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and see hey everybody it's tuesday say may 27th 2025 welcome to the giant bomb cast episode 892 the road to 900 begins i guess a couple episodes ago and i guess since the very start i'm your host jan oh choa joining me co captain of the ship he doesn't have to get ready because he stays ready that's right his shoes are always tied Jeff Grubb hello everybody I'm happy to be here Janet Cho great to talk to you bud fantastic fantastic speaking about talking to you bud I'm always happy to talk to this bud that's right he's not just a dude like Will Ospreay he is Dan Reichert let me look get to the intro

and then I'll talk I'll give that context okay speaking about context he's always reading between the lines he's the devil in between the details because he worships him.

Jeff Bakalar. It's true.

Hail Satan. How's everyone doing on this fine Tuesday?

I'm good, thanks for asking.

It's a pleasure and a goddamn honor to share the screen with you all this afternoon.

And the honor is all ours because we are joined by Mike Minotti.

Hi, I like it when girls affectionately call each other bitches and I kind of want like something like that for us.

We call you Mitch. Yeah, we call you Mitches, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Mike, can you give me like a girl?

Oh, I thought there'd be more to that.

No. Girl. Okay. Girl.

Oh, second one was good.

Second one was good.

Second take. Yes, my lady friends had me watch Pitch Perfect over the weekend, everybody.

It's okay. I've been accepted.

There's like four of them.

Which one did you watch?

And way back when, I only ever saw the third one, and that was really weird because it involves spies and stuff.

Okay, so I saw it because me and my friends— Like the second Cars movie?

It kind of was like the second Cars movie.

They made the comedic sidekick, the main character, Fat Amy.

Okay. just like gets yeah it's actually a lot like cars too i haven't seen either so is fat amy the mater of oh yeah i could have told you that jan for sure yeah absolutely but yeah we wanted this we like to see movies on christmas night right everyone's in town so like oh we'll see that new jumanji and it was sold out we're already there it's like up the thing that's showing now that we can't sue is Pitch Perfect 3, so here we go.

Tell you what, Pitch Perfect 1, a lot better than Pitch Perfect 3.

Yeah. I maintain that that's a pretty okay movie.

It's fun. That one's singing.

It's not like step up to the streets about dancing, right?

This is a singing movie, not a dancing movie.

These are fun, though.

Can we do a film in 40s with all of those dance movies?

We are not doing a film in 40s, so I get my angels and demons.

no do rickio story of ricky first we have a lot in the backlog there yeah rickio we should just start watching movies and then you know thing just recording that have you ever seen love on a leash oh i knew this was gonna come up how did you know it was gonna come up it's good it's all on youtube we watched it this weekend mike how much did you see of it none uh everyone keeps telling my chat that you saw on you love it though is that right what is it what is it uh it's the worst movie i've ever seen it's about a dog that gets turned into a man by a magic puddle and then the man uh tries to fall

in love with the girl the dog wants to get laid basically and then the puddle turns him into a man and then the dog falls in love but he only turns into a guy at night and so his name is prince and he's a dude at night and loves a lady but then he turns into a dog during the day i hate that okay yeah that's i mean okay i think that's illegal yeah it's confusing there's a lot of questions it brings up what's illegal about it mike they you know bestiality part of it she doesn't have sex with a dog and there's no sex shown in the movie period so annette exists so i feel like and that has so much

dog sex yeah i just think like when you when you talk about worst movies and the fact that a net exists you don't talk about a net that way i'm talking about it i love a net how dare you yes i've had an arc with a net i'm sorry yeah you're on the right side of history now for my birthday which is two months past i want to sit adam driver down and just be like buddy be honest tell me what you think about a net like i want to hear it from i bet he likes does he i bet he's real proud of that i bet he thinks more effectively about proud of it than star wars oh yeah i mean come on that's to me that's

not that much of a reach to be more proud of this thing than star like a seven minute standing ovation at a film festival he was at well we could do anything at hands and get a standing oh yeah how many times have you seen a net now dan six that's just it's fun to think that adam driver was a marine and then then eventually did Annette.

That's a funny thing.

Dan said Standing O.

Annette? Yeah. That's what they're called.

He was a producer on Annette, too.

Oh, my. So he's got more of an emotional stake in it.

Is Mike saying the orgasm?

Is that the joke? I think so, yeah.

But Standing O is just a normal phrase.

I feel like Standing Orgasm.

What do you want me to do about him, Dan?

I'm sorry I brought him around.

I'm not blaming you.

Grub. I'm not blaming you.

Oh, thank you. I'm blaming Mike.

i was you know i was gonna forget about me no this is not the mic check anymore stop it i was gonna say that i've been experiencing a lot of brain fog recently and doing this first fucking thing on a tuesday does not help anyone sure yeah this doesn't feel like tuesday uh all right uh join bomb .com join uh join bomb is independent if you want to help us out uh you all the money goes to us uh if you've already done that you want to toss us some more bones coffee ko ko dash fi .com slash giant bomb give some more uh uh uh bones over there and if you were the top donator for a month dan reicher what what will we

do we uh and we have a leader right now and we have a picture but yeah the leader for the month will give us a picture that we will all wall display in the back of our frames for the following month uh we need to order these frames yeah i assume digital photo frames if we maybe put them up on a thing or something like it would show on camera right yeah yeah that's what we're looking at right now is getting some like 21 inch digital photo frames and we will proudly display that in the background there's four days left this month right that's that's the end of the period yes and i think tokens only

is still the a leader by a good margin so uh yes so but that that will uh that will go on so pictures coming soon if you're asking why we want physical frames it's because it's funnier yeah way better way better another piece of business happy birthday happy 30th birthday to our own turbo sean yeah he's an old man now 30 oh i remember when he wasn't 30 that's crazy i barely remember it It was so long ago, yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy to jump from 17 to 30, right?

Yeah. Is he going to, like, not be able to make fun of us for being as old anymore now that...

No. Yeah. No, we're a lot older.

We're much older, yeah.

Through the transit of property.

We've talked a lot about this morning about the transit of property.

I think he can still make fun of us.

The good news, Mike, is that now some kids can start making fun of him for being old.

That's all I want. Okay, so he'll join us in that side of things.

Yes. Yes, it is my dream for someone to approach Sean and call him Unc.

Yeah, we can do that.

I get called Unc so much, it's now beyond the point of novel.

It does make sense, yeah.

It's like, you have nieces and nephews, right?

No, no, no. I'm not talking about the people who rightfully deserve to call me Unc.

I'm talking about, like, teammates and people who are my peers.

Uncle Jeff is a thing that I am a little...

It was nice in the beginning, in my late 30s, maybe early 40s.

But now it's like, oh, you're actually worried I'm going to fall down and get hurt.

Well, I mean, aren't you glad to have that care and affection aimed at you?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thanks for letting me see the other side of that, Jan. Maybe start practicing a sport that will give you some leg strength and you won't fall down.

All right, all right.

Jan said care and affection, and I heard care and affection for a bit.

I was like, what is that?

You have that. that yeah i do my mom's care i want to see the manager and tell him that i hope he's having a nice day uh okay wait uh do you guys think you should have to say uncle or aunt when addressing an uncle or an aunt or can you just call them by their first name uh first name i just yeah oh i strongly disagree oh i love this mike why respect yeah so one time i called my aunt my My Aunt Bonnie, Bonnie, when I was like a teenager, and she got so mad that I didn't call her Aunt Bonnie.

She punched you in the face?

I'm a doctor. Yes, that's what she was acting like.

I was like confused for a while, and it took me a long time to piece together.

That's why she was mad.

I wouldn't say anything.

I wouldn't be upset then, but it would deeply hurt me if my nephews and nieces just said, hey, Mike.

Okay, but like imagine him as like 25 -year -olds.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I still do that.

I'm 38, and I have an Uncle Dave. I've only ever called him Uncle Dave. It's weird not to.

I thought my aunt's name was Aunty blah, blah, blah for the longest time.

I think it depends on the person, right?

I think, like, certain people wear the uncle or auntie thing better than others, and I think it's a case -by -case scenario.

Your Uncle Mike's, your Uncle Dave's, like, those are almost by default inseparable.

There are a lot of Uncle Dave's.

Of course. Those are inseparable, right?

Like, they have to be by law.

Do we all have an Uncle John?

No. I do not. My son does.

Pete. My son has an Uncle John.

Okay. Shout out to the Uncle Daves out there.

Both my parents have been married three times, so it's like there's a lot of uncles.

My Uncle Dave is like a former Uncle Dave. You should just call him Former Uncle Dave. Former Uncle Dave, Former Uncle Steve.

Did you have an uncle formerly known as Dave?

Was your uncle when you were like seven?

Because if that's the case, then he's always your uncle.

If he was like an uncle while you were like 12 to 11, yeah.

Yeah, I was like an early teen.

Well, he had the Super Nintendo when we went to my step -grandpa's house, so I would use Uncle Dave's Super Nintendo all the time.

That's for sure. I had Uncle Butchie, and I love saying that.

Oh, that's a fun one.

Ooh, I had Uncle Skeeter.

Really? Yeah, great Uncle Skeeter.

He was great. That's awesome.

What was he great at?

He just played guitars in bars around Kansas.

Yeah, and he helped the Muppets put on the show.

Okay. I had another, and this is a completely unrelated question.

when you're brushing your teeth no uh cold water or hot water to put on the toothbrush before you wash before you cold cold i do cold but it hurts my teeth because my teeth are hot hot water some people some people swear by i'm a cold boy myself i've done hot in the past i can't imagine hot water is is is any meaningful besides the population action yeah for sure yeah yeah i mean who wants to brush their teeth with soup right like i don't know about that that's did you answer jan i didn't hear you if you did oh cold water okay come on cold i mean i'm insane but not that insane yeah sure yeah stop

off dude tell these fucking hot water assholes what is up and what is wrong with them more like hold on i'm gonna brush my teeth i just need the water to warm up what do you mean you shut up like the exposure to the water that's It's just like a quick bit.

Yeah. It's a quick bit.

Who are you? Who are you people where you need warm water to brush your teeth?

I don't understand.

Does it make it scrub better?

Is that the thinking?

I think they're like, you know, hot water kills bacteria is I think the thinking there.

But that's not what brushing the teeth is all about.

For sure. It's about brushing off the bacteria.

I mean, to wash dishes, of course.

Sure. To brush the teeth.

I don't know. Okay.

So I had like a normal toothbrush for a long time that was just like white bristles, and And then I ate a bag of Cheez -Its and immediately brushed my teeth afterwards.

And it turned it like super duper orange.

