817: CATHOLIC KARATE

Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty eighth, twenty twenty three. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and seventeen, powered by NZXT. I am your host, Jan Ochoa. I you know I was thinking about this. Here's my pitch. Here's my early cut, the check pitch, James Gun. If you're listening out there, and I know you are because you listen to God's favorite podcast, the Taylor Swift Podcast, The Giant BombCast. This podcast. He loves this pod. True, no one has ever

succeeded trying to kill the Batman. Let's try and bang the Batman. Let me introduce my villain that I'm willing to play because not pro bono, but pro bono. Instead of trying to lure the Batman with a bunch of riddles, I'm just gonna use a bunch of pickup lines and and and bed the Batman to bang the bat You're just pitching a classic honeypot. Are you going? Are you going to achieve anything from it? Or is your only goal? I haven't thought that far ahead. Uh So, instead of using a

bunch of riddles, I'm gonna use a bunch of pickup lines. And from now on, I want everyone to call me the Rizzler anyway, co captain of the ship, steering it as always, keeping the news on board. He's he's our own king Shark. Because he wears fun little hats. You just don't see it sometimes because he keeps that private. Yes, Jeff grub Yeah, I'm gonna steer the ship right into the rocks. So let's just let's ground this thing. I've got no idea what we're doing here. He's

gonna be a it's gonna be one of them podcasts. Jan you think you think it's gonna be one of them episodes. I don't remember how to podcast. I was telling you this yesterday. There I went a couple of days without talking in front of a microphone, in front of a screen. I don't know what to do with myself. The turkey make you forget. It's the chemicals or whatever. Yeah, the fan turkey turkey make you forget.

It makes you sleepy and not know how to do podcasts anymore. Exactly, exactly, King of Turkey and all other avian birds to consume our own Jeff Backler, Well, that way, I get that. Do you not want that? Do you not want to that turkey king. I'm gonna be afraid of the Turkey King. Turkeys are terrifying. What about if I want that? He what about the ham Man? What about the ham Man? Well, that just feels anti Semitic. Yeah that is that tree. That's tray,

motherfucker. No, yeah, I mean I could own that. I like chicken. Chicken's probably my favorite animal to eat. You know, I'm a boring guy. You know. What can I say? I like fried chicken. You know that's my thing. Listen, Turkey's bullshit. Though. I had brisket for Thanksgiving this year, because turkey is the most mid poultry you can possibly ingest. It's just silly and plain. Chicken is a blank canvas. We all know this to be true. My Thanksgiving was great.

Thanks for asking. We didn't finish introducing everyone. Sorry we can't talk about the about I too have turkeys. You do want to know how the King of the Turkeys is doing things on the docket here? Yeah? I thought I was the guy and I meant to was meant to speak about turkeys, but I guess not last, but certainly not least, our favorite guest here on the Giant Bomb Cast, Shitley Myers. Everyone, it's my new name. I love it. I'm reclaiming it exactly exactly. They can't hate on

you claming it and then immediately reclaiming it exactly. Yeah. No, I it's like, come up with the come up with a different one. This one's mine because I love it now, shitly sh I love that. You know, sometimes you see something you're like, wow, the hate male game here is so strong. And sometimes you see something like he didn't even try. That's so fucking funny. This makes it better. Mix some Yeah, I've had people on Twitter suggesting like legitimately good puns. I'm like, no,

these are getting hurtful. I like the other one. Yeah, let's just stick with Shitley. Yeah, that's the one. I like this. This is gonna Yeah, Bailey and I are going to spin off and do our own villain podcast, Hitley and the Rhy, where we we rate your your advice for any and everything. I hate to punch up your name after making suggestions about mine, but I do feel like if we're going to do like a Buddy Cup show title, it should be Shipley and the Riz.

All right, I'll take it. I'll take it, and then we need like Grub or bacclar just pounding a handle on the tables, like get me the riz and Shipley, Well you're the one with ratings Backlar, how is your Thanksgiving? No one else tell me about their Thanksgiving. I don't want to know. Thanks for asking. It was it was fine. It was fine. You know, whenever I go down to Virginia for Thanksgiving, I know I'm gonna be playing a lot of Nintendo Wii, the original Nintendo Wi.

God, that thing's starting to just look like absolute dog shit bad, ye what it's like for a while. It's been bad for a while. But like my brother in law got like a bigger TV and he's like, I'm still hooking up. You know, he's probably he's probably hooking it up like with old cable. You can probably make it it look a little bit better. But I bet they're like stretching it and ship I bet that being stretched. Have you heard have you heard the song from the Nintendo we store

recently that ship pops off? It's still good, like the men, like the Timy kind of like ethereal Menual music is like Star Wars prequels, where it's memes are very powerful, like it's like a very memorable console, just just free with just yes and whatever you need to do, appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's the lowest common denominator of video game consoles, so it's very easy to mean because memes are the lowest common denominator

of Internet content. Yeah. No, you're right, very true, very true, very correct. So whenever I'm down in Virginia, I'm always like, oh, what food are we gonna eat outside of the house? What's gonna happen? And the first thing to do, like you want to go get pizza? And I'm like, abs fuckingly not, no, do I

don't want pizza? Like why would I want pizza? Down here? For people that don't know and that have never seen Jeff Backlar in person, he's in a perpetual state of his hands in his pockets, just kicking sand ye no saying and I'm saying rats. I'm just like rats, rats. You know a lot? Uh And look it's fine. We did the thing. I just I was drunk as long as I possibly could be, which is pretty great as so my goal while I was down there was bowl of three

hundred in we bowling, and I couldn't do it? You do it overhand? Overhand? What fuck it up? Video games for Escape Overhead. It wasn't even like on the table as this dryd get so mad at me. I keep winning, pulling over him. Look, I god, I got. The best I did was eleven strikes in a row and I just missed the twelfth and obviously the thirteenth, and like, I just couldn't be happy. But what I did do a lot in general or just in the we Bowl, like no, just like for the for the for the thirty six

hours I was there. Also, I had two things that I thought was really I experienced two new things that I thought was very interesting. The first one was an actual hoverboard. I had never been on one, and my niece got one for her birthday and I didn't know anything about like being on one. I was like, what could this be? Will I be naturally good because I have the balance of a mediocre Beer League hockey player? Is

that gonna work out? No? That did not translate at all. But my kid but Dib hops on it and he's just skating around the whole room. He's like, what's up, Dad, what's up? I'm like, do you know how to ride? One of these. He's like, yeah, it's super easy. Motherfucker's going front words backwards. He's spinning around doing like seven twenties and shit. I'm just like, damn dude. So I'm gonna get one of these and We're going to enter our hoverboard arc here in

the back of our house. Uh. Number. The second thing I experienced was peanut butter whiskey. Oh they ever had? Yes, is screwball or screwball? Yeah? Ok, do a shot of that with like a floater of shamp or you get a peanut butter and jelly. Oh that's neat. Uh, they didn't offer that at the house. I was at just the spot for the future, just so you know, for me to you, that's good to know. It was hitded to me as like a novelty, like, hey, you want to drink some of this, and I'm like,

sure, shit's like fucking candy I did. I wasn't expecting how sweet it is. Holy shit, O my god. Anyway, that was my thanksgoing how many shots of this did you did you have? Then go on the hoverboard? Very peanut butter whiskey sounds more insane than a shot to me. I'm sorry that actually sounds crazy. What are you talking about? All right? You're really supposed to do it as a shot. You have to know that, like that's a novelty drink. So here's what I did,

and you can judge me. I don't care. I will a little bit though. I put it in like a double shotglass and I just sort of sip the chot class like the double shotglass, because I was like, I didn't know what to expect, and I wanted to taste this. When you shoot something, you're basically like attempting to get it into your body as quickly as possible. And I was like, I want to see what this is

all about. And I was like, oh, this is specially candy, you know, So anywere just thinking, I'm just thinking of how you can mix it with goodval liquor. You can mix oh my sugar, but yeah, I'm in sure if you wanted to make it a mixed drink like a lunatic, you could put it in some cream soda, call it a fluff or nutter. Yeah, So that was the thing. As soon as I tasted, I'm like, I would prefer this be poured on like a Sunday

because that's like it tasted like a syrup. It tasted like some were popping you would put on a Sunday. So I think you're in the right frame of mind there, Bailey. I've noticed on my street every single day there's a new abandoned buzzball on the street, and it's a different buzzball. It's You're delightful, No, Bailey, you're itch. I can see you're so sorry that I know about all the alcohols. Apparently, Buzzball is proudly advertised

as a woman owned company. It is a beverage that is roughly the size of a grenade and shaped like one. And then when you pull the pin, something similarly bad happens. Where you then drink the buzzball and whatever happens next is on you, I suppose. But you know, they they outlawed for Loco, so we had to get creative out here. And okay, they also make a giant buzzball backlar. I mean, can I get this?

I live probably, I've never seen this. Ever, it looks very you need to you need to hang out at a gas station these things they have. Okay, I did not realize buzz balls has three z's in it. Oh sorry, it has three Z. You absolutely should have assumed I should have. You're right, I'm slipping over here. Yesterday you called me a dumb slut. I'm going to say it back, bro, Absolutely right. This one looks like Dejon Honey mustard. No, I don't think it

tastes like it too. Who knows, it won't matter after your second one. It's the name of this buzzball is chock Tease. Wait, chok teas. These are at my local store. I'll be back. I get it. Choco chiller, peach chiller, and strawberry rita chiller. All right, buzzballs as I've only ever had them because I was already drunk, so it seemed like a good idea, and rarely, if ever, a good idea.

Yeah, sponsor, sponsor the podcast. They are shaped like alcohol would be shaped in a sci fi video game, like yeah, like Prey, Like this is what alcohol would look like in pray. Yeah. I'm convinced you don't actually drink it. You just like squish it in your hands and you consume it that way. Yeah. Yeah man. Yeah, I'm trying to dance next week, I'm trying to I'm trying to drink a little bev next week, y'all because dancing. Have you ever got gone out dancing?

Like for dinner and dancing? I don't think the Giant BombCast has ever gone out dancing. I'm gonna definitively say that. Listen, I who who amongst you would you say is the best at throwing it back drinking or dancing? Because I mean I mean throwing it back dancing. Yeah, it's definitely Giannacho. I'm from the area. I would have guessed that before, but after watching Dan's moves in Warrior, where I'm not sure that man can almost can almost do a split? Yeah? I can split? Yeah, you can

do a split? Chin, I could do a split. That's part of the rich Janler, you want to be a goalie, you won't be a goalie today. Both ways, it doesn't matter. Okay, wait, wait, Jan, when's the last time you did it? Did a split? Last week? All right? I will because even though I've gained some extra jam splits on stage in l A. Okay, well, all right, I have a follow up. Why can you do a split? Like? How are you? Are? You? Just like everything? Now do the

splits? So I so this gets on my best friend's nerves because my best friend is a break dancer. We'll eventually talk about video games, folks, eventually, I'm sure we will. I've always been like a little have a little extra jam around me, you know, little chubbers my whole life, you know, you know what, Okay, But for whatever reason, I've always been oddly flexible. And I attribute this to my seventh grade elective teacher.

Sixth grade elective teacher when we had karate at a Catholic school, which sounds weird, where we were doing the butterfly stretch right, So it's when you're sitting not quite Chris Cross apple sauce, but your feeter touching, You're supposed to bend forward, right, get as close to the ground as possible.

She just full all of her weight pushed me all the way down to the floor and I heard something crack, and I'm like, you know what, okay, cool, and then I kind of just stayed there and then everyone around me was like, man, Jendrome's like, I know that he's like a little chubby and stuff, but he still has a great personality and everything, and he's fun to be around and he's funny. But that's just like a chubby thing. Anyway, But anyway, look at that guy fucking

stretch. Oh my god, she separated your bu Yeah yeah, so since then, since then? Yeah, I can? I can? I can? I could do the basket thing or the scorpion where my feet touched the back of my head. It's great. Damn kata karate sounds wild. Dude, Yep, you beat up a nun or what's the deal? No, they beat me up about private God's Greatest Warriors, shouts out to HISSTERI lean, she made a great lemon bar. Anyway, video games, we made it. We made it, folks, and we already did we bowling.

Oh there we got, we got, we already got a game in uh. I did try and look at it like they had a bunch of other Wii games, and I'm like going through the things, every single jewel case is empty. I never asked anyone about it, but every jewel case was empty. I was like, that's just the normal state of a week election and you wanted to play. I wanted to show Dibb Mario Galaxy. I mean, that's an understandable thing. Was it meant to be? Really?

