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S2 Ep138: Farming Simulator 19
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Join Dave, Jake, and special guest Gennaro as they reminisce about their time spent as farmers. It ain't much, but it's honest work. Why is this episode so long? Tune in to find out!
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Jill's Loneliness and FarmersOnly.com
00:00:01
Speaker
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Podcast Introduction and Euphoric Sentiments
00:00:32
Speaker
How's it going, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Serpstone. My name is Jake. I'm joined by my co-host, as always, Dave. How's it going tonight, Dave? Fuck you. Oh, wait. Sorry. That's next week's notes. How are you doing? Wait, wait. How's Gennaro doing? In this moment, I am euphoric. That's pretty good.
00:00:52
Speaker
I hear that term thrown around a lot, like on Reddit, I guess. It's just like, oh, euphoric atheist state or whatever. It's real serious over there.
Cynicism and Euphoric Overuse Discussion
00:01:04
Speaker
They're real happy people there. I guess. Maybe it's like the years of cynicism and depression, but like, I don't want to hear that word a whole lot. Probably for a good reason. Yeah, it feels like a lot, right? I feel like definitely some hyperbole.
Cheesecake Food Poisoning Story
00:01:23
Speaker
Like the brief moment when you nut or like you have like that last bite of cheesecake and then it's gone. Yeah. Or maybe it was a bliss. I got, uh, the last time I got food poisoning was cause of cheesecake though. So that's a, can you eat it again? Because I feel like once you have food poisoning, you don't want that food again.
00:01:47
Speaker
Yeah, that has traditionally been the case. It was like a chicken sandwich from McDonald's one time and a cheesecake.
Italian Desserts and Listener Interaction
00:01:54
Speaker
So also from McDonald's. I know it was like a local one, one of the many local Italian places that deliver. Oh yeah. They get it frozen from somewhere and they cut you off a thing. They're like ice cream machine doesn't work. I don't think that cheesecake is going to come out either. Yeah. Um, now I go for like cannoli and tiramisu and stuff like that now.
00:02:15
Speaker
I like you guys here with you. Yeah. Good Italian desserts. Yeah. Speaking of Italian desserts, who are you? So long time caller, first time listener. I am one of many listeners of this podcast and figured I'd come around, maybe talk about some video games.
00:02:39
Speaker
You heard it here. There are multiple listeners. Fuck you, mom. How you can tell that Dave's mom does not listen. There's not one of the multiple listeners. But she's still proud of all the work you've done. It's like every three months, she's like, what's the name of your thing? I'm like, I've told you so many times, but stop. Soapstream?
Gennaro's Role and Game Contributions
00:02:59
Speaker
Also, Gennaro is obviously a long time listener, but he also has provided games for the podcast over time. That's true. I think one of the most notable ones being Control. Yeah. He was actually part of that intro too. Yeah. This is actually your second time showing up on the podcast. Thanks for coming back. The first time I was sort of rogue voice in the background, a little distorted.
00:03:28
Speaker
You're a soundbite. Now you're a much bigger soundbite. I'm a whole mouthful.
00:03:35
Speaker
It's crazy how this is all pre-recorded and Jake and I have just scripted this out so well. Yeah. I was going to say one of my secret accomplishments or prideful accomplishments is like I got the recording from you
Farming Simulator 2019 Introduction
00:03:49
Speaker
for the play control segment. I was like, it would be a lot of effort for me to put like any processing on this. I'm just going to like drop it in there, keep it like really basic. And then I spent like a considerable amount of time reprocessing it, doing trying other stuff. Yeah.
00:04:03
Speaker
I mean, yeah, and I came up with the whole, you know, using that specific line that you'd hear throughout the game. And man, that game was super eerie and just like cruising around, you know, eventually you'd get some spawns would come up. But, you know, listener can go listen to that podcast on it. It's a very good podcast and I'd personally recommend the game.
00:04:26
Speaker
I think we did. I think we all personally recommended it at the end. I actually beat it, finally, too, after that. Oh, you didn't beat it at the time of recording. Okay. I hadn't finished the foundation deal, so I went back and finished it. It's a trip. I mean, you put on those janitor headphones, you start rocking out to that last mission. Yeah. Also, a side note on Spotify today, I listened to my darkness quiet like four times.
00:04:54
Speaker
What you hear in like the one sound test room. Oh, yeah. We actually looked up the band who made that final, final cut, final song for that mission. And, man, solid. Never played any of the Alan Wake stuffs, but you guys actually sold me on it and then I bought it. Yeah. So you own it now, but you haven't played it yet. I say as you take us up. Direct questions.
00:05:25
Speaker
So wait, did you? Yeah. Did you, did you play Alan Wake? No, no, no, no, I did. No. So, so as I was going through the, the game, I saw the, you know, the linkage towards that and, you know, thought that would be a nice game to try out at some point, but
00:05:41
Speaker
Currently, I have a lot of games that are on my backlog, including one that sort of frustrates Dave being Undertale, which I might play a single hour a month. That game does frustrate me a lot. I just had about fun when I play it. It's just... We were very critical of Undertale, I think, in our early review.
00:06:05
Speaker
I'm pretty sure I made sexual advances towards Toby Fox on multiple occasions. You're not the only person. Yeah, well, you know. Can't remember what I was going to say. It was definitely insightful though. Undertale is a pretty good game too.
00:06:26
Speaker
controls a pretty good game. But yeah, you've bought us multiple games, I would say twice as many as the person holding the number two spot not to disparage them. Thank you person in the number two spot. Keep trying. But this most recent game that you purchased.
00:06:45
Speaker
This most recent game, everybody, if you haven't played it, you've wanted it for years. It's super popular. AAA, there aren't enough A's for this game. There's quadruple A gaming here. This is the most anticipated game of 2020.
00:07:03
Speaker
Well, it's going to be most anticipated of 2021 because at the interval that they create, there's going to be another one coming out soon, but that's a farming simulator 2019. The fourth day is for anticipation. It's just anticipation.
00:07:23
Speaker
But yeah, that game, I started vacation. It's been a long year for me at work and I saw a Steam sale come up and you're like, you know what? Now's a good time where it was two days before Christmas. Let me share the love. Let me buy a game that I know these two have not played before because
00:07:47
Speaker
Quite frankly, they've never shown interest for it. So I, therefore, created said interest and just gifted them at just fun. And actually, I gifted them a copy before I actually bought myself a copy, realizing I just created a podcast opportunity. So I figured I have to play it myself.
