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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 11 - The Crown JulesShaun of Staff
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It's Feb/March and welcome back to another STUNNING Episode of your favorite podcast about a text based farming game. This month we have your favorite staff member's favorite staff member, JulesShaun with us discussing video games and all things FarmRPG. Thanks for being with us again for another month, we love you! Best of luck with the swear jar and catch you in global!
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Transcript
Introduction of Hosts and Special Guest
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um are
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Speaker
way through it by, you know, just learning as we go. So welcome back, everybody. Welcome back to the Farm RPG Podcast. Are you excited? you happy to be here?
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I'm happy with the guests that we have today. I know everybody should be because it's everybody's favorite. But anyway, before we get to that, before we get to that, umm I'm your host, Bubun. I'm here with my co-host.
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Hey, it's me, Force Path. Yes, thank you, Force Path. And we also have a special guest, everybody's favorite staff member. Jules. a It's Jules. Jules. Sean. My full Jules. Sean. I got you.
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I got you. Yes. but We've got everybody here. We've got the whole, we've
Humor and Praise for Jules
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got all three of us. special Is that everybody? i feel like, I feel like everybody that was not an all inclusive. Everybody today.
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Speaker
No, this is the entire staff. don I don't want to tell you. Oh, man. This is all staff. This is everybody on staff. Luckily, no staff listens to the podcast, so they won't hear Jules slamming all of them. No, no, no. Nobody listens to this. Favorite mod, no more.
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and Yeah, it's true. we do have what is widely regarded as the favorite mod among staff. Although I can't pronounce the word regarded, evidently.
Podcast Focus: Text-Based Farming MMO
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Yes, it's here what it looks like the Chaperone quote, like, I'm your your staff member's favorite staff member.
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so true. yeah It makes me so uncomfortable to hear any sort of praise. so oh but up and I feel like this just means that we've transitioned from the Farm RPG podcast to the Praise Jewel Sean podcast. Yes, Praise Jewel Sean podcast.
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Speaker
Well, yeah we could so much of that when we get into our interview, but... Oh, I plan to. I know, I do too. um Before we get to that, again, if you don't know what this is, it's a podcast about ah your favorite and my favorite farming, ah text-based farming MMO slash incremental game that you can click slash number go up slash ah phone game slash browser game.
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Slash get punished by the Questriders game?
Swear Jar Prize and Random Selection
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Yeah. Get punished by literally everybody game. and Anyway. Yeah, but we love it, right? it it would so It's everybody's favorite. It's everybody's favorite. I'm so glad that you do.
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We are so glad to have you on the podcast today. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But yeah, we're here. We're back. ah How was your month? Everybody's month's good, I'm assuming. We haven't talked to you about it, everybody. I see that you're already hitting the ah counter.
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Thank you for doing that. Although I've been told I'm the worst at this. You are. You actually are the worst at this. i I thought I was a good speaker.
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You um more than me I guess. I did not know that but maybe I i like you know stretch my words out a little bit more and I stutter instead of saying um which is fine. I'm fine with that.
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Jules are you an ummer? I literally was just about to say, um, so yes, I think I, I think I am. Welcome to club. Um, myself speaking of the swear jar.
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I mean, this is so natural. We can just, we can pull the swear jar winner, which I already did. and Just like, can i real that wow it's not live. It's not. It's not. in the god is being lifted i picked it ahead of time. This time, 10 minutes before the podcast.
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but but Guys, this podcast is becoming so professional. I didn't scroll. We prepared 10 minutes ahead of time. yeah I still scrolled. like I still like scrolled randomly until I found like a you know perfect spot and stopped, and then that person was the person.
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Speaker
But it's too much work to do any other way. It's still random. Come on. I mean, I think it's not random and I would request the opportunity to do a truly random next time.
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Because all right if you're the first, if you're the first person to comment, how likely is it in your scrolling that you end Very likely. um Very likely. Because sometimes I just, I just do like, you know, you know,
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Listeners, dear listeners, I would like to hear how random you feel like the swear jar is knowing Boo Buns, you know, shoddy, shoddy. Even they pick the first person and then they were like, that's not random at all. You just pick the first person.
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So like, it doesn't matter who I pick because no matter what, it's random. It's random who I'm picking. it's ah It's the boob on random method. Anyway, it's Huntela, which is spelled H-U-N-T-E-L-A. If your name is Huntela, you better DM me because I'm sending you gold. And if you don't DM me, I'm not sending you gold.
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And I'll be mad. That's how it is. because And don't forget the prerequisite. Please stop DMing boob on if you're not in this person trying to scam gold. and said you'll just get chat ban don't do that wait do people do that no no oh yeah sometimes yeah sometimes they're like my name's huntella and i'm just like that's not your name but you have to have this as your name and i can't it can't be spelled differently from the way i just spelled it if that is your you gotta you can't change your name away from that or to that or put two ways or whatever you do can i can i create an alt
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Speaker
And then DM you on an alt? That's against the code of conduct and you will be banned
Game Updates and Chaos in Referral System
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outright. And I will tell you on the stream to ban you specifically. Have you ever heard of the wiki page, Force Path and Bubun can do whatever they want? That is true. and That is true and is a real page. That is true.
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um i do know that page. You can just give yourself the gold if you want to. No, I can't do that. That would violate the integrity of Farm RPG. Sure. I mean, that's what I'm doing is I'm giving myself the gold for this and then giving it to the person because this is how the budget works.
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The budget works this way. The budget. So anyway, Huntela, you are our lucky, number one lucky winner of the swear jar this month. yeah it Completely random, completely random, chosen i random.
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I call shenanigans. It's not random. It's completely and utterly random. Podcast listeners, rise up, write it with me. No, you you should be assigning each person a number and then doing a random number generator.
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See, that takes so much more time than just randomly scrolling. So if you're volunteering to pull it before the episode every time... Okay, yeah, see, that's... dear Dear listeners, now you know why Jules is our favorite.
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The voice of reason. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Anyway, Huntela, get at me. Uh... Should we talk about some updates? You can start us off because I just talked a whole lot and i needed a drink. Well, I'm trying to remember when we recorded the last podcast. It was a month ago, dog.
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It was a month ago. All right. I can tell you the date. Oh my gosh. I just realized what update we will be starting with. This was maybe one of the things that has caused the most chaos in recent Farm RPG chat memory.
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It was the referral update. Oh, was it? Oh, but that was so wow no That was some true chaos, everyone. so It was fun. If you'll recall last January, ah which was simply a month ago,
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We released a new reward system. um We set up a way to get more referrals. We allowed people who maybe didn't assign a referral when they started the game to assign one because we kind of felt like that would be fair to do. And boy, did that go about as well as maybe we should have realized it might go. Yeah. Yeah.
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you know it didn't last very long. And it was still chaos and kind of funny from the outside. But I certainly understand why those members of the chat and Discord and Reddit and other avenues of communication got a little bit.
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Yeah, no, ah you know, the best part about game design and um development is making mistakes. And sometimes you make a mistake. and I mean, and would we call it a mistake or would we just say it was a learning experience? It was definitely every mistake is a learning experience.
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but Exactly. it was fun though. It a good mistake. I like it. I still like it personally. But yeah, everybody was, everybody was real revved up for a few days there. um But we did, you know. you know and that And so pursuant to that, although we don't have it in the updates, so I'm going to mention it before I talk about the rest of the updates.
