832: Upgrade Your Balls

Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March nineteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and thirty two, powered by NZXT. I am your host this week, jan Ochoa, hiding my shame under this bright orange beanie because you know, I got a haircut. I got a haircut to prepare for Pax East this week and joining me my haircut brethren, Jeff Grubb. I'm still I'm still on the cusp of deciding one way or

the other about the haircut. Could still do the airport haircut. I don't think I'm gonna get in there before that point though, So it'll either be airport haircut or nothing. That's That's where I'm at. That's uh, that is your life motto. That is on the Grub family crest. Actually, yes, it'll be on my gravestone. Uh. Speaking about gravestones. We got him killing records left and right. It's speed Runner here, putting people

in the fucking dirt. Mike Manatti, you can't trust the sorcerers sometimes. Yeah, my hair situation is easy. I'm just gonna have to get the thing and trim off this. You know, it's funny. I do this little tuft on my forehead that'll grow out, which is literally exactly the Charlie

Brown thing if I let it go. I've never been seeing that. You do a good job taking care of taking care of that, Mike, I've never even noticed that, right, like you know, the male pounder bonus like went back, but just like this little bit right here wants to hang on. Charlie Brown Island. Charlie Brown Island, Yep, I know, and joining us just says, oh my guy, she's impressed. Yeah, that's why. That's why I said, that's amazing joining us this week.

She's excited and happy for her compatriots, her work companions, to leave for packs East while she holds down the fort in sunny California. I got to hear Cut a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm fucking commented. I said something that's pretty sure. I said, So I didn't notice. Well, I mean, Mike, you know, we we know you hate women. Hey, now, why god, I know we can't do that Women's Day that was last week. We're fine, now, you know, respect

extream, you don't respect women on the equadox, what do you? Yeah? Right, Leo's they're Witches. Yeah, fantastic, fantastic. How's everyone doing? Uh, grub, I saw that you saw Dune like PM June talking about Dune. It started at like eleven ten pm actually, when all the commercials were done and everything. But I did not even like begin to fall asleep. I was good because that movie is very good, very entertaining. I like how they use religion to manipulate people. That's fun. That's

a good story. They should do that more often. I don't wonder why that only happens in movies. Yeah, yeah, perhaps, But did you like it? Did a live up to the hype that people have been Yes, I'm like I go back and forth, like internally, I don't bother other people with these thoughts because they're inside thoughts. So let's put it on

a podcast. I'm not sure how much I care about lore all the time, and it's like, oh, I care about law when it's good, like when it's actually super well thought out, and so Dune is that it's very much that. It's like where every sort of decision made by these characters has a reason why behind it that is born out of like the reason that this culture is this way, and that like permeating getting through to like all of the action sequences, all of the decisions characters are making. It was

really I don't know. It kept a story like moving forward in a really fun way, and it's just awesome to look at because it's a Denny movie. Danny knows how to make him. I really like Denny a lot, but I just I don't like Cecario at all. I don't know what it is. I'm not involved in that. You're right, I did not. I'm like, I wanna go back to it. I didn't dig Cecario either, so maybe I was missing something. I think it's a problem with me.

Denny just quietly shut off the podcast. Ye're in his French Canadian. I well, he saw that you were, you know, his one of his best friends, Bailey Myers, is on the pot. And then it was like, oh, these two fuckers are here. Also, you heard that. You guys say you say it like that because you don't know how to pronounce his last name. But I say Denny like that because we're best friends. So yeah, sure, I say that because it reminds me of

the character from the Room. That's actually why I say that. So what kind of drugs are you taking? Edny? What kind of drugs that you take? I just like to watch you as well. I just like to watch I was showering. My one glass thing fell on the other glass thing. There's two glass things in that shower, so there's a there's a what do you mean? Glass thing? A jar, a cup, sex toys?

No glass in there? Well, because like I have the one and it's like where I put some like miscellaneous nick knacks and it's on a high show. Then on the is like my good enough miscellaneous knick knacks is not good enough? That are sexual? All right? No, I know, I know that was a joke. What are you talking about? Like I'm a razor and like extra plates and cube tips? What do you just? Bathroom? What do you think? Why glass? Because that's what I had.

I had a class container and okay, in retrospect it should not have been glass. Yeah. You ever get to a public swimming pool and they're like, we actually don't want you to have glass by our water that we are in, And you didn't like apply that principle to your little own swimming pool that you have in your house in bathroom you may swimming. Yeah, it made such a noise. It's just incredible. It was like a direct hit the one glass thing on the only other glass thing, just shatter,

picking up glass everywhere. Just a little bit got on my foot. I clean that. Now. Are you worried that? Because one of the famous things about glass is uh, you could see through it just like okay, well things about the broom and like was like really going at it making sure there's an secret glass on the floor. Stilled. I'm gonna That's what I'm worried about, the secret glass. So what happened exactly like one of your glass items decided to take a nose dive just on its own and hit your

other glass item and it shattered into a million pieces. Yeah, they both shattered. So like the one on the top was probably pushed too far to the edge and also relatable too high up, and I was I was like sick and delirious yesterday, so I probably like I got my thermometer out of there, so that must be when like that's also in there, thermometer in the shower well in case the glass because you want to go a little bit

of mercury poisoning just shelf. Now it's just an old timey cartoon thermometer your temperature and make sure you're not getting too heated every time you wash your tufted. Yeah, I was very stupid. When I first took my temperature was a feeling. It was right after I shower. I was like, Wow, look how high my body'd be. Like I thought, I like, wait a second, maybe the shower made it. Huts. I googled it. It's like that. Yeah, that's a thing, so I had to

wait. Yeah, that reminds me, like, you know, growing up, you'd see so many cartoons and movies of like people coming up with ways to fake their sickness and like I'm gonna make my hands plam me, or like I'm gonna like find a way to heat up the thermometer when my parents take my tempt or exactly. And then one one morning I went to my mom faking sickness. This is maybe the first grade. I'm like, oh, Mom, I'm sick, thinking she's going to take my temperature. I

prepared all this stuff. She was like, all right, stay home. She trusted you, and you betrayed her trust. I know it's not it was a I do clearly you still think about it. Yeah, the Catholic guilt kicks in. That's the one, you know, long lasting thing from private school education. Baby, did you ever forge your parents' signature on like a permission slip or anything like that. I did not a permission slip. But we used to have these things called conduct referrals, which were like,

if you get in trouble, if you get in trouble. But I only got in trouble because I let my friend cheat off of my homework. Oh that's the most to get in trouble. Prom king shit right there. I was a cool guy. I was tough. The copying homework. Who cares? You're like copy test answers maybe, but come on, copying homework. You're only in trouble because he didn't, like how did they even know? Is it because he missed the same act ones you did? No? Actively

doing it in class? He was actively doing it in your name. No, no, no, he actually almost did do that once. It was like morning prep period or whatever. And then like we were just sitting there and he asked me for my homework. He was he's my best friend, so I just gave it to him. And then like the vice principals rolling around saying like, oh, what's up, children, Hey, how's it going, And then she sees him blatantly copying everything right plainly in front of

her my office. Yeah yeah, oh that's what the vice principal is always the problem. You're the cop. Yeah right, yeah, the vice principal. Boner and Doug exactly, Yeah, yeah, did you did you? Did you guys get in trouble in school? Ever? I got trouble one time because I was a freshman and it was a Halloween, and as a freshman high school student, I was brave enough to wear a Star Trek costume

for Halloween, and uh, I was just I don't know. I was talking to somebody about Halloween and was late to my last class and got detention. That was it. It's not very exciting. Oh that's left I get any trouble. I was so pathetic that like, as I got through the tension, everybody and like the class was shocked and like tried to stop. I can't give the attention to Bike, He's so quiet and child the time. It was like giving the toution to a puppy, the real American badass

Mike Manati. It was what time I got in trouble in high school, Jeff, I fucking brought a can't say faked Oh okay, yeah it was. I was like one of those air soft ones, but uh, I forgot it was in there because of the ADHD. And then I got in a fight. Someone ripped my backpack and it fell out and they told on me, and then I got suspended for ninety days because it was not long after ties. Yes, they called it, and you were a gamer two

right, that's what it was really about. It was gamer oppression, Uh for sure. No. I had like several Saturday schools in a row because of like being late to school like weeks some weeks and weeks of having Saturday school. So yeah, and that's just like one of the times I got in trouble. I got in trouble a lot, kid. I did a lot of bullshit in school, but I never got caught. What are you gonna do about it? You know? Wow? Were you smoking in the

girls room? There was a history class where the teacher would go around and check that we we just had to take notes for each of the chapter of the book because you didn't like to teach it all. And I quickly figured out I could just show him the same notes if I just like changed the

data top so I didn't do homework for an entire year. Incredible. Yeah, And then like also one time got in trouble with a friend of mine because he was sitting in front of me in a different history class and we wanted to talk shit about someone who was sitting near us, but we didn't want any of her to find out because we didn't want hurt her feelings. We were just mad at her. So we were like writing English for netically in Hebrew because we both knew how to do that, and then we got

in trouble for writing and symbols gribberish. Yeah. I was like, oh, thanks God, thank god we took that precaution. We knew we were not smooth enough to pull this off. Forever lovely lovely. Well, well we'll go from playing innocent childhood games to adult video games. Oh yay, controversial here. I want to get new SEG music. I want to get new SEG music. Yeah, I am like almost dead set, though, I'm just gonna try and be justify. Who could stop you? Exactly exactly?

I put the license Todini by Dua Lipa because that's song rocks I listened to it all the time. Well, one thing I like about podcast is it goes out on RSS feed, which is like there's no laws there. So I listened to one podcast where like their YouTuber, she has like a custom song, but then on for the pot for the RSS version, they just use electric avenue like where they're gone through and I'm like, oh yeah, like don't there's no like detecting copyright on RSS feeds, so we should

just do that. Jan Okay, purpose there we go. Oh God, I like Dua Lipa. I think all of her songs sound the same, but anytime they come on, I'm having a good time. Though her songs don't all sound the same, they do make you have a good time. Houdini is special because it's one of those things where she's like the hottest woman who's ever lived, and even she can't say the lord Whodini's sexy? And I think it's funny every time that's true. It makes me laugh and it

makes me dance, and that's all I ever look for. Uh, just like sand the sand Land demo makes Jeff do, makes you last, makes you want to dance real quick. You said adult video games and I did on steamle yes, last night see my cousin playing She Will Punish Them, And I'm like, what is that? And I look, I'm like, oh, oh, that's just a horny game. That's just a lady going around going around spanking people. Basically, all right, well, more power to you on the nose. It's all off, okay, yeah, I

guess. Yeah, it's on sale right now with the springs. This is way holier than I was even expecting. Also, I have fun with that everybody, but the logo there's like Papyrus them, she Will shall I even be googling this. Well, they're just Steam. Well listen, I'm not trying to get you in trouble Yoh yeah, I think I think he plays what's that like the Devilish Lady occupy and he plays a soccubus. I think it's like an action game. They made nothing for this font huh. No,

In fact, I think they got paid to use it. Actually, yeah, Sandland, that's uh all right, that's got a demo out now and your lipstick, yes, you can customers a lot actually, And this is the one that's based on the a Curatory Yama manga. I believe, and I think they're like going pretty hard on Sandland. Now, of course, you know, rest in peace to Akira Toriyama. This this game is

kind of strange but neat. I think the best part about it is all of the Akira Toriyama art and the whole world just feeling like you're living in one of his worlds. But you play as this like little sand demon guy. He's got some friends. And the demo shows you a section of the game where you're able to wander around this open part of the desert, and

you have three different vehicles. One is a big tank with a lot of heavy weaponry, another one is like a motorcycle, and a third one is a mech, and they seem to serve different functions of like getting you around faster, being like relatively survivable, or like with the mech, it's like if you're in closer, there's a lot of people you got to fight.

This thing can can do pretty pretty decent at that, but it's very slow if you're trying to actually traverse the desert, so you're supposed to swap between these things. I just the demo didn't show me a lot about like what you're going to be doing in this game. At least I'm assuming there's more more to it, because what it is is you go out in the world and you fight random encounters and maybe you're finding a cave that might have some

stuff in it. I get the idea that there's gonna be some crafting. Didn't mess around with any of that in the demos so far. It was really just kind of going to these enclaves fighting either like human humanoid enemies or fighting giant desert creatures, or just like random dinosaurs running nut or whatever, like in a curatory Ama manga. But it at the very least it looks really pretty. The action does work to the point where it's like I am

enjoying myself when I'm doing that. I'm just like, in this demo, was confused about what should be pulling me through, like what is my motivation here, and that the lack of that kind of made it feel like I'm okay for now. You know. I played this thing for forty five minutes and was like, ah, I'm I don't I would need to know more about what this game actually is beyond this to care about it once the game actually comes out, So little disappointed by it, but also I'm hoping that,

you know, the final version has a lot more to it. Yeah, that sounds a lot like the demo that I checked out at last year's Summer Game Fest. I wouldn't be surprised if it's kind of based on what

you played there. Yeah, sure, Yeah, And in that demo, I think the highlight for that was being in the vehicles controlling stuff, because it did feel at least in this early stage, and you know, it's a demo, so things felt very slight in terms of like direction of like, Okay, I guess I'm just gonna head to that village now on my map because that's what I'm being told to do. But the vehicle stuff and the vehicle design really really neat. I feel like a Curratriama has a knack

for designing really cool retro futuristic bubbly vehicles. Yeah, of half domes on everything, half domes like little vehicles too, so like the people are kind of like bursting out of them as they're riding and riding in them. That happens here as well. It's all that stuff is definitely the highlight I enjoyed. I enjoyed that aspect of it. I think also getting to customize your

like your vehicles and adding like different weaponry on there. They kind of show that off early in the demo, like, hey, we've given you some stuff. Change up the guns if you want, and that stuff changes up the cosmetic look of the vehicle as well. So you put a big gun on there, and now you have this huge barrel hanging off the tank that looks absurd, but in the best way possible. So that stuff is neat.

