Hey everybody, it's Friday!
Daddy's out of smokes, but he's got his happy pills, so it's gonna be fine welcome to the bomb cast revengeance episode 883 march 28th 2025 taco truck still out of service in my street i'm your host jan ochoa joining me co -captain of the ship of this full house jeff grub hello jan ochoa uh we've got the milkman himself Himself, Sean McDowell.
Do they at least have the Wi -Fi going in the taco truck?
No, actually. I keep checking my phone for that hotspot, and it is indeed cold.
We are screwed if your internet goes out.
We've got the milkman, the paper boy.
He's stacking it because he's reading all of it.
Who's it going to be?
That's a great question.
A great question. No idea.
Dan Reichert, keep the paper.
We canceled the paper it's too much paper That comes every day and you don't You know Well thank god You've got evening TV with Nikki Grayson hey what's up We got everything CSI NCIS blue bloods On CBS Tonight and The bad boy I have a tangent After this Mike so don't go on too long All right we know that you will Just take over a whole podcast such a diva he's so want to do that the bad boy of games media Samoa Joe's best friend Mike Minotti hi oh wow wow alright cool I know podcasts have launched campaigns to get themselves into movies perhaps a trolls movie right I believe that was successful
right it worked for them one time yeah yeah okay your music notes or some shit the six of us yeah need to be in a law and order episode oh and we all get killed on the on a podcast like we can't even take it out right wave explodes we all die yeah someone plays like a lethal frequency and like we all explode yeah right yeah yeah that's what the death note's about yeah i don't want to die it's about yeah no i'm sorry but it's not real that's acting it can impact you like it's real though sometimes don't act too far mike you have cast members not just at disney also on tv shows there are cast members
you see it's different are kids in horror movies regular what do you mean like what are you are you also upset about that kid dying in the beginning of it or whatever what what are you talking about what's not it what's it called the clown no it yeah it yeah that kid had died in the beginning that was sad no i didn't watch that movie my question is if you're nine years old yeah and you're in for example the motion picture no we need to stop saying shoot kids all right just say no no one's saying that if you're nine years old and you're a real child in a motion picture you're not working do you
grow up to be regular afterwards oh no way like psychologically no fucking way I don't think it's the horror movie specifically I think it's Holly oh wait you're not talking about the character you're talking about the actor I'm talking about the regular actor because a child humans humans that's that either no but better do barry moore never had any issues that's not true that's categorically not true for all remember that she released a video where she stepped outside and it was raining and she wept openly yeah she also dated tom green which is maybe actually the number one warning sign is when you
date tom green yeah how do you think he Shades has one ball.
Tom Green has one ball?
He did a whole documentary about his ball surgery.
You don't remember?
I don't know who Tom Green is.
Yeah. He showed the world his ball surgery.
That's like the first thing I know, or the only thing I know about Tom Green, I think.
I think the jacking off the horse is probably the first thing.
I don't know. To answer your question, Nicky, I think they should have extensive therapy and there should be protections in place for child actors.
Wow. I think their lives should be sacrificed for our our entertainment.
What is Freddie Got Fingers?
Oh, Nicky, nobody say a word. Nicky just watched Freddie Got Fingers this weekend as someone who watched it in the theaters and watched it again with his wife like a year ago.
Let me tell you, Nicky, please watch Freddie Got Fingers this weekend and report back.
Tom Green is Canada's most important cultural export, so this is just respecting a whole other country.
It's on Amazon Prime.
All right, I'm putting it on my watch. I have to hear your thoughts on this fact.
I got it. There we go.
um i don't know i looked over a chat and i saw the name carlos mencia oh no i'm not gonna bother digging into the discourse we don't need to talk about carlos mencia just real quick about carlos mencia yeah do you remember right after the chappelle show where comedy central's like yes we're gonna go with carlos no no their first attempt was chocolate news with david alan grier right okay that was that one slot and then that didn't work and then mind of mencia kind of got got over uh it was inseparable back then i cannot imagine how it is now yeah when then someone's like he steals jokes i think
joe rogan actually got joe rogan was seen as a hero because he confronted him on stage and called him out for stealing jokes yes never was like that joe rogan's a good dude wait it was a different time god damn it why should Dan be mad about Metroid oh no look okay look I'm gonna share this nobody told me about being too online or anything and I was just thinking like what could possibly be the thing that people are mad about Metroid there's all sorts of stupid things but this post from the reset said era is my favorite i'm just gonna read this post for you not crazy about it there's a lack of elegance
and stoicism in the enemies that makes the game feel off to me it's very hard to take it seriously in a post dark souls world oh shut up go get some real problems you dork thing to say yeah you know i think we should bully some people yo it works it worked for sonic we are kind of bullying this person i haven't said their name but we are singling them out there's no way to find this comment either yeah impossible god don't worry i'm gonna make another thread about us making fun of this person in the original thread it's fine what was the one before was it neo gaff yes and then the owner was like
down with something i can't remember exactly how it happened sickness he was a sickness yeah and then so everyone's like we'll start a new thing and it's gonna be woke it's reset error and it was like okay for like 35 minutes yeah hey kind of chat says i see you found my reset error there was tam was like uh on on uh not game mess mornings on game break he was he was starting to be like oh i just you know i saw that trailer for much reform i was like and i was worried he was gonna be one of these weird people he's like i don't think that's running on a switch one oh but yes that's the more correct
take is to not believe how good it looks not the people who are like this doesn't look for this game's been in development for eight years and people just want particle effects that's it yeah particle they're just yeah they're good but like they think a good a game looks good only if it has particle effects in it that was like the that was like the big ps4 xbox one thing at launch was just like i remember killzone shadowfall well this game has particle effects so it's impressive now that trip worked on me for a good five years but i think it's wiser all right sorry i'm just filling out the games
i care about in the nintendo today app excuse me i just said all of them should i get that app is it worth it nah you mean nintendo today exclamation point yes nintendo today exclamation i like that okay today as as long as i am an editor we will not in ever include any punch out punctuation in a something's title never you do not add an exclamation mark to a title that's not a goddamn letter you know what about punch out punch out two and it's awesome awesome no absolutely no that's fine for a box that's fine for a box if i'm writing about punch out i am not going to write the words in like 1988
punch out exclamation mark on a list i will if i'm listing like my favorite games i'll do it but like not in a sentence because that's going to fuck up all the auto capitalization and all that stuff yeah i hate looking at it in a sentence i'm so aggressive about it that i enjoyed when pr people would be like can you please respect our like our stylization choices and i'm like i'm happy to tell you that i will not i will not lowercase in all caps from us yes yeah it's a word yeah get out of here you get one camel case that's it playstation i'll give you that or do we even do camel case on playstation yeah
we do okay yeah playstation and wrestlemania i always camel case you know what always messed me up is like StarCraft and WarCraft one of them is CamelCase and the other one isn't I feel like WarCraft is right StarCraft is?
No StarCraft is StarCraft is and WarCraft isn't but that's so confusing because if you look at the World of WarCraft logo it's CamelCase in the logo but written down it is not like on the Blizzard website it is not.
Wait WarCraft looks like it has it yeah yeah yeah go look at the world that c is capitalized it's bigger than the other capital letters of the word oh i guess it's in the middle it's bigger than the w but then when you go on blizzard's website it's just warcraft w is the capitalization and then the rest of it is right but then starcraft's got that big capital c and it's it's listening phil phil's got nothing else to work on right now so i'm sure he'll get right on right on yeah i think he's gonna really whip him into shape on this one.
My biggest capitalization mystery is why Ric Flair's Instagram captions it'll always be a giant rant he does about someone who wronged him or a woman or a business partner that he robbed or something.
And every he'll be drunk in a bar at 3 p .m. typing this out.
And every word is capitalized.
Men of a certain age do that.
That's the thing. You have to consciously do that.
There's no setting where it's like capitalize every word. So he's hitting that every time.
I think it's It's an era of older people who probably actually did not have to write very much growing up.