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If you want to pay gold, a decent amount of gold for the record, you can get your own referral code. Custom. Like a custom referral. Why am I having such trouble enunciating tonight? I don't know.
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you can get a custom referral code Code. Wow. You're like, what are you? Are you Canadian? why are you saying code that way? i don't know. Cold. It's like you're adding an L. Yeah. So just on just search for referral code in the wiki and you can find out food. and for food i don't know what is wrong with me. There's something going on.
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yeah Does it smell like toast in your room? Can you smell toast? hey Isn't it eggs? I thought it was toast. No, no, no. I'm pretty sure it's toast. No, toast or or a burnt feathers. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I don't smell either. I don't smell anything. just seems like a pretty normal day. Anyways, we also added rewards to Buddy Jack. So the more times you win Buddy Jack, there's some rewards there. a special one that has been waiting for a while to come out, which was the lobster is ah comes from the Buddy Jack. Yeah, the lobster.
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yes Yeah, my lobster. he's the loster He's good. I love a lobster. ah So we made some other changes. ah We all... You're welcome. Oh my god, you're just patting it out? Come on. I thought about swearing too, but We released the Archaeology Requires Know-How quest, which does require Lauren 60.
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ah That unlocks a new thing in the temple, which will have some future content tied to it as well, as well as the secret temple. So if you haven't done that yet, pretty interesting stuff.
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Although I do know it requires you to do the adventure, which I made and which I would appreciate you doing. Thank you very kindly. We also added a special item at the end of the very last quest that's available right now, Distant in all Illusions.
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So if you did the Crush Room, there was a special reward at the end of Distant Illusions. Spoiler alert. So there was that. We also announced the February starter pack.
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And then we actually, the next day... ended the referral system as but january 31st for mentioned learning opportunity yeah so we like let you put in i don't know if it was clarified but we let you put in anybody's anybody's referral code so that you could like like i think darth jimmy put mine in um and he started before me so like that's silly But I think that's, love that. But it was It's fun. It's very cute and fun um that I referred my good friend, Darth Jimmy, who started this game months previous to me.
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You know, can we just say how cool Darth Jimmy is, though? He's one of the OGs. He is an OG. Someone that I've had a number of very cool conversations with. He's a cool dude. I won't reveal any personal information, but he's a real cool dude.
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He is a very cool dude. Agreed. i i am a Darth Jimmy stan. um But yes. I double stan him then. So yeah, we did end the the referral code.
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fun You can talk about February 1st too. and then yeah I'll go for February 1st. It's fine. So February 1st, we got our new starter pack, which is, I mean, right now, it's about to be ending. at the But probably by the time this comes out, the March one will be out, to be honest with you.
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Uh-oh.
New Features and Accessibility Improvements
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Uh-oh is right. ah But the February starter pack, we did that cool and fun thing where you can buy it a second time on this on the ah on the Groundhog Day, which is fun.
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I love that. That's my favorite thing to do is to buy it twice. So, yeah. It had one of our everybody's favorite items in it, the the heart shame the heart-shaped gem.
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Hey, you can't pronounce stuff either. Yeah, those nights. Evidently. Just getting tripping over your own tongue a good time. It's spreading. It is. It's going to spread. It's fine. we' It's okay. We also announced a mini event, which is now over.
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I missed it. I was on vacation. I wasn't even here. but't even get to i didn't even get to play during it. So, you know, all that friendship wasted. ah Basically, you know, you could up your friendship a little bit better. There's no such thing as a waste of friendship except not participating.
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that I didn't participate, so that was a waste. No. Bad. Horrible and bad. And also the cool, the February theme was up for the the month of February. It's almost over.
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It's almost over. This won't be out. I think this will be out and it'll be over, but that's fine. You know. you know March is coming. March is you want to February 10th?
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Yeah, I'll February 10th. I got this, I got this, I got this. I believe in you. No enunciation errors, no ums. None whatsoever. So we have the event calendar now, which is a fun little extra addition where you and the team ah can all add, like, upcoming events. As an example, the mini events, or even, say, our lovely people...
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in giveaways, want to add like a really big trivia event. like There's a really cool place for us to kind of communicate where all of the events are in one place. ah So, very cool stuff.
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We had the mini-event. We added a new farmhand. I don't know if anyone knows, but Lichman, who isn't in the game quite as much, but he's very active in Discord. He's helping out with our Discord because a lot of you...
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maybe listeners even, talking to Discord, and we didn't really have a super strong presence there. So just making sure um that we have someone there to kind of chat there. We unleashed the pig variations on the world. That was pretty
Graphic Updates and User Feedback
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exciting.
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re-released the QR code graphics for your friends. ah We did some accessibility fixes. ah We also added bad luck protection to the Marif crest for those of you that have finished Star Map.
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Speaker
So that has been a long time coming. Very excited about i just got one today, by the way. Hey, so did I. Wow. Eight day twins. I love and life that. i have been monitoring that and the whole month.
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It's really exciting to see that come out and working So hopefully you all notice that you don't go multiple months. Well, you might as much as like two months, but, you know, you won't go, you know, three, four, five, six, 8000 months without a time egg now. So that's pretty exciting.
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Yeah. Also, i don't know if at the very bottom of that update, your favorite thing that released this. I'm ignoring that. We're going on to the next thing.
00:15:41
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so It's my spider. You don't like spider? No. Tarnation. Oops, sorry. Swore. going to really to believe that one. like the spider. um Yeah, no. I like the spider.
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yeah I like that he comes down. That's cute. I know. That is cute. I love that Firestream has been adding a lot of little little animation flair in there, which is really fun and cute.
00:16:03
Speaker
But yes, the spider. Sorry, the old spider looked like AI Gen. It wasn't, though. was from like four or five years ago. ah But, you know, we thought it looked weird. So i was asked to redo the spider.
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no And you came with a super scary one at first. Yeah, no. the You have problems. The original spider that I drew for this was really scary. And they were like, you have to do and you have to do another one and make it kind of cute.
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So I did. And this is the one that came out. So you have no idea how scary the original one was. It was pretty terrifying. It was like a mean spider. um so So I was trying to match the vibes of the original Black Widow spider. it did not match the vibes.
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It did. That other spider was like a Black Widow. Yeah, it was a Black Widow. So I was like, I'm going to make a Black Widow. It was kind of scary because it was a Black Widow. Didn't...
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Didn't pass the live chat. get the shivers thinking about it. Chet, you are so lucky to have not seen it. It was horrifying. I mean, I'll show you if you really if you're really begging for it. No. Yeah. No, I mean, I think I'm going to have to see it to weigh in here. so I'll send it to you. Don't worry. You can see it. How about you send that to Jules? I will talk about the February 19th update. Yeah, you do that. Go ahead.
00:17:20
Speaker
Ooh, February 19th, we released the Collect-O-Matic 2, which was the perk. ah It's a bit more of an endgame perk, but it allows you to collect... a singular item from a pet at a time, as well as we added the ability to see when a crunchy omelet is increasing your drops. So that was pretty cool.
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Speaker
We also released the abbreviation update. So, you know, if you had several trillion silver, it no longer takes up a quarter of the bottom of your screen.
