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Reviews and Dungeons and Dragons
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, gripes about dental work, counties, crossing guards, and Jedi Survivor; Ron talks about reviews and review bombing; Chris brings up if now is the time for Dungeons and Dragons to become mainstream. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introductions and Late-night Setup
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. And it's a weird late night podcast. Whacka doodle. It is. Yeah, because if not, somebody was going to be drugged on their podcast. Yes, that's going to happen. I didn't really want to... Well, there's going to be two options. I could either be drugged on the podcast on Thursday or have muffled mouth for the rest of the week.
00:00:27
Speaker
Because I'm assuming I'm not going to want to talk within 24 hours having my wisdom teeth extracted. No, no. And don't really do anything that first 24 hours that you want to remember.
Dental Surgery Preparations
00:00:40
Speaker
Sure. Makes sense. Yeah, I I beat a game. Have no idea how I beat it. When what happened at the end? Anything like that? Yeah, thanks. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just remember having the cotton thing shoved in my jaws like a chipmunk and yeah.
00:00:57
Speaker
Yeah. The, um, the directions are very, like, this will be my second surgery in my life. So it's like I was a surgery expert, but the first time I had surgery, they, they were, they sent me down with anesthesiologists. They sat me down with the doctor. We talked about what's going to happen. Here's how to, here's what the recovery plan is. This time it's like text message. And it's like, don't eat or drink, you know, eight hours before the, I can even drink water before, which sucks.
00:01:28
Speaker
And then, uh, and then there's like, and you're after care. Just don't use straws. Good luck. Don't use straws and eat, eat soft food. He's like, eat a lot of mashed potatoes. Okay. Great. I've heard mashed sweet potatoes are the best. Well, I bought, I bought mass celery root. I bought celery root and we're going to mash it up. Okay. For my recovery meal. Yeah.
00:01:54
Speaker
Yeah, dental surgery is so weird. They're like, it's like you said, a regular surgery. They're like, oh, we got to do this and we'll see you down. Dental surgery. They're like, hey, here's some volume to take before you get here. And here we're going to give you versed when you walk in the door and you're awake. Oh, I think I didn't get the volume.
00:02:13
Speaker
Oh, I think all he told me is we're going to give you an IV. You go night night. You wake 45 minutes later and you'll be done. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's right. Because yeah, your dentist is a strict 45 minute. It is 45 minutes. You're out the door whether he's got somebody else lined up. It is 40 minute blocks. He's got five minutes of recovery.
Surgery Scheduling and Dental Costs
00:02:37
Speaker
You're out the door.
00:02:39
Speaker
I just imagine this guy is just sitting there and the chairs just rotate in front of him. It was so weird because obviously you go to the dentist, the dentist says, oh, you need oral surgery. I don't do oral surgery because I'm a dentist. Right. Then you go to the oral surgeon who
00:03:03
Speaker
you have to make an appointment seven months ahead of time. And you have a consult to say, Oh, yeah, you need these teeth taken out. Yeah, duh. That's what we were here for. Yeah, that's why the dentist sent me to you, doc. And then so that I called, you know, the lady's like, well, we need a down payment, which whatever it's half of the thing I said, All right, well, I don't want to schedule yet. So she's like, I will just
00:03:30
Speaker
you know, call us back and punch down payment when you're ready to schedule. I'm like, well, what's the scheduling like for the surgery? Oh, we've got plenty open slots. You just kind of call ahead and we'll just put you in. We just put you in. So I'm thinking like I call, I'm like, all right, maybe I'll get this thing in like three, three weeks. She's like, what about Monday? And I'm like, no, I gotta work the next day. She's like, no, no, no, you're not going to want to work the next day.
00:03:53
Speaker
Okay. Well, that was Monday. That's how quick it was. Just like, yeah, two days from now. Sure. Come on in. What are you doing in 10 minutes? We got a guy. We got a 40 minute window. I was kind of half expected. She was like, what have you been eating today? Well, yes. Very weird. Did you ask him if he can keep the teeth? No. They're the second person to ask me that. If I want to keep the teeth, why do I want to keep the teeth?
00:04:23
Speaker
He'll know. Somebody else asked you that? Yes! Somebody else said, you should keep the teeth, you can see how big they are. Why do you want to see the teeth? Right, I don't want to lose them in the first place. I'm saddened by the fact that I'm losing my teeth. No, I don't want the teeth. I don't want them in my house.
00:04:48
Speaker
Well, it just seems like something I'd have on my shelf for like 20 years. Oh, yeah, that's my teeth. What should I, should I throw those away finally? Yeah, no. Where do you dispose of teeth? I don't know. You can make it into like a necklace for your wife. Yeah, that's not creepy or anything. Here's my teeth.
Anecdotes and Awkward Dental Visits
00:05:08
Speaker
So that one, that's one. You're taking out, right? Yes. Okay, so this is perfect. She gets one as a pendant, one for each earring, and then one for a bracelet.
00:05:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which one do I put the chipped one in? Uh, the either the pendant or the bracelet. Okay. Yeah. I would say the bracelet cause I'll probably jangle around a lot and get chipped up more. Right. Yeah. That's already pretty, pretty janky right now. I'm so ready for it to be gone. It's like, yeah, I bet. It's been chipped for six months now. Yeah. It would have been six months like next week cause I was supposed to have
00:05:47
Speaker
I supposed to have my regular dental checkup. Yeah. Three days after my oral surgery or four days after my oral surgery. So I called him, I was like, ah, I don't think I'm going to really want you guys banging on my teeth. Yeah. She's like, oh no, you're not going to want us doing anything. And they moved it back. Gosh. Yeah. So it had been almost six months that this thing's been in my mouth chipped. It just drives my tongue crazy. Yeah. Did your dentist try to get you to try a night guard first?
00:06:17
Speaker
No, because it was already. But but I don't understand. My dad is every time, you know, we really need to start thinking about a night guard. We've said that for five years now. So I think that ship is sailed. We're not doing this. He's never. I don't know if he gets a kickback for it or whatever, because he was like, you don't want to get one of those from the store. I mean, you know, it's like, isn't it just a mouth guard or something? Yeah, that's just custom fit and everything with your insurance only cost about seven, eight hundred dollars. I'm like, what? Yeah.
00:06:49
Speaker
What's with this guy must be making big bank because our insurance covers 80% of the surgery and I'm paying 800 bucks for the surgery. Jesus. I'm paying 200 bucks a tooth and it's a 45-minute surgery. Yeah. Good Lord, that guy's making out. He's got a racket going. Yeah. He gets eight of those dudes a week. He's going to burrito that week.