00:08:10
Speaker
Well, I'm glad that you did Gennaro because I did not. What happened was I got the game. It's like, oh, Jake's getting it too. It's like, okay, cool. Maybe we can all do that sometime. And then I think I got roped into like a Dota game. And you guys are like, oh, we're playing tonight. But you didn't say that. You just were in Discord and then had like six hours logged. Like, hey, you're like,
00:08:34
Speaker
The farm's looking good. I'm like, what's happening? That happened for like four consecutive days, and now they refuse to play it with me. It was a very natural setup. So I started playing, I was streaming it, and it was a single player game. It's like, okay, whoa, this is interesting. This is pretty neat. And then Jake said, oh, there's a multiplayer, and we can all have the same farm.
00:08:58
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I didn't know there was a multiplayer when I purchased these games. I just figured this was, you know, going to be like the Sims where you're just playing with the A.I., whatever. And it just, yeah, the night went longer than I thought it would. And then an entire Saturday was burned. And then eventually we
Realism and Tedium in Farming Simulator
00:09:19
Speaker
hit some roadblocks. And but before we get to those roadblocks, let's talk about the intro of the game.
00:09:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's oh, yeah, the intro to the game. So this is this is our America, American cutscene, right? With the flag blowing in the background, there's like a deer, I think, up on like a hill, like galloping or whatever deer do, like while the combines making its way down the down the field. Is it chasing the deer?
00:09:51
Speaker
Now I don't think so. I believe it was like a deer on a cliff and then two running mustangs just running alongside of a pickup truck of a man who has a dog in his passenger seat. And they go up to this very nice barn and smack open the doors. And lo and behold, a giant ass harvester and man, this is beautiful.
00:10:18
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's it lays it on thick. It's fairly ridiculous. Whoever made that probably works for Ford as well. These built, built tough commercials, all-American. So any stereotype you can think of, just slide it in there. That's exactly the introduction to the game. That's very true. Yeah. I guess I would be remiss if we're talking about the very beginning of the game to mention like character creation.
00:10:48
Speaker
Because we finished our Cyberpunk episode. And Dave and I, we had lots of thoughts about that game. Has a very detailed character creator. I feel like the genital options in Farming Simulator were a little bit sparse by comparison. They were. I believe you had choices of six genitals, which by genitals, I mean, you don't see any genitals. They're just six different people.
00:11:16
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But you do get a single flannel shirt, which if you guys didn't recognize, I'm sorry, podcast viewers, but I am wearing my flannel shirt in honor of this episode. And just like the game, I could only pick one color, one style, and
00:11:36
Speaker
That's how you get dressed in there, but there is a different option that is a little bit more robust and vague. I'm sure you recall what clothing that was. That's the cap, the branded cap. Lots of brands.
00:11:54
Speaker
Brands you've likely never have heard of before because you aren't a farmer. Shout out to maybe our one farmer listener over there. Hopefully we can grow that basis with this podcast. But lots of caps, real companies, actually a couple of companies that are local to me because I am out in Farmville, per se.
00:12:18
Speaker
So I didn't realize that was an actual location. Yeah. The Facebook game just ripped off the name of an actual place. I mean, there's how many Springfield's in the world. I mean, Simpsons did it first. So it's true. I passed by a street road today. Yeah. Street road Boulevard, perhaps.
00:12:40
Speaker
It was a street named road. Well, it's actually a road named street. I can see how you can get that confused. Not bad for the UPS guy who has to get there. You have to deliver it to house on street road.
00:12:58
Speaker
No, I said it. So once you take your time, at least 50 minutes minimum to create your character.
00:13:11
Speaker
You do get dropped into one of these select maps and you start off with a very small farm with some modest land and you get thrown right into it. They give you a couple bucks. There is a tutorial in the game. You choose to use it. That's not fun though. You don't want to go in blind and not shoot yourself later in the foot for going in blind.
00:13:40
Speaker
going blind and you start buying things once you figure out what you need to buy. Because again, you're likely not a farmer like I am not and have to figure out what exactly do I need because I can't just start clawing at the dirt with my mitts and throw seed in there and start planning. I actually did try. Yes. I need something to actually get going and you're kind of on your own.
00:14:09
Speaker
Yeah, I think so we spent like 20 hours figuring out how this game works. It's all simulation based. You spend a lot of time doing basic tasks. It's not particularly interesting at the end of the day. I was going to say these were hours. I had 19, your own play time, 19.5 hours. Friends who played farming simulator, Dimooch at 28 hours. Friends you have farming simulator in their library. It's underland. Zero hours.
00:14:39
Speaker
Anything to say, Dave? I'll get to it when I get to it, Mom. Don't bother, I don't think. When we were looking up how to make money in this game, do you remember what the top Google result was? Yes, it was to cheat. And cheating, I eventually did because
00:15:04
Speaker
As we'll go into it, making money and probably similar to real life as a farmer is pretty difficult. It's just a lot of tedium from like a gameplay standpoint.
00:15:19
Speaker
TDM is definitely a way to describe the game. But the amount of money you earn is really based off of the market. Surprise, surprise. The game does allow you to make it a little bit more difficult if you are a masochist and have more economic variables to the prices of whatever you decide to grow.
00:15:45
Speaker
But as you start off, you have, you know, maybe two or three pieces of equipment and you're offered to either work for some other farmers who have some more land and have money to spend, or you end up just working your own plot of land, which you don't have much of. So you're in a constant battle of, okay, I have very limited equipment. Do I want to either farm someone else's land and they'll give me 12 grand? Cool. That's great.
00:16:16
Speaker
or put all the time and effort into my own land, hopefully the prices go well and sell.
00:16:24
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Yeah. So we did both. Yeah, we tried. Like, Sarah would run off and like do contract work. And I was just sitting here like, replanting the fields and doing nonsense back at the farm. You were the stay at home farmer. Yeah, I was the stay at home farmer. Yes. I got to take care of and raise my crops. Yes. He did very well managing the home.
00:16:46
Speaker
But when I was actually paying attention to the game, if you just like AFK'd for a bit, weeds would grow and you're like, your crops would be contaminated, whatever nonsense by the weeds. It was.
00:16:57
Speaker
It's not particularly fun as soon as that initial novelty wears off. So at several points, Dave was like, we've been ragging on the zero play time thing. But at several points, Dave was like, should I play this game? And I'm pretty sure every single one of those junctures, I was like, no. Even when we were continuing to play the game, it was just like,
00:17:18
Speaker
Not really though. It's still not particularly fun. I did too. Spectate some on Discord. Whether you guys or both of you were streaming. It seemed like a very paced game. There was pacing.
00:17:35
Speaker
Like in the same way I could talk about a Yakuza game, it seemed very slow, but in a different way. I can only think of, the only thing worse than playing the game is watching the game be played. There's no interactability at that point. But I remember watching Dimuch go through, do you want to be called Dimuch Gennaro? I'd be going back and forth like a crazy person. It doesn't matter. Whatever at this point.
