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Ground Hog Day 2023
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (Ground Hog Day, Crabbing, Fire Department schedules, Delays, British baking, and Destiny); Ron asks what games we are excited for in 2023; Chris brings up whether or not gamers are spoiled. 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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Groundhog Day Tradition Mishaps
00:00:47
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Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. It's finally winter. Yeah. Well, the stupid rat saw its shadow this morning. The rat did see a shadow. Did you see the big controversy in Quebec? No. Yeah. Their groundhog was found dead this morning. Oh. They had like this giant thing, like extravaganza, like they do in Gobbler's Knob. And yeah, they went to wake him up and he wouldn't wake up.
00:01:15
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So they had like this big pressure. So sad that I don't know. What is it? Billy the Marmot or whatever is, you know, wouldn't wake up.
Weather Prediction Traditions
00:01:23
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Oh, yeah. So I mean, does that mean like that means all apocalyptic winter? Yeah, as a winter winter is coming. We definitely didn't see a shadow. So that means. I don't know. That's pretty see the shadow of death. Or I guess it's all set up. That's fair. Yeah, that's good.
00:01:44
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This could be the catastrophe. I bet it's pretty cold and he probably froze to death. No, no. I am sure he's like bucks a 20 fill. It's got a groundhog mansion. Pennsylvania has like totally bought into that stupid groundhog.
Cultural Reflections on Groundhog Day
00:02:03
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If you watch any PA TV commercials for the lottery, it's now their lottery mascot. So it's a goddamn groundhog everywhere. Drive pretty well for a quadruped.
00:02:14
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Side your eyes. Oh, gosh. Yeah. My brother was like, man, I think they were going to make Groundhog Day too. And I said, yes, they should just play the same movie. Yes. That would be the joke. Yes. Such a good movie. Oh my gosh. Yes. I should watch it tonight. You should. It's a tradition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So now we're at Solid Shadows or six more weeks of winter.
00:02:42
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Six more weeks of winter. That's what they say. Yeah. Pretty sure we get six more weeks of winter either way. Yeah. It's just amazing that those guys, they learn groundhog ease to be able to speak to him and. Yeah, yeah, it's very exciting.
Economic and Environmental Impact of Crabbing
00:02:59
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I fussed at my wife. I was like, why don't you send a cub reporter up there? She didn't see the humor. Oh, Marilyn, they prognosticate with the crab races, right?
00:03:13
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I'm a muskrat. We could have a muskrat. Pull the muskrat out. If he pulls some mud out of the hole with him. A possum. A possum's not like a Maryland staple. No, no. It's not a lot of possums around. It's a lot more muskrats. Oh yeah. Yeah. You people love your crabs. Yeah. Put it on everything. Even though crabs aren't only for Maryland. Oh yeah.
00:03:43
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They're Maryland crabs, though. They're not even caught in Maryland. They're mostly caught in Virginia waters. Yeah, they're caught in Georgia. Oh, well, the ones you eat now. Yeah. Caught in Georgia and the Gulf. Yeah. If you're lucky. Yeah. They're not caught in China. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, crabs now. Shoot. Yeah. You don't need local Maryland crabs. Can't afford to. Yeah. I think the last time I looked at it, the bushels were like 800 bucks.
00:04:11
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Yeah. Unless you know a guy who knows a guy. Even still, I have contacts from working down there with you guys. And they were like, we couldn't even get it this year.
Plastics and Environmental Concerns
00:04:21
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Cause just. Yeah. I don't know that I, I didn't, I know I didn't pick crabs last year. I didn't either. I couldn't, I couldn't bring myself to it. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just the cost. It was like the red roost was like.
00:04:35
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God, what was it? All you could eat was like $56. I believe it was a good God. No, it's going to be worse next year for what I hear. Yeah. So unfortunately, they just need to know crabbing for a year or two. Yeah. That's the problem. But that's never going to happen. Or just like say you can crab in this area. Sure. Leave this, you know, just section it out.
00:05:04
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Yeah, like you said, this is no crab 23. It's going to happen. That's the worst part about it. It's going to happen naturally. There won't be crabs. But these crab fishermen.
00:05:21
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Refused... Crabbermen? Crabbers? But they refused to have any sort of sense of... It's everything environmental, right? Yeah. We all know that we're screwed. We'll just might as well be screwed on the way out, right? Yeah. It's like I saw the thing about talking about plastics.
00:05:43
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The only answer to plastics at this point is just cut off plastics. Yeah. They're so bad for everything. There's nothing we can do about it. We just got to stop using plastics. Yep. The plastics we have, we're just going to have to survive and get rid of.
Firefighting Schedules and Culture
00:05:57
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Just going to have to stop using plastic. Yeah. Well, if you burn it, it just goes away. So that's good, right? Yeah. Just goes away. Toxic cyanide gas into the environment. Yeah. Yeah, that's just one bag.
00:06:13
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It's just one what but but you know, that's people's like rationale or that I love the nut jobs that I hear. They're like, yeah, they're going to ban bags. Yeah, I'm going to start hoarding bags. I'm I'll shop two counties over to get my bags. I'm like, who gets this irate over a plastic shopping bag? They get so mad about it at work because I. Years ago, they had a deal at Acme
00:06:42
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There were $1 canvas bags. So I bought a bunch of them. I bought like 10, 10 or 12 for my house and I bought a couple for the shift. And I just was like, look guys, it's just, we'll just take bags to the shopping. It's not that big a deal. And it really just helps everybody. They get so irate about those bags. And I'm like, do you guys own stock in the plastic bag industry? What is going on that you're like pro plastic bag? And it's so crazy to me, like,
00:07:11
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We didn't use plastic bags when I was a kid. Yeah. We had paper. We used paper bags. That's how you wrapped your books. That's how you wrapped your books. And now it's like, oh my God, plastic bags are our identity. What? Do kids not do book covers anymore? I would assume not. Do kids even get books anymore? I don't know. Kind of. I don't know. I mean, college kids don't. They do it for some. I had to go
00:07:41
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buy my oldest world history book the other day. You probably should have called me first. I probably had it in my house. No, there's no way. It's like the newest second edition. You say these things, but there's no way. I have a lot of weird books in my house. I do go buy, I'll go buy college level history books because you can get them cheap as heck at the end of the year. Yeah. And that's another racket, college books.
