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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (road trips, horses, Destiny2, Halo); Ron ask why we feel inadequate working on certain projects; Chris brings up if we could replay one classic game for the first time, which would it be? As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Seasonal Changes: From Summer to Fall
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Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris. I'm Ron. And this episode is brought to you by the letter P, pumpkin spice. And the number 48, because that's what it was this morning. Great. Glorious. We had the oddest summer.
00:01:09
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or it was hot all the way to the last day of summer. Yesterday being the first day of fall, it was like a switch had been flipped. It's great. Yeah. Although I'm terrified to see what the week's weather brings, because I'm sure it'll warm back up or something stupid. Maybe for you. Yeah. Well, I mean, looking at the weather, it's not
Travel Plans: Portland and Beyond
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supposed to... I mean, Sunday, 81.
00:01:35
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Yeah, back to 70 next weekend. I'll be almost in Canada. So I'm sure it'll be a lot colder for me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the moose are running this time of year, aren't they? Yeah, watch out for the moose running. So like, have you laid out like a whole plan or are you just going to one place or?
00:01:53
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We're going to basically outside of Portland. Okay, and then we're gonna basically ride our e-bikes around Just kind of check out the towns. There's like three little towns right there. Yeah, and there's Portland obviously, which is a bigger city Portland, Oregon. Yeah, yeah That's a long drive
00:02:13
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That's cool. It is interesting to do one day, one day when I'm old and retired, or young and retired, I guess, I believe, I'd like to drive the longest route in the US, which is from what? Way down South Florida to Alaska.
Electric Vehicles: The Future of Buses?
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I think that'd be cool. We could always do the Cape to Cape. You'd always do the Cape to Cape.
00:02:41
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Hopefully by then I'll have an electric RV. Did they make them? They've got to. I mean, they're making electric fire trucks now. Yeah, we saw a first electric bus. So the DART, the Lord, I don't know what the hell DART stands for.
00:03:01
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Delaware regional transport. But the buses, the department that runs the buses for the state, they have a fully electric bus now. Which I was thinking about is the perfect vehicle to be electric because you know exactly what it runs per day. That's true. You know exactly how long it's going to be on the road. You know exactly the route it's going to take.
00:03:24
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So like school buses would be perfect for electric vehicles, because especially school buses, you only run them for two hours and then you sit. Yeah. You know, you could plug them right back in and be down the route. If only there was a way to mathematically calculate their route of travel and, you know, lag time and everything. Right. Although I did see, I get, you know, the humor of it, but it was like, yeah,
00:03:49
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Electric vehicles, they're so great. It was a picture of, I don't know, somewhere in the south that their electrical vehicle charging station was under like 18 inches of water.
Horses: Strength and Safety Concerns
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Sure. That's a little, yeah, you don't want to charge there. Also, the gas pumps won't work at that. Yes, yes. People don't understand that. Gas pumps run off of electricity. Just like everybody know, there's not a guy pumping them by hand.
00:04:14
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Yeah, listen to a Zune. Yeah, listen to a Zune. There it is again. Yeah, it's a shame that we were very far away from, I think, having an electric ambulance because they would be a perfect vehicle for electricity just because of the way ambulances start and stop and run. Yeah. Because, I mean, it's very hard on diesel engines the way we run them. It's hard on any engine, yeah. But especially like the fire trucks, the diesel fire trucks, it's terrible on those engines.
00:04:44
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Yeah, because they don't get up to speed and get hot enough. Right. They just shut off and then shut back. It's just not good for them. Right. These lines are meant to run long term. Yeah. But it's a shame. I think we're very far away from having a reliable solution for electric game owns.
00:05:06
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Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing. I mean, just once you said it, we're looking into a sprinter vehicle for Swift. And I mean, that could be a great possibility for that. Yeah. Perfect vehicle for that. Yeah. Because. Not going to go that far. Right. And a lot of times, like if you're set up somewhere, there might be a place to plug in or. Yeah. We just put a big gasoline
00:05:34
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generator on a trailer behind it and you just plug it in because I mean that's still electricity, right? I had somebody have that argument with me. I was like, no. It's one of the things that drives me nuts about people arguing against electric vehicles. It's like, well, there's still gasoline somewhere involved. Currently, but
Solar Panels: Challenges and Skepticism
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right now we're double dipping on fossil fuels. When we single dip, that'd be better than double dip.
00:06:04
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Because you're still making electricity with fossil fuels and that you're running fossil fuel vehicles. If you did only one of those two, you'd be good. Yeah. Well, and I heard some argument about this winter, if it's cold or whatever, the cost of fuel oil, it's like no one should be heating their house anymore with fuel oil.
00:06:27
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Yeah, I mean, we heat our house 100% electric now. Nice. Actually, we've always, it's always our hat in this house. Yeah. Now, I mean, the seer rating on my
00:06:40
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fully electric thing is crazy good. So the problem with all these houses is you're super inefficient systems from 40 years ago. If you update all that stuff and get rid of it, it'd be better. Technically, if I could figure out a way, if I could get solar panels to work on my house, I could be completely off the groove of this house.
00:07:07
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I don't know. I always feel like the solar panels, it's like a snake oil salesman. Yeah, because they sell them. Everyone who tries to sell you solar panels, you just feel like you're getting scammed. Exactly.
00:07:20
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It's not like, you don't want to have a rash or something. No, you're tired of paying bills. It's free energy. It's free money. No, it's not free. I'm prepared to pay, but they'll still treat me like a child. My problem is my house faces east-west, and I think you're best if you're a south-facing house.
00:07:46
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So I can have them and there are people in my neighborhood who have them, but yeah It's fairly supposed to do the panels first then the roof and I just did my roof. Oh Yeah, I don't know what it adds like life to your roof. Yeah, of course Because there's a big covering on your roof. Yeah, yeah my house isn't as actual a real framing for the roof so You can take the weight
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Yeah. Unlike some of these now, they're like two-bit twos and sheathing. Well, just little staples and glue holding, you know, rafters together. Yeah. Ridiculous. Oh, come on. There's the gusset plates. You know, that's a lot of little teeth going into the weight. It's like an eighth of an inch going in. Yeah,
Gaming Anticipation: Destiny 2 Lightfall
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it's crazy. Yeah. I mean, we've talked about solar and stuff like that. I just, I don't know.
00:08:44
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Unfortunately, the solution is not residential solar. No. The solution is why aren't parking lots solar and feeding the grid? Why aren't large spaces? Why aren't building tops solar? The government has to step in eventually and just say, all right, we're going to actually make a real commitment to solar. Right, yeah. Let me in think about all that.
00:09:12
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Like you said, you have all this open space in different places. Just look at the rooftops of SU. I can't remember who I was talking to, but you guys on the shore, you're off of diesel powered plants. They're super inefficient and they're super old. I think they shut the Vienna one down. It only works when there's a huge demand.
00:09:42
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Well, I think it's completely shut down now. Oh, really? I think that's my understanding. Um, so eventually you're going to have to do something. You're going to have to invest in your infrastructure at some point. Might as well make the next step. Put a little nuclear reactor. Yeah. The little thorium reactors we were, I was really hoping that was going to kick in by now. Everybody freaks out. It's like nuclear is a lot safer than it used to be. Even, well, even
00:10:11
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There's never been an incident in the United States that's like Three Mile Island, which is considered the worst nuclear powered incident in the United States was nothing. Yeah. Wouldn't even count as a blip in most other industries. People don't realize they're getting a lot more radiation every day from bananas. That's why I don't eat bananas. Yeah.
