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S2 Ep171: RSS - August - Justin
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Introduction and Guest Discussion
00:00:34
Speaker
How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Soapstone. My name is Jake. I'm joined by my co-host is always Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? It's going good. How are you, Jayce? I'm doing pretty well. So what do you what do you and I want to talk about tonight? I think that ideally I talk about how we should have more people on the podcast. We should do that. I want to see other people. Let me let me summon somebody in with a Discord call with a quick
00:01:04
Speaker
Whoa. The magic of editing, everybody. Cold call. Hi, I'm Justin. I'm apparently the person here. Magic. Oh, you've been here before. You're. Yeah. Third time. Sounds right. We talk Frostpunk and. It does feel like the first time. That's the important thing.
00:01:31
Speaker
Well, we just, we rationed people out. We're like, you can't come back on for another six months. And they're like, Oh, Hey, this is fresh and nice. I forgot what a horrible experience I had last time. Yeah. Yeah. It's always a pleasure. Yeah.
Weather and Food Talk
00:01:47
Speaker
How are you guys doing tonight?
00:01:50
Speaker
It's hot. I just stick to my chair now. I've turned on the AC. It's a good temperature, but once I move, it's going to peel my leg off the chair. It just happens now. My game room is... We're still waiting on window replacements, and it just does not stay cool up here. South-facing roof and everything. It's basically...
00:02:20
Speaker
It's not a brand at all. The other one's a brand. I went out to grab Subway because I'm basic for dinner. Jake, I will mail you some foods you don't have to do. I mean, I like the little banana peppers. I mean, I realize you can eat banana peppers on other things. You can also just buy them at a store. That's true. That is true. But then I just eat them. And then they have more of a gastrointestinal effect. Is that a problem?
00:02:50
Speaker
You should just grab something like when you make a sandwich just like put a couple on. Yeah, they do actually kind of have a bit of a kick to the gastroesophageal reflex disease or GERD if you want to say in the acceptable and terrible sounding way.
00:03:10
Speaker
I just tell people my stuff's fucked up and I kind of gesture around the middle of my body. My tummy hurts. Tum-tum. Tum-tum problems. Every time I eat hot it's like, no, ouchie. This is a funeral? We're going to need you to be more respectful.
00:03:33
Speaker
Don't know what spicy is anymore.
Spice Tolerance and Food Experiences
00:03:35
Speaker
So I Like are you too far gone from it or are you just you've burned yourself out on spice? No, it's it's hard for me to find a place that actually gives me something spicy and It's a it's a fleeting moment when I do actually start tasting spice again even with the
00:03:56
Speaker
the time between spicy meals that we had in the last two years. We tried ordering something spicy and basically for it to be spicy for me, I have to be in person and effectively sign a waiver.
00:04:10
Speaker
Gotcha. They're just like, yeah, we sure you want spice. Gaijin. That's the thing, like, because people like go to India, like, oh, I want spicy in the look at them. And you're like, I want white person spicy. That is a fucking craze because it's not like a huge part of our diet. So you got to check yourself before you wreck yourself. But Justin is actually practiced. Yeah, the
00:04:34
Speaker
since we moved out of Westchester, the star of India there, when we went there once a month, the waitress knew us when we walked in. And she knew that I could actually handle it. So she legitimately one time asked us, American spicy or Indian spicy? And I was like, yeah, give me a 10 on the Indian scale. And they did. And I finished it in front of her. So she was like, yeah, fine. So I don't have to deal with that anymore. You unlocked it. Yeah.
00:05:03
Speaker
I'm surprised they don't give you a little more space while you're eating, but I mean, maybe that's just how they do. She was just standing next to you like with a fire hydrant pointed at your head. They had to fill my water up a lot. A fire hydrant isn't usually portable. Just a five gallon jug of water.
Gaming Discussions: Borderlands and More
00:05:20
Speaker
Okay, yeah. I'm just imagining, you know, it's like as a precautionary measure, they're just they have a slow pour over you as you're eating the food. Yeah, don't eat that in the summer.
00:05:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That just sounds oppressive, but to be fair, it would cleanse all of my pores at once. Yeah. What about the, uh, the nobles?
00:05:45
Speaker
I mean, they're already cleansed because they can, they can pay for it. The bath house. You thought I didn't have something ready for that. How dare you. Yeah. They have the air quality. The end of my story is the air quality index is kind of crappy out there right now. My computer, since a windows updated, like tells me that and just the bottom, right. I don't remember ever opting into this. It just does that now. I turn this off immediately. It's 21 H two H one and their new naming scheme is awful. Yeah.
00:06:15
Speaker
Yeah, clicking is definitely a mistake, but apparently I have like a flash flood watch warning. It's like 90 degrees. So I get those for you guys all the time. Yeah. Because my Alexis thinks I never updated my location. So it's like, Hey, at this location, there's a flash flood warning. I'm like, should I tell them? They probably already know.
00:06:37
Speaker
you're just like a century for a different location entirely like smoke signal for ant for I almost said where I live that would have been a mistake see I explicitly didn't mention where you live in my story do you want to dox yourself no I would like to pass
00:07:02
Speaker
That would be just our luck. Like small audience listens to the podcast. They're all psychopaths. Just one super fan. They're like, I can't believe nobody else listens to this. They're my favorite. I know where they live. I want to meet them. Hang out. If you can prove it'd be a better lie detector, implement a minority report based on injuries like this podcast. Minority report was good. I enjoyed that.
00:07:33
Speaker
I like the concept of it a lot. I think I liked it when I watched it, but if I went back, I don't know if I'd feel the same. It's early 2000s, like CG, so I think... Oh, yeah. That probably didn't age too well. I remember being really freaked out and spooked by the whole, uh, the eyes bathtub thing. Yeah, I was thinking about the eyes. Yeah. But now I'm like, eh, that's not, that's nothing. Uh-huh. Because he has his old eyes or whatever.
00:08:01
Speaker
He gets eye surgery so he can fool the scanner. Yeah. Yeah, but he's like stumbling around blind Tokyo City like a new playground. All right. We didn't talk about Lemon Demon before we started. No, that's officially off there. Yeah.
00:08:24
Speaker
No, it was enjoyable though. The main thing I was going for was just like, I saw it and I was like, man, I could see in the future. People would navigate screens with their hands in a non-mouse fashion, but Microsoft tries to push that with the Howland stuff. I just don't ever want to, I've seen my fingers. I seen my fingers imprints on other things and I don't want to touch my screens. Yeah.