I just I just don't know what else there is to it. Yeah, I wonder if if you can wind up just sticking with one of those vehicles or they're going to kind of like force you into situations where you have to switch between a motorcycle, a mac or like the tank. Yeah you could. I think you can have your favorite and use it most of the time. The motorcycle, so each thing has like a variety of weapons on

it. So the motorcycle has machine guns that always fire forward, which is a little troublesome because the way the vehicle controls is you are pressing forward to go forward on the analog stick. You're not like holding down right trigger for gas or something like that, And then that makes it a little bit awkward to then like maneuver left and right. It's not the worst. You can also like toggle on gas and like have it just go forward by itself and

then adjust it. That helps a little bit. But like maneuvering the motorcycle, so the enemies are right in front of you, well, that's the fast vehicle. So once I have that, I shoot them a little bit, and then I'm already flying past them. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna get off the motorcycle, get back on the ground, throw out the capsule. It's like all the vehicles are in capsules. Kiritoriyama again

that stuff. I like, you throw it on the capsule for the tank or the mech, hop in those, and then you're back in the action pretty quickly. I didn't find a way to like hot swap in battle where it was like, oh, okay, I'm in the motorcycle. Can I just quickly shift into the mech. It's like, no, you have to get off, throw it down the capsule, then get in there, at

least as far as I could tell, which is cumbersome as well. But I also think it makes it feel like you're living in the world and this is the way the world functions, and like you have to have these capsules and throw them down. I also like that if you hop out of a vehicle and you run away, you don't really have to come back to the but it's not going to be waiting for you there. It just zaps back into your capsules, and then when you come back to the world, you

just throw them back down and hop back into them. I think it's like got a lot of good energy to it. It's got a good look. Yeah, and that's why I was curious about it. That's why I gave the demo a chance. And I think that this demo feels very cordoned off. It feels very much like just we just want to get you into the action so you can see what that feels like. And so my assumption is there probably is more to it. They just didn't know how to present it

in this in this demo, so they didn't do that. And yeah, that's my hope at least at this point. Yeah, because I imagine like trying to do a vertical slice of something that may be an open world game is incredibly challenging. Also, man, I really love the look of everything in San land. I just yeah, I hope the game plays enough to kind of like push me over to enjoying playing the game. I've also been launched just I did watch like fifteen episodes of Dragon ball z Kai over the

weekend with the kid. So we're in in a curatory. I'm a mood right now. And see the new movie. I know not yet, but I intend to. I intend to. Everyone seems to love it an absolute blast. Which movie was it? I don't remember, Yeah, oh yeah, because you know, you know why that's a good movie. It's because it's Gohan and his father. I've also been playing a demo Jeff Grubb and Company. I've been playing the pepper Grinder demo. Let me tell y'all,

I love hammers and games. Something I love more than games and big hammers big drills. Love a big drill. Uh here, what you're doing is you're a little character and you got a drill and jump hop and bop around. Uh. Use the one of the triggers to fire up the drill. Get that going, and you can use that as a melee weapon of sorts. Hollow Penny And the neat part about the game is you know they'll you'll see some destructible parts of the environment that are rocks, get some gems through

there. But where the game starts to really fudge around with a platforming element is as soon as you take your drill to sand, it kind of suddenly starts to propel you forward in whatever direction you're pointing the drill. So you take the left analog stick and you're just controlling a movement around. But as soon as you pop out of the surface of the sand, you start free willing that bitch and you do, like a dolphin or a killer whale pop

out of it. That gives you a little bit of momentum. And in the early stages here they're you know, a lot of it's teaching you the mechanics, but you can quickly see how complicated the game is going to get, because early on they have you dive down into the sand, make an arc, hit an enemy to get a little bit more momentum to hit another patch of sand right above you, and from there do a quick pivot to get uh, propel yourself to the right side of the stage to get to

a higher ledge. It's really neat and I'm really excited. I think this is one of my favorite genres of like two D platformers of just like weird movement mobile abilities to like get you through something. And I'm gonna tell you all the hot take here. I think I'm tired of grappling hooks. Wow you're over it? Huh Okay, yeah, yeah, I felt brave. I felt brave telling you all this. All right, this is a suicide squad that finally did it to you. No, I actually like the grappling

hook in that game. Okay, it was like, what's hardly grappling onto a little robot? All right? But I'm interested to see where the game is gonna go and how complicated it's gonna get, because I think after playing a little bit more of Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, I think my favorite parts of that game are like the challenging puzzle platforming segments rather than some

of the combat. And I'm not saying comets bat or anything. It's great in that game, some of the best, but like the that team really really nailed some of those like corned off, tight timing platforming segments that I think pepper Grinder is going to be able to do really really well as well. And yeah, just big drills fucking rock. It's great. Yeah, I have this demo. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet

though, but I'm a huge fan of Drill Dozer. Drill Dozer was awesome on Game Boy Advance, and it's this is clearly inspired by that, and

everyone seems to who everyone's played it seems to really like it. And you're right, I think just looking at it, you could tell they are going to take this motion, this look, emotion mechanic and just throw you in a bunch of different scenarios where, if you are able to, you could string them together in such a way that you're basically never stopping doing cool momentum addition tricks until the end of a level. And I love that idea.

But I mean, since like Tony Hawks, stringing together combos to feel cool has been like one of my main so like in a game, this seems like it's gonna nail that. So yeah, I'm excited about this. This definitely feels like there will be several levels where if you can get the timing right, you will never touch the ground other than like the beginning and the

ending segment. I love that, and I'm curious to see how they're gonna handle boss encounters, because so far all the enemies you come across are just like little dudes or like a little robusts that go off in one hit, or one of the early enemies you come across are like these very thick, lady bug like bugs where you're you can only hit them on the underside of them because the top side is shielded. I don't know why I thought this was going to be a like a strict puzzle game. I think I was

thinking more of mister Driller and yo, oh sure, mister Driller. That guy looks so sick. Got a look, you know, Mister Driller is supposed to be like the son or grandson of the character from the classic Namco are games that I'm definitely not blinking on right now, the one with the drill and that's wait, dig Doug dig Doug, Yes, Tick Doug, thank you, Dick Doug. Yeah, he's related to the Dick Doug guy. Okay, well basically the same games, Janney really close. Oh man,

imagine how messed up that dude being soul caliber? Huh dig dig Dug guy or mister Driller, both of them? Does does dig Doug guy have a name. Uh, he must be must be mister Driller the first I guess tyz O Horri originally known as dig Doug. He should be a big dog but spelled Doug. He's known as dig Doug, the Dick Doug lore. The family tree, we got to chart it out. Uh, this is like third time in two weeks we've talked about family trees. We got

to do something with family trees. Tiz O Horry, originally known as dig Doug, is the main protagonist of the Dig Doug series and one of the major characters in the Mister Driller series, being the founder of the Star Trigone team as well as a member of the United Galaxy Space Force. Yeah, there's a family here. We got to look at space for What are we talking about the ugs? What do you mean? Is he dig dugging in like space? I think he's dig dugging in space, Homie, Yeah,

tea dig dog? Is he involved? A gradius two? Like? What are we talking about that? If we learn nothing from James Cameron's it's easier to send drillers into space than spend spacers into drills. So Michael James Cameron of Directors Well, going from space and uh, the Ground to the Sea, Bailey. You have been playing Dredge. Yeah, finally I finally started playing Dredge. My Twitch community made me do it yesterday and I was like, oh, yeah, it's a fishing game. I like fishing, So

there we go. Although there is demo hour right now from Steam Nextfest normal fishing that looks really good that I'm like very excited for. That has sort of a spooky diss to it that Dredge has to it that I wasn't expecting because I, you know, just always now it feels like Saxist is always on. There's just like a lot of cool stuff came out, and I'm really looking forward to normal fishing from that one. But also I've been playing Dredge and I was so used to Dave the Diver and just being like,

ah, fishing is pleasant and chill, and now it isn't anymore. It's not you're not gathering these things for your charming little sushi restaurant. You're just trying not to get eaten by an enormous anglerfish or whatever. The fuck. Oh my god, it's so stressful. Alan Wick two prepared me for this. Actually, it's very it's very Eldritch horror. Uh, and it's very British in it. I didn't know why Lucy liked it so much. She felt, yeah, but yes, oh it's so fun. It's so fun.

They're like, oh, yeah, go out on the water, but don't stay out at night for reasons we won't tell you. And then you find out and you're like, oh, no, understood. I need to upgrade my engines. Oh my god, it's great. I've only played a little of it so far because I've mostly just been playing Bulatro and yeah scullm Bones. But uh, but it's been really liking it. It's been great. If you haven't picked up Dredge yet, like, you should pick up

Dredge. It's good. Yeah I did. I put it off and then I got to the point where it's like, I'm not gonna have time for this for game of the year. And then you get past the game of the year, it's like, well, I don't have to play old games anymore. It's time for new games. I think I should go back to

Dredge though. Yeah. My January was just devoted to all the indie games that I like missed that I've been meeting to play, like I finally got around to Slay the Princess and Chance of Sinar and like all these other ones

that I really enjoyed. That, of course I enjoyed because I love puzzle games and I love visual novels, and I love weird shit like that, and like, this is just another thing that's like a weird shit thing that I should have started ages ago and just didn't because I think in January, at the end of December and early January, it just got completely consumed by David Diver. I was just obsessed with that gameplay loop. And now I've got Bilatro in that slot in my heart. So I really want to play

like a fishing game seriously again. And I'm all for fishing matchups. They haven't they just haven't really matched them up with something that speaks to me. And now hear me out on this, please please no, maybe maybe maybe we give Big the Cat like a standalone game, because look, I know it's Janki's look at your one, but three D platformer meets fishing game. There's something there. Oh yeah, yeah, I still I still, like, in my heart want a fishing RPG like to come back in a big

way. Sure, but listen, I'll take that kind of mashup to platform and big. The cat deserves its own game. You're right. So in that newest Mario Golf, I didn't quite enjoy it. But the parts I did enjoy is how the scramble when you're playing a multiplayer like running into where your ball landed to continue going on. That's fun. To to the whole the tea I don't know, golf, Yeah, to the lie, to

the lie sure, to the golf hole lies. Yeah. And I could see that working well in a fishing game of sorts of like, all right, you catch a fish here, you gotta dash all the way over to the other side of the fishing fishing Mario fishing, let's do that, get some cheap cheeps. That's actually good. They should do that, shocking we haven't, Yeah, dougs cut the check. Uh well, Bailey, let's stick to the seven seas here, because I don't know if you want to

talk about it length at all. I don't think any of us have played this yet. What I'm going to be doing for the rest of the day, so sculling bones of the week. It's so fu Nobody even wants to talk about this game. It's not with Suicide Squad where people wanted to dunk on it. Everybody's just kind of like, that's unfortunate. That's enough,

sick family member. Yeah, it's just uh, it's a game. I ask a quadruple It's a quadruple, our first quadruple A title, Like, how could I how could I not write it honest game trailer about it? But God, I always forget. I've got to play the game first in order to do that, and I always set myself up for misery as a result. And I'm just like, I'm just trying to put one on the on the schedule for me. But ever since we moved to every other week,

I've like got to prioritize the bad games. So I'm like, great, this is just my life now. It's just bad game after bad game. The last one I did was Suicide Squad. That games. That game's good, though. Do you want to do? You want to do? You want to try and play? Because Steam denied my refund request, so kind of I'm kind of locked in now, Bailey, what do you do in that game? I don't know what you do? Nothing? All right, let's go. You're just a pirate and you're just on the ocean and

there's so many other pirates. Well that you just said right, there was a hiku. It was beautiful. It's just sometimes you try to blow up a building, sometimes the building blows you up first. You can have a lemur on your boat. That's cool. If your boat gets blown up, it's kind of existentially devastating because of the lemur. But then the lemur comes back. Okay, you're fine, but it's like a little bit on fire and you're like, okay, if I receipt, there's there's resurrecting lemurs.

