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Seasons and Baldurs Gate 3
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarol: fire scenes, food, heatwave, and streets; Ron makes the rational argument that holidays and seasons need defined start days; Chris has finally started Baldurs Gate 3! 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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Introduction and Firehouse Tales
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron with a slightly scratchy throat. I apologize. It's because you're slaying the dragon yesterday morning. Slinging the dragon. It's every time though. I think it's from the breathing the air and SCBA now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're breathing dry air for 40 minutes probably because you probably went through at least two bottles.
00:00:28
Speaker
Um, no, I only went through one bottle. Um, but, and just, it's just drives out your, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's people don't understand it's just a bottle of air that's been sitting there for God only knows how long that you're being forced to breathe for however long at under exertion. So you're, yeah, it's like CPAP from hell. Yeah.
00:00:53
Speaker
I was wearing my Garmin and Meg from work and I were both doing the new things. She's like, tell me what the Garmin says for your calories burnt. I looked it up. It was 1300 calories. Wow. And I wasn't even working hard.
00:01:13
Speaker
I was humping some hoes and doing all that stuff, but not like the other people were working hard. That's how much calories you have. I had to work morning over time. I tried to do fasting.
00:01:27
Speaker
After that fire, I was like, nope. You got to eat something after that. Biscuit and some crappy ass. I don't know what it is about people in the fire department not knowing how to make scrambled eggs. Scrambled eggs are disgusting. They are only disgusting because people don't know how to make them. You make them like porridge. Yes. They're not supposed to be dry rubbery. They're not supposed to be salmonella slime. They're not salmonella slime.
00:01:56
Speaker
I don't really start with luscious. No, no, I don't. Every now and again, I'll have an egg. But no, it's not like I'm like, oh, morning
Culinary Adventures and Local Cuisine
00:02:08
Speaker
time. Give me some eggs. And I just.
00:02:11
Speaker
I had, I tried a new thing at the Chinese place the other day, and it was just ended up being like a pile of shredded potatoes with spices. It was hella spicy, by the way. Yeah. And it's a Chinese food spicy, which is different than- Oh, yeah. It's not American punch you in the face spicy, but it gets you in the back of the throat. Yeah, it's that low build. Yeah. But when I started eating, I was like, you know what this needs? Nice runny fried egg on the top. Perfect.
00:02:41
Speaker
I will say, yeah, we make some kind of, you know, like fried rice and there's an egg on top and that does cut it. So yeah, you need a nice egg or a ramen dish with an egg. Oh boy. Yes, that's the thing. I've never had real ramen. So when that ramen shop opens, I'll be able to have real ramen. Wait, where's the ramen shop opening? Around the corner from East Moon, the old red door. Oh, red door's gone. Yeah, red door's been gone. I never went to my door because it sucked, but yeah.
00:03:11
Speaker
It's like the Salisbury Institution. Yeah, the company, the owners or whatever, East Moon are opening a ramen shop there. That is the greatest news I've ever heard in my entire life. This is better than the day I got married. Be sure to tell your wife that. I love ramen food. Real ramen. It should be real. There's a macaroni joint on the south end of town now.
00:03:43
Speaker
There's a place in Seagull Square called Holy Macaroni. We just do macaroni and cheese. We have a place that does macaroni and cheese. I have no idea. I haven't been there yet. They've been open for like a week. We have won a Newark that does macaroni and cheese. It's not even good macaroni and cheese. Really? That's a shame. It's a shame. Yeah. Same company. We were talking yesterday and I can't remember who we were talking to, but I was like, food in Salisbury just sucks. And I was joking. I was like, yeah, you know,
00:04:09
Speaker
Sarah has turned me into a food snob. She's like, no food network and eating good places have turned you into a food snob. Yeah, I can. Yeah, you're right. Well, one of the things I feel weird about the Eastern Shore is there's nothing there's no restaurants that like specialize in local food. Like there are local foods. There's the red roost.
00:04:36
Speaker
That's a crab house. It does. It just does crabs. Yeah. And like you don't have a crab cake place. You don't have like scrapple places. You don't have those kinds of like local food joints. Yeah. And maybe you're used to, but you don't anymore. Well, you had English as chicken, you know. Well, the problem is, I mean, so many of them try to just cater to everything and it's like, no, no, you just.
00:05:02
Speaker
Make crab cakes. Make amazing crab cakes and fries. Do crab cake sandwiches and fries. That's all you need to do. Right. I'm sure there's places like that in St. Michael's. Yeah, but again, the people live in Salisbury. The people go to Ocean City. In Ocean City, you get
00:05:23
Speaker
kind of crappy bar food. Oh yeah. Not super expensive harbor side food, you know, and Salisbury is just chain restaurant after chain restaurant. Yeah. It still kills me. People are like, all right. Yeah. Like I was saying, you know, we need a good Italian joint. They're like, oh, we got Fratelli. So I was like, nah. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's Olive Garden. I was like, but no. Yeah. I mean, Olive Garden is fine. It's not good. No.
00:05:52
Speaker
It's a chain restaurant. Yeah. If you, you're just like, Oh, I want to make sure that I get 1200 calories. Yes, that's, that's fine. Go get your, you know, protein paste. You need a little, you know, a little Nona making pasta in the back. Right. That's why we'll say we go to place in West ocean city cellos. That's good Italian food. Yeah. Salisbury needs a nice Italian joint. It needs a lot more.
00:06:21
Speaker
casual, but good places. Yeah. You know, I guess specific gravity is pretty casual, but good. Yeah. I don't really go there much. What's like we used to go to Sobo's a lot and then the main chef
Urban Development and Lifestyle
00:06:36
Speaker
left and it was like it's the new guy like looked at the menu, threw it away and then did his own thing and it's just like they have crab dip that's not creamy.
00:06:47
Speaker
What? It was like dry, crumbly. We're like, well, we're never getting this again. That place that was downtown, was it Flannery's? The place that was right on the corner. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That had the best craft I've ever had.
00:07:05
Speaker
Yeah. That was like the best crab dip ever. Yeah. And then they had their fight with the city. No. Yeah. Shocking. Yeah. What's funny because now if he was there, he probably would win that fight. Oh yeah. I'm sure he would. Because the last two mayors have been really trying to
00:07:26
Speaker
elevate the downtown. Right. And his complaint was that people were pissing on his building and using his parking lot as a campground. Yeah. You know, you talk about the downtown. Section of Salisbury. Yeah. It's funny how changed that is, you know, like you said, a couple of administrations ago, it was it was like they just ignored the bubble that the government office building sat in and the last couple, it's been no, no, no, we've got to reinvigorate things.
00:07:54
Speaker
Yeah, when I started in Salisbury, it looked like a bomb went off in the downtown area. Yeah, I mean, we worked in, it felt like a ghetto. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I mean, the nicest building was the library and that's where everybody did drugs. Yeah. And they really have tried, they're making strides to make it nice. Yeah. It needs, first off, parking.