Those discs are not still good at this point. Right, don't last forever. They got holes in them now, yeah, I mean they have a hole. It takes a while. For Yeah, it'll take like fifty years. Yeah, it'll take a while. Divis is for some people. It takes for some people it takes thirteen years. Alan Wake specifically thirteen years, brub you put on the dock here, Alan Wake too. Yeah. Yeah, I wanted to like do a little check in, so I played a

little bit more on the site yesterday. I am through, well I think I'm through the first part of Coffee World anyhow, and I am like, yeah, I get it now, I get what is good about this. Yeah, I mean it's like it's been it's been a journey for me where I'm like everyone builds it up so so much, and I'm like, okay,

it's it is the game I thought it was. It is like, hey, you're gonna be most of the gameplay is going to be poking around looking for stuff, and then we're gonna throw some of the wildest shit you ever seeing in terms of storytelling in a game at you and I hope that's your jam. And it's like once I accept the like, oh I'm here for that. That's fine. I'm like, okay, I totally get what

this game is, and I'm really enjoying that part of it. It was actually a little bit difficult coming all right off of Residual four to come back to this and be like, oh, okay, that rest Bell four just plays so well, And now I'm like, uh, they're just different things. They really, I know, they feel similar, they occupy a similar part in my brain. But now that I'm like taking them as their own things, it's much easier to just like fully get into what Allen Wake two

is doing. It's it's not even like the gameplay is like I wouldn't say like boring or anything like that. It's just it's reduced, right, It's like the dials turned down on what they're what they're asking of you as a player in these sections. And so it does feel like occasionally like okay, I'm just kind of waiting to get this next bit, and the combat is

what it is. I don't think that's that's especially great. I do say I like the puzzles because they're my kind of puzzles where I'm just like, Okay, observe the world a little bit and go solve this thing and that's been that's been fun. So yeah, I definitely get it. At this point, I'm wondering how you guys are still feeling about it, Jan have

you beaten it yet? I decided to put on the back burner and try and complete a couple of smaller indie games right in the meantime, and then I quickly realized that we're starting Game of the Year this week, so I thought, like, okay, I gotta go in overdrive here. I actually

went back and replayed a couple chapters. I rolled back to an older save, just because I just remember seeing Grub find all these cases and words of power that I completely missed out on, and not that I was struggling where I was at in the game, but I felt like I just needed some extra juice there, and I just wanted to spend even more time than I was already spending in these levels. So I don't know if I'm just gonna roll with that older save because I just went back a couple chapters. But

man, I'm still I'm still digging this out of it. I thought a couple of weeks removed from playing it would kind of take me out of it and maybe remove the recency bias of thinking it's absolutely amazing. But that was I was wrong. As I was watching you play play yesterday, I'm like, yeah, I would still visit the crap out of Coffee World, like I would live there, well in its current state or like maybe in its prime, like I either let's do some urban exploring, let's steal an animatronic,

let's go streaking at Disneyland, Let's just do it. It's really hot, right, genuinely I found out about that because it's all of my friends were there when it happened. I wasn't just like finding out on the news. My friend was like, he approached our boat. I was like yeah, And I'm like, there are very few places where I wish to see a dick unexpectedly Disneyland, Bottom of the Lands for sure, especially Small World where your hackles are already raised. Did you know the dolls hair grows?

Jeff, jeffs, Jan and Jeffs. Did you know the dolls hair grows? Or yeah, what does that mean? What are this is a real thing? Okay, don't start that because before he gets cool as hell but also fucked up. Before you explain that, Bailey, because you need to know to these two. Uh, I got I got beef with small world because sometimes there's a Filipino dolls. Sometimes they're not Look at the fuck I see my fellow seasons. Let me bang with the busy, Let me bang

with them. Yeah, I think everyone's some bone to pick with. It's a small world, depending on every walk of life. I think has a justifiable bone to pick with. That rid the uh The boring official explanation for why the hair grows is that it is made of yarn, and yarn loses its elasticity over time, and so it will stretch out, and so they have to trim it so that it's the right length and stuff and looks good. No, the doll's hair just grows. Actually, okay, it fully

grows as haunted by the spirits of children. Right, and then to go over that guy's body and want to get naked, right, Bailey, have you stuck around or circled back to Alan Wake too at all? I have not had a ton of time for it because I had to play Assassin's Creed Mirage. Watch the Honest Game trailer comes out today, But every every Honest Game trailer since the Allen Week one we have made multiple references to Alan Wake. It is constantly in my brain. Now. It's very scary. I'm

a baby. I can't play scary games. My heart's too weak. But it's so interesting that I want to keep playing it. Plus, I was really proud of myself because I beat that first boss, like on the first try, and yes, you did. That's a really good job if you did that. You did that on the first try, that's really uh like uh five, And I think it did me like three actually, ye, something like that, five or eight. I was so afraid and it made me better at aiming the gun. I think that's a good sign. There

you go. But so how far into it are you, Bailey? Not terribly far. I just know a lot about what happens later due to just suresosis. Yeah, I'll say that. I think the frighteningness of the game dials down pretty quickly after that. I think, like I've done a couple of sections now where it's like this, they're just having fun and it's more like weird adult swim instead of horrifying constantly. Yeah, I to equate it, to equate it to a movie. It's like Shutter Island, and then

it becomes like Zodiac of like, okay, what's happening? Okay, we cool. It still has a lot of tension. Yes, I think it's less stressful pretty quickly. So yeah, yeah, I think. Uh, some of the environments get a little worse where you're just sort of like, oh no, I don't want to do that. And I think there are they still do those triggered jump scares, which do eventually kind of get numb too. I thought I was done with this game, and then it was like no, we got more and I'm still in it. I feel like

my my in game counter is thirty two hours? What am I doing? Am I just really a record for you guys? For this guy? Maybe? Uh, for sure, I don't think I've played any game for thirty two hours. Maybe I actually I have been doing a lot of the new Call Duty. Uh we could talk about that maybe a little later I want

to hear. But yeah, I you know, I still think. Oh and also for people who've made it to I don't want to spoil anything, but there is like a part where you're this isn't that, but you're in a movie theater and you can like watch pretty much like a whole movie. It's not a whole movie. It's probably like a fifteen minute Jimmy jam Jan, did you watch the whole movie? I I was at war with myself of like wanting to keep going or just sit there and watch the movie.

LEXI said, it's twenty two minutes. I didn't really that man, okay, And then I just couldn't. Three times I just couldn't because I was like, oh man, am I just gonna leave right now? Like I want to see, like what the real audio actor looks like. I want to hear that guy a little bit. And it's just fun. It's just fun. I watched the whole thing and it's it's fucking weird. It's definitely like a student film week. I played through it really fast, like that

section and watch that movie later on YouTube. Would I be fine? I think you'd be fine. I wish I like, I mean, I think it's it's very neat how that movie just starts to play, like you you

know, I still find that game very engaging and very you know. I I will say this, I'm at the point now where I've like kind of lost the narrative thread a little bit, and I'm just like, all right, Sam, you're you're just I'm just gonna have to hear you do a podcast now, because I I feel like I was there and then the last i'd say, you know, four hours of my playthrough, I've just been like, oh, I realized we're in like the third act here, and

we're trying to like, you know, stick the landing, and it's good. It's it's enthralling and it's and it's it's not dissimilar to any sort of like cerebral you know, sci fi prestige movie or show where you're just like I I was following and then all of a sudden, I lost it and I would really appreciate a recap, but yeah, I'm still I still am absolutely all tied up in this. I'm still really digging it, for sure.

I'm glad. I'm glad I'm continuing to come back to it because it is just like, all right, I'm enjoying what they're doing here and all the all the storytelling stuff, all of the tools that they deploy is impressive because you just don't you don't see that anywhere else. So I'm very appreciative of what they're working with. And you know, I grew up like I didn't. I didn't. I didn't want to say this to you, But

now I think it's maybe there's a little bit of truth to it. I think the way you played it, where like we were watching you play, I think that is almost a bit of a disservice to like the experience that Jen and I individually have probably had and Bailey obviously have had with this game, right where like a lot of that stuff happening to you by yourself is a bit more powerful. I think I can see that. Yeah, I

know, I know what you mean. I will say, though, the other side of that is when something mundane happens or I just walk past them and then you guys go, oh my god, exactly, thats be like more curious and more too. Something special is happening with this game. If they're making connections like that almost constantly, so definitely it makes it feel the game is really well thought out in a way that I haven't realized yet. But the promise of that being sewn into my experience has been very helpful.

Right, Like we're giving you like the fan commentary almost right where like you know you need you sort of need to split the difference with that, Yeah, and I needed that a little bit. Now. I think I'm out at a point where I think I'm good. Yeah, And you know what you talk about with the combat, Like, I do think the combat is pretty good. I do like that wrong with it. I do there are times where I'm like, man, I haven't done any of that in a

while. I do think some of that is sort of mitigated with with the the kind of potentially intense puzzle solving. I do like the majority of the puzzle stuff. I think sometimes I like stumble over a key that was hidden in aer and I'm just like, I don't know what chlos do. Well, not even that we were, just like, who the hell was I gonna find this? Like I just stumbled upon it? You know that aside, most of those are super satisfying. Yep, awesome, a good game.

Well, going from one remedy game to a game that is definitely inspired by Remedy. I've been playing El Paso elsewhere. This came out a couple I ask amazing things about this one. Please tell us more. Jan You can tell that I like this game a bunch because I'm constantly while I'm playing it on Steam just hitting F twelve F twelve f twelve because of the story beats happening in the game, the actual gameplay I'm not the biggest fan of. I'll be honest about it. This one is like the max pain,

Like kay, okay, yeah, this is the max pain. Like, so you have bullet time where you can slow down time, you have a meter, or do the dive where you slow down time and you'll have like two pistols. You eventually get shotgun Tommy gun, et cetera, et cetera. And the gameplay loop is not my favorite because generally you are just dumped into a level, find the hostages. Once you get all the hostages,

head back to the exit elevator. That formula differentiates a couple of times, but the levels where I wind up remembering the most is more so where they

fludge around with the environment. You're dumped into like a motel at the start of the game, and then you just descend down an elevator, and whether the elevators actually descending down a physical space or whatever is to be determined from where I'm at in the game, but it'll fudge around with the environment where like, oh crap, everything's small now, or there's a lamp that's floating

in the sky. Now I'm in a graveyard, and then it'll mix like the graveyard with the motel you're in, and it does need stuff like that, and I like it when the game is doing that. I feel like they could cut down on a lot of the actual levels because they're supposedly fifty and at this point, I'm kind of tired of the actual gameplay loop and I would actually just like the story because that is where this game really really

sings. There's a couple of sequences where the music will kick in and then it's it's pretty just ambient music with like it, like how Silent Hill will occasionally go like or whatever in the background. El Paso Elsewhere totally does that. But y'all, it's the fucking story. It's the small cut scenes and like the pacing and the editing of it that just fucking hits in a certain way. Shouts out to who I think May May who should maybe get the

best debut of best new character, James Savage. He's just a dude trying to go after his vampire ex girlfriend. Sure there, right, yeah, and then like the whole time he's like coming to terms with their their whole relationship, his own relationship with himself, and like the whole time, it's

like it's fucking hitting, let's fucking go, let's go. So that that part to try and see the rest of the stories propelling me through the actual story beats, and there's there's light humor in the game where you know they'll introduce a new enemy and one of the first new enemies is like a werewolf and then like the cut see interstitial cut scene in between levels will be like

is that a fucking werewolf in the bathroom? And then hard cut to the next level, and then it'll it'll have like other introspective moments where when they introduce a new characters like oh, this is a bride, like we're like what was your deal? Like were we married? Or you were you getting married and all that other stuff. And I think the voice acting is very great. I believe the writer and developer voiced the game himself. Exlavier Lavier

Nelson. I think I'm sorry for mis pronouncing your name. You said that's pretty awesome. It's there's a lot of vowels in his name. It's true. Hey, I'll take full onus for man, Like it's just like the story beats. Honestly, it is what's pulling me through because I am just very, very tired of the actual game at this point. Yeah, I was gonna have so for the game itself, how much does like it change up over time or is it just kind of slow mo shooting and maybe get

different weapons. It's pretty much that, and then you just go to point A. I was like, oh, now I got to flip a switch to open this gate, and that maybe fifty levels too is a bit too much for Yeah, if that's not going to change too much. I feel like when I was playing that demo when it came out during like what was the what's like the festival they did next? Yeah, the next fest. I like was feeling that in what I was playing in only in the demo where I was like, oh, wow, it's just this a lot,

a lot, a lot. I dug it though. That's yeah, that's cool to hear that you're you're so into it. Well, yeah, I mean it seems like it's got a ton of styles. It seems uh. And if it does seem like it's got a lot of cool stuff happening in the story, is it how remedy inspired do you get any like live action stuff and anything like that. No live action stuff, I think besides like using pain killers and bullet time and diving and then just messing with the geometry

of the levels. That's where I'm getting the remedy lives. I've never played through Max Pain, so I can't speak to exactly. Wow. Also, James Savage wears like a trench and like Max Pain, where's a trench? Oh yeah, yeah, clearly going for that. Uh. I mean they're not even trying to hide it. It's like this is definitely trying to be an homage to to Max Pain. Uh. Okay, So the key question here for this week. You know, Friday we start Game of the Year

stuff. Should and I askee this before, but now that you play a little bit more, should I be playing this? It's Tuesday, It's Tuesday. It's really hard to recommend. It's hard. Like the story part absolutely amazing, but then I'm about like four or five hours in and I and I'm almost to level fifty and it's quite Some of the levels do feel like quite the slog where you are messing so much with like not inventory Ammo management.