Hardware and VR Experiences
00:08:50
Speaker
Well, theirs was holographic. So it was like in the air and you just had like gloves on to interact with it. You could like, it's literally the CSI sort of like flip it to the side, enhance it, use gestures in the open space in front of you to manipulate the screen base. I'm pretty sure someone's implemented that in VR. Yeah, it has to like a hundred percent. But the difference was you didn't have to wear a headset for it and it was just projected in front of you, I guess.
00:09:19
Speaker
I mean, I still like the idea of that with augmented reality, but I don't know, it seems like a lot of complication for not much benefit at this point.
00:09:29
Speaker
Yeah. It's apparently really big in certain industries. I know places like SolidWorks because we do some engineering stuff. They have like the Microsoft HoloLens setups with that stuff so they can walk around the 3D models and stuff like that that they're working on. So it hasn't really, no one's found a good use case for consumer level, but it is used in
00:09:58
Speaker
large conglomerate industrial spaces from what I've heard. I could see that. I'll have to get into that at some point. I haven't done any conglomerating in a bit.
00:10:13
Speaker
And just like that, we've earned the explicit rating for the podcast. I think VR is probably good enough for me right now. I already do that infrequently enough that taking some of those aspects further into real life, I don't know if I'm ready for it. My wife has been playing VR a lot in the mornings as her morning exercise because it's, again, bent way too hot to go outside. Yeah.
00:10:41
Speaker
But yeah, I haven't touched it in a while. I fell off the horse because my stomach got upset one time and then I just never put it back on. Instead, I just get angry at it when we lose power at my lighthouses. Don't go to standby mode and make a whining sound until I turn VR on and then immediately turn it off again.
00:11:02
Speaker
I don't know what they sound like, but I assume it's an actual wine, like a human wine. It's the minecart village. Your noise is just tuned down. I'm still doing things the old fashioned way. I walked outside. It's not, it's not comfortable. That's how they kill you. And I couldn't get my music to play. So who alone with your thoughts?
00:11:32
Speaker
Yep. You guys can't see it on the camera, but there was definitely. I'm going for a thousand yard stare. A thousand yard stare, yeah. Please God, no. So I will say I've heard you guys are playing Borderlands. Yeah. Recently. How is that? Because I played it a long time ago and I'm curious how it's aged.
00:11:59
Speaker
So we picked up Borderlands 3 when it was most recently on sale on Steam. I've been enjoying it. I think I had the most experience out of the two of us playing it. I played one a lot when it first came out. Two, I never beat and I played some amount of the pre-sequel. That's a little surprising. I think two is my favorite in the series.
00:12:28
Speaker
I've heard good things about too. I only played like an hour or so of one. I really missed the whole Borderlands train. But I have been enjoying Borderlands 3. But as I've said
Content Creation and Platform Controversies
00:12:39
Speaker
to Justin, my biggest issue is, hey, there's a billion things going on on the screen. Yeah. Like so many projectile particle effects going on. But the enemies look exactly like the background and your allies. And it is hard as fuck for me to find stuff. Yeah, definitely.
00:12:58
Speaker
I do remember some issues with readability in Borderlands 3. They tried to make it very exotic and very packed, and it's a little more difficult. The game's always been sort of hectic, but you really have to keep that.
00:13:13
Speaker
Typically later in the game, I think the biggest problem is like you said, they definitely made a lot more invariance in the environment. Whereas the first game was pretty much just a desert planet. So it was easier to get a read on people. Whereas there's a...
00:13:34
Speaker
There's like a forced jungle area, neon light city, this like, they definitely went out in the environments, but yeah, it's.
00:13:44
Speaker
And the weird part is that there is some enemy highlighting, but only like when you're in a vehicle, and there's no accessibility options to add an enemy aura or anything like that. That's pretty weird. Maybe there's certain guns that possibly have it on there, because I think that may have been a thing. Like when you're zoomed in, it had stuff in previous versions. Maybe I could do that and take a DPS hit, because. Yeah.
00:14:11
Speaker
I'm often looting stuff while Justin's out there killing. Right. Yeah, I'm playing the operative with a whole bunch of on kill effects. It gives me buffs. So I'm just I'm zipping and I because of the readability thing, I've been primarily doing like close quarters shotguns and spray and pray.
00:14:36
Speaker
It's a pretty satisfying way to play the game. That is the height of Borderlands, I think for me. It's like the character builds and how diverse some of the characters are across it. Again, going back to two of my favorites, definitely. He was DLC, but Krieg, the psychopath. Because his whole motif was he gets powered up when he takes damage.
00:14:57
Speaker
Including like when he goes down he's his dying state is you can like run around and like Blow yourself up with a grenade. It's like it's insanity one of his literal unlocks because he gets so many benefits to taking damage is Your allies can now do friendly fire to you It was really funny
00:15:20
Speaker
Yeah, we actually weren't even sure Friendly Fire was turned on a couple of times in this, because we've definitely gotten some ridiculous weapons, because that's what the game is based around. And we weren't sure if we were actually injuring each other, or we were just coinciding our own self-damage at the same time. Right. I got to say, I like my pistol that shoots rockets.
Epic Games and Market Strategies
00:15:46
Speaker
Shotguns rockets. Just everywhere. Yeah.
00:15:51
Speaker
It becomes really fun though for like experimenting and playing around with stuff. Though I wish I picked a different class because I'm the hunter and I've used no hunter abilities. Like I have a pet occasionally, but that's it. I'm there for the gun play at this point. But now I might start putting some points into pet tree. Just so the pet will automatically kill the things that I can't see.
00:16:16
Speaker
Yeah, there was a good I have I have less. I mean, I played through three, but I played through it like once. And we played it like over the course of a week or something. So it was pretty quick. I don't remember that much about it. So I'm going to continue to relate things to to where there was gauge the macro mancer, which is like a teenage girl with a mech, like pet. That was it was great. It was a good time. Good pet class.
00:16:42
Speaker
I remember when I played two, one of the biggest things was they seem to take your character's character development and move it to the next game. So the game that you're actively playing, you don't have as much of an association with the character that you're actually playing. It's the characters that were previously established.
00:17:02
Speaker
is a little weird. It is, yeah. So from Borderlands 2, the NPCs were the protags from Borderlands 1. Yeah. Yeah. Then they make a reappearance in 3. Exactly. Yeah. That's just like canon. Mm-hmm.
00:17:17
Speaker
The other thing was like Handsome Jack. He's like the best antagonist the series has ever had by like a freaking mile. So much that like when we were talking, we were talking about in a previous episode, the telltale games, like he's literally one of the protagonists like in the telltale game. And I think in three, can you play like a clone of him or something? It's like a decoy camera. The operative has a decoy, but it's not Handsome Jack. It's your character.