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So that's also pretty cool. Was very excited about that.
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Boobun, do you want to cover the last of it? Would you like me to roll through this? yeah Are we still on the nineteenth Oh, I'm done with the 19th, girl. Oh, we're on the 24th? Okay, so this is the most recent update.
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So have the Quick Meals panel. It's in beta. It's at the bottom of the screen. You probably have seen it if you're playing regularly. ah it is little button that will bring up your all your meals, which is kind of awesome because then you can use meals like on the fly wherever you're at in the game, which is something that people have been asking us for for forever and ever and ever.
00:18:32
Speaker
Oh, man. It's so good. We know that the buttons are kind of weird right now. So if you... I mean, we have some polls up for you beta members. If you don't like the way the buttons are laid out or whatever, feel free to vote in that poll and let us know how you feel about that. Which will likely be closed by the time this podcast comes
Upcoming Game Updates Teaser
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out, but we're telling you and hoping you will telepathically hear our cries for voting. Yes, probably.
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Hopefully, you'll hear our cries. I know that we've posted about it in chats, so... or somebody's been posting about it in the chat. So just, you know, vote if you can. ah The Quick Meals panel, but yeah and then at the bank, we've added some commas so that you can see, so you can judge how much money you're putting in, how much silver you're putting in ah a little bit better.
00:19:17
Speaker
And then there's some new um iOS in-app purchase options, which are very cool. You should check them out if you're on Apple. Take a peek at those bad boys. Yeah.
00:19:28
Speaker
Some sweet very fun things. But yeah, that's all the updates. but I mean, there's a bunch coming for for March that um I can't talk about, but... Why not? i mean, i guess we could. There's going to be another, obviously, starter pack.
00:19:44
Speaker
Don't say it. I'm not saying anything about do it. Don't it. won't say a word. but okay. There's going to be a new Raptor, as per usual. Excellent. oh it's actually kind of a really cool raptor this time around. Yeah, it's, ah you lean know, you have to wait and see it, but it's different. It's a different raptor. Don't freak out.
00:20:03
Speaker
Don't freak out any. Change is scary. Change is scary, but guess what? You have to, you have to like brace, brace yourselves. It'll be out by the time this comes out anyway, so you're not going to see it. but That is the challenge of the turnaround time of this recording. Yeah, no, it's fine. We shouldn't record yeah quite so close to the change of a month. but That's fine. Whatever. That's fine.
00:20:27
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not pressed. It's that's fine. No matter when we would put this out there's always going to be updates that are happening. I'm pressed. At the same time. Are you pressed? I'm pressed. Okay. You know, that's nothing we can do about that.
00:20:40
Speaker
We can't unpress you. You are a panini now.
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Speaker
So. Kind of panini. ah I don't know. What kind panini do you want to be? Like ham and cheese? I feel I'm like an Italian panini. You know, give me some salami, some pepperoni, some barbara, you know. What, like a Cuban?
00:21:00
Speaker
but that's my favorite sandwich. That's not a panini. That is supposed to be a panini. It's a pressed sandwich. Well, it's a pressed, but you don't call it panini. You just don't do that. That's a Cuban is to it by definition a panini, though. i
Interview with Guest Jules
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Lord help me. This is what i deal with every day. It's a pressed sandwich. It's not called panini. it's not a panini. But it's a Cuban is a panini. Okay. Listen. It's a pressed sandwich. It's supposed to be pressed under a grill.
00:21:28
Speaker
but That's how it's supposed to be. I know. I know. It's fine. Embrace embraced it. Embrace the panini life. Our editors are going to have some issues with my audio this time. Yeah, probably. a lot of A lot of yelling. A lot of, like, rattling the bars of your cage.
00:21:47
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But, yes, let's get it. You know what? It's time to interview everyone's favorite mod and ours, Jules Sean. It's Jules Sean, everyone!
00:21:59
Speaker
Let's go! It's you You're here. So, Jules. Yes. hi Tell us about you. So you're a moderator in Farm RPG.
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what I am. um very family That's what they tell What's your favorite channel that you moderate in and or not moderate in if you just to hang out? What's your absolute favorite channel in the game, chat-wise? i am I am a die-hard help chat person.
00:22:27
Speaker
You know, ah help chat, best chat, as we like to say. And I kind of... I don't know. I can't even remember when I started hanging out in there. It was shortly after the new, like, actual chat channels were made. Because we all know before that, there was just chaos.
00:22:46
Speaker
Chaos. And randomness. and And the before times, yeah. Yeah. And I remember there was, at that time, there was no trivia channel.
00:22:57
Speaker
Um, that came later. And I think there was no giveaways either. That can also came later. Um, but I remember that there was one particular player who would run trivia and she was told she could do it in help chat.
00:23:13
Speaker
And that was how I think I first started hanging out in there because I was like, oh, this seems cool. I like trivia. i want to you know do this thing. um And then in between her asking you know trivia questions, random people would come in and ask questions about the game. And I was starting to realize like, oh, I know the answer to those also. So I could help this person while I'm also playing trivia. And so then I just started hanging out in help chat and answering questions.
00:23:42
Speaker
So it's like bar RPG trivia, really. All the time. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Well, you know, everybody likes being right. Right. I mean, obviously.
00:23:53
Speaker
So any chance, any chance I can have to be right about something, which is not always the case. Obviously, I'm also sometimes wrong and help chat. And, you know, Casey will be the first one. That's just not true. Casey is quick to...
00:24:10
Speaker
Casey's quick to tell anybody when they're wrong. Let's be real. This is a koala call out post. the ultimate The ultimate, I'm always right. Yes. Yeah. So ah my mistakes get well ridiculed.
00:24:25
Speaker
That's kind of cool. I had no idea that you'd actually been around quite that long to see the birth of the standard chats. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I started in October of 2021.
00:24:38
Speaker
So that was way, way back. That was before the... I mean, i remember single craft, single item crafting. Oh God. Yeah. The old auto crafter. The before, before, before times. The before times. Yeah. yeah Those were the cool days. I feel like there was a long period of time where i was only in help chat for like maybe an hour or two hours in the morning, like of on a very kind of strict schedule. And it was just like the time that i had And so i think if you didn't see me,
00:25:11
Speaker
in there at that time, you would not have any idea who I was. So I sort of was kind of anonymous, but very well known to a very select group of people who happened to all be in there at the same time that I was.
00:25:23
Speaker
That's really cool. I want to ask about your name for all the viewers out there who are big psych fans. Why Jules Sean?
00:25:35
Speaker
I've never seen Psych. Unbelievable. This is just... yeah i mean like You're a really awesome person. i just don't understand how you haven't seen Psych. I also haven't seen Psych, so don't worry about it. Oh my word. What is wrong with this?
00:25:50
Speaker
i don't know. It's a sitcom. It's actually bizarre because it does look very much like a show i would enjoy and would have consumed. And I don't know why i kind of missed it somehow. But um it's been on my, you know, on my radar and on my list of things to catch up on when I have time. But anyway, so no, that is not where I got my name.
00:26:12
Speaker
um which will be a shock to many people. But ah Jules is my nickname in real life. That is what people call me. um Sean is ah the name of a pet I had.
