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More Threads than a Yarn Factory (Catan - Part 3)
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The thread count is too high! Story threads that is, not like, cotton threads. Just too much going on over too many pages and some things are over too quickly and replaced by other things.
I dunno about this book.
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wonderful performance especially the young woman who played uh nikki little natalie portman jr uh over there i couldn't get over it i was like that's fucking natalie portman like what the shit uh it was eerie in fact um she's wonderful she just absolutely killed that indie actually are you saying they got more questions or
00:00:27
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you know who else is indy navaretti Who's that? Hey there everybody. Welcome back to Pixel It. My name is Kevin. With me as always is Phil. And in today's show, ah part three of four of ah of of Catan.
00:00:40
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um Yeah. ah it's it's ah It's kind of... We'll get into it. But I am... This has gone from, hey, strong start, to, hey, what's with the Jesus, to...
00:00:57
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What? Who are some of these characters? Who is this for? Yeah. And like I'm 500 pages into this book and now there's a they're introducing another plot line of these guys. Well, don't worry. because The plot line will be resolved in a page or two. So, yeah. ah And then, ah you know, the main character is just like for ah for a good number of pages just became an irredeemable piece of shit. Yeah. Nowhere. Yeah. Out of nowhere. Mr. Nice guy. Out of nowhere.
00:01:28
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But before we do that, ah I want to go ahead and say, hey, have you been to Patreon.com slash PixelitPod lately? ah It's a wonderful website, and you can go there to give us money in the increments of $1, $5, or
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00:02:27
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00:02:44
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Patreon.com slash PixelPod. Do it today. Now, I asked the Discord for some questions before we get into Settlers of Catan. And I might do this more often, just source some questions about... I love this idea. That'll be fun. About... it just ask us shit, you know? Yeah, yeah.
00:03:02
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So a long time patron, middle of things asked, did you feel the need to focus on properties you were familiar with and cared about or was it the opposite? Now I know for me it was like, it actually was a little bit more towards the, the that first part that familiar and cared with at least at the beginning.
00:03:25
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um so which is why we ended up with Resident Evil right off the bat. Right, right. and We knew we had plenty of ammunition with that one, too. Yeah.
00:03:35
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Yeah. I'd say it's about half and half for me. um Yeah. Like, like. Whenever I look at the calendar, I always know. like, be like. i'll be like ah we're like, all right, I'm putting this game. Everybody knows this game. And then the next week you'd be like, Phil's like, yeah, text Murphy. im Right.
00:03:53
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Right. No, and that's just it. I think, I think it's closer to the former for me because there are things like, there's a reason, for example, that we got into the King's Quest books so soon. Yes. ah You know, there, there, there's, there's something to that. um But,
00:04:11
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There are also we're also reading, as as Kevin pointed out, we read a lot of point and click ones. So I had no previous experience with Gabriel Knight or Tex Murphy. um I just knew that that's that's an era that I like.
00:04:27
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So, yes, but no. Yeah. yeah It's real flyby to see the pants operation. over Yeah. I don't know if they've noticed that about us, but. No, but I mean, it kind of goes into Snivitz's question next, which is what's been most successful for growing the show?
00:04:47
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And don't say videos in short form clips, ah hiding my face emoji. And did you ever work on your co-host chemistry or did that simply come out of the box with pre-existing friendship that you guys have?
00:05:00
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yeah. Well, what's been most successful for growing the show? ah Well, definitely not videos and short form clips. I don't think that's actually helped at all. Not a little. that's something that you need to be able to dedicate so much more time to than I think that we have.
00:05:20
Speaker
but probably The thing that probably is most successful for any sort of growth is any time we have appeared on a podcast that is much larger than ours. Yes. That's like yeah that's really the only way we we get more exposure because there is no real... like On YouTube, it's not very algorithm friendly to talk about video game novelizations necessarily.
00:05:45
Speaker
It doesn't seem to be What? Why? And ah podcasting itself doesn't really have an algorithm. There's no, like, you have to know. a you Basically, podcasting is like, eat basically to find podcasts, it's either word of mouth or you run ads.
00:06:02
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Those are like the two things that people do to get their podcasts out there. And I think for us, for growing the show, it's just been going on other people's shows to get that word of mouth. Yeah. And and and being on the right kinds of shows where we have um some chemistry there. ah We've been really lucky in the places that we've yeah guested it on in the sense that um they aren't always shows that we're like deeply, deeply familiar with or we're friendly with before ah the guest. But we have always found some really good common ground with the people that were on the shows with, uh, uh, did you game apocalypse is a great example? Yeah.
00:06:46
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Uh, very cool dudes over there. yeah Obviously it's probably not aliens. Yeah. it's probably not aliens where, you know, we've, we've been on, I've been on a couple of times and Phil and I have been on together a couple of times, I think.
00:06:57
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Yeah. Um, and, uh, we're going to be, uh, we're going to be on in a couple months. We'll be on the Chuluminati podcast, which is exciting. Um,
00:07:08
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Which should be exciting, but the thing is we've also, we've had the each individual guy from the Chiluminati show on our own show. So we know kind of like what to expect yeah um yeah ah for for going into that one. So yeah, it's it's it's it's like that. As far as a co-host chemistry, I don't think we've ever actively practiced anything.
00:07:33
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We've always just been very good friends, you know? ah yeah I think we're a shit ton closer now than we were when we were friends in grad school. Oh, totally. Yeah, we're closer now than than we were in grad school. Which is where we met. I mean, particularly, like ah we were in different departments. Yeah, yeah. like that it was It was more of a, it we knew each other through our mutual friend, ah Lee Keeler. Yeah. who And Lee was taking a lot more film classes, I believe, than yeah than you were he and I were both dramatic
00:08:05
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in the dramatic writing program, I was leaning more towards theater. He was leaning more towards film. um But we were also writing together. And when you're writing with Lee, he's going to take you on a ride. You are going to go on some road trips. And he's like, why don't you come over? We're going to go to the film department and do some spec scripts. Come on.
00:08:26
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He's like, come on, we're going to go over here, ah you know, and then you're just at a party at, you know, fucking our friend Sally's house. Yeah. And you're eating a cake dog. I don't know if you were even at that. I was there. That was some you were there. that That was that I was.
00:08:43
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Oh, I mean, cake dog. No, I wasn't there for the cake. I was there for the donut burger. That was ah St. Patrick's Day one year. Those were the same night. Was that the same? Okay, then I was there. Okay. I think those were the same night. The donut burger started the night, and those are that's actually a reasonable experience. ah yeah Actually, no, they were two separate nights. The cake dog was was spawned by the donut burger. Okay, that makes sense.