00:07:13
Speaker
Yeah, I don't understand why dental work is so well, you know what? I will give them that. They deserve a little bit extra because you're digging in some nasty mouths. Of course. Yeah, it's the right. That's the worst job in the world. I feel so horrible when the girl's cleaning my teeth and I have no control over the fact that like, you know, spittles coming out of my mouth while she's, you know, cleaning in there and it's like, I'm like, Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're.
00:07:41
Speaker
digging and I love that, you know, when do they do the little gum test and they just go all around your teeth? Three, two, three, one, one, two, two. This is a two, one, two all the way to 11. Sure it is. Yep. Sounds groovy. Yeah. And then what have you been flossing? And this last time I looked at the girl, I was like, I believe we both know the answer to this. She's like every day. Do you really? Sometimes multiple times a day I floss.
00:08:11
Speaker
And she's still, you haven't been flossing, lady. She told me to get a water pick. Oh yeah, they're all about, every time I go to the dentist, they're like, are you using a power toothbrush? No, I have a toothbrush. Yeah, it's a two-stroke. It's the tooth and the enamel maneuver 3000.
00:08:37
Speaker
You know, they're all about they must get money from that stuff because it's just like you should get a water pick and you should get this. I'm like, lady, I don't want a robot. I don't want to be Darth Vader getting my teeth cleaned in the morning. You have the water pick. I just feel like that's just going to cause a horrible mess. Yeah, because you just got water spraying everywhere and gross. Gross. Yeah. And they're a little water thing there at the dentist office.
00:09:00
Speaker
Do they tap into a glacier for that water? Because it is the coldest water on earth. Yes, it is. God, it's like my teeth aren't, you know, cold sensitive typically. But the other day she sprayed and I was like, Oh, God. She's like, Oh, a little bit of sensitivity there. I was like, you just jammed a drinking water. I explained it. Hoth also affects my sensitivity. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:25
Speaker
Not really wanting to go to Neptune. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I finally have gotten them to the point where they only use mint on the polishing shit. Not that I care what flavor it is, except I just don't want the tropical punch, quote unquote. Really? I haven't gotten an option in years. Oh, really? I don't anymore. They don't. They said, just give me mint. Yeah. But yeah, I've gotten an option for tropical punch before.
00:09:53
Speaker
Oh, no, my kids, they're like, Oh, what do you want? Do you want, you know, grape or it's like going to get a snow cone. It's like, Oh, you know, a tiger blood, pina colada, all this. I'm like, just just give them mint. Just we don't need options in this world. Yeah. I mean, oh, my God. That's it. My wife and I were talking. Kids are so fortunate now they don't have that eight hour fluoride tray. We were just talking about that at work today. The fluoride guard is going to sit there like.
00:10:20
Speaker
Yeah. It's just dripping fluoride in your mouth. Oh yeah. Cause they're like, Oh yeah. Don't swallow. Yeah. Don't swallow. Yeah. Yeah. God. And then they stick that thing in your gauze clothes. Oh, things worse. And I remember.
00:10:38
Speaker
And I know they don't do it now, but I remember when I was a kid, the X-ray things were like vertical instead of horizontal. Yeah. Like they would stick that in like gums and like, oh yeah, my mouth is bleeding. Yeah. Great. Yeah. They put that butterfly image thing in there and they're like, yeah, they get it back then. They got behind like, you know, eight feet of lead shielding and everything. Don't move. It's like, okay.
00:11:05
Speaker
Well, now that the oral surgeon, he's got the one that like rotates around your head. Yeah. There's like a full 360 around you. Wow. Yeah. I was like, this is fancy. Yeah. You gotta hold the joysticks. I'm one of the last star footers. Good old dentist. Yeah. No wonder everybody hates them. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:30
Speaker
It's just, yeah. That's like the other day I forgot. I usually brush my teeth right before I go to the nest and I forgot. I like drank
Regional Quirks and County Names
00:11:38
Speaker
a cup of coffee on the way over there. I was like, I feel bad, but no, I don't. I never brushed my teeth before on a desk. Why would it be the point of that? They just eat some Oreos before you go. They're going to brush your teeth and they're going to do a great job. Yeah. That's the best cleaning year for six months. Yeah. Yeah. I don't brush my teeth before that. That's like an amateur hour.
00:11:58
Speaker
I go in there and you big old, big old onion right before I go in. Oh my God. Hi. I never brushed my teeth before the dentist. It's like washing a car before you try to sell it. Yeah. They're going to wash it. Yeah. Not me. Make your car worth more. No, it doesn't. In my dentist, he's weird. He's a different guy. He always
00:12:24
Speaker
He lets you know he's coming in there like the other day. He's like, I'm almost there, Chris. I'm fishing up over here. And then he was like, I'm washing my hands. I was like, what? Good, I guess. I don't. I don't even know what my dentist gets paid for. Oh, because he just comes in and like tap, tap, tap, tap. All right. See you in six months. And they did the other day because I I took an hour from work and when I've got the dentist and came back, he was like, those boots, they got spiders on them. I was like, I.
00:12:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's, they're made in Australia, I think it's the tag. Where do you get them? I was like, I get them from a guy at work. I don't know what to tell you. That sounds super shady. But he, and he was like, you know, I used to have this whole outfit. Then he was a spider coat and a spider. I was like, are you spider man? What? Like, do you want my shoes? Is that what you're telling me? Cause I need them. What kind of dentist do you go into?
00:13:23
Speaker
My dentist and I have the same conversation every six months. What do you do for a living, Ron? I'm a paramedic firefighter. Oh, that's a hard job. Yes, it is. Good. See you in six months. Thanks. Same conversation every six months. It's been going on for 10 years. Meanwhile, I know everything about my dental hygienist. I know she's got a twin. I know she's just got a new dog. I know they just want new cows. Her boyfriend left her and went to Arizona.
00:13:49
Speaker
I know the whole spiel. She's always like, how do you remember all the things like, well, you're talking at me and I can't talk back. Yeah, of course, I'm absorbing all the information. Yeah, yeah. All I can do is go for her. And somehow they understand that. Yeah, some other classes. And they always, I don't know if your dad says a TV. And they always are showing some show that I never care about. Yeah. Yeah, ours doesn't have a TV. But
00:14:16
Speaker
The same thing. I like I know what everything about the hygienist. And then I know a couple of people in the office could have been going there for a while. And one of them is the spouse of one of our coworkers. Oh, yeah. He just got transferred to B shift from your shift. I transferred the B shift from my shift. Yeah, he worked on your engine.