They do promote like in the game of breaking virtually every wooden object so you can get a stake to stab enemies with and that's like a one hit kill. But I've just found myself very frustrated at occasional parts of it because it just the difficulty ramps up out of nowhere and they just throw a bunch

of enemies at you. There are modifiers that you can fudge around with every time you boot up the game, so you could have infinite health, infinite AMMO if you want, or like increase the efficiency of health pickups or how much you get damaged. So I think if you really wanted to just zoom through the game, you could turn all those on to your favor interesting and I don't think you would lose much out on the game. It would just feel in my opinion, I think it feels like more like a slog.

But like I know, it sounds like I'm harping on the game a lot, but I'm telling you all, like the cut scenes and just like the pacing of it, it's just at such a frenetic pace. And I hate using the word fornetic. I'm probably mispronouncing it. I just feel like it's

overused. There we go boom boom baby. It just speaks to me in a weird way, and I think the delivery is really on point of James and your vampire ex girlfriend, and I feel attached to these people, and like the framing of all the like the little mini cut scenes is tastic as well, Like there's a lot of attention when it comes to that, and it's not just like talking face talking face, it's it's beautiful given the kind

of shitty ps one dirty polygon vibe that it's going for. Yeah, I mean I'm still really into this cool look of taking early PC games or early three D games of any kind and giving them like good lighting and calling it a day. Like, yeah, that that works for me a ton.

I think that's a pretty cool look. I I have like like trying to place elpass Oaks elsewhere in my head, but like, as you've been talking about it, and I'm like, wait, is it it sounds for some reason, the name makes it sound like it's a visual novel or something like that. So I'm like, oh, okay, no, this is the game I've been seeing on TikTok. It's it is the max paying game that people have been playing on TikTok so. So it's got enough vibes that people

are like, oh, what is this? What is that game? What is that game? So yeah, I'm I'm into the way it looks, and I like the presentation. I might check this out, which I had a lot more time before Friday, I I grub. I would play up until the level where you hear the rap track kick in. Okay. That's always a good sign because like it is it, it hits. It's not my style, it's not my style of rap that I personally prefer, but

it's just one of those of like, Okay, let's fucking go. And then like you know, as I'm as I'm playing here in in in the dark, I'm just like yelling my own like little ad libs to the side while while they're going off, like anyway, just get a case of buzzballs and time perfect evening. I guess I'm not gonna judge you, Bailey. I I invited you onto the podcast not only because we we we need you, but because I I wanted to brag to you that I have now finished

two more video games in my life. God, I just wanted to I just wanted to try and impress my friends and have it be recorded for posterity. So so your list now is Cheers of the Kingdom and lies of p Lies of p right right right now, Venba, okay and Juson. I think that's really impressive. Jan thank you, thank you, Bailey, thank you Shitley, thank you Shitley, thank you Shitley, Venba. Folks may have seen this pop popping around as well. It's gotten a lot of buzz.

It's a very very quick game. You could definitely be in one sitting, maybe like two ish hours. So should we really count that as a full game then? Huh? So it follows a narrative of your immigrant mother immigrating to Canada with your pops, and then you know, it's a really

sweet game. It's more so about the story they're telling it. It kind of looks like it is a cooking game, like a cooking Mama, but really your mom is just putting together recipes and the story is wrapped aroun and everything, and it if you were a child of immigrants, specifically specifically first gen, then I five thousand percent not recommend and am telling you you need to play this because this deals a lot with cultural identity crisis of growing up

whether or not you want to assimilate to the greater culture of wherever you're at. Here it's in Canada. For me, it was like in the US. And then just kind of dealing with those like racial stereotypes of like, hey, I only know this thing about Indian culture, like you like tick a masala, right, and then realizing like, oh, you know, I yes, Indian, but there is like different aspects to being Indian and that's not the only thing that my people eat. And then it's facing the

shame of bringing in like a homemade dish to lunch and everything. And that's definitely something like I've come across in my life of like having other classmates point out my smelly food and be like, ooh, what's that? That's not

a chee. So it's really touching in the aspect it deals a lot with They touch on just being proud of the culture that you come from, and it really touches on how the first generation immigrant experience can feel like being a tourist in your own culture where yes, like that is a part of me and I speak the language kind of and I can read it kind of, but me being Filipino American and In this instance, the Sun character is Tamil,

a Canadian. Again, apologies, I'm getting that incorrect. It really echoes a lot of my own sense feelings and like what I've experienced of like, yeah, like I'm proud of this culture, but I'm also kind of ashamed of it sometimes, But like why am I ashamed of it? Who's telling me to be ashamed of it? And deals with the more so with the parent side of that of like why can't my kid be proud of this?

Why are they ashamed of this? And just like your name is Caven versus like and you want to anglicize it and be called Kevin and stuff. Again, if you if you love cooking, if you're a child of immigrants, or you're looking for a quick game to play or a game with a hot mom, play venpa, Oh okay, just throw that one right at the end. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That

sounds great, especially for that last bit. Oh yeah, definitely. I started this, and I will say I found it very pleasant just following the recipes because it's not like it's written out explicitly. It's like suggested at and you know, it's you know, pretty close to an explicit show suggestion of like what you're supposed to do, but it's it's still fun just be like, Okay, clearly I'm supposed to put this and then this, and oh there's little holes here, so I gotta let the steam through, so I'm

going to line it up this way. And just going through that those processes is really satisfying, especially because it's like I am making foods and using like electronic kitchen devices that I've never seen before, and man, I'm always fascinated by those things, and it's like a safe space to play around with that

someone else's culture and have them kind of from their perspective. I'll say that I don't know if this is a lesson that gaming has learned so much as other mediums, but like specificity is like is like what makes storytelling really work.

And telling a very honed in story about a certain kind of person from a certain place that's experienced a certain thing, it's like, well, that actually makes it easier for someone elsewhere that has no relationship to those specific things to latch on because it's still like the same kind of things that everyone goes through. So I definitely got that right away right away, where I'm like, this is something that appeals to me, even though it's completely the opposite

of anything I've ever experienced. Totally Yeah, five thousand percent. And it's on game Pass if you've got game Pass. Oh cool, easy slam dunk. Also, Jan you buried the lead. The dad's also hot for everybody. You know. He's got a stash and he's like almost the same shade of brown as I am. And I'm like, I see myself as this guy. Look at this man, Look at this man. There's also a frame where like, my guy might be smoking a fat duchy you know, helly, Yeah, seems like a cool day. He can hang. I

gotta play this game. You gotta play this game. The party. Let's go shitty kids. It's got something for everyone. Also, real quick, I just want to touch on and quickly talk about juiceant Grub. You you mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Now I don't know if you've finished it, Grub, I not, but I intend to go back to it.

I'm excited to hear that you finished it. I know that the sprint to Game of the Year is insane with all these other titles popping up, but again, I implore you, if you have game passed, if you have access to that, devote maybe three four hours to playing Juiceant. I got really tired of it, and I knew that I was close to the end, so I just kind of powered through the climb and continue to climb in this game, I had a lot of issues with it. To grub.

I don't know if you came across it, but like collision detecting being super weird, it gets weird, yeah, And like the they telegraph really well what you can throw on and like, uh, clutch onto to climb through stuff, and sometimes that just wasn't connecting for me personally, and like, yep, that's definitely happened to me too. Like the jumping mechanic where you're jumping to like another handhold or whatever, like would fuck up sometimes for

me. But yo, here here's how to get an easy cheap pop from me. Throw a fucking space whale in your video game space. What do you mean space? What is that space? Well, whales and space. You have a little QT in your backpack, right, the little qt? Yes? Is he safe? The whole time? I need to know this before I embark on this mission. There's a there's a moment. There's a moment Bailey, whether your cute little squishy friend does get hurt. I can't

plan it. I'm not going the beginning part of stray. He only gets hurt for a little bit and then, like you ammliately get it immediately gets resolved. There's a there's just like the moment in it, which I think I need to put that out of the dock for best moment of the year. It's just like, Okay, let's go shouts out to the space wheels. Yeah, I've heard the final climb is very exciting, so yeah,

I might check it out. Yeah the you know, I was gonna say that maybe that's the thing you could just YouTube and fully experience, but like I I'll just kid, I'm just gonna beat it. Yeah. I like that game. I appreciate it. It does seem like dope, No, got to a point where it's like, you know, we could spend more time perfecting this, but we kind of got it to where we need to get it, and I think that. I mean, I like what I've

played of it a lot. It does a really good job of evoking emotions without doing a lot of overt storytelling or throwing cut scenes, and I really appreciate that. And then I just enjoy climbing games. There's climbing games in VR. I like just climbing in general and video games, and this is like really a really good one of those. So I that was probably an momentum to get me back into it. And hearing that the Indian is very good. Yeah, I'm gonna check it out. Yeah, I think it

really delivers there. And you can skip the the notes and like the little pickups and the rock stuff Grub if you just want to like minati critical path your way through the game, that's right, yep. Speaking about whales and space whales, Jeff Grubb, this is the last game we have listened to here. This is quite the whale of the game. Walter's Kick three. Yeah, Yeah, I've been trying to stick to this game a little bit

more. I I just got out of my depth with my character party where we were take we were all level two and we were taking on like level five or six people that were like part of some main quest. Excuse me, I don't know what's the main question, what's not yet Still, I'm just kind of like doing things that might characters I like, are asking me to do for the most part, while also trying to get cured of this thing that's in our head, and that's just living babies, and that's just

living. That's like we're all dealing with that, aren't we. And I got to this point where these characters were just wrecking my shit, and everyone's like, just turned down the difficulty, just turning down the difficulty and get through all this stuff. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I should just do that, And so I turned down the difficulty to the easiest setting to basically like get out of this jam, this pickle I put myself in.

And now I am starting to build up some momentum where I'm leveling up and I'm getting back over to a place where it seems like maybe I should have been in the first place. And I'm solving some of these story quests and they're almost always interesting. I'll say I like it whenever I'm in a dialogue tree in this game, that's always a good time to be like, how can we play around with these characters? How are they going to mesh

together? And then we get back to the world and say, oh, I left my backpack somewhere go look for it, and it'say, well, this is not very fun. That's why am I looking for this stupid little thing and this in this world? Yeah, and it's like it's harder to see these things. I'm like, I found it. It's whatever. But the game mostly is these cool dialogue options and then a pretty cool combat system

that I'm still getting the hang of. I've heard people really build it up, like, oh, you know, you can set off these chain reactions and have all these cool physics interactions that happen in combat, and that's my I really like those kinds of things, but I just and either having a difficulty wrapping my head around what is possible in any moment because there's so much to learn, or I'm just not very creative, which is entirely possible.

So I'm like, Okay, I'm still kind of feeling that side of things out. But as I get into any situation where I can have characters, it's like face off in a battle of wits and I'm rolling dice. That continues to be very exciting. So I'm like, I'm pretty on board with this game at this point. It's it's not like rocketing to the top of my Game of the Year list or anything like that. But it's it's been a very good time, and it's the game that I am playing the most

leading up to Game of the Year. It's the one I want to like have a good grasp of at this point. And and yeah, it continues to play really well in the handheld PCs, So yeah, I'm enjoying it. Are you doing it? That's the thing is like I keep going back to it too, and I'm just like, yeah, no, I for me, that's Game of the year thing is, I'm this is the one I'm still playing like. I just started a darker run and it's been very

fun. I recommend to anyone who uh wants to support women's rights and women's wrongs, although I guess you're darker character giving a man too or whatever. Fu. Yeah, but mine's the hottest woman you've ever seen, and all she wants to do is murder and her blood. What can we say? It's one of she's amazing, she's fucking the vampire who loves that she wants to murder. It's all working out. Okay. Yeah, see that that right there, that little the anecdote there that sounds amazing, like the fact

that all this stuff is possible in the game. So yeah, I'm gonna keep messing around in it and see what I can where I come out on the side. I just don't think I have the time. I'm just going to defer to the crew and that uh and trust that that everyone else. Baby. Oh yeah, it's too late for you, fellows. I'm sorry. Yes, I don't care how long this plane ride is. State not go go not playing that, not doing it? Go play the dark Horse that we all don't want to admit is actually the game of the year.