00:09:09
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So a donut wrapped around a burger, what if we put a cake wrapped around a dog? Yeah. Which there's video of it somewhere of me ah approximately 100 pounds lighter ah with Lee eating the cake dog and to me talking about how yeah I felt so powerful that I feel like felt like I could jump off of the balcony that we were eating them on.
00:09:37
Speaker
yeah um Oh, man. Savannah. Yeah. Yeah. There was a night that I don't know if you were there. There were ah Hess was there at least. But there was a night that we we were making hot dogs in beer. We were boiling the hot dogs in beer.
00:09:56
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ah And ah everybody agreed. just And after it was all done, after the dogs were all finished, we everyone stood around and did a shot of the hot dog beer.
00:10:07
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ah And it was every bit as gross as you'd think it was. It was... Is this when hess wass Hess was living with Graeber? Yes, yes. Yeah, because Graeber was there too, as I recall. And and yeah Keeler was living with me.
00:10:23
Speaker
ah God, that grad school, man. that's That's a time. Grad school. ah Yeah, just the some of the weirdest experiences you will get are grad school, specifically a liberal arts degree grad school. None of this fucking business or or law or doctor stuff where you have to like...
00:10:45
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or You got to get a degree where you're going to have a lot of time on your hands. Yeah. Get a MFA shit. Like that's what we're talking about. Get an MFA. It's yeah three years and you're fucking around for half of that time.
00:10:58
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Yep. But you're an artist. But you're an artist. Oh, God. um If you're Josh, ah Josh in parentheses, ah fuck the movie.
00:11:12
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um Josh is always changing his his screen name based on a reference. ah And across the many servers that I know Josh in, he has a different screen name in each.
00:11:26
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i Love that. Love that. That's bold, Josh. Yeah. it's It's bold, it's crisp, it's refreshing. What is it in the after party? ah Okay, in the after party Discord, it's currently Josh, in parentheses, ah garlic needs no vowels.
00:11:47
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Okay, like it. In the ah essay library Discord, it's Josh, in parentheses, industrial buckets. All right. that's I mean, that's the name of my prog rock band.
00:12:01
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So that's cool. ah And in the video essay Discord, it's Josh in parentheses, washed out Penelope.
00:12:13
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So I don't know. That sounds kind of vulgar in its own way. it does. general Washed out Penelope. You know what I mean I don't have an answer for this question, but I assume you do. Okay.
00:12:26
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If your death were to be caused by a non-threatening animal and your obituary had to include the phrase was killed by a blank in it, what animal would you want it to be?
00:12:37
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a non-threatening animal. I hope it's a house cat. And some and the the jury's out on whether or not people find that one to be threatening. They can be. I just hope that the way I'm just spitballing here, but what feels good right now in this moment is to fall asleep on the couch And for the cat who loves me ah deeply, sheep she loves me, but Ripley also wants to get inside of your mouth. This is not an uncommon thing with cats. They want to crawl into your skull. They can't get close enough. ah And I can just imagine myself like,
00:13:17
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as an older, weaker man, an adorable kitty like Ripley, ah being overly enthusiastic about cuddling with Data and and asphyxiating me in my sleep with her big coat. um That would be an okay way to go. Because think about all the purring. Like, it'd be like you'd be dying to white noise. That would be that wouldn't be so bad. That wouldn't be so bad. Yeah.
00:13:43
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Yeah. Phil Keeling was killed, was asphyxiated by his cat. Yeah. ah Trying to think of a cat you would have in the future.
00:13:53
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ah It would have to be probably a Maine Coon or something like really big. So it could really. it could really. Suck the breath out of me. Suck the breath out of you. Yeah. they ah killed Killed by his cat, Paul Reiser from Aliens.
00:14:09
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but so I like it. That's good. Yeah. not even Not even his character's name. Because we already we want we decided if we ever get a black cat, that will be Zeno. Okay. Zeno. And the next boy cat, if it's not a black cat, we'd name Dallas.
00:14:26
Speaker
Okay. Newt's going to be in there as well. ah But I do, i I think now the idea of just the full full Christian name is Paul Reiser's character from Aliens. Yes. it's There it is. There it is. Done. Done.
00:14:43
Speaker
Oh, God. And the final question is from VZ. Since you deal in adaptations of a sort, what are your favorite adaptations in general? Game to book, book to movie, movie to music, Don't feel the need to restrict yourself to one a piece. I by know mine right off the bat. um And it's because it's my favorite movie of all time.
00:15:04
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ah God damn you, Elgato. Elgato! thought I had fixed you. I thought I had fixed you and I didn't. can't fix Elgato, my friend. Elgato fixes you. You can't. Elgato.
00:15:15
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You can't fix an Elgato. um That's the tagline. I like it ah it. It works. ah So mine is ah the adaptation of Who Goes There?
00:15:31
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yeah. A.K.A. John Carpenter's The Thing. Which is a, i I see that's the thing. I don't, I don't call the thing a remake because it is very much not a remake of the, of the thing from another world. It is more of a re is more of a, a straight adaptation of who goes there. Yes. Um, then the thing from another world is, um, so that's what I would, I would, ah and who goes there is a, is a really good, uh, short story. You can read a longer version of it.
00:16:08
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um I think the longer version of it is called Frozen Hell. um Yeah, yeah. they yeah yeah it's I think it's based on like rough draft stuff or something. Yeah, they they they they they kind of chunked it out further.
00:16:22
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um But yeah, it's worth ah listening to the Frozen Hell audiobook if if you haven't. it's a and i I listened to it once while I was you know just doing some gardening stuff.
00:16:33
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um But yeah, that's that's what comes to mind right off the bat. That's a very, yeah, that's a very, very good one. um You know, it it might surprise people, but i I'm actually quite a big fan of adaptations of ah costume dramas.
00:16:54
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ah yeah Things you know like Pride and Prejudice and and sure Sense and Sensibility. Bridgerton. Yeah, I never actually watched Bridgerton. ah Maybe I should.
00:17:06
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um But it's it's ah there's something so comforting about a lot of those movies. Not all of them, but a lot of them. um And I think it comes from, you know, because the the criticism you can have against...
00:17:20
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um both the books and the films they're based on this is this is just rich people bullshit. This is just, you know, and I think that's why i like it. It's just it's true escapism. We are like, sure oh, my God, all I have to worry about is this boy who's a little mean to me and I have a crush on him like like. Right. but it's all but it's very elegant, you know what I mean? um Yeah, that that's something I find myself, like we went when we went to see Obsession, ah there's ah we saw the trailer for the new Sense and Sensibility ah that's coming out.
00:17:53
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um And it looks good, it looks good. ah And I wanted to go see it, but Emily is so in love with the ah adaptation with, oh my God.