And when suddenly they did, they're like, well, I don't really know what should be capitalized and what isn't.
If I just capitalize everything, I'm safe.
Or I like to think of it that someone writing in all caps.
I used to do this with my partner.
Every single text message, no matter the context, would be in all caps just because we would just be like yelling at each other, parentheses positive.
Whenever I see that, I just imagine Ric Flair's in promo mode in his captions.
He's probably crying into three gin and tonics at the Marriott bar.
Yeah. That's fun, too.
Yeah. He speaks in AP -style headline writing is actually how Ric Flair uses his voice.
Folks, has anyone been playing anything?
Stop it! I hate it.
What? What do you mean?
i set one of these buttons to be a random sound anytime i hit it and anytime i hit it it's going be a random sound and i didn't have the bombcast uh sounds and music queued up wow okay so i'm almost done with a vowed oh that's nice i got back into it now they have the new computer yeah i'm at the i'm in the last area i won't do big spoilers i think that game is still good good to great um I will say I was talking about this yesterday on another program but something that I will notice I have noticed is that though those first couple of areas are very they feel very tight and very like intentional
about the ways that they expect you to move through them but in the later areas it feels a little more open in a way that doesn't feel feel as good there's a lot of spaces in gallowayne's tusk which is like a lava lava fire desert like barren zone where i'm like okay i need to get over there the game is trying to tell me to get over there so i'm gonna try to get over there and the game's like actually you can't go this way we aren't gonna kill you you're gonna try to jump off of this you're just gonna die if you try to go this way and i'm like well that doesn't feel very good um and then eventually
like i do find find the way that they want me to go but it didn't it doesn't feel as congruous as the earlier areas but in not in a way that where it's like oh i think the game is bad about it it just feels like some of this game is less tight than other parts of this game and i think towards the end of it is where the seams start to show a little bit more um but i i'm still i'm still really liking it and i'm excited to finish it this weekend i i agree about those environments and also that the game you know it has an extremely strong first impression in just the way it's doing everything and the way
it feels and everything and by the end it doesn't get less good or anything it's just there's less like you kind of are used to all the stuff that surprised you in the early hours and it's just you know you're just kind of seeing it through to the end it's a longer game so it's not like wow wow wow the whole time through it's just fun you know yeah yeah it's good um like where where were you at in it yeah i am like getting into the second area now so i kind of like went to like the town and got things rolling there and i'm now exploring and completing some quests and that's like my favorite part
is like okay all the quests have been accepted now i can start running around here and doing things you know it's i feel like the game hasn't been getting like like one of the criticism that oh it's not as emergent as a skyrim but there are still cool things like i i walked by some cave and it's just a skeleton and he just went in the cave and i was like well what the heck is that about then i follow him in there and i realized oh this is related to one of my bounty targets right but i wasn't just following a check mark i just kind of you know went into there because the world was interesting
so yeah i did a lot of that really enjoyed that looking at what has anyone can i tell you all about how a nintendo 64 game made me emotional uh that's what i was gonna ask about actually uh so i i talk crap about the nintendo 64 sometimes and a lot of it is joking a bit but it's you know of a lot of those older systems it's not the one i'm thinking about the most but i did actually get mine nintendo 64 out and i found like pretty much all my old games and plugged it in the first thing i went for was mischief makers which is 2d makers great game treasure yep yeah it's from treasure it's this kind
of really silly but great 2 .5 just 2d action platformer where the main mechanic is that you grab things and shake them and throw them you know shake shake shake shake that's what that's what you do i like this game as a kid but i remember i got i feel like i got pretty far in it and then i got to a boss that i couldn't beat so i was like man is my safe also on there don't exaggerate kid it couldn't be that long ago well so you know this is one of those games for whatever reason it asks you your age so like on my save file it says mike age 10 it's like 10 hours playing that's crazy and i was like
me like you know in my mind i was like yeah it was a while ago for some reason seeing mike age 10 sent me what that's insane that it was 28 years ago um you know i was like okay i'm just gonna like pick up this save and see if i can finally beat this game and that's so fun it was it was real weird just to be thrown in there like that because like okay what were the mechanics of this game how's it work again during this weird boss fight where you're falling constantly kind of like gandalf versus the balrog or something like that right of course yeah but you know basically after that i i finished that i
was like well that feels good i beat that boss that tripped me up as a kid then there was two more bosses and i beat the game and i was like whoa okay there we go i i it was a A very long break in the middle there, but Mike Minotti beat Mischief Makers.
Hell yeah. That's really cool.
I don't know. I've never picked up a save after that much time as it lapsed and then finished a game.
It was just weird. And it's just like, I don't know.
It's just like make me think about who was I?
What was I like back then?
And what was my life like?
And I'm picturing my room where the Tel 64 was and playing it then and being stuck on the boss.
And it's like, wow, I've grown as a person.
and you can tell because now I can beat this boss in Mischief Makers.
That's the evidence.
It's the only determinant that you could possibly take a look at.
It's just Mischief Makers seeing credits in it.
That's beautiful, Mike.
Do you feel like you've healed little Mikey?
Yeah, a little bit.
Little Mikey was certainly more awkward and shy in a lot of ways.
A bridge has been gapped now between old Mikey and Mitch simplement tokyo back then no no i didn't okay no he would i don't think samoa joe was even a glint in the eye of the impact zone if like when you did finally meet him suddenly you remembered all these times where he was just there in your life and very important like when they introduce a character to a show like seven seasons in it's like i've been here the whole time he was just out of frame uh a mission maker's rules by the way that's a that's a great game i think it's it's actually one of the best on the 1064 there's not very many 2d
games on that system but this is a very good one now we're gonna go to the second room i give tips and tricks about how to play it all right mike what's your favorite password to put into the game your password shake shake shake shake that's all you need to know that's all is there a mount rushmore of shaking games where there's wario land shake it yeah there's one where you're not supposed to shake the baby but yeah that's that anti -shake game though yeah um well there's probably a i feel like i had an app on my iPod Touch where you shook a fake can.
Oh, yeah, that's good.
You shook the iPod and it was like a fake can and then eventually it just exploded and that was the whole...
In Ring Fit you use smoothies a lot.
That's shake adjacent.
Yeah. Does what you switch have a lot of shaking?
Yes. There's a lot.
There's Mario Party minigames that do a lot of shaking.
Sorry, can you do that again for me, Dan?
By by the way thank you all so much for not saying anything when i said gap the bridge instead of bridge the guy was thinking about it i was like something was weird about it but i'm not gonna bring it up it's all right you're on a podcast with grub nikki and i and yeah we make we we make the english language work for us yeah we make it our own thing one time i tried i was trying to say stretch your legs and i said spread your legs and that wasn't very good i retract everything i just said you know you are with me stand next to me jay i don't want to spread my legs all right gang uh anyone else
playing anything else or healing their inner child this i was gonna ask um because i feel like we haven't really had a chance to talk about and i was the farthest for a while there has anyone else started or played more of assassins create shadows i i did exactly the thing i knew i was gonna do where i was like i'm enjoying this just fine uh surprisingly and then as soon as something comes along that i'm more engaged with i'm going to just hop off this real quick yeah that's exactly what happened yeah i got i basically got to what i think is unlocking yosuke or yasuke excuse me and i uh have not played
since because i'm playing something else okay yeah and everybody else you just haven't gotten around to it i just i even though i've actually been hearing more good things about than i expected to i still just kind of don't want to play i don't know i don't even know why i have it in i have i got code and And it is sitting in my ready to download.
And then I'm like...
Can I do a temperature check on the games that have come out this year and the games that you might go back to?
Is anyone going to go back to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2?
No. I haven't played it yet.
I've been meaning to once I got the new computer set up.
My priorities with the computer was first finish Monster Hunter World.
And I did that. Now I want to finish Avowed on it.
And then I think I'm going to finally give Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 a shot.