00:10:35
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I eat bananas when I'm bike riding for their other properties. They're, you know, they're handy for the buck, but that's about the only, every time I eat a banana, I'm like, oh, this is like a D class fruit. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's definitely, it loves to hear. Yeah. Technically a berry. Technically a berry. It's no paw paw. No paw paw. I have failed in my September mission to find us a paw paw. We still have a few days. Yeah, not many.
00:11:08
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Who knows when you're going up to Maine, there might be a pawpaw festival. There might be. There might be. I have to try it and maybe just get pawpaw jelly and try it. Pawpaw. Pawpaw. It is apple season though, which is my favorite. Yeah. Yeah. It's just that, I don't know.
00:11:35
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Crispness in the air and a nice crisp Apple not know there's nasty mealy granny Smith's or not golden delicious Yeah, yeah, the golden delicious. Yeah, I know never you go delicious. That's trash fruit. Yeah. Yeah, that's a friend That's a grandma apple. Those are free feet and horses I only think horses would eat that Another big dumb animal tell you whatever Big smart animals. They want you to think they're dumb
00:12:05
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So they can take over the world.
Infrastructure Needs for Electric Vehicles
00:12:07
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Yeah, they're always plotting. That's fair. Yeah. Well, I mean, Salisbury has had a rash of horse related incidents lately. So maybe they're making their move. Exactly. Yeah. Until they take your arm off. Take your arm off. Supposedly. Kick you in the leg. Yeah. That's the thing. They'll stomp it up. Yeah.
00:12:35
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A fly will land on their back so they will stomp their foot. I mean, that makes a lot of sense. No, they're not trying to get the fly at that point. They're trying to stomp on your foot just for fun. I got bit. You got broken. People that have the biggest balls are the farriers. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
00:12:52
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We were, we were at the bike festival working. The ocean city police had their mountain patrol there. Yeah. And I, I give those horses a wide berth, you know, and people are just coming right up to horses. I'm like, you're an idiot. You know, that horse just decides I'm going to kick backwards. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. There couldn't be more. There's a place avalanche.
00:13:22
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They, uh, they didn't realize how strong they are or do they, or I think they do horses. No, barriers are just, and I've seen like some videos where it's like a mean horse or meaner and they've got to put like the hoof in like this machine vice thing so they can just work on it. Tough. That's a tough job. Yeah. I have shot a horse before.
00:13:52
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shod, not shot, shod. It's also a shadow horse. No, no. The worst part is you have to think about that. Yeah, it's it's tricky. And like, I mean, you heat the shoe up and you like kind of
The Pool Dilemma: To Fill or Not to Fill?
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hot fit it to the hoof. And yeah, that has to smell terrible. It's not horrible. It's like a toenail burning. Yeah, that doesn't smell great. Yeah.
00:14:22
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So let's share weirdos like I like the smell of burning. Oh, nails. I remember the dogs would always love when we had the ferry or because, you know, they're trimming the hooves and they would just go to town eating all the clippings. Yeah, well, because I love dogs, but they're not the smartest animals in the world. No, no. Well, I mean, we had one that would as soon as you let them have a kennel, they would run and jump in the manure spreader.
00:14:52
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Nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, Oh yeah. Yeah. Go, go chomp on some road apples and then try to come give me a kiss. Yeah. It's something about dogs. They just love. Steak. Strong smells. I don't know why. Yeah. They're dumb. That's why. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:11
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And then they come up to you like, Hey, look at me. I smell. Yep. That, that, that is correct. They need to let you know. Oh yeah. My dog likes to roll around and things and I'm like, Hey, how are you? Let's have a hug. No, no, no, no. But you get right in the back. Yeah. Let's say the last time I took the dogs to the groomers, I had never paid attention to it before, but there's a sign that says like de skunking.
00:15:39
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$10 per treatment or something. Sure. Yeah. I think it's expensive. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, maybe they get it on the first try. I doubt it. Nah. What anymore? You don't know if it's a skunk that's been through your neighborhood or just one of your neighbors smoking weed. That's true. God, you can't go anywhere without smelling it. No, you can't.
00:16:06
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I don't care that you're smoking it, that it's just please admit that it smells terrible.
Halo Infinite: Disappointments and Nostalgia
00:16:11
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Right. You know, it's it's one of the worst things in the world. Yeah. I mean, there are some that literally smells like poop. Yeah. I don't mean the vaping doesn't bother me, obviously, because you don't smell it for the most part. Man, when I just make it smoking. Yeah, it's rough. And it kills me like I will smell it on my way to work. I'm like, it is 630 in the morning.
00:16:37
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Yeah. I guess get your glaucoma treated early. Yeah. Some people, I guess, need to get through the day. Yeah. Trevor, maybe that's what you need to get through the day. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Just make sure you're safe on the road. Well, I mean, they're going three miles an hour. I want to say. It's not like drunk driving. Yeah.
00:17:07
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It's fun times. Oh, yeah. Not that I know. I've never done. Yeah, me neither. Never had the wacky tobacco. We are probably in the minority people now. Oh, yeah. It's weird because in college, you would have thought like in college, it was everywhere. And my college was not. Yeah, no, it wasn't really huge in mind. There was like a pocket.
00:17:31
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Right. There was little groups of people that you were like, Oh yeah, those guys are all talking weed. Yeah. Yeah. They're the ones that are playing ultimate frisbee. Yeah. For the most part it was, it was like alcohol. Yeah. Yeah. Which these kids these days, every time I have to go on a drunk kid from the college, I'm like, what are you guys doing? Yeah. I'm a professional drinker my whole life. I call it once. Yeah.
00:18:01
Speaker
It's like, and get a better caliber of friends. Yeah, 90% of the problems are that your friends abandon you. Yeah. And we're left with almost no recourse. Oh, yeah. You know, because unlike, you know, Sal's, and this is not a thing, it's a smaller school that's really spread out.
00:18:26
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and they don't run like bus service everywhere. So you can't just like put a kid on a bus and be like, all right, take this kid to this, you know, dorm or whatever. Yeah. We don't have that option. Well, the problem is safe ride. If they are obviously intoxicated, I don't think they're allowed to let them in the van. Makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Safe ride for. Yeah. There's like a certain level or threshold or something. Sure. It's a meeting we should have. Yeah.
00:18:53
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Yeah, we, you know, not saying I've ever done this, but in my, in my volunteer days, we would just put them on the bus and be like, all right, get off, tell the bus driver to get off at the stop because that's what you do. Right. Salisbury, Salisbury is such a weird college town. Yes. It's never going to happen. I will say, I mean, now this has been a while ago when I was on the street, but I
00:19:21
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the couple of the SU cops at that time, they would just put them in the back of their car and take them back to their dorm or house. And they have no desire to come off the campus. That's the problem with SU is almost nobody lives on campus. It's only those first years. Yeah, there's what, five dorms on campus? It's not many.
00:19:49
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One, two, three, four, five. Yeah, five. It's not a lot of dorms. Yeah. Most of the kids live off-campus, off-campus housing. Yeah. And of course, the off-campus housing is in the nicest section of town.
00:20:09
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What is the next section of Salisbury? Yeah, I don't know. It's a hard, hard get. Yeah. Old Town? For like a half a block? Yeah, I've heard. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah. Out with Johnson Road. I always said, and it's not in, that's probably, it's not in the city, but I always said if I had to move to Salisbury, I would live off of like Loblolly. Yeah. In that area. Yeah. Yeah, I see that. Yeah. The Riverside area.
00:20:39
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Yeah, but that's not in the city. No parts of it are. Yeah. Most of the parts are like woodland and all that. That's that's out.