00:17:48
Speaker
I'm gonna look this up because I'm curious now someone buy me time But yeah, we're not I think I would say we're probably out two-thirds done from what little I know of the story of progression so we haven't beaten it yet, we just have to find time because we're going through completely co-op which is always fun and
00:18:09
Speaker
I'm going to agree with you there just because it's one of those like, we need this many key pieces. We have this many out of this many key pieces. I'm like, all right, I'm going to make a fair guess. That's two out of three, 66% of the way there. So the one I was thinking of, I didn't actually play pre-sequel. I own it, but it's joined the pile of games that I...
00:18:31
Speaker
We'll probably never play that I own on Steam. But it was a DLC character. Jack the Doppelganger was an intern named Timothy Lawrence, who was turned into a body double for Handsome Jack in order to pay off his student loans. The story trappings and like Lore universe stuff is very
00:18:54
Speaker
on the nose in a lot of ways, but also very crude in others. In three, they've maintained that same... It feels like the writing is from a game from 2010 era. A lot of other games from that era have evolved in their story, things like God of War changing tone entirely. Borderlands is still Borderlands.
00:19:24
Speaker
I mean, I still like that part of it, but it's definitely, I'm glad we're doing it as a co-op because like I said, I've never jumped on the borderlands train. So I don't know if I'd opt into that on my own at this point in time. It's not a great single player game. You're missing out on all of those interactions and the chaos. And I get a lot of invaders in vibes.
00:19:47
Speaker
for like the humor in the writing which resonates with me a lot of times but sometimes I'm like yeah okay yeah
Game Impressions and Upcoming Releases
00:19:54
Speaker
what's funny and I mean this is like a positive thing it's reminiscent of like fallout writing early fallout like in particular guy where it's like
00:20:04
Speaker
tons of humor like on the top level absurdity right like a layer of absurdity on all of this and then if you like dig a little bit into the backstory it's like an absolute tragedy like a gauge the macromancer her origin is she was shipped off to like Pandora because um
00:20:22
Speaker
she made her silence science fair project is this robot and then it killed a kid and like a classmate for a science fair like um contest and so her parents were just like we are gonna get you out of here be more something terrible happens um but take the robot with you please yes exactly you gotta you gotta have a pet
00:20:46
Speaker
Yeah, I think I was interested in playing again because of a looter shooter. And I haven't played an FPS in a while. So I've been trying to find an ARPG again, but haven't been able to find one that I've landed on for very long. And with co-op with this, and then adding back the, I haven't played an FPS in a while, I kind of hit two different notes that I was looking for. I think it's working well for that.
00:21:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. There's something to be said for games that are focused, paced for like a multiplayer experience instead of something like persistent online, like Destiny.
00:21:35
Speaker
I saw the bullet point. I was like, why is it doubling up? So you said here, how far are we from playing Destiny 2 again? Are you also having that itch as far as like looter shooter or like group PS? I just feel like it's sort of just on countdown. I don't know how long until it hits. I just don't think I can. I lost a lot of goodwill with
00:22:04
Speaker
Bungie's implementation of systems They're good for like an initial hit but then it just requires Too much status checking To really get what I want out of a looter shooter now I would say they they always change systems constantly, but never seems like they'd land on Something solid. Yeah
00:22:30
Speaker
I feel that's fair. I'm curious, like some of the systems they plan for the next expansion, which is like crafting, but I don't know what that how that looks like the menagerie. And like they made a change recently where it's like primary weapons have infinite ammo. So it does like the, you know, overwatch type thing, I guess, where you just don't have to worry about ammo on that weapon. OK, so it's just heavy ammo is limited.
00:22:58
Speaker
and special. You could have two primaries, but most loadouts I think are primary ammo, special ammo, and then the power bricks for your power ammo.
00:23:12
Speaker
It's interesting, I don't know. I'm curious, like, I do want to track it and see what it evolves to because I don't necessarily want to do the seasonal thing for Destiny, but there also is like a big backlog of content. I haven't done anything for Beyond Light, right? And potentially if a group of people got together for it, I might hop in if it's...
00:23:35
Speaker
sort of a let's conquer this approach to it instead of a let's try our best to stay interested during the season that we're caught up to. I don't know. The group content stuff was definitely fun. Like I did my social circle.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah, but it needs to be the right group of people because there were definitely some attempts with Riven where I was like, I'm going to stab somebody. But it was still fun slogging through and then getting it eventually. Riven was our raid group killer, though. Yep. I don't even remember the other raids we did because I guess Kalis is a raid. Yeah, Leviathan.
00:24:16
Speaker
And did they backtrack on the vault stuff? Because that was the other thing. You added the season content where
Content Creation Journey
00:24:26
Speaker
you have to constantly grind this one thing to make progress. Obviously they've iterated over that in the times since I played.
00:24:34
Speaker
They also then removed content that means that there's less I could potentially go back for unless they open the vault for that content for a season or whatever their plan was. Yeah, it looks like February, they released that they're going to stop sunsetting content. So maybe, but I don't know. It's tough, right? Like, how do you have an infinite power curve?
00:25:01
Speaker
The power always felt weird. Anyways, it was just a gate more than anything else. Like that was, that was the problem. It's like you could grind for power, but then you scaled down majority of it. So infinite treadmill, treadmill is really what it felt like. There wasn't, there wasn't a lull period where you weren't trying to grind power. So you never got like a satisfaction plateau.
00:25:25
Speaker
right well i think like eventually like you mentioned the weapons i think that that was the main frustrating part is like um new season comes out okay you do have cool weapons but none of them do the special thing that you need for this season
00:25:41
Speaker
And it's impossible to kind of balance these two things where it's like, I have a God role and this is the only thing I will ever need and I love this gun. It's like a recluse in PVP or something like that. And holy crap, we got to keep people interested in whatever we just threw out there. So it's a crappy situation. And those just make numbers higher. You give the new one a higher number and they're kind of forced to. The biggest reason why I bounced off it was I was doing two hours of inventory maintenance
00:26:12
Speaker
to play for an hour before my inventory filled up again. Oh yeah, that is really obnoxious. But that's because when we played, they didn't have a good collection system. You couldn't pull the parts from your guns apart and make the gun that you actually wanted from it in
Episode Wrap-up
00:26:28
Speaker
the future. So you had to just keep them and then like, if it's not a perfect god roll, which one do you use?
00:26:37
Speaker
It really is a game that was consistent. I think about the image macro of the guy on the bike and he puts the stick between the spokes. Yeah, still. Yeah. The moment the gameplay was always great in it, coming from how they did Halo's gunplay and stuff like that, but it was the trappings to experience that that maybe not wanted to go back.