00:14:42
Speaker
Someone on my engine just got promoted up. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not justice. Well, then I say, I feel you. Yep. That's just bad. He worked for you for 10 years. Never heard of him. Who are you talking about? It's also a fire department. Never heard of him. I'm going to be, I'm going to be the Troy Aikman of this also a fire department effort.
00:15:08
Speaker
I don't think I ever been there. Salisbury? There's a town in Maryland? No. Like the steaks. Like the steaks. What county is it? Oh my, speaking of the Eastern Shore and their stupid county names, my wife and I went out the other night and she's from Worcester County.
00:15:31
Speaker
And somebody was talking about the beaches or something. He's like, yeah, Ocean City, Maryland, you know, it's in Warchester County. And from across the bar, my wife goes, it's Worcester! I'm like, OK, OK, calm down. Calm down.
00:15:44
Speaker
You don't have to kill the guy. It'll be fine. He's probably only going to go there once. He's probably never going back. Oh my gosh. It's like, okay. But why isn't it like W O O S T or something? Because it's old English, you know. I know, but it's, yeah. This English is a dumb language. Yeah. There's no,
00:16:14
Speaker
Chester part of Worchester, but we say Worchester. There's also the Dorchester, but as an H. Right. And Tabit. Tabit. A little Tabit. Yeah. All your counties are dumb. And you have too many counties. 26. Yeah. And you can't even name them all. Yeah, I can. I bet you can't. Oh my gosh.
00:16:42
Speaker
So there's Garrett Washington, Allegheny, Carol, Baltimore, Anne Rundle, PG, St. Mary's, Montgomery, Howard, Frederick, Harford. Carol, if I said it already, there is a girl Charles Charles. Yeah.
00:17:10
Speaker
Uh, well, you're halfway there. Yeah. Yeah. Cecil can't. Uh-huh. Queen Anne's. Uh-huh. Um, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester. I know.
00:17:40
Speaker
What the hell? No, wait, maybe there aren't 26. I can name all the counties of my state. Yeah, because there's three. We were smart about it. Yeah. Maybe there's 26 gem sops. No, 26 counties. I don't know. I feel like you should.
00:18:02
Speaker
How many count? Allegheny does say Allegheny. He did. Or 23 counties around 23. Patrick, I don't know what you didn't name me. Say Calvert, I don't think he said Calvert. No, I didn't say Calvert, damn it and. You said all the rest of them. Yeah, I don't know.
Gaming Patches and Nostalgia
00:18:32
Speaker
Yeah. Maryland's bad, but Pennsylvania is crazy. Oh my gosh, yeah. 67. 67? 67. Jesus. PA is surprisingly a larger state than you think it is. Maryland is an annoyingly large state because it's long.
00:19:01
Speaker
But skinny, right? Going out to the western side of Maryland, it's just a long drive, but you turn right or left, you're in a different state. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but Pennsylvania is just like this postage stamp. Yeah, it's a stupid big state. And like half the counties, no one lives in.
00:19:22
Speaker
Even half the counties that people live in, half of those counties, people don't live in half of the county. Right. You go to Chester County, which is the county above Delaware, and it's farmland and a small town of Chester. Yeah. Too many counties. Yeah. You just need three. You just need three? Yeah. We could even get away with two. We really don't even need the third one. We gave them a middle county just for
00:19:50
Speaker
Well, you need a buffer between can't. I mean, the new castle and Sussex. Yeah. Because, you know, there was they were like, we'll give you the capital. Hmm. That'll learn them. So you tried. Did I survive it? I have. Have you? I have not yet. I'm a little hesitant.
00:20:19
Speaker
I've heard there's some bug issues that need to be patched. Some pretty significant ones. I knock on wood, have not hit any bugs, really. So, yeah, I'm only like, I don't know. I'm barely into the first planet, so. But, yeah, there are some deep cuts. You will be like, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful. It's it's just that whole, you know,
00:20:48
Speaker
Hit the button and you hear the lightsaber fire up. It's like, yep, I'm good. Yeah. I mean, I really want to play it. I just kind of waiting for the first patch. Yeah. Yeah. People. Some of the. The one thing like that would ruin a single player game is just you hit a bug that's unplayable. And I've heard there are some plugs that are unplayable. And I don't want to at that point. Yeah. You know.
00:21:13
Speaker
And you might not ever hit them, right? You might not get a bug. Yeah, or you might. And you lose eight hours of your life. Yeah. I will say we are fortunate now that at least there are patches. It's not like when we were kids and, oh yeah, you hit a bug. Sucks to be you. Sucks to be you. You're going to restart the game. Yeah. Yeah, we are very fortunate.
00:21:37
Speaker
I have to remind people when they bitch about games, you are bitching about the most first world problem in the world. You are bitching about nothing. Oh, I have a side note rant. That's always fun. So I'm riding my bicycle today on my
00:22:01
Speaker
Sadly, not daily bike ride. I, you know, slept off the last rainy month of April. It's been rainy and cold. It's crazy. Anyways, much more bike ride today. Get to an intersection. We have crossing guards that are not... We have county employees that are crossing guards. I don't think you guys have crossing guards really. I think they're all volunteer. Yeah. So this lady is the crossing guard.
00:22:26
Speaker
The road is, it's not a major road, but the schools on a north-south road, kids are crossing the road that intersects with this road. They're not crossing against the major road. They're crossing with traffic. Okay. Yeah, I'm with you. So you would think the crossing guard really only needs to stop one intersection. Like they need to stop people from turning left.
00:22:54
Speaker
into this turn, and you stop people going through the street. And it's a T. So it's not even like it's a four way. It's a T. Oh, yeah. Right. Instead, she stands in the middle of the intersection, stops traffic in all three directions.
00:23:09
Speaker
And then I'm in my bike, so I'm, I stop. Yeah. And she's like, she's got her one hand out in a stop palm and her other hand stop palm. And I'm facing one of the stop palms, but then she keeps like kind of nodding her head towards me. And I was like, and I had my headphones and I was like,
00:23:27
Speaker
So I take my hand, what are you doing? Go ahead. And there's a county cop literally sitting next to me. I said, I'm not a pedestrian. If you are in my eyes, I'm like, I am not a pedestrian. I am riding a bicycle. I follow all the same. Well, then you can wait. I was like, whatever. Except for my headphones back in. And then she's literally moving every other piece of traffic except for me. Just to piss me off. And I'm like, you're mad at me because I called you out because I know the rules and you don't. And then you're mad at me.