Urban Development: Salisbury's New Horizon
00:20:46
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Yeah. You got to be like Pinehurst or. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the city's geography is. Yeah, listeners are like, I don't care about this. Right. Yes. This is our very local Salisbury talk. If you ever want to come to Salisbury, Maryland to see the Salisbury Festival. Yeah. Maryland Folk Festival that we're calling it now. I can't remember. Yes, I don't know. Yeah.
00:21:09
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I don't even know where they're going to hold it because they're apparently turning that parking lot into a building. They have plans, I'm sure. They'll have zip lines between rooftops. I heard we're getting a 25-story building. No. That's what I've heard. Yeah. And it's being mislabeled. It's 25 stories total to buildings. Oh. Yes.
00:21:38
Speaker
Oh, yes. So once 15, you know, there's 10 or 12, maybe one's 22 and one's three. I don't know. Yeah. But yeah, I asked the fire marshal about that. He said, no, they're trying to say, oh, yeah, look at us rebuild 25 stories. He's like, yeah, that's what he do. It's two buildings.
00:21:57
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I mean, it's still impressive. Still first for a town that has never had a building higher than five stories. Yeah. You know, now we're going to have, I mean, sometime this year we'll have a 14 story building. Yeah. And then getting, I mean, that's basically mid rises at this point. Oh yeah. Yeah. Then you may actually have a real downtown. I don't know.
00:22:20
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Well, the thing is, if you actually have people living downtown, you're almost forced to have a downtown. Right. If those people actually move into those buildings, there'll be businesses that will have to move in down there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because people don't want to drive anymore. No. That is, I think, the thing that makes me the happiest for the future is, I think, just people will be like, I don't want cars. Right. I don't want cars. If I could get my car right now, I would.
00:22:51
Speaker
And that's a, that's a good, I think that's a good sign for us. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I look at my five hour round trip. I'm looking at tomorrow. Oh yeah. Up and back to Tyson corner. I don't even know what Tyson's corner is. It's right outside DC. Oh, okay. It's my niece's birthday. Oh, that's a tough. Yeah. She's
00:23:16
Speaker
I don't know. 34? Jesus. 12 or 40, I don't know. I can't remember. Your niece is 14 years old. Let me see. Where's the family text? 12.
00:23:31
Speaker
Do you have a niece that I don't know about? Do you have a brother or sister that I don't know about? Well, I mean, it's my wife's brother's kid. Oh, yeah. Totally was like, it's not Thor. Who knows? I mean, my brother could have a child out of somewhere. That's fair. My wife and I were talking about that because we were actually randomly talking about
00:24:01
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Who's going to get our house when we pass? And I was like, I think it's a good chance my brother's got a kid somewhere that's going to be like, Oh, yeah. You know, have air to the Whisper's fortunes. But you got to have something in there like they got to prove themselves. Yeah, I mean, there's going to be a test of strength. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. Oh, so I have my kids don't realize there's things that are going to be there written down.
00:24:29
Speaker
Oh yeah, they're not kidding. They're not just giving stuff. No, no. So I have a, I had something I wanted to talk about last podcast, but I'm bringing it today because I need to save something back for, you know, just in case. I actually thought we were going to podcast earlier than the week. But do you see there's a new Bungie game coming out?
Final Fantasy: A Series of Confusion
00:24:54
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Hard light, I think it's called. New light.
00:24:59
Speaker
It's not a new Bungie game. It's the next big expansion to Destiny. Oh, really? Lakefall. Lakefall. Oh, I thought that was a new game. Well, I mean, technically is the next. So, yeah, I mean, Destiny is now just just one of those annualized games. Yeah, that's. Oh, yeah. They're adding a whole new subclass and.
00:25:25
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going to one of Neptune's moons, I wanna say. So, yeah. We were just talking about getting back into Destiny, so. Yeah, you should. Well, I tried to get back into Destiny not too long ago, and I was so confused as to what the heck was going on that I was lost. It can be.
00:25:52
Speaker
Listening to a podcast yesterday about that. I mean, yeah, definitely can definitely be daunting, especially for new players. There needs to be a better little roadmap and things, but man, there's so much to do for a new player. It might be worse for not a new player, for an old player coming back because you're like, Oh, I remember that. Oh, what the hell? Oh yeah. You're like, Oh, miss Rex. Oh yeah. He's back. No, he's my friend now. Right.
00:26:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So it's a lot of what I logged in. I was like, what the heck is going on? Yeah. Well, and yeah, there's somebody who's no longer with us now. It's very sad. And when he was no longer with us now. Cade. Oh yeah, that was a while ago. I know, but still. I saw some like the thing was on Reddit. Somebody was like, yeah, I'm going to finally get back into Destiny 2. You know, I can't wait to, you know,
00:26:47
Speaker
What kind of crazy stuff Kade six is up to? I'm like, oh, they weren't going to pay me some filling in forever. It's just like Peter Dinklage. Yeah. Yeah. You see, I, I didn't play destiny when it was Peter. Right. No, it wasn't. So it was only Peter for a very short amount of time. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, the new season's fun. It's pirates. Oh.
00:27:15
Speaker
Yeah, you do like pirate boarding parties and fine buried treasure. Let's all cross play now. So yeah, that's not the issue. We were we were we've been we finished nobody saves the world. Okay, now we've been looking for a new co-op. Yeah, there's just nothing out there.
00:27:44
Speaker
Yeah, because what is it? I saw that I saw people were freaking out about the Golden Eye remake. Oh, the old N64 game. Sure. Yeah. And they're like, but it doesn't have couch co-op. Right. It's like, what's the point? It's not infinite. Still doesn't have co-op. That that boggles my mind. We are. I think Halo has just totally crapped the bed with this game. It's I. I am.
00:28:14
Speaker
one of the biggest Halo fanboys, I think, or have always been a Halo fanboy. It has always been the game that I buy on release and I play and when I don't really care about the multiplayer, I'll play it and it's fun. I don't care about it. I'm there for the co-op experience. I have not turned, I have not opened up to Infinity since I beat the company, which was eight months ago, I feel like.
00:28:40
Speaker
You know? And I just am sitting here going, I would love to play your game again. Right. What are you doing? Yeah. Because basically like the Forge mode isn't even complete. Yeah, Forge was supposed to come out this month, I thought. And then it got delayed. And then originally Co-op was supposed to come out in March. And then it was going to come out in August. And now it's sometime next year.
00:29:07
Speaker
Um, and it's just like, what, yeah. How did this get, like, who was the designer who was like, yeah, we'll do co-op later. Like what decision maker made that decision? Because by the time it's later, you're talking, you're going to be more than a year past now. And yes, people will still play it. Right. People have moved on. Oh yeah. So you've pissed off so many people. Right. I mean, that's like saying, Hey,
00:29:35
Speaker
We're redoing Tetris. We'll add the blocks next year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's, it's, it's insanity, you know? And I just, I look at 343 going, it's your game. Yeah. What the hell is going on? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Cause when 343 and Bungie split, it was a huge difference. Oh yeah.
00:30:03
Speaker
Well, they got rid of, what's it, McDonald, who did the music for Halo, fired him, and that caused lawsuits. And for no, seemingly no reason, got rid of him.
00:30:18
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Yeah, it was, I don't know. And yeah, I mean, the music in Halo is epic. It's epically part of, you know, yeah. I mean, I never played Halo really, but I mean, I recognize the music. I mean, they would have I can remember they would have crossovers like Breaking Benjamin did a cover of one of their songs on one of their albums. It was like it. OK.
