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The FarmRPG Podcast: Episode 7 - Bhelogan's back!
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Welcome back to another episode of your favorite monthly podcast about a text based farming simulator. We have a special episode this month with an even more special guest! Your friend and mine, Bhelogan! It starts feeling like the old podcast days with some friendly banter chatting with our old pal whos back from his hiatus! Good luck winning the swear jar! Hope you enjoy and thanks as always for joining us!
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Transcript
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um are
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feet of our pants. Here we are. Do it. Yeah, it is. We want me to kick us off. Come on, let's go. Let's go bell.
Introduction and Co-hosts
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All right. Hello and welcome to the farm RPG podcast. I am your ex host now current audio editor note, not video editor, just audio editor, belligan. And with me today, we have specter and Aster.
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character names. That's fun. Let's roll a, let's roll a save versus intimidation. Now rolling a d20 roll. There you go. Um, I probably am not rolling very high as per the use, but, um, if you don't know, again, my name is Buban. I'm here with my lovely co-host.
00:00:59
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Force Path, that's me, hi. Taking a nice sip, sippy. As our guest has said, welcome back. Yeah, look who it is, everyone, it's Belligan. It's Belligan, we haven't like a flashback episode. ah It's so nice to see you, Belle. How are you doing, man?
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I am doing fantastic. I mean, what could be better than being here with Bubon and Forcepath? I mean, who doesn't love you guys? Right? Well, it's good to have you back. We've been wanting to have you back on because you've been editing our our lovely ah audio for us for the last you know six episodes. Now it's going to be seven. Can you believe this is seven episodes? That's crazy to me. Even though it's not like the the amount that you used to put out, but like We were ridiculous when we started. We were doing an episode a week of a normal podcast and a D&D episode for a while. Yeah, it was a lot. Thank goodness. That was so much podcast. I was just like, I'm going to do one a month, maybe. Hey, so far we're keeping to that one a month, maybe rule. Yeah, it's been pretty good. I think we've only missed one month after the site came on. We missed one. Not bad, honestly.
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All things considered, I'm going to take it. Yeah.
Belligan's Return and Game Changes
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You know, sometimes life gets comes gets in your way, gets that comes at you fast, and you don't get a podcast episode in a month, but that's okay. We're here now. We're here for you. We love you. Thank you for listening. And we get Belle here. I'm actually so thrilled to have Belle on the podcast. And also, Belle has been hanging out in the spoilers chat a little bit more. So those of you that, you know, do hang out in the chat,
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My man Bell has been there and he is always a voice of wisdom and reason in the chaos. Except he's also chaos. Lately, not knowing how to do things anymore. Well, that's what happens when you take a little break. You've come back and found that the game has changed quite a bit. It did, it did, right? What has been the biggest change that you've found?
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It's the help request, the new ones, right? That want all these fancy new things that I don't have. like I'm stuck right now waiting on pine boards so I can build another 5,000 fancy violins and there is nothing you can speak out. Nope. You should talk to a developer about that. Somebody must be able to help you with that kind of request.
00:03:24
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i mean i It wasn't that long ago, people were freaking out because I tried to write an Apple a day quest that wanted more than 200 or something specifically apples. And everyone's like, no, you can't do that. And i said that that was one of the two greatest quests of all time. Now things are different. Now we can ask for stuff like that because ah the the whole the whole rhythm of the game has changed really from those early days. So.
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You know, you could spend, you could spend gold to speed that up. I'm just saying. Oh yeah. money farmp i mean I mean, I get paid it occasionally that audio. If I knew where to dump that gold, maybe I could speed that up. look and I'm not sure I know how to do that. and No, it's, it's fun though. So I i took a break last year, probably September ish. I'd hit the point where we're done everything in the game except for ah What's the quest that wants all the money? Flexible spending. yeah that one hit yeah Everyone hates flexible spending. That was it. ah Flexible spending with Cecil. Work was getting crazy. I was traveling a ton and I had to cut back on a couple of things. so and so I pinged a FireShroom like, hey, i I got to take a break from the game. Well, now it's not the first time I did this,
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I took a break from Titan conquest for a while when it was up for like a year. I think the same thing from from destiny RPG prior to that. So I figured out I'll be off for the one will come back and then kind of February started logging back in again.
Podcast Editing Insights
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And then you guys started asking about, Hey, how did you do the podcast when you're doing it? I'm interested again.
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win so I know what's going on ah feel like we're getting called out here. we In fairness, dear viewers, neither of us had any idea what we were doing. Yeah, this is correct. I had no idea. I mean, I was on the podcast a lot, so I knew kind of like where to kind of record something, but I had no idea how to, I don't know how to edit. it I mean, I have some audio mastering, but I mean, when you ask, you know, Bell to do it, you know, he's like way, way, way more intense about it. It's like, well, you do X, Y, and Z. And I'm like, Oh, okay. Well, you know what, guys? That was the fun part for me. yeah I love digging and figuring out how to do that and get together. So I'm like, yeah, let me help you. Cause I love. you So glad we are so thankful for that. Very thankful. it's It's very good to have an expert, like helping us on this. Cause really it's like, you know, it was the blind leading the blind a little bit.
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but A little bit. A lot bit. Let's be real. Let's be real with everyone
Game Updates and Events
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here. The only reason I took it back on is because so many people are like, we really miss the podcast. When's Bell coming back? And I was just like, oh, I don't know. I guess I'll just start doing it because that's my kind of my job. Yeah. The community manager. compute well yeah It's social media manager. I'm not lot but um' not the community manager at the moment, but I am the social media manager.
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So this is social media. Listen, you're listening to us. We're being social. It's media. So that's what I do. Um, no, it's great. So yeah, it came back on and all of a sudden I had to get to 50 more levels in the tower to go to two 50, one 99. And then Pam rats and star map dropped. And I didn't know how to do those efficiently to help with the gold feathers. So I was kind of doing both at the same time till I go out. Yeah.
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And now we're waiting for fancy violins and PSA. I think we're getting close to the end of that one though. And mining too. Mining's here for you. Mining. Yes. To keep you busy. Yes. Some people who have watched my channel, where I have a lot of far more PG videos, may have seen I put up a teaser of the mining. Yeah. I did. We did the dev team definitely saw that. The dev team definitely saw that. We were very excited. We were very excited. Everybody was very excited to see it. We were all like, did you know these things?
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yeah It was, it was pretty accurate. It was, it was exciting for us more than anything. Just a random drop. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, Oh my gosh, should Bell put out a video? I did. I did. Yeah. I haven't done that many. That's, that was the first farm RPG one I've done in a while. Um, I did drop a video yesterday.
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ah that is you know the The outro music they're using for the podcast is a song called Arcade Addict that my youngest Bushy wrote. Let's listen to the original podcast we had him on at one point. Yes, I remember Bushy being on. I had him send me a version of that with the drums pulled off and then I like overplayed the drum part on it. That's the video. That's cool. I'll have to check it out. I haven't been on YouTube today, so I probably haven't seen it yet.
00:08:04
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Um, but cool. Well, we're glad you're here. We're glad you're back. I feel like that I love when people take breaks and come
Community Contributions and Engagement
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back. Yeah. You did the same thing. You took a break and came back. it Listen, I did. I did take a break and come back. I really led a really, really got into farm RPG and really, really burned out and then came back. So it is dear listener.
