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Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, August fifteenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to the Giant Bomb Cast powered by Ennius to episode eight hundred and two. Welcome to uh, you know, God's favorite gaming podcast. That's right, we finally gained that distinction. I'm your host, jen Ochoa. I'll be the blue turtle that some people have problems with, but you gotta keep me around anyway, because I keep the pipes running, uh, and I'm just chilling

in the sewers. We got co Captain of the Ship X newsman, our own April O'Neil, and you know you'd love to see him in a yellow jumpsuit, Jeff Grub. I mean for audio listeners, who's to say I'm not already wearing one? And just shout out to the Pope for that, for that honor, by the way, I really appreciate it. Yes, yes, we didn't speci that. We didn't specify which god it could be one or all of them? You know. Yes, Shiva the Destroyer of

Worlds with Oppenheimer picked us next. Ess actually the only thing they agree on, yes exactly. I'm gonna ask if we could put I'm gonna ask him if we can put this on a shirt. He'll give me a face. It was like, I don't know, dad, but we'll do it anyway. Anyway. Oh, that's so good. We'll do it anyway. The the Casey Jones of the team, Jeff Backlar, Hey, that's me. Casey Jones is my spirit animal. I'm really proud for that comparison, So thank you, Jan. He likes hockey. You like hockey, you know,

well, I'm not. I'm not sure if he likes hockey. He just prefers a stick at the weapons in his toolbox. Yeah, in his golf bag, I believe is how he fashions his collection of weapons. But I have a really deep cut about Casey Jones and Ninja turtles. But let's introduce our special guest before we get to it. All right, we have our dearest friend, our special friend, the Outback Steakhouse of Games Media, Bailey Byers. Thank you so much. I'm glad that that one was me.

That's great. It had to be. There was no one. Oh look at that proof. Jeff mccars holding a Casey Jones mask in a box right now. Yeah, you're supposed to take this out. I would imagine at some point, but not just to scare your children at night when you go to visit them. Yeah, imagine just waking up your child wearing this mask and nothing else exactly like, we gotta go, we gotta go, get into the woods. We're going. Yeah, that's that's you know how

my family treated me? For sure? What actually, I take the outback steakhouse of games media. I take that back, Bailey. I'm sorry you are. I have never even been to Australia. To be fair, nither has out back. That's true. Okay, next time in La. Next time when we're in La, not only do we have to go to Bukadibepo to get a fun photo together, but we also have to go to an outback steakhouse. Let's go. I'm so excited back that much blooming onion.

But Bailey, as the you know, as as a site's dearest friend, you are also my my nemesis. So I think you are like the shredder of a giant bomb. I'll take it. Yeah that's fair. Yeah, yeah, it works for me here Leonardo and she shredded. That makes a lot of sense. The way you guys were just ribbing each other, cussing each other, out, yeah, exactly, throwing stuff on the side as soon as the cameras are off and everything. The turtles do need to curse

more. I gotta say, for a bunch of fourteen to sixteen year olds, they should be dropping like MF for a bunch more than they do for the good kids. The problem is that they would say like the bad ones, Okay, they would say the R word and stuff we can't have that they would fourteen year old I don't think fourteen year olds say that now. I hope so, I hope that the people I see say that on the on the internet are actually like forty five. That that's something makes me feel

a lot better than if they're fourteen. Not not to relitigate old turtle talk and old stuff that Jeff Backlar has odd opinions on. But Bailey, do you see Splinter as the turtles as father in the new movie? Yes? Wait, go on, well no, no, Maybe Bailey's got some points. Maybe Bailey's done a lot of our own research. Do you guys you want to hear from George from Florida again? Because I don't I don't know how how to say this. I don't have an emotional association with the eighties

Turtles. That was just not something I grew up on if I didn't have the VHS tape. So, as far as I'm concerned, the new movie is all that matters with Turtles and so wait, so if they had the same dynamic in the cartoon, would you then consider Splinter to be their father? It's the same dynamic in the cartoon Dad, He's he's got dad vibes

in the Roguan movie than he did in the cartoons. From my position, I think he was more of like a roommate in the in the in the cartoons, right, it's more like a rat roommate if you or he's like an unlockable character in the video game you're playing. Like in the movie, he's a dad, and he's a good He's such a dad. Oh my god. I just he's hilarious, probably the funniest one in the movie too. So good, Yeah, so good? Yeah? Where was Casey Jones?

I just like to say, hey, I've been asking where is Keeno been since Tim and T two? Secret of the Us? All right, right, Jan, Look, as much as I love Keino, I kind of think if we're if we're like doing a tier of like missing cameos start from there's a clear number one, but that kind of guts resolved a little Japanese kid from three three. I've only seen three ones. Yoshi everyone's favorite character, or Yojimbo the rabbit. Huh, now that would be cool.

I would take that. Uh. I forgot where we're going. I apologize. I was gonna make a weird deep cut comparison. Please please cut away, cut away. So I'm a big cowboy bebop expert, as everyone knows. Now, it's amazing. It's amazing. I've seen seven episodes of it, and it's amazing. It's totally redefined who I am as a person recently, live my life by that anime. He's gonna be insufferable when he finally watches FOULI Coolie, but I can't wait. That's going to change him in

a way that I don't anime is that? Yes? Whatever, it doesn't. It's like four episodes, Okay, back, he's already changed though. Once he eventually watches Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and then he meets Roy Mustang, He's going to be changed as soon as he gets into reviews Starlight. It's all over for you. Guys are all bringing up that such a deep cut that I'm confident none of you three. I just politely place this podcast.

Yeah, the funny thing about Cowboy Bebop is that I was afforded every opportunity as a college student in like two thousand to two. Time lines up so much with you should have just been like legally required to watch adult swim at that time, Like you weren't. It's weird, right, Like I was watching Aquitine, I was watching Sea Lab, I was watching Harvey Birdman, I was watching all the things. And then as soon as they were like, yo, it's two unami time, I was like, I don't like

anime. I'm twenty. Yeah, Like if that, if you would, if you would stuck around, like if you were just so how you didn't turn the channel and that first episode Cowboy Beboy started up, I would have been not saying that this autobiographical but it is. But like you're like you would not be able to look away, Like so you still missed it. I'm just no, I'm a piece of shit, Jeff. I'm old enough. I'm an adult enough to admit it this point. Thank you. As

long as we can all agree that I am a piece of shit. I was into Eon Flux back then. I was I, which is not really necessary, Like no, but you know it's got the same tone totally. It's it's insane. It's so insane. Anyway, I've seen seven or episodes of Cowboy Bebob, therefore an expert, and I recently watched the episode about

VT, the character VT. If I don't know if you're aware, but watching that episode yesterday and and then thinking about the turtles recently, VT gave off total Raphael nineteen ninety ninja turtle vibes, like the big trench code in the hat Tracy though, what's that? Isn't that just Dick Tracy? Who? Raphael Big? I don't think he was going for a Dick Tracy. Thing's got like a yellow Maybe maybe Casey Jones made a Dick Tracy joke,

Adams, Yeah, maybe maybe. Uh there's something about like big trench code, like you like you're hiding a turtle shell going out in camouflage. It's like I just felt VT, and uh, you know out at night camouflage fail. We're exuding the same energy in a big way. So if anyone can appreciate that, comparison. She's the truck driver, the space truck driver, right yeah, and she hates bounty hunters. She hates them. Campra's just dead Spikes biagle Chi right yeah. And did you guys play Neon White

at all when it came out? Oh? Yeah, God, I love that. I love that. Just Spike from Cowboy Bebop talk to you about angels and demons more than usual because he's talked about it a lot, a lot a lot. Yes, anytime he shows up anywhere, I'm very excited. Uh you know, while we're still kind of tangentially talking about the turtles. I don't know what compelled me to watch this, but I wound up watching the Michael Bay Turtle movies. Oh there, they they made choices in

those films. Man, that's like such a weird thing that you just Michael Bay's turtles move like, yeah, he did that while he was in his Transformers era that lasted forever. He also did teenage Mutant Ja Turtles movies, but like he produced them. Think about those? Hey, yeah yeah, but I do you think they have his signature on it? Would you believe me? Or I forgot this? Tony Schalub is splinter. Oh that's that's

kind of cool. I love Tony schalub O guy rules. I'm might have predicted that you love Tony schalub I like, come on, missus mazel dude, he's so good. I just like I could tell five other things before that, bail, you got a problem with missus masl what's happening? Not a fan? Okay, let's get into this before we get into games, because there's not a lot of games. Okay, that's okay. I'm not here to be a TV critic. Okay, all right, but we can

all agree that we like Tony Shaloup. Yeah yeah, Bailey, clearly Tony Galaxy Quest one of the best performances ever in a movie. He's the best. Just fantastic stuff. An alien. I like him a lot. In monk Uh, here's the Google doc. I almost forgot to do this, shouts out, even send it to me before. Oh no, I'm talking about the bad Google doc. This is just send it. I'm gonna put

in the chat for us right here. Wait. Okay, okay, I was like, grub be careful, no no, no, no, no, our chat yep okay, pooh uh right, let's talk about video games can't type I am, and I was like, Man, she's gonna get there. Eventually, she'll get there. Uh. You can't play video games most of the time unless you're looking at them on a TV or a monitor. But Jeff Backlar, you got a portable monitor. Listen to this. I feel like I've done something illegal. And I kind of went back and

forth. I'm like, should I even talk about this on the show, because once I once I start talking about this, I feel like I'm gonna be in trouble. Well I'm not gonna be in trouble, but maybe the thing that I'm using this for will break. Oh my god, look at grub monitor. Did you are we are we monitor buds? Yeah, let's listen. Listen, listen. I have a trip coming up, a couple of plane rides in my future. Oh you got the laughy leck one.

Yeah, it sounds like a Norris God if I Kia only knew in the nineties that all of its funny names were about to be exploded out by a website called Amazon dot com. Hey, hey, back, I could tell that we're homeowners making the ikea job. Yeah, that that lands with you two, right, Baylor? Totally? Yeah, I love sing love. It's like mortgage. It's forty whole dollars the interest rates. I'm gonna refinance this in a couple of years. No, it's a bad time to refine.

What are you talking about? Mow the lawn. I have the hoss. I have to have a lawn, even though we're in a drought. Can you say, hoaesome? Good job, that's really good. We haven't told out podcast points in a while, but Bailey gets them all today for sure, and I'm back like that, You're not allowed to do that. I'm ship twice today. Listen. I'm going to deduct twenty to six. I can, oh can? I can't afford that chap that puts me in

the red transferring that balance to Bailey's balance. Wow, I have to pay off this podcast negative balance. I bought a I bought a portable monitor for a couple of plane rides because my little one and I are through the fourth Temple in Zelda and now want to continue playing on our trip because there's you know, who knows how many hundreds of hours left in this game, and I'm like, oh, we'll just play this on the plane. I'm like, oh, wait, no, we won't because the screen on the switch

is too small to play with two people. It's insane. I realize people do it on rooftops, do it whatever, they do it, but I don't want to be that guy. So I bought a portable monitor, thinking like, oh, I'll just figure a way to like Jerry rig it together. And that's that, you guys. I thought, like USB out USBC

out video on the switch was like this very proprietary coveted thing. I just hooked it up to this monitor and it worked with the with the USBC cable that came with the monitor, and it worked like directly into the switch. Dude, I can demo for you right now if you want to see it, like it doesn't want to see it, it's insane. It just works. Wait okay, the raw naked port from the Raw Dog, the one that came with the monitor, and it just worked. No guess, wait,

no doc like no dock, no sands doc. Okay, I gotta see this then. Actually, yes, that's if you can't do it for scientific purposes, well, I'll larrate the whole thing for audio. You guys, got a vamp for a second while I set this up. Guess what also works the steam deck. Well, yeah, that that steam deck does make sense. But that's good. That's good. Yeah, because you guys are gonna have Yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah, there's portal monitor.

It makes a lot of sense when you start getting a lot of those devices. I feel like I'm about to really upset companies right now. The steam deck is like Gabe does, I don't care. I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the company that you should worry about it. Yeah. Yeah, well I hear you vamp. I'll show you the thing.

Okay, this crew vamping, that's that's going to be so difficult. I do want like I felt the DOC was necessary for that stuff because I guess maybe they just turn it off for the switch light and that's what I'm thinking of. So maybe that does make some sense. But I haven't feel the DOC is just so that it can like stand up and have a little dignity.

But you can really just plug it in anywhere. Yeah, well, I mean yes, I like, I feel like you couldn't take an hdm I or an USBC to HD my chord and plug it into a TV. But I think I must be wrong. Then I guess so yeah, I'm always confused, right because like USBC can like be thunder can be lightning sometimes right, it can. It can be so many things were so many. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, here I have something more upsetting out

back steakhouses calling their appetizers aussetize aussey Tizers ausseatizers. Come on, guys, they just ran out of jokes. You're like, now they did that thing where like you write the intrasection last, so they like did the rest of the men either, like great great banger after banger, and then they got to the appetizers, are like, fuck, what do we do here? Aussi Tizers? There, We're done? All right, I'm gonna take a joke and then I want Australian listeners to write in and tell me if I

need to stop making these jokes. Ausey Tizers sounds like the fight you get in before your fight. Like it sounds like you're you're gonna get your real fight in a second, but the aussee tizer, you're gonna have the little fight before the big fights. How can that be offensive? What is that? Ending? It's more offensive that you like apologize to Australian people before making the joke. Listen, do they care? Okay, as you can see my switch hook up in the with the bottom USBC. Okay, here's the

other end. I'm gonna plug it in. Okay. Now, is this monitor drawing from the switch? This this power? What do you mean? No, it's except so there it is. Wow, look at that. Okay, switch, the switch must be so yeah, the switch because the monitor does have a power. I am powering the monitor, right, So that's what I think. But I think it will still work if I take the plug out. Yeah, because that's the will Nope, it does not.

