Introduction to 'My Familiar' RPG
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If you have a hankering for the classic RPGs of the SNES era combined with a vibrant modern energy, then you need to check out My Familiar, the upcoming turn-based buddy cop RPG from developer Chinsi Inc. Things kick off when you're isekai from Texas into the strange streets of Wish City, where the townsfolk are monsters, corruption is king, and most importantly, you can see a buff duck punch a gangster's sheep, which sounds like a secret code for something illegal.
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Explore the gorgeous pixel art world while you fight, flee, and aggressively wrap your way through dysfunctional demons and flashy, over-the-top turn-based battles, all set to the dulcet tones of an excellent soundtrack. Head on over to my familiar Steam page, wishlist the game, and get your hands on the demo today.
Windbreaker Podcast Introduction
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Windbreaker podcast. I'm Yahtzee Kojor. I'm joined by Marty Zlevin.
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Well hello everybody. And by... And by Sebastian Ruiz. That'd be me, the middleman for the waifus today. Wearing his shirt that looks like he's spilled his breakfast eggs on him. A lot of them. All this protein.
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But yes, thank you. To mark the wonderful occasion of today's date, we thought we'd have a lovely discussion about waifus, our favorite persona waifus, to be precise. Now, how we're going to argue this is that we're all going to pick a candidate. And Eric, that's a very mean filter you've put on us right now. Oh, yeah, that's terrible. That's nightmarish.
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But yes, we're all going to pick a candidate and then we're going to pick from a selection of debate questions.
Waifu Debate Setup: Favorite Persona Waifus
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I can hear somebody typing. Eric, you're typing very loudly. This seems to happen a lot to us. Yes, we're all going to make everyone very uncomfortable by nominating our waifus and then we're going to present a series of debates
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fueled by a list of questions we have put together on the occasion. So.
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Marty, who's been nominating for your best waifu? For my best waifu, I am choosing from what I think is my favorite persona game. Granted, if you ask me tomorrow, it might be a different answer. But from Persona 5, I am choosing out of left field on Takamaki, the codename Panther, and one of the first party members you get in Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal.
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Grub tier. Grub tier? You only like it because the name's easy to spell. It is the easiest name to spell of our three choices. Easy, easy coming through.
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For my part, I'm a one-woman man, as you know, Marty. And there's never been any waifu for me, but Chiei Satinaka from Persona 4. I like the short-haired lady. I like them with high energy and an outgoing spirit, because I'm very low energy, and they need to meet me halfway. And she does big kicks. Which average audience is.
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Frost, have you even played any persona games? No, that's the thing. I was going to be the referee, but I also figured I'd bring one in here. So I will be championing the loveliest Sigourney Weaver and see how that kicks through. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe it matches. Okay, so Ann, Chie, and Sigourney Weaver are three candidates now. Great idea. No notes.
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Okay, so why don't I choose the first question?
Waifu Debate: Carbon Footprint & Airport Troubles
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Let's go for it. Because I'm sort of the host, I'll just go to our list here. Okay, first debate question, which waifu has the smallest carbon footprint? Marta, you start.
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Okay, the thing is, I would want, I want to defend my choice, but I can't, because Ann is, A, she's part American and part Japanese, has family in both countries, travels a lot, travels a lot for her job as a model, and as a model, if she does choose to pursue that career, she might hit a point where she is jet setting around the world, and taking those flights,
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cannot be great for the environment. That said, I do not know when Morgana transforms into a van if, do we think a cat that transforms into a van releases carbon emissions in the same way that a regular van does? I'm asking that if Morgana is transformed into a van, does he still part?
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Does... Is that what a car does? A car farts? Well, that's what a cat does. A cat does fart, that is true. Sure. Yeah. I feel like it would be worse as a car. Car emissions versus cat farts? Sure, the car wins. Yeah, cat farts feel more natural. No one's committed suicide in that garage. Well, you say that, but like a large percentage of the methane entering the planet's atmosphere comes from cattle production. Yeah, but cows, don't cows have like a hundred stomachs or something wild like that?
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Well, they've got four. Okay, that's on our way to 100. So I feel like I cannot defend An in this one. I do not feel like An is very socially conscious when it comes to her apartment footprint. Yeah, it probably takes like three cans of hairspray to get that hairdo going at any rate. A lot of hair out there. Ruining the ozone.
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Don't have that problem with Chie, eh? No. He ain't got hairspray issues like 90% of waifus do. She also wears green, which I think for me shows that she is the one most committed to environmentalism. Sure. Or is she just virtue signaling?
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Well, if she just reminds one person to turn the lights off before they go to bed, then she will have done her part. I dunno, this doesn't look eco-friendly, it strikes me more as a pickleballer. Really?
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Both of you. I'm looking at them both. They look like they're both ready to pickleball at any given time. Yeah, sure. I've never heard it's called fast before. Ooh, Giazzi, for shame. For shame. We also, she lives in a small town, Inaba, compared to Tokyo. And it feels like they just walk everywhere. Yeah. Like in Persona 4, they just walk it everywhere.
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Yes, thank you for arguing my side of the debate for me. Yeah, so I was trying to undo him because having to put Sigourney Weaver of all people considering that she is an EPPO baby. I'm sure her corporate daddy has quite the carbon footprint. I don't know if she's a philanthropist, probably not enough to offset that. Anyone who has their own trailer at movie shoots probably has a very high carbon footprint.
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Well, she did sacrifice herself twice in Aliens and in Avatar to essentially save humanity. So I feel like that kind of lets you litter at the minimum. Okay. Well, that was a character she was playing. In Alien, when she gets into a power loader, that thing cannot be good for the environment. Like a power loader has to be so much worse than a private jet for the environment. Granted, it is within a space station. There you go. But still.
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Well, I presume you'd want low emissions vehicles inside any kind of space station. Yeah, but that sort of future is like that used retrofuturism of alien. It doesn't feel like they give a shit about anything that's going on with the environment in there. How does the how is the power load of power anyway? I mean, I assume from the name, it's electricity. So they just plug it in the wall. They can carry things as far as the cord allows. Can't be that. Oh, no. Maybe it's like an Evangelion. It only has five minutes unplugged.
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Oh, that would have been a great finale to Aliens, wasn't it? The Alien Queen gets sucked out of the airlock, but Sigourney doesn't because her power load is still on the- still plugged into the mains. Think about it, someone get jealous. She's able to pull herself back in by using the cord. Yeah.
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So yeah, I think it mostly breaks even. I feel you've won eco-friendly, right? Okay. We can all agree, GA is the waifu with the lowest carbon footprint. Good. One point for me. Uh, Frost, why don't you pick our next question? Our next question. All right. Say you were smuggling cocaine through an airport, which waifu is least likely to accidentally undo you, like knock over your suitcase? It's like, Oh, now all my coke is all over the floor. Hmm.
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Who would accidentally get you in trouble with the feds? Ann is very clumsy throughout the game. And she's got long arms, she's tall. She's got long arms and long legs, which I've dated a few girls with long arms and long legs, and let me tell you, there's elbows and knees flying everywhere. And so I feel like that is just a recipe for haphazards.
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Well, not that I want this to turn into everybody arguing everyone else's waifus for them, but I think Anne as a model would have a certain physical grace. And that's not what Chie has. She's like constantly hopping back and forth on one leg like she's busting for a piss in battles. I feel like she'd probably be the most likely to accidentally knock you over if you were trying to get through an airport security system. And Chie seems like she might have like undiagnosed ADHD.
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Um, which might crop up there. And Lampier brings up a good point that on is a seasoned international traveler. So won't kind of lose her shit in the airport. Uh, yeah. Frost, what about Sigourney? How's Sigourney holding up in this scenario? Oh my goodness. See, I feel like she does well under pressure, you know, but as a Hollywood type, she'd probably have already snorted it all. Roy even got his phone. Wait, are you saying famous stars in the eighties?
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She might, yeah, it's like, keeps me safe, but I... Oh, and as a reminder, Sigourney Weaver is a real person. I guess we didn't say that. We kind of just do. Sigourney Weaver is a famed actress, best known as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series. Yeah, can you... That was the joke. Can you put them pictures in our corners here? Of our respective waifus? Yeah, I'll do it, Eric.
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Yeah, I feel you keep me safe, but you know, she's probably better. She probably mocked me the way I try to smuggle through there and just like, no, we've got me. She's simply a veteran and would react with a sort of condescension when she saw another person's efforts to smuggle cocaine through customs. Only cocaine, she says. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about ambition. Still has like quaaludes in her heels. There you go.
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her heels are made of Quaaludes. Incredible. What's the thing about Quaaludes? They don't exist anymore? Or there was a finite amount of them made? Yeah. That's wild. Because people didn't like other people getting too high scores in Scrabble with it.
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Oh, I thought it was going to be like, like, do you think there's like Quaalude collectors? Like there's like physical game collectors and it's like, oh, there's only a finite amount of this game for the N64. So we're going to collect them and store them in our house and have it created. I don't know what kind of shelf life Quaaludes have.
