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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 16 - A Word with the Editors
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Heeeey welcome back! Glad you are here with us again for yet another exciting episode of the FarmRPG Podcast! This month we have our podcast editors on, Bhelogan (who's been on before) and Noodles (who hasn't!). We chat with them about all things editorial... and FarmRPG... and mustard? Hope you enjoy, and thanks again for listening in! Good luck with the swear jar!
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Introduction and Hosts Introduction
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um are
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Yeah, we're back. Anyway, everybody, welcome back to the Farm RPG Podcast. it's Is it clipping? oh Am I yelling too loud? Hang on. Sorry.
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I don't remember what direction I turned this in. Anyway, welcome back to the Farm RPG Podcast. Am I clipping still? I'm not saying a word. I'm just laughing at you. all right Why should we care? The audio editors are going to have to deal with it anyway. That's true. let's try Those jabronis are going to have to something about it.
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Anyway, welcome back. this This is me, Boo Bun, your host. And I'm here tonight with, ah of of course, as always, my co-host. Hey, it's me, Force Path, and and I genuinely thought she was going to skip over me because she's way more excited about the other people here than me.
00:00:58
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I'm not skipping over you. I would never do that to you. I would never, never do that to you. Anyway, I have ah two guests here who are very well familiar with this podcast. It's actually our editors. Welcome, guys. editors. Insert clapping sound. Insert clapping sound.
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Give an introduction. Let's come with you, Belle. Let's go. we You've been on here ah multiple times. If you don't know me, shame on you. watch some old episodes.
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I have nothing new to contribute. So but just something let's And then we have... Let's go to the game. interesting. We have a first time, just like not on staff, our first player, but he does edit our video for the the podcast. so he kind of gets, ah you know, the backstage. But...
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It's like one of those honorary degrees when like somebody's just cool. So they're like, all right, you ah we like you. Here's an honorary degree to our university. Here's a bachelor's degree in honorary. Right, exactly. Right, right, right.
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have I have a degree in editing and noodles. So Dr. Noodles. It's Dr. Noodles. Professor Noodles, if you will. Noodles, so nice to have you on the podcast, my guy. And Bella as well. Glad to be here.
00:02:11
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I'm always glad to see both of your smiling faces. Yeah, it's a good time. I'm glad we got you both on at the same time. You know, good times. Good times. Anyway, what have you guys been up to? It's been a month.
00:02:24
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Anything good? you want to just jump right into the updates or what? Listen, this is your like, this is your train. It's not. It's our train. I can't do this alone, dog.
00:02:37
Speaker
Yes, you could. I feel like you could talk to yourself. I you probably could. I could talk to myself for an hour. That's true. But you keep me on task, though. See, like ADHD, like squirrel, like stuff would happen if I was by myself, which is happening right now because you're allowing me to just ramble.
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Well, I did that. Stop it. Stop it. working. Thank you. I know. I'm enjoying We'll interrupt you and cut you off. Yeah, perfect.
Farm RPG Game Insights
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Let me not talk for a minute. How about you talk for a minute there, old FP? Oh, old FP. What am I here to talk about? I'm here to talk about Farm RPG.
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Farm RPG just a fantastic online MMO semi-idol farming game. It's an MMO. Kind of. I mean, it's like massively multiplayer and it's online. like That's true. I feel like by the strictest definition, it is. It's really what's really funny that you asked that, Bubun, because I think in like the first episode,
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It was reversed. I know. Oh, okay. know. That did it on purpose. Missed that over my head. That's okay. That's why I'm laughing it for myself. Right. when did it become massively instead of just massive? Like everyone says massively multiplayer. I don't know. No, that's a great question. don't know. I always just thought it was just massive. We ended an LL on there.
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Massively multiplayer online. it Lee? I've heard people saying Lee lately. i don't think it's just Force Path. It could I am known to say the correct version. Well, it would massive multiplayer online.
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um But I remember that back when I was playing World Warcraft, like in the 2000s era. It was massively... It used to be just mods, but... Does the L-Y make it like an adverb? Is it an adverb then? I get, no.
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I should know this, but I don't. Call Vinny. Phone a friend. Phone my husband downstairs. Where's English majors? I know, come on. Not me. oh I don't like being called out for the thing that I majored in, okay? Then you should know this. You should know this. none of us and i don't know What they teach you in college about English really has very little to do with i sentence structure.
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That's a good point. and There's a lot of like Ray Bradbury and... I'm more focused on poets like T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, kind of the... okay Now I know why you actually read the quests.
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Yeah, yeah. He writes them too, part of them, most of them. Not most of them, excuse me. but It would be very wild if he wrote them but did not read them. That'd be crazy. I mean, that's being...
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just doesn't know what's coming out no editing whatsoever we'll fix the titles later once it's live but these were sp those were the wild the wild west days is what i like to call them perfect did we Did we talk about something enough for you now? Like I tried to,
Music Recommendation and Swear Jar Winner
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yeah and you know. I need a little buffer.
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I need like a little, you know, a little chatter before we get right into the meat and potatoes of the episode. Yeah, I love a little vamping. I love a little, you know, banter. I mean, so I've been listening to this new band um that's from, that that actually Firestream recommended to me.
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Called Luga Lagoon. So if you're looking for some Celtish indie music, check them out. Baluda Lagoon.
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There you go. There's my random van. Do you have to be looking for it or could you be okay stumbling into it? and don't know if I've ever been looking for Celtish music. Is it Celtish or is it Celtic? It's Celtic.
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Celtic. I probably said it wrong because that's what I do. I'm just checking. I don't know. I don't know what it is. I've never heard it my life. I think just think you could just listen to it. I don't think there has to be any specific adjective and or adverb about the music. Call that joke.
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adverb. You're welcome. Anyway, you want get into some updates? Nah, let's just keep vamping. could vamp all night, but I don't know if that's what they're here for. And by them, mean our beautiful listeners who are still listening to this podcast. Was it the last episode where we kind of riffed on each other a little harder than average? Yeah, we were really ripping into each other in that last episode. A people said that was their favorite part.
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I know. They did like it. It was mostly you being mean to me the entire time. That is horrible. It's because you had Nethi here, and Nethi's just like ready to go. You and Nethi together, guys are ready to go for my throat at all times.
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And that's fine. I don't mind. I can handle I'm a big girl. Like literally and physically. Like overall. and Maybe you guys need to have a segment called like Hot Take Corner.
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so yeah Just take five minutes out and give your hottest take and see what comes out. That would actually be so much fun. real hot takes. I can't think hot take of that. I don't think we could do that spontaneously. You always cut it. You're on the line with the editors right now. That's true. We could cut anything. We could just be like, cut this whole section out from this timestamp this timestamp.
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Noodle's over here making work for himself. Yeah, we can do this. I was already panicking about the amount of work I might create for myself before even starting this. Like, okay, what if what if my mic's bad? What if I um too many times? Like, panicking already?
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no, no. You'll be fine. I mean, if you um too many times, you're the one that counts them. So I guess that is good. I know. That's why I'm so hyper aware of it right now. Thank you for doing that, by the way, because I can't listen to my own voice.
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I can't. I never bothered trying. I cut a lot of them out of it. It's just the audio part of it. I probably only get the the number about 80% of the way there. That's fine. and We take it. We take it for.
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i'm crazy That gives me a great segue into who won the swear jar. It's not really a segue if you say it was a segue. Listen, that's the whole thing. that's my That's my whole thing, is that I don't know how to segue. Come on, let me live my truth.