And so now it looks really gross, but it's not.

It's just like it got some Cheez -It dust on it.

But it looks like this yellowish, orangish.

But it was like clean as a whistle white before that.

Is this a problem? Yeah.

I think looking gross is like 90 % of the thing you don't want your toothbrush to do.

I mean, it makes me upset every time I look at it.

And I have a bunch of backup toothbrushes, so maybe I should just swap it out.

What are we doing here, man?

It's not actually gross.

Yeah, it's not actively gross.

It's just discolored.

I think it's gross if it's changed color on account of your diet.

What are we doing? I'll change it.

Normal Cheez -Its won't do that, and so that's why I wasn't afraid to do that, but I was eating those Quest protein Cheez -Its, and I think those are just way more potent, and it'll They'll totally Nickelodeon orange your toothbrush up.

Sure, yeah. The protein's definitely in the dust. That's where they put the protein, actually.

Dan, I also think for further brushing engagements, maybe it is not the right order of operations to instantly brush your teeth after eating.

But I was eating right before bed.

Have a sip of water.

I fall asleep. Have a sip of water.

Yeah, maybe gargle first before brushing.

I'm telling you that the protein Cheez -Its are potent.

Protein Cheez -Its? Potent protein Cheez -Its.

I don't like any of these sentences.

Everything you've said in the last 10 minutes sucks.

I just got to say. I like unhealthy foods.

And then if you give me a somewhat healthier version of it, like I don't get Skittles anymore.

I have a bunch of those like yum earth things you get from like Whole Foods.

And they're called giggles instead of Skittles.

It's called a scam.

You are scammed by a color.

And that color is the color green.

I was eating them right before we went live.

There's so many. It seems early for that, Dan.

man oh i will wake up i've had stuffed crust pizza and healthy skittles this morning uh you know what i don't say that crust pizza too i think we both had leftover uh wrestling pay -per -view pizza this morning you have domino's uh wrestling pizza no i got papa john's okay okay but we had wrestling pizza this weekend yes they had wrestling pizza for sure that was i got the pac -man donut it's good wrestling show that was a good wrestling show good rest palatro with uh jan you see the Yes, yes I did.

That's pretty cool.

I didn't realize Speedball Bailey does like Mario World speedruns and stuff.

I saw him backstage at Dynamite and didn't really know him, so we didn't talk and now it's like, oh my god, I would have just dorked out with Speedball Bailey about Mario stuff.

He seems awesome. Also, that match was great.

Now is the perfect time to also mention that we have gotten the ability to turn Super Chats on on YouTube.

Folks, it's not a guarantee that we'll get to every single Super Chat that gets sent in.

We will Get to the super chats during the email Segment after we Read the regular deck of emails So if you are on YouTube and you're Positioned to send a super chat Hey holler We're not going to read all of them.

We're going to try To but please please Here's one from Martin also confirming super Chats are active penis Is that our first super chat is penis I think it was actually the second One I think Antonio Martinez who said Bomba gigante day uh should we explain the penis thing to them because that seems like a legacy thing from our shows that is carrying over i just thought it was the word penis was funny i thought that was it it's true i i think what happened the first time is someone just had leftover characters in their super chat so they just threw in an extra penis for us and now everyone ends

their super chats to the gay mess shows with penis give us your extra penises give us you don't have to do that here yeah you can well uh i'm sure that magic the gathering would love to follow all the penis talk with a fun reveal of three new cards for the final fantasy uh set coming out uh we got rufus shinra here um uh scorpion sentinel and cypher almazi here um this this isn't helping my my problem here gang um man i you like drop this on us like like like basically during the meetings it's like oh by the way we have like some magic reveals and we're like what explain I didn't even know it

was the Final Fantasy we got Cypher and Rufus that's awesome look at Rufus that Rufus boss fight and Final Fantasy 7 remake is an all -timer boss fight it's so freaking cool with his coin and his dog and you don't get to pet the dog you get to shoot it I am now concerned about your own dog Mike Minotti and he's great my grandpa's dead my grandpa can't hurt penny that's right what there's a long history of his family just doing all kinds of stuff to dogs don't worry about it what what is one dead let's get through the sponsors okay all right yes yes all right uh uh shots of the magic the gathered

wizards of the coast uh or a bunch of other outlets are revealing uh cards at in lead up to the release of the set kenny omega and adam cole did one at pax east uh so i i think the gauntlet is being thrown down that i think mike and i have to fight blessing and snowbike mike in a 2v2 magic duel i don't think they do that that's cool uh but we'll do it you know they used to do that right that used to be a thing or did i imagine all that we could just do ones on ones and add up tallies we could do a round robin tournament or something all these cards are so cool the scorpion sentinel from final

fantasy set oh the the quotes are so good cloud strife says barrett be careful attack while it's tails up it's gonna care attack with its laser i remember when cloud said that in the video game final fantasy 7 thank you mikey do you remember uh there's no quote on the cypher almazy quote almazy almazy almazy almazy right i i guess i would say oh yeah almazy let's say you say all maisy uh you see uh this one's from the final fantasy 8 set uh because you can see squall over there in the corner uh but yeah these cards are coming out soon uh and i can't wait to have my hands on them how does it just

dirty hands genuinely serious how does it work is it's just like a separate game from like the regular magic stuff no you can just put it in with all the other stuff but like they're making decks that so i think i don't think there's an eight deck there's There's a 7 deck, a 6 deck, a 14 deck, and a 10 deck, commander decks.

Then there's some other stuff.

And then there's just booster packs with all sorts of cards from all across the franchise as well.

Yeah, it looks really cool.

We're getting a ton of amazing art for this thing, just like these cards right here.

It looks really, really cool.

i love final fantasy and i am going incredibly vertical for all this hey do grandpa kill a dog yeah so let's talk about dog murder now um is that what happened okay well this is my story to tell well now is yeah because i don't remember the details i was wondering like are we talking about the one where he shot a dog or is another another one where your grandma hung a dog that's all okay uh you know what wait wait a second wait a second you know let's get to that later like i can't cut the music your grandma hung a dog that dog was fine i saved it mike actually saved the dog it was an accident

all right when i just make it a funny thing okay why did your grandpa shoot a dog the dog he did it because he didn't want it anymore um look it uh that's the option look it was the 2000s all right this was the 80s this was the 70s i think the dog like racist or something like it was my dad's dog and my dad like went away to college my dad went the way to med school and my my grandpa every time my dad called back he'd be like oh yeah the dog's not looking too good today and like each time like oh it's looking worse and worse and eventually like oh the dog died and then my dad found out way later

why the dog died this was premeditated so he like planted the seeds my grandpa didn't kill a dog in anger no well i know like that would be better i don't understand so he like slowly but surely dropped seeds to your dad he's like oh dog's looking shitty yeah yeah yeah for sure uh look you should not have done that is that why you have a weird thing when you can pet a dog in a game that's a thing I would never hurt a dog for god's sake I do see a chat coming in telling me to ask you what side your family fought on in World War 2 well okay my grandpa was Italian well my grandpa was Italian so he

lived in Italy during the 30s and early 40s Yeah, he fought for – It's not like he was selecting from a menu game.

I get it. It's not like he didn't get the bag.

I'm not a history bug.

Didn't you say you have family from Germany?

I think so. Yeah, what do you think they were doing during World War II?

I don't know them. I get it.

Just following orders, huh?

Well, he was eventually captured by the Nazis instead because they turned against Italy, and they killed everybody in his platoon but him and his friend because they could cut hair.

so then they had a there are barbers in some pow camp and then it was liberated by the americans right but like they didn't trust the americans yet either because they were just fighting them a few years ago so they had to kind of just like slowly they just kind of stayed in their bunker for a few days because they're afraid to get out then finally just sort of left just kind of walked out and i think they're in germany or france and they just started walking back to italy or something and they eventually got there thanks to magic the gathering for uh sweet that's pretty again so once again the cars

are roof is shouldn't ride scorpion sentinel cypher all mazy set coming out during the summer yeah he was adopted in italy his his mother was a a famous uh opera singer so so so so if your grandfather is your grandfather yeah my grandpa manati so if you're so so if grandpa manati wasn't a good barber you would not be alive mikey he wasn't even that good He would cut my dad's hair was terrible and there's some sort of irony with you being bald and all this You can't trust bald barbers okay, just can't Alright shit he earned it, okay I'm glad all both of my grandpas are dead and I never met them.

So I didn't learn any deep lore That's probably for the best, Jan God, he loved wine My dad never drank much But my grandpa Later on when I smell wines at dawn I'm like, that's grandpa Now I understand why he smelled like that I smell it and I think it's church Yeah, kind of like that But the Italian wine is more intense Church or Mike Mahardy Sure, yeah Is Italian wine Like, is that higher Like, high brow, low brow in compared to Italian brain rot, Mike.

Italian brain rot, Mike.

I like that. All right, games.

Jeff Grubb and I recorded a quick look over the weekend for Despelote, a very relevant game compared to everything we've talked about.

Oh, yeah, very mine.

It handles childhood memories in, Grubb, where is it again?

Is it in Ecuador? It's in Ecuador, yeah.

It travels throughout the different gates of the team ecuador trying to qualify for the world cup um the quick look is probably going to go up after the show today i don't have any more expanded thoughts than how grub talked about it uh the last time we brought up but despilote is such a fantastic indie vehicle for like telling someone's story uh it means that they do it and like there are select pieces that are kind of highlighted or stick out from like the this person's memories from like these specific events it's really neat i do like the blurred out kind of um the d -res textures of some of the uh

other areas in it it's it's really cool i'm a sucker for whenever they show real footage um amidst like game stuff that's about a solid one because i have the same way but it's not exactly like that was just full -on fmv of like nukes going off this one is like you'll see a tv of a soccer game game in the midst of a like diegetically like imposed into like it looks really cool yeah it's great yeah yeah the visual style like it serves a purpose while also looking fantastic that's a good thing for an indie game to kind of pull off for sure yeah very small team uh the game is like less than three

four hours so if you're looking to uh have an emotional quick emotional journey that you can experience 100 go with that also you can kick a shrek dvd so that's fantastic oh Oh, cool.

That's right. Speaking about kicking things, we kicked it on Friday by playing the Mosquito Gang.

That was fun. It was fun.

We had a good time.

A mosquito cover of, what, Gasolina and All Star and Gangster's Paradise, right?

Yeah. Yes. Played on the kazoo to sound like a mosquito.