On that plane ride back, go go go play yourself and Pickman four. Yeah, yeah, I might have to bring along the Nintendo switch that is basically being held together by du duct tape and dreams at the time. That's a good reason to get a whole new one. There you go. Yeah, you're right, You're definitely right. But I long. So someone was like, which switch should I get? I'm like, none of them, none of them at all. Wait, wait a year. Listen, anyone

been playing anything else? Played the Modern Warfare? Right, he's talk about some God, yeah a little, but got the cod boys. Listen, I had this, I had this Nicki Minaj skin. I wasn't gonna let it collect dust in the corner, Okay, question I was. I was gonna ask if you were still playing as Nikki. And I'm so glad that absolutely, yeah, absolutely, And it's it's injected a whole new breath of

fresh air into the gameplay experience. Let me tell you, because some of the some of the soundbites that uh Nicky is rocking is amazing, like get out of my way, dumb ass bitch, like it's so sick incoming grenade. It's so it's just they just made Nicki Minaj be a call of duty soldier. It's a fucking phenomenal anyway, Yeah, that game all these old ass Mapson's played all these fucking maps a billion times. They just slapped a

new fresh coat of paint and all this bullshit. But you know what, game's fucking really good and it doesn't try and like look very over the top. Was that like a bullshit jingle? Was I? Sorry? No, no, no, no no no, that was me. I was trying to wrap it up. No no, no, no no no. I was trying to cueue up some Nicki Mina's voice. It's crazy I thought there was a soundboard, but there's there's just this video. Baby. Oh yes, tell is where your squads at to the keep going, keep going.

There's so many good ones place. Six six and a half minutes of this. Yes, they're so good. She was in the voiceover for a while. Yeah, didn't work. Yeah, an entire morning to the south, to the southeast, to the southwest, to the west, took out the animal box, took out their armored boat, took out their recondron trophy systems up. Trust me, you want this bad bitch on your side. Yes, yes, there's nothing better. There's nothing better than saying that there's nothing

better. I'm glad that your her. I'm just picturing her doing all of those lines just like that in the booth, like no breaks or nothing, just that professional. She gets one take for everything. It's perfect every time. She's like, I'm gonna knock this out before lunch, let's go. I'm glad. I'm glad that you can feel like you can girl boss now and you can tell your your buddies like, I'm glad you can have this

sposs bitch on your squad. Yeah, so cool, Like I just want to hang out with her and like all her jewelry is on display when you reload, and you're like, goddamn, she's got like all these diamond rings on. You're just like this is great. This is so stupid, but it's so great anyway, that game, like I said, they're they like they reeled some of it in in a way where it's not as bewildering.

Uh, they like stuck to a lot of like traditional like XP pops and like you know, different kind of like hallmarks of that game that feel maybe they're registering in like a very positive nostalgia kind of like way. But it's working really well. I think that game's a lot of fun. I I think I think the temperature of like Minormity Friends is that there's less bullshit and because of that, we're just having a better time. What was the bullshit?

It was just like distractions in like the game trying to get you to do other stuff you didn't care about. Yeah, I mean, you know again, like I just think there was it was very busy in a lot of like needless ways. And I think, like I said, they reeled a lot of that in and you know, you're not you're not sort of like juggling some of the mindless minutia that would maybe kind of percolate under the

surface. And I think they do a lot of smart things with like weapon progression, even though that in itself is like this, you know, never ending a laundry list of like incomprehensible objectives. But they've done some interesting stuff where you can like say like, hey, like I want to get this scope on this gun really bad, and it's like forty eight you know,

unlocks down the line. You can basically like select that and say, okay, I'm playing for this now and you have to unlock objectives and satisfy objectives could get that thing. You know. Again, it's still relatively indecipherable and you have no idea what you're ultimately unlocking, because at the end of a rematch there's like forty five seconds of screens that are like you did this, and meters go up and levels go up, and you're like, I have

to did I just lose money? Like I don't know what happened? You know. It's like video poker where you're like, I don't know if I want tak my bank account, what happened? Something happened, right, but it is really good, and they've chosen like the maps that they have in this game. There, they've been out of rotation long enough where you're just like, god, damn, these are really really good. There's a reason, yeah that those games are are are thought about more fondly or than the

newer stuff. Like their maps are just better. The maps are just better straight up. And yeah, it's good. I'm we're playing it actively. The I always say this every year. The real true test, the barometer that we all have to keep our eyes on collectively, the entire game in community is whether or not Jeff and his normany friends play after the new year. If we're still playing come middle of January, you know this one stuck. If we didn't, you know, it's our version of like Groundhogs anyway.

If we didn't, you know, it's a stinker. And six more months of Call of Duty Winter, Yeah exactly, I'm betting we're still playing in six weeks. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard good things and it's mostly about the tweaks to the running around and the gameplay, and then yes, get the bullshit out of the way, And that's probably the right choice.

If this is how they were going to approach this totally. It's like, I mean, the wrong choice was all the other stuff they did with like hey, let's just you know, shit out a really terrible campaign and make a big deal about that and all this other stuff, and it's like, okay, actually, if you dig in, it's just a really fun call anything. But they can't sell a seventy dollars game on that because that does feel like an update, so they had to like focus on all this other

annoying stuff that didn't matter. But well, that gets you into the car, and now do you actually like driving the car? It has nothing to do with it anything we sold you on it, But now that you're sitting there actually using it, it's really reliable. It does what you expect. You can understand it. So yeah, I'm uh, I think I'm gonna pop back in play some more myself, and forgive me. If you hear

some leaf blowers, that's probably what you're here. And there, jan I think like, uh, you know, look you still play, and all of a sudden, like Shredder's next to you, and you're like, all right, well that's that's fucking weird. But what is Shredder doing here? What's that what is Shredder yelling. I don't know, I haven't heard any of the He's probably just like you should feel lucky to have a boss pitch on your team. What does he say? And I hope they're oh my

god, I haven't heard that one. That sounds fun. I hope they are like soundbites from like the first two movies, but I don't think they are where he's just like idiots like that stuff like that. He uses grumble around a bunch, but and then they're skeletor is like up in this game, spawns up in this game, And that's kind of it. I think, for like the way I could do stuff and you know what that and Groot for whatever reason is there, Like, Yeah, lot of players were

saying that Grout's OP because apparently he like blends. His skin is very uh like translucent and transparent in a lot of like convenient ways, especially in like the Wooded Maps. He's voiced by Vin Diesel, the most powerful act. Yes, the range that Vin Diesel continues to demonstrate OP the op human all of all of us. But yeah, it's it's fucking good, like games good. Good game is good, and I'm feeling it I'm gonna click on

a random button on a random Nicki Minaj soundboard that I found. Pray to God that I don't get canceled over this, and we'll take a break. We'll be back. First wait, but first, but first, but first, if I could, please, please, can I please say something before we break? Please? And everyone again, We need to let you know about Game of the Year tickets. Okay. I was told this morning that there's a very small number of tickets left. Okay, not going to tell

you how many, but a very small number of tickets. We're not joking. This is basically last call. There's one left, all right, there's one left, and yeah you can't bring yeah, no, no more plus ones. But seriously, very limited number left. I'm assuming by the end of the week we're done. So this is it. No more venue changes. We're too close to the point of no return. Get your tickets now or forever. Hold your piece and you can. You can bring a baby, but if you do, I get to sign it. I don't think

you can. I think the venue is eighteen and up. Actually I will sign the baby baby all right, leave your baby Benjamin button. You can get them in that. Yeah, my nineteen year old baby here, Benjamin Buttonhole. I got a friend of a friend in LA that keeps saying, do we want a robot for the show? Yes? Yes, okay, why you questions asked? All right, hey, if you're going to the Giant bomb Game of the Year live, the real game of the year, let's be honest, folks. Hey, bring a sign, let's let's let's

put let's make this, let's put wrestling in this. Bitch, we're about to upset everyone watching on twitch and YouTube for the live stream because it's one of those instances where you know you gotta be there to experience the whole juice. Uh, that's right. Tickets still on sale for now at least three baby handfuls of tickets, and that's not a lot. Have you seen a baby's hands? Yeah? Anyway, can't hold ship, Nikki take it away? Not our Niki, but Nicki minajs lit, Hey, Nikki, should

we keep doing the show? Should we keep doing the podcast? You can't get rid of me, bitch. I'm not blowing nowhere. I'm not blowing no fucking aware. Hell yeah, all right, Nicki Mina, I guess we already keep doing the show, So Jeff Grubb, let's get the news. So it was early last week I noticed that every single piece of software I had was updating all at the same time, Like, what's going on? I realized it's like it was about to be Thanksgiving. So a lot

of places we're just gonna take the rest of the year off. And that sort of happened with the news. There's not a lot happening. Uh, the industry is slowing down. There will be some news next week because the Game Awards will happen, and I'm sure Jeff Keeley will delight us with all his many pleasures the flesh. But in the meantime, we have a few new stories here, starting with Sony faces lawsuit over store prices. This is

a weird one. A class action lawsuit accusing Sony of overcharging PlayStation store customers by up to five billion dollars actually five billion pounds, which would be about six point two seven billion dollars, can proceed to trial. The lawsuit was filed in August twenty twenty two by consumer rights campaigner Alex Neil on behalf of eight point nine million PlayStation customers. The lawsuit alleges that Sony abuses its dominant

position in the market by charging excessive PlayStation store prices. Basically, the argument is that on top of the cost to produce the game and make a profit for the developers and the publishers, Sony then takes a thirty percent cut, and that is way more than it needs to be according to this lawsuit, and so prices are higher than they need to be, and Sony can get away with this because you can only get games through Sony on a PlayStation console.

It's kind of like, well, that's everything. It would be pretty It's hard to see how this goes through and actually has a chance of winning unless it flips what's upside down the entire industry of digitally distributing software, which hey, maybe that does happen. That could happen, Yeah, hey, I would laugh. I do, like, does this make any sense to

you, guys? I kind of see what they're saying, like, yes, you can only get the PlayStation Store on PlayStation, but they did all the work to sell those PlayStations, so I kind of I mean at certain points, like yeah, they get to reap the rewards a little bit. I don't know, how do you guys see it? Yeah, I mean they make the store, they make the games. They can kind of call the shots there, right, Yeah, it feels like that's the way it

should be. But I go to a farmer's market, the guys that grew the oranges can tell me how much she wants me to pay for the oranges. Yeah, and like I could say no to paying that. And honestly, there are other options. You just have to get something other than a PlayStation, but I think there are. You know, the PlayStation is the thing that has the most games, and some of these games you can only get on PlayStation. We'll see. I mean, most of this is going

to be ambulance chasing. This does remind me, though, that there's another lawsuit happening right now against two K for NBA two K, and that one's a little bit more compelling. Apparently they are getting sued for stealing people's money, because what happens is people put money into the virtual currency in an NBA two K game, and then that NBA two K game gets replaced by next years and it doesn't stay online for as long as you would think, so

there's unspent currency for many people sitting in those games that just disappears. Forever, and so a bunch of the players got together and now they're suing two K for stealing that money. And that one does sound pretty compelling, because yeah, for what reason wouldn't the virtual currency jump over from one game to the next, right, exactly, just like my Ubi soft U points right, you play all your sweet ubcf U points always pro consumers taking their power

back, even if the stony one doesn't have legs. I support it. I think it's great. Class action lawsuits rock. The other day I got PayPal two hundred dollars for some random class action lawsuit. Two hundred, two hundred dollars just in my PayPal for class action lawsuit. I was like, do you know what? Good? I hope more people get two hundred dollars.