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Live with my truth. Full time. Do you want to take over, Bell? Come on. um Anyway, it's Hulk 10. Hulk 10 won the swear jar. It's not the regular Hulk. It's Hulk 1-0.
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So Hulk send me a message. I'll send you over your gold. Yeah. You're the winner. Thank you for listening. and Thank you for listening. I appreciate you. I love reading through all those comments, by the way, on the swear jar because they're very funny a lot of the time.
00:09:05
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They are very funny. That raises a really, really good question. Is it Hulk 10 or is that Binary 2? Or is Hulkio, right? like Oh, who knows?
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mean, Hulk... ah i I'm not going to assume your gender. You can tell me what where your name came from. Is it Hulk 2 or is it Hulk 10? I don't know there's a Hulk physical 2.
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Who knows? Hulkio. I seem to think it's not that though. But yeah, anyway, Hulk 10. Get at me. Hit me up. Thanks.
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Anyway,
Farm RPG Updates and New Features
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updates. we want to do some updates? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How back do you have to go? been a while. It been a while. um The last time we recorded, um ah there's a big um.
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The last time it posted it was July 16th. So a little bit behind this month. Sorry. We had some technical difficulties um with recording. But we're back and better than ever, baby. ah Again, another um.
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It was July sixteenth So I'm going to go to July 18th because there wasn't, we definitely recorded like a week before that. And there was no real update between then and the 18th.
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So it's July 18th. The 18th was probably my favorite event update so far to date. Oh, you like RPG. It was really it is good. So if you aren't following along at home or you are following along at home and don't have like your phone on you,
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That was the ah cool event shop. So basically for the event ah for July, we basically had like those tokens that you could get for like shooting the bottle rocket brawl.
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And we were including starter packs from the past in there this year. It's a new thing we you started doing with the event token event shop. That was a one-time thing. Don't you dare start promising that it's always going to be. Okay, it's a one-time thing. Sorry, I'm not promising anything. It's a new thing we tried doing. Until next time.
00:11:03
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Until next time. i I don't know. We have no idea. I don't know. I'm not promising you anything. But there was some starter packs from last year in there. And also starter pack items. So if you didn't want to buy the whole starter pack, you could just buy like to do the quest.
00:11:16
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And we reactivated the quests as well. So you could have done catch up on some old 2024 quests. 2023. It was 2023. Excuse me. So it wasn't last year. It the before us.
00:11:27
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excuse me so it wasn't last years it was the year before So yeah, it's pretty cool. but So if you had missed those starter pack quests, if you weren't playing at that time... It was fun. I really enjoyed watching people's reaction to that.
00:11:41
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it was yeah It was definitely a little out of the norm for us. So... were There were a few quests I hadn't done when I had my year-long hiatus. That's awesome. I'm glad to pick those up.
00:11:54
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Yeah, I mean, it was it's just something people always say, like, they're so sad that they can't do some of the old stuff. And obviously, like, the the congrats on 50,000 players is never coming back.
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But, like, we thought, why not try to find a way to let people do some of those? That was cool. Yeah, pretty sick. was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. That was a really good event.
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I spent all my event tokens on buddy dolls because that's all I ever spend my event tokens on is buddy dolls because I got to get every single buddy doll. So that's what's happening in my and whenever there's an event shop or a buddy doll in any portion of the game. I'm buying that sucker.
00:12:32
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July 24th update. Do you want to take this one? Sure. Oh, sick. Thank you. you're You're so welcome. Thank you for offering me the opportunity. and I just like, you know, I don't want to hear myself speak the whole time.
00:12:45
Speaker
I like to hear your dulcet tones. Oh my God. Hit me with that podcaster voice. Well, now I'm going to talk silly the rest of the time. Let's talk about Borgens Treasure Hut. No, I'm sorry. Perfect. Perfect. Anyways, we'll talk about Borgens Treasure Hut, which is something I'm very excited about. oh yeah, you helped with this.
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I... You did a lot of work on this. I did a lot of work on this. So, Borgen's Treasure Hut hit the beta at that point. It was an alpha for a little bit. ah We did quite a bit of work on it, um and now it is hit beta.
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For those of you who don't have beta, Borgen's Treasure Hut is simply an opportunity. There's three chests that you can see. You spend some AC. You open them. um They are truly random, and you get rewards out of them.
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That's it. um But... It's a good way to spend AC, especially on a non-Borgen day. And you also get Borgen bucks for it.
00:13:42
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And the rewards are pretty good. I've spent quite a bit of time making it. How do I put this? tried to make it good over a long period of time. So you will have some ups and some downs. as A couple of people have mentioned the highs are really high and the lows are really low. And that was kind of intentional.
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A little bit different from some of our other systems, which are kind of ah you know very steady and even like the wheel. so you can only use it one time a day, but you can spend gold ah to redo it again.
00:14:13
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Very cool stuff. So very, very happy with it. um I've really enjoyed the feedback. We've made a couple changes that just recently went live, actually, to help make it a little more user friendly.
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And hopefully we'll be done testing it sooner than later. So very cool. There's a page there. If you want to know how it works, you can go to Borgans Treasure Hut, the wiki page.
00:14:35
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And that was I've owned in a so many times about something like i like. Someone was saying I was the king. And think that lives rent free in my head. and someone was saying i was the um ah king and i think that lives run free in my head That's I mean, it but it's not it's not doing anything. It's not helping. So it's for living rent free, but you're not doing anything about it. So it's OK. But it doesn't matter because they should want you to be um and change who you are. yeah yeah you They should want you to um and ah as much as humanly possible, because that buffers the coffer that they could potentially win by commenting on the swear jar.
00:15:09
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It was probably a strategy. They probably put it in your head. So now you're thinking about it and you're doing it more. you're trying to They're trying to earn gold off here. Yeah, they're milking the cow right now. Definitely just DM me, Force Path, can I have done gold? Like, come on, guys. Milking the um-uh cow.
00:15:25
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Seriously. Anyways, we also did some other changes. We cleaned up some alerts, especially from like feeding pets, petting, things like that. We also changed a few of the links in the farm supply and we did a couple more upgrades.
00:15:42
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I'm also going run into July 28th because I happen to know a little bit more about this one. ah So we also added the claim all chores button, ah highly requested thing. So we've been trying to do more of the claim all stuff.
00:15:57
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And that was actually implemented by our new admin. So we also ah said that we've added a new admin developer. His name is Hensodz. And he has been helping Firestream with some of the coding.
00:16:11
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So he has been helping the game. Clay Maul was one of the things that he worked on. So if you haven't had chance to introduce yourself, send him fish. Hensad's. Trout him. He's cool dude. Cool dude.
00:16:25
Speaker
He's a cool dude. we physical du so Just want to kind of breeze right through that. You can talk about the rest. Okay. All right. All right. August 1st. August 1st. Let's go. So we're actually now we're back in the month that we're actually in, which is cool.
00:16:39
Speaker
So you got the starter pack, which is the Thomas's Travel Tote. And it's got 200 gold in as the peruge. But now you can get some fish and chips. Fish and chips here.
00:16:51
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And the fish and chips. It's pretty good. It greatly increases your XP earned from each cooking action. So you can really like blast up those cooking levels with the fish and chips.
00:17:02
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So enjoy using that. There's nothing, nothing for me. Nothing? Unfortunately, you are farming 99, one of the like...
00:17:11
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if If you max out cooking yet. No, I haven't maxed out cooking yet, so I'm enjoying it. you love it, yeah. I love it. It's good. Very cool. So that'll really help you out. ah Also this month, Inferno peppers.