00:18:05
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Emma, I always get the Emmas mixed up. Emma Watson? Anyway. ah Yeah, i'm not a I am not a sense and sensibility head.
00:18:17
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Anyway. ah sense I'm not sensible enough. I'm not a sense-sensibilitist. and Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson. Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet. It's just a really great cast. And Rickman.
00:18:32
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yeah He's so good at it. He's so good. and And Emma Thompson actually wrote the adaptation, and it's so fucking good. And I i read Sense and Sensibility for the first time this year, and and it's really impressive. When you talk about adapting, um it's really impressive when you do it well, because film It's a more talkative medium than right most anything.
00:18:59
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And Jane Austen's incredible writer. She always was. But there aren't as many quotes in her book as you'd expect ah based on the films. that She just says, and so-and-so said this to him, and he said that to her. And it's not necessarily quoted. ah what they're saying. You just get the gist ah for a lot of it. Yadda yadda yadda. They said some shit to each other. Pretty much. and and And so you've got to adapt that and make some dialogue. And I can only imagine how tough that is to to be that level of clever and ah that kind of thing. But Emma Thompson did a great job with it. So yeah, yeah, that's probably not the answer people expected. ah But it's absolutely true.
00:19:43
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Nice. Nice. Yeah. And, ah you know, I'll just throw in, like, few a few adaptations I like simply because they're better than the book they were based on. Oh, done yeah such a yeah. Like, such as, you know, The Godfather. I mean, if you read if you read Mario Puzo's The Godfather, it is straight pulp mob shit yeah ah with some really, ah like...
00:20:08
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over the top violence compared to, the, the, what the movie that we got, and also i would, I would throw in, uh, jaws. I was just going to say jaws.
00:20:20
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Jaws is a great example of garbage being turned into a masterpiece. I mean, and it's funny. there's a there's a There's a few in the 1970s. You know, you got Godfather, you got the you got Jaws, you got The Shining. um Though The Shining is like, you can make an argument that the like Stanley Kubrick made an amazing film, but there's an argument that it's not...
00:20:45
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the best adaptation that you could have gotten out of shining too and i think that that's what's fascinating about it uh whatever your stance on it is it's it yeah it's it's it's absolutely if if we were and we've talked about this many times before if we were teaching a class on yeah on uh adaptation uh that would be a very big part of it because of that very thing uh uh right how much the author didn't like it it was and it was such a good movie Yeah. And how much Stanley Kubrick intentionally deviated from the book. Right. So much he like in points where King described color patterns in certain ways, Kubrick went ah intentionally like intentionally would reverse them.
00:21:29
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Right. Right. In the movie. Right. um Which is just fucking bananas. um But yeah, I mean, it The Shining has had ah its own re-adaptations that were garbage and then a sequel that is probably ah probably more palatable to ah Stephen King, sure given that he's, you know, Mike Flanagan seems to be the Stephen King whisperer. Well, that's a fascinating movie. I have not seen Dr. Sleep Okay, okay. Well, that's a fascinating one as far as adaptations are concerned, because it is more directly based on the book The Shining, but it is visually, and ah because it goes back in time, and it's the Kubrick movie.
00:22:18
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So it's a fascinating, that's something that really demonstrates what you can do with an adaptation when you've got multiple versions of it. Does it use the boiler explosion ending from the book? No, I don't think they do. It's just very closely related to the Kubrick movie.
00:22:38
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um It's interesting. It's very interesting. um Yeah. Yeah. But now that we've we've warmed up our chops a little bit, yeah ah let's go ahead and put the body in the marsh. Ooh, yes. Let's marsh that body.
00:22:52
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Police have confirmed that the body of the man found dead in the Fenway marshes yesterday afternoon is that of... This ain't reality TV! All right, let me pull this sucker up. I should been prepared, but you guys had questions. Okay, we're starting part three. It is the summer, the year of our Lord, 860. Chapter 11, they are on the island. If you remember correctly, we discovered Catan, land of the sun. And they chapter 11 is all about them getting settled, like literally settling in. So the first thing they need to do is find food. So we get lots of scenes of hunting, fishing, gathering, and then they have a big feast. And then they find an official place where they're going to settle that, you know, they've got
00:23:42
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It's full of wood and forest and so they got to go over there and clear everything out. This is the part of the book where if you're playing a strategy game, it's like the earliest parts of the strategy game where you're you're like, OK, all right, I'm going to set up my granary over here. I'm going to put, you know, the long houses over here and all that shit. ah Ironically enough.
00:24:06
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Doesn't make me think of the actual game Settlers of Catan. It makes me think of a lot of strategy games I've played, but not Catan. um So I found that really interesting. This is where we're also getting really heavy into the cozy factor.
00:24:24
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Um, sure because very little, I mean, lots of stuff happens, but it's not challenging. It isn't terribly, uh, there isn't much conflict until there is there, will but like they go hunting and it's great. They, they go fishing and it's great. You know, they, they, they, they have, and they're like, okay, well we need to build a smoker and stuff. it's like, okay, but they're not really all that worried. It's going to get done. So there's a cozy quality to it that I'm not used to in my fiction. Uh, yeah. um
00:24:55
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ah so yeah yeah that's that's all it is ah that's really it it that's it ah chapter 12 the slaves led by Ryan the Irish king ah they kill the slavers and escape and they seal one of the ah but boats and they ah are sailing it along the coast to find a place for themselves to settle down because they do not have the supplies to be able to to you know sail back to Europe and We get a teeny bit more, thank goodness he's a Christian shit.
00:25:26
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ah There's there's ah an Irish gal that he's becoming close with and like she watches him like tend to the wounded and he gives like last rites to somebody and she literally has an inner monologue where she's like, oh, thank goodness he's a Christian, he's a good man. You're like, um okay. Which, because I'm torn about this, because this will continue.
00:25:49
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And I'm torn because this is, to be fair, something that would have come up ah in this time period. ah You know, Christianity versus paganism, stuff like that that, especially with multicultural communities like this one is. i It just feels a little pointed sometimes.
00:26:10
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It does, especially with, like, the Irish, like... Like, the Irish stuff is, like... how, when, what is the, what's, so we're in the 800s, when's fucking St. Patrick ram Catholicism down their throats? 400. 400 something, yeah, right.
00:26:31
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So it's been a few years. So I can't imagine, I can't, yeah, i don't know. i'm I'm just wondering what Catholicism's flavor would have been like to the Irish in yeah in the 800s. Yeah.
00:26:42
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you You would think it would still be very mixed in with ah with a lot of paganistic stuff. Yeah. um Right. Yeah. and And I think I wouldn't be so put off by it if there weren't examples of...
