked it.
00:22:44
Steve-O
me
00:22:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was you?
00:22:48
semendemon
That's the, that's the,
00:22:48
Steve-O
I mean...
00:22:49
BeyBlade
Oh, you know what?
00:22:49
semendemon
That's what I got from that.
00:22:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Who's you?
00:22:50
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:22:51
semendemon
I got that since nobody put War of the Worlds remake from last year as the worst of the year, we all liked it.
00:22:51
BeyBlade
I was torn.
00:22:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yes. Yeah.
00:23:00
semendemon
Yeah. Okay.
00:23:01
semendemon
That's fair.
00:23:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, wait.
00:23:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
devin Devin put it as his worst of the year.
00:23:03
Steve-O
perfect lot a lot of people kind of triple scooped on that one.
00:23:03
BeyBlade
Well, yeah.
00:23:04
semendemon
Wait, what?
00:23:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you know, I mean, that that's actually not...
00:23:06
semendemon
Hold on.
00:23:06
BeyBlade
I was a little torn, man.
00:23:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you can't triple...
00:23:10
BeyBlade
Well, i yeah.
00:23:10
semendemon
You triple scoop, Devin?
00:23:11
BeyBlade
well
00:23:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you can't have multiple things.
00:23:14
semendemon
You son of a bitch.
00:23:14
BeyBlade
Well, no, na no, no.
00:23:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um um i'm I'm editing mine.
00:23:15
BeyBlade
Sorry. na na No, no, no.
00:23:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm editing mine.
00:23:18
BeyBlade
See, that's the thing. is I was like, i was I was torn.
00:23:20
semendemon
You're the only one who didn't like it
00:23:22
BeyBlade
Yeah, I'm the only one who didn't like it.
00:23:26
BeyBlade
Yeah, C's got some some triple scoop in himself to do.
00:23:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
dev are steve
00:23:26
semendemon
That's fucking nuts.
00:23:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Steve, I mean, here, Steve, I'll type what it should be that you're afraid to say underneath yours.
00:23:33
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:23:35
BeyBlade
Okay.
00:23:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's what you want to say.
00:23:36
Steve-O
You know what?
00:23:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You don't want to say it.
00:23:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:23:37
Steve-O
I'm doing that right now because I agree with you.
00:23:38
BeyBlade
You know what?
00:23:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay, all right.
00:23:39
Steve-O
I agree with you.
00:23:40
semendemon
Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Double scooping. No triple scooping.
00:23:42
BeyBlade
kind of kind of but Kind of bummer of the year.
00:23:43
Steve-O
There we go.
00:23:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:23:45
BeyBlade
That's where we're... You know, all that bullshit we were doing, you think we would have double-checked this before we started?
00:23:51
Steve-O
ah
00:23:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you never never know.
00:23:53
semendemon
ah One of the other guys, either Xbox, Microsoft, or Adolf Hitler.
00:23:55
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:23:57
Steve-O
This is a very professional podcast.
00:23:58
semendemon
i one
00:24:00
Steve-O
that We do very professional things here.
00:24:00
BeyBlade
Yeah, of course.
00:24:02
semendemon
I only had the the slash because that's it's literally a merger. I can't, you know...
00:24:06
Steve-O
They have to. No, i'm um I'm there. Anyway, that's a little...
00:24:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we forgot We forgot something pretty important, though. Hold on. Let me put it back in.
00:24:12
Steve-O
Yeah, what is it?
00:24:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm sorry.
00:24:13
Steve-O
What is it?
00:24:13
BeyBlade
ah
00:24:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sorry, we forgot.
00:24:15
BeyBlade
Oh, I have a feeling. Oh, man.
00:24:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dang.
00:24:18
BeyBlade
Yeah,
00:24:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We forgot this. We forgot it.
00:24:23
semendemon
Is it that Shrek picture?
00:24:23
BeyBlade
yeah yep yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sorry.
00:24:24
Steve-O
Oh, okay.
00:24:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We forgot Sexy Micah.
00:24:25
BeyBlade
There it is.
00:24:25
Steve-O
Now we're we're back.
00:24:26
semendemon
No.
00:24:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
forgot Sexy Micah.
00:24:30
Steve-O
The M's for Micah.
00:24:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And his Meg...
00:24:31
BeyBlade
I was expecting, you know, I'll be honest.
00:24:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Were you expecting that?
00:24:33
BeyBlade
I was i was expecting Leon with the cum gutters.
00:24:33
semendemon
For Micah.
00:24:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, you were...
00:24:36
BeyBlade
That's what I was.
00:24:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You weren't expecting that Chun-Li statue, that Fudanari Chun-Li statue?
00:24:39
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:24:40
semendemon
I was actually expecting the Shrek as Mr.
00:24:41
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:24:43
semendemon
X.
00:24:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, Shrek.
00:24:44
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:24:44
semendemon
personally That's what I thought was coming.
00:24:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man.
00:24:47
semendemon
But hey, you know, we're not.
00:24:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, what made him last year?
00:24:49
Steve-O
We have to bring some life to our spreadsheets. You have to understand folks.
00:24:52
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:24:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dang, dude.
00:24:53
Steve-O
ah We're going to start with show of the year as our first award we're giving out. um
00:24:58
semendemon
Beautiful.
00:24:59
Steve-O
We're going to start at the top. Chris and Devin, I think you two can work together on this one.
00:25:05
semendemon
Yeah, we tag team easy on, uh, on alien earth. Um, I feel like we both talked about this quite a bit when it was coming out.
00:25:09
BeyBlade
yeah
00:25:16
semendemon
And, um, I really am just so happy that there is something good with aliens in the title. I think that's, uh, one aspect of my enjoyment of this show.
00:25:30
semendemon
Um, I think the acting is just stellar. Some of the best i think of the year. I'm kind of shocked. They weren't nominated for anything. Um,
00:25:41
BeyBlade
Well, you know, ah apparently Alien Earth, I think, is seen as a little divisive amongst some the hardcore fans, I guess I would say.
00:25:53
Steve-O
That's crazy to me because it was the first time Alien was good in decades.
00:25:57
BeyBlade
That's what I'm...
00:25:58
semendemon
Which is such a representation of the times.
00:25:58
BeyBlade
ah
00:26:01
semendemon
I can't, like, there are so many situations nowadays where it's just pearls before swine. Like, I i get so upset with the response to this show with Pluribus.
00:26:15
semendemon
um With everything that is good that comes out, there's just this almost empty-headed negative bullshit ache.
00:26:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
00:26:23
BeyBlade
Yeah, I think we call that the Stranger Things effect at this at this point.
00:26:27
Steve-O
You know, it's strange, though, because i I see the opposite when it comes to the movies for Alien, where those Alien movies come out. Like, what was the most recent one? of Romulus?
00:26:37
semendemon
Yeah, Romulus.
00:26:38
BeyBlade
Yeah, ro i listen, I think Ron.
00:26:38
Steve-O
And that was glazed to, like, high heaven by people.
00:26:42
BeyBlade
Yeah, I think Romulus was pretty good, but not, you know, people.
00:26:47
semendemon
And I didn't, i was not a fan at all.
00:26:49
BeyBlade
Yeah, you did.
00:26:49
semendemon
And I actually really went on record as saying that I think the Ian Holmes CGI was like some of the worst I have ever seen.
00:26:50
BeyBlade
Jesus, john Jesus.
00:26:58
semendemon
It was such a mess.
00:26:59
BeyBlade
it's It's really bad because it's so unnecessary.
00:27:02
semendemon
Oh, absolutely. Like,
00:27:04
BeyBlade
It's like, yeah, it was like ghoulish. It was kind of...
00:27:07
semendemon
Ghoulish and and it was very much still trying to pull at the strings of like the Prometheus timeline with some of the alien design choices.
00:27:17
semendemon
I just hate everything about that and seeing it again makes me sick.
00:27:18
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:23
BeyBlade
I, um... Yeah. And I will say, like I don't think any of us here watched Andor. So I get it. That's everyone's favorite.
00:27:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The best show ever of all time.
00:27:34
Steve-O
I watched a couple I endured, but
00:27:34
semendemon
Well, like ah my my problem with Romulus is the main villain is that Wemby Nyana guy from the Spurs. Like I, he, Wemby is the villain at the end, the the the monster.
00:27:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wendy.
00:27:47
semendemon
And he tries to take them into a ship.
00:27:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Slenderman. Slenderman. Slenderman.
00:27:49
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:27:51
semendemon
And I, you know, that's not scary.
00:27:52
BeyBlade
Well, it's just weird because it it kind of feels...
00:27:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then he slammed. du And then he slam dunks a basketball on them without jumping. Right.
00:27:57
BeyBlade
Yeah, it kind of feels like, um, like, whatchamacallit, it just feels like 4, the end of Alien Resurrection.
00:27:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is that what happened.
00:28:04
semendemon
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:05
BeyBlade
It's kind of like a weird redo, but...
00:28:08
semendemon
Yes, and it was something that never needed to be redone because it was already terrible and nobody needed it in the first place. There's so many Alien movies where they just go completely off the reservation of what they're trying to do, you know, the recent ones.
00:28:21
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:28:22
semendemon
And I just, this one's felt so full of the original's spirit, especially, i think, the highlight episode. I'm trying to think the number of the episodes.
00:28:33
Steve-O
Oh, is it episode five?
00:28:35
semendemon
I think it was episode five where they just focus on the ship that crashed into earth with the specimens.
00:28:41
BeyBlade
Yeah, kind of kind of the flashback episode. It just kind of catches you up.
00:28:45
semendemon
Wonderful.
00:28:45
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:28:45
semendemon
Like probably some of the best, if not the best alien media we've, we've, we have at the moment, like it's really well done.
00:28:54
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:28:57
semendemon
there's even like a meta textual aspect to that episode where you have a character talking about how some of the smartest people make some of the dumbest decisions, you know, in, in, you know, like for whatever desire, whatever reason they want, whether it be curiosity or money, people, it just ruins people's decision-making in a lot of ways.
00:29:06
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
00:29:17
semendemon
And I think that's a wonderful but explanation for the alien universe in general. Like, yeah, And why people are so upset about it for some reason.
00:29:25
BeyBlade
Yeah, like it feels it feels like Noah Haley like gets it, right? And, you know, I dig the the kind of the synths and the the corporate wars because why not?
00:29:30
semendemon
Yes.
00:29:37
BeyBlade
um Moro's a great antagonist.
00:29:42
semendemon
Wow. What a wonderful villain.
00:29:43
BeyBlade
the the side You know, the cyborgs. Kirsch is awesome. Timothy Olyphant is like really...
00:29:48
semendemon
Yeah. Those two, I think are the strongest in the cast too They're just wonderful played against one another too
00:29:48
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:29:51
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:56
semendemon
really Really cool.
00:29:56
BeyBlade
Yeah, I just overall, and it's like, yeah, like like I said, ah there's a lot of great TV out this, you know, in 2025, I think was honestly a really strong year. um You know, like I said, I mentioned Andor. It's just I don't watch Andor. Sorry. i know.
00:30:18
BeyBlade
Pluribus, which I liked. I have some issues with it, but I liked it. Adolescence was like really, really well done, but also kind of a miserable experience.
00:30:29
semendemon
Yeah, that's trauma porn. I was not really into it too much.
00:30:32
BeyBlade
Yeah. um Yeah. So but like Alien Earth kind of scratched a very... specific itch for me and my interest, right?
TV and Film Discussion: Alien Earth and Movie Comparisons
00:30:44
semendemon
I feel like we're we're eating well with sci-fi television right now.
00:30:44
BeyBlade
It's
00:30:47
BeyBlade
we are for sure.
00:30:47
semendemon
you know like There's so many avenues.
00:30:48
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:30:49
BeyBlade
For sure.
00:30:51
semendemon
Literally, like Severance Season 2 came out you know this earlier this year.
00:30:55
BeyBlade
Yeah. That's the thing. Like I'll be honest severance. I kind of disqualified because most of it, like 80% of it 2024. Yeah.
00:31:05
semendemon
It's true, but the really good percentage was the end of the year.
00:31:08
BeyBlade
I know. Listen, I kind of I personally DQ'd it from my list.
00:31:13
semendemon
ah It's fair.
00:31:13
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:31:14
semendemon
But like even that um that impact, like there's so many wonderful avenues for really intricate science fiction that is telling you know what classic good science fiction stories should be, which is like our world and putting a mirror up to our society
00:31:14
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:31:31
BeyBlade
yeah
00:31:34
semendemon
And really showing off how how bad we can get, you know, if we will if we choose to. um and Alien Earth is such a wonderful example of that.
00:31:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank
00:31:45
semendemon
um I think most of the media that I ingested this year and loved was holding true to that theory. And this show was, wow, what a wonderful representation of what a corporatized world would become, which is a nightmare.
00:32:04
semendemon
um and yeah that this it this just hit so hard because of that for me like so incredibly hard to not focus on that being the most scary element of an alien earth show it's not the aliens it's the fucking terrible world that exists
00:32:12
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:32:12
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:32:27
Steve-O
yeah
00:32:28
semendemon
that literally people will go out into space and go collect some horrible specimen just to get away from earth, just to get away from how awful it is.
00:32:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
00:32:42
Steve-O
That's a vacation.
00:32:43
semendemon
It kind of, I mean, they're like, well, we're going to paid and we're going live the good life because it's so bad where they were coming from.
00:32:49
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:32:50
semendemon
Like it's so bad.
00:32:50
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:32:52
semendemon
um Wow. It's desperation. You know, that shows is about desperate people. And it's it's very representational.
00:33:06
semendemon
you
00:33:06
Steve-O
hands down, hands down, like one of the highlights, like I did not expect this show, like coming out on Hulu to be such like a secret banger.
00:33:17
semendemon
Yeah, it kind of came out of nowhere.
00:33:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's crazy. You got, you get no Noah Hawley's new show and, and Vince Gilligan's new show this year.
00:33:19
semendemon
But...
00:33:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's kind of wild, right?
00:33:26
semendemon
Eating well.
00:33:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah It's kind of crazy.
00:33:27
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
00:33:28
semendemon
John, I, I, it's one of those things where you have some of the best television directors right now, executive producers, and they're both making really cool science fiction shows about what we're currently dealing with, you know, um, in, in metaphorical sense, um, Pluribus being that as well.
00:33:50
semendemon
that That's probably my second favorite show of the year. Um, it was not daredevil.
00:33:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, it wasn't Daredevil?
00:33:56
BeyBlade
yeah
00:33:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, sorry, Chris.
00:33:58
BeyBlade
it wasn't It wasn't Daredevil versus the Irish cop.
00:33:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was just asking a question. Jeez.
00:34:01
BeyBlade
ah
00:34:01
semendemon
yeah he He had some rough times, Daryl. He had a rough time with a regular ass dude.
00:34:07
Steve-O
Come on, come on, Chris. What about that bank episode?
00:34:10
semendemon
That's the...
00:34:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i kevin
00:34:11
semendemon
um
00:34:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah he Yeah, he almost got washed by a fucking regular ass dude in that one, too.
00:34:15
semendemon
but if if we If we had a category for the worst episode of a good show, that would be right there.
00:34:15
Steve-O
that
00:34:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That would be up there.
00:34:22
semendemon
That'd be right there.
00:34:24
Steve-O
That was the complete flip of the episode five of alien earth.
00:34:27
semendemon
Exactly, like, Let's take all the pacing out of this show and divert it completely to something that doesn't matter. ah
00:34:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm not i not caught up. on i'm not i think I have one episode or two episodes to catch up on Fallout, but did it get better? Because the first two episodes were a snore fest.
00:34:45
BeyBlade
It did.
00:34:46
semendemon
Fallout. Fallout did.
00:34:47
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:34:48
semendemon
Yeah, that that show is, it introduced something fun.
00:34:49
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:34:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Even though the they really had the they got the...
00:34:50
BeyBlade
Yeah. the plot The plot decided to start moving in the last two. Yeah.
00:34:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They got the David Lynch tribute out of the way in the second episode, which was pretty cool.
00:34:59
semendemon
i'm ah I'm a big fan of the little moments of that show.
00:35:04
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:35:05
semendemon
that's that's That's neither here nor there. I'm talking about my favorite of last year. And yeah, it's got to be Alien Earth for me. I really just, there's, it hits a lot of different boxes for me.
00:35:18
semendemon
um And just wonderful performances, great concept, great plot. Go watch it if you haven't seen it.
00:35:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It wasn't a Gen. AI written show.
00:35:29
semendemon
I'm not sure yet.
00:35:31
BeyBlade
yeah
00:35:32
Steve-O
that's That's so sad.
00:35:33
BeyBlade
Jury's out.
00:35:33
Steve-O
You have to like, you sit there and wait until there's just like a news article online.
00:35:34
BeyBlade
Yeah. thanks
00:35:38
semendemon
We'll find out, I guess.
00:35:39
Steve-O
You're like, damn it.
00:35:40
semendemon
We'll find out.
00:35:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, I mean, that's some people were saying that they think that possibly that was a thing with Stranger Things, just the way it was written and felt like, you know, recycled garbage.
00:35:47
BeyBlade
No, dude. I mean, that that's. Yeah, no. Listen.
00:35:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Anyway, and um it's not it's not the worst.
00:35:53
semendemon
Maybe, maybe the, maybe...
00:35:54
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:35:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's not the Razzies.
00:35:55
semendemon
The second three episodes, maybe. I don't think i don't think anything else.
00:36:00
BeyBlade
Listen, I thought that finale was was quite good.
00:36:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, because that's the thing. I watched Daredevil this year, and i watch I started Fallout, but it's not finished yet. And then I watched Stranger Things, and it's like, i can't just give it to something that I watched when I don't feel like it's award-worthy, you know?
00:36:20
Steve-O
So are you holding your award for 2025 to give out next year? You get two awards to give out.
00:36:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, I'm just going to opt for... Well, maybe i'll pick i'll I'll let you guys know between Alien Earth and Pluribus which one which one I liked better just because those two were your picks.
00:36:36
Steve-O
Okay.
00:36:38
Steve-O
Yeah. Like again, 2031.
00:36:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i'll let I'll let you know in 2031 when I watch them. I'll let you guys know.
00:36:43
Steve-O
They're all right.
00:36:44
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
00:36:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, might binge them both.
00:36:45
Steve-O
yeah there are so sci-fi definitely i think was the the winner this year when it came to television uh alien earth absolutely tremendous um my my winner for this year was pluribus vince gilligan like literally came out the gate swinging with that first episode and um
00:37:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's still cooking, huh?
00:37:11
Steve-O
always cooking that guy just can't turn it off uh just absolutely tremendous beautiful shots um every episode was this unraveling mystery and you know he does he just does such wonderful characters too i like absolutely like so interested in everything that like the the remaining ah
00:37:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's still cooking.
00:37:37
Steve-O
people, ah like what their situations were. And like, I'm so excited that Vince Gilligan's back just because, you know, this award used to be called the Breaking Bad of the year.
00:37:50
Steve-O
How could I not give it to the creator of Breaking Bad?
00:37:51
BeyBlade
Yeah. Are you really excited for 2028 when we get season two?
00:37:57
Steve-O
ah You know, I'd rather... have to wait a little bit, then have it just spit out next year and just have it not be good. Because that seems to be, that seems to be the recipe. You wait a while for it to be good or it's spit out the next year and it's not so good.
00:38:15
Steve-O
So I'll wait a couple of years, but I'm, I'm, you know, this was a Apple TV too, right? So they had kind of two bangers with severance and pluribus.
00:38:28
BeyBlade
Yeah, who knew if you just have on unlimited budget, some of these shows would ah end up being kind of phenomenal.
00:38:31
Steve-O
Right.
00:38:34
BeyBlade
But.
00:38:34
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:38:34
semendemon
Yeah, Pluribus looks the most expensive out of most shows.
00:38:38
Steve-O
You see that money.
00:38:40
semendemon
Like, it looks so fucking expensive.
00:38:41
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of i'm kind of like blown away with how they I'm like, how did they do this? Like, how did they shoot it?
00:38:49
semendemon
I think...
00:38:50
BeyBlade
Like outside of just being like, no, let's just clear out an entire city.
00:38:56
Steve-O
Vince Gilligan makes a dollar off of every Better Call Saul meme.
00:38:56
semendemon
It looked
00:39:01
BeyBlade
Thank you.
00:39:01
Steve-O
He's rich.
00:39:02
semendemon
yeah He's rolling in it.
00:39:02
Steve-O
He's filthy rich.
00:39:04
semendemon
Apple's just so kind of side investing. He's got the whole thing under control.
00:39:09
Steve-O
Yeah, he's got the whole budget on his own.
00:39:11
semendemon
He's got, he's got all those helicopters and planes and drones and shit that he can have in a show. um And in the locales, they shot in three separate places. I think Spain was one of the major locations specifically, I think for everything that was supposed to be Honduras And wherever, um, uh, Carol Sturkus's girlfriend came from, I can't remember the country, but everything was Spain, New Mexico.
00:39:38
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:39:42
semendemon
And there was another one. I can't remember. I think it might've been California, but yeah, just looks wonderful in, in every frame.
00:39:52
semendemon
Uh, and you see the money on, on the screen.
00:39:58
Steve-O
is, you know, I'm excited. I'm excited. We got more, we got more coming. And, uh, these are two shows that absolutely just, I, I wasn't expecting and ended up just falling head over heels for, cause like I genuinely was like, you know, I was looking at severance and I was like, severance was very good.
00:40:18
Steve-O
And, But it was it wasn't like I wasn't like blown away with it. And both Alien Earth and Pluribus are two shows that I was blown away by.
00:40:29
Steve-O
So I'm very happy.
00:40:29
semendemon
Yeah, I agree. i think Severin's kind of... The last episode was phenomenal, but the rest of the season was kind of just filler for that. And it really didn't have the impact of the first season.
00:40:41
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:40:44
Steve-O
All right. We want to move on to movie of the year.
00:40:48
semendemon
Hell yeah.
00:40:50
Steve-O
going be the weirdo.
00:40:50
semendemon
Hell
00:40:51
Steve-O
I'm going to start at the bottom because I'm i'm the lone duck.
00:40:52
BeyBlade
Yeah, be the weirdo.
00:40:54
Steve-O
ah now Now, I know this is movie of the year. This is movie of the year. And I...
00:40:58
BeyBlade
That means everything else you hated.
00:41:00
Steve-O
Oh, is that how it works?
00:41:00
BeyBlade
Except, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
All the other movies you liked, hated, yeah.
00:41:02
semendemon
Yeah, 100%.
00:41:02
Steve-O
ah Oh, shit.
00:41:03
semendemon
you You fucking hated our favorite movie of the year.
00:41:03
BeyBlade
yeah looks Yeah, you piece of trash.
00:41:07
Steve-O
Well...
00:41:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And all other good movies.
00:41:09
Steve-O
The way I look at it this.
00:41:10
semendemon
It's fine.
00:41:10
Steve-O
Okay.
00:41:11
semendemon
get it.
00:41:11
Steve-O
So my movie of the year is unique in a sense where there's a lot of the time and I, I constantly, I constantly talk.
00:41:18
BeyBlade
That's a shot. That's a shot, Chris and John. You hear that?
00:41:21
Steve-O
I constantly talk about this when we talk about movies of the year.
00:41:22
semendemon
Nice.
00:41:25
Steve-O
I always try to find um the ah Maleficent, not Maleficent, what the fuck was it called?
00:41:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
00:41:32
semendemon
Oh, the malevolent?
00:41:32
Steve-O
um Malignant. though I always try and find the Malignant of the year where it's the the weird off-putting horror movie that just absolutely just makes me go bonkers.
00:41:34
semendemon
Malignant!
00:41:46
Steve-O
And this year it was weapons weapons. I am. I have been calling the Pulp Fiction of horror since I've seen it. It is an absolute roller coaster of just it's it's creepy. It's strange. It is horrifying. it is funny. funny.
00:42:06
Steve-O
i I keep thinking about this movie even when I'm not like doing things related to the movie. It is just it's one of those movies that just has tickled my brain. And just the end scene alone is probably one of my favorite visuals of the year.
00:42:22
Steve-O
So.
00:42:22
semendemon
I think the scene that sold me on it, like the scene where I knew was like, oh, this was this is a phenomenal movie, was when um Silver Surfer, what's her name? ah Julie Gardner.
00:42:36
semendemon
Julie julie Gardner, i think.
00:42:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Silver Surfer.
00:42:38
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:42:38
semendemon
her Her character, the teacher is sleeping in her car and the woman walks out of the house and
00:42:45
BeyBlade
Yeah, it comes out.
00:42:46
Steve-O
m
00:42:46
BeyBlade
cuts
00:42:47
semendemon
And um that scene is... um It was just like... It's a perfect mixture of weird, scary, and funny.
00:42:54
Steve-O
Yes.
00:42:55
semendemon
um That I think the whole movie is kind of doing. You know, in various scenes. um Yeah. It's just so nice to see this... Zach Greger kind of make another great movie.
00:43:11
semendemon
um I personally, though... And this is me. I like Barbarian more.
00:43:17
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:43:19
semendemon
I know a lot of people a lot of people disagree.
00:43:20
Steve-O
and Interesting.
00:43:22
semendemon
i get it. i'm I think Barbarian had a little bit more of a silliness to it that I liked. even it was I think it was even more silly in some parts.
00:43:36
semendemon
And it was also more a little more shocking. in in um first watch. um I do think Weapons is phenomenal, though. I think it's a great movie.
00:43:47
semendemon
um I think it's more of a preferential thing.
00:43:50
Steve-O
Yeah, I could see that.
00:43:50
semendemon
anything
00:43:51
Steve-O
I could see that because, like, again, Barbarian was probably, i think, of 2023. That was my malignant of that year.