00:18:02
Speaker
If you want us to go back and censor one of them. I want you to call me daddy. No. I have to edit. Don't make me do that. Maybe I'll pepper in one daddy for you. There was. But as I was watching a generous muchacho kind of go through, he was picking up what I'm going to call and hope they're called bales.
00:18:25
Speaker
of like wrapped hay and you had like a vehicle that had like spokes on the end to kind of like snap it like you pick out a couple of them and pick it up and go and he was like oh I can have up to four on here and he knocked the first one over and then was like backing it up moving forward trying to like write it to pick it up and then get another one it was like a very slow clown juggling act where he's just constantly doomed to drop something
00:18:51
Speaker
Yeah, it was awful. It was. I don't even know how to compare it. You have like two very large forks and they modulate as far as you know you gotta lower them, which that's another feature of this game is it's not just you get a vehicle and you move it and it does what you need to do. It's OK. You gotta get an attachment. You gotta aim at the attachment a certain way. You gotta lower the set attachment and it gets.
00:19:19
Speaker
you know, they try to get some realism in there, man. So we had a new Holland something or other that was a single lane harvester. So you drive forward, you get as much crop as
00:19:34
Speaker
wide as your actual harvesters. It was a baby harvester. It was a baby harvester. Whoa, hold on. It needs to be called out there. And you're the one who actually worked on the land. I'm the one who paid for it. So if you'd like to explain what happened, I'm sure the listeners would like to know.
00:19:55
Speaker
I just, I flattened out some ground or tried to, and it cost a bunch of money. I kept trying to fix it over and
Humor in Gaming Struggles and Preferences
00:20:02
Speaker
over again. I was like, it's not quite flat yet. And it kept costing money. And like Gennaro's over here, like harvesting. He's making like a couple thousand bucks every like half real life hour or whatever nonsense. It's really slow.
00:20:16
Speaker
And I'm just like watching the money go down thousands of dollars at a time. And eventually he just quits the game, actually. I was like, we can go back, you know, like we could just cheat or something, like just save where it's at. We'll add some money. He quit the game, just hard crashed it, reload previously. Yeah, no, it's it's it is really well detailed. So it is a shame that you really shouldn't play the game. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's
00:20:47
Speaker
Like he said, props to anyone who's made it this far from the detailed explanation of what's going on there. Dave, you can come back.
00:20:56
Speaker
I think I, I think I see him. I see him returning to his home. Hey guys. What's up? So are we, I think, I think Gennaro was as well. Word solid at least. No, I think I got a really lengthy text from Jake. Uh, so based on the summary of everything I just missed, do you think adding the realism helps it?
00:21:23
Speaker
And like, would you venture into other types of SIMs like that in the future? Like truck driving SIM or anything else in that space? I'll answer first real quick here.
00:21:35
Speaker
No. I think it's actually destroyed Sims for me for a large part of it. I like management more than the actual simulation of a lot of this stuff because the simulation is busy work and it's boring. It's kind of a waste of time at the end of the day compared to just cheating and then playing around with the equipment that you can't afford in real life. In fact, I would recommend to cheat in real life.
00:21:58
Speaker
I can't do that. That's illegal. But if it helps you buy the equipment, maybe that's the better way to do it. Yeah. And similar comment. The game had a weird sort of balance of realism and not realism. There's kids out there who have toy farm equipment.
00:22:20
Speaker
Like, you know, I grew up with toy trucks and whatnot. There's kids, especially around my area, who know these pieces of equipment because they grew up on the farm. And I could see a game like this possibly being fun for them, especially if they're too young to go out and work a farm or can afford to work a farm. But there's no such thing as someone who's worked on a farm. There's actually not such a thing as too young to work a farm.
00:22:46
Speaker
coming from personal experience. Yes. Yeah. JK, you grew up on some farm country, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, like minor stuff. It wasn't like my dad did harvesting. So I helped him out with that. But not to the not to the full simulation extent of this game, I would say. Walked out, shouted encouragement. Dad, you're doing great.
00:23:13
Speaker
No, actually being seen is the first step to immediately being assigned work. So you don't walk out. You walk around. You hide somewhere else in the goop.
00:23:26
Speaker
But yeah. I mean, sounds like a bullet dodged. I think I definitely would have checked it out if our schedules aligned when everyone was checking it out. Yeah. But from the description and the repetitive, don't actually play it. Yeah, I didn't think you would have enjoyed it even like when I was enjoying it. And once I stopped enjoying it, I was 100% sure you wouldn't enjoy it.
00:23:54
Speaker
But it gave me a little bit more respect for the profession. There is a lot that goes into it that I wasn't aware of. And playing with Jake was helpful because he did have that experience, was able to explain something. So I'm grateful for that. But overall, it was an experience.
00:24:14
Speaker
Probably wouldn't boot it up again, especially since I was introduced to another game that had better progression.
00:24:27
Speaker
That's definitely true. But we can't go into that one because Dave will leave again.
Listener Q&A and Future Content Ideas
00:24:34
Speaker
But what we could go into is possibly some Q&A from a long time listener, perhaps. I was just, oh, you're one of those QAnon people? OK. Oh, Q&A on. It's like motivational slogan. So I did have a couple of questions for you guys.
00:24:56
Speaker
ranging in seriousness. But last week, to those who listened, was a pretty brutal review, spoiler, sorry, on Cyberpunk. But I personally am a huge fan of the Witcher series. And I was wondering if, I did not see it in your backlog,
00:25:24
Speaker
will we get a Witcher review at some point? Oh, this is this is actually funny. I don't know how to answer this question. Yeah. Should we answer it? Sure. I will put it under the blanket of it is planned for a specific date in the future. And that is all. OK. Yeah. Yeah. And so I wanted to, you know, CD Project Red is
00:25:55
Speaker
They got they've been getting bombarded. I mean, you guys mentioned that there's a whole other low sodium subreddit dedicated to trying to be a little bit more positive about the game devs and that game.
00:26:09
Speaker
became one of my favorite, one of my favorite games overall. I really liked games with a little bit more open world. Skyrim is one of my top games. And when I got to play Witcher 3, after everything was done and smoothed over, I didn't, you know, experience it at launch. But I had tons of fun with it. And I really liked to know how you guys thought. So if it is playing in the future,
00:26:35
Speaker
Hooray. Thank you. I will be waiting. A little bit. Sure. Yeah. Um, so obviously like we did trash, uh, cyberpunk, uh, but more so for,
00:26:50
Speaker
I guess functional reasons and other things. Even in talking about Farming Simulator a bit ago, obviously you guys had a lot of things you disliked about it that kept you from playing in the future, but you enjoyed the time you spent in it. That's to say all games can have good aspects and bad aspects.