00:08:25
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Take a break if you need to take a break. It's okay. You're allowed to. It's totally fine. You may come back and feel overwhelmed, but like there's nothing better than than focusing on your mental health and not worrying about for a Murphy G or any video game. And I promise we'll be here when you come back. I swear. Yeah, I'm a lifer at this point. I've got a much better balance. Plus, I have a shirt. I'm not allowed anymore. Look at that. You got some logo. I got some swag.
00:08:53
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I'm not wearing any farm, but I got buddy here, but he's behind me. So I don't think he is there, but he is here. He's having a RPG thermos as well that fires. Yeah. Oh, the, the, the, yeah the Yeti with the emblazon thing. Oh, those are so nice. Yeah. My, my kids had commented on that one. So I don't have it.
00:09:15
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were happy to take that one off my hands, but. Of course, yeah. Unbelievable. No, but even when I'm not playing, know I love Firestream and the and the work he does, and I'm always happy to support him, even if I'm not you know actively playing the game. Yeah. But you are now, and that's what matters. You're back. I am, yeah. When are you coming back on staff? That's the question.
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That's not up to me. right like When I took a break, Firestream's like, you know no pressure if you want to hang around and we can leave you on staff with no expectation or responsibilities. I'm like, you know whatever you need to do. and then you know He cleans up the staff list after a while, but it's clear I wasn't going to come back immediately. I didn't voluntarily leave. but um hey i mean maybe maybe Maybe we need to get Bellingham back on staff. Yeah, if you want if here if you're back, you're back buddy. we can put Well, I mean, here's here's the deal.
00:09:59
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If you need a staff member who's going to lurk in chat and tell off other staff members, that's probably about all I'm good for. I'm not great at moderating chat. You want me, you're welcome to have me, but I'm not lobbying for it. I'm dying right now. I mean valid, valid points. Oh, thank you for that.
00:10:24
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and it real Always up in here. Always keeping it real. But I do want to get, we have like a, I do want to go over some of the updates. We have updates we have to go through. Just a couple. Because, do you remember we missed updates last time? We missed updates. That is true. We did miss updates. um We're terrible at updates. We're not even going to bother with them. We're just going to go over the ones that have happened in October because this is the October podcast. Let's forget about September. September is in the past.
00:10:54
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We don't, we don't know her anymore. Um, it is four sets of updates for October. There is still a ton to cover.
Roles and Mechanics in Farm RPG
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There is a ton to cover. Um, feels like an understatement. If we're being honest, October's always bonkers, like crazy go nuts in farm RPG. We love Halloween.
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So, there's a lot of but fun stuff that have happened. um So basically, Halloween in Red Book happens October 1st in The Haunted House. Doesn't open up immediately, obviously. It opens up usually on the 13th. But this month there was a very cool um monthly pack.
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The monthly pack is awesome. You get that pumpkin juice. Very cool. It permanently increases your mastery count by 10% of whatever it was. So like if you are at 90%, you get 9%.
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mainging for free, right? Why are we letting the non-math person? You could have cut me off at any point. I wanted to let you dig the hole first. Hey, listen, I don't know what I'm talking about. You were you're sitting there going, all right, I'm digging myself the hole. yes if We're just going, go for it, man. yeah Just let me just let me fly. It's fine.
00:12:05
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ah Why don't you cover it? All right, you go ahead. We'll just tell Firestream to code it wrong. It needs to fix it. It wouldn't be the first time we've had it yeah an error where the math was off from the intended purpose. Oh my lord, let's not go there. Pumpkin juice. Pumpkin juice. Pumpkin juice is cool because it increases your mastery by 10%, right? So if you have 900,000 of a thing mastered, use that pumpkin juice. You will go to 9,000 night, or I'm sorry,
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990,000. You just grilled me about math and now you're messing up immediately. I'm going to throw something at you. You can't. You can't hit me from there. That's a couple thousand miles, bud. Anyway, continue. but sense So it's 10% of your current, the tar from your current ah yeah of your current. And then obviously you can't use it once you've mega mastered and hide them. Otherwise numbers would get really, really silly, really fast.
00:13:02
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Oh, this is just a nice thing. You know, a lot of the guys that are in the tower say that they're struggling with orange juice and lemonade. So, you know, we have a lot of avenues now. What's that? Jade and chum. Oh, yeah. ja Well, chum was okay. So chum is a funny one. no tell chum Yeah, yes that's true. Chum is a funny one because it was the very first mega mastery I ever did when I came back. I don't I saw.
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One of the other players was like, you gotta to do chum right away. So I did it and never thought about it again. And then I hear from people all the time, like, oh, chum, you know. But anyways, the point is, I know some people are struggling to get up ah into that tower 250. There's kind of those roadblocks of orange juice and lemonade nets. This is just another one of those paths to get there. Obviously we have Borg in too. We can get some things from quests. You know, we're constantly thinking of ways to,
00:13:58
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give that opportunity without just kind of spoiling the whole journey, if you will, ah which is a tough balance. But, you know, so pumpkin juice, pretty fun. ah We had the September raffle, too. That was a lot of fun. Oh, I have to mail those. I still have I still have them here. I have to mail the. Oh, look at that squish watch. That's pretty cool. yeah The squish squatch. I have to mail them. I i was sick. I've been sick. I had covid. So I haven't been able to leave the house. But now I'm better. So um I got to get out to the post office this week. Yeah. So congratulations to everyone that won. I know that my mom was like, dude, I want the Yeti. i So many people were excited. Just give her yours. Why would I do that? I don't know. She's got to earn it.
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Oh, okay. I'm I'm following for you force paths mom. See, I'm trying. Mom path is what she likes being called. Oh, mom path. Okay.
Player Engagement Strategies
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Yeah. yeah ah So we had the raffle. That was a ton of fun. When we opened up the haunted house, right? So on the 13th.
00:15:05
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And then with that comes a slew of quests. I mean an absolute glut of quests. It is an onslaught of quests. It's over 100 at this point, right? It is like 170 or something like that, specifically only to Halloween. which is I gotta say,
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With the haunted house, I wish I had remembered that it dropped jack-o'-lanterns because i was I was burning through all my resources trying to get jack-o'-lanterns from pumpkin drops. I'm like, all right, I'm going to just make it. Just make it by the end of October.
00:15:39
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yeah templeque yeah And then the haunted house drops and I only need like a thousand more. I'm like, great. You made it easier for yourself. Yeah, there you go. Was it? Was it prune juice to reset your, your farm? that's right no You wasted prune juice on it. I was burning through those. Yeah. Oh no. And something, but that's true. I feel like wasted is waste is not, is not the right term. I wouldn't say waste, but I was going all in. Yeah. I'm going to finish it. We'll get there.
00:16:10
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um I'm going to call a big oof on that. So yeah for those of you who haven't really had a chance to explore the Halloween event, um there's the all the quests. but So um the quest writers absolutely love a riddle and a and a cryptic thing. So if you want to dig into all those, there's hints all around. um You can also craft QED batteries. And then when you're exploring the haunted house, you get captured spirits. And they start off, you get a bunch really quickly. But the longer that you explore, the longer it takes to get them.
00:16:39
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so um And then you can turn those spirits into event tokens. So there's a pretty fleshed out event shop. We we spent a pretty good amount of time working on that. so and then And so that's that's also...
00:16:55
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Uh, something I'm really excited. Buddy dolls. Listen, excited about buddy. Those are fantastic. You're really going. You're really going ahead of the update. There's an announcement about buddy dolls. Exactly. My point. It's not secret because in the life did spoilers knows about it. That's true. Is there anything spoilers? Doesn't know.