Yeah. uh what about let's see adam falls anyone even tried that no i haven't tried it not really my favorite flavor of game satnam singh was playing it uh on wednesday oh that's exciting on aw yes i think it has too much survival stuff that i want from one of those now was i right did i see that on the game spot show they put that on the top of their board as their favorite game this year or was that a bit or what yes i think jean -luc did that against tam's will if i was read that correctly uh john luke has said that it's their favorite game of the year so far and because they haven't played two
point museum those cowards i was gonna ask is anyone here gonna play two point museum mikey's really high on it not one of my again not my favorite flavor but i might check it out for mikey's sake i will say it is you know not joking my game of the year so far all right i need to play it uh three more um let's see here kazan what are the first berserker or kazan i i want to try it it's a uh from soft like it's a you know souls like yeah i tried that demo i just didn't care about what was going on that game i was like yeah it's it's not souls like all right i watched tan play it it looked fun i'm
worried because like i'm worried it's going to be like a souls like but with more story i don't want i don't want that yeah i don't want that either um all right then uh i guess show of hands for this one who's played split fiction uh dan mike okay uh jan yeah having just finished touching their ear all right i have not played it but i i want to but i don't know we'll see and then uh anyone gonna spend more time with monster hunter wilds it's getting an update next month oh man i should just finish the story so we can do some hunts on the website yeah that's what i want to do it's like i finished
the story so now i'm like okay i want to do that because like now Now I can play more of the game and I kind of really haven't done that yet.
Yeah. I mean, gosh, you know, it's funny.
I like Monster Hunter Wilds, but I was really looking forward to that one.
And there's maybe a little bit of disappointment there in some ways.
It's not, you know, despite these bigger areas, it does not feel more open.
It does in some weird ways feel more constrained than even Rise did to me.
Maybe I need to play the post game content and I won't feel like that, but.
all describing oh sorry go ahead nikki no no you guys no no please please okay i'll go um i was talking about uh monster hunter with my friends here and i who both have gotten into monster hunter in the past different ones um here and there and i was just i just started describing the game i didn't even give my opinion on it and at a certain point they were just like this don't sound like monster hunter i'm like oh well that is how i kind of felt about where i think it's a fun action game to play i really do but at least the story yeah so much of it feels not like what i expect on monster hunter
that i kind of just didn't care for why i played in the story and so i'm less incentivized to go on and play the high rank stuff but i know a lot of people are also really digging it but i know uh some other monster hunter fans i've seen online also kind of just fell off of it they're like actually like like i've been watching max's streams where he like he went back and did generations ultimate instead because that's you know very traditional monster hunter and it's like oh yeah sometimes you can just go back to these older ones and get what you want and then this other thing can be for a different
audience that's fine shawn what uh what weapon do you play or use in monster hunter i forget the uh charge blade is what's called right yeah uh where that's the you know the sword and shield and then you like reload it sort of and then turn into an axe using the charges that you've accumulated it's very fun beautiful beautiful yeah all right any any other games loose loose threads i got one so you get to talk about assassin's creed oh grub derailed you yeah i don't remember that um yeah i just want to say i did play a little bit more even after that stream that we did the gb plays and i just there's
nothing really wrong with the game but yeah i i i was wondering how how other people felt about it because I just feel uninspired by it where I play it I'm like yep this kind of just feels like what I thought it would be even now that I'm further into the game it's sort of open world checklisty like I expect at Ubisoft it feels good to play especially as now you know um Yosuke does have some cool set pieces like in that stream where like the music kicks in and he's just like taking out hordes of dudes because he's on a warpath uh that's really fun but i just i don't know something about just feels
very by the numbers to me nothing about it stands out to me yeah i feel like they needed a by the numbers thing because they needed like all right people we're not doing well as a company the last couple things haven't hit let's just do a by the numbers thing that people vaguely might want or they're so big familiar like they kind of like don't have a lot of choice there's not a lot of wiggle room because you you have so many different studios working together you sort of have to have a bible to play by but you know Assassin's Creed is just it reminds me of like modern day corporate radio rock
and roll right when's the last time you heard like a rock and roll song on the radio they were like this is inspiring it's almost all just like yep that sounds like what I expected to sound like it's very produced yeah yes very yes very produced and maybe sometimes it's a this isn't bad it's not bad but it's not gonna I'm not gonna like go chase down the band's albums and things like that my new favorite song it's like metallica put out a new album it's like it sounds like metallica i guess yeah justice for all yes yeah okay no that actually fits very well yeah uh kristen bell was involved with metallica and then
they killed her off first three yeah yeah they don't want to pay her anymore uh has anyone else been playing xeno blade chronicles x at all no i haven't checked it out and then just hearing mike that i have to get 50 plus hours in to get to the cool robot stuff i don't know if i want that it's also very much a i'll wait for switch to at this point because we're assuming that's a couple of months out i can see that i did play a bit more of it and like after like three hours i did get to the point where it does open up like even more so in a way than any of the you know numbered xenoblade games
did and that seems intriguing it does really you know there's this kind of hexagon based thing to the map it's like well each of these like hexagon tiles has has this sort of objective to do.
And there's like the story objectives for sure.
But even pretty early on, it's like, okay, I can kind of run around, do some things on my own.
Those seem neat. But I will say, I did kind of stop playing and went back to Mario's Picross.
And I'm like, oh, I like this.
Yeah. I'm like, oh, oh, really?
I play a lot of Mario's Picross these days.
I've got to get through that Star Wars.
Cool. I did check out the Donkey Kong game that y 'all have been waxing poetic with that.
Yeah, Donkey Kong 94.
holy shit good as hell yeah yeah great video game why don't they do more of those well they did those are not as good so the mario versus donkey kong like the first one of those is a sequel i tried it plays a lot like it but then like the mario vs donkey kong games became about the minis and it became more of a lemmings like as time went on yeah that that was that was not good yeah the more they leaned into sure yeah but yeah no that game oh donkey kong 94 is just one of my favorite video games i beat it again last week and happy for you bud thank you thank you nicky it's so good all right gang
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Jeff, you play it. Give me a second.
Do something, Jeff.
You can't let that stand.
Every day with this guy.
Mike sounded like the kid that's getting held back in a school fight.
Let me at him. Let me at him.
It's one of my catchphrases.
Do something, Jeff.
I'm not hearing a voice clip yet.
Can you imagine? Oh, man, you're serious.
Give me a second. Yeah, I'm serious.
It's going to take a moment.
I've got to route my audio.
Well, you better get started.
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like a good neighbor State Farm is there State Farm Bloomington Illinois all right today's hot topic uh we're we're going on a leisurely uh drive today we're driving pound past the Mount Rushmore's we're driving past uh the tiers the lists and we're gonna take a fine stroll down memory lane with the Nintendo Switch because uh you know we'll find out more stuff about the Switch which two next week uh nikki sean y 'all brought up this topic to chat about um you want to expound about what you were y 'all were thinking about when when you brought this up other than fond memories of the switch one i
was tired of doing mount rushmore's nikki what do you have to say i just think that i just think that we don't need as a nation to celebrate white men anymore war i know i just think that we should instead study history which is not about white man that's why we make hokage rocks it's exactly correct um no more of switch one memories favorite white guys on switch no so we're just hard jeff it's hard oh there it is okay wrong button hang on give me a second can't okay you just keep doing stuff i'm not gonna take me okay which is the right button what is this jeff no that's wrong okay is dana a sissy
baka okay well i see evidence that the world is around i'm not believing a damn thing okay mainstream penetration okay okay so is that was it plenty horny thank you Mike what's it called it's the newest one it's probably at the bottom cock not as fun it's called not as fun Jeff alright I'll find it hang on it's got a rain cloud definitely wouldn't say that I didn't say you didn't have fun we're just trying to do our favorite memories with the nintendo switch over the course the last 25 years it's been out all right that's we're talking about because it has gone i think i actually think that thing
came out pre -covid yes we are now which is 2017 yes and that's a big chunk of time almost 10 years and i think it is kind of worthwhile to go back and remember some it's all two trump administrations two Two separate non -consecutive Trump admissions.