00:27:09
Speaker
But yeah, there are definitely people who can harp on the negative things only, like people who are shitting on Last of Us 2. I had lots of issues with Last of Us 2, but I enjoyed my time and I don't regret it. So like there is a split, but a lot of times people bandwagon hard one way or the other. Yeah. Yeah. I would I would hard agree with that. Like there's stuff I absolutely love about Cyberpunk and some other games that have massive issues.
00:27:39
Speaker
And there's people who, despite everything we said, there's people who never jumped on Reddit and they just had fun with the game. If it happened to crash, they had a bug, whatever, they just kept playing and they kept having fun with it. And it's like, I feel it's almost disingenuous for me to be like, I put 70 hours into this game and it's trash, right? So, if you-
00:28:05
Speaker
If you like open world games like that, you'll probably really enjoy Cyberpunk. I just think that you'll enjoy it more in a year or two. Exactly. Yeah. And I actually had asked you, Jake, if I should play it because I did have a week off and I figured, hey, I'm done with school, done with work. I can finally relax and play this game. It's been out a week.
Gaming Engagement and Streaming Suggestions
00:28:28
Speaker
That wasn't enough time, so I'll wait for my next break next year. Okay, well, I guess this year. But okay. My next question, SoapStream, I mentioned it before, but you guys play all these games and as a listener, there are times where it's hard for me to follow because I haven't played the game.
00:28:57
Speaker
right what about an opportunity to you know it would vary from game not all the time but if you guys stream together you guys playing said game before the review came out so maybe some listeners could get some context uh and some familiarity with it uh because you know coming from someone who has played a game and then listens to the podcast your experience is way different than if you
00:29:24
Speaker
Don't have never play the game have no have don't even know what the the graphics look like So some context would be cool and you guys have a great dynamic. So, you know
00:29:36
Speaker
Oh, we're very angry at each other. It's just where it swears a Kimbo. The original game grumps pretty much. It's just only only we'll get rid of racism. It's all it's real. I can I can start with a deflection, actually, because I know Dave actually has streamed in the past.
00:30:02
Speaker
That's my deflection. That sounds like a popcorn Dave response. I mean, we've played games together before. Like we played the Sonic Adventure 2, Adventure Battle 2. That was in person though. In person. That was console. Right. I'm just saying we didn't like kill each other. So it is possible for us to play games at the same time.
00:30:26
Speaker
I ask because very avid Twitch watcher, Twitch viewer. I believe so. I would love to watch it. I'd subscribe. I'm sure a lot of people else here would subscribe. I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal because I have streamed before. I'm sure I could get Jake to piggyback or just not tell him he's on stream.
00:30:50
Speaker
That's illegal. I'm playing a different game or something. Pennsylvania has a set of laws. Anyway, I'll definitely do it. As long as you're going to emote PogChamp in the chat, I'm definitely going to do it. Oh, too soon. Oh, that's topical. That's topical. In general, I'm not opposed to it, though.
00:31:12
Speaker
It's something I'd be willing to do. It's just not in my instinctual nature to broadcast what I'm doing and then have strangers be like, what game is this? You suck at this game. And they'd be like, fuck you, kid, because it's easier on Discord with people I know. And if they come check it out, I'd be like, oh, hey, you might like this. Or if they're like Raganami, it's fun back and forth.
00:31:38
Speaker
All right. Well, there's a reason moderators exist for chats to, you know, clean up, clean up a bit. Oh, that was such a soft plug. Could you guys start streaming so I could start moderating? Listen, I've had the opportunities to, I,
00:31:59
Speaker
moderators do a good job, but I like to get paid for my work. That's a habit. We're going to break you. I'll take VIP. I won't take a mod, but okay. I think you actually contribute more to the community indirectly by buying us games, Discord boosting. We're costing you money. Not the opposite.
00:32:25
Speaker
Actually, you bring up Discord, which you have personally made me a emoji master of. It's a very prestigious title. One of my questions were, if you were a Discord emoji, what emoji would you be? Oh, God, there's so fucking many. I will be back because I have to go into chat and
00:32:51
Speaker
And actually, placeholder answer for Dave. Yeah, I actually do too, because there is one of my face. So I'd probably be that one. Yeah.
Community Culture and Discord Emoji Discussion
00:33:00
Speaker
If it wasn't that one, let me get back to you. Funny you say that because now if you look at Discord chat, there's now a giant emote. Look at that smug son of a bitch. How did that happen? So shout out to your wife.
00:33:16
Speaker
But she helped along with this ploy because for those who don't know, Dave has his own emote of himself with a very beautiful smile. I did not make it by the way. Another one made by Jake's wife. So we figured that Jake deserved his own. And look at that handsome man.
00:33:40
Speaker
That's pretty great. Thank you. I can't use this because it's on another server. It will be in our server soon. That's pretty good too. For audio listeners, you'll never see it. You'll never see it coming. Okay. That was all set up, by the way. I just wanted to use that. But if you'd like to tell me a different emoji, you're welcome.
00:34:11
Speaker
This one, it's interesting actually, the Discord reaction. So you've introduced me to all the peppy servers, obviously. There's a lot of really good ones. I love those. I think the Discord reaction I probably have used, this is a boring answer, but it's a true one, I think, is the prey.
00:34:28
Speaker
reaction. Oh, yes. I use that a whole lot in one on one conversations. I've introduced it as a meaning of that's your thought. Yeah, it's like thumbs up. Thank you for that. Like, like awesome. You took care of this or whatever. Our I hope this resolves well, like those are the uses for it. I use it a lot.
00:34:51
Speaker
It's kind of funny because it's replaced the traditional kind of like MSN or AIM messenger sort of like LOL or haha, right? I throw a reaction in there. It's weird to text anymore because you don't have access to these sort of emojis.
00:35:10
Speaker
I actually have used discord, like emojis in teams chats for work with people that I also know on discord because they know what I'm talking about. It's I'm dumb. And Dave, something that's outside of that. It probably something under the among us. Cause I feel like that's just gotten a lot of good means. Yeah. Like there's the dead body one. There's like the, the pet and the little guy. They're just cute and fun.
00:35:42
Speaker
What I like is if somebody posts something in Discord to see which things come up, because usually the first person to do it is the one who has the creativity, and then people beyond that are like, also that. So it's just cool to see the whole universe linguistically expand with emojis.
00:36:03
Speaker
Yeah. It's, it's an interesting way to respond without while being lazy in a way, like, yeah, you know, pictures of my face to the actual reaction individually upload each one.
00:36:19
Speaker
Let's scan it in. It's a lot more civilized than like Twitch, not to discourage streaming. I mean, obviously, you know, but Twitch is like, oh, let's just fill the chat. Like it's like a stadium, right? Twitch is a stadium and Discord's just people going, I agree. You're like, yes, this reaction was good.