00:17:23
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Look at that. You can grow some really hot peppers when you grow regular peppers. You might get some, you know, hot ones and then, you know, do some of those quests, those... those hard hot pepper quests that are out there right now.
00:17:36
Speaker
So get cracking. There's a mailbox. There's a new Raptor as always. The soap shop was updated. and there's some new rewards for playing Buddy Jack. ah So now you can get when you play Buddy Jack up to 4,000 games, you can, you know, get some rewards for that.
00:17:54
Speaker
New rewards for quest completions up to 750 quests, which is crazy. There's so many quests in this game. Jesus. uh and more rewards will be added in the future obviously we're you know just keep reading just keep reading it down do you want me to keep going yeah oh okay well we had a back to school event which i mean we didn't get to talk about unfortunately sorry about that which is funny because there was a comment on the square chair last time where they were laughing about how they were hearing about an event
00:18:25
Speaker
It's the FOMO section of the of the podcast. Here's the thing. We were supposed to record last week, so I could probably have talked about it, but unfortunately, not not happening.
00:18:37
Speaker
So, ah yeah, there was an event. You missed it. I'm sorry. The FOMO is real. ah Also... it's It's short. It's short. I can give you one fun fact about the back-to-school event, though. is it I love it.
00:18:48
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I get credit for that idea. Oh, do you? one of those that were thinking, and what could we do August? I'm like, I mean, it's the month everyone goes back to school. This is true. Not up here, though. Not up here in the north. i don't know if anyone else remembers it. Well, yeah, i mean, it depends on where you're at. Yeah, no, up here in, up in New England, that none of them go back until September, unfortunately, so.
00:19:05
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my We ran into that. Yeah, we ran into that when we moved from Oregon to Georgia. its Oregon starts way late. Georgia, they start way early. So my kids like got less than two months of summer vacation. They felt really gypped. Yeah, that happens. That happens. yeah ah Oh, also, cool new Patreon subscriber rewards. So if you're a supporter tier, you get one new slot on the Craftworks for free.
00:19:30
Speaker
If you're a beta tier, you get two slots for free. If you're an alpha tier, you get three slots for free. And of course, if you're an I like the game. You have four slots. Love the game, not like the game. it's No, it's likes, actually.
00:19:44
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It's likes. Is it true? It's likes. Yeah, it's I like the game. think so. It's likes. Which funny. It's funnier. You're right. bring it it I have seen the heart and evidently placed in my brain little like the likes of the game. It's the likes the They only like it. They don't love it.
00:20:04
Speaker
I mean, they could love it, but It's not, you know, anyway. But you get some free, and I guess it's not free because you're on the Patreon, but it's like an extra bonus for being on the Patreon. Thank you for your support. Pay to win. Pay me to win, baby. No, it's not. You just get extra. You can get those slots by yourself if you just, you know, get them. If you pay. If you pay. mean, we give it free gold. Hey, maybe you can win the swear jar and you can get that gold and you can buy some Kraftwerk slots with it.
00:20:30
Speaker
Have a thought of that. Free gold, baby. Weird, right. Oh, new tower level three, one, uh, 300 name color. Yes. That's fun and cool. I can't, I'm never getting that bad boy. Never getting that.
00:20:44
Speaker
The colors are so fun. i wish we could add more colors if I'm totally honest with you, but like last time we did it, like everyone was like really uppity about it. Like really uppity. They're upset. I feel like, you know, it's colors are very subjective and you like, you know, you either love them or you hate them with the, like,
00:21:01
Speaker
I hate this color. That's okay. You don't have to like it. You don't have like everything. I like mine colored because i have a rainbow. Anyway. Let's see. In the list of temples, if you have fully sacrificed items, it will show green 100% with a checkmark now. Hey, that was off of our feedback.
00:21:19
Speaker
That was right off of improve loop. yeah Thank you for supporting us. Thank you. listening that improve loop What I need to do is actually go back and click that I read and did it. I signed for got to do the whole, you know, part of my job.
00:21:33
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but Oh my goodness. Well, yep, that came from improve loop. So if you, hey, have a suggestion for us, we actually do read it. I know it looks like um we don't, but we do. We go through it, you know, all the time. So we're checking that stuff out for cool stuff we can actually do.
00:21:47
Speaker
So hit us up. Hit us up if you have an idea. ah Fixed exploring effectiveness cost to show the correct item art if the fee is not silver. So I don't Basically John Lund.
00:21:59
Speaker
Yeah, just John Lund because you need corn. Well, and Gare Bear requires honey, I believe. Oh, does he? Yeah, he does. garish cra okay and Okay, that makes sense. ah There was a fixed an issue where we were scrolling on some devices when manual fishing. So now if that's happening, it doesn't anymore.
00:22:16
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And we've added a change profile background to the My Settings link in the art gallery, which is bomb because I always forget where to go for changing my background. And I do it, you know, ah every couple of months. And then we're at the last update, which honestly, this was the back to school.
00:22:30
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you want me to go over it? Do you want to take it? it's literally just like normalmo Is it the FOMO? It's a FOMO part. I'm sorry you missed out, but we did have a back to school event. I won't go over all the percentages you missed, but I will go over the cool expedition thing where we let you go out for extra long. It's like double double time for the gold. So...
00:22:51
Speaker
you could I did it. I did it. then Oh, I did it too. people were People clown on expeditions and they are so wrong. They are. They are good. They they are equivalent value to going in trade for some things. Although I know all of you trade nerds are going to come after me for that.
00:23:07
Speaker
They really are. Especially if you never ever touch chat or trade. They are extremely good value. um With the star map perk specifically. I should clarify. If you don't have that perk.
00:23:19
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and No, No, no, no. umt do that I mean, you can if you really want to. Pay to win, baby. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I don't know. So many people will come. i don't want want to come after me. No, no, no. it's good I mean, come on. I mean, if you're paying money, if you're giving gold to the game or like buying gold from the game and you have the extra, ahead.
00:23:40
Speaker
Do an expedition. Enjoy. oh and there is one other game update note that we didn't talk about, but we should talk about right now. It's Poo Bones fourth farm-iversary today. It is today. That is true.
00:23:53
Speaker
It is. That is the truth. I started playing four years ago. It was before I got my dog and before I got married. So I've been with Farm RPG longer than that. yeah major life events yeah congratulations like i that those two things happened like that week too so like got the dog on the 25th it's the 21st today got the dog on the 25th got married on the fourth so like it's really like 2021 was a like a very milestone year not i mean farm rpg big milestone for me starting to starting a game on my phone big milestone baby
00:24:25
Speaker
Yeah, did you plant did you plan that order? You take the best first? Yeah, yeah, best first. Farm RPG. Farm RPG, the dog, my husband. thats That's the list. That's the rank Sounds about right.
00:24:36
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Rank order.
00:24:39
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But yeah. Yeah, no, I love the game, so I'm still here. Now i'm working for it. Hooray! Anyway, yeah, that's the updates. Cool. Here we go Love that. Most satisfying job ever with the best boss, right? It really is. It's a really good time. I get to like draw raptors and a whole bunch of other stuff I can't talk about.
00:24:58
Speaker
So, you know, you'll just have to see. You'll just have peep with your eyes and I don't know. but here Peek with your eyes. That's the only way you can see anything I do.
00:25:09
Speaker
See, here's the thing is that like, that's the only way you can see. You can't. My stuff doesn't translate like to a screen reader or something. It's you have to use your eyes on it. My stuff doesn't either.