Yeah, it's very good.

good this is you know this is one of these uh asymmetrical multiplayer games one versus a team of players it's best if you have friends like doing all the roles sure uh i don't i don't know if i'll ever play this game again but it's one of those games where i'm like i'm very glad we had an excuse to do it because it was an awesome afternoon right it was one v4 so it was like perfect for us yeah it's not like you know is it balanced very well right now but is it really silly and funny yes yeah it uh it definitely felt like one of those like texas chainsaw massacre or Or what's the really big one?

Dead by Daylight, where you may be better served if there was progress carried over from round to round.

Because the human is definitely a little bit lacking in the lead up.

You know, we weren't doing like, like someone pointed out, like, had we been closing doors behind us in one of these levels?

And then the mosquitoes had to fly down and go through the little trap door.

It's like, oh, duh.

We just weren't even thinking that deep.

let alone like probably there's probably a couple more levels below that that we didn't even scratch so the fact that we weren't doing the most basic stuff makes a lot of sense although you know the so the way it was working for us playing as the human was like you know try to kill them as much as you can throughout the level really though if you could just kill one at the very end you win because all four have to escape for for the the mosquitoes to win so it kind of did bring it all down to that one moment so it's like if they were if i were designing this i would try to find more ways to mitigate

that or kind of force confrontations at other points but for what it is again we were having a good time and i do wish that like there are parts where it's like there's one that's like a jurassic park level basically and there's like a big mosquito in a tube and there's like three color -coded like you know chemicals you can put in and i thought that something was going to happen where it's like oh it's going to let this big mosquito loose and help me or whatever but it's just like everything just kind of winds up giving you money you know so i mean again small team small game but like uh you know

some more fun things i could have done with it yeah i was a pleasantly surprised after upf uh also we need more mosquito games yeah yeah yeah i did someone say in the chat that there was a mr mr mosquito 2 that only came out in japan because if that's the case i think that's true gotta try that i i'll find out right now grub yeah let me know um all right moving along the train of games speaking about trains dan reicher you played monster train 2 oh my goodness i have been deep in that um i didn't play the first one what's that i said nice oh yes uh bonk had played the first one i know she or she

was big on like slay the spires she got me kind of into that and i think i always thought that monster train was just like a slay the spire thing but it's it is in a way that it's a deck builder but there's also some like i don't want to call it auto battling because i think that's selling it short but it's like you're kind of placing your units uh on the three levels of the train to start and then the actual battles aren't like you aren't playing a card every single time you're attacking you kind of set up the pieces and then a combat run goes almost like the unicorn overlord you know where it's

like you just kind of watch the battles and you kind of set the pieces in motion um but yeah it's really cool like you'll get your like primary clan your secondary one and so you can mix those cards there's a lot of fun like synergies and things like that um i'm like i think i played like seven or eight hours this weekend and i still feel like i'm very very early on i've only unlocked three of the five like factions very very intimidating at first that you know there's i've played slay the spire in some games like this but it's just like a lot of learning like what these terms are what you know

valor means what all these different like but but the tool tip situation is is very very good so if you're ever confused about what something does all the stuff is right there for you to figure it out so yeah it's uh really really loving it it's more different than slay the spire than i expected but uh just having a great time with it yeah out of all of the games that kind of came after slay the spire i think monster train one is the one that hit with me the most i know there was uh grift lands and that didn't really land with me too much uh the steam world um what was the card based one they're

all card based well uh there was like one that it was like medieval evil setting uh and you're like a party of three i know what you're talking hand of gilgamesh thank you oh yeah yeah yeah gilgamesh yes yeah uh and and that didn't really resonate with me i'm really excited to check out monster train 2 uh dan does it still have like the weird hell versus heaven aesthetic of everything it's got some of that going on honestly the narrative stuff i've just been kind of blazing through it does not seem important to me at least um so yeah i just kind I kind of went right through it.

But incredible Steam Deck game, obviously.

Real quick, I was able to confirm the existence of Mr. Mosquito 2 by going to the Giantess Wiki, which is one of the first results when you Google Mr. Mosquito 2 because all the characters are going to be gigantic, and apparently they're fans of that on the Giantess Wiki.

I heard Giantess as in, like, a giant scientist, but you mean the fetish.

I mean the fetish, yes.

Yeah, they don't have a giant scientist. Thanks for clarifying, man.

I appreciate that. Jan, transition to a game that I didn't play.

I gotta go to the bathroom oh there you go okay I was about to queue up another one of his games uh but instead uh I'll just talk okay he looked like he's about to shit his pants as he walked away something snuck up and bit him right you saw that right all of a sudden he's about to inflict doom on a toilet I believe but Mike Manati you've been playing doom too yeah yeah um I i kind of got that doom 1 plus 2 more recent compilation remastering uh that's it's not on everything but i was playing it on switch you know i played these games back in the day but i didn't beat them so i finished doom 1

i'm like man that's still really good i played even less of doom 2 back then you know i think the subtitle was hell on earth and as a kid i was like i think this might be uh too much for me it has the word hell in it like that's a swear and like what will I do if my parents catch me playing this so it's funny to play it now be like oh this is basically just Doom 1 with some extra stuff and the extra stuff is cool you get the super shotgun for the first time you get the revenants the maps are really big you got some set and you know like things that look like cities but still very much that Doom

1 tech but playing through it was a ton of fun so I was actually shocked how much fun I still have playing through Doom 1 and Doom 2 you know like Like, the Dark Ages is out, and that's great, and I've been playing that when I can.

But, you know, it's very easy for me to play games at night in my bed.

So, this has been sort of my go -to for that.

And, you know, I map quick save to up on the D -pad, quick load to down the D -pad.

I'm not being too precious about that.

I'll just save and load as much as I need to so I can kind of get through everything and see it.

And it's still a ton of fun, and it still feels like a good challenge doing that.

that is kind of clawing and scraping your way through all these difficult levels.

It's ripping and tearing, actually.

Yeah, my bad. Actually, you're right.

That's embarrassing.

I apologize deeply.

But, yeah, I've played some of these newer boomer shooters, and they're fun.

I know Dan played Bolt Gun.

He's going to talk about that.

I liked Bolt Gun, but I kind of fell off that.

It's kind of weird to me.

It's like, oh, actually, just like Doom, the game that started all this, its direct sequel is still better than a lot of these even today.

day yeah i i uh bolt gun's getting a sequel or dlc or something it's getting a full sequel all right yeah it's it is weird like how hard it is for indie games that are clearly inspired by genres like that to recapture that so yeah when i went back to doom 1 and doom 2 when that got that night dive treatment it was like yeah this is refreshing and how much it holds up i'm glad it still does i'm glad here doom 2 does as well what's wild is there's so much more in this compilation like yeah it's doing one thing too but it's all these other campaigns from like you know like compilations for fans that were officially

released at some point um john romero twice went back and just made like new campaigns um something with an s like uh sigil sigil sigil one and sigil one and sigil two that i think we're definitely the 20th and then 30th anniversaries of doom so i could just go and play like tons more og doom if i wanted to and i like almost kind of jewels so yeah if you um if you are curious about playing just the og doom it is still a ton of fun works great on switch so I'm sure it works great everywhere uh I mean it should it's a very old game but for so long Jeff you know this we just didn't get good doom

ports it was a very difficult thing I uh I've never played any of the original dooms really not even touched them no I I mean on a friend I don't think I don't remember if it was doom but a friend showed me on his TI -84 Texas Instruments calculator I think it was Doom it was probably Doom do you think that's just a consequence of like your generational blinders I didn't have access to a PC maybe until high school in terms of something that could actually play something hearing Mike wax poetically about these previous Doom ports makes me curious I mean it helps us cause it's like for us it was everywhere it

was inescapable and then you know I played it a lot at the time but it's like even now when I think about it it's this important thing so it's like an artifact almost if you don't have that context I wonder if it changes things a little bit yeah it was like you were talking about it last week and I was thinking about like my first memories of playing it and it was sort of like the first exposure I had to like gore yeah you know like like video game gore and then you know doom does that weird thing where like all the sprites face you no matter where you're looking yeah and it kind of like makes

it all about you in a weird way right where you're just like forced to kind of like face that and to hear the sounds and do all that yeah it's uh i do yeah maybe i was just a little soft when i first was exposed to doom but doom kind of scared me a little bit guys like it was scary doom was like a little i think a little above my head when i when i on board sorry dan i'm too soft for you and i'm i mean i'm younger than you and i thought doom was cool as hell as a kid yeah i'm you know look i'm just being honest with my emotions you know just trying to tell the truth here it's as close to essential

reading as we get it with video games where everyone should play some doom okay okay i played some of that doom one plus two if that's what we're talking about yeah night dive stuff very very good really enjoying that fantastic thanks how are you how are you playing it are you playing on the switch like mike or what um no i started playing on with controller on the big screen and then i uh played with uh mouse and keyboard and it's like ah this actually feels right because you know as much as i didn't play pc games growing up doom since it was sprite based basically like my computer could actually

run it and so like it did the mouse and keyboard or specifically the keyboard i guess felt uh right you know yes exactly the keyboard or is the difference there yeah for sure yeah because it's almost weird having the mouse and then it's like well obviously you can't look up and down and stuff like that no mouse look yeah yep yep uh it's it's so interesting hearing y 'all talk about how scary it was and i remember brad talking about how formative doom was for him also yeah just me seeing it now in where i'm at it's like this was scary guys yeah i mean yeah it was the installation was scary you know

you had to to like jump through hoops to get it to fucking run and then all the sounds like the roaring i thought never -ending story was terrifying oh that was like the first movie i saw in theaters was never -ending story one or two and yeah scarred me yeah i don't know how falcor was supposed to be like a friendly character that shit is scary i i think the rock thing is scarier than falcor scary asshole like falcor is just a big dog right yeah long dog long dog with like a flying long dog who's never you know i watched the rock on sunday night the rock is really good you said the work you said

the rock and he heard it and so now he wants to talk about the rock again in case anyone was wondering what was going on i saw the rock this weekend again the rock's good yeah we know we we know zx poison gas like we know i made a cocktail based on v i made a vx vial cocktails for me and my friends that looked like the little green gimmicks and we drank it was made with midori and it was good and then we watched the rock did your face melt at the speed to sound or whatever he says like yeah yes it's with dory apple adjacent melon yeah it's a melon liqueur all right uh speaking about quick looks

uh grubb and i also did one for tmnt tactical takedown uh this comes from strange scaffold i in in the span of that quick look grub i had told you that i went from not liking the game to enjoying the game and unfortunately i think i'm back to not liking the game um in terms of like a tactics game this is like super duper light and it's kind of a bummer especially after the tactics genre had such a strong year last year with uh tactical breach wizards which is a super fantastic game uh for you tile sickos like me out there but i think where this falls short is that everything is fairly light because Because the character

pieces, like the turtles, the enemies, they all look like board game pieces.