00:43:59
semendemon
Right? like he has ah He has a track record of making these really wild, weird horror films.
00:44:01
Steve-O
easy
00:44:07
semendemon
And they all... hit really well and they play against audience expectations in the best way possible.
00:44:17
Steve-O
Right. Like that movie, like weapons starts off as this, like very like serious mystery. Right. And then it just goes off the fucking rails. Like after the first like 15, 20 minutes, like it is all over the place. And I was like, I was just loving every second of it. And I just, again, it's a movie I didn't know I wanted.
00:44:42
Steve-O
And then when I got it, I was like, this is excellent. I'm so happy I saw this, but yeah.
00:44:47
semendemon
Does this make you more confident in his Resident Evil film, which is coming out this year, by the way?
00:44:52
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:44:53
Steve-O
That's crazy. That's a very quick turnaround.
00:44:56
semendemon
I know. it boggles my mind.
00:44:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's the year of Resident Evil, though.
00:45:00
Steve-O
um I mean, I have faith. Like, why would you why would you jump? I mean, unless if you're trying to do something where like you're scratching an itch to get a budget for your next movie that you care more about.
00:45:12
semendemon
Maybe.
00:45:13
Steve-O
But.
00:45:13
BeyBlade
I mean, i well, it wasn't the story is that he came to them with a pitch and apparently the picture is so good. They were like, yes, absolutely. Like, Craig wanted this.
00:45:22
Steve-O
maybe. Like.
00:45:23
BeyBlade
According to, like, the reports that I remember reading, like, he was like, dude, I got I got to take it. Like, you know, if you like it, great. you don't, that's fine, too. But they were like, no, we love this.
00:45:34
BeyBlade
So, like, keep going.
00:45:35
Steve-O
That's awesome then. Like that's absolutely honestly.
00:45:37
BeyBlade
Yeah. I mean, like, is it going to be weapons? No. Like, I'm very confident it won't be. um But at the same time, like, he's clearly very good.
00:45:51
BeyBlade
He's a very good director.
00:45:51
Steve-O
Right.
00:45:52
BeyBlade
and So that counts for something, right?
00:45:52
semendemon
press
00:45:52
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:45:56
Steve-O
Won two anti-fannies I think at this point. So.
00:45:58
BeyBlade
Yeah, we should let him know.
00:46:01
Steve-O
I'll send him the awards.
00:46:02
BeyBlade
Hey, yeah who yeah. We have these monster trophies. do we send them to you? Yeah. um No, yeah. like ah It's a weird... like so I kind of made ah i made a comment about like how shows have been like season one and then two to three to sometimes longer years later, like season, the next season comes out.
00:46:27
BeyBlade
It feels like the opposite with some of these directors, like Kregger has been like pushing them out.
00:46:33
Steve-O
Mm.
00:46:34
BeyBlade
um The director of, I want to call McTiernan, but I know that's not true.
00:46:39
Steve-O
That's, that's not it.
00:46:40
BeyBlade
um The predator Badlands director, like he's put out like four movies in three years
00:46:45
Steve-O
Mm.
00:46:46
semendemon
Well, like here's here's the deal. i feel like with when it comes to films, ironing out budgets takes a couple years in advance to really get going.
00:46:58
semendemon
And they're able to do that because it delays budgeting until, let's say, November. So they can push that off to whatever quarter, eat it. and then maybe still make a profit off of it.
00:47:10
semendemon
Whereas with television, it's, it's a commitment, right? And, and these shows are getting so like the budgets are getting so big.
00:47:19
Steve-O
Right.
00:47:20
semendemon
Like they're almost eclipsing film budgets with just like sheer amount of time and um just at at hiring actors and getting locations.
00:47:20
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:47:30
semendemon
So I feel like it's way more of a a financial commitment than, than a film is when it's all ironed out because You have to remember, too, films are getting like outside investors, too, to to pay for it.
00:47:40
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, even just like, like Ty West, Osgood Perkins, Dan Trachtenberg, Zach Kragger, like, these got These directors have been pushing out like sometimes two movies a year.
00:47:56
BeyBlade
It's like...
00:47:56
semendemon
and And those movies are low-budget, too. like that They're easy to make.
00:47:59
BeyBlade
They are. and They are. But i'm just like we're getting quality work often. And it's like... it's just ah It's an interesting switch that has happened over the last you know decade or so.
00:48:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
00:48:14
semendemon
Yeah, I mean, we we grew up with 24 episodes a season every year.
00:48:18
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:48:19
Steve-O
yeah
00:48:20
BeyBlade
Which is.
00:48:20
semendemon
And the budgets were big, but that was sometimes the only commitment they would make.
00:48:26
semendemon
And film budgets were a lot lower back then.
00:48:26
BeyBlade
Mm hmm.
00:48:29
semendemon
So whatever money they were...
00:48:30
BeyBlade
Yeah, and it would be four years between sequels, right?
00:48:33
semendemon
Exactly. So it is a switch, partially because I think television has become cinemized. You know, it's more... like It's not sitcom-y.
00:48:44
semendemon
It's not formulaic now. It's like long long-form storytelling, basically.
00:48:45
BeyBlade
It's Kino now.
00:48:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:48:49
semendemon
you know
00:48:51
semendemon
so It's Marty Supreme.
00:48:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's Marty Supreme.
00:48:53
BeyBlade
Smarties. Yeah.
00:48:54
semendemon
There's going to be eight more Marty Supreme movies.
00:48:55
BeyBlade
There were two Safdie brothers movies this year, dude.
00:48:58
semendemon
Eight more.
00:48:59
BeyBlade
Granted, each one was their own movie, but still Safdie was all over the place.
00:49:03
semendemon
Okay. Okay.
00:49:04
BeyBlade
So yeah.
00:49:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And Safdie, was it Ben Safdie?
00:49:05
BeyBlade
Wep weapons. Benning Josh bended smashing, I think.
00:49:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, which one's Bowser Jr.
00:49:11
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and Mario coming out this year? One of them.
00:49:15
semendemon
I think that's Benny.
00:49:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's Ben, yeah.
00:49:17
semendemon
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Benny.
00:49:17
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We got another Safdie Bros movie this year. Mario Galaxy.
00:49:21
BeyBlade
You know, I'll tell you right now which ones.
00:49:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
a did Who did Uncut Gems?
00:49:25
BeyBlade
Josh. think Josh is the superior.
00:49:28
semendemon
Josh Safdie directed Marty Supreme.
00:49:29
BeyBlade
Zafdi.
00:49:30
semendemon
Benny Safdie directed The Smashing Machine.
00:49:31
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:33
semendemon
And he's the actor.
00:49:33
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:35
semendemon
Benny. Oh, they both did.
00:49:35
BeyBlade
Well, they both did.
00:49:37
semendemon
They both directed that.
00:49:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:38
semendemon
Safdie brothers.
00:49:40
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Which one did um Good Time?
00:49:42
semendemon
Both. Both.
00:49:44
BeyBlade
Both, I think.
00:49:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah That was a double. Double Features.
00:49:45
BeyBlade
Yeah.
00:49:46
Steve-O
Double brother feature.
00:49:47
semendemon
You know, John, if you do like that, you should check out some John Cassavetes movies. Because that's really where those movies come from.
00:49:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Give me one. Give me a movie.
00:49:55
semendemon
um
00:49:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay.
00:49:56
semendemon
The Death of a Chinese Bookie. that Check that out if you ever get a chance.
00:50:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Probably on Criterion.
00:50:03
semendemon
It is.
00:50:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So i'll get there I'll get in there.
00:50:05
semendemon
That shit is good, dude. That is a good movie. um Anyway, let's get to the meat of the the movie awards. the The movie that was chosen by all of us.
00:50:17
semendemon
Except Steve.
00:50:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Except Steve. He hated it.
00:50:19
BeyBlade
Which means he hated it. Yeah.
00:50:20
semendemon
Which means he hated it.
00:50:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He gave it a kill.
00:50:22
Steve-O
I guess I hated it.
00:50:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He gave it a kill.
00:50:23
semendemon
ah
00:50:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
gave it a kill.
00:50:25
semendemon
Now, we all chose, or me, John, and Devin chose One Battle After Another as our film of the year. um Yeah, i i listen, you know i I think Weapons is on the short list of best films of the year, so I don't want to discredit that.
00:50:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There were some good movies this year, man.
00:50:44
semendemon
There has been really great films, and You know, i there's been a few situations where I wasn't too happy when I went to the theater, but it was pretty rare.
00:50:46
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
00:50:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Some good movies.
00:50:55
semendemon
And I'm I'm happy with my experience overall this year. But I think the movie that really was the most definitive for me was one battle after another. it just felt like.
00:51:10
semendemon
The culmination of everything Paul Thomas Anderson has been doing his whole career. like, like seeing a guy at the the peak of his ability, making a very heartfelt film.
00:51:23
semendemon
Um, and I feel like a lot of his movies, they're not heartless, but like the heartfelt aspects are usually the, like the crazier, more shocking aspects of the film, like Magnolia.
00:51:38
semendemon
um And they might not exist at all. Unstrung love is the strangest love story I've ever seen in my life. It's weird and it's very particular. And then There Will Be Blood is probably one of the darkest films I've i've seen like in in every way in its tone. It's just weirdly dark.
00:51:59
semendemon
The love is very strange and dark in it. But this is different.
00:52:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank
00:52:05
semendemon
You know, like this felt more, this felt like his once upon a time in Hollywood.
00:52:12
Steve-O
Yeah, I agree.
00:52:12
semendemon
You know, it felt more personal and um yeah, it was just really wonderful to see somebody who's been making wonderful films his whole career, make something this personal.
00:52:13
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:52:27
semendemon
And yeah, and everything about it, like even it's very much Paul Thomas Anderson where they have just an outrageous villain. in it. Um, he's just, a
00:52:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's zero exposition. they just They just do it with storytelling completely, which is awesome.
00:52:42
semendemon
yeah, they give you everything you need to know about Steven Lockjaw within the first five minutes. and you're like, I know this man in intimately who this man is.
00:52:49
BeyBlade
Yep. yup
00:52:52
semendemon
Um, and yeah, that opening sequence is so fucking good. It is the best form of exposition I've seen all year.
00:53:02
semendemon
It gives you everything you need to know about the rest of the film. and And it's pretty simple after. Like, it's it's very... It's not a complicated movie in any way, shape, or form.
00:53:13
semendemon
um Yeah, just the beginning of the movie. like Particularly what I love is the transition from...
00:53:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's not it's not complicated, but it it is complex, I guess, which you don't really, you don't get you don't get that a lot, you know?
00:53:23
semendemon
it is complex.
00:53:24
Steve-O
Yeah.
00:53:24
semendemon
Yeah, like the character... Exactly.
00:53:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's usually...
00:53:28
semendemon
The the characters are very complex and very... dimensional and interesting and even like the cartoonish villain is, has this weird dimension to him.
00:53:40
semendemon
That's strange in a lot of ways. And he doesn't even understand it I don't even think that's what he wants, you know, like really in reality, he's so fucked up in every way, shape or form.
00:53:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
just he just wants to be a Christmas adventurer, all right?
00:53:46
BeyBlade
yeah
00:53:52
semendemon
Yeah. ah That the transition from seeing um ghetto Pat's daughter, as a baby to her fighting in the dojo is, is really phenomenal.
00:54:04
semendemon
It's just a really well done scene. It literally is a cut, like a 15 to 20 year cut.
00:54:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and it's not like 15 years later flashing on the screen.
00:54:11
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:54:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you know you just You just know. You just understand where you are.
00:54:16
semendemon
You just know it, you know exactly who that is
00:54:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you like he were It's like one of those rare occurrences where the um where the director respects the audience. Or at least, you know, will get his message across to the people that will understand it and that's all that matters to him. He's not trying to make you know make it ah accessible to everybody.
00:54:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you know It's just like, oh, if they get it, they get it.
00:54:42
semendemon
Yeah, and it it and it's lean too.
00:54:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And that's that's all he wants.
00:54:45
semendemon
It's super, it's like perfectly cut to that point to know exactly who that is.
00:54:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
00:54:50
semendemon
Like, it's a person that's been doing this for a very long time. You know, that's that's what that scene felt like.
00:54:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we didn't need ah we didn't need a montage of her growing up. And and ah you know you already know you already understand. It's all there. you know
00:55:05
semendemon
It's a very like lean film.
00:55:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's in the acting.
00:55:07
semendemon
that cut They cut a lot of the the fat out of this movie. The pacing is wonderful. um
00:55:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it the best paced movie ever? It's like what? like what ah Probably. I don't know.
00:55:17
semendemon
It feels like it's nothing.
00:55:17
BeyBlade
I mean, honestly, if there's something really similar between this and weapons, it's like I love the way they were paced.
00:55:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:55:23
semendemon
Yeah, like you get so much.
00:55:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
How long?
00:55:23
BeyBlade
You
00:55:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What's the runtime for weapons?
00:55:27
Steve-O
Let's look that up.
00:55:27
semendemon
I think they're both two hours, right?
00:55:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
One battle after another is like almost three hours.
00:55:31
Steve-O
Weapons, two hours, nine minutes.
00:55:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think one battle is almost three hours, i think, right?
00:55:37
semendemon
Man, it did not feel like that in the least.
00:55:40
BeyBlade
Runtime is 241. Yeah.
00:55:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, like, I mean, and this is no shade on, like, Christopher Nolan, but, like, you feel how long those movies are sometimes.
00:55:50
semendemon
Yeah, yeah, I i agree.
00:55:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, you know, like, you're aware, you're you know, I'm not saying you're looking at the at your watch, waiting for it to be over, but, like, you're just like, oh, okay, this is a pretty long movie. And One Battle After Another does not feel like a long movie at all.
00:56:04
semendemon
Sometimes sometimes Chris Rinald can be very clinical in his the way he directs, and it feels like, oh, he's doing something really neat with the plot, but you have to let it play out to see it.
00:56:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like,
00:56:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
00:56:16
semendemon
like the the the The whole is more part important than the parts.
00:56:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right.
00:56:20
semendemon
in in a Christopher Nolan movie. And this, I could say both the parts and the whole are are wonderful. Like the individual scenes are really well done. And the whole film is so well made that you don't feel the runtime in the least.
00:56:35
Steve-O
This movie explodes out the gate like
00:56:35
semendemon
I've seen it twice. yeah It sure does. And it really doesn't really let up. And it's basically a chase film, you know, cat in mouth.
00:56:43
Steve-O
Yeah, I would i would say it is like almost like pacing-wise like rivaled by like Fury Road. Because like like you're saying, it is like you're constantly in chase.
00:56:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's just, you're go you're moving.
00:56:54
Steve-O
It's moving.
00:56:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're moving. Yeah, you're moving all time.
00:56:55
Steve-O
You are following characters.
00:56:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you're, like, at the edge of your seat the whole time.
00:56:59
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:57:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're just, like, you you're you're invested, you know?
00:57:03
semendemon
And Ghetto Pat is hilarious and a goofball and he he fell off the roof.
00:57:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it really...
00:57:10
Steve-O
My God, dude.
00:57:12
semendemon
which Hilarious.
00:57:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um
00:57:12
Steve-O
but fuck I did not expect that. i just... ah
00:57:16
semendemon
he's He was like, who you are you? And he's this miserable and jailed. He's like, Spider-Man.
00:57:21
Steve-O
You're pregnant.
00:57:24
BeyBlade
Thank you.
00:57:27
semendemon
Oh, my name, Peter, Peter Parker.
00:57:29
Steve-O
you
00:57:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And the like another thing, I guess, I don't think it gets overlooked, but the the score of this movie is like fucking phenomenal. Like it's top tier.
00:57:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ho tears elite.
00:57:43
Steve-O
yeah.
00:57:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The Johnny Greenwood score is absolutely elite in this movie.
00:57:45
semendemon
Oh, God.
00:57:48
semendemon
It's...
00:57:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you could you can tell why P.T.
00:57:49
semendemon
He's... it
00:57:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Anderson always goes back to Johnny Greenwood. Because like There Will Be Blood was very similar to where it's like, wow.
00:57:54
semendemon
His... Exactly. Since There Will Be Blood, he's been making these just wonderful, expressive...
00:57:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like you're just like, wow.
00:58:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're just like, OK, like that's a cat.
00:58:02
semendemon
but
00:58:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's a casting choice. You feel like, you know, like.
00:58:06
semendemon
really simplistic too like super like just simple not difficult like beats
00:58:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did the fucking. Yeah, and then like when it wants to be the loudest thing or the the most prominent thing in the scene, it is and it doesn't take away from the scene at all.
00:58:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like again and the one scene that I always think back on in this movie is when they're in the church and and Lockjaw is about to find out that he's a daughter.
00:58:29
semendemon
oh yeah
00:58:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and they have the angled shot to show how long, how far away they are in the in the aisle. And, like, the the score is just, like, and it's just, like, it's, oh, my God, it's just, it's fucking Keno.
00:58:42
semendemon
I actually, i I think my favorite is the opening sequence when they're taking the immigration camp.
00:58:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's Keno, Chris. It's Keno.
00:58:50
semendemon
Like when it swells really loudly where she's running across the bridge.
00:58:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah.
00:58:51
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
00:58:54
semendemon
Yeah, you know what you're getting into at that point in the movie.
00:58:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, the... Yeah, and this yeah the score really, it really like sets the tempo for the pacing of the movie, too.
00:59:01
semendemon
Hmm. Yep.
00:59:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's just fucking masterclass of work, in my opinion.
00:59:07
semendemon
Yeah, everything in this is so well made.
00:59:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's just like, yeah, everything is elite.
00:59:10
semendemon
Like, it's
00:59:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
every Every part, every moving part in this was just top-notch. You can't really get much better than this movie, I think. It's really one of the best.
00:59:21
semendemon
Yeah.
00:59:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
probably I mean, my favorite of the year.
00:59:21
semendemon
yeah Easily and a really great movie to see in theaters, too.
00:59:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it better than There Will Be Blood? I don't know. I still don't know. I won't say.
00:59:30
semendemon
it better than The Master? i don't know.
00:59:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it better than Boogie Nights?
00:59:32
semendemon
and love The Master. ah
00:59:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Actually, this this movie actually does remind me a bit. Like, the the the the um the the emotion the emotion emotions that it it evokes reminds me a lot of Boogie Nights.
00:59:45
semendemon
Boogie Nights had a dumb heart to it, didn't it?
00:59:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it feels. Yeah. it no totally.
00:59:48
semendemon
And I...
00:59:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Totally. Totally.
00:59:49
semendemon
a real dumb heart and, and it is, i think the closest he can get to that.
00:59:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and
00:59:56
semendemon
Um, but you didn't, see I still felt like that was a little darker, you know, you know,
01:00:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah. No, no, this was definitely more along the lines of... I mean, you could you can fucking say it's a comedy to to an extent, you know?
01:00:07
semendemon
kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah. More so than, than even a thriller. like it's hard to even say it's a thriller.
01:00:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but fuck
01:00:13
semendemon
Yeah.
01:00:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The fucking Christmas Adventures Club. No, and, like, the thing is, it's like, it really is pretty true with how...
01:00:16
BeyBlade
You
01:00:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
the political climate is today like it is a fucking joke like everything is a joke like it's a it's unbelievable you can't believe how ridiculous the real life is and you know that's kind of I think that's kind of what he's saying with that whole side sigh thing going on how ridiculous everything is and how ridiculous people are about image and even while being blatantly racist still being under undertoned
01:00:39
semendemon
Oh my god, yes. How silly you know modern life has become.
01:00:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
the same time it's crazy i love it i love this movie i recommend it to everybody there's not one person that i don't think would enjoy this movie i think
01:00:57
semendemon
so Yeah, it's an easy record.
01:01:04
semendemon
I think also it's going to win just every fucking Academy Awards.
01:01:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i hope so that dude needs to win man who's gonna win uh yeah is is it you think johnny greenwood's gonna gonna finally and get his this year and
01:01:10
semendemon
I do. I really do. Especially. it's
01:01:13
BeyBlade
Well, didn't it went i No, it didn't win the Golden Globe, right?
01:01:16
semendemon
Well, ah paul Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director. It won Best Film, ah Best Drama. ah Tiana, what's her name?
01:01:29
semendemon
Perfidia Beverly Hills, the actress who played her, won.
01:01:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, uh, Tiana Taylor.
01:01:34
semendemon
Tiana Taylor, she won. Golden Globe. I think
01:01:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She was, she was fucking, like, oh my god.
01:01:41
semendemon
She was something in that, huh?
01:01:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She is an artist, dude. She is, fear she is just like, man.
01:01:47
semendemon
Yes. She's got a screen presence, doesn't she?
01:01:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, like, she literally just fucking dominates the, the, the, every scene she's in. It's, it's insane.
01:01:57
semendemon
Yeah, I kind of felt the same way. um Yeah, really wonderful performances by women in this movie.
01:02:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Goranson, though, won best score for Sinners, I think, for Golden Globes, right?
01:02:09
BeyBlade
He did. Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It wasn't Johnny Greenwood.
01:02:10
semendemon
Yeah, that's kind of a hard hard thing not to argue.
01:02:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Do you think... that's hard that's a hard That's a hard fight to win, I think.
01:02:16
semendemon
Yeah, come on.
01:02:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because Sinners was was sinners was was elite as well.
01:02:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But Johnny Greenwood didn't win for There Will Be Blood, so he they owe him one. I think Goranson already went won one because he threw shade at the gamers. when he won his Academy Award last year.
01:02:31
semendemon
Yep, he won for Oppenheimer.
01:02:33
BeyBlade
Oh, that's right.
01:02:34
semendemon
I didn't play video games.
01:02:34
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:02:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, he was like, I thank my mom and dad for not letting me play video games. Like, fuck you, dude.
01:02:39
BeyBlade
You piece of shit.
01:02:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just make your millions. Make your Childish Gambino albums and your and your your blockbuster scores. Just, come on, man. don't don't Don't go there, dude.
01:02:51
BeyBlade
you
01:02:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know? Fuck that guy.
01:02:55
Steve-O
Well, with that, let's take it over to game of the year.
Game of the Year: 'Obscure Expedition 33' and 'Megabonk'
01:02:59
semendemon
game of the year
01:03:01
BeyBlade
out on um
01:03:02
Steve-O
So, Chris, we're going start with you. Game of the year.
01:03:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Floor Obscure Expedition 33. You have to say it like that if that's your game of the year, Chris.
01:03:09
semendemon
i didn't pick that i didn't pick that oh it didn't win it did not win my heart um i was playing megabonk for the majority of the year
01:03:10
BeyBlade
He didn't pick that.
01:03:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't? But it's supposed to win everything, Chris.
01:03:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Aww. You don't know Ball. Actually, Mega Ball? Yeah, you you know Ball. You know Ball.
01:03:26
semendemon
So I chose Megabunk as my game of the year. um Listen, you made a 3D version of ah Vampire Survivors. i'm I'm not against this.
01:03:38
semendemon
I think that's wonderful. It keeps bringing you back and keeps letting you play and get better. um There's a lot of skill to it and strategy, knowing what to pick up.
01:03:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
came so close to to beating Reigns high score if I just if I made like one tiny decision like I'm thinking about the one decision I made in like three minutes into the into the round that would have probably gotten me there yeah that's what it is with these roguelikes man that's what it is with the roguelikes you gotta make every every decision has to be perfect you know
01:03:54
BeyBlade
you
01:03:55
Steve-O
Almost.
01:04:03
semendemon
Yeah, it's always something in the very beginning and you're like, I fucked it up from the beginning.
01:04:12
semendemon
it's ah It's a lot of fun. I can't deny it. There's a skeleton on a skateboard. ah
01:04:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
calcium
01:04:19
semendemon
Calcium, my boy, throwing bones at everybody. Not unlike that guy who dug up all those graves in Pennsylvania and was selling them online.
01:04:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mega chad
01:04:29
semendemon
There's Mega Chad. ah There's just a really goofy, nonplussed style of gameplay, and i love it.
01:04:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chad. It's such a fun game.
01:04:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's mindless.
01:04:40
semendemon
Yep.
01:04:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's like you don't have to. I could just get home from work. And just fucking lay in bed. And just go nuts.
01:04:45
semendemon
Yeah, it's time thing.
01:04:46
Steve-O
But it's a time eat, man. Wow. Like you will.
01:04:48
semendemon
Okay.
01:04:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah if you get Yeah. If you get far. like you're there You're there for like an hour. and
01:04:54
Steve-O
Doesn't feel like it, but you are in the chair for a while.
01:04:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
hour and a half
01:04:57
semendemon
And it it's, yeah, one of the classic, you know, you get the juice, just like Vampire Survivors.
01:04:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:05:04
semendemon
That's what these games are all about.
01:05:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
How much was Megabonk again?
01:05:06
semendemon
10, 20, 20?
01:05:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What's the MSRP on that?
01:05:08
semendemon
Easy, easy $10 game.
01:05:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Five, five. It was it $10 on What is the, oh, $9.99.
01:05:10
Steve-O
was like 10, it was 10.
01:05:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wow. Look at that.
01:05:12
Steve-O
I was waiting for it to go to seven, but I caved, I caved.
01:05:16
semendemon
Buy it, play it, a friend.
01:05:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but is the oh nine ninety nine
01:05:20
semendemon
easy easy ten dollars gain
01:05:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
wow look at that
01:05:23
semendemon
buy it
01:05:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and
01:05:24
semendemon
play it that's fine
01:05:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Set the bar, guys. Set the bar lower for game for pricing games.
01:05:27
semendemon
I don't want to buy these big games anymore. and I wasn't interested in any of them that came out this year. So...
01:05:33
Steve-O
I saw this.
01:05:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't play Death Stranding too, Chris?