There's terrorism. Okay, this sounds sounds like a good game. I don't know. Yeah, there's like a quest you can do, like the pirate like guy mercenary guy sends you off on little missions and you go and do them and then you come back like do you like me yet? And he's like are you living? Liller? Liller, I can't even do it, Liveredstard was what I was trying to say. But this game has killed me. It's killed me hard. Yeah, Jam was making the life out of

you. Just talking about Jam was like, do you want to be on the bomb? Customer? I was like anything to avoid focusing on skull and bones for a couple of hours. It's anything. It's incredible that they they had the right idea, like people like Assassin's Creed for Black Flag, we should just do more of that, like yeah, you should make a spin

off open world pirate game. And then they're like, yeah, but it's gotta be a multiplayer, always online, live service thing, and then that cost them like five extra years of development because they couldn't figure it out. I mean, it just comes out of bombs. The big problem was apparently that they were like, this is going to be primarily about sailing the ships, and there's not going to be like the running around Assassin's Creed part of

it. And then they would ever tend me to talk about it. Everybody be like, oh, I can't wait to play this thing that's exactly like Black Flag, and you'd be like, oh boy. And so they went back and like make it more like an Assassin's creen, make it more like Assassin's screen, and that cost them also a bunch more years. So just real smart stuff over there, no combat, just ship combat. You can get you can get got by a shark pretty early in, which is so

fair you're in the shark's house. That's on you, right, You shouldn't be there. You shouldn't be there. Uh yeah. The thing that's cool about pirates is that there were just so many of them and they were all operating at exactly the same time and running into each other. That's when mean pirates cool, not any other element of their lifestyle or persona rum. Yeah, bra gra, I mean literally already have an online live service pirate game

that is good. That's a pretty small market for how many of these we can support. Yeah, yeah, you just it really has to be so much better than this if you're gonna pull this ship off, and it just isn't. It just isn't. It's all right? Yep. I feel like I'm actively making Bailey more sad by. No. Oh, we're not gonna talk about Bilatro played it without me, you know, I can't even talk about it on my stupid little show. We're not. We're gonna talk about

a different casino game before we talk about Bilotro. And that other casino game is a game that Jeff Grub has a played on me. Oh and I thought I thought at this point Jeff Grub and I are friends. He worked very well together. He would never try and hurt me. And then this fucker tweets me and says, hey, we gotta we got to investigate this new thing and it is called Bingle Bingle, and it is a It is another casino roguelike game, but instead of poker or blackjack. Perhaps you are

spinning that. Oh I didn't invest the game. I just went to I went to the Steam page and it starts playing the video and the sound of the ball going around the thing is immediately setting off like every dopamine receptor in my brain. I'm gonna I'm downloading this immediately. Is that an early access? It is a similar format where you know you have a chip value you're supposed to match, just like in Bilattro or Sortain other roguelikes, and you

are betting on a proper roulette wheel. And that's how it starts. Right, You're like, Okay, I'm gonna bet on red, I'm gonna bet on black. If I'm feeling a little spicy, maybe I'll pick a specific number and then you can increase your bets. Am. How they make it a roguelike is that you only have five tokens. Five tokens for a spin each time to meet your designated chip value. They also have Boston Counters where it gets a little nasty and spicy and a little freaky deky, y'all is.

After each round you get to visit a shop and in that shop you can either upgrade your ball, and maybe upgrading your ball is like, all right, well, I'm going to target a set of five of the pockets, and then my ball will always go in one of those five pockets. So you can clearly bet on red if you're aiming for that range or a specific number. But say it like, you know what those pockets, the

numbers, the slots you fall into. Uh, maybe I'm going to buy just like five red pieces and just stick them all together, so my whole roulette wheel is half red. Okay? Oh man, Oh I thought Mike, and I was going to say something. He's just confident, Okay, just excusing that cough button effectively, so effectively that you thought I had something to say. Continue, Jane, you're killing it. Thank you. So you can upgrade your balls, and then from there, with each ball you

can upgrade that to uh increase the chip value that it's earning. So say you have a ball that targets a certain range of pockets, you bet heavy on red, and then it's you've upgraded that ball in such a way that it gets like times or yeah, times ten each time it's suc Fley lands

on a proper bet, so you are winning around in one spin. At first, I thought it felt pretty bare bones, but as you start getting through, like the tutorial stages and like the early bits of it, you are unlocking more and more different things to affect your wheel and your spinning in. Like Grub said that trailer hooks you in really well because it gets the

clickty clackity of the ball hitting the wheel. I'm looking at to saying that it really is just Bilacho but roulette, and yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, there's also a Majong roguelike casino, making it not that I will play Bengal Bengal. It looks incredible, but I am very interested in any any game that has some aspect of skill to it, and Roulette simply doesn't. So it's never been my game in casinos, although the concept of upgrading

your balls is very funny to me, so yeah, upgrade. I highlighted that it's the name for the podcast Real Slam Duck on that one. Yeah, Bailey, would you ever be interested in perhaps do you know how to play Majong? I? Okay, I learned how to play it from the Mulan PC game that came out right around the time Mulan did, and I haven't played it since, but my mom is getting very good at it in

her retirement community. So I imagine shaking okay, fantastic. Yeah. I try to learn ma ins fan Fantasy fourteen and it did not take I was I was going to say, maybe it's time to resurrect an old giant bomb feature, one near and dear to my heart called Mahjong Mornings where we learn how to play Majong. I would have learned to play Majong. That sounds great. I guarantee you that the one in the PC game for that I played when I was eight years old was not authentic. So let's go.

There is a gotcha style Majong with uh hot anime, people of every variety, and man, they have fun animals in it. This is god. I so a bad outcome in Majong, if I recall correctly, is called ron r o n You never you never want to meet Ron exactly and Ben Pack, I miss you so much. We we wanted to call it this is the Ron on our successful Majong Majong Conquest. Half of half of that feature was us just looking at the Olive Garden menu for a while, though,

So I don't know if we should still do that forever. They got breadsticks? Yeah, yeah, all right, Bailey, I see you playing this on Twitch virtually every single day. I played drug yesterday. I wanted on the record. Okay, well we also played this last We played this last week on UPF without Bailey. When you say we make it, make sure not, Bailey. I was busy talking to my new best friend,

so I couldn't join anyway. It's fine, it's cool. He stole one of my jokes, and I found out immediately because everyone came to my stream to tattle to me about it. Immediately attributed it to you. I immediately, to be fair, he gave credit. I'm like, I'm sure he fucking did. So it still got its hooks in you, Baily. Yeah, I just did it. I just did the golds. I finished the

gold steak on the the black and red checker deck. Yeah, and now I'm trying to get through the challenge runs and I'm trying to just unlock every joker. Yeah, I think I've decided to start doing that too. I So I after that UPF I was like, oh yeah, Like I thought I was playing this a lot, and then seen like how much more Mike and Dan had unlocked. I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna keep playing.

And I got I probably got like six wins over the weekend when I was playing, and that was like, you know, triple the number of wins I had before that. So starting, I got through basically all the basic decks because there are certain points like no, you need to do harder difficulties, harder stakes to unlock some of these decks. So I've gotten to win with all of the deck before that point, and now I'm starting. I

just started moving up to the next stakes. So whatever's after White, I can't remember what it is, but I think I got pretty close to win there. But I don't think I have a win on any of those more difficult stakes yet, but uh, it is it. Yeah, It's it's wild to see. Like at a certain point, I'm like, ah, this a lot of this is like luck, and I'm like, no, I just wasn't optimizing my choices. And now it's like every run is pretty close or a win. So that's that's been nice to see, like,

oh, there's a huge change in how I'm playing. Yeah, it's it's it's so good once you because I actually had like kind of a hard time connecting with it at first because I was still trying to play like as poker, And once my brain sort of understood that it's more roguelike than it is

poker, I immediately took off on it. And I found that once you feed the Orange Steak, you unlock the erratic deck, which makes it a lot easier to do like specific like unlocking joker runs because you'll start a deck that has just like nine queens in it to begin with, and it's just randomized every time, and it's so cool. The plasma deck is killer. You have to do math on that one, which is crazy, but it looks so sick. How does plasma deck work? Plasma deck takes an average

of your chips and your multiplier and it averages them every time. I just unlocked that one, so I didn't really understand what that meant, and now I'm scared. It's a little bit math, but like you know how when one of your hands is bigger than the blind that you're going for, it does like the fire thing. Have you guys ever experienced that on the I don't know with you guys on the plasma deck. On the plasma deck, the fire is like white and purply like plasma color. Like it's very frigetting

and it's so cool. Yeah, I've definitely still been enjoying Bilacho a good amount. I am might beginning to see the end of the tunnel for me, Like I just unlocked that plasma deck. Once I at least beat one of the decks, which will of course be the checker deck with like all the like different colored stacks, and then like right, and yeah, it's kind of the It's it's definitely like the best deck for all of that bullshit, because you know, you can at least probably make a flesh build.

But once I get everything on that and I unlock all the other decks and get one win with every deck, I'll probably be good at that point. But we'll see. I'm just scared for when this comes out on mobile. I was just gonna say, like I just got that that email with the confirmation from the developer that that was happening, I was like, well, there goes my entire life. All right, great, right now? The

only thing saving me is that it lives in my PlayStation. You just have to develop in a version to like all mobile gaming like I do, and you'll be simply can't do that. I still play Slay the Spire every single day before I go to bed. I thought that was on sale. I never actually played Slay This really good. It's really good, Bailey. Did you ever check out I think it's called Monster Train. People you recommending it to me, and I want to, but I am so afraid of another

rogue like card like game. I only have so much room in my life. You know I've already I'm already, I've already got two addictions. I'm juggling. It's hard. I I think I wound up fondly remembering Monster Train more than Slay the Spire because I was gonna ask should I play one or the other because I've heard good things about both. I'd probably suggest for you grub Slay the Spire just because it's more straightforward, and then, like Monster

Training, you eventually wind up having to juggle like three different lanes. Oh you know can ok, Yeah, there are tiers of your train, so like a bottom level, mid level, top level, just like Mike Minatti is juggling these fools juggling records left and right, number nine, number seven, number six on the charts, Like I do, I do want to

hear more about your continued time in Mortal Kombat mythologies sub zero. It's it's fun now because it is actually feeling like speed running, right, Like at first, just to get on the board, I just had to beat the game in one sitting and like try to do that better. But then slowly you like I'm watching all these other speed runs. The number one record holder,

Segot's been helping a lot. He has to verify my runs and on YouTube he actually like leaves these comments with like detailed notes and tips for me, which is very nice. And that's so much Sigott. Right. So like my last run that I submitted, I felt really good to me that was number six in the world, and uh, with some optimization and just

pulls himself off better and a bit more confidence. There's still some levels where I'm like, wait, what's what's next, or things that you're not necessarily immediately thinking of like menu time, right, Like, oh, I'm I'm too slow in menus because I don't know exactly where the key is. I have to be able to understand how the game works and know what's slot that key's going to be in before I even go in there, so I can access it it immediately. But you know, there is something about this game

is so much bullshit? Right? Is it's so satisfying to out bullshit the bullshit? Right? If you look at me, look at me, I'm the captain. Now, you're the sub zero. Now? Yes, yeah, I'm the sub zero. I'm the Sorcerer now, Mike, was it at all cathartic to see Dan just firing up the second? Is that the first level? Second level? It's the first level one? Oh my god? Yeah? Was it cathartic to see him get squished and then immediately just turn off the game? Well? I felt a little bad because he's been

actually hanging out in my streams. I've been doing this a lot. He's been very supportive and it's fun having him there. And I think he like, you know, he liked when we competed in Astro and Neon White's like, oh, maybe I'll compete with with bitching this. But like the only reason I'm able to do this, and the reason why so many people don't do that, is that to be able to speed on the game, you have to just play the game first. And that's the ridiculously hard part.

That was me struggling on Blake Club just getting a base idea of how this game controls or works. Just so much of the memo hours on the second level, right like six to eight hours, right, yeah, something like

that. And it's great that I can beat that level in five minutes now, it feels good, but man, at that time, but yeah, Dan like got in there and at first he's like, well this, yeah, this just plays like a World Kombat game, and then just immediately got smashed to death like ten times in a row and like almost had a panic attack and had to turn the game. It's a good video game. It's something he did check out the water World game for Super Nintendo that never came

out in the US because he's thinking about speed running that. I'm trying to encourage him because one game does look that bad. Two incredible soundtrack. Three it's a water World video game. Man on the board on that game. I'll get on the board on that game. There's one recorded speed run for it, right, Oh okay, you could all be there. We could just culminate it with giant bum Yeah we should do that. Actually we should squat on like a record somewhere of like, yeah, why said all these

fucos here? All right? Last segment of the first segment of the show. I'm curious about going around the horn here. We're like halfway through March, a little bit more than halfway through March, and we've had a flood a very very good to amazing games, and I wanted to go around the horn and get everyone's top three of the year so far. Not in any order. If you don't want to order it, but if you do,

like Mike Manatti does, you can order it. I'll go first. My top three is in no order, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, that game, fucking Fox. I love finding the chocobo stops because I love petting their little heads. I need a plush of that Bilatro and like a dragon infinite wealth. Mike Manatti, please, Yeah, I think mine in order number three. Blatro just definitely one of the more fun roguelikes I've ever played. I

loved the whole poker thing. Number two Brits of Persia, The Lost Crown, one of the best metro vanas ever, incredible combat, incredible platform. But number one File Fantasy seven Rebirth just one of the most fun big grapeyg experiences that we have ever seen. Jeff Grubb. Yeah, it's a kind of a mixture between you two. It would probably be number three, Bolatro

number two, God, that's tough. Probably number two would be Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and number one would be Prince of Persia, The Lost Crown. Oh, Bailey Myers Lato is my number one. I'm just saying that right now, just getting it out of the way. Sure. And then games I played this year that were good. Games I played this year that were I've played so many bad games. I'm trying to think of the good ones. I have started Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and I'm really

enjoying it. So I'm just gonna throw that on the list right just by process elimination. There are so few games I played that were that are worthy of the top three. And then this one's for me, The Share in the Wanderer, The Mystery Dungeon of certain Oh sure, Yeah, right, I saw you getting super hyped about this. I love Sharing The Wanderer. I Sharon and I go way back, played it on my PSP. You know whole thing now, it's I've always liked been curious about Sharing the Wanderer.