00:26:25
Speaker
So it's like I just put those two things together and so that was it. I kind of love that. That's very wholesome and pure. Yeah, I don't, didn't really have a big online presence, I feel like, before this. Like, I wasn't really a chat room kind of person.
00:26:46
Speaker
even though i I grew up in the 90s when all of those things were happening, like MySpace and all, I was not part of that. I kind of just missed that whole, ah even now, I'm not on any social media. You cannot find me.
00:27:00
Speaker
and I barely use Discord. smart, though. Really, social media is ah is a scourge. It's a it's a plight on the on the yeah on the internet. It's like, You know, I like these small internet spaces that have been cultivated by groups of people such as Farm RPG. It's a nicer place to exist, in my opinion, personally.
00:27:24
Speaker
No, I agree. I mean, the community is definitely what has kept me playing all all these years. but um But yeah, so i when it came time to do my pick my username, I actually just wanted Jules and somebody already had that.
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um
Jules's In-Game Journey and Motivation
00:27:39
Speaker
Every once a while, I check in on her and she has not played and... like three years now so right good now no no more jewels um so she stole my name she was only i think she joined like maybe a month ahead of me so i just didn't look out there but need to think like i mean i guess at the time it probably wouldn't have been enough time to have passed to no definitely not to take that that's something yeah honestly yeah yeah but it wouldn't have it wouldn't have occurred to me to ask to ask for the name right especially because the game was so new back then don't think they probably probably would have said no uh now somebody's squatting on a name for three plus years and hasn't played and doesn't have any levels kind of we thought we think about it you get a thought again this is not this is not a this is not a call for you to ask for a name that you've been waiting for by the way i know that these sorts of things whenever i say stuff like this i'm so sorry support
00:28:33
Speaker
I know. Support, I apologize. Actually, that doesn't even go to support. That goes to regular old staff, I think. Staff, I'm so sorry. Yeah. I've gotten those messages before. Yeah. Well, hopefully... Oh, NCRs? Oh, boy. Yeah, those... ah Sorry.
00:28:50
Speaker
Anyway, don't don't go asking... ah Let's delegate all those to Jules. She's very helpful. Jules, this is... I mean... that's fine yeah I'll take them actually if it comes through it's my bad I mentioned it anyway ah yeah so so so tell us a little bit about ah so obviously the community is something that you really love about FarmRPG what keeps you but keeps you coming back you've been doing this you've been playing FarmRPG for a very long time so what yeah plus three plus years now
00:29:23
Speaker
Um, yeah, I mean, quests always, uh, I, I will do absolutely anything I have to for a quest. Um, even I have to be sitting there like tapping endlessly. i just, I'll do it.
00:29:36
Speaker
Um, yeah. so right now I'm, I'm on, uh, DI 13, think. Holy moly. Look at you. i know. Um, yeah. um Yeah, here's the funny thing. I mentioned that to somebody the other day, and they're like, wow, you're moving so fast. And I thought, I thought I was actually taking this one pretty slow. But okay.
00:29:55
Speaker
ah I guess not. o I think it's pretty fast. Yeah, it seems fast to me. um Again, I haven't made any progress on DI since the last time we i we had one of these.
00:30:09
Speaker
I should busy as ah have Have you finished PSA, though? Or not yet? No, no. Uba doesn't actually do the quest. No, I do the quest. I used to be like the first person that would finish some these things back in the day. But right now, like, i have just been you know, so busy with literally the rest of my whole life.
00:30:32
Speaker
I have not had any time for quests, but you know, I'm getting there. I'm going to get there. We're going to do it. I did ask ah for, people did offer me a lot of meals last time because I said I'm looking for meals. They offered me so many. I haven't taken anybody on buying their meals because...
00:30:48
Speaker
Anyway, this is not about me. This is about Jules.
Jules's Favorite and Least Favorite In-Game Elements
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah, let's focus in on Jules. What's your Jules, what's your favorite, number one favorite item that you can think of? It can be anything.
00:30:59
Speaker
hip Item? Oh, man, that's so hard. know. It's a really difficult question. love many things. This could be practical or unpractical. You know, yeah i like my favorite is popcorn.
00:31:13
Speaker
But that was no use whatsoever. You know what i mean? Yeah. Yes. Okay. I know what it is. ah It's the UROC card. Oh, what a great That you can send it to people.
00:31:26
Speaker
Yeah. Thank you. It's one of my items. So I appreciate that you like that one. Thank you. it's It's the best thing ever. It's one of my favorite things to send to people. I'll just like every so often I'll go to the, you know, flea market and drop some gold and buy myself up a bunch so that I have them to give out sometimes. so The UROC card. Yes, it's very good. That's a good card.
00:31:48
Speaker
great It's the combination of the pun in the item description. You know what I mean? like And the pet. It's the it's the it's the pet rock, too. Yes, so the googly eyes.
00:31:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's choice. but I love that. It's a great word, too. So we always ask every moderator, specifically, that joins the the the podcast, who is your favorite moderator?
00:32:18
Speaker
Yeah, I knew this was coming. um And it's, you know, favorite is a really difficult ah question for me because I love so, so much all of you.
00:32:29
Speaker
um But and the funny thing is, like, least favorite is is way easy and not for the reason that you think. It's not Casey. ah Wow, it's not Casey.
00:32:41
Speaker
Yeah, no, it's I'm about to lay it down here. um My least favorite would have to be a link. And I think he knows why, but I am going to say why. And it is because he is Team Rick.
00:32:56
Speaker
And this is unacceptable to me. As somebody who reads every quest, I actually take the time to read every quest and absorb the stories. And I cannot believe that he would support this villain.
00:33:11
Speaker
very disappointing to me. so I'm with you. i am, like, number one Rick hater. I hate Rick. Yeah. Also, my name, like, ah he's put my name in a banner, by the way, with Team Rick in it. He's telling people to message me Team Rick.
00:33:26
Speaker
I know. It's, like, ridiculous. Anyway, yeah, no, good choice on on LJ. That's a good choice. ah Team Rick sucks. Yeah. Sorry to say. and I see Mr. Team Rick over himself here. as Very cool.
00:33:40
Speaker
I am team chaos but for the record. Sure. Sure. you kind of love and hate characters that you write, to be fair. i It's very difficult. you I feel like I'm not able to answer that question in the right frame that you all do.
00:34:00
Speaker
Right. Because, ah you know, Rick is really fun to write. Yeah. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Sure. Well, and you know more about him than I do. Maybe there's something that I don't know that will come to light later.
00:34:12
Speaker
But the actions that I've seen thus far... you know, has, has not endeared him to me. Beatrice is one of my favorite characters in the, on the whole, in the whole lore. So like anybody that's messing with my girl, like I'm not going to be happy with just saying. Totally.
00:34:28
Speaker
Also number one, messing with number one, Mr. Messing with my girl right here. i should just come at him. I should just beat the crap out of this guy. yeah what you know storie You're putting, you're putting them in these scenarios. Yeah.
00:34:40
Speaker
Would the stories be as good without conflict or any level of opportunity for characters to learn and grow? Here's the thing. You could just write, they lived happily ever after.
00:34:52
Speaker
then you know what? hey Well, you know what? i I will take this challenge. Viewers, listeners, if you would like me to make a 20-chain-long quest that just says, they lived happily ever after at the end with no other... Just write me a fluff quest.