00:30:39
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Yeah, it's just I don't know. There's two game soundtracks that I can always in my head. So these are epic game soundtracks, Halo and Quake 2. Quake 2 I think was done by Nine Inch Nails. I believe it was. Wow. And you could actually play the Quake 2 CD in your CD player and it would play that soundtrack. Nice.
00:31:08
Speaker
Yeah, which was really cool. CDs were this thing. It's this magical silvery disc that you would put in this slot, and music would emanate. Much like it emanates from a zoom. Much like it emanates from a zoom. But the Halo soundtrack was so epic, and everybody knows it. Everybody knows that little Halo thing, and you get rid of that guy? Yeah. I don't know.
00:31:38
Speaker
Yeah, talk about the soundtracks. I can remember some games that you would buy and they're like, here's the soundtrack. I'm like, I don't know what that soundtrack. Most of the people from
00:31:53
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Bungie that worked in Halo still stayed with Bungie, I believe. Yeah. Like Smith and all those guys. They're still with Bungie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how they were. Well, I guess it's because they developed it or whatever, but some of the deals where there's like eight Halo weapons in Destiny. Oh,
Gaming Nostalgia: Revisiting Classics
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really? Yeah. They did this 30th anniversary thing. So there's like.
00:32:19
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a couple of energy swords. There's the BRX Battler pulse rifle or something. Yeah. The 343 has screwed the pooch so much that it's
00:32:34
Speaker
But anyway, my friend and I have been talking since Infinity came out. Oh, we're ready to do the campaign. Ready to do the campaign. And we haven't even played together because there's nothing. That's a shame. The multiplayer, the only game that him and I really play together is Halo. We've played every Halo since Halo 2 together. And here we are, just can't play. Boot up ODST again.
00:33:04
Speaker
We could, and we were talking about that. It was like, eh, maybe we'll just go legendary all the old games again. Yeah. It's still frustrating. Right. Well, then it's also frustrating because it's, even though the game itself is fun, sometimes it can go back to those old ones. It's like, they're hard. Old game is old. Old game is old.
00:33:27
Speaker
You know, it's a perfect example. Old game is old. Rise of Empires is on game pass. Okay. And I was like, Oh, I remember that game fondly. And I started playing and I'm like, Oh, this game is dog shit. Yeah, it's just, it's slow and boring. And yeah, we just were, we were willing to put up a lot of stuff back then. Right. Cause we were just like, this is cool, but oh yeah. Yeah. It was slow and boring. Oh, last episode you were talking about a, um,
00:33:56
Speaker
CRPG you're playing. Was it divinity? No. Oh, okay. That's when I was like dawned on me. That was a very similar of eternity. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's it. Uh, it is driving me nuts. Really? It is so difficult. I have it on normal. I'm on normal, right? I'm level three. Okay.
00:34:22
Speaker
Um, I get my butt kicked and have to restart levels constantly. Yeah, that's, that's no fun. So I even was like, cause I started a paladin cause that's usually, that's usually the class I play is a paladin. Yeah. And I mean, you can tank some stuff. You can heal.
00:34:41
Speaker
Right. I'm like, Oh, in that, in that kind of game, usually a paladin is a nice little utility character to have. Right. And I'm just getting my butt kicked and I'm looking at, I was like, why is this game so hard? Let me look up some guides. You should play a paladin. It's one of the best ones for single player. I'm like, well crap. And you know, it's.
00:35:03
Speaker
I mean, it's it's it feels like it's going to get good. Yeah, it's it's one of it's like the D&D problem for me. I hate low level D&D. Oh, yeah, because like, you don't feel like your character is useful. No, no, not at all. I mean, when it takes like, you know,
00:35:22
Speaker
eight rounds of attack to take down one enemy. It's like spiderling and getting my butt kicked. Yeah. Great. You know, and, um, it's especially like if you're playing a support class in D and D some of those first sessions are so terrible. Oh yeah. Like I'm level one. I can do one thing. Okay. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Yeah.
00:35:43
Speaker
I was able to make light. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm sure Pillars of Eternity, I just need to get better at the combat because it's a lot of pause combat. Yeah. And setting up sequences and stuff. Okay. I'll get there. But yeah. I keep telling myself that maybe one day, Baldur's Gate 3 will be out and I'll actually be able to play it somehow.
00:36:06
Speaker
It was funny to tell you that because I was looking for Baldur's Gate 3. But then I was thinking, what happened in Neverwinter Nights? They made two. They never made a third. Yeah. Sadly. Sadly. Yeah. God, those games were fun. Yeah. They're great. And I want more of those experiences. Yeah. Put them out. Yes. And Baldur's Gate was teased two years ago. Right. I mean, wait.
00:36:36
Speaker
It's kind of out. It's like this long running beta, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. When it came out as a beta, I said, I'll wait. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's what Larry in studios now. I don't know. Follow him on Twitter and I'll see stuff. I'm like, Oh, look at that. Maybe one day. Maybe one day. Yeah. I played a delightful little indie the other day. It's called Toem. It's black and white.
00:37:04
Speaker
It looks like pencil drawing kind of thing. And it's you're just this little guy going around to different places and taking pictures and interacting with the neighborhoods and stuff. It's just a cute, fun little indie game. Yeah. You're playing a cute, fun indie game. I'm banging my head against the wall and. We're having different lives right now. Yeah. Yeah. It was one of the free PlayStation games. Let's go. I'll check it out.
00:37:35
Speaker
Nice little, you know, chip away at it kind of game. Well, I mean, that's what nobody says. Nobody saves the world was on Game Pass free. Yeah. And we were just like, let's try it. And I had a ton of fun in that game. Yeah. It was a good game. It's a problem, though, with so many of these storefronts, it's just flooded with shovelware. Oh, yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker
I turned off the, who's the one who did Fortnite, their storefront. Epic. Epic. It's too much. Yeah. It's like, get this free game. It's like, well, I'm good. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah. That's why, I mean, some of them are like that. They're like, yeah.
00:38:19
Speaker
Gosh, don't accidentally click that, you know, email me with new updates thing. Cause yeah, game on. Yeah. Yeah. Turn off all notifications. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. Well, topic one. Sure. Topic one. This is frustratingly my life. Oh no. Have you ever walked into a project?
00:38:45
Speaker
with supreme confidence that you know how to do it. And then the moment tools come out and you start doing things, you're like, I have no idea what I'm doing. Yes. And you just get this deflated feeling of, I am terrible. I should be able to do this. This was as stupid as it gets.
00:39:06
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my wife bought a we bought these e-bikes for you know going out on vacations yeah and she bought this wooden crate for a basket for the back of her thing and then she bought a mick plate adapter which shouldn't even i don't even need it was just like an extra convenience that we could take this thing off yeah yeah it makes a yeah easy one off yeah so
00:39:30
Speaker
I'm like, oh, this will be easy. I just got through some screws through. Done. Well, I've got this plate and the screws that come with the plate and the box. And there's just not enough. There's no clearance to screw in. And I'm sitting there like chalking the ring so I can figure out where to drill my pilot spots. And I'm just like,
00:39:59
Speaker
around, putting extra holes in this box. There's like 12 extra holes in this box right now. Because I just was like trying to find spots to put it's for drainage. Yeah, yeah. Well, right now, it's supposed to be held on by four screws. Hers is held on by three because I gave up.
00:40:14
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Well, I mean, three, that's, you know, triangle. Triangles are strong. Triangles are strong. And I felt like so, such a loser in this event because I'm like, this is a child should be able to do this. And the worst part is my wife is watching it. Oh, that's always the worst. And she's like, do you want me to go inside? And I'm like, no, I don't want you to go inside. But of course I really want her to go inside to not watch me. Yeah. It was so awful. I just was like, hi.