00:27:07
Speaker
Yeah, that part fucking sucked. Eh.
00:27:11
Speaker
If there was something, like you said, remotely close to it, I would like that. Because I feel like Destiny 2, everyone's like that. We have the tinted glasses of, that was some fun looter shooter stuff. I had some fun side content, even though I hated PVP. They still had some really cool things that we enjoyed doing. It's just everything else around it fucking sucks. Yeah. User interface, management.
00:27:40
Speaker
Man, this looks really pretty and why is it nigh unusable? I just want to be able to like slide and double jump while I'm waiting in a lobby for something to happen, you know? That's fair. So to perhaps answer the question, it might be a while.
00:28:00
Speaker
before Destiny. We're all back for Destiny. It's a critical mass thing, right? I also joined your group late and wasn't actually part of your array group, so I didn't get that social part so much. Were you not? I could have sworn in for it. I got overruled in once or twice, and we did three-man Fireteam content with me more.
00:28:20
Speaker
than anything else. But yeah, I was I was catching up until the end. And then like, I wasn't online to do the raid stuff with you guys, because it was right fills and stuff like that. Like our 14 raid group originally. Yeah, right. Until it's just like, Hey, how many people do we need in the fill spot? Okay, that must be available. We have to cancel raids. Yeah.
00:28:49
Speaker
That's the counterpoint for me is like, since I just, I'm like sitting there with 14 taking my money monthly. Um, wow. I almost had like, uh, every soccer comes by every month that takes the money out of my wallet. That's not the company that makes those. That's the thing entirely. Uh, Mr. Enix.
00:29:07
Speaker
comes by knocks on my door. I had my $15. Yeah. Well, if I don't maintain a, uh, if I don't pay my tax, then, uh, my house gets repoed. So, you know, am I talking about real life? Yeah. Anyways, recreation, we live in a dystopia. Yeah.
00:29:30
Speaker
I pay more money to distract myself from the things that I pay money from. That is fair. Speaking of Dave paying money for things, I did see pictures.
00:29:49
Speaker
Things they've spent money for in particular computer price. Oh, those pictures. Yes. Yeah. A while back, I ordered 90% of pieces for a computer and, you know, never got a graphics card. So I let everything sit in boxes in the closet. And then it was over a year, right? I don't know how long it was. Time is an illusion. It was a bit.
00:30:18
Speaker
Uh, it was a bit, but yeah, Dan got me the hookup on a graphics card front of the show. And then Justin, front of the show, Justin, you might know him. Came over it two days ago and directed me how to put it together. And I did with, with help. I made him get over his fear of, uh, using too much force. Ah, okay.
00:30:44
Speaker
Is this related to the video card and the graphics card? Or is this? No, he's a Jedi now. Oh, OK. Gotcha. Gotcha. That was a great, like, pivot to clean. I'm always afraid that I'm going to, like, snap some. It's not like I'm a strong person. It's just I feel that the electronics are fairly delicate. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to touch it the wrong way. I'm going to bend a pin. I'm going to snap something off. Yeah. And that was always the illusion, talking to people back in, like, high school and everything about it was like,
00:31:12
Speaker
It's, once you get down to it, it's effectively square peg, square hole. Yeah. For the majority of it. As long as that lines up, that's very important before you apply force. But then the, uh, yeah, so it's like, oh yeah, you have to do the static discharge thing and you don't touch it in this place. You'll get the oils on it. Like.
00:31:36
Speaker
people hear about all these little nuance things. They're like, I can't keep track of all this. You'd have to actively try to mess up, like maybe dropping the CPU upside down. It was fun. That would be terrible.
00:31:52
Speaker
Did it have the thermal paste on it yet? No, this was... I had just opened the plastic, so as Lewis is in there, but then I dropped it a foot onto the table. But it landed on the heat spreader, so the pins were up, so there was no problem with it. I mean, there's so many pins there, you probably don't need all of them. Watch the Linus Tech Tip video.
00:32:19
Speaker
I have not, which is why I have this existing paranoia, but everything did go through fine. I now need to find either a cable to hook up the other monitor or get a new monitor, because I don't have whatever that cable is in the back of my machine. Is it only DBI? No, he had a single HDMI and then DisplayPort. It's the majority of the outputs for DisplayPort. You can get adapters for that, Dave.
00:32:48
Speaker
Well, I have a cable here. I'm not sure if it's display or HDMI. I'll have to check. OK. But I was going to try and plug that in. Yeah. But yeah, the fact that I cannot hear my computer while we're recording, ooh, so good. It's a good sign. Definitely a good sign. There was something in there trying to get out, my guys. It was bad. No, that's fair. And I know it's been six years since you built your other computer, because Mike and I assisted with that one.
00:33:18
Speaker
No, no, no. I want to clarify this. You and Mike built it. I fell asleep. That's right.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yes. We assisted each other while you were sleeping. Like you guys started, it was like 10 30. Uh, we were watching, I should say I was at your guy's place. You're like, Oh yeah, let's just start putting together. And I was just kind of on the couch, like helping out a little bit. And then I was kind of just chilling and that it was getting to be like midnight and you guys were still going at it. And I just blacked out. And so I woke up in the morning and there was a computer. They're like, Hey, Dave, here's your login. I'm like, what's happening?
00:33:55
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And thus was born Jew Storm.
00:33:58
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I did think about the name. This one is now called Father Servo. That's good. That's good. But I was thinking around possibly doing another Jew's Storm. I remember the time that you remoted into work. Someone was walking by and it's like this computer. One of the IT guys was like, who the fuck is Jew's Storm? From Jew's Storm. It's like, hmm. It's very much a hmm situation.
00:34:25
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For anybody in the audience who doesn't know me personally, I am Jewish, so it's not a dig. It was just more of a meme. I do hate Jewish people separately. Let's not get into that now. Yeah, that's a separate thing. But I'm glad that you got to finish out the computer.
00:34:48
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And do a little bit more hands-on this time, it sounds like. Yeah, perhaps. My hands were actually involved this time. No, it's always an experience, I think, to do a new build. And I don't know. I think at this point, it's pretty well locked in. Most people spend more money when they do a custom build than if they were just by a pre-built. The sense of ownership, you're like, I know what's in there. It's freaking nice.
00:35:17
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I mean, the, the OEM components in like pre-built, they always skip somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. Power supply or something crappy cabling. Um, so I think there's, there's still a better value proposition. If you want a desktop computer in this point, if you just need a computer though, any like laptop classes going to possibly be a better purchase than a desktop.