00:36:43
Speaker
It's like if you had 30,000 people all like do a clapping discord reaction, it still just takes one space with the number 30,000 next to it. It's much more contained and orderly. I like that. My next question.
Humorous Elimination of Gaming Genres
00:37:00
Speaker
If you had to get rid of an entire gaming genre and it wasn't JRPG, what would it be?
00:37:10
Speaker
Do you have an answer Dave? Simulator games. There it is. That's my meme reaction. I need to think. Yeah, I think, hmm, remove a genre entirely.
00:37:28
Speaker
So I'm guessing it would have to be something that I have had some experience with and had a bad experience with Versus just like I don't play this one. Fuck these all these fighting games Right fighting games are fucking awesome. Even though I play so few of them Smash doesn't count obviously that would stick around fighting games It's not a real fighting game Sephiroth but
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, no, I feel like that is copying outright to just pick something you don't play. I would actually keep JRPGs around. I think they're pretty good, even though I don't play them that much. There are good ones in it. It's just, in my eyes, very few and far between. And almost impossible to cover on an episode of the podcast.
00:38:13
Speaker
Same reason Witcher 3 hasn't like been covered or it's like in a somewhat exclusive spot is because it's a 100 hour long experience. And JRPGs are oftentimes that. We had a friend recently complete like Persona, the remake. And she said it took her over 200 hours to complete the game.
00:38:40
Speaker
which is a long time. I don't, I don't have a type of time or patience. Yeah. How many hours do you have in Dota, Dave?
00:38:49
Speaker
I also have a lot of self-hatred, so it balances out. Yeah, actually, that's my social game. Like, that's what I'll pick up to play with people, because we don't really have Overwatch anymore, where I kind of just tapped out from that. Among Us and Fall Guys has kind of fallen away from us. How do I include both?
00:39:15
Speaker
It's tough. I do feel like if you did...
00:39:19
Speaker
Maybe it's tapping out to not pick an answer. But if you removed MOBA's, if that was what we picked, if you just removed the MOBA genre, it would probably improve games as a whole. Like, people would just be happier. The world would be a better place. Donkey wouldn't be banned from anything. Yeah, he probably wouldn't have such a big channel, though, because that's true. That's where he kicked it all off.
00:39:46
Speaker
Okay, good answer. If I'm looking at Steam stuff, I would want to say like I hate stuff that gets called a game. You hate games. Like everything in the Sakura series where it's essentially a light novel that you just left click through. Like visual novel. Yeah, I've done speedruns of just left clicking through it and that like that cost me money and the fact that they're selling it as a game doesn't make sense to me.
00:40:11
Speaker
But there are lots of things like that or it's very light on actual content or it's like a shitty reskin or.
00:40:21
Speaker
I think just get rid of the trash reskins. It's just fucking text things that you call games. Right. That job. Yeah. Like if you got rid of visual novels, they could tell the story in a different way. Right. Might take like a little more effort. Might be a different medium. Could just be a video or a book. But maybe it could be a YouTube video. You could pause. Yeah. And then press play and then pause again. Wow. Wow.
00:40:48
Speaker
And we actually could speak on this because we played and reviewed KFC Dating Simulator. That's the only one we've played, yes, yes. You can't see Dave's smile, but he had the grin here. Don't worry, my library. Because he's currently playing visual novels.
00:41:09
Speaker
Dave actually briefly mentioned it, but have either of you ever attempted a speed run? And if so, why wasn't it Mr.
Speedrunning and April Fool's Ideas
00:41:18
Speaker
Krabs' overdoses on Academy?
00:41:22
Speaker
No. Your turn, Dave. Also, no. Certain things where it's encouraged like Ghost Runner. I've definitely tried to go back and beat Jake's time, but I was trash at the game or just not sober enough at the time or didn't have the patience to sit through. Yeah.
00:41:45
Speaker
But yeah, you say don't try and master something and be like, I'm gonna get perfect and do it quickly. I'm like, I will beat it eventually and then say that I beat Dark Souls. What up? Yeah. Do you enjoy watching them at all?
00:42:00
Speaker
I like watching speedrun tech more than actual speedruns, I think. So like those explanation videos, lowest percent or any lowest percent. Yeah, there's any percent. There's a lot of channels out there that like go into the details of how speedruns are done and like demonstrate specific tricks and things. And I kind of enjoy that more than watching like a full length speedrun if it goes longer than like half an hour.
00:42:28
Speaker
Okay. I never got into them myself. So I was just curious as to how you guys felt about it. It definitely fits better if it's like a game that you have experience with. If I watch like a Dark Souls speedrun, I'm like, okay, I know where this is. Oh, I didn't know that's something you can do. That's really cool. Yeah.
00:42:46
Speaker
We do have a friend at the show who's going to be doing a full chronocross speedrun pretty soon here. I don't know if it's going to be on any platform that we can see it, but if we can't, maybe we can do Twitch. Yeah, probably Twitch. Maybe we'll get a link to it or post it when it comes up, but I love the community. I think the community is freaking awesome and I love the dedication.
00:43:10
Speaker
It's really, really like, you know, there's things that are really nerdy to us or things, I should say, things that are not nerdy to us that if we take a step back, we're like, if I was talking to a normal person,
00:43:26
Speaker
they would consider this very weird and speed running falls under that. Um, where you're just like, why though, why would you do that? Right. Um, but I, I, I just love the dedication, mad props to speed runners. They're all friends to the show. Yeah. Um, very cool. Okay. Um,
00:43:49
Speaker
have some other questions. Don't know how much time we have, but we have all the time in the world because we're just going to cut out some of the farm simulator stuff. Okay. That's fair. Um, so I have a bit of a meme question. Um, you both are, you both are proud gamers, but if you were gamers,
Favorite Male Video Game Characters
00:44:16
Speaker
What male character would you... Sephiroth. I knew that was coming. What's the answer? What was the rest of the question?
00:44:31
Speaker
Who would you bomb? He's got a strong side B. Good neutral B. Like lengthy. Lengthy. That's really what I look for in a person. Just that hard smash.
00:44:51
Speaker
Uh, I have a second answer. Well, Dave also thinks of Hayes. I have one. I'm just, I don't want to let you detail your Sephiroth escapade as much as you want. My runner up is, uh, because of Hades, uh, Thanatos.
00:45:07
Speaker
Really good. Fuck you. I don't know why people like Thanatos so much. We're like, why wouldn't you just go Hades at that point? Full beard daddy. Come on. I mean, he's your father though. Thanatos. I'm not saying you have to be Zagreus. Okay. If you're not Zagreus. I feel like Hades would be a cold, kind of a cold lover though. I dunno.