00:25:24
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I mean, you
Guest Insights and Personal Projects
00:25:27
Speaker
said it. mine Not me, man. You said it. Not me. Anyway. oh too funny. Hey, we should we should get to know noodles a little bit.
00:25:35
Speaker
Honestly, we've had Bell on before. we don't talk to Bell anymore. He's been on like a bajillion. True story. It's the gentleman here, though, that has never been on the podcast and sits in the shadows many times.
00:25:47
Speaker
And he is a giant bowl of noodles. hele Also, our first ever player. I'm going to put that again there. is our first ever player. I don't know if this will ever happen again. But yeah, new york a good president and not one no, no, no, no. You're special. So they're allowed here, but i'm someday maybe I'm not going to promise anything, but that's fair. What do you want to know?
00:26:13
Speaker
I'm here to, I'm here. I'm an open book. Hey, tell us your player name and where it came from. So my player name is Noodles, as has been said now. um What do you say do the imposters?
00:26:24
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I call them imposters. Okay. Just making sure. yeah there's There's many imposters, and I've become friends with some of them, or they've reached out to me. Or usually when I see one in the wild, I'll...
00:26:36
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give them some gold or some OJ or something. And then I just shoot him a message with like the ah heart emoji and the bowl noodles emoji. Is this like, um, and like somebody with like two zeros as the noodles and stuff like instead of, yeah. So I think there's, there's one more OG noodles who's even older than me. And I think that's a O and then a zero.
00:26:57
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think that's the truest of the true noodles. He is the OG noodles. But I think I could be wrong about this. I think I'm after that. But there's a lot of us out there where we are many.
00:27:10
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Just like a bowl of noodles. We are legion. We have noodles. ah But when I first started, ah my username was Michael Noodles. I remember that. Michael Noodles. Wow. Okay. Yeah. and I just thought it sounded funny.
00:27:26
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was. There was a time with my girlfriend at the time who I came up with a name for her and that was her name. She came up for me out of nowhere and it just sounded like such a goofy. It was so blunt and so silly and I was like, all right, whatever. like I'll start using that as my username. And then there was some event and chat that and giveaways that happened and everyone changed their name to spoon related items.
00:27:51
Speaker
And so then I changed my name to something with a spoon in it. I can't remember what. And then after that, I switched it back and I changed it just to noodles as it is. Spoonal noodles.
00:28:02
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Yeah, spoonal noodles. There you go. You're welcome. There you go. I've just been noodles ever since. and So the OG noodles started a year before you.
00:28:16
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peace i wonder why they chose the zero in their name. Do they still play? ah They do. They do still play. And that has always been their name.
00:28:28
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I love dedication. Dedication to a name. that That is the other OG noodles. Anyway, Noodles, how did you find Farm RPG? Yeah, that's how you found Farm. So i've been I was trying to think about this. I don't truly remember, like, if I had to dig deep in the memory banks. I think I have this vague recollection that it was one of the, like, algorithmic, like, we think you're going to like this game because of the other things that you play. And so it was like, I think I was maybe playing the...
00:29:00
Speaker
Lemonade Stand Tycoon or something like that or Egg Inc. I think I was also playing. And so around that time and then it the app store, I think, was just like, we think you're going to like these five games. And I want to say it was one of those five in there.
00:29:13
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And I saw RPG. So I was like, all right, I'll give it a chance. And I played it and it pretty instantly that that feedback loop of like, you know, you get the green complete text. And then i was like, all right, number go up. This feels pretty good.
00:29:29
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That's how they get you. That's how they get you. Bring in get that get that good dopamine hit, finishing those quests. Love that. That is awesome.
00:29:40
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So do you you still play, I assume? Where you at in progression-wise? Yeah, I still play daily. I'm sure I've missed a couple days here and there, but generally speaking, i check in all the time. I'm a little less active throughout the day than I used to be, just because my life in general is a bit busier.
00:29:59
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ah But I play regularly. um I think I'm pretty progressed. If all goes well, I'll hit Tower 300 tomorrow.
00:30:10
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Wow. I have to finish Lilypads. And I... But i I could probably finish it today if I wanted to, but I ah try not to avoid things if I can avoid it. Oh, you're one of those. Okay.
00:30:27
Speaker
I'm not like min-max to the max, but ah maybe um I'm min-max to the min a little bit. Okay. no I see. What is happening?
00:30:38
Speaker
don't know exactly what you mean. got I do understand what you're saying. I'm picking up what you're putting down. ah I'm not. i'm I'm lost. So I, well, I'm i'm trying to, i i I'm but going to avoid potatoes if I keep fishing for these lily pads by opening the grab bags.
00:30:55
Speaker
So I got to wait for the temple to reset so I can put more potatoes in the temple. It's a whole thing. I see. Oh, so that's what you're waiting on. You're waiting for the temple to reset tomorrow. Yeah. Right, exactly. And then once that reset happens, I'll be Did you finish the the special temple?
00:31:09
Speaker
Did you already finish that for potatoes? I did, yes. I did that a long time ago with the potatoes. I still have a couple other of the, like I think I have broccoli for that temple and onions and leeks because... i was trying to figure out what special temple you're talking about. There's so many.
00:31:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The secret one. The secret one. The secret one. The one that you need to like do a bunch of things to get into. love the secret temple. Yeah, me too. There's it really which is worth doing now there is a post that was like, hey, can we talk about how cool the secret temple is?
00:31:40
Speaker
Zero posts, like zero comments about it. It got like 20 upvotes and there was zero comments. and I kept bloom wanting to comment and I was like, that feels like really self-aggrandizing. So I didn't.
00:31:52
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it was just surprising like like Yeah, great. It's really good. like love that. If we go back and look, is it going to be like posted by Force Path? No. Guys, can we talk about this? This is great.
00:32:06
Speaker
Can't somebody just say Please, I need this. So you've done a lot of temples, but what is your favorite part of Farm RPG? ah Tell us a little bit about like what keeps you yeah going. like What's your favorite part of Farm?
00:32:20
Speaker
And no, we're not going to ask him who his favorite mod is. That's not fair. Yeah, it's not. I had thought about that and I was going to say that seems like an unfair question to have to answer. was like trying to like prepare myself. So yeah, it's not fair. You're not like, you don't have like insider. Right. You're not in Snapchat. So you can't make the distinction. I only engage with like four of you in general.
00:32:46
Speaker
Anyway. So tell us about your favorite part about farmer G. You know, i I don't know. I mean, it's kind of the whole thing, which is a really unsatisfying answer, but like, and generally in general, i really just like having like to-do list, kind of. Like, I like feeling productive, and so it's that idea of logging on and doing my daily chores, and Taking the sum of all of its parts.
00:33:13
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Right, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. like So it's I just it's really satisfying to be able to go on achieve a small goal, whether it's like, you know, finish a temple or finish a quest or and m something.
00:33:27
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um I have like little sub things that I really appreciate. Like, I really like fishing for gold boots. That's one of them. Yeah, ah I forever will be one of the disappointed people that we don't have.
00:33:39
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ah mastery tracker for that, but I understand it. golden do do do do not a golden gold do do I get why it's not in there, and I get that it was briefly for like two hours, but yeah that's a favorite part of mine, fishing for those.
00:33:56
Speaker
Is that your favorite item in the game too, or do you have another item that is your favorite item? I mean, until until there's a bowl of noodles meal that gets added, probably the singular gold boot.