00:35:46
Speaker
Yeah. Or if you want a cheap desktop, hit me up. Only only six years old or what have you. It does have a GPU in it. You're probably get markup on that, right? It definitely works. Definitely runs. Speaking of GPUs, though, I saw an article.
00:36:07
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And it was that Best Buy restocked GPUs and some select locations. And then I checked the select locations in the state world where we are all located and none of them are any closer than two hours away. And I was like, sounds right. Okay, so they actually did restock and didn't get bought it out immediately. I think so they had a in-store purchase limit one per customer.
00:36:34
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Oh, so it's not even it's only through the store. Yeah. OK. And apparently it was like 17000 units to their stores across the country. So it wasn't a negligible number, kind of a pretty big wave. I don't know the status of it now, but they were shipped like yesterday or today. But like I said, the closest to us was like two and a half hours away. I'm like,
00:37:00
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Day true. So maybe someday, maybe someday the run-on graphics cards will actually be done. I think it's tied with COVID. So it'll be a bit. Or we'll just start talking about people. Get your GQ vaccination people. Right.
00:37:24
Speaker
Wait, but you want to catch, you want to catch GPU, right? Well, I don't want to catch the 1070. Oh my God. Terrible symptoms. Yeah. Talking about terrible sentences. I live for this segment. Skyrim anniversary edition is coming out. That just makes me feel old.
00:37:48
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Yeah, because they're they're releasing it again on that's eleven eleven twenty one. I believe one. Yeah. I remember sitting in the college dorm like the week that Skyrim originally released and basically not moving. Yeah. I mean, 10 years, right? Yeah. It's a long time to have re-released the game 20 times.
00:38:19
Speaker
I mean, I don't know what they could add at this point. They're adding fishing. Did you not watch the trailer? No, I don't. I mean, I want to give them props because it obviously was a standout game as much as I'm always going to shit on Bethesda for being a piece of shit. It's really fun to get in like a huge, huge RPG like that. It's just like, wow, so fucking cool.
00:38:44
Speaker
But again, that was like when I played it however long ago. A decade at this point, potentially. I don't think I got it on the ground floor, but I don't know why they keep re-releasing it all the time. And now they're like, here's another edition. We're like, yeah, we will keep buying it. Like that's what it comes down to is they can and people keep buying it. So it's the long tail. Their games take a long time to release and then
00:39:11
Speaker
Fix? They fix it now? Hold on. The community dies. Something on the Switch. You can't mod the Switch version. I would not play it on the Switch, I don't think.
00:39:25
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That's backing yourself into a corner. You mentioned the mods, and that was one of the things they did add in this one was the main edition. Phishing, which apparently they programmed in from scratch. It's like the one thing, I guess. They did some graphics updates. So this is actually the second time they've released graphics updates because they had the HD pack for, I think, special edition. You can get it.
00:39:48
Speaker
for, which was also like the 64 bit. Well, when the game first came out, it also had HD textures on PC that you could download as like a, it was DLC, but it was free DLC and a whole bunch of stuff. So like, so I think the special edition was bringing the console version up for the PS4 and, uh, Xbox one, right? Would have been the first time they ported it.
00:40:14
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But yeah, the other thing that they're adding here is like 400 items from Creation Club, which was their paid modding thing, which is fair. And I feel like, I don't know if we've ever talked about it, but like the modding community absolutely props these games up and never sees a dime, right?
00:40:38
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I don't know enough details about it, but I know that there is, I see Reddit posts about mod nexus all the time with drama there. There are some mod creators that have like active Patreons and do co-labs with other mod creators and to build like cross universe mod. It's, it's crazy how deep that that can go. Oh yeah. But there's a full community there and yeah, but they are community supported.
00:41:09
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I bought the lifetime on Nexus. You can you can pay monthly to like be like, hey, I'd like to support, you know, the community and all this. Not that that goes specifically to mod makers with the site itself, where you can like 100 bucks, I think, buy a premium account forever. And I bought that years back.
00:41:29
Speaker
Again, doesn't help the modders. I was going to say for a specific modder, obviously from adjusting a lot of Souls content, I watched this was Inferno Plus. Yeah. And he had some cool vids. And then later on, he started fucking around with mod stuff.
00:41:48
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It's been a couple of years, and every mod video he releases is progressively more insane. I think his most recent thing was he essentially mashed Halo 2 and Dark Souls, or original Halo and Dark Souls, or he'd make modified versions of Warthogs. Like, oh, this will support 32 players in this vehicle. I'll link you guys a video sometime. It's interesting to watch.
00:42:18
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But yeah, he is somebody who I am on their Patreon. I believe still nice. I don't see anything out of it. Like there's no video updates or anything ever, but I like what he does so they can take my money. Do you guys, this is a great follow like segue. Um, it was better before I called it out as such. Uh, do you guys have any Patreon or only fans things that you subscribe to? Um, just because even though you're not really getting content out of them,
00:42:50
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They pre-answered, but if you have more answers, then you can. I'm a terrible freeloader, so my way of supporting it was to do the Curiosity Stream Nexus thing with the Nexuses.
00:43:07
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a blanket umbrella with a lot of specific YouTubers that I did follow. So that's a subscription service that directly supports those. But because that was the value proposition for me for that was bigger than individual Patreons. I know Rachel is on the Patreon for a couple of channels she supports, like Drawfee and stuff like that, that she is
00:43:36
Speaker
Gotten benefit from we get high quality wallpapers over their drawings every month or something So it sounds like a no for both of us I Mean you said you already said yes for one. Well, I guess technically Yeah, it's hard for me to Look for something that I don't know what it is that I would get nothing from and just be like here's money it's me or so like I like what you do, even if I'm not
00:44:04
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Like I'd have to know something that the creator did like oh they make really cool art or really cool videos or good music Even if they're not like saying hey, I'll give you this thing a month. I'm just like here. Let me contribute towards you doing that Right if you know the people if you know the personality it's much easier to do so. Yeah, yeah, and it's always the physical goods thing it's the reason why like bands do merchandise and stuff like that it's it being purely a
00:44:34
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a patron donation. I'm more likely to do one-off donations than I am to subscribe to a recurring revenue stream, which obviously makes it very hard for them to do that as their full-time job without that.