That's because it needs power. It does. Oh no, I don't think we had to do it had to get Look it's but it's like there's no power on it right now, and it's getting power somehow because it's displaying the no signal. Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, it might be drawing power, drawing like like just sipping a little bit. It does run by itself with the steam deck. So like if you just plugged the steam deck puts out enough power, I'd try to make yesterday. Yeah where is running?

But yeah yeah, port of the monitors don't usually have batteries, right because mine doesn't like that would be kind of crazy. I would, Yeah, you would need something pretty serious. But yeah, isn't that crazy cool? Yeah, isn't that? It's fantastic. It's like, why is that working? Are you worried about? Like there was a worried about like bricking switches early on by using bad docks, that seems to have mostly gone away. I mean at this point, who cares. You're right, they're like,

yeah, I got like four switches in this house somewhere. I could just fix an old one or something. Yes, you know, all right with house money at this point. Fantastic, fantastic. Well, speaking about switch games, mister Grub sounds like and it reads like on this document here that you beat Pickman four, I'd beat Pickman four. Yeah, I uh, well I got credits like twenty hours ago. So that's this game is making me like wonder, Like, man, what is he even beating a

game? Mean anymore? But I got credits twenty hours ago. There's a ton to do after that. Most of it, like it surprisingly keeps a lot of momentum even though you've mostly finished up with the like, oh, I'm gonna get a new thing that makes me more powerful. Or it makes my characters able to do more or finding new pickman. By then you're gonna

found all the pickmen. But like things like finding their onion, which enables you to grow these pickmen without just finding them out in the wild, something that for some of these more rare pigments around time. Yes, so like that like is still that was encouraging me to keep exploring the world, Like I'll just go get all the onions. I'll just set the little doggie to sniff out onions every time we get to a new level, and then I'll just go get those. And a lot of the ones I was finding are

the flow licks. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes, I was finding the flow licks, and that means you can have more pickmen in the world. But that caps at a hundred, so it's like at a certain point that just gives you like some power ups and stuff not actually not very useful at a certain point, and I was like, man, where's the white

onion? And as I was like exploring for it, I discovered the final the final stage, which is like this twenty level cave that you go through and it's like you're using all your pickmen in really interesting ways and I really loved everything up until about the last boss. The last boss is fine. The boss fights in this game are not really why I'm here. It's like

the exploration is really good. The sense of progression is really good, like as the loop is fantastic, just being a bunch of little guys around like Boston little and like getting more little guys so I could do even more the next day, Like so oh, that was a really good productive day. Now tomorrow I know I could do even more. That's what works for me. The boss fights are like, yeah, mostly you're trying to get them over as quickly as possible by just ramming your dog into him and sitting all

one hundred pickmen to attack him at the same time. And that's kind of how the last boss fight works as well, except for it has phases and I was not prepared with the correct pickmen and the game doesn't spell out that you needed to bring in a certain pickmen, like I didn't have any blue, yellow, or red pickman because the stage is like here, so let's just like have you auto select the pickmen you're gonna bring with you, And it didn't give me any of those, and I was like, that's fine,

I'm sure I don't need him, because this has been pretty handy so

far when the game was just like just bring these. So I go through all the twenty levels and then the previous level of this cave right before the final boss fight, there are these little flowers that you could throw your pickmen in to make red, yellow, or blue and some other things, and I'm like, yeah, I probably don't need that, like that's probably just optional, and I would only be able to get five of them because that's when the flower you put five in that spits out five red and then it

disappears you can't use it anymore. And I'm like, so this is probably just like in case you wanted to have a more variety for this final fight.

It turns out that that was a mistake because I got to the electric phase and I didn't have yellow pickmen, and so every and like the boss throws out these little electric yellow balls that send electric like lines all around in the circle circular pattern, and so I was like trying to dodge everything and then still attack the guy, but my pickman would get electrocuted and I was

screwed. So eventually I just like, I'm gonna hold all my Pickmen back in the corner and just send the dog out, because the dog was so powered up at this point that he could just go and do anything. So I had him like take away all those electric balls, and then we went an attack and we were able to get through it, and that was like

just frustrating instead of fun at that point. So it's like that's kind of like a little bit of a fizzle out there at the very end, but overall, just a fantastic game style, just some something I really really enjoyed spending a ton of time with. Like I took a break from Tears of the Kingdom specifically just to play through Pickman four, and then when I got the first credits, I did kind of consider maybe just putting it down, and I was like, I'm still being drawn into this, and now that

I've beaten it, I didn't get all the onions. I think I am done with it now, so probably won't go back because there's so much else to play. Although I would love a world in which no I would have one hundred percent that game. It's an easy game to one hundred percent in terms of like the desire to do so. But it's like man it's just not a very good use of my time right now. But overall, just like I'm still really in love with Pickman four. I mean you have a

writing credit because of it. So yeah, if you haven't watched the Honest Game trailer, Grub got a writing credit on it. That was a lot of That was a lot of fun. Yeah, I thought I trumpeted that up. That was Yeah, definitely. Bailey did a very good job of editing my jokes into something that resembled something funny. So they were very funny exactly, they were like ships. Yes, that's exactly what it was. I had had a good time with that. So yeah, that's what it

means to punch up a joke. I get it now, Yes, Bailey actually right. Yeah, I need everyone to just go to every single Honest Game trailers and say, like, oh my god, this is great. Bailey's Bailey's the best. Just just put that just comment that. I mean, like the shredder of games media, Grub. I need you to educate me and please excuse my Pickman blind spot, because I I just thought Pickman were weird, a bunch of little weirdos, and they are right. Was

it intended for the name Pickman to be evocative of kind of Pokemon. That's not the story they tell. The story they tell is that Shigeru Miyamoto design the characters to look like a type of carrot that sounds like Pickman in Japan, So like there, I don't know if the characters are actually called Pickman, but there's it's like something like Peka carrots or something like that, and he designed them after that, and that's where they come from. Allegedly,

I don't I don't know if it does. It does. Yeah, it does sound like Pokemon, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's like, let's try to confuse people. But that also doesn't sound very Nintendo. Okay okay. I think Shigeru Miyamoto would be would blow up on foraging TikTok. From the sounds of it, it sounds like his interests are very varied. He just loves being outside despite making video games. That's right. It likes to

play in the dirt. Speaking about playing in the dirt, I feel like I've been hitting a wall because I keep jumping in dirt and slipping in grease because I can't stop casting grease and Balder's gate three, starting to figure out why you might be slipping in grease. I have an easy fix for this one, jan Yes, don't, don't cask Grace. I can't are there are so many better spells. I can't help it, Bailey, I don't understand anything. I just got the handsome wizard Man and he had a grease

spell. I'm like, well, that's the only thing I'm gonna use him fail. Yeah, it's It's so funny because when when I started the game over after playing it multiplayer with with for the EPF grub, we completely missed the wizard Man and we we wound up in jail. Oh so wait, which wizard Man is this? He's the right, yes, Gail, Well, not the cover art guy, not the one with the silver hair, right, that's Stan's not He's not a wizard he's a rogue vampire. Yeah

right right right? Uh. And then like we I pulled the wizard Man out of the portal and then I was like, oh, what's up, dog? And it's great. It's great. Yeah, probably that we missed it, and this makes it sound like we were looking We were not looking for anything. Well, I'm happy that we didn't come across it. At all, because yeah, yes, yes he's been saved. Grub you put on the dock that you've been playing it, I've also been playing it,

as I understand, Bailey, you've been been playing it, yep. I'm like, I'm I'm still at a point where, like I said, I was trying to be picking for and Tears of the Kingdom. So I'm like, I keep dabbling in wallters Gate three trying to honestly get over my intimidation

of it. It's just like I could see how it takes up all this time, and it's not just like a shallow time, it's deep time, Like you need to focus in on this stuff and learn all these mechanics or make an attempt to wear the mechanics to find some fun in the stuff. And I'm still at a point where I'm not sure what that process is going to look like for me. So I'm kind of curious to hear if you guys have any tips and sort of like what that process, what that process

was like for you. Uh My tip, Bailey, you've probably put way more hours than I have. My tip is is just yolo grub, it doesn't matter. That's kind of what I'm think I'm gonna have to do. Yeah, I'm little Blocks Vibe. Yeah yeah, say that again. I can't not hear that enough. Yeah. I rolled with a little dwarf named Block Lesno and and he's very brawlick. He's great. And then I'm just punching people in the face. But I'm very empathetic and I keep trying to

break up fights. I don't have enough charisma, so it just devolves into a fight. It's great, that's that sounds like Block West for sure. I lifted up our game and there was Block Wesner just completely naked with his dick out. It's like, oh, yeah, that's where we left everybody. Fantastic, fantastic. Yeah. I have a rogue. Her name is Flip Bailey. She does flips. It looks like me, Uh, it's

been good. I mean, like the thing the problem is is like I'm very deep into it, like I'm I'm near the end of the story and I'm hoping to finish it after this. But I was hoping to finish it last night and I kept hitting this like heart that I couldn't get past this fight that was insane that I could not get past. And I was just like I was like, I don't know, I think I short circuited. I like, I couldn't. I couldn't do it anymore because I like the

game so much. But it is sort of like playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons with the worst dungeon master you've ever encountered in your life. For the folks at home, Bailey that don't know what a bad dungeon master or DM would would mean. What what do you mean by that? Well, they want you to do things in a specific order. They are really weird about like mechanics, like, uh, they're buggy, and they keep crashing the game for some fucking reason. All the minis off the table, anytime

something, anytime you try to open up your phone or whatever. I heard that this game makes all other Triple A games look like lazy developers by comparison. I was going around on the internet and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's people just aren't getting to the bugs yet. There's infinitely the takeaway. Yeah, so yeah, how are you? Because like when I imagine Dungeons and Dragons play at this point, I do imagine all the podcasts I've

listened to. I've never played it myself, and in those situations, the d M is always very accommodating, Like the whole point is like you are here to have fun, but maybe it's more important. It's like wrestling, it's more important that the other person doesn't get hurt. It's more important that the other people are like have fun as well. If you play that way, everyone will have a good time because they'll do the same for you. It's like that Golden rule plus one, Like golden rule, dude, what's

best for everyone else as well? The game just can't it just can't do that, right. It has to be a video game first, right, Yes, so you've got dungeons and dragons mechanics, but a game that's actively trying to screw you over at all opportunities, and it is at times deeply

infuriateing. You wind up making one wrong decision and soft locking yourself out of entire quest lines because you answered a question wrong, and now you have to kill all these people or they're going to kill you first, and there's no way to talk out of it. Like, have you been doing gets a little frustrating. Have you been doing any any saves coming, Bailey? Or have you just been rolling with this little on onl on, like big important roles that I can tell that if I mess it up, I'm really gonna

lock myself out of something important in the story. I am going to save scum. I don't typically, I wouldn't typically, but in this situation, And please no, it's only in like desperate situations because loading up one of these games takes a full fucking hour. So like I'm when I'm doing it, I'm really meaning it, like it matters. I'm feeling that pain like

it hurts me every time. I'm really enjoying my time with this and this being one of my first instructions to like heavy heavy dice rolls and everything, and like, okay, shit, all this stuff really does matter, huh. Like like you said, Bailey, I have been soft locked out of stuff that I've seen people talk about. I'm like, I don't know who that person is. Yeah, it may see like people fail like the oh this is a zero skill check and then they get a critical failure and still

falance. Like I like that the game makes that possible, Like that is that is a cool thing to see? Yeah. Yeah, it just goes to show it doesn't matter how good you are or something you can still really fuck up exactly. I will say I've seen people post like videos of like later game scenes or gameplay, and it does seem very very intimidating with having to juggle MMO style hot bars after a while, Bailey, has that been like a problem at all or have you kind of just settled into a flow.

I haven't had that much of a problem with it, and I don't play MMOs, so like if anyone else is having a problem, that feels like a skill issue to me. This was like a friendly question, Bailey, because I was just trying to gauge where people were. Okay, all right, Jeff Backlard, you do you want to play ball? There's Gate three or something. Backlard's in full defense mode. He this is like because he Backlark. Can I try to like diagnose because i'mn't think I'm in a

like close to be where you are. Where it's you see, like, I see other people having a lot of fun with this, and I I think I want that for myself, But there's also a good chance of having FOMO because it might just be physically impossible for me to spend the time on this game. I need to actually have that time, so it might be easier to just be like, I don't care. I don't want to.

I don't want to actually get into this game. Yeah, Like, I'm definitely lying when I say I don't care, but it's yeah, it's it's a it's a necessity, it's a it's it's out of necessity. I'm lying because I have to lie because I physically can't put this square peg in a round slot. Like it's just simply not feasible. It's a naughty slot.