00:08:08
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crazy racket. If you're smart, you just hang out in front of the history building and be like, I'll give you five bucks for your books. Give you five bucks. It's such a racket. When I went back to school to finish my degree, I had to pay $180 for a Xeroxed bunch of handouts from
Evolving Fire Department Roles
00:08:34
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the instructor that you called a book. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
00:08:38
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This is ridiculous. Yeah. No wonder colleges are failing. Yeah. It's insane. Yeah. But at least it's cold. At least it's finally cold. It's going to be zero degrees on Saturday when my work. Oh my gosh. I might put pants on. Yeah. I would hope you would. Probably not. Gosh. Zero degrees. Oh gosh. Oh, we're supposed to go pick up Girl Scout cookies.
00:09:09
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Keep those things away from me. The devil. Yeah. Yeah, that's zero degrees. That's that's Nipley. Yeah, that's that's the day when like fire department uniforms fail and we all just wear wherever the heck keeps us warm. Yeah. You remember back in the day, we had summer pants and winter pants. Oh, I did. Yeah. And you accidentally wore summer pants in the winter and you knew because the wind cut right through them. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:36
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And I remember people wearing like, you know, ski pants at work. Yeah. Well, I remember a certain captain wearing long johns underneath his uniform, which is insanity. Yeah. I don't know how that person didn't sweat to death. It's the same person that also would keep the little amish stove next to their bunk. Yeah. Yeah. So in our rickety ass firehouse, that is mostly a fire hazard in all places.
00:10:03
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Right next to his bunk that would fall apart if the bungee cord wasn't on it. Or somebody kicked it. Yeah. That did happen. I couldn't wear long johns at work. No. Because I have to put bunker pants on. Yeah. And when I put bunker pants on, I sweat to death. Yeah. It's insane. We talked about this the other day. This is a side to that. But one of the things I think that's fallen apart in the fire department is the
00:10:33
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shop talk brotherhood station stuff. Yeah. And I say that that all went away when we stopped wearing bunker pants in the firehouse. Like we just used to sit around a firehouse in bunker pants and just shoot the shit. Yeah, we did. And we don't do that anymore. And there's good reasons. I'm not saying there isn't. But it just was because we've got so much crap to do. Oh, my God. It's insane. The crap we have to do. It's in. And then every time something gets added, it's like,
00:11:04
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What is, where do we say no? Yeah. You know, we have to be like,
Work-Life Balance in Firefighting
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sometimes I feel like we do such a job of trying to impress everybody. Like this is what we're doing. We forget about, oh yeah, we're supposed to be doing this though. Yeah. Well, maybe with a new mirror, we won't do as much of that. Maybe, maybe. It's just, you know, we're,
00:11:27
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We're there to take calls. Anything that interferes with that part is a problem. I talk to those guys all the time about that. They're like, I don't care what you do other than get ready for calls and take calls. My firefighters have it pretty easy with me as a boss because I know how bad it was for us and it's way worse now. At least we don't walk around the neighbors anymore. Oh, gosh. Yeah.
00:11:57
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That was, that'd be whole days. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Back when we only had one engine, we'd still put an engine in service all day. Yep. Oh, you sit here with the engine. We get a call. Come pick us up. Where are you going to be? Somewhere in this area? Yeah. Okay. Well, just toot the horn. Yeah. I was on a, I got this into a discussion with somebody online the other day and they were saying that, was it, they worked 2448s.
00:12:26
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And their department's discussing switching to forty eight ninety six is because it's such a better schedule. I was like, I would murder somebody and they're like forty eight ninety six is the best. I was like, we are way too busy for that. They're like, I know we're busier than you. I mean, you know, if if the guys run more than eight calls on the ambulance, they're automatically moved over to the engine for the twenty four. I said, shut up, eight calls. I was like, we run that before lunch.
00:12:55
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So, but as soon as they posted that, like a bunch of other people are like, get out of here with your little hillbilly 4896s. True, you know, busy companies run 24 72s. Yeah. Yes.
00:13:09
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my buddy's department runs 48.96s and he was complaining to me because he's burnt out and he's getting near the end of his career and he's like, I'm just tired of messing my family for all this stuff. And I didn't realize he was working 48s. And he was talking and he's like, he's like, yeah, I just, you know, I'm at work for 48 hours and I just miss two days of everything. If it's a holiday, I miss two days of holiday. And I'm like, oh,
00:13:32
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Yeah. 48, 48. I think it's a suck. I thought you were on 24s. Of course I understand now. These departments do 48s. It's like, you're in a firehouse with the same people for 48 hours in a row. Yeah. I would kill people. Oh yeah. Yeah. I do a 36 and I'm like, I'm going to kill somebody if I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, that ended me just, oh God, 48 hours.
00:14:02
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48 hours and oh, we don't have a medic. So you're being on the medic unit for 48 hours in a row. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no way. How many times could I go to Genesis in 48 hours? Oh, my God. Or how many times can we go to Marley? Yeah. Marley. Marley. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's insane. Yeah. And there's also the psychopaths that do that weird Virginia crap that day on, day off, day on, day off. I love it.
00:14:32
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Nine, carry the two. It's like a cult to them. Yeah. They love it. He talked to them. The Nova schedule is the greatest schedule ever. I'm like, I work one day on, three days off. How is your schedule better than mine? Well, cause see every fourth month I get a four day week. I'm like, what the hell is wrong with you people? That's the thing. They've been brainwashed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
00:15:02
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Yeah, they're like, well, you know, once you get through the hell week every month, I'm like every month. Right.
Impact of Work Schedules in Safety Professions
00:15:08
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You're like, yeah, and it falls. Sometimes you end up with two hell weeks in a month. I was like, no. No, no, no, thank you. Yeah. And you know, you talk about the schedules, you work any overtime at all and you've just screwed up a whole week. Yeah. No, thanks. Right. Yeah.
00:15:30
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Not doing it. Yeah, I don't know. The Nova schedule is so bad that I don't. I don't even want to know what departments think about that stuff. Yeah, I know. But they they do it like that's a whole Northern Virginia thing. I think it's when there's age old cult brainwashed, you know, quote unquote badges of honor. Sure. I did the Nova. Yeah. Yeah. We used to work the DuPont schedule.
00:15:58
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I don't, I didn't mind 224s when I worked it. I think if my options were 224s or 2472s, obviously I'm two and 72s, but if I only had 224s or something else, I'd go to 224s. Yeah. You know, you always felt like you had a break. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh no, I was talking about the real DuPont schedule. You do a week of day work, a week of four to 12, a week of 12 to eight. That's what the cops do. Yeah. The cop schedule is insane.