00:44:51
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Yeah, that's that's I find myself in both situations. I do have one Patreon foundry which released. It's like a virtual tabletop thing. And I released it was released. I got a discount for purchasing the product, like for being from Patreon. And I just never unsubscribed. So I'm not getting anything from that Patreon anyway, other than supporting the team. But
00:45:15
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there's that one. And then the other the other one I do get things from or I get cyberpunk maps from one creator on Patreon. Gotcha. And then the rest of them I buy is one offs through like drive through RPG or something like that. Because I find myself in the same situation. It's like, I kind of just want to on demand sort of purchase the content that I want to use. And I tend to use that model a little bit more.
00:45:42
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Yeah. It's weird to say like, Hey, here's my money. Get back to me in a bit with whatever. Cause like, like you said, like if I go to a store, I'm buying a thing or from going online and buying a game or purchasing a movie, right? It's, I know what I want. I'm going to spend money on it. And the transaction is now done. I mean, I guess it's kind of like Netflix or something else where it's like, Hey, we're going to have stuff. You might not know what it is. Um, they'll probably be probably like it. Yeah.
00:46:11
Speaker
I mean, and that's that was the what YouTube use the YouTube red, which changed the premium and all that stuff they do. Do you want a month for short? I know you can get a month free. Yeah, they're really pushing it lately. So there's something in the back. And I'm sure that's motivating that. But the
00:46:30
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the Spotify thing where like 70% of that spotify specifically comes out and says 70% of your subscription goes to the people that you listen to for that month. Whereas
00:46:47
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Was it 10% of the revenue come for Spotify comes from ads? So like there isn't even that the ads are there just as a subsidy for the premium, mostly than anything else. Right. Um, YouTube's obviously, I don't know YouTube's radio ratio for that, but I know they could some amount of money for the creator of a premium thing, but it's nowhere it's skewed the opposite way on YouTube from what I've heard.
00:47:16
Speaker
You don't really want to rely on a platform where you are secondhand making money from advertising versus something, one of these content creator direct platforms where another company is going to take their cut. But, um, you know, a fair amount of the money's ending up in the creator's hands. Um, which, which platform are we talking about there, Jake? Um, Twitch.
00:47:46
Speaker
Or itch.io. One of the itches. Miss Snitch? Is that one of them? I think Snitch. That's the Harry Potter one. Ah, okay. Gotcha, gotcha. Do you guys remember when Steam sold videos? Oh, like documentaries and stuff? I've seen them. They sold movies at one point. So you could actually release something on Steam as a video content.
00:48:15
Speaker
interesting. It was weird. I can re-upload some videos there. And I guess the other thing is that OnlyFans backed out on their decision to ban pornography on the platform. The turnaround time makes it a little suspect. What do you mean suspect? Some of the discussion I've seen online is
00:48:43
Speaker
OnlyFans was kind of expecting something to happen, so they released a statement saying that they were changing that and essentially controlling the discussion of it. So they put the blurb in there about the banks being the problem, which was going to be a future problem, but none of the banks had actually come to them about it yet.
00:49:08
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But since a lot of players in that space have had problems in the past with that similar content, they were getting out ahead of it to try and get extra funding. So basically the same thing that they said, but potentially with a little bit more time travel involved. Yeah.
00:49:26
Speaker
I mean, if they were trying to play 5D chess, then they had like half of a set for a 2D board because like they lost so many people so quickly. From what I heard, like the signups on competing sites just exploded, right? Like if that's how you're making your money, if that's your financial stability, you're not gonna wait, right? You're not like, you gotta get in there.
00:49:54
Speaker
My anecdote for this is at my previous job, they basically said like, hey, your whole team's being off short, aka everybody who's here at this physical location will not have a job by this date. Guess who stayed around? Fucking nobody. We all looked for jobs immediately. Even if they said like tomorrow, like, oh, hey, that thing got reversed. That's not going to happen. Do you think I now trust you?
00:50:18
Speaker
No, no, no. You played with my financial stability. So we don't we don't take those chances. And you did mention like that was your previous job. You know, you swapped over due to some of that instability. So how do you feel about this only fan situation as someone who's intimately involved?
00:50:35
Speaker
Um, well, it's just, it's nice to not have to go like searching for another site to host on. And like, we already kind of have a relationship. Like I have not really an agent per se, but kind of like a go-to person. Just, um, how much nips is too much nips, which currently is, uh, there's no limit. I've always wondered, um, are followers on OnlyFans, are they just directly called simps? Like, is it just like you have, you gained 10 simps this month?
00:51:06
Speaker
Maybe I was just going to take whatever you just said is the hard truth. I don't feel like a simp, but I mean.
00:51:19
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I like attractive women who make sexual content that I get enjoyment from, and I'm going to support the people who do. I think there's a difference. Yeah, I'm not out there trying to send DMs like, hey, be my wife. It's just like, thanks for doing what you do. Cool. Yeah.
00:51:39
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If you don't put in italics tips fedora, then you're no true simp. That's the real problem. Actually, I send them a fedora picture. Excellent. Funny thing about the fedora is where it's located. I'm just doing this all for watching Justin's expression. Where is this going? Nobody knows.
00:52:02
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I have nothing to add. Speaking of flagrant nudity, Epic Games Store has a free title. Saints Row 3 remastered through next week, so a few days from when this episode goes live. I love Saints Row as a series. I haven't played the remaster, but I assume it's like the game. I enjoyed 3 and then bounced off 4.
00:52:27
Speaker
You didn't, you didn't finish work, didn't complete it. I had not finished four because it, I hadn't, I didn't, I played saints row three relatively late in its cycle. So I think they had already announced four when I played three. So like that, the time gap was too similar or too close for me. And then four kind of just felt like an elaborate expansion to three. Yeah. I think that's fair. Um,
00:52:54
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They're, this is part of their promotional for the series reboot, which will be an Epic game store exclusive for at least a year. Presumably we don't know exactly how long. Um, but also on console, right? Like, yes, for a PC. It's a Epic game store exclusive, but, um, I don't know. Epic just throws money away. Yeah. This is still like the.
00:53:18
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the thing of, I still don't like the Epic store because it's weird and new and different. Um, and also just fuck them because why not? But at the same time, I mean, there's probably reasons. I will, I will check the free games. Uh, and I have gotten a decent number of things out of it, but to be fair, a lot of things I'm already interested are in my steam library. Yeah. So if you're somebody who you're like, I want to check out some games, but I don't want to like spend money and do all this bullshit. Okay. Grab some free stuff. It's out there.
00:53:45
Speaker
there's never a better time, been a better time to be a poor gamer than now. As long as you can get a graphics card, I guess. But if you get that, if you get that, like. If you just had a computer last year, I mean, even like the growing up when you had like the family laptop or something, I think there's even there's enough indie games out there now that don't necessarily push graphic fidelity that it's still
00:54:13
Speaker
something completely reasonable that you can get value out of. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Some of the best games that I've ever played don't have great graphics. Or I just played them with bad graphics.