00:40:44
Speaker
I'm a 42 year old grown ass man. I can't screw a piece of plastic to a wooden crate. I am being beaten by this small little screw. I was ready. Yeah. To throw it into the river. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Been there. I just I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know why I am so shit at things. But you're not. It's it's just those little things. Those sometimes it's just that one little deep and like I've noticed.
00:41:14
Speaker
It seems like any project or like you get something you got to put together, there's always one screw that doesn't fit the right way. Yeah, it doesn't hit the right way. I got a new computer chair. Everything's going roses and I get to this trying to line up this one screw in the armrest. It's just not I was like I was about to go out to the shop, grab a drill and just make my own.
00:41:43
Speaker
And again, that was one of those, like my youngest was like, you know, sitting there just kind of watching. And it was, yeah, it was a, well, can I do anything to help? I said, well, standing there is doing absolutely nothing. So get, and you're not angry at the person, but they have to leave. No one needs to see my shame. Right. It's right now. All I have is shame. Yeah. Yeah. Cause in a minute, this chair is going to make me cry.
00:42:09
Speaker
I don't need someone to see an inanimate object break me today. I'm going to break down and cry because it's bad. I put together, I got a new bike hitch and bike carrier and hitch and I put it together and I'm like,
00:42:29
Speaker
put it all together and man, I'm like halfway through and like, Oh, I fucked this whole thing up. I have to take it all apart. Oh yeah. That's always the best redo it. The directions are, and I get it. They're like trying to be multilingual. So it's just pictures. Yeah. At no point where they're like, this is the way up and this is the way down. You just have to figure it out on your own. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And you look at the picture and the picture, the angle that they made the picture, it's like,
00:42:58
Speaker
Is that is that really the longer end on that side or is this? Oh, you're like, yeah. And you've got this like four inch piece of paper and it's 10 inch piece of wood. You're like holding it up going, I kind of looks like that. I put this thing together and I'm like. Why didn't I just pay somebody to put this together? Yeah. Why didn't I just pay the extra ten dollars to pay for it together? Because then you get the satisfaction of I built it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:28
Speaker
Yeah. And then when it all falls apart on 95 and my. Well, yeah, I had the satisfaction of putting that together. Yeah. Well, I remember when we built the trampoline out back, it was obvious that the instructions were originally written in. I don't know what language, but then they just used like Google. I don't think they use Google translate. You use like Bing translate. But it was like, you know, take the arm
00:43:56
Speaker
and place in the elbow, like, okay, that kind of makes sense. And it was like, you know, that was step six, step seven, redo the step six, redo the step six. It's like, okay. It was like, have the man pull on the arm. I'm like, what man? What? Some other man here? Is he in the box? I don't know. Yeah. I just, I feel,
00:44:27
Speaker
more and more in my life. I'm getting older and older going, I can't do simple things. We got rid of our pool.
00:44:35
Speaker
because luckily it was rusting but it was an excuse for me to get rid of the pool because I was just at the point where I could no longer function as a person to take care of this pool. My pond, that's getting filled in this winter. I'm just getting popped soil and I'm filling it in. And I've already told my wife we're doing it. And she's like, yeah, I think it's time. You follow, you go on Google, you go on YouTube, you check whatever things, none of it works. You go talk to the stupid pond guy, hey, what do I do?
00:45:04
Speaker
You do this and this and none of it works. Yeah, and when you go I've done all that and they go Huh? Yeah Don't get a pond people it's not worth your life Just get a picture of a pond. Yeah, we bought the house and Even when we bought the house the pond didn't look great Looked better than it does when I take care of it, but it did look great
00:45:30
Speaker
And so we went out and we're like, all right, we're going to do everything we can. We're going to buy this pond pump with a UV filter and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's still green. It's no green and nasty and just full of mosquitoes. You know what it's going to be full of dirt, dirt done. We could do is you could clean it out really nice.
00:45:56
Speaker
and get some plastic like fish, like fake fish, fill it with epoxy. And then it looks like, yeah, just plays pond music. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't just sit there scratching at the epoxy trying to get the stupid fish. It's just going to fill it with dirt. What's like our our pool? I was looking one day and I was like, huh? Yeah, water level looks awfully low.
00:46:24
Speaker
And then I look and stupid. It had like those flexible hoses that came out to the pump. Yeah. Well, one of those cracked and was spraying through the air. I had that problem. So I like pick it up and I put some flex seal around it just to temporarily do it. Now, same thing. I was like, there's got to be a way to do this, like sturdy. So I'm looking and yeah, sure enough, there's a PVC conversion and all this. So I'm at the hardware store and the problem also is
00:46:53
Speaker
It would be great if I could just magically reach through a portal and grab anything I need, because, of course, anytime I do a project, I get home and I'm like, crap, there's one thing I need. There's always one thing. Always one piece that's wrong. Yeah. So I have PVC like half of the pool, like the outlet or the inlet to the pump coming out of the pool. That is now CVPC PVC. So I'm going to.
00:47:22
Speaker
eventually do it all, I think, just so it's sturdy. Our pool had a pinhole leak in it, and sealing the outside of it was easy. You just slap the seal on there, done. But you're supposed to do the inside.
00:47:40
Speaker
How the ever living heck are you supposed to find the hole from the inside of the pool? Oh, there was one time I thought we had a pinhole leak, so I it I never did it, but it was like, oh, yeah, they make it sound like everybody has this stuff. They're like, well, you know, you just take a syringe and you fill it with, you know, such and such pool dye. I'm like, where do you get this pool dye? And then this guy is like snorkeling.
00:48:09
Speaker
He's just going along, squirt a little bit, and you see where the ink goes. Then you patch it. Yep. Well, yeah. Well, I'm sorry, Aquaman. I can't stay underwater for eight hours anymore. Not anymore. God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see that. Yeah. Yeah. Call the fire department. Yeah. I'm going to borrow one of these scuba tanks. Why? I work on my pool. What? That would be amazing. Oh, gosh.
00:48:38
Speaker
I have decided, and this is just a life lesson for everybody out there in the world, don't get a pool. Fight pool membership, it's going to be cheaper for you to go to somebody else's pool where they're responsible for taking care of it. But if you do get a pool, get a pool boy. Get a pool girl. Get a pool person. Pool person. Yeah. Yeah. So that way, yeah, when something's going on, you can ring them up and say, hey, my pool is green, fix it. Right.
00:49:02
Speaker
My pool was red one time. Ooh. Yeah. Not good. And like, they're always like shock the pool. All right. Got the battery jump. Didn't do anything. I can't remember one time, like I just got done. Yeah. The weekly shock and skim and vacuum and all that. I think the thing is my oldest got in the pool and was like,
00:49:33
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It's a little murky over here. It's like, oh, is it? Is it? Is it really? And you got to have a freaking pull.
00:49:43
Speaker
Pools sound great. And then you have to realize, I got to store all this pool chemicals somewhere. Oh, yeah. And then you open up your stupid, you know, we bought one of those little sunbeam, you know, waterproof little closets outside and you open that up and your shock has spilled all over the freaking floor of that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Don't lick that up, kids.
00:50:08
Speaker
Or, yeah, you just open the door and it's like, Oh, God. Yeah. World War One in here. Great. Yeah. Yeah. I am so. Yeah. But this year we have not had a pool all year and it has been maybe one of the most relaxing years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Test the water and you come out and you're like, well, all the hair on my arm is bleach. So I think the fluorine is good. Yeah.