What makes it so good? Why do you like it so much? It is it's got a really I think it's just got a really addicting gameplay loop. But the fact is it's got like some classic roguelike mechanics mixed in with just a really interesting world that they've developed, really cute graphics. Uh, I just there's something, there's something about it's got a certain to say quah, I don't know, it's just a very successful roguelike to me and

anything like that. You're it's gonna be hard to like say out loud and really explain like, oh yeah, this really hits that that like monkey brain that lives in me, that like needs the numbers to go up and the everything, but that it's it hits the same part of my brain that Blager does. To be perfectly honest, like, it's just it's very really I'd be really curious for you to check out, and I think you might enjoy

it. It can get spooky or a little bit creepy sometimes, but I think you might like Pacific Drive. Specific Drive Okay, yeah, game set in like the PNW. You kind of get quartered off in a specific zone and you're just fixing your car. It's very process heavy. Okay. I've done a lot of driving in the PNW and it was spooky in real life too, So I can't I go. Man, I felt bad. I don't even have tech in eight or how I know on my list exactly.

That's why I was gonna ask honorable mentions for me. It would be held out of eight. The one point oh release of God but not Temple Run. That's the Phantom Abyss. Phantom Abyss is released in one point oh in January, and it's like, I love that game in early access and I've played a little bit since it went one point oh. But it's like, man, even that isn't getting into the top five already for the year, and I love that game. So it's just gonna be an incredible year.

I think it's gonna be a blood bath. I I was thinking like, oh, we're finally in a quiet period, but Dragon's Dokma two is coming out later this week. Yeah, I do think it is actually gonna get kind of quiet after that for a bit though, like knock on wood. Nah, but man, it has to eventually. Did anyone put any time into a loan and Alone in the Dark, which I think reviews just came

out this morning. No, it's it's mostly they're mostly pretty bad. I had a code and I haven't touched it, so I'm gonna play it and I'll try to talk about it for next week. Everybody see if I have some opinion on it. It was just on the game Spot release schedule, and I'm like remembering games like ink Luminati. I wanted to check that out, although they spell it ink Ula Nati here. They really butchered that name. Pocket Card Jockey, I got that. I haven't touched that. Penny's

Big Breakaway. I'm like three worlds into that. I want to keep playing it. So, I mean, there's been a ton of stuff, and uh, yeah, I think I think I think you're probably right Mike about the rest of the year. But even still, there's a ton I want to catch up on. Yeah, hell, divers is probably on the top of that list to catch up on. Yeah, mostly we'll just make more

time just to play it here. Like, I haven't had a bad experience like playing with raindos, but I think i've I would have more fun playing with friends, yep for sure. Yeah, Oh real quick, before we go to break. I did check out the five v five mode in the finals. Let me tell y'all it is. I don't I went from really liking that game last year three v three v three adding two more people to

that squad. No one does their fucking tasks anymore. No one fucking does their job because they think someone else will do it instead, And I'm like, are you fucking going to be just right? Anyway? That's it. I think we should jump into the finals. I don't know if they have released the private lobbies yet, because if that is the case, we should do that on a Thursday, throw it down. I think I think they did. Someone mentioned to me that that was happening in an update, So

yeah, we should make that happen. That'd be great. Oh Jesus Christ, I just see in the chat elden Ring DLC's coming out. What the fuck right? Right? Yeah? We and we really really really should do the elder Ring multiplayer with all the mods, so it's like seamless and stuff leading into that, So I would I think that would be a great thing to do on the site. Yeah, and I still want to I still want to check out k Tour eventually because yeah, I bet, I bet

we'll be able to slot that in the summer somewhere. Yeah, maybe y'all should get take a take a break from the Blights and have a d light instead. There you go, Oh, that'd be fun the Light Club. Because I am not subjecting myself to a bad game. It sounds like Bailey has to subject herself to herself to bad game, so that's her job. Folks, were just gonna descend into the abyss and think about Skull and Bones

some more, and then we'll come back and talk about the news. I actually have breaking news, Jeff grab breaking news I forgot to talk about in the top segment. Here. Here's like the news beatbe beeps new merchant the star. Folks at home, go to store dot Giantbond dot com. You can get a signed Game of the Year live poster. If you missed the in person event. You can see that right there, a lovely poster designed by Jerrem Lovely Time had Lovely flashbacks of Wow, what a whirlwind of how

long were we in LA for a week? Yeah? You memories made Korean barbecue eaton. Yes, great, great time as well as we signed all those those posters and then they kicked us out of the restaurants we were just supposed to be in there. That was a good time that we weren't happy. I'm not convinced that Dan actually asked someone. I think he just walked

out of the room and then walked back unless I believed him. As well as the signed poster, we also have two new mugs in the store, one with the dizzy eyeball new Giant Bomb logo there on a lovely mug as well as another new Giant Bomb at Night mug. And then on top of that, prepare for the holidays, early lovelies, because we have a dumper bomb ornament. This was supposed to come out last year during the holidays, but were like, screw it, spit out now the voicemail dump truck Bomb

delivering hot dumps to your local area codes. Go check that out store dot Giant Bomb dot com, and forget your joggers. Joggers with every order you have joggers with every order. You gotta order them. They're flying off the shelves, so I'm literally wearing mine right now. They're really great, aren't they. Yeah. I still haven't gotten my own store code to work, so I'm I'm sitting here like a brokey and gee, I do store stuff now, Jean. I'll see if I can get your code. I'll talk

to the people and make it a fantastic shouts out to Margaret up. Oh here it is coming. Oh h deef CRUs, All aboard the news train, everybody. Uh yeah, I got a bunch of headlines here for you. Let's start with PS five Pro is probably coming this year, and we have some leaked specs. Uh. Basically this started. Insider Gaming got a rundown of the leak specs for the PS five Pro, and then a bunch of people are like, yeah, this is on the PlayStation dev net,

like for developers to go look at. It's just sitting there, which which is strange because I guess today Tom Henderson from Inside Gaming was like, they're investigating who leaked this, Like, Sony, it was you, you did this. We're all trying to fire the guard who did this. They're all trying to find the Jim Ryan that did this. The big thing here is the CPU is going to be the same. The GPU is getting a pretty big increase. If you just look at the Terra flops numbers, it's like,

oh, it's three times as powerful. That's not really how it works. It's going to be about forty five percent more powerful, So you know you're gonna be able to get more frames per second in all these games that already work on PlayStation five, you know, if they get an update to take advantage of the Pro, which most of them probably will. The kind of marquee feature here for the PS five Pro is AI upscaling, similar to how Nvidia has d DLSS, Sony's gonna have something called I think it's PSSR

PlayStation PlayStation Spectral super Resolution. Basically, it's just going to recreate the image so you can run it at a low resolution, but it looks like a higher resolution, something we're pretty used to these days. That's the like the big change here, so that Sony can get even more performance out of this PS five Pro. I'm still wondering how they're gonna market this thing. How are they going to communicate these features and get people excited about it. The

thing with the PS four pro, it was very easy. A lot of people were buying four KTVs. A lot more people had four KTVs in like twenty sixteen than had them in twenty thirteen. So when Sony's like this PS four here, will take advantage of that four KTV you bought for the Super Bowl or whatever. That was easy marketing, easy thing to get out there and get people like moving to buy these things. They won't have that this time. Unless I don't know, do you guys care about AI super resolution?

I mean, it might be a hard thing to sell. You put that in the box. I think it helps that the pro is already a thing now right. People already remember the Placation four pro. So you say a place of I PRO, people just get like, oh, this is the mid gen refresh generally, I mean, the thing that'll get me on board with it. And it's the reason why I'm interested in a mid gen refresh. When going into this generation, I thought I wouldn't be. I

thought you wouldn't need one. But we, like you know, we are at a point like Dragon's Dogma two, it's coming out and on Plasation five it's just gonna be thirty frames per second with no performance mode option, right, And I know, I don't know how you put this on the box, but like your games will probably always have a sixty FPS option. Now that's what I need. I need to be able to play a console game at sixty fps in some way or another, And it's the reason why I

might get suckered into this. Yeah, I mean, Dragged Dogma two might be an outlier. I mean, I guess we'll talk about it more we're allowed to talk about it, but yeah, you're right, like we're at a point where developers are going back to their old ways of Hey, we're going to take advantage of visual fidelity. So if we want to keep sixty frames per second, you're gonna have to buy new hardware. And they know that there's a lot of us out there that really care about that high frame

rate, and so they'll be able to lean into that a bit. It will also have improved ray tracing. That was something that was a marquee feature for GPUs on PC quite some time ago. It became something that they mentioned for PS five and Xbox Series X and even s, and though none of those systems really run ray tracing, all that. Well, that stuff is very the damaging to performance, and so it's kind of rarely ever used, and when it is, it's like just for shadows or something like that,

or maybe at the occasional reflection. I suppose this means when we do get ray tracing games, it'll run better. I don't think improved ray tracing and PS five pro though, means we get a lot more console games with like full ray tracing options because they're still going to have to support the PS five out of the gate. So there'll be a handful of games maybe that do take advantage of it, but I'm not expecting this to be some huge change

to the way games are made or how they actually use this technology. And again, do you guys care about ray tracing? This is something you've had a chance to decide whether or not you care about it. I mean, at this point, do you even notice it other than that Minecraft demo? No? Yeah, right, yeah, God, the Minecraft thing was actually

still maybe the most impressive thing. Think I turned it on on Mos Morales once I was like, that's neat that, but like you know, and I stop and I'm literally on a building and I'm like really paying a touch a reflection. Sure, I'm not like really swinging around and actually playing the game. You know, it doesn't really matter. There was a portal one right as well. That was neat. Yeah, there's a portal ratracing lotch Yeah. See, I'm sure at some point like this stuff will become way

more standard. That's going to be great, but at the price it comes right now. You know, like Ifsomniac does do things like they're the one people who are able to have a sixty fps ratracing mode somehow, and in that case, yeah, I'll turn on and that's pretty neat, but just sees that we're pretty far away from that kind of thing being standard. Yep. It's uh, you know, we're not getting like a solid sixty frames per second at four K with ray tracing on anytime soon, even with the

most powerful GPUs on PC. So when they have to make games with both rasterized lighting and ray trace lighting, well they they're going to keep doing both, and so the rasterized lighting is going to look look amazing because a lot of great artists have gotten very good at that over years and years and years. And at the same time, it's just you know, you once you see that frame rate drop when you go to the ray tracing, you're just

gonna be like, I don't it's not that much improved. For developers, ray tracing is great because they could just flip a switch and see what the lighting does and move things in real time and just set up the scene and it just works, and that's really beneficial. But they still also have to make the rest rise scenes at the same time, so ray tracing is going

to take a long time to sort of get through this transition period. And then you know, other things here, like there's going to be more memory, bandwidth, more memory, and that's gonna be beneficial to a lot of games, things like that. But at the end of the day, this is going to be a PS five pro It is the Midgeen refresh, something that we're used to at this point, something I think a lot of people

will upgrade to. I don't think it'll be the standard for a lot of people because I expect this probably to be more expensive than the current PS five at five hundred dollars. It is probably going to be six hundred dollars, is what I would guess right now. I was here at ninety nine US dollars five hundred ninety nine US dollars. You're going to get a second job for this one. That's six hundred long churros from Subway. I'll pass. You can buy six hundred CHROs with that money, and I have so,