00:16:26
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I don't know how, I was talking to a state trooper a couple of days, a couple of weeks ago on a call and he was complaining. He's like, yeah, this is my, whatever their sixth day of nights. And he's like, yeah, I'm just coming into work at four o'clock and I was just like, man, that's not a life. Yeah. Cause they do like a week of days, a week of mid shift and a week of nights. And you never have a chance to like acclimate to that. Yeah.
00:16:54
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Max sees your body starting to get acclimated. It's time to switch. Yeah. Well, of the three, four to twelve was always the hardest. Really? Yes. I always liked four to twelve. Oh, because you get home and it's, you know, you're amped up until like three o'clock in the morning. Yeah, it's finally fall asleep. You don't wake up till 10 o'clock and you have to go to work in like three hours. I always found nights to be the hardest.
00:17:18
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I always found overnight to be the heart because at like six o'clock in the morning, your life just sucks. I always found that to be the worst. I've worked pretty much every schedule at this point in my life and doing the overnights was the hardest for me.
00:17:37
Speaker
Especially because we did two to four. So it was your second overnight. And you got your butt kicked the night before. And yeah, butt kicked the second night. And then your day after that is just ruined. Yeah. You know, and then you got to you have a break for four days, which is nice. But then you're just going back to day work. Yeah. So I never mind day work. I always had no problem with the day shift. You just get your butt kicked. You know that. But yeah, you're just like, yep, here it is. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:07
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That. Yeah, my neighbor, he's a state trooper and the kids were like, what? So what's his schedule? It's like, it's held. His schedule is held. That's all you need to know. It is. Terrible schedule. And they all do it. Yeah. Like everybody. I don't understand. And I don't understand it. I'm like, you guys could do the fire department schedule pretty easily. Yeah. Why don't you? Yeah. Or at least do like 10s of 14s or something. Yeah. 10s of 14s would be helpful. Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:18:39
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I can handle it. Yeah. But again, it's probably like eons ago, some chief of state police. My granddaddy worked at the DuPont and it worked out for them. So we're going to do it here. Yeah. And it, but it's like inefficient. That's the crazy thing to me. It's like inefficient scheduling system that just makes headaches. You have a three platoon system or six, whatever their system is. Yeah. Just make that a 24 hour shift and you're done. Yeah.
00:19:08
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Yeah, you know. Yeah, I know. And maybe not do 20s or worse, 10s or 14s, something. Yeah, or 12s, but yeah. Just straight 12s. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that what the sheriff's office does, 12s? I don't know what they do. They all do weird things. I know City PD, this is the state police one. Yeah. Where they shift weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's just. Yeah, that's a whole nother bunch of stupidity. Sure. All right, like, you know,
00:19:39
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That's not stuff they talk about when you like, Hey, do you want to be a cop? Let me tell you about the fricking shifts. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. We talk about it, but when a fire department, we always, when we're doing tours, we always talk about our shifts. Oh yeah. And we're here for 24 hours. This is why we have a kitchen, you know? It's because we're always like, is anybody's parent, you know, mom or dad, a cop? Tell them about our schedule. It's true.
00:20:09
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Yeah, I mean, I've, I like 24 72. I know, I know all the bad sides of it. I think 24 72 is of all of them. You can mitigate. Yeah. I think it's the least of evils. Yeah. Somebody has to work overnight. Yeah. What's the best way to do that? Yep. You know, I guess in theory, the best way to do that was some, a platoon that only works nights, but their lives suck. Ah,
00:20:36
Speaker
Hey, who do you work for? I work for Salisbury. Which shift do you work on? Vampire shift. Yeah. Yeah. It's a brutal existence. Yeah. Working nights. Yeah. But what are you going to do? Yeah. Somebody's going to cover the calls. They're going to cover the calls eventually. Yeah. Hey, when seconds count, we're there in minutes. That's fair.
00:21:05
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fun news in the gaming world. Every game I want to play is delayed. I saw that almost text the other day. I was like, Oh, you don't have to worry about all the jam up. And then I was like, Oh, it's affecting everything. Yeah. Every freaking game. The one game I was thinking about playing in November got delayed to February. Hopefully it'll get actually brought out. That's company heroes three. Okay. Jedi fallen order is now April. Yes. As they said.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah. What was the other one? That was another one that got delayed. I can't remember. But I don't know what's going on. Everything's getting delayed, which, you know, if it's making a better game, it's going to have all the bugs fixed out. Yeah. I'm fine with it. I guess I'll be playing late fall or whatever the best thing is late fall because I got nothing else to do in February. Yeah, but late fall isn't until the very end of February.
00:22:03
Speaker
Yeah, it's a servers go down 9 a.m. Pacific on the 27th and they're back up on the 28th. Yeah, it's a 24 hour. Transfer fix, whatever thing. Yeah, I'm kind of the point now, and that's where I'm like, I don't really want to grind anything right now. I'll just wait for the new up, you know, expansion. I'm still working on my middle catalyst. I've got
00:22:32
Speaker
48 more precision kills and crucible to get. Jeez. Oh, I mean, it's I've already done 152 of them. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's like I'm not even a PVP guy, but it's like it's there. I could chase it. I mean, it's iron banner, so I'm having fun with that. That's what I was doing. The Black Lion, is that the name of the sword?
00:22:59
Speaker
What's the name of the sword? Black Talon. Maybe that one. That one's zero. Now, whatever the sword that's I don't remember. Yeah, I was doing its catalyst, but it's like so money. I was like, oh, I'll just do it. I'm not that excited to do it. Let's just go to one of the there's a couple of grindable places that just have like thralls that come out nonstop. Sure. But then, yeah, those are just like, oh, this is boring. I'm like you. I'd rather actually play and get it naturally. And yeah.
00:23:27
Speaker
So when I get a chance to put a sword on, I do it. Yeah. But I'm not super. I've given up on the season. I saw the last week's season stuff and I was like, I'm out. You know, you're going to get seven wins in trials. No, there's just it was that. And you had to do a legendary. On each one of the battlegrounds. And I still have to do a Grandmaster Nightfall and I'm like, yeah, I haven't done any Grandmasters this season. Yeah, I'm not worried about it. I got all the.
00:23:57
Speaker
All for more bright dust week. Yeah. Whatever. It's not worth me stressing over. So yeah. Yeah. You shouldn't stress about it. Games are supposed to be fun. Yeah. Well, that's the problem with games like Destiny though is you get the stress of the grind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you get the FOMO. You're like, ah, I didn't log in. I should log in. Maybe something happened. Right. Yeah. I didn't even log in at all last week, but that's because I was dying.