00:50:34
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Well, we had a saltwater system. Yeah. So that's even more annoying to take care of. Yeah. What those are. Yeah. I mean, the initial start, it's like once you get them running, they're great. Yeah. But it's getting them fine tuned at the beginning. I've heard as a real hassle. Yeah. Well, because you have to, the worst part is you have to chlorinate the pool to shock it. And then you have to.
00:50:56
Speaker
to put the salt in there and get it running and all that crap. And then you have to check your plates to make sure your plates are good and blah, blah, blah. But then we had a sand filter and you gotta make sure the sand filter's not clogged. You gotta backwash the sand filter if the pressure's not high enough. You get a damn degree in chemistry just out of the pool. And after all of that, you get like, oh, I got an hour of swimming today because I spent eight hours fucking cleaning the pool.
00:51:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'm done. I'm not having a pool again. Yeah. That's that's that's life. Yeah. Yeah. So we we've kind of I haven't closed. I need to close it for the year, but I haven't really done anything to the pool in a few weeks. And the other day my oldest came in and was like accidentally threw the dogs for his being the pool. I said, well, you got to go get it. You can't see the bottom. I was like, figure it out.
00:51:54
Speaker
And then my wife goes, well, it sounds like you're getting in the pool tonight. So there's my oldest, like, slowly wading through the pool feeling with it. Finally found the Frisbee, but. Yeah. So what do you think is going to be in? Do you think the Loch Ness monsters moved in in the last couple of weeks? You never know. I guess I guess you never know. It could be sharks in there. You don't know.
00:52:22
Speaker
I don't know what the gestation period of a Loch Ness Monster is. I'm not willing to take that risk. It's got to be like 11 months. It's got to be. I don't mess with... Well, fencers are birds. Birds gestate quickly. Oh, that's true. Yeah, it could be quick.
00:52:43
Speaker
I'm so over having those things to deal with in my life. I think I'm just over... My bike needed some minor tune-ups because I switched out the cassette. I'm like, why am I not just paying somebody to do this? I have the money. I'm making up money to pay somebody.
00:53:04
Speaker
I used to change my own oil and do all that kind of stuff. And yeah, it was a few years ago, my wife was like, same thing. It's like, we make enough money. Let's let someone else fight this. And you know what? It's nice. Yeah. I changed the oil in my Jeep. I still do that every once in a while, but it is a nightmare.
00:53:26
Speaker
Because and then you're like, where do I put this oil? Right. That I have a pan full of oil that I have to then put into and I can never get it back into the barrel cleanly. Oh, no, no, no. And I have every time. Every time I change the oil, I drop the bolt into the oil bank. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Every time. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fun little fishing job. Yeah.
00:53:51
Speaker
Yeah. And regardless, you get oil all down your arm and hand. Yep. Because I'll put, you know, pair of gloves on, you know, open it up and then still, yeah, it's everywhere. And I'm going to get oil on my driveway. And yeah, I'm going to have that nice little spot there that every time it rains, you'll see where that spot was. I've had my driveway redone. I've not changed my oil on my driveway since. Nice. And I just take it.
00:54:18
Speaker
And the worst part is it costs a little bit more to get your oil changed. It's not that much more expensive. No. And here's the other thing. They're probably going to do one that is 21 point checks or something. And if you go to somebody reputable, they're not going to try to upsell you.
00:54:39
Speaker
I've developed a place I go to. They do all the work on my cars. They're great. And I just drop my car off and they're like, hey, we'll get you some time today. OK. If nothing drives me nor nuts, then I drop my car off and now, well, we didn't get your car today. We'll get it tomorrow. That's not how the world works, bud. Right. Yeah. Oil change. I don't even mess with it anymore. I got to figure out.
00:55:08
Speaker
where to take my RV to get the oil changed. I'm not sure who does that. They might be the same place. They might be able to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Talk to them. I'll have to call them. Good. Ron Wismer here. Wonder if you could change the oil and RV. Yeah. I also got to figure out if I can use my easy pass in an RV. I don't know how that works.
00:55:31
Speaker
Should be able to. Should be able to. My RV comes over the cab. So is it going to even pick up? Yeah. And now I don't know how that. Yeah, it's it's got to. Yeah, those things work in anything, I think. And now you have your wife hold the easy pass out the window. Yeah. No, she's going to pop.
00:55:53
Speaker
Hey, we're coming next to a toll. Crap. But now, if you've noticed, there's not even toll boosts in most places. You can't even pay cash. Right. So you have to pay EasyPass for the one in Maryland, George State of Maryland. Oh, yeah. Which, by the way, they're in the middle of a lawsuit because it was found that they were charging people illegally. Nice. And they got me once.
00:56:17
Speaker
You see your part of the class action lawsuit. I'm just going to show up to the governor's office and say, give me my money. Because here's, let me tell you my story on the side of Franklin, Maryland. So my easy pass wasn't working the best, apparently. It was, finally, it was at the end of its lifespan. Yeah.
00:56:36
Speaker
So every once in a while it wouldn't pick up. But the license plate is tied to the EasyPass account. So when they go to pull the license plate, it's supposed to say, oh, this guy has an EasyPass, just charge the EasyPass.
00:56:50
Speaker
Maryland sends me a bill. Hey, you missed a toll. No, I didn't. I went to the toll with an easy pass, whatever. So I call them. I say, look, here's my easy pass number. I've already ordered a new, new sensor. It just hasn't been coming yet. I'm waiting. And they said, Oh, well, we can't verify out of state easy pass accounts. So therefore you have to pay the fine. What? No. And I was like, are you insane?
00:57:17
Speaker
But then immediately right after that, I found out about this lawsuit because Maryland's getting sued for this exact thing. They're refusing to acknowledge out of state easy pass. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. And they're charging people out of state more money. And now if you go through the 95 toll, there's no toll booth and it's just you have two options, easy pass, $6.
00:57:44
Speaker
Video by license, $12. Oh my gosh. So you're paying, if you don't have an easy pass, you're paying double the rate for no reason. Yeah. Just because. Just because. So just so you know, people don't drive to Maryland. Yeah. Maryland sucks. Yeah. What's a cool drive places and like, you know, does our, does our easy pass work for this? And yeah, my wife says, Oh yeah, it's fine. It's fine. So I don't know.
00:58:13
Speaker
It all comes back on her card, so I don't care. It does. It doesn't work. Florida. That's Sun. Oh, yeah, the Sun. Yes, you don't need it. And, you know, if you're just going to ride this block around the airport. Yeah. As soon as you get off the airport, the first place is a toll that doesn't take anything but some pass. Yeah, that's how they get you. That's how they get you. Yeah.
00:58:39
Speaker
Extortion. Florida's a dump anyways. I don't go there. Yeah. Yeah. Considering how much people are paying to go to Disney, I'll never go to Florida. That's ridiculous. It's like 1200 bucks a person. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I keep saying, you know, I want to go to galaxy's edge, but I don't know. Is that a kidney? Right. I can't, I mean, I'm not at a point in my life where I can spend $2,400 for a three hour experience. Right.
00:59:08
Speaker
You know, maybe people are in that place, but I'm not in that spot. Yeah, I know. Because how much time do you really get in Disney doing the things you want to do? If you're there all eight hours, you're probably getting three hours of actual. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's five hours of waiting in line, walking. Yeah. Yeah. Sanity. Yeah. And all the people. All the people. They're the worst part. Yeah. Yeah. People are terrible. Yeah. Yeah. So side tangent to your
00:59:38
Speaker
driving and all that. So last week, this all this year for band, another dad had signed up to drive the big truck, the Penske truck, say 26, 28 foot truck. Sure. I was like, OK. I drove it all last year. I was like, whatever. This year I'm like, fine. Somebody else wants to do it. I'm happy because I don't have that headache. Well, last week his kid got COVID, so he couldn't drive. OK. All right. Well, and it's it was up to Ken Island. So I didn't have across the Bay Bridge. I'm like, OK, I can do this.