I got to know more than that. Someone. You don't have to tell me on the show, but I think I might require it in private for you to tell me what got you two hundred dollars in a class action, because usually it's about seven dollars. I got like three fifty from Red Bull once and I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I'm I oh. It was like one of those I'll tell you later, But it was so valid what the thing was. But I wasn't actually negatively affected by it

at all. Don't tell anyone, but I did get two hundred dollars hell yeah. My favorite one always is Nintendo having to like settle and they're like, we'll just get everyone a five dollars Q pond so they have to spend more money on Nintendo stuff. It's like, goddamn, Nindo, why do you always get away with everything? Well, isn't what was that called when like mining towns used to do that to their company? Script? Yes, yeah, yeah, why are they allowed to do that? Yeah? It

was wild. It's like the government's like, oh yeah, we really got Nintendo for all of their like price fixing and stuff and not working with all these companies. And Nintendo was like, we just gave everyone a reason to

go spend more money one yep. And that that I mean, that was why Like early Nintendo of America was like, oh, we hired a couple of good lawyers like Howard Lincoln, and then they're like, Howard Lincoln, guess what your president of Nintendo of America now, Because Nintendo of America is a law firm first and foremost for Nintendo, so true all right, up next, The Division Heartland could release soon. The Division Heartland has been rated

in Taiwan, suggesting the release date could be close. This is that PvE VP shooter for Division Listen, I don't know. Yeah, please, let's do it. Let's all do an exercise here, all right, humor me here, all right, we're going to google the Division Heartland. Don't do it right now, folks. Okay, you two can play at home. I want you. Let's go around the horn here. Let's describe what you

think. What do you think the game looks like? I think it looks like a dude sitting by a tree with a rifle and he's got his knee up and he's just thinking, like, man, I love I love the Heartland. Yeah. Like there's certainly a windmill present in the background, Like is it a windmill or is it a like water tower? I mean they're interchangeable, Like, I mean, this is a place where tornadoes happen a

lot. This is I would imagine maybe a white picket not picket fence, but like a white farm fence to keep some cows and shit in check. And uh yeah, like silo adjacent material we're talking, you know, and Uh, yeah, that's the hard Land. That's that's what I'm thinking, Bailey. Maybe a horse or two. I don't know. I feel like it's a gotcha game with Anime wifeus who are rifles they turn into boats. Yeah, I'm sorry blacked out for a second. I heard Anime and wife

foos like what. Yeah, I think I've kind of seen a little bit of it. It's a close like that Far Cry five game. But what if it's the Division instead? Sure, you really stretching their legs. If I can direct y'all to look at the stream real quick, I will pull up some Marquee art. I also want everyone to know this the first time I'm hearing about this game, this game that's been like it was right, we got a water tower. That's a guy dealing with a rifle. I

think, Wow, that's pretty spot on. If you want any of those characters, you got to pay money and win them in the gotcha game. Yeah, right, wasn't expecting the foley. Yeah, it's the suburbs in the Fall, right, that's what So, I don't know if it's Heartland. Maybe my definition of heartland is different than Ubi sauce. Yeah, they probably think the Heartland is the Midwest, and they're just wrong. That's a completely different area. And I just had to play so much Assassins Creed Mirage.

I cannot even think about Ubisoft right now without getting angry. Yeah, I have a fun game to play. What was the last Ubisoft game I played? I'm playing, sure, I know, yeah that I played. I think it might be Mario and Rabbids one of those. Nope, Oh was it Assassin's Creed Mirage. Nope, on a schame trailer out now, Creed Syndicate. I'm not joking. I don't know what it is. Have you played any Tom Clancy again? Did you play Rainbow six Siege with Mike

Maharty. It seems like something you would played Siege. I bet it's Siege on PC like six years ago. Okay, well, I mean listen, I know the next thing you saw game you're gonna play? What's that? Come on this month? Come on? Well you know it, you have to know you, but you won't stop talking about it. Avatar game? Come on, baby, let's I'll probably see some of that. I thought you were getting on. Uh yeah, I bet, And like I yeah,

I don't know. What was the last far cry. I played the one you were just talking about with the cult, Okay, far Card five just that was a while ago. Huh yeah, God damn. Their bones are made out of fiberglass. Think about it every day. I think it's a reinforced carbon or fiber carbon or whatever. It is not fiberglass carbon, yeah, carbon fire. It's still wild. Yeah, oh yeah, that's

even more while all right, the Vision Heartland. I I honestly I don't know what to make of this other than this is what you be soft trying to get another one of these online shooters to take off other than Siege. We'll see how they do. I hope it's successful. Yeah, yeah, sure, I mean whatever, I'll try it. I have nothing against it. We'll see. I'll play it with you all and then never touch it

again. Jet Force Gemini is the next in sixty four game coming to Switch Online, and Nintendo confirmed that Jet Jet Force Gemini will be released on Nintendo Switch Online in December. The game will be available in Japan a little bit

earlier, on November thirtieth. Jet Force Gemini is a rare game, not in terms of its availability, in terms of the developer they made this, and that means that once again Nintendo Microsoft andre had to work together to get this released because I do believe this one is fully owned by Rare, but

yeah, that's pretty cool. This one was not part of the original announced like package of in sixty four games, and they haven't released the last one of those yet ten eighties, so they're getting ahead of the curve here and sort of signifying there will be more in sixty four games coming into Nintendo Switch Online. I like Jet Force Gemini. It was kind of an early in sixty four. It's an early shooter, but an n sixty four game.

It looked pretty cool. It was. It has a lot of that Rare kruft where there's like a million little things to do and it can get kind of draining by the end, but I enjoy it and it's a pretty good game. So Killer Instinct is getting a new anniversary edition and a free to play version on Steam. To be clear, it's been free to play from the very beginning. This version of Killer Instinct will include one free weekly rotating

fighter, as well as a single player, local and ranked modes. The thirty dollars Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition upgrade you can get will include all twenty nine fighters. But what makes this really a big deal for fans of Killer Instinct is that this is a big balance patch. Iron Galaxy came back to work on the game, and this is ten years after it originally released. This

game came out it was a launch game for Xbox One. So the fact that it's getting a lot of attention this far along it's one that's interesting that normally doesn't happen, And two, it does signify Microsoft still seems to have some interest in making more Killer Instinct happen, which was what we've heard a bunch of times now there just was no developer available. When now Iron Galaxy is coming back to work on this, that does signify they'll probably work on

the next game as well. Although some fans like Turbot Shawn, who's a big Killer Instinct fan, he mentions that he thinks this is like a trial run. I bet it's like even more than that. I bet they're already working on the next game. And then finally, Dragons Dogma two will get its release date today. They're having that showcase today. It's happening at one

pm Pacific time, so a little bit later this afternoon. But the director of the game confirmed that they will announce the release date, which they might not need to do because Steam already has it listed for March twenty second, which is the release date that we've seen leaked a bunch of times now. So this game gonna be out in a couple of months and I'm looking forward

to it. Any Dragons Dogma players, you ever do an honest games trailer about Dragon's Dogma Bailey, You know, it's not on the list right now, but we'll see if it starts trending anytime soon, and maybe we'll take advantage of that sweet seo. Hell yeah, uh yeah. That's just for the news though, Jan hold in the back over to you. There's not a lot this week. Wait, that's it. Wait, yeah, there's

not much news happening. I mean, there's a couple more lawsuits and if you guys want to talk about that, but nothing, I mean, there's the the Festa stuff is who oh, they've been responding to negative reviews on Steam. Have you not been seeing this? Oh? No, I didn't see this. What happened? I tell me barely myers. I can't believe you haven't seen it. Like I wasn't looking at the dog or I would have suggested it before we started. Well, no, tell us all about

it. They've been responding to negative Steam reviews about Starfield and explaining why, actually the review is wrong for being negative. Oh boy, I just got that from Rodo Rouder. They came to look at my water heater and charged me ninety dollars to get to give me a an estimate for a gas heater. And I'm like, that's bad because I have an electric heater. So I just wrote that review and then I woke up this morning. You're like, you got a response, and I'm like, a bet, I fucking

didn't. I just closed it didn't look so yeah, that's always a good sign when they're out there doing that instead of updating the game. Yeah, they're saying stuff like you're actually incorrect for complaining that some of the planets are totally empty, because the point of the game is to show you how vast and awesome spaces, and sometimes planets don't have anything on them, like when they landed on the Moon and I was like, guys, what do you

think this is like? Because this is obviously not mister Howard getting on there at four in the morning, being on Turkey. Yeah, to get in there. I think, I think, uh, what do you think? This is just like people who are so horny to work for Bethesda and they're like super fans and then they like, I don't know, I mean they have genuinely don't know the community. Job it is to like tell the people

who run these companies what the sentiment is. And then maybe they're just like so steeped in it that they break a little bit and they're like, I got I'm gonna fix this. I can fix this fandom. It's just so weird. It's just it feels very like pr motivated, but is also maybe some of the worst pr I've ever seen in anything. Idea, it's a really bad idea, Like why would they do this? Yeah, it's like they're so much better off if they just focus on making the game better,

if they just did some updates and and and did that instead. Like that speaks way more than going going on the defensive. Yes, yeah, I desperately need to desperately to believe it's Todt himself and he's just so upset that it didn't get nominated for shit. This feels like that sounds like exactly what's happening. I got a couple of reviews here if we want to read some key highlights. Yes, oh they're they're awful. It's it's got to be

someone who like works in there, like you know pr PR community. It's coming from their official account, right, But that's what I'm saying, Like some one who like they accidentally hired a fanboy freak and was like, you know some ship poster like a contractor of a contractor Yeah, yeah, you can kind of see it. Or somebody is just getting so frustrated with the public perception of the game. It's like you don't just as actually is.

But there's anyway, some key highlights here and credits to uh juice head thirty three on Twitter for pulling these. While there may be loading screens in between fast Traveling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under three seconds. Oh my god. We believe that shortcoming will not hinder our players from getting lost in the world we created. Yeah I did. They're responding to a negative review saying it hindered

their ability to get lost in the world. Uh, we are sorry that you do not like landing on different planets and finding many of them empty. Some of Starfield's planets are meant to be empty by design, but that's not boring. When the astronauts went to the Moon there was nothing there, they certainly weren't bored. The intention of Starfield's exploration is to evoke a feeling of

smallness in players and make you feel overwhelmed. You can continue to explore and find worlds that do have resources you need, or hit an outpost to look through back in my day when we landed on planets throws the planet? What's fun? Is that? Like? The immediate response after like that very specific critique to the review is like a s feel that feels like The Steam description of the game of Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quest to

complete and characters to meet most questions. Maybe this is dude, If I be, that's how I combat this bad press. I go your whoops A I did it? Sorry? Yeah, oh my god. A procedurally generated game and procedurally generated pr disaster. At that sense, the common and response are both AI arguing now on a Steam message board. I love the fact that the response is like, were you around for the moon landing because that wasn't boring. It's because it doesn't at certain points like oh, you're just

not hearing the criticisms. Okay, we like it would be nice if you heard the criticisms, because then maybe you could do something about it. But this just makes it seem like, oh, none of that's getting through, and you think what you made is is flawless, when it's like the flaws are pretty evident to just about everyone who plays, and it's like the first thing everyone says to each other where it's like, well, land on a planet. It took me way too long to walk to something I cared about.

It's like that's a big problem in a game that's supposed to be fun. I don't care what realism you're going for. At a certain point there, they're one more response away from like you should be fucking thankful games even get made, you know, like, get the fuck at a got one more, got one more here? Do yes? Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for Starfield. Exclamation mark. You can fly, you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot. Starfield is an

RPG with hundreds of hours of quest complete and characters to meet. Most quests will also vary on your character skills and decisions, massively changing the outcome of your playthrough. Try creating different characters with backgrounds and characteristics that clash or oppositive oppositive of your previous character. You will feel like you're playing a totally different game. Put points in different skills from a character you've previously created, and

now facebook completely different decisions to make and difficulties to encounter. There's so many layers of Starfield that you'll find things you never knew where possible. After playing for hundreds of hours, now I know this is AI. Two things. One, this is the thing I was always worried about with this game. They made Skyrim, and Skyrim was a game that people play forever and ever

and ever. They did not make that game like they did not set out to build it be like, oh, people are gonna play this forever.