00:24:25
Speaker
Yeah, well, yeah. Second COVID, we'll do that. Second COVID? Isn't that the second time you've had COVID? It's the first time I've ever had it. Oh. I made it three years. Shoo. Yeah. It all fell apart. The first time I thought I had it, I ended up never having it. Tested negative the whole time and was over it in three days, two days probably. Yeah. So it wasn't good. But this time I definitely tested positive and it was
00:24:54
Speaker
Like you put the tester in and it was like, boom, you're positive. It wasn't even wait five minutes. Uh, you have super COVID. Yeah. Super COVID. Yeah. It was a sucky week. Yeah. And then of course I get back to work. Oh, I thought you were actually blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh my God. I hate people like that. Makes it so that I wasn't terribly sick, but I was still sick because I also had the flu at the same time. Yeah. That's the thing. Yeah. You had some compounding issues. Yeah. I had a double way of fun. Yeah.
00:25:24
Speaker
And he was like, what did you get the flu shot? Flu shot is not 100 percent. It's never 100 percent. Yeah. Just they pick up a prevalent strain and you hope that that's the one you get. Yeah. Clearly, that's not what happened. Right. Should still get the flu shot, people. Yeah. Remember that one year the flu shot was like the total wrong strains. That was a bad year. It's a bad year. Yeah. But I'm getting older. I need a flu shot. Yes. Yes.
00:25:53
Speaker
Have you been watching The Last of Us? I have not. I think you'd like it. Yeah. Yeah. It's on HBO. Yeah. Okay. HBO. Yeah. There was something on Showtime that I don't, I don't have Showtime, but yeah. I do have HBO. I would watch it at work, but I'm busy. Yeah, that's true.
00:26:15
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We've been watching a lot of British TV at the household for some reason. Pip pip cheerio. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know why I've been watching any TV. It's because you know what? It's like stuff I don't care about. I'm just like, fine. Put it on for 30 minutes and then watch it with life. We have not been watching The Last of Us. Yeah. Good news is I don't know the story because I haven't played the game. Yeah, you don't need to play the game. Yeah.
00:26:42
Speaker
That's a zombie apocalypse game. It's not zombies. Eh, it's zombies. It's not zombies. They're zombies. I have played The Green Hell. The Green Hell. Yeah, we played through that the other day. Whew. That is a brutal game. Oh yeah? Yeah. It's a jungle survival game with some crazy... Basically, the story is crazy.
00:27:12
Speaker
it's insanity like basically through the whole game you're just doing ayahuasca to like find out find yourself and figure things out okay it's like the whole part of the story i got was let's just do more ayahuasca okay so but the game is brutal sure it is uh it's fun though it's a fun i like survival games now that push pressure on you they gotta have some pressure it's not fun yeah the building is terrible in that game though
00:27:41
Speaker
I'm just listening to some podcasts the other day and they were talking about a survival game and I can't remember what it is, but evidently they just updated it. So it's. Whatever you build stays. So like if you build a structure, whatever it'll be there when you it's not just, you know, every time you log in, you got to start from scratch kind of thing, right? But they were saying like, you know,
00:28:09
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the one guy was overloaded and he was like, come help me guys. You're like, no dude, you know what you got into. I'm getting eaten by a bear. Green hell, you get bit by a spider and it's like, oh, well, it was nice to know you. It's rough. It was my brother and a friend of his playing. One of us would get bit by a snake or something like, oh, it's nice to know you. Drop all your crap so we have what we need out of you.
00:28:38
Speaker
We're not going to expend the resources that keep you alive. It's like, oh, you got you got some ants now. You got a fever. You're dead. You've got a fever. Oh, my God. It is rough. And it like there's no instructions for the game. It's just like live figure it out. OK. It's one of those kind of games. Yeah, like the Oregon Trail. Yeah, it's very much like the Oregon Trail. You get dysentery. I've got dysentery in the game. Food poisoning happens. Yeah.
00:29:07
Speaker
You know why you wouldn't have gotten that if you had a pot. Exactly. Still one of the best things you can have in a survival situation is a pot. Part of the green hell is like water management. And for the first like day, I'm sitting there going, how do I get water without dying? You needed a pot. Yeah, see? See? It all circles back. It all circles back to the pot.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah, good old pot. Well, topic one. Sure. We go on to topic one. It's a pretty, I don't know, easy topic in the world, but what games are we looking forward to in 2023? We haven't talked about 2023 yet looking forward. And maybe like part of that is I still feel kind of stuck in 2022.
00:30:05
Speaker
Yeah, you know, well, I was at a time warp the other day. I wrote January, whatever of 2021. Oh, the person was like with a second time traveler. But a side note to this is I still did something that worked the other day, and it was like 2018 was the date of whatever we did. And like that was five freaking years ago. Wow. Yeah. That's insanity. That's crazy to think of. It's like I see those things. It's like, you know,
00:30:34
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You're as far away from 1993 as, you know, 1993 was from 1963. I'm like, shut up. It's not how math works. Yeah. Yeah. So games in 23. Well, I mean, I think we're both looking forward to Jedi survival. I think we're both looking forward to Jedi. That's definitely on my list. Hopefully Baldur's Gate. Yeah. Got to get a new computer, but yeah.
00:31:01
Speaker
Um, I don't, I haven't looked enough because I'm trying to not because I'm a trailer guy. I hate trailers. Yeah. I'm trying to not look at ballers gate. Like I'm, I'm hoping we can play multiplayer. I don't even know. I don't. I'm sure of at this point, they've got to be able to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Larian, we know you're listening. Let us know. I was looking forward to Halo Infinite co-op, but yes, Halo Infinite is just dead and all Halo games from now on are dead.
00:31:28
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I didn't think they were dead dead. I thought they were going to reboot Halo or something. 343 is no longer going to develop Halo games. They're going to supervise other studios to make Halo stuff in the franchise.
00:31:48
Speaker
Gotcha. Which to be like a blue point or somebody like that could make a really good halo. I'm sure there's there's possibility, but like, is it going to be halo? Yeah. You know, and with all the problems they have with infinite. Well, what if somebody like, you know, sledgehammer, they kind of modern warfare did a little bit. Oh, yeah. Fortnite, Fortnite could.