00:26:55
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ah Because the Norse paganism is just the status quo and there isn't much to it. um It's just what they are. And so ah there are no moment, they you know, they they, the only times we get any real moments of faith from the pagans, it's undercut by this sense of like, well, and the Christians went, ah so it's, yeah it you don't get a lot of like, and and he was a,
00:27:23
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proud man of his you know ah of of his worship of odin and and you know that kind of and it's like and it's shown as this very positive thing the same way that the uh christian stuff is um right and so that's that it's it's off-putting um So little little more of the thank goodness he's a Christian shit. Not a lot, a little.
00:27:43
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um The Northmen find the wrecked camp that the slaves ah destroyed, and they find 20 abandoned maids that they tied up because they stay they were the ones that refused to fight. They were they were they're too scared to fight. And so instead of taking them with them, ah they tie them up.
00:28:03
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And so they take them on as maids. Yeah. And Yngwie specifically takes one ah that is pregnant ah because she is about as far along as ah Frida, ah his his long lost gal, ah would have been at this point.
00:28:20
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Right. So Yngwie is very emo. We are getting lots of emo vibes. Yeah. He has done the thing where Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3, where he goes looks in the mirror and he bri tap like yeah brings his hair down. Yeah, yeah.
00:28:37
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He's that guy right now. It's very, he's he's, bless his heart, he's a sweetie, but Jesus Christ, man. um chapter 13 they start clearing the woods fishing etc this is this is again this is the gathering part um digger and steena are still kind of pining for each other we're gonna hear digger actually specifically addressed it with yngwie at some point where he's just like she's a child uh and and you know what good for him good for him him because that is not something most people in this book concern themselves with and it gets pretty weird uh so yeah he's uh oh yeah okay and then so asla finally gives birth uh and the boy they thought they were gonna have is a girl and thorolf is just butt hurt to shit and back he is oh my christ What a weenie. He is such a fucking weenie.
00:29:39
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um And he's like, they told me that my child was going to change the course of history. And of course, a girl can't do that. Right, right.
00:29:52
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This really shows his ass. ah Again. Whole ass. Again. if... if This is not this is not a a a a ah a marriage that isn't fraught, let's say. um So ah Hilda, the ah the widow of the coal maker from before, and Gregor, our ah former cardinal of all things, they're entertaining a romance.
00:30:18
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ah In fact, they end up spending the night together. And ah Asla and Steena kind of tease her about it. And she blows up at them. ah she's she's like She's like, fuck you. He's he's a good man. And he's good to me. And just because he didn't run away when when I had a girl instead of a boy. and it's like, oh, shit, Hilda. Like, Jesus Christ.
00:30:40
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she she She throws down an ace when a two would do. It's really. yeah It's a lot. Yeah. She just chews them out, and Aslan and Steena like, hands up civilians. Like, like bre we were we were fucking around, dude. We were just messing with you. just messing around. ah Didn't realize that we were going to step on a landmine. Yeah, did not see that coming. ah so So that happens. um Thorolf and Asla fight again.
00:31:11
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ah she is... He's he's he's like... He's trying to apologize, but he's fucking it up royally. He's like, I'm sorry that you were offended that I hate our child. Right, right. It's that kind of thing. He's like, I'm sorry that I blamed you for the whims of the gods for wasting our time with the daughter. ah It's it's it's it's she's and she's not having it. ah And yeah, she's like, what?
00:31:37
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brother get the fuck out of here yeah yeah and there's a moment there's this like scene where he's like in town or whatever where he's just walking around and there's other people and they're like hey you have the kid and he's like fucking daughter yeah it's it's really funny because i imagine this is a very common thing in this time period amongst uh uh the norse but he He seems to be the only person who really gives a shit. Like, because everyone else is like, how's that kid? And he's like, it's a fucking daughter. i don't want it. Fuck it. You know, and everyone's like, ah okay.
00:32:11
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ah Is it all right? like Is it healthy? And he's like, what it what do you want? i don't know. It's got a vagina, though, and that means it's stupid. ah So he's he's really showing his ass. um and and And it leads to this big speech. Like Asla just gets a head of steam on her and basically like chews him out and tells him that she wants him. If he's going to be a leader, then he needs to work towards making things equal for women and men.
00:32:40
Speaker
ah And ah has her has her or her, you know, feminist moment there. um yep ah Meanwhile, ah King Ryan and Enya help settle, their they find their own territory on Catan.
00:32:56
Speaker
and And so they're going to be over here. And as this goes on, where this is going to happen again at this part in the book. I feel like we're late literally setting up players for Settlers of Catan. You know, you can play the game with three or four people. And I think this is, we're literally setting up like, okay, so, all right, well, ah if you're role play with it, you know, you're like, okay, well, mine former slaves and they're Irish, you know, and it's, okay, okay, we're Vikings. 250 pages setting up the board, getting the board out of the box. Oh, my God, it truly is, because we've only just been introduced to this Irish king. um and And we he certainly hasn't gotten a lot of screen time. So for us to suddenly be following him towards making a settlement of his own, it's like, oh, oh, Klaus, honey, I don't care.
00:33:47
Speaker
i Yeah, this is also here's something really funny. ah I think we we we forgot to mention they're on the wrong fucking island. Oh, yeah.
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah. yeah they Yeah. By the way. By the way, they never made it to Catan. They made it to an island and they just started calling it and just named it Catan. ah Close enough. Close enough. So because there's that way, there's no there's no uncomfortable storylines with dealing with the indigenous people of the island. Right, right. there Which, honestly, don't hate that.
00:34:23
Speaker
Don't hate that. Don't hate that. Smart. Smart. Smart. ah that's That's probably fine. ah There's literally nobody here, and not in a colonizer way. There's literally no one here.
00:34:35
Speaker
It's an empty island. Fine. That's I am a okay with that. ah ah So we come to part five. It is the fall of 860 AD. Chapter 14. We are starting to see the beginnings of a village.
00:34:51
Speaker
Uh, they've been killing, they've been just absolutely decimating the rabbit population. Uh, so they're, they are, uh, now going to start netting salmon instead. That's, and that's what I mean when I say like a problem happens, but then they're like, well, we'll just do this. It's like, well, we're we're killing so many rabbits. It's, uh, there are hardly any of them left, but don't worry.
00:35:10
Speaker
There's plenty of salmon. it's like, well, We'll eat well tonight and think of how good our cholesterol will be. ah yeah So we've got a lot of more cozy shit. ah New ah freemen, people who have been ah enslaved but were freed upon arriving at the island. They're interested in ah marrying a bunch of the former slave maids, ah which... ah A lot of them are pregnant and and these guys are like, we don't give a shit about that. Like, that's that's fine. you don't care. We know they fuck, you know, so that's probably a better sign than that.