Yep, it changed that blue Joy -Con to a red one on the other side.
So yeah, that's it.
That's the whole idea.
I guess I'll start.
Mine was maybe, might be my favorite gaming memory ever.
And it was the, I had just moved from the West Coast, the San Francisco office to the East Coast. We hadn't even found our first apartment yet.
So we had two months living in Jersey at Bonk's parents' place.
and i got the switch early like two or three weeks early and it came with uh breath the wild and i was kind of skeptical about it at the time because i was like oh open world zelda i don't know how that's going to go and so that there was like two weeks i would say of sometimes i was playing like 15 hour days of this i'd be up to like five in the morning and like in the middle of this fun kind of life change thing i was still kind of like you know i'd just gotten uh had only met bunk in the last like year or two and um so you know it's exciting we're moving together moving to new york city i'd
always wanted to live there um and we had just gotten razor our first dog together and he was a little tiny puppy he was like you know eight weeks old nine weeks old and so there's just this period where i took like a week or two where i didn't even like go into the office i just sat on a couch with this new puppy laying asleep next to me uh at this turning point in my life and i'm playing this game that i am gradually and kind of quickly realizing is going to be one of the most important games i've ever played uh and it's making me feel like a kid in a way that nothing since like like it's bringing
back the feelings that length of the past gave me when i was like six or seven years old and just all of that combination of life changes new puppy exciting stuff going on and then holy shit this game that i can't talk about and then it's you know the embargo was you know three weeks or whatever so it was just a lot of late nights like it'd be like five in the morning and i'm texting back and forth with jason schreier and austin walker and we're just like are you fucking did you see this did you see the fucking island down the road is this the best game ever and just that excitement and just like
being so excited to talk about it publicly and for people to realize how special of a game this is uh that that period was just uh really really really special it was very similar for me uh i was uh emmy had just been born and so i just got i got the switch i was busy mike and all them from gamesby had to go out to gdc so i got to have the switch come to me and they're in mike's Mike doesn't like going to GDC.
So he was especially salty.
Now I remember seeing the people at GDC with like their switches playing Breath of the Wild.
Yeah. And like my brothers were like doing like the fun midnight launch thing too.
And they're just picking mine up.
And I was just like.
And I'm like also like telling him like, this is incredible.
Oh my God. And I was, my hope was like, man, I had this idea of what I want open world Zelda to be.
I wanted to kind of call back to the original Legend of Zelda for the NES.
like that had just this sense of wonder and openness and they're not going to make that game and then I played it and it was exactly the thing I was hoping it would be I it was so good I cried like I was I could not believe that they had made this game it was like I this is a new renaissance for Nintendo the most important video game company to me and then I um yeah and I just remember like laying on with like this little mat with a bunch of stuff that the baby could play with while she's laying on her back because that's all she could do and she would lay there and I i would lay right next to
her and i'd just be playing switch and she'd be playing with her thing right next to me and it was just like this like very wholesome thing that uh will stick with me forever and yeah breath of the wild wasn't that good oh yeah it's a good video game i don't know if anybody's ever said that before but i think it's a that's really brave of you nikki thank you the first time i oh no sorry please please no no you you were all wrong where you know when fine i'll go i realized that i had to because i was in college when the switch came out um it was my second it came out in march question mark when did
it come out it was early march march so it was the second semester of my junior year i was in san francisco and i was like very much in a situation where i was like i was working for this school because like running the school social i like barely had money to do anything but i was like i do have to buy the nintendo switch like that is just it's a requirement for me to do i used like the school paper as a it's the only article i ever wrote for the paper because i was like i need to get access to the they did that tour thing that they're similarly doing for the switch too and the one in san francisco
was in the presidio um at this building i'd never been to and i had always been like oh i want to like walk around the presidio and go to this building so they gave it they gave ms press access for that and i went in and i was like i played arms and i played breath of the wild and i played fucking snipper clips and they had like really decked out and that was the first like games event that i had been to um that was like a press event in that exact style and i was like damn just fucking oh it's like this is sick as hell and then i pre -ordered i had my switch pre -ordered and it didn't come on launch
day because i got it on amazon and then amazon like like they just didn't it just didn't come and i was fucking heated i was so mad and i was like i was contemplating like canceling it and trying to go into target there was like a couple of targets near me i went into both targets and they were there and then i was like well do i cancel the pre -order that i have they've already charged me because they're shipping it i again deeply don't have the money to spend it i was like no i just have to wait and eventually came and then i just remember i have such vivid memories of being on muni and pulling
this thing out of my bag and being like it is unreal to me that i am playing a video game this good on the bus like i'm on the bus i'm going to school and then i'm i'm done and i put it back in my bag and then i go to school and then i can like go sit on the fucking quad and i pull it out of my bag and then i'm playing playing zelda and i was like wait no like yeah this is incredible like i it actually changed the way that i thought about games and then the first time i was like oh y 'all want to see something fucking crazy and i like was able to like be in the cafeteria and pull the joy con off
and give one to another person and be like okay now we are both going to play a video game together was actually incredible um so yeah i'm grateful to the nintendo switch because it fixed my brain a little bit in a time where my brain was not happy that's the thing i think we forget about like because it's so we're so used to it now with you know steam deck and rock ally and everything that like oh yeah you can play you know high fidelity games on the go no problem and back then i mean that was the whole gimmick is that like no you just take it on the go and like yeah we're used to it now but that was a fucking
revelatory the first time you did that you know yeah did you did any of you ever play uh with with the joy cons multiple players with a stranger yes yes yeah yeah like i took a flight pretty soon after mario kart came out yeah saying was like do you want to play mario kart with me i'm gonna play for a while and of course at that moment it was like a conversation piece yes it was something people hadn't seen before yeah and so i was like the lady next to me was asking a bunch of questions like well look let's just bring down the tray i'll pop it right here here's the joy -con let's play and we played
mario kart for like an hour and a half it was cool yeah yeah there was um go ahead sean uh i i haven't like you know played switch with a stranger in that way but i have it has brought me and people i'm less familiar with in a social setting closer together where uh one of the early ones i remember is from that year from 2017 my friend was getting married and it was like two months after the switch came out and i was the only one with a switch i brought my switch with me and i uh um my buddy bought a pair of joy cons because he was like i'm gonna get switch eventually but i'll get the joy cons
you bring the switch and then we can play games and whatever that's what we did all weekend when there was like prep work and downtime and stuff i would just like have the switch around somewhere and me and like the rest of the wedding party like everyone who wasn't like waiting on someone else to get ready for something we would play some puyo puyo tetris we would play some mario kart 8 we We would be just like hanging out and passing the controller, especially people who haven't really played a ton of games in a long time.
Getting in there and just playing these incredible games with us who are super into games.
It was all unifying us.
And that was really, really cool.
It was giving us that social experience.
I really missed out of video games at that point.
that it was oh sorry jen i was just gonna say it is the thing that i will say is that like in my brain i was child like child when the we came out and i have such vivid memories of being a child when the we came out and being like oh we're gonna have we parties and my my parents and my friends's parents were like in whatever like the ye olde group chat equivalent was for her parents which i guess was just talking to each other in the parking lot of the school and they were like okay like i guess which one of us has the we and like i was one of the families that had the we my restaurant noah had
a we and lily had a we and i just have such a vivid memory is of like the kids rotating through the three houses every single like a couple of times every month and being like this is this is what it is and then to have that same energy of like oh which one of you has a switch we will recontact like to be have it be recontextualized as like i'm now an adult who has agency and i can do things myself and make active decisions about who i'm going to hang out with and what i'm going to do like it was awesome and it was still about games right like it still was about being childlike and play and joy
in in a very unique and specific way um and to have that same feeling but recontextualize as not in a not a fully formed and fully completed brain adult but like a person with agency was was actually really cool yeah i was gonna say uh i was in a library trying to kill time and i just took uh propped the switch on its kickstand was playing a fighting game called pocket rumble very oh yeah there we go uh very very simplistic game uh for my little baby hands when it comes to fighting games games uh and then someone just saw me playing it on the lot in the library and he was just like yo can i can i
join in and then he absolutely smoked me because he was actually good at fighting games and then i kind of felt bad but it was kind of neat to have that experience of being able to like pass a controller to someone you don't know and be able to just pick up and play a game um Um, it's also been able to connect me with friends that don't, I guess, necessarily plugged into too many games as much as we are where, um, similar to Sean, where I'll be in a social setting and someone will be like, yo, let's bust out overcooked.