00:08:21
Speaker
Right. And it needs places, things to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got to be walking distance stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder how much. Not. Oh, my God. Sorry. No, you're fine. It's not crazy that way. She's protecting. Yeah. No, she's probably fighting with her brother. Nice. Hold on a second. And knowing that it's probably her doing all that while he just lays there and laughs. Yes. So.
00:08:56
Speaker
That's a good pregnant pause. Everybody checked their Zune. I was yelling at the dog. Didn't work. Yeah, that's fine. She's a good girl. She is a good girl. In like 20 years, how much cities are going to go back to walking paths? Because they just started opening a new bike path in Delaware.
00:09:18
Speaker
And it's, it's a very expensive, it's like $3 million. True. Because they've got to put bridges in and stuff. Yeah. And the center, yeah, the center is like too long. Have these towns been disconnected from walking and bike riding. Yeah. And now people will be able to go from Newport to Newcastle and Wilmington all on foot and be safe. Yeah. And we won't have cars, you know,
00:09:43
Speaker
You can just go walk, it's only two miles or whatever, three miles. You can just walk to dinner. Yeah, that's where you should be. Yeah, where the Wilmington bike path dumps out now, there's a bunch of restaurants and theater and all this stuff so you can just ride your bike there. Go enjoy your meal and dinner and get back on the bike path, be protected and go home. Yeah. I love that stuff.
00:10:12
Speaker
I crave to be even closer to bike paths. I have about a mile gap on an unprotected road for me to get to the bike paths. Yeah. I mean, they keep talking about there's supposed to be that bike trail to go from Fruitland to Del Mar. Right. That'd be great.
00:10:34
Speaker
Supposedly there's one that's going to go up the Eastern shore. Wow. I don't know where it's going to start, but I think it's supposed to end in Elkton. It'll probably start somewhere weird like Stockton. Probably. And then there's supposedly, they're going to do one that goes across the Susquehanna somehow. So you'll be able to go up and down Maryland, a lot of like that. Wow. Yeah, that'd be neat. Yeah, there's a thing we talked about the other day. I mean, transportation just sucks around us.
00:11:04
Speaker
Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, that and everybody, like you said, you know, Oh, it's a mile. I'll just drive. Right. Yeah. My wife is false for that trap all the time. And that drives me nuts. Like we walked two and a half miles every day. Yeah. And then she's like, all right, let's go here. I'm like, that's a mile away. Let's walk. Yeah. What are we peasants? You just walked too much. Like what is going on? Yeah.
00:11:31
Speaker
Now look, when it's as hot as it was the last few days. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm going to get some air conditioning. I made the mistake of we walked in the morning. Yeah. I got up, changed up. Myself went to the gym and I was like, Oh, it's, it's not that far to the gym. I'll just walk. Went worked out, got done working out, got outside. I was like, Oh my God. Yeah. This was the mistake of all mistakes. Yeah. It's just been stupid and humid. Oh my gosh.
00:12:01
Speaker
It's the it's the humanity. Yeah, like I had a piece of paper and I walked out of the office to take it to somebody and it just wilted in my hand and then caught fire. Yeah. It's just crazy. So it's been it's been crazy hot nicely, though. My grass hasn't been grown, so I had to cut the grass. Yeah. Unfortunately, though, I didn't pay attention and that heat evaporated the chlorine from my pool, so I have an algae palm now.
00:12:31
Speaker
Oh, so yeah, I double shocked yesterday. That's my time. You would think, but it's 90 degrees in September, so it's true. Yeah. Yeah. Or.
00:12:44
Speaker
I'm so happy I don't have to deal with the pool anymore. When I keep up with it, it's fine. It's just... It's so much to keep up with. It can be, yeah. And then you go away for a week and then you're like, Oh God, everything's screwed up. I got to mess with the pool for three days to get going again. And you get back on Saturday and people are like, Oh, we're going to go swimming. It's like, well, you can go swimming. I mean, you're going to come out with all each eyebrows, but...
00:13:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Have fun. Yeah. I'd say if kids tell me their eyes burn, I know I put too much chlorine in. No, I'm kidding. I don't see that. We switched that salt water and it was nice. Yeah. But the same thing, like you got to keep up with the salt. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I read online. People are going to use salt. It said it and forget it. I was like, No, it's not.
00:13:37
Speaker
It's definitely not the sand filter helps a lot. And then the saltwater just, you got, well, you got to change out the element on the salt thing. You got to watch that thing. It's pain in the butt. Yeah. Yeah. You just need a pool boy. You just need a pool boy. That's all you need or a community pool. Yeah. You know, I miss having a community pool. There's not one in my neighborhood. Yeah. There aren't really a lot of those anymore. Yeah.
00:14:07
Speaker
It still boggles my mind that the YMCA shut down that outside pool they have in front. You know why? The concrete's cracked. And they don't have the money to replace it. Fair point then. Yeah, when I taught that CPR class with them.
00:14:24
Speaker
I went over there and I was like, what's up with the pool outside? And I'm like, oh yeah, the concrete's cracked and can't fix it. And they dumped all that money into putting that second indoor pool in. So I was like, well, as a firefighter, when are you going to close it up and fill in the hole so there's not just a giant hole or something to fall into? You know. Yeah, you would think all that construction they had out back, they could just dump that dirt. Right. If you're never going to fix it, maybe they one day have plans. Maybe.
00:14:53
Speaker
but still put dirt in it, plant some flowers or something. It's going to be delightful right by. I see a nice little bee biome. Turned into a little pollinator garden. Yeah. Or a community vegetable garden.
City Life Challenges
00:15:12
Speaker
Yeah. Those have not worked in Salisbury. Really? Yes. Why? I don't know. I know like
00:15:22
Speaker
They had that one day, it was like, Oh, yes. Sign up to, you know, help clean up the garden for an hour or whatever while you're on duty. I was like, Yeah, sure. I'll go over there. And garden looked beautiful, planted all this nice stuff I wrote by a month later. It looked like Jurassic Park. Yeah. So there were dinosaurs on there? No, no, I'm just talking about the flora. Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:48
Speaker
Yeah, you talk about pollinators. Oh my God, I saw this video the other day, which I don't know why it was suggested to me, probably because it knows my innate fear of wasps, but they were taking out a hornet nest. And it was these there was three exterminators, I'm assuming, when holding the camera and the two and they have like these were not regular B suits. These were like go to war suits and they walk into this like overhang.
00:16:16
Speaker
And it's just this cloud of hornets flying around and there's walking through it. I'm like, why don't you have flamethrowers at this point? There's this like big panel that's like leaned on the ground. They pick it up and rotate it over. There were two hornet nests that were easily three feet across. And and the guy just puts his hand and like rips the side out and it's just hell unleashed from there.