00:45:32
Speaker
Man, we hitting some hard topics, huh, guys? Well, just personally, if you couldn't tell at all, Geralt can catch this dick. That's fair, yeah. My 30 second answer is going to be Travis Touchdown. Ooh. If we're maiming. We need another 27 seconds of justification.
00:45:55
Speaker
He's got, he's got practice with the, uh, the motions and I feel like he'd be really into it before he got tired and passed out. So, uh, that's fair. That's true. Also, this is a, this is an aside, but I recently was like, Oh, the one came out on the switch and Dave was like, Hey, should we pick that up?
00:46:13
Speaker
And I looked up a review, and I was like, yeah, it's terrible reviews. No. But as it turns out, people point out to me that whatever I looked up was like a different game. It was a remake that got released on the Switch, not the actual recent one that came out on Switch. So that one actually has good reviews, and it's probably eligible to play. So much like Travis Touchdown. Eligible to play. Let me update my tinger bio.
00:46:42
Speaker
All right, great answer. Getting a touchdown with Travis. Field goal. All right. Two last ones. One probably a real easy answer. You guys always record on a Thursday.
00:47:01
Speaker
This year, April Fool's is on a Thursday. Could we expect maybe some mischief in an episode?
00:47:15
Speaker
What we should do is have, um, not actually record an episode, but Dave posts like the Facebook link, but it's just a LinkedIn image of the normal preview of the episode. Quality content. Yes.
00:47:33
Speaker
I would like some memory and some capacity, but I feel like we can't use that one because now it's been broadcast for months in advance. No one listens to these things. This is pretty late in the pod.
00:47:48
Speaker
Nobody listened to this car. No, no, no, listen. It was our farming simulator. How many people clicked in this? We had like quality farming simulator monologue for like 30 minutes. Yeah, it was a shame that you all missed it, unfortunately. I hope people came back. Like they just stepped away from the, much like Dave, stepped away from the computer and they came back and kept listening. We had an entire meal.
00:48:13
Speaker
I hope they came back. They were like, he just said gamers twice. What are they talking about? Yeah, I think we could probably fit something in there. I think we could definitely come up with some ideas to kind of tease the audience with the idea that we may actually be producing good content. Just sweep the leg.
00:48:37
Speaker
We do get those occasional Facebook videos, which are purely quality content.
Meme-Centered Video Content and Engagement
00:48:43
Speaker
So actual question, as I always drag Jake into this, but I'm the one who's like, we should do like a dumb video idea. And Jake's like, that seems kind of fun. How much do I have to do? Fuck. Do you actually enjoy them? Because like for me, it's all the meme. Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker
Like I just think they're fun to do. And I like to look back and watch. I'm like, this was a fun, dumb thing we did.
00:49:12
Speaker
I think you guys know me at this point. I love memory if you know, some of the questions weren't obvious. So creating these videos are a nice like, you know, throw a wrench in the cogs of the normal process you guys run through. So you get a little caught off guard. You don't usually announce it too often to my recollection.
00:49:37
Speaker
drop it. It's just there one day. It's like, you know, a Tuesday at like four. It's a mix tape. Yeah. Like you find in your mailbox. It's on fire. Destroy the video. Follow up question. Which one did you like the most? Cause each one's been very, there's no fucking consistency is the only way I can say that. Hmm.
00:50:04
Speaker
You're going to make me pull up all of them and rank them. Well, you're going to say, like, number 10. If one stands out to you, you're like, I really enjoyed this one. You can just go with that. Man, you're putting me on the spot here. I really like the one where it was just a single frame. Is this a free day where you were asking us questions? We had to think of answers. Hold on. Hold on. You guys are a verbose in the sort of. And erudite.
00:50:34
Speaker
That was another Duncan reference, actually. No, but in general, I always do enjoy them. The one where I specifically made the meme of Jake as a Chad, his form at work,
00:50:54
Speaker
where he had a B jacket on and the B stood for babes that he was picking up. Granted, that was a recent one. But it was impactful enough that I took time out of my day during work to open up Memphis Pain and make a meme about it.
00:51:18
Speaker
No, that one was good. They're getting better quality. You might need some more production value for the next one too. Start hiring people. Keep on the up and up. You shouldn't have said that you watched work though, because now I'm going to send it to your boss, Steve Wozniak.
00:51:40
Speaker
Joke looks on you. He doesn't own the internet. He doesn't own the internet? That's unfortunate. That's Bill Gates. He owns you. You're going to have no podchamps. Sorry, I feel like I derailed from the whole initial question. Did we answer that? Or is that still open?
00:52:00
Speaker
What was the question? It was the April Fool's episode, but we'll leave it open for the future listener to hopefully get surprised by. Stop listening now. Unless I talk about my ideas out loud. You're not going to miss much. Final question. That you have for us. From me, yes. You teased it.
00:52:29
Speaker
many episodes ago and I've brought it up multiple times on the Facebook page, which you guys should, you know, leave a comment on to know how the podcast is doing. But I left it on the Facebook page. When is the Dave podcast? I want the Dave podcast. So realistically,
00:52:49
Speaker
It's something that like we I guess could do. It would definitely be like a tangent away. I honestly thought like some like Dave or Jake specific questions would come up in this Q&A. My overall thought though is I can't imagine besides like two or three people would be interested to like hear about like the intricacies of my life to whatever capacity. However deep we go.
00:53:21
Speaker
Counterpoint. Farming Simulator 2019. It's a good counterpoint. Because if someone got this far in the episode, whatever we talk about, it's about you. Just think of the analytics. Someone's searching, the chance someone's searching Farming Simulator 2019 on Spotify.
00:53:45
Speaker
Probably not high, but they start typing in Dave. Maybe they're trying to see Dave Matthews band, but they find the soapstone podcast.
00:53:56
Speaker
And holy shit, it's an entire episode of about a guy just named Dave. They have no idea who he is. And he's a super interesting person because he's been one of the host of a great podcast on gaming. And suddenly they're very interested because they know the human behind the scenes and they want to get his opinion because
00:54:17
Speaker
Whether you like it or not, Dave, you are one of two people, the other being Jake, who has influenced pretty much all of my gaming choices in the past year because I personally, despite taking time on this podcast, I personally don't have time to go in and test a game, mess around with it. I like getting your recommendations. I know you give good recommendations. I have not yet been disappointed by said recommendations.
00:54:44
Speaker
So getting to know you, hey, maybe there's a listener out there who just doesn't really know you, like some of the guests that come on this podcast. So it might be interesting, just saying. That was so heartwarming and nice. And then my brain's like, is he implying that the guests don't know us? We do just find people online. First off, can we record what you say for a while?