Belligan's Gaming Journey
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Um, I don't know how to love. i mean her i had a react like gri I don't read the quest, so that's why I hang out in spoilers. they They help me out with that. Is that true? I would never have known that about you. You seem like a riddle guy. No, also't real I like making them and watch other people struggle, but yes, me too. No, sorry.
00:17:38
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Yeah, i I'm dumb. I can't figure out a puzzle at all. I'm not a puzzle person. i'm There's something fun about creating a fun puzzle, though. Like when you when you work really hard at it and then spoilers cracks it in eight minutes and then you're like, oh, boy, I figured that was going to happen. But they've been really good about.
00:17:58
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you know, helping people figure it out if they want to figure it out. true they but So anyways, before we get to our track, let's finish talking about updates here. Oh, yes. So we did have chickens come in. Are chickens in beta or chickens live? No, chicken ah chickens are. Chickens are very live. they So chicken skins, guys, you can get chicken skins and spoiler alert, there may be more skins coming. There's definitely more skins. We've talked about it, I think we have, to i you know,
00:18:24
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The Bovine variety is the Bovine variety, correct? So we had chicken skins comes out and then we had some new craftables come out. Halloween chicken. Halloween chicken came out at a quest with a with a themed. They themed Link's Awakening quest, although I'm not sure how many people picked up on that. I haven't seen a lot of cheddar about it, but that's OK.
Tea Time: Personal Stories
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Man, it's it's so busy. We have a lot of stuff drop all the same time.
00:18:54
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You know, and then, you know, not to mention we had mining drop, uh, we've gotten some really incredible feedback and we really appreciate everyone. The auto explosive perk is a result of everyone's feedback. And does that even have that? I think that's still an alpha. Uh, yeah, maybe it is still an alpha. it well it's coming yet It's just a mere beta testers. So, uh, spoilers. Tell us, tell us all about this auto explosive. I'm intrigued now.
00:19:21
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OK, so one of the biggest pieces of feedback ah that we got, and there are more, trust me, I've read the Google Doc multiple times, ah but was just like, hey, it's really tedious hitting that explosive every single time. ah So ah we are making a perk where when you go to a new level in mining, it will just automatically use an explosive at the start.
00:19:43
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Um, so that will be just a nice, like saved you a click feature. It won't be a particularly gold expensive or anything, but I think that's kind of great feedback that we've gotten. Um, I think we've gotten a couple other things that I know that we want to work on and equity. We've got to write quests and integrate mining into the rest of the game, but and you know, just having people play it and share what they think, where they have problems has been really, really helpful. Truly explosives. I'll give that a a tier two ranking.
00:20:13
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Oh, that's right. The Belligan tier list. The tier list. Yeah. So. The almighty tier list. Yeah, I think that's it. Well, we had Sid come to town. Baba Gag came to town. Baba Gag. So you can ah max their friendship. I know we've got some bobbleheads, theoretically. They're coming.
00:20:33
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I think and that that's like a, you know, that's a this week sort of thing for me. Oh, all right. There's a lot of things on my plate this week, but that those are one of my things that I'm working on. So it's always fun to see boobuns artwork on that. Oh yeah. good Also, we had golden feed start showing up randomly. I don't know what's up with that. We had nine new crafts.
00:20:55
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Definitely not going to be used in any new quests. Not at all. no don't Don't feel like you have to make them or anything. Exactly. Definitely don't feel like you need any of those. They were not created for quests. Nope. Definitely not. they weren't They weren't made for a giant quest that is incoming at any point. No. So like three months from now, you're going to get PMs from me saying, you told me yeah this is a new crafting item.
00:21:20
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I mean, hey, this is the spoiler chat. Evidently, it's going to be a lot sooner than three months. Well, that's what I'm going to get there, right? I've got to know. Wait, when you're Tower 250, right? I'm Tower 250. Yeah. Oh, you're going to see it sooner
Reading Preferences and Habits
00:21:35
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than later, chief. I don't know if it's going to be connected to any of the other quests, but it will not require PSA. Good. cause den see when i drop Then you can message me about it. OK.
00:21:48
Speaker
So that catches us up. That does catch us up. it's Now we've got trick or treating, right? Trick or treating happening right now. Yeah. Started last night. It did. Yeah. So what's, what's your trick or treating strategy? Do you find your first set of trick or treaters, then chase them over. They go realizing you don't have any candy left, or do you keep searching for candy before you go chasing down? Or do you sneakily open some bags? I what do you thisard i want the TP. I'm working on the, I'm using them for the TP. So like, I don't really care about the candy thing. I'll just chase them around and get all the TP and work through getting my toilet paper mastery up.
00:22:24
Speaker
That's not the greatest way to do it. But I mean, I do i have a huge, my inventory is big. So like, it's tough to keep stocked with the amount of candy that they want. And like, it's tough. So it seems like they take it all when you run into them. I haven't watched it that closely, but Yeah, so filling up every time. It's a lot of work. So, yeah, so much work. I don't have a strategy. I i was actually just having this conversation earlier today. um I don't play farm RPG optimally, like me either, even a little, you know, people are like, what's your trick or treat strat? Like, how do you do this? And I'm like, ah I wake up and I play.
00:23:02
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Like that's about as far as that happens. Oh, that reminds me, my ghost animation, does ah everybody like it? You see my ghost, my sweet ghost animation that I made this year for fun. I'm just learning how to sprite make sprites for fun. It's so cute. If I'm being completely honest with you, i just it's so cute. Cute little ghost. So where's this at? It's when you're searching for when you're but when the ghost confetti comes up, the little like pixel ghost that's like, oh,
00:23:30
Speaker
I should've known that was... I'm just playing around. I feel embarrassed. I didn't recognize Bluebone's work. No, it's different. It's Pixels. It's Pixels. It's definitely different, but it's wonderful. I kind of wish that I could be sharing... Maybe this is a future podcast. I could be sharing me playing Farm RPG while I'm a podcast. I think I could ask you. You could ask me. Let's not do it right now because I would need to hide some stuff. That makes sense.
00:23:57
Speaker
But I feel like that might be kind of fun. I feel like that would be fun for people to see me clicking away in the haunted house while we're playing. That's true, yeah. I mean, we could just put some footage in if we really felt like it, but. That was always a challenge when I was doing the Titan conquest videos. I was like, I don't want to show you all the moderator panels that we have, so we just have to cut it out on what is cropping on my screen. And then we did some kind of a spoof video, I think, where I showed you it was not really there. I very much remember that.
00:24:26
Speaker
And everyone believes their movie everyone blames me the proliferation of a certain song in Farm RPG when we all know that you were the root cause of that. I don't know what you're talking about. Exactly. Wow. I didn't cause anything. So it's all coming out but now that you're the Rick Astley head and not Forest Path.
00:24:50
Speaker
Listen, felling in, Rick rolled before I Rick rolled. That's all I'm trying to say. He Rick rolled so that you could Rick walk or what? Rick run? I'm confused. I'm just saying, man. I'm just saying. So.
00:25:07
Speaker
Anyway, I like forget some of these details. I'm like, wait, what are you talking about? I think I remember that. Maybe you made a video while i ago. You made a video where you showed the admin panel, but you didn't because you showed a Rickroll instead. Is that what it was? Okay. it was I knew I showed something that wasn't it, but I didn't remember what it was. It was definitely a Rickroll.