00:34:08
Speaker
I'm still trying to get mustard added, my guy. That would be, if that gets added in. We did add mayonnaise. We did add mayonnaise. Mustard could be coming, who knows. Around the corner. Are you like a Kewpie mayo guy? Like, I like Kewpie mayo. If we're talking like real mayo, if anybody's a mayo person. Kewpie. Duke's is good, but I think Kewpie is where it's at.
00:34:29
Speaker
What's your favorite mustard, though? Oh, yeah. Good question. Can you not pick? and you just like I don't think I can pick. I feel like the viewers probably have no idea. Can you plug yourself for a second so they understand why we're asking you so many mustard? I can.
00:34:45
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can. So it's a bit of a story, back background story to it. i I don't remember the exact logistics of how it started, but at some point it came up that somebody was eating Mustard on tacos.
00:35:00
Speaker
And then there was like this, it was this really like hot take, like, no, that's an abomination versus yes, this is great. Like it's really worth it. And so I, as a joke, I was like all for it. I'm like, I'm in, I'll, I'll take a bit to the end all the way. I'm into it.
00:35:17
Speaker
And so then from there, this is where I don't remember. I don't remember how I started, but I started putting mustard on other foods to be like, look, it was good on a taco. Maybe it's good on,
00:35:29
Speaker
a peanut butter sandwich. Maybe it's good on a banana. um so you've actually eaten these things? Yes, and recording myself eating them. Yes.
00:35:42
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but started What started as a simple YouTube video, and then it started as multiple social media channels, and then I started uploading TikToks of myself eating like...
00:35:54
Speaker
Just mustard everything, anything. like I didn't very much enjoy these videos. I made mustard Sour Patch Kids. I made mustard Jell-O. i did mustard champagne. What was your favorite one if you had to pick one of them?
00:36:09
Speaker
I made ah mustard and pretzel ice cream, home churned pretzel, mustard and pretzel ice cream. That was shen very seriously amazing.
00:36:20
Speaker
And I made it again off off camera because I liked it so much. That's wild. Yeah, it kind of tasted like a honey mustard. Like, you know, you know, when you go to like a baseball game and and you dip pretzels in mustard, it it was that whole vibe to it.
00:36:34
Speaker
um Like a sweet mustard. Yeah, yeah. okay And then it was it was very good. ah There was a couple others that I I gave a top score to, but I can't remember off the top of my head which ones. But there's a lot of good ones and a lot of really bad ones.
00:36:50
Speaker
so I like this noodles lore. This good noodles lore. So if someone wanted to go see your videos, where would they go? ah you You could go to it's Mustard Chronicles on on YouTube, on TikTok.
00:37:07
Speaker
I had an Instagram, I think, but I don't use it. I've been in a bit of a hiatus because of work being really busy. So I haven't done anything. Maybe I'll have to come up with something to film and shoot and edit before this comes out. How about cabbage stew? That's probably good, actually. I bet that'd be great.
00:37:25
Speaker
I'll do Here's a thing like a boiled dinner. You put mustard on a boiled dinner and that has cabbage. there's a There's a user in our Discord that has been making some of our meals it's so from Farm RPG. I'm saying you should mustardize them.
00:37:41
Speaker
Okay. I could do that. They're posting the full recipes too. If you go to the fan art channel, yeah, they're posting the recipes and making them and taking photos. And I actually need to post some of those to the socials because they are very cool.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah. Shout out to our discord, which is a super chill place. I've actually been out there a lot more. ah Shout out to FarmRPG general chat. in Also, if you do fan art for the game, just for funsies, DM me on Discord and send it to me with like your username if you want me to post it on socials, by the way. Because I will.
00:38:14
Speaker
I will put it on all of the places for people to look at your beautiful artwork. As long as it's safe for work. So don't send me any weird stuff. I mean, you can send it to me, but I just won't post it. Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
I knew this was coming. I knew was coming. There's something that you can show me that I haven't already seen online. So like, I'm a degenerate. It's fine. I've seen everything. But ah you may get blocked if it's really weird.
00:38:38
Speaker
Anyway, send me your fan art. You better forward this to me too. i Of course. If I have to look at it, you have to look at it. I'm not doing this alone. This is not just a me thing.
00:38:50
Speaker
This is a you thing too. I'm not here by myself. I have to drag you through the mud with me, man. That's perfect. If I'm at the bottom, you're at the bottom. We're both down here together, rolling in the mud.
00:39:02
Speaker
It's true. This is like the buddy comedy of the year. It's just me and you.
00:39:09
Speaker
looking at weird fan art. many people really enjoyed our arguing about cupcakes, too. I know, I know. It's funny. I'm glad they liked it. Thank you for all of the messages of support that I received.
00:39:21
Speaker
I also received many messages of support. A lot of people reached out said, you're absolutely correct. I did get some people being like, you're wrong, which is fun. love those people so much. Yeah, good on you, but i I'm not wrong. I was correct, so don't... I don't want to it again. I don't want to start it I don't want to start it again. I think some people thought we were really mad at other. I know. I think so too, but we weren't. We were never really mad at each other.
00:39:48
Speaker
and We just liked to bicker. iss the one There's probably one time. one one or One or two. Not even two. just one happens It happens every once in a while. We get pissy. Anyway.
00:39:59
Speaker
oh um um We need you to guys to deliver your You know, the thing that we we like to deliver at the middle of the episode here.
00:40:11
Speaker
oh yeah. feel like Belligan, hasn't had a chance to talk a lot. yeah so Yeah, so hit us with some words of wisdom, Bell. seek Words of wisdom? I mean, a secret, secret.
00:40:24
Speaker
Oh, like passwords. Yes. That I could probably do. mean, if you want wise words, probably not the, it's a little late for that, for for me, maybe four or five, and we'll give you some wisdom.
00:40:36
Speaker
um like don't brush your teeth with mustard I don't know but I mean you could mustard toothpaste it's an idea I feel like we've just like added some real volume to your channel yeah very reasonably probably yeah I was thinking alright we've got two people on here how would we get a combined password why don't we just put our our names together it'll be bologna and noodles right Alright, I'm into it.
00:41:06
Speaker
It's too bad we don't have bologna as an item. You know what goes good on bologna? Mustard. mustard must I'm not going to disagree with that statement. I'm not going to disagree with that either. it's a good sandwich. It was great on mustard. Mayo and mustard is a good combination.
00:41:21
Speaker
Did you at least try the spam? Did you fry it? Yeah, I turned them into, like, french fries. Like, I cut them in strips. You should really go back. Oh, yeah that's a good one. Okay, sorry not to plug my... I'm really... I hate plugging myself. so Plug it. Go ahead. now Do it.
00:41:36
Speaker
Do it. Do it. At that stage when I was doing that video, I was in a really, like, I want to make my own music mood at the time. so um Chumbawamba, Tub Dumping, yeah I changed the lyrics to I Ate Some Spam. And then I recorded myself...
00:41:57
Speaker
yeah it's Can you put it? Can you put some of that in this video? Is that a allowed? Yeah. Yeah. i I could edit clips of it into this. Perfect. Perfect. I could see that. I mean, I heard it. I could see it. I ate some. Yeah. And then I layered my voice on it too. So yeah.
00:42:13
Speaker
yeah it's fun I was very bored. I think it was winter at the time. I needed something to do. so It was winter. It's better if you just say it was COVID, honestly. Probably. i should. yeah Just blame it on COVID. I blame everything on COVID at this point.
00:42:27
Speaker
It was COVID. Who knows what has happened then? That's why my dog doesn't like people. It's COVID. Blame it on COVID. years Before anyone gets mad at me about COVID, though, it's it's just one word. It's the bologna noodle.