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Yeah, I have to collect them and they're probably just using them. I made it according to Wolf of Wall Street about, what was it, 20 years? He was eating some old ones and then they were a little latent, but they eventually got them. Yeah, that was a great, that was a top five Quaalude scene. It was. When he was trying to get to the phone? Yeah. We got Yahtzee on round one eco-friendly, two cocaine smuggling, three. Marty, what you got? Actually, who do you want to say won that one? Surely mine. Yeah, I feel like because she's probably the one who
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I'm not, I don't want to slander, but also may have on. We'll give it to Sigourney for implied most experience with cocaine. There you go. I still really like how you say that. All right. Mine. Who is most likely to think that something fishy was going on with the moon
Waifu Debate: Moon Landing & Nutrition
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landing? That they're not saying it was fake or anything, but they're just asking questions.
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When we talk about the moon landing, they're just saying, listen, something doesn't add up here. Are you kidding? CA would absolutely be conspiratorially minded.
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I mean, how so? Well, first of all, she was part of the investigation team that was looking into murders being carried out by a mysterious entity through a secret channel that can only be accessed by people with special powers. And the moment she tried explaining that to anyone, you would instantly be making assumptions on her opinions on the moon landing. Yeah. Yeah.
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Also, I feel like she doesn't get out much, as we've declared before. That's true, a small town, big fish in a small pond. I'm not saying she would leap to that conclusion herself, but if there was a booth set up at the local mall with some crazy person ambushing passersby as they walked by and pinned them to place and talked them over with their theories, Chie would probably be the most susceptible to taking some of the literature. Sure. Sure.
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I don't think Ann is too conspiratorial. I think she has the same thing like Yahtzee said, she has glimpsed the supernatural, not just glimpsed the supernatural, but has fully experienced the supernatural, a metaverse. She's went into people's mind palaces and changed their broken hearts. She helped employ the friendship in order to destroy God. And so that being said,
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Again, sometimes I think moon landing conspiracy, flat earthers, I think a lot of these are the same. As someone who's well-traveled like her, who's traveled around the globe, who understands that the planet is round, I think she looks at what we did in the space race, and I think she takes it at face value. Maybe an era of patriotism, too, there with her one-quarter American there. So patriotism. How about Sigourney?
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Sigourney? Well, to land he 11. She did come out as saying that she believes in aliens and that there are the government is keeping all the fun stuff away that they're around here squashing the alien reports. So I feel like something dodgy with the moon landing isn't too far fetched. Not that like the moon's fake or anything, but that maybe it's not as empty as you claim it to be very moonfall goes on moons on it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's quite a leap from
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uh, believing aliens exist to believing the government faked the moon landing. I mean, for what? I mean, I think if you believed aliens exist, you'd be more likely to believe that it was perfectly possible to go to the moon. Oh, you're talking about like the landing landing itself. All right.
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I feel like, I feel she'd be on board. It's definitely one of those like, oh, that's so stupid. You think that that was botch? No, there's actually really like some strange critters in here. Listen, my good friend Jim Cameron has been to the bottom of the ocean. He's seen some shit out there. Yeah, there you go. I think she's more willing to take that at the ocean. That's some strange stuff. Yeah, it feels like Chie is the most likely to be skeptical over something going up there.
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Okay, so the winner was who would be most likely to be skeptical of the moon landing. So that was you. Congrats. All right, two points for Chie. I'm glad we're all coming around on the true waifu superiority. Yeah. All right, my turn to pick again. I'm going to go with which waifu would provide the most nutritionally balanced meal if consumed by a large predator or cannibal.
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So if this person was eaten, who would provide the most nutritious meal to whatever ate this person? Yes. Frost, you go first. I'm going to say it real quick. As I suspected, Jocka always knew it. Vegans always have sharper canines than meat eaters. I don't think she'd be very well balanced. There's no way that you could get the proper nutrients coming out of someone who's just predominantly on a vegan diet. Absolutely flopped this round. Sorry. Yeah.
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I'm also a little, again, because of the aforementioned long arms and long legs, sort of the model figure, I'm a little worried that there's just, it's real wanky, not a ton of meat on those bones. So I'd be a little worried.
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Now, this one, I'm going to have to seed because G.A. only eats meat, as we all know. He's really sucking down that meat every chance she gets. It's one of her amusing, quirky character traits. And, well, there's no such thing as beef-fed beef, is there? You want corn-fed beef or grass-fed beef?
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So I would argue that being a globetrotting model, as you say, will be more likely to experience a wide range of cultural cuisines.
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And there's their scenes in the game where they, after I believe completing the first palace, they all go for like a real fancy meal to that like real fancy buffet and like she chows down on everything. So she has no, not vegan, like Sigourney, she's not obsessed with meat like Ahn, or like Chie. So yeah, maybe you're right. Yeah, it's maybe that maybe she would have the most well-balanced diet that would then be passed on to whatever predator consumed her.
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All right. Well, fake notes. Why food predators? Or, you know, if you're traveling and you crash in the Andes again, they should really do something about those mountains. Like a hard rail. Mind you, Chie has legs all the way up to her bum.
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Yeah. A lot of, well, she does a lot of kicks. Like that's her, her weapon is all the way up to her bum. He's your bum, not like right under your legs. No, a lot of people have some, there's sort of like a DMZ between. Yeah. Yeah. Just the sort of, uh, foothills. Yeah. As you, as, uh, as they might say. Yeah.
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Alright, um... Frost, your turn to pick a question. Alright, this is a lovely one here. I was, uh, which waifu will do that thing where they won't want anything to eat, but then they start eating your fries and your stuff? Mmm... That feels like a chie move. Honestly. No, chie would never not order food if the food, if the opportunity for food came up. She's a growing girl. She likes her meat, as I've said.
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She would never say she wasn't hungry. She would eat whatever was provided. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I don't know. It tastes better. It just kind of, kind of food just tastes better. I was like, no, I don't want anything, but yours, sure. I bet. All over those fucking fries, fucking vegan, starving themselves all the time. She, she had kind of abused her, her friendship.
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with Yusuke as he was the son of the owner of the Costco or Walmart or wherever Junez is supposed to be. And I feel like she tried to abuse that relationship, that friendship in order to get more food. So she does seem like the kind of person who she's so obsessed with food that she would like stab someone in the back for some extra fries.
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But the question was, would they claim they weren't hungry and then steal your fries? I don't think she would ever claim she wasn't hungry. That's true. That's true. I can see she might say she's hungry, then eat all her food, then eat all your fries as well. But she would never do the initial frustrating thing. How do you feel Anne is on this area?
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I, again, have a hard time. No, I feel like I would, I don't think Ann would, I don't think she would do that. I think she, when it comes to food, she feels relatively respectful to everyone. She seemed very respectful anytime she visited the coffee and curry shop. It seems like she would be very mindful of what she orders and what the other folks order. So I don't think Ann would be a mooch like that. I don't know if I could say the same for Sigourney.
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I do think so, again, with the whole vegan thing. I think she would say I am not hungry and actually not take anything. No, see, because as Yahtzee said, they're always in a state of nutritional imbalance, so fries are vegan. I'd imagine, unless it was fried in towel, obviously. I feel like if you have a fries, sure. Mostly they're fried in, like, a sesame seed oil, like a canara oil. I feel like she'd pick away at my fries, but would probably judge me about it, like,
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Granted, being the Hispanic fellow that I am, most of my food is doused in hot sauce, and that's part just so that nobody else will try and take my food. I don't think she can take the heat. She doesn't strike me as a spicy eater, like she can enjoy a curry or anything. I don't think so.
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Hey, you know what the real name for canola is? You know, as in canola oil? No. It's rape seed. Yeah. That's terrible. Rape seed oil is a very rich oil that is more generally referred to as canola oil in polite society.
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So every time you use canola oil, remember that's what it actually is. It's rapeseed. Not really, a lot. Weird thing broke out. Most of your canola oil is other kinds of seed oils and they've gone putrid and nasty and they're not even that. I just like making people uncomfortable with the term rapeseed. Well, we can make them uncomfortable otherwise. Yeah.
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So was there a winner on that one? I think Sigourney, we decided was the one most likely to steal fries. Pick up my fries. So I think we're at two all. You know what, this is getting dicey. Although I haven't really been keeping track. I know I had two points.
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I think I only have one, or possibly none. Oh yeah, because this is the sixth prompt. I'm going to choose who is the most likely to own a copy of 1999's The Mummy on DVD. G.A. likes films. She does like films, but she's obsessed with kung fu movies and action movies.
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Well... Is there too much romance in The Mummy between Rachel Weisz and our good friend Brendan Fraser? I don't think you could argue it's a romantic film. It's very much an action-adventure comedy. I think she'd give it a chance. I mean, it's not her favorite kind of thing to watch. Would she be too scared? No, being too scared is more of a Makoto from Persona 5 thing. Makoto is a coward. Yeah. Makoto's an absolute coward.
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Um, yeah, whatever. Yeah. Like, uh, she'd be interested
Waifu Debate: Fries, DVDs, and Sun Blocking
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in Brendan Fraser because he represents a large amount of meat she could potentially consume. Yeah. I feel like she'd be a big George of the jungle fan. I hope you guys understand that as someone who's not played persona, these girls sound wild. Sounds like Goku. Well, it's basically not Goku.