00:16:44
Speaker
That sounds terrible. Yeah. Whoever's garage, lean to whatever that was. Guess what? Napalm. That's all you can do. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry, sir. We have discovered we're going to have to set your house on fire. Yeah. Yeah. And we can't risk it. Don't worry. So we're setting your neighbor's house on fire too. Yeah. And we will explain to the insurance company why we're doing this. Yeah. And when the fire department gets here, we're going to explain to them and they're going to say, yup, it's very valid. Ah, I mean, there's, I don't understand Hornets.
00:17:15
Speaker
Um, they kill things. Yeah, exactly. Just angry, angry little creatures. Yeah. Oh my God. Speaking of angry little creatures. I was in DC last week and, um, I saw a bird catch a cicada. Yeah. And it was like a little Ren. I know. Okay. It's a little bird. I know it's a bird. It's got wings. It's not very big. Yeah. Tweet tweet. I'm gonna say Ren.
00:17:45
Speaker
And this freaking cicada is just screaming as you would. Yeah. This bird is like chopping down on the cicada and I'm just hearing the screaming of a cicada. I'm like, Oh, this is all, I can't, I can't. Wow. Yeah. Circle of life. Circle of life. But yeah. Terrible. Yeah. DC, the town that apparently time's posted don't mean anything.
00:18:16
Speaker
because I'm supposed to get on the Metro at eight a.m. or seven a.m. to get to my train at eight, and the Metro station's closed at seven, even though it's supposed to be open. That's craziness. And the lady walks up and says, yeah, I'll probably be open around 7.23. What? You're supposed to be open at seven. Yeah, the first train won't be here till 7.40. I'll probably be open. Yeah, probably. It wasn't, I'm gonna be open. It was, I'll probably be open.
00:18:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And then I, so I'm running across DC, a three mile run at an hour, you know, because I had to be, and I literally, we get to the train station and they're boarding my train. Oof. Yeah. It was a lovely time. Amtrak was great. Yeah. But the DC Metro coming home was just, next time I go to DC, I'll have to make sure I don't get up too early for the Metro.
00:19:13
Speaker
Well, the good thing with DC is, you know, it's a nice grid, all the streets and avenues are hot. So my my buddy, because we're down there for a gaming convention, he'd really never really been to DC, except like in the Smithsonian. He just drove to the Smithsonian and we're walking around town because we walked everywhere. He's like, why are there traffic circles everywhere? I'm like, well, because a madman invented the city. Yeah. And it's all based on radials. It makes no sense.
00:19:40
Speaker
Well, then I saw this one thing I was trying to explain, like, you know, streets, avenues and all that is like, well, a street or a road is just a connecting thing. A street is a road that has buildings on it. An avenue is a road that has trees on it. A boulevard has buildings and trees, or at least that's where it like started out or whatever. I was like, no, you're a madman. Just it's a street or just. Yeah.
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah. DC and then cul-de-sac that just, you know, opening of the ass. It's opening of the bag. Yeah. But it's just DC, Baltimore and DC are the two worst cities laid out in America.
00:20:27
Speaker
Maybe in Baltimore is OK for a little bit, but then you get at some point, they're like, and here we're going to start going diagonal. Yeah. It's like, no, no, no, no. Yep. Just stick to a great 90 degrees. Yeah. Yeah. So we need it. We just need a grids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's terrible. Yeah. Let's see if there are bike trails and everything you wouldn't need it. Yeah, sure.
00:20:57
Speaker
There were people the people riding the little city spikes in DC are insane. Oh, yeah. Well, there's no bike path. There's no bike lanes. It's just. Yeah, but also those people don't care. Apparently. Yeah, it's like, oh, what's that? You know, there's traffic going perpendicular to me. I can cross. Yeah. Well.
00:21:18
Speaker
Not only that, I'm just going to enter a traffic circle at full speed and never look. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I guess that's the thing. Yeah. Between the bikes and the little scooters. Yeah. The scooters weren't, they were there. Yeah. But I saw way more of the bikes. Yeah. Weirdly. It wasn't like Salisbury where all you see is the freaking scooters. Oh my gosh. Which again, I love the idea of the scooters. Yeah.
00:21:46
Speaker
Boy, they got to be better managed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can't just lord of the flies, the scooters. Yeah. Yeah. I like the city bikes because they have little drop off points. You know, you have to connect it to get your money. You have to put it back in the thing. Right. Instead of the scooters where they just leave them wherever the hell they want. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:09
Speaker
And then some guy's job to come around and pick up and just pick him up. Yeah, maybe a guy rides around in it with a trailer and just throws him the back. Yeah, I'm not even sure where you like. Where's the pickup point for the scooters? There's there's certain areas that there are there. There are nests. Fested with scooters because they're the bird scooters, so they call them nests. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:33
Speaker
Are they rands or card dolls? Oh, it's probably seagulls cause it's also for university. Yeah. Yeah. Trash ducks. Good. Yeah, that was good. Rant and rig. It was a good rant and rig. Yeah. We go on the old topic one. Yeah. Topic one. I don't know if I've already ranted about this. So it'll be worth it. Well,
00:23:03
Speaker
My wife and I have been in an Epic argument, which she of course takes to the internet. And then I am backed up by the internet and she gets mad at me because they were on my side. Yeah. In that she wanted me cause I was, I was gone for labor day. Okay. And she wanted to meet all the Halloween decorations out so she could decorate the house for Halloween while I was gone. And I said, it's freaking August.
Seasonal Decor Debates
00:23:31
Speaker
Don't decorate for Halloween at August. All the stores have their Halloween stuff out, so I should have my Halloween stuff out. I'm losing my mind because there's skeletons in my house right now. Right now. This day of the recording, today is September the 10th. Halloween is not for 50 days.
00:24:01
Speaker
And I have skeletons on my house and she wants me to get the rest of it out today. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what, what's, what's the right answer? I said, well, she was like, well, summer's over. I said summer's not over until the 21st. We've got 20 more days. What are you doing? Then her answer was, what's the next major holiday? What, what is major holiday? You skipped labor day.
00:24:29
Speaker
You didn't care about Labor Day at all. Did you put your Labor Day decorations out? Yes, I had sickles and strike banners and everything. Well, I'll one up you. I last weekend was at the local Target. They had their advent calendars out for sale. No, they didn't. Yes, they did. That's insane. Yep. Yeah. Do we just we no longer care about Thanksgiving?
00:24:59
Speaker
Do we just, I was like, well, you know, you better get next week, your Valentine's stuff out. Don't tempt them. Don't tempt them. I just don't know the answer anymore. This is insane. Am I the person who's crazy? I don't think so. I don't think we should have Halloween decorations out when it's 92 degrees outside. No. Where else can I melt? Yeah.