Bailey says she's gonna pass. How about you, fellows, If they release a news Ridge racer with it, I will definitely get it. Jeff, do you think that's happening? I think, listen, if there was a time to come out with a new Ridge racer, to like launch with a new PlayStation device, it's now, like now it's the time. How about you, Jen, I've been thinking lately, Oh, it'd be nice to not have to move my PS five from the office here to the living room

back and forth whenever I want to play a game. Yeah, I don't know if it's six hundred dollars worth of that inconvenience, you know, And that's such a specific circumstance, because like, how how many people are going to need like an office PS five versus a living room? PS fine, just me here on my ivory pedestal, you know. Well, I mean, if you were like trading in your PS five, you get a PS five Pro for probably a pretty decent price. You probably down like two fifty

maybe three hundred dollars three hundred US. Jeff Grubb, you're right when you put in those terms. That's horrifying. I can't imagine before. Yeah, uh yeah, so we'll see. I think the thing we'll we'll do fine. The thing I'm most worried about, though, is that the new Astrobat

game that I hear is coming out this year is for this thing. I'm starting to like worry that that's why that that's lined up for this year, because astro games always come out with new hardware like they're they're tech showcases. I don't know. Please tell me I'm wrong, Please tell me they're making a real astro game. You're completely right, Grub shit too. They gotta

be doing something. Yeah, something could be just a tech demo, just like all the other Astro games that go along with this, and it's for the PS five Pro, And I wanted to be a full, real sixty dollars game. Well what kind of how how much tech is there to show off? Like, yeah, look, I know the game runs better, it has to just be a full game now, Okay, I want to believe they didn't do one for PiZZ Ver two. So maybe you're fine, Grub, maybe you're fine. Yeah, well we saw how much they cared

about PSVR two. You know what, let's just show to that real quick. Then we'll love back around. Speaking of PSVR two, it ain't doing so hot. Sony has reportedly halted production of PlayStation VR two due to a surplus of unsold units, just one year after it's launch in February of twenty twenty three. The reporting here goes, Bloomberg looked into it and they're like,

they are kind of pausing production on these things as a whole. And it seems like, oh, you know, the people that provide components for PSVR two are no longer getting orders from Sony to make new PSVR two. And the reasoning is there's a lot of piz Verse two's sitting on the shelves and no one's buying them. Now that it's not too surprising because Sony's not supporting it with a ton of new games. It's very expensive people are focusing on, like, hey, you know five hundred fifty do our people are

focusing on churros instead. Uh, if it's the common thing, economists are all talking about it, the turo based economy. Sure, yeah, the Turo index, And so it's hard to give it to people to like, you know, to fork over that money instead when they're spending on tros instead, especially when they're are no video games for the thing that are coming out

and get people excited. So I'm not too surprised by this, but I'm like wondering, like, is Sony abandoning it fully because it kind of feels like that, because what the alternative here will be, like, well, lower the price, makes some deals for some of these games. Finally actually get Half Life Alex on there. But they're not pulling these levers that they could be pulling. And to me, that says it's because they don't care. They are moving, they're thinking beyond the PSVR two already. Does that

sound right to y'all? I think they go ahead, Mike, go ahead, Jen, h No, I'm nice offing still you go? Jen?

Okay? Shit, I think they should have pulled the lever before it even came out and decided not to release it, because it just feels like, yeah, bullip in PS five Timeline yep, Yeah, I just don't understand why you know, if you're going to do this, like, I can't believe they did it so half heartedly with PSVR two, How do you not figure out some kind of backwards compatibility at the very least, at least make an upgrade version of Astrobot Rescue Mission like the one PSVR game you had that

people were like, Yeah, this is the best VR game ever. You don't leverage that in any ways. You don't go out of your way to make some kind of deal with Valve to get Half Life Alex on there. It's not like they would be that adverse to it. They've released plenty of Valve games on consoles before. They seem to be pretty happy to port stuff. You have to make that one happen or I don't know, you understand what you're trying to do. I on game mess yesterday grub the poll was

do you have a PSVR two? And one of the comments I noticed was yes, and RI four is the best VR experience I've ever played. I thought, yeah, people really like those residuable games would be yes. That sounds terrifying though, Yeah, Receival seven is one. I would always hear Mark from eight to four play talk about and I'm like, you're a sociopath. I could never do that. That's that's the scariest thing I could possibly imagine. Yeah, but hearing that someone saying it's the best VR game I've

ever played, they I'm so confused. What well, like, you know, Beatsaber is standing in place. It is very fun, but like playing a full full game where you're just popping bopping around, it's mildly enticing. Maybe I'll just try and steal the piz Vertu from the game spot office. Yeah, do that missing? Yeah, I would watch you play Recuable for in VR. I would like to see that. All right, Jam, We're bounce back up to this story. Steam Families expands game sharing on Steam.

Valves introduced Steam Families, a comprehensive platform aimed at enhancing game sharing, monitoring, monitoring children's activities, and facilitating purchases on Steam. This new feature amalgamates and replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, offering a streamlined experience for users. Available in beta, Steam Families enables users to create family groups, which I think includes a total of six people, manage them across

multiple devices, and implement parental controls to regulate gaming and purchasing activities. Many of these features existed sort of separate from one another on Steam before. Now they're bringing them all together in one place. And the big thing for me is now, when you share your family library of games with someone else in the family sharing model, when you go to start up a game, it's not going to kick off someone else who's playing a different game. If you

try to play the same game, that won't work. But now if I'm playing Bolattro and someone else wants to play Residuaval for we could both do that from my library. At the same time, I'm personally excited about this because my kids are gaming more and more frequently, and sometimes I'll have games and I'm like, yeah, but I'm playing a review game on Steam kind of constantly this weekend. And so when you want to try to play Hotel Transylvania

on the Steam deck over there, it's not going to work. I'm sorry about that, and they don't understand that. But now now it will. And I have that second Steam deck because I got the old litter and that's the one I use. So I'm gonna set that up for the kids and have that ready to go. And now they'll be able to play all my games and I don't have to buy them a second time. They could just

have their accounts on my family account. This is I'm actually super excited about this, and I hope it's a trend that like Nintendo follows with the switch going forward, because that would be helpful there as well. But this is my circumstances. I don't know if anyone else is caring about family sharing, but hey, family can include friends, you know, found family is a family, so people are going to take advantage of this in a lot of

ways. So salute be familiar exactly. Yes, you could share games with Vin Diesels. What I was trying to say, Some coronas they believe that at the end of the Fast in the Furious ride in Universal, they don't just have a stand selling coronas. I don't believe that. Yeah, missed opportunity in state park revenue history. Sorry to change the subject. Yeah, I don't know. I'll probably try to wrote my brothers into this. Sure felt could get on board with this. I feel like we could. We

could do this. Also, at the end of the Jurassic Park ride at Universal, there's Island New Bar, which is great yes, yeah, that's where you can you get that. They have a special I PA made just for them over there. God I could now apparently that's it all right. New Xbox Deaf kit appears in South Korea. A new Xbox development kit has

received certification in South Korea, suggesting ongoing advancements in Microsoft's gaming strategy. Uh, we don't know what this is in terms of like what is new here, but people have identified this. It is a new dev kit, it's got a new like designation number, all this other stuff. But in terms of like, oh is this for actual new hardware? What is this?

What is does this unlock for developers? It's unclear right now. There is ongoing rumors that Microsoft is developing both a handheld and well it's not a rumor. They confirm they're making an next gen Xbox that's going to be the most powerful leap ever from one generation to the next. And then they said they

would have hardware news this holiday one way or the other. And of course we know from the FTC weeks that Microsoft was working on a revision of the Xbox series X that would have been have more storage, no disk drive, was going to be cylindrical instead of rectangular. So they're working on a bunch

of stuff constantly, but what does this actually accomplish? Like, no one knows exactly, so mysterious, And the timing does line up with GDC, so Microsoft could be talking to a bunch of developers about, Hey, this thing is out there, now, let us know if you want one, and maybe this holiday we get some sort of update. I just don't know why they would need a whole new defcate if it's just an Xbox Serix X with more storage. It does just that maybe there's more going on here.

Yeah, you have to wonder how much they're already losing the play station. Just how much more ground are you willing to give up to them if they're

going to do a full on mid generation refresh like that. Right Again, that part of me is like, well, maybe it is smart to just kind of could see the generation a bit and maybe be first with the quote unquote next generation and come out with something that's going to be even more significantly powerful than a place to five pro and in the meantime you can have cute

things like a portable. Yeah, but I don't know if they are willing to be that patient about it. You wouldn't need a whole new dev kit if you're just making a portable device to like ape this generation, right, well, if you probably would if a new new DevKit for a portable that is going to have like some differences in terms of how things work because it's not going to have the exact same GPU, they'd probably shrink it down to

be similar. They could do similar architecture, but I think they would want to have a bespoke deb kit that takes advantage of what that hardware is. I uh, I just don't. I don't think that. But for the record, I don't think this is that this is too soon for a hand or a quick tangent. I was walking around Target the other day and I was very confused when I popped by the video game Ale because just out and about from far away, it looked like they just had a bunch of Xbox

three sixties just hanging out there. I'm like, what the fuck has happened here? Time travel? What happens? Yeah? I thought I did for a second, and I was ready to like abuse this time loop, but then I on further inspection, it's a Lego Xbox three sixty kit. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't know they did that. And I wait, he made the trigger Xbox three sixty out of Legos. Yeah, I don't know if it's a functional shoot Xbox. I don't think

that even get to make a Halo three case. Oh yeah, one hundred and fifty bucks, which for Lego not bad. Yeah, it's always like seven cents per brick, right, that's usually like seven to eight cents per brick. Oh even Mega Blocks right now, Why it's so cheap? It's so cheap at home? I think it's always been with Mega Blocks, man. Yeah, I don't know why. Immediately, I'm not interested anymore.

I'm a bad person. It's not the brand I care about. I was always so upset in my youth that uh, Star Trek was with Mega Blocks as they never let that good and all the Star Wars Legos are amazing. But I think I look at you a bad persons. I think Lego is better than Mega Blocks, right, yeah. So it's like Rose Art and Crayola. Yeah, I mean Rose Art. The formula is just straight up worse than Crayola. What were you going to do? It was two waxy

you could get a good line. It didn't matter that you got more crayons. Those crayons were garbage. Yeah, it was quantity for quality. That was what they prioritize. They just get if you could draw even a little bit, they'd give you those garbage art kids with absolutely nothing useful in them. You get like fifty every birthday. They even though they added four more shades of brown than Crayola, none of them were still my skin complexion.

Wow, fucked up. SNK fully reveals Fatal Fury City of the Wolves with twenty twenty five release confirmed. This is something that they talked about previously, but now we actually get to look and see what this game is and they confirmed it's actually coming out. It is the new fighting game. It looks

really really cool. It looks pretty similar to S and K's recent fighters, like King of Fighters, but I think there's you know, like that means like the comic book elements, the sort of street fighter like streaks of animation that happen. But I think it looks fantastic and I'm like, oh yeah, Fatal Fury like that, the fact that this is back and they're making a real deal, like what looks like top tier fighting game based on Fatal

Fur again. We are officially back with fighting games. Fighting games are back. We've done it, everybody, we made it. I'm so happy we're here. I'm very excited for for this one. I played Garu, which was the last main fatal Theory Yeah, yeah, camera quite a while ago. It's a very good game. So very excited that we are getting this.

I think it looks like a ton of fun. I still don't love the way the MODERESTA game S and K games look with like it's just three D models and they're trying to stylize it a bit more here is more, but man, if there's like one of these fighting companies that maybe should just be using pixel arts. Still, I kind of wish it was S and K because you know, like it it just doesn't look as good as a Street Fighter six or even an ARC System Work game. Of course, those

are maybe Arga and Pete with and it doesn't matter that much. The game looks like a ton of fun. I'm very excited. Am I ever going to get another Bloody Roar game? No? I probably not, but at this point it's like, it's uh nuts. I mean, you could get something very much inspired by it, because I feel like it feels like we're in the the high tide for fighting games where all these big companies are making

so bringing back a lot of their franchises and doing stuff with that. And then I think we will get to the point where it's like and then all the indies dep developers inspired by this wave will start looking around and being like, well, I wish they would make this, And I think some fam will make something inspired by Bloody War. Uh. Yeah, you know, we so need to see a bit more of that three D game revival,

which I hope is happening with Teking eight success. Uh. You know, if when we see Virtual Fighter come back, that's gonna be a good sign there. And what does see Dead or Alive come back? And you know, very few others before we get back to Bloody Roar but maybe sorry, I'm just doing a pull for Sean real quick. There we go like a dragon Infinite Wealth's sales surprise its studio. Why am I insane? Why did I do this time? It's just with what Sean said, I'm just doing

his bidding here. Masa Yoshi Yoka Yama. Capcom three is an ugly game. I think people, I don't think this is as hard to take. As Sean thinks it is. It's fine that we disagree on this, but his position is that I am crazy for thinking that marvsus Cockcom three is not a particularly pretty game. I don't like the look of it either. Don't worry, Mike, thank you, Thank you very much, friend, and

chat as well, Mike. If it well sold really well, and it's surprising the developer, They're like, I think they it's growing from game to game, but I think this one really popped off much more quickly than they were expecting. And now they're like, oh, wow, okay, this is working. The strategy of doubling down on these new characters, giving a full sendoff to cure you that is something people really really want to see and it's paying off. So ye, it defied their expectations, I imagine.