00:32:16
Speaker
Is it? I think Master Chief is already in for everything's everything's affordable. Yeah, I. Halo is. It's the franchise for me, and this is some of the worst news that I've ever had about the franchise. Yeah, that sucks. Halo Infinite was. It was fine, but they didn't do the Halo things. Yeah.
00:32:39
Speaker
Well, and it was also supposed to be the Halo and it was not the Halo. It was not the Halo. Yeah. And the news that they're just not going to develop more from. Yeah.
00:32:49
Speaker
The team that developed, I mean, not that a lot of those guys are even probably still around. Right. You know, because a lot of them say with Bungie and then they fired people that were original Halo people. Yeah. But still the team that built Halo is gone. Yeah. To me. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a little. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I think Spider-Man 2 has come out this year. Oh, that's spider grind. It's no, it's they're introducing
00:33:20
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Craven and Venom, I want to say. OK. Based on the trailer. It looks good. I mean, the first game on PlayStation was fun. Got to run all around Queens. Yeah, you know, a lot of people seem to enjoy that game. Yeah. Let's see, I'm looking to. What's coming up? There's one that I know you won't play that I will probably play. It's called Wo Long Fallen Dynasty.
00:33:44
Speaker
Oh, is that the new Souls game? Yes. Yeah, I saw that. Yep, I will play that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Company heroes are probably going to play that. Yeah. This is too life. Oh, that doesn't count as a new game, but. Yeah, that's the tricky thing when you get to the games of service. I mean, it's when you have that giant expansion like that.
00:34:07
Speaker
Right. Oh, they're doing a new bayonetta. There's a new bayonetta bayonetta origins. I thought they just came out with bayonetta three or whatever. Total tank generals. Yeah. Doesn't have any information. It turns out Final Fantasy 16. I don't care. I know you don't care about that. Yeah. A dead island to I was not a dead island fan. Yeah.
00:34:35
Speaker
Street Fighter 6, Diablo 4. Diablo 4 could be a big game. Yeah, that is. So I've never Diablo'd. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I'm definitely thinking about picking up Diablo 4. Yeah, Diablo 4 will be especially, you know, Baldur's Gate is not announced or still to be announced. I thought they said August. Oh, this list has them as to be announced.
00:35:02
Speaker
That's, that's, that's troubling. Yeah. Yeah. Final Fantasy 16 has a June date. June 22nd. Okay. Right after Diablo. Oof. That's gonna be a tough one. Yeah. Yeah. Why does Baldur's Gate not have a date? Because Larian doesn't like us.
00:35:32
Speaker
This is a good pause. I rechecked their Zune. I'm sorry. Water's Gate has been early on for two years. Says officially launched August 2023. OK. That's a lot of people to say. And they canceled five other. Yeah, that upset me. But you know what? After that travesty of a game they put out last year. Right. Oh, God.
00:35:57
Speaker
Yeah, I even tried like I gave it like a month or two and I was like, I'll boot it back up, see if they patched anything. I was like, it was worse. Yeah. Yeah. There's just no. They're remaking Dead Space. They've already came out. Oh, yep. Came out in January. Hogwarts legacy. I don't I don't know what's going on with that game. Yeah. I keep hearing like they were turning off reviews of it and they were turning off people's comments about it.
00:36:26
Speaker
Well, because a lot of people were immediately like slamming it because of everything with J.K. Rawling. Oh, yeah. So I think that's why they turned some of the comments off. I don't know. Resident Evil 4. Oh, the another remake. Yes. Yeah. Legends of the Tears of the Kingdom. That's going to be a big game. I'm sure it will be. Yeah.
00:36:55
Speaker
suicide Robocop Rogue City. Never heard of it. No. Hmm. Assassin's Creed, Creed Mirage. Oh, yeah, that is supposed to come out. Oh, Redfall. I saw something. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I see. I keep hearing it might not come out, though. Oh. Really? Yeah, I've heard it's still questionable. Starfield. Starfield's never coming out now. It's never coming out. That's hilarious. Yeah.
00:37:26
Speaker
I look like two. Really? Wow. Hollow Knight Silksong. I liked Hollow Knight. Yeah, Hollow Knight was fun. It was fun. But boy, if you started to get into that game, it was too much. Yeah. And it was man, it was hard to get around, figure out where the heck you were going. Yeah, it was very confusing. Yeah. Spider-Man 2 has a. It's like a fall of 2023. Yeah, one of those generic ones. Armored Core 6.
00:37:56
Speaker
Armored Core. Some people love Armored Core. Yeah, I've never played it. But yeah, people are hyped for it. Yeah. Ark 2. Oh, they're doing a new Ark. Huh. Never got into Ark. Nah, neither did I. Tried to a couple times, and it just never worked out. They're re-releasing Fallout 4 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox X. Fallout 4. Yeah. Oh, Fallout 4 is bad.
00:38:28
Speaker
Uh, sorry, I shouldn't say that as a Fallout fan. Yeah. But Fallout 4 was not great. I think I finally. Started playing Mass Effect. Yeah, how's your Mass Effect going? Yeah, it's going pretty good. I'm through the first third of the second game. So I just went to Horizon. So yeah, it's it's fun. I didn't realize it was I thought it was more like Fallout like you would stop.
00:38:55
Speaker
and shoot and things like that. I didn't realize it was still kind of like action packed. It's it's Dragon Age, but guns. Yeah, it's Dragon Age. I even have the Dragon Age armor. That's that'll happen. So it's yeah, it's pretty fun. It is definitely a dragon. I mean, it's it's it's a it's straight up bioware. I mean, it's bioware game. Yeah. All the talking and yet got the first one.
00:39:25
Speaker
hated driving that little car around the planet. The drive in the car was the worst part. Golly day. Now it's so nice. I can just. Oh, I want to scan this planet. I'll shoot a probe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The drive in the car part is brutal in the first one. It's the first one just feels clunky now. Yeah. But, you know, yeah. I saved Ashley in the first one. Oh, that's fun. Fun. You know, like the big dinosaur guy.
00:39:54
Speaker
That wasn't no, it wasn't her or him. It was her or the biotic guy. Oh, the bad guy. I can't remember. Yeah. I was like, which of these would I do? I will save Ashley. It's fair because it's a bioware game. That's really I have to think that that's fair. Yeah. Oh, the new Lords of the Fallen comes out this year. I played Lords of Fallen.