00:25:23
Speaker
Unless you're willing to put Bermuda shorts and a breezy t-shirt on that one. That's not appropriate for him to be out there. Well, especially because now the first couple of weeks of, you know, September, it's 90 some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's got to be limits to this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You look, I mean, I'm all about you do you and things like that, but within reason. Yeah. Christmas. I'm setting the law.
00:25:51
Speaker
The day after Thanksgiving, you are allowed to put your stuff up. Done. Yeah. That is a traditional good day to do set up your Christmas stuff. And it must be down by December the 26th. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, usually New Year's. No. Summer 26, that stuff's coming down. Yeah. Well, it's boxing day. Some people celebrate boxing day. Then put your boxes up. Put your boxes up.
00:26:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, Halloween, that should be an October 1st thing. Oh, well, that's what I've lost. That's not happening. I lost that fight. I mean, October is the spooky month. That's when you would put Halloween stuff up. I agree with you, but I've been married long enough to know that I've already lost this fight because there's skeletons sitting on my
00:26:51
Speaker
counter right now. We there are two Halloween decorations up in my house already. And the worst part is, because we walk around our neighborhood, there's a guy in my neighborhood who's already put his Halloween stuff on the outside of his house. Oh, so I've already lost because she's like, well, we're behind that guy. Well, the Millers did it. Exactly. Fuck the Millers. Yeah. Who is that guy? God, knock on his door and just punch him in his mouth. Right.
00:27:20
Speaker
Sir, do you not know what day it is? And he would be like, I tried to explain to my wife. I think the wives. Right. Yeah. And if you want to do Halloween, like, because she wanted to do the skeleton that she like decorates for the next holiday. That's kooky and cool. Yeah, sure.
00:27:45
Speaker
But boy, it is. It is. It's not even September 11th. I shouldn't have to think about this. Yeah, man. I just envision your house like draped in orange and black and purple and. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The only place that doesn't happen is the man cave. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:05
Speaker
Fight changes all the light bulbs to like purple and orange. Oh, no, we have few balls, but there you go. Yeah, it's even better. Change them on command. Oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, but then Christmas is no better because people do decorate. They'll start decorating for Christmas next week. And I, I heard someone at work the other day saying. Well, I talked to my wife and we're thinking about putting the Christmas decorations up right around Halloween weekend.
00:28:35
Speaker
What? My jaw dropped. I looked at them in just utter confusion and walked away. You know what we're going to start doing? I'm celebrating all the weird holidays. Yeah. It's Arbor Day. I'm putting trees everywhere. We're going to do that for three months up to leading up to Arbor Day. Yeah. International Cheese Wheel Day. I'm celebrating that for two months.
00:29:05
Speaker
It's crazy, but the stores are not helping because you walk into Lowe's and they go huge Halloween section. Oh yeah. Sitting up and ready to go. Yeah. I just, I don't... It's how I feel like the most like an old man. This is the most I feel like an old man yelling at the sun like, this is not right. You guys should not be doing this. No, you shouldn't. We're still in...
00:29:34
Speaker
We're still in yard work time. Yeah. I don't care. We wanted to look for an RV fridge for the RV. Yeah. We spent more time looking at the Halloween decorations that we did the fridge for the RV. Oh, so the tax, the task that you had gone there for. Yeah. Makes sense. Was distracted by Halloween decorations. It's insane. Lowe's shouldn't even be selling Halloween stuff.
00:30:01
Speaker
They should be a refuge for me. Yeah, exactly. You don't go to Lowe's to shop. Oh, now you do, though, because again, it's just like we talked about with the food. They try to cater to everything. You go to Lowe's to buy something for a project and then immediately to turn around and go back to Lowe's because you got forgot something or you got the wrong elbow and then immediately to go back to Lowe's because you broke two things because you were so pissed off trying to fit them in together and replace them again.
00:30:31
Speaker
That's the only reason you go to Lowe's. But now, now I had to spend 40 minutes looking at the day on Halloween decorations. It's insane. I'm sure Christmas decorations are right around the corner. Oh yeah. I mean the grocery stores, they have Halloween candy out right now. They have their Halloween candy out and it's
00:30:58
Speaker
But in September candy corn and yeah, just chew on some old wax. Well, yeah. Yeah, I mean. All candy is kind of disgusting and you get really pull it down to it. Well, yeah, it's all sugary grossness. So the holidays that people decorate for, I mean, the big ones are Halloween and Christmas. I think some people do the Thanksgiving thing. Yeah.
00:31:25
Speaker
I think that's more like the fall thing where they've got. I feel like Thanksgiving, we used to do a lot more with kids. Yeah. See it. Oh, yeah. You have a cornucopia and. Yeah, you did it in the pilgrim hats and you had turkey. Yeah. And I feel like that was a thing when we were kids, but I feel like it's getting less and less. Oh, yeah, I agree. And then you get Valentine's Day. You grow up fucking carts all over their house. Yeah. See, we don't know. We do. St. Patrick's Day because, yeah, we're not animals.
00:31:57
Speaker
And 4th of July is fraught with danger because you don't want people thinking you're one of these weirdos who thinks the flag is a cult. No, yeah. So, you know, you have been careful about 4th of July. Yeah. Let's say 4th of July and Memorial Day, you know, you might put a flag out. Yeah, you put a flag out. That's it. And side tangent, if I find out that you're flying the flag wrong and you listen to this podcast, I'm coming for you. Oh, yeah. I'm taking your flag away from you. Yeah. Your privileges are gone.
00:32:27
Speaker
Your flag cannot be ratty. If it's being flown at night, it must have a light on it. It must be flown correctly, not upside down. It must be flown at the same height as other country flags if your organization represents that country. Your state flag must be low and to the left of it.
00:32:50
Speaker
Or if it's on the same post below it. Right. Well, no, it's supposed to be below it anyways. Well, yeah, yeah, but I'm saying it won't be to the left if they only have one post. Sure. And it is your by flag code. You're not supposed to make clothes out of flags. Nope. You're not supposed to use bunting out of flags. You're not supposed to change the
00:33:13
Speaker
Design of the flag? No. If there's one United States flag and your flag is to not be on the back of a vehicle. Right. It is to be on the right front. Right front bumper only. That's it. That's the only acceptable place to put it on a vehicle. Right front bumper. I'm looking at you, fire departments and fire departments in the rear of the vehicle. I walked away from that argument one day. Well, I started that argument at work because I went to my boss and said,
00:33:41
Speaker
Why are we having this argument about flags when they're being flown incorrectly anyways? Yep. And that started out horrible. Oh yeah, it came to an assistant chief meeting. I brought up the code and they were like, wow, before we put it, well, at least it's on the back right. Still wrong. Still wrong. I'm out. I'm out. You don't get to change the flag code. I am against this. Yeah. And they look, I mean, the Firepower one drives me nuts because, yeah.