01:05:35
semendemon
No?
01:05:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dang.
01:05:38
Steve-O
How much was Death Stranding 2?
01:05:39
semendemon
didn't.
01:05:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't play Ghost of Yotai? Or whatever I say
01:05:42
semendemon
I didn't play Gotoyotai.
01:05:43
BeyBlade
but
01:05:44
semendemon
don't...
01:05:44
BeyBlade
You know, John, only you're allowed to say it like that.
01:05:46
semendemon
Yeah. I caught myself trying to say it like that.
01:05:49
BeyBlade
Yeah, what the of the hell?
01:05:50
semendemon
I was like, oof. I can't do that.
01:05:53
Steve-O
can't do this.
01:05:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i I don't know.
01:05:53
BeyBlade
I
01:05:53
Steve-O
I can't do this.
01:05:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Some people say Ghost of Yotai. Some people say Ghost of Yotai.
01:05:58
BeyBlade
think it's Yote.
01:05:58
semendemon
Yote.
01:05:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know what's correct.
01:05:59
BeyBlade
Yeah, it's Yote.
01:05:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't think Sucker Punch games, the Western white people developer, know either. So you're just supposed to guess, you know?
01:06:08
BeyBlade
How dare they be allowed to make a game?
01:06:11
semendemon
ah Yeah.
01:06:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
at least at least they gave At least they put as the language. you know japanese as the
01:06:16
semendemon
I'm going to be short and sweet with this one.
01:06:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
the native language
01:06:18
semendemon
That's really it for me. it's simple
01:06:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Megabonk was almost my game of the year too, Chris.
01:06:22
semendemon
It's a simple love.
01:06:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just because...
01:06:23
semendemon
i can't There's really not much to explain about it. You just play it.
01:06:26
BeyBlade
was it Was it really, John?
01:06:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
pretty sure I put the most time.
01:06:27
semendemon
It's fun.
01:06:29
BeyBlade
what Was it really?
01:06:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah i did i thought about it all.
01:06:31
BeyBlade
Did it really have a shot?
01:06:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I put... yeah how many how much How much play time do you think I have in this game? when i And I got it. When did I get this game?
01:06:37
BeyBlade
I'm sure it's like 200 hours, right?
01:06:39
Steve-O
like December, like early November, mid November.
01:06:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I got this game... November 30th is when I got this game.
01:06:44
Steve-O
Okay.
01:06:46
BeyBlade
But the amount of glazing you you gave your game of the year...
01:06:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
think.
01:06:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
28th.
01:06:50
Steve-O
Yeah, there wasn't without a doubt any question, John.
01:06:52
BeyBlade
id I'd be, yeah. i so I just don't believe that there was even even a if it was an option, he thought about it for like a second.
01:06:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I thought about it.
01:07:01
BeyBlade
You're like, no, what am I doing?
01:07:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, if it wasn't my game of the year, then i probably... i might have disgruntledly gave it to your game of year game of the year due to all that...
01:07:13
semendemon
Ha ha
01:07:13
BeyBlade
Of
01:07:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
jet Jessica's chat GPT made it, but...
01:07:17
Steve-O
My goodness.
01:07:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, I guess I'll say mine.
01:07:18
BeyBlade
course.
01:07:18
Steve-O
this is This is how I know what John's is.
01:07:21
semendemon
ha ha
01:07:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, my ah my game of the year was Hollow Knight Silksong, and I like to... pride myself i like to flex by saying that i'm not one of the copers that waited eight years every single day asking if the game was out and like just gave into the hype and you know i was blinded by by the hype and it needed to be a game of the year or else i would die like though because there are people like that out there that have waited so long for this game and
01:07:49
BeyBlade
Yeah, dude, I'll be honest. I would probably like hate you. Like I'd be so jealous that you got to live that.
01:07:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh
01:07:57
BeyBlade
You got to have that experience, you know?
01:07:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, right? Yeah, because like that's the thing. is i didn't you know How did it go? like i i For some reason, I had...
01:08:04
Steve-O
You like dusted off Hollow Knight on Switch 1.
01:08:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, well, no, I had Hollow Knight on Switch 1, but I forgot that I bought it on Switch 1. So I started playing it on i started playing it on Steam ah because it was on sale for like a dollar or some shit.
01:08:15
Steve-O
Switch 2. Oh.
01:08:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I bought it like a couple weeks before Or no, I would say maybe like, yeah, a couple ah couple months maybe before Silksong came out. Because I remember talking to you guys I'm like, I fucking don't like this game.
01:08:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's it's not, i don't know what's going on. And then I was like, yeah.
01:08:35
BeyBlade
It's too hard.
01:08:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then like two weeks later, I'm like, oh, i kept playing. It's my favorite game ever made, I think. So like, it's like, it was that. And then I ended up.
01:08:44
BeyBlade
Yeah, that was me in the Witcher.
01:08:45
Steve-O
You did with what Galani did with Terrifier.
01:08:45
BeyBlade
Pretty much.
01:08:48
semendemon
yeah you pull the terrifier it's zero
01:08:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is my Arthur Clown.
01:08:50
BeyBlade
dude What is it? What is it about shit that we love? We're like initially we're like, I don't know, man. And then like.
01:08:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sometimes it needs to cook, I think, dude.
01:08:58
semendemon
yeah yeah like what this is the issue like it gets better with time you just think about it and not only do the variants get better but your appreciation of them gets better
01:08:58
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:08:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You need you need to let things cook.
01:09:03
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:09:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's the Drake ah a computer meme. It's just like, oh, okay. and Now I get it.
01:09:14
BeyBlade
Yeah, now it makes sense.
01:09:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I understand why everybody loves Art the Clown, you know?
01:09:17
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:09:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But, um yeah, this game, like the best way to describe this game, and I think you and and i think Steve's the only one that could probably understand this is
01:09:27
BeyBlade
Wait, Steve, did you beat Hollow Knight? Like, did you?
01:09:29
Steve-O
Uh, I'm definitely decently far in it. I kind of got distracted over the holidays, but I'm i'm looking to jump back in.
01:09:33
BeyBlade
you You scrubbed out.
01:09:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah holidays hollow days um yeah yeah steve probably would steve i mean steve definitely understands this the the way i see silk song is like the the the analogy is it's the tears of the kingdom to hollow knights um breath of the wild where it's like Breath of the Wild is a special, special experience that you will only get to experience once, right?
01:09:36
BeyBlade
It's okay.
01:09:36
Steve-O
Okay.
01:09:36
BeyBlade
I didn't get it.
01:09:53
Steve-O
Okay.
01:10:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, that's how I kind of feel with Holland.
01:10:00
Steve-O
Right.
01:10:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's why I can't, like, decide which one I like better. But Silksong is just, like, like, it's the most, it's probably one of the most polished games in general I've ever played, like, to the point where it's punishing, punishingly difficult.
01:10:16
Steve-O
right
01:10:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um To the point where, you know, a lot of people um don't, you know, don't, don't want to give it a shot. Like, you know, they it's, and it is, it is really hard.
01:10:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And there are points where I was telling them, and like ah know if I'm I don't know if I, if my 40 year old fucking reaction times have it in me to actually beat this game, but it's really good.
01:10:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's amazing. And then you beat it and it's like, Oh wow, this is a like, you discover things about yourself. Like it's the same thing with souls games. Like you discover things about yourself with playing a game that's difficult.
01:10:50
Steve-O
I feel like I still got it.
01:10:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, like, and it's, you know, you're you're proud of yourself and and this and that, and it's like, oh, you don't, the bosses don't drop any loot, and it's like, it's not about that, it's about emotional loot, you know, like, you you did this.
01:10:52
BeyBlade
Ho, ho, ho.
01:11:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You climbed Mount Fae with, you know, and it's like, you know, you escaped the abyss. Like, there's so many, like, really good, like, fucking, like, gamer moments, and it it really makes me feel young again, you know?
01:11:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because, like, like That's the other thing is like you know you you you get older and you're just like, oh, like is gaming really the same as as it used to be 20 years ago, 25 years ago? like Will i ever get to experience Resident Evil 4 again? Which we did. But like you know will I ever get to experience that level of obsession and and pride in playing a game and completing a game and doing it multiple times just for the love of the game not you know not i'm not trying to chase platinum trophies or anything i just want to experience again like i'm talking to still nizumi and discord about i'm like dude like he's like he's playing it second his second run through now and he's just like dude i it might be better second time around i'm like dude i think it might be it's just one of those games where and i i feel like chris you probably understand this too but when you when you do
01:12:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
your second, third, fourth runs of Elden Ring and and Dark Souls 3 and Dark Souls 1, you know, like, you discover more things about a game like this that doesn't spoonate spoon feed you narrative or anything.
01:12:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it's it's really a a unique experience.
01:12:30
semendemon
Yeah, you you learn it's like an onion. You see the layers.
01:12:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's it's an onion with different layers, and and the the more you play it, the more times you you experience things, like, you peel off another layer and you discover this thing about and this thing, and it's like,
01:12:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know, man. Like this, I was just like, man, the the hype is real with this game. Like it's really like these hopefully non-gen, I'm praying, I have prayer hands up now, up now, hopefully these non-gen AI three small developers from Australia, like keep doing what they're doing. And at the price, like it's fucking, it's $20 too. Like it was on sale. I think it was like $17 something the other day.
01:13:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, they were saying, like, you can get both both those games for under $25, which is, like, insane.
01:13:14
Steve-O
I've realized
01:13:18
Steve-O
none of the game of the year games that we chose are full price games.
01:13:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and that's saying something, right?
01:13:24
Steve-O
That's definitely saying something in a year where they tried to raise the price to $80 games.
01:13:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, yeah, I mean, is that, that like, like in a vacuum, Steve, like, is that really, like, is it fair to make the price of the game a factor in what your favorite game of the year was?
01:13:29
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:13:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, I don't know if, like, 20 years ago, i don't know if if I... if I could say that.
01:13:45
Steve-O
I don't think you could 20 years ago.
01:13:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's like, but now it's like these these developers really set the bar, i don't wanna say set the bar low with the price, but they set the bar high with like the expect the expecting expectant value of their game.
01:13:59
Steve-O
Right.
01:13:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And like the price is definitely a huge factor and in value.
01:14:04
Steve-O
There's an insane quote that came out like yesterday from the developers of peak, you know, peak, right? John.
01:14:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:14:11
Steve-O
they went on this like insane quote about pricing
01:14:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh, it was like $8 is $5 $10 is or something.
01:14:17
Steve-O
Yeah. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. In players' mind, what does it mean to spend $5? Well, that's $5. But $6? Well, that's still $5. $4 is also kind of $5, he continued. $3 is $2. And $2 is basically free. So we've got these tiers. You know, $12, that's $10. But is and we found that eight bucks is still five bucks
01:14:43
BeyBlade
Man, he's like not wrong though.
01:14:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he's He's so right.
01:14:45
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:14:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He is so right.
01:14:46
Steve-O
He's so right about it.
01:14:47
BeyBlade
yeah
01:14:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's so right. And that and like that's the kind of level of like of um understanding that you want the the developer to have as a consumer. you know like you need that You need them to understand these things. And that's why when all the news was coming out that like some other indie developers were pissed that Silksong, the most anticipated indie game ever, came out at $20. That they have some kind of responsibility to to let let the indie indie game, indie developers breathe by, you know, making their game, like setting their their game prices higher so that they, you know, so that other indie developers can make money.
01:15:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's like, dude, like, no. Like, they think, they thought it was $20 and they thought it was a fair price.
01:15:33
Steve-O
Can
01:15:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i To be honest, a lot of people, in the camp of people that love Hollow Knight Silksong, think that $20 is too cheap for the game just because we're so brainwashed by thinking like, oh, like you got to spend $60, $70 to play a ah ah game, a game that could be considered a game of the year, you know?
01:15:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's like, it's just like, it's it's not how it should be.
01:15:57
Steve-O
can i
01:16:01
Steve-O
Can I ask you a question? If this game were $40, do you think it still would have crashed every online store when it went on release?
01:16:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's an interesting question because I feel like another reason you make it $20 is that people hear about it and they're like, oh, it's only $20, which is basically $10, which is basically $2, which is basically free.
01:16:19
Steve-O
You can't not buy it.
01:16:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but feel like that's my other tinfoil hat theory is lot of people that –
01:16:22
Steve-O
Which is basically...
01:16:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i feel like that's that's the other that's my other like tin foil hat theory is like a lot of the um a lot of people then didn't play Hollow Knight one first or didn't know, like kind of just bought into the hype because the game is so cheap and they bought into it.
01:16:38
Steve-O
Right. Yeah.
01:16:43
Steve-O
right
01:16:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
wasn't for them. They thought it was too hard. They gave up, you know, and then that's, that's the story, you know? um I do think it's ah very telling that it won the steam game of the year because a lot of people of ah an entire spectrum of, of gamers,
01:17:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
probably played it on steam so it's really interesting to me that that they all but like they they were able that they they were able to win the votes uh for a game of the year i think that's really telling that i feel like a lot of people that because you know i've been watching some youtube content creators some of them didn't even play hollow night one loved hollow night silk song i guess they got a lot of traffic to their youtube channels playing hollow night silk songs they're going back and playing the first one now And it's really interesting to see how easy that game is for them after playing Silksong, just because, you know, it is simpler by design um and like it is easier.
01:17:40
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
01:17:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But, you know, they're just like, oh, OK, like this is you definitely see the roots of of the game ah from Silksong in Hollow Knight. But yeah, it's just like i don't know, man, it's like it's like my new Zelda where it's like, you know, anything ah anything related to this I'm interested in.
01:18:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, if there's a.
01:18:05
Steve-O
Yeah, you were like beating yourself up for not getting like an Android of it.
01:18:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm just like looking at the now they're like two hundred dollars. that They got to re-release it right at some point.
01:18:16
Steve-O
At some point they do do reissues on that.
01:18:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know.
01:18:18
Steve-O
So.
01:18:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, because they were like fifty dollars before and I really need I need them.
01:18:20
Steve-O
But that's.
01:18:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I need both of them, Steve.
01:18:23
Steve-O
Did did you expect in 2025 to basically get a new like game series that you fell in love with and like be one of like your all timers?
01:18:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, no, because the thing is, is like this year I played a lot of old games that I really loved that I that I ended up becoming obsessed with, like Cyberpunk and ah and Red Dead 2.
01:18:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right. And I guess Red Dead 2, I finished early this year.
01:18:52
Steve-O
Was that this year?
01:18:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I guess it doesn't really count, but I guess recently Cyberpunk wasn't this wasn't 2025 either.
01:19:03
Steve-O
But like you you were you were doing like string of those games.
01:19:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But yeah, 2024, because like 2023 is when I played, or 2022 is when I played Elden Ring, and then ah that kind of, want to stroke Chris's dick any more than I than i usually do, but that game that game, which I didn't play when it came out, and I had no idea what to expect, like really opened up my my mind for were those types of games. And I don't want to say i'm I'm playing all the Souls likes, but it's just like, just difficult games in general.
01:19:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, I played Sekiro shortly after that too, and like, um went back a beat cuff head finally and finally. never beat Cuphead before. I have i have a New Life, beat the first Dark Souls.
01:19:48
semendemon
I think you beat Elden Ring. You got all this confidence. and
01:19:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, yeah, it's confidence, and then like, you know, I just, my, my, um my tit like it changed my taste, the taste buds in my tongue.
01:20:00
semendemon
Yeah.
01:20:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, it's like it's like i had Cuban food for the first time. So now I'm just like, you know, I love fucking pork sandwiches. I've never had pork before.
01:20:07
semendemon
that's what i'm I'm like that, you know, like we said about Terrifier. I'm like that with some movies. Sometimes I go back, I rewatch some films I didn't like. And I turn the page, I come back and I'm like, this is wonderful.
01:20:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and it's it's not just that, too. Like, because, you know, cyberpunk and... Red Dead are two like quadruple A games, billion dollar development development games where you know they their developers don't have the best ethical practices sometimes. And you know I play them and I'm like, you know what? like ah that That kind of like sets the bar a little bit too.
01:20:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I guess we'll get into that maybe um when you guys talk about your game of the year. But like for those level of games, now I have a certain expectation.
01:20:56
semendemon
Yeah, I agree.
01:20:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, like if the if the horse poops in the soup, the fucking NPCs better be thrown up after they're eating it, or else it's it's not worth my time, you know?
01:21:06
semendemon
Yeah. the horse poop better be real. There better be but there'd be some repercussions to it.
01:21:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, that's why I'm interested in Witcher 4, Devin, because of those horse muscles.
01:21:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, you know, how much poopbi how much poop is going to go in that soup?
01:21:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
mean
01:21:19
BeyBlade
You know?
01:21:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I need to see it, man.
01:21:20
semendemon
How many people boys are going to eat it? How are they going to react to it?
01:21:22
Steve-O
Damn, wait. Does this mean next year, Cult of the Lamb, John's game 2026?
01:21:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So, that Devin, if i
01:21:27
semendemon
Everybody even please.
01:21:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, is is if I played Witcher 3 now, would i do you think I'd be sorely disappointed in it, or do you think... Yeah,
01:21:34
BeyBlade
sorely disappointed? No, but I mean, it is it's showing its age. But I mean, listen, if there's going to be a moment to jump it's going be when that DLC comes out.
01:21:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
because the DLC is coming out.
01:21:47
BeyBlade
Yeah, that that rumored, heavily rumored DLC comes out.
01:21:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, I don't know if...
01:21:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because I did buy the Ultimate Witcher 3 edition months ago for like a dollar.
01:21:56
BeyBlade
For like $4. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:21:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, for like Which is basically free at that point.
01:21:58
BeyBlade
yeah
01:22:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was like $5, which is basically $3.
01:22:00
BeyBlade
yeah yeah
01:22:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Which basically $1, which basically free.
01:22:04
BeyBlade
Yeah, considering a what, 60, 70, it's probably like a 90.
01:22:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So...
01:22:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, no. I played Donkey Kong Bonanza this year. Dude, Steve, I didn't think any game was going to top that game for me. And that came out... When did that come out?
01:22:15
BeyBlade
Dude, not even not even listed.
01:22:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
In the summer?
01:22:16
Steve-O
that came out july yeah i was thinking about donkey kong bonanza myself
01:22:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
July?
01:22:18
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:22:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I played... I played three... ah played three games after that game that ended up surpassing it. So... And I still love Donkey Kong Bonanza.
01:22:26
Steve-O
yeah donkey kong bonanza is a masterpiece i got burned by its dlcs
01:22:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Don't get me wrong.
01:22:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah, when you talked about the DLC, I was like, eh, that sucks. Yeah.
01:22:41
Steve-O
It's still a masterpiece. And honestly, I thought about maybe a moment of that game being my moment of the year.
01:22:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, thought about that, too.
01:22:48
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:22:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know what my moment of the year is when they had the Donkey Kong Bonanza song in the medley for the Game of the Year award.
01:22:55
Steve-O
That was the best part of that medley.
01:22:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ha ha!
01:22:57
Steve-O
It kind of was. Oh.
01:23:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's like they did they did it on purpose. they They fucking locked in for that part of the medley.
01:23:05
Steve-O
They're like, we're gonna give you this at least.
01:23:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah Yeah, Nintendo.
01:23:08
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:23:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nintendo, please don't please don't send the Pinkertons after us.
01:23:11
Steve-O
Please, please don't.
01:23:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We'll give you this. We'll give you this.
01:23:16
Steve-O
Well, I think it's time for Devin and I to talk about our shared game of the year. ah John, how did you say we have to say it again? Clear Obscure Expedition 33.
01:23:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Claire Obscure.
01:23:28
Steve-O
33. Oh, yeah.
01:23:30
BeyBlade
3-3. Oui, oui. Dude, might like ending area.
01:23:31
Steve-O
three thing
01:23:32
BeyBlade
That's good.
01:23:32
Steve-O
um
01:23:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what's the best song What's the best song in that soundtrack?
01:23:35
BeyBlade
It's not the
01:23:35
Steve-O
e
01:23:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
First, right off the bat. Which one you go to? Is it Glow Blue?
01:23:40
Steve-O
glow blue is a banger
01:23:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it the Monoco theme?
01:23:47
Steve-O
and again another banger like here's like the thing it's like you know i you know let's let's get the cat out of the bag right away um
01:23:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The jazzy one?
01:23:48
BeyBlade
it's that's good it's not it's not
01:24:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
AI graded this entire game from the ground up.
01:24:02
Steve-O
but ah
01:24:02
semendemon
laughter
01:24:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let's get it out of the way. Get out of the way now.
01:24:05
Steve-O
uh the the um the admission to ai usage for the game um it means nothing to devin uh i was a little let down by it but there was a quote that came out recently where they said um
01:24:11
BeyBlade
means nothing to me.
01:24:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah They lied. They lied. That was the problem.
01:24:24
Steve-O
basically they said, you know, and we've been working on this game for some time in 2022 when AI game tools were coming to the forefront, you know, we used some of it. Uh, we ended up not really liking it.
01:24:35
Steve-O
Um, but there were some remnants of that still in the game. Uh, since then they've removed all those aspects of the game and, um,
01:24:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Since then, they've taken the developers that installed those and executed them publicly in China.
01:24:48
Steve-O
Yeah, they... ChatGPT, what should we do with the the the devs that used it?
01:24:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah
01:24:55
Steve-O
um
01:24:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Public hanging.
01:24:55
Steve-O
No. But um it's one of those things where, like, you know, I think you're seeing the backlash of what people want from their games.
01:25:06
Steve-O
And, you know, they...
01:25:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a little it's a little overblown, the the backlash that they were getting from this.
01:25:11
Steve-O
It's...
01:25:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And i'm and i'm here I'm here for it, and I love it.
01:25:13
BeyBlade
yeah
01:25:13
Steve-O
It's definitely...
01:25:16
Steve-O
Yeah, I know you are. I know you are.
01:25:18
BeyBlade
yeah Yeah.
01:25:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
As much as I really did enjoy this game, which I did, i really did enjoy this game quite a bit.
01:25:20
BeyBlade
Your popcorn bucket is empty, dude. Yeah.
01:25:25
Steve-O
The Hollow Knight Silksong enjoyers are are with a bag of popcorn loving it.
01:25:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm here for the downfall.
01:25:31
Steve-O
um
01:25:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And that the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 crowd, oh man, they're loving it too.
01:25:33
Steve-O
ah Hey, well, they got caught with their pants down after they tried to speak up. They're like, what? No, we just use AI on a few other hundred things too, but whatever.
01:25:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's because that everybody wants everybody wants to be in good graces with Larian, so they all came to bat for Larian, I think.
01:25:48
Steve-O
Yeah, they all stepped up.
01:25:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
which is a good Which is a good thing, I think, to see solidarity between the quote-unquote indie developers of the world. I like to see them have each other's backs when comes to that stuff.
01:26:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But, man.
01:26:01
Steve-O
They're, you know, um but to to talk about the game, Claire.
01:26:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Holy fuck, guys! The fucking CEO tweeting.
01:26:07
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:26:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Holy fuck, guys!
01:26:08
Steve-O
Whoa, holy fuck. Back off, man. Wow. Like what? um color obscure was a game that uh i basically picked out of the blue for last year's fantasy game draft that we do and i saw it visually i was like this looks kind of neat this looks cool um pre-ordered it played it and within the first 10 minutes i was openly sobbing uh i was not prepared for the amount of drama character and just like
01:26:41
Steve-O
Just excellence that this game is just like bleeding.
01:26:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, that that opener was pretty and intense, I must say.
01:26:48
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:26:49
BeyBlade
I I I've said this before, but the opener really got ruined for me because.
01:26:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You
01:26:58
BeyBlade
No shade, but ah Jenny tends to kind of want to just like randomly just come in and just tell me stories.
01:27:06
Steve-O
hmm.
01:27:07
BeyBlade
So I'll like pause the game and i'll listen. And then after a while, just like, OK, I can just like play the game while you're telling me the story.
01:27:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
need a head you need a headset. I'm getting you a headset for your birthday.
01:27:14
BeyBlade
And then this whole sequence happened. As she's like telling me some fucking love her to death.
01:27:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And he's just like, can you just leave, please?
01:27:22
BeyBlade
But some, at the end of the day, some inconse...
01:27:22
Steve-O
ah
01:27:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm in the middle of something.
01:27:25
BeyBlade
Like, it was one of those things where it's like a very inconsequential story, right? And I was just like... Like, I saw everything. i was like, whoa.
01:27:32
Steve-O
um
01:27:33
BeyBlade
Oh, Jesus. Yo, can you shut up for a second? Like, he was like...
01:27:37
Steve-O
what What just happened?
01:27:37
semendemon
Thank you.
01:27:37
BeyBlade
I was like, oh, okay.
01:27:38
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:27:41
BeyBlade
All right, then. Okay, it's that type of game.
01:27:44
Steve-O
yeah
01:27:44
BeyBlade
And I will say, I was... was into the game, right? I definitely was into the game, and I took about a month break because ghosts Ghost of Yote came out, and I really want to play that. And the good slash maybe bad thing about Expedition is like... ah you know, it's kind it has that like traditional JRPG combat mechanic. So i was like, I feel like I could put this down. And I was at a very pivotal point in the game where I was like, I'm not going to forget what happened.
01:28:17
BeyBlade
Right. Cause Verso just showed up. So it was like, okay, yeah, that that's going stick in my, yeah, yeah.
01:28:19
Steve-O
Mm.
01:28:22
Steve-O
You got yourself to a chapter break.