I don't want. I mean, look, I don't know. Maybe one day, you know, in my fifties, I could play Baller's Gate three next year, you know, jem I felt bad after I said that, I'm sorry you You realize you've walked into Dan Reiker joke territory. Yeah, I know. You know, Bailey, you're better. And then I thought like, oh I can rip too, though, Okay, you're better than him, better than him, Okay, alright, alright, yeah I don't know what kind of slot is square, but you understand my analogy, isn't

it. Okay, No, we don't need to talk about you know, you know it's anyway, so like, yeah, it sucks. I would like to play it, but like some I forget one of you guys were telling me like, oh, even if you want to try it, like, you still have to know a lot of stuff, and I don't know, it's like common game of the year. I'm obviously gonna probably have not even touched it yet and I'll be in trouble. So you know whatever, I think that you uh don't have to know stuff necessarily, you just got

to play the right class in that situation. Yeah, you can know nothing. Yeah, I would say if you're like new to the concept of dungeons and dragons, I wouldn't go with like a magic class. I would go into like a fighter or like a rogue or something like. I wouldnt giving me advice on the thing I said, I'm absolutely not playing well. I think, oh, it sounds like you're just afraid, And I think that if you had a little less fear in you, maybe you would try this

game. Because as much as I hate it right now, it actually is a great game and I think people should play it. I think you're a part of it. Here's a part of it. Oh yeah, that's the same for me. Yeah, And the console version is coming out next month. Which I'm actually very curious to see how that turned out because I've heard really good things. Uh, and it is actively breaking my PC every time I open it. I can hear my PC going like like underneath the casing.

It's like apparently like Zen two chip pcpus or all that matters. These are relatively new CPUs, Like I just gave one to Mike, an older one that I had, but it's like a really good one, and it's like apparently that's struggling with Boulder's game. And I was like, oh man, already these CPUs are being outdated by this this CRPG. But that's the kind of game that would do it. Yeah, you would have thought that, like the fomo would have really taken a hold of me on this one,

right, like because I am so prone to that. But like it's just not and I'm trying this big It's like I think it's easier to be like yeah, right, there's plenty of plenty of other stuff to play. I gotta get it. It's like I don't need to see the Grand Canyon.

I know it's this huge fucking hole in the ground. Fuck it, it's enormous, it's huge, it's whatever I'm just gonna skip over it, but that people will be like, no, you've seen in a person who's different, and of course, of course it is of course flown over it a bunch. Ye fine, I know we're gonna get the Game of the

Year and what's gonna happen is Zelda. Like I'll go and assuming Zelda's obviously a luck and it's gonna be like, actually, Boulder's Gate's gonna have a ton of support, So like, I'm like, I want to give it a chance before we get there, because I don't want to be rushing it at the end of the year. So I'm gonna go. It's just hard. Yeah, I feel like Balder's Gate is gonna have a ton of support, and I don't think it's gonna walk away empty hand. I think that

would be bananas. But I do feel like Gelda Zelda still is Game of the Year for me person only having played having finished that one and getting near the end of Boulder's Gate just yeah, just just yeah. Some people actually have finished Cheers with the Kingdom at this point. Jan I know, based on talk to based on who YouTube talk to, it seems like an impossible

feat. But it is actually quite doable. I'd recommend trying. Actually no one else does it as it's Yeah, it's just still in the game of the year for me because with between Balder's Gate and Zelda, Like with Balder's Gate, it's incredible what they've achieved. With Zelda, it's also incredible what they've achieved. And at no point did I rage quit it. I was just having a really good time the whole time. Yeah, see that,

that tells me everything I need to hear. Okay, you know, once I hear that, like people are actively upset at Balder's Gate occasionally, Like, you know, I don't need that. I don't need that angry in my life. My angry enough. You know. It's a card game break on stream because I needed to like just not play something that was going to crash my computer every three seconds or yell at me because I inexplicably rolled a one on a lock pick even though I'm a rogue with seventeen dexterity. It's

fine. Sometimes your hands are tired, but speaking about cards are tired. Speaking about a card game break, Bailey, I see that you've been playing and streaming Slay the Spire. Yeah, that's the card game I've been playing when I don't want to play Boulders Skates. It's very good, very one of the same. They've got similar concepts. I'm obsessed with Slay the Spire.

I only started playing it this week. Someone recommended it to me in my stream shot at to Jack after I got became obsessed with Inscription and I wanted another game, and he was like, Oh, You're gonna love this, and he was right it. I have been playing it just this week, but I've Slayed the Spire once. I feel like I'm freakish good at it, and I'm so excited to keep doing it because it is. It

is the most addicting game I think I've ever played. I am obsessed with it to a degree that I haven't been obsessed with anything in like a really long time. Yeah cool. I had a Slave the Spire problem as well, or when it initially came out, and then like they as people are telling me like, oh, you gotta you gotta turn on the quick option or whatever the fast mode is. I'm like, oh shit, this is a whole another gear. You go into the options, it's like slightly faster.

I forget what it does because it's been a hot minute. Oh Bailey, if you like Slay the Spire, there's another game that is exactly like Slay the Spire, but on a train Monster train. There we go, what what? But I love trains? Was gonna recommend this? I haven't played either. I've I've had both, like on my prephery, but like, obviously it's not gonna happen this here. But I definitely could say you're both, Like jan, you've played both, which one would you recommend first?

I am still leaning towards the Slay the Spire camp because that is not an easier roguelike, but a more digestible one rather than Monster Train Monster Train. You have to balance three lanes versus just the one. Cool. You gotta be a jungler, got a little mobile style exactly, you gotta be a little mobile. I love roguelikes, and I'm only recently really getting into card games, and this is just me. It seems like there's a whole

world for me to unlock out there. I thought the bent of honest game trailers is going to turn very far away from Triple A titles and just right into like a very specific late card just card game joke. After card game joke, people are going to get so sick of it. We're gonna lose all our subscribers. Sorry to my bosses. It's gonna be worth it. It's we're going to find the right audience. Roguelikes and card games are two of the best genres that are the most like. If you mention them,

people are like, oh, I don't like those games. I'm out here. That's like, oh, you know you. Roguelikes are just the best thing you could do, Like, the best thing you could turn a game into is a roguelike. And then card games. You can't put out a card game unless you've thought about the mechanics so hard. I mean by like what makes them fun at this point. So it's like, if you're putting out a card game in twenty twenty three, it's probably gonna be a good

time. So yeah, up for those. I was thinking about this when I saw you streaming Slay the Spire Bailey, but I was thinking, holy smokes, have I been wrong. My whole life is math actually fun? Math is fun? Huh. Math can be fun. I didn't like math when I was growing up, but then when I worked a retail job and math became if you can do dixty percent off, you can figure out how

much you can buy this item for Shundley. Math was a blast, and now math is in game and game and game even more fun than works like math Blaster, Like that's why I learned that like a math blaster. All right, game dev's listening to this podcast. Here's a free three million dollar idea. Here's your new roguelike or your new game idea to make all right,

Basically, you just hand out change. You just hand out change because as some of that has worked a register before figuring out the proper change to hand out with coins very satisfying. Just turned out into a game, turned

into ye have like the game well that should absolutely be a thing. And then like make it all complicated too, Like level two is like, oh but they're returning something and you introduce new currencies, right like you're just like, well, now you're getting making it, and you get sucked into a fantasy world where like they have like not just like dollars and cents, they have like gold and silver and buttons and stuff, and someone's trying to write

a check and then you get nobody else can have this idea. Yeah, thank you, Bailey. Yeah, one of these days I gotta learn how to develop a game, and then we'll it'll happen. Guys. Well I think you just tell chat GPD to do it now it will happen. Oh totally, that's what I heard. That's what I heard. Yeah. And then just think about when you got to introduce cup ons and everything, right, yeah, I love cup ons. What no, that's DLC. The

coup ponds is all DLC. Okay, all right, and then and then you could have like a peripheral with like you gotta scan the cup on and everything. All right. Oh that's yeah. There's something really satisfying about this game. I want to play it. Good job, what's it called? What's it called? What's it called? Uh? Chap two? Change change makers? A better change makers? Yeah? I like change makers. I do think that's good. Yes, yeah, okay, now there's actually a

TM. Now there's actually a TM there. All right, guys, Yeah, game devs, we're homies, we're friends. I love I love everything you make, but don't work fifty fifty with you. Yeah, this this is why I should just produce stuff, because is the thirty meter? Is the seventies them to you to decide. It depends on how good of a lawyer you get. I guess you got to get a lawyer. Now change No, it's a business. Change the logo. Yeah, c is there.

You get five hundred podcast points, change makers, plan making sense. That's the deal. See with the Kupins. J Yes, the cup Ons, the Kupins. Uh, Grub. I don't think you've beat this game yet? No you have not. No, I'm like not even really trying to beat it. I'm having fun doing it. Wh Wow, that's like you know, we're twenty minutes away from our destination. It's been a long drive to get to the airbnb. Dad, please just pull over, Like,

we don't need to stop by this jam stand. We've already bought twenty pounds of cherries. Grub, you wrote on this dock here you continue to have game of the year moments in Tears of the Kingdom, and you know we'll call this the game of the week because I have a little discussion.

I want to to get Oh fun, Okay, it's earned it, so yeah, I uh, what happened was I've seen Baldishkate three happening and I'm like, well, I gotta click some time to that, but now I like looked at like what's coming up very soon in terms of reviews or review code and stuff like that. I have to in Tears of the Kingdom by let's say, like by the end of this week. And so after as soon as I beat Pickman four, I jumped right back into Tears of the

Kingdom and spent all weekend playing it again. And I've had the like the quest I've had. I think it's probably where backlard you're you're probably about there. It says a crisis at High Rule Castle. Can I interrupt you real quick? I will interrupt you real quick. Okay, it's a change makers. There's like sec after you get the change. Occasionally to break up the flow of gameplay, you have to bag the groceries and then it becomes like

a resident evil for inventory game. And I know we have one of the you can do like ry Hatsworth where like both games are happening at the same time. This fucking game would sell a million units on mobile. I promise you, you know I know nothing about like three dollars on Steam and make a ton I don't know nothing about game development. I'm going to go buy a whiteboard after this and make a like a tree a chart yeah whatever, tree, come on, take a tree. Okay, I just do this,

all right, Just just make a game everyone, all right? Please? No no, no, no no no. We should do a game jam. We should just try to figure out and then TMNT. All right, please please make the game your cowards, all right. Anyway, I'm supposed to be going to Hirol Castle. I went in there and cooked my head in, and uh, what I did is like I discovered the soldier armor and that's what I'm trying to upgrade as well. I'm like, you know what, let's go take care of a few things while I try to

get the stuff I need to upgrade this armor. I need like three high Knocks guts and five of the Zoflo's tails, all kinds of stuff, And basically that means going out and just farming enemies I killed. I don't know. I think every Highknox that was in the world, which are like the

big cave troll looking guys, I got killed everything. And this is like the base level Highknoxes because I think they drop the things I need, and I got like maybe two Highknocks guts, so I'm like waiting for the red moon to come back, right so they can respond, Yeah, the blood mood and is it a million times? How do you not know what it's cold? I skip it every time. Yeah, well sometimes it doesn't let me skip it. You got to hit the X and then start right away.

Like in Breath of the Wild, she the blood moon rises once again. She sounds like this weird lady. Maybe my ability to tune things out. Oh my god, that's really impressed. Anyway, Yes, I'm waiting for the blood mood to come back, and so I'm like, I'll take care of a few other things out in the world that I was having fun with, and I'm doing like all the pen missions and stuff, the journalist

missions, and that's I love the journalist missions. I love. When I ran out of those, I was like, genuinely sad I didn't have any more to do. That guy's the best. I think they're in love. I'm pretty sure they're in love. Oh yeah, like they are. Like it's there's a lot of tension there and I really like it a lot. Like there was a fun one where like there's this the all clucking cucko.

I think it's how you say it, yes, yes, and it's like the oh, this Cuco that can tell you the fortunes and stuff, and everyone goes and gets in line and tries to hear their fortunes and all it really has to do is a bunch of like go get on that building and we'll tell your future or whatever. And it's like all these challenges. It's really stupid, but I really like it. And of course the Cuco spoilers is it. I mean you know this, come on, everyone knows this.

It's a Yiga Clan guy in disguise and he pops out and he fights you, and every time something's like from the Yiga Clan, I'm like, yeah, I love these idiots. They're so dumb, they're so stupid. They're like the worst criminals ever, and I love just beating them up. So I was presents in this game, like have you explored much of the downstairs area? Because you wow, you a hundred wait downstairs, you've hundred

percent of the downstairs and you haven't finished Crisis in High Rule Castle. So that brings us to the next thing that happened to me my Game of the Year moment. I was just like, in doing one of these pen missions, and I was so buy the one of these stables, and I talked to someone It's like, hey, that fucking up there, huh. I'm like, yeah, that's it looks like there's probably some fun stuff in there.