Integrity of Game Reviews
00:23:56
Speaker
Because you're a jerk. Wow, that sucks. Yeah. I mean, it was like an extra minute of my day. You're a crossing guard. You need to know that vehicles, bicycles are vehicles. Yeah. And also stop traffic traffic that doesn't need to be stopped. People are dumb. People are dumb. Crossing guards are annoying. Yeah, ours are county employees. They actually have uniforms.
00:24:22
Speaker
They've sort of stopped wearing, they used to wear like almost the same thing as a county cop, just like frumpier. That's dangerous. Yeah, they actually went out and got them like reflective jackets and stuff. That's good. Good, the way they should be. Yeah. Did she have like the white gloves on? She did have the white gloves on. Yeah. She did. Yep. Yeah. Same. She should have been one of those, you know, fancy crossing guards that like does little dances and all that.
00:24:54
Speaker
I don't
00:25:12
Speaker
Is this like a guy who drives around in a car or a truck with like lollipops? Like we have a whole different thing. You got free candy in your truck thing, dude. But now they call it a lollipop man, because the sign has stripes on it. Okay. I guess the stop sign looks like a lollipop to them. I don't know. They're weird people, but they call those, they're crossing cars, lollipop man.
00:25:42
Speaker
Very weird. That's interesting. Yeah. Another weird British thing. More than our fair share. I also watched on Sword of Fjord, this is side tangent to the side tangent to the side tangent. Sword of Fjord the other day, I can't remember what they called it. It was some weird name. It was a meat pie on a bun. What? So it was a bun and then
00:26:11
Speaker
inside the bun was a full on meat pie like a pot pie. Yeah, in a bun. And they're like, this is the perfect hand food. I'm like,
00:26:20
Speaker
No, it's not. Wasn't it already a hand for being a pot pie? Yeah, I mean, that's yeah. I mean, they have hand pies, right? Like you could just have the pie without the extra carbs. Oh, my gosh. British. What? Yeah. Well, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings yesterday and they have a new thing on the menu called a bird dog. It's a chicken tender in a hot dog bun. Oh, yeah.
00:26:49
Speaker
Why? That's all it is. But why? I guess because people don't want a whole chicken sandwich. They want it in a somewhat cylindrical form. What? Yeah, yeah, man. I know that's.
00:27:05
Speaker
Oh, but of course, dog was DAWG. Well, of course. You had to class it up. Yeah. Well, if you get two of them, it's dogs with a Z. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I have to put it. Ring it up is two bird dogs. Well, I think we saw a tangent and ran it onto the topic. Oh, one topic one.
00:27:30
Speaker
I don't know if you saw this article. It might have flown by you in all of the news of gaming in the world, but apparently a developer got steam to take negative reviews down. I heard about that. Yeah. I don't know. Really, I just want to see your opinion of this because to me, it's a flagrant party foul.
00:28:00
Speaker
But I understand part of the thing, right? The review bombing and the trolling, I get, they're trying to reign that in. Yeah. But where do you draw the line between legitimate negative reviews or not? Yeah. So, um,
00:28:21
Speaker
I do look at the steam reviews like I like to look at the verified user steam reviews, right? Which I think is one of the cool features of steam is that, you know, you can see how many hours the person put in. That's the biggest thing. I think it's if somebody is, you know, just like you said, review bombing and you look and they've put, yeah, less than an hour into the game. Then.
00:28:47
Speaker
Yeah, I don't. Yeah. But then it's there are some games that, yeah, you know, in the first like 20 minutes, this game is not for me. Right. So I mean, if you if if you boot up a game and it legitimately has real problems and you are a person who writes reviews for games. Yeah. You know, I guess the difference to me is
00:29:10
Speaker
I trust those reviews more than I trust Metacritic because they're paid. Right. To write reviews, which is. Yeah. I know it sounds weird saying it that way. Yeah. I mean, I'll I'll usually compare like open critic to Metacritic. Sure. And see if there is overlap or, you know, whatever or to see like, yeah, if there is a bunch of like really negative stuff from one and really positive on the other, it's yeah. Is one. Are they playing the same game? Did one, you know,
00:29:40
Speaker
Like, because I know sometimes reviewers will give something, you know, really bad scores and then open critic, the scores will be higher because they've got a day one patch or something like that. So they were reviewing, you know, a pre-patched game. So, yeah, they might have had some kind of breaking bug that nobody else is ever going to see because we got it patched.
00:30:03
Speaker
Yeah, that's tricky. We've had issues already with companies paying for reviews and all of that that's bringing down. And now you have Steam who is nothing more than a platform. Like if you listen to Steam talk, we're just a platform, we don't censor, we don't have anything. Now you're censoring reviews. And from the article I read, it was not
00:30:28
Speaker
The case, I can't remember what game it was, and that's a moot point to me. Barbie Shopaholic. Whatever the game was, but they were legitimate reviews. They weren't a review bomb. There wasn't a concerted effort, but there were actual negative reviews, and the publisher got steam to take them down. I lost a lot of faith in steam at that point. Yeah.
00:30:53
Speaker
Yeah. Is that just, uh, Oh, well, whoever throws the most money at me can say what they want. Kind of. Right. Cause now refuse or, or you only want positive reviews. Well, then they're not reviews. Yeah. Right. And so, and sometimes positive versus negative can be, you know, some people are very detailed reviews and they, some of them are like, I didn't like this, but I liked this, you know, so you can make an informed decision on their, on the game. Yeah. And those are the ones I,
00:31:21
Speaker
tend to gravitate, gravitate towards. Yeah. I tend to look at somebody's, I like to look at them and say, Oh, they got about six hours in the game. Yeah. They have a good opinion. Right. You know, but now we have steam just taking those down. Yeah. That seems real slippery slope. Yeah. That that's, yeah. Like you said, that is very, very tricky.
00:31:42
Speaker
I mean, that's like a weird form of censorship almost. It is. It's funny, we've had this problem in other things. What's that app that everybody uses to
Handling Personal Reviews and Dining Experiences
00:32:03
Speaker
review restaurants? Oh, Yelp.
00:32:06
Speaker
You know, all of these people that have threatened to sue people because they left bad reviews because of their restaurant and, you know, all these Yelp review, you know, fighter. Yeah. First off, it depends on your country, obviously. Yeah. Freedom of speech in America definitely clears up that whole conversation. You can't sue somebody over a Yelp review. You're not going to win that conversation. Yeah. I mean, so long as they're not like,
00:32:36
Speaker
libeling somebody. Yes, obviously we don't want... Legally, it's very hard to prove libel anyways. Yes. But yes, obviously some people set out with bad intentions. Right. The review bombers or something. But there have been cases of people who have legitimately tried to sue over a bad Yelp review.