00:40:21
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He was like clunky souls, but the new one looks much more streamlined. So I guess I was doing a game of the year television ring as well. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. That game was fun. Oh yeah. You know, yeah. I thought about hopping back into it. I was like, I did. So that's a lot of my life. I don't have enough time. Yeah. Wolf among us too.
00:40:48
Speaker
I didn't play Among Us, the first one, so. No, no, no, Wolf Among Us. Oh, Wolf Among Us. Yeah. Maybe some of the games that I have that are still in Alpha will come out and, like, release. That would be nice. Yeah. I keep waiting on my favorite game, Frostpunk 2, but I haven't... I don't think I had a release date for that. Frostpunk 2? Yeah.
00:41:20
Speaker
You'd have to love Frostpunk 2024 January 2nd. Oof. Yeah. We'll see if that actually happens. Highly acclaimed BAFTA nominated society survival game that blends city building strategy and management gameplay. Frostpunk. Oh yeah. I was playing today. I probably play that game. Three times a week. Oh yeah. Yeah. Is it on the steam?
00:41:49
Speaker
And there's a game pass game pass. Oh, so it's an Xbox game or PC game pass. Yeah, I have it on PC. I think it actually is on console, too. There might be a PlayStation version at this point, but it's such a good game. It is. Well, as soon as I click on the website, there's a bearded man covered in frost with his hands tied before him that says liar on his chest. Well, that's for Frostwick, too.
00:42:16
Speaker
Oh, OK. I think. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yeah. The frost never ends. Yeah, it's it's. It is totally my I mean, it's like resource management haven. Yeah. And you have to build the city. Basically, I love it. I play it constantly. Well, I have to enter my age to be able to look at the game, the site on Steam, so that's always a good one.
00:42:46
Speaker
I love, I love that that steam doesn't remember my age. Yeah. Well, it's also cause I'm looking on my phone. So I'm not going to steam on my phone. Yeah. Yeah. I'll check it out. It's great game. It's probably, so it's like city building and stuff. Yeah. The whole concept is it's the world's in a,
00:43:09
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end times winter and you have to like build a city around the generator that provides your heat. You have to fuel the generator and get food and build houses and everything. And they've got a couple add-on scenarios. Is there a train that rides around and never stops? No. It's not so weird, sir. It's not even a train. There is sort of one scenario, but yeah.
00:43:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's a fun game. And it's like your people are constantly getting sick and dying and people are your greatest resource. Oh yeah, the children are our future. Sometimes you got to put the children to work. Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. They have those strong backs. Yeah. You got the little hands that can get into places. You got the little hands that can get into places. Yeah, the hands can get in there. Yeah, it's true.
00:44:09
Speaker
But if I list, I would say Baldur's Gate is on my top. Yeah. And I think obviously Jedi survival. Jedi. Yeah. Is on my list. Yeah. A couple other ones I'll probably look at, but those are the two. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Those are the, I think, two hands down I got to get. Yeah. A couple of heroes I'm going to get as well. OK. Hopefully it's more like a couple of heroes one than two, but we'll see. Yeah. Just like I know I'll get Final Fantasy 16. Sure. Hopefully it's.
00:44:39
Speaker
Good. I'll probably get Diablo four. Yeah. I think we're allowed to like Blizzard again. I can't remember. I don't know. Never know where I'm supposed to be at with these companies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the whole Hogwarts legacy. I'm like, am I allowed to like this game? Right. I don't know. All right. The graphics are cool. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know anything about Harry Potter, but. Right. I did hear one thing that was kind of troubling, not troubling, but like disheartening. It was like, yeah, you know, you can
00:45:09
Speaker
There's no like set morality system, like, like in a mass effect or something. Right. So like you can use the, what are they calling them? Speakable curses or whatever. And people are just like, well, that was bad. And that's about the only reaction. It's like, no, if you're going to do it, you know, you should be able to like a total dark wizard if you want to be. But yeah, yeah, that's there should be morality in almost every game. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I learned from Fable. Yeah.
00:45:38
Speaker
Yeah, I learned that from Dragon Age and Aldersgate. Mass Effect. Hey, Aldersgate, you could make some decisions. You could, but it wasn't like... No, no. It wasn't the end of the world. No. Dragon's Age, definitely. Yeah. Night's in the Old Republic. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's on your Sith. Whoops. Whoopsie.
00:46:09
Speaker
Well, I guess I can't go into that room. Can't just kill people. Well, weird. Yeah, that's like those are the games that you like before every decision. Save. Yep. Yeah. See how this plays out. Yep. I do that in Mass Effect quite a bit. Oh, yeah. I mean, you have to have like thirty eight thousand saves. Yeah.
00:46:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. There's some good games coming out this year. Nice thing is there's always going to be good games coming out. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's like, I mean, there's I've got a backlog. If I ever want to dip into it, like I could replay the Last of Us remake. Sure. Yeah. Go back and do another run of Elden Ring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, or fire up the PC and go back and play Baldur's Gate 2 for the 10,000th time.
00:47:08
Speaker
Which sounds like fun. It does sound like fun. I tried a Pillars of Eternity, which is kind of a bottles gate knockoff. I never got into it. I couldn't get into it either. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Yeah. It just felt clunky and not great. Was it that one or was it? There's another one like it. What's the other one? There's Pillars of Eternity and there's something else. Pillars of Eternity 2? No.
00:47:38
Speaker
Oh, Baldur's Gate like games. Yeah, both starting. Oh, divinity. Oh, divinity. I could get into divinity. Yeah. The story looks cool. Yeah, it was just I don't know. There's something about that. It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't the Baldur's Gate interface, and that's what I didn't like. Sure. And so there was no mince nor boo. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got the Space Amster in Mass Effect. Nice.
00:48:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, is this really? And then, yeah, you take it to your cabin or whatever you interact with. And it's the little squeak, squeak. I was like, that's boo. Yep. It's boo. Yep. Send it to people's eyes. Yeah. Go for the eyes. Go for the eyes. God, now I'm going to watch. I'm going to play ball. Please go. I've just ruined a month of your life. Yeah, you did. Yeah. Well, you have to play it before bottles. Great. Great. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:48:36
Speaker
Yeah, because it all ties together, clearly. Yeah, clearly. I mean, it does vaguely, but... Yeah. Yeah. That's nice thing about water escape. It's just an overarching world. Yes. Yep. Well, on the topic two, my friend, we fixed our games. Yeah. Well, topic two kind of ties into your topic a little bit. It always does. Because I was thinking about how spoiled we are with games. Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker
I mean, yeah, it's just they're everywhere. And but so I saw people today talking about the Jedi survival or survivor being pushed and it's not fair and this and that. It's like, one, I would rather have a game yet not have to have the creator's crunch and do all that stuff, but also come out a little bit more polished. So I didn't need that day one patch or what have you. So.