I should go check it out. Very good point video game. And so I I clean up some of the pen missions and I'm like, okay, I'll figure out how to get up there, and I build I don't know, I built like an aircraft or I think I built my hover bike, and I hover biked into these clouds and it's it's pea soup. You cannot see shit, like it's so so so foggy, and I'm starting to get the point, like the idea, like I'm not supposed to be here, but the game won't stop me. And boy, that's just about the

best thing in the video game that that I enjoy experiencing. So it's like, you're not supposed to be here, but if you want to be here, feel free to do it. And I'm like finding land occasionally and my my shrine sensor goes off. It's like, hey, there's something nearby. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna find this, so at least I can get a checkpoint up here that I can fast travel back too. I forgot about my portable fast travel points. I should have just dropped one of those,

but I'm like, I'll find this shrine and I fell. Should we should we put a spoiler tag there's you can make you can make travel. Okay, it's been half a year. We can I'm gonna talk about the game a little bit, so I need to just need to follow up with you after this. Okay, Yeah, are we talking about the group of sky islands that look kind of like a dragon. Yes, Okay, back on this. I am going to get into the spoilers now. So okay, okay, let me let me just hey, folks, if you're watching

and listening, quick spoilers. Yes, So, I I fall off the island and I'm falling through the clouds and I'm like shit, and I'm just trying to find any other island to land on, and it's I can't see anything. I can't see five feet in front of my face. So I'm like just I'm like hoping I get lucky. And then the shrine Stansor goes off again and I'm able to like triangulate the direction I'm supposed to go in, and I land right on this island and I'm like, okay, I'll

guess I'll find the shrine. I find the shrine, I turn it on, and then I turn around and there's this weird mask behind me, and I pick up the mask and it shines a laser beam down to the ground, and I'm like, what, I've never seen anything like this in this game. What is this? And so I glue that to a plane and I fly to follow the ways or beam down because it's like one of those those shrine crystals that you need to take there it tells you where to go,

and I follow it down. We go underground, and all of a sudden, I'm in this big thing that I've seen before, Like it's called like the Left Leg Shrine and the Right Leg Shrine. I've been there before. I again, I've one percent of the downstairs. And then all of a sudden activates and I'm putting the pieces together of this big machine. And all while this is happening, I look at my menu and it says, oh, by the way, your main quest has been updated. I'm like,

wait, what this has been quest stuff? I thought I'm just going to the castle to defeat again, and this is incredible. There's so much more in this game, and it's like I could just stumble. Sequence breaking is fun. Sequence breaking and such a large game like this feels like I have ownership of the experience in such a way that it just it blew me away. I won't get into too many other details because it's like, I'm just gonna talk about what is the quest? But doing that was it blew

me away? And I'm just like, yep, this is this is it for me. This is the exact kind of game I want. All are folks, were We're clear, We're clear, We're clear. Thank thank you listening. Sorry, my mind is like, so you probably I think a lot of you did it in the right order. You didn't, So I'm like so desperate to hear what that is. So we should eventually do a spoiler cast. We should. My major, my major thing with the Depths

is I'm a little scaredy cat with a coward's heart. So I was like very afraid of going down there because I didn't want hands with eyeballs to my soul. God, have you ever beaten one of those? Yes? Well, now I have a lot of times. I'm not afraid of them anymore. Eventure, I think you need to write doing one of the main things you will you will have once you are done with Crisis and Higher Rule Castle,

you will know how to beat them. Okay, so that's still like the thing there, even though my main quest updated, like I did this other part of the main quest. Now it's been like lopped off and I'm still at Crisis in hierro Cast. Yeah. No, exploring the depths has been a thing I've been like doing on my own time, like because again because also again I was trying to get through the game in a week. Ye works, So like I was like, exploring the depth seems cool,

but this is something I'm just going to have to get exactly exactly. Like Oh, I decided early on, since I wasn't doing a review and I didn't have that time pressure, I was going to get myself the permission to explore this world how I wanted to, and very quickly I'm like, I think I just want to percent depths. A big part of that is realizing the connection to the surface world, and that made it easier to spot all the shrines on the surface because they're their linked together. So I was like,

that way I can get all the shrines. And I'm not like one hundred and twenty five shrines completed, and I'm like, I've realized there's one hundred and fifty two. So I'm probably not going to do it because I don't want to do a pixel hunt to find the last few. But you know, that was fun. Also, it turns out like the names of the shrines and the names of the roots, the light roots, they're the same thing. They're just backwards and forwards. And it took me the entire

game to realize that. Yeah, all that stuff so fun. So I was like, I'm glad I could play the game this way and I didn't try to rush it because I otherwise I think I would not have done so many of these things. And really it's just confirmed it for Game of Bear for me. So I just love seeing folks in the chat make that connection. So the way I'm playing this game, what's that turboshn to make a joke about what how Mike got a Nintendo jail for saying how many careful numbers

I plan? So I'm playing this with like my kid kind of being the driving you know force like he has like yeah, exactly, he has like the agency, right, and he's like, we gotta do the regional phenomenon like right away, and we kind of mainline that a couple side quests here and there. Have you guys done the dragon tears? We've done too. You need that's what you need to do next, Okay, So it is

so amazing. So yeah, I could see what that is, sort of leading up to the one that's like tattooed on a outain near the Lightning Temple. I like, we like can't find it. It's there. I'm just trying to get a pie and like look for the one that's a bit Yeah, I know you brute force it too. Yeah, for sure. Time So looking around, but like you know you talked about I heard about one of those things you were talking about with like a new sort of censor.

There's like an ability we still don't have that. I know because I played the preview and we don't have that yet, right, And I'm like, that's like doing the I'll just get like give you the right direction? Is that? Okay? I don't want to spoil any sure, that's fine. If I think if you do any of the stuff with the scientists Robbie yeah, and like going down to the depths and finding Yeah, so like I want to do that with that stuff. I just like stumbled on that stuff

as well. And then later I'm like, oh, I'm gat excited and talk to this guy about this other thing. So talk to him. Yeah, like I want to do that stuff, Like there's there. I think they are main quests. They're considered main quests, but they're not like the main main like one a stuff. So I feel like on this trip we're gonna I'm like, let's be explorers, right, I'm trying to like, you know, push that agenda on him, like we should explore more.

We shouldn't just like go to the dot. We have to explore. We got to find this stuff. But the depths are scary. I get it, Like I like, yeah, it does not want to go there, Like that's what I feel the exact same ways barely where it's like I am scaredy cat, I definitely am. And I'm like I just got to force myself for myself at it. So I know what's in the shadows and it usually it's just a big frocks, a giant frog guy and playing I can

outrun him. But yeah, the major for me was when I put a big light bulb, the big light bulb plant on my hoverbike so I could just like light up the whole thing as I'm flying around. That's very helpful. I locked it for me. Yeah. The major thing that made it easier for me to feel comfortable walking around down there was upgrading my getting the

gloom outfit and getting the minor outfit which closed. Both of those things have been critical in my fearlessness and being able to just sort of freely tromp around down there, and also doing the thing that you accidentally did made a big difference, Jeff, because you can just hop on its back and walk. Put the fucking since so insane that that's just in the game. A man. I love it. It's it's it's taken over so much of my life and of my gaming life, and it's it's just the best. Yep,

it really is. I'm I am going to try to beat it, you know what, Okay, all right, I believe in you. Yes, I just got to commit to it. I feel like I've been putting it off because I'm a baby gamer, right and I feel like I'm gonna give myself a deadline. Okay, I'm gonna give myself a deadline, and I'm gonna put I'm gonna put put put some put some steaks on it, all right, okaypp some sloppy steaks. Okay. If I do not finish Tears of the Kingdom by our packs West panel, sure, I will shave my

head at the panel. Holy shit, why would you just do? Why would you just walk into that? You just worked yourself into a shoe? Right? Is that the right way to use it here? You just want to shave your head? It definitely does. But but listen, if you get to it where you don't like, just let me know. We'll get on. We'll get on the site and we'll just start streaming it and I'll just we'll co work. You know, what is the body doubling thing.

I'll be there and I'll be on your side. We'll get it finished, all right. Just let me know, all right, I'm here for you. Let me plead yourself, let me tell you, let me let me give an image of where folks are. I only have seven hearts. Oh my god, dude, you're fucked. But but I got two and a half stamp on the circle's baby. Okay, all right, so you get too, don't worry. Yeah, there's no no, no, that's that's how I rove. Okay, all right, yeah, have you gotten the

Master Sword? Nope? Well no, no, no, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes you have yes yes yes. How'd you listen? No? Well, you know what? You know what? Pax is very soon? Are you not aware of when it is? Like? No? No, no, I no, I know. Hey, there's gonna be in a cave with a box of scraps. Sorry your head, man, Man, every chance I get to use tech quote, I'm sorry, shave your head? Jin uh can that? Hey, there's gonna be It's gonna take a while to get

two packs? All right, so you know literally? So all right man, that's really good. Yeah, okay, I like this. It's like a race. It's like the Great Race. Okay, and can run to give some some inside baseball? Uh and which is shouldn't be inside baseball? Should be public baseball? Actually? Uh a, our all baseball is public? Our our packs panel, the official giant bomb? Uh? Pot and

anyone have anything else? Talk about Tears of the Kingdom before we we go to break yes, but like no, yeah, I think always always a little bit. I have more to talk about next week. All right, all right, if you do the school house side quest, you can grow crops. Okay, continue? Oh yeah, I know this. I didn't need to know this, all right, Folks make us money and carrots as you want. So. Uh. The Giant Bomb is returning to Pack's West. As we said a couple of weeks ago, we finally have the dates

for our panels. Those are locked in right back loor. Yeah, they are locked Okay, okay, cool. I don't know specifically which theaters or

sections they're in, but I do know the time slots. Uh. Grub Lucy Tam myself will be part of a panel hosted by Jennie Stoble on Friday night, September first, at eight pm, I believe, and then the Giant Bomb voicemail dumb truck rolls into packs West with those same people, grub Tam Lucy myself and our love lovely robotic friend robot Mitch joining us as well Saturday September second at five pm. Yeah, and I know that the it's named after a winged creature. The name of the room that we're in,

so I means it's on the top floor. That's how they do it. I think we have this. I'm gonna find it, give me a second, so we'll Uh yeah, I can. I think I can finish this game by September. Yeah, yeah, I can do that by September. First, we'll be taking live voicemails. Sorry, just subscribe a live voicemail like what you know. We'll have like your call. We'll have your our regular editor check in, and we'll we've seen at Packs, what our time

has been. Tam and Lucy have never been to Packs or Seattle, I believe, so it'll be fun. Also, we will take some voicemails from the lovely folks at home seven h seven Exit Flu, And then we'll take voicemails from the lovely folks in the theater. Yeah it's in the Blue Jay. Yeah. Uh theater that's level five of the Summit Building. Okay, yes, uh. And you know, loose loose plans of maybe we'll we'll

we'll have we'll, we'll take over a bar. Maybe we'll just squat up somewhere, maybe just in an alleyway and just pay play bay Blades in an alleyway and yes, of course we have to get a bag of dicks. Sure, yeah, yeah, God, why did I wait? Wait, wait what? Because I just, uh, that's what it was. Because I searched packs West and my email and the first thing I saw was a bomb cast emails you said eat a bag of dicks and then parentheses in a

nice way, and I'm like, that's what that was. There's a restaurant called dicks. Okay, I'm I'm caught up on the joke. You were joking around about this. You're you're the dick driver last time. Yeah, I listen, I love to drive the dick. But now I just forgot. Now I'm caught up again. I just had to like do my mental inner monologue out loud on a podcast, because that's work, understand, fair, fair, We work out problems inner monologues all on the Giant bomb Cast

and we make bold declarations. Man. Maybe, oh God, why did I say that. I'm saying, okay, it's okay, I will help you finish this game channel you see, you know the thing is what's wrong? No, No, because I don't want to. I don't want to spoil too much. I don't want to spoil it too much. There will be fun times on the way to packs and at packs. I look forward to seeing all of your beautiful faces there. Yeah, it'll be good hair

beats. All right. Well, we're gonna take a quick break as I think about my words and deeds and the ramifications of them, and then we'll be back with some news news. This is the news of the show. Grubmo, Hi got I got news for everybody. Uh, Starfield out in a couple of weeks. You know what that means. It's time for it's time for everyone to freak out and have some puddle news. Pete Hines is telling fans to r e lax, relax because Starfield fud is really just it's

up and out there. People are they have fears, they have uncertainties, and they have doubts, and it is just getting scripting people. For example, a couple of sites, we're reporting that Starfield review codes we're not going to go out until September first. That is the same day that it goes out for early access. If you pay like the extra fee to get one of the collector's editions, you can begin playing the game on September first.