00:33:04
Speaker
It could be as bad as you just had a bad day at that restaurant and they had a bad experience. The thing is with restaurants and with games, like you have one bad experience with that game, you might be out. Yeah. Yeah. And I can't remember what Steam's return policy is. It's some number of hours you can play it before you can return it. So a lot of people have to like, oh, I didn't enjoy the first three hours. I'm out. Yeah. You know, then sometimes you go to a restaurant and you're like, this restaurant's not for me.
00:33:34
Speaker
I'm out.
D&D Movie and Cultural Impact
00:33:35
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I don't really read reviews. I very rarely. I would only ever review positively. I guess I would look at it, you know, like if somebody recommended something under me to recommend them, I would say this is the places I like or this is the games I like. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to say don't go to, you know. Now, if I have a horrible experience, I might tell somebody, say, look, you know, you can try it if you want, but.
00:34:01
Speaker
The waiter came out and his pubic hair was hanging out. It's so tough. There's a restaurant that my wife and I both have had a bad experience at. It's very local. It's very much annoys us that it's still there. But I just don't tell people positive things about it. I just don't say anything. Yeah.
00:34:27
Speaker
You know, but then if my friends in front of it, I don't pick in front of it, but also, but I guess if my friends did ask me, like, what do you think of this place? I would give it. I guess I would at that point, give them my opinion. Yeah. So I'd have to write like. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But the games I'd have just wouldn't. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, like you said, you know, to take down bad reviews and all, I mean. Hey, people are entitled to their opinion.
00:34:57
Speaker
They are there. Yeah. And I think on top of that, it's even more insidious because platform, the platform steam has built this review system. And once you start muddling that system, you've really messed with everything. Yeah. And if you're a publisher and you don't want to hear bad reviews, make a better product. Yeah. Or send it to, you know,
00:35:28
Speaker
Like I have a somebody that, you know, plays that genre a lot. Review it. Right. You know, there's one thing I always hated and they've all gotten much better about it, but like you'd see like an IGN or something and they would start out with, well, you know, I kind of really don't like RPGs. Here's my take on Octopath Traveler. It's like.
00:35:53
Speaker
If you don't like it, that would be like me saying, yeah, you know, I hate rap music. Here's what I think about T-Pain. Sure. Yeah. I have a lot of problems with game review culture, like the professional side of it. Something about it just seems easy.
00:36:17
Speaker
You're getting free product to review this. You're getting early access free product to review a game. It doesn't feel right. I get it. This whole industry has been built around this. I mean, it's game informer, metacritic, all of that. It just never has felt right.
00:36:40
Speaker
I think we've talked about it, sorry, it's like game reviews. You kind of have to do like your homework as to like who the reviewer is. Oh yeah, yeah. Because are there tastes like your tastes? Right. And I mean, and it's so confusing. Like some people use a five point scale, some people use a 10 point, some people use a thousand point. Right. It's crazy. Yeah. And it's, you know, I usually, the only thing I really tend to look for in game reviews that are professionally done is like,
00:37:10
Speaker
A lot of them, I've gotten into the habit of pointing out these are day one bugs. Yeah. That's the kind of stuff I want to know. Yeah, exactly. Like Jedi Survivor. I'm holding off because I'm hearing about all these day one bugs. Yeah. I'll pick it up. They'll patch it. They're going to. Yeah. I have no worries about it. I mean, one person was going off like another
00:37:32
Speaker
Triple A title game ship that's not ready, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, calm down. You know, they're going to fix it. Yeah, it'll be fine. Yeah. And like a single player game to me is so much. It's so much easier to have that way to live, because like it's going to get passed eventually and I'm not. It's not going to change my experience. Right. Yeah. It's not like a multiplayer that it's one of those. If I don't hop in now. Right. I'm going to be behind everything. Oh, yeah.
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, or by the time I get into it, other people have moved on. So there won't be other people to play with. And yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would. I totally get that when it comes to games, but I also think at this point in multiple games, you know what you're getting. Oh, yeah. Unless you buy Halo and you expect it to go up. Oh, hey, did they kill that finally? Have they killed?
00:38:28
Speaker
Halo Infinite. The co-op. No, they finally patched it in. Oh, okay. It is then now. It should have been in day one. If not day 14. Not day 388. Oh my gosh. Whatever it ended up being. It is in
00:38:49
Speaker
It is. But I mean, it's seemingly they've killed the Halo franchise. Wow. I don't know. I mean, they they've announced that 343 is going to be managing Halo, but not making Halo. So now, like, you're going to have no one who was in a not no one, I'm sure they can hire people, but Bungie was the original. Yeah. They became 343 Bungie.
00:39:19
Speaker
Bungie left again. So now you're going to have nobody making Halo that was involved in the original Halo. It's going to be a whole new studio. Who knows what it's going to be? Or it could be nothing. They might not make anything. They've not announced anything. Very sad. It is, yeah. For somebody who's Halo fanatic like I am. Yeah.
00:39:47
Speaker
Find out in the end, it was all it was John Spartan all along. That's why it was Spartan. We're still trying to figure out the three, three, three seashells. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I'm intrigued, but terrifying. They do. His name's not John Spartan. His name's John. Yeah. I don't know if they ever give his last name. Halo. It's John Halo. John Halo. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. The Halo family.
00:40:18
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, get back to the review thing, I think. Yeah, I I don't agree with taking them down unless it's something like it really like inflating, you know. Calling someone horrible names or, you know, threatening somebody, that's one thing to take it down. But if it's just, you know, hey, I'm consumer X and I didn't like, you know, game why?
00:40:44
Speaker
That's no, I don't think you should take that down. It's not cool. Yeah. And I think. It sets a bad precedent for steam, and if the developer was like, Look, we had 7000 negative views in two minutes of the game launch. That's something to talk about. Yes. Right. But if you had one negative review that you didn't like. Right. You can't take that down. Yeah, no, no.
00:41:13
Speaker
And just not great. Yeah, a good slope. Yeah, it's not. And I think. Part of it is because gamers now, it's like they expect every game to be a nine or a 10. Yes. And it's like I've had some great fun with games that are sixes and sevens. You know, you have very, very few games are going to be.
00:41:41
Speaker
If you're waiting for every game to be a 10, you're going to play one game every three years. Yeah. In my opinion. Yeah, no, you're right. Yeah. And a lot of games, especially nowadays, takes a lot of get to be tense. Right. They develop and change. Yeah. Don't get me started about DLC. I think we've ran it on DLC many times before. Yes, we have.