00:25:27
Speaker
I'm well, you know, I'm afraid that I'm misremembering now, but, you know, Madam, I have to go look it up and see what I show. Who could possibly who could possibly look it up and tell us that we were wrong? Not me. That's true. It's not like you're sitting in front of a computer and can look into this. stuff Listen, I'm clicking on the haunted house. I was chatting with my friends before we move on any further. I want to I want to do the ah swear jar. Oh, yeah, sure. From last.
00:25:57
Speaker
month By the way, I haven't given out a swear jar in a hot minute. These people are not messaging me. You better be listening to this. I don't know what to tell you. You better be listening to this. At some point, I'm going to do like a mega one, and you're going to lose access to those, and I'm just going to give it away to one person. And it's going to be like,
00:26:15
Speaker
It's like 2,000 gold. It's going to be crazy, but not this time. This time, Farmer Meow Mix is going to message me. Farmer Meow Mix, you're going to get the swear jar. If you message me saying swear jar, I won the swear jar, you'll get it. Your name has to be Farmer Meow Mix, though, because that has to be you, the person that left this comment on the swear jar. So I'm telling you right now, if you comment on the swear jar, you best be listening because I'm sick of not giving out this money.
00:26:43
Speaker
All right. Okay. I'm glad we came to an agreement here. I don't think we came to an agreement. I did. I'm telling them I'm threatening them with their lives right now. If you comment on swear jar, you better listen to the next episode after you've commented so you can know if you want.
00:26:58
Speaker
the love of God, please. I tell you what, though. You can just get my chat ban and then they'll message you like, what's going on? Oh, that's a really good idea, actually. That's a great- We don't know that I agree with that statement. I think it's great. I can abuse my power and just chat ban these people. Isn't there a new- Yeah, that's why I'm not commenting to me about them. Isn't there a new page about how you've gone drunk with power anyways? Yes, it is called Horsepath and Boo-Bun Can Do Whatever They Want, and that is the library page. You can search it up right now.
00:27:28
Speaker
can do whatever they want. Yeah. It's one that I did make because somebody was somebody was telling me that I couldn't do something. And I don't know. It just, it just came about millions. Yeah. Yeah. There it is. So, uh, if you win the swear jar, you bet you just, you got to be listening to this, this freaking podcast.
00:27:56
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Anyway, i'm gonna get off my soapbox now. um And we can continue on. I mean, I feel like this is the point where we go into Bell's interview, but we've kind of been interviewing him almost the whole time. Have we? A little bit. OK. You say so. I have some set out questions that are very rudimentary. Are we going to keep practicing your question transitions? No. I know you can do this. I'm good at being off the cuff and having fun, but the second I go to a structured
00:28:27
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thing, I just lose all. Which question question number are we on, right? One, two, three. and you' beening ah like I don't know how to like say like, okay, next question. Like, we'll get you there. It's only been seven podcasts. So, you know, maybe it's going to take us pre previous to that because I was on like once or quite a week prior. Yeah. but Before that, it's just something I suck at. It's okay. It's you can't you get at everything. Okay. Yes, you can. Because I know you, you're amazing at everything.
00:28:56
Speaker
No, no, i we already went over. I'm bad at math. One, two, I'm bad at playing farm RPG. Two, three, each bad at transitions into question and answer. That's okay. I'm okay with it. Okay. We're all right. We're okay. We're living still. I know we're gonna I'm really good at drawing stupid stuff. I'll take that. I love questions for Belligan.
00:29:21
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Belligan, what's your favorite chat? Tell me your favorite chat. I think we already know. I think we might already know this question. It used to be staff. I would never leave staff, but I can't get in there anymore. No, it's spoilers. Oh. I mean, spoilers is kind of staff chat, if you really think about it. In a sense, every time I talk to them, it's like, oh, it's Belligan. I'm like, wow, you guys treat me like I matter. Yes. You do matter. Because you do matter. Come on. If you say so. Hold on.
00:29:49
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Man's really reaching there. Don't be putting yourself down. This is what I always have to say to like literally, don't put yourself down in front of me. I'll get you. I'll get you. Anyway. So you, you really like spoiler says or something specific you like about it or why didn't you? The puzzles, right? The place where like all the old, old players tend to hang out whose names are recognized. Cause I don't know many of the new players. I don't know any of the new staff members.
00:30:19
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so It's just, it's familiar. It's cozy. It is familiar. I, I, so I'm not necessarily a fan of the vibe that spoilers gives sometimes, but they are just so, uh, there's so many old people that I can just look at a name. It's way better than it used to be though. Yeah. It's getting better, but it does have its moments, but it's way less grouchy. Like it, you know, really, really, really bad. I mean, it's kind of light.
00:30:47
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It did get it did get pretty bad right during mining release. A little bit. It was pretty rough there for like a six hour period. Yeah, they got over it. They're fine. but I mean, so how are you liking mining?
00:31:01
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Look at this expert transition. See, do you see this? The question is, is how are you enjoying mining? He transitioned that so very well. See, this is what I can't do. That's what I have him do. I actually was just doing that on purpose. He didn't have to call it out. I had to, because I have to point out why that was very good. See?
00:31:18
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This is what I'm trying to learn. No, it's not good because we've kind of like, minded out I pointed it out, but continue. but Tell us how you like mining bell, please. I enjoy mining a lot just because you can play it. It's not a daily thing that you've got to do every day. Right. Unless you get one of your daily quest to use number of explosives or whatever, but you also aren't limited. Like some things by resource other than pickaxes, which if you've got a big inventory, you're kind of unlimited on. So.
00:31:45
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Uh, yeah, if I'm like doing something else, like, uh, riding a bike or something, or it shows on TV, they don't really want to watch, but my wife's into play some. Hold on a second. Let's dig into this for a second. You're riding a bike and doing mining at the same time. Like a stationary bike. yeah Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. Okay. I was my life in danger. I'm not playing driving down the freeway either. Don't worry.
00:32:12
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Does that consider like, is that texting and driving? Like, would you get a ticket for that if you were on your bike, on your cell phone? I don't know. I think you might, because if you're drunk on a bike, you can get arrested for that. So I think it probably depends. Do you have very specific knowledge of that? Uh, no, I just had a friend that, uh, you know, yeah friend I got a speeding ticket for going down the hill. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So it sounds like very first person knowledge. No, i I don't really drink that much, but like, and do you think, does it look like this girl rides a bike?
00:32:42
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Hey, I ride a bike. What are you trying to say? Okay. Every week. Sure. On Saturdays. Where? Where are you riding a bike? And also I can't sit on the bike seat. That's going to go right up my bike rack. I can't do it. That's like not stuff. but That's not something I want to do. That's uncomfortable for me. I ride it. I ride it myself. It's kind of me or a confident exercise bike with a nice wide seat like a chair. Yes. And then you can watch television while doing. And I don't have the space for a ah piece of equipment like that. So there's no bike riding in my, in my life. That's okay. I'm okay with that.
00:33:13
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killing me You are really killing me today. What's your favorite in game item, Belle? Do you like it? Is there a specific item? I'm not even trying with the transitions. What's your favorite in game item? Yeah, your favorite in game item. An item that you like looking at because it's just pictures or special effects, something that you like that has like a cool effect. Listen, you can flap your hands at me all you want, Mr. Forcepath. That was expert. That was a great transition right there.
00:33:43
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um' I'm a fan of Borgen bags. Ooh, good answer. I do like a Borgen bag, a little Borgie bag. So for those of the players that don't know what a Borgen bag is, because it is a pretty in-game item, what is it? So after you finish one of the questlines, I can't remember which one. You get a Borgen bag every day. It's Pam rats. Pam rats. All right, when you finish Pam rats.