01:28:24
BeyBlade
I had a nice little break um in between. ah And even that like, you know, chapter two goes in, I'm, kind of I'm grinding a little bit and I was like all right and then I remember talking to John and I was just like yeah man like I don't know like I actually knew John and I actually on this we were recording we asked you Steve we're like man like does it end strong because like I like it but it hasn't really like kicked my teeth in since the beginning and you're like no it ends pretty strong and then I proceeded to do all the extra stuff and
01:29:01
BeyBlade
oh Almost all the extra stuff. And then I got to the end.
01:29:02
Steve-O
Yeah, y'all you both went sicko mode on this game. I was very, very blown away by that.
01:29:05
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. And then I got to the end and I was like, oh, no, Steve wasn't kidding like this. This really ends on a really strong note.
01:29:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, but did you guys beat Simon? Did you beat Simon?
01:29:15
Steve-O
No, I didn't.
01:29:15
BeyBlade
No, no.
01:29:15
Steve-O
I don't.
01:29:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Alright, I beat him.
01:29:17
BeyBlade
I was. You know what?
01:29:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So my opinion counts more than yours.
01:29:18
BeyBlade
Yeah. You beats you beats. Diamond.
01:29:21
Steve-O
You know what? I'm going to beat Silksong tonight, and then I'm going to show up. I'm going to be like, well, I beat Silksong also.
01:29:24
semendemon
Hehehehehehehehe.
01:29:26
BeyBlade
John, John, does it count if i if I put it on story mode and then beat Simon?
01:29:27
Steve-O
but
01:29:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn it!
01:29:31
BeyBlade
Does it count?
01:29:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i wouldn't I would be fine with that.
01:29:36
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:29:37
Steve-O
Oh, but what if we were in an argument with Devin?
01:29:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
this This is, this is, this is, yeah, that's, you didn't let me finish.
01:29:39
BeyBlade
is fun
01:29:39
Steve-O
Would it count if you were in an argument?
01:29:40
BeyBlade
Yeah, what what if what if tensions were high?
01:29:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't let me finish.
01:29:44
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:29:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'll be fine with that, but I'll put that in my back pocket for a rainy day.
01:29:48
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:29:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hey, Devon, remember when you put that shit on easy, on baby mode?
01:29:51
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:29:54
semendemon
Hehehehe.
01:29:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just to beat Simon?
01:29:56
BeyBlade
just to beat Simon yeah
01:29:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Actually, you know what, Devon? If I just, I sent you my builds, you could just one shot them. Probably. You probably have all the same shit I have.
01:30:01
BeyBlade
now I know i just thought i i I've been i will say this is like a 2025 game thing for me but like some of these games I've really gotten like deep into like like when I'm done like deleting it is like cathartic I'm just like oh it's like yeah
01:30:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you don't have to be a You don't have to be a shithead about it. You can just beat them legit.
01:30:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you don't want to go back in.
01:30:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, i still got I still have Red Dead 2 and Cyberpunk installed on my Steam Deck. And I'm like, it really doesn't make sense for me to have these fucking 9 million gigabyte games on here.
01:30:32
Steve-O
Those are massive.
01:30:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But...
01:30:33
BeyBlade
yeah
01:30:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
but I don't ah don't want to delete them.
01:30:35
Steve-O
ah
01:30:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they they're like my fat They're like my family members now.
01:30:36
BeyBlade
hey I could never.
01:30:37
Steve-O
Yeah. What if we find out that the games are like Toy Story and they talk to each other on the hard drive?
01:30:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Exactly, yeah. You're like throwing away a game at that point, Devin.
01:30:44
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:30:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Jeez.
01:30:46
Steve-O
You're basically Sid.
01:30:47
BeyBlade
yeah um Listen, I lived that life where I would just download the games just to kind of have on my digital shelf in case somebody wants to be impressed that no one ever is.
01:30:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean...
01:30:59
semendemon
a
01:31:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, no. Well, the thing is, is like they can still be in your collection without them downloaded too, you know?
01:31:01
BeyBlade
yeah I want to impress a child.
01:31:02
semendemon
ah
01:31:03
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:31:04
semendemon
Nobody is.
01:31:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because there's no way.
01:31:05
semendemon
Nobody is.
01:31:06
BeyBlade
Yeah, but I just want to be like...
01:31:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Steve, how many how many Steam games did the did ah did Tim have on his library? Like 9,000?
01:31:12
Steve-O
It was like 4,000, 9,000.
01:31:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
9,000?
01:31:14
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:31:14
Steve-O
Yeah, it was like 9,000 total.
01:31:15
semendemon
And he's played and beaten every one of those games.
01:31:15
BeyBlade
Well, yeah.
01:31:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
There's no He might not be shit and
01:31:19
Steve-O
He's touched everyone at least for 10 minutes.
01:31:20
semendemon
I don't, I wouldn't take any other answers.
01:31:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he might not be he might not be ten minutes tim anymore he might be negative one second tim where he just downloads shit and doesn't even install it
01:31:28
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
01:31:29
Steve-O
It just, he doesn't have the time. he doesn't have the time to play those.
01:31:32
BeyBlade
yeah But, um yeah, I will say the the end of of Claire Obscure, like that that third act really ah affected me, I'd say.
01:31:45
BeyBlade
the the ending specific...
01:31:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it. The end is different than the third act. I think the third act suffers from a lot of ah a lot of things that people just throw.
01:31:51
BeyBlade
ah You know, let let me let me rephrase.
01:31:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
JRPG.
01:31:53
BeyBlade
Like, the final area, right?
01:31:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a JRPG thing.
01:31:56
BeyBlade
right? the the final area right that That whole area sequence is like...
01:31:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay. Yeah, that that was awesome. That was awesome.
01:32:02
BeyBlade
That's awesome, right? And then...
01:32:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Especially when you go back to fucking, um, to Gustav's area and they start playing his song and you're just like, damn, bro.
01:32:03
BeyBlade
ah
01:32:07
Steve-O
Yeah, oh yeah.
01:32:08
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:32:09
Steve-O
When the music's swelling and...
01:32:09
BeyBlade
Yeah, and just...
01:32:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But Devin didn't care because he was, ah he was over Gustav by that point.
01:32:12
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah, I forgot that guy even existed. And then just even things, you know, like...
01:32:15
Steve-O
um my god.
01:32:17
BeyBlade
um Just kind of... What's the term you guys like to say about, like, storytelling through gameplay? Isn't there term that I'm blanking?
01:32:26
Steve-O
Um...
01:32:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Environmental storytelling or, um,
01:32:27
BeyBlade
it Yeah, yeah. Like, there's a little bit of...
01:32:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Our contact context-based storytelling, or...
01:32:31
BeyBlade
Yeah, like there's a little bit of that. Like when you when you defeat the paintress and she...
01:32:35
Steve-O
Or when you go back to Gustav's grave.
01:32:38
BeyBlade
Yeah. But like, dude, like did you guys remember that like when you defeat the paintress, the last thing she does is throw a healing spell on Verso?
01:32:47
Steve-O
No.
01:32:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, all all I remember is min-maxing the shit out of that game and just one-shotting everything.
01:32:49
BeyBlade
Dude. Okay, okay.
01:32:51
Steve-O
Dude, dude when i realized what was happening dude, when I realized what was happening during that fight and I made sure I was skipping all my attacks, but I had...
01:32:51
BeyBlade
Well, like stuff like that.
01:32:54
semendemon
you
01:32:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yes Oh yeah, because she saves you.
01:32:59
Steve-O
um
01:33:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She Mr. Presidents you at the end.
01:33:02
Steve-O
Yeah, when that happened, I was like, oh, I can't attack her. And what the fuck? um i had it I had one of the ah the spells that was just like an auto free damage every turn.
01:33:15
Steve-O
And I was like, no, why are you casting that automatically?
01:33:15
BeyBlade
okay
01:33:18
Steve-O
stop it. Yeah.
01:33:20
BeyBlade
Yeah. um But like just just things.
01:33:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a JRPG thing. It's an artistic inclusion.
01:33:24
BeyBlade
Yeah. Things like that.
01:33:25
Steve-O
me
01:33:26
BeyBlade
I know people kind of give the Dodge Perry like aspect a little bit of grief. I do think it it helped overall. I think it makes the game stand out.
01:33:41
BeyBlade
And no, like to me, it's
01:33:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:33:44
BeyBlade
It's better than average JRPG, you know, air quotes like JRPG combat.
01:33:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know, man. yeah the The end of Act 2 and the end of Act 3, when you're fighting just endless, endless Claire Obscures, and it's just you're just like, come on, man.
01:33:58
BeyBlade
Well, dude, I mean, at that point, I was just I was breathing on them and they're just getting wiped out.
01:33:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like I get it.
01:33:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I understand it. I know, but it's annoying to even just... like that's the That's my problem. It's annoying to just waste my time in a turn-based setting, dancing in the same spot and doing the same shit over and over again for like 30 minutes where I'm just like, I get it.
01:34:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You made your point. Claire Obscure is ah is an enemy in the game. It's dark and light.
01:34:19
BeyBlade
no you have to defeat you have to defeat well again some of that is self-inflicted because of of the third act ah some of that is self-inflicted because of the third act pacing where I think at that point after i had beaten it I was just like I was begging you to fucking beat that game
01:34:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like i said, my my taste buds have changed.
01:34:27
Steve-O
It is true.
01:34:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:34:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they're very The designs are very Miyazaki-coded, too. like You can kind of see the influence there.
01:34:41
BeyBlade
yeah yeah
01:34:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
the The influence that they fail to achieve from Souls games is the the bosses are just so not memorable at all. There's like maybe one or two. like The Laser Swords guy is memorable for me.
01:34:58
Steve-O
Why is John being so mean during our game of the year, Warren?
01:34:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i don't even know his name.
01:35:00
BeyBlade
yeah yeah Yeah, you know what I don't find memorable at all?
01:35:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm just saying, man.
01:35:03
semendemon
This game fucking stinks and anybody who likes it is an idiot.
01:35:05
BeyBlade
ah The plot in Hollow Knight.
01:35:07
BeyBlade
I think that character is really boring. you know she's just wears a little cape.
01:35:07
Steve-O
ah
01:35:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, the difference is you guys didn't play. The difference is you guys didn't play Silk, so I played clear obscure.
01:35:13
BeyBlade
no Yeah.
01:35:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So I can, you know, I actually have an opinion.
01:35:16
Steve-O
i at least own Silksong, thanks to you.
01:35:19
BeyBlade
and
01:35:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Simon.
01:35:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Simon was very memorable.
01:35:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, see, John knows better than they even throw that garbage my way.
01:35:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Can I tell you about my Simon experience, though? Because like everybody was gassing this mother.
01:35:27
BeyBlade
Tell me about this.
01:35:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Everyone was gassing this motherfucker up. Oh, this is the hardest boss in the game. Blah, blah, blah. Like he's all he's fucking this. He's that. And I thought he was a stick of butter. I thought I sliced through him.
01:35:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But then he came back to life and washed my ass.
01:35:41
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:35:43
Steve-O
Oh, no.
01:35:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I thought it was amazing. That was my favorite moment of the game. Because that's the that's the one the one time where I was just like, okay, cool.
01:35:48
BeyBlade
Yeah, that was your crack.
01:35:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like i'm not I'm not Ghost of Tsushima God anymore. like I actually have to kind of think about this. I can't just parry all day.
01:36:00
BeyBlade
Mm hmm.
01:36:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because, you know, if you if you guys follow him, like, the parry animations are, like, so ridiculous that it's not even worth parrying.
01:36:02
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:36:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
unless you're Unless you're a DDR freak.
01:36:09
BeyBlade
Yeah. And then you basically did didn't you basically kind of take the coward's way out and Simon like like you got you.
01:36:11
semendemon
Hehehehe.
01:36:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what do you mean that What do you mean by that? Not fighting him like you? Or actually fighting him?
01:36:18
BeyBlade
no I mean, basically, did you, though? Because you just got the you had the build where you just one shot at them, right?
01:36:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, because there's two phases. So if you... the this is the This is the thing with Simon. It's like, he does his He does this fucking, this fucking weak ass shit where out of nowhere, like if you get him down to 20%, he just wipes your team.
01:36:34
BeyBlade
Mm hmm.
01:36:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He erases you from the canvas and then your backups have to come in and finish the job.
01:36:40
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:36:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So the strategy is put your backups in first, try to get them down as much as can as you can. But then, you know, I figured out that you could just one shot him at that point, but then he comes back to life and you have to, you have to like,
01:36:56
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:37:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
kind of you kind of have to play a little bit, but you still you still get beat them in a couple of hits.
01:37:03
BeyBlade
I'll be honest, I am a bit torn on the fact that the game mechanics are so in-depth that you can break it.
01:37:15
BeyBlade
Like, it's really cool to me, but it's also like...
01:37:20
BeyBlade
You know, i don't know. i don't know how you feel about like the fact that you can just be given the tools to just completely...
01:37:23
Steve-O
I love that. i think it's so rare nowadays that the game will let you break it because a lot of the times developers will come back and like patch their game.
01:37:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, cause i
01:37:35
Steve-O
So they'll be like, oh, you can't do that super broken thing anymore.
01:37:37
BeyBlade
Well, they did, right?
01:37:38
Steve-O
You I they might have maybe I
01:37:38
BeyBlade
Didn't they actually... so They patched it for Mael because there was some sort of build for Mael, which was like...
01:37:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, yeah.
01:37:45
Steve-O
I guess they did. Yeah.
01:37:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It was sick.
01:37:47
BeyBlade
But again, it doesn't matter just because of all of the...
01:37:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it still worked after the patch, I know, from experience.
01:37:51
BeyBlade
Yeah, there's still so many options to do insane things.
01:37:52
Steve-O
ah There's still so many. Yeah.
01:37:55
BeyBlade
Yeah, where you're one-shotting...
01:37:56
Steve-O
Again, that's one of the reasons why like I love the magic system in that game.
01:37:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, i think I think it, no.
01:37:59
Steve-O
is
01:37:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, no, is that that's I thought that's like the big pull for JRPGs, is that you can do that.
01:37:59
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:38:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like I think like if it's yeah if it's complex enough, you can do it.
01:38:04
Steve-O
You make those unbreakable things.
01:38:08
Steve-O
I remember going over our friend's house and him just using knights the round over and over and over.
01:38:08
BeyBlade
Well, I guess my argument is, is like, is it complex or is it just, is it complex or is it just them going like, here's just a bunch of shit and we'll leave it up to you guys to figure it out.
01:38:12
semendemon
Oh, yay.
01:38:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you still you yeah i mean You still have to figure out...
01:38:21
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:38:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah i mean You still you still kind of have to figure it out with the Lumina points and stuff. and that What kind of is weird weird to me is the fact that like the Luminas you can just get endlessly.
01:38:26
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:38:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like It would have been better if they gave you a cap for the Luminas. I think it probably would have been a little bit more balanced. I guess that's their their way of just getting like hand it handing it over to you a little bit.
01:38:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because like yeah you're uncapped, like you can you can farm Lumina points.
01:38:51
BeyBlade
yeah
01:38:54
BeyBlade
But I will say at the end of the day, just to maybe put a button on this, is ah the story in Claire, to me, that's that's the show.
01:38:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
web
01:39:03
BeyBlade
And I don't think I...
01:39:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wasn't as good as Mega Bonk's story to me, so
01:39:06
BeyBlade
I don't think I experienced...
01:39:06
Steve-O
ah Well, I mean, Megabonk's just the best.
01:39:08
BeyBlade
a Yeah.
01:39:08
semendemon
yeah I'm someone who's not familiar with Megabonk Devin I understand that you would not know the the complexity of Megabonk's story
01:39:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, did you even play Megabock, Devin? I don't think you played the best story of the year if you didn't play Megabock.
01:39:17
semendemon
oh
01:39:17
BeyBlade
Oh, I played Megabonk. I played Megaponk for like
01:39:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh yeah, for like three seconds at my house.
01:39:20
BeyBlade
Two minutes? And I said, you know what?
01:39:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
01:39:22
BeyBlade
Pass, dude.
01:39:23
Steve-O
He said masterpiece.
01:39:24
BeyBlade
I'm good on it.
01:39:25
semendemon
didn't get to the story
01:39:25
BeyBlade
played Vampire Survivors four years ago.
01:39:26
Steve-O
I have to pass on this.
01:39:28
BeyBlade
i played the better version of this.
01:39:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:39:30
BeyBlade
I'm good.
01:39:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
My actual favorite part of Claire Obscura Expedition 30 was the discussions we had after I finished it. I thought they were really engaging and they were really intelligent discussions we had and
01:39:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:39:42
Steve-O
I think that's the, you know, the thing about the the game is it does have those like discussions.
01:39:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm glad we had it.
01:39:44
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:39:47
Steve-O
It has those like it's it's not black and white. It is it is i mean strangely enough, clear obscure, right? Black and white. But it is gray in your discussion.
01:39:57
BeyBlade
right and why
01:39:59
Steve-O
i also got a sick poster for Christmas. I'm going share it in shit talk. And I have this framed on my wall in my room.
01:40:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
just Gustav's hog
01:40:06
Steve-O
ah it's It's in the style of um the Final Fantasy artist.
01:40:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, Ashitaka, whatever her name is.
01:40:12
semendemon
Ooh.
01:40:13
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:40:14
BeyBlade
I've seen that. Yeah.
01:40:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What is Unurefeme? guess it means a fleeting dream.
01:40:21
Steve-O
know. I just thought the art was cool.
01:40:22
BeyBlade
Yeah, probably. Hmm.
01:40:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's like watercolor, too. i like that. That's pretty cool.
01:40:27
Steve-O
Yeah. ah But, you know I was thinking...
01:40:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Why is Verso in this painting, though? He's not even real.
01:40:34
Steve-O
he's He's kind of he's kind of in the in the background.
01:40:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So...
01:40:37
Steve-O
he's kind of He's not that important.
01:40:39
BeyBlade
don't think, yeah, don't think it's that important.
01:40:39
Steve-O
i got I got the most important in the front. i got the most important in the front.
01:40:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, the only like the only one that matters.
01:40:42
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:40:46
Steve-O
All right. we're gonna you know let's Let's start speeding a little bit up.
01:40:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Game of the year of all years. ClarabscoreExpedition33, congratulations. You won all the game of the years.
01:40:55
Steve-O
The Keeley of the year.
01:40:55
semendemon
Damn. That's simple, huh?
01:40:59
Steve-O
um So we're going to go to most anticipated.
01:41:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chris, it's not it's not hard enough for you. Don't play it.
01:41:05
semendemon
I need
01:41:06
Steve-O
Yeah, Chris is a sicko gamer.
01:41:09
semendemon
something that's gonna, you know, get my dick hard.
01:41:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they they don't have enough so They don't have enough lore in the and the weapon descriptions, so don't um play it.
01:41:15
semendemon
I gotta get my dick hard over here. I'm not saying I'm a dick hard. Come on.
01:41:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Speaking of getting your dick hard, let's go to most anticipated, most edging for in 2026. Ha!
01:41:28
Steve-O
Most anticipated in 2026.
01:41:28
semendemon
Goon list. Goon list.
Anticipation for Upcoming Films and Games
01:41:32
semendemon
What are we gooding for here, fellas?
01:41:32
Steve-O
I'm going to start on this one or else the joke is weird. ah So I'm going for Supergirl, the upcoming Supergirl film coming out this year.
01:41:39
semendemon
Oh, figures.
01:41:42
Steve-O
um
01:41:43
BeyBlade
Oh, okay.
01:41:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I can't edge for that. I already i already i already got there. i already came.
01:41:46
BeyBlade
You're already arrived.
01:41:46
Steve-O
ah you already. Oh, sorry.
01:41:48
BeyBlade
You're already arrived.
01:41:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
With that last ah image they posted, where's that where is that picture that they showed of her with her hair all tussled?
01:41:48
semendemon
and it
01:41:48
BeyBlade
you
01:41:51
semendemon
I'm putting my money down on the bet. i I am not mastering my domains.
01:41:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i was like, please, give this, baby.
01:41:59
semendemon
Oh, boy.
01:41:59
Steve-O
Yeah.
01:42:00
semendemon
Getting dangerous. I'm getting dangerous.
01:42:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Crush of the Year? We might have to bring Crush of the Year back next next year for the for this movie alone.
01:42:07
BeyBlade
yeah It's still, yeah, okay. That's fine.
01:42:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is that fair? Is that fair to do?
01:42:12
Steve-O
You know, we'll we'll watch the movie and we'll see. Because what if you walk out of it and you're like, ugh, ugh.
01:42:17
BeyBlade
I vote to not sit next to John when we see this in case I'm in the fucking splash zone, dude.
01:42:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yo, scroll down.
01:42:22
semendemon
Well, he's going to...
01:42:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Scroll down, Devin.
01:42:22
semendemon
It's going to be...
01:42:24
Steve-O
yeah
01:42:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, scroll down. Let me know how you feel about it.
01:42:26
BeyBlade
if you think yeah Now that's what I'm talking about, dude.
01:42:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Let me know how how you feel about this one.
01:42:28
Steve-O
Ha ha ha ha ah right ah
01:42:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
still You still yelling?
01:42:31
semendemon
it's gonna be it's gonna be a love life it's gonna be a love life bleeding situation where they caught that guy with his pants down at the theater remember he was passed out what's your love bleeding it's gonna be it's gonna be that all over again
01:42:32
BeyBlade
That's what I'm talking about.
01:42:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, baby.
01:42:33
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
01:42:40
BeyBlade
yeah
01:42:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah Oh, man.
01:42:46
BeyBlade
Ah, listen, it's hard it's hard. It's both hard to defend and hard to condemn. You know what i mean?
01:42:56
semendemon
what was that guy doing
01:42:57
Steve-O
The Superman movie was so good.
01:42:58
BeyBlade
no
01:43:00
Steve-O
And I think it's just going to be d c DC tearing it up on 2026.
01:43:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Super goon, baby. Wait, Steve, did you read? did you read Woman of Tomorrow yet?
01:43:10
Steve-O
No, I haven't. I have not.
01:43:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Okay, du you should do that. You should do that before the movie comes out, because I'd like to know your your thoughts on that, because it's.
01:43:13
Steve-O
Okay.
01:43:15
BeyBlade
Yeah, no, that's, I feel like that's a borderline required reading.
01:43:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I feel like it's elite that that book is.
01:43:20
BeyBlade
you know? Yeah.
01:43:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i mean, I haven't.
01:43:26
BeyBlade
ah Steve, you got it already.
01:43:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
continuously been reading comic books, but
01:43:28
BeyBlade
You got it already, dude.
01:43:28
Steve-O
ah Yeah, i got I got DC Infinite, so let's go.
01:43:29
BeyBlade
That's,
01:43:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah, scroll down, baby. That's what this is. That's what this allved val is about.
01:43:34
Steve-O
DC's back, baby, and I am all for it. Let's heckin' go.
01:43:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chris, you like what you see?
01:43:40
Steve-O
right.
01:43:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You like what you see from
01:43:41
semendemon
I was trying to find that picture of that guy, Matt, a guy caught masturbating. I love lies bleeding, but we'll get to that later. Don't worry.
01:43:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chris, are you in the, are you in the, uh, the Excel sheet?
01:43:48
Steve-O
You know what?
01:43:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chris, just, you know, you like what you see. Scroll down a little bit more.
01:43:53
semendemon
Yeah. No, I took, this I took a long look down.
01:43:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think you,
01:43:58
semendemon
I knew something was up. Like I didn't take that one for granted. Right. i didn't go into that thinking. i know what he's doing.
01:44:09
semendemon
That's going to be fine.
01:44:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
woman Woman of Kamaru, I would say.
01:44:13
BeyBlade
Oh, How dare you?
01:44:14
Steve-O
I'm going to toss the ball to Chris since I was talking about DC.
01:44:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Super goon. lightning
01:44:18
Steve-O
Is this kind of a continuation?
01:44:20
semendemon
You want to talk about a fucking ah a lightning bolt for DC Comics.
01:44:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
storm.
01:44:26
Steve-O
lightning rod.
01:44:27
semendemon
it A lightning fucking huge ass ride.
01:44:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
A lightning storm.
01:44:31
semendemon
It's the absolute universe that I am generally gooning over. Left, right, and center. I've
01:44:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you see the memes, Chris, about when they showed Poison Ivy?
01:44:40
semendemon
i
01:44:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just like every dude in Absolute Universe is just a fucking goblin monster orc.
01:44:44
semendemon
Yes.
01:44:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then every woman is just this sexy too.
01:44:53
semendemon
Not a problem. um Wonder Woman, too. She's fucking... God, you're right. Anyway. Jesus. um
01:45:03
BeyBlade
the
01:45:03
semendemon
jesus
01:45:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I love it. I love the Absolute memes.
01:45:05
semendemon
i
01:45:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's one of my favorite things.
01:45:07
semendemon
I love this universe. I had no idea Absolute Martian Manhunter was coming back. And it is. i I'm reading that.
01:45:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
are they start are they re Are they picking up on the issue number that they left off on or
01:45:18
semendemon
think so. oh I think it's a continuation. I thought that was just like a one shot like or like a single arc. But no, it's going to be a thing.
01:45:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um'm glad I'm glad to see they have a lot of stories to tell in the universe. I think it's pretty cool.
01:45:30
semendemon
I'm Wonder loving and Wonder Woman.
01:45:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's pretty fresh for the for the creators.
01:45:33
semendemon
i'm love I got to get into back into Flash. I got to give him another shot. And I haven't read any of the Green Lantern shit. So like um'm um'm I'm going to jump into that too. The absolute Green Lantern. That's a fucking blast. um Yeah, I got a lot a lot of shit I can read um in this universe. And it just seems to be ramping up in a lot of ways. And of course, Absolute Batman. I am completely caught up.
01:45:59
semendemon
At least through the app, the DC app. Oh, man, I'm heating that up, dude. It's so... got That fight with Bane.