Like Warhammer figures that are stuck to a platform.

And on top of that, each level you are playing, you are only playing as one turtle.

And that kind of defeats the purpose for me.

Because, like, you know, when you play those beat -em -up games, part of the fun is playing with and seeing all of the turtles.

I understand if you're playing solo dolo that you'd only be playing as one.

but in a tactic setting where you could take your time, I feel like it would have lended itself to the benefit of the game to be able to play as at least two Turtles at a time.

I've got to be honest, I didn't get to watch that Quick Look yet.

I would have expected to play as all four Ninja Turtles.

I assumed that as well, yeah.

It's weird. That being said, the combat is fine.

I think Leonardo and Raphael are definitely more of, uh, much more fun to play as.

Uh, this, uh, tactical takedown does a thing that is very popular in all tactics games now where you just want to kind of kick someone off the edge of, uh, the level screen.

And that's fun. There is some synergy with the moves.

So for instance, like Leonardo, if you knock out an enemy, uh, with one of his, uh, attacks, he gets like a a buff and that leads into a more powerful attack the next action that he takes but overall it does feel kind of super duper light it also doesn't control well on a steam deck uh for me this is like such a minor nitpick but with a a tactics game that has a grid a tile grid on it i need to be able to use a d -pad um and just being stuck with using an analog stick doesn't feel the best the writing is also super light which is kind of a surprise to me given strange scaffolds history with like

making banger stories and having like really fantastic writing um it is a fairly uh like just feature light game um which is kind of a bummer because i'm just as much of a turtle sicko as i am a power rangers sicko um but yeah if there was an option to maybe replace some of the levels as other turtles that could be cool i just don't see this game being able to integrate uh playing as multiple turtles in a stage that being said in the future i think it'd be sick as fuck to have an x -com style like game with uh all of the turtles at once maybe you throw in a casey jones in there as well perhaps

an april o 'neill i'll give me april okay i'll give you april uh maybe a subtle give him hey april don't give it to him for uh now i feel tainted uh because yeah are you okay uh no i feel tainted because of mike's uh just outright need for people yes jan jan zachmo wants to know from a super chat who everyone's favorite turtle is we know that we know that you're a leo guy dan you're a donatello yeah really because i could see you being like donatello's a nerd and a loser but you like you're smart and you at a bo staff that's who i was for halloween yeah but like they're all cool jane by the way

jane i'm sorry about your please the transition was happening and i saw it i know and hang on to it hang on mike okay it was a balance because mike said well we're getting money so oh i understand that but yeah yeah i saw where jay was going i don't want to yeah let's let's finish with the michelangelo i'm i'm a basic bitch i didn't like michelangelo oh yeah no he wasn't taking it seriously enough oh my lord too much of a goober yeah donatello could fight and he could do machines i don't know if there is a funnier reason you could have said for not liking something i don't think there is a funnier

thing you could have said there were stakes there's a fucking technodrome out there you can't be someone's not taking it seriously therefore dan reicher cannot respect it he wasn't the only one advocating for pizza though i know they all want a pizza but he seemed distracted by pizza where the others were like well we have to eat to fuel ourselves i'm just saying you're pitting all the pizza shit on of michelangelo and i think that's a disservice to the rest of the group i wasn't the only one advocate bachelor who's your favorite i i embraced the the the the entire group i guess i really kind

of liked rafael maybe more based on you hate splinter though right because you're like he's not a real dad well that's a call track forgot about that but a father figure and an important one and an invaluable one uh of course like i love splinter he's also seems like the one i'd want to most cozy up with and like give a hug to sure um do you guys remember the michael bay tmnt movies that no i've never seen them okay well splinter is played by tony shalhoub monk really that's actually amazing and further solidifies my coziness uh declaration but you know rafael was kind of funny in the movies too

because he was sort of like he sort of had this brooklyn accent for no reason he swore they're from new york that's a reason yeah well uh he swore what do you mean in that movie he said damn he said damn that's not swearing that's a swear that's a swear that's the entry -level swear look he didn't say fuck but my kid's been singing that um steve's lava chicken song and he says hell in that so addy keeps singing it and she says hell every time she looks at me every time and every time i laugh because it's the funniest thing your kids say hell um all right because his name's like mine okay great uh

worst reason okay yeah leonardo just seemed like a cop i guess a little bit um i just like all the boy scout characters it's leonardo captain america it's cyclops it's simon from the chipmunks but i do think i don't think any turtle gets like more hate than the other ones you know like or deserves more i think yeah i think as far as like four characters are concerned they really did a good job at developing like that stuff in a pretty surprising way you know guys if you look at the fucking lore behind cyclops and leonardo they're not fucking cops all right that is what propaganda is put in your fucking

heads pick up a goddamn book mike tainted my segue so grubb tainted grail The Fall of Avalon.

Alright, yeah. Good job.

Good job. He does wear blue.

Let's just say. Okay, he does wear blue.

Got us back on track.

So does Paddington.

Is Paddington a cop?

He's just a bear obsessed with marmalade.

I haven't seen him.

That's rage. 78 might be low.

Oh, God. Yeah. Alright, have any of you heard of Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon?

No. Is that, like, King Arthur shit?

It is King Arthur shit.

yeah it's um okay here's how it starts you uh select some character qualities while someone talks to you they happen to be on the other side of a jail cell you're inside the jail cell and you have to escape this jail cell dungeon from the bottom of this cat it's oblivion it it's so oblivion not what i was expecting this looks fancy it's surprised so i think there's a this thing where it's like there's a lot of people who are like man all i ever want to do or play these Bethesda open -world RPGs, people should make more of those.

This is someone saying, we'll do that, and we're going to do it with Arthurian Legend, and we'll have all the magic stuff you like.

It is an open -world action Western RPG with pretty decent production values and storytelling and acting.

It's not like trying to be AAA blockbuster on a level for all of those qualities, but it's really good in all of those qualities, at least so far.

and i'm surprised at how fun it is to play um i think they kind of rub off some of the rough edges from the genre where it's like oh the lock picking works just like oblivion but it's a little bit easier actually actually you know what that one's more like skyrim they don't use the oblivion lock picking there but either way they are picking from the genre doing the stuff that people like and delivering something i think is pretty good i've only just kind of started getting in there and seeing how it operates so i'll be curious to see if it can keep my interest like what are the quest like i don't

have answers to that right now because i've not gone deep on any of the quests but the initial sort of uh like the way it introduces itself to the player i thought worked really well is uh king arthur real uh like oh um like the guy yeah the real person i don't know probably but it was like very old so is this based in like does this have magic and stuff in it or is this trying to be like realistic in the video i'm watching right now as i talk to you there's a guy that just rubbed his hand on a sword and the sword caught on fire and that's not a that's not a shoe so historical context but with uh

fantasy elements you know the historical context is you're over it's like it's pulling from the myth the arthur legend so whether he's real or not doesn't matter like that's at the end they're not they're not worried about you weren't asking if magic's real i know i know magic's not real right just i'm just putting it out there was real i knew a deadly more there's there might have been arthur but he would not have resembled anything that you think of when you think about King Arthur.

It'd be completely unrelated to everything you've ever heard about him.

Okay, so this is not a Kingdom Come realistic thing.

No, no, no, no, no. But it's still in that open -world RPG genre, although that Kingdom Come's very much about being a dude, having to do these things in that world, and this is...

No, you're going to go learn some magic spells, and you're going to get some cool armor and some cool items and equip those to your character, and so you can go do more quests and get even cooler items. I am happy to see a game like this can be pulled off uh without having to be like one of the biggest games in the world right sure and for a long period there to make a game this robust and with this like you know the size of a world you'd have to justify it by being like well we're gonna sell a ton of copies and we can make it make sense that way here it's like no they're just gonna do their thing

because they like it and I think there's gonna be an audience there for it so it's why we weren't getting very many of these games for a while and then like this year the the floodgates have opened quite a bit, so we got Kingdom Come, we did get Avowed, we got Oblivion, and now this.

Just tons of these now.

Avowed was this year, right?

That was this year.

Yeah, earlier this year.

Holy smokes. Wow. All right, moving on to things that may be questionable if they are real or not.

Warhammer Boltgun Words of Vengeance.

Yes. Look, any game comes out and it's a typing of the dead, like i'm gonna play it uh that's all i need and that's all this is it's it's free to play uh play it on steam i assume it's just on steam unless it'd be weird to plug in a keyboard to a console but um yeah it's the same type of thing where you're typing it in uh words as it pops up above characters heads to kill them and shoot them and then occasionally there will be a guy flying around throwing fireballs at you and stuff you gotta like you know individual letters real quick before they hit you it is straight up typing the dead it's not trying

to be anything else and And that is like my favorite one -off weird experiment was like, oh, let's take this established franchise and just make it a typing game.

Which that went further where it's like they got Dreamcast strapped to their backs and everything.

Why am I not doing this?

Doing what? Like the typing stuff.

It seems like it's for me.

Oh, yeah. Have you not played Typing the Dead?

I played Typing the Dead.

Okay. Well, then try this out.

The only thing I don't love about this is that so many of the things are like proper nouns from the Warhammer universe.

There's a certain amount of muscle memory where it's like I'm typing in sentence.

That's how Typing the Dead did it.

Whereas this will be like, it's Herald of Phenoxydylf, and it's like I'm not used to typing this or whatever.

That's stupid. That's a little hard. I wish I could toggle off, like hey, just make this real words, but it's still very fun.

What kind of keyboard are you rocking with this?

Are we like, let's get into details.

The one you recommended to me, this guy.

Oh, the Keychron? Yeah, Keychron, yeah, yeah.

Actually no, I guess I was playing it with a wireless earlier, but yeah.

Oh, so you just lied.

Got it. Okay, cool.

That's right. Bacalar, did you ever check out Crypt Master?

That was another type of game.

Oh, yeah. I know I was supposed to do it.

I installed it, and then, I don't know, I just kept kind of living my life and not going and playing that game.

That game's so interesting and weird. I like it a lot.

I gotta fucking get back to that.

All right. I'll do it.

I'm a big fan of games that are just in black and white.

Yeah. Yeah. Just like the television that my grandmother used to watch. Speaking about grandmas, Dan, you've been playing something called Grandma.

No! yeah with an exclamation point yeah uh it's very octo dad uh ask it's in the octo dad genre and that it's a it's just a family at home and it's very physics -y and wobbly and weird and uh except for instead of an octopus you're a grandma and uh you're just there's a few areas there's like the foyer the backyard the living room and there's just dumb shit you have to do like you've got a quest log that pops up with like, okay, plant these seeds, do this thing.