00:34:06
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I'm going to finish Darmap. That's the one that gets your feathers. I can't remember something like that. Darmap gets you feathers. Yes. Yep. It's a star. Or rats but' horing gives you a bag every day. You can also get them from Mega Mastering items, which is how I initially was getting them. And you open it up. It can have kind of like void bags, but I think they're a significant more valuable void bags. It's got all the good stuff in it. ah' have only good Yeah. I do love a good Borgen bag. Borgen bag is pretty good. What about you?
00:34:35
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but but Favorite item? I think we've been over this, haven't we? Those are the spray bottle. No. Why would I like my own item? I like my own item. It would probably be popcorn. Duh. Come on. You should know this. Everybody should know this. That one should have been obvious. Yeah. You're right. It's the best item in the game. I love popcorn. What's yours?
00:35:00
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I don't have one. Is he a book? No, although the book is hilarious. ah No, if I had to pick one off the top of my head, probably Orange Gecko because of the I've always.
00:35:14
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I love orange, orange is my favorite color. um It's a meme quest item at this point. that is just it just It tickles me in all the right places. It has a specific use that hasn't been uncovered in the world yet. What? So it has there's there's some lore stuff with it that has been hinted at in various quests. but I wouldn't know. you know thank
00:35:40
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it's always fun to have and i don't understand so It's always fun to have people that, you know, you spend all this time building the lore and then you have someone on and it's like, yeah, screw your, you know, i click that click I click the go ahead button. I see the item. I click the go ahead button. That wall of text. Screw that, man. It's called it's called instant gratification. ah Yes. I read them all. Hey, I read them all. it's But do I remember them? Probably not. My brain is like ah empty. It's like not of steel trap.
00:36:10
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You know, the interesting thing, though, ah for those of you who maybe are hearing Belligan for the first time, he's been around for a very long time in FireStream games. He wrote quests for some of the early farm RPG, but also in Fire Street's previous game, Titan Conquest. So how long have you been playing FireStream games and what have you been involved with with them?
00:36:33
Speaker
So I started with destiny RPG and I think I found it from an ad cause I didn't play desk. I didn't know what destiny was okay why i'm like i was kind of a cool clicking game. Um, a cool clicking game. Oh Lord. Yeah. He put out. That's cool. and I think I saw an ad or something. Like I can't even remember where it's been a while. There's no way that there was an ad cause I think it was probably maybe it was a comment i read it i like that. probably read it No, it would have been a forum post back at that time. I don't think Reddit was much of a,
00:37:03
Speaker
When, when Destiny RPG, and well, it was what, 2017? Reddit was around 2017. It's been a while. It doesn't feel like that long ago to me, but. I mean, SEO wasn't really a thing in 2017 as it is today. else It's different to the day we were still around. um Yeah. Transition to Titan conquest that came along. I started doing tutorial videos and eventually got put on staff there.
00:37:29
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Been around for a while, so coming to Farm RPG was a lot like U4's path. It was, hey, come beta test this thing that's not going to be, what was it going to be, um, communities or something like that, settlements. Yeah. Right. So I've i've got the, the proud, uh, farm number 26, the 26th registered account. One more than me. I'm registration 27. Mm-hmm.
00:37:54
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Yeah. So when registration numbers matter, no that's mine. Mine's really high, but not think that's, I don't think that's readily accessible information anymore. I think we've been buried here. If you're, if you're in a web browser, it still shows up. Oh, really? in is your our yeah url Is it for your profile? No, go to your farm.
00:38:18
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Okay. And at the end of it'll have a question mark out equals 41,951. That isn't actually your registration number. Okay. Spoiler alert. All right. I don't want to give away too much about the back end though. Uh, but that's not actually your registration number. I know there was a way to look, um, but you know,
00:38:42
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I'm probably look at it, but yeah. So things have changed on the back end. They changed on the back end, but let's take the first accounts or test accounts as well. That's true. Well, and there's a, you know, I can message you off. You got to punch your mic. That'll give us a nice ping set it up. I'm sorry. It's just strumming the guitar. No, I just accidentally hit it when I was going to my mouse strumming away. I think about it's like, Oh, I'm going to have to edit that.
00:39:12
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you' know And if he's talking, you got to go in and do it in the spectrogram thing. Sorry, guys. I apologize. No, it's all good. No, you're good. um But to to transition to the next question.
00:39:25
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Do you have a favorite memory? Do you have a favorite memory on your phone? What a transition. In Farm RPG. She knew what? Be quiet. You know what? Be quiet. Be quiet. Is that enough of your frickin' head? And there's a swear jar for you. Oh my god. You're adding to the swear jar. By the way, you might want to write that down, Belegant. Yeah, what time is that? How many minutes? That was 39 minutes. 39 minutes. See something. Yeah, we'll give it a praise the wall or something in there. We'll see. Praise the wall. Yeah. Anyways.
00:39:56
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favor a far rpj memory something I mean, you've been with us since the very beginning since the beginning. A fun memory about something like a drop or chat going up crazy over something or.
00:40:11
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You know, just a favorite. and There's there's so many. It's it's hard to pick. It just it comes out as like that was my favorite. ah Definitely a lot of cool moments. Definitely being staff. A lot of stressful and interesting moments and things will deal with that we probably don't want to get into both. Yeah, because we probably shouldn't spring him up. No, it'd be that'd be nice if we didn't. Yeah, let's not. Let's not do that. No, this is a favorite memory.
00:40:40
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but Not a most normal. The last thing that I saw that just made me super, super happy was learning about the change to fishing with millworms where you could just click anywhere in the shadows. that was That was fun. I'm like, yes, I cannot pay attention. Just spam away. Yes. Not that you do a lot of manual fishing anymore, but yeah. It's still good, especially if you need like goldfish or something. It's great. He loves that update. he was are he's He was playing when that update hit and he's just like, this is the best update ever. I'm like, okay, I'm glad you like it.
00:41:10
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Yeah. Other than that, probably the other time I could point out was probably the first time I talked at spoilers chat after having been on a long hiatus and like everyone on staff came out. Oh, it's spell yeah. We come out like screaming cause you're back. Like I was coming out the walls and it was like, is this staff chat or what? what's coming I mean, it was really good to see you, brother. I mean, at the end of the day, it just shows that you were missed. We like you. Yeah. I appreciate that. All right. Next question, Bubon. What do you got? Oh, okay. It's not a question. It's not a question. It's actually the secret password time. Yes. but I'm sure you knew that this was going to happen. um But what would you like your secret password to be for the episode?
00:41:51
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So I had given them some thought and I was thinking we should go with Astley Maritah. Oh, you want to spell it for us so we can get that in there. Astley. Horsepath knows how to spell it. b ah You should probably spell it anyways. Astor, not Astley. Sorry, I'm giving her the wrong one. It's Astra Maritah, right? What's your character? Yes. So A-S-T-E-R. M-E-A-T-A-W. How do you spell water backwards? I'm lost already. M-E-R-E-T-A-W. Here we go, from Maritah.
00:42:21
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OK. And did you have an idea of what you I'm going to I'm going to ping that to you to make sure I spelled it correctly, because it's going to be super funny, is you're going to be like, oh, I heard it, but I have no idea how to spell how to spell it. Yeah, which is going to keep them in the dark. That'd be kind of funny. I actually am. I pinged you in Discord Bell with that.