Who wants to be the Sue?
Who wants to be on expo?
And I'm just sitting there like, I don't know if I can trust y 'all press buttons.
I don't know if press buttons or anything.
anything um but the switch specifically uh i hold it near and dear to my heart because i think uh i had uh for two reasons one uh it kind of reinvigorated my enjoyment and love for pokemon because of let's go pikachu and eevee yeah yes and um the competitive side or the bgc side of of it kind of just being not quite as, I guess, crazy as it became in black and white, too.
And, Sean, what's the Alolan region one?
Sun and Moon. Sun and Moon.
Yeah. Where it felt like it got super duper complicated, and it felt impenetrable.
But then just seeing more, I guess, of those Pokemon VGC YouTubers picking up and playing Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee.
like I was I was thinking like oh shit I can get into this again let's go and especially if it's the og 151 uh and then the second important core memory of why the switch is near and dear to my heart is because I picked it up as soon as I started working here um yeah yeah and I was like oh damn like okay like I'd work in a video game place now I should go play more video games let's go get the switch uh and then I played too much Splatoon that I reactivated the tendinitis in my my hands yeah has anyone else hurted their hands playing the switch i played 80 hours of uh dead cells in a week and it
hurts so bad by the end it's bad for you definitely cramps yeah big hands on the switch was not great i had to stop playing video games for about two weeks just to like let it heal yeah i feel great there's i just remember that this switch is the it was nintendo's first super bowl commercial really oh right sounds right because that was the imagine dragon it was imagine dragons right yeah and i think that was was that so that had to have been 2017 that was that was patriots no i think it was believer yeah it was believer it was it was breath of wild it's on the game spot youtube channel wow um
eight years ago go yeah so that must have been one that was you know so patriots uh falcons oh that was a good one for everybody involved nobody had a bad time um so that was fun because i that was that was when i knew that i was like ah this one's i think gonna do good because it felt like they had i was really sad about the wii u yeah they put one two switch in this commercial oh also no i will say i bought one two switch and i remember taking it around to people's houses and being like i should have just put we sports on this fucking thing yeah i did that is that is a vehement thought that i
remember having because i was like yeah no this thing kind of fucking blows like i do want to i want to be able to show people the thing the fact that this thing is cool but then i'm like milk a cow and they're like i don't we should play one two switch on the show floor at paxi stand dan i'm up for it yeah yeah nikki i am the people you play one you're right were they like not into it at all or they they were not gamers at all they were normies and i think that they were kind of under the impression that it was going to be a wii sports yeah like yeah and i mean it is it isn't it just is so it's
not milking a cow's not a sport uh well for yourself my there's definitely competitive cow milking i guarantee it jan when you said like oh you know you it reminds you starting to work uh a giant bomb when the switch one was starting this when jeff and i started podcasting with each other really for the first time so like it takes back to that you know just covering games with jeff in general i remember that that big e3 i think the 2017 one where he showed the first real trailer for Mario Odyssey, and Jeff was writing about it.
We were in our Airbnb, so he was writing, so I was telling him important details, and I still just remember, I was like, okay, Jeff, there's a frog.
There's a frog. Okay, he threw his hat at the frog.
The frog's wearing a hat, Jeff.
Jeff, Jeff, he is the frog.
Jeff, he has become the frog, Jeff.
What the fuck is this guy talking about?
Do I really want to start a podcast with him?
the energy had to go somewhere other than yelling at me oh it was just so exciting and god mario odyssey was just such an incredible you know i also love breath of the wild but i love 3d mario so much that playing that was just such an incredible experience it you know it is so much just remember playing all these old -time games and coming around on even some series i didn't really think i cared about much like pikmin i was like it's not for me and here's pikmin 4 i played I'm like, well, this is just one of the best games.
This is incredible.
Even Luigi's Mansion getting this insane glow up with Luigi's Mansion 3, where that's just one of the best games on the Switch. Nintendo was in a weird place after Wii U, and God, the Switch feels like it has just cemented it as this thing that I'm pretty comfortable, at least as long as there's a Mike Minotti, I would still be able to play Nintendo games unless something real weird happens.
i think a word that like sort of plays into a lot of what we've been talking about is reinvigoration because i think about in college that was the 3ds wii u era for me and i remember kind of just not loving nintendo at that point i felt a little burned by the wii because the wii was so much of why i didn't like about what nintendo can do the very gimmicky stuff and it appealed to the the mass audience so they probably made a right choice with that but i remember thinking yeah nintendo for me is still the pokemon company you know i'll still buy the pokemon games on a ds and 3ds but i don't love
it and then i remember in college hearing a great era of podcasts where nintendo voice chat over at ign that was the jose otero era where jose and brian altano and pair on on that podcast were fantastic and hearing them talk about the wii u and giving it the flack it deserved but also saying but also there's good games coming out for it and you should try out this one and that one and that did get me back into nintendo and then into the switch i was like really excited about things again like jeff was talking about with you know there's no way this is going to be zelda one there's no way this is going
to be the 3d zelda one that we've kind of have wanted and that's why i wanted because zelda is a phenomenal franchise but they definitely stuck with a formula after two games because every 2d game plays off of link to the past and every 3d game plays off of ocarina of time they're still great games rightfully so yeah but they yeah they kind of they went off with the thing yeah but it's like you know you make a masterpiece like generation defying game yeah you stick with it kind of a little bit yeah i did wanted something new and fresh and breath of wild did that i was between jobs in 2017 and having
you know banger year also having like persona 5 and your automata a bunch of other incredible yeah that year was that year was nuts it was no 2017 yeah why so much to play unreal yeah i i played breath of wild in the beginning of the year played through the story and then all these other games came out i remember at the end of the year like mike was talking about mario Odyssey and just closing out the year in a great way collecting all the moons going to all the shrines and everything like that in Breath of the Wild and doing that on the bus to the job that I got at the end of the year across
town. It was like an hour each way and I was just blown away by yeah I can play these incredible games wherever I am when I'm commuting when I'm on my break or whatever.
That's really awesome.
I think yeah that's those kinds of memories are what cemented the switch as nintendo's new look and what made me fall back in love with nintendo and it doesn't happen right like the idea that zelda came out and then we knew pretty soon after i don't remember when odyssey got announced it was in that first trailer it was in that first trailer right so like they had a glimpse of it in the first one and then they had the one with all the transformations yeah odyssey odyssey was in the the the in -person event that they did the the first reveal was breath of the wild and then odyssey was showing off
in that first like event so i think the idea and so it's this thought is to prog the idea that they released breath of the wild and then everyone in the back of their minds was like and we're getting a mario game this year is like is so you you don't do that unless you can't do that unless you fuck up in the previous generation it's exactly what it is you know what they needed to do like they knew what they had to do and it's because they didn't have one in the last generation they They were like, okay, well, actually, the way that the timing has lined up is that, yeah, we're able to hit as hard
as they did. And now I'm looking at a list of games that came out in 2018, which was Labo, which I thought was great.
I like it. Yeah. Real quick, Nicky, to spin off your tangent real quick.
real quick uh i remember having meetings in the gb west coast office thinking about like all right i guess we should go buy a labo but uh we were definitely in the penitentiary at that point yeah so we were not going to get sent one that was it was also weirded that with labo where like they didn't send it to a lot of game reviewers they sent it to like toy reviewers yeah yeah so So I went to my local Best Buy first thing in the morning.