Uh, and you're usually just like fighting with physics and carrying things around, cleaning things up.

Uh, sometimes it'll, it'll spawn like a warrior where type mini game where it's just like, you're controlling her hands as you're like sorting things and stuff like that.

Uh, there's a fart button and, uh, that's fun.

It does the stink lines and everything.

Um, and then sometimes it's either a puke or a sneeze button.

I'm not sure. Um, depending on the, like when you go in the backyard, the fart button and was making me like eject green stuff from my face which i feel maybe they're trying to do a sneeze thing with that but uh yeah i don't know we gotta figure out the answer this day and i'm not gonna be able to rest until i know if it's puke or if it's snot i don't i don't remember i think it was a lot like when i think vomit i don't think green i don't think green vomit i think like a brownish brownish uh thing where it's like i think this is a sneeze i believe okay um but yeah It's one of those games where you watch

two seconds of it in a video and it's like, oh, I get what this is going to be.

It's going to be a silly, fun...

I streamed it and I saw credits.

It's a short game. It definitely was making me laugh throughout.

Do you take damage or is it just causing havoc?

What's the risk -reward here?

I don't think I died at any point.

It's just like, hey, plant...

No, you fall down a lot and you have to press buttons to get back up.

but there's no lives.

I don't remember any kind of game over screen.

It would just be like, oh, I need to plant these four seeds or I need to cut this lawn or, you know, do this thing.

I'm going to put this in front of my kids.

Like, I want to play it too, but I'm going to put this in front of my kids and I bet they're going to have fun with it.

It looks goat simulator -esque.

Yes, yeah, totally in that vein, yes.

I bet your kids will like it.

Okay, cool. Oh, man, those are some cool raccoons too.

They'll like that. This grandma looks like my shoot grandma and I think I may be compelled to play this.

She's also very little and has long, stretchy arms. um uh speaking about grandma's uh no one i haven't seen a grandma in this video game i don't know who put this on claire obscure expedition 33 yeah i've been playing even more of this this long weekend spent a lot of time streaming and playing that and i think you know everyone knows this game is very very good but boy this game is very very very very good i like like i don't mean to merely pit it against something you know like last year there was metaphor fantasia i was like i can't believe we got such a good one of these maybe the best one

we've gotten since the golden age of jrpgs and unless this game somehow like really doesn't stick the landing i probably like this even more than metaphor it's so freaking i think i'm with you mike it's just it's you know metaphor there are times it's like okay time to take a break i almost never want to stop playing this game it's just a matter of i guess i better go to bed or something now or people are expecting me to be at this place so i guess i gotta say goodbye to my french family for for a bit that's really great because you know like i'm like 20 hours in now so the amount of character

customization is fantastic with the pigtails that kind of give you different perks um and each weapon is you know weapons aren't just stat sticks they also have their own kind of um passives that really change the way you play with the character um It's just, like, combine that stuff.

I just have these character builds.

It almost feels like I'm cheating sometimes, how overpowered they are.

Like, Lunay is kind of the wizard of the group.

If I shoot people, I get these stacks, and then I can spend those on spells.

And I'm just, like, doing that so much in my first turn, dealing massive amounts of damage and massive amounts of break damage.

So characters are getting stunned.

It is feeling so satisfying.

fine and the story beats just keep coming um a party member tried to proposition me on my last playthrough it was very exciting but i had to say no because i may be more interested in a different party member but the game was like very much like you know trying to tell me it's okay like um yeah so i was disappointed but she understands and in fact you're better friends i'm like okay game thank you for taking the guilt away i felt terrible uh because you felt guilty for not sleeping with this character okay all right i thought you were saying the game was saying it's okay sleep with this one because you'll

still get to sleep with the other one if i ask my chat they're very like don't don't sleep with her you won't get to sleep with the other one all right all right that's important i get it uh mike how do you feel about the pacing of this because you know part of i i can't look at metaphor as fondly because of how much time i i spent in that world yeah you know i i like metaphor a lot i think all these jrpgs being 80 hours or more i think this is i think it's a bit of a mistake that we've gotten a little comfortable with this and it's funny with metaphor because persona did so much of making that a thing

right yeah so i kind of get it with those games there's so much of the social aspect and doing all of that right but even that sometimes the pacing is a little bit weird where maybe you're doing that social stuff more than just dungeons you kind of wish there was a bit more of that here there is still like a campsite you can talk to people and slow down a bit but there is a lot more combat and action and important story beats here the pacing is pretty immaculate it's about as good as you can get one it's not quite like chrono trigger i think is the all -star when it comes to pacing and uh in the jrpg

right just kind of just goes goes goes and keeps staying interesting it It keeps showing you new things.

I really like that this game has meaty dungeons.

Like when you get to a dungeon, you're going to maybe be there for an hour or so and you are exploring and you're fighting and there might be little story segments here and there, but no, it's just you get to play the game for a good while and the combat is so fun that you're happy about that.

Yeah, I think Expedition 33 is kind of breaking.

It's selling really well, but my normie friends are like waxing poetically about it it and i never would have thought to be on their radar when like it broke through for sure it broke through my um my younger brother i think the last turn -based rpg he beats was uh eternal sonata for 76 by 360 just not really his genre big chopan fan yeah big yeah exactly but no he he's even further than me in this one now yeah yeah that's funny okay uh all right last game before we head had to break i really need to see this game in action grub yeah we'll make it happen this week i need you to deliver because apparently

you've been playing a lot more road craft yeah yeah things finally kind of settled down for me a little bit i also did get a new cpu for my computer which uh helped because now games load uh and they weren't there for a second you put it in yourself yeah i've built some pcs before dan yeah jesus that's so scary i had to go to best buy and get some thermal paste because i couldn't find mine yeah it's like buying dynamite that seems Seems like it should be a little, yeah, you have to call the cops for us just to let them know.

Yeah. Yeah. The house could explode.

So just be ready. Uh, yeah, put that CPU in.

That was nice. Uh, I actually went up a generation cause I'm like, if I'm going to stick with this Intel, I might as well get the newer one.

Maybe it's a little bit better, but I upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard. So hopefully this one doesn't just fry itself over time.

Uh, either way played a lot more road craft and I actually ended up playing a lot on the steam deck as well.

I kind of got the settings dialed in there.

So it's running at like 45 to 60 frames per second.

It's nice, whatever.

The, I'm starting to like really learn how this game is different from MudRunners and SnowRunners and kind of what it's trying to do.

I'll say upfront, I can't stop playing it.

It's the process of here is a problem at this place.

You need to get to that place to deal with the problem.

And along the way, you might discover some other problems like, hey, this road is, it's a road, but it's kind of falling apart.

Maybe you should just rebuild this one patch patch and so I'm like okay great I'm gonna go get my my light equipment moving truck I'm gonna throw the asphalt lane truck on the back of that I'll drive it over there because it's so slow it would take forever to drive it over there so I'll just put it on the trunk you know I'll haul it drop that down go get the the pavement smoother go get the um the the big thing that like moves rocks out of the way but can also pave sand to make sure the sand is even uh I'll go I'll go i'll get all these tools and i'll just find myself be like this is just one

patch on one road to accomplish something else and i'm just in heaven like figuring out all the little things i need to do in this process to make sure that now when i go to my home base and i need to get somewhere else well i can have a little bit of relief because i know that i've built up that road and it's going to work which is especially important because there's also like this automated side of things where you can set up these paths for resources to go in other trucks that you don't control.

And if there is a road that is particularly muddy, they'll get stuck.

And so the game is really focused on you just fixing stuff up as opposed to like the very specifics of managing a single truck, which is kind of what MudRunner and SnowRunner would do.

So you would have a tank of gas and you would lose fuel over time.

And so you had to be like on top of that.

So if a truck got too far away and it was going to run out of fuel, you're like, well, this sucks.

I'm gonna gonna have to bring out another truck filled with fuel to put more fuel in this truck so it can get to its end there's none of that in this game every truck has unlimited uh gasoline and instead there's like fuel tokens you can use to teleport them to another kind of truck to like make it easier to accomplish what you're trying to do these changes are are i'm getting used to them and i wasn't sure how i felt about them but i'm at a point where i can't stop playing so i think this is a different different flavor that I'm just as much a fan of, even if it's not exactly what I would have asked

them for. Well, when it was like, I like the managing the fuel that that's the kind of thing that is like, Oh, I want to think about that.

I want to find myself in situations where I made this worse for myself.

Cause I didn't plan ahead.

And I want to deal with those consequences.

There are other forms of that here.

And mostly that has to do with like, Oh, I drove that truck to the other side of the map.

What can I do to like, get it over here to actually do this?

Do I buy a new truck do i go get it and take forever to get it over here there's things like that i i have not played multiplayer yet i'm very curious to see how that works because like four people working on one project at a time you could just see how like you divide things up very quickly and everyone's like no you're just in charge of paving this road don't worry about anything else i'll bring you all the materials i'll go get the sand or whatever and uh yeah i could see that being a lot of fun so really into my shit with this game very happy with how how it how it's landing even if it is a little

bit different than i think what people were expecting someone who still never played any of these which which one do you think i would dive into if i was going to i think this one has like the most uh easy to understand goals right because it is like you want to just rebuild a road that's easier to understand than some of the like oh go get a terrain scanner and drop it off in this one location but intrinsically that's just not as interesting as what you're doing here so this and also this one might be a little bit easier because you aren't dealing with with resources like fuel it is like your

truck just goes forever which i think is what most people assumed happened when you get into a truck in a video game it's just gonna go who cares about gasoline but yeah that that makes a difference with this one i i want to try it multiplayer we'll see how it goes hell yeah uh all right gang that about does it for game talk we're gonna take a quick bricky break and we will be back with the news right right after this a new era of power has arrived with the alienware area 51 gaming laptops intentionally engineered to push more power to the cpu and gpu for maximum performance this otherworldly

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It says 2v2 Magic the Gathering is alive and well the format is called two -headed giant where the players on each team act as one of the heads uh i i would like to see a two -headed giant match of mike manatee and janicella versus whoever kind of funny wants to produce that'd be a big let's do it sounds like a threat mike get on my shoulders oh cool uh is it yeah okay well maybe in a pool i mean no i can do it uh all right Here's the news.

Nintendo Switch 2 consoles have been spotted at US retailers ahead of launch. These pictures are everywhere.

How's no one just taken one?

I'm not saying someone should.

Nintendo will shoot you.

I guess that's why people aren't doing it.