00:42:40
Speaker
It's not bologna and noodles. Spelownie noodles? Yeah. Okay. That's, I mean, I feel like we're, we, we're hiding it it in more places. We're confusing people now, which is good.
00:42:52
Speaker
That's what I want. but Get confused. Anyway, do I just want to do a little tea time? I think it's tea time time. Yeah. Tea time? Yeah. Tea time? It's tea time. It's tea time.
00:43:04
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It's tea time.
00:43:13
Speaker
I do love tea time. It's so good. love that. it' so good so good and love but yeah Do you want to talk about what you've been working on? want to hear Bell again Yeah, Bell, hit us with what
Gaming Progress and Personal Updates
00:43:26
Speaker
you've been working on. kind of We kind of went deep diving into Noodles. Tell us a little bit, Bell.
00:43:29
Speaker
What have you been working Yeah, talk to us. Yeah, yeah. So in-game, I've got all my quest lines done. i've got all all the temples, even the the ones we don't talk about, done. One thing I don't have is tower levels. I'm at 290 right now.
00:43:43
Speaker
I'm making progress on that. So Noodles is ahead of me there by a bit, but it's all right. Moving along. That's not bad for someone who never focused on masteries and does not use trade chat almost ever.
00:43:57
Speaker
Like, I've used it. I can count on one hand the number of times I've gone into trade chat and actually... You and Nessie like no trade gang. There you go. Well, I just, I feel bad doing as staff members. Like, oh yeah, everyone wants trade with me just because it's... i don't think it's quite like that these days.
00:44:08
Speaker
think Maybe not. Hopefully not. But I'm still like, yeah I have a decent sized mailbox, but... um So that's me and Farm RPG. Other than that, I'm up to my usual lurking in staff chat and making fun of other staff members occasionally. and that's As you should.
00:44:26
Speaker
That's usually where I am. And then I still get the occasional PM from players are like, why did you do this in the game? I'm like, ah that's not me. I'm like, okay, great. You think that it's my game, it's fine. Not as much as it used to be. I mean, I was doing the YouTube videos. I get that all the time. how it's Now it's only...
00:44:44
Speaker
Only occasionally. When you did the podcast, too, i remember you used to get a lot of a lot of things. That was quite a bit. yeah yeah Yeah. um Outside of that, I changed jobs this summer. So I've been traveling fair amount. So I've been in Germany arizona and halfway home from North Carolina at the moment, which is great. I won't have Mrs. Belligan knocking on the door like, are you done yet? and but yeah It's late.
00:45:11
Speaker
It's almost 10 o'clock. right i don't exactly i mean because we usually like eight o'clock we're turning in no i feel you there i've been going about earlier and earlier these days it's just like i'm asleep yeah he outside of that um i've kind of been sticking to my my normal games that i play a lot of banner lord i have i and playing this indie game called whispers the eyelas On Steam.
00:45:41
Speaker
It's a cult simulator. You play this profit and get your cult members together. And it's still ah in early access. i do I do like cult simulator. I'm in. That sounds great.
00:45:54
Speaker
it's It's interesting. It's got some ah some roguelike elements and a little bit of management, but nothing nothing too deep. but um I'm always looking for games that are fun but aren't computer intensive. So I can play them on my my Surface Go that I travel with.
00:46:08
Speaker
yeah I've got a nice PC at home that I'll do stuff on. I recently bought an NVIDIA graphics card to do AI work on it for fun stuff like animating videos and things to stick in work presentations.
00:46:22
Speaker
Helps connect it with the younger generations a little bit. but If you like ah survival games, I've been playing this game, Abiotic Factor, lately. ah It's very not hardware intensive and it's very fun.
00:46:37
Speaker
But you gotta like survival games. o I do like a survival game. I'm a fan. And then I did the pre-order for the Dragon Quest Pixel HD Remasters 1 and 2. It's coming out in couple months. Yeah, that is coming out. Looking forward to that.
00:46:50
Speaker
Love that. Thanks, Bill. Anything you're looking forward to in Farm RPG? Any content you want to see things you're like, man, hey this is... Any ideas you want to give us?
00:47:04
Speaker
um You know, I'm just grinding through the tower right now. Beyond that, I've got no more visibility of roadmap other than occasionally throughout my... I'm i'm good for bad ideas. i'm not great for good ideas. I mean, that's my... That's my piece, too, so don't worry about it.
00:47:19
Speaker
All my ideas are bad. That's been my theory, though. I don't agree with that statement. I do. You need two people. You need two people to make something dumb happen. One to suggest to the other person to do it. This is true. This is true.
00:47:31
Speaker
Yeah. So maybe the does a forced path not realizing it was a bad idea. I don't know. based stu ah Based on your comment. Yeah. yeah Cool. So that's it. I'm i'm interested to hear what the Noodles is doing besides eating mustard.
00:47:46
Speaker
Noodles, tell us about what you've been working on ah that's not mustard-based. So yeah, not mustard-based. I have my dog who's sitting right next to me, who I'm always doing stuff with. She takes up most of my time.
00:48:02
Speaker
ah But outside of her, ah what have I done lately?
00:48:09
Speaker
Playing, like I said, Abiotic Factor. I was playing that recently. um I just finished reading Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut.
00:48:21
Speaker
ah That was my first first intro to Kurt Vonnegut. I've never read his stuff before, so that was kind of fun. but husband loves Kurt Vonnegut. I think he's read almost everything the guy's done, so Yeah, I've had friends who've recommended him for years, and I just... I'm not a big reader.
00:48:36
Speaker
i Usually I'm a big listener by their podcasts audiobooks. I love an audiobook. but Yeah. So I was like, I'll give this a whirl, and it was good. I enjoyed it. Um... You about Farm RPG, just working on... We already know. We kind of talked about what you're working on with Farm RPG. Have you finished... You just got to finish 300, yeah.
00:48:56
Speaker
Have you finished what? Have you finished d Yes. Oh, yeah. A long time ago. Do you quests left? Yeah, I've got... um I think they're... Well, I have flexible spending, which i and don't... I have enough to finish it, but I... What? Flex out right now! Come on!
00:49:14
Speaker
Let's go! Flex out! I just... I can't... I can't sum up the courage to to dump that amount of silver into it. I get you. I did it because I'm... You know, I'm almost back up to five five trillion after flexing out by I don't know, last month or the month before. I don't know.
00:49:34
Speaker
You hit the point where it's like the next upgrades are all $100 trillion. Yeah, exactly. I'll do it eventually. it' probably i tend to do things as soon as I need to.
00:49:45
Speaker
so as As soon as a quest comes out or as soon as... and Even if it's like ah artwork or something. Write that down! Write that down! didn So...
00:49:57
Speaker
Yeah, i'm I'm sure I will eventually. i don't know when, but I'll make the jump eventually. But I think that's about it. And then whatever the... but I have to finish the the Secret Temple quests.
00:50:10
Speaker
and But I just got to work on getting those. Those are worth it.
00:50:16
Speaker
Yep. oh Yeah, because we did that that quest recently with the side. Secret Temple, yeah. Yep. Yep. Pretty good. That was fun one. That was a little shadow drop.
00:50:26
Speaker
That was. and yeah We haven't really talked about it in here. Like, it wasn't any of the updates. We didn't really talk about all that much. just sort of happened, and then we just sort of let it ride. Yeah, that's true. Very old school of us. I know. that Not announcing anything we've been dropping lately, which is is fun and cool.