00:42:08
Speaker
Uh, that's all I got for topic one. Move on to topic two. Sure. So topic two. Um, I went and saw the Dungeons and Dragons movie this weekend. Very Chris Piney. Yeah, it was, it was Chris Piney, but I'm wondering, you know, are we finally at the time that D and D can become quote unquote popular?
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's out there, you know, lay out there. It's, you know, a movie like that. And like I said, you know, my wife and oldest, they've never played D&D and they, you know, they laugh, they chuckled, they followed along. There was a huge discussion afterward about what a Dragonborn was. But that's a whole another thing. And it's a it's a class or race. Yeah, that's I tried to explain that. But now and then what an Eric Rocco was. And oh, yeah, all kinds of things.
00:43:03
Speaker
Yeah. And explain to my oldest what, you know, or maybe it's my wife found a gnome. Oh, the little guys, the beards in the chair. No, that's not a gnome. It's a dwarf gnomes don't have beards. Gnomes tinker with stuff. Yes. They are really good at illusionary magic. Yes. But I mean, there's that. I mean, D&D was big in Stranger Things and, you know, you've got things like Critical Role's animated series on Amazon that's doing well. I mean,
00:43:33
Speaker
I hope that it's a good time for D and D. I just don't want them to like, I almost feel like it's a bad time for D and D. Really? I feel like if they had this all this popularity when role playing was more popular and maybe it is just my view of the world as somebody who used to play D and D and other role playing games, tabletop role playing games. Yeah. Like it just feels like that stuff's really dated.
00:44:04
Speaker
And I don't know that it's going, like I think D&D is doing well in the zeitgeist because we're 40 year olds who have money and we remember D&D fondly. Right. Yeah. You know, is it going to do well with, you know, your kids? Like are your kids, your kids can watch.
00:44:24
Speaker
critical role and be like, oh, that's kind of cool. I don't know that they're going to sit down and play D&D. Oh, they will. I'll make them. But yeah, it's a very slow burn of a game. It's really hard to get into. It can be, yeah. You got a bigger character. You got it. Right. And you could do a four-hour gaming session and get nowhere.
00:44:50
Speaker
How many nights of gaming nations did you not even level up? Oh, yeah. You spent three of those four hours in the town buying equipment, talking to people.
00:45:08
Speaker
I mean, I love D&D. I think there's better games out there than D&D, but I love, you know, it's the, it's the OG. Yeah. I love it for what it is. And they tried in fourth edition to make it faster. Oh God. Fourth edition was such a bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's the confusion things like,
00:45:33
Speaker
Are you playing three or three point five? Right. I mean, I could see what they were trying to do with fourth edition. They were trying to make an appeal to people who are not going to be like, I want to spend four hours doing a fight. Yeah. You know, but I think that's one of the things that's going to make D&D less popular. Yeah. You know, I think they are trying to. They're not totally like fourth editioning it, but they are trying to put out like. Pre package like, hey, look, here are eight.
00:46:03
Speaker
Characters already made up pick one. Oh My god, we've got attacking everybody under attack Probably I'm assuming either zombies or the mummy or it could be just a bird at the bird feeder That's stupid dogs
00:46:24
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, I think it's they're trying to speed it up a little bit and, you know, not as many roles and things like that. I don't know. It's kind of like, here, get them in, get them kind of.
00:46:36
Speaker
how they might want to play. To the people who play D&D. That's why I fourth failed. Yeah. People who are like, I want D&D. All of that stuff's like, Antima. I want to be able to tell you how many points of this position I have. Right. I want to be able to build my backstory of my character. I want to do those things.
00:46:56
Speaker
But I just don't know that kids are going to be interested in that anymore. Yeah, I mean, unless maybe like spell jammer stuff would be more. Or I just. But I remember like D&D was such. It felt kind of counterculture. Yeah, fun. Oh, yeah. You know how if it's in the culture, is it fun anymore? I don't know. Yeah. Like if I'm not going to have to like hide my D&D books like.
00:47:26
Speaker
What's the point? Yeah. I don't know. I ain't, you know, they can make other things that are D and D related. Yeah. I'd like to see the books come back. Like the actual like novels, the novels, they've not really gone away. They're just, yes, they have. There hasn't been a good forgotten realms novel in a long time.
00:47:51
Speaker
Probably. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say that when the last book came out. And I mean, there's was it aren't they? They're revamping Dragon Lance this year, I think they are supposed to redo Dragon Lance. Yeah. Like new novels and stuff. It's supposed to be set before probably back when we played or maybe after. I don't know. Oh, yeah.
00:48:20
Speaker
That's a good pregnant pause. Everybody should soon. Yeah. There is supposed to be a new book this year. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing. I mean, I feel like that series, there's what, like 32 books in that series now or something. There's a crazy amount. Yeah, it's just it's enemy that is something like that. That's super daunting. It's like take it back to eons ago, one of our
00:48:48
Speaker
episodes was talking about, you know, jumping into comics. It's like there's such a hurdle because you're like, oh, yeah, this is, you know, the 30 second book. It's like, oh, my God, I've got to read 31 books before this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, they don't say it as much anymore. But, you know, I wonder if that throws people off where you're like, oh, yeah, this is fifth edition D&D. It's like, do I have to know the first four editions? Do I?
00:49:13
Speaker
Yeah, I still have my first edition D&D books. Nice. I've got them somewhere. And I lost all my A.D. and D books. Oh, I used to have the whole everything for the A.D. and D. Yeah. I love Dragonlance and I loved Ravenloft. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are my two favorite. Oh my gosh. Of the A.D. settings. Yeah. I did a couple of crawl servers in the Ravenloft.
00:49:41
Speaker
I would love to see that come back. Yeah. But I also really want to play D&D and never can seem to get into a game. It's hard to. It's hard to do. Yeah, especially with shift work and schedules and things like that.
Aging and Gaming Sessions
00:49:59
Speaker
It's almost like it's, you know, a bit like, hey, we'll do like one day a month. But then that one day, oh, my gosh, you might as well set yourself in for a six hour session.
00:50:10
Speaker
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We're professional gamers. It's going to be eight hours. Yeah. My buddies and I played a board game the other day after I got off work. I worked a 24 hour shift and we played axis and allies from noon until 10 o'clock at night. Nice. Yeah. And I got home and I was like, I feel hung over. I didn't drink at all. My body hurt. I literally woke up the next day and I was like, I'm, I feel hung over.