00:34:10
Speaker
The first time you take the engine out of the building, the flag looks gross. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Immediately. They're not meant for that. No. They get wet and gross and nasty. And you're also flying them at night without a light. Right. So, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Yeah. Flag code drives me nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Because you want to be a patriot, but you want to follow the rules to be a patriot. Yeah. Oh, what's next? People are going to put their skeleton upside down and their cornucopia with nothing in it.
00:34:40
Speaker
Right. If you want to fly that Maryland flag, you want to make Maryland toilet paper. I don't care what you do with your Maryland flag. Stupid Marylanders and your stupid flag. It's so easy. Black square top left. Well, maybe if you didn't have such a dumb flag, it wouldn't be a problem. No, if we if there was half a bit of education in these, it should be. Oh, you're buying a flag. Tell me which way it's supposed to go. If you don't know, you don't get to buy the flag.
00:35:08
Speaker
Here's your flag awareness test before you. Yes. Move on. Yes. That's fair. But also don't have such a dumb flag, Maryland. Oh my God. It's not just Maryland. There are other places that have crazy flags. You're correct. The city of Salisbury. Hey, we used to have a flag that we all knew. It's easy. The yellow line is the top line.
00:35:34
Speaker
Yes, it's easy if you know that, but they just put it out without explaining that to anybody. But nobody took any flag awareness. There was no flag awareness class. That's correct. And I don't know where the city buys their flags. The junkiest junk. Oh my gosh, that they fade in like a week. Yeah. Yeah. I think we make our flags out of paper mache because immediately I. That and watercolors.
00:36:03
Speaker
I always replace them. They must be tracking the number of flags I put at station one because they get ratty so quickly. Buy one good flag instead of 12 shit ones. I wonder what our flag budget is. That's a great thing to look into.
00:36:28
Speaker
I should work. That is my project. But like, this is what we spent on flags last year. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yeah. You probably figure a way we could hire like three more people. Probably. Oh, it's probably every two months I have to replace the flag to say it's ridiculous because I refuse to allow the flag to fly if it's not in. Well, that's the way it should be. Right.
00:36:55
Speaker
Buy a nice canvas or cotton or whatever that, you know, that that different material they make flags out of. Yeah. Instead of these polyester crap ones. Right. Did you know that September 12th is Defenders Day? I've never heard of Defenders Day. Neither have I. What are we defending? I don't know. What is Defenders Day celebrate? Oh, Baltimore's defenders past and present.
00:37:25
Speaker
like defending. These are Maryland public holidays. Oh, yeah. Oh, how many major the battle for Henry happened? Yeah, I. I mean, do you put decorations up for. New Year's. Yeah, people do that. Yeah, people put the welcome.
00:37:50
Speaker
next year things up. Put the stupid baby. Put the stupid baby up. I've seen people decorate for New Year's, but New Year's is never, it's usually, you do it for if you're ever at a party. Yeah. And then you take it down after the party. Easter? I don't, but people do. Oh yeah, I know people do, yeah. But the same thing, like usually Easter decorations, they put them up right before Easter and they're gone right after Easter. Yeah. It's not an offensive holiday to me.
00:38:15
Speaker
Well, because it's a floating holiday. Also, that bothers me. Well, yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Yeah, people put up Easter, but usually Easter holidays, it's like this is just the spring decorations. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like I see a lot of people put out a spring flag with little Easter eggs on it. Yeah. Because guess what, people? That's what Easter is. It's fake. You down to it. All holidays are fake.
00:38:45
Speaker
Well, yes, but the whole narrative behind Thanksgiving is wrong, but whatever. Oh, we shouldn't celebrate how we pillaged and flundered. Everybody didn't sit down and was happy and.
00:39:04
Speaker
Well, no, that seemingly did happen. There is an account of that happening. There was no Turkey, though. There's no Turkey. There were probably eight oysters and... Venison. Venison and things like that. And it didn't happen the first year. It was many years into the colony. But it's real hard to celebrate Thanksgiving, but like, well, let's just... Americans helped us out. Yeah. And then we kind of...
00:39:31
Speaker
Screwed him over. Screwed over the entire population. Yeah, but made him start wearing those stupid belt buckle hats. I never understood the buckle shoes, how that would even work. Looks like a belt on your shoe. Yeah, but but you look at the decorations and this giant buckle. Well, I don't think that's probably accurate to the. But again, it's the reality. Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker
You know, shoelaces haven't been invented yet. Yeah. If you look at where shoelaces. No, I'm sure there was something. I mean, there was like leather lacing's. Yeah. I mean, there was no aglets, but definitely no aglets. Yeah. You look at any shoe made before like 2004 and they're all like super uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah. Except for Samba's.
00:40:33
Speaker
Well, the Adidas Samba's the indoor soccer shoes. Oh, I don't know what that is. There is. Everybody had a pair of them. They were the black Adidas. This is something you did while you were you were painting fences and. Oh, my goodness. Pies from Aunt May. No. It may make me. And that's what made the pause. Oh, I'm sorry. But I think people now they're taking it, you know, the.
00:41:03
Speaker
holidays and everything. Oh, it's football season, so people put all their football crap up and. Yeah, you don't decorate for football season. Super Bowl, you're allowed to put up some Super Bowl themed decorations for that one day only. Yeah, I had forgotten that the season was even starting till my father-in-law emailed the other days, like, oh, you got to put your pics in. I was like, oh, crap, we do. Yeah. Today's first real day of football. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. I'm this a side tangent, side tangent. Still about seasons.
00:41:33
Speaker
It annoys me that they start the football season on Thursday now. Yeah. Thursday Night Football should not be the first game of the week of the season. Nope. Sorry. Sunday, one o'clock. Sunday, one o'clock. That should be the bam. This is when we play. And nobody should have a bye on week two. No. It's crazy. No more buys. No more buys. Get rid of buys. Play 16 weeks. Just do it. Yeah. Yeah. Just like you.
00:42:02
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, my football season already started because band season has started. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's your last season of this. No, it's not. Oh, yeah. The little one I said, they were. Yep. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the band director is like, we get you for four more years after this. So. Oh, I see my burger face. Yes. So.
00:42:30
Speaker
Yeah, you talk about the, you know, the football and we've said it before, you know, go out there and play like animals. My youngest had a field hockey game yesterday. And after a while, the refs were blowing the whistle because in field hockey, you know, if it touches a child's foot, they have to blow the whistle. And one point I was like, let them play. Well, how are they going to do band and field hockey? It's there's ways they can't. Oh, no, there's ways the same season.