I grabbed it and I was like, I'm going to be the office hero today.
And then I get on to Bart.
And then I think because it had a Nintendo Switch logo on it and was a rectangular box, someone on a different train or on a different train, different car.
Yeah. Tried swiping it from me and then running onto the train.
but i had like gotten my hands on to like the little edge of the box and pulled it away and i thought man thank god i saved this labo for the team i avoided a mugging here and then just imagine getting stabbed over cardboard but then you know i got to watch like gersman build a cardboard which is all became a robot yeah i made a piano yeah yeah that's good shit that waypoint stream where they're building the piano and like i'll always remember this they're building the piano and then i think someone says papa bear it's one of natalie either danica danica or or danielle one of them says papa bear
and austin is in the back in a chair doing something else and his head pops pops up at the at someone saying papa bear and it was like i was like oh yeah dude like that's that's video games to me it's like when you're hanging out you're doing something that is video games quote unquote and then it's like no like you have moments of being human and like caring for the people around you i was like oh yeah they're like this kind of bangs he's got the lab oh hell yeah dan left the room and has now returned which unbuilt labos do you have um I built the piano. Here I have what appears to be a steering
wheel. Do you make the car, too?
Oh, was that the second pack, Dan?
I don't remember. I don't remember that one.
I remember the piano. There was only one Switch remote control car, and it was that Mario Kart thing, which was the home circuit.
That thing was weird. What is this?
Which was whack. That's the original one, Dan, yeah.
Oh, so maybe this one is open.
Oh, yeah. so the vehicle kit it's like you know you know racing wheels for like uh when you're playing oh or whatever you build cardboard versions of that for an atv a plane and a boat it looks like should i do a labo stream for one of my yes there's other stuff in here i could build for sure yeah that's really good by the way i i pulled up the reveal trailer and dan was right we did get okay quick glimpses at way more games than i remember and i forgot do what we call her on the rooftop was it karen that we called her karen rooftop karen yeah that was different different meaning for karen before
there's a different time but yeah like in order man breath of the wild skyrim uh what was that mario kart imagine next week if they put skyrim in this trailer it's not impossible it'll be about breath of wild skyrim mario kart nba 2k uh a glimpse at mario odyssey and then the splatoon in a giant stadium esports oh yeah yeah it was all hands on deck they wanted everyone with this trailer well then it felt great at the end of 2017 for for this website.
I was there at the time to give a Game of the Year to Breath of the Wild with runner -up Mario Odyssey, famously.
Yeah, that was just a smart move.
That's what we did.
PUBG's a great game, but number three that year.
Number three, yeah, yeah.
You know what? I'm going to chalk it up because I wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't find my voice yet.
I couldn't chime in to fight the good fight with you.
Yeah. Well, no, we reckoned it.
We reckoned it. Yeah, because Breath of the Wild won that year.
Who's going to stop us now?
I was watching at the time and I have a vivid memory of Breath of the Wild winning game of the year yeah thank you Nikki thank you for yes what is the the closest switch case or switch get physical switch game in arm's reach right now it is lab I just put it in the well okay lab oh I do have one to switch here somewhere yeah I got one to switch bomber man are just dance 2017 these are the three physical games Nintendo sent me with the switch when I got it for review and they are still maybe the only ones i had except for metroid prime which i like metroid prime so much that of course i just you
know i did get a code digitally but i was like i need a physical copy of this game i think it's the only game on the system i thought that of course i have an unopened metroid prime also metroid prom's box art it's just always so freaky yes it was great how good is that beyond art no the first time i checked out metroid prime was on the switch and let me tell you someone jumping into that game or 3D Metroid for the first time outside of a DS holy smokes y 'all they should make more of those games this is the only physical Switch game I wonder why what is this this isn't ESRB what is this impossible
to say why i have interesting or why we all have this possible to say how i know i shouldn't say anything because i i'm afraid but i am just i am shocked it hasn't been on play clubby yet freaking bell and wonder listen i i do i am considering it like it's got to be brought up here pretty soon i have not played dress up as the wonder world man no you you gotta be...
No, you gotta be the farmer guy.
The farmer! I think the farmer is the move.
Wait, this is still in plastic.
Will this work on my Switch because it's European?
Yeah. I think the Switch is region -free.
Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Big change they made after 3DS was locked down.
Dude, they put a Smash game out.
Yeah, that was the big 2018 game.
No fucking way. Okay, we literally just had that is crazy we just said you just asked jan is this game region like can i play this game and my sister just texted me a link to fucking a walmart listing of um super mario party jamboree and said will this work on my switch and it says region it's it says eu region that's crazy um they put put out a Pokemon game it's the old it's the best one in 2018 oh are you we talking about let's go no let's go Oh Legends nevermind there's two good ones on the switch the best ones on the switch I feel really guilty that they made a new Pokemon Snap and I didn't
play it because like if you would have asked me like it's your mega new Pokemon Snap I love Pokemon Snap blah blah it's like here it is I was like I can't be bothered new Pokemon Snap ain't it it lost all the soul what the the hell is that jeff it's my labo brother here i'm gonna press the button oh it's stuck the cardboard it's the cardboard i can't believe it i can't believe the cardboard video game controller does not last just put it in a bowl of rice for a while yeah you're right there we go yeah i got stale um there's another button somewhere we talk about ring fit at all i i get some ring
fit i like it yeah yeah yeah it was great I I still think they took too long to put out wee sports they got there eventually but I feel like words like switch sports took way way way too long yeah those afterthought yes was ring fit 2019 or sounds right yeah because it came out a little before the pandemic cuz I I remember it wasn't like a big deal and then the pandemic hit and then you couldn't find it.
I mean that was the big thing was just the pandemic and Animal Crossing.
Yeah so yeah that's what that was the other core idea that I had because I was in Slack because I was like yeah like the Switch was big before COVID but the first couple of months happened and then I just have such a vivid memory of being at PAX and playing Playing Animal Crossing and being like, wow, this game is going to be huge and nothing bad is going to happen.
But I do understand that the video game Animal Crossing is going to be really big and a lot of people are going to like it.
And then literally three and a half weeks later, the world shuts down and I have vivid memories of like normal people in my life coming to me just knowing that I worked in video games, texting me and being like, do you think they're going to release Animal Crossing early now?
and i was like oh this game is about to pop the fuck off you were reviewing it you were were you like playing a review yes same here because i remember like having it be like y 'all i just really wish you could be playing this right now yeah it's really helping me out it is about to be nuts um yeah i mean there wasn't a friend's island it's like oh we're kind of hanging out i guess yeah yeah get on a discord call or something and then nintendo put out a free uh hey you're a rabbit with a jump rope game yeah that's right yeah no i think i got it i was getting to shoot jump ropes then and i was like
oh maybe i need to return this jump rope i got and try to switch one it was fun i liked it yeah that was that was nuts and then clubhouse games also was in yeah during lockdown yeah i remember nights just uh sitting in bed before we were going to sleep uh playing whatever they call it uh their version of yahtzee with steph every night We did that for about a month.
That was great. That's a great plane game.
I love playing that when I fly events with my friend.
I'm sorry. I got an email and a press release.
Can I read this press release?
Yeah, please. Sure.
Absolutely. I'm not going to read the subject line yet.
Hi, Mike. I tried so hard and got so far.
Oh, I didn't see this.
It doesn't even matter.
Sounds like a line from when most of our team are playing the latest retro shoot -em -ups, but that doesn't have to be you now.