00:49:30
Speaker
But then you also have people that are like, oh, dude, day one patch, what did you do this whole time? I want you to think back to a Nintendo cartridge that if you hit a bug, guess what? Your game was dead and you had no fix to it. Yeah. Suck it. When I was a kid when.
00:49:46
Speaker
Well, our, I mean, we had an Atari, but I was a little young for the Atari. I mean, I enjoyed playing it, but it was really Nintendo. That was like, that was the first time I remember asking for games was when Nintendo, like that, that's the one thing that, you know, like, because you had, it had no power. You saw the games coming out. You know, you were lucky to get two games a year. Oh, easily. Like I didn't grow up.
00:50:11
Speaker
by any means rich. So like at Christmas time, you could get a game. And then my mother, sweet woman that she is, always at Valentine's Day bought us a game. Yeah. So we had, that's our two, you had to like, what two games do I really want? If you're really lucky, your aunt will go out and get you a third. Yeah. Or there was always, go down to the video store and run a game. Yeah, you could write games. But you had to be
00:50:38
Speaker
Yeah, but like, you know, when I got Super Mario, Super Mario two. Yeah, I think it's two. Isn't it really like Doki Doki Adventure or something? Sure. But I mean, it's like it's not really a Mario Brothers game. They like just put the Mario characters over it. Oh, I never knew that. Yeah. But I got that game. I played the. But Jesus out of it because I didn't get another game for like
00:51:05
Speaker
eight months, you know, you know, my birthday's in December. So you get a game in February, you're not getting a game again for 10 months, you know. And that was like, no thing, you played that game constantly. Oh, yeah. And even when I was in high school, when I got to PC gaming, like, I wasn't a rich kid. No, I would buy, like, Command and Conquer came out, I bought Command and Conquer, and then I probably played that
00:51:32
Speaker
a thousand hours before I got the next game that came out. Or you would get the expansions to it. Oh, well, yeah. If you're lucky. Yeah, if you're lucky. I can't remember that. God, Neverwinter Nights was like four CDs in a case. I was like, this is going to be such a great game.
00:51:52
Speaker
It's funny, I just found some of my old games that are in CDs still, like I've done a war, you know, four CDs right here. You know, yeah, I had one. It was was a total annihilation or something like that. And it was a strategy game, but it was these little robot guys. Yeah, I stepped. I got that for me. I think that's what it's called. I don't know. Yeah, it was fun.
00:52:20
Speaker
Yeah, but you know, that was what you got. And yeah, now with Game Pass, like I get more games a week than I ever got in my entire life. Yeah. That's like, and you know, PlayStation has the, you know, you get three or four games a month or whatever. And people are like, oh, this month sucked already had those games. I was like, you know, it might suck for you, but it's going to be great for somebody else. Right. Just there, there are going to be some months. Yeah. There have been some months I'm like, I don't
00:52:46
Speaker
like these games, I'll probably still add them to my library just in case I'm bored and want to try something. But I was flipping through game paths out there like, oh, none of these games are excited. And then I was like, wait a second. Yeah, like all of these games are exciting. I can play any of these games. Exactly. You know, well, and that's it got me thinking, you know, we're we're now starting to spend 70 bucks a game. Yep. We were used to the 5060 range, but I mean,
00:53:11
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As a kid, we were spending 50 bucks for a game. Oh, yeah. Nintendo cartridges were $50. Yeah, I can. There were even some, though, that were more expensive for Super Nintendo. So we we've been, you know, fortunate that look at the changing graphics and studios and everything. And we were still going through the movies today and, you know, spending five dollars. Well, I agree. Yeah.
00:53:38
Speaker
Well, I mean, there's a lot to be thrown into this now because like the $50 model when we were kids was, you know, smaller studios could survive off that. Yeah. Because they didn't have to publish as many. Now, like that's why the big companies have to publish for AAA games because that's how they make their money. Yeah. Yeah. And if they don't sell, you know, you know, millions of copies or like that was a failure. Yeah. It's like, oh, your game was epic.
00:54:07
Speaker
But yeah, it's that overhead. And yeah, well, that's why they all go into the games of service thing. Like, yeah, what this game to get as much money as we can. And I don't blame them. Right. But yeah, well, it's also easier. But you typically look at games that are either games as a service after they get their feet or sequels are the ones that really make the money. It's the first games, the first iterations are usually not the money makers are not the big hitters.
00:54:37
Speaker
No, they're the setup. Yeah, they're the set. This is our idea. This is our IP. This is what we're going to set it up. I just wish we had more coming. Yeah. So, yeah, as a game studio, it's like, well, I can invest all this money and overhead and hope this game takes off and makes a series or I can make the next one of this game or, you know, whatever and know it's going to sell. Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker
So, I mean, I mean, it's one of the reasons that Jedi fallen in order last, what, two years ago when it came out was such a good game because it was, it kind of came out of nowhere. You know, we got a new, I sort of new IP and now they're making a second one, which I bought it on the story. I bought it on the characters. I'm definitely gonna buy the second one. You know, it's nice. Yeah. That game really was nice because they didn't really bother you down a lot at DLC.
00:55:27
Speaker
Right. Yeah. They were just like, here, enjoy this experience. We'll put another one in a few years. Yep. Yeah. That's new and that that's refreshing these days. You don't see it as much. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's it's almost like they're, you know, trying to cater to the fans and not just the almighty dollar. Yeah, that is nice. Yeah. It's like, but it's when I, you know, we didn't even talk about, but this summer, I think this summer, it's the next Rocksteady game. It's like,
00:55:57
Speaker
Suicide Squad kills the Justice League? Yeah. I have very little interest in that. That's that's not the Rocksteady I know. That's right. Yeah. Rocksteady, you should just made another Batman game. Make it make it a Nightwing game. Make it, you know. Yeah. Well, I mean, like the Suicide Squad.
00:56:18
Speaker
That's a whole discussion about what DC is doing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's a rant for another day. I don't know what they're doing. I can't figure it out. I don't understand the concept of we have a movie that we're just not going to put out. Yeah. Yeah. Supposedly they have multiple movies that they're just not going to put out at this point. Yeah. It seems weird to me from a business standpoint to say, it's not going to put this movie out. Right. Yeah.