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Basically because I know why if it was a bunch of anime characters who all have like one quirky trait and she is a quirky trait is that she eats meat all the time. Oh, just like enjoys a nice Brazilian buffet or is it steakhouse? That's the one. I'd certainly like a nice Brazilian on it here. Let's not go there. Look what we've done. This guy.
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Yeah, Ann doesn't seem like the most sort of pop culture-versed member of the team. We can go see movies together, but it doesn't seem like she's like,
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She's not like an avid filmgoer, whereas there's plot lines about her DVDs, especially DVDs being broken by some of her friends, and she's very upset about that. And then, obviously, with Sigourney, as Frost will say, she comes from old Hollywood, so I feel like they still value physical media. Yeah. You said DVD, though. I'd expect the VHS.
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You don't think she was an early adopter to DVD? Around the time, 99. You're right, because she was in sci-fi, but I don't know. I feel like she enjoys the tangibility of old media. She's either, because it goes one of two ways, either very old school, likes the old stuff, or goes into new and is just watching on her phone. This is her phone. Yeah, or like owns an actual film reel. Oh my God. Yeah. There you go. That much into the arts.
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I just got curious and looked at what the last movie to ever come out in VHS was. Uh, it was, it wasn't water. Oh, I fucking knew this one. Oh, it's a history of violence. Yes. A history of violence in 2005. Yeah. I'm going to show you that to my kids. This is why we stopped. Some great Vigo Mortensen right there. Do you know it's based on a graphic novel? It is. Yeah. Yeah. David Cronenberg. Um, I know that I've asked that as a trivia question at Pubtrivia before.
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I feel like it's either G.A. or Sigourney. Is that a more convincing for G.A.? I don't know, Sigourney doesn't strike as a DVD type. We don't know if Sigourney likes watching movies, whereas we know G.A. likes watching action movies.
00:25:50
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Does she know Brendan Fraser, Sigourney Weaver? What's the six degrees of Kevin Bacon there? I don't know, because she done, like, mostly sci-fi and Brendan Fraser... I'm sure someone in Ghostbusters or one of the Aliens movies or one of the Avatar movies was in a Brendan Fraser movie. Like, Brendan Fraser was in Killers of the Flower Moon. I'm sure she has a quick connection to, like, Leo DiCaprio or Robert De Niro.
00:26:16
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Well, uh, she probably knows Leo DiCaprio through Jim Cameron because, uh, Titanic. There you go. Easy. It's an easy, easy, uh, easy one right there. So well, they all hang out at the same public bathrooms. I'm sure. Yeah. Maybe she has a copy of the mummy cause she got one at a launch party or something. She probably like went to the movie premiere. She probably went to the movie premiere. Probably gets it sent to her.
00:26:43
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So I will cede this one to Sigourney Weaver. All right. Uh, my turn. Yes. So I'm going to pick which waifu would you most want to position between your television and the window in order to reduce the amount of glare falling upon the screen on a sunny day? I will go to bat for
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for on on this one. I know I said she was tall, but she's also got long hair. And I don't know how good hair is at like diffusing sunlight on the way to a television. Well, I'm not sure I'd say it's that the longness of the hair is its most distinguishing feature, but she's sent her a lot of it. Yeah. But I think
00:27:30
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Especially by virtue, she's got like kind of the hoodie blazer combo for her school outfit. And I feel like that will create a nice frame to block out the sunlight. So I feel pretty good about on this scenario. Maybe, but she is still pretty thin. And as I say, Chie not only has thighs all the way up to her bum, she also wears a pretty baggy jacket. She does.
00:27:59
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Yeah. The tracksuit jacket. Yes. But again, I do think I feel like, uh, uh, on has, uh, having a career in modeling, uh, has the ability to stand in one position for a while. Whereas, whereas she, I'm still a little worried about the jitteriness.
00:28:18
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Like on a photo shoot, you have to kind of like pose. And so I don't know if they pose for like a 22 minute sitcom or like a 42 minute drama. Yeah, I didn't think of. I didn't think of that. No, she would. She can't even hold still when it's not her turn in the room. I got it. Lampy Lampy has helped. It would be on because of the goof when Yosuke is going to paint her and she's wearing 100 shirts.
00:28:46
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Yes, so it would be if she showed up there so for us the goof is a party aspiring party member Wants to paint her but he wants to paint her nude because he's like an artist. He's not doing it lately. He's just Yeah, yeah, and so she shows up and she's wearing like a million shirts and so she's giant she looks like the fucking onion night and so So she's like slowly taking like each one off, but I feel like that that large round
00:29:14
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Uh, uh, shape would be able to black out a lot of sunlight. There you go. Yes. I don't remember for us that there's a lot of moments in persona games where female characters have to contrive ways that they can be perved on with no clothes. Oh, so how is that how it goes? Yeah. Yes. That's part of the wife who contract. All right. Six feet tall. And if we're talking that eighties blow out,
00:29:40
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Oh my goodness. I encapsulate a lot. And I think she's naturally got that curly hair. Yeah. I'm banking a lot on aliens. Yeah. On the old Ripley curl that she had going on there. Yeah. But she is a bit on the slender side. I like all Hollywood starlets. Yeah. However, again, if she has the power loader.
00:30:02
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I think it could block a ton of sunlight. But also I don't know how it would get into the house. I feel like though she wouldn't want to block out the sun. I know the sun's good for you. She seems very health conscious to die on the no meat hill.
00:30:21
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So obviously these kinds of people tend to enjoy the sun as well because where else are you going to get the ATP for your mitochondria? The powerhouse of the cell if you didn't know. So I feel like you wouldn't be about it now. I feel like you wouldn't go for it. All right. We have to decide if it's Sigourney or Anne. I feel like I'm wearing a bunch of... I like your shirt thing though. I feel like... Yeah, I think I'm wearing all those shirts. Well, that wasn't it.
00:30:52
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That wasn't part of the debate. We are choosing a moment in the characters, in the characters' history. If Sogorni Weaver can. A power loader. I'll find out. I'll pick a moment when Chie is standing next to large numbers of other people. There you go. That doesn't count! That doesn't count! And I think I'll grab Sogorni Weaver in Alien. She's like 15 feet tall in that one. Did you ever see that in theaters? She's huge! Beautiful. 3D and everything. Oh my god, what happened to my moustache?
00:31:26
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Since Darwin Stummy asks in the chat, we'll just give it to Marty. Thank you, Darwin Stummy. Marty wins. Right, whose turn is it to pick a question? Frost? I think it's mine now. Let's go.
00:31:38
Speaker
I was gonna go with the crippling gambling addiction, but nah, that's just not fair play, I would think.
Waifu Debate: Sleeping Habits & Anime Preferences
00:31:46
Speaker
Which one do you think has to sleep with noise? But who do you think has to sleep with the most noise?
00:31:57
Speaker
So, like, leave the TV on shore, you know, but maybe, okay, now I need a white noise machine. I have to live in the city, you know, like, who would push this, like, listening to highway sounds at ASMR? Sure. Yeah, I mean, again, the knock against Chihay here, again, is Small City, Inaba, a very quiet town. You can hear the hum of the cicadas, you can feel the summer in the air.
00:32:23
Speaker
But she'd have trouble sleeping through television static because that might mean the Midnight Channel has turned on and she has to... She has to leap into action. That's true. So it's kind of like has to sleep. Yeah, I guess her stuff is always, their stuff's occurring always in the middle of the night. So always has to be like a one eye open, whereas the Phantom Thieves is like, all right, we're just doing this during the day. We're fine. Everyone gets their nights themselves. Yeah, I think Jay would prefer a nice relaxing night's sleep.
00:32:54
Speaker
I will say for Sigourney, you said she's a vegan, is that right, Frost? Yes, yes. I don't want to cast aspersions or paint with a broad brush, but I feel like if you are a vegan, you are probably particular about other things in your life.
00:33:09
Speaker
You know where I don't give a shit about anything this closet store is broken And I'm just not gonna fix it unless we'd get that money and Jack does it but I Feel like she might be very particular. I don't know if it's one way or the other she needs like complete tomb like silence or She needs like this three-minute loop of Tchaikovsky playing on repeat
00:33:30
Speaker
Right. Oh, that's a hard way to go. Cause it's, it's a, I think it comes down to the sleep number, right? Either you can trick through anything or you can't sleep through. You need the absolute death of it, but being raised in Hollywood. Yeah. Being raised in Hollywood. You think you'd be able to sleep on sets and get accustomed to all the noise and whatnot. We got to grab sleep where you can sleep through Jim Cameron's tirades. Yeah.
00:33:55
Speaker
Did she even sleep in Alien at all? Was there any scene of her sleeping? Maybe the space was too quiet? She gets into a deep sleep cryopreservation pod at one point. They have to pay her just for that. I would always be worried. Yeah, she goes through it though. And then in Ghostbusters, she gets fucking possessed by Zool or whatever that dude's name is. That can't be good for business. But lives in New York City, a famously loud city.