And I don't think this is some you know, I'm not really out there walking on the edge here. They're probably going to keep making like a Dragon games. They've done it for the song. They're not going to abandon it now. Yeah. Absolutely, they should remake more of them. They should

do a bunch. I bet having these games on game Pass so so many more people got into this series eight Ton, there was just a lot more excitement, it seemed like, going into this one, even with like weird things like there were a couple remakes and spin offs leading into this one that didn't the way it got a whole lot of excitement, but people still kind of understood the difference of importance with this mainline entry and they got very excited

for even you know, when things were pretty crowded, there were a lot of January February releases happening, and this one still was able to stand out pretty well. I want them to time travel on the next one. I want I want cure you to like just pop up in a different era and just be very I feel like Saints Row three Saints Roe four with the next one, get real weird, real weird. Yeah, future past, past, definitely the past. I like that Nancy Drew game where she's just inexpectable

in the forties. That makes sense, thirties something like that. It'd be like that, no explanation. He doesn't even have to time travel like in the game, he's just in a different era. Oh yeah, we can get care of you. Go back to nineteen thirties New York, like that episode of Star Trek. Yeah. Yeah, and then when he doesn't look for for Hitler to kill him before it takes power, It's like, why what are you doing? Why aren't you killing Hitler? I'm going to tell

him that, like Hitler has to live something. Yeah, it's right, it's very important to JK rely Yeah, okay, so that like a Dragon Infuit Wealth It's trailer debuted at Summer Game Fest last year. That trailer was really good. People are like, like, what is going on here? If you've never been into that series before, that was like, it was very enticing. I think people are like, I am going to check this out. I'm going to remember it the naked guy in Hawaii. I'm not

going to forget about that. So when that game comes around and people are like, here's the naked guy in Hawaii game and glad, people are like, yeah, I've heard my friends talking about like a before. I'm gonna check this out. Yeah. I think the other trailer that they released after that one where it's it just features uh don Doco Island was also very effective of like, yes, what is this game? Is this animal crossing?

And there's a wall trailer and like feature overview for one of the mini games and Dragon if in in weal uh US game spending could be down ten percent this year. My market research firm Sircana forecast a potential ten percent decline in

US consumer spending on games for the year twenty twenty four. Analyst and friend of the site, Matt Piscatella indicates significant uncertainty in the market due to factors like delayed hardware releases, lack of established blockbusters from Sony, and unpredictability in game development. And we kind of understand many of these factors here. The delayed hardware the Switch to was by all accounts, supposed to launch this year.

Now it's not coming out until next year. There is also so Posoni confirming no sequels to establish Triple A video Games for this entire fiscal year through the end of March. Those factors, and then you wigh against like, Okay, last year, had Zelda had Harry Potter games, they'd sold very very well, and there are games selling very very well this year, but it is stuff like Hell Divers two and Pow World, which could cost about half the price of what Harry Potter cost, or Zelda A Tiers of the

Kingdom. So less money has coming in even though people are just as interested in buying video games, so the comparisons are going to be pretty tough. And by the end of the year, Matt says it, it's like it could be a down around two percent, but the worst case scenario could be down as much as ten percent for this year, and that is what many of these big publishers are worried about. So that's why we've seen many of

them freak out and kind of over overcorrect in a lot of ways. Yeah, I'm glad that we're panicking and cutting staff so that we will continue to have problems releasing enough games in the future. So that's great, right, And that's one of the reasons that year's down is because there's gonna be fewer games, right, So it's like making fewer games. How is that the

answer here? But kind of weird cycle. I don't think they understand how it works, and it's like, it's like that it is how it works here, because what we're talking about is the spending is going to be down because the games that are selling cost less. If people were excited about a

seventy dollars game, they would be buying that. People are still just as excited about video games as they were a couple of years ago for the for the most part, and these companies are just not putting out stuff to really capitalize on that, so they're missing an opportunity and because of that, the comparison's going to be down year to year. But it's not like there's some rushing out of the industry of millions of players that were spending money on games

and now they have a new hobby distracting them from that. That's not what's happening here. Yeah, Like I see so many normy friends talking about hell Divers too and posting about hell Divers too, yet no one even in like you know, uh these games, media, games, journalism, journalism circles is talking anything about Skull and Bones that's right now? Well, like yeah,

but it's like it's like good games do well turns out? Huh, Like yeah, I guess Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones aren't doing great the shocker. Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird too. It's just the takeaway is never like we should work harder to make good, interesting games. It's always just people aren't buying games anymore. I guess. No, it's not even like working harder, it's just like better decisions being made at the top, Like why did we make a live service suicide Squad game? Yeah?

Shareholders love live service games, Mike Manaughty, don't you know that? Cool? Oh, let's appease the shareholders. Yeah, especially when the strongest parts of any of those Arkham games was when you hop online with your buddies and you forget about Yeah, Batman and the story of Batman where we drop in Robin. Embracer confirms two hundred and forty seven million dollars sale of Saber assets and withdraws from Russia. That's an Embracer is now no longer has any business

in Russia. Embracer Group is finalized the sale of Saber Interactive, encompassing studios like three D Realms and Slipkcate Ironworks. These are studios that were underneath of Saber Interactive, which is a publisher and a developer. Beacon Interactive provided the two hundred and forty seven million dollars to make this purchase. This move allows Embracer to cease operations in Russia while enhancing cash flow. By that they mean

actually just spending less money on the people making their games. Beacon Interactive, led by Saber Interactive co founder Matthew Karch, plans to exercise an option to acquire four A Games and Zen Studios that's the Metro and that pinball developer, but respectively, potentially increasing the deal's value to five hundred million dollars total. So so yeah, uh, the Embracer bought Saber for five hundred million dollars

and basically they're just buying themselves back out because Embracer's a nightmare. It's a mess. And uh, Saber is gonna have a series of games that are probably gonna do pretty decent expeditions. A mud Runner game is doing very well. They're gonna they're gonna have Space Marine two and these games that are that, yeah, they can make them a lot of money. But a park game that looks sick exactly. Yeah, the one that's inspired by Alien Isolation.

These are a lot of things that's like, oh, these could do a million copies pretty easily. Some of them could pop off to be even bigger, bigger successes, especially if they like catch on you know, on

the TikTok trends and on Twitch and stuff like that. But under Embracer that would not have made a dent in their debt here as an independent studio a slash publisher once again, Uh, Saber can actually maybe get some wins and start like focusing on expanding their business in a responsible and meaningful way and not just blindly acquiring everything around you the way Embracer had. So good news for

Saber Interactive, a publisher that I really respect. Where's this going with Embracer is It's just like Race is gonna and Brace is gonna keep it, keep losing things, and so there just isn't an Embracer anymore? Is there gonna be some small shell shriveled in the corner that we call Embracer that has a few studios under it. Like what's the end game? You think they've laundered enough money? They laundered enough money? Yeah, if they have, then

maybe they'll start shrinking things down even more. Uh Yeah, So I think things like the deal with Microsoft to help work on the Initiatives game, which was Perfect Dark, right, Uh, work to work on Perfect Dark. Like they'll keep that deal and then they'll have them work on some other stuff. The like tomb Raider deal, which involves movies in television and a game

with Amazon that probably they probably see stuff like that through. I think everything else that doesn't have a rock solid, big money deal like that is on the table to get cut or sold off, Like they're going to sell off the Borderland studio here prove priests. I can never remember the name of them. What's the name of the Borderline Gearbox? Why am I? Yeah? Thank you, thank you? Gearbox. They're gonna sell remember, Yeah, of course they are. And it's like, well, you know, they're

not gonna keep Gearbox around. Everything must be on the table, and I think everything is. I think they'll they'll sell off everything they can, and then I think they'll probably close a few more things that they can't sell off because they just it's really miserable over there. They really have no idea what they're doing. They're gonna hold onto Lord of the Rings. I never I don't quite understand that. But they own the Lord of the Rigs. Somehow

they acquired everything. No, they acquired everything except for the publishing rights. That's the Yeah, they don't have the publishing rights for the books, I think, but beyond that they own everything else. So they go through they own the Tom they own the copyright. Yeah, they own everything owned Tom Bobadon. You want to make a movie, TV show, you have to go through them now. Basically, man, that's so weird. That's on fire. Oh the Lord of the Rings. I never think about it,

but you're right, that is so weird. It's so weird, so odd. I know, I know a company that probably would love to buy some theme park rights to that stuff. So maybe they should make that Lord of the Rings from public domain because it came out in like or the I mean, the Hobbit was the twenties. I think Lord of the Rings pretty closes. Okay, so Hobbit's pretty close. Then is the Hobbit going to enter the public I guess I never thought about it. We're going to make it.

They're gonna make a creepy pasta frodo where his colors are inverted and his head turns around real quick. Mike Manaughti, Bailey Myers, how do you feel about Winnie the Pooh? Love them think he's great, Love that freak, thank you's great. Love that he doesn't wear pants? What a pervert into it? Thank you? Yeah, they're they're going to turn that Winnie the Poop Gifts store in Credit Country in Disneyland to be versus the Frog theme

because of the Splash Mountain overlay. But they are saving the Winnie the Pooh candy section, which is important to me. I love when the Poo's Great Adventure is the best of Disney's direct to video output in the nineties. Check out Pooh's Great Adventure on Disney Plus. Should say it. It rules, It's so good, great songs. It's like the one way the Poop movie that kind of like has like an actual plot and maybe steaks. Oh, it's good. That one's great. It's somehow even better than a Laddin King

of Thieves, even though a yeah, very good thieves king. Yeah this is his dad. They're talking about Welcome to the forty Thieves, the one. Maybe I'll last to fly early before SGF so I can sneak in a Disney trip. I was gonna look I now, but like there's like you guys like before summer game fests. Anybody want to go to Disneyland with Yeah, kind of like much Minati, we haven't been to Disneyland. I forget these other chuts, Like, let's go to Disneyland together. Mike Manatti.

Yeah, but I see them too, Jane. I think if we go we can get fandom to pay for it. Like listen, we have that sway. You know what I need to do. I gotta find somebody you can get me into Club thirty three. I gotta make that. That's a big one on the Bucke list. You gotta make that happen. Michael Manati, Yeah, I've been to Club thirty Come true. Jan, you make my dreams come true. You got when you ship part of Jan makes difference. Last story here, this is the last star we're doing. Riven remake

launches in twenty twenty four for PC and VR. Oh uh. Scion has announced the launch of the Riven the Sequel to miss which is the official name Riven the Sequel to Miss a remake for PC basically like PC like flat screens

two D and they're also gonna do it for virtual reality something. I think they did do that with Missed, right, Yeah, twenty twenty Science did the same sect thing with Missed. That remake was very well received one airstand for one thing, you know, these games were kind of points and move kind of things, even before we were doing that in VR. The remake recreates the world in actual like three D space. You can actually just walk around and stuff instead. Uh yeah, I'm excited. I Riven is the

game that I have not played that I think about the most side. I always I like that name. For one thing. That box art was always very striking. There was like this big balbous orb. It kind of looked like one of those eggs from Alien but more more circular. How much missed Lord? Do you know a good amount? Because my order brother was very much into me. Could you recount any of it in a way that makes it sound truly unhinged? Because whenever someone tries to explain it to me,

I think it sounds unhinged. Yeah, there's a guy who makes books and the books contain worlds, and he has two sons and they kind of want to like get in on this world stuff. So but that's still good. So he my god, I'm like, yeah, So they're trapped in the bucks and you go to the island and then the old guys like you find the suns that are like, I'm not evil, you should let me out of the books, and like maybe you shouldn't do that. All right,

Well, there you go. Everybody. Oh final headlines. Sonic and Angerbirds are crossing over in five mobile games starting this week. I think, why were you going over that? I don't know. This is the crossover event of the century. Ideologize not a big mobile game news this week. Yeah, I just mobile as well. There you go. Yeah, I'm sure Angry Birds are still making money, but like enough Sega from buying them though, I mean Sega bought Rovio, so yeah, how much money could they

really be making they're not making? Yo. Imagine if Red the Angry Bird pops up in Sonic three, Oh my god, it would be so messed up. And the tails Zegger It's like I'm his friend that flies. Uh yeah. Sonic dash Wall players can collect exclusive Red and Chuck character cards while dashing through levels. Angry Birds to the Tower of Fortune offers eight new Sonic

Friends hats, fully upgradeable to increase flock power. You guys, want to increase your flock power with Sonic, always do that on Merlin Silver the Hedgehog increases my flock power so hard. Angry Birds Friends Sonic assists players and taking down bad bad Piggies in a special tournament. Come on, man, Sonic is any friends with one in the new movie. Not the bad Piggies though, come on, oh my god, Bailey, My god, Daily Jesus, that was incredible. Wow. Strike fucking Psyclo, my diet coke and

I'm sharp now. I'm ready for the podcast. Everybody, jan the show is back to you. Please save us. I will not stand for any James Marsden slander. He is on. He's on a renaissance of his career. I've been watching a lot of James Marsden as mars denissance. Uh. He's really good on Jury Duty. I liked him in season one in The West World. Great joke, Bailey character like that. Try that in a small town song. Though. I'm sorry. He's so good and enchanted,

and I love Jerry Duty. I'm a big James Marriston fan. He's very good and enchanted. I'm still on the fence about his portrayal of Cyclops, but that's the whole whole of those movies. That's not his fault. It's not his fault. All right, We're gonna go take quick, pricky break and we will be back with yours emails. Play the music me emails.

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invited to eighty for Brady. Prere Jan what this is what happened? This is what happens? Yeah, I thought about bringing it up to the crew. I'm like, oh no, what's gonna want her to do? This would have done that, This would have been met Gronk. This would have been my ticket into Hollywood. Imagine I invade Hollywood and become a Dalist actor because of my involvement in eighty for Brady. Could have been there. I just want to be in one lifetime movie. Let me do that, guys

anyway. First email comes from Luke from Hamilton, Ontario. Subject reads The Prindle and other Brainworms. Greetings Bombinos. Ever since I heard Jan casually referencing the Prindle shouts out to mister Mosby on the pod a couple of weeks ago, it's had me wondering what other one off jokes, need, TV show, movie, other piece of media not wrestling, immediately entered your lexicon and got stuck there permanently, much to the confusion of ninety eight percent of the

rest of the world. Thanks for all the great content that keeps me vaguely saying at work. Luke from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, sent from Mister Bones's Wild Ride. I did make a snipe joke the other day, which I know is a thing, but I'm mostly thinking about the episode of Cheers when I was bringing that one up to Dan and his bird app For me, this is like, like everything is Seinfeld, Like Seinfeld has so many of these, like close talker and man hands uh and things like that.