01:00:06
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So I get there and I pick up the truck and the girl says, I'm sorry. I was like, oh, why are we apologizing to me first thing? Oh, we don't have a lift. We only have a rant for you. That's that's going to make loading fun, but we'll figure it out. OK. She's like, it's an older truck. So I was like, whatever. I was like, maybe older truck would be nicer because I wait, you know. Oh, no. I don't know what she was talking about older. It still had like lane departure and proximity sensors and all this kind of crap going off all the time.
01:00:34
Speaker
It also had some possessed speed governor thing. There were times I would go five miles over the speed limit. It would alert and shut me off until I went under, you know, five miles. There were other times I was cruising down 50, 70 miles an hour for like, I don't know, a good 30 minutes. And then all of a sudden it was like, oh, wait, I forgot to tell you shut me down and bring me back. But there was no rhyme or reason.
01:01:00
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I, the company used to work for they had this, those speed sensors on their trucks. And coming out of the shop is, you would get on 95 because, like, but it's literally.
01:01:15
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half a block from the shop, you're on the exit to 95. And the exit to 95 by the speak owner is 35 miles an hour. So you're entering into 95 at 35 miles an hour. Oof, that doesn't sound safe. That doesn't sound safe at all. And they used to love me because
01:01:34
Speaker
It was keyed into each employee, but because I was a part-timer and I was an older one, they never gave me the key, so I could just start the system without it. Nice. Then they would call me in the office and they'd be like, the truck you were in, it was going 55 miles an hour on the ramp. I'm like, you mean the ramp to 95? Yes, I was doing 55, getting up to 70. You are correct. Yeah, that's how physics works. Yeah.
01:02:00
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not going to do 12 miles an hour and die. Yeah. Because if you don't die to the accident, you're going to die to the guy shooting you. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Years ago when I did private, they started that. I remember one time they called us like, do you know what your speed is? I was like, I am on 695 trying to stay alive. Shut up. Do it.
01:02:30
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I am. I am prepared to tell my partner to disembark and I will place this unit in the bay. That is correct. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Projects are always going to be a fun thing, though. Coming back to your. Are they ever going to be fun? Well, I mean, I put that sink in and same thing. I'm like, I'm going from two drains to one. So I was like, well, this will be easier. I'll have extra pipe. Not thinking that my original plumbing was set up for
01:02:59
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two inlets. So I had to retrofit that and of course needed one piece of PVC. So off to ACE I go and I get there and it was like a $6 piece of pipe. I was like, whatever. I get to the counter and the girl's like, are you part of our rewards club? No, just give me my piece of PVC. She says, well, if you sign up today, you can get $5 off your purchase. So quick math in my head is like, well, this
01:03:25
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unofficial. I was like, what do I have to do? She's like, click nothing. I just signed you up. I'm like, well, that was delightful. That's nice. Yeah. So, but yeah, that's, uh, that's a nice that you got it done. I mean, until your, you know, sink explodes, but, you know, now it's not going to explode. There's a little hanger. The clips you have to put on underneath the sink. Oh my gosh. Getting up there. Of course. Yeah.
01:03:52
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my friend, uncle company's like, Oh, I got a tool that reaches right up there and does it. I was like, Oh, do you, do you really? Why didn't you call me? It's because you would have come over and you would have felt obliged to help. And I didn't want to bother you on a weekend. Yeah. I need to.
01:04:09
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I need to get a plumber to come up because my faucet in my my spigot in my bathtub is just dripping. Oh. And I go on the Internet and it says, just replace this washer. No problem. Yeah. I replaced the washer. Still leak. Like that was a problem, right? Yeah. Yeah. Or it might be. What is it called? The there's like the it's not. There's like a cartridge that goes into the handle that sometimes gets clogged.
01:04:39
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Or we just ripped the whole wall out. Yeah. Well, I mean, that sink started as let's go get a new faucet. Right. So but I had promised my wife a new sink for her birthday last year. So what a dumb promise I was. Yeah. Well, it's in there now. She's happy. Oh, yeah. And the kids. I don't know if I don't care if you like it. I really don't. You're not going to live here forever. I am.
01:05:11
Speaker
Are you? No, as long as I can. Really? Yeah. Hmm. I'm really, you know, corners of this house saying, which one will I haunt first? I'm looking forward to living in my 55 plus community. So topic two. Yeah, sure. Topic two.
01:05:42
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So the thing about this, if you could. Blank out any game in your mind and replay it for the first time, what would it be? Diablo one. Yeah, yeah. See, I've never played a Diablo Diablo. No, I keep meaning to and just never have.
01:06:12
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Well, like, like recently, I think I'll try Diablo three and then, like, Diablo four is right around the corner. I think I'll just wait for four. But now I don't know if that will ever happen. They've got some issues. Yeah, Diablo one. That's it. That's a good pull. Yeah, Diablo when Diablo came out. Oh, ninety nine. Wow. Is that when it came out?
01:06:42
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Diablo one Yeah 97 December 31st 96. So yeah. Yeah. Yep. So Yeah, so that can make sense. I was in college when I came in. I mean I started college that year. Yeah, but I remember playing Diablo the first one and Didn't really even I don't think I had played a Blizzard game at that point
01:07:10
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And I remember the first cutscene from Diablo blowing me away. Just blowing me away. And then the gameplay was great.
01:07:29
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I mean, for the time, I'm sure. Yeah. At the time, you're like, Oh, my gosh. When it first came out, it blew my mind. Yeah. The graphics looked for the cutscenes because they just did that blizzard thing where they just made these amazing cutscenes and
01:07:49
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The gameplay was solid on its own, but the graphics and the gameplay were, you know, 96 graphics. Right. And I if I could get that experience again, I've never had a game since then that has blown me away like that. So that would be an experience that I would not mind having again. Yeah. Yeah, I'd have to say Final Fantasy at the time, it was two, but it's now four.
01:08:17
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Oh, I hate your people in your final fantasy numbers. Just a side tangent to your final fantasy numbers. Yeah. Okay. So yesterday, I'm riding my bike and I saw a gray curved animal with fins jumping out of the water. What would you call that animal? Gray curved animal with fin dolphin? Is it a dolphin or a porpoise? Well, it depends on the nose.
01:08:47
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If it's got a flatter is a rounded face, it's a doll or a porpoise. But if it's got like a beak, it's a dolphin. They're the same freaking animal. No. Let me ask you a question. OK. Is a pug in a lab, are they both dogs?
Dolphins vs. Porpoises: A Silly Debate?
01:09:04
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Yes. If I look at those that animal and I say, that's a dog and that's a dog, nobody's going to be like, no, no, actually, that's not a dog. That's a. Yeah, they're all dolphins done. Dunsky.
01:09:17
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That's one of them weird fish. It's just a dolphin. They're both dolphins. Done. Done having this conversation. Are they both dolphins or are they both porpoises? I don't care what we decide. We just need to have a ruling and be done with it. How did this come about? Well, because I actually saw one on my bike ride and I was like, I don't know if that's a dolphin or a porpoise. And then I was like, why the hell do I care if it's a dolphin or a porpoise? They're both dolphins. Done.