00:34:19
Speaker
I feel like she enjoys the noise. If anything, I'd almost be willing to throw out that she's a hell of a snorer. So if anything, the noise comes from her. Which persona waifu is most likely to have sleep apnea?
00:34:32
Speaker
It's really G.A. I bet you hope it's G.A. Yeah, like the consequences of that much meat all the time. Yeah, that'd be good. It's normally a fat person's ailment. Sleep apnea. I feel like if you're eating too much meat, something bad is going. Even if you're like quote unquote in shape, something bad's going on in there. Also like deviated septums, you know, it could be a lot of things. Yeah, no one wants their septum deviated.
00:34:58
Speaker
Okay, so did we have an argument for Anne there?
00:35:05
Speaker
I think living in the big city means that she's kind of used to sleeping with noise in the background. When I lived in San Francisco, I was just generally loud. I lived on a loud street. We don't know exactly where, unlike the percent of the three folks where we know exactly where they live, we don't know exactly what Ann's apartment in living space is like. We don't know if she's in a crowded part of the city or if she's in a more quiet neighborhood like the main character. He seems high maintenance to me.
00:35:35
Speaker
does seem high maintenance. I mean, the hairdo does. Her hairdo does. Yeah. And like being a student and a model, she probably requires a certain amount of sleep in order to function highly in both, uh, both walks of life. Although by all accounts, she's not a very good student, which is fine. School's dumb anyways.
00:35:58
Speaker
I'm going to say Sigourney for this one. This feels like a Sigourney. Another prize for Sigourney. Congrats, Sigourney. Okay, buddy, why don't you pick, and we'll make this the last one before you go to the chat. They've both got their own... Yes, I mean, we're approaching this with a certain amount of irony, it being equal first, but the chat have been debating this fairly straight from what I've noticed. I appreciate it. Let's have the last question from your pick.
00:36:24
Speaker
This is gonna be a little bit of a weird one just because of the basis of languages. But which of these three would be most likely to look down on anyone who watches anime dubbed as opposed to subbed? And I realized as I was choosing this one that two of our choices speak fluent Japanese. And I guess Sigourney might as well. I actually don't know if Sigourney speaks Japanese.
00:36:53
Speaker
Well, would they look down on someone who was watching like an imported English TV show with subtitles rather than dubbing? Good. Yeah. I guess any, or like American cartoon, like, Oh no, they're watching Rugrats, subjects that are dubbed. They're really losing the essence of the original performance. Yeah. I don't know what the equivalent of like American Rugrats would probably be the equivalent of like American anime, right?
00:37:23
Speaker
well in the hill atman the animated series there you go that one works well i would think chie would probably watch a lot of subtitled stuff because he likes martial arts movies a lot of which come out of hong kong rather than japan that's true this is this is very true um
00:37:48
Speaker
Yeah. Frost, how do you feel about Seagun? He probably doesn't speak Chinese. I'm sorry, Texas slice of life, got to do it. Seagun, she knows English, French, German, I believe, not Japanese. She has voiced, she voiced in a couple of Pixar movies. She provided the voice in Wall, a voice in Wall-E, a voice in Finding Dory.
00:38:12
Speaker
So I feel that she would feel no strong way, although very amicable in that sense. Art is an art type of people, you know? Yeah. So I wish I could have a stronger... I've been looking. I was like, does Sigourney hate Weebz? Does Sigourney like... I actually did a quick look up to see if she... Because some of the Miyazaki Studio Ghibli movies have had relatively famous voice cast. Yes, I think she was on a Ghibli movie.
00:38:38
Speaker
That's what I was like, I wonder if she feels like someone who would have voiced someone like Howl's Moving Castle or something. And I feel like that could provide a little in there. On being bilingual, speaks English and Japanese, I feel like might be more of sort of a purist of like, you should experience the thing in the language it was recorded. And maybe she'll be like, listen, if I could learn English and Japanese, you can learn it as well.
00:39:06
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, GEA is like the least widely traveled one. I think it should be the most likely to look down on someone else's personal habits because that's the sort of thing you do in a small town where everyone's bitchy to each other. That is true.
00:39:23
Speaker
Also, I'm curious if Sigourney Weaver, I feel like Jim Cameron would be a language purist. Like you can only watch Avatar in its native Navi. And so maybe some of that by working so often with him on Avatar one, two, three, and four. I bet Quentin Tarantino would be really bad for that. Oh my God. Yeah. Just insufferable. Absolutely insufferable.
00:39:48
Speaker
I think, personally, I don't mind subs on my anime or whatever, but if I'm watching something that's very overtly comedy, like, say, Cremati High School, then I'll usually try to find an English dub, because reading the joke on the subtitle kind of kills the joke for me.
00:40:04
Speaker
Yeah, I also think dubs have gotten way better. Like I understood this argument in like the 90s or like the early aughts, but like the dubs, dubs of most shows are just really good now. Like they're just genuinely high quality. So anyone who's, anyone who's, who's railing against dubs, you know what? There's the door. There's, there's the door. Broken door. Uh, are we, so who wins that one?
00:40:37
Speaker
I think it comes down between you two, no? Yeah. I feel like, yeah, to your point of her Chie being a small town might not be as open-minded. And I feel like she might be the one who looks down the most. She's a bit bigoted. I think she's just less experienced in the world. And she's still in high school. Like a lot of people, it'll take until you graduate. And then maybe you travel a little bit. Maybe you move to a bigger city. You expand your friend pool.
00:41:05
Speaker
Also, I think Anne's generally kinder and she'd be more likely to be a petty asshole. This is true. Okay, is that the tiebreaker afterwards? Like, where was your waifu, June 6th? Yeah, I think... Anywhere is this? Oh, that's true. I would say June this whole time, just real.
00:41:25
Speaker
No wonder people in the gym were like, what? Like, I don't know. Okay. Not as gacha as I thought. That's really funny. All right. Well, I think, uh, I'm totting up the points. I think we've officially concluded that Sigourney Weaver is the best persona game waifu. Yes, Sigourney. The replacement for 3D women.
00:41:45
Speaker
I mean, you know what Sigourney has going for her? She's not a child and she is an adult at the ripe old age of 74, so good for her. There you go. Feel less uncomfortable with romancing. It's a little bit less cringe than a very hairy middle aged man to talk about whether or not they'd like to kiss her.
00:42:05
Speaker
Are we averaging now? He said 70 was middle-aged earlier, and I'm 28. What is middle-aged to you, Yachts? Dude, you are wearing a shirt and tie and have a moustache. This is the character? The moustache, that's moustaches. This is a prop. You look like Commissioner Gordon in a Batman prequel where he was still quite young. And it gets better. Commissioner Gordon, he's trying to... What the fuck?
00:42:35
Speaker
The doll town's covered in clay! I love it.
Conclusion of Waifu Debate
00:42:41
Speaker
Let's get to the gacha portion of the podcast. Alright, if you've got your own waifu debate questions, now's the time to get them in, because we're doing the super chat. Starting with Lampy, who gives five British pounds, and says finally a hard-hitting industry-relevant topic being covered on Windbreaker. That's right. This is journalism here.
00:43:00
Speaker
Yes. This is the debate everyone's asking themselves. Also, Jack in the chat says, reminds that D-Day was June 6, so maybe you're asking people where they were. You're on one side of the bunker line or the other, my friend. You're either on the beaches or you were in that bunker, bud.
00:43:31
Speaker
I don't think there's three better persona experts than two fans of the game and one person who's never played any of them. I represent the common man. You do represent the common man with egg on your shirt.
00:43:42
Speaker
You're the control like a science experiment. Exactly. And before we move on to the next one, we also had a PayPal donation during the during the stream from Eric S, a ten dollar donor on PayPal. Thank you so much, Eric. I recently binged a lot of Double Fine's BTS docu-series and was delighted by a surprise Marty Cameo on the final episode of Double Fine Adventure. As for the topic, it's Makoto. I thought waifus were insane until P5, but she had me at Gunnet.
00:44:11
Speaker
I mean, Makoto's your choice for P5, right? Only because I had to pick someone. She doesn't like, I didn't feel attracted to her the way I was to T.A. Honestly, I feel that way in Persona 3. There's none of them, none of them are sparking joy in me. Persona 3, I have a newfound appreciation for its story after the recent
00:44:34
Speaker
after the recent reload, but it's just none of the waifus were sparking joy, whereas I feel pulled in different directions in both four and five.
00:44:42
Speaker
Well, they're all very, the waifus are all pretty generic in Brazilian. I think they are. And it's a smaller, it's a smaller pool. There's like three boring kids at school. And then still next door, you'll next door, shy girl, posh girl, a robot robot robot. Yeah. The four tropes, no voracious appetite. No, the four types. I spend time with the dog. If I'm being honest, the dog is very nice. I don't want a romantic relationship with the dog. I just want a platonic companionship with our sweet little Coromaro.
00:45:12
Speaker
the four Arca waifus. Yeah. Anyway, underscore X1A gives five Canadian dollars and says, where does Marty keep his armors in his sleevers? Waka Waka. That's beautiful. Thank you. Underscore.