This fantastic new thing has landed in your life.
this is the crkd neo s lincoln park edition controller naturally with friends naturally it's got is that their is that their guitar hero on tour one yes yeah basically yeah yeah okay look at this thing it's got pink flames on it you know lincoln park yeah now so as someone that likes lincoln park they don't do themselves any favors no they they're i mean listen they're what i was talking about like good corporate radio rock uh and they're more memorable than a lot of that other stuff but yeah they're definitely right in that wheelhouse uh a moment for me that i i i just liked when i started working
for this site and we could take the switch and do fun stuff with stuff with it um the hyrule hustle and the moment i always think of is when i was doing the whistle trick and i was doing it for a long time before dan noticed then finally he noticed and it was like the hammer's gonna come down on you here's a million punishments and i had to like sing uh what's the what's the kingdom hearts song mike oh simple and clean clean sip i had to sing simple clean a song i've never heard in my life and so i'm making up my own melody to these insane lyrics and i had to run in a circle and i'm just singing
the song running in a circle thinking all right eventually i'll get through this and i'll still be able to beat mike no problem where your colors inverted too on the switch at the controller is inverted on the switch system level and then i don't know where a lazalfos comes and attacks me and just knocks me off and i die and it was the dumbest thing ever man i made you restart that all the time yeah yes yes you made me restart this song i have a lot of uh bowser's fury related memories yeah which uh parentheses positive when When we did Bowser's hurry, which was, that was such a fun stream, especially
since I won. Yeah. And that's what we're all talking about.
That's it. So to this day, I remember when I, in my review, which, you know, I had such a great time reviewing that game.
I love that I gave it a good score, but I said how many catch signs were in it.
And to this day, Nintendo very displeased with me.
It was the review. I always thought it was the preview.
That was the review.
Oh, that's even more insane.
It was the review. It was that.
And I said, how, like how long it took me to beat.
I think that's honestly, what they were more sensitive about because they were terrified like people were gonna find out that this isn't a full -size game when everybody knew that everyone understood they thought they were tricking us I guess I don't know remember Tetris 99?
yeah the Mario one was super fun F -099 F -099 also great F -099 rules that was a fun stream too us getting together other and be like there's no party function in f -099 so it's all just try to join at the same time and it worked every time yeah that was fun i mean i love that the switch online stuff as kind of funky as it is sometimes to play multiplayer like that multiplayer oh shit i can do mario party one two and three online now anytime yeah we had another mario party party on the switch yeah i consumed way too many hot dogs yeah you sure did that's true you did that you did do that that yes
yeah um i i regret every moment of that but i also you know what i don't i don't because i had a fun time with you i was impressed i remember we absolutely uh wiped the floor with next lander when we went against them playing splatoon yeah absolutely oh right gosh 96 mario kart tracks over the course of that lifetime time in between that memory you wanted to play every mario kart game every track was every single mario kart track and i was like how long was the stream like five six hours six hours six hours worth of work initially dan pitches every mar mario kart game i'm like that's a great idea dan and then
you're like yeah all in one stream i'm like like that's a terrible idea so yeah the compromise was every single track that's been released for uh eight deluxe now we played it all day long we did a podcast in the middle of it that's right that was really good is the is the swole led the best mid -cycle refresh ever um i really like the p .s too slim yeah that was like sp is up there for me yeah ds light that's true but the oled screen is like at a point where it's like oh man i'm gonna get the switch too and i'm really gonna miss that screen i'm gonna really because i with the with the swillette
i was pissed i stopped using my switch because the screen looked so bad to me and i was was like i it's i'm either keeping it plugged into the tv which to me was a was like made the whole thing useless to me and if i'm then holding it in my hands i don't like looking at it but then the switch oled came out and i was like oh yeah buddy like yeah this is this is it like this is what it was supposed to be i am going to be upset next week uh because it's just it's gonna be a good lcd but like yeah i was gonna say a friendly reminder lcd tech has come a long way and we also don't know for sure what's in it
yeah there was a refreshed version of the switch uh before the oled that had a pretty good lcd in there and that is i'm expecting them to use something along those lines i think from like sharp or something like that but whatever we'll see uh switch one oled is fantastic.
All right, gang. You know what?
Let's do one quick round of hopes and dreams for the Switch 2.
And I'll tell you all mine.
I haven't shut up about this for the last calendar year.
TikTok, baby. Y 'all talked about this on your podcast last night.
Yeah, we said it wasn't happening.
Well, what if it does?
All right? We mentioned the watch, and that was the first time we saw Jan in chat all night.
He's just been lurking.
He's like, fuckers mentioned the watch. It's happening.
Tick tock, Nintendo.
Tick tock. Yeah, I'm Jason Manzoukas in John Wick 3.
Tick tock, Wick. Tick tock.
But yeah, I want a watch, but also I want Final Fantasy Tactics.
I was promised Tactics in a week.
Give me FFTA. That could happen.
i want mario maker with mouse functionality yeah yeah yeah that would be good just update super mario maker 2 with it if they do that you are all in major trouble for this website you never beat my other ones grub i know i still have them saved i should get back on that'd be fun i look we all assume a new 3d mario is happening it still isn't real till it's real I want to see I need to see that on Wednesday I know it's not going to be a launch game probably very likely but you know just like how with the Switch 1 we did see a little bit of Odyssey before we had the real reveal you gotta show me
something about the next Mario I'm so excited for that yeah I was like definitely in line for an Excite game or Pilotwings something of that tier I just want to be like oh cool they brought back Excite Bike that would be ideal no no excite truck too excite truck would be awesome yeah I loved excite truck and then maybe pilot wings I think pilot wings with the mouse functionality is actually there's a pretty good chance of that happening I don't think we're talking about how good of a title excite truck is it's really good excite truck for some reason excite bike because it rhymes it feels better
in the mouth that's why excite truck is funnier yes it's really clunky excite truck um i hope there's a pack -in game there's something side truck yeah what if it's the weird thing they were testing end of last year oh yeah mario kart right yeah well yeah could be yeah i just think that there is something nice about a game that everyone has when a thing comes comes out because the it makes the floor universal which is why i think more people would have gotten on board with luck to switch if everyone had it but because the idea that someone what if it's halo halo is the machine collection fuck that would rule
god that would be so can you imagine they say here's the switch to also it comes with every single halo game because it comes with all the halos of nintendo land 2 yeah nintendo land 2 let's go i love that the first one i guess that was the last pack -in game huh i think so yeah from the start yeah uh sean did you talk about any dreams or wishes grub uh i think yeah on the on the tech side i really hope that some of the tech stuff we're expecting is as good as we're expecting like i hope the upscaler is dlss because that would mean that a lot of stuff that couldn't normally run on switch and look
okay suddenly can and some of the pants and stuff are looking like maybe it's like more generic than we thought but if they can just figure out the tech to bring like we were talking about the switch one about how we looked at the switch one and said breath of wild i can't believe i'm playing this game on handheld i want that kind of experience again with the switch to where it's like man this game looks fantastic and it's running on this handheld halo halo 4 halo 4 hands in 1440p on the handheld exactly can you imagine mario street passing with master chief oh you know yeah throw all this out
yeah street passing yeah i'll take all the other stuff we said they gotta put street yeah i mentioned 3ds was my college era y 'all nobody gets more street passes than a a college student.
Holy crap. I couldn't go 10 feet without that little green light blinking telling me, hey, it's fall again.
Get in here. Nintendo, it may be too late to make the watch, but don't break my heart again.
I'm going to propose an idea.
You take one of the new Joy -Cons you get to have in your hand, and you can passively street pass, but if you want to purposely street pass with someone, you have the Joy -Con in your hand, and you fist bump someone else holding a Joy -Con.
I like it. That's really good.
upf can we actually just do all the excite games excite bike excite bike 64 excite trucks and excite bots trick racing grub you are you made that last one up it's real grub you're in the driver's seat you can do whatever you want well i build a labo yeah uh i don't know what happened to mike minotti yeah already go oh oh i like that guy yeah it's all right uh yeah he had a dunk it bucket and died this is the best of us scooped me yeah um do you think they're gonna announce okay so it's red and blue again which i think is a mistake it's a kind of red and blue Yeah little hints and stuff And then
black Sand camo Sand camo What's the Pantone color of the year Dan Gray Pantone What do you think the color of the year is Dan Blue 50 years running Why can't I Oh I haven't announced it Wait well okay I have 2024 it's brown I'm back what you talking about we're talking about the color of the year of the year color of the year for this year yeah I'm sorry Mike whites didn't win I know you were pulling for it let's hear it for the browns yeah it's called I was just trying to see if they're gonna have a brown joycon but probably not a brown joycon I thought all these joycons were just black with With the red
and blue insert part.