00:35:08
Speaker
I want fluff. I'm not going to write a fluff quest. I do not enjoy writing fluff. That's not my talent. and just That just sounds terrible. Fine. Whatever. This is about Jules, anyways.
00:35:20
Speaker
yeah drama I like the drama. I appreciate that. um and i like the cliffhangers. appreciate that you have to have good villains in drama. you know um But I just don't think that means that we should be out here supporting them.
00:35:33
Speaker
That's all I'm saying. who I think you're also beating around the question is who is your favorite staff member? Yeah, it's true. You skipped over it. completely you just got you went you skipped over it i was waiting i was waiting for the nonter to end Who's your favorite as your least favorite staff member? You like skip you skipped over the favorite.
00:35:54
Speaker
i mean i can't I can't give a favorite. that's just It's such a loaded question. Too bad. You have to do it. Every other staff member's done it. I will tell you who I think is the funniest.
00:36:08
Speaker
Okay. Who makes me laugh that on the daily. And that is Nico. Or Nicho. However you want to say it. Nacho. Nacho. Nacho. Nacho Nico.
00:36:19
Speaker
Nicho, Nacho. i appreciate it. Sometimes I just go to Global just to hang out and just like watch them be weird and it's thoroughly enjoyable.
Secret Word and Gaming Preferences
00:36:31
Speaker
And Nico's in there just coming out with bangers all the time. Feeling the the weird fire that is Global. The globules.
00:36:42
Speaker
Didn't used to be that weird. Really? Really. think it's always been kind of weird it's been weird for a while like years maybe for the first like three months it wasn't weird well the first many months it was the only chat so that's true it was it was different for a very different reason yeah now while we're here we're gonna get you your secret w o r d
00:37:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. We're spelling it out. That thing. We're spelling it out. Yeah. Absolutely no one commented on us hiding it last time with different words, though. Well, maybe they did. I just didn't see it. Maybe. I've been very busy. It's been, like, so busy. I haven't, like, had my eyes on spoilers as much as I usually do.
00:37:32
Speaker
Let me get the panel up here. Yeah. Jules. Yep. Hit us with it. Yes. Hit us with it. ah The password is rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle.
00:37:45
Speaker
It's all one word. No spaces. and And what is going to come in this? five Five feathers. Five feathers. All right. Yes. That's what we said, right? Yeah. this what we Yes, this is what we agreed on before the beginning, because, again, we we decide on these things before. And I'll be very impressed.
00:38:06
Speaker
I'll be very impressed if people understand the reference. I'm sure some of them will. Some of you must know what this is a reference to. sure they'll get it. Somebody will get it. yeah I mean, we have a lot of young people in chat, so they won't. but ah Young people. this This goes back to my origins as a gamer. These were some of the first games that I played. um look at That and Night of Magic.
00:38:32
Speaker
what kind of What kind of games do you play, Jules? I play all kinds of stuff. I mean... um Right now, I'm just about to finish um Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth.
00:38:45
Speaker
Duh! I want to play that game. I think it's next on my Steam playlist. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's I have really enjoyed my time with it. um I've never played a Yakuza or a Like a Dragon game before this.
00:39:00
Speaker
um but So this was kind of me just like thinking, okay, maybe I'll see what this is all about. a lot of people seem to like it. And um yeah, I'm really enjoying it. I'm in the final chapter. i In fact, I stopped right before... i At a save point that I was like, okay, I'm pretty sure this is right before the final final.
00:39:17
Speaker
So... um how that goes Now, is that the turn-based one? Yes. That's what I thought. ok yeah i've heard I've heard good things. I don't really like a turn-based RPG personally, but I've heard very good things from my friends that do.
00:39:31
Speaker
Enjoy those. It's pretty ridiculous is what I've heard. I mean, it's all you create a Yakuza game. yeah i I would suspect that it's pretty ridiculous. Yakuza games in general are very ridiculous.
00:39:45
Speaker
yeah i like playing that it stick the crane games in those. Oh, yeah, i've I did that a few times. That was fun. Yeah, it's basically it's made up of a whole bunch of mini games.
00:39:56
Speaker
So, um I mean, half the time I was playing it, I was like, oh, you know, main plot. What's that? don't know. I'm going to go over here and do this. I just want to run run around the city ah with my friends and have meals with them.
00:40:12
Speaker
And chat with them about their weird lives. So. Yeah. I mean, it's just like real life. Only you're not like a Yakuza man that living in Japan.
Casual Conversations and Tea Time
00:40:22
Speaker
No. I was going to say that's not anything like my real life.
00:40:25
Speaker
Yeah. they I know that Gyoukaku is in, is in the, is like one of the things that you can do in Yakuza. There's a restaurant and there's like one nearby my house and I've been, it's,
00:40:36
Speaker
My friends that have played Yakuza are like, this is in Yakuza. I'm like, interesting. I did not know. It's a chain. It's a Japanese chain. Who knew? Anyway. Wow. I'm sorry, you should go. or pack i I have gone. It's good. It's very good. oh it's good um Oh, yeah. It's it's like Japanese like um barbecue. Again, not sponsored.
00:40:57
Speaker
Kyukaku, if you want to sponsor this podcast, let us know. We'll accept you as a sponsor. Get at us. Yeah. but he could you know Just send me a message at FarmRPG. Oh, man.
00:41:08
Speaker
But yeah, no, it's good. It's Japanese barbecue. Yeah, I mean, there there has to be one near me. I'm sure there is. I think there's definitely one like near where you're at. ah You have a lot of things near you. yeah ah Yeah. I get talk i live in talk live in a big city.
00:41:22
Speaker
Yes, you live in a very big city. I could talk about a lot of some of the restaurants in your big city. I've been there multiple times. It's great spot. But anyway... I think this is tea time now. um Cue the new opening music.
00:41:37
Speaker
We do have new opening music. We have tea time music now. to Cue the opening music, Redditors. Cue it. Okay. I'm going to say that they put it in there. I don't think we have to sit still and pause. I'm not sure.
00:41:48
Speaker
It would be kind of funny if we all just sat here. don't remember how long. I think it was like 15 seconds. Should we just sit here for 15 seconds? And just listen to it? Sure. Yep. Ready? All right. Here we go. It's tea time.
00:42:09
Speaker
all right That was a fun thought experiment we did not make in 15 seconds. but Anyway, was just like, time clicking and it did like two or three. I'm like, this is not going to be good.
00:42:19
Speaker
This is dead air. I can't do it. I can't live. Anyway, tea time. Welcome. Tea time. It's tea time. is It is tea time. ah But Bell again made us a very lovely opening, um some opening music.
00:42:34
Speaker
so Yeah, we need some music for updates, too, so we can have some update music. I need like a beep, beep, beep, beep. You know, like... Yeah. Now ah now updating.
00:42:46
Speaker
But let's not get into it. I'm not going to get into that here. It's tea time. So what are you guys, what are you working on? are you working on in Farm RPG, Jules? What is your current Farm RPG goal?
00:42:59
Speaker
um Well, I mean, as I said, I'm working on Distant Illusions. So, you know, plugging away at that right now. What has me stopped are the ant farms.