00:45:31
Speaker
Then, robo not to stop, gives sign back to nine euros and simply says, gee a full stop. Which I guess adds another point to the scoreboard there. I guess we give money. Yeah, you can, if you want to give money to turn the tides. It's got two lights on it as well. Oh no, it's got those lights. Three points then. That doesn't count. The lights are fake. We don't understand how they work. The audience vote, you know, they get a customer 5%.
00:46:00
Speaker
Your37gives20danishkrona says, ah, the good, the bad, and the ugly, but who is who? Ooh. Sort of, uh, up-marry-kill arrangement with the three waifu candidates. I'm now trying to think which Sigourney, which one would Sigourney Weaver play? Would she play like Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, or Eli Wallach? Which one would she be best as? Probably the good. No, she thought he was a goody-goody. I don't know! No!
00:46:29
Speaker
But she's, like, very... She's the only one who's not an anime girl, and therefore must be the Ugly. I'd be like, on would be the good. He's probably the most wholesome. Okay. Cheers, Padd, in the sort of Michael Jackson sense. Yeah. And the Ugly is not because... Eli Wallach was incredible in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. So this is not a physical appearance Ugly. More of, like, a loose cannon. That's what the Ugly was.
00:47:01
Speaker
R.D. gives two dollars and says, yes, how much contempt for this episode's title? He chose my idea. We were just sort of pissing about coming up with ideas for April Fool podcast and I came up with a dumb idea that I didn't think anyone would take seriously. But then nobody had any better ones. So here we are. Yeah.
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah. Best waifu, but actually, you know, put some, put some, put some stank into it, put some oof there. That was the joke, just to give you the glimpse behind the curtain. We were going to argue best waifu, but only through the medium of questions completely irrelevant to attractiveness or dating potential. Although some of those, I feel you should pick relationships really. If you don't believe in the moon landing, I'm not sure I could date you.
00:47:48
Speaker
I mean, let's get through some of the other ones we had. Which waifu is most likely to get a small business loan? Which waifu would be most comfortable inside a dog crate? Which waifu would form the most stable basis for a currency? Which waifu would be most likely to have gotten really into baking bread during the pandemic but fell off immediately after? Yeah, it was most likely to have a sleep paralysis demon. Yeah, that was the joke. Do you guys ever have sleep paralysis demons?
00:48:15
Speaker
I know what you mean. Yeah, I have them often. I've seen the Horn to Give Hill House. I know it's my sleep paralysis demons. Oh, they're not good. The whales, you see them in real life. Holy spooksters. I've had sleep paralysis once, but no, there was no demon. So it wasn't nearly as fun. I was just like... Just couldn't move. Me and my eyelids were just really, really heavy. That sucks. That's like you're suffering the consequences without the fun of seeing a fucking goblin at the foot of your bed. Absolutely. Yeah.
00:48:44
Speaker
Anyway, Backpack gives $5 and says, Yahtzee, I may be wrong, but when you did your first ZP on the darkness, weren't you the one who created ZP? Why don't you have ownership rights? Well, that's copyright ownership within the legal system for you, Backpack. See, when I first signed up with the escapist, I was a naive young creator.
00:49:03
Speaker
who signed a contract with some slightly dodgy stipulations, which meant I didn't actually own the ZPIP. In any case, my initial reviews were just called Fully Ramblamatic Reviews, and I only came up with the name Zero Punctuation for the series I did for The Escapist, and that title was sort of a joint effort.
00:49:21
Speaker
And to show you how sort of business and philosophy like that changed over the decades. Frost and Jamaite, when you both created your series and brought them over to the escapist, you both retained rights to cold take and design delve. Sure. But I mean, in that similar vein, Stuff of Legends was a joint operation under escapist, so they kicked that one. Yeah.
00:49:46
Speaker
Anyway, blue McD's nuts gives $2 and says your hype for Sonic X Denny's rude watermelon meal. Oh, is that there? I haven't, I haven't done a lot of internet crawling today. So I'm not sure what the, uh, what the April Fool's goofs of the day were. Oh, that's right. They killed Sonic last time last year. They killed. Yeah, that was nice. Cause it was like a whole video game. We got out of it. Um, now you get a breakfast platter apparently. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:18
Speaker
Shout out to Denny's by the way. Grand Slam and whatnot. I don't think I've ever had Denny's. It's pretty bad in terms of diners. For what they serve. It is pretty, pretty bad. Um, I think almost every other diner chain is better. Diners are pretty bad generally. I mean, I feel like corporate diners are like watered down diners.
00:50:44
Speaker
Any place where they just give you open quotes, coffee, like a latte or cappuccino or anything like that. Oh no, I like a nice black coffee. It's just too, it's just too pretty for me. I like a nice, like where the diner, I could see the cook and they've got that good bead of flab behind the elbow. That's how the food's going to be great. That was probably a roach, but that's fine. Cause he's like on the other side of the diner, you know, then he's just acts too good for eggs.
00:51:16
Speaker
Well, okay. Well, sorry. What was I just checking my email for a second there? Cause you bought me so greatly. So anyway, uh, MP gives two euros and says, I'm so happy Yachty believes in tomboy supremacy. Yeah. What's wrong with tomboys? I like tomboys share hobbies, have interesting common.
00:51:34
Speaker
things to talk about. Also, the tomboy supremacy sounds like the name of like a band or an album. So yeah, definitely like sort of one of those 90s old girl rock bands like Oh my God. Yes. Uh, and that now come across a slightly cringy in retrospect, uh, Fox D gives $2 and says, there is no Chie. There is only zoo sort of mashing up the Sigourney Weaver reference there. I liked it.
00:52:04
Speaker
And then Darwin's dummy gives $2 and says, Marty collects Dreamcast and discontinued meds. I showed this. So I've been buying a lot of Dreamcast games recently because I've been depressed and they make me happy for a little bit. And the most recent one I got in the mail was The Grinch. Oh, my God. I saw the speed run of that. Yeah. Game's done quick.
00:52:23
Speaker
Yeah. Man, if you want to be sure you're gonna get like a number one speed run time, you can either put all the effort in or you just pick a game absolutely nobody else would want. A game no one gives a shit about? I told you, what was it, Amy's? She's like a strong fifth to tenth fastest runner of all the humongous entertainment games because only like eight people. Yeah.
00:52:46
Speaker
I mean wasn't that like the whole that's like if you're gonna like if you want a gold medal in the Olympics like try to just pick a sport that just no one's really like curling I guess curling is gaining popularity but yeah. Pickleball. Pickleball oh my god there's gonna be so many sweaties. Holy filter that's gross. Is that my Grinch?
00:53:06
Speaker
Wow. It's me in my copy of The Grinch on Dreamcast. This is made by, it says, at least published by Konami, so it's possible that Kojima had a hand in this game. Oh. Oh, Christ, Eric. You look like the Pikmin that didn't cut it. The Pikmin that they just throw into the water and drown? No. Eric, we need to talk about this filter problem you have. We're your friends and we want you to be better.
00:53:35
Speaker
Errrr, Eric Weikart, oh, speak of the devil, gives 20 arses and says Marty will look sad after reading this donation. You were right. Jokes on you, I actually am sad. That's just my face. That's just my face. Those filters look a little too good, let me tell you. I'm a little worried about technology.
00:54:01
Speaker
FungusFinder gives $2 and says, why the hell do you keep saying an, aan, not aim? That's how the game pronounces it, and I know the name is an, ann is an, my grandma's name was an, the game pronounces it as an, and so... Yeah, I would say an. I would say an as well, but... As in Princess Anne.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah. Um, there's some weird, uh, like, uh, Ryuji's last name is, uh, Sakamoto, but they pronounce it Sakamato. And I don't know, maybe that's the Japanese way of pronouncing it, but I just do whatever the game says. Listen, we're all pawns. We're all pawns in the world of video games. Especially if we played Dragon's Dog by much. Ah, that was a good pawn joke. What did you name your pawn in Dragon's Saga 2 Yahtzee?
00:54:46
Speaker
Beepo. Beepo? Beepo. Is that a reference to something I don't get? No. I just thought it was a funny name. Yeah. Onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia or anomatopoeia? That was a little anon joke. You see what I did there? Also, Penjagan renewed membership in the Green Gang. Thank you so much, Pen Dragon. We appreciate it. Oh, thank you, Pen Dragon.
00:55:15
Speaker
Titan Uranus gives $5 and says, just a friendly reminder to do your Kegels everybody. That's great. Well, I'm not planning to give birth anytime soon, Titan Uranus. Yeah, but isn't it good with pea flow? Yeah, if your pelvic floor is weak, you will urinate yourself whenever you cough. That's not what you want. Well, I've never had a problem with that. I think the urine just has trouble getting all the way out of my penis for it is so long to navigate. You've got Drippy Willy syndrome. Happens with age.
00:55:46
Speaker
Thanks, the poster gives 599 euros. It says, best waifu is Joker in Persona 5. Nothing will change this. That's a husband. Can you be your own waifu? Get it right. Can a main character be a waifu or a husbando?