01:46:10
semendemon
Holy...
01:46:11
Steve-O
Oh my God, dude, that fight with fucking Bane.
01:46:13
semendemon
Woo-hoo-hoo!
01:46:14
Steve-O
Oh my God.
01:46:15
semendemon
It was like watching... um I'm a big Yu Yu Hakusho fan. And it was the younger brother brother, Toguro, when he keeps growing in size...
01:46:20
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:46:26
BeyBlade
yeah
01:46:27
semendemon
um It is very representational of Bane. And that whole... kindt Like, he dropped a fucking... Yeah, I don't want to spoil anything.
01:46:39
semendemon
Yeah!
01:46:39
Steve-O
Yeah, don't spoil that, because like that's how it opens. like
01:46:44
semendemon
Ah! Ah! Um, and then, uh, I, I of course read the Joker origin comic that, that came out recently. Um, wonderful, really wonderful shit in that. Um, it's, I, yeah, there's been nothing that I'm truly like, I don't like in this universe and absolute wonder woman is wonderful and I'm still waiting on issues for that. Like,
01:47:12
semendemon
It just seems like it's it's they're they're turning a page and they're really setting the standard for what the times want in their superheroes.
01:47:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fresh stories.
01:47:26
semendemon
You know?
01:47:26
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
01:47:26
semendemon
i think That's really cool. i
01:47:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
fresh stories
01:47:29
semendemon
Fresh stories and really dark like worlds dominated by people in power like corporations and shit. like This is very there's a lot to this.
01:47:42
semendemon
The haves and the have-nots. A lot of that going on in in the absolute universe that I think they're saying something, man. They're saying it pretty well.
01:47:52
Steve-O
We should have let Darkseid win long ago if this is what we would would have gotten.
01:47:57
semendemon
Yeah, but unfortunately, Bruce does join ICE to pay off his student loans. so
01:48:02
Steve-O
Ow! No, that's... Hold on, Chris. That is genuinely not true because of the annual.
01:48:06
semendemon
Wait! You didn't read!
01:48:07
Steve-O
Because of the because of the annual.
01:48:08
semendemon
You didn't read! he he He said I was wrong.
01:48:12
Steve-O
Yeah, after he fucking was like RKO-ing like ICE officers in that issue.
01:48:13
semendemon
it
01:48:14
BeyBlade
yeah he's like i thought i thought about it and the loveliest giantest man of all time
01:48:19
semendemon
I have a lot of student loan debt. i what I got injured in college or pretended I was. So I got to pay that off. And that's, that's sorry, Steve.
01:48:31
semendemon
Sorry, buddy. um No, of course he wouldn't do that. He's a lovely giant man that I,
01:48:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you
01:48:41
semendemon
It's just so fun reading him and reading his rogues gallery and how that's turning out. It's just...
01:48:47
Steve-O
I think you mean his friends gallery.
01:48:48
semendemon
his although they the um I don't know about ah
01:48:50
Steve-O
They were, hey, they were still there.
01:48:54
semendemon
um that. Yeah, Penguin was sort of there.
01:48:57
Steve-O
ah Yeah, Two-Face had to kind of scoop him up to look at the TV.
01:48:58
BeyBlade
yeah
01:49:02
semendemon
Anyway, you did check it out.
01:49:04
BeyBlade
yeah
01:49:04
semendemon
Check out what he's doing.
01:49:05
Steve-O
yeah yeah
01:49:07
semendemon
And he's like...
01:49:08
Steve-O
yeah
01:49:08
semendemon
ah Yeah. Yeah. gar Awesome. I'm so pumped for this. I'm so pumped for this.
01:49:19
Steve-O
Don't ever stop it. In fact, make it its own cinematic universe maybe be one day.
01:49:24
semendemon
Please. Yeah, no. Animated.
01:49:28
Steve-O
Yeah, get the ah the animation team. What's that, Gunn? the The sickos who did ah the cyberpunk Edgerunners.
01:49:32
semendemon
Get.
01:49:36
semendemon
Those, yes, those guys, what is it, monkey teeth or rooster teeth or whoever they are they can do it. Somebody needs to make an absolute Batman animated series.
01:49:47
BeyBlade
Oh my God, dude. ah DC already has, they probably have five years worth of movies, animated movies being made at this point for them.
01:49:56
semendemon
you You say that, but it's, I just, I want to believe, all right?
01:49:59
BeyBlade
And you don't want it, dude. I'm telling you, you don't want it.
01:50:02
semendemon
I don't want it?
01:50:03
BeyBlade
You don't want it
01:50:04
semendemon
I want the animated
01:50:05
BeyBlade
All right.
01:50:06
semendemon
Absolute Batman series. I want that.
01:50:07
BeyBlade
Yeah, ah you know
01:50:08
Steve-O
I don't want any of the volume to but be below a 10.
01:50:08
BeyBlade
Enjoy it. Yeah.
01:50:12
Steve-O
I want it to be max volume. Everything.
01:50:13
semendemon
It's gotta be.
01:50:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Absolutely.
01:50:15
Steve-O
Absolute volume.
01:50:15
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:50:17
semendemon
Metal. lot of metal.
01:50:19
Steve-O
But not Batman metal. Absolute Batman.
01:50:24
BeyBlade
Yeah, Batman Metal's bad. You don't want to... That stinks, actually. That's like horrible.
01:50:31
semendemon
Yeah, no no, not that.
01:50:31
BeyBlade
um
01:50:32
semendemon
No, no, no.
01:50:34
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:50:35
Steve-O
right.
01:50:35
BeyBlade
Well, you know, Chris, it it feels good because you're basically 2004 me when I got into the Ultimate Comics.
01:50:47
semendemon
We're coming back, baby. It's all full circle.
01:50:49
BeyBlade
Where I was like, wow, this is ah this is all I want to read.
01:50:49
semendemon
It's all full circle.
01:50:52
BeyBlade
And then dipped my toe in some other stuff. And next thing you know, I was a full-blown comic book addict.
01:50:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And you still think Absolute Cap would last more than one second in the ring with Absolute Batman.
01:51:01
BeyBlade
he would wait He would use him as a mop, dude.
01:51:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's crazy. That's crazy, dawg.
01:51:05
BeyBlade
Are you kidding me?
01:51:06
semendemon
What do you think?
01:51:07
BeyBlade
He would fucking yeah his he would clean a toilet with absolute Batman's face.
01:51:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's crazy, dawg.
01:51:13
BeyBlade
Get out of here. I don't want to hear it. Anyway... um Most anticipated, this was more difficult than I thought for me because there's a lot of dope shit coming out.
01:51:28
BeyBlade
But i what makes me like want to anticipate it is when I think I know a little bit less about the product. Like, I i know GTA 6 is coming out.
01:51:39
BeyBlade
I know.
01:51:39
Steve-O
Do you? don't
01:51:40
BeyBlade
Yeah. yeah Yeah. I know. i know it's coming out. I know.
01:51:43
Steve-O
know. Jason Schreig, I...
01:51:44
BeyBlade
i know when Resident Evil six or six. I know when Resident Evil nine is coming out like to the day. um It's so close. I can. I feel like I'm past anticipation.
01:51:57
BeyBlade
Wolverine. The Wolverine game kind of fits this nice little spot for me where I know it's coming out. I don't know when it's coming out.
01:52:09
BeyBlade
What I've seen of it looks great.
01:52:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is it coming out though?
01:52:11
BeyBlade
I know I'm going to really, really enjoy it.
01:52:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Do we have a
01:52:15
BeyBlade
And we don't have a date. But odds are pretty good it's going to be 2020.
01:52:18
Steve-O
who Who picked this?
01:52:21
BeyBlade
We have a whole... We got 11 more months.
01:52:22
semendemon
Uh, it's,
01:52:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we have one fort We have one reveal trailer.
01:52:26
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
01:52:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's it so far.
01:52:29
Steve-O
Oh, John, you got this. This is your top fantasy pick.
01:52:31
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:52:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I know. And you know what's awesome? Nobody counterpicked it. So I can just drop it if it doesn't come out.
01:52:37
BeyBlade
There you go. Well, you could... any It doesn't matter. um Yeah.
01:52:41
BeyBlade
So Wolverine. Wolverine is. He's I'd say for me. My kind of like. Oh I'm going to. I'm going to make time for this one.
01:52:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
could trade him to.
01:52:53
BeyBlade
I'm going to be sick that day. Is what I'm saying.
01:52:56
Steve-O
This is your nasty boy dream game. Of course you're not going to work on that.
01:52:58
BeyBlade
My nasty boy dream game. Are you kidding me? Wait. wait You think I'm going to call out of work. For fucking Scream 7. No. No. no
01:53:07
Steve-O
What if this comes out on your wedding day?
01:53:09
BeyBlade
I hold on.
01:53:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you're going to pull a Tim and play it on your wedding day?
01:53:12
semendemon
Bye.
01:53:16
BeyBlade
Yes. hundred percent.
01:53:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Even though that would probably result in the wedding being cancelled.
01:53:21
BeyBlade
No. I'll be like, no, because it's getting hooked. Yeah, it's getting broad, bro. You kidding me?
01:53:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Wait, no, no, yeah. if if you think If it is scheduled to come out on your wedding day, you would have you would at least have to get PlayStation Portal so you can play it while you're away doing wedding stuff.
01:53:39
BeyBlade
ah
01:53:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Right?
01:53:41
BeyBlade
Fair points, maybe.
01:53:46
BeyBlade
What the? Okay. Yeah. But no, at the end of the day, Wolverine, I'd say anticipate, like I said, it's a weird one for me, but I'd say that's that's probably the one where I'm just like, yeah, no, I'm hard in.
01:54:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I guess I'll go next. My most most anticipated game of the year, or most anticipated thing of 2026, is the announced Hollow Knight Silksong DLC. That is gonna $3.99, baby!
01:54:20
Steve-O
$3.99. free. I'm sorry.
01:54:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and
01:54:21
Steve-O
Wow. Wow.
01:54:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
no free free dollars
01:54:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, you want to talk about is that actually coming out?
01:54:23
Steve-O
oh free i'm sorry
01:54:24
semendemon
Free dude.
01:54:27
BeyBlade
Yeah, you want to say is that one, is Wolverine coming out?
01:54:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, if Hollow Knight Silksong gets delayed to 2027, I will buy your copy of Wolverine if it comes out in 2026. Alright?
01:54:37
BeyBlade
You know what, John? John, if if Holland, I will buy your copy of Silk Song CSR.
01:54:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Take me up on that?
01:54:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um that's not fair! It's fucking free, dawg!
01:54:44
Steve-O
wow
01:54:44
BeyBlade
I'm good.
01:54:45
Steve-O
wow
01:54:45
BeyBlade
Nah, dude. Hey, hey, I don't make the prices.
01:54:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, I'll make you buy me Hollow Knight Silksong on PlayStation 5 so I can play it again on PS5.
01:54:56
BeyBlade
Okay. All right. Wait, wait. so So the bet is Silksong gets delayed out of the year?
01:54:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So the bet is no, but the the only way this happens is if the only way that this happens is is if one of them comes out and one doesn't come out. That's the only way this happens.
01:55:10
BeyBlade
Wait, wait. But but you're saying Silksong has to get delayed out of the year.
01:55:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:55:16
BeyBlade
We're just delayed in general.
01:55:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
01:55:17
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:55:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. If it gets delayed out of, tool yeah.
01:55:19
BeyBlade
Hey. Yeah.
01:55:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Cause the right now the the announcement is that it's coming out this year. So if that's not true,
01:55:25
BeyBlade
Yeah.
01:55:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
then I'll, and Wolverine gets a release date. I'll pre, I'll fucking pre-order that for you.
01:55:33
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:55:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh wait, I can't, you can't buy stuff for people on PlayStation.
01:55:37
BeyBlade
I got Venmo.
01:55:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Sorry.
01:55:39
BeyBlade
I got Venmo.
01:55:39
Steve-O
That is kind of a bummer.
01:55:40
BeyBlade
ah All right. All right. So let's see. Let's switch it up to you want to get a moment of the year.
01:55:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh yeah. I might as well segue into my moment of the year.
01:55:49
semendemon
Maman, come be here.
01:55:50
Steve-O
Moment. Moment.
01:55:51
BeyBlade
Yeah. Segway.
01:55:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Which is where I realized, this is the moment I realized video games is art. Is during Horn's last dive.
01:56:01
BeyBlade
All right.
01:56:01
semendemon
a
01:56:02
BeyBlade
alright
01:56:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This was my spiritual awakening as a gamer. The music, the culmination of everything that, not only that's happened in the in the lore, in the game, which you know you don't really have to follow, but just emotionally as a person,
01:56:07
BeyBlade
Okay.
01:56:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
as a human being playing the game, it came all down to this. And fights I've ever fought in any video game.
01:56:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, it's up there with Melania, it's up there with um OG Radon. Not pre-patch Radon, but post-patch
01:56:50
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
01:56:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
non-consort.
01:56:51
semendemon
Yeah, correct that.
01:56:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I have to put all these things in here.
01:56:52
semendemon
Correct it.
01:56:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um
01:56:54
semendemon
Correct it.
01:56:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. ah Like, it's real, like, I mean, actually, like, top five top five bosses I ever played, like, probably two or three of them are in this game alone.
01:57:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um I think the bosses in this game are fucking amazing. They're better they're better than Hollow Knight 1, I think, on terms of design and just brutality, but also fun.
01:57:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like it's like a fighting game, you know, like it's like you're, you're playing a fighting game and like, uh, and you also, the other thing is there's no run back for this boss, which is, which is a big point of discussion too, is like, you know, the, the run people were, were, were really mad about the run backs in this game.
01:57:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
how How do you feel about run backs? Chris, are you for, are you for or against run backs?
01:57:47
semendemon
Well, like, for me, I played a lot of the Dark Souls games. So it's like once you beat a boss, you beat a boss.
01:57:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what saying, yeah.
01:57:53
semendemon
Like, there's no... i don't know.
01:57:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But if you don't beat the boss, you gotta you know you gotta to fight through hell just to get back to the boss.
01:58:00
semendemon
Yeah, but like everything is so interconnected. It's, you know, I've played Castlevania games. It's sort of the same deal.
01:58:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah.
01:58:07
semendemon
and we I'm used to it.
01:58:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, like, a there was some... I don't know if they were talking about Hollow Knight in general, but there's somebody that had a quote online somewhere that where they said that um that boss runbacks are good because it allows you time to like kind of grieve what you did wrong previously yeah like yeah because like you have to be locked like keeps you locked in because like and like I kind of have kind of agree with it
01:58:26
semendemon
And it get a little sharper before you face the boss.
01:58:34
semendemon
That's actually an issue.
01:58:35
Steve-O
I get sloppy, guys. I get sloppy after I have to do that run back like a third, fourth time.
01:58:39
semendemon
yeah
01:58:40
Steve-O
That fourth time, I'm like, and then I fuck up again.
01:58:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah yeah it's um so some of them are yeah some of them are absolutely like unnecessarily brutal
01:58:47
semendemon
Well, but I kind of feel the same way a little bit about Celeste. I'm playing that right now. Actually, John, you gave me that for Christmas.
01:58:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That game's awesome, but that game is really hard.
01:58:55
semendemon
thank Thank you for that, by the way.
01:58:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That game's really hard, too.
01:58:59
semendemon
And yeah, there's a lot of, um there's a little bit of backtracking in it and considering the difficulty of a lot of the movement.
01:59:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, but but it does something cool. like it If you turn it off, if you rage quit, it just puts you back where you where you were right right before.
01:59:13
semendemon
Oh yeah, no, it's very forgiving in that regard.
01:59:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's forgiving in that sense, but the game itself is very unforgiving.
01:59:19
semendemon
Yes, it is.
01:59:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That game might be harder than Hollow Knight. don't know. A lot of people think so. might be.
01:59:23
semendemon
It's fun though. That's a fun one.
01:59:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But um yeah, the the last dive is just like, oh man, it was like, I watch reaction videos of people experiencing it for the first time. And I'm just like, man, I wish i could men in black myself and and do it again without, you know, without access to Discord. Cause I'm like typing, I'm like, this is fucking amazing while I'm watching, while watching what's going on in the game.
01:59:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And um it's just like, i don't know, man. It's one of those unforgettable moments, I think. in games i I probably will never forget.
01:59:56
BeyBlade
and And it's like it's like the the trek to the final boss plus the final boss.
02:00:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, yeah, so like, what happens is like, you fight all the way up to get to the top, and then you go all the way to the Abyss, and then you find out what really happened, and then you go all the way back up in in the game in general, like Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, and then this one is like, you realize that you have to go, you have to go into the Abyss again, even though you might die
02:00:17
BeyBlade
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
02:00:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because you're not you're not the knight from Hollow Knight. Who doesn't have... like like Hornet is different. like Yeah, she's got LeBron James DNA. She's a fucking athlete.
02:00:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But like she's not like ah an emotionless, like soulless vessel. She's actually like an actual creature of the world. Unlike the knight is and in Hollow Knight.
02:00:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So like so like her going into the abyss means that like she has to die. so she has you know There's this whole thing where you have to go deep into her memory and collect a flower from her sad past it's it's really very elden ring like the the um the lore is very it's really interesting if you think about it because it's about bugs but like you know her yeah her mom is a spider and her dad was like the was like a god worm and like but they weren't married he was actually married to somebody else but but her spider mom like asked for a child so she so
02:01:10
BeyBlade
yeah
02:01:11
Steve-O
you
02:01:11
BeyBlade
At the end of the day, it's about these bugs.
02:01:13
semendemon
You like bugs? I like bugs.
02:01:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He, you know, she like fem-cooked his wife and allowed the dude to make a ah child with her, which ended up becoming Hornet. It's all this whole thing. It's really cool. It's really cool if you go deep into it. But um but this was like, oh, man, it was it was so cool.
02:01:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
there's so It's just
TV Show Highlights: The White Lotus and Monologues
02:01:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
one of those moments. It's my favorite game.
02:01:45
Steve-O
moment of the year. Who wants to go next?
02:01:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight's my favorite game.
02:01:51
semendemon
Oh, I'll go next. um You know what's funny about this is I'm not even a huge fan of the show, um White Lotus, but my moment of the year was Sam Rockwell's character's monologue in the White Lotus season three.
02:02:10
semendemon
um In the context of the scene is really strange too because it's a character who's in Thailand visiting and he's meeting up with an old friend of his played by Sam Rockwell, who has been living in Thailand for a good amount of time.
02:02:27
semendemon
And he has now become a Buddhist. And it's basically ah Walton Goggins who's in this asking Sam Rockwell, like what happened? What, like why, what changed?
02:02:39
semendemon
And his explanation of what happened to him in Thailand um is,
02:02:45
BeyBlade
Bye.
02:02:47
semendemon
probably one of the funnier things I've seen in a long time it really i only want to give it away it's literally you can go on YouTube and just look this up um and just watch the whole monologue and watch Waltz and Goggins interactions and reactions it's is he's representative of the audience um but yeah it's it's a lot of fanboy fucking you know
02:03:15
BeyBlade
yeah
02:03:15
semendemon
And what it what it does to a person.
02:03:15
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:03:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, it's just kind of like, ah yeah, just him talking about casual, very casually of his descent into fucking depravity.
02:03:26
semendemon
yeah He wanted to be.
02:03:27
BeyBlade
Essentially.
02:03:27
semendemon
I wanted to be.
02:03:29
BeyBlade
Yeah, I think at the end of the day, yeah, I wanted to fuck myself.
02:03:29
semendemon
Who I was fucking.
02:03:33
semendemon
And I would pay men. To come and fuck me. I would dress up like one of those girls.
02:03:40
BeyBlade
ah Yeah, now it's definitely a standout.
02:03:40
semendemon
So it's a lot of that.
02:03:42
BeyBlade
It's definitely a standout moment.
02:03:43
semendemon
It is a wonderful moment. It is um just really good acting on both sides of the table. And it's very simple. It's just all dialogue and it's really well delivered.
02:03:52
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:03:56
semendemon
And yeah, it's just hilarious and a great bit of writing. So simply put the best monologue of the year, Sam Rockwell, White Lotus season three, check it out.
02:04:12
Steve-O
Great choice. Great choice. um I'll go next since it's TV related.
02:04:17
BeyBlade
Stevie. Okay.
02:04:19
Steve-O
um
02:04:19
BeyBlade
Okay.
02:04:20
semendemon
Good pick, Steve. This a good one.
02:04:21
Steve-O
i would i mean, i had to somehow, I think, put this on the list because it was... the first season of rehearsal was great, but the second season was like phenomenal.
02:04:36
Steve-O
And my favorite episode was pilot's code, which was the Sully Sullenberger episode. um And ah there's just so many like laugh out loud moments and just the way, like how serious it is taken.
02:04:43
semendemon
Very good.
02:04:55
Steve-O
And then there is just this like inexplicably like, very good montage of Sully's life flashing before his eyes as Evanescence plays and wake me up inside.
02:05:08
semendemon
wake me up inside.
02:05:11
Steve-O
And it's just, it's one of those things that I found myself regularly Googling, like YouTubing throughout the year because it was so like, so damn funny and so damn good.
02:05:23
semendemon
Absolutely silly um in a lot of aspects, including the the Sully as a baby.
02:05:24
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:05:30
Steve-O
Oh my God, with the giant like playpen and then the the seed where he's breastfeeding. Oh my God.
02:05:39
semendemon
very strange and silly and it was pretty wonderful you know all things concerning
02:05:45
Steve-O
This episode is the episode five of Alien Earth for rehearsal, I would say. is
02:05:51
semendemon
the craziest part is he went on to actually be a commercial pilot which is a shocking thing to see him in the cockpit of like 747s and cargo planes like FedEx cargo planes
02:05:55
Steve-O
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
02:06:07
Steve-O
he
02:06:08
BeyBlade
Hehehehe.
02:06:08
Steve-O
He got his license. He did it.
02:06:11
semendemon
So that's something.
02:06:12
Steve-O
But ah just an ah an excellent season. But that episode and that montage specifically are just things that are just made 2025 like television so good in my mind. So definitely check it out if you haven't.
02:06:30
BeyBlade
You're right. ah Yeah. So I'll finish. I'll be quick because we we've talked about this a bunch already. But my moment of the year is specifically. i'd say like the the choice you are asked to make at the very end of Claire Obscure Exposition 33.
02:06:45
BeyBlade
I don't want to spoil it because it is it's pretty impactful, but.
02:06:48
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:06:51
BeyBlade
I, uh, it caused a bit of a stir on the discord and I feel very confident in that I am not the monster and everyone else is the monster.
02:07:02
BeyBlade
Um, but it really was a decision that kind of like, want to say it affected me, but like I thought about it and it stuck with me and, and I, John
Narrative Choices in Games: Impact and Complexity
02:07:14
BeyBlade
and I, we were at a, uh,
02:07:16
BeyBlade
a friend's giving, um, you know, last late last year.
02:07:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we got we got deep we got deep into it.
02:07:21
BeyBlade
And I like cornered it cause he just beaten it. And, uh, and I was like, I need it to talk to somebody about it. And Chris, you know, and Steven, Chris weren't there. And I was like, I, I, I need to have, that and we had this nice, like, you know, little discussion.
02:07:35
BeyBlade
Uh, John's, you know, wife was there and we both pleaded our case to, yeah.
02:07:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we even like explained this, Sam. yeah we explained we It was like we were presenting court documents to a jury, and she used the jury.
02:07:41
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:07:45
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
02:07:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and We were like, well, what would you do? What would you do here?
02:07:48
BeyBlade
Yeah. And I, yeah, it's a, it's, it's a really interesting question.
02:07:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She's a monster like us, Steve, by the way.
02:07:54
BeyBlade
Yeah. It's a, it's a really interesting question, you know, posed to the the player about grief and how to handle that type of grief.
02:07:56
Steve-O
ah
02:08:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, we had a weird, yeah, we had a, we had a interesting discussion about that and our feelings in general.
02:08:08
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:08:11
BeyBlade
Yeah, because it really just like got stuck in my crawl. And I just kind of couldn't stop.
02:08:16
BeyBlade
thinking And then I was.
02:08:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
My issue was that they made you even choose at all.
02:08:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I thought that was pretty shitty.
02:08:20
BeyBlade
ah Yeah, yeah, that that was your issue. But I, you know, I thought you guys are all I know you are all monsters with the exception of me. um
02:08:30
Steve-O
I mean,
02:08:30
BeyBlade
But hey, listen, you can plug yourself into the hive mind, the matrix all you want.
02:08:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i think I think either choice you make, you're a monster, to be honest, to a certain point.
02:08:34
BeyBlade
That's fine. I get it.
02:08:35
Steve-O
it's key. Yeah.
02:08:38
BeyBlade
yeah I mean, that is kind of the point, right?
02:08:38
Steve-O
well I mean, that's, that's how the game presents it to you too. Yeah.
02:08:40
BeyBlade
It's like they're both not super awesome.
02:08:41
Steve-O
Like, this This point in the game, and i've I've said this before the podcast, caused a two-hour pause of me and my girlfriend having a legitimate, like, argument about, like, morality and, like, what what actually makes you real.
02:08:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hmm.
02:09:00
Steve-O
Like...
02:09:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hmm.
02:09:02
Steve-O
Because I was like, I stupidly was just like, team Mayel all the way. And she was like, you motherfucker. You motherfucker.
02:09:10
BeyBlade
Yeah, I agree with her.
02:09:11
Steve-O
We're about to talk. And I was like, oh no. Oh no.
02:09:14
BeyBlade
She's right.
02:09:14
Steve-O
And like, honestly, like that's the thing. Like, when you think about it in the long run, you're like, okay, like who am I to say like that? This person's existence doesn't actually like none of these people's existence matters. Like, because we're more real than you in like, like where does the line draw?