00:42:59
Speaker
I know they are, but there are ways because we'll band practice. Well, right now it is. Band practice is Wednesday nights and Saturdays because football games are either Thursday or Friday and then competition days are Saturdays. So that plays out. But when they're field hockey days? Well, if there's a field hockey game and what the good thing is my youngest plays trumpet. So there's other trumpets. So if there's one missing from the section, it's not horrible.
00:43:29
Speaker
Yeah, it's, it's tricky, but yeah, there are kids that do both. Back in my day, you had to do one or the other. I fall sport or band. Yeah. Well, we have a couple of kids that are in the color guard who are also cheerleaders. So at a football game, they like cheer. And then for that halftime show, run out with us and then run back and cheer. Huh? Yeah.
00:43:54
Speaker
Bonkers. Yeah, it's madness. Yeah, that's that's madness. That's crazy talk. And again, it frustrates me to no end that not all the games are Friday night because some games have to be Thursday night because of a certain school. We'll name names. What's cool? Why high? Oh, because of why high, they're not allowed to have Friday night games because there's no lights because of the students. Yeah.
00:44:22
Speaker
They found it was less disruptive to have Y-High games on Thursday night because of Friday being a school day. Interesting. Yeah. I think the end of the day, the topic is, be season appropriate with your decorations. We're not saying don't decorate. Just decorate at a reasonable time. Right.
00:44:46
Speaker
That's all. Again, if you walk outside and you're sweating, you should not have anything for the fall or winter out. Right. I don't want to see Christmas decorations in October. No. I don't want to see Halloween decorations in September. No. October one. October one. Yeah. Well, I've also like. Yeah. And look, you can put your fall decorations up on September 22nd. Yes. Because that's what fall is. Yes.
00:45:10
Speaker
Yeah, people out. Well, you know, Labor Day is the official end of summer. No, it's not. No, no summer. That's not how calendars work. Yep. It's the Equinox. Yeah. Things work. Yeah. Well, I have a goat ready for that night. And on that topic, too. It's up to. So Baldur's Gate finally came to PlayStation. And is coming to cross play. Yes. But the next update.
Baldur's Gate 3 Enthusiasm
00:45:40
Speaker
Yes, yes, it is. Yeah. And this is the best game ever. I I've been telling you for a month. Oh, my gosh. All the decisions, all the, you know, that's like, you know, I was thinking for because, you know, you can save, which one thing I figured out that it does not autosave nearly enough. No. Yeah. I lost a lot of progress. Yeah.
00:46:08
Speaker
So I have started saving much more often, but yeah. And there are some people like, well, you know, you could just save before, you know, you have a conversation and then reload it. If you don't like the conversation, I'm like, no, that's not how that works. You have to roll with what you say. Yeah, thanks. I do. And if you fail your persuasion check, guess what? You failed. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you do get inspiration to reroll. Yes. Yeah. Every now and again, you do get some of that, but I, and it's just, yeah.
00:46:36
Speaker
I love the fact that so many games, it's like you're like, OK, well, here's the main quest. I know if I do this one, this the main quest is here it is. But you could go to this path, this path or this path to possibly move along the main path. Boy, wait till you get to act three. Oh, God. Well, right now, I'm just like, you know, look, there's going to be some minor spoilers, but.
00:46:59
Speaker
I explored. I think Act One spoilers are fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's I'm not even done Act One. And I've been playing for I don't know how long. But yeah, I've I met Raphael, the devil who tried to get me to make a deal with him. Yeah. Scared the hell out of me. Well, get used to him. Sorry. I was just exploring a house and I was like, oh, look, there's a basement. I went down in the basement.
00:47:30
Speaker
And the basement led to the underdark. Uh, yes. Yeah. It's just a small section of the underdark, but still there was a giant spider had to fight. Yes. Yeah. The blinking spider. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But in. Yeah, there was like before I got in there, there was this thing that was talking about there's a certain kind of tree bark that only comes from trees in the underdark. I didn't see any trees down there. So I'm guessing there's another place to go.
00:48:01
Speaker
Can't talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, it's just all these things. And then, you know, I. I. Oh, God, I was so mad I had fought the hag. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. And I hit went to hit save and I misclicked and loaded. Oh, that's a pain in the butt fight, too. Yes, it was. Yes, yes, it was. Just getting down to her was pain in the butt. Yes.
00:48:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. But then when I fought her the second time, it was a totally different fight because at the end she didn't plead with me. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I guess I hit her too hard with one of my last hits because yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then what I the girl that we saved from her, I screwed up her life. Screwed up her life. Yeah. How'd you screw up her life? Did you?
00:48:59
Speaker
Bring her husband back. Yeah. Yeah. So did I. Yeah. She marches off with a zombie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh, God, I could break this thing. I was like, but I was trying to cure him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I let my vampire buddy bite my neck. Oh, that's going to be a mistake. Oh, I don't know. I didn't. I didn't let him do it. You didn't. I didn't.
00:49:29
Speaker
Oh, see. And that's a thing. That's a glorious thing of this game. Everybody's playthrough is so different because it's just like Dungeons and Dragons. I tell you, I've having a lot of problems because people are dying around me that I'm. Mostly sure they're not supposed to have died. Oh, no. Yeah. But like with it, like non player characters. Yes. Yeah. But not like your core party people.
00:49:58
Speaker
No, but I have seen that your party party people can die. Yeah. Well, you start out with like everybody has a scroller of of of eyes. I mean, like those actions that mean they don't come back. Oh, yeah. What's like, I think I may have done something bad with Will because Will has horns now.
00:50:18
Speaker
Oh, yeah, mine is. I think I don't know if they can avoid that. Oh, OK. All right. I had the same problem. Yeah. I might be able to go back and fix, like, you know, my. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the. Barbarian Tiefling girl, Carla. She's badass. She's my favorite of all the NPCs. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's just. Yeah, I screwed up her storyline completely. Oh, she hit on me. Was it?
00:50:49
Speaker
Supposedly, I was reading an article that like, because when I went through, all of them hit on me and they hit on me a lot. Nice. And you're just very charismatic. Well, you were a bard, weren't you? I am a bard. That's why you have super charisma. I do have super charisma. Yeah. See, I've got like a charisma of 12. Mine is a 20. Jesus. I think right now mine's a 22. Wow. Yeah. I've got a charisma of 12 and an intelligence of nine. Nice. Yeah.
00:51:17
Speaker
Yeah. My strength is crap, and that is really annoying because I can't pick up anything. I picked up this dagger. I'm now encumbered. I've got like a 15 or a 16, I think, for strength. Yeah. I mean, I screwed up for like Asterion, the vampire guy. Yeah. For like, I don't know.
00:51:40
Speaker
four hours, five, more than that. I just was running around with a bow that he couldn't even use. I was so mad. I'm like, why is this fricking rogue never getting advantage on this bow? That's because he can't use the bow. Well, he comes with a bow. Yeah, but he can only use certain kinds of bow. He comes with a short bow probably. A short bow. I gave him a long bow accidentally. Yep.