00:43:11
Speaker
So, boy, they take a lot of ants. 25 ants per ant farm. A lot. um i I worry when you chuckle like that.
00:43:23
Speaker
All evilly. You should. You should always worry about yeah and if any sounds that come out of his mouth, basically. like How rude. I generally am. um i mean, that's pretty much it for me. I'm i'm just plugging away on that. It's the only quest I have.
00:43:41
Speaker
I've done everything else. Um, yeah. i should So other than that, you know, I mean, know and I'm always like, I go through my little routine where I do all my farm stuff and then i go and do my town stuff. And then I, uh, and then I go usually into my workshop and I try and craft everything up to you know, close close to inventory.
00:44:02
Speaker
um man but want to be prepared. so and then I always got to check on my crops. What am I low on? It's usually corn, always growing corn. um Always be corning. You gotta be doing corn.
00:44:14
Speaker
Corn is like a good crop to just grow like casually. Yeah, it's great. It's my favorite. Did I mention that? I mean, I know I've mentioned to Horsepath personally, but i I don't think I mentioned yet on this podcast that corn quandary is my favorite quest.
00:44:32
Speaker
um I love that. First of all, thank the writing is hilarious. I love it. but Really, and really got me. um And secondly, mean, how can you not love something so straightforward as just growing a lot of corn? I almost cursed.
00:44:52
Speaker
And I know you guys would have blamed it, but i think my mother is going to listen to this. It would be fine. Oh, okay. Yeah, but, no know... Yeah, she's going to listen and be like, did you say a bad word? No.
00:45:06
Speaker
She knows I say bad words. Shout out to Shul's mom, by the way. Who is a lovely person. Who is so lovely. She plays. She does. We didn't even talk about your mom yet. That's true. Your sister also plays, right?
00:45:18
Speaker
I don't think know your sister. Does your sister chat? I know your mom chats sometimes. Mm-hmm. She does sometimes. Yeah. My sister, um, not, not so much. Um, I did ask them if I could say what their usernames were on this in case so know they cared.
00:45:35
Speaker
Um, they, they didn't care. They said it was fine. So my mom is Lily put anybody's met her in chat. You might have, um, she's been in help chat at the same time as me a few times. And my sister is spindles friend.
00:45:47
Speaker
Um, I don't, she doesn't go in chat very often. I don't think, um, so I haven't seen her, but I also only sit spoilers.
00:45:58
Speaker
um They're both doing amazingly well. like I did not... I did not think that they would stick with it as long as they have. They're both like in the two hundreds of the tower already and plugging away at these quests. I know.
00:46:13
Speaker
i mean, they're going faster than I ever did. and So that's how it goes though. Doesn't it? Like, I think that's how it goes. Like the newer you are, the faster you go with these things. Um,
00:46:25
Speaker
That's great, though. We love a family that plays Farm RPG together. a my mom plays, too. She's making progress as well. That is true. you know She hangs out and helps chat. His first year was yesterday?
00:46:38
Speaker
Yesterday. yes His year, he his star. I don't know if he played yesterday. he's been We've been so busy. He was offline for like three days. was like, what the heck, dude? Offline for three days?
00:46:50
Speaker
Get in there.
Hosts' Personal Stories and Life Updates
00:46:51
Speaker
But yeah. You know. I'm going to do your chores. don My mom's crushing it. She's doing amazing, too. Shout out to Force Mom, whose username is not shared, but she's a wonderful person.
00:47:07
Speaker
Good thinking. Vinny's username, you can you can go scare him. It's Vinny O Games, which is like O, like O-H, h and then games. So it's like video games, but like...
00:47:20
Speaker
Vinny O games get it oh my god yeah so yeah go bother him if you want to I don't care I'm sure he will but that's fine just throw him under the bus I send him stuff every once in a while. I know. He mentions it. Sometimes I'll be sitting on the couch and he'll be like, who is Juleshawn? I'm like, oh, that's part of your staff.
00:47:44
Speaker
Who RKM13? I'm like, that's a member of staff. He's like, he just asks me who somebody is. i'm like, who's sending you something right They'll just ask me who you are. I'm like, oh, it's a member of staff.
00:47:54
Speaker
They're cool. Yeah. He's like, oh, okay. Yeah. My favorite is i know who's Nicho? I get who's Nicho all the time. Who's Nietzsche? He asks me every time. and I always answer him. like you've you've He's literally sent you stuff every single time. you i Just shush.
00:48:13
Speaker
Shush, man. Silence!
00:48:17
Speaker
um But yeah. What are you working on, Force Path? Oh. Great question. um Honestly, still working on DI. i have been horrendously busy with Farm RPG planning And real life.
00:48:33
Speaker
So I will admit to this audience that I haven't had as much time to actually play the game this month as I have in previous months. I had some goals that I set out for myself and I was not successful.
00:48:46
Speaker
But that's all right. Sometimes it just be like that. That does happen. That's okay. Sometimes, you know, we, we, life comes at you fast. It's true.
00:48:57
Speaker
yeah. you know, ah take it as a lesson. that You don't have to immediately do everything. It's okay. Just hang out and chat.
00:49:07
Speaker
Be friends with people. Just chill. You can chill. Sometimes I'm just sitting in in chat, just like hanging out and not playing. Actually, that's 99% of the time I'm in chat, is I'm not playing this game. I'm just hanging out because that's what I like to do. i like to chill.
00:49:27
Speaker
so What about you, Bubon? Nothing. I'm not doing anything. i Literally, it's all back-end dev stuff. That's literally all I've done for Farm in the last month. I was on vacation a lot.
00:49:38
Speaker
but i want I went to California. i went to visit my sister. Went to ah you know the the Super Mario Land. Very fun, very cool. I didn't do anything for Farm, though.
00:49:50
Speaker
But yeah, all my stuff is dev stuff right now. i have not been working on anything. i I'm bad. i actually like have been voiding large nets for like a day.
00:50:03
Speaker
I just heard Lunarific cry out in agony. I'm sure she is. Yeah, I love the void. I just like, i void stuff too much. And I don't care. Yeah. No, I avoid stuff all the time.
00:50:17
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. See, I'm in good company with that. And I've definitely let like antlers void before many, many, many times. All the time. Non-stop. I probably voided some... Honestly, I think I voided some oranges just recently because I hadn't been in drinking my orange juice for a few days because of vacation.
00:50:38
Speaker
So that was cool. That is shocking. Don't feel bad. Don't feel bad if you void your stuff or if you miss a day or two. No one's going to be mad. Or do like what other people do and send it to my mailbox since it's big and then I void it.
00:50:54
Speaker
you know You know, I'd rather send it to CodeRanger's mailbox because his mailbox is really big and he'll definitely void it.
Activities Outside the Game
00:51:04
Speaker
It's like a million. and It's so big.
00:51:08
Speaker
But yeah, that's what I'm working on. That's nothing. What about outside of farm? Oh, outside of farm? We're all we're homies here. what are we working on outside of the the old farm RPG? We're real people, I think.
00:51:22
Speaker
I think so. Well, I've been playing a lot of Minecraft. Oh, man. Minecraft, baby, I'm back in. I'm back in the Minecraft game. I've got like a little realm going with a couple of like art buddies that are all in our like forty s and fifty s who Let me tell you, that's ah really fun. That's a good time playing with adults.