00:35:48
Speaker
That sounds good. That sounds we know we know they're not frigid. So that's cool. um So we got a big feast. ah The harvest is good. Their first year. um and And we know for sure now that Catan is an island. They have circumnavigated it um hilde's pregnant good job gregor i guess your sperm didn't dry up when you took your vows uh didn't i imagine gregor is this old man too and i was like oh that might must not be the case uh yeah no i think he's i think he's a virile young man of like 45 right right exactly old for the time all for the time um so yeah all right this is this is this is where i started to go oh i don't need this uh yngwie is crushing on carla the woman that he has uh stated over and over again is his little sister gross uh
00:36:44
Speaker
There's no other word for this. don't like that one. It's not it's not great. he yeah he's He sees her dancing ah with some of the the boys and he finds himself getting jealous. God damn it, gross. um we And I was literally just complimenting him in the last episode about like, hey, all right. For once, a guy who's like the girl's half his age and he doesn't, you know, he's like, no, i she's a sister to me. I was like, great. Okay. I can live with that. Okay.
00:37:11
Speaker
And he immediately just takes but Throws it out there yeah ah One of the farmers gets way too drunk at the party and smacks his wife around, Natch ah and they ah they drag him home ah Chapter 15, the same farmer Angsvar, ah he tries to rape one of his servants who knocks him out with a jug ah His wife, his long suffering wife, who's just sick of his shit, ah pretends that he's dead.
00:37:41
Speaker
So, oh, you killed him. And so tells ah the the the servant and a couple of other servants that helped her, um like, you guys got to go. Like, I appreciate you. You freed me from this evil man, but you guys got to go and like gives him a bow and like and gets them out of there and then proceeds to kill him herself.
00:37:59
Speaker
ah Because he's not dead she's like She's like oh no his heart's going fine But she's still like oh yeah he's dead you fucking killed him They will hang you for this because you're all you're Slaves um yeah And so they Race out of there and she just Finishes the job she must She's like well Can't have this guy still alive. Yeah, that's that's ah that's a nice little coincidence there, and I've got a perfect alibi. Yngwie and Thorolf investigate and immediately know that she did it.
00:38:31
Speaker
like right They can't prove it per se, but they're like, oh, she killed the shit out of that husband. like that is Murdered the shit out of him. The shit out of him. There's no getting around it.
00:38:43
Speaker
ah Now we've got our next little side plot, the servants on the run in the woods. Yay! They're running off to find their own lives. More side plots for me. More side plots. I know. I know. It's exciting. ah Another character with an H name, by the way.
00:39:01
Speaker
um Olaf, ah who was a sailor, ah they'd sent him out to find out if ah the hotlands was nearby. ah Basically, to kind of like, are we...
00:39:13
Speaker
we're not in the right place, are we? Like, let's let's see what's out there. How lost are we? How lost are we, exactly. And they kind of thought that he's, like, lost forever because he's been gone for a while. And he returns ah and ah and points out, yeah, we're not, this is not where we thought we are. ah There was nothing out there. And unfortunately, on the way back, ah the other ship that he was with was destroyed. ah And the people take it as a pretty convenient sign, I think, that they'll be punished. if they leave Catan, because the gods have led them there, and so leaving is a bad idea.
00:39:48
Speaker
ah So, this is Catan, folks. this is This is Catan. We're in Catan. Get comfy. oh And where do you think this is supposed to be? like just i i think i'm I'm thinking it's an island off of Spain.
00:40:05
Speaker
ah There are a lot of islands off the Iberian Peninsula. I'm going to say Azores. Sure. They did Azores, which i think I don't think there was anybody on the Azores at the time. like There might have been people before Portugal got there. Right. um But I don't think there were.
00:40:25
Speaker
yeah but but yeah the iberian peninsula somewhere off of that uh yeah i would say i think that makes sense um yeah so yeah so when olaf was out there he was he was just going deeper into the mediterranean sea and just nothing to be found um so uh engue asks carla to marry him gross and ah she agrees on one condition that he converts to christianity Grosser! We have made it grosser. ah It is just, just, goddammit, people.
00:40:55
Speaker
Fucking hell. And he's like, fine. And Gregor baptizes him, even though, and they both know, inre dont you don't believe in this shit. ah Listen, Gregor can't, by the way, Gregor can't do that anymore. Right, because he broke his vows. Because he has he's broken his vows. ah So...
00:41:14
Speaker
We're just really flying by the seat of our pants on this on this whole Catholicism here at this point. I didn't go to to to to catechism. I didn't go to CCD to get my confirmation to see some some ah some cardinal baptized Vikings half-assed cardinal. Ex-cardinal.
00:41:36
Speaker
ah Yeah, yeah. so ah So they got married. i'm I'm not a fan. At the wedding, Thorolf wonders, ah fair enough, why ah this god that he's converted to, why is he so great if he let his son die? ah Which, you know what?
00:41:55
Speaker
Fair enough. ah To a Viking, that is actually, you know, that's a very valid... They're like, no, the gods are supposed to be like badasses. What the hell?
00:42:05
Speaker
ah They're not really interested in the whole like pacifism thing. up Then again, neither are most Christians that I know. ah man So the fleeing servants, we follow them for a little while. They ask...
00:42:19
Speaker
He asks other servants ah yeah under the cover of the forest. They ask them for help with supplies. and And one of them is like, okay, sure. i'll i'll so I'll see what I can get you. what What do you need? And they give him this laundry list. They're like...
00:42:36
Speaker
They're like, we need two axes, a hoe, some seeds, two piglets, and a partridge in a pear tree. It like just goes on and on. And ah the other the guy's like, yeah, ah why don't I just come out there and dig the fucking you know ah the trenches for you? What the fuck, man? You're like, oh, can you do that? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:42:57
Speaker
So they get what they can get. they They get more than I expected them to get. Yeah. Yeah, they ask for everything but a pre-made house, basically. And ah they're caught stealing ah by a Freeman, ah but they distract him with the power of boobs.
00:43:16
Speaker
Boobs! And I'm not even joking. Like, this guy catches them, and one of the... One of the servants just like, she's like naked. And she's like, so are you going to arrest me? Are you going to hang me? and Are you going to arrest me, officer? Right.
00:43:32
Speaker
And while she's doing that. this the scene where we get the real the real ah description of of her body? is that Is this the one? Of her big titties. Yeah. I can't remember. we got it Yeah. Yeah. We got some you get some description. All right.