00:42:42
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Is that right? That looks correct. and Caps don't matter. I'd say I'd like a cap on them, but it's it's not case sensitive. um How about three pair of dice? Give us some 3D6 for that, for the D and&D character. oh I think that's Love that. I like it. That's such a great idea. Boom. I don't even have to check that in the old Quest database. That one's going to be passed.
00:43:09
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Bell, you can be the first one to redeem it if you so desire. We'll see if this works here. The Force Paths update go through. Let's see here. It goes fast. I'm going come to the post office, put in my password. See if I can spell it right. We can click three dice. There we go. Boom. Look at that.
00:43:33
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Yes. Easy dice. Apparently I'm still missing the password. It says I've got one missing. not sure why One of the worst feelings.
00:43:43
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but Did we have another new one after the one for Spooky Slime? I don't think so. if You can do this thing where you can just like randomly redeem one too, if you go to the password log. Well, no, I had all of them up through that one. I'm wondering if there's a glitch where, okay, it you you've it's It's cleared up. It's a cash thing. okay It's a cash thing. It's like, oh, you missed one. I'm like, but I just put it in.
00:44:07
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yeah kind of from zero to one when I entered one. All right, we're good. And I want to point out again that it's not going to take very long. I'm watching the chat right now. like oh new password It's going to happen. So it's the podcast. Cause you know, he was asking us about this the other day. Um, I do enjoy getting those, uh, passwords early on yeah like ask for everyone else.
00:44:32
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It's like you're special you get special treatment. I haven't spoiled it yet for anybody other than saying, no, it might be, might be coming. Maybe who might be coming soon. Who knows? Then a few days. Um, and as, as always, spoilers, keep it to yourselves for about three days. but That's all we ask is three days. And then we can post it in the, in the spoilers thing, but just do the DMS. This is just to like get people to listen and, you know, enjoy, but yes. And evidently struggle with how to spell that.
00:45:01
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Yeah, they'll struggle. You can DM people. You can DM it to people who ask. That's fine. Just don't put it in the chat. I love you. Thank you. Appreciate you. But yeah, we have any other questions for Belle before we move on to the ever so lovely tea time? ah You know, I don't have any questions. Do you have any questions for yourself? Oh, Jinx. Do mean do ah do I owe you a Coke? Probably.
00:45:26
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You can mail it to me or we can just, uh, next time that you're in the next time I'm in the greater Ohio area. Yeah. I'm going to head up that way. Okay. Mrs. Belligan is pinging me. He's like, I came to tell you, I'm going to bed. Like I got, we didn't hear anything. No, you're good. We can go into tea time. Let's go to tea time. So that again, you know, what are you working on?
00:45:56
Speaker
I think I gave that away already. I'm working on fancy violins, right? he Yeah. you're wearing your pine board you more Yeah. For PSA. Um, and that's, that's about it. Uh, I guess technically I'm doing flexible spending now that, uh, it's a little bit easier to get silver with truffles seemed to come in. Nice burst from that. So are you selling your truffles? You're actually selling. Hey, when they hit certain thresholds, I do sell them. Yeah. could Good. Good. Yes.
00:46:26
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We want people to like, a lot of people like hold forever, right? Like never sell anything. I mean, it's kind of the culture it is i don't know but we've we've made this happen. It was our, it's our own fault. It's our own doing.
00:46:39
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Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that and then I'm on a PSA one numbers at 11, which was fancy violence. I think on PSA, I'm still sitting at number three because I wouldn't mind waiting on for that. Oh, lima beans, lima beans, lima beans. Yeah. That was a bit of work.
00:46:58
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So eventually I'll get there. Whoever came up with that. Just I don't know learned who came up with that. I don't know. You really need to learn what what balance looks like. They have no idea how to how to write quests. You should get elegant back into quest writing move. I think we've learned that causes conflicts. I don't know. You would find ah the You would find that we have a much better structure to avoid. nice Yes, it's very regimented now. We have things it's it's on. There's checks and balances and you can't really go around like we used to. It's not in the wild west anymore. I'll just put it like that. Yeah, no, it's it's all good. It's all good. um It's funny because I know exactly what you're talking about. So we don't need to bring it up. We don't need to bring that up. It's all the best.
00:47:53
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The past is behind us, this is the truth. What are you working on, Forcepath? Forcepath, what are you working on? ah so i what did i Oh, in October, I cast 1,200,000 large nets and level nine to all of my pets.
00:48:13
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So I bought i bought large nets in trade chat. What was the reasoning? Because I can. OK, that's valid. And you and you were using our you we were using my page. The Forest Path and Booba can do whatever they want. Surely I was. Yeah, people had asked me what I was doing, and I would just link back Forest Path and Booba and can do whatever they want.
00:48:33
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ah So I have all level 9 pets now. So that was like, that was a lot of clicking if I'm being like completely transparent with everyone in this chat. ah That was a lot of like, cast, cast, cast, sell, cast, cast, cast, sell, cast, cast, sell. So I did that. I'm also working through the end of PSA. I'm somewhere there. um I've also got something in the works for end game players. So Belle, if you finish PSA, you're going to have something else to do.
00:49:03
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ah right It should be a good time, I think. So one thing I've found, and probably everybody already knows this, I'm just like the slow guy with my tips. When you're doing the the fishing thing and you're going through all your nets, yeah fish on your PC, sell on your phone, you can keep clicking, double device, much faster. um just I'm so old school, I can't do that. i just can his as sell can he so ah You don't have to move your mouse, it's glorious.
00:49:31
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You know, I'm sure that someone thought I was just voiding them because I was so fast at that process. They were like, Hey, are you like voiding these nights? Like, how are you buying so many so fast? I don't know. I just click really fast. here is a Huge mailbox to your mailbox is large. It does. It does help to have a larger mailbox. Uh, so, and it does also help to have Titan conquest experience. I think for Bell, he would know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:50:00
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So it was like a tap a tap frenzy. That was, that was clicking all clicking nonstop clicking as fast as you could click for as long as you could click. Yeah, that was, that was sort of like you clicking. Yeah. As long as it was actually you clicking, but that was, that was sort of the endurance game, right? Like actually you can click the better, but really it was more how long can you do it? I mean, like I think Bonnie, i I had people accuse me of using an auto clicker from like the video of getting to doing a level 99 run under an hour. I'm like, what are you talking about?
00:50:31
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just my finger and sitting the and click Yeah, I mean, but for me, and I don't remember, did you make it to God Tier? You made it to God Tier, didn't you? Yeah, I mean, so when I was when i was doing my God Tier push, I think my goal was 20,000 clicks a day, or something like that. So, like, to give you guys perspective on how click-intensive Titan Conquest was, like, 20,000 clicks a day is not a small amount of clicks, like, by any... It is a lot, yeah. See, Titan Conquest was before my time, I'm just, uh, love that game. Yeah. RIP. RIP. So what about you? What are you working on? bolin
00:51:11
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me At the moment, nothing. I should really be working on PSA, but I have like right now I'm just doing like the the Halloween getting the ghosts. I was working on trying to get all the buddy dolls, which I've done now. I spent all of my my tokens on getting the plane buddy dolls then to then swap with Buddy to get the you know, get a a good assortment because I want like a horde of buddy dolls to have a word.
00:51:41
Speaker
Yeah. Just to have the plain ones so that, you know, if, if anything happens, I can be prepared. Okay. That's cool. Don't take that as a hint or anything. I'm just saying this is what I'm doing. I want more buddy dolls. So you're saying there's going to be a rush on buddy dolls. No, there's no rush because you can just get them from the event shop. That's open still right now. So you're saying I should ask for them in a quest.