Final Fantasy Numbering: A Trans-Pacific Puzzle
01:09:45
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And there was the asshole that decided that mahi-mahi is also going to be known as dolphin. So you can say, oh, oh, oh, I'm eating dolphin. What's a dolphin fish? No, done. You're a mahi-mahi. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That would throw you off because you're like, you see some restaurants put it as dolphin fish and other people put it as mahi-mahi and you're like, I'm not eating dolphin.
01:10:08
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Yeah, and then let's see that ties into the Final Fantasy thing because you Final Fantasy idiots Idiots as I call you Well, I play Final Fantasy 7 but originally this was the Final Fantasy 3 I'm buying Final Fantasy 6, but this is actually Final Fantasy 2, but this one's Final Fantasy 4 What is the number on the goddamn game I
01:10:32
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That's all I need to know. So on the original releases, there was Final Fantasy two and three in America that were actually Final Fantasies four and six in Japan. They didn't release the original two. Three,
RPG Beginnings: Final Fantasy and Resident Evil
01:10:45
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five. I'm going to ask you a question on the side. So just think about this. OK, what country do we live in? Well, since then, they've gone back. But yeah, yes, we live in America. So we live in America. Yes.
01:11:02
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Yeah, at the time. Where you play. Yeah. That's all I want. Yeah. Yeah. That's all I want out of you people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I was just I went to the video game rental store and I was like, Oh, look at this. You know, Final Fantasy. This could be fun. There's a big sword on the front. And yeah, it just was my introduction to turn based RPG. And I was like, there's a whole nother world you get to go to. And there's intrigue and, you know, this character's a jerk. And oh, yeah.
01:11:32
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You know, another game that I would put in this category that I would like as a one-time experience was amazing. Yeah. Resident Evil. Oh, yeah. You know. God, that first time the dogs jump. I don't even can tell you what the first Resident Evil I played, but you know, it was that it was. It wasn't.
01:11:55
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3d
Nostalgic Gaming: Neverwinter Nights & Baldur's Gate
01:11:56
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You know boom wherever you want. You're on your heels basically. Oh, yeah. All right. I mean it was still They did such a great job of that setting and scariness and oh, yeah Yeah, the camera angles for what they used at the time. Yeah. Yeah and fable Fable is another one of those games that was yeah amazing experience. My wife and I played fable together Okay, that was great
01:12:18
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Yeah. And I always wanted to play Fable again, but yeah, they've done it or done on the Fable. Yeah. I mean, I'd love to go back to like re-experiencing Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 2. Yeah. I was like, I've gone back and played them, but it's like, I know everything that's going to happen. Yeah. This is when they did the Baldur's Gate re-release. Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm super excited to play it. And I was like, I've done this. Yeah. And it didn't it didn't spark joy.
01:12:47
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Yeah, and I was like, oh, I could play as an evil character. I can't do that. I can't do it. I try. Yeah. I didn't do it. Yeah. Yeah. No, I can't. Yeah. But those couple of games would be really great. I mean, Neverwinter Nights and Watergate, those games came out. That experience was like, because I played D&D as a kid.
D&D Campaigns: Scheduling Struggles
01:13:12
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Yeah. And I was like, well, this is D&D. I don't have to deal with people.
01:13:17
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Yeah. Yeah. Because I never played to when you figured out how you could control every party member. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was I was like, this is amazing. Now, I really don't need to have any friends because I can just have a party full. It's just me and boo. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. I've got Minsk. I've got boo. I've got a healer over here. I'm good. Yeah. It's just well, the idea is I love D&D, but inevitably, it was just always it's always a scheduling nightmare. Yes.
01:13:45
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Yes. If you're in high school, it's one of those things, you know, yep, Wednesdays after school, we're playing great because I'm a child. I have no responsibility.
01:13:55
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My cousin was telling me she's hanging out with her neighbor yesterday. It's just funny that this is coming up. She was hanging out with her neighbor yesterday and her neighbor admitted to her that he's in four different D&D campaigns simultaneously right now. Oh my gosh, how? I don't know. That sounds like a nightmare. Yeah. That sounds like a serial killer can do that. Yeah. Yeah. You've got to have like your own Google calendar just for that. Yeah. Something in your brain is broken if you can handle that much D&D.
01:14:25
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Yeah, I've been I'm in a D&D campaign that we haven't even had our first campaign yet because none of us can get a day off together. Right. Yeah, I was in
Destiny Raids: Late Night Challenges
01:14:35
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one that we played for like, oh, gosh, I want to say eight weeks. And then it became a scheduling fiasco. Yeah. And then one of the guys, well, two of the guys were West Coast. One guy was central and then there was me on East and we start playing at 10 o'clock at night and I'm dead. And yeah.
01:14:53
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Yeah, I played in a campaign and say same thing we were doing it was four of us were in the room and then one guy was on zoom. Yeah, that's what started like 1030. Yeah. And we played till two in the morning. And I'm like, I've been my 30s. Yeah, I don't know what two in the morning is. Yeah, guys, it's it's this is this is Betty by time. And it's
01:15:17
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I fully admit that it's super more difficult with my job schedule. Yeah. But unless you find other guys that are on the same shift as you. Right. That's what you got to do. Yeah. Yeah.
01:15:31
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I mean, that's like, I mean, with destiny, I'll look at, you know, weekend raids and they're like, yeah, we're going to start at 10 o'clock. I'm like, oh, we won't be done till at least midnight. Right. I mean, sleeps. Yeah. Or like there was one time I told me me I signed up for like a day one dungeon. It's like, OK, yeah, we can figure this out seven hours later. I was like, guys, I'm done. I'm just done.
01:15:57
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Yeah, I can't. I
Gaming Quirks: Baldur's Gate Characters
01:15:59
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can't do that anymore. Yeah. I don't have it in me. Yeah. But those are. Yeah, that's. And I would love to play. I would love to just go back and redo Diablo, but not know Diablo. Yeah. Or I actually think I would change my mind and go with Baldur's Gate. Yeah. Yeah. I just sat my mind and let me. Who is this delightful Minsk? Right. That's funny.
01:16:26
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Was he kicked by a horse? Was he born this way? Who knows? And who cares? It's good, boo. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I do enjoy. And yeah, I mean, I'm waiting for the new bottles gate, but I'm not going to play the beta. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I got to figure out a way to play it. I guess I don't know is what you call it. What's Google's streaming thing? The Stadia Stadia. Is that still a thing?
01:16:55
Speaker
I don't know. I think I mean, honestly, I think that's the only way I'd be able to play it because I'm sure my my drivers or my RAM card or my freaking Excel sheets not ready. Yeah.
October Traditions: Pumpkin Spice and More
01:17:13
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I think that's a good place to end on. Yeah. I think about his computer again. Yes. Yes, it is. So, yeah. Happy October, folks. Yeah, this will be full in October, right?
01:17:23
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is uh, it's over third get your pumpkin spice latte Get your pumpkin spice sweater on it's everywhere for pumpkin spice toilet paper and maybe by then um band season will be over No band season doesn't end until november Oh, no, that's when oh, no, it's every other week we have a football game one week like this week was a football game next week
01:17:48
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Double
Band Competitions: A Hectic Schedule
01:17:49
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competition. We've got a 215 in at the Naval Academy and then a six o'clock at Crofton. Where the hell's Crofton? 20 minutes away from the Naval Academy, but still. I've got it. We've got a pack up, unpack, set up, field, teardown, pack, unpack, set up, field, teardown, pack up, unpack. Didn't you want to be in band? No.
01:18:19
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Oh yeah, and I said something to the band director. He's like, oh yeah, I'll get you a shaco if you want. Oh, I'll send you a picture. Yeah. Come join the discord and listen to me rant more. Follow us on Twitter at CL22 and be safe out there. Enjoy your fall. Take care.