02:09:33
Steve-O
Like I'm playing a video game of fictional characters telling me that this one fictional character, it is like,
02:09:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:09:40
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
02:09:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Doesn't matter. Or does matter. Or his existence matters. But his he doesn't want to exist that way. Or something.
02:09:48
Steve-O
am Am I, am I, is somebody looking over me and it's like, is this person's existence matter?
02:09:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's
02:09:53
Steve-O
Because I'm watching them from afar.
02:09:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
My problem. Here. Let me let me pose this quote this this neutral question to Chris.
02:09:56
Steve-O
but
02:10:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Chris.
02:10:00
semendemon
Okay.
02:10:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You play through The Last of Us Part 1. Right?
02:10:04
semendemon
Yeah, of course.
02:10:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
entire game you play in the entire game and then you get to the part where you where joel's about to to absolutely resident even evil for the fireflies to save ellie right no i'm okay uh no but i wanted to say like like would it bother you where you didn't make a decision like that the entire game but then they they make you choose whether to save ellie or not instead of
02:10:07
semendemon
Mm-hmm.
02:10:17
semendemon
I choose Allie.
02:10:21
semendemon
Oh.
02:10:21
Steve-O
but
02:10:31
semendemon
It wouldn't bother me in the least. I would choose Ellie every single fucking time.
02:10:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You would choose Ellie, but... Okay.
02:10:39
semendemon
ah yeah I just how i feel so, so confident that then and now, it wouldn't change.
02:10:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i mean, I agree with you. i would do the same thing, but like...
02:10:47
BeyBlade
but But basically, you're saying the the fact that you're given a choice doesn't bother you.
02:10:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The fact that you even have to choose it, I think...
02:10:51
semendemon
ah Yeah, the the choice would be ridiculous and redundant, obviously, at that point, because I'm so gung-ho on saving Ellie.
02:10:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because I feel like... Yeah, my my issue with this is like...
02:10:58
semendemon
That is true. That is true.
02:11:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're presented with this really interesting story, and that like you don't really... you're not really making these decisions throughout the story and then they make you make the most important one instead. Like, it's like reading through like Blood Meridian and then at the very end of Blood Meridian, it becomes ah choose your own adventure book.
02:11:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's just like, i just, it really rubbed me the wrong wrong way.
02:11:19
semendemon
Do you choose to get raped to death in a bathroom?
02:11:22
Steve-O
i think I think there are there are small moment moments of choice, like when you're at the camp and you're like talking with people.
02:11:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yes Yeah, but nothing of this, nothing of this like,
02:11:24
semendemon
hum No.
02:11:28
Steve-O
and you know you have those There's nothing of that magnitude,
02:11:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, and that's and my whole thing was like ah like like, it's cool. And you see that in games all the time, right? You see in Fable and shit and Mass Effect. But like like a choice of that magnitude is like, at this point, like I'm kind of like a spectator, and I want to see what they wrote.
02:11:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like what is cant like I'm so invested in the story that I want to see what is actually... like I don't want to have these discussions like, are you a monster?
02:11:58
Steve-O
i think I think it just hurt it hurts you a little bit.
02:11:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm a monster.
02:12:00
Steve-O
I think it hurt you a little bit. They put the ball on your court and you went, what?
02:12:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah yeah but Yeah. They put the ball in your court and yeah they put you in the fucking the MIT social
02:12:05
Steve-O
Blood on my hands?
02:12:09
Steve-O
Why couldn't you use the AI for this, motherfucker?
02:12:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
social study where it's like, oh, like your your ah autonomous car is about to crash. Do you kill this baby or do you kill this other baby?
02:12:20
Steve-O
Oh, they hitch they they hit you with the, ah what is that, the train thing or?
02:12:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
like Which baby do you kill? The Asian baby or the or the Native American baby? like And why why do you why? Why is one choice better than the other?
02:12:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And it's like...
02:12:32
Steve-O
Well, the thing is, they don't ask why.
02:12:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um I'm like, whatever.
02:12:34
Steve-O
They just make you make the choice. You're the one who has to defend it to your friends who go, what?
02:12:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:12:39
Steve-O
look
02:12:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and you can your and your girlfriend And your girlfriend, too.
02:12:40
BeyBlade
He goes, ye you sicken me.
02:12:41
Steve-O
well
02:12:42
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:12:44
Steve-O
Look, John, all I know is we chose correctly.
02:12:44
BeyBlade
You're disgusting pig boy.
02:12:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what did rank What did Rain choose? Stin chose Mael, too, right?
02:12:50
BeyBlade
i literally think i think I'm on an island.
02:12:51
Steve-O
i think rain I think Rain turned it off because it was kind of like what he did with Arkham Asylum.
02:12:52
BeyBlade
I'm on an island.
02:12:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
With Arkham Asylum, yeah.
02:12:58
Steve-O
Yeah, yeah.
02:12:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He just couldn't kill Joker at the end of that because he didn't want to.
02:12:59
Steve-O
He just couldn't kill Joker. That's his homeboy.
02:13:02
BeyBlade
You refused.
02:13:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
we don't We don't bring that up enough that he wasn't skilled enough to beat Joker at the end of Arkham Asylum.
02:13:07
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:13:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We should bring that up more, to be honest.
02:13:09
Steve-O
That really is his cuphead training scene. Like he's not, he's not good enough.
02:13:14
semendemon
Bye.
02:13:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he just good He's not skilled enough to deal with. Alright,
02:13:17
Steve-O
He just goes back to earthbound. Cause that's the only game he knows.
02:13:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um what do we got next? Best character.
02:13:25
BeyBlade
um
02:13:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you know what? first, Devin, because I would really like to know why this was your best character.
02:13:28
BeyBlade
Yeah. i'd Yeah. You know, what like yeah, let's get let's go with it.
02:13:29
Steve-O
It's continuation.
02:13:31
BeyBlade
um Verso as a character intrigues me. He intrigued me from his introduction.
02:13:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hold on, let me put my zen in so I can lock in for this so I can pay attention.
02:13:41
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:13:41
Steve-O
Yeah, go for it. Go for it.
02:13:42
BeyBlade
na No, no. Verso as a character truly intrigued me from his introduction because, you know, there's something to it.
02:13:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What if I told you, Devin, what if I told you he's not really Verso?
02:13:50
BeyBlade
even how he looks visually, hold hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. What? What? No, no.
02:13:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What?
02:13:59
BeyBlade
But, but he, but he, he intrigues you.
02:14:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What if I told you that Titus was a dream of the whole time in Final Fantasy then
02:14:04
BeyBlade
um Physically, there's things about him that are a little bit interesting that then make a little bit more sense as you play the game. is
02:14:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, Ben Starr was fucking phenomenal and in the game.
02:14:15
BeyBlade
he's a Yeah, he's all he's obviously...
02:14:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And i really hate I really hate that Charlie Cox overshadows him, because even even though I love Gustav's character.
02:14:20
BeyBlade
It's not... eat Dude.
02:14:23
BeyBlade
Yeah. No, no. And I'll be honest. I'll be honest. like you a You're truly a fool if you if you think. He's clearly and obviously an upgrade gameplay mechanical-wise of a character than Gustav.
02:14:38
BeyBlade
like He just is...
02:14:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I mean, he's got Phantom Stars. Does Gustav have Phantom Stars?
02:14:40
BeyBlade
He's got, yeah, he's got Phantom Stars, dude.
02:14:43
BeyBlade
um and And as a character and just the way the game, you know, the way the game kind of teases out the the kind of mystery of ver on what his deal is with even some of the decisions that are made later in the game.
02:14:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's got Phantom Stars, dog.
02:14:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn. Just like that.
02:15:03
BeyBlade
i just think like, and this is, again, credit to the game and and the engine and things like that. Like, he'll He'll kind of look down to the side, make a face. And it's it's clearly, you know, given to you the context of like what that he might not feel some sort of way about this decision.
02:15:24
BeyBlade
Like his his body language, his facial, um you know, the faces that he makes and things like that.
02:15:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:15:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
let He let certain characters get waxed in front of everybody else and it doesn't matter Yeah.
02:15:33
BeyBlade
You know, certain things, you know, yeah you make an omelet type situation. um I found him to be um a very, very fascinating character and, you know borderline protagonist.
02:15:47
BeyBlade
um Very close second, ah Marty Mouser from Marty Supreme. ah Shout out.
02:15:56
BeyBlade
Shout out to... what
02:15:56
Steve-O
You didn't even see Marty Supreme in 2025.
02:15:58
Steve-O
You
02:15:59
BeyBlade
I, A, eight K, counts!
02:16:01
Steve-O
got wait until next year. this is like dispatch.
02:16:03
BeyBlade
yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically.
02:16:08
Steve-O
Oh, for those who come after.
02:16:09
BeyBlade
But yes, that's That's me.
02:16:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:16:11
BeyBlade
that's me
02:16:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Verso's memory is your best character.
02:16:16
Steve-O
All right.
02:16:17
semendemon
well yeah yeah yeah easy
02:16:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
painting Faceless painting, boy.
02:16:17
Steve-O
ah Chris, who do you got on board for your best character?
02:16:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
this is almost mine This was almost mine too, though, Chris.
02:16:25
semendemon
lock it in uh slam the clip home slide back the the slide the my boy six nine four twenty abso
02:16:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Real talk.
02:16:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's kind of the same as ours.
02:16:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
One.
Comic Book Discussions: Batman and Industry Trends
02:16:38
semendemon
bats baby wo love the boy love him he he could be doing anything else
02:16:39
Steve-O
I'm so bad.
02:16:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The GOAT.
02:16:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
GOAT salute GOATMAN is what I like to call him.
02:16:46
semendemon
Could be doing anything else, but no, he's fighting injustices. He's fighting monsters and in Veterans Stadium.
02:16:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he's He's fighting for the middle class.
02:16:54
semendemon
He's fighting for us, baby.
02:16:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he's not a He's not a privileged rich boy anymore. He's not a privileged billionaire.
02:16:59
semendemon
Sorry, Devin.
02:17:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's us.
02:17:00
semendemon
Didn't take the money. Didn't sell out. Not his MO.
02:17:04
BeyBlade
No, I thought he had student loans.
02:17:05
semendemon
yeah Well, he didn't join ICE yet. i didn't You guys didn't read that yet.
02:17:07
BeyBlade
yeah No, oh this is 2025. Absolutely.
02:17:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, he had a no he had a he had a scholar he had a football scholarship and then faked an injury so he didn't have to play football anymore.
02:17:10
semendemon
It's a... twenty
02:17:10
Steve-O
Only 25.
02:17:16
semendemon
They usually take that scholarship away when that happens, but it's neither here nor there.
02:17:19
Steve-O
Dude, you're going to say that to a 421-pound...
02:17:19
semendemon
ah
02:17:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, you no you spend those four years trying to convince him to come back to play, Chris. You don't you don't just let that guy walk.
02:17:27
semendemon
but
02:17:29
BeyBlade
yeah
02:17:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know?
02:17:32
semendemon
We need you at O, babe.
02:17:33
BeyBlade
You you're going to let that guy, you're going to let that guy walk to Notre Dame.
02:17:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's basically...
02:17:36
BeyBlade
You kidding me?
02:17:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's basically the the lineman from The Blind Side. That's who he is.
02:17:40
semendemon
That's what I mean. He's Lane Johnson. that's That's what we're dealing with here.
02:17:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I love Absolute Batman.
02:17:46
semendemon
i love this I love this character. i love the world that is is created, the context of the world that created him.
02:17:52
Steve-O
Okay.
02:17:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I love his friends. I love his mom.
02:17:55
semendemon
I love it. I love what happened to his friends. I'm not going to lie, I do.
02:18:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I love... it
02:18:01
BeyBlade
No. Oh, that's, uh, that's awful.
02:18:03
semendemon
It's just fucking rad as shit. This whole book is. And he is such an amazing lead. He's so strong and unusually more strong than any of villains.
02:18:15
semendemon
in his own book.
02:18:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah he turns he turns his stomach acid.
02:18:17
semendemon
So.
02:18:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:18:21
semendemon
That boy. He's my boy.
02:18:23
Steve-O
Absolute Batman
02:18:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he he takes removes his own teeth
02:18:27
Steve-O
did.
02:18:27
semendemon
Got fingernail, fucking bad brass knuckles and shit.
02:18:30
Steve-O
Absolute Batman did the most like ultimate feat of strength this year. And that was get the anti fanboys to read comics again.
02:18:38
semendemon
Yeah, dude.
02:18:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
02:18:40
semendemon
Read DC Comics again.
02:18:41
Steve-O
Yeah. DC specifically.
02:18:42
semendemon
Holy shit, dude. that is I never would have put that on my bingo card for the year.
02:18:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, man. It's back, baby.
02:18:48
Steve-O
Big bastard did it.
02:18:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're back.
02:18:50
Steve-O
Mm hmm.
02:18:51
semendemon
Slam it home. Abso Bats.
02:18:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
think I think it got dethroned, though.
02:18:53
semendemon
Best card for the year.
02:18:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i think the top-selling comic of the year was like Deadpool, Batman, or some bullshit.
02:18:59
Steve-O
Oh, but here's the thing. There's Deadpool Batman, but then there's Batman Deadpool and they look exactly the same, but they're two different stories.
02:19:03
semendemon
I read Batman and Deadpool.
02:19:08
Steve-O
One published by Marvel, the other published by DC.
02:19:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Which one was sold better?
02:19:11
semendemon
and I read Batman and Deadpool.
02:19:12
Steve-O
I don't know. We'll have to find out.
02:19:13
semendemon
It was written by Grant Morrison.
02:19:16
Steve-O
That might've been the, you might've read the DC one. So DC domination still remains.
02:19:18
semendemon
I did.
02:19:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you Chris, here's another question.
02:19:20
semendemon
I did.
02:19:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you read the Matt Fraction Batman book that's getting some good buzz, too?
02:19:26
semendemon
No, I haven't even touched that, man.
02:19:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think there's only a couple issues out.
02:19:30
semendemon
I'm touching all the weird shit that's happening.
02:19:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's supposed to be pretty good. you just like the You just like the weird goonie shit that's happening in the absolute universe that you don't care about.
02:19:35
semendemon
I really do, man. I'm totally on board. um Yeah.
02:19:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Devin, did you read the Matt Fraction Batman?
02:19:42
semendemon
I
02:19:45
BeyBlade
Matt fraction Batman like GCPD or
02:19:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, didn't he? Yeah, he he came out with a... No, it's like ah it's bat Batman Signature Series.
02:19:54
semendemon
will. I didn't know was Matt Fraction.
02:19:55
BeyBlade
no, actually a fun fact.
02:19:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's...
02:19:58
BeyBlade
I I'm still, Oh, Oh, the one that like just recently came out.
02:20:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah, there's only a couple of issues out.
02:20:01
BeyBlade
Right now, no, I haven't read that. Yeah. I haven't read that yet.
02:20:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, apparently it's good.
02:20:05
BeyBlade
Uh, I was reading Batman the last night, the, the one Steve had mentioned, uh, the other um,
02:20:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Why do you read weird things?
02:20:10
Steve-O
Oh, yeah. What did you think of that? How was it?
02:20:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And why don't why don't you read Robin 3000 one day and just throw me a solid and read Robin 3000?
02:20:16
BeyBlade
Listen, maybe I will. i mean I'm still finishing it. It's a slog. um It's just, it's it's everything I hate about stories. like i kind of I'm trying to finish it. um It's just...
02:20:35
Steve-O
May I say when it is described to you in 20 minutes by a YouTuber, it goes by quite quickly.
02:20:37
BeyBlade
It's not good.
02:20:40
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. It's... the lot of things I'm just like super.
02:20:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, there's five issues out of this now.
02:20:46
BeyBlade
I'm like, yeah, it looks nice. It's a pretty comic. But anyway, um okay. Absolute bat.
02:20:53
Steve-O
i have an update.
02:20:54
BeyBlade
Versos.
02:20:55
semendemon
ah pay Yeah, right?
02:20:55
Steve-O
Deadpool slash Batman.
02:20:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Huh.
02:20:57
Steve-O
ah The one that was number one for 2025 was the Marvel version.
02:21:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ugh.
02:21:03
Steve-O
It was then followed by Batman number one.
02:21:03
BeyBlade
Another win for that indie company, Disney, dude.
02:21:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fuck!
02:21:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, there... You know what, though?
02:21:07
BeyBlade
They need the win.
02:21:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yo, leave it to... Leave it to Disney... you know, in Marvel having to be carried by DC to be the number one comic book of the of the year.
02:21:16
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
02:21:16
semendemon
Seriously. Needed that weight behind it.
02:21:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They finally got it, Chris!
02:21:20
Steve-O
They got the carry, but hold on.
02:21:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They finally got the crown back!
02:21:21
Steve-O
Hold on. So that was the only time in the top nine that they landed because it was Marvel, DC.
02:21:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Everything else is absolute.
02:21:28
Steve-O
ah Well, number one is not absolute, or I'm sorry, number two is not absolute. It's Batman number one by Matt Fraction.
02:21:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, it's the Matt Fraction Batman.
02:21:35
Steve-O
And the number three is Batman slash Deadpool by DC, Grant Morrison.
02:21:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hell yeah.
02:21:38
Steve-O
And the number four, Invincible Universe Battle Beast by Image. And then DC KO, Batman, absolute Batman, absolute Flash, absolute Batman.
02:21:48
BeyBlade
Is that of the year? or Okay, nice.
02:21:49
Steve-O
bump.
02:21:52
semendemon
Give it to me. Give it to me.
02:21:52
BeyBlade
Yeah, dc air Marvel needed that. that ah that That struggling indie company, Disney.
02:21:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They really do need, they really need that, yeah.
02:21:58
Steve-O
the dc um
02:22:00
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:22:00
semendemon
need some competition, baby.
02:22:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. They need a kick in the butt. Speaking of comics in DC, Steve, what was your slash our character, best character?
02:22:12
Steve-O
Well, it was obviously ah the Blue Boy Scout who brought boat back.
02:22:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Can I addendum mine? Let me addendum mine.
02:22:18
Steve-O
Yeah, what are you adding an addendum?
02:22:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, my addendum is it's Superman semi-colon David Cornswit because I love him He's amazing.
02:22:24
BeyBlade
Superman's memory.
02:22:27
Steve-O
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:22:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They picked the best possible person to be Superman, I think. in
02:22:33
Steve-O
They... hands down, hands down, James Gunn picked the perfect perfect person in the world to be Superman.
02:22:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They beat just the perfect.
02:22:41
semendemon
Good cast in general.
02:22:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:22:43
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:22:43
semendemon
Really nailed everybody, you think about it.
02:22:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:22:46
Steve-O
Just charming, likable,
02:22:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And like, seeing dude, seeing the um seeing the behind the scenes stuff of him like like challenging James Gaughan on certain things in the movie because he's so passionate about the character is just so like heartwarming and and wholesome and makes me feel good and feel safe about the direction that they're going with Super Bowl.
02:23:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't even know because of Netflix buying WB. I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but we're we're at least going to get two more movies out of it, right?
02:23:11
Steve-O
Yeah, you're
02:23:15
semendemon
Yeah, you'll get like a five-day window for the movie in the theaters.
02:23:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We got Supergirl and we got Man of Tomorrow coming out, which I'm like, dude. You hear? they're they're gonna put I think they're going to put Wonder Woman in that in that movie.
02:23:27
Steve-O
Wonder Woman. Yeah, then Supergirl.
02:23:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, in ah in Man of Tomorrow.
02:23:30
Steve-O
That's... Oh, and Man of Tomorrow.
02:23:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They're casting one Woman.
02:23:32
Steve-O
That's what I meant. I'm sorry.
02:23:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, Supergirl. Oh, man. I hope. I mean, as much as I love Superman and David Cornspin, I hope that he's not in a. I hope it's just a fucking cameo. I hope that's all it is.
02:23:44
Steve-O
Yeah, just maybe at the end.
02:23:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
don't know.
02:23:45
Steve-O
Maybe at the end.
02:23:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i ah i just wanna I just want goon nonstop in this movie for for Millie.
02:23:52
Steve-O
what Would you feel bad if David Cornswit came into the scene and looked at you, John, and was like, what are you doing?
02:23:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's all I want.
02:23:57
Steve-O
What are you
02:23:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What are you doing?
02:23:58
BeyBlade
what That's my cousin, bro.
02:23:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Eyes up here. Hey, buddy, eyes up here.
02:24:00
Steve-O
Why is it here?
02:24:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yo, you think she's going to drop that line in the in this in the movie?
02:24:01
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:24:04
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She might. i don't know.
02:24:05
Steve-O
Maybe. Maybe.
02:24:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm so excited for the future of super of the superman's the Superman family.
02:24:09
Steve-O
Just
02:24:13
Steve-O
This was the first time, i think, going to a Superman movie in my lifetime in the theaters where I actually walked out of the theater excited and happy.
02:24:23
semendemon
Not disappointed.
02:24:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, happy. and
02:24:25
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:24:26
semendemon
Not disappointed.
02:24:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
God damn, it's been so long, right?
02:24:29
Steve-O
It really has, like...
02:24:31
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was that i asked my nephew if he if you watched Superman, and my sister was like, yeah, we bought it. I'm like, did you watch it? She's like yeah, it was all right. I'm like, did you cry? And she's like, no.
02:24:38
BeyBlade
Oh.
02:24:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I'm like, you didn't watch it Watch it again.
02:24:41
Steve-O
yeah
02:24:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was like, you obviously did not. You were obviously scrolling on your phone the whole time. I could tell by the way you're talking about it because she would have loved this movie if she actually watched it. But, man.
02:24:52
Steve-O
it's It's hard not to like this movie. It is charming. It wears a tart on its sleeve. It is funny.
02:24:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know what's awesome is like driving home from the theater and Sam saying just out of nowhere, she's like, I think that's my favorite superhero movie. I'm like, yes, and we're back, baby.
02:25:08
Steve-O
Dude, that's a huge win. That's a huge win.
02:25:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We are back.
02:25:10
Steve-O
Let's go.
02:25:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're so bad, Chris. You know when you get the cat, when you get the casual to say that's, you know, like, i love that shit, man.
02:25:15
semendemon
DC cinema universe.
02:25:21
semendemon
Yeah, they're they're they're doing a good job in multiple media fronts on getting casuals into into these characters again.
02:25:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, they said fucking Captain Adam's going to be in Creature Commando season two. I'm just more excited that we're getting a Creature Commando season two, to be honest.
02:25:36
BeyBlade
Oh, Captain Atom, the ultimate jobber.
02:25:36
semendemon
Same here.
02:25:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, that's what's going to make it fun, I think.
02:25:40
BeyBlade
No one jobs like Captain Adam, dude.
02:25:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, you know you know that's what's going to make it so so good, though.
02:25:42
BeyBlade
i love him.
02:25:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
you know
02:25:45
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:25:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Anyway, Superman, best character.
02:25:49
Steve-O
Superman.
02:25:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're back.
02:25:51
Steve-O
we need We need Superman in our world more than ever.
02:25:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Speaking of needing Superman in our world, i will go next for goodest city of the year, which is Eddington, a town that vastly needs hope.
02:25:54
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah.
02:26:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm telling you right now, Chris, i i wasn't I was trolling you when we walked out of Bowes Afraid saying that we would be talking about how that movie's a masterpiece 10 years from now. Eddington, I really think it's like becoming...
02:26:23
semendemon
Oh my god, it's prescient, isn't it?
02:26:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
a fucking reflection of society. It's depressing, but like, you know, it's, oh yeah, yeah,
02:26:26
semendemon
It's so prescient. No, at no, no, prescient. Like, it's so true to what's going on in every way, shape, and form.
02:26:32
Steve-O
i i after charlie kirk was shot you all were like dude eddington and i was like oh i haven't seen eddington yet so i have so i literally like i stepped away from the news and i watched eddington and i was like oh i get 100 what they're saying now absolutely
02:26:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Dude, it's,
02:26:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh man.
02:26:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude, it ae really, it's like,
02:26:53
semendemon
Yeah.
02:26:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And like we we giggle and laugh, but like it's really a serious matter and really like ah a scary depiction of what our society has become.
02:26:54
semendemon
It's
02:26:57
semendemon
scary.
02:27:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And I think Eddington really captures what we have become as a country at this point.
02:27:08
Steve-O
the yeah The cell phones and just, oh my god.
02:27:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's a very like. um
02:27:12
semendemon
The singular selfish focus on oneself.
02:27:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Just everything about it, dude, fucking his hysteria and like the, you know.
02:27:13
Steve-O
i
02:27:18
Steve-O
Again, this is another movie I could not stop thinking of after I saw it. like I just...
02:27:23
semendemon
Yeah, it's hard not to.
02:27:24
Steve-O
Yeah, i I want to rewatch
02:27:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
it's like it's It's kind of
Film Analysis: Sinners and Cinematic Excellence
02:27:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
got that hered i mean it's not as good as her hereditary but like it's got that hereditary like DNA where like you just can't stop. It gets under your skin. you know
02:27:26
Steve-O
it.
02:27:34
semendemon
Yes, it does.
02:27:34
Steve-O
If you...
02:27:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But it's scary in a different way where it's more realistic and not just some demon.
02:27:37
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:27:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's like actual society and the way the world's going.
02:27:41
Steve-O
If you were to do a double feature of Eddington one battle after another, which goes first? And what do you end with?
02:27:48
semendemon
Well, you want to go out on the high note, like happy.
02:27:50
BeyBlade
yeah
02:27:50
semendemon
Yeah. So I would go with Eddington first.
02:27:51
BeyBlade
yeah yeah
02:27:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is the end of one battle after another even that happy?