00:55:10
Speaker
Yeah, that was very positive and nice. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that, because that is a hope that I think we probably both have. It's really like, who is it, Nate, who hasn't been online in the past two years? Right. Because he's playing the games we told him to play on. But he said he was checking out. And for him, he didn't play games up until recently, like within the last year. So it's really fucking cool to have
00:55:38
Speaker
people to share our joys with, and then have it actually be reciprocated. So yeah, well, always try and recommend good stuff for you. Thank you for recommending good stuff back to us too. Control was not on my radar. Nor was farming simulator. And one of those
00:55:59
Speaker
is a game. The other is a job. It is true. To answer the question, though, if there's enough groundswell, I'd be fine to do it. Like, I'm fairly an open book. I don't really have secrets. And if I do, you wouldn't know them anyway. I'm going to chat about whatever.
00:56:26
Speaker
But just know that if there's a Dave podcast or it has to be a Jake podcast. Yeah, I mean, I'd be I'd be fine with it as long as as long as Dave gets his episode. I'm always, always looking for content. And, you know, if we have to bear our lives before the podcast in order to make it through one more week, have Adam into the breach. Kind of kind of work your way through. No, I think I think it'd be fun.
00:56:54
Speaker
especially the Dave one. Not mine, but I'd like to ask Dave some questions for how it'll be recorded. Yeah, so it's a... I'd like to ask Dave some questions on the Dave podcast. Yeah, I'll be there, yeah, asking those questions. There's also a segue to...
00:57:19
Speaker
Oh, oh, right. You were trying to you were trying to leave. No, I was going to I was going to buy more time so I can replace some of that. So my questions to you representing all of our listeners. Do you have some episodes or an episode that you consider your favorite? We sometimes go back. We're like, hey, how was this year? What did we play that was actually even worth it?
00:57:50
Speaker
Do you have answers to some of those questions? I'm pulling up my Spotify. Because Spotify shows your progress on all the podcasts I'm listening to, every single talk cast I am very much into, I just like to get that little more natural flow of dialogue going.
00:58:15
Speaker
You could say this is a scapegoat saying, what about a specific game one? But I'm just saying, from a statistical standpoint, the talk has, every time I see it come up, I'm like, hell yeah, I'm taking my dog for a walk. I'm listening to what they got to say. What did Dave eat today? I don't know. I'm going to find out.
00:58:36
Speaker
What's Jake's awkward transition of the day? Okay, here we go. But yeah. I mean, the match is analytics. People do seem to like the podcast.
00:58:48
Speaker
A lot of people listen to them. Definitely an easier entry point to, or it's like what you're saying, like, Oh, this game I've never heard of. Oh, it's just people talking. Okay. So let's do that. And we still occasionally talk about games during the talk, but it's usually like a mention like, Oh, I was playing this game, but we're not going to go into detail on it. It's full free open ended space. Yeah.
00:59:13
Speaker
But that's my answer. Talkcast in general. Like I've said before, great recommendations. I've pulled a lot of recommendations from you guys. There were some genres I'm just not so interested in. Which ones are you not interested in?
00:59:29
Speaker
If you were to say, like, you should not have made these episodes this year. What's the genre you didn't like? We could say that's it. That works too. You know, the other... They're going to get more aggressive. The questions are going to be more, fuck Mary Kill. This is just an advanced survey for like, how is your experience with our podcast?
01:00:00
Speaker
You know, my issue is I'm not verbose in gaming language. Like I've never heard of the term rogue-like before. Is it even rogue-like or so? Yeah. Okay. I'm right on that. But. I mean, it's it's both. Right. There's rogue-like and there's rogue-lite.
01:00:23
Speaker
So yeah, rogue-like I think is like the whole genre thing. And then rogue-lite is just it grabs some of the mechanics. Yeah. You know, I've mentioned it before, but usually it is more difficult to pay attention to something I haven't actually heard of. But that's also the fun of discovering your opinions on it. Gotcha. So usually, naturally,
01:00:53
Speaker
pull up spotify okay i've never heard of this game probably less likely to click on it compared to something i may have heard of whether it's you know i saw it on reddit or actually i've seen you guys play it hence the stream recommendation but if i've seen you guys play it maybe on discord maybe on twitch uh there's just certain games that i'm
01:01:16
Speaker
Like if I'm pulling up your list right here, the four horsemen.
01:01:25
Speaker
Was that a game? I don't recall it. I don't recall it, though. But things like Control, obviously, Titanfall 2, knew about it, played it, Bastion played about it. Raft, never heard of Raft, but I remember it because of all the hate towards it. David Shaken has said so much about it. That one was an interesting episode to listen to.
01:01:49
Speaker
going back to the question, what things wouldn't I listen to? It's just things that I'm not privy to. It's things that I'm not exposed to. So I'm, you know, average Joe, I'm a gamer, but I'm not someone who's verbose in the, uh, you know, what's coming out soon. Usually my, what I'm buying is based off of, well, what have friends have enjoyed? What have I've heard from you guys? So that's my answer. That's a good answer.
01:02:18
Speaker
Yeah. I wonder if that impacts other people too. Do you think people are less likely to listen to episodes where we talk about games that they're unfamiliar with? For your example, if you've heard about games in the past, and this is kind of to Dave and you, I guess the question, are you more interested in engaging with content if you have heard of the game or if it's a complete unknown?
01:02:48
Speaker
It depends. Yeah. Which is my favorite answer to everything because it buys me. It's interesting. That's interesting. They put it that way. But the two cases I have for it is if I already like the person like Dunkey, I will watch anything that he does. I don't give a shit because I like him and his content and his style. So for me, that's like an entry way into whatever games you're checking out. Cool.
01:03:12
Speaker
The other thing is like smash community. I like smash. I like watching compilation videos. So like for me, I have experience with it. So we'll go check it out. But would I go and check out like a random game? No, I need like that, that push by somebody or something that I like or respect to kind of open that door for me. So if I saw this, like,
01:03:37
Speaker
random podcast talking about a game never heard of. I'd be like, no. No. Yeah, same. And you mentioned something as you're explaining, but you brought up Dunkey. He's offering another way of consuming the entertainment
01:03:54
Speaker
You're watching it. Like you said, you're watching Dunkey play. So, if Dunkey had a podcast, I'd be like, okay, well, I know who Dunkey is. He posts out a podcast. Would I listen to it? Probably. I'd say no. Yeah, it would depend, as you were saying. So quiet.
01:04:16
Speaker
Yeah, right. I mean, he's done. Like he had a podcast. And the only reason I listened to like the parts of it, and it was kind of interesting was because I already knew the character. If I didn't know about Dunkey, I wouldn't have cared at all. Yeah.