It could be done, I'm sure.

I'm surprised they haven't.

Do you think they'd be bricked upon launch because it's before the date?

If you had a cartridge, I mean, you're not downloading games, but if you had a cartridge, it would work.

i'd be scared to turn it on not gonna lie yeah reggie's got a fuse in there now there's no wi -fi yeah well i was gonna say or at least connected to the internet just get a fairday fairday box fairday cage fairday cage thank you yes uh so go in there switch to a branded fairday cage um yeah it look i guess all that matters here is these things are are real they're in stores like in the back rooms right now so seems like they are ready for launch like they're actually gonna have these things ready to go uh was that a question though it feels real now you know it feels real and also like i think

there might have been a question of like logistically are they going to be able to get out the million and a half that they want to have week one it seems like it's leaning in that direction like they're actually going to be to meet this demand early early on which how many of us are going to have it with us in la somehow me yeah i'll have when is it coming on the fifth oh no i fly out that day so now i'm flying out late on the fifth to make sure i get mine first no i had to fly out early because newark airport is a hellscape right but grub you and i are earlier than that how are you are you getting

it's sent to la yeah it's gonna be at nicky's house yeah incredible yeah so i mean like my plan is kind of like look we're doing a lot of stuff we got gb at night we have all this stuff my plan is to kind of badger you guys to like make a bunch of switch to stuff whenever we have free time i'm like we should just find with that place a mario kart and do some like let's take some time here and like record something real fast i'm playing soul calmer 2 against mike yeah i cannot cannot wait seriously i'm so excited for that i didn't place a pre -order but i and i know that we have an insane amount

of things to do once we get on the ground in la but i kind of want to try and roll up to a store and get one i think yeah i think you'll be able to like you do like well could we do the midnight release thing like i used to do that for like every console i am going to a midnight release um any uh best buy anyways because my brother's picking his up there and i just like pre -ordered a case there but like they are apparently gonna have some to sell and i might like just get one there if I can and then I you know there's somebody who will buy my Walmart one that's coming in the mail although I thinking

about it like I remember not midnight releases as much as like I remember ps2 sleeping outside of a best buy 360 best buy and it's like it's an overnight thing and then it's like six seven in the morning or whenever they open that's when they did it like oh right yeah for sure like what is the option if you want to do it in person like that now it's midnight now no it's midnight yeah but it's you know there's fewer options than the heyday of midnight releases but um yes they would be like you you some people maybe will sleep they over there but no you're not gonna have to do that because you're

gonna pre -order uh and then there's going to be a handful in the store so yeah people will line up and it'll open at midnight they'll like you know refreshments and stuff like that and then you go into the game stop or best buy those are the two places doing it maybe targets doing it as well i can't remember i have fond memories of that i really do it's just like it's a long wait you're uncomfortable i remember the The PS2 one was in the rain for me, but it was just, like, everyone's just so excited.

Everyone's talking about what games they're going to get.

Like, people are tossing footballs around and drinking beer, and it's great.

And I bet everybody will have their Switch Ones to play stuff, so, you know.

We should just do a tailgate.

Oh, I like tailgating.

Yeah, I'd be game for it, yeah.

Big Philly style? Big Philly style.

Yeah. As the Phillies say.

Switch 2 is going to be fun to play because apparently a lot of the Switch 2 games games are just going to work as you hope they would.

There have been no issues reported so far, according to a lot of testing that Nintendo's done.

Nintendo reports most Switch games have no issues on the upcoming Switch 2.

While some games have startup or in -game compatibility problems requiring fixes, the majority of the 15 ,000 third -party games titles that have been tested show no issues at all.

I think, you know, that's the baseline that people are hoping for, but this is going to be mostly emulation.

I think they said something about a hybrid solution, but it's emulation really.

And that always introduces the possibility for some things just not to work that you're not expecting.

Sounds like that's going to be a minimal problem here this time around, which, you know, it's important.

I want all my Switch games to work.

But there was a time there where I was definitely hoping Switch 1 games would actually just all run better out of the box.

And that could still happen, but I'm less hopeful for that now.

Now, I feel like the only time I've ever really noticed that because like, you know, like there's the what PS4 game boost there is, you know, you've seen toggles like that.

I've never really noticed it except for with the Xbox backwards compatibility stuff, like playing like Max Payne Mercenaries, you know, things where it's like the load times were totally removed.

Yeah. Yeah. And just runs great.

60 frames a second.

Red Dead, I think, ran really well that way.

They would do, like, extra work on some of those things, like, you know, Mirror's Edge ran at a better frame rate than it ever did on an original Xbox 360.

Right, right. I did that OEM, or the ODE, the optical disk drive emulator thing on the GameCube, and so it's loading games from an SD card now.

Would that load games faster?

Because some games that I thought had, like, longer loading times are, like, loading almost instantly, and it's freaking me out.

You would imagine, I guess.

Yeah, I'm like, I wonder if that was CPU bottlenecked or whatever, but I'm going to do some tests, I'll see what I can find out alright, some other Nintendo news, Nintendo appears to have blocked the recording of videos on its Nintendo Today app this is very strange Nintendo has seemingly blocked video recording, basically it has implemented DRM, so that when you try to record a video natively using, you know, whatever app it is on the iOS or just the built in functionality on Android, it just gives you back a black screen, I think and nothing gets recorded which some apps can do right that's

a security functionality nintendo's uh news announcements probably don't have those same security concerns this is nintendo just being weird yeah it's like if netflix does it sure i get it but right no not so much using that app i mean i think nintendo believes that they can get more people to use it if they don't let the news escape through other channels I don't know gross yes yep it's uh really bizarre but I do any of you have the Nintendo today apps installed on on your devices no no negative I haven't installed I don't use it yeah I think I've installed but I've not checked it in a few weeks

um all right the next Nintendo Direct will reportedly drop around Switch 2's launch a Nintendo Direct live stream is rumored to be held around the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5th, according to journalist Pedro Henrique Lutey -Lipe.

Historically, Nintendo has held directs in June, often focusing on upcoming games, so people are getting their hopes up for it anyhow.

We've talked about the possibility of a direct a couple times, but now as we are on the precipice of the launch, do you guys think it's likely?

It would be weird? What do you think about a direct the week of Switch 2's launch?

There's also some games that they definitely need to show more of, you know, show show a bit more Donkey Kong, show more Kirby, Air Ride, Pokemon, Zah.

We don't have a release date for Metroid Prime 4, so...

Maybe some new GameCube stuff.

What's that? Maybe new GameCube stuff.

Like one other game, yeah.

Or, you know, hope maybe we do actually get just Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remaster, maybe even NSO stuff like Donkey Kong 64.

I think we all expect that to happen around the time of Bonanza.

You know, people are like, oh, maybe just, like, one more game for this year.

We could see what that looks like.

Like, you know, there's the other Hyrule Warriors, right?

Oh, right. There's plenty of things to talk about here.

Honestly, for me, the big thing is we got to get that Metroid Prime 4 release date, please.

Yep. I don't know if it'll happen, like, you know, the week of June 5th, but I expect something to happen in June with the Direct.

I would hope not that same weekend of SGF because there's a lot of things going down.

Yep. I guess it'd be like the week after SGF, but we're all still going to be traveling.

There's still going to be a ton of stuff.

it would be in the wake of a lot of other work so that'd be annoying uh but yeah i think sometime in june they probably do something i'm looking forward to see fire emblem remake that we've been thinking is real forever it's basically been done forever at some point they're gonna have to announce that yep exactly they have lots of things they could still talk about like always so we'll see i i think that man people do keep going back to getting mario this holiday no i don't know where that who's people what does that mean come on there's a lot of like people out like cover cover video game news

that when they talk about this they go to thinking well there's also a mario game coming in addition to this donkey kong bonanza and it could come as soon as this holiday no well i trust only like you know four people's opinion and three of them are you grub so look i i think that'd be crazy i think that'd be i think that's next holiday yes if that even right um like initially when we saw donkey kong bonanza i'm like that's what they've been working on that's the mario team nothing else and now like there maybe there's some thinking that some of the support studios could have helped a lot on either

this game or on the mario 3d game because the support studios did help a lot uh help out a lot with uh odyssey and then with um bowser's fury uh so yeah maybe next holiday but i don't think this holiday that would be nuts especially like if you have a mario game and you're announcing a system and it's It's coming out within the six months of that system's release.

You just say that because Mario is that big.

And they didn't. Everybody just, I don't know.

Everybody's like, there has to be a big holiday game for the Switch 2.

And, like, in their minds, Pokemon Legends ZA doesn't count.

But it counts. Metroid would count.

Well, both of those things are coming.

So regardless of what you think counts, you're going to get one of those.

So I think they have another game.

I don't know if it's a big game for this holiday.

We'll see. All right.

let's shift over to some playstation news this is interesting uh while everyone else is raising prices sony confirms it's going to actually discount the ps5 this week yes let's see here this is for accessories and software uh and it is starting this week sony is offering discounts on playstation 5 hardware and software including 50 off the ps5 pro in the united states from may 28th to june 11 during its days of play campaign a call of duty black ops 6 bundle will also be available offering savings compared to buying the console and game separately discounts will extend to other ps5 models vr2

uh controllers earbuds and first party games man i didn't even know they still sold the psvr2 um while prices recently increased in europe australia and new zealand the u .s has avoided similar increases although the slim digital edition launched at a higher price um what's what do you think's happening here i mean obviously they always discounted for days of play so it's part of that but i'm definitely operating under the assumption that they are still going to raise the price of the ps5 in the united states because they have not done that since they did it everywhere else and then since then

microsoft has raised the price the switch 2 got announced with a high enough price that you could justify a price increase for the ps5 is this like one last party before that happens or what it's maybe unrelated but i don't know jeff maybe i'm crazy i still just don't think they're gonna that you're gonna raise to raise the price i think they're going to continue to bite the bullet you know they've been afraid to do it here because they know americans get so upset i mean i know xbox raised the price i bet if we could look at the sales data that is going not great for them right yes absolutely

and that maybe they don't care about selling consoles and much more but sony definitely does so they don't want to throw any wrench into that works um yeah well i i bet they're keeping price increases on the table if they're not immediately planning them and then so i guess other than that it's business as usual and that would mean a discounted ps5 through the days of play um who here has a ps5 pro and dan i know you have one did anyone else i don't it's and it's weird to me that i don't because i used to always just get these things yeah but i i mean like you've you've gotten the sentiment anecdotally

even that like it's maybe not the thing you think it is we're not rushing out to get it like that that's that's the difference there yeah i get that it's i mean it's a lot of money right it's funny because like like what difference is a hundred dollars at a certain point but it's like it's actually a big difference especially in my head of just like if it if the thing had come out at the price that the playstation 5 was at launch i could almost swallow that pill but it's not that it's more expensive than the ps5 ever was it's like no and like how many years i really think this thing has maybe

more than i'd like to admit even that just kind of makes me more depressed when i think about that it's just different than the ps4 pro it's just like a totally different uh insertion point in the life cycle and yeah the necessity is completely different like the day one tangibility of like a perceived improvement and yeah you bought a 4k tv take advantage of that with the yeah it was just like a one -to -one like easy sell and the cost wasn't pornographic the way it is now they were releasing more ps4 games they just were right so it's like the future was sort of of like you know bright brighter

maybe meanwhile we're all like when is sony gonna even talk to us at all about its games we just don't know very much about them right now we'll talk about that here in a second uh 650 for ps5 pro i think had that discount happened quickly like after the ps5 pro got like announced or came out that might have moved me but now at this point of getting used to not having it i'm like nah that's still they should have they should have bundled it with With, like, a year of premium or something, like, they should have, like, made it more, you know, attractive of a purchase and it just looks like this huge

number. Should have made it look cool.