But then when that game happened and they did have all these people coming back and it was always in the most played games on Steam, and they started making a Starfield, we have to build a game that is going to be able to support play for ten years plus, and they just completely lost the thread and forgot how to make like the basic stuff work, which and then everyone else just built all the bullshit on top of it, so they didn't

need to actually focus on that. The other thing is with them like being like you could do this, you could do that. It sounds like when Tommy was so is like defending the room and he says you can laugh, you can cry, but please don't hurt each other or whatever. It sounds exactly like that. So that's not a good way to start off your defense of your game. I always so does sound a little like a robot who's lost control, So that makes sense. Yeah, there's a little man in

his head that's controlling his body. And it was like part of that. Steating him was part of that last prompt when they plugged into chat GBT is like have some of it rhyme. There was a lot I was. Yeah, I was a little frightened. It was going to keep Ryan Ryman and like, oh, they're just spitting bars over there, all right, Uh well, greub if that's it with the news, and that's it with some beath as the clapbacks and I feel weird even saying clapbacks because they're not really

clapping at anything. No, robots can't clap for starters. That's true. Robots can't clap, and that's how the universe will be saved. I mean, I mean the other news is like Jeff Kelley wade in on the day of the diver indie game debate, and I don't want to talk about that anymore. So that's what we got. That's that's what That's the number one news story on VGC right now. Is Kelley has an opinion on indie games. Hey, that's just where we're at the week after Thanksgiving. Everybody.

You know, we're going to save this for the end of the show, but let's let's get some news now, and news on Giant Bomb's Game of the Year, the real Game of the Year awards. Here, let's talk some scheduling, huh, folks, Like when when you all can expect some jazz. Day one starts this Friday, nine am Pacific time, twelve Eastern. We're gonna be live on Twitch. We're going to be discussing seven categories, seven different fun categories that'll be live for folks at home. Day two

will be next Tuesday. It's gonna be a pre recorded jam. Seven more categories, to discuss. Some of this will be live, some will be pre recorded, just due to the nature of all of us having to travel in all that jazz and get stuff situated. Day three is November seventh, nine am twelve Eastern nine am Pacific, twelve eastern live on Twitch, and that is when the whittling begins, folks. That's when we take all the games of this year and get down to the top twenty from there. Day

four the finale. I'm in person at the Teagram Ballroom and on Twitch. I'm gonna I'm gonna pray to God that that av person will just look at me and nod and like, don't worry. So there's good news in that last email, Jan there's good news. Fantastical. Hell yeah, I love it, per fact. Because that is when we will also cover a couple more categories, about three or four. We'll have special guests like our own Shitley Myers here. Sorry I feel bad because I live here. Yes,

I would have shown you is very affordable. I'm gonna I'm gonna expense the absolutely. Yes. I don't know who approves your expenses, but I'll tell them just do it. Uh. But we will crown giant bombs Game of the Year on Saturday. Well, we'll see and we'll realize oh damn oh ship it was some sweep exactly. I want to see some predicts right now on people's individual top tens are what will eventually shake out to be the top

ten of the website. So far we have it that uh uh, myself, Jeff, Jeff, Tam, Lucy, Dan, and Minatti will will be finalizing the voting. But who knows what we'll throw in. Maybe we'll be like, hey, Bailey, here's twelve points. What do you want to give this to? My God, give me twelve points? You know what should be the only one that counts? What what would get your twelve

points? Just tell me right now and then I'll decide whether or not you can actually vote or not if it will help the game I want to win. Okay, so we're doing this Eurovision style, Bailey, Okay, yeah, it's science the Pickman for all. Right, there we go, let's get her in. I didn't see any winking, let's go. I do have a weird feeling that like Pickman is gonna do, is gonna make some waves in a weird way. So I got play it. I'll play four.

Yeah, yeah, I'll play. I just don't know when, but I'll play it before next Saturday. You just got to get through that the first hour, which is a tutorial, and then after that it's like just the best looping games. Okay, And I'll definitely vote for it. Hell yeah, I can be bought too, for the record, like I can be bought. If you really want to get your game higher up, I can be bought. Yeah, can I can? I we have another minute. I guess now that, like we have several minutes, we have another

segments. I need I need a little bit of help, and I'll open this up to like the extended family, meaning the live chats and obviously you three my wife the other day and my wife she's like, what do you I think I talked about this somewhere else, but we got to get into it now. She goes, oh, what are you wearing? What are you wearing to the game wards? Oh? I didn't think about that at all. Last year, I like, I went to suit supply, I got a jacket, I did a whole thing. This year, I haven't

done ship, and I think it's because I don't care. But that's right, right, But I can't show you be sitting next to a dude in jeorts and you don't know that odds are high. It's just so funny, like the disparity of of attire at this thing is like literally umbros and then like a tuxedo. So uh yeah, I don't know what to do.

And I'll take anything, any advice or or whatever. Not doing hockey jersey what, I'm just gonna larp as Kevin Smith, like you know, it's not there's new Jersey's only big enough for one hockey jersey person, and that war goes to mister Smith. I don't I don't know what to wear. I'm not gonna wear a hat, but I don't also want to wear like I don't want to do like a T shirt thing. Even though I could have the Starfield dance club outfit. It goes with everything what I do,

like that Starfield. Here's here's what we do. I don't have it. I don't have it. Backler, here's what we do, Jane. I'll take you seriously, you're you're serious about fashion, Michael Oriol Michael him, and I will take you shopping. Oh my god, I think you lately was like he was like this gentleman. He was a vision. You can't see the hat, you can't see the looks. Michael him proves that you can wear a hat to a wedding and look cool. So just wear the

hat back. Are just wear a different style of hat, a little like Giant Bomb went not to wear episode. No. I just, I just I don't want the hat doesn't play. The heck could play, but it does. It's not gonna play for me because I just I was at a wedding recently and I wore a tux and and like, there's no room for a hat in that outfit. And I thought I pulled it off nicely. I thought it was lovely. This year, I'm gonna go hatless. Here's full like saf pipe. Yeah, I'm sorry what pipe? Yeah grew up,

suggested pork Pie, which I love. But I am also gonna throw in there just a tall fucking top hat. Yeah. I can't go in there like fucking breaking down ming like the hatman over here. Yeah, I don't know, you guys has not been helpful at all. I came out with a serious I came in with a serious conundrum, and I'm getting deeply unseerious feed I think the answer is half high. M and Jan take you shopping. Yeah, okay, we'll go to the fashion district in LA and

quickly realized no, we shouldn't be buying anything here. This is all just fabric. And then we'll go to a mall. Yeah, I mean, you know, I just thinking I still need to buy pants in LA because I ripped pants two years ago down there. Yeah, I'm gonna bring an alpha. I'm just I'm gonna bring an outpha as a backup, just in case we strike out with the in person shopping spree makeover yo, But yes,

I would love to do that if you both fellas ladies. If you want to wear a suit and bees, if you want to wear a suit, here's what you do. It's fine, go get the black tucks, go get the dark navy tucks, the great tucks. But what you want to do if you want to add a little spice to your life, get a subtle pattern going on. You know I'm going, and then we'll be like, Oh, you'll stand out from all the rest of the shmo's out there, rock in a normal ass suit and instead, Hey, who says

you gotta wear a dress shirt? Baby? Backlar go get a turtleneck. Put that ship under a blazer. Baby. If I wear a turtleneck, the turtle that collar goes up to the bottom of my nose. I have no necks to fold it. That's folded, Bailey, hold it, yeah, fold it, fold it. Then I have like a giant hula hoop around my neck, laser, no shirt, just a long chain. Oh, like, what's the ECW manager guy who used to do that. There's a dude who used to rock that. I don't know the other chain.

The other thing you gotta do, like, forget the shoe game. Throw your fucking laces away. Get some loafers. Loafers are real hot right now. Or I've got like some double munk straps. Baby, whatever it's Los Angeles. Get some sandals. Flicks those toesies. No, oh my god, there's nothing I hate more than people who wear pants and sandals. I am not going to become that person. Bareley, Jesus Christ, we have

so much of getting to know each other to do. Now, let's talk sunglasses and doors, because I say, yes, pro if I had contacts, I would wear sunglasses all the time indoors. This is gonna be harder than I thought, you guys, this is gonna be real tough. All right, we'll see what happens. Or or just wear too much. Patterns. Patterns, Yeah, that's a thing. Power clashing, that's real power clash. That's a cool name. I used to think I was a cute

individual for wearing floral shirts and Hawaiian shirts. And then I looked at the gaming industry and men there and male presenting people. I'm like, fuck, we all thought the same thing. We had the same thought. A little pattern on, and you're competing with all the best dressed women you've ever seen. No one, there's no formal overalls out there. Just wear what every single dude i've ever seen the Game Awards wears, which is some kind of

gaming T shirt, no laser and jeans, and you're nicest sneakers. First of all, there's something wrong with sneakers. There's nothing wrong wearing nice sneakers. That's what all like the kids are doing too. I was at a third I was at a bot Mitzvah a couple months ago, and like literally every girl that was wearing Jordan's. It's like the sneakers are like stuck around.

It's like culturally relevant. Oh my god, I don't think they've been ever been the easiest way to punch down grub wait which by having good sneakers, so I could having nice kicks to prove like I have a flex on these hoes. Okay, all right, yeah man, okay, tough, Okay, alternative plan. But the steaks are low. Let's just be honest. The snakes are very low. Bailey, I already know that you bought a dress for the Game Awards. Yes, and it's you did. Yeah,

yeah, and it looks amazing. So we didn't help you with that, so you gotta okay. Yeah, No, I channeled my inner freak and I mixed it with my inner friend dresser, and I found I found a beautiful and you're all gonna you're all gonna see it on the stage that night. You're gonna know exactly what I mean. You're gonna love it. Oh my god. And what do I wear to that? Yeah? You got two things to worry about, yo, Let's get matching sweatsuits. I

could see your track suits. Juice on the ass the ass, Yeah, that would be tight. What I would be into that? That would be so easy for me to do the splits in, you know, like I'm already rocking, so it's like, you know, just like that and ship. I think I think the Hour Game of the Year is less formal than the Kili. The other awards more formal. Ours is the more real one.

You really have to dress up. I'm just letting everyone know that I'm gonna I'm gonna be that snob and gonna wear my nice datum were my nice all your nice denims. What's the what's the weather like in December? And it was as cold as fuck last year it was awesome. Okay, hold on, I'll tell you what the sixties? Just tell me what's the ten day? And tell you right now what's the today? Phones pulling it up, it's gonna be in the seventies and then yeah, okay, yeah,

next week is going to be the high to mid seventies. And then what about at night though, because that's the only time we go out mid fifties there we go. Now we talk and that's why my dad denim. Then Jan, what makes it bad? Jenom, it's eye own it. I have to go get a hair cut because my hair is too long now, like I'm trying to stunt all these holds. It looks good. I think it's fine. It's too it's too like it looks like I'm trying to do

a terrible afro. Are you gonna not finish another game first? Or right? Well, that does it for news. It's very light this week. Hey, real quick. Embracery is going to shut down the Times, Twitters, Studio Free Radical. Basically they are in that consultation process, which they legally have to do in the UK, where I think that's where they're look at. Yeah, they legally have to do that before they could shut them down. But it sounds like we're gonna shut them down because it's embracer and

they fucking suck And that's the news. Wow, way to Yeah, that's that's this news this week. It's like a bunch of like stuff that doesn't matter and then bad news. I realized what Mine and Bailey's cop show should be called. It's friendly fire because I'm always catching strays. All right, well, we'll take another quick breaking break and we'll see you with the emails. And we're back with emails. This is the emails for the show. Oh, Nicki Minaj BombCast giant bomb dot com is the email address. To

send your emails to. Yo. They got to put Cardi b in call of duty because like her, just sounds in general are just so much fun. Anyway. BombCast Giant bomb dot com is email address to send your emails to. I love and appreciate every single email. If you shout out a single person of the crew. If you ever have some kind words you want to share with someone specific, I don't send it to them, so I

only read them and then I think it's about me instead. That's the way to do it anyway, So it's stolen valor, but I think it's the right thing to do. Hell yeah, hell yeah, Alyssa in quotation march marks here Ali Maricle Elli miracle. Yeah, I'm in chat a miracle. I'm terrible at reading today. Hey, Cudi's applying this week to SoCal from Nevada to see my partner and to go to the GB Live event because I'll

be there for two to three weeks. I was considering bringing the PS five I've currently to play through sixteen and other things with them when I visit, along with my laptop for work, a personal laptop switch and a monitor. On top of my first time flying in probably half a decade and change any advice I can get on traveling with so many electronics. Thanks forks, and

can't wait to see y'all livelis Can I say pre check Elissa? Yeah, you're gonna want to prediction otherwise you're gonna take all that shit out, do you. How do you guys feel about expensive electronics? Like a laptop in checked luggage, you can't, right, they don't let you check what you can check a laptop game? You're checking a game. You can check it, like check fucking guns. You can check anything. Wait, check, you just can't check avabe check like checking uh, putting it under the plane,

yeah, get me check it? Get like letting them take it. And whenever I've tried to do that with a laptop or an electronic, the lady at the counter WI always to be like, no, you can't do that. You done it. No, you can't do anything with lithium batteries. If I'm not mistaken, Yeah that sounds oh wait, maybe you can

definitely lithianion batteries, so yeah, well then just lie about it. I suppose you, guys, I'm pretty positive you can do that in the belly of a plane, like you I've definitely put a battery, but yeah, mentioned like you and I think I've seen that warning. I'm not always heated, I suppose, so don't come arrest me. Says batteries cannot go on check bags. Does that include like that? I guess I don't. I

do it all the time, so I don't know what's happening here. I've done it a bunch of yeah, but yeah, like those are the bags they take when you check in for your flight. Jan it seems like you've done this, You've done you don't care with your arms right. Basically, what I'm asking is, do you guys? Are you guys afraid of your expensive stuff and your check luggage' getting stolen? I don't trust. You don't trust Okay, yeah, my wife doesn't trust, and I'm like whatever.