So they were everyone's like, oh my god, we're not gonna have reviews in time. This isn't true, according to a bunch of other sites. I wouldn't know anything about that, but a lot of other sites are implying that we may be getting review codes much earlier, maybe by the end of this week. Again, who who could say for sure, But there's no way to know. I certainly do not know, but the a lot of

sites are saying that. At the same time, people were like, hey, Pete Hines, why do you keep talking about these chairs that are based on Starfield. We want to know that the game has gone gold, which anymore, right, it doesn't mean anything, Okay, it means something. It does mean that you have a gold master that you sent to the disc manufacturing plant that is going to be the version that goes on on discs. There's a gold Master. That's what means. Yes, that's what going gold

used to mean. It still means that. It just it doesn't mean a lot for us in terms of like people playing games, because the games are continue to get updates through the first several days of release, and it's just they're still going to be working on the game. They're they're not all going home and taking vacations yet, but pans. Basically, his response is that, like, take a deep breath. I have an amazing team. We

know what we're doing, so it's just like again, just relax. We're figuring out where we haven't told you it's gone gold because it's we don't think it's very important, or it might not have happened yet. Games don't have to go gold up until about a week before they actually go in source. And for people who can't read between the lines, what Pete is actually saying, get fucked nerds. Yeah, okay, basically, yeah, it's because

it's he knows, he knows it's puddle news. He knows that this is just people anxieties about something that they're excited for, that they're getting ready to spend money on. And it's just it's a natural thing that happens more and more with games and habits, with games that are good, bad and everything in between. We just don't know until we're actually playing the game. But yeah, I don't know, like, how is everyone feeling about Starfield right

now? Do you or do you even have feelings about it? Because I put it into a little compartment where it's like, I'm not even gonna think about it until I'm playing it. I don't know. Yeah, I put it away like you did. Yeah, yeah, that's in my pocket. Yeah. I love those controllers though, I got my note over there in my chair out. They have a nice color scheme watch that they announced is really neat looking. But I don't need to watch. Yes, some people

might begin to watch. Who could say, come on, man? Who could say that they maybe got that email and then didn't didn't tell back lar about its took it themselves. Who could say I couldn't say, well, why shouldn't I get it over you? I don't understand that I'm saying I got the stranded in space? Who else would it go to? I? Oh, I boffman? You know anyway? Yes, So other than like getting excited, like hey, eventually we're gonna be playing this game pretty soon,

Yes, not much to think about because I don't know. People want to have opinions about stuff before they played it. But that's pretty dumb. Don't do that. You could just wait a couple more days and figure it out for yourself when you once you've actually gotten your hands on it, and it's in game pass, so you don't even have to like pay a lot to do that. Bolters Gate three almost surpassed Hogwart Legacy Hogwarts Legacies Steam record

uh ten days post release. Balder's Gate three record peaked at concurrent players of eight hundred and seventy five thousand, three hundred and forty three. That's according the Steam database. The popularity boosted by Leian STOs, RPG reputation and influencers

pushing simultaneous online play. Basically the game is just catching on everywhere. It's catching on on social media, it's catching on on Twitch, it's catching on in like people's discords, and that word of mouth has just really set fire to the game, and it's it's got very close to Hogwarts Legacies eight hundred and seventy nine thousand, three hundred and eight concurrent players, so basically like right in that same range, like they're almost tied, which is the eighth

highest of all time on Steam, but the highest for this year was Hogwarts Legacy. Other games that might have like, like, if you're like looking for a point of comparison, oh, it's the eighth highest. Ever, what else what other games have done really well? A pub player Unknowns Battlegrounds one time had three point two five million concurrent players. Cyberpunk has the record for single player games with one point zero five million concurrent players all at one

time, So nothing quite to that level. Yet the idea that Boulder's Gate three is even anywhere close to that is still surprising to me. So a lot of people playing it, and like, what do you guys like chalk that up to because there was I didn't see a big marketing campaign. It really is just people talking about it right purely that it feels like and then just maybe not maybe bouncing off Diablo four, uh and not having like a fantasy style game, you know. I think we've talked about it on Game

Miss Mornings a couple of times. But D and D has also grown in a major way in popularity. Like there's there's DND podcasts for every type of flavor of DND, right yep, except a wrestling based quest of DND. As far as I know, I you know, I've seen some headlines on about this. I haven't had a chance to read the stories. But also it does feel like sort of the horniness finding it's footing in the mainstream in

a really strong way. Obviously the bear fucking everyone points out, and I don't I don't think anyone's joking when they like making something that feels like an online slash vic or even like a grocery store like romance novel, but treating it with a ton of care and presenting it in a way that's like, of course you want to be playing in this universe with and then like you know, playing with you sexual ideas, like that's sub stuff that is like

I think, really appealing and has had a lot of chance to feel acceptable. And this game has really gone a long way towards doing that, I think, and it's getting it's reaping the rewards. Yeah. I mean, it's like folks that say movies shouldn't have romance scenes or any intimacy, right

because it does nothing for the plot. And it's like, well it, go fuck yourself exactly, exactly, go touch grass and I'm not going to finish that, right, But like, you know, having that type of thing in a game, it adds to like people's escapism, right sure of Like, hey, I walked in on a very intimate scene between an ogre and another ogre. Oh yeah, I would like to see that. I cannot get anyone to have sex with my character though I don't know what I

did wrong. No one likes her. They're like like a star On was like, oh, yes, I'm very interested in hooking up, just not with you obviously, like you said it like that, and I was like, okay, man, are you feeling the like boner rolls? Like, what's going on here? Feeling every boner roll shit? Can weds? Failing boner rolls? Yeah, I think we can do that. Failing boner rolls is absolutely acceptable. Okay, all right, right there you go. You

heard it. Yeah, your boner's stats. All right, let's see where am I at. We now know who Embracers failed two billion dollars deal was with Swedish companies. Major deal collapsed unexpectedly and unexpectedly in May, leading to a significant reduction and it's earnings forecast AXIO. So Steven Totelo over there did some reporting and identified that the party was Savvy, which is, of course,

Saudi Arabia's game group. Embracers CEO stated the deal broke down after seven months of negotiations and it would have been worth two billion dollars and then that money just whoop went away overnight. There's no direct explanation of why Savvy pulled out, why they were like, we're going to drop this this deal. We could speculate that maybe they're not so certain about Embracer's future, and I

think everyone that's a pretty easy assumption to make. That is that became reality as soon as they steal stopped, like what was it didn't go through, Embracer was in a in serious trouble. Now they're in cost cutting mode. But also it just feels like, I don't know, Saudi Arabia might also be second guessing, like their strategy of in sending money all over the place into all these games studios, but maybe not. Maybe it's just Embracer as

a specific example. Do you guys think Embracer group gonna still be a thing in a couple of years. That's a really difficult thing. You're just sort of throwing darts at a dartboard here. Yeah, it's it's it's really yes, because who I mean, they could always skate by. But I mean, I don't know, it feels like the same at the same time that they might just try to fire sale and get their way out of there because it's tough to imagine a future where they are making enough games to pay for

all that they have going on is a lot. Yeah, divesting makes sense, I think, uh, you know they have so they've had some successful

games. None are coming to mind right now. I know for fact, they had a couple this year that did very well, like surprisingly good, but they like in the fall out of that, they were like, this, we still ought to cut costs because we're nowhere near make enough profit even though we had we do have these successful games, and it's like okay, So they they would have to have like ten times the amount of successful games for this whole thing to make sense. And that's that's where it makes it

seem like divesting is maybe their only option or selling to someone else. That is in Saudi Arabia Assassins, there's a Creed Mirage is coming early. You'd bestoft to move to Assassin's Creed Mirage released to October fifth, from its original date of October twelfth. It's coming to PC, PlayStation, an Xbox.

This does help it get out ahead of allen Wick two, Spider Man two in Super Mario Brothers Wonder, which we're all coming out basically around the exact same time, and I think if one of those games had to move, it was probably right. That's Assassin's Creed Mirage, right, that felt like the one that was going to get forgotten out of those games. I don't know what do you guys have a tier list? If you asked me what the subtitle of Assassin's Creed was like yesterday, I don't think I could do

it for millions. I think that I've had multiple people in games Mornings who I know we've talked about Mirage before and be like, what is that? We have to like look it up and stuff like multiple times. Now. I would have lost every bet. Oh god, yeah, you would have had to shade your head. I would have had a grown up I would have grown out all my hair. Uh. It's crazy that I don't that I did not remember what that was, but yeah, obviously it needs to

get out of the way. Yeah, I just uh, for me, I would play Alan Wick two, Spider Man two, and Super Mario Brothers Wonder all before Assassin's Cream Mirage. And I'm a little bit interested in Assassin's Cream Rage. Yeah. Yeah, I'm Assassin's Creed Curious all over again. But I would sooner Circle back to something like Hi Fi Rush or Octopath. Wow, that's I praise Bailey. When you're like sketch sketching out like a

general schedule for doing honest games trailers. Do you like look at the these games and like this one standout is the one that you have to do first? Or oh god, I mean we want it there. The timing of it is really just about like it's not really about like which one do I want to do first? But which one do I think I can finish first?

And like the order. I have another writer who works with me, who takes the lead on scripts every other week, right, and so it's divvying up, like he has to do Alan Wake because it's a scary game, so I'm not going to be able to get through the way he can. And the month of October, huh, I'm gonna I'm dying, is

what I'm doing. I'm just playing a million games all at once and not seeing anyone I know, and just trying so hard to write jokes about them, but then forgetting how jokes works, and then reading all the comments and getting sack is no one thinks funny. I've never I've never played Fatal Frame and I've always been very curious about Fatal Frame. Uh. You know, I'm also a scaredy cat. You know, maybe maybe I can convince you

various game I can play. His inscription. I'm just so afraid all the time with video games and I and I love horror movies and TV shows. But if it's there's a big horror game coming out, I'd give it to the other guy. I can't do it. I've a coward's heart. That's that's surprising. I know a few people who have similar behavior where they're like, we I love horror, yet cannot play horror video games. Yeah,

I need that fourth wall division between me and the horror. If there's like a horror I have to actively participate in, I simply will not do it. I'll be like, well, the way to not do the horrors to

hide underneath this table or whatever they play? Yeah, exactly can't. Yeah, people people do fall into these different like like buckets, right, Like some people like I don't like the horror movies, but the games I can play, And yeah, there's like me, it was like, I'm just scared of everything everything, Franzy. I'd rather I will see a horror movie

like in a theater, so then the ghost isn't in my house. And but playing a video game, it just feels like, I don't know, it's gonna look at me them and say my name out loud and then I'm gonna die or something. That'd be something active. I'm actively antagonizing any and every ghost I can come across. Ohis goes off, dude, piss them off? Yeah, I mean, why else are they there? If they didn't want to be pissed off, they would have left, you know,

opinion. I saw that sketch on I think you should leave, and it's just resonated with me ever since. Yeah, of course, yeah, you can see whatever you want. It's all adults here, so maarage. Coming out October five, THQ as a new south Park game, which, oh boy, sound familiar because boy, they had a the THQ you used to have South Park games. THQ Nordic announced new South Park game, south Park snow Day, revealed during Friday's live stream, which THQ Nordic but basically updated

all their other games. And this is like, I think the one new game that they had. It's a three D co op adventure set in snowy South Park. Releases in twenty twenty four for PCD, PlayStation five, Xbox Series X in This and Nintendo Switch features Cartman Stand, Kyle and Kenny, four players, the guys, Cartman Stand, Kyle and Kenny, the boys. What do each of them sound like? Do impressions? Right now? They just sound like normal human men. That's what they saw men. Huh.

They're four player's. Four players go out to save the world on a snow day? What does that mean? I don't know. Is it like a hard mood movie? But so deep cut? I had the soundtrack to that on CD and it was fine. We haven't been good enough to deserve anything related to Josh Josh Peck's snow Day, So no, it's completely different. Yes. The other title for Oppenheimer, Uh, Stick of Truth,

came out in twenty fourteen, was well received. Good Guess came out after that was about this received about the same, actually a little bit of lower review scores, but just a touch. But both of those were you be Soft after You'd be Soft acquired the rights to these in the fire sale the last time THQ went under. So now South Park back at THHQ where it belongs. It does feel like that's the right fit because south Park is just like, you know, the same sort of vibe as at least the games

as like those Nickelodeon licensed games at THHQ used to do as well. So yeah, we're getting it. I can I ask the bacclar you and I kind of grew up at a time when south Park was coming to prominence and you weren't too far behind. Bailey, you like, what do you guys feel about south Park as a property? Okay, here, I'll be brave, I'll be brave. I'm all over, I'm all over the place with it right now. I don't like it, and I just don't like it

at all anymore. Here watched it recently, But yeah, I enjoy family guy more. Okay, I mean I have nothing and everything at the same time. I'm curious to hear it. Yeah, yeah, way to not answer that, Bailey, would you. I'm curious to hear your guys. I was never a south Park person to begin with, and I think in the year of Our Lord twenty twenty three, anyone who's still watching south Park,

well, I'm sure they're a very nice person. Maybe has the sense of humor of someone from several decades ago, like a time traveler, except for they haven't time traveled. They've been here the whole time. They've just chosen not to grow as an individual. That seems cutting him. Probably true. I mean, I don't find it very fun anymore. That is my big issue with it anymore. Right, So, less time watched it.

I tried it definitely in the last year. I watched it for the first time in like, probably like ten years it had been, and I'm like, I can't remember what happened. Maybe it was the Casa Bunita stuff where they bought that restaurant in Denver that I was always interesting because I was living in the area, and I'm like, oh, I should check in on South Park. And I watched one of the new episodes and I just didn't find it very funny at all. And so I was like, man,

I do remember enjoying this more. But I don't know if the show got worse or if if if I've grown as an individual. I've heard I've heard so many conflicting reports, right, Like, it does seem to be this very sort of like dubious entity, right where like I just can't make heads or tails of it. I know there was a time where like it was must watch weekly viewing for sure, and I was definitely yeah, like it was, it was there was a I was around for that, like for

sure. But I don't know. I think, like I think there were like a couple of seasons where like it really kind of had something to say. And I'm talking like fifteen years ago. Yeah, but yeah, I don't. I don't know. I think Book of Mormon is very good. Yeah, like basketball is fun, right, yeah, but yeah, you know, I don't put it in like this bad category though. I don't put it in like this sort of like I can't allow that to exist kind

of category. Yeah, I'm say things shouldn't exist. I didn't say that funny. No, No, I wasn't saying that you were doing that. I'm taking a hard stand here and saying any media I don't like should be wiped off the face of That's actually not the worst. That's actually not the worst idea. No, like I do, but I do. At the same time, I do think there is comedy that like is remarkably a sort

of ageless. I don't think South Park is necessarily that though, but I do think there is comedy out there that the Spans episode when Homer gets hired by Hank Scorpio, like Simpsons, I think magically pulls it off. Like I'm definitely Yeah. I've never seen any South Park clips on TikTok and I've seen a lot of Family Guy on there, so yeah, but it might not have broken through yet, right, it could be and it's just not in my algorithm. Yeah, I used to hold Family Guy in incredibly high.