It just looks boring.

Now, wait a second.

It's got ridges. That's one thing we'll disagree on.

I like the aesthetics of the whole PlayStation 5 family.

I like its weird WALL -E Eve aesthetic.

I think it's cool. I'm fine with, like, the base PS5 looking like Seto Kaiba from Yu -Gi -Oh, but, like, the Pro, I don't know, look look cooler.

Sure. Get more swagged out or something.

Yeah. Make something that's possible to put in a bag and travel with or something.

True. That too. Well, that's not that.

I mean, come on. Look like a PS2.

There's one portable console and that was a GameCube.

I don't know. Sony's next PlayStation State of Play will reportedly be coming in June.

Sony is likely holding a State of Play presentation in June instead of a larger showcase.

This comes comes from hi me guys let's say who reported that yeah i talked about this on in a couple places we did on game s mornings i think um and so for people that are always wondering about the distinction there state of play versus a showcase the playstation has done stuff called showcases in the past and these are like their big e3 equivalent uh like productions where they have tons of massive first party announcements and things like that or that's the idea at least East. That's the kind of place where they could show off a PS5 when it was getting announced in a PlayStation showcase.

State -of -plays are more like directs, but sometimes they could be even less than that.

Sometimes they could just be like a partner direct, a Nintendo partner direct.

So the thinking here is like, hey, they're going to do a state -of -play.

Is this not going to be exciting?

I still think there's plenty chance that we see very cool announcements from Sony itself itself inside of a state of play but i don't know what are your all's expectations level expectation level for big announcements from sony at this point if they come out with a state of play in june they gotta just talk to us about some things right um you know obviously we're gonna see more ghosts of yotei or yutai excuse me uh wolverine we have not heard much about since basically the leaks right all right i gotta what's going on over over there integral i don't know if we're going to see too much war of intergalactic

for a while right we have to see more of marathon right that i i would assume that unless it gets delayed yeah unless it gets delayed uh yeah marathon and fair games who knows what's going on with those two games right now maybe nothing good but that's the thing it's like we're kind of yeah sentiment is kind of like negative uh so maybe show us some stuff that looks cool and interesting maybe you know do talk about some new things that maybe they are a bit off but it's exciting you're bringing back some franchises that we care about uh you know there's so many they'll do that hell is us game again i

feel like hell yeah that's like their favorite like they have a pet uh pet partner game yeah because it presents all the time yes it presents really well like every time they show that game off everyone's like what the fuck is this well maybe it's just me but you definitely do that though i pop hard for it i don't like that phrase uh but you know uh yeah you know like i think like it'll you know i mean that you know that game's like september right like there's stuff this year september when is uh when is soros out um i don't know but we haven't seen gameplay of that have we like that's one i'm

very right i i just fucking love returnal and i would love to see what the hell soros is all about yeah that's a ways out um initial release day this looks like a placeholder So, yeah, it must be 2026, because it says December 31, 2026.

What do you think is the possibility of seeing anything Last of Us related?

Oh, God. They're going to remake 2 again or whatever.

Yeah, but, like, nothing.

I mean, come on. Intergalactic is the...

Has everything Last of Us been, like, fully remade at this point and re -released and packaged up?

I think there's nothing else that could possibly justify remastering again at this point.

I think there's a chance that the other project that Druckmann referenced like a couple weeks ago maybe that pops up and I think that's an uncharted game but maybe not I mean I'd be excited I just checked my embargo information and I can say that I played Hell is Us and we'll be able to talk about it this week okay great yes very soon and I got an article going up at the old place alright cool let's see here next news story I'm going to get back over to my headlines um Star Wars Battlefront 2 devs want to get the band back together is how they phrased it pack they want to get the wolf pack that's

who made Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 yeah wow that's right Perry Saturn was lead developer Saturn wasn't in the wolf pack I didn't watch WCW that was the radicals uh either way Battlefront 2's popularity is uh the highest it's ever been on Steam it has the most concurrent players it's ever had on Steam Now, it launched on Steam long after it came out on the EA store, whatever that's called, Origin.

And so, it never had the highest concurrent player numbers on there.

It was like 9 ,000 or something.

It's surpassed that now.

And people are crediting that to Andor and maybe that Revenge of the Sith hitting in theaters recently.

Whatever the reason is, people are getting excited about the possibility of EA and DICE going back to Battlefront with a Battlefront 3.

EA has never said anything about this.

but this one developer did say that they the team that worked on it talks about it and they there's a sense that they want to get the band back together they would like to do this i i don't know how likely that likely that is they got to get battlefield correct first right this next battlefield game seems super important and then maybe one day they could talk about a battlefront again we're talking about the 2017 joint right 2017 the battlefront 2 yes that's right uh that was weird no no with a really good gameplay but the really bad loot box situation yeah that game actually has kind of a lot

going for it yeah it was very heavy so that was a problem and of course it had terrible terrible loot boxes which and as bad as they were it got amplified times 10 on the internet right like the whole thing but man when that game was going that game was fun that game looked really really good it still looks as good as the game needs to look it looks as good as a game needs to look that planet on the camino that water level is still just kind of amazing with the rain falling and the outside sections it's like i would love they made another one and you kind of just take the good and leave behind

the bad and just really have fun with it but you're probably right jeff that they are worried more about battlefield right now even though frankly i'd be more excited for battlefront 3 i i would too uh i did like this is for game MS Mornings tomorrow, but I looked at the poll I ran from earlier this, or from last week, it's like, hey, do you want another Battlefront game?

And, like, half of the people are like, no. So, for as much as the excitement is building around this game, and Star Wars fans are convincing themselves that there is a popular wave of support for it, and there is, I don't think it's to the point where, oh, this is penetrating the mainstream so that EA can justify it to itself, spending years and years making a new one of these first of all by the time they do that a million things could go wrong with star wars again it wouldn't be worth it and then and then second you know the hardcore star wars fans saying they want something does not translate

to the mass audience saying they want something anymore i mean unfortunately the time to do it kind of was when they did battlefront 2 when right after that force awakens was the biggest movie ever kind of thing right and yep you know star wars hasn't really been in as good shape as that for a long time so kind of good luck doing it now yep uh they you know this is ea they they're doing skate floor because of a you know social media thing um but i i don't i don't think that's like gonna be a trend for them i don't think they're gonna glom onto every single one of these uh all right a couple more

stories here ex machina director uh director alex garland is going to helm the elden ring movie for a24 it's gonna be live action it's gonna have it's gonna have writers creators people are going to write this movie they're going to work with george rr martin yeah railroad martin's getting on this george railroad martin is going to be on the poster i guarantee that his name will be very big on there um how involved he is like look he already wrote wrote a bunch of lore maybe they can email him and ask him some questions i don't know but i i i think this is a pretty good fit i i brought up on gay mess

mornings when i reported the story originally originally that the Green Knight is like a very good model for what I think an eldering movie should look like.

And if they could just kind of do that again with this, I'd be happy.

The Green Knight has like one freak.

The Green Knight. Barry Kogan is in that movie.

He's the other freak in that movie.

He catches like 50 freaks.

What is Green Knight's gimmick?

Like a tree person.

What's the Seth Rogen thing?

Green Hornet? Yes. green hornet you think i was talking about green hornet and the ring guy with the green lantern the one that hurricane helms likes that's the green lantern okay this is really come up with different names for stuff or just have this conversation in your head and don't bring it to the podcast green knight is a different name than those other things you said that's the cute cute thing here it is different right you see the confusion no the green i only see green wow wow man everything around turf anyways i don't want me to be a funny daddy jeff but i i don't see this working i

oh you would need why in my mind you have you played owner ring have you seen what's happening in that game how everybody looks how that world looks i think you need avatar money to make that shit oh i don't but i don't i i think that was right 20 years ago i don't think it's make it look good i think that's right i think it would be better served as like Like, a series versus a movie?

Sure. Yeah. You know.

Yeah, problem number two.

Like, story and ordering.

It's mostly lore. It's mostly lore.

Yeah, but you could do it that way, where it's, you know, a movie based on vibes.

That's fine. I like Drive.

We're going to get a Drive.

Your vibe movies. You didn't like Drive?

I love Drive. I was good.

Drive's good as hell.

I hate Drive, actually, kind of with a bit of a passion.

Oh, my God. Drive was awesome.

Go on. Let's unpack this.

You don't like Ride Guys, do you, huh?

huh what don't you like about it's a stupid cynical movie where they play something with like a low bass and everybody's like it's vibes now because there's a neon light and bass and they're like curb stomp somebody's head and it's gross everyone's like this movie is brutal in a way that makes me feel alive he's just upset there's not enough dog murder in there they need to be all over it's weird that i have depression because all the stuff i watch is It's so uplifting.

Bullshit. I think Draft's alright.

Yeah, Draft's fun. I guess I understand a little bit of what you're saying, but you're being a fuddy -duddy.

Speaking of fuddy -duddy, here's my turn.

I can't think of a single video game franchise I would care about as a TV show or a movie.

They've done it with Twisted Metal. I don't care.

I would see a Metal Gear movie.

movie i saw the mario movie i thought it was well done i think bioshock would be a good movie i just wouldn't i wouldn't care i mean i bet this is gonna be the next bioshock and that we've been talking about how it's gonna be a movie for 20 years and it's yeah i mean let's be clear i think that's the most likely scenario is this movie never gets made of course yeah but i think it's like a realistic way of doing it i think is the green knight route where it's like you know you focus on a few freaks and you go make it happen but it's probably not going to um all right i mean Yeah, go ahead.