There's a ton one at a time. Yeah, I'll still I'll use close talker and things like that in like regular conversation, but those are I think I've like actually infiltrated the lexicon, the public a lexicon to the plant where everyone gets those I do from, you know, speaking of mister Moseby and how I met your mother. Whenever someone says something like, oh is it a different mister Moseby? What is it? What was that one? Then? Sweet Life of Zach and Cody. How could you forget? How could

you not watch Zach Cody jel for that one? Okay, what about on deck? Weirdly life on deck? So I'm just record, I'm reckoning with my age here, mister Moseby, mister Ted Moseby. Uh in how I met your mother would be like the general whenever someone use the word general before something. So whenever I hear that now, I also do like the salute, just in my brain, not like actually physically, because that'd be deeply embarrassing, but I do physically want to do it every time I hear someone

say something like that. Yeah, I watched Parks and rec a lot my friends and they had that treat yourself thing. We say, treat yourself a lot. One day we actually had to treat yourself day, and like, I think that same week we had another treat yourself day. It was just like an excuse for us to eat whenever we would it. And our other friend I had to be like, guys, you've been you've been treating yourself too much, like a special day where you donate any fruits and vegetables.

Okay, all right, look at that, I'm drinking a diet green tea, citrus. There's probably fruit juice in this fruit involved, fruit involved pictures of fruits. Your favorite fruit, citric acid. That's my favorite vibe. Can I be my favorite fruit? To sack out? It's great in Margarita's. Sure there we go. Yeah. Going off of Parks and w REC, I started copying all of Tom Haverford's like little extra words like I instead of saying chicken parm, I go chicky chicky parm parm. It's pretty dead.

Yeah, like food rates, yes, Tom Haverford Energy. And then I think I started doing that too much in my day to day that I will occasionally infect Jeff Backlar's lexicon and then it'll annoy the crap out of DIB and it's like, Dad, just say the word. I also think about in Parks and Rec when the Adam Scott character is like was laid off, so he spends his time making stop Bullshit filmed, and he like shows it to bed and he's like, the words are what a depressed person to make

this? Yeah, But me and my friend say that a lot to chill. We're chilling our personal projects. I don't know. I feel like I feel like just because I did a full rewatch of The Nanny recently. Now all a lot of the time will go like meanwhile, like that, like I can't stop doing it, and no one knows I'm referencing that show because they say meanwhile all the time, and but they do. They say all the time, and once you notice it, you can't stop noticing it.

If you play an any drinking game, you drink anytime to say meanwhile, you'll die Like it's great. It's like because there are there are some from these shows that if I heard, I think I would slap the person, like if somebody came up to me I was trying to do how I Met your Mother, like it's gonna be wait for it, Oh my god, I think I would just actually smack him across with leave. I would just

die and leave, Like no, absolutely not. I I may have been that person in a different life back in we were Actually an obvious one that we referenced earlier in this episode is from I Think you should leave the we're all trying to find the guy who did this. Oh there, that's just language. That's I'm so universal now, it's crazy, like there's sipsons once to write like just the other day I just went on. I could see man, he either started cracking up the systems. Simpsons references are a whole

other one. Yeah. Yeah, I threw a boo earns at someone the other day. I went to a wine bar last night, and then I was just thinking to myself as I was sipping, what all right? I live San Francisco, damn it? Oh my god, what's a wide bar? And then I was just thinking to myself, I love wine. I'm scared about much I need wine. It's just so good. Yeah, slop them up, guys, please, no sloppy. What are we gonna do? What people can't change? And yeah, you know, there's so many

good ones. There's so many good ones. Yeah. I always say I used to be a piece of ship, and I'm afraid with the mullet, I will just go back to being a piece of shit. Oh I can't wait. I'm so excited here. Oh I'll do I'll do a lot of tim and Eric, I'll do. That's just like constantly going off my brain like you blew it. And I want to meet that dad. Whenever someone brings up dads that's playing in my head. Yeah, yeah, I used

to say I used to say for your health a lot. Oh sure, yeah, calling people step peppers, stepdads or pep PEPs and step peppers. Yeah, folks at home, I'd be interested to hear and see what we have put into your lexicon other than shooting work and other bullshit or bug uh. That was a good one, earl anyway, next email comes from Alex

and Bend Togo, Australia. Hey, bombers. Recently before I go to bed, I've been drinking this A glass of warm water with half a teaspoon of cinnamon, quarter teaspoon of peprika, a few cracks of black pepper, and a drizzle of honey. It tastes fine. In case you're curious, it's to increase your metabolism. I think this sounds like bullshit, but I haven't changed my eating habits and I do feel more hungry since doing this. Is this working or do I have a tapeworm? You have anything that sounds

like hokey bullshit but might actually work? Alex and Bendego, Australia, stop health advice. Please hold holding down the bee button while you're trying to catch a pokeyt Yeah, blowing the cartridge right, Yeah, that's absolutely bullshit. To this day, I'm holding down that bee button whenever that ball is rolling around there. Yeah, I almost definitely have hokey stuff that I've just even zoomed out on in a while and have not re examined and be like,

oh, yeah, that's definitely bullshit. But I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I own a Neopets tarot card deck and a Diablow tarot card deck. Oh, you give us tarot readings, but what's what's what's the Neopets version of the tower. But the thing is the books. The Neopets one is like way more in detail than the Diabolo one. Unfortunately, the Neopets one is downstairs. But they always have like art on the cards that's like really detailed, like Neopets, and especially if it's a

bad card. The Neopet is like in distress. There's one where they're carving pentagrams into the giant omelet, like what are we doing here? And then the book, like the first paragraph is always like a description of what the art is, Like you didn't notice, It's like, no, I see it, Can you tell me what my future is? I actually have kind of fallen on depending on tarot cards as gifts because Barnes and Noble has a

whole section of them, and they's like they's thing to everything. So it's always just kind of a fun like, all right, well this person I got a friend who liked Fallout. I was like, there's a Fallout tarot card deck. Okay, I'll get them that, right, so why not? That's that's huge diagram for like girls that were into neopets in that would be into tarot card readings. It's like a perfect circle. I think almost all my yeah, almost all my girlfriends are into tarot cards. I'm sorry,

it's true. These I purchased neither of these. This was from the Diabolo for launch event that uh that guy who did that Za performed at and it was great because Lilith shows up and she's like on wires and she's so hot and she's talking about how she's gonna teach us salvation and knowledge and whatever, and then some random guy who does not sound like a video game voice actor stands up and is like, not if I can stop you, and

she's like and what's your name? And I'm like the main character in Diabolo doesn't have a name. Who could it be? And he pulls his head down at some guy I'm supposed to recognize and he goes Z and then the beat drops. Best party I've ever been to. Wow, Wow, we're not gonna get that. At Packs East, No Deck, they were like, do you want this? I was like, of course I want that. What would be if you could have a Tarot deck themed on anything? Right now? What would it? It's just a pack of cards. I

think I would want a Digimontero deck. I think that's pretty good. Yeah right, pretty fucked up. I've watched a funny TikTok. I'm going to send this to Mike Manaughdi it's about Digimon Okay, I'm up at Tarot deck would actually also be American gladiators. Yeah, oh yeah, wrestling, let's do that. Sure yeah, sure, it's awkward to get to some of those like I was going to say something and that would have made me upset. Let's put under Taker on there. That's fine. Yeah, yeah,

there you go, Bailey, What did I draw four of swords? Sick? What does that mean? Minor arcona ship rest recovery careful consideration. You face a twist quandary you're exhausted from thinking about it, and not one whit closer to a solution. Frustration is making it more difficult. Stop puzzling at it and calm your thoughts, letting them rest on something pleasant, and perhaps the solution will present itself. Bailey, It's about buying my crocks, isn't

it? Which was to get me? That's right? Is it the stitch crocks? Is it the I'm not gonna be able to find the stitch crocks and a store, not this. I just want basic bitch crocs. I don't need the stitch crocks, Bailey. That was too real and I don't like how real that was, all right. That's the major problem with Taro is it's totally made up and bullshit. And then sometimes you'll get a reading where you're like, oh fuck, oh no, the universe sees me yep,

yep. And I didn't like how I was just read like a book. He's about to make you his stitch. Oh my god. Can we just move on please? From Loveland Rights and Hello Bombs. Have you all ever thought about drafting video games onto a fantasy team for random subjects, like a snake draft where four people each draft launch games across consoles for a dream launch lineup. I hear this format from other podcasts score and is charming as funny as Giant Bomb Crew, and I think you could have a lot of

fun stealing picks away from each other. Plus, since his personal teams, if someone wants to do something wacky, no one can stop them anyway. Love the Friday Revengetions topic format. Love you all, Mike from Loveland. Yeah, we should do that, Mike, Can I do it again?

I always beat you pretty back, exceparately one or two times. So Jeff and I do this on our personal podcast where we'll pick like a console generation and we'll try to draft the best game lineup, and I'd always lose because I'm cursed with knowledge of what the actual good games are and not just like the most brand name normy popular one. So Jeff always wins. Yeah, I said, I know the good games too. I just I know how the simple man thinks. So like I kill the z just draft Smash Brothers

Brawl, even though I'm like, no, that game had tripping. I hate it like a bunch of people were bunch of people are like ten when Brawl came out, So to them. It was the most support thing in the world that in Battlefront two. Yeah, we should do that. Sure, Yeah, it's fun and we could do like, you don't have to just do console generations. You could just do like genres and stuff like that, So that'd be fun. We can mix that. If you've already given

them Mount Rushmore, you're just you're just games. I stole mount Rushmore from other sports podcasts, so that one they could definitely have. But you're right, listen, maybe we can put the train on it. Yeah. I will occasionally listen to The Rewatchables and my favorite segment on the Rewatchables is apex Mountain of just seeing what is the peak of something? I'd love to throw that into Let's steal that. Let's steal that, Like what was that like

in a franchise? What is the best one? Right? Like yeah, well okay, okay, that's one right now, we'll quick give you some final fam the peak nine nine. It's fourteen fourteen. It's just so different. It's always weird. Like I know, people get mad when people do list and they leave out eleven to fourteen, but I kind of get it. It's just like such a like fourteen is my second fair video game. Ever, if you're talking about what's peak final Fantasy, it's not I'm gonna

say it's ten. I could see ten. I just miss like the I just miss like having a world map in ten, right, it is like more linear and all that stuff. Yes, forgetting that ten two starts with a banger pop song, I'm just does Oh my god, just I know you're dress fear coded. All right, Bailey, It's fine, but it's not ten two. As someone who's like only moderately into some Final Fantasy games, I would still say fourteen the way that it has taken over that fandom.

Sure, it seems like it's peak final Fantasy, okay, and like you know Apex Mountain being like this is when it was like the peak of popularity and like popular culture non gamers. Well then well then the answer is just seven If it's about that, obviously, I feel like ten reached like T was. Also ten is the next like most mainstream popular one. I agree, but I think seven still edges out there. I needed on the record that I was eleven years old when ten two came out, so that

might have been right. That makes sense, we knew, But I'm glad you can confirm that. I just want everyone to know, like the pop song was really what did it for me? I was also eleven then ellieah Ja. I like the interpretation of peak meaning like, no, what is

your interpretation of what the peak of the series means? I think it's more like, you know, instead of Mount Rushmore, we could have done like WWE games, where was the peak And like you could argue, is it SmackDown versus Raw the one that you brought up, Mike, or is it yes? Is it six? Do you go to here comes the Pain? Do you do any of the earlier w W specific titles, because it's not

No Mercy. No Mercy is not the Apex mountain there, you know what, We're just gonna steal the rewatchables, all right, So now I think it's no Mercy because everything after that has been trying to capture that again and tot to me that's means And there was a built up to Num Mercy we did have, like WrestleMania two thousand first and like I think I think Revenge was before that, so like it is kind of a build up to that being the ultimate hockey game in a lot of ways, with unless you're counting

def Champ watch out Bill Simmons were coming for you. Okay. The Rewatchables categories are no, don't tell me. I'm ready to take down that. I'm gonna take down all of the ringer I'll do it. Uh, they're fine, they're fine, great people that work there. There's no beef. Most rewatchable scene, so this is specifically from the Rewatchables podcast, right, most rewatchable scene, best quote, what age the best? What age the worst? The the waiters heat checked performance? This is my favorite one.