00:43:46
Speaker
I think I think part nipples is yeah is is in here at some point we get we get a a triangle of pubic hair as I recall ah triangle yeah triangle ah it's it's and he's just looking and he's and what's funniest about it is it's not really working that well he's just like he's like what oh yeah you're you're naked cool like but he is distracted enough that they bash him over the head uh they that they though they won't kill him they're like we're in deep shit enough as it is and he's not a bad guy let's just tie him up um so they get out of there the runaways start their own settlement they've got this very clever very convenient uh uh uh wonderful settlement that's separated by everybody else because the only way to really get to that part of the island is through this underground cave
00:44:36
Speaker
uh i'm a water cave and and they just have and no one will know about it so we're very safe here so don't worry don't let the coziness factor go away uh it's it's obnoxious uh and the northmen are hunting for them they get away and then we end this chapter with an obligatory lesbian encounter uh One of the runaways kisses one of the other ones and says, I like you. She literally is like, I like you. like like you. And the other one's like, no, no, no. And I'm not into chicks. No. And don't bring it up again. want to be your friend. But and don't let's pretend it never happened. And they were roommates. And they were roommates. And here's the thing.
00:45:24
Speaker
With any other book, I'd go, oh, right, right, right. But we've planted the seed and that's going to come back. But the way that this is being written, that might never come up again. That might just be. That might be. We're just doing slice of life episodes. Yeah. That just might be it. For next episode.
00:45:39
Speaker
it's like ah It's like a Ryan Murphy series. We've introduced a plot element that will never be addressed again. Never addressed again. Nip-tuck-a-tan. Yeah, exactly.
00:45:50
Speaker
Nip-a-tan. Glatam. ah Yeah. ah and And that's the end of today's bit. That's where we are. And and that's like 120 pages. And if it sounds like i raced through it, I didn't really. It's just that there were...
00:46:07
Speaker
pages upon pages just describing the environment and, and like, and these people are over here fishing and this is how they did it. And these people are over here gathering and this is how they did it. And there is something to that. I'm not saying that's an invalid way of writing. It's just not my cup of tea. And I don't think it warrants a 500 page novel.
00:46:30
Speaker
So this is where I'm starting to get a little impatient. This is not a badly written book. Uh, it's just a meandering book, you know, it's very meandering. Uh, could have used some editing. Yeah. Um, at this point.
00:46:44
Speaker
Yeah. So, uh, how you feeling, Kevin? What do you think? Eh. Um, I've, the book kind of lost me in this, uh, quartile of it. Uh, it just felt like, and we're, we're, we're doing this guy. And the, the only time we really see our ostensible main character, the reason this whole fucking thing got started uh, is like this scene sequence where he's being shitty to his wife for giving birth to a girl. Right.
00:47:14
Speaker
And that's about it. But we're going to spend a lot of time with these, these servants that have run away and there's the Irish and, uh, Oh boy, our Cardinal is horny.
00:47:25
Speaker
Oh boy. Is he good for him? Oh boy. Is he and ah good for you? And look, there's some more Catholic stuff. Um, whole so like Jesus, uh,
00:47:37
Speaker
Hope you like Jesus. um So I don't know. i'm ah We'll see how the final quarter goes, but i've i've I'm slowly rescinding my, ah my oh this is pretty fun to,
00:47:56
Speaker
ah let's see. and that's the thing is it's it's it's it's pretty common for books to go, ah Oh, this started strong and then just oh ended up getting weaker and weaker. I thought I thought the book would have been something more juicy ah regarding like the drama, the drama of like.
00:48:17
Speaker
he killed a guy and he's got the girl and, uh, don't know. its Whatever. Yeah. And we, we just, we take a couple of pages for it to be awkward and then we move on.
00:48:29
Speaker
Um, it is kind of written like ah like ah a TV series in a way where it's just like, for all, you know, he expected this book to go on forever based on the way that it's written, you know? So,
00:48:42
Speaker
ah we just we We start a little problem, we stop it, and then we continue on with the overall plot, if you want to call it that. yeah Okay. All right. Well, now that that's said and done, ah Kevin, i do have one last question for you Oh, boy. Okay.
00:49:00
Speaker
What are you playing? Oh, what am I playing? Let's open up Steam.exe.
00:49:09
Speaker
but but oh ah Let's see. All right. I'll start. um Did I talk about this last week? No, I did not. And I think you're going to probably also talk about it too. The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest. um yeah is ah I played that.
00:49:29
Speaker
And it's Castlevania 2. All right. um I'm worried they're going to get sued. Like... yeah It's just the demo, by the way. Like, ah we just played the demo. Yeah, it's just the demo.
00:49:43
Speaker
i I'm worried they're going to get sued. Like, it's so... i God bless it, yeah you guys. But you're at this is you are flying pretty fucking close to the sun with this game. Yes. It's terrific. It's terrific.
00:50:00
Speaker
it feels like castlevania simon's quest it just it's it's more it's like here's i like castlevania 2 but it's almost like somebody played castlevania 2 and said okay but what if we made it good right right right ah that's exactly it But it feels the same. a lot of it looks the same. Even that like, you know, that that that that ah in the Nintendo Castlevania games, you know how there is that like slight delay in timing between yeah like attacking like the whip wind up and stuff.
00:50:36
Speaker
It's there and it almost feels exactly down to the beat of what it was in those old games. It is. So. It's crazy how much of how close it is in vibes. I mean, it's not like there is there are a whole lot of quality of life improvements over, let's say, Castlevania to the fact that you have like you can you pick up a sub weapon and you can scroll through them and um You know, all that fun stuff. it has like it's It's a blend of like Castlevania 1 and 2 in terms of how it works. But I liked it. I'm just i'm just i'm just worried for you, babies.
00:51:18
Speaker
That was absolutely how I felt. was like, this is great. Oh, no. like Guys, this is terrific.
00:51:30
Speaker
Please don't get sued because I really want to play the full version of this game. Yeah. oh boy. Yeah. Yeah. yeah So I played that. um I also played... I did go play... Did I... Had we recorded yet when I played Iron Nest after you talked about it? No, you had just downloaded it. Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:51:56
Speaker
i Just downloaded it. That's right. Iron Nest. It's pretty neat game. Yeah. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. um Just like the the whole the little the the chunkiness of it where you're like... And you're like... yeah doing the Putting the loads into the into the rockets. it's It's pretty cool. And then like the first you do like the first mission and it's like Congratulations, you made it through the tutorial and then you see the headlines that you blew up like a fucking children's hospital or something like that. Yeah. And it's like, oh, we're the baddies. Oh, no.