00:56:02
Speaker
I was going to say a male one can't. But then you cut me off by adding husbando. Yeah, but I mean like you can't if Lightning isn't a waifu in the Final Fantasy 13 games because she's the main character, right? Well, there are more strict definitions of waifu and there are less strict definitions of waifu and my personal definition of waifu is a character you can actively romance within the course of a game.
00:56:28
Speaker
So if a game does not have romance options, it cannot have waifus. A Zelda game can have waifus, you're saying. But I know a lot of people would have a more relaxed definition of waifu, just to mean any anime character you like and want to kiss. Yeah, we call those people horn dogs, where I come from. Yeah, little pervs. Yeah, little groundling perverts.
00:56:53
Speaker
Anyway, Jumbly Wobbly gives $2 and says, for Trans Awareness Day, Vivian from Paper Mario 2. Quite. Not even the first trans character in Mario canon, incidentally. Birdo. Shots the Birdo. Birdo. Birdo. Birdo. Is that game just called Paper Mario 2? No, it's called...
00:57:14
Speaker
No, it's called Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door. Okay, I'm not just sure if any were, like, is that colloquially people called? I'm really excited to replay the game, by the way, coming out, coming out soon, coming out next month. Yeah, yeah, finally getting the re-release. Yeah, that's a game, that's just, yeah, the GameCube generations had a lot of games stuck on there for a while. As far as I know, people just call it Paper Mario 2 because it's the second Paper Mario game and not because that's what it's called anywhere. Yeah, that checks out.
00:57:38
Speaker
I believe you skipped goob bombers as well. Did I? So I did. Uh, goob bomber gives two dollars and says, best wife who is Elizabeth from persona three. Oh no, I'm not really into the velvet room, broads.
00:57:54
Speaker
So the Velvet Room Frost, to give you a little insight, the Velvet Room attendants are generally like magical beings that exist kind of in between realms. Right. And so if you were to have a waifu being a Velvet Room attendant, that would be like instead of a human, you're like, you know, it's like they're like cryptids. Right. I mean, these are already pixels to begin with. How much further? You know, in for kind of in for a pound.
00:58:20
Speaker
by the judge. But not her actual name, so.
00:58:34
Speaker
No, that's right. I only found this out when I looked up her Wikipedia page today. Her real name is Susan. Yeah. I thought I had her name, her Wikipedia page still popped up and I was going to say the first thing I saw, but then the first thing I saw was Normandy Landings because I looked up in sixth. She changed her given her Christian name of Normandy Landings. Wow. Normandy Weaver. That kind of scans.
00:59:01
Speaker
HarrySun94 is $2 Australian and says best wife who is Garris Vikarian of course, though. And you can romance!
00:59:09
Speaker
Yes, you can romance them, although you don't get a terribly explicit knobbing scene if you go for any of the alien characters. I've never played the Mass Effect games. Is there an agreed upon waifu or husbando that people seem to really like? Did you have one? Can you remember that far back? No, Captain Shepard, no. I think you are Captain Shepard though, right? Yeah. I think in Mass Effect 1 I just boned the human lady crew member because that was the only human lady. Wasn't one of them a space racist though?
00:59:38
Speaker
I think the human lady in one might have been a space racist. I think she was lent more into the space racism in the later sequels. Oh, okay. So you could claim ignorance by being like, we dated before she was a space racist. Yes. Yeah. Doesn't matter. I had sex.
00:59:59
Speaker
Andrew Hickenbottom gives five British pounds and says Fran from Final Fantasy 12. I see Andrew's lost the spirit of the April Fools thing. Just arguing the answer from the question straight. I love it. Fran from Final Fantasy 12 is my absolute favorite video game waifu. So exotic, stoic, badass, and Amazonian. Plus that unique accent, hubba hubba. This was the bunny girl, yes? Correct. Well, I think that says a lot.
01:00:28
Speaker
It's what could she help you smuggle cocaine? She was kind of like the Chewbacca. Yes, all years Han Solo. So I feel like she could. She's a Chewbacca that you wanted to bone down on.
01:00:43
Speaker
I remember that. I don't know much about Final Fantasy 12, but I remember seeing the one character who was exactly like Han Solo and who was being followed around by a giant bunny girl who was basically the Final Fantasy's version of Chewbacca. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So in conclusion, correct.
01:01:02
Speaker
FoxD gives these five US dollars. It says, best waifu in any game is Mian from My Time at Sandrock. Love me a shy girl whose romance arc involves bringing her out of her shell. What is My Time at Sandrock? Is that like a cozy farming game? Yeah, I think it's in the same canon as My Time at Portia. Let's think of My Time at Burnies. That's a different one, isn't it? I'll say it on My Chemical Romance. There you go. That's Weekend at Burnies.
01:01:30
Speaker
Damn, that is, isn't it? Which I guess maybe like overseas, maybe like one of the translations of its title is like, oh, in Greek, it translates to My Time at Burnies. My Time at Burnies, yeah. I played My Time at Portia, I wasn't terribly impressed, but I keep seeing Sandrock popping up. Was Sandrock a much improved sequel?
01:01:49
Speaker
Uh, it's got, it's got positive reviews, uh, 20,000 very positive, uh, reviews. Good job. Well, maybe it's worth a look. There you go. Hitting yams. Thanks. The poster comes back with five 99 euros and says with Stella blade releasing soon. I feel like Eve might become waifu of the year for all the plot she has in the game.
01:02:12
Speaker
It's got so much plot. This is that game with the lady dressed like one of the Beauty and the Beast Corps from Metal Gear Solid 4, yes? Yeah, it is. And that's the game that's being used as like the culture war lightning rod now of like the WOAT MOB DOESN'T WANT YOU TO GET A BONER FROM THIS GIRL. I put the demo. It's fine. It just feels like diet near mixed with diet Sekiro.
01:02:38
Speaker
So where that came from of like they won't put ugly or they keep putting ugly people in your games because they're woke. Yeah, it is. And that in that stellar blade, it does have a thing too, where there's like the like a borderline naked costume, but it makes the difficulty harder because she's not wearing armor. Oh, so it's like punishing difficulty harder from not having she's not wearing she's not wearing armor. And so it's like,
01:03:04
Speaker
The game is harder. Just the game, he says. Did you know those Beauty and the Beast core members were both capped from actually fully naked women? I did not know that, but it does not surprise me. Hideo Kojima seems like he's a little bit less of a horned dog. It feels like in his graying ears he's... Well, you say that, but how many times did he make Norman Reedus take his kit off in the cause of Death Stranding?
01:03:31
Speaker
Maybe he's, uh, paying for, uh, his sins. He's like, he's jiggling everything out. I think he can't be swayed by carnal pleasures. I can't, I'm not sure, but for people it's just like, you might as well have just dangled your finger at me. Sure, sure. Yeah. Uh, Shai Supposter again comes back with 5.99 and says, can we fund Frost dubbing most girly anime like only Frost? Girl, boy, dog, sentient toilet, all voiced by Frost.
01:04:00
Speaker
to commit to all the sounds. Wait, is it in English? Oh, make me do it in Japanese. How many different silly voices can you put on to differentiate characters? So many, but I think I would just make them all the same one, especially I find as I'm watching anime, I just start marking, not marking, I just start mimicking like a little parrot. And the easiest one, the best one for me is the like kind of sinister women.
01:04:28
Speaker
oh that's making me feel things oh does it now and then this is the same thing and i'm like yeah what he said and then it's usually there's nothing too spectacular i've got the phonetics down if i get the words i think i'm fluent yeah that was beautiful i thought that was actual japanese for a second yeah
01:04:55
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Uh, FoxD gives $5 and says, Anime dubs and video game voice acting evolved alongside each other. 90s Sailor Moon and Titus's laugh are spiritual cousins. He sounded like fucking Fry for future armor or something. I don't think, uh, it was anyone notable at James. Oh, James Arnold Taylor. Okay. Voices Ratchet and Ratchet and Clank. Okay.
01:05:22
Speaker
Anything else? Mmm, has done some obi-wan in some, some, some Kenobi centric things. Jobbing voice actor, got it. There you go, man.
01:05:34
Speaker
Like, I was surprised to hear, because my kid was watching the animated version of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, apparently there's an animated series of that. And the titular mouse is voiced in that by the same person who voices Sonic the Hedgehog in the most recent Sonic the Hedgehog games. Oh, gotcha. And you can hear it. I was watching that show listening. Why is Sonic the Hedgehog teaching my toddler about friendship?
01:06:02
Speaker
When you say titular mouse, it confuses me because isn't there a tit mouse, isn't that a thing? Ugh, titular has meant to mean eponymous. Also, according to this, Titus, his very first acting role in anything.
01:06:18
Speaker
Great job, James Arnold Taylor. That's a funny place to get your foot in the door. Lead role in a major squares of game. Then again, the dude who voiced the main character in Silent Hill 2 had never voiced anything before. Basically just- We could tell. He was escorting his daughter to the studio because she was auditioning for the little girl in Silent Hill 2. Oh, wow. And the producer said, hey, do you want to do a take of the main character? He said, all right. And they said, that'll do.