00:51:44
Speaker
Minecraft rules. There's a reason it's number one game like sold ever. It's good. Yeah. I've never played it. Sorry, i should my audio was a little bit on the fritz for there.
00:51:56
Speaker
No, you're good. no't work No worries. But you should try you should try Minecraft. it's You don't think you're going to like it. I didn't think I was going to like it. I love Minecraft.
00:52:07
Speaker
I'm like... I love it. I don't know how to do anything cool. Like people can make like full on like programming languages and stuff in Minecraft. No, you know what I'm doing? I'm like tying a, I'm tying a leash to a donkey and I'm trying to get it get it across the map.
00:52:22
Speaker
That's what I'm trying to do. I'm just like making boob on adventures out here. like ah Digging a hole and seeing how far down I can get like before i before I die. That sounds a whole series. You need to have like your own show.
00:52:38
Speaker
Maybe I should. Maybe I should start like streaming myself playing Minecraft. But probably not. Nobody would really want to watch me like digging a hole for 45 minutes until I fall asleep. so But yes, Minecraft. I mean, maybe.
00:52:53
Speaker
That's pretty much all I've done for the last two weeks, three weeks, is playing Minecraft. And draw a lot. I've been just drawing nonstop. Drawing, playing Minecraft. Nice. Working. Working day job.
00:53:07
Speaker
That's it. What have you guys been doing? Jules? but What have you been playing outside? I mean, we've already discussed a little bit. You've been doing your Yakuza time. but like ah Yeah, I've been doing that. you know I'm always picking up Bellatro, playing that sometimes these days. yeah but That's a good one. Or like Slay the Spire. sometimes That's another easy one to just like pick up and get into a game and then you know I can put it back down and not have to worry that I'm like missing anything.
00:53:38
Speaker
um Yeah. ah don't know. Work, you know? Yeah. Day job. The exciting. Yeah. I have an actual full time real job now, like an adult person does.
00:53:53
Speaker
I was freelance for for a very long time and that was kind of scary and stressful. And now I have um a regular paycheck, which is lovely. Yeah. loving your rats That's the best.
00:54:06
Speaker
We love Yeah, so, but I gotta gotta put those hours in, you know?
00:54:14
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. ah Force Path? What have you been playing, my dude? Ooh, that's a great question. Bloodborne has been the thing that I've been working on. Okay. From software?
00:54:28
Speaker
i mean, as you know, I'm a big FromSoft fan, and so I beat Dark Souls earlier this year. um Almost done with Bloodborne. I am currently on Orphan of Kos.
00:54:40
Speaker
So that's the final guy in the DLC. ah Very challenging. Fun fight. I feel like those games are just hard. Just like very hard. so Saying they're challenging.
00:54:51
Speaker
like I have friends that won't play because they feel like they're stressful and it's very interesting to me because like I've played them so much that I actually find them sort of zen. Like like like getting into the like you dying doesn't upset me per se anymore. It's sort of just like the whole process of like improvement and growth.
00:55:13
Speaker
It's very Zen for me. So there are days where I'll just log in and get my butt kicked. So I'm playing ah an Elden Ring randomizer with with a with a friend as well.
Reading Habits and Book Recommendations
00:55:25
Speaker
Some Helldivers. Oh, and Star of Providence. I picked that up from my Steam Deck the other day. I'm going to play I've been reading. I've been doing a lot of reading. Okay.
00:55:38
Speaker
Fun. i find when I'm not outputting a lot of writing, i like reading. so otherwise yeah That's good. because like It fills your brain back up with inspiration.
00:55:51
Speaker
Yeah. oh so I'm a rereader too. I don't know if you guys, either of you guys read it all. I, I have, I've read so many books and sometimes I just go back to what's on my shelves and read it again.
00:56:03
Speaker
And I just absolutely adore it. I don't know we've discussed this, but I don't read because I, like really, it's it's a huge struggle for me. Like I can't, I have to reread the same page like four or five times. So maybe like rereader. Yeah.
00:56:15
Speaker
But it's like, I'm not getting past that page because I've got to reread it because I don't remember what happened. Yeah, you are goldfish, bud. It's like, ah yeah, my brain, I have ADHD like real bad.
00:56:26
Speaker
So like reading, my reading comprehension is like terrible when it comes to that stuff. Like for some reason, like if it's on a computer screen, like a short, like, like a quest, I can do that. No problem. But if I'm like reading a book book, forget about it.
00:56:40
Speaker
Audiobooks, that's where I shine. Baby, I can read an audiobook. No problem. Yeah. Yeah. And do you do something else while you're listening? Usually drive. like Yeah. Usually it's driving.
00:56:53
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So if I, I used to so I used to be like an audible, an audible girly. I had like my audible, I had it for like 14 years or something where I would have it for every month. I would i might, I had literally listened to so many books and And then work from home happened because of, ah you know, oh, the little pandemic.
00:57:11
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um And I work from home permanently and I don't listen to books anymore. So I'm like, you know, kind of going up like don't listen anything anymore ever. But I love Stephen King. Big Stephen King fan.
00:57:24
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um Would be. I know. I just love horror. It's not, you know. But you like the Dark Tower, right? And that's really all matter. The Dark Tower. oh Did you hear, by the way, the Dark Tower, Mike Flanagan is making a Dark Tower series. Really? And I'm really excited. Yes. And Mike Flanagan, he's very like Stephen King coded, like his stuff.
00:57:46
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Like one of my favorite shows of all time is um Midnight Mass, which he did, which is very like ah kind of like Salem's Lot-y, said Massachusetts, very, very like vampire-y, very good. I love it very much.
00:58:01
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So he's behind it. they There was just an article out that said that Stephen King was helping, but Stephen King just on Blue Sky just today was like, no, I'm not actually. So stop spreading that around. I'm not actually helping.
00:58:13
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But they're like buds. Stephen King and and Mike Flanagan are like buds. So I assume he's probably given it the thumbs up. So, but yes, Dark Tower, huge fan.
00:58:23
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Love the Dark Tower. love the I've re-listened to the Dark Tower multiple times because I'm that big of a fan. I love that. I love that. I have a hard time with Stephen King's longer books. I really enjoy his short stories. um For one thing, because they're fairly guaranteed to actually have an ending, which his novels don't.
00:58:44
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Don't, you know. That guy stumbles in the last 10 pages. Yeah, i'm um my my sister my sister is fond of saying that, like, you know, Mr. King and Ellipses is not an ending.
00:58:59
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Did you read the Dark Tower series? Did you? um I have not. My sister has. I think she's read all of it. I know she really loved it.
00:59:09
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The ending is um leaves a lot of people... angry watching and angry. I love it, personally. I think it's fun, but like a lot of people really don't like it. um for you know can't imagine why. yeah For Stephen King reasons, but this is my my plea to everybody to please read The Dark Tower. It's very, very good.
00:59:29
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um It's a little problematic these days, I think, but like just read it. It's fun. Most Stephen King is problematic. It is a little bit. Thinking about like the first two books, that would be... Just think about Susanna, Dawn. That whole character is It's too much. Anyway.