Uh, the over acting award casting, what ifs? Half assed internet research, unanswerable questions? Could this be remade as a ten episode Netflix series? Apex Mount and who won the movie? We could do this for a game one the movie. Yeah, like we should like write down a out these categories and kind of keep them in our hopper here, especially for BCR. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's some good stuff, all right. Next email

is about candy combinations. This comes from Jeremy from Montreal Hey Bombers. Recently, Dan mentioned that when he was young, he would lie to his sisters that he couldn't share his skills because they were his medicine well as a person with type one diabetes. I actually use candy as my medicine and because of this, have a great fondness for candy and sweet things during various hypo camic low blood sugar states throughout Michael, Oh, okay, I missed the g

there. I've tried all sorts of combinations of candies and sweet foods. I used to make icing sandwiches two slices of wonderbread Petty Crocker vanilla icing in between. That's a step away from Australian fairy bread. So like why not? Most recent discovery was combining gummy Skittles with peppermint Life Savers. Somehow this enhances the flavor of the skittles while also giving them a more natural, flesh fresh flavor. Highly recommend. What are some good or bad candy combinations you guys

have tried. I'll give them a go now. I'm just I'm immediately thinking of parks and rec again. He's like, I put a skittle in between two starburs. You know what I call it. It's like a skittle sandwatch. He's like, oh, that's way better. I called it Andy's mouseur prat. It's like the flavor of the Skittles really compliments the similar flavor from the Star Wars Chris. Chris Pratt was so good in Parks of Red anything

again after that? Uh huh, Yeah, I get. I get Chris Pratt hate to an extent, but he was on fire on Parks and I it's listen, it's candy to me. I will mix together Snickers and a honey Crisp apple because it tastes just like a candy apple. I'm not doing this to hurt you, Mike. I really legit, love it. It tastes so good, taste like a cosmic crisp apple. Yeah, yeah, they're not as good. All right, we can litigate this list. I know my apples, that's all right. Yeah, get that ship out of

here. This isn't a candy wreck, but it's kind of like a sweet wreck. And this comes from an old email we got maybe two years ago. This was like at the cusp of when we were reaching peak glizzy saturation. But some of it offered a dessert glazzy situation where you take a hot dog bun, slather that bad boy in some peb and then throw a banana on it. Yeah, peanut butter and banana sandwich right there. That sounds tasty. I find it all upsetting. I don't have much of a sweet

tooth, but it's all very upsetting. I don't know, yah, do you all put like anything in your popcorn buckets? My one niece likes to put in her her like Eminem's in there, and she gets very excited about it, and I think that's like really huge, like chicks it all up. I like to keep my popcorn and candy separate, but like because I want to, I want to like know when to expect it and if I'm in the movie, like I'm not like actively so, but like I will

like eat a raisinet and then like a couple things of popcorn. But it's just when I make my popcorn, it's really aggressively salty and buttery. So I love popcorns. That should be Yeah, I need popcorn. I got I got a large at the at the Dune two the other night and brought it home because Steph was like, please bring home popcorn, and I did.

And then I kind of like I was working the next day and I went upstairs like I'm gonna go grab a handful of popcorn that sounds nice, and the kids had just wrecked it and it was like mostly still fall.

They just ate the entire thing in one sitting. Basically, when I used to work at the Filipino Channel, we our office was right next to a movie theater, and a lot of the aunties and uncles, the older folks that work there at the Filipino Channel would go to the movie theater ask the usher to be like, I just want to go inside and buy some popcorn? Can I just do that? And they'd come back after lunch with like

a large popcorn and then shouts out to Uncle Ronnie. Uncle Ronnie not my actual uncle, would always come to my desk like I'm like neck deep in editing stuff and he'd like shovel it around my face, like come on, John, I know you want some popcorn to I'd be like, Ronnie, not right now, it's like pop corn cresh god, okay, okay yeah, And then one day he just gave me the whole bucket, so like I'm in an editing suite and just like now it's been all about popcorn buckets

ever since. It's Uncle Ronnie's fault. Uncle Ronnie is also a magical human being. That like one day asked me to come to his desk and like, Jen, I got the secret to show you only U huh. I'm not making fun of the Filipino accent. I just want to make that clear. I just want to properly represent a lot it terrible. Yeah, not after that last time, Trile. The English accent is on point though, So it's you're not making fun of anything. That's fine. So good that

you get away with it because you know uncle Ronnie keeping my uh. Some background to his character is that he's a seventy year old it guy that has worked at the Filipino channel since the dawn of the Internet, it seems. But anyway, he pulls me over to his desk, takes his key to unlock his bottom drawings like, John, are you read deeper this? Huh?

Okay okay. He puts a Pelican case onto his desk and then he like undoes the combos like I don't look, don't look at the combo it's my pin number also uh and then he opens the case and it felt like a uh, what's what's the Tarantino movie pulp fiction? Pul fiction moment? Yes, because this fucker literally had lights installed into this into this pelican case. Oh that can you guys guess what was in this small pelican case? Popcorn? We have more popcorns? What I want to say? These were

five hundred dollars top of the line fidget spinners. What the fuck? Hell? Yes, a fidget spinner worth a whole cube of war. Yes, May it's probably made out of a cube of ore disk. That'd be a

great fidget spinner. And he had six of them, and then he was like I got this custom made huh, John, Like wow, six way six individual fidget spinners that are individually worth five hundred dollars five hundred increasingly degrees man, And then like he he takes one off, He takes one out, he spins it, puts it on his desk and like, John, this one stops spinning. Ever, Huh, it's perpetual. And Mike, you doubted it. I it's a perpetual motion machine. But you have your

face, nab Mike Manati, you'd be worth more than five hundred. And then I was like, Ronnie, I gotta go take care or something. I got a meeting. It's like, hey, I'll spin it at the start and you come back. You come back after the meeting. He spins it, I go to this meeting last maybe like an hour and a half, come back, and then he smiles. He's looking down the hallway as walking back to his office or his desk, is like, it's still going,

John, It's still okay. Never mind, it's worth five hundred dollars. You weren't wading. I believe him. You don't tru think guys shocking. I think the guy who's trying to hawk custom mage Figeon spinners might be a bit of a car sell them to you. J I think so he was just showing Jany's precious selection monster. Yeah. God, so hateful Mike. I remember, I don't think but fitter kid not spid for ninety minutes you were there. I have one right here. Let's a good spin on

my fifty cents? Yeah yeah, and where's my time? God is I'm gonna I'm gonna wait till I get a four. Now, We're gonna be here all day and I'm never gonna have to play Skull and Bones again. I mean, you're welcome. I don't know why Uncle Ronnie itto Facebook thinking i'd find it all right. Last email of the show comes from your friend, sent from my iPhone. Okay, gang, we have to put a cap on it once and for all. What is the Mount Rushmore of Mount

Rushmore's your friend sent from my iPhone. Mount Rushmore point guards in the NBA. That's number one. I was gonna say Mount Rushmore, that weird Confederate Mount Rushmore that I think is the thing, the Mount Rushmore dug oh yeah, and then just regular Mount Rushmore. Okay, I said mount regular one. There's the one. There's a cotterate one. I thought that's what you meant, is there are pilotings about Rushmore's. That's just a marse face.

Yeah, there is a Mount Rushmore in pilot wings. Oh my god, that's right. Okay, yeah, that's pretty good. And do you like really this takes really sorry to slow down here, we're reaching the minute mark right now, it's got a little life left. You would shell out the big bucks for the good sees. Yeah, that's science. You've proven that the five hundred dollars one will do nothing because you didn't spend that one. Okay, it's done. It was a minute. It tests seconds. I

heart. I find it hard to believe that there are different materials that could make it last exponentially longer than that. Get me in contact with this man. I was just trying to think of, Like, would Uncle Ron be, Could I convince him to pop onto the voicemail dump truck? I would love that And show off his fidget spinners anyway, Show show me your fidget spinners, your six five hundred dollars fidget spinner. He might have acquired more, who knows, hope, So yeah, yeah, yeah, those things

have really been appreciating value. Maybe there's a very I got a bid full of beatie babies that could trade for them. Maybe there's a niche community out there that is still like driving up the value. Who knows, maybe collectors out there. But that does it for emails this week, send your emails to BombCast a giant bomb dot com. It's gonna be a short week here a giant bomb. We got an episode of Games Morning's popping off tomorrow and

another episode of Super Dan sixty four The Dan of Steel. On this current season of Blake Club Grubbing, Mike get to lounge and bick Back being bull on sip on tiki drinks while Dan struggles to fly through rings and the void that He is currently in with wheel shaped fidget spinner that was especially made by fifty people at Mitsubishi. Over the course of six months, a Guinness World record was set for the longest duration spinning a fidget spinner. On one hand,

the accomplishment a team effort by employees at minhahab uh. The record setting time was you guys want to guess, Mike, what's your guess? Ten minutes? Okay, Jan, what do you think? Thirty minutes? Bailey? How many minutes? Um? Seventeen seconds? I don't think it was impressive, it's just a record. Uh. The record setting time was twenty four minutes forty six seconds, and that's use Jan. Okay, Yeah,

you're right there. Jam was closest. Yes, correct, yes, Uncle Ron or whatever is well, shit, I see Jan's meeting was yeah, said it was like an hour. And maybe he didn't call it the Guinness people. Yeah you didn't call it against off the books record? Yeah, Tommy Tyler good Dan record? All right, what else is popping off this week? We'll be at packs East. Look forward to Dan. Well, some of us will be at packs East. Got a panel popping off at

Friday. Dan Dokoder Live at eight thirty pm Eastern Albatross Theater, Albatross Room. Who Knows. We'll be streamed live on Twitch dot tv, slash Packs two and then voicemail Dump Truck live on Saturday This Saturday, seven pm Eastern. We'll be taking if you see us on the show floor. We're soliciting voicemails in the form of videos if you find us. If you see us, stop us, leave a voicemail in person. Bailey Myers, what do

you got popping off this week? Planks calling Bones but also streaming like normal, So you can just come watch me stream on my channel for you having to play Skull and Bones while I'm at Packs, feel free to DM me with Winny Gilt you need to send me. I'll accept it all. I can't believe we're going to be having delicious and I'm gonna have to play more goddamn fucking Skull and Bones. I promise to never play it on stream. Come watch. I'll give you the keys to the Giant Bomb account if you

just want to stream Skull and Bones there. Actually I would do that, Mike. Any anything you got going on outside of hanging out with us hooligans, Yeah, I have been streaming a lot on my Twitch channel Tolkoto doing Mortal Kombat runs. Gotta do some other things here soon. Jeff and I have the last of the Ten Dogs happening tonight Tuesday night. That's a nine

pm Eastern on the Jeff Grubb Game mess YouTube channel. We will not be doing game mess asides for Thursday show because we will be traveling to Boston. Yeah, bike Club though, don't miss, don't miss Super Dance sixty four. It has been incredible, fantastic. I just confirmed that I bought tickets for the fucking episode one Phantom Menace coming back to theaters because I'm a sicko and I need to see it again. I need to relive it. And

now that's Pottery's Yeah. I am nostalgic for when it was in theaters. I don't like that movie all that much, but it was it was a lot of fun. When that it was so much fun. Exactly, it

was a pizza Pizza Hut KFC at Taco Bell had the Taca promotion. I went right to the Taco Bell right afterwards, and I remember some guy saw me dressed up in my robes while he's like, well, what did you think, and I was like, I loved it the bat it was so He's like, yeah, see the critics don't know what they're talking about. I think about that a lot. I told I told that man a lie. It was your favorite character in episode one? Mine was Watto Boss Nass.

That's why that's favorite character. If I say any of boss that's his lines. Uh. He just starts laughing. Yeah, they're not booth think that they so smart. You're not allowed to do that. Said about the Filipino you can't do it. The deft Triangle thinks they're so smart, so big. Yeah, my favorite character is Fuel of Debates. Yes, that's my fault. Every character in episode one is racis just an incredible racial stereotype every two minutes. Yeah, just insane. Yeah, I don't know.

I like the Droids a lot, I guess. And then and then they're named like Newt gun Ray after Newt Gingridge and Rob I'm like, man, you're cooking. George Lucas. George Lucas was on one and I appreciate all of it. On one, he was braving away that like seven eight nine was never brave enough to do It's like, no, definitely, Yeah. The prequels had ideas. The prequels had ideas, and hey, you know

it's one up spawning an obscene amount. Yes, Mike finished the thought too many ideas, they're bad, Unfortunately, some of the ideas were bad, some are good, and then all of the writing and acting was bad. Yes. Uh God, Hayden Christiansen. I'm glad that he is getting his due and then he's he's doing better these days. You know, hey, anybody watch that acal like trailer? No, no, poaster bothers me? Can I just complain really quickly? The poster bothers me? Sure? The

lightsaber with the blood smear lightsaber burn too hot for that. It instantly cauterizes wounds. Where's the blood coming from? Where is it coming from? It's woke now podcast. I've been Janny, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike, and she's been Bailey. And you have been doing some squats, buddy, it's showing off. We'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. Until then, call your friends, go go hug them.

Continue to add more whimsy into your life. Dammit, if last week you didn't stand on top of a desk and proclaim how much you love candy corn. I suggest you go under a tree and think about the fondest memory you've ever had with candy corn or cotton candy. Con Candy, What a whimsical food. It disappears as soon as it enters your mouth. Is No, I'm not candy right now, for I would be paid by con candy.

Because you boys got debt, We'll see you next week. You sub been having that life play with this Adheson