I've never had anything taken on my bag from check luggain, so I don't have anything taken either. But I just I feel like the capacity for stuff to get broken is really high. That makes me nervous. I'm not like a feared of thieves in my airport. I'm more like, ah, these

things are easy to break, and this plane goes so fast. Yeah, for me, like well, if it's in the chair or in my carry on though, and I'm like taking it out at security and stuff, I'm always afraid it's going to get kind of like broken in the machine, or I'm gonna drop it when I'm just trying to put it on the thing or

something like that. So I worry about that too. I don't know, I think, you know, if I could be completely honest, I mean, I realized two to three weeks is a long time to be traveling anywhere. But I would also maybe like trim down. I would maybe not like go all out with the amount of items that you're planning on taking with you. I would maybe, yeah, I mean, if your bag is more than fifty pounds, you're gonna have to pay more. Yeah, it be

it'd be a that's going to be a hassle. And with that many electronics in a bag, like it's that very likely could happen. But if you need all that stuff, you need all that stuff. I get it right off the bat, though, Like why do you need a monitor? You have two laptops with you use the laptop as a monitor. You can't do that with a switch. I don't think. Oh, I had a portable

switch as a handl fuck it. I look listen. I when I went on my trip over the summer, I brought a portable monitor, and as awesome as it was, and as it inexplicable that it worked as it was, I feel like still I'm not quite sure how that thing is able to display switch. But anyway, it was a pain in the ass. Like it was great, but it took like twenty minutes to set it up. Power is always finicky on a plane. You never really know what you're going

to get. I do think editing is like is the move again? Two to three weeks is a long time as well. So I just know what you're Here's what you do. You go to Costco. As soon as you get here, you buy a p S five, you buy a monitor, and you return that ship before you leave. Are they aren't they getting like more knowing with that? No? No, they'll take anything good. Okay, thank good, damn man. Bat PS five is big. It's a big giant that I mean. I so are all these things going to be

and carry on? That's gonna be tough. Ali uh ell America, that's

good. Yeah, I would really think about your game plan here traveling with a PS five is just like you know, you're bringing this anchor with you, you know, and it's a way and you're gonna have that's it's gonna have to get jammed into a hoever overret compartment and you're gonna be sitting down and then some other assholes gonna come to put their bag in there and they're gonna jam it right next to yours, and all that ship is going to be in there. Yeah, that this is Yeah, try to trim down

if possible. That I was. I don't know where Ali's flying from, but they're they're flying from Nevada to Lost Angelist. That's not that. Then just drive then just drive, okay, just if you rent a car, Yeah, rent a car, steal a car. I know, Las Vegas to La Isurs. I mean that feels worth it to keep all your electronics safe without them. Oh, I didn't realize we were doing Vegas to La What are we doing? I don't know what we in Nevada, So it's

sorry. Sorry I thought I thought it was Vegas. Sorry, Okay, could be Reno could ship everything. I thought about that too, you could try and ship everything. But it is Vegas. Listen, listen out Vegas. Come on, come on, girls, come on, get get a car, steal a car, whatever you need to do. I just think like the value of having that right, even if you need to rent, the value of not having to go through security, not having to be on a plane, not having to do all the plane stuff. For me,

I would drive. Renting a car, uh financially does kind of work out very similar to a plane ticket a lot of the time and all your stuff safe. But let's say so people don't drive, So okay, if you don't drive, then how do you about a bus? Like what a John Candy Martin films? Don't just take the Thanksgiving Yeah, that's when everyone watches that movie. Didn't fucking wats this ask? Like, make that loop that goes from l A to no, he didn't do ship. Oh he didn't.

He said a thing and he didn't do it again. Okay, that's weird, wild lifting out of the dumb motherfucker. Well, folks, if you're listening live or watching the archive listening to the archive, please send only some tips potentially of how Ali can bring all the baggage. Report back how this went the show? Yeah, yeah, all right, all right. Next email comes from Brian. Brian writes in asking why are people like this?

Hi BombCast this weekend after the Saampunk blowout, I saw multiple people attacking wrestling journalists aka the Dirt Sheets about Fiel showing up and how they were wrong. This was, of course, despite the fact that Triple h all but confirmed most of the reporting by the noted journalist prior to that night as correct. This reminded me of what I often see with games as well, where journalists are often attacked and their coverage is misreported by aggregators and people with bad

intentions. I remember grub being attacked over Kajima to Xbox for months. My question is what is wrong with people? Why are people like this? Is media literacy dead? Is the rise of YouTubers and social media the main contributing factor? Or are we just stupid or as a society I'm thinking both. Yes, yeah, it's all of that, of course it is. Bryan's

all the above. Thanks for all you, Brian, and Lowell, Massachusetts said for my iPhone, it's getting worse right now because of all the financial incentives lining up for people who are good at getting people riled up about these things like you can get paid on Twitter, you get paid on YouTube, you get paid on TikTok. If you want to go and be a shit heel and appeal to people's base baser senses there about Oh you like a thing, Well, what if that other thing was better than the thing you spend

a bunch of money on? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable? It turns out for a lot of people yes, to the point where they act out and lash out about it. And yeah, the Kojima thing, that was definitely all it was. It's like people there was a bunch of Sony fans who did not want to believe Kuagie you could ever do anything with Xbox, and they they believe that's so hard. They work themselves into a shoot about that one game. What was that one horror game that was a scam that that

person said they were going to make. I can't remember the name of it now, but yeah, it's like they they're like this because they're afraid that they made the wrong decision and they have a lot of anxiety about it, and you just have to ignore it. I've to ignore it. It's never been a better time. And this has actually been true for about twenty years now, But I don't think it's ever been a better time to be a complete fucking moronic psychopath. Like. Ye, you are in the best of

company at this point. If that is your emo, like to be a raging lunatic, the world is your oyster like it's that's just what it is right now. I think it's never been a better time for grifters or anyone who uh is just like ready at a moment's notice to just pound on a perfect stranger for no good reason. Yeah. I don't think grifters have had such a such a big moment since like snake oil salesman. Yeah, this

is a big moment, crazy yeah moment. Yeah. That being said, click on this link and get a free eyelash extensions with my t Moulink peddling Giant Giant Bomb branded patent medicine. Ah. Man, I think about if I were a terrible more of a terrible person than I am in my real life, and how I could fleece these motherfuckers anyway. Yep, It's very easy to fleece people if you're a terrible person. Yeah, I'm off way there. Uh. Matt from Murfreezburg, Tennessee, Uh asks about desktop setup.

Hey guys, I've been diving deep into the rock Ally reviews lately, and while I think it's really cool, I may actually just want a desktop setup. I have a twenty thirteen MacBook Pro and it is still running like a champ. But I long missed the boat on getting that thing to run games, not to mention the whole Mac thing. I recently saw a beautiful curve display setup at best Buy while visiting their display out After starting to look for deals on PCs, I quickly realize I had no idea what I was

doing. Where should I go? Where do I begin? I know I'll need a new computer soon, so I consider getting something that might run games while I'm at it. I'm pretty much much an exclusively Xbox gamer where they switch title once every few years. I love the look at that curve display, but is it just a gimmick? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks Matt from Murphfreesboro, Tennessee. Matt's be an Xbox gamer and a Mac piece and

a Mac user. Matt, you see things don't usually go together. You're a unique individual there, Maddie. Maddie, Maddie, Hello, Matt. Have you not been listening. Do you not know? We are in the pocket of big n ZXT. It's not a bad idea. ZXT does have some good pre builds. Don't do the thinking yourself, is what the truth is here, Like, there's communities out there that have done all the thinking for you about what you should do with the PC. Don't feel like you

have to build one. That period is sort of passed where it's like you have to build your own PC or else you're gonna spend so much extra money. It's like, Nah, the costs have come down. There's a lot of composition in that space. The prebuilds are good. The curve display, it's not just a gimmick. If it's wide enough, you do need it to be like kind of curved around you so that it's an equidistant from like no matter where you're looking at it. But yeah, don't feel like you

need that either. Like, and yeah, if you really just want to play PC games, one of those handheld computers is still pretty good and you'll be fine. That will get you started, and it's all in one package. I still think the Steam deck is a good one for people who have no idea what they're doing because it's such a consolized version of the PC. But you'll have a good time with any of those. And if you're gonna hop in, yeah, just go get a pre built somewhere and you'll be

fine. Yeah, just be wary, Matt. As soon as you explore down the curved monitor rabbit hole, you may wind up thinking, oh, maybe I'll just get an ultra wide. Oh you know, I definitely will think that maybe I'll just get two screens. You know what. Two screens ain't enough. I need two more. And then you have one that's vertically aligned so you can just watch Twitter burn down as you go about your day. All right, that's right. Next email comes from Brian from Illinois.

Brian writes in about handhelds, and Brian is to Brian says, high, Hi Tom, Tom, giant bomb bomb Badill. Now that we're on what feels like the cusp of a new generation of handheld hardware, what prior generations of hardware should someone hold onto for backwards compatibility's sake? For me personally, I've held onto these handhelds along the way, held onto these handhelds while holding hands handily. Nintendo DS, the Nintendo three DS, I suppose the three

DS technically covers the DS games i'd want. It's still nice to have analog pocket, Nintendo Switch, Steam deck. I can't imagine needing anything else to play almost any game handheld. And after typing this, okay, Nintendo, haven't I bought enough? Please give us something on the next switch that will let us play more of the back catalog games. I've always felt burned by the fact that the we virtual console library of games wasn't Slash isn't fully available

on Switch Slash Nintendo Online. What do y'all think if you're not a collector and wanted to ditch old hardware, what new devices would you trust to access classic games? Cheers and happy holidays. Brian from Edwardsville, Illinois, sent by Pterodactyl. Yeah, I mean the ones you listened to here are pretty good. I think you analog pocket isn't for everybody like it is pretty expensive. But the reality is if you were to go try to track down a

three DS these days, those have gotten very expensive as well. And while you can hacker three DS to put a ton of stuff on it, and I think you can run some emulators to play stuff like game Boy and game Boy Advance, and then you would have all the DS games and all the three DS games if you wanted to really go that route. That's nice, but three DSS have gotten expensive, so you don't already have one of those. That could be a hassle. I actually think is pretty good these days.

It's it's that's easy to hack, it's relatively affordable. If the DS games actually look better on a DS and then they do on a three DS because it's the right resolution. Game Boy Advanced games just work, work natively. It's yeah, So I really like having a DS, my analog pocket, and then something like a Steam deck. If if I have those three things, I'm set. The reality is most people aren't gonna have want three things. If you can only have one of these, just get something like

a Steam deck that's going to cover you across the board. Yeah, I you know, there's a couple things you could do with a Steam deck to play a DS game. And yeah, the DS actually and the the Steam input like presets are really good with that with like switching between the screens with the button press. I was just playing a Link between Worlds for the three DS on my Steam deck the other day and it ran great and it's yeah,

so it's all that stuff has been done. All that work is just going to be done for you, and you just install m you deck run that script and everything will just work. You have to provide your own ROMs, but other than that, you're good to go. All right. Final email of the show comes from Michael in Boulder. Hello, Bombers, I'm getting ACL surgery this week and I'm gonna be bedridden on and off work for a good while prime gaming time. You all have any memorable gaming experiences while

convalescing. Love you Michael and Boulder. PS. Don't get hit by a cyclist while you're out for a run. It really sucks. God sent from my iPhone. I hope you see them. It's probably Dion Sanders. If you're on Boulder, watch out for that guy. Yeah, I guess you gotta sue that guy. All right? Yeah, thank you? Yes, I hope you're okay, Michael. Other than having ACL surgery, you're not. Who is the ambulance chasing lawyer in Denver? But we can get you

Misney out here from Cleveland. Misney makes them pay, so we'll send you Disney and he'll make this bicyclist pay sorry about that. Sorry her from getting my wisdom teeth out. To answer your question, I yeah, it was convalescing. Yes, it was an injury. That's what I like to call it, my wisdom teth surgery. I was in high school, so we had all the games and stuff, and I just played Guitar Hero for fucking hours. Man. I was just high off my ass playing Guitar Hero for

hours with a face full of like puff, like a chipmunk. It was great. I was just living off of John Bajuice missing every other note. Yeah, that's my recommendation. I don't remember, like I never had like really long term bedridden injury that would like give me a chance to do this, But like playing hooky from school or actually being sick from school and staying home and playing stuff like techno boal, I finally remember that for sure.