I got a baby talks that's wild and talks. What When Grub and I were in college was the time where Family Guy like was originally canceled. So like if you had those DVDs, you were like you like we watched on DVD, but then like Adult Swim started airing it. It's like, and then everyone started watching it and that was brought it back. Yeah. Uh, all right, let's see Netflix is adding game streaming to TV. It's it's it's weird. They're doing a limited beta test starting in Canada and

the UK on select TVs from select manufacturers, and that's beginning today. It's also coming to PC and Max as well. The initial test will include Oxen Free and Mule Hugh's Minate Adventure. Let's just stick with ox and Free. You might be wondering, how do you play this? How do you interact with it? You're probably gonna ConnectR xbox controller, right, No, you're gonna phone as a controller. Fu adding though as much so Oxy Free does

make sense. That's right, that's one that would work. But that is not solution for most other games. But they do show it's like it's gonna have a digital digital analog stick digital right there on your phone. You're gonna hold it like that. I just don't know who that's for so much, but I mean, if it's for somebody, they're testing it, you know, I would never have thought people there's a good chunk of people that use the apps on a smart TV, let alone use a smart TV. But

like that's a big audience. It's a huge audience. Yes, And I think, like, I don't know, I do think the time of like they're all broken is a bit over right, Yeah, they were were just everyone's just using Roku or Google TV. And yeah, although I fucking hate Roku's I think they suck. I think they're terrible. I prefer no. I'm I moved out of Rocus City. The value my property value is plummeted. Yeah, it's crazy. I think Roku's garbage. I don't know why

that was ever really super popular. Maybe because it was like the first one to the part definitely was better than built in like the LG web os or whatever that they usure. It was better than that for a while, but that stuff has caught up and it's mostly fine. Yeah. And but but

to the idea of like why is Netflix doing this? You know, like when you have your module installed on like one hundred million televisions by default, like you gotta figure out a way to sneak it in there, right, Like it's already there, right, So this is them like looking forward diversification. They are they pretty much tapped out what is physically possible for them to do with the amount of money that they're going to spend on content for movies

and TV and the growth they're just going to his plateau. It's plateau they started dipping and they're like, okay, well, we're some categories we can grow in. They've identified games as one of those potential areas. It's just like what does that look like? And they're slow they're doing a slow burn compared to Google and don't even remember what it was called Stadia. Stadia compared to what Google do with Stadia, where it's like we're going to completely replace

your controls and everything's gonna be different. Yes, I just got the fund Stadiah did wow. Yeah, because I had it connected to like an old credit card or something. I uh, I bought like a couple of games on there. They sent me everything else, So I don't know. I don't even know if I went through the steps to get a refund. But Netflix is like just trying to see if they can figure this out without spending

a ton of money up front. So these tests are fine. I just I would be curious to hear who is playing Oxo free on on their TV using a Phonus controller. I bet it's going to be people that don't run in the same circles as me. And that's that's fine if that's how that's gonna work. But I just sit with the cool kids at lunch, Jeff, is that what you're saying? Yeah, No, with the cool people who are like, yeah, don't don't have a video game controllers like filed

across their home and stuff. Yeah. I do always wonder like what is like this seems like the problem, how do you, like, you could beam whatever you want to a person's TV. How are they going to interact with it? The controller is the actual problem for a company's like Netflix and even like Xbox wanting to stream stuff to people's TVs, Like, are people even going to go through the effort like we, oh, yeah, they have a PlayStation five and they want to play an x fix game, We'll

just stream it to your TV? Are they even going to connect their PS five controller to their TV to play your game? I bet most people think them, That's too much of a hassle. I'm not going to do that. So Netflix is trying to find an easier solution there. I don't blame them, I just don't know if this is the right answer. Metroid dread developer has two unannounced games. Mercury Steam developing two undisclosed titles information from earnings

of Nordisc Games, a minority stakeholder in Mercury Steam. One of the suspected games is a fantasy game with five or five publisher five or five games that's been previously like talked about, even if it hasn't been fully announced yet. The other one everyone is assuming is likely a Metroid Dread sequel or some sort of follow up, but that's an assumption. There's no confirmation there, although I'm getting my hopes stuff because I think that would make a lot of sense.

This is the studio that did make Metroid Dread, and that's the best selling Metroid game ever now. It sold more than three million copies. No Metroid has ever sold better than that, So you could assume that they probably will want to continue that partnership, and I hope they do. Even though there were some reports of chaotic development at Mercury Steam, they've denied that,

although it's probably you know, allegually it happened. Maybe probably did, and you know, hopefully they can iron that stuff out and just kind of keep this partnership going because those games were good, and you know, chaotic development habits seemingly every studio. So hopefully it's like, identify the problems, deal with them, make a better game next time. That would be fantastic. I don't know, everyone here a Metroid Dread fans. I liked it a

lot, Yeah, yeah, I don't. I've really really really enjoyed that game, So hoping that we get more of it, that would be very cool. Rock Star acquires role playing tools. Rockstar Games has acquired CFX dot R, the creators of the popular GTA five and Red Dead Redemption two modding tools. Dot r is behind rock Stars role playing community five M and red

MU. The official notts of it showed up on rock Star's website, where they praised the creative community for rock Star Games for expanding what's possible in the

games. They recognize the dedicated role playing servers growth and they are and they've also confirmed that they're going to expand mod policy to kind of incorporate this stuff going forward, something that has been a problem in the past where rock Star tried to basically crush these these role playing mods and accuse them of like cheating and stuff like that. That got settled out of court at one point, and so since then they've been on like this, this equilibrium between the two.

Well, now that's all out the window. Rock Star is just we know we're buying you. This is has to all be about g TA six incorporating role playing stuff from the get go, right, Yes, yeah, that stuff is still so incredibly popular on twitch. Oh my god, I always wanted to get into that thing. But that's the time suck that I feel like I just don't have either. This is this. I saw this

late last week, right this news came out. Maybe that's right. Uh really this is I feel like people might be sleeping on how big of a deal this is. Yeah, it's like it's got to look like you'll you'll. You open up the game and there's GT six and the GTA Online and I wouldn't be surprised if right next to gt online is GTA Roleplay but just another option. They're on the menu. And it's like there will be a ton of approved servers, and I bet, uh CFX dot RU you know

this modern group. I bet they continue to run their own thing, and then maybe they bring in like no Pixel, which is the big server that all the big content creators are in that it's very hard to get into. They have. I guess they have a public server as well, but they're private one that is the one that everyone watches. They probably get directly incorporated

as well. Maybe there's some incentivization there or something like that. This is one of the things that is keeping GTA six or GT five so relevant that of course they were going to want to bring this in at some point and yeah, I just wonder what it ends up looking like. It's it's a big question. Do you guys think we're playing GTA six next year? Uh? Yes, there it is, Shaverhead. Yeah, they iqust just for

it. Take Take two did say that they're expecting to make eight billion dollars in revenue compared to the five billion, which was a record for them that they're making this year. Uh, it's hard to imagine that's possible without g TA six, But they said that's until March of twenty twenty five, So maybe it slips into the first quarter that year. I guess that's possible as well, or gets it gets a huge delay. It could just get delayed as well. Man, they're gonna they're gonna be rolling in it, grub.

What aren't we talking about rock Star saying like, oh, we're we're gonna do big numbers in the next year. This is exactly right. Oh man, it's it's it's probably this in a couple of other things, like six seven and stuff like that. A bunch of stuff probably happened at the same time. They've never publicly said anything about g T six, not really,

not in any real way. I still feel like that game does get announced for next year at some point or the first quarter at twenty twenty five, and then I do think it probably gets a delay before it actually comes out, but we'll see rock Star pickle Ball. Oh yeah, shit, put that out first. That's what we need. I mean, it's pick a ball taking over your community. It has, especially my wife. But I've not I've not like I've still not played, like I know everything about

it, sure, but I just an expert. Yeah, you know, just like with Cowboy Bebob, like barely have to touch it to be an expert. I know I'll love it, I because it's just big table tennis.

But then you to think about, like, you know that rock Star table Tennis game, and like what that did for like a year, right, Like what the dominance that that game demonstrated, right, put that into pickle ball with just like the same bullshit, right with like the color coded you know, tails on all the on the ball, right, like dude, Yes, i mean I've realized that's very low on the on the pit.

But still, please, I think that game. Just give me table tennis backward capec if they haven't done that yet, which I sit over Watch two got crushed on Steam. It's out on Steam now. That released on Thursday. It was met with over twenty five thousand reviews from players, and it got an overwhelmingly negative review score. From those twenty five thousand reviews, only reviews are positive. It's just getting stepped on and not even the fun way, not even in the fun way. No. Yeah, they they

have made like every conceivable misstep with this one. It seems like, Yeah, it's like like just a sideshow Bob break situation, just a NonStop failure of their own device. And yep, wow, it's it's almost impressive. It feels like they're doing it on purpose at this point. Yeah. Right, it's like some sort of the producer's scheme, right, like that they're

doing this taking insurance money or something. H players are obviously criticizing the free to play structure something it's been a problem with Overwatch two and going free to play for a while now. They also dislike that the hero missions that were much hyped got removed. Of course, that you know, old news, but that stuff is still very sore spot because they've not What happens is that stuff got announced, got canceled, and fans are mad at that time.

But since they're like, this is the game you're supposed to continue to be playing, and it's like they've done nothing really to fill in that gap that people feel has now been been created because that stuff got canceled except for with some single player you know or you know PBE stuff that was like the older PV stuff. It's like, oh, here's some emissions you can do kind

of offline against the CPU, and these are stories. They have stories in them, but they're fifteen dollars extra and it's not the full content that they were promising to make originally, the full cam PV campaign. This is just smaller stuff, but they're charging fifteen dollars extra and fans are like, man, we we've already felt burned by this, and now you want us to

pay for things that we kind of don't even really want. We're not we're definitely not happy with and so yeah, the game's just getting crushed Overwatched two is a big important thing for Blizzard. Uh. You got to man that they have had long term plans for this, and it's like, what do they do now? They just have to I think they have to just grin and bear it and try to fix it, right, Yeah, that's the

that's the steepest hill to climb for that though. Yeah, yeah, it was a bummer because we we had we made an attempt to throw it down on a Thursday with TF two, and even though it took a while to get a server up and running and we kind of didn't really get a surf up and running, I still had fun playing TF two with the community same and it made me wish, like, oh, I wish there was a version of Team two with all these classes. It's more modernized, it's easier

to group up with people, and I thought about overwatching. I got sad. Yeah, that was sad, exactly. Apparently, the most recent review on Overwatch two is an asky art version of Mario taking a poop. So okay, well, at least there's some artistry in this the exactly there we go, all right? Moving on, Keith David will succeed Lance Reddick as Commanders of Allah in Destiny. The voice actor changed for Commanders of Alla and

Destiny will have Keith David replacing him. The character is going to stick around. Reddick could voice the character since its inception. He passed away, of course recently at sixty years old, Rest in peace. Bungie announced the plans to have the character continue. Obviously, the you know, the voice actors for all in all the other languages are still around, so it's like we probably should find a way to maintain this. Keith David is stepping into that

role. He did a nice message saying that much he looked up to Lance Reddick and nice taken over and I loved. I loved Lance Reddick. I love Keith David. I think this is this is great stuff. And Keith David just to see him wonderful. One of my favorite, my favorite moments maybe in my life, but in video games is Keith David playing himself in Saints Row and then getting in a fight with Rowdy Roddy Piper, just like and they live and man, I just love just hanging out in this game

with Keith David and Roddy Roddy Piper. It's it's great stuff. So I really liked him and the Princess and the frog, yeah yeah, and everything. He's very in future. Man. He's just a good actor but also a good first actor and he's been around forever. He I love him, And obviously it's a devastating reason for him to have any role, But if anyone's going to have it, I think he is the best possible choice they could have made. Agreed, David a very strong part of the last season

of Community. I think I didn't know that either. I think he was spawn. His bit about being the best wedding guest holds true, and I've maintained that of you know, I don't want to I don't want to give the gig away, but hey, it informs how I handle a lot of my day to day. Really. Yes, he was also a mass effect. Yes, Goliath and gargoyles. God keep David fucking rules right, uh so, yes again, rip Lance Reddick and you know, long Lives a

battle and all that stuff. All right, let's see here aintendo, patents, loading screen and more from Tears to the Kingdom. Nintendo has issued patents or has requested patents for multiple features in the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. In particular, it wants for stuff like ultrahand and the fusibility stuff that might be tough to enforce or whatever, because we've seen that such glue. Yeah, you can't, you can't fucking patent. Go well they're gonna

try. It really comes that too. How will they try to enforce it? But it's Nintendo. They love to enforce stuff so big. The big one that they're enforcing or that they're going for that they might get is the loading screen when you fast travel, where it's like when you initiate a fast travel and it goes to load and it shows you on the map where you're coming from and then where you're going, which is something that I find very useful. They shouldn't be able to listen. I don't like any of these

patents. The stuff sucks, but I love that feature. I do the fast travel and I in that loading moment, I'm like, wait, why am I Where am I going? Why did I do this? And then the map loads, I'm like, oh yeah, that little thing on the map that's where I was going. So yeah. So like the process of being awarded a patent, right, like, who's the governing body in every

country? But it's the USPTO, the US Patents and Trademark Office. So is there's some sort of like judge or something or like committee that's like there's I think it's like a committee, yes, uh, and uh they will look for the novelty of the patent. They will give like a public response period where people will be like, I we did a similar idea long before this. You cannot pattent this because this idea existed previously. It's weird in

video games. Uh, you have to patent very specific implementations because you can't patent ideas. Ideas can't be patented. That's more like copyright territory, right, So they're what they're trying. They're you know, these companies are always interested in blurring the lines because patents are very easy to monetize and to weaponize against other companies, and so they're good tools for lawyers to have. Lawyers really like them. Everyone else hates them. Uh for the most part.