00:50:42
Speaker
It's good. It's like, you know, find it when you find it. it's kind of I mean, that's my favorite way to experience things, where it just kind of drops out of the sky, and then you're like, oh, yeah. Heck yeah, I didn't expect this on a Wednesday or you know, whatever.
00:50:55
Speaker
Also my favorite. Yeah, we we like, I like doing that. I like i like having it happen also. Also, i like sitting in chat when they do drop. Oh man, there's nothing more fun than any kind of content drop and then just picking a chat and watching everyone go bonkers.
00:51:11
Speaker
I love it. So that brings me much joy. Force Path? Yes, hi, it's me. Hi, what have you been working You are the problem, it's true. uh we love you for that though
00:51:25
Speaker
perfect just rack it rack it up bra it there you i have been climbing the tower mostly i find the tower has been very good to me for my inability to focus lately so i've been climbing the tower i think i'm at like 280 now or something like that I know that's low compared to all the end gamers, but, you know, I'm having fun with it.
00:51:49
Speaker
Nice to just like burn through materials for absolutely no reason. ah So earlier this week, I think I needed something and people were like, oh well you could craft X and Y and Z and do this and this. And I was like, nah, man, I'm just hitting the button.
00:52:05
Speaker
Void it. Throw it out. Throw it out. I'm a void master. I don't need it. Exactly. Exactly. So I've been doing that. I've been working on DI a little bit. Is this it? And then, you know, we've got a couple of things cooking in the old dev kitchen. There's some stuff cooking for sure. There is some cooking going on. I also did a fair amount of writing this month.
00:52:27
Speaker
So if I've been writing a lot. I just read some quests that you Yes. I think I've output almost 2000 words this month. So if I get a thousand of those that are usable, i'm always really happy.
00:52:39
Speaker
So I've been doing some writing. My hope is, it's no secret. I want to finish off or mostly finish off the PSA quest line. So if you are you know, thinking about what quest you want to do right now,
00:52:52
Speaker
my one thing about working on PSA I know everyone there's a post on Reddit right now about how much everyone hates the 1250 lima beans and how terrible it is there's gonna be more quests behind that so I get it I think that's where I'm stuck right now I think it's the lima beans that are still holding no it's not actually I lied I think I finished the lima beans yeah that was a that was very fun I love quests.
00:53:19
Speaker
What have you been doing outside? you want to just like loop it all in together? Oh, sure. Yeah. I've been pretty busy ah video game-wise, though, which is what I think I talk about the most. I've also been playing Abiotic Factor.
00:53:33
Speaker
So I've been doing a multiplayer server with some friends.
00:53:38
Speaker
It's pretty good. you know, Survival Loops, I kind of go through like a roller coaster where I'm really liking it and it sort of gets a little drab and then I like it again. um It's a pretty good game.
00:53:50
Speaker
So I do, i am enjoying that. um Last Epoch just hit a new season, so I'll be playing that a little bit. ah Then, i don't know if I mentioned these games.
00:54:00
Speaker
I hadn't. I've been playing Monster Train 2. love me a good roguelike. card game so if you like roguelike card games um obviously nothing is gonna hit the the highs of slay the spire 2 but monster train and monster train 2 very fun i've also been playing the king is watching which is just a very clever roguelike i don't know if anyone has played that and then he is coming is another one i'm very excited deep rock galactic survivor um hits 1.0 next month um like Very, very excited about that. We've got Borderlands 4 coming out. We've got Battlefield 6 coming out.
00:54:36
Speaker
you know I don't know where I'm supposed to find the time play video games. It's tough. It is tough. And then ah ah just working on some personal hobbies. Did some house reno various things like that.
00:54:51
Speaker
So that's that's where I'm at. Busy month. but It's a busy month. What about you? What's going on in your world? Hmm. Well, Farm RPG, I'm trying to climb the tower, but that's slow going. I'm like the lowest.
00:55:07
Speaker
I'm like 259. It's fine. I'll get there eventually. ah But I have been working on the quests with the hot peppers because, you know, I get them hot peppers done and I always forget to grow stuff.
00:55:22
Speaker
So I've just been cooking and cooking. yeah I'm just bad. Again, I like to say i suck at this game, and I do. I really do. I'm not good at it. I suck very bad. But that's fine. I'm working on a lot of stuff like dev-wise, and they get a lot of artwork coming out soon, hopefully.
00:55:39
Speaker
yeah, it's fun. It's a good time. So, ah you know, expect that. I've been like... Outside of farm, just working on like improving my skill level in art, just drawing a lot, drawing on paper as well as drawing digitally because most of the stuff I do for the game is digital.
00:55:57
Speaker
But I've been drawing on paper and like enjoying filling a sketchbook again, which is really good and fun. Love that. With a really good pencil, I assume, right? ah Yeah, of course. Always. Always. gotta get a Kuretoga.
00:56:08
Speaker
That's what I... I mean, these bad boys. Best best Japanese pencil, Kuretoga. It spins the lead every time you push it down on the paper so that you never get a flat side. It's like, it's always a sharp tip.
00:56:21
Speaker
Very good. Love them. Anyway. What else have I been doing? Oh, video games. I've been playing a little bit of video games. Peak. I've been playing a little bit of Peak with some friends every once in a while, which is really fun and good. I love Peak. Is that the climbing one where you all... I've heard a lot of good things about that.
00:56:38
Speaker
I've heard really good things about it. It's so fun. ah If you guys ever want to play Peak, please hit me up. like I'm down. and How much is it? It's like five bucks.
00:56:50
Speaker
I'll go buy it right now. It's cheap. It's so much fun, too. so And I can play to my Steam Deck and just sit on the couch and like climb a mountain and comically fall to my death, which is good and fun. I love doing that. I've been playing Donkey Kong Bonanza, which I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
00:57:09
Speaker
I think I love it, but like it's one of those things where when you start playing it, like I can't stop playing it, but I'm screaming about how much I don't like it the entire time. I have a problem with destroying things in video games. I don't like doing it. I don't like destroying stuff.
00:57:23
Speaker
And this whole game is about like destroying everything. So it's really fun to play and smash. It's very good and very satisfying, but I become uncomfortable by doing it. I don't know how to describe this. So it's I love it and I hate it.
00:57:38
Speaker
It's beautiful. It's so cute, too. but like Donkey Kong is so cute. He makes crazy cartoony faces, and I love him, but I don't know how much of it I can play like and save my heart from destroying these beautiful landscapes. I don't want to do it. I just want to look at them.
00:57:53
Speaker
ah But there's a cool feature that I found out that you can like reset it, so like you can destroy it all and it can bring it back. So that's fun. Anyway, if you want to if you're playing Donkey Kong Bonanza and you feel similarly, let me know, because...
00:58:07
Speaker
It's very beautiful. I don't want to destroy it. But that's it. That's all I've been doing. I literally just draw all day every day and barely play any video games. Just peak lately.
00:58:18
Speaker
That's it. Love peak. Very good. Nothing wrong with any of those things. Very fun to watch your friends die falling off mountains. So... Does it have the in-game voice thing where the farther away they go? Yes. I love that. It's so good. Yeah.
00:58:33
Speaker
so And there's like a little trumpet. I've been playing with my husband, like with a couple of our friends, and he always picks the trumpet up and you can hear that from way farther off and he'll like get lost and you'll hear just a trumpet like from really far away. And I'm like, well, there's Vinny.
00:58:48
Speaker
I bet he's going to die. And he usually does. So. Yeah, but that's it. That's all I've been doing. But, you know, but's that's all we can really hope for.