00:54:30
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Yeah, no, it's it's pretty ridiculous. Like sometimes Epic releases. They're not even the only platform that gives away free games, right? Like there's other ones out there. They're just the most straightforward one because you just have it. Well, it's like it's a section there. Steam technically does have free games. Right. But they're not.
00:54:52
Speaker
It's not regular, they're not steam, or Valve isn't throwing money at people to get on their platform. Exactly. And that's the thing, if I was a new PC gamer, there's a good chance, especially with stuff like Fortnite, if I was growing up, if I was 10 years younger, if we were in college now, I would probably be on the Epic bandwagon, regardless of the games that our friends would be playing and all that stuff.
00:55:22
Speaker
But because I've essentially already invested so much into steam that that's my one stop shop and I haven't been burned by steam. So there's and that's exactly what Epic's trying to do is get people off of steam a little bit. But their value proposition isn't there for me in regards to that. How have you not been burned by steam? Have you never made a pita? The audacity of this guy taking it back to reality for a moment.
00:55:52
Speaker
Yeah, I've never really had any major gripes with them. The fact that I can refund has been pretty nice. Um, they, the policies only gotten better, right? Yeah. Unfortunately, I missed the window of refund opportunity for mighty number nine. Uh, the, uh, the sales aren't the same sales that we got hyped up on back when we were younger.
00:56:19
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80% on like major games, stuff like that. But I think from everything I've heard from the development community, the way that this is structured is a lot better for them. It's more consistent and people don't, there's no, there's less FOMO in regards to buying a game that you just see. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a big proponent of no FOMO.
00:56:46
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On fire. Some of these comments. Yeah, I don't know. We've talked about Epic before. It's a mess. Speaking of a mess of Epic, this is actually news, I guess. I mean, the rest of this is news too, but this is the most newsy news on the list. So surprising I'm getting there. But a Google exec apparently suggested that there is possibility of making a deal with Tencent
00:57:13
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to acquire shares of Epic to try to wrest control of the company because of some of the lawsuits Epic was throwing around against Apple, against Google, Play Store, you know, all of this because Epic wouldn't be willing to be bought out. And man, I was talking about how it's the brightest timeline earlier. Maybe not. You're just like, here's a mega corporation. He's just gonna outright buy this other massively successful invested company.
00:57:42
Speaker
It's a settlement with fewer steps. Yeah, exactly, right. Hey, what if I absorbed you? Uh-huh. Then make three different spin-offs and cancel all of them if it was Google? Yeah, yeah. Google's just step on phase one of Spore. All of their opponents are like, I'm just going to keep growing until I can eat you. But to be fair, phase one is probably the best phase.
00:58:08
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Yeah, fair. Osmosis is also a much more chill game. I recommend it. Same concept. Really good. Osmosis Jones or the movie tying game. Yeah. Um,
00:58:25
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But yeah, it's crazy. These companies have that much power and money. And the idea of Company X making a deal with Tencent to take over another company, it feels very dangerous to read that as a headline. What was that game we all played as kids? Monopoly? Yeah. Which you can guarantee would be Epic's counter to any attempt to like this.
00:58:55
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But who knows?
00:58:59
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This other thing I thought was really weird. And since we have Justin on, the patron saint of Frostpunk, there was a Hong Kong digital key distribution platform, like you could buy game keys and things like that. Great market type thing? Yeah, great market. And two weeks after Frostpunk 2 was announced, they put up pre-orders for keys on their site.
00:59:28
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Now, on its own, you're like, it's a little whatever. But here's the reason it was bad. The game doesn't have a release date. OK, that's kind of a problem. Doesn't have an age rating. So you can't be like, OK, this is an M rated game, E rated game. Who knows? I think they guessed. I think that's what they did. And it doesn't have a price. So how do you preorder a game with money that has not yet been priced?
00:59:57
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They're short selling a game right like that's That's basically it. Would you like to buy the idea of the game? Yeah, that's just Kickstarter The Kickstarter gets no money but speaking of Kickstarter Psychonauts 2 came out five years six years All right, I'm gonna finish mine
01:00:24
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Anyways, the listing got taken down. Psychonauts, too. Yeah. I know you guys have both played it a little bit. What are your early spoiler-less impressions? Aesthetically, it's what I've wanted. And gameplay-wise, it feels modernized. Like, I'm actually surprised. Like, they're doing things like...
01:00:50
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Sony's constant like a B shots I can't cinematic
01:00:59
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descriptors with voice. Shot reverse shot. Yeah. So it's not just looking blank at a face like a lot of the original games were. And then there was obviously a lot of in-game dynamics, but there's a story here, and they're presenting the story very cinematically without it getting in the way, from what I've experienced. And all of the jumping and everything is what I expected. So it's a good game. Plus, it seems like they improved over the original concepts.
01:01:30
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I mean, I would agree with that. When I first launched it and went through the tutorial, like the updated art style and everything, it just, it pops in a really nice way.
01:01:47
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It's one of those gorgeous, immersive things that, because of my nostalgia with the original game, I want to experience everything at once. So as I'm going through, I'm looking at each little corner for something. Right. But even if you see an NPC who's just standing around, I'm like, nice.
01:02:10
Speaker
Because it's really awkwardly proportioned and designed like a Picasso, but it fits. It all fits. I've definitely already fallen into my collect-a-thon trap, though, where I'm scouring a little too much besides just moving on. It's like the dowsing rod for one. It's like, oh, I'm going to get those Indian arrowheads. Even at the very beginning of the game, I was like, oh, let me talk to these NPCs. They're like, you should really go this way. And I'm like, I get it. I get it. Yeah.
01:02:42
Speaker
So I need to keep myself on track a little bit and know that the biggest problem is I don't know when things will be able to go back to. And there's already been a couple of Metroidvania, quote unquote. Some things locked behind some other thing you don't have access. Yeah, exactly.
01:03:01
Speaker
I'm mentally clocking them, but like in the next day, it's going to be gone for where that was. I'm terrified of lockout, like mandatory lockout in a game where it's just like, oh, I don't think it's going to pass the threshold. I'm sure it'll be like, oh, you can go back and replay levels like in Psychonauts one. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but that's good. If you like Psychonauts one.
01:03:23
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It's a fucking dream. And if you liked any of the recent platformer revival games, including Mario Odyssey and that, it's that Ratchet and Clank, those types of games. It's like the nuts, too, is that category. And from my two or three hours in it, I say it's good right now. Nice.