They you know, they they do expire after twenty years, which is a way better than copyright copyrights like forever and ever and then plus forever after you die years yeah and then yes, seventy years after death or yeah, I think so, so yeah, that's just forever. But patents after twenty years,

it's it's all fair game. But even still that's way too long for ideas and video like the Nemesis system is one the one that everyone always points to that has a patent, which is why you haven't seen another video games. And that's stupid. We should say, did they know that they if they file the patent, they can implement that system too. Like no, the ideas that they license it out, you know, I mean no, but they themselves you know what have sure sure, surely they don't know that.

So yes, I'm sorry, but these these just make me mad? Do you make me mad? They're like predatory and like fucking stupid squatty bullshit, stopping, stopping stupid, right, it's squatting, squatty, and it's just we we we want, we want these in case we see a game that we get mad about and then we can threaten them with these patents. That's all. It is infuriating, It prevents the growth of art, and it is greedy and shitty. And don't do it, Nintendo, mister Nintendo,

are you listening to our podcast? Don't do it please, It's not gonna stick. They some of them might, some of them will probably won't. But they and they we will probably never hear about them again. That's

probably what will happen. Other companies will probably find other ways to do something very similar someone mentioned in chat like yeah, the In the twitch chat, the printy dude says, the machine games loading screen for like an Indiana Jones thing where he's like flying from one place to another, Like, you could probably do exactly that, because that idea is from the movie and predates what they did with Tears in the Kingdom, and it's a different implementation of a

similar idea. So that probably wouldn't be covered under the patent. But Nintendo has the patent. They could still threaten to sue and that might be enough to undo a lot of that stuff. That's the concern. It's like, what are Nintendo's lawyer is going to use these things for? That does it for the news? I'm all done over here. Thanks for hearing me, Every buddy back to you. Can you end it on one that wasn't infuriating?

Good? It's my speciality. Well, speaking about specialities. Around this time, our speciality is taking a break and we'll be back with emails and shout outs and shoots. Fill out the dock now, I guess, no, fill out the dock. When the email music hits a bit stop, I thought you stopped it soon. No start it. We don't start it until the email music starts. All right, see after this stretch, check when is the last time you stretched? Just go do it now, everybody,

just just lean a little bit to the left. Ah, yes, good, a little bit of the right. Ah, yes, it's good. It's good. Flex the arms, wiggle it. Take your arm. Pretend like you're stirring a big, big pot of soup with each arm. It'll be a fun little stretch because now it is the final stretch of the show. Emails for the show. This is when we read emails from you at GiantBomb dot com. That's right. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, free freestylet that off the dome because that was so impressive. God gifted

it to him as thank you for this God's favorite podcast. That's right, Bless hands and everything. Uh and all that jazz BombCast at giant bomb dot com is the email addressed to send your emails too. You can send emails about virtually any and everything all at once. Wow. Sure within reasons. Hey, you know it clogs up several people's email boxes. Uh, and I hate that I get notifications for it. I hate to filter. Uh. First email comes from I believe Alex and they write about PSA grading hither.

I've been an avid trading card collector for going on thirty years now, everything from Pokemon to Digimon, basketball, football, et cetera. Over the past few years, I've been able to offload large wafts of my childhood collections, mostly Pokemon, for thousands of dollars, due primarily to the PSA grades I was able to earn on each I say that to illustrate how I can absolutely understand why someone might think they need to grade every potentially valuable card they

pull. In the year of Our Load twenty twenty three see God's Favorite podcast. I can advise against this enough. Modern cards graded by PSA simply will not hold nearly the value down the line that their counterparts from the nineties and two thousands do. Let's take two cards, for example, the base Set two Charizard Hollow number four, released in two thousand, and the Brilliant Stars char Rezard V Star number eighteen, released just a year ago in twenty twenty

two. The base Set two Charizard has a total graded population of ten thousand, with the number of total PSA tens at sixty two point six percent, while the number of sevens or below come at six thousand, sixty six percent of total population. The Brilliant Stars chars ard v Star already has a total pop of four thousand, with the number of total PSA tens at a staggering two thousand. Well the number sevens or below come at a come at one

hundred and seven. See, this is what happens when folks say no more wrestling talk, we get into even dumber talk. All right, yeah, on this site a second, So people are like, what are we talking. We're just talking about the amount of cards graded at this number out there in the wild. The cars PSA being the most commonly used grading authority is the one controlling the population of these things, and in doing the reporting,

that is what this emailer is talking. Yeah, I don't think it's it's at all surprising to say old thing is old, right, that's basically no. But when this is more valuable? Because not right, but old things, when in collecting, will always be more valuable because they're inherently more rare. Right. I think Pokemon exists a bit in a vacuum though, because well I didn't say that, but I and you know, maybe it's more

of a discussion. But I do think the older Pokemon stuff, right obviously, because when we were growing up, everyone ripped packs and they just like tossed their cards until like a drawer or whatever, and then like twenty years later, you're like, oh my god, this is probably worth something. You get it graded, it comes back a six, and it's like worth nothing, whereas if you have a like the emailer is writing, if you have something that's like very old but grades nine or higher, you're you're in

the money. So that is the rare. That is like the inverse rarity diagram for that stuff. But now where everyone is ripping packs hoping to get a card that they can grade, guess what, you and everyone's mother is doing that. So that's that's the whole story, I guess. But I think I think it's different though, because the scarcity is not as much of a thing right as it is with like cards and stuff like that. You

know, it's more quality focused. I think as soon as you rip like a new pack, you're grading that instantly if you think it's a rare, just like the email are saying. Then they continue on with the cards from our youth that grade well are incredibly valuable, valuable because none of us were grading these cards back then, most of you got tossed in boxes or closets unprotected, only see the light of day when we all went into lockdown some

twenty to thirty years after we ripped them. In my opinion, it's not worth the money or time right now to grade these cards, these cards being newer cards, unless you plan on selling them short term. I love you all and please more collectible talk from the Deagan twins Jeff and Jail. I think that's that's a fair opinion to have. It would be like, it's

not worth the time. In my opinion, none of this is worth your time, So there you go. Yeah, I mean, like you know, look, I got bit by that bug again over during the pandemic a little bit, and like you know, I mean, the new Marvel Masterpiece boxes are now going for nine hundred dollars a box that came out like two weeks ago. Those were some thick boys. They're thick puppies. It's crazy. It's just crazy. Which leads me to the conclusion, my friends,

is that we need to make our own trading cards. Okay, they do this for K pop people, is that correct, Bailey, Yeah, they definitely do Yeah, of course they're just called people. Jan you don't have to say K pop people, okay, like k people. I mean they do them for baseball players, baseball people too. Also, yeah, people, puck people, all kinds of people. People aren't people though, that's

no, they're just not athletes. No, I'm getting what I would say though, right, is that we need to make our own and have I looked into this a little bit, a little bit, and only we can have like a hollow effect on them though, Oh, without a doubt, Jam, we're all getting our one of one specials, buddy. We could just it could be like what like maybe a fifty cards, one hundred cards, and like there's just variations of us, like the Muppet versions of us.

Well, I think there should be like you know, there's a there'll be a base right where it's like the like one through fifty, let's call it one through fifty, let's not going ahead, and then parallels of each of those one through fifties, right, and then like fifty one to sixty will be like dumbest things, Dan said, each one of those gets like ten you know, ten little collectible of that, and we'll just do that. So if anyone out there knows anyone who can help us make these cards.

I would love to do this, not because we want to create some sort of artificial market and like drack off the price or anything, just because we're not fun fun, Like who wants a one exactly? Serapis a one of one Mitch Tolkoto foot card. Could you imagine you've got the foot card? God, he's gonna be like exodia, you fully assemble Mitch Tolkoto and everything. Yeah, oh yeah, let's do it. Oh boy, I would like to ghost Malone owns the one foot card. Yeah, so if

anyone, yeah, he's got it, So reach out. If you're in this business, just give me a quack Auga card please, Yeah, all right, next email something just as valuable as trading cards. Nathan from tom Water, Washington writes, then, which fast food place has the best condiments? Arby's. Arby's has got like the most interesting ones, right, Horsey sauce and arby sauce. A Horsey sauce, it's a horse Radish sauce sauce.

It's good. It goes on their beefs on their beans. The closest Arby's to me is forty five miles away man, you live in on just a wasteland, a hell of a commute. You're kind of proud of that, just that you do. How dare you? I will. I'll go get my Arby's beef jumpsuit right now. I have it somewhere in this house. I don't know where, but I'll find it Wingsto minutes away, not miles minutes away, wing Stop Ranch for me. Yeah, it was good.

Like it's like Sonic has a bunch of like the little cups that you use for like the chicken and the on your rings and stuff, and I think they have pretty good. But Taco Bella probably is my favorite because I like fire sauce a lot. So yes, okay, hey, what do you any sauce? And I say yes, fire please. You can get that beef female burrito. Now it's got the flame and hot fritos in it. You can replace the rice with potatoes. Get it grilled. What that

sounds. Yeah, I'm just making myself. Canes sauce is actually very good as well. From from Raising Canes. Oh, I love cane sauce. Yeah, it seems like it's probably just like ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together with a few other things. That's that's just thousand, that thousand island, one thousand islands. Yeah, it's red. Robin has camp fire sauce. It's just barbecue and mayonnaise, but it rocks. Yeah. I make my own

hot sauce all the time, and mine's better. Yo, yo, jesus, you're all ready for another, y'all, y're all ready for another, like a jam food thing, because yes, please please, what we do? What we what we do? You take a little little mason jar, right, little little little boy, and then you a little mason jar. I don't have a little mason jar o the way you're pinching, What do you mean? Yeah, a little little tency mason jar for like a baby food. Yeah, okay, got it, Roger, I have no measurements

here. Let's let's just do it in bar terms. You get one part vinegar, right, I already know this is up grubs alley, one part Vietnamese fish sauce. Okay, don't get the Filipino stuff. You gotta get three crabs, all right, three crab fish sauce. That's a ship right there. And then you add in a little bit of soy sauce, a little bit of sesame oil. You gotta make sure you're getting sesame oil from a tin, all right, from like a metal tin, and it's nothing

but Korean on there. And then you have to kindly ask an old woman is this sesame oil? And then she'll politely nod her head. And then you throw in an obscene amount of chili flakes, and I mean an obscene amount of chili flicks, all right, and then you crush, you crush two clothes of garlic. You don't mince it. You crush it, all right, sounds so good, and then you throw it in there you let it sit. And then if you want to feel a little bit a little

bit, a little a little bit tinglier, adding a green onion. But then you don't you don't mince the green onions or cut them into little medallions. You just cut them into like one inch chunks. Like are you storing this? Like where does it? Ghost? Body? In a little jar? And then does that need to be refrigerated? Like what are we talking about? What the refrigerator? Okay? What do you? And you put it on just everything everything. It makes a great vinegrette for a salad.

You dip some meats in it. Can you just make it for me to me? Yeah? Or do that? Yeah, OK, I'll sell a little I'll send little jars across the country. Show you said sell first and then decided you weren't going to sell your friend's sauce. You can make make the wedding favors if you ever get like you know or one of those going on, like just get that to all your guests or whatever. That's a good idea. Oh hold on, I need to people need to know that.

No, we don't need to show the fish. I'm a fish sauce connoisseur. Throw that ship in your scrambled eggs. By the way, I know exactly the one you're talking about. It is the best. Thank you, Bales. Think I love sesame. So my sesame. You said sesame oil that I have in the glass bottle with like only half of the writing and Korean, I'm fucking up. Yeah, it sounds like he shook his head audio seriously shook his head, took off his head, and he wasn't

gonna get up and show something. But then you said that, and he feels and I feel like I've been making a major mistake and he's gonna correct some He's gonna recorrect the trajectory of my life. Now pull shit, He's going to change your world right now, that's what I need. You know. I wanted to put his sauce on the store. Sure I couldn't find it. Uh yeah, it looks like this for sorry, audio just looks like this. You know, it needs to look like there's like this there

you go. Oh God, just like delicious. Also eat KIMSI every day. It's good probiotics. Anyway, I don't even know our next email comes from our This is I believe about little gimmicks. I didn't completely read this BombCast eight oh one, Grub mentioned playing Tears of the Kingdom while prepping his daughters for bed. This made me examine my own life. The results are unsettling. My kids are six and three, similar to the ages to the

mini Grubs. There's no fucking way I could play a switch at bedtime. My son and daughter are too feral. Instead, I listen to podcasts while bathing my children and putting their on their pajamas. Stop the podcast while I'm reading stories. Then in case my daughter, the three year old, resume the podcast while I lie on her bed and settle her down for sleep.