00:52:09
Speaker
If you ask for buddy dolls, I am going to string you up by your toes. I will. I will. So. You said the same thing to me about popcorn, but I did it anyways. That's true. That is true. But guess what? I had enough popcorn to cover it. I had enough popcorn to cover it. I was just upset to part with my popcorn.
00:52:28
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I'm just saying, I'm just saying. What's it called? Corn bags, corn prize bags. Yeah. Corn bag, whatever the old corn prize bag. Yep. So, you know, it is what it is. We're out here. I'm going to, I'm, I'm trading my tokens right now for three more buddy dolls. Give me some more of those buddy dolls. Did you have a lot of tokens leftover from the 4th of July event? No, I had zero. I had none. I used to call her nada, but I did this quest.
00:52:57
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I did the quest that you can get all those goats, the ghosts from. Right. So I got like 12 or something crazy. I have 26 buddy dolls right now. Yeah. So I had enough event tokens left over to buy like one of all the special things in the event shop. And then yeah, this is going to buddy dolls. Yeah. I think, I think everyone was really surprised when we left those in the void bag too. yeah So PSA, for those of you who are, are a little stressed about the event shop, you can also gamble your void bags for some of these event items.
00:53:26
Speaker
I accept the buddy dolls. I think the buddy dolls accept the buddy dolls. You cannot get the buddy dolls in a boy bag. I did. I didn't ensure that. Did you leave the regular one in regular ones? Not in because he's ah the regular buddy dolls in the house of cards. He was in there before, though. Was he? Yep, he was. So if you took him out, you should put him back because he was there. That's how I got a few. How do you know that? Because I've gotten a couple. I probably have a screenshot.
00:53:50
Speaker
I'm telling you, I promise he was there before. Well, he is not in the void bags. Well, we've taken him out. Void bags have been nerfed. Nerfed. Oh, man. You can let us all send pitchforks to Force Path. sir Not because I need them for quests. Yeah, that's a riot. Yes. I wait here. We should have made the mailable. It's pretty funny. Yeah, we should have one that's lit on fire. That's. me That might be fine. We should do that. Like we should. Porches and pitchforks. yeah Yeah. Porches and pitchforks. Okay. Where's that? Write that down. Write that down. I feel like people don't, uh, I feel like people don't realize that a lot of our best ideas are things that just happen randomly because we're more, because we're BSing in a chat room. probably Wow. Really? You're going to censor yourself to the people.
00:54:45
Speaker
Yes, I am. Guess why? They aren't redeeming them. So it's a waste to me. You're not even using the budget because these people aren't messaging me. Listen, listen, farmer meow mix, you really need to message Buba. It's going to be scary. There's going to be problems and or gal nervous. Listen, you better be because I'm going to take it out on you if they don't come.
00:55:12
Speaker
That's all I'm going to say. Yeah. that That sounds like threatening behavior. It is. If we should replace you with Belligan, you so much more calm presence. I mean, you could do that. That's fine. I'll just calmly nuke you. That's more like that. Brush up on your drawing skills there, Bell. Oh, replaced yeah. You got to really get it out there. Bell draws, don't you? I mean, I did a lot of the icons and a lot of the animated ones initially. Not because I have great drawing skills. Just because it's fun. I don't.
00:55:41
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but But it's fun. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. Like off the lawn's mind, but that's not really drawing. That's just, you know, that's the reason I draw is because it's fun. So I'm, I'm sickened by the amount of people in this podcast that are just having fun. Yeah. yeah I am having fun. I wouldn't be here. It's unconscionable. This is farm RPG. It is serious business guys. Like you should be optimizing your cultural but Agricultural farming then should be optimized. It should be optimized. I don't know. I take this very seriously. What are you guys working on outside of farm RPG? Anything interesting? Any video games, hobbies? You know, from a tee time perspective, you know, we talk about farm RPG a lot, but you know, is there anything you guys want to share about your lives outside of farm RPG that isn't going to get you doxxed?
00:56:34
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I do want to be clear. I'm not trying to get any one docs. That's true. That is true. Don't docs yourself. yeah so you Luckily, we're going to edit this. I also moderate at a website called RPG Crossing. It's for Play by Post Tabletop. We're all playing games. um I recently moved from just a moderator to one of the admins over there. It's a little bit more of a workload ah with some of the backend of stuff that I do. Congratulations. Thanks. Sure.
00:57:04
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Yeah, exactly. I know it was like you know on your farm and you're a ranger now. Here's some more work for you, right? and yeah I said that sort of sarcastically for a reason. you know but No, I kicked off a new play by post game using the 2024 rules of Dungeons and Dragons. That's been kind of fun. Very cool. Love that. Very cool. What about you? boobo Anything cool going on in your world? I mean, I had COVID that was fun. um I got it in Vegas though. That's where I got COVID. I was in Vegas, won some money on a slot machine on my first day and then stopped gambling immediately. So we love that.
00:57:42
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Yeah, we love that for me. Yeah, you're never allowed in Vegas again. I can't go back. I can't go back because I stole all their money. And by stole, I mean, I won a large sum on. wait Did they seriously tell you you couldn't come back, though? Oh, no, I'm sure I'm going to get mailers giving me free trips because that's what happens when you win a lot of money and you don't spend it because they want you to come back and so place yeah they'll send you like vouchers for free trips, which I probably won't use because I am not. great So if you get a voucher for a free trip, I mean, there's some homies in the chat.
00:58:12
Speaker
That's true, but you don't have my name. I could for the purposes of a free chip change my name. That's true. You could do that. You could pass us a boob on. That's true. I mean, you look kind of like a boob on, so it's fine. What does that mean? Just how it sounds, Bunch. Just how it sounds. But I've been playing a game.
00:58:35
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um I picked up Tiny Glade. Have you heard of this game, Tiny Glade? I have heard of Tiny Glade. I've been playing that a little bit um over the last day or so. It's very good. It's just like a builder. Yeah, a cozy, a cozy builder. It's just like you' making cute little houses and scenes and stuff. And then you can like walk around and take pictures. It's really good. There's like there's zero stakes. If you like just sitting around being cozy and like creating a castle yeah and just like looking at beautiful lighting and flowers and stuff, I recommend it. It's very cute. You've been playing another game, too. I've noticed. Yeah, I played a little bit of um web fishing, but I
00:59:11
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See the thing is is I'm trying to get it to work on my and my steam deck and it works on there kind of, but the the controls are not great. So like I have to actually play that on a PC and I'm, I never, this is my office as well as like, you know, where my gaming PC is. So I don't want to spend any more time in here than I have to, even though it's pink and lovely. I try not to spend a lot of time in here. That's fair. That's totally fair. What have you been working on? Any games you play anything fun? Oh geez. know like What's it called game, right? Satisfactory.
00:59:41
Speaker
Yes, the factory game. Yeah, yeah, my one of my very best friends who also plays former PG and I have been playing quite a bit of satisfactory, ah very, very nice to unwind after a long day, talk about life and family and stuff. So satisfactory, high recommend. We pulled you away from that, I assume tonight.
01:00:04
Speaker
No, ah that was going to it was supposed to be a four player gaming night. We were going to play core keeper. So that just hit one point. Oh, a month ago, I believe a month or two ago, it just kind of got pushed to the back because of satisfactory. I have a very busy gaming schedule. I don't know how I have. Yeah, I do. I mean, so I'm playing Space Marine 2, playing Ravens watch, playing core keeper.