00:50:39
Speaker
And it was because I stayed up till 11. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's getting older. It's fun. It's like that one night I was playing Destiny and I finally got done at like quarter of one. And the same thing, I woke up the next morning and I'm like, I don't want to be away.
00:50:55
Speaker
Everything hurts. Yeah. And people like, oh, yeah, I have a rough weekend. I was playing games till one o'clock in the morning. Yeah. How much did you have a drink? Some waters. Yeah. I think I drank a tea a little too late and my heart tried to explode. Oh, I did that one time. Oh, my gosh. I was like signed up for a nine o'clock raid. I was like, I want to make sure that I'm awake for it. So like five o'clock.
00:51:24
Speaker
that night, I drank a Red Bull. Oh, God, God, like two o'clock in the morning, my heart's like thumping out of my chest. I'm like, I can hear everything. I work with people who are maniacs and drink energy drinks all day. Oh, yeah. And they're also the ones that are like, well, caffeine doesn't bother me. Yes, it does. Yeah, you're addicted to it. Yeah. Yeah. But I, I mean, I drink
00:51:51
Speaker
At home, I'll drink two caffeinated teas a day. Yeah. Which is like less than a quarter or a cup of coffee or something crazy. Probably. Right. And that's all I'll drink. Yeah. Maybe at work, I'll drink three. And I'm still like, oof. That was a lot. You get that third one, your hand shakes. Yeah. They're like Red Bull. Let's mix this Red Bull with a monster. Yeah. Let's see if we can top this monster with a Celsius. It's like, oh my God, how does your heart not explode? Yeah. Man. Yeah.
00:52:21
Speaker
about time to lay down, like drink this bang energy drink real quick. The other day I drank a tea at like three o'clock and I couldn't sleep till 10. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I drink two cups of coffee a day. That's it. And it's before I'm done before 10 o'clock in the morning. Yeah. Everything afternoon I drink decaf. Oh yeah. Yeah. I can't. Yeah. That's it. I just joke with somebody. It's like I'm officially an old man. Like there's one night
00:52:50
Speaker
that we were out to dinner and they're like, Oh, does anybody want to see the dessert menu or a cup of decaf? I was like, I would love a cup of decaf. Well, I've already officially old man. I'm drinking. I'm taking fish for show pill. So yeah, it's good for you. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Either that or eat more fish. Yeah. I like fish. Yeah, but sure. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:15
Speaker
Or you just need to drink their oil. Yeah, I just need to squeeze them. Run them through a mill. My wife also was told by our doctor to do fish oil pills. She only has to have as much half as much as I do. And I think that's sexism. Yeah, it's something about women produce the Omega.
00:53:39
Speaker
stuff better than we do or use it more. I don't know. It's something our men's bodies are less efficient with fish oil or something. And then like three hours later, you burp and you taste fish. No, I took the burp. I got the burpless ones. Oh, that's. Yeah. One time I didn't. Well, I've not had that yet where I burped. They also said your sweat stinks like fish. I haven't had that yet either. Oh, yeah. What are these people eating? Fish oil, I guess. I don't know.
00:54:10
Speaker
One of the people on my ship who was significantly younger than me was like, oh yeah, I take fish oil. I'm like, you're too young to worry about this. You're invincible until you hit 40, and then you fall apart.
00:54:24
Speaker
You do. Oh my God. Everything. Yeah. Yeah. You sleep the wrong way and you can't move your arm for a week.
D&D Characters and Gameplay
00:54:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. It happened to me. Like I was sitting there. I was like, what have I done to my shoulder? I was like, Oh yeah. Three nights ago, I slept weird. Yeah. I twisted my ankle about seven years ago. I'm still telling people about it. So we need D and D to be real. I could just go to a cleric and get fixed.
00:54:54
Speaker
What class do you play in D&D? It depends. Oh, does it? It does. Yeah. Usually, though, I do play I play a cleric or a paladin. Always a paladin. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I'll play a ranger, though. Never like the Rangers. Yeah. Always a paladin for me. Yeah. If we're doing a campaign where there is no paladin, then I'll be a cleric.
00:55:23
Speaker
Okay. Only begrudgingly. Yeah. Never truck with no magic. Yeah. Or never done a fight. I don't think I've ever played a fighter in any campaign ever. No, I've never done a straight fighter. Yeah. Well, I mean, closest I did was Ranger, but that's like fighter light. Yeah. Yeah. It's fighter with a bow. Yeah.
00:55:51
Speaker
But the last campaign I was in, gosh, I ran a cleric, but I rolled, you know, they were like, you know, you can they have a way now that you've got X number of points to a lot. And I was like, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to spread. I'm rolling. This is this is how you do it. Yeah, I got like a seven for my intelligence. Yeah. So that was the bad thing. But it actually it was fun to play the
00:56:21
Speaker
dumb, lovable, like, you know, cleric that was just, you know, it was nice to do that. The last real role playing game, like in person role playing thing I did, I played a Gerbs campaign. OK. And I made a doctor who said in the apocalypse, basically, and I was a doctor.
00:56:42
Speaker
And my whole, because in that campaign you had to take a disadvantage and my disadvantage was pacifist. Oh, the guy who's running the campaign is like, how are you going to be a, how's this going to work? And then he looks down and he's like, why do you have a pet bear? It's like, well, I'm a pacifist, but the bear's not.
00:57:07
Speaker
So I ran around in the wastelands with a pet bear killing tanks for me. Nice. It was great. Like, everywhere the party's like, how come you don't have a gun? I'm like, I don't need it. I've got to have a bear. You guys should check out the bear. Check out the bear.
00:57:26
Speaker
Yeah, it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's the fun thing is to do something like that, that, you know, not like you in real life, you can just kind of wing it. Well, I'm pretty much a pacifist. I still have the bear. Yeah. You do have Atticus. I do have Atticus. Yeah. It's something like a minor bear. Yes. Yeah. You were definitely the minor total of a bear.
00:57:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that was the other thing after, you know, on the way home from watching the movie, explaining to them about. Because the one character was a druid. Oh, they turned over. It was. It was a while. It was a wild shaped druid. So, yeah, they turned into a bear and all kinds of stuff. And they were like, I thought druids talk to trees. I was like, well, that's one kind of druid. There's different. What do you mean? There's different kinds of druids. I was like, there's different subclasses. Yeah. So turn the seals. Yeah. Yeah. Turn into all kinds of crazy stuff. Yeah.