I remember healing from a broken heart and playing Oh my god, that's the cutest thing I've ever heard, playing a lot of Resident Evil five. Well, that's one way to get out of that. Alders Gate's really good for that too. Just for the record, Yeah, nothing's coming to mind, uh because I just yeah, I haven't been bedridden like that. Uh, I have nothing to add all I can. My brother broke his leg in half when he was uh, when he rode a four wheel were into a

tree and half. Yeah, I had care. I had both half. I mean like the skin was still attached, but the bone wasn't half and I hadn't him in the van and yeah, it was messed up, and we were like forty minutes away from a hospital. He had to take a helicopter, so he when he got out or was this another time he got evacuated by a helicopter. Yeah, that's this is the time he got out. That's what he did. He just spent an entire time drinking wine until

he got gout and uh. And then I played video games around him and he just complained about that out mostly scout. Yeah that's how you like, Hey, don't drink red wine. He's like, that's you. That's all I'm drinking my red wines and my patis well, I have a shrimp cocktail. All the things that are bad for me up upon the trifle and the organ. Mates. We forgot to tell everyone Friendly Fire, Chile and Riz it's we're old people. By the way, we're old people cop detectives.

Oh, you guys should run like the early Bird shift. Yeah, you know that, like half of our scenes are going to be in some like shitty fucking diner. Yes, yes, Oh I love this show. Coffee it's in black and reason rhymes. That's yeah, because we've never started or caused one or done one. Let's solve them. Why did you say it like like we have. That's the most suspicious way I've ever heard of person

say that they wanted to solve crime. You're big nemesis should be like timor with with an eye patch, you know, and he's like always your nemesis. Okay, okay, but either way your nemesis you needn't for the spinoff. Yeah, either way, Like he's the bad guy and he's always doing like very mediocre crime. Signe guy Bubbsy is saying that Jan doesn't even own a brick, and I don't even remember what they're alluding to, not that I've ever hurled a brick at someone. Manate might be kind of like a

Hamburglar type. No, I don't think Minaate is involved in like deep crime. No, man Manati Hamburgler is involved in deep crime. Yeah, that's the definition of felony is what I say. No, I think Manati is like, you know, worried about cutting tags off mattresses. Yeah, I guess little two shoes like he would never Yeah, he never, not even hamburgling. Yeah, when he's not wearing the mask. But when he puts that, that's another off. Yeah. Manates like the informant that we have.

He's like, he works as like he's not a dog vendor. He's like, I got some news for you guys. Figment, Yeah is bad. Do you want me to help you commit a crime when we're in La. It's not that hard, It's not fair. I feel like crime is legal. Have you never committed one? Yeah? And you guys are visiting during the purge a lot easier, wonderful. Okay, murder everything in La. Uh God? All right, let's get to the shout outs of the show. Shouts out to I wrote this here. Jake Decker and John Luke

made a cyberpunk documentary that you should five hundred percent check out. Uh Next, we have sorry Jan Batman's batter. Wang has already been in so many bat caves that he's more likely to die from chlamydia than Clay face. Oh okay Bailey for being awesome, and I love when Bay graces us on GB content. Scopa Ohio for getting us high in the middle and round on both

ends. Shouts out to Catholic karate where rosaries are Nunschucks and sence. Burder's censor is used as a kill Bill Go Go style chain Mace Janet, everyone looking Hella good with or without a haircut. The everlasting wish of ultraman Ace, caring for the week, helping each other in your times of need, becoming friends no matter where you're from. Please don't lose the feelings, even if those feelings are portrayed hundreds of times RoboCop Rogue City Check. I played

the demo, I did not start it. I should have, but I did not. Shouts out to Jeff Keeley, shots out to Bailey's there for you when the rain starts to pour. Bailey's there for you like she's been there before. Bailey's there for you because she's part of the GB crew. What song is that? It's obviously like a song right like you, guys, I didn't even watch that show, and I knew that. I know you're in kindergarten. Yeah, I was too young for it. The humor

was inappropriate. They have a naked neighbor, how dare they? Ross Gaellert is probably the worst character in all of sitcoms. But Turkey is the Starfield of Thanksgiving only AI defend that mid meat? Would you? Guys Hire Sampunk when he walks out of WWE, Mike Manati, it's a small world, after all, Hi, this is the real mic. I do not condone what happened that it's a small world. Beat Boop Starfield is good. Actually, beat Boop Animals. I have not been reading animals. I've been too

busy. Grub twenty four Rebel Slash Rebels check? I started watching and Or again. I'm sorry you started watching the thing you already watched already. I've watched it like three and a half times now. Sometimes it's good. That makes sense to me. But the only good TV show that's pretty cool? All right, all right? Jan Twin Peaks check. I have not watched Twin Peaks, and I intend to watch the show time version. Suit. Any truth to the rumor that in the new year, Quick Looks will now

be called Grub one out? Who fucking told you that? Where did you hear that God, I think I left the wrong dog open. Hey nos, fuck you you realize your tongue does not have a comfortable place to rest in your mouth? Fuck you. I hate what someone says that. It's

such a mean, dumb thing to say. Somebody good old Shitley Myers, slayh Girl Sleigh, far away off in infinity, though they are so distant, if the light of the stars can reach me, we can communicate, just as I believe, I reach out and grab it like a blazer bazarre. The desire to protect someone, your brave soul, your message, a wish is courage stronger than words. We are the same blaze to illuminate where

life is headed. Oh, light show us the way tomorrow. Uh uh uh er uh, Dylan, Emmy, Addie, Scout, Goose and Noodle Jan for encouraging everyone to come come to the Giant Bomb Game of the Year live in Los Angeles. Tickets are running low, get yours today. And finally shouts out to Gasolina by Daddy Yankee all the time. I was at a friends giving and they were like, Oh, let's have a community playlist. Everyone go add your stuff in. I had Gasolina like twenty times too.

And they're like, who did this. I'm like, I'll try to find the guy who did this. God, I fucking love daddy. Let's let's can we go to like a reggaeton like club or something. Anyway, Absolutely, anyway, that has been the Giant BombCast once again, Folks. Game of the Year starts this week, starting this Friday, nine am Pacific twelve Eastern on the Dot. We're gonna be rolling off with seven categories. I'm not gonna tell you what the seven categories are because we got to prepare

for that shit. And then on Tuesday next week, in place of a proper bomb cast, we will be having day two Giant Bombs Game of the Year deliberations. Those will be pre recorded for your ears everybody Wednesday of that week, Wednesday's Giant Bomb at night Grub. It's gonna get back on the host and couch and hang out with some industry folks and us. Sorry,

you're gonna be hanging out with us again. Thursday. We got a two for free of folks, two for for Game of the Year because at the Game Awards, Bailey Myers and Kurt Indivina will be hosting a pre and post show on Game Spot, please tune into that, and then us Hooligan's in the next room will be goofing and gabbing over it. Grub Dan, Mike and myself Bail if she wants to pop over to that other room right more than welcome to. And then Friday or no Thursday, that same day actually

of the Game Awards, we will be streaming live the whittling process. It will not be a whittle stream at all, because we will be taking the all of the games that came out in twenty twenty three and condensing that down to the top twenty. Because Saturday, December ninth, we will be having the finale where we all vote and decide what is Giant Bomb's Game of the Year and the top ten, as well as having some fun little categories, some fun, fun, little fun Little Gordy can't wait to award my twelve

points. So I'm gonna do it so hard. Which game it's going to get it? I don't know the thing is, I don't know where the what the gimmick is this year. One year it was like taking taking the straps off, and then it was like defending a game. I don't know what game to have a fucking monologue for this year. Have monologue for it. Just got a text that I get sixty points, told you that a long match. I'm gonna I'm sorry, Hey, next baby, h I'm

going to try and match your coffee intake the whole. Not do that, and you watched him drink coffee. Please don't do this bad. I've been playing so much hockey to prep my heart for it. When when I'm dead and I went to Valve to check out the ol ed steam deck, we had beef fast beforehand, and then I just like absent, not not even knowing. I just held my cup out for the kind waitress to fill it up with coffee, and I didn't even look, and I just kept sipping.

And then I did that at least four times because I'm broken inside. Wait you had four? Okay, maybe I'll have. You said some shit you can't take back back. Yeah, very well, all right, we're not exactly shaving my head, are we. I will match half your cay. Okay, No, that's normal, that's probably not normal. Maybe a third is the right way to go. But you were have ye? Yeah, I mean I like coffee a lot though. Okay, so that's gonna go great for you then, no, I mean, as long as you

match my pooping, we'll be fun. You know, we'll be all right. I feel like I'm not allowed to drink coffee then, because I don't want to break back or no, it's all right. I'll if it gets too much, I'll bring it down to a quarter. All right, well, you know, we'll we'll. I'll just we'll have like a fun group chat. And then I'll just put a coffee emoji each time I drink a coffee, whether I'm with everyone or not. Okay, cool, I may

I'll intersperse some some spro into that as well. Don't make it a private discord. That's all ass, Michl, You're gonna be so good at drinking coffee. This hubres will not buy you in the ass. You might even be better than the gods at drinking coffee, ye tell you. In a pinch. Over the weekend, I may or may not have just like thrown instant coffee in my mouth just to feel something. Oh see, that's okay, that's like almost some back alley coffee worrying shit that I need to have

an intervention stuffing beans at my butt. I need it so bad, Please don't support my bad habit. It's honestly a problem at this point that everyone in my life is concerned. But hey, you know what, you should also be concerned about tickets selling out to the finale at the Teograph Ballroom because we only got a few left. So if you've been hemming and haueing, or you're thinking about going to La, or you're in La or in the so Cal area, just just go. I'd love to see you. Are

you just like or you're just like buying stuff on Ticketmaster? You should go. Yeah, it's it's unlikely you're gonna be able to be like, oh man, I'll just try to drive there and get a ticket at the door. That. Yeah, do not count on that. Don't do that.

Yeah, do not do that. Don't do that. But you know what you should do though, You should check out store dot giant bomb dot com because we got some sick ass new merch o. We got a voicemail dump truck shirt I think is not new, but we got joggers that are new. We got a fanny pack, and then it was pod Yes we have all that. I'm sorry to interrupt you like that, Jane, it's a new uh sweatshirt version of the dumb Truck. Sure, so that is new. But yes, Fanny packs a new dad hat. The posters sold out

very quickly. Oh shit, but we but we do. But the we have the regular version, which I believe there are a couple. Uh, I think like a dozen or so left of those as well. Whoa minus one because you're gonna bring me one? Right? Well? I yeah, don't worry about that. It's almost these inventory numbers they don't want to apply to you. Okay, don't worry about that. There, there we go. Like I mentioned at the top of Shadouts, go check out John Luke

Jake Decker's doc that they worked on for Cyberpunk. They follow the devs around about the launch of Cyberpunk two point zero and Phantom Liberty. But Bailey Myers, sorry me, Shitley Myers. What else should folks check out? Oh? Well, I mean, just a mere hour and a half ago, the honest game trailer for Assassin's Creed Mirage dropped. I worked really hard on it. But what do you mean I played Assassin's Creed Mirage. Oh I'm sorry, So please watch the fruits of my labor. And then I don't

know tomorrow. I'm going to be playing Darker boulders Gate on stream until midnightage after dark, So check that out if you want to on my stream and tah stick folks. She's been Shitley, I've been the Riz, he's been Jeff. He's also been Cheff and you are so exciting. Great stuff is in store. Baby. Let me, let me let you know we're it's gonna be fine. Don't worry. Don't worry. The hod is it right around the corner. And it's gonna be a new year, but it won't

be a new U because you are already great. And we'll see you next week for Game of the Year. We'll see you later this week for Game of the Year. Baby at the check those beans. Oh no, pink wig thick ass, give him whiplash, yo, real talk about like Nicki Minaj's verse on Kanye's monster Fucking All Time Verse of All Time, all Right,