01:06:48
Speaker
And they just went with him. There you go. Dreams really do come true. Which might explain why James Sunderland has very dodgy voice acting in that game. But, you know, I always think that adds to the slightly unreal air. Jacob Kitty gives you $2 US to us and says, my question is for Marty, Tifa or Aerith?
01:07:16
Speaker
Is that one of the Final Fantasies? These are Final Fantasy 7 characters. I suppose two are trying my patience in Rebirth, I tell you that. I think they're delightful in Rebirth, let me tell you. I like that they have their own friendships separate from you. I think it's nice. Yeah, yeah, they're really gal-palling it up. I may look at you with those big brown eyes because they want to ride a chocobo.
01:07:43
Speaker
I'm really feeling, I'm feeling like pulled in every direction by my manic pixie dream girls in that game. It's, it's, it's tough. I mean, knowing, uh, I don't know if I could have my heart broken like that with, by, by siding with Aerith. So I feel like you got to side with Difa, right? Wait, does Aerith still die in Rebirth? I'm not going to tell you. You got to get to the end. I am absolutely not going to play all the way to the end in the course of this week. You're playing some of it. Wikipedia.
01:08:15
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Fox D gives $9 and says, anime dubs and video game voice acting. Oh, we've done that one. Harryson94 gives two Australian dollars and says, which of your waifus would organize a better date? Great question. Well, Anne probably. Yeah, she's kind of cosmopolitan in one of the greatest cities on earth.
01:08:36
Speaker
Yeah. Most Michelin stars of any other capital city. Yeah. I'll have a whole of a backstory to God. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Chie, I mean, she would just say, we would just go to Junez, right? You just go to the Junez food court and then walk by that, like that weird little river that's going through town or whatever that is, the creek.
01:08:57
Speaker
I walk past the electronics shop, enter the TV, fight the soul of humanity, all that. Yeah. I feel like with Sigourney Weaver, we'd just be watching aliens eating broccoli in the dark and tucking in by five. She's getting up. She's a bitch Hollywood elite. She just someone would just organize it all for her, wouldn't they? She'd probably just like buy me a mistress and amongst other things. There you go. I'm just around to look exotic. I just want to hang out with big Jim Cameron.
01:09:28
Speaker
Lampe gives two British pounds and says, Igor is the most consistent waifu. Yeah. Consistency isn't everything though. Right? Yeah. Just cause he's there all the time. I mean, uh, oatmeal is consistent. It doesn't mean I want to stick my dick in it. Oh, I was going to say, oatmeal is delicious. And so we're not going to tell you to try it. Yeah. See, what are you doing? Not sticking my dick in oatmeal. What are you doing? Don't microwave it for a while.
01:09:58
Speaker
Yeah, Igor for us is the attendant of the Velvet Room. He's like a large, big nose, kind of a hump. Yeah, he's a little... Yeah, he's another cryptid. I just want to say Toffee is exercising impressive self-restraint over on that cushion over there. Well, because Toffee's contemplating who his wife was. He's got no balls. He wouldn't know what to do with a wife. Who if he got one? It's for the best.
01:10:29
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Uh... Dimitri gives 5,000 dollars and says, I never had a waifu before, but P4G changed that. Thanks for the record, you bastards. Naoto became my waifu. I ordered a custom Naoto mousepad. Naoto is the most useful party member in the game, I will say. Was it one of those mousepads with the titty cushion?
01:10:50
Speaker
It's listen it's for it's just to stop. What's at risk disease? What do you get a few purple tunnel carpet? Yeah, it's a stop the carpet carpet done. Yeah, it should get the nice to have a gag. They tried to have a gag in four and now it's like the one who disguises it themselves as a boy from the game and presumably tapes their boobs down. But it turns out they've got the biggest boobs of any part of that.
01:11:12
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Yeah. You look at her in her male guise, she does not have big tits strapped down. She just has an ironing board chest. I feel like you wrote this in a strongly worded letter to the Atlas Corporation. I think it was one of his reviews. Big titted ladies will strap their tits down. They look like they've got massive chest muscles. Yeah, they look like linebackers.
01:11:37
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Yeah. They just like toss them over their shoulder and use them as shoulder pads. I don't think that's how that works. I'm going to be honest. The guys in Gears of War, the verdict's still out. Remember, they can always tell. Razor ale. Well, Toffee's demeanor has broken.
Olympic Gold Medal Strategy
01:12:00
Speaker
Toffee's jumping the shark. He's not having it.
01:12:02
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Fox Day gives $5, says if you want an Olympic gold medal, pick a sport that's popular only in your country, host the Olympics, and get it into the games as an event. That seems easy. What sport is only, like, what sport is American, is only American? Uh, football? Oh, man, shooting's got some crazy ones. Oh my god. Yeah, football, football seems very American-centric. I mean, other countries have it, but just, that's like the one sport America still.
01:12:32
Speaker
Yes, in other countries we call it gridiron. We reserve the word football for the game in which the foot actually comes into contact with the ball.
American Football vs. Soccer Debate
01:12:40
Speaker
Yeah. Wait, they've got punters, you know? We have punters. Field goal kickers. Field goal kickers, huh? Yeah, they do it like one time. In football, football, the ball only touching foot is a big part of the rules. He's talking to you, Marty. That's why it's called football. My country also calls it football.
01:13:04
Speaker
I'm fine with renaming it. Again, I'm open to everything except for we should
Cooking Precision: Weighing vs. Measuring
01:13:10
Speaker
use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. As long as you give me Fahrenheit and we get rid of Celsius, you can change everything else about America. I don't care. At the very least, if nothing else, I want us to weigh everything instead of using cups and teaspoons and all that. Just weigh all your ingredients, please. I can get behind that. I'll get behind that as well.
01:13:30
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Yeah. Uh, boy tech gives time to listen and says, I have no opinion on why foods just wanted to give you money. Well, thank you. And thank you for representing
Acknowledgements and Amiibo Addiction
01:13:40
Speaker
our favorite bear. Um, and then we also had to membership don't knows beforehand, uh, permafrosty. Welcome to the tip jar. Thank you so much. Perma frosty and bear bomb two months in the, in the, in the tip jar, which one of you, which one has the, uh, most unhealthy amiibo collection? Smarty. No. I mean, I think maybe of the wife who's
01:14:03
Speaker
God knows. If the camera pad just a little bit this way, you'd get a look at it. Ah, the old Ryan Johnson, eh? Yeah. You'd get a look at that unhealthy one. Uh, probably Chie. She probably like picks them up on a whim when she's bored hanging out at the ball. Yeah. Yeah. I can imagine. I can imagine that. Yeah.
01:14:27
Speaker
I've got a bit of a cold coming
Stardew Valley Character Arcs
01:14:30
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on, I think. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll do that. All right, you fall together too much talking. Snake in the Garden gives two euros and says, who's best wife who instard you? Bane is best husbando. Yeah, I married Shane last time I played stardew. You'd think he'd like stop being such a sad sack after you marry him, but. Afterwards, all he does is hang around the house making a mess of things.
01:14:55
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fucking Shane. Well, he tried to tell you. You expected him to change after marriage. Also, the weird thing is that his old character arc is that he's a recovering alcoholic, but throughout the entire course of the game, giving him a beer, like, gets the best possible reaction from him as a gift. Just like in real life. I don't know that much about, I'm kind of like a Stardew novice. I thought everyone in that game was children.
01:15:17
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No, like the study has surprisingly grown up in terms of relationship mechanics. Like there's another character that you can romance who's got an abusive ex that you need to help them move on from. Wow. And there's one who's in like abusive relationship with their mother. Like it's pretty hardcore old Stardew relationships. Are you gonna, are you gonna, I know you, you revisit the game relatively often. Are you going to indulge in any, there's like a big new patch that came out or something like a 1.6 update?
01:15:43
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Well, you have to play through all the existing content to get to the new stuff, I think. Oh. And I wasn't terribly impressed by
Spotlight on Popular Voice Actors
01:15:50
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the island stuff, to be honest with you. It feels like he's not so much, you know, putting a new spin on the existing mechanics, it's just bolting on new ancillary stuff onto the side of there. Sure, sure. And it's really my bag. Ancillary, yeah. Word of the day. A-N-C-I-L-L-I-A-R-Y.
01:16:12
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It has 10 letters. Yeah, in Japan it's pronounced an-sil-ciliary. God dang it. Fox D gives $5 and says, every time Yuri Lowenthal shows up in yet another game, I just think Oliver Swanik from Fallout New Vegas won the lottery again. Yeah, that's right, Robin Atkin Downs. Every time I hear Robin Atkin Downs in something, I think, oh look, Travis Touchdown got loose again.
01:16:41
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Yeah, I think a viewer of the Lowenthal now is as Spider-Man. Spider-Man. So much with him, uh, with, with, with him at the center. I was thought of him as the Prince in Sands of Time. He plays Johnny in the, uh, in the final fantasy rebirth slash remix.
01:17:00
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Yeah, again, dropping voice actor. He's played a million things. Yeah. So Steve Blum, whenever he screams, it's still, I hear him from Call of Duty Black Ops. He's just screaming and grunting the whole way through. And he's in Battlefront. I believe he did that before. Call of Duty. I've seen him the whole way. Steve Blum, Jennifer Hale, the one female voice actor. Did you hear in everything? Yes.