00:52:35
Speaker
Oh, man. Oh, God. um Okay. What else have I played? ah Because it was Steam Next Fast. There's, like, a bunch of demos in here. yeah um i played Volume, ah which is a first-person parkour runner game ah where you're basically in, like, a dystopian, brutalist ah future, and you're just running through ah brutalist architecture, and it's pretty cool. Yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
I'm not sure if it'll be like my cup of tea totally ah when it's all said and done, but I understand who this game is made for and the people who like it are going to fucking love it because it's definitely like learning about all the paths and and at the end of each level, there's like a leaderboard on how fast you are able to parkour your way through the level and stuff like that.
00:53:29
Speaker
um Let's see, Deorum, ah which is a weird game. So, okay, basically it's one of those games it's spooky.
00:53:45
Speaker
games where it it's it's it's spooky And you are, you basically are going down into a dungeon to gather materials to, uh, like pay off a deity kind of. ah so each run is you go down into this dungeon and you collect, uh, skulls and on the next level, there's like, uh,
00:54:15
Speaker
you know, iron or whatever, and you bring it back to your lair and you use that to craft materials. And then those materials can be used to like level yourself, level yourself up. or you can, this is the the interesting part is yeah the, every attack or action in the game is based on coin flips. oh so you have, you'll have a coin flip.
00:54:40
Speaker
um So let's say you're, you're fighting this monster. and you have two coins to flip and you flip them and one of the coins could be attack and the other ah coin might end up being defend or the opposite side of those coins are like bleed and the other were is like attack or something like that so you have you have three coin slots you you flip two during a a battle and then you can like reflip one of them and then the fight happens where it goes like defend you get 10 block and then you attack and it's it's such a weird concept and i kind of like it what is this called again deorum how do you spell that d e o r u m do you're okay here we
00:55:33
Speaker
This sounds really cool. Yeah, check it out, because it's just... It's kind of hard to explain. Yeah. It's a dungeon crawler. um Love that.
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, ah but definitely check it out. it's And it's got some really neat art in there. And the thing that you're the God that you're trying to, like, do things for is he's got a really neat look to him. He's the guy on the logo for the game.
00:56:10
Speaker
Like a sun star thing. Yeah, but he's red and he's he's like almost cherubic in his like his his features, but they're insidious almost.
00:56:25
Speaker
Yeah, it's cool. it's ah It's a cool little thing. I love the filter on it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What else did I play? I played ah the Valor Mortis demo for a little bit, but it was not very well optimized, so I stopped. I was like, don't know about this.
00:56:47
Speaker
um I played a I played cozy game restoration. So did I. Yeah.
00:56:59
Speaker
Which is like, um you know, there's really nothing to it. You're you're just you got your little cleaning tools and you're buying boxes of like old used games and you're just sitting there cleaning them with your Q-tip. um That you have to clean game.
00:57:18
Speaker
You have to really clean them. I mean, they're not not an easy cleaning job. It is not like I was like, this is cute. This is fun. I like this. And you build up a little, you can build up a little collection of like SNES cartridges and stuff like that. But I like, I was like working at this thing and I yeah looked over and it was like 8% done. I'm like, what? I was like, i don't know if got, I don't know i got time for this shit. Oh my God.
00:57:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little tough. it is It is difficult. It is not like Power Washing Simulator where you're just like, i'm ne did and like Power Washing Simulator is like nice where it's like you get to like a certain percentage, but you there's like flex missing like you haven't gotten yet, but they're kind of hard to see. Power Washing Simulator will go,
00:58:08
Speaker
You got it. It's 100% now. You know, this game is like, no, the find the spot you missed or else you're not going to get a good rating on your clean and your cleaning. It's like, Jesus Christ.
00:58:22
Speaker
It's a It's a lot. um So, yeah, I played that. um All right. Now we're getting to the the thing The demo that I played... um Actually, let me just talk briefly before I get into this other one.
00:58:39
Speaker
i The Onimusha Way of the Sword demo. Capcom, they really have the juice back. Onimusha, if you never played it, was kind of in between...
00:58:53
Speaker
It's like somewhere in between Resident Evil and Devil May Cry ah in terms of a game. ah And now this new one, in it's a new game, fresh new game with the RE engine runs smooth as butter.
00:59:07
Speaker
ah Just like all the other Capcom games ah have for me recently. And it's neat. It's an action game. ah It probably will get hit with the Souls-like tag.
00:59:19
Speaker
um it's But it is an action RPG. And, you know, of course, it it predates the Dark Souls series. so um And it will be coming out in a couple months.
00:59:31
Speaker
I really love the demo. So look forward to checking that out. um Finally... The demo that i ah This is my demo of the fest because I ended up playing it more than I play some full-priced games.
00:59:49
Speaker
Blood Dungeon. Okay. From the makers of Nidhogg. Oh, God.
00:59:59
Speaker
i love it oh god comes Blood Dungeon, which is, ah you get looking at the art style now. It looks terrible.
01:00:11
Speaker
Um, it's got MS, you know, the MS paint aesthetic that Nidhogg had and everybody like the, all the graphics are kind of like jiggly and, uh, all the sound effects, like you pick up a stick of dynamite and it blows up and it kills everything on the screen. And the sound effect is just, here's what the sound effect is.
01:00:37
Speaker
Wow. But it's like ah it's a Survivor's style game. It's ah where basically but it's a platformer also. That's so in in the demo you have access to like four of the characters. There's going be nine in the full game. Nice. And ah you have a gun guy or gun man or whatever his his name is.
01:01:02
Speaker
um He just he has a machine gun. ah He's like the first one usually you start with in the demo. And then the other unlock guy right away is the barbarian who is just naked. And there's just this tiny like two pixel penis hanging off of him. That's just like jiggling it about as as you run around with him. um And he has a sword, a magical sword that's like spinning around him. So if you want to like compare it to like, he's like the the Bible from vampire survivors, like kind of orbiting around. He has this sword and he's, but the really interesting thing about the level ups, the weapon level ups is that there are multiple different types of weapon level up.
01:01:46
Speaker
So you can you can choose the direction in which you want your level your weapon to operate. So for that sword, for example, you can do a level up where it it increases the number of swords that you have spinning around.
01:02:03
Speaker
Or you could get the level up where it increases the damage that the swords do. Or you could do it so that they um are bigger in size.
01:02:15
Speaker
ah So they take up more of the screen. So sometimes you you do like a mix of them, right? and sometimes Or sometimes you just focus on the one. So like one time I just did the full weed whacker approach and had like six swords, five or six swords like spinning around my dude.
01:02:33
Speaker
um And it's the same thing with the machine gun where you can get a ah ah a you can choose a level up for it where it's like a perk that has ah the bullets bullets have a 50% chance of bouncing off of the enemy that it's that you're shooting them at.