00:56:46
Speaker
And apparently the Black Adam movie did very poorly. Yeah. Yeah. We watched it. It wasn't horrible. I mean, it wasn't the best. Some, a lot of it didn't really make sense, but yeah. The reviews I saw were not Dr. Fate. Dr. Fate was cool. That's cool.
00:57:05
Speaker
But, you know, all of these movies can have redeeming qualities. It does. Yeah. You know, that's what they wanted to do. Right. You know, of course, now they don't even doing their TV shows. I don't know what DC is doing. James Gunn just had a like a six minute YouTube video yesterday about his future for the DCU. We're supposed to be like a Lantern Corps show.
00:57:30
Speaker
A new swamp thing movie. I'm going to say this and it's going to sound hurtful. But is James Gunn really the person to revive this stuff? Like, yeah, I don't know. Like the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy movies are, they're fine. But they're not what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is built off of. No, they're not. They're little fun adventures on the side. Yeah.
00:57:57
Speaker
You know, fine, but he didn't build anything. Yeah. Yeah, it's I don't know. Yeah. And I mean, I've liked some of the Marvel spinoffs we've had, you know, like the shows and stuff. Sure. But I was listening to something the other day and they're like, should Marvel have just stopped with Endgame? Ah.
00:58:22
Speaker
And that's I mean, that's a topic for another day. Yeah, I really liked Dr. Strange one. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a topic for the next one. It's a spoiler for the next episode. The next episode. You know, well, but then maybe. Yeah, I think when does the new eight now? The 16th. So yeah, it should be out by then. Yeah.
00:58:46
Speaker
But I don't know if I'll have seen it, because that'll be the Monday after release weekend. Probably not. We're finally going to watch Wakanda Forever this weekend. Oh, good. It's on Disney Plus, finally. Oh, good. Yeah, I haven't seen it yet. But if it's on Disney Plus, I'll probably watch it. Yeah. There's no football this weekend. Well, there is football. I just don't care about any of it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, this is fake football. Yeah, it's fake football. I'm rooting for the Eagles in two weeks.
00:59:17
Speaker
I mean, you have to. Over the chefs. Fly, eagles, fly. Fly, eagles, fly. Can't root for the chefs. No. I mean, can't have Andy Reid coming and beating the eagles. Giant wars. With his bat belt. Poor Andy Reid.
00:59:39
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Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, back to the topic at the end. I would say we are spoiled for games. It's awesome. Yeah. I think it's great that people now have like their thing. You know, people can look forward to like, oh, I really like Souls games. It's not every 10 years I got away with Souls games. Yeah, that's true. Well then, I mean, it's just think about all the games you have on your phone.
01:00:10
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I have a part of that is shovelware is the problem. Every game that I've I've not found a mobile game that is not just a grindy bullshit. They all are. They all are. And yeah, like I had I tried that Diablo game. Oh, I didn't try it. It's just I think part of it is because old man, small screen. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I tried like some tower defense one the other day and it was fun, but it was like,
01:00:42
Speaker
You just want my money. I know that's all you want. Look, if you charge me three bucks upfront or five bucks or whatever, fine. But don't give me this. Oh, if you want to advance this, 40 blue jewels. It's like, no. I am fine paying for a game to be on my phone to play as a game on my phone. Right. I'm tired of
01:01:08
Speaker
getting into the game going, Oh, now I've gotten to the point where I have to pay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I played the games workshop game. I can't remember what it's called Warhammer 40 K something. Okay. I played it for a while, but it's just got to the point I was like, Oh, I'm just doing the same crap every day. Yeah. And it's just taking up my, it's just a time sink. I could be learning French right now. So exactly. I just do a lingo instead. Yeah. That's why you're Renaissance man.
01:01:38
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I don't think I'm a Renaissance man. I don't do any artistry. I think you have to do architecture to be part of it. Do you? Yeah, it's part of the club. Michelangelo and Raphael. Yeah, I'm talking about the Danny DeVito Renaissance man. I guess that's fair. Wasn't that a movie? I don't know. I think it was. It could be. They make a lot of movies.
01:02:05
Speaker
And I don't remember how to spell Renaissance. Cool. Renaissance man. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, 1994. Oh, I didn't realize that before. Yeah, Danny DeVito, Greg Hines. Where's the story? I just want the synopsis. Plot summary. There we go.
01:02:32
Speaker
Fail business man is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving in order to pass basic training. Yeah No This probably you know what that's not fair today. It's probably a fine movie. It just doesn't never stood out now. No But the Renaissance man, yeah I Barely speak a language. That's English
01:03:04
Speaker
Well, the English language, we talked about this last time. It's so hard. It's insanity. It doesn't make any sense. It does not make any sense. Yeah. We should just change it. Yeah. Yeah. So when... total side tangent to that, we had to do our EAFs or whatever this year. And I saw, you know, there was like, you know, these have to be updated to image trends. So I went to Joanne. I was like, hey,
01:03:34
Speaker
I have an administrator. Can I just update my profile? And she's like, yeah, that's fine. Okay. So go in there. And one of the fields is languages you're proficient in or languages, you know, it didn't say proficient. It said no. So I selected Spanish and Norwegian. Nice. Yeah. Well, I know of a lot of languages. Yeah. Yeah.
Language Counting Systems
01:03:55
Speaker
As I say, I can count to like a hundred in Japanese. I should list that. You should have.
01:04:00
Speaker
I can count to like three Japanese. No, no. Japanese is Ichni-san. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I can't do it. German, Einsweidrei. I can do French up to 80, which is all you need to do. Wait, wait, wait.
01:04:27
Speaker
What, did the French not believe in anything after 80? No, because they're based on 20 system. So I vaguely remember you ranting about this. Yeah, like you got to know how to read. You got to know how to get it to 80.
01:04:43
Speaker
And then you could do all of them because it's crazy because 80 is 20 is for 2040s to 40s to 40s. OK, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. So, yeah, that's French is weird. Yeah. It's got it. You know, we can do.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:05:05
Speaker
Yeah. Well, we've podcasted our podcast. Yeah, we have casted the pod.
01:05:11
Speaker
Yeah. Come talk to us on Discord. Yeah. Follow us on Twitter. 22. Yeah. Leave us a review. Share us with your friends. If you're riding down the street right now, roll down your window and scream out in the thick giraffe. Yeah. And keep warm. Yes. Stay warm. Stay warm. Maybe wear pants. I'm not going to tell you to do it, but maybe. Yeah.