00:59:00
Speaker
Just enjoying some video games with some friends. And trying. A lot. And playing Farm RPG. And playing Farm RPG, which you should be doing. If you're listening to this podcast, you definitely should have at least played little bit of it. um At some point.
00:59:16
Speaker
and Unless, again, like, you know, you're somebody's mom. One of our mothers. It doesn't play. I know. for that's my mom plays. Your mom plays and listens and she messages me sometimes. Hi, Force Pass Mom.
00:59:27
Speaker
Shout out to Force Pass Mom. She's the best. She's cool. I just saw her last weekend. Gave her a little bit of power climbing tips. That said, she does not listen to me. She was like, hey, what should I do to progress more? And I was like, you should do this.
00:59:40
Speaker
And she's like, i don't want to do that. Good. Don't listen to him. Bad advice coming out of him. like it's genuinely good advice. Like I'm not like giving troll advice. you' not Like I will troll people, but not my mom. And then she just straight up was like, I'm not going to do that. I'm like, but you asked how to like, good on her. Find your own way. Find your own way for Speth's mom.
01:00:06
Speaker
That's what I do. I don't ask for any advice. I just like throw things in the void and you know, so ah unlock and sell all baby. you want a really good pro tip? Use all your cookies and then do mushroom spores in the grape juice fat.
01:00:21
Speaker
I'm going to throw something at you. Perfect. I love that. If you kind get like 100,000 of them at once, that's way to do it. There you go. There you go. You get so many mushrooms. You can ask me how I know that.
01:00:33
Speaker
Whoops. what ah Anything else you guys want to say or talk about? was a nice, chill
Podcast Editing Insights
01:00:42
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podcast. I was chill.
01:00:44
Speaker
Thank you guys for coming on. Thank you guys. Yeah. I actually, yeah, I actually, I would really love to hear from Noodles about his kind of workflow for doing video editing for the tech nerds. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's pretty simple. um Basically he says when he tried to explain it to me and I failed. And so I asked him to do it.
01:01:05
Speaker
yeah I guess, yeah, i maybe I take it for granted that i so i I pseudo went to school for this, not directly, but quasi. um I went to film school for screenwriting, ah but I did a lot of like editing and random stuff like that. so um I with...
01:01:22
Speaker
ah basic i started with ah Premiere, Adobe Premiere, and then now I'm editing on whatever the free one is. i I'm so bad at games. DaVinci Resolve. Yeah, DaVinci Resolve, and I love it. It's awesome.
01:01:36
Speaker
I've doing that, but then really from there, I take the footage ah from you guys, and then I just throw it up into DaVinci and I scoot guys into each of the corners. And then literally i have like a preset from each episode where, you know, where socials are in the corner, the thing automated, the whatever I set up where the logo drops down to the side, it's all in there. And I just delete the old footage, put the new stuff in.
01:02:04
Speaker
Perfect. And i just listen. Perfect. And if anyone's got weird, I would use your audio. I tried to the first time, but sometimes when you do an edit, it doesn't line up with the video anymore. doesn't the video. Yeah, it doesn't. I don't worry about that at all. Yeah, so I realize. think you move things around people talking over each other. Which, I mean, I'm glad you do that because then I could just...
01:02:26
Speaker
do whatever I need to do and it works out fine I probably don't do nearly as good of a job with the audio editing as you do because that's I don't know anything about audio editing but I try to like cut out the you know the creaks and the people typing and the stuff like that or if somebody clips I do my best to unclip it's probably me usually yeah screaming I like like all But it's really not too bad, or at least I don't think it is. i and On my end, for all I know, everyone in the YouTube comments is like, oh my gosh, this audio is miserable. but
01:03:01
Speaker
so No, we don't get many comments. i always watch I always watch it. I don't listen to it. It's published, but I go watch the YouTube version. That's so funny. Every episode. That's so funny. I like that you watch it and you you edit the the audio and you and you watch the video.
01:03:16
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I love
Future Guests and New Segment
01:03:17
Speaker
that. That's super funny. It's different. It's not the same not the same work. It's kind of it's treated a different spin on the same stuff. We do we do a align on some things like what we used for the filler, the bleep word last time. we We borrowed some audio from Wade.
01:03:31
Speaker
Oh, you did? Oh, I love that. Oh, Wade. We gotta get Wade on here. Ooh, that would be a good one. Why don't we just try to convince him? We should. We should convince Wade. But that will have to be like October because September we already got a guest lined up.
01:03:47
Speaker
Oh. Do you want to yeah spoil it? Do we want to spoil it or we want to not? No. Okay, no. We're not going to spoil it. Got to tease ah Just a teaser. Just somebody, you know, that you know well. It's a repeat guest. repeat guest. Yeah, that's all going to say.
01:03:59
Speaker
That's a good one. All right. All right, guys. Thanks for coming. Thanks for being on here with us and chatting. have a question real quick. Yeah, please. Did anybody ever inquire and or take a stab at what?
01:04:12
Speaker
Oh, yes. I got several messages. I got a number of messages about that. And I did. I do have. ah do have a segment for this time, but it's kind of running over. I'll just say it for next time, it's not anything groundbreaking.
01:04:26
Speaker
But yes, next time I will reveal the names that people gave as well as the name of the segment, because between the four of us, we actually have to record a segment for it.
01:04:39
Speaker
But so if if you as a human want to take a stab and then have it shared um I won't say who gate came with these ideas, but ah the the the segment is
01:04:59
Speaker
if you can figure out what that is, you do get some fabulous prizes. So anyways. I hope you figure it out, but I don't know if you will. Yeah, but it was fun. it was fun. it was The people that messaged me sent me some really funny ones.
01:05:14
Speaker
So I appreciate all of you. Always make me smile. Take a stab at it. Send them a message. See if you can win some prizes. You probably won't.
Humorous Conclusion and Podcast Farewell
01:05:23
Speaker
Love it. Comment on the swear jar also.
01:05:25
Speaker
if If we had the budget for it, I have this grand vision of we filmed this segment and you're you're wearing like this bright red velvet like a robe and you've got like a pipe and you're sitting by a fire perfect and and then you're giving your tip to the camera and just like with this fire rumbling behind you and and and we could just green screen screenen it but like that's true he can wear a green sheet and you can green screen in the suit and everything but let me forget that's so good
01:06:00
Speaker
Perfect. Just get a green lime green shirt, get a lime green hang up and it's just, you know, Photoshop the whole thing. Perfect. Love it. Love that. That's that's within the budget that we can handle.
01:06:11
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if if you find a good cheap velvet robe, I would consider it. I am not in the strongest of financial situations right now to be buying velvet.
01:06:24
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but That'd be pretty funny, though. but Just a beautiful velvet robe. And like a fez. You would need a fez, too. Yeah, I know. I understand. I know where you're going with it, for sure.
01:06:35
Speaker
Yeah. but but so how do we How do we end the podcast again? We just say bye, actually. Thanks for coming, you guys. I appreciate you coming on the podcast, short notice. I know I asked you two days ago if you wanted to jump on.
01:06:48
Speaker
ah Appreciate it. Always lovely talking to you both. ah Thank you for editing the podcast and getting paid a pittance for it. I'm so glad to to know both of you. You guys are lovely people. right so or So are all of you.
01:07:02
Speaker
All the good vibes. Thank you for the compliments. I appreciate it. Compliments. People hate compliments. That's why I do them out. We just start being mean to each other. Or else we just, you know, just end the podcast. Should we bring up Femfetti then? No, let's not. We're ending it. Just say goodbye. Bye. Bye. bye