01:04:34
Speaker
But looking at your list of podcasts over time, I don't own a PlayStation. I haven't owned a PlayStation since two. I know what Last of Us is. I know the general concept of Last of Us, and I knew Last of Us 2 was coming out. That was one of the few games I knew that was coming out last year. So when I saw that, I was like, yeah,
01:04:57
Speaker
I like to know that I'm not going to play it. So I don't really care about spoilers. I know it's a solid pickup, but I'm not going to go out and buy an entire console to play a single game. Others may have different opinion on that. But, you know, when I see something that is very unfamiliar, say you decide to have a single indie game and you name your podcast that.
01:05:20
Speaker
Probably harder for me to ingest an indie game coming in unless I saw that, you know, maybe you were doing a rapid fire indie game recommendation. So the title was, you know, just indie recommendations compared to whatever very small name we can deal with.
01:05:49
Speaker
I could say doing it in the future. We're just then possibly taking four possible episodes into one. And that scares us because we're like, what do we have lined up for? Oh, yeah. No, I could see how there'd be a downside of that. Again, just coming from hopefully average listener.
01:06:08
Speaker
It used to be nice to have something where it's just, hey, look and play some games. Here's like a list of some stuff in the genre that we really liked. Maybe even like, you know, every quarter or something like here's our favorite past releases of the past three months. And you just, you know, rather having a single episode based off a single game.
01:06:31
Speaker
Here's, you know, rapid fire. Here's what we liked about it. It's what we disliked about it. Maybe you should wait on it. Um, so you, you get that, all those recommendations and what episode rather than, you know, anxiously waiting for Sunday to come and seeing what the next game is.
01:06:47
Speaker
Oh, that's fair. I like that we do deep dive sometimes, but I wouldn't mind. I mean, obviously our new format is much less focused to like covering a game in detail every single week. We have guest episodes. We have the topic episodes. We occasionally do deep dives on games, but it wasn't really sustainable. And for some of those games, it felt like we put a lot more work into them than others, I think.
01:07:16
Speaker
if we really cared about it. Dark Souls series. Freaking love that stuff. Man, I really like the episodes where it's like, I can't wait to fucking have an episode on this. And the one we do, it's just us gushing about how much fun we had, which I assume is much more entertaining than like, man, fuck Raft.
01:07:37
Speaker
And also when we're going in to do like intro and outro or like any other edits, it's more filled with love. And it feels good to put the time into it because you appreciate it.
01:07:49
Speaker
I kind of like both. I like both more than the middle. And I don't know if maybe like can you does this come around? Does this come across general? Like, how would you rank the episodes that you that where we gush about a game, where we're kind of like lukewarm on a game? Well, it's like it's a video game. We made an episode on it. And ones where we hate it.
01:08:09
Speaker
I mean, average listener loves polarizing content, right? So it's either you're laying down the law on everything that's wrong with a game and going into it, don't invest a single penny in this compared to gushing over it.
01:08:29
Speaker
And the gushing over it is, man, I really know he enjoyed this game. Let me go out and experience it for myself. Whereas the other way, it's, uh, Hey, um,
01:08:42
Speaker
Don't buy this, don't waste your time like that. We put that effort in for you so you don't have to suffer the pain. We're the body armor. So that middle of the road content, as someone who's looking for recommendations, you guys aren't here slinging video games. If you are sponsored, maybe I'd understand that. Probably try real hard.
01:09:09
Speaker
Dave's on the streets. He's like handing out flyers and stuff. I tell people like, we recently had like a work type call where it's like, Hey, get to know people in your department type thing. I say with that voice, cause I, I'm not that social. Um, they're going to tell us like a thing about yourself. I'm like, Oh, I have video game podcasts. Like, Oh, what's it called? I'm like, no, I'm going to talk about work at some point or say the F word. And we're like, let's not, let's not. Yeah.
01:09:38
Speaker
Okay. So yeah, you, you like the more enthusiastic responses. It's because that ultimately leads to the recommendations, the lukewarm content. I feel like that sort of stuff gets towards to personal, uh, you know, feelings towards a single type of game as towards, you know, if you both purely love this, uh, you'll both recommend it. Yeah.
01:10:09
Speaker
No, that's fair. That's fair. I'm getting distracted. No, that's fine. We're just typing. We're literally just typing. Dave's putting like meta notes in here about how long the podcast is. And if we were professional, we'd cut this part out, but we won't. But no, it's all planned. It'll make sense when you, the listener, gets this part and we never actually talked about it. What was this episode on?
01:10:37
Speaker
No, I think I appreciate the input. I think it's useful. It's something we don't actually, like we have friends of the show come on who like do listen, you know, sometimes, but not usually as enthusiastically as I think you have traditionally. You're probably, probably top commenter on Facebook. Probably top listener, top commenter overall, for sure.
01:11:03
Speaker
Sorry. I was just saying, I go on a lot of dog walks every day. So the hour of content is always on a dog walk. So it's it's it's weird because you know, I play games with you all the time. And then I go out and leave my house like I can get away from the computer finally. Listen to Jake and Dave's voice.
01:11:24
Speaker
Imagine how weird it is for me. Sometimes like we do the record and then I'll go like get dinner with my wife or something. We'll drive somewhere and I'll just like sneak in the podcast for a minute, like on the phone and like hear our own voices. I laugh a little bit. Then I stopped and I switched back to like normal sane media because who actually listens to this. Yeah. The other week, like, uh, you guys recorded during, I guess, non recording hours. So there was some, uh,
01:11:54
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light feedback in the background. I was like, what the hell is that? And then I caught Mango's stream and I figured out that it was actually the clinking of her tapping paintbrush. I was like, that's what it is.
01:12:13
Speaker
You put it together, solve the mystery. That's pretty great. How crazy would that be if somebody didn't know both Jake and his wife and consumed both media separately? And then like, we're like, hold on. Look at the time. That's literally what happened. I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have figured this out. That's all right.
01:12:35
Speaker
Well, I think we're pretty much at time now. Looks like it's about the hour mark. Thank you for coming on the show. Great. We've been looking forward to it for a long time. Buying farming simulator for us was obviously the end that we needed. This is my long con. I'm just accruing Steam game stock to then sell off and then get an island in the Caymans. Okay. Apparently.
01:13:03
Speaker
One Steam account. It contains farming simulator, unplayed. No, but yeah, it was really good to have you on. Thanks for coming up with those questions. Sharing the heart to heart. PogChamp, it was great. Yeah. And it rest in peace. Forever Live TechW. End of an era, really. But yeah.
01:13:30
Speaker
As always, if you guys out there have more feedback, questionnaires, what is it, MySpace-like surveys, you can send those to us at soapstonepodcast.gmail.com or join the aforementioned multiple times discussion on Facebook at facebook.com slash soapstonepodcast. And as always, we'll see you in the next one. Have a good day, guys. Bye.
01:14:27
Speaker
Jennifer, we're fantastic!