00:52:01
Speaker
And yeah, yeah, he was doing no damage and missing everyone. I'm going and I was getting frustrated. So I would take him out. If I knew I was going to combat, I'd be like, all right, let's sub you in for somebody who might actually do something useless. Yeah. What's like in all of them are like, you know, you see in your journal, it's like Jeremy Moore with so and so. It's like, I want to bring you all. Yeah. I've done here lately. I've mainly done the Styrian for like picking locks and stuff. Yeah.
00:52:31
Speaker
What's her name, Kardashian, Karla, Karla, and then a shadow heart. I stopped doing it. But see, I heard she doesn't really do a great job of healing. That's not a great healer. She's a terrible healer. Yeah. So I'm thinking about drop her. Why? Well, I'm pretty sure. Well, I know she's a cleric of Shar. So that's. Yeah. Yeah. So that the big tip off was when I went to the Temple of Saloon and she was freaking out. Right. Yeah. Which that was a nice thing. That place.
00:53:01
Speaker
Where I was a ranger, the owlbear, I was able to talk to the owlbear and talk my way out of the combat. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. And have that option. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just like as soon after every long rest, pretty much I cast talk to animals. Yeah.
00:53:18
Speaker
So I cast a detective visibility on myself all the time. That's smart. Because it happens. I've gotten caught so many times. I'm like, I have this stupid spell. Why haven't I used it? No, I'm just. Oh, yeah. First thing first. Yeah. Yeah. But but I love the fact that I mean, there's, you know, it lays it out so easily about bonus actions and. Yeah. And every spell has felt useful. And yeah, every.
00:53:44
Speaker
You know, abilities useful and and the fact that you can interact with everything around you in one way or another. I mean, once you figure out you can jump on things, yeah, the game changes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I didn't know about that at first. I was like, oh, that's how I can move there. Right. Where there was one like you can sneak around a little bit. I was like, huh, there's a beehive above that guy. I want it's like. I bet I can shoot it with my arrow and drop it and sure enough, drop the bees got advantage.
00:54:14
Speaker
As soon as you figure out that Misty Step is the greatest thing in the world. Yes. Better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Being able to pop up behind somebody like that or combining things. Oh, I'll have this person throw this flask of grease and then shoot a fire arrow into it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm walking napalm. You're walking napalm. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:40
Speaker
I mean, there have been a couple of times I have found like a small burrow. Yes. And I was like, OK, well, as a ranger, I've got a little animal companion, but I can't send it down there. I'm assuming that's like if you have a druid and they can shape shift and go through. That's one of the ways you can do it. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways to get through there. Because see, I haven't gone to the druids yet. Right. Yeah. But I think that's going to be my next step is to go there.
00:55:08
Speaker
The druids. Yeah, it's either that or take Lizelle and go to the gift camp. Do the druids first. That's what I figure. Yeah. So. Yeah. The dirt that goes out, things actually like do. Yeah, I figured that was like a because she seems like the main. Well, where she was the first person you find. It depends on how you play your game. Yeah. Yeah. I think you could totally ignore her.
00:55:39
Speaker
She's my girlfriend. Really? Yeah. She's a little too angsty for me. I like the fire ear girl. Yeah. I like it's nice. Yeah. Yeah. She whispered sweet nothings into my ear last night. That was nice. Oh, yeah. So if it weren't for this fire, it's like, yeah, you just wait. Yep. Well, that's like with her.
00:56:06
Speaker
I made sure to equip a weapon that she's proficient with. That helps. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she just swings a great next when I play over there. I've got a great sword with her now and she's kicking butt. But and I totally forgot, I was like, you know, I'm playing along. I was like, I got to change all their armor and stuff. Yeah. This is why these guys aren't doing well, because I haven't upgraded them to. Yeah.
00:56:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm actually well, I've maxed out the level, so I'm level 12. And all of my characters, except for Shadowheart are pretty geared up. Yeah. But I rarely use Shadowheart because what she's going to do, walk up their dinking maze and do three damage. Yeah. I will say she did help. She she did a turn undead that let me get advantage. So yeah, that does help. But it works.
00:56:58
Speaker
But again, yeah, when it works. Yeah. So. It's it's such a good game. It is. Yeah. I mean, and I hope this is, you know, explaining to people how much fun D&D can be. And the head of Larian has already said that they might explore higher level stuff. Oh, that'd be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't want to do it because of the spells, but. Right.
00:57:24
Speaker
You know, I think if it's like DLC or something. Yeah. I'm really hoping they really follow through the DNC. Yeah. Well, I mean, think about the other games, the DLC for those like, I mean, Baldur's Gate 2 had thrown a ball or whatever, and it was. Yeah. There were some pretty crazy stuff you could do in that. Yeah. Yeah. And even in level 12, you feel very powerful. Oh, I bet. Do you do tactical or do you just do regular?
00:57:52
Speaker
I do tactical. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. For some things I do tactical, but. For the most part, I'm just wandering around. So I mean, when I'm in combat, I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Other than that, say sometimes. Yeah. When I want to, you know, sneakily fireball things. Yeah. Yeah. Sneakily fireball. That's.
00:58:16
Speaker
Nothing says like the indeed and surprise fireball and everybody's surprised. Yeah, yeah, yeah, including your party members. Yeah, that's actually a little annoying sometimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying to figure out where that little circle of damage is going to be can be tricky. Yeah, I have accidentally like
00:58:38
Speaker
I was like, Oh, look, there's a guy over there. I will throw this bottle of alchemist fire at them and hit a rock above me and it have it fall down onto my party. Yeah, I don't. That's frustrating because of that. Yeah. I accidentally put a cloud of daggers above the fight. Oh, so that was useful. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing. Well, if somebody flew up there, if somebody decided to fly somehow.
00:59:04
Speaker
But that didn't happen. Yeah. It just sat there and was doing daggers above my head. Yeah. Well, you know what? The threat was there. And that's what matters. Yes. I guess is my favorite spell, too. Yeah. Yeah, it is pretty fun. Well, but yeah. But I mean, it's like, you know, we've kind of talked about offline. It's, you know, how do we figure out a two person campaign?
00:59:33
Speaker
Do you record us playing the game or? Which could be that. It could be that. Or I mean, I've seen some where it's like, you know, you kind of swap off and it's a it's really just a one person because it's once the DM and once the player character.
00:59:51
Speaker
Because I saw one. I got to look into it more. And it was like a pre-designated thing. So we could it was all scripted so you could have two player characters and just like a generic DM that was guiding things. Well, that's that's once I actually am. Looking forward to when people have gone through the playthrough and also I can actually do a co-op playthrough. Yeah, because.