02:27:54
Steve-O
Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.
02:27:56
semendemon
And then one battle after another, being very happy and fun.
02:28:00
Steve-O
he gets that office.
02:28:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Kind of a feel good.
02:28:01
BeyBlade
Yeah, Then you throw then you throw a aside a swerve and just add bow's afraid.
02:28:07
Steve-O
I'll just throw it in there.
02:28:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
just a Yeah, real talk though, when we were at your your apartment, Devin, like Sam was like actually like engaged watching Bo's Afraid.
02:28:07
BeyBlade
The real end.
02:28:08
semendemon
Hell yeah, dude.
02:28:08
BeyBlade
Yeah, nice little curveball.
02:28:16
semendemon
Because that beginning is amazing.
02:28:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, no, jenny Jenny kind of was too.
02:28:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She was curious. She was like curious on how it ends.
02:28:19
semendemon
It's so funny.
02:28:19
BeyBlade
But it's like it's like, no, literally, this is...
02:28:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, Nah, you don't want to know how the last 30% of that movie ends up.
02:28:24
BeyBlade
Yeah. It's like, listen, this movie kind of sort of falls off a cliff after the beginning.
02:28:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know, i so I'll still go to bat for that movie. i still
02:28:33
semendemon
It's so funny.
02:28:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm still Ari Aster day zero.
02:28:34
semendemon
That beginning is so fucking funny.
02:28:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't care.
02:28:36
Steve-O
You're already astro-coded.
02:28:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:28:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, Ari Aster day zero. Actually, that's like a new like a um like a litmus test i'm I'm having with some of my new coworkers. Because a couple of them are...
02:28:47
Steve-O
oh
02:28:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
really like a 24 movies and you know they're like yeah i love hereditary and midsommar was like they were like i was like well bo's phrase was a weird one eddington also a weird one but you know it's really and then the one of the guys came up to me in a meeting after a meeting was like dude i watched eddington and it was freaking insane i'm like yeah i know it was amazing wasn't it and
02:28:49
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:28:54
BeyBlade
Bye.
02:29:11
Steve-O
ah ah but
02:29:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And he really liked it, so that's the litmus test to know if they're like, you know.
02:29:19
Steve-O
that's good that's good that could have been really worrisome that was the first recommendation I've ever taken from you
02:29:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
if hey Yeah, because if they yeah because if they like fucking hated it and was like, you know, then you could tell. You could tell. You could tell. so yeah Yeah, I'm a sicko, bro.
02:29:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
love Eddington. No, but I knew because they were they were talking about weapons after a meeting one time, and they were like they were talking about how good it was.
02:29:40
Steve-O
hmm
02:29:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, okay.
02:29:43
Steve-O
Okay. They're a sicko.
02:29:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, these guys might know Ball. So, you know, that's that's how you get there.
02:29:45
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:29:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But yeah, Eddington, good as Sid the Year. eye It was between this and Chris's for me.
02:29:55
semendemon
yeah i i chose i chose sinners for my uh goodest sit of the year honorable mention um
02:29:55
Steve-O
Oh, another phenomenal.
02:29:59
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:30:05
semendemon
hard to say it's a good a sit but I wanted to give this a shout out because nobody else
02:30:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This was the this is the movie to beat. This was the movie to beat after we watched it this year, I think. Like, the We were like, what's going to be as good as this? You know?
02:30:15
semendemon
and there's just like for the dance sequence alone ah traveling through time it it's such an effective and beautiful movie it's so well shot it looks absolutely gorgeous especially then driving through the cotton fields is is probably the best looking film of the year.
02:30:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
oh man.
02:30:39
semendemon
Like it's just absolutely gorgeous.
02:30:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
dude i I told you, I watched it again.
02:30:41
semendemon
Yeah.
02:30:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I watched it this second time in IMAX and it was like, it was like watching a different movie again, just because when you see like the, the IMAX, um, uh, ratio expand ah horizontally or, uh, vertically.
02:30:56
semendemon
Yeah.
02:30:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then there's the, there's the one shot of when, um, what's his name? The fucking Irish Nazi dude, not Nazi, the Irish dude go into the KKK house.
02:31:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, he's like burning.
02:31:08
semendemon
Oh, yeah.
02:31:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was just like, wow, the colors here are like really like incredible.
02:31:09
semendemon
He's jumping or something.
02:31:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like this is like fucking.
02:31:15
semendemon
With the the the magic hour shot, right?
02:31:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the yeah.
02:31:17
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:31:18
semendemon
at the air Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:31:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Fucking dude. Ryan Coogler, when he flexes his muscles, man, they those veins are popping. You know what mean? Like they.
02:31:26
semendemon
Everything looks so vibrant and...
02:31:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he the dude is just like a fucking psychopath. And like, it just seems like it seems like he's such a perfectionist when it comes to this. this stuff He's like a real nerd about. you know, how the how the how the movie's gonna look. And you kind of I kind of love that about him.
02:31:42
semendemon
Yeah, there's there's ah ah so much intent in this, and it looks gorgeous from frame one to the end. It is a compelling story with two lovely main characters and a what like an absolute banger ending.
02:32:00
semendemon
um Just wonderful.
02:32:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude. That's another shot, too, which was, like, unforgettable, was when the sun's coming up.
02:32:05
semendemon
Yeah.
02:32:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And like you see the the light on on their faces.
02:32:07
semendemon
Yeah.
02:32:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm just like, oh my god, this fucking Ryan Coogler is... who Another day Zero. Day Zero, Ryan Coogler, anything.
02:32:19
semendemon
And making making a actors famous too from this the the character that played the young singer.
02:32:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Day Zero.
02:32:20
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:32:20
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:32:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, not like... i mean, no shade to anybody with an ensemble cast, but like you know not depending on like not casting like favorites all the time.
02:32:35
semendemon
Yeah. Changing things up.
02:32:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Although michael having two Michael B. Jordans is kind of a cheat code too, a little bit, you could say.
02:32:40
semendemon
That's a G-code, dude. And that that was done flawlessly. um Really, you know, you take that for granted nowadays, but that level of artistry with shooting on film, no doubt, um, it's just wonderful.
02:32:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
man, i love it.
02:32:55
semendemon
And yeah, it's just, ah it's, it's technically, I think the best film. No. Hmm. Hmm. It's hard. It's a hard one.
02:33:07
semendemon
ah It's a hard one to throw out.
02:33:08
BeyBlade
Yeah, I
02:33:08
semendemon
Like to be real with you, like if this will wins an Academy award, I would not be upset at all. Like I love on bed off.
02:33:15
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:33:16
semendemon
I think it is the best of the year, but this, is also just wonderful in every way. Yeah, it's...
02:33:23
Steve-O
if sinners came out like any other year, it would have been a guaranteed win. Like maybe even the year before.
02:33:27
semendemon
It's...
02:33:28
Steve-O
Cause like, wasn't 2024 like kind of it was good, but like kind of soft for like bangers.
02:33:31
semendemon
of soft.
02:33:34
semendemon
It's the There Will Be Blood of of this year when No Country for Old Men came out.
02:33:35
BeyBlade
yeah i didn't. Yeah, yeah.
02:33:38
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:33:40
semendemon
Like, getting overlooked, and it sucks.
02:33:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:33:41
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:33:45
semendemon
That's the problem.
02:33:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because think um the um fucking... Coogler used ah like a weird fucking IMAX film stock for his. Like it definitely looks different.
02:33:57
semendemon
Well, he shot on IMAX and 30, that
02:33:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think they did that Panavision thing. That Panavision. Yeah, where it's like super wide because it's sideways or whatever. i remember watching him nerd out on a video and I was like so feeling... My dick was rock hard the whole time like watching him.
02:34:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But ah Paul Thomas Anderson, I think, used also used Kodak Film 2. But it wasn't like large format like that.
02:34:23
semendemon
Ah, just two really wonderful movies.
02:34:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know.
02:34:25
semendemon
And I really wanted to focus on the,
02:34:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You need... Yeah. That's going to be the separation, like I think. like Are you shooting on film or are you shooting on fucking chat GPT?
02:34:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You know?
02:34:37
semendemon
yeah but
02:34:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Give it to me in film stock where you can't really do much with that.
02:34:42
semendemon
It's undeniable, the quality, too.
02:34:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
With special effects.
02:34:44
Steve-O
Do it in camera, baby.
02:34:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:34:46
semendemon
Undeniable. You cannot fake it. That's what that looks like.
02:34:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It might be, you know, it might be a little overkill on the budget, but, you know, fuck it.
02:34:54
semendemon
He deserves it, because it made money.
02:34:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We roll... Yeah, we ride.
02:34:57
semendemon
Ha ha ha ha ha.
02:34:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Because, was he yeah, Eggers was using a film stock, but he only liked one, like, development studio that was, like, in California or some shit, but they were filming in fucking Romania.
02:35:09
semendemon
Cool.
02:35:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
So there was, there's, like, the aspect of, oh is the is the fucking... is the Is the film going to survive flying across the world to get developed? You gotta love that kind of shit, though.
02:35:22
semendemon
Jesus. That is nerve wracking. Oh, yeah, but that's it. Sinners is my goodest hit of the year.
02:35:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And your second goodest sit would probably have been Devin's pick, right?
02:35:33
semendemon
No.
02:35:34
BeyBlade
Yeah, no, I mean, listen, we're talking about true, true good sits, not basically married.
02:35:35
semendemon
ah
02:35:36
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:35:40
semendemon
No.
02:35:41
BeyBlade
guys are talking about Marys with, you know, with some makeup on here, you know, with a disguise on. I'll talk about a true blue good sit.
02:35:53
BeyBlade
And my goodest sit of the year, my honorary mention, is Predator Badlands. Mm-hmm.
02:35:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Also loved by Hideo Kojima himself, the auteur master.
02:36:02
BeyBlade
Hideo Kojima made like three tweets about it.
02:36:04
semendemon
fucking heard loved it.
02:36:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Hideo Senpai, the sensei.
02:36:06
BeyBlade
um Yes, it is. It is another. It's another direction for the Predator franchise. I mentioned Dan Trachtenberg earlier.
02:36:17
BeyBlade
He did Prey earlier this year. Also did a Predator Killer of Killers.
02:36:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You didn't mention Michelle Trachtenberg.
02:36:22
BeyBlade
The animated
02:36:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Rest in peace.
02:36:24
BeyBlade
ah RIP. Yeah, let's just. Yeah, sure.
02:36:28
semendemon
Related?
02:36:28
BeyBlade
Let's bring that up.
02:36:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't know.
02:36:30
BeyBlade
I don't think they're related.
02:36:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i just I just think that...
02:36:33
BeyBlade
John's tism just kicked in a little bit and, you know, we all had to do with it.
02:36:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Deepcott? Well, Deepcott.
02:36:36
BeyBlade
cut Yeah.
02:36:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, Deepcott's for Jetsuarez.
02:36:38
BeyBlade
um No, but like I really, really enjoy this movie. Chris liked it slightly less, maybe ah maybe a little bit less than me.
02:36:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Maybe he even hated it.
02:36:49
semendemon
Yeah, maybe you should say I didn't like it at all.
02:36:50
BeyBlade
Maybe even hated it. um This is the first movie I think that I really kind of been have been experience exposed to Ellie Fanning as well.
02:37:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Well, you never watch Neon Demon?
02:37:04
semendemon
He is great. He is great.
02:37:06
BeyBlade
Oh, I did. i just pretended that I didn't because that movie stinks.
02:37:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, he doesn't know ball, Chris. Chris, he doesn't know ball.
02:37:11
semendemon
This is what I'm talking about.
02:37:11
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:37:12
semendemon
This is the guy talking about this movie.
02:37:12
BeyBlade
yeah
02:37:13
BeyBlade
ah Fun fact, she's also she's also pretty prominent in Death dead so death Stranding 2, which is a fun little surprise.
02:37:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, he doesn't know ball.
02:37:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, prominent, quote unquote.
02:37:22
BeyBlade
Yeah, pretty prominent.
02:37:23
semendemon
Scooting it all over.
02:37:25
BeyBlade
No, but dude, this this movie, it takes the Predator franchise into a different direction. Dare say a more ah
02:37:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did you watch this, Steve?
02:37:36
BeyBlade
socially accepted,
02:37:37
Steve-O
ah No, no, I have not.
02:37:38
BeyBlade
I don't think... No, Steve is not. Yeah, Steve's the... Well, I don't want to say the real.
02:37:43
semendemon
he's the breaker here.
02:37:44
BeyBlade
He's the real, yeah, the real taste tester.
02:37:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He's stay's the real. Yeah, he's going to be the he's going to the decider.
02:37:47
BeyBlade
yeah
02:37:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, if it was good or not.
02:37:49
BeyBlade
But ah Dan Tractorbird truly has created like a Predator universe that I'm pretty stoked. like like You're talking about day one. like I'm always going to interested in what this guy's doing, especially if it's Predator-based.
02:38:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Are you day zero?
02:38:02
BeyBlade
I was always a Predator guy. i was always a Predator over Alien guy, truly.
02:38:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Are you day zero?
02:38:07
BeyBlade
so it's I might be at day zero, dude.
02:38:10
Steve-O
the's The zero for the predator.
02:38:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Day zero meaning like if if his next movie has the 40, 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, would you go see it and on the first day?
02:38:19
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:38:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Still.
02:38:20
BeyBlade
Yeah. I think so.
02:38:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
If Ari Aster had a zero percent on a movie, I would i couldn't get to the theater faster to watch it.
02:38:21
BeyBlade
Yeah, just because of that point. Yeah.
02:38:26
semendemon
Yeah, agree with you.
02:38:26
Steve-O
but
02:38:27
semendemon
That one, that would be shocking.
02:38:28
BeyBlade
Also...
02:38:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
not That's what I mean by day zero. Yes.
02:38:31
Steve-O
I was there for the crash out.
02:38:31
BeyBlade
Also, a weird thing I just found out about two seconds ago.
02:38:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yes
02:38:33
semendemon
I'm there for
02:38:36
BeyBlade
The Duffer brothers both play the ship computer voice in ah Predator Badlands.
02:38:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Interesting.
02:38:45
Steve-O
Well, maybe that explains some stuff.
02:38:47
semendemon
the show.
02:38:47
BeyBlade
Yeah. they were
02:38:48
semendemon
What
02:38:49
BeyBlade
Maybe you should have worked on a script, my guy.
02:38:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn.
02:38:52
semendemon
are you doing in this stupid Far the Predator movie?
02:38:52
BeyBlade
owned
02:38:53
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, they they need to get back in the lab, dude.
02:38:54
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:38:54
Steve-O
couldn
02:38:55
semendemon
I'm like, it joe Yeah, nothing about this movie is subtle.
02:38:56
Steve-O
was the That was their conformity gate ending...
02:38:56
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it it also it also kind of bridges the the two universes, the alien and the predator universe, in a, I don't want to say subtle, but in ah in a very satisfying way.
02:39:15
BeyBlade
Oh, there's some subtlety, Chris. How dare you? You don't know. see you don't even know about the Yautja, dude. You don't even know how they fucking work.
02:39:23
semendemon
Nor do I care.
02:39:23
BeyBlade
You just want to see you just want to see a big big crab-faced monster beat up a bunch of people and then get killed later.
02:39:24
semendemon
Nor do I care.
02:39:29
Steve-O
Alright, hold on. we give We can't turn this into a downfall.
02:39:31
BeyBlade
No, no, I'm just saying...
02:39:33
semendemon
I ain't saying shit.
02:39:34
BeyBlade
i'm just saying... um
02:39:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
02:39:37
BeyBlade
It's truly a ah very enjoyable movie, and I'm just... Predator's thriving right now. ah The IP, the franchise, Predacons.
02:39:45
Steve-O
This is the Predesance.
02:39:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Apprentice on baby.
02:39:49
BeyBlade
We're the Predacons, Chris, and gotta live with it.
02:39:50
semendemon
Yeah, there's so many predators in the highest positions of power right now.
02:39:54
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:39:54
semendemon
You're absolutely right. That shit is popping off.
02:39:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They're pushing, they're pushing science and art to levels.
02:39:57
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:40:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We've never seen before the predators.
02:40:02
Steve-O
There's a whole island of them.
02:40:02
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:40:04
semendemon
Thank you.
02:40:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Leonardo da Vinci is a predator.
02:40:07
BeyBlade
But ah yeah, that's that's that's my ah that's my goodest sit of the year.
02:40:13
Steve-O
ah Well, to jump to my good acid of the year, ah that which was recommended by Devin. Devin just one episode anti fanboy just dropped. Hey, I'm playing this game blueprints. It's really good.
02:40:23
BeyBlade
Mm-hmm.
02:40:24
Steve-O
was like, right, I'll check this out. I was like, Devin recommended this. This sounds like something that usually wouldn't be in like your like wheelhouse.
02:40:34
Steve-O
But I was like, well, let me give it a look.
02:40:37
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:40:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he's saying He's saying you're too stupid for games like this,
02:40:39
Steve-O
No, not you're too stupid. No, I'm not saying that.
02:40:40
BeyBlade
ah
02:40:42
semendemon
You
02:40:42
Steve-O
I'm just saying that like, cause like I saw it come out. I heard all the hype about it, but it was just one of those things where I'm like, I'm not into those types of games.
02:40:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This isn't really Devin's IQ level, I think, this type of game. That's weird. It's interesting.
02:40:56
Steve-O
But like, that's the thing. It's like, it's not my IQ level type of game either.
02:40:59
BeyBlade
Steve, you didn't deny I'm the...
02:41:00
Steve-O
God.
02:41:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He didn't deny He didn't deny it.
02:41:02
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:41:02
Steve-O
Devin is, Devin is, did you hear his Predator Badlands review?
02:41:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
02:41:06
BeyBlade
i'm those yeah
02:41:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank
02:41:08
Steve-O
No, um what I am saying is like, this is a game that I don't think we would normally recommend to one another. And the fact that Devin was just like, oh, yeah, you got to check this out.
02:41:19
Steve-O
I was like, well, this must be like a must play then, because like this is just something that this this is a game series we don't normally play. We don't play like weird, like escape the room puzzle games and like recommend them to one another.
02:41:31
Steve-O
It ended up just being like one of those experiences that for like probably like two, three weeks, I was literally at my desk hunched over with ah like a genuine notebook, like writing notes down, like figuring out puzzles.
02:41:48
Steve-O
It was.
02:41:48
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, you did the shy guy method? Where you had a notebook?
02:41:50
Steve-O
I did the sh try guy method. Yeah. Like I have it right here behind me. It's a grid notebook.
02:41:54
BeyBlade
Dude, I scrubbed out. I was like, I've had my fun. And I walked away.
02:41:59
Steve-O
This week, I actually watched a speedrun of it, and I watched the developer watch the speedrun, and he was like, this is crazy that someone figured out how to get to the final room in just 12 minutes off of a fresh save.
02:41:59
BeyBlade
But.
02:42:12
Steve-O
No, I mean...
02:42:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They underestimate the fucking psycho gamers out there that...
02:42:14
Steve-O
no i mean
02:42:18
Steve-O
It's impressive like what people could do, but like my time with that game, like again, that was a game where like I did not expect to, by the end of it, be moved. Because there is, like you say, environmental storytelling out the wazoo, and it is one of those experiences where... like Like John, like you were saying with Silk Song, where after you like bang your head against something like for like days and days, and then you just look at it in a different way.
02:42:45
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then you finally figure it out.
02:42:47
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:42:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:42:47
Steve-O
Like you feel like you've just like you've ascended somehow and it really pays off.
02:42:48
semendemon
dude.
02:42:54
Steve-O
It was made by, I think, like, again, a small team. I think it was one guy or or something, but yeah.
02:43:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ah How much does this game cost?
02:43:02
Steve-O
This game, um that's a good question. I think it's $20, which, again, I'm sorry, it's $30.
02:43:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
$59.99. That's the bar, dude. That's the bar now. $20.
02:43:11
semendemon
and mean
02:43:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
don't know. Okay, $19.79
02:43:13
Steve-O
I'm sorry, it's $30. But it is on sale right now.
02:43:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
is basically $14.99, which basically $15, which is basically $10, which is basically $5.
02:43:17
Steve-O
It is on sale right now on Steam for $19.79. How could you say no?
02:43:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Actually, I do own this game because Sam played it for good
02:43:29
Steve-O
how could you say no
02:43:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
actually i do i do own this game because i because sam played it for a good three weeks straight without stopping.
02:43:37
Steve-O
it Dude, it's one of those games where you just get caught into it.
02:43:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
She was really into it.
02:43:40
semendemon
Yeah.
02:43:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then she was like, I need your help with this. I'm like, I cannot help you with this because I didn't play through the the first half of your your fucking room building. and like I don't know what you're fucking doing here.
02:43:55
Steve-O
You're like, I don't know what's going on. i don't see the map.
02:43:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm like, you're on your own, bro. Yeah.
02:43:59
Steve-O
it's It's one of those games that just like...
02:43:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're on your own, bro.
02:44:02
Steve-O
It took me over and
Industry Concerns: Netflix-Warner Bros Merger
02:44:05
Steve-O
it was one of my favorite experiences of the year. So I just had to highlight it.
02:44:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Indie game of the year. Indie game of the year after um after one game got disqualified.
02:44:09
Steve-O
You know what? After disqualifications, absolutely. But that's ah that's all I have to say about blueprints.
02:44:24
semendemon
Alrighty, so...
02:44:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Speaking of worst games.
02:44:28
semendemon
Stinker.
02:44:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Worst of the year.
02:44:30
semendemon
Worst of the year. you absolute shit things that happened.
02:44:31
Steve-O
Hey, yeah.
02:44:35
semendemon
um I'll go first. My worst of the year is the Netflix Warner Brothers merger, which is still...
02:44:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This potentially could be worst of the century.
02:44:45
semendemon
could be absolutely destructive to the film industry in every way, shape, or form.
02:44:52
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And to society in general.
02:44:54
semendemon
um it is the consolidation of media companies. So it means less movies being made, less TV shows being made by other companies. um It also will, if it ends up shrinking cinematic or theater windows, that will make other companies follow suit, which means Movies that are smaller budgeted that kind of survive on word of mouth.
02:45:20
semendemon
Don't get the same amount of money in the box office as these bigger budgeted films that have the 17 day, uh, release that they can take advantage of.
02:45:30
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
God, just put the bad taste in my mouth.
02:45:31
semendemon
So, uh, with all that being said, yeah, I just, there's really nothing about this that any merger on a media level like this is, is good.
02:45:43
semendemon
um I mean, even if this does fall through and Paramount buys WB, that's not good either. I want to preface that by saying that this is neither scenario in this and this is is really good.
02:45:55
BeyBlade
Hehehehehe.
02:46:00
semendemon
And it's what David Zaslav wanted to do since he took over and it was blatant and obvious. And he's a pig and he's actually a rat fuck.
02:46:13
semendemon
um So... Yeah. ah Thank you, David Zaslaw, for rat-fucking your own company into a cell with any asshole on the block and ruining media.
02:46:26
semendemon
That's my worst thing of the year.
02:46:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Thank you.
02:46:32
Steve-O
Who's next?
02:46:35
BeyBlade
ah
02:46:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Me, I'll go next.
02:46:37
BeyBlade
right
02:46:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Actually, no, you go next, Devin, because we're talking about movies.
02:46:41
BeyBlade
Yeah, um I think um I was torn.
02:46:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is this really a movie, though? don't know if this is a movie.
02:46:46
BeyBlade
i mean, it's not anything. It's it's worst of the year.
02:46:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
honest Honestly, fuck you, Devin, because like we had fun watching it together.
02:46:49
BeyBlade
it's a i This this movie
02:46:55
semendemon
You held my hand while we watched it.
02:46:56
BeyBlade
this movie actually did make me mad. I got mad watching this, dude.
02:47:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was scrolling on my phone. Yeah, I got scrolling on my phone because I was so annoyed with it.
02:47:03
BeyBlade
No, yeah.
02:47:03
semendemon
I was invested.
02:47:04
BeyBlade
that See, that's the thing.
02:47:04
semendemon
i was invested.
02:47:05
BeyBlade
you You quit out. I was like...
02:47:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I was like, I can't do this.
02:47:08
semendemon
i was drinking and high though. So that helped.
02:47:11
BeyBlade
Yeah, no. Dude, and it's just... As soon as it just turns into a blatant, gross Amazon commercial, and then what makes it worse is the...
02:47:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Amazon commercial. Yeah.
02:47:23
BeyBlade
the um The director, after the fact, says he did it on purpose... To get viewed. And it was like, it's just like, no, dude, you're just bad at your fucking job.
02:47:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:47:38
BeyBlade
You stink.
02:47:39
semendemon
He's lying about his own bullshit.
02:47:40
BeyBlade
This movie's awful.
02:47:40
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:47:42
semendemon
He pulled a Tommy Wiseau.
02:47:42
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:47:43
semendemon
Oh, no, actually, that's yeah, it's a Tommy Wiseau where he always said he made it as a joke.
02:47:44
BeyBlade
yeah Yeah, no, it's just like, yeah, this is like five nights. This is all. It's just awful, dude. There's like no redeeming qualities about this thing.
02:47:56
semendemon
But didn't you like that scene um with
02:48:00
BeyBlade
yeah. yeah
02:48:01
semendemon
with Ice Cube?
02:48:05
BeyBlade
You mean all of them?
02:48:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it was you.
02:48:06
semendemon
Yeah, all of it.
02:48:07
BeyBlade
All of them.
02:48:07
semendemon
Yeah.
02:48:08
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of them. No, you know, I think I can confidently say i can confidently say i didn't enjoy ah single second with the exception of just John going like realize because it was John's idea.
02:48:11
semendemon
it was It was you! Yeah, I that
02:48:23
semendemon
that. The Disruptor.