01:00:31
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ah Playing a new game just came out today that I've been checking out, which is called Nimrods, which is a great little bullet heaven game. Soul Stone Survivors. Ask Libra, which is a ah solo action RPG from a single dev in Japan. Took him 15 years to make. A little little culturally outdated, but super fun to play.
01:00:56
Speaker
cool ah So i I keep myself busy when I'm not, you know, spending time with my family. And I try to keep my and I just finished reading the first three books in the ah Red Rising series. um but You would wonder when I do that. ah You would wonder when I sleep. um And the answer to that is I typically get about four hours of sleep a night. Yes. I that's how you get I'm like eight to nine kind of girly. You know me I got us I got to sleep.
01:01:22
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But also, spoilers just noticed, by the way, they've noticed the password. The password, they noticed. Oh, yep, there it is. oh Yes, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, new password. You know, but it happens every time. Yeah, it it's a so Firestream has been telling me to read the Red Rising series for for probably two or three years now. And I finally relented and I burned through the first three books last week.
01:01:48
Speaker
so do you Do you read, read or do you listen to the audio books? I read, read. Yeah. I'm a speed reader. Whoa. Oh, there you go. I'm a very slow reader myself. I can't read at all, actually. I'm completely illiterate. It's so funny. My wife ah has been reading a book and you know she was reading it and she was reading it and so we've been having like reading nights. We'll just you know pour a glass of wine, something comes together, read, you know maybe throw some music on.
01:02:15
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know, um, Apple music or whatever. And I finished the first book and she's like, wait, so you read an entire book and the time it took me to read like five chapters. And I was like, yeah, is that, is not normal? And she's like, no, that is not normal. So I learned that I read really fast recently. Yeah. Some of my kids are that way too. I'm, I'm a slow reader. I did set a goal this year to try to read 30 minutes of regular books. Hey, good for you. so god What are you reading? been doing that Right now I'm reading the Stormlight series. but in second book I love such a good series. I love a good Sanderson fan. We also have another Sanderson fan who hangs out in the spoilers chat actually, um who actually goes to DragonCon every year. ah so They have a, ah there's some beta rules available for a Cosmer tabletop RPG. I have them already. yeah played ah Played a version of that in an RPG Crossing as well. Oh did you? That's so cool. yeah that's so cool
01:03:13
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It's slow. We're like three weeks in and we, you know, falling down the first chasm, like okay first page or two adventure, just barely kicking off. It's slow and played by both. That's so cool. Yeah, I'm trying to think though, huh? I love the yeah but i listen at audio books too. Cause we walk the dog, you know, in the morning and the evening and all those audio books. We do that it about an hour of that and every day. So that's how I got through the red rising. Oh, have you read all of them? I used to be such a good girl. Okay.
01:03:41
Speaker
I love an audio book. there's there's There's four more now. I can't do audiobooks though. They talk too slow. You can put it on times too, you know? I'm just like, hey, let's go. Let's go. You can put it on times too. You can read and talk faster. But when I used to drive to work, when I used to have a commute, that was my favorite thing to do because I have a real hard time reading comprehension. I had to reread a same page like three times in order for me to understand what's happening because ADHD reading is just not my jam.
01:04:12
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but I can listen to it and then I remember the whole damn story. So, you know, um I might come here. I do podcasts. I don't know what you do. Bell. I do. I do. I do. Do some podcasts, do some audio books that kind of switch back and forth between just depending on anything how I got commute. but Yeah. My commute is from that door to this chair.
Work Commute and Travel Stories
01:04:33
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So that's it now. So that's what we do. We, we, we work from home. I'm either at home or I'm traveling somewhere.
01:04:41
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in in the States. Yeah, you travel all over the place. for Multiple regions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next time you're up in my area, hit me up. I'll take you to some of the good places. You come up if you come up in the Midwest.
01:04:55
Speaker
I have a smaller territory now. So my, my current role, I'm only covering Florida, North Carolina and then Southeast. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. It's better to be in a small territory. Yeah. I mean, last year I took my break. I was flying to Texas like every other week. It's getting to be a lot. Yeah. We kind of kind of cut that out, but yeah.
01:05:14
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that's a lot of traveling, especially with like all the people getting sick all the time. I would not just, I, I caught COVID like on my first vacation lead and this is the first time I've been on a plane since the pandemic. Caught COVID immediately. So like, come on. Yeah. love that Come on. You know, before, cause we're getting close to the end, but one person,
01:05:39
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One person did message me and out of total egotism, I wanted to answer this
Corn Jail Origin and Popularity
01:05:45
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question. Yeah. um So GLZL messaged me directly and said question for the next podcast. Which one of you guys loved or rather hated corn enough to create corn jail? What's the story? question I wonder which one of us did that. Which one of us did that there, Forest Path? I don't know, Belligan.
01:06:09
Speaker
I had nothing to do with that one had nothing to do with it. ah Wow. I'm going to give this, since we already are running over time, I'm going to give the very succinct ah explanation for corn jail ah back when the game really early started and bell can corroborate this. So I'm glad I'm talking with someone who is, who was there for the beginning.
01:06:30
Speaker
Runestone 11 was like the roadblock back in the day. Like it was the roadblock. Like y'all have no idea. So ah after a lot of cajoling and wishing that we had something like the temple, which exists now, um I finally ended up making corn quandary as a way to guarantee get Runestone 11. So.
01:06:54
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It was a mercy is the og mercy quest um it just happened to be that i'm an insane person and made a bunch of corn. ah Parodies out of it and i just took off from there i mean other quest writers took it and ran with it. I cannot take credit for some of the other means that i've come out of it but it's super fun and funny to me.
01:07:18
Speaker
And it just turns out that, that you know, 20 to 24 minutes is a really good growing time. So it just kind of works out. So sorry to those of you who hate corn quests. They're not going away. In fact, I think I'm going to write another one. Well, you've got corn of interest. You know, we just love corn out here.
01:07:38
Speaker
Yeah, there's a, you know what, I shouldn't say anymore, but yes, more CornQuest coming to a, ah yeah I'm hoping in January, ah you know, there's just so much that goes on in these last three months. Yeah, it's a really busy time. This is like the best time for the dev schedule. It's like everything every month. There's like so much. And also we have a ton of like family obligations on top of it all. So like, you know, things get ahead of us quickly.
01:08:05
Speaker
So I just wanted to address that appointment. and yeah So much knocked over and then then everyone's like, how can know this happen in November?
Festive Plans and Conclusion
01:08:11
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yeah yeah numbers coming December is like another, another giant crazy month because we like Christmas.
01:08:19
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Yeah, we like Christmas almost as much as we like Halloween. Maybe more sometimes, you know? Yeah. And I just realized that we need more quests to ask for milk and cookies. So. Yeah. Uh oh. better I mean, they can't they can't work on that yet. But, you know, it's coming for you. Sandy's Workshop. Sandy Claus. So.
01:08:39
Speaker
Ooh, I'm going to get myself in trouble today. I'm going to get some real nasty messages about this. I'm sure you will. You definitely will. But I think that might be the end of the app. I mean, do you guys have anything else you want to add?
01:08:52
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before we call her. I'm so glad to see you, Belle. And I'm so thankful for all the people that listen to our podcast. Yes, Sam. Thank you for coming on, Belle. You're always welcome to come on anytime you want. yeah It's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. do we ah Do we give a classic sign off? Yeah, we're going to give the classic sign off. So you know what that means. All right. Bye. Bye.