01:03:51
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Hard sell, all stocks, cash in. Cash app? Cash app. Cash, cash shop. Now being added to Psychonauts 2. Johnny Cash. If you want dystopian related to cash shop, apparently they are re-releasing Monster Rancher 1 and 2, which is an old PS1 game.
01:04:20
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on the switch where additional save slots are microtransactions. Well, they're literally pulling the Konami. Yes. I mean, it's totally Tecmo. I believe it's the publisher.
01:04:35
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Yeah, which is really weird. They also, one of the big, like, interesting things of the original game was that if you put an audio CD in, that's how you spawned new monsters. Since it's being ported to the Switch, they're just giving you a giant track list to pick from and that spawns a monster. Huh.
01:04:55
Speaker
That sounds less fun. Like I remember E-reader days where I didn't have an E-reader, but holy shit, I was like, would it scan this? What about this? And it would just be like a poker card or something. But I have no idea what the game would say.
01:05:15
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I have no idea what the game actually was like, but I remember there being like, it was like a Chex Mix type game or something like that, or you just got a CD with a serial, but it was like, it was similar to that, but it was like a barcode scanner type game. There must've been a peripheral, which would mean it was not Chex Mix, but you literally would scan a barcode and it would generate like a dinosaur for you to fight or something. Yep. Yep. Rachel, Rachel would know what that was called. We've talked about it recently, which is why I had,
01:05:44
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It's game command. It jumped out to me that Monster Rancher was being revitalized, ported, whatever you want to call it. Here's the picture. I'm going to post it so that the audience knows what we're talking about. Oh, it's that thing that they described. Yes. You're welcome, audience. I also like that it has the... I mean, granted, that is Jurassic Park, but
01:06:13
Speaker
But it's got the whole 90s Raptor vibe. But I think Rachel had either that or a similar thing. She was big in the dinosaurs when she was little, apparently. She would actually enjoy going to the grocery store with her parents just so she could scan all of the UPCs. But it's a dinosaur fighting game, and it's rated E, so you know that it's not actually good. That's the tone.
01:06:44
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Yeah, 2001 educational game. Anyways, I'm going to close that tab. Yeah.
01:06:51
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Anything else, any important information that you would like to convey to the rest of us and this the last opportunity to shill? I have my plug for our wonderful Final Fantasy 13 Let's Play that Izala and I finished the main story for recently. It took half a year of our life to replay a game from 2009. Games were long back then.
01:07:22
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especially when you have to edit the footage. Yes. Was there any editing done here or was it just like kind of infrequent gameplay?
01:07:32
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There's an intricate gameplay, but I ended up, I think, so each hour I targeted an hour, each episode I targeted an hour. And since it's a JRPG, there's a lot of long combat that's pretty similar. So every episode required me to speed up combat sections. So basically a new monster or enemy, I would do the full fight with them in it. So you get the,
01:08:03
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the bestiary update and everything like that. And then if we ever re-fought that enemy, I would do a 4X speed up on it. So you did tailor the experience. Yeah. That's good. And there's some jumping around and if I had an interesting way that I died on one scene or something, I would do some picture in picture and stuff.
01:08:22
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But the amount of time it took me since each episode was an hour long It would take me like two hours to do the edit on top of it on top of the recording time so ended up dragging at my gameplay time was about
01:08:37
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45 hours, which is longer than my original playthrough was on top of effectively doubling that time to do the edit. So I learned some things. I definitely would do a shorter game next time, but it was a fun experience recording that with Izala. Yeah. So were you providing commentary? Were you playing the game? He was providing commentary.
01:09:02
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I played the game and then it was dual commentary from us. Gotcha. Cool. He had gone deep into the lore back when it was first coming out. Both of us have played the entire trilogy series, so having some of that future knowledge of what they were trying to do, we expressed that during and where they're relevant.
01:09:26
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You kind of got the developer commentary, but then it's just some other guys. Some guys providing developer commentary. So a standard let's play on YouTube. Yes. Yeah. That's good though. That sounds cool. Yeah. I'm glad you guys stuck with it. I know at some point where you're talking about like you wanted to do like a side project and then you finally did it. I was like, how'd it go?
01:09:52
Speaker
But then, half a year later, it's complete. So that was really fucking cool. Yeah. That's got to feel good to put the bow on that, wrap it up. What platform is it hosted on? So it's on YouTube and the channel is my... I made an LP channel called Dice LP. D-A-I-S-U-L-P.
01:10:16
Speaker
It'll be in the description for this episode. Yeah. And there's a playlist for it if you just want to put us rambling in the background on, I guess, that seems relevant for this audience, right? Yeah. If you've heard Justin before, you're like, where can I get more Justin without these two bozos? Now's your chance. Heck yeah. Nice LP. I have found it.
01:10:43
Speaker
And I don't know why I did a search for it. And suddenly you just let in this, but the link, like you put in the URL really works. It does work. I searched for on Google, even though he literally spelled it out. But, uh, yeah, we'll put the, put that in the description. You guys should check that out after this, after you finish our backlog of a podcast, you can check his thing out, I guess.
01:11:07
Speaker
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, we get nothing for this. So check this thing out. Well, be like just stop listening to us right now. If you just if you haven't gotten your JRPG fix from the soapstone podcast, then oh, insidious. And I hope you never will. It's almost as though we basically declared war on JRPGs through the comments we've said on this on the podcast. That's fair.
01:11:35
Speaker
I've actually never seen nor played 14 or 13 14th alive 13 so I have to give this one a look see
01:11:47
Speaker
I might have to. I might have to. But I think that's a great note to end on. Check his stuff out. Thank you, Justin, for being our guest once more. Thanks for having us. The open-ended format where we talk about a bunch of nonsense and chill. Always good to have you on. Thank you, Dave, for also being on the podcast. I was going to say, I'd never be thanked. Each episode, it's nonsense.
01:12:17
Speaker
Yeah. So no, it's I do like this format. It's been pretty experimental. I mean, this is our second open ended guest episode. And I think it I think it worked. I think it works. I think it works. I like it more from a fluidity standpoint. Mm hmm.
01:12:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's not very viscous. But man, I'm not actually going to use that. But if you have feedback on this episode, not feedback on viscosity of things, feedback on this episode or the guest episode in general, the format, ideas, mini games we could possibly play for future episodes, a wheel we could spend perhaps, suggest those ideas at soapstonepodcast.gmail.com.
01:13:00
Speaker
or join the discussion on Facebook, which I assume still exists, at facebook.com slash soapstone podcast. And as always, we'll see you in the next one. Is it viscous or vicious? That's just cowboy bebop.