01:02:52
Speaker
And then another perk is kill volley where every time you kill something, it extends the volley. So if you have a screen filled with a lot of low hit point ah ah enemies, your dude will just like basically clear the whole room because he doesn't stop firing until ah until he hit starts shooting something that has too many hit points.
01:03:14
Speaker
So it's um it's really cool. And it's one of those, like, you pick, there every time you level up, you get three options, right? You can upload you can upgrade your weapon, you could pick another weapon, a secondary weapon, or you can get a spell or a charm or or what have you.
01:03:32
Speaker
I love this game so much. I can't wait till it comes out. I've somehow already put eight hours into the demo. Wow. Just because of how like how much I like just playing. like the and this one level. Right.
01:03:48
Speaker
is is just one level right And almost all of the upgrades that you can normally get are locked behind the fact that it's the demo. So I've had, I've unlocked four of the characters and I'm unlocking these upgrades, but it's like, well, you did the thing that that unlocks it, but you can't get it because it's in the full game.
01:04:07
Speaker
So if the save file carries over, you know, I'll, I'll like have made a bunch of progress in the full game, but still it's big it's kind of funny.
01:04:18
Speaker
Big if. um So Blood Dungeon. yeah Everybody should play it for fun. and And it's got really that tremendous art style from Nidhogg. This looks hilarious. Yeah, yeah.
01:04:44
Speaker
ah One of the the the thing in the demo, the the highest scoring character is called Baby. um And each character has their own kind of stuff, right?
01:04:56
Speaker
right And Baby... um Baby, every time baby levels up, baby gets a dollar. um okay Okay. Or $10, gets $10. And then when baby gets to level 10, baby gets $100. And also, but the baby character only has um like, ah why did this go into...
01:05:22
Speaker
and Damn it. Okay. The baby character only has four hearts of health. um As opposed to like the gun guy who has six.
01:05:33
Speaker
um But baby starts with a magnum. um the the character's a little literal fucking infant, but he starts with a magnum, and the magnum can kill just about anything in one shot. It's glass cannon shit.
01:05:48
Speaker
Glass cannon stuff. um Yeah. So, I don't know. It's fun, it's it's and it's just kind of hilarious in the way it's designed. That sounds fun. I might have to give this one a try. Yeah. yeah So, ah Phil... m What are you playing? Oh, oh, ah well, I played a lot of the same demos as you, ah clearly. I have a bunch of other ones that I am really looking forward to playing, but I haven't gotten to them because I actually have been playing some honest-to-God games. I started and finished Forbidden Solitaire.
01:06:25
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ah Awesome. I loved that. That was a lot of fun. I think the most impressive thing about it isn't the... um satanic panic era quality of it the fmv ah the graphics it's perfect that is perfect but it but the most impressive thing about it is how it never gets dull um the solitaire style gameplay uh i was really like well i don't know how long they can pull this i don't know how long i'm going to still give a shit but it is
01:06:59
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it is It is right up until ah the ninth inning. Just a lot of fun. yeah Very fun. Very, very nostalgic. ah Very silly, but also pretty spooky. does Does a good job balancing all that out.
01:07:16
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um so that's nice that's a definite must play uh for anybody out there who who likes that era of game uh it's it's damn solid um i also played a game called there's nothing down there um I titles like that. it's Yeah, it's it's great. It is a very short game. It took me like, what, like half an hour ah to finish.
01:07:42
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ah It costs like two bucks or something like that. And it's this one person dev ah and you're in a submarine and you are going down this cavern in the submarine and it's about what you find down there. And... and um and getting away from it and there's there's there's a part in the climax at the end of the game that i could not because it is very deliberate uh you are not quick it is it it does feel like you're in a little submarine under underwater um it is it is slow going uh and and because of the shit that you're doing dodging everything like that there are so many places especially at the climax where you're like
01:08:21
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Where am I? I do not know where and and you get turned around really easily and it can get frustrating. um But it was solid little game. You could do far worse than, you know, ah play. What is it? I got 39 minutes. Beat this in 39 minutes. yeah ah Yeah. For a couple of bucks. Absolutely worth the time. Super fun.
01:08:43
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um Let's see. And I started a game called Moles. um Okay. This is ah ah ah kind of a strategy horror game where you are in a it's a very like a very Soviet ah style kind of mission to drill to the middle of the earth. ah And you are in this little drill and you're the last, I think, survivor of this ah crew. And it's that claustrophobic adventure puzzle horror kind of thing. And it's done in a retro style that is pretty kick ass. Like all of your communication things are actual cassette tapes.
01:09:30
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um it's it's very cool um i'm enjoying the hell out of it i haven't gotten too far into it um but i love the atmosphere the art style is really really cool and it's that claustrophobia the surreal aspect of it the sci-fi horror i'm a sucker mole mole m-o-l-e yeah okay i think it's that one probably
01:09:58
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Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. i'm I'm enjoying it so far. ah It's... What's with the rabbit? I don't know yet. That's the thing. I don't know yet. ah It's very surreal. it's got It's got these strange, dreamy quality ah to it yeah at times. i feel like I feel like, what is it? an Iron Mung kind of created a whole ah sub-genre. It's kind of, yeah. mean, it might have predated it, but, you know. no no i think i think it i think ah iron lung has something to do with it i think it's also in a big way uh what wakes the deep um yeah it's a lot of that style puzzle kind of thing um it's great it's terrific uh uh i'm looking forward to finishing it up um yeah but that's yeah that's me
01:10:50
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right um hey random movie recommendation uh if you're into movies that are just absurd and action packed horror movie if you okay if you like ready or not and you want i do a ready or and you want a ready or not rip off but it it's starring zazie beats um who played domino in the deadpool okay yeah deadpool 2 ah Check out They Will Kill You.
01:11:21
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I saw that on HBO. I definitely want to give that a look. That looks cool as shit. Just fire it up. It's basically ready or not, but in a hotel. Say less. That's literally all I'll need to tell my wife. I'd be like, apparently it's basically ready or not. You want to watch this hot girl basically...
01:11:45
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ah rock kick the shit out of a bunch of people also get the shit kicked out of her yeah and uh end up very bloody uh by the end of it oh man and there's a cult it's great uh yeah they will kill you it's like i'm not sure the right the reviews were great for it but i was like it fucking does what it says on the tin that's all you need sometimes but not everything has to be a mind-altering experience sometimes it's okay it's okay and i i had a i a i had a blast uh seeing uh fucking what's his name is in it uh uh from from harry potter ah
01:12:30
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the Draco. Oh, all that guy. Yeah, that guy. I had blast seeing him but get killed over and over again. Nice. So, anyway, ah that'll do it for tonight's episode.
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