01:00:16
Speaker
Yeah. And think about it. I mean, that's such an easy, you know, because part of the hard part of D&D is like, OK, somebody's got to be the GM. They've got to figure everything out. We've got to get all our schedules together. And this it's no, we just have to get our schedules. Right. We just have to jump because the computer is our GM. We just. Yeah. And you could totally do.
01:00:37
Speaker
With no party, you could just do the two people. You don't have to have, yeah, the NPCs if you don't want them. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You could just do the two and see how it goes. Hopefully somebody can detect traps. Yeah. Oh, my God. My ranger sometimes fails on that. Oh, it's the. My part is so oblivious. Just walking around and I see perception check failed, perception check jailed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oops. Yeah. And I like that that, you know,
01:01:06
Speaker
It's your other party members can help, too. Yes. It's like, I'll see that failed. And I'm like, come up here next to me. Teach me the ways. Yeah, that's one thing that's very nice about the barbarian. They get a bonus to finding traps for some reason. I don't know why. Yeah. I think that's only if you straight class don't multi classer. Yeah. Yeah, I've been multi classed anything. I'm level four. So I think multi class doesn't open up to five.
01:01:36
Speaker
Um, I thought it was three. Maybe it is. Maybe it's just something I missed, but I wasn't going to multi-class this one. You have to, it's not very intuitive. You have to like, when you level up, you have to, um, change the, the class manually. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. When I did figure out how to change how my dice looks. So that's nice. I still haven't got to change my days. Really? No. It's,
01:02:03
Speaker
So the next time you have a dice roll? Yeah, that button's not there. I've looked. Really? Yeah. Then you must not have a dice. I must not. I've got prismatic ones. Oh. Yeah. They're like all rainbowy. Nice. Yeah. It's fun. I like the fact that when you put armor on a person, it changes the appearance. Yeah. And then it actually changes in the cut schemes. Yes. Yes.
01:02:31
Speaker
Yeah, Laezel has this wacky helmet in my round. I've had forever. Her face is half out of it. I like the fact that
01:02:45
Speaker
gear that you find in Act One is still good in Act Three. The armor isn't as much because, you know, you start getting higher level armors, but the helmets and the gloves and stuff. I have a, Will wears one of the Act One boots right now. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just found some, it was like, it was like spider boots or something like that. I was like,
01:03:14
Speaker
Not getting stuck in stuff is great. Yeah. And then there's a pair of gloves that give bonus damage on bows. Yeah. Very nice. Yeah, it's such a good game. It is really good. And I was very much looking forward to what they do. Your future with it. Yeah. And the thing is like, you know, you can. Yeah, I know you'll know some of the stuff coming up, but I mean, this is one of those games that you can replay.
01:03:43
Speaker
bajillion different ways. Yeah. Well, we already discussed. I missed stuff in Act One. Yeah. You know, yeah. So I'm already ready to go back and do my next play through. Yeah. Do you think you'll ever do an evil play through? And I think I'm already getting you. Oh, I'm hoping.
01:04:03
Speaker
That at the end of it, they're like, and here's what your alignment looked like. Yeah. Because. Yeah. I try to be good. Right. But sometimes I end up like, was that really the good thing to do? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. So. It's like I messed up a persuasion check with a cow.
01:04:25
Speaker
And it just moved at me. So I was like, damn it, I know I missed something with this. Yeah, I messed up that same check. Yeah, because it was like, well, if that's the case, moo. I was like, well, I'll talk to it again. And it just goes, ha ha. Moo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great game. Yeah, it really is. I'm so excited to.
01:04:50
Speaker
Get my second play through going. And when you remember things, you're like, oh, wait, are you like, I got the necklace that allows talk with dead. Yep. I have that one. I was like, there was that dead body. I wonder if I can talk to it. There's no wonder. Of course you can talk to it. Mm hmm. Yeah. It's little things like that. Yeah. My map has all these little like dots on it. It's like, come back here with this person. Come back here with this person. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah.
01:05:19
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Yeah, so when the co-op goes and I can finally get through act three. Yeah, yeah, it's happening. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I just. And for me, this is hard. It's it's I'm torn because this is also the third week of the new season of Destiny. Right. And I'm like, I love Destiny, but Baldur's Gate is life right now. Yeah, yeah. I haven't found our favorite character yet. Really? Oh, I found mention.
01:05:47
Speaker
I found a mention. I found the book that was like, you know, the dire or the Journal of Miniature Space Hamsters. I was like, Oh, this means he's there. Right. I have not found him yet. Oh, the act three is so huge. Every time I turn around, I'm like, Oh my God, this is I haven't seen this area yet. And then I spent like an hour not doing my quest. And see, I thought act one was huge because I'm like barely. I don't think I'm a third of the map. Right.
01:06:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Act two is kind of small. Yeah. But they talked to Larry and they were like, we did that on purpose. Yeah. And that's kind of a lot of games. Yeah, I would rather it be the third act, be the, you know, with the big culmination, have all this stuff than a bloated act two and an act three, be like, you're done one fight. Right. Yeah. No, act three is. Yeah. Oh boy. God, and a storytelling in this and just. Yeah.
01:06:44
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Yeah. I'm very interested to talk to you when you're done. Yeah. To see some of the choices you made. Oh yeah. Because there's some choices that are coming up that are. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, I am sure. Well, I think that's a good cast of the pod. Yeah. Go out and play Baldur's Gate three. Yes, people get it. Go get it. My gosh.
01:07:12
Speaker
Yeah, PC or PlayStation, either one. Like I was worried about PlayStation. Yeah, it's fine. I think the only thing that I would say PC gives you is the mods. Oh, yeah, I'm sure there's. Yeah, that. And, you know, I'm sure there's some graphics stuff because I've seen a couple of drop ins like my main character has a face tattoo and sometimes it's just like a smudge. Yeah. But but it's only for a couple of seconds and then poof, it's beautiful.
01:07:39
Speaker
Yeah. It's a beautiful game on top of everything. So it is. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. The Larian chef's kiss. Great job. They did an amazing job. Yeah. And I was a little worried because of, I didn't really enjoy divinity, but this, they definitely nailed the water skate life. Yes. Yes, they have. Yeah.
01:08:03
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And the characters are great. The NPCs can always talk to them. Random NPCs, you're like, they're not going to have anything to talk about. You talk to them. Yeah. Yeah. I talk to everybody. Yeah. I'm very excited to talk to you, like I said. Because I know one thing that I screwed up big, and I want to see if you screwed up as well. Oh, time will tell. Yeah.
01:08:33
Speaker
But I think that's a good place to end for the week. Yeah. Yeah. Please take care of your flags. Yes. Please do not decorate for Halloween for another two weeks. No, no. If you do, we will find you. We will find you. All right, folks, take care.