Often I listen to gay miss warnings. This means that I have spent a lot of time lying in the dark, watching my darling little girl's eyes getting heavier while in my ears Grub discusses micro soft purchase of Activision Blizzard. I've sensed her breath and getting slower while Grub explained some Jim Ryan bullshit. I felt her hand on my face, that she smiles a sleepy smile, and

in the same moment heard Grub say the words Bobby Cottock. My question is this, is there anything in your lives that is vaguely pleasant, harmless and banal? Well also being the most fucked up, unhinged, real, deep sicko shit imaginable. Love you guys, Ireland for the Rugby World Cup. Let's go are I feel like before we even get going on this, I want to know that the way you hesitated before saying banal made me confident. Yeah, he's gonna say b anal. Yeah, I don't do banal.

I was trying to figure out a way how to how to how to pronounce it fun like a couple of such a beautiful email. Yeahously written, so horrifying, but what's the real deep o, deep deep sicko shit, Like, I don't think that's having a touching moment with your children while I talk about Bobby Cottic. It's a little bit unhinged for sure. Yeah yeah, but I don't know if it's like sicko like I mean, yeah, I

was gonna say. My mind's very similar, pretty much exact same, except replaced listening to me with Right now, I'm listening to that American Prometheus, So I'm the book on tape for this American Prometheus. Uh, just just like Oppenheimer's stuff. So it's like all kinds of like really deep troubling things while my children are falling asleep. So hey, you know what, it's fine, it's not that unhinged. How what do you mean You're listening to

that while they are getting Like, well, how does that work? I have one bud in and they are either taking a bath or I'm like getting all this stuff together to like take their vitamins before bed or brush their teeth and basically if I'm doing stuff around the house, I got it. I think it's like the I just need that delamin of like something keeping my brain engaged so that I can get it done and it'll probably and more efficient manners.

So I'm listening to something like that while doing stuff that is like a daily routine, anything that's daily routine, I'm trying to also have something else going on, Yeah, because I feel like I couldn't get away with that now with with my kid, because you just feel like, what are you listening to? Like, what are you on? I think that's where of course the speaker had helps out of course, but I'm a speaker hat.

Yeah, that's what exactly Hannah and handling that situation. But also, like you know, I have it so it's set, so it's it's plain, but it's also in one year, but it's also got the pass through so it has a little like as kind of like a hearing AIG, so I can hear the book on tape or the podcast, and I can hear everything

that's going on around me. So it's that's pretty seamless. Although everyone in my family has this terrible habit of like the one to talk to me and then I'm like, okay, and as soon as I start talking to me, they're gonna walk away and keep talking. Guys, you've got to talk to me. Like that. No, I don't know, but to walk into traffic. Yeah, like I will chase. I will chase Stacy down and be like, why are you leaving? You? You wanted to talk to me? Just talk to me. That's my most said thing in the

house right now, talk to me. Yeah, Emmy has had full on conversations with air or a stranger while I'm like tying my shoes across the street and I'm like, yeah, your dog, what the hell? Just your special awareness? Now, I gotta admit, I mean I've done that. I'm guilty of this every now and then too, I've I've become more conscious of it, so I've stut it out. I'm incredibly socially and spatially where at all times I'm constantly worried what everyone is thinking and have it making sure

they're a good time total libra am I right? Yeah, that's what about you back? What about you? Bailey? What about me? Oh? I don't have children or anything like that. Special awareness with your social My spacial awareness is really bad. I do multitask a lot like this, Like I think this caller is not caller, This caller is very impressive. This email guy is really impressive. Yeah, because you know, doing multiple stuff at once. Last night, my biggest multitask was during a Balderskate fight.

I was playing Slay the Spire on my phone. Oh my god, you're you're a smart my life, I don't have kids. I'm doing this. You're here, You're a smarter person than I am. Okay, I would see. I can't. My brain can't fathom it. I can barely host the podcast and read emails. Uh last email. The show is about everyone's favorite topic, food ash from Luton, Lutton, England. Right soon, Hey bombers. After Okay, maybe it's okay. Maybe it'll be easier if

I say Luton. There we go there, it's Tuesday, and then I'm Lucy James Games Scrimproke. Okay. After thing to episode seventy nine of The Dumb Truck, Jeb announced that a pizza without cheese is not a pizza. I am allergic to cheese, so I've not had a pizza with cheese on. But I was told by someone who lives in Italy at the first pizza's never had cheese on with it to begin with. It's called the Marinera. So I want to have written it's called a the marinara. It's call he

pronounced it like the Italian person said, it's called the marana. Thank you for correcting me. Thank you for correcting. It's called it's called the marinara. So I want to ask Jeb if he would class this as a pizza if the Italians do. Ask from England, what are the Italians now about pizza? Right? Yeah? And also clearly you've interviewed them all I talked

to got to say about this opinion you. The email reads I was told by some one who lives in Italy there that person could that person could just be someone larpin as an Italian. Maybe they're and they're from Ohio. Maybe it's just like some freak from like Iowa or something. And then therefore they say that all pizzas. Come on, listen, I hate it. I'm sorry that you're lactose and tar I am okay or allergic to cheese pizza anyway,

be strong. Well, I'm not. I'm not encouraging you to do that, but I'm also here to I'm also here to tell you that my friend Ash, you've never had pizza and you can't because you're allergic and I'm sorry. Maybe you should get some non vegan cheese on a pizza or something like that. Maybe that'll help you be you know, non allergic. But like, come on, no one could tell me that, like pizza without cheese is somehow still pizza. Like okay, fine, it doesn't matter,

it does, Yeah, it doesn't matter. But you know, just muscle through your health issues, yeah, and eat things that you're allergic to, because that's right. The the energy Also, we're also cross pollinating podcasts, and I feel a little icky about that. Number one, number two, number two. The energy behind what was said on the dump was that once, uh yes, once pizza does not have cheese. It is just like bread sauce, right, Like that's just essentially what it is. And I

do I do remember listening to this conversation. I was in the parking lot to Medieval Times and I was listening to you guys have this conversation. And in my head because I was like, I'm dealing with the kids, I'm talking to stuff about we're going in medieval times and I'm listening to you guys. All it was I was trying to multitask and I was failing, So in my head what what you were saying. I know this is not what you're saying, but I was gonna like make a bit about it when I

came back, and then I forgot. But now you brought it up here. It's like something about it made it sound like you were saying there were too many Italians, and I just I had that thought while I was walking to it in two medial times, and I just cracked up and made myself laugh, And I'm glad you're ada. Who better, who is better position to make that declaration than I? Okay, literally, I literally come on is everywhere I look. Okay, so I think I'm I'm I'm okay to

say that I saw you last week? Do you agree? Okay? Okay, alright, alright, okay, cool. You know, young Elmo gave me the Italian pass, so I'll also I'll also make this statement. You know, I'll back to it. Yeah, Yeah, you're good. Shouts out to Jesse. All Right, that about does it. Four emails.

We're not gonna get the shout outs yet because I'm just gonna We're gonna do all the programming, reminders, the shout outs, the plugs now and it's saying goodbye, now because there's too many shout outs I gave they did it again somehow, there's eighty nine all right, Oh but it's okay. Oh my god, I wanted there's a lot. What do we got going on this week? Grub We got gay Mess mornings popping off for the rest of the week. Yeah, I'll probably find some more time for Mortal Kombat,

but we played some yesterday. I'll probably get some more time somewhere along the line. We got some quick looks happening at some point this way. You and Mike did a whole slew of quick looks. We did ye. Disney Illusion Island now on the site. Quake two thirty x X. I'm gonna check that. I'm gonna check that bad Boy. Yeah, I think, yes, I think I think everyone would dig thirty x X. It's it's Rogue Light very good. Uh. We have perhaps a b Light club going

up tomorrow. Corrects right, right, Yes, that's right. We're gonna figure I'm gonna figure something out. I think I had an idea, but I don't remember what now. We will also have a voicemail dump truck with or without a yes yes, mister Backlar, Oh you no finish that thought, and my hand was up to not interrupt you like, uh, with or without a funny wrestling man with a guitar. Maybe not. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, Jeff backlar, please, you had your

hand raised. We also, I think I think, and Jan can back me up on this, I think we fixed the beast cast feed. Yes, I think we didn't. Like I think I looked at it the other day. Uh, yes, sorry, this this morning and last night, and it seemed to all be there. At least it was showing up in my Spotify because I listened to it all the way through once a week,

because that's just how much of a freak I am. Yes, and we are aware that there's a nice chunk of legacy bomb casts that are missing as well, but that's you're just gonna have to be patient with that because it's a manual thing. That Yeah, it's gonna be a manual process. It'll get fixed though. Yeah, I'm I'm I've downloaded a good chunk of twenty

thirteen. We were thinking about where I was at in twenty thirteen. Yeah, seriously, I think, like, just you know, just to let everyone we just we're basically just changing around where we host the podcast, so it's a lot of back back end work, but it's just so much better for us. This one might give us money. Yeah, this one my sorry, sorry Italians. Yeah uh we We will have an earlier upf this week as well. I believe we will be checking out more Balder's Gate three

multiplayer. I believe we'll be rolling at ten am Pacific standard time. Just works a little bit better for scheduling stuff and getting stuff done before and after later in the day. Bailey Myers, folks find you. I am Bailian versus Predator on Twitch or Bailey Myers on the app formerly known as Twitter, or just watch on his game trailers because I'm I'm all over that shit. That's all I got. Yeah, we have the new ones out today.

It's Alien's Dark Descent and next week is going to be Balder's Gate. I hear people like it. There we go, fantastic, Bailey, You've held us out so much lately. Thank you so much. I'm happy to have and it's fun for me. Love having you around. Yes, I love coming a hair yelling at you guys that you're not real gamers and then leaving. Yeah. Yeah, it's my bit. Oh okay, yet you're not

okay. Yeah. So Jan's like, I was wondering where I was in twenty thirteen, so I went my Google Photos to look up where I was in twenty thirteen, and I was doing my movie themed engagement photos, which got like, went a little bit viral, and so I was like, oh, I want to find those, so I have them somewhere. But

the way it's just to google it. And I googled it and I've found someone did the exact same thing, but not just like the same idea, the exact same like movie posters with the exact same poses, like the Back of the Future. I dead someone else did our stuff two years later, and then they got the same viral bump. I'm I'm mad, you should,

supreating you should. Yeah. One time I took a photo I was doing, like I was watching every single Simpsons episode right in a row, and I took a photo of the screen during the Elon Musk episode, and I posted about it on Twitter and it went viral. And then someone this year posted it again, my exact photo of my TV and they're like, oh my god, I can't believe this just happened. On the Simpsons, like stolen velor motherfuckers off it's my television. Get out of here. Yeah,

you find them here, I'll post it. I'll post in the chat. Bailey. You gotta see these? Oh there it is and these posers, these posers, yeah right, these are my bad photoshop skills from twenty thirty. So look at you? Is eat or so cute? You're a baskets. That's actually my favorite one for sure, really funny though. I'm just experiencing a lot right now. There's more of these, all of my I've never seen the ghost one until now, and I'm a better person for

it. Oh my god, the Star Wars one. Okay, these are very good. I'm very proud of you for this. Can we put a link in the description so people don't get mad? But not being able to see totally this is? This is? This is gorge good jobs, fun grub. I need you to slack me this so I can so I remember. Okay, we'll do ye. All right, everybody, we've gone. We've gone here to the shot out section and the shout outs are Now, hey, there's a lot of the C word here and I'm not gonna say

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A policeman knew my name. He said, you go to sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away. Thick puppy's working too hard can give you a heart attack. Kak make gb trading cards. Hey Sirie order yellow jumpsuit. Shout us to Julia Roberts for passing the Blindside Dodge Bullet Jay Dog, Proud of you, my teacher, or made you watch the Blindside over the Prince's fucking Bride for making the honorable while we were all slackers, got to watch a masterpiece. I would need a turn for one

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all starting at September twenty twenty two. Speaking of September, do you remember the twenty first night of September Fest two Janifer taking a straight to Flavortown fin Fang Foom. That's a cool dragon man from Iron Fist comics. Huh. I always thought he was Iron Iron Man villain cause because Mandarin. Oh you know what, turns out the Iron Fist Dragon is a different dragon named Schulau. I've been wrong this whole time. Thanks for teaching me something new today?

Why did you have to mention slay the spire? I downloaded again and have to play this entire podcast. Damn you all to hell. It's been boob days since nine to eleven, eight thousand and eight. Boobs, what a national tragedy. I walked through the blood and the bones trying to find my brother. He was somewhere in North can Canada is suckling on the pp like OUs like Oka eighty nine is a C word. And that's been the Giant Bomb Cast. I've been Jan, he's been Jeff. He's also been

Jeff. I think I'm finally broken. She's that's she's been. It's not easy, man, but I gotta say, you made your own. We're gonna we're gonna stop this at fifty, right, We're capping this at fifty now, Okay, So so squabble amongst yourselves. This is like out, Oh my god, I can't wait till it's been boob days since this podcast. Okay, all right, this is the Giant Bobcast, Episode eight hundred and two. I'm thankful for you. We'll see you next week for another

episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. Programming reminder again. Hey, We'll see you at Peck's all right, September one, September two, September one, eight pm. And then the giant bum voicemail dump truck panel September two, rolling off the Blue Jay Theater at five and you know, Shenanigans abound. We'll be making lots of content. Comic Con video coming soon. Uh, some swag and just throw it in the audience. So hey back, can I Can I go buy a bucket of chicken and throw it into the audience?

All right? Cool? Thanks, we'll see you next week. There we go, man, people love come love it. She's still on you big. We said we were