00:58:24
Speaker
And then explaining the difference between a wizard and a sorcerer. Oh my gosh. All right. Well, look, I seriously came home. I grabbed the player's handbook. I threw it on the table and read. The wizard has to memorize his spells and has to rest between sorcerer knows their spells, but can't learn as many. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, what do you mean a wizard has to
00:58:51
Speaker
Yeah. You have to pick every day what they're going to memorize for the day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's one of their limits. That's why they suck. Yeah. I said that's why, you know, or clerics do the same thing. And I screwed up many a time. You know, I don't think we're going to fight much today. So I'm not going to take a bunch of healing. Wrong. Yeah. Never. Never not take a healing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Chris, you're you're our healer. Not today. But today I can read this text. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:21
Speaker
Do you want me to persuade the shopkeeper? Got that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. But see, I'm a wizard and I can, I know this one spell. It's a really good spell, but I can only use it once. So is this the time to use it? Right? Yeah. We're all dying. Yeah. But are we going to die later? Yeah. We might die again. Yeah. Are we going to have a long rest after this guys? I'm going to need a nap. Yeah.
00:59:51
Speaker
You fighters and all you stand there. I need nappy nap. Yeah Yeah, cuz you got the fighters are like, oh, yeah, what's that? I took you know, er and spit. Oh my god barbarians Yeah, oh, what's that? You took 20 hit points of damage this time. Yeah, I've got second wind, right? Yeah Well, I'm gonna roll for attack and I've got my follow-up attack. You know what as my bonus action. I'll throw in a third attack It's like what?
01:00:14
Speaker
I remember the good old days when a wizard had a D four hit points. Yes. Oh my gosh. I start with one hit point. I leveled up. I have two hit points now. Awesome. Yeah. And you had your familiar that had
01:00:29
Speaker
1d4 hit points, and if it died, you took damage. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid wizards. Being a wizard in AD and D was like hard mode. It was AC. My AC is like seven. Oh, everything can hit me. Yeah. Yeah. Good old Thacko. Good old Thacko.
Nostalgia and D&D's Essence
01:00:51
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Armor class is seven. Yeah. Yeah. Next to the fighter. What's your armor class? Negative 12. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:05
Speaker
Or like, yeah, the rogues that are like, yeah, my armor class is five, but everybody gets a penalty to hit me because I'm so quick and I can hide behind things. Oh, look, I get triple attack for my backstab. Backstabs. Golly day. Yeah. Rogue can take a dagger that does 1d4 hit points of damage and get to a crit. That's like, you know, I did 85 points that day that round. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there was a conversation on one of my discords about the game.
01:01:35
Speaker
No, I think I'm going to jump in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll roll something other than a paladin. Oh, give me an anti paladin. Do you ever have you ever played an evil character? I have played an evil paladin. In fact, how hard was it? It was very hard. Yeah. It's like one of those. It's like, man, this sounds like fun. I'm going to be the bad guy. And then you have to start making those evil decisions. It's like, but I don't want.
01:02:03
Speaker
I don't want to take the orphans money. Yeah, I also play one warrior all evil. That was brutal. Yeah, brutal. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll play. Hmm. Chaotic neutral. Good old illusionist no. Yeah.
01:02:27
Speaker
or a monk. There you go. You'll never get hit and you can do wicked damage when you get up there a while. It's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's a note. Yeah. Monks. And once they hit like fifth or sixth level, they're like, yeah, this round burn a key point to do another flurry of blows and hit five times. It's like, how, how, how? Yeah. You've got another problem going. I healed you. Yeah. I laid on hands. Laid on hands. Yeah. Well, you know, Dandy's always had that.
01:02:57
Speaker
Some characters are amazingly good up until level 10. And then once they hit level 10, they begin, man. Yeah. Other characters hit level 10 and they're become God like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's all about the role. Golly day. Yes. It's all about the role. It's like, Oh yeah. Here we go. Oh, look at that. I rolled a one super.
01:03:22
Speaker
Yeah, ones are critical fails. Yeah. You drove your sword. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. I played for one GM and he was always so much fun with ones. He was like, how close are you to Fred? The best thing in the world is when you roll on. Yes. I also like the GM's that are like happy when you actually start, you know, like you get, you know, you roll a couple 20s or you're just
01:03:52
Speaker
Things are working out the right way and they like let you play into things like, could I throw my shield against the wall like Captain America? It's like, you know what? It's a disadvantage, but I'll let you roll it. You know, that kind of stuff. Or if you could build a shield throwing ranger. Oh. Have to look. Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure you could homebrew one. Yeah, I'm sure you can homebrew one figure it out.
01:04:22
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm shield man. I've got five shields. I'm just throwing shields. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yeah. Until you find the relic that will actually, you know, it's a shield of returning or something. Right. Oh gosh. That's your quest. Yeah. Oh God. Now I want to play D and D. When I was a kid, we played D and D and
01:04:44
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We had a, like a rotating thing where we were just trying to kill those characters off. Oh, okay. We were just like, we would come up with the craziest missions, just, yeah, we'll see if we care about you guys. Yeah, we're bad people. Yeah, but it's fun. Yeah, it's fun. So it's great. I love D&D and I mean, I wanted to succeed. I'm just worried. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want it to become too commercial.
01:05:11
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I wanted to remain its pure D&D self. Yeah. Underground, smelly basement. Smelly basement. Smells of unwashed teenagers and Cheetos. And big stacks of books. Oh yeah. Yeah. Gotta have books. Gotta have the books. You can't have it on your iPad. No, no, no, no. You have to have the book. Yeah. That's the world. That's the world I want to live in.
01:05:36
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Well, yeah, I think that was a good cast of the pod. I think we passed it cast the pod. By the time folks are listening to this, you'll be recovered from your surgery. Well, I've lost at least two points of wisdom. Yeah, you have. Yeah. Yeah. It was a point five per tooth. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh. Yeah. You need to get a seat. That's where you get you turn them into the bracelet and earrings and everything. Then you have wisdom charms. It's true. Wisdom charms. It's a plus one wisdom ring.
01:06:06
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Yeah. Yeah. Pitch it to that for your wife. Yeah. Here's my tooth on her ring. It's plus one wisdom though. Yeah. Oh, she's played D&D. She enjoyed it. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Excellent.
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01:06:18
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01:06:35
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Really enjoy your early May. Yes. Yes. This is when, at least in Delaware, it's one of the better months to enjoy before it gets stupid humid. Yeah. And we're still, you know, when this posts, you still have a week before the Ides. Right. So, you know, which the Ides of May or the 16th, 15th, 16th is that, Oh yeah, it would be the 16th. Yeah. So yeah, you've got, yeah, more than a week. So yeah. Enjoy your safe time before the odds of May. Yeah.
01:07:05
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Alright folks, have a good one. See ya.