Yeah, we've seen them.
They have accents on them.
I don't think so. Damn, that's boring.
I hope they announce a color one then.
They'll do color ones later so you can buy them.
That's right. I think that does it for this week's episode of Bondcast Revengeance.
Thank you so much to this fabulous five -some joining me today on BCR.
thank you Mr. Jeff Grubb thank you, oh that was a good sound thank you Turbo Sean, thank you Nikki, thank you Mike, thank you Dan thank you alright, okay, cool, sorry I just had to let that one rip thank you for joining us folks, stay tuned after BCR we will be playing who knows what, maybe some exciting things on the website, and maybe some illegal things as well stay tuned to the Power Block after upf we also got game spot after dark to end the week folks we'll see you next week for another episode of the giant bomb cast we love you look i'll say it you should probably have the cc minutes you're
supposed to help me uh daddy's happy pills are still working so let's just milk this juice for as long as we can i wrote down well buterin i'm going to ask my physical doctor physician about this best of luck thank you fantastic turbo sean sean mcdowell oh that's me uh how many any post -it notes do you think you've used this calendar year now you see jan that would be a great question and i'm very proud that you're moving in a good direction with these if the answer wasn't zero because i'm less than 30 years old what are you thinking you don't just have post -it notes on your desk no i don't have paper
in my house unless it's a box what are you talking about i i do wasn't using post -it notes until very recently yeah i started pulling out the cards recently yeah yeah jeff should definitely be using those anyone should be i should be doesn't help like i've tried it before it's never helped so we're trying again even though i know it's gonna end in ruin as always all right uh jeff grub hi how many buckets of milk do you think you've consumed over your life i'm just gonna uh imagine the bucket uh size is a sand sand pail that you use at the beach to build a sandcastle i'm thinking home depot bucket
home depot bucket oh okay all right the other canonical bucket all right um i have probably i used to eat cereal a lot and i would always have milk i never was a milk in a glass drinker really uh so i'm gonna go with 30 buckets does that sound like the right number like in my life like in my life i feel like it's really low yeah like that's probably low lifetime yeah lifetime i'm 42 years old recently no i feel like that's a lot of buckets all right anyways hi okay mike minotti hi what's the last thing you dipped oh i'd like to dip you do we dip i'm a oh oh yeah yeah i was at rbc yesterday and i
uh i do french dip no i didn't get a french job i thought about though because i had a very big picture of the french day it looks good in that picture it looks It's pretty good there.
It's like, no, I'll get my usual.
But I do like to get...
They have a very thick ranch. I like their ranch a lot.
That's not what I'm saying, Matt.
It is the thickest...
Thick ranch! I've ever seen.
I love dipping my fries in that super thick Arby's Ranch. It's great.
I don't like you using the word thick, Mike Minotti.
Me neither. I think I know what I'm getting tonight.
I just looked up. Did you see the Dunk It bucket from KFC?
Yeah. I saw an ad and I went to see if I can order it and I can't.
It's the Dunkit Bucket.
It's like a bucket gimmick where everything's dunkable.
It's two pieces of KFC's original recipe tenders, five mashed potato poppers, fries, a dip cup, and two gravy dip cups.
They're selling poppers at KFC.
Yeah, KFC poppers. This is just a KFC box.
Lemon herbs and spices will really open you up.
It's just a KFC box in the shape of a bucket and the dipping sauces are on top in the lid like yeah that makes it up which makes it better nicki uh when y 'all came upstairs during the lights out on sanctioned gdcgb meetup yeah my partner and her friends were were just finding out and discovering poppers and they were like do you know about this and i'm like yes i do surprisingly because of work yeah i know about sex poppers because of work podcasts too yeah a lady at uh e3 one time said what is the medical name for poppers i can't remember and i had to like look at a cleaner okay yeah vcr cleaner
right and i was like what and i'd like look it up and i felt very uncool i don't know where my poppers are allegedly yeah uh it's like a really bad sign when the menu item you're ordering is indistinguishable from what the menu item would be called an idiocracy right from from southern from southernliving .com KFC introduces first new bucket in nearly a decade something about that headline just sets me up you gotta be a part of history they make it sound so important yesterday I had a new Taco Bell item oh is it the toasted cheddar those things go so fucking hard they go so good okay I'm getting
those tonight then they are so good I ate them and I look like this feels incorrect to have come...
Taco Bell is good. We all know this.
It felt too good to come out of the Taco Bell.
Okay. Maybe I was just hungry.
Say the name. You guys said so many syllables.
Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupas.
My night tonight, I'm going to drink, I'm going to stream Metroid Prime, and I'm going to eat toasted cheddar street chalupas.
Alright. I'm going to start this podcast. We haven't started yet.
remember back when i said there was a taco bell item that tasted like the thing that i get at my like usual taco place it just tastes like the taco bell version yeah okay all right i will try it uh you already were talking about buckets uh and the dipper buckets so um you were good for this podcast mic check nicky grayson how do you feel about the chicago bulls lakers game last That's nice.
That was incredible.
Fuck off. Well, okay.
How you feel about the Dodgers -Tigers game?
You know what? I'll say it.
Basketball is gay. Oh, this is going to be a tough one.
All right. Okay. Let's see how time that is.
Let's fucking go. I've opened up my audio recording software.
Yeah, me too. and I'm on time .is.
For some reason, I retweeted the new Blake Co.
poster and instead of saying this goes hard, which is what I meant, I just said, this is so hard. That works.
Wow. What's wrong with me?
All right. Sean, can you include the mic check at the end of the podcast?
I'm not sure I can on that one.
We make money on this show believe it or not all right yeah well maybe we'll get more people listening to the show on however they feel about basketball or gay people i'm just waiting for nick you drop the hard q in the middle of the podcast i can't wait i'll get there buddy all right all right everyone have time dot is up yo morning way far way far right hi sean hi sean let's clap and beep respectively at 45 and 50 that is 45 50 okay i was not ready i'm sorry i'm worried about my way 50 55 i was i was it's like great thing no i didn't It did the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 31, 32, 33, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, That's next month Okay okay 30, 35 alright Yeah Oh I feel good Yeah we got it Oh I wasn't recording I'm joking I'm joking I hate this fucking site I'm recording the video now I'm gonna go fade to black black oh no okay hold on actually vamp amongst yourselves oh that was a shoot oh no oh i'm scared the other thing that so i got a lux box from taco bell yesterday yeah i used the application and i got usually i'm not this kind of person i got supreme for the rest of the tacos because i
wanted the soured cream and i selected it and then i got it and then they did i've never had to do this in a drive -thru i pulled up and then they i also got they have they have a mountain dew um baja blast with cream in it the dirty baja blast i'm sorry it's great yeah it's like vanilla cream in it yeah they so they pour the soda in the cup and then i guess they just take the coffee creamer that they have in the morning and then they pour that in the cup ice creamer soda yeah yes so uh -huh in fashion i assume there is no zero version of it there is there is there is yeah it's just baja blast with some
coffee creamer that because that's the thing yeah the coffee creamer is in zero coffee creamer upstairs i feel like i could just make yeah you can do it upstairs you can do it at your house yeah but when i ordered it she just put the baja blast in the cup and then she gave it to me and then she said i need you to go backwards in the drive -through and i said what and then i so then she gave me the cup and then i looked at it and i was like well there's no cum in this and then i put it in my cup holder and then she was like yeah back up so i put the car in reverse and then just had to back up away
from the window and then i had to wait there and she stuck her hand out of the window like 30 seconds later and then waved me back forward to give me the box which didn't have any supreme items in it so then i complained in the app and they gave me ten dollars okay always always complain all right let's go fade to black