01:17:32
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Erick Wyker comes back with 20 arses and says, Muddy, do you like cookies? He's plotting something. Is that just the cookie monster? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is that just me? Is
01:18:00
Speaker
No, he sounds like a heavy metal singer, I remember. Yeah, so on and so forth. That's a little nightmare. And also we're going to get sued by Jim Henson's ghost. Well, he says he was Sesame Street, right? He didn't just fuck with Jim Henson. Yeah. Something I wanted to make sure that
Jim Henson's Funeral Tribute
01:18:20
Speaker
that wasn't like a Coke and Pepsi kind of thing. Yeah, that's Jim Henson and Jeff Keeley as the Muppet man.
01:18:27
Speaker
You ever watch Jim Henson's funeral? It would take a stronger man than I not to shed a tear. Oh, like his actual funeral. I thought it was the puppets there. Yes. Oh, they go. They do a song. Oh yeah. Like he was actually like Frank Orson. He were actually genuinely huge friends. So Frank Orson was a pallbearer and Frank caused a lot of performing and you can see him like he's about to break down a multiple times, but the other sort of carry him through it. Hmm.
01:18:53
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I was thinking like Elmo himself was carrying him when you said yes so quickly. I was like, no, that was, that would be dumb. That would be done. My funeral, whoever's carrying me, I hope they put on just some strange outfit, Disney character. Yeah.
01:19:12
Speaker
The Muppets were puppeted by like they'd basically be standing like at full height under the stage with their arms right above like held above them. So everyone who was actually with the Muppets was like elevated like 20 feet above the floor. Damn God. Imagine the strength to just stay like that the whole time. Yeah.
01:19:32
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and do the voice acting while you work the jaw. That's why all the Jim Henson puppeteers are fucking swole as hell. Frank Oz, he could just get out. Lampe gives two British pounds and says, I'm shocked you haven't
Nick's Running Joke
01:19:50
Speaker
brought up Nick's waifu yet. Sexy goth nurse. Oh yes. Last one. Yeah. Just real horned up. Is that because she'd be the one most likely to be into pegging?
01:20:02
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Yeah. Peg Borden. Peg your pardon. I can't remember why, but for some reason it became a running gag while we were in Washington that we assumed that Nick was into pegging. That's quite the assumption, Nick. It was a very funny private joke. You were all free to start laughing at this very funny private joke we had. Yay. Poor Nick. That's his legacy. Nick confirmed an eye.
01:20:33
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Panfisher gives $5 and says, Lindis from Fire Emblem 7, first waifu, but last Fire Emblem game was super waifu heavy. Maybe on. I don't know which one. Tuffy's learned that sort of humping my arm is a good way to get me motivated. I don't know what Fire Emblem 7 is. No. I don't know Fire Emblem. I don't know if Fire Emblem is by their numbers.
01:21:01
Speaker
I have not played any Fire Emblem games. Just Blazing Blade. You can't name a game Blazing Blade. I feel like the words, the words almost are too... Yeah, it's... Too alliterative. Too alliterative. Taking the ass and it's a little too far, isn't it? Yeah.
The Word 'Throbbing' in Gaming
01:21:22
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How do you feel about robbing?
01:21:25
Speaker
What about the name throbbing or like the word throbbing? I like the word throbbing. The throbbing blade. How do you like that? Can't get enough. Seems a little a little sexual if you're trying to like subtitle a fantasy role-playing game. But yes, I think we're throbbing words. We're throbbing. This role reaction.
01:21:46
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Yeah, it's one of those words that isn't strictly inherently sexual, but sort of has sort of become. It's been ruined by the internet, I guess. Sure. Like what could, like, no, you could have like a throbbing pain. Like I feel like, yeah, doctors might ask that. Like throbbing, every time you bash your thumb, you could throb a bank. Yeah, yeah. Compulsating. Yeah, Nick gets a lot of throbbing pains.
01:22:13
Speaker
Right. It's got headaches. Uh, um, snake three 60 gives one 99 us and says Steve bloom was also in rogue galaxy as Z gram. Oh, hang on. He's built it rock. He's built it rock galaxy with R O Q U E. It's a French game. Yeah. It's not a flaut galaxy. Delicious. Um, I never played rogue galaxy. I know rogue galaxies, like about space pirates, I believe. Well, that would make sense.
01:22:44
Speaker
Yeah, with the word Rogue and then with the word Galaxy. I need to update my chat lists again. I believe we're at Lampy's. What do you think about it? Uh, yes. Uh, Lampy gives five pounds and says, Yahtzee, it was Peggle. You just misheard because of the accents. Did. Classic Peggle. Do they still do Peggle?
01:23:13
Speaker
I remember occasionally you've played PEGL, but I don't think there's gonna be any new PEGLs. Do you remember the big PEGL 2 moment at
Recap and Sigourney Weaver Award
01:23:20
Speaker
like a, it was like a Microsoft's E3 conference where they were like, what's gonna be at the launch of the Xbox One? And then like a guy was like, PEGL 2, and that did like a jump in the air and like, it was supposed to be like a fucking boom, like a drop the beat moment. And it was like, everyone's like, okay, PEGL, that's a weird thing to like really hinge the launch of your console on.
01:23:41
Speaker
I'll be just right there. Just a quick Google search shows a thread from last year of people, 14 of them, saying, is Peggle 3 ever going to come out, Liz? Or a teen of them. 14 of them. They are legion. They're lining up. Two more than the apostles that Jesus had. Think about it, and he risen. He founded a religion. Yeah, he came back. If he could come back, then I'm sure Peggle could come back. Oh, look at Tuffy pretending he doesn't care about his little shark toy.
01:24:11
Speaker
Oh, he loves peggle. Robbed. He throbbed. Robbed. Have fun, Tovey. Uh, Dimitri gives to Canadian and says, throbbing blade equals exfalibur. That's pretty good. That's actually pretty good. Not bad. Not bad at all. Yeah. I love it. I went to the Excalibur Tournament of Kings once in Vegas. Let me tell you, he's delightful.
01:24:36
Speaker
It was the like, Oh, there's the peggle moment down there. And he did good to make any money on the slots. And, uh, no, the tournament of Kings is like, it's like going to medieval times. So it's like you eat chicken with your hands and then you watch men fight on horses in the cable guy. Yeah, exactly. That's right. But they've just walked away after doing the weird sort of splits. Cause anything else would have probably been kind of awkward. They just left. Yeah. He's still dead on that stage.
01:25:04
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All right, well that'll be it for today's podcast because we're out of superchats. We did great. So thank you for listening to today's April 1st podcast in which we finally answered the burning question of whose waifu is the least trash. The least trash. The conclusion we all agreed was that Sigourney Weaver wouldn't want it.
01:25:25
Speaker
So, congratulations to Gorny, you'll be receiving the plaque in the mail. Yeah. The first annual White Fool Award. Just as soon as I finished scraping it off my teeth. Ayy! Ah, that was a good plaque joke! Now, if you're interested in fully ramblimatic videos, and who wouldn't be, well, they're back in earnest this week, on Wednesday with my Alone in the Dark review.
01:25:51
Speaker
Dragon's Dogma 2 is coming, but that's going to take a little bit more time to play. I'm also doing Yahtzee tries on Wednesday. I'm going to play a couple of games. I've decided on one, sort of decided on the other. We'll see how we go. And... Are they going to be peggle-related, do you think? No, I don't think there'll be any pegging going on. I think that's it from me this week. What do you got, Marty?
01:26:21
Speaker
We will be back later this evening, 6 p.m. the normal time for Hidden Gems. Jesse is out tonight, so I will be filling in for that with Casey and Jess. And then we should have a normal streaming schedule all week, so all the more bully tomorrow. We'll have more Yahtzee tries and
01:26:42
Speaker
Firelink and all that good stuff you come here for. And there might be some last minute special streams maybe later on the week, and we'll fill you in on those when we have the details. Oh, also Snake360 with the $2 demo. Thank you so much. Sorry, I misspelled the name of the game. Rock Galaxy. Have fun. Thank you, Snake. Have fun.
01:27:24
Speaker
piss poor games. And then on my channel, for the honor of April 1st, I brought out the old Terry Wogan radio vibes. You can play that on your car as you get into a wreck or something. That'll be good. I think that's it. And then the streams throughout the week. That's it. This was fun.
01:27:26
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Yes, Tuffy, I know you want to go on your walk. We will go any minute now.
01:27:44
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It was great. So I think we've got one last super chat in at the last minute. There's Nick is one 99. Sorry. I did. Oh, I guess I zoned out. You do. You do that a lot. I'm going to be honest. You do that a lot on podcasts. My mind is in high places. I'm thinking about all the masturbation I'm going to do later. I was just going to say he's in the spank bank and there he goes.
01:28:11
Speaker
Yep, got you off at the pass there. I didn't want to go this way. Well, I guess we'll call it a podcast and see you next time, everyone. Bye. All right, everyone. We'll do better next time.