02:48:23
BeyBlade
good Let's watch it.
02:48:24
semendemon
That was the name of his son.
02:48:24
BeyBlade
And then just being upset.
02:48:27
BeyBlade
um But like this.
02:48:27
semendemon
Remember that, Evan?
02:48:30
semendemon
The Disruptor. That was his son's...
02:48:33
BeyBlade
Dude, the whole squad. Remember the old squad?
02:48:34
Steve-O
I keep hearing laughs from Devin, so this sounds like it might be a secret goodest state of the year.
02:48:34
semendemon
yeah
02:48:34
BeyBlade
They got murked.
02:48:36
semendemon
it
02:48:38
BeyBlade
You know what?
02:48:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's what I'm saying, man. we got We got to spend time together.
02:48:39
BeyBlade
It's because I secretly wanted it to be John's worst of the year.
02:48:43
semendemon
It's
02:48:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i just wanted to have fun with my friends.
02:48:48
semendemon
good.
02:48:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And that wasn't good enough for you, Devin.
02:48:49
BeyBlade
Yeah. No.
02:48:52
Steve-O
That was the worst moment of 2025 you.
02:48:52
BeyBlade
No, that was a segue, by the way, John. Yeah.
02:48:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Oh, the segue.
02:48:57
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:48:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I don't think any of you will disagree with me here. I think Microsoft slash the Xbox brand. um has reached some new lows this year.
02:49:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And they were pretty, the lows were pretty low to begin with, but I think they're, dare I say rock bottom?
02:49:14
BeyBlade
yeah they found They found more bottom.
02:49:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Are they rock bottom?
02:49:18
Steve-O
Turns in a toilet.
02:49:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Steve, did they reach did they reach the bedrock?
02:49:20
semendemon
So what does Phil Spencer do now?
02:49:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Did they reach the bedrock in their in their Minecraft server? That's what it seems like.
02:49:26
semendemon
What does he do? What does Phil Spencer do?
02:49:27
Steve-O
Oh, they might have.
02:49:29
semendemon
Like, what is he running?
02:49:30
BeyBlade
I think he... You know what? I think he's he's done after this year. I think his goal is to get all four major Xbox franchises to release this year and then retire.
02:49:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
to get fired.
02:49:43
BeyBlade
cause cause Because it could be Halo, Fable, Gears, and Horizon are all tentatively scheduled to release this year.
02:49:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'll get his bonus, get his Activision bonus.
02:49:54
BeyBlade
And I think he does that and goes, I'm out.
02:49:57
Steve-O
He releases them all, walks into
02:49:57
BeyBlade
Goodbye. Yeah,
Gaming Industry Struggles: Xbox and Switch 2
02:49:59
Steve-O
the sun.
02:49:59
BeyBlade
i think I think he goes, I've been trying to do this since I started.
02:50:00
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He goes to Tahiti.
02:50:00
semendemon
Walks into the sun?
02:50:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No, he goes to ti he goes to Tahiti.
02:50:02
Steve-O
Yeah, not the sunset.
02:50:04
semendemon
Jesus Christ.
02:50:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He goes to Tahiti to sell mangoes.
02:50:06
semendemon
See?
02:50:07
Steve-O
Oh, right, right, with Dutch.
02:50:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's where he's gone.
02:50:08
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah.
02:50:09
semendemon
There here you go.
02:50:09
Steve-O
Mm-hmm.
02:50:10
BeyBlade
um No, but I mean, i mean truly, though, um what did they do right, right?
02:50:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
With Dutch Vanderland.
02:50:17
BeyBlade
It's just they raise the prices. They lose box big box stores.
02:50:22
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then they raise the prices again.
02:50:23
BeyBlade
They raise the prices again.
02:50:24
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
uh,
02:50:24
BeyBlade
They fire more people. They cancel games.
02:50:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
they ah They release their Steam Box equivalent with their brand on it that's overpriced and doesn't and doesn't work.
02:50:32
BeyBlade
That has Microsoft Office on it.
02:50:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It doesn't work out of the box.
02:50:34
semendemon
They don't even call it an Xbox anymore, even though it's a box, finally.
02:50:34
Steve-O
yeah
02:50:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And then and then they walk it back and say yeah and they and they walk it back and say it wasn't their product even though they have a fucking Xbox button on the thing.
02:50:45
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:50:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh my god, dude.
02:50:48
Steve-O
But hey, you know, Halo PlayStation.
02:50:48
semendemon
calling it the cube.
02:50:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
But hey, you know what? Halo's coming out for fucking PlayStation. Yeah.
02:50:53
BeyBlade
Yeah. Yeah. and And if you're that guy, right. If you, if you're still one of those, like it comes at like, that's a betrayal, man.
02:50:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You're done. You're cooked.
02:50:59
Steve-O
If you're the Halo fan who has refused to buy an Xbox for the past...
02:50:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:51:00
BeyBlade
That's a betrayal.
02:51:04
Steve-O
two decades, this is your chance.
02:51:06
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Or PlayStation.
02:51:07
semendemon
Yeah, get on it, man.
02:51:08
Steve-O
No, no, no, because it's like you'd have to have a PlayStation, right?
02:51:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, Xbox.
02:51:12
semendemon
Mm-hmm.
02:51:12
Steve-O
You're a Halo fan who just doesn't have an Xbox.
02:51:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:51:16
Steve-O
So you can have to wait for Master Chief.
02:51:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I've been more disappointed in the brand than the last couple years.
02:51:25
BeyBlade
Yeah, it's just...
02:51:27
Steve-O
I'd say...
02:51:27
BeyBlade
But hey, ah didn't they just announce they're going to... I think there's like a ah some sort of info dump in like two days about something Xbox related.
02:51:38
Steve-O
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're going to do the Fable dump. The Fable, and I think...
02:51:41
BeyBlade
The Fable dump's on the 22nd, but I think I read something else.
02:51:41
semendemon
do where is he gonna do it in public oh
02:51:44
Steve-O
I'm so scared. I'm so scared.
02:51:45
BeyBlade
The Internet, Chris.
02:51:46
Steve-O
I better i better get a release date for Horizon because that's one of my fantasy games. so
02:51:52
semendemon
yeah
02:51:54
Steve-O
They're in Japan this year, Chris. The cars are going to drive.
02:51:57
semendemon
okay
02:51:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Is Japan developing it though? Okay.
02:52:00
Steve-O
No, no, no. It's Playground Games, and they're very good. They're very, very good.
02:52:05
BeyBlade
Oh, the Resident Evil showcase is in like two days. That's it.
02:52:09
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh yeah, baby.
02:52:09
Steve-O
More Leon. More Leon. Not worst of the year.
02:52:12
BeyBlade
More Leon.
02:52:12
Steve-O
Not even around worst of the year. I'm excited.
02:52:14
BeyBlade
No, no. Dopest hatchet.
02:52:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I changed my best character to Leon Kennedy.
02:52:17
Steve-O
Oh, I might change my ah most anticipated.
02:52:18
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:52:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
most anticipated to a game to a game coming out in like less than um or a month from now.
02:52:23
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:52:28
Steve-O
But I'm allowed to.
02:52:30
semendemon
to sneak up on you. That's what I like about those games.
02:52:32
Steve-O
You know, John, you said Xbox, you said Microsoft. I agree with all those things. But there's one thing that really affected us this year, I would say.
02:52:44
Steve-O
And that was Nintendo. And Nintendo, I am making my worst of the year. They put out a brand new console, the Nintendo Switch 2. It's a newer, nicer, more powerful Switch.
02:52:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's the Hollow Knight Silksong of consoles, the most anticipated console release.
02:53:01
Steve-O
exactly but what if we raise the price of silk song 80 dollars And here's the thing, like the Switch 2 has Donkey Kong Bonanza, which I think is a game of the year contender.
02:53:16
Steve-O
It was phenomenal to play. um But my my experience with the Switch 2, it took forever for it to come in for me. I did. i I struggled with it. I had to like deal with a bunch of like that BS when it launched. And then Mario Kart World, which is a good game, ended up not...
02:53:35
Steve-O
um surpassing Mario Kart 8 for me.
02:53:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
eight yeah
02:53:40
Steve-O
Like, I love Mario Kart 8.
02:53:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yeah
02:53:41
Steve-O
One of my all-time favorite games, but Mario Kart World is just a game that there is so much potential and I have yet to see any of it.
02:53:41
BeyBlade
you know Yeah.
02:53:49
Steve-O
When I play it, it just it gets me to a point where I get more mad than I do have a fun um And then um the the thing that really so like kind of like pissed in the pool for me was Pokemon Legends ZA, which I loved Pokemon Legends Arceus.
02:54:01
semendemon
Oh boy.
02:54:06
Steve-O
It was basically Pokemon Breath of the Wild. And I was so excited for this game because the i I was just waiting to play a good Pokemon game after like a four year hiatus.
02:54:18
Steve-O
And This new one, it takes place in Lumiose, which is fake France, which I guess I played a bunch of fre fake French games today.
02:54:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Lumiere. Lumiere.
02:54:28
Steve-O
ah Yeah, basically. um But it it's essentially what if Pokemon was entirely in a GameCube graphical city and sucked?
02:54:42
Steve-O
it it it It never lets go of your hand.
02:54:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Also, what if the what if what if Pokemon released $40 day one DLC that doesn't come out for seven months?
02:54:48
Steve-O
That too. Do you have a favorite Pokemon?
02:54:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ha ha!
02:54:51
Steve-O
Because one of my favorite Pokemon is locked behind an additional $40 DLC paywall that you don't get access to until you beat the game.
02:54:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and you don't get. Yeah,
02:55:02
Steve-O
And the game takes forever because it's so much bullshit baby talk. And it has hundreds of hours of cut scenes of characters talking and there's no voiceovers in a game in 2025.
02:55:07
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
pretty bad.
02:55:15
Steve-O
On your brand new super duper switch to console that you spent $500 on. Get your shit together, Nintendo.
02:55:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Nintendo Yeah, Nintendo's, like, going, like, kind of PlayStation route with all this, you know, like,
02:55:26
Steve-O
And also Metroid, like it came out to like middling fart reviews, like a game that people have been waiting for, for like decades.
02:55:34
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:55:36
Steve-O
Get better.
02:55:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
nights The The Hollow Knight Silksong of Metroid games came out.
02:55:36
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:55:40
Steve-O
Yeah.
02:55:41
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
was Was mid... Mid-Troid.
02:55:43
Steve-O
everybody's everybody's like getting crazy greedy and they're just not putting the effort. And it's like, we can see these people, Megabonk, Claire Obscure, Hollow Knight Silksong. These are not full price titles, but they are game of the year contenders because they are top quality and they know what they're worth.
02:56:01
Steve-O
So it's just one of those things that just frustrates me.
02:56:03
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah. Yeah, you don't you don't want to see it come from Nintendo. you know you don't cause you don't You don't want to see those guys go down down that road.
02:56:08
Steve-O
No.
02:56:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
that road
02:56:13
Steve-O
Yeah, it's...
02:56:13
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And that's what's disappointing about it.
02:56:15
Steve-O
Like, i've I've always, you know, been a Nintendo fanboy, but this year should have been their year. Because in 2017, that was their year. Switch 1 came out, Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey.
02:56:28
Steve-O
There was... ah ah ah Deluxe 8 Mario Kart. Like, there were so many great games that came out that year, and it really just was like, hey, that you have to grab a Switch.
02:56:39
Steve-O
The Switch 2, it doesn't have that yet. Aside from Donkey Kong Bonanza, I can't recommend anything for you. So...
02:56:47
BeyBlade
So do you feel like ah do you regret buying the Switch 2 at this point?
02:56:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I kind of do.
02:56:52
Steve-O
Um... I don't think I needed to get all, like, carried away in the rush.
02:56:58
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, also, like, you youre you're we were all kind of afraid that we wouldn't be able to get our hands on it.
02:56:58
Steve-O
And I...
02:56:58
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:57:04
Steve-O
Right.
02:57:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
ever if we didn't jump on it and that didn't and that was wasn't even close to the
02:57:08
Steve-O
Sales slowed down in December, apparently. Apparently, they did not sell like hotcakes like Switch has previously done. So.
02:57:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
yo wait till uh wait till the price the prices go up even more because of the but whole tech shit that's going on with the ram yeah everything's just gonna be more money but but the but the floor the floor with the
02:57:22
Steve-O
Yeah. RAM and stuff.
02:57:29
semendemon
Yeah, I heard that Steam box price is...
02:57:31
Steve-O
Hmm.
02:57:32
semendemon
It's rough.
02:57:33
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The floor with the Nintendo was raised on its own accord to begin with.
02:57:36
Steve-O
Right.
02:57:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Like, they they they did it. They raised the floor already. So it's just like, it really kind of sucks.
02:57:44
Steve-O
Yeah, we're just we're not going to be able to afford any of our treats, and it's just going to make us all angrier and angrier until we're out in the streets fighting.
02:57:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're going to have to be fighting...
02:57:55
semendemon
Yeah, that's the plan.
02:57:56
Steve-O
One battle after another.
02:58:04
semendemon
Well, shall we, shall we say what the best of the year is? We all agree.
02:58:09
Steve-O
We all agree. Unanimously.
02:58:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
even though Even though Steve rated it a kill in his in his movie scale.
02:58:11
semendemon
all, it's a unanimous vote.
02:58:14
Steve-O
i did not rate it to kill.
02:58:16
semendemon
I think he said it.
02:58:16
BeyBlade
Yeah, even though he hated it.
02:58:17
semendemon
Yeah, he killed it.
02:58:18
Steve-O
This is my best.
02:58:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:58:19
Steve-O
This is my best of the
Cinema of the Year: 'One Battle After Another'
02:58:20
Steve-O
best.
02:58:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I think Steve hated it more than Chris hated Predator Badlands, to be honest.
02:58:26
semendemon
Yeah, that might be possible. i don't know. We got talk about it, Steve. Um, No, we all chose one battle after another.
02:58:35
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:58:36
Steve-O
It's, yeah, it's a cinema masterpiece.
02:58:36
semendemon
It's pretty self-evidently...
02:58:37
BeyBlade
it's it's It's the standout.
02:58:38
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
This is my Claire Obscure Expedition 33. I think this actually deserves everything.
02:58:42
semendemon
I agree! i agree with John. i This is the thing that made me happy.
02:58:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
No Gen. AI.
02:58:48
Steve-O
Everything about it.
02:58:49
semendemon
And made me be happy seeing movies and theaters.
02:58:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
i don't think paul I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson even has a computer or smartphone that could even tempt him to use Gen. AI on anything, to be honest.
02:58:58
Steve-O
No.
02:58:59
semendemon
No. No. He's a pure soul in that regard. um And this movie just felt like what award seasons were made for, too. like It's just so self-evident.
02:59:10
semendemon
Now, they could be an idiot and make you know give and awards to other movies, but I just feel like this is so obvious this year.
02:59:17
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Interesting that it that Best of the Year didn't end up being Avatar, Devin.
02:59:19
semendemon
Right.
02:59:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What are your thoughts on that?
02:59:21
Steve-O
ah
02:59:23
BeyBlade
appropriate, but also a complete sham.
02:59:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um
02:59:28
semendemon
Right.
02:59:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:59:28
BeyBlade
You know, as is as is the fandom.
02:59:29
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What does James Cameron say? James Cameron says...
02:59:32
BeyBlade
ah
02:59:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He
02:59:33
BeyBlade
He said, wait, I'm still counting my billions. Hold on.
02:59:35
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
he said... He said, I don't make movies for awards shows. That's what he said.
02:59:41
semendemon
Yeah.
02:59:41
BeyBlade
Hey, you know what?
02:59:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Damn, bro.
02:59:43
BeyBlade
the The man puts his money where his mouth is.
02:59:44
semendemon
Shades himself.
02:59:46
Steve-O
He already got all those awards.
02:59:46
semendemon
Shades himself.
02:59:46
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Shades himself. He shades himself.
02:59:48
Steve-O
James himself.
02:59:48
BeyBlade
Yeah.
02:59:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
02:59:49
semendemon
Cool.
02:59:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Geez.
02:59:51
semendemon
All right, Jimmy.
02:59:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
He threw himself under the bus inadvertently, making himself look horrible.
02:59:54
semendemon
I make bad movies.
02:59:55
Steve-O
I think bad movies for stupid people.............
02:59:56
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, i don't make i don't make movies that I want to be good. I want them to be bad.
03:00:02
BeyBlade
That's it.
03:00:02
semendemon
That's cool.
03:00:03
semendemon
Whatever works, bud. Um, But obviously that is not the case with one battle after another. And we've sung its praises all night. That I just hope that if you haven't seen it, go out and watch it. Because it's wonderful.
03:00:17
Steve-O
Best of the year.
03:00:19
semendemon
Best of the year.
03:00:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Best of the best.
03:00:20
Steve-O
All right, everybody.
03:00:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Best of the year of all years.
03:00:23
Steve-O
I think that's it for the anti-Fanies.
03:00:25
BeyBlade
That's 2025. Oh. Oh.
03:00:26
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, wait. One more award. Best anti-fanboy.
03:00:27
BeyBlade
oh
03:00:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Who does it go to this year?
03:00:29
BeyBlade
oh oh
03:00:31
Steve-O
Ooh.
03:00:31
semendemon
I'm giving it to John.
03:00:32
BeyBlade
Me.
03:00:33
Steve-O
You know, I'm going to give it to John this year.
03:00:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, because I played so many games.
03:00:37
semendemon
Giving it to Jenna.
03:00:38
BeyBlade
You know what? Wait, does it have to be does it have to be unanimous?
03:00:40
semendemon
You played a lot of games and you you had your own opinion.
03:00:41
Steve-O
i mean, I think we just all get to pick who would like we we want to pick.
03:00:42
semendemon
There you go.
03:00:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I give it
03:00:48
BeyBlade
I'll give it a job.
03:00:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I give it to John too.
03:00:49
BeyBlade
I'll give it a job.
03:00:50
Steve-O
ah
03:00:52
semendemon
It's unanimous.
03:00:52
Steve-O
It's unanimous.
03:00:52
BeyBlade
Yeah.
03:00:52
Steve-O
There you go.
03:00:54
BeyBlade
There it is.
03:00:54
semendemon
John is the anti-fanboy of 2025.
03:00:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yes.
03:00:56
semendemon
no, no, no, no.
03:00:56
BeyBlade
the
03:00:59
Steve-O
all right, everybody.
03:00:59
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
It's my last, it's my swan song.
03:01:00
Steve-O
Oh, no.
03:01:01
BeyBlade
but
03:01:02
semendemon
ah ah na na
03:01:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, dude, I don't have the time anymore. I can't just fucking, fucking drill games during ah work hours anymore like I used to, man.
03:01:09
semendemon
Yeah, it's true. That's good point.
03:01:11
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm not on the, I'm not on my Buffy schedule anymore where I can watch Buffy and in a month.
03:01:12
semendemon
yeah
03:01:14
BeyBlade
as As my dad would say, party's over.
03:01:18
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, party's over.
03:01:19
semendemon
a
03:01:21
Steve-O
Dude, your dad is just old Dante and I love it.
03:01:25
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Party's over, man. Pizza party's over.
03:01:28
BeyBlade
man. Yeah. did these He could be such a prick.
03:01:32
Steve-O
All right. and
03:01:33
BeyBlade
Party's over. Okay. Fucking asshole. I was like 17. He's like, I would charge you rent. Party's over. I was like, I'm in high school
03:01:40
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
what's the next What's the next thing?
Upcoming Releases and Humorous Sign-Off
03:01:42
BeyBlade
still.
03:01:42
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What's the next thing we're going to be doing? Is it Resident Evil? Is that the next big thing?
03:01:46
BeyBlade
Next big thing? i mean...
03:01:48
semendemon
Probably.
03:01:49
Steve-O
That's the one that's probably going
03:01:50
semendemon
Well, Devin, you can check your list.
03:01:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
We're all playing that. day That comes out on a Friday, right?
03:01:52
Steve-O
We're all...
03:01:53
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:01:54
Steve-O
Yeah.
03:01:54
semendemon
Check your list, Devin.
03:01:55
BeyBlade
Oh, not High Guard?
03:01:55
semendemon
See what's coming out.
03:01:57
BeyBlade
like the High Guard, guys?
03:01:57
Steve-O
Yeah, no High Guard heads?
03:01:57
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
High guard? Yeah, is that coming out next week still, or what?
03:02:00
BeyBlade
ah
03:02:00
Steve-O
Supposedly.
03:02:01
BeyBlade
Two weeks.
03:02:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They all got Pinkerton'd.
03:02:02
BeyBlade
Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. Next week, yeah. Resident Evil Requiem is the next big game for sure.
03:02:07
Steve-O
And that's end of February.
03:02:10
BeyBlade
Next big movie?
03:02:14
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
that, February 28th it comes out?
03:02:14
BeyBlade
Tricky, tricky, tricky.
03:02:16
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
27th, I mean. And
03:02:18
BeyBlade
uh february 27th yeah
03:02:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
that is a...
03:02:23
semendemon
Check your tracker.
03:02:23
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Friday, baby! Sam, I got to lock in.
03:02:26
Steve-O
Friday, baby.
03:02:27
BeyBlade
yeah uh that next big movie for all of us obviously super mario galaxy obviously obviously chris chris is gonna be locked in uh by the way you think you're slick chris
03:02:28
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I'm going to lock my door for three days.
03:02:33
Steve-O
Oh?
03:02:35
semendemon
Give me a break.
03:02:36
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
When is that?
03:02:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um
03:02:42
semendemon
What are you talking about?
03:02:43
BeyBlade
ah You think you're slick? Or no, is this John?
03:02:45
semendemon
don't know what was you're talking about.
03:02:46
BeyBlade
I can't can't tell who it is.
03:02:47
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What?
03:02:48
semendemon
What?
03:02:48
BeyBlade
Send help, my cock is on fire.
03:02:50
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
What?
03:02:51
semendemon
You wanted to see that movie.
03:02:51
Steve-O
What?
03:02:52
semendemon
Not me. i didn't put that on here.
03:02:55
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
um That wasn't me.
03:02:56
semendemon
you And you know what? You passed up Ernest Returns to Silent Hill.
03:03:00
BeyBlade
Mortal Kombat.
03:03:02
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Goons day. Avengers goons day.
03:03:06
BeyBlade
Now that's a movie I need to see.
03:03:08
semendemon
what's with all this smoke?
03:03:12
BeyBlade
Chris, I noticed you left um the Tom Cruise movie Digger alone. oh Why'd you do that?
03:03:16
semendemon
I can't. can't.
03:03:18
BeyBlade
Why'd you? you didn't do You didn't do anything with that?
03:03:20
semendemon
i I can't do it.
03:03:21
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
and Interesting, Chris.
03:03:23
Steve-O
Hey, JumanJizz3.
03:03:25
BeyBlade
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:03:25
semendemon
It's coming. It's coming.
03:03:27
BeyBlade
yeah real Real brave with Jumanji's three, but he leaves Digger alone.
03:03:29
Steve-O
How to rub a butt.
03:03:30
semendemon
Yes.
03:03:31
Steve-O
How to rub a butt.
03:03:32
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Jumanji is three.
03:03:34
BeyBlade
Yeah.
03:03:36
Steve-O
Spider-Man, grand nude to dick.
03:03:37
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
I love boobers.
03:03:38
BeyBlade
was it Wait, has was this what chris
03:03:39
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
The Mandalorian group. Fuck. Mortal Kombat.
03:03:41
BeyBlade
was this what Chris was doing?
03:03:42
Steve-O
i love boobers.
03:03:44
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Mortal Kombat.
03:03:45
BeyBlade
Was this what you were doing the entire episode, Chris?
03:03:47
semendemon
Yes.
03:03:48
Steve-O
Masturbators of the universe.
03:03:49
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Ready or not to hear I come.
03:03:51
BeyBlade
Spider-Man grand nude dick?
03:03:51
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
They will kill each other.
03:03:53
BeyBlade
What the fuck?
03:03:54
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh, God.
03:03:55
semendemon
These movies all sound really great. How to Make a Killing Eating shit must be a wonderful film.
03:03:59
BeyBlade
yeah
03:04:01
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Oh my God.
03:04:01
semendemon
It's coming out.
03:04:04
BeyBlade
but This is what i do. i This is like I showed you my Lego collection and then you just spit on everything.
03:04:05
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
That's funny.
03:04:08
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
And we just destroyed it.
03:04:09
Steve-O
Yeah, we just took all the pieces and just rearranged them.
03:04:10
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
03:04:11
BeyBlade
a This took me like half a work day to compile, but that's fine.
03:04:12
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah.
03:04:12
Steve-O
They will kill...
03:04:16
Steve-O
Is this a real movie?
03:04:17
BeyBlade
That's fine.
03:04:17
Steve-O
be Is this a real movie?
03:04:19
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Yeah, it's okay, Devin.
03:04:19
semendemon
It's
03:04:20
Steve-O
They will kill you, Jeffrey Epstein.
03:04:20
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
You don't...
03:04:20
BeyBlade
Mortal Comeback 2. Yeah. know.
03:04:23
semendemon
a documentary.
03:04:24
Steve-O
Oh, horror comedy.
03:04:26
semendemon
horror comedy.
03:04:27
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
Six, seven.
03:04:27
BeyBlade
Yeah.
03:04:28
Steve-O
All right, everybody. We're done. We'll be back next week with more goodness. So...
03:04:33
BeyBlade
with real juicy news.
03:04:35
Steve-O
Real juicy news. we still got We've got a whole heap of it ready for you. So we'll be back. We'll see you Bye.
03:04:43
BeyBlade
Later.
03:04:43
genAI_PLACEHOLDER
See ya.