00:59:43
Speaker
Yeah. I didn't even think about that. I don't even want to get into it. But read The Dark Tower. It's good. No, you should. I'm going to tell you, don't read The Dark Tower. Read The Drazen Files with me. Come reread The Drazen Files with me.
00:59:57
Speaker
That's like dad lit. I don't want to read any dad lit. How in the world is Drazen Files dad dad lit? It's dad lit. Every dad I know loves those books. That's dad lit.
01:00:08
Speaker
I'm sorry. We are not friends anymore. don't know.
01:00:13
Speaker
I'm sorry. It is. Renaming Jules to my least favorite mom. Whoa. Why? What happened? She's agreeing with me. That's why. That's that's why. Yeah. that's you know honestly That's a weight off my shoulders. Thank you.
01:00:27
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. you the The fact that it's a weight off your shoulder is one of the reasons I really like you. So you're back to my favorite again. like Look, it's just like, it's just the whole yo-yo thing. It's like, yo-yo. It's the imposter syndrome. I can't i can't handle that when people say things like that. I'm like, oh, but they don't really know me.
01:00:46
Speaker
They just know internet me. So that doesn't count. That's fair. I say that. I feel the same way. Don't worry about it, Jules. You know, we're up it's we're all just little we're not real boats of dust floating around. We're all just for ones and zeros.
01:01:01
Speaker
is Exactly, exactly.
Anticipation for Upcoming Game Releases
01:01:03
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up But I think, I don't know, do you guys, you have anything else you want to, do we do we miss anything? Do you have anything else you want to add on here?
01:01:13
Speaker
I don't. It's been a very chill podcast. I'm just glad to have Jules on here. love Learning a little bit about the fact that you're a huge gamer. ah You know, Slay the Spiders is kind of hardcore. Bellantro, good game.
01:01:27
Speaker
Yakuza? Geez. Might have to DM me about what game you're playing more often now. Maybe I'll get some good recommendations. Yeah, I like a lot of different... played Dredge last year. love Dredge. Such a good game.
01:01:42
Speaker
You know, Baldur's Gate 3, of course. I played shit out of that. I love that game so much. So good. Baldur's Gate. That hit every button. Did you play the original Baldur's Gates?
01:01:57
Speaker
I not. I don't want to play them because it's Thacco. I hate Thacco. I don't like 2nd Edition. I don't want to play 2nd Edition anymore than I've already played 2nd Edition.
01:02:08
Speaker
But they're so good. They're such good games. It's Thacko! I hate Thacko! Anyway. it's i don't want I don't want to even think about Thacko. It's math. I don't like it. well Anyways, my point is, the original two Baldur's Gate games are also really, really good. They may not have quite the depth of storytelling of BG3 in terms of side quests and a randomness, but I do think they're really great games and worth your time.
01:02:36
Speaker
Okay. i i um I do have Divinity Sin. Oh, Divinity Original Sin? Yes, that one. um I have that.
01:02:47
Speaker
i have not played it yet. but It's another Larian game, so it's yeah probably pretty good. do s is like pretty good. is really good, ah which i played co-op with a friend so Might be the one I have. I can't remember. It was on sale on Steam one day and I was like, oh yeah, this looks like something I would like. Steam sale.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah. Oh man. They are time are sirens. those Sweet to so sorry yeah' So very dangerous. That's a blam. uh yeah no i think vinnie just picked up like a bunch of sonic games that we own 15
Conclusion and Farewell
01:03:22
Speaker
000 times again on steam uh because they were like five dollars because of a steam sale i'm just like how many times can you own sonic mania like how many times we we have it physically multiple times on multiple systems he has can we talk about how good games are going to be coming up like this next month i'm pretty excited yeah
01:03:43
Speaker
but I'm excited. I'm pumped about Monster Hunter. and that comes out on Friday. i don't know if I'm going to be playing it right away, but... Dog Monster Hunter comes out, and all my friends are yelling at me that I need to get it, and then the game that I'm the most excited about, Xenoblades Chronicles X, comes out in March.
01:04:00
Speaker
I Will Disappear. Like you should leave on very, very, very intentional about getting me for the podcast next month because when that comes out, like me and my switch are going to be homies.
01:04:14
Speaker
who And I am so excited. One of a, one of my favorite games ever. Well, we'll have to we'll have to book you in advance, I guess, for next month's pod if you're going to disappear on me. be March 20th, man.
01:04:31
Speaker
oh boy. That's like right around when we try to record, too. I know. We'll wait until the 5th. We'll give you a few days with it before we we try to pull you pull you away from it Pull you away from the you know the loving embrace of Xenoblade Chronicles.
01:04:45
Speaker
I'm so excited. Yeah. I love video games. um I'm a fan. I like that this was a video game focused podcast. We talked about a lot of video games. It was really good.
01:04:56
Speaker
was really good. and That's how I spend a large chunk of my time. So that makes sense. yeah same Yeah, same. same. You know, it's like right now it's like video games drawing or like watching anime, which is like not something i was doing a lot of previous to like the last like two months.
01:05:14
Speaker
And now I watch a lot of anime because yeah just trying to embrace what bubon at age 15 enjoyed which is video games and anime and drawing like as much as i possibly can so we're experiencing a bubon renaissance it's a bubon renaissance yes i am i'm going back to um you know my myself 20 years ago or yeah no that's that's actually more it's like i'm not even gonna get into it i don't want to get into my age yeah That was too funny. I don't feel like getting into my age. Let's just watch the train coming down the tracks.
01:05:52
Speaker
Yeah, no, I don't want to think about it. um But yeah, anyway. i don't blame you. My birthday was just this month and I... happy a birthday. I didn't know was your birthday. Yeah, it was the 16th.
01:06:04
Speaker
Oh my God. Happy birthday. Damn, I'm sorry that I missed it. but We stand in Aquarius every day. um But listen. It's been real. It has been real. Thank you for joining us, Jules. Thank you for joining us again, um Force Path, as per usual, as I force you to be here, handcuff you to your desk.
01:06:23
Speaker
um My hands are not cuffed. That's true. Video viewers can see. Although they i just now realized my camera is tilted. It's tilted slightly. slightly.
01:06:34
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but you Welcome, viewers. I hope you noticed it at the very beginning. a get make you Okay, there you go. Fix it a little bit. Thank you viewers for listening and viewing and talking to us and sending us nice messages.
01:06:51
Speaker
read all of your very nice messages. I respond to all of your messages when I can. You guys are the best. We have really great players and viewers of our podcast or listeners of our podcast. We love you very much.
01:07:02
Speaker
Yeah, and if you have questions you want us to answer on the podcast, you guys leave us such lovely feedback, but rarely leave us questions. We love the questions. And I'm going to say that I'm going to say that and then someone left a question and i missed it. So I'm sorry ahead of time. It's okay. If you want to just put them on our, we have like an improve loop. And if you have a question you want us to answer, please put on our improve loop. There's nothing on there.
01:07:25
Speaker
There hasn't been on anything on there in months. Please use it. It's in our, if you go to the wiki, if you go to the library on the podcast page, it's there. Please post your questions. We'd love to answer them maybe on the podcast or you know, outside of the podcast. If you DM one of us, whatever.
01:07:41
Speaker
But I think this is where we call it for the evening. We're just rambling on. We're rambling forever. amlin from the first so ah thanks for joining us and bye. Bye.