Please, Josh. I mean, like, they did do a really good job with The Last of Us.

I thought everyone hates it.

No, everyone hates people online.

Well, people seem less enthused about the second season, but I don't think that means it's a terrible show or anything like that.

No, first season was, well, very high -regarded.

There's just a lot of actual people in Last of Us, and then, like, fungal people, whatever.

It's easier. I think to make the blanket statement that there isn't any video game worth adapting is i'm not saying that i would be interested you will you but that doesn't really like i haven't so i'm trying to think if there's anything that i would like actually be super excited for where i have i would like i think i would watch like an alan wake uh series like that kojima heavily involved death stranding movie i mean i'll see it out of curiosity same as if there was a metal year movie they've talked about for 20 fucking years or whatever like i'd see it but like i don't know death stranding

is a pretty cinematic game yeah you're solid extremely simple like the stuff i love is the way it interacts with the game you know medium and i don't necessarily boil down to our version of the story that was delivered quite well in video games i'm with you for sure yeah yeah i like there's a bit there's been a wave of obviously video game movies and shows announced recently and i am at a point where it's like oh even if If that comes out, I'm not watching them.

You know, first and foremost, I mean, Zelda is one of my favorite franchises of all time.

I could not give less of a shit about what that movie is going to have. See, I think that one I'd have to see.

I think that one's going to have to see it.

You'd watch it. I'll see it, of course.

But, like, I'm not, like, going to go in, like, super excited, you know, like, I'll see it.

Sure, we'll talk about it.

Yeah. Okay. I think that's going to have a similar problem as in our room.

I think when, like, we see what that looks like, a lot of people are going to be kind of weirded out, like, oh.

I guess that's what it looks like when we have budgets and green screens and special effects instead of just everything's a video game in uniform.

I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.

Sure. I think you get the Jim Henson company to work on the Elden Ring movie and you are halfway toward getting it.

The rascal people? Yeah, the rascal people.

I've never heard my dad mention Jim Henson ever and just today he texted me about Jim Henson.

He did a joke. You ready, Mike?

I'm going to be my dad.

This is probably going to be really insensitive.

Go on. No. Did you know that Jim Hansen was a micromanager?

No. Okay. Yeah, he had a hand in everything.

That's funny because they're puppets.

Did your dad, like, read the back of a Snapple cab?

Like, what happened?

Bazooka Joe, yeah. All right, last story here.

Year this one got appended by I believe Mike Minotti Dragon Quest 1 and 2 HD 2D remake Arrives on October 30th Just in time for Halloween It's coming to Switch 2, also releasing on Switch 1, Xbox, Playstation and PC Switch 2 version is a Game keycard version, although Switch 1 Version appears to have the whole game on the card That's weird Alright, hey cool, that's fun We've been waiting for this Yeah, I haven't, we got the 3 remake about that time last year and we were kind of wondering when this one would drop i liked it a lot i thought it was very pretty perhaps my favorite of the hd 2d remakes

if not that then the live alive was was very good yeah as well and i liked dragon quest 3 a lot but i actually had played that one before i've not played one and two so uh this will be my first time getting to to experience those and also like if the order seems weird here uh chronologically the story does go three one and two so you are playing them in order actually if you started with three oh interesting yeah so i think it's neat the game card stuff has become a bit of a talking point because even though it is that game key card for switch two so the game's not actually on there it looks like

the game is actually just on the switch one uh game card so it's you know something think funky has been going on there at the way nintendo has been selling these cards to people yeah uh okay well that does for the oh wait no please another headline breaking from jerf no it's not a headline it's just a uh i want to put a footnote on the previous uh movie adaptation i mean i thought you had something to say about dragon quest no i don't um i think i i said this somewhere i'm sure i did at one point and i think dan you were really on board i can't remember but So maybe think about the reverse, right,

where there's not like a franchise that you want to see made into a movie, but is there a movie that you would want to be made into a video game?

The Rock. Well, here.

Okay. What if you could play every scene of The Rock in a video game?

Well, the Art of the Shower Room and the Gulag and Modern Warfare 2.

And basically the underwater infiltration is just Metal Gear Solid 1.

The video game is called The Rock.

Oh. And you play as Starman Goochpeak.

Connery's dead. Connery died.

How will we ever find anybody who can do that voice?

Yeah, here you go. I do want to play as John Mason, not as Stanley Goodspeed, yes.

You play both. Of course you do.

You play as both of them.

You do like a Diffuse the Rocket minigame or something?

Exactly. Would you not play every second of The Rock the video game?

Yeah. Yeah, okay. So I want Die Hard. I want The Rock.

They made Die Hard. Die Hard Trilogy is good.

No. Die Hard Trilogy is a good game.

I want to play it in the way that like the Indiana Jones game was that's what I want right we also had Die Hard Arcade which is very good but I am aware that the IP has been used before in video games I'm talking about a way was in Death Stranding you understand what I'm putting out there right you understand what this could be right every scene of the movie you play aside Aside from all the bullshit, right?

You don't care. The Rock doesn't have that.

It's just no fat on that.

There's no fat. There's a little bit of fat.

There's the Beatles' Super Freak and the Sex on the Roof.

Do you want to play Buscemi with the teapot?

That's Con Air! Oh, right, right, right.

What are you talking about?

Yeah. All of a sudden, I conflated The Rock and Con Air.

The Rock is much better than Con Air.

Con Air is fine. It is empirically.

Con Air is great. No argument here.

I don't know why all of a sudden.

I love Con Air. You know why?

Because that was the plane scene, and for whatever reason, I conflated.

you can only have one plane in your head at a time yeah exactly there's only one air force one would be oh man harris speaking of yeah just get they already got the harrison ford model it would be an excellent video get off my plane would be awesome so why are we like we're going only one way why are we not going the other way yeah video games but i love movies too the real reason this is happening is because movies are desperate for anything that's like succeeded somewhere else of course so they just grab it and video games are like that doesn't work for us okay whenever we try that doesn't work

because like video games can basically do all the things that movies can do movies can't do the things video games can do yeah the movie uh based on road craft would suck that'd be bad sure you say that now but you'd watch it video game based on rehearsal season two oh my god have you finished it jan no i i i took i took the test that's in the last episode.

I wanted to take the test. I couldn't find it online.

I just searched for it for the same name as the eye.

Can I take the test right now?

No, we don't have enough time.

It takes a while. There's like 36.

I took it. It's supposed to take you like 2 -3 minutes, right?

They said if you're not autistic, it should take 3 -5 minutes.

If you're autistic, it takes longer.

What? It's like the mind -the -eyes test or something like that.

I'm not going to spoil the finale because it's fucking nuts what happens.

but uh yeah well holy shit i don't none of you have seen could you spoil it like my understanding is no yes you can spoil it easily um i could tell you grab it i'm just gonna type it to you in discord yeah sure please because yeah yeah don't make me snape killed dumbledore shut the fuck up that's a good reference fuck harry potter yeah thanks um all right gang uh grab is that it with the news yeah i'm done with the news i handed the show back over to you okay well jeff bagler hijacked for a second my bad and we're gonna try to make a point and i came wait a minute shut it down sorry back we're

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You can write in about any and everything, and I will look at it and decide whether or not it's worth it to show on the show.

And sometimes, hey, a little too weird. Other times, thank you so much for the support.

We love you. First email of the show comes from Jeff from London.

Yo, this one's for Grubb, but I fuck with you all.

Roadworks Grubb was talking Talking about cool vehicles and how fun they are to work with.

I drive boats. I'm a navigational officer and have worked on container ships and car carriers and platform supply vessels.

For the last few years, I've worked on tugboats.

Tugboats basically park bigger boats.

In reality, it's us on the big boat and shoving them around on our small but powerful vessels.

it's an incredible feeling using the power and utility of a vessel like that in what I can imagine is the same sentiment for people that do it on land like in road craft Congrats on Independence, love you all Jeff from Lund Man, tugboats are weird right?

Like how does that little thing tug around that big boat?

That's nuts I think those boat boats are weird Sure.

Now they stand above the water Right?

Yeah, no one knows That's true How do you think they stay above the water, Dan?

Air is involved involved would it make would it help you if i explain that it's the water that keeps the boat from from sinking it's because it's like when you breathe in when you're underwater and you got air in your lungs and it makes you float up it's like there's pockets of air in the boat i mean sure but like like the water is pushing against the boat and the way the boat is shaped it like like the bigger it is and the broader it is there's more pressure pushing the boat up and keeping it floating, as long as the water doesn't get on the other side of that wall.

It's like air in planes, and it's like how the wings are cutting through the air.

It's not lift and drag.

It's all pressure and lift and drag.

Grub, sometimes you have, like, a mile before you're going to get into the accident, and that's what you're looking at in front of you right now.

I think this might be complicated enough, but I don't blame Dan for that.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you.

I don't know how to build a boat.

This is not about Dan.

This is about Grub.

Yeah, I was just curious curious what dan would say about it and then dan you know he didn't know and you're right that's not surprising and backlar's right that i should cut it off now instead of trying to explain like you're like i bet if i keep going 60 miles an hour i'll hit that car a mile ahead of me might as well floor it yep speaking about cutting it off next email comes from owen in minnesota hey bombcast folk welcome and congrats on on independence jan mentioned a bit ago that crop tops should be a thing that is added to the store which can be difficult i run a merch store as well but i

have an elegant solution for a quick mock -up design even behold the greatest worst idea ever official giant bomb diy crop tops and now i will show the image on screen i get it owen here has included a dotted line across where the tummy would be where you would gotta cut it that's clever diy yeah and then you can take the rest of the shirt and perhaps fashion like a headband or something yeah it's tough to source out crop tops turns out really i mean they the the partner we work with does not i don't believe offer that out of the gate we'd have to self -source i heard requests yeah i think this is a great work

i think it makes it fun too yeah yeah i like it we could also see how good people are at cutting things true yeah you know they should come like pre -cut like perforated right where you're just sort of like you tear off the tag yourself that'd be you need it and then just put it you wash it once and the bottom falls off that's how it works there we go there we go all right next email comes from ross from gig harbors soon to be eau claire oh no actually alex and bendigo first of all the things that confuse me about america and there's a lot even more so recently it's that grape seems to be one of your

standard flavors for soda, jelly, candy, whatever.

It doesn't seem like something you could explain to me.

Why is this the case?

So what's something about another country that puzzles you?

This is the least of our problems. You don't understand.

Look, candy is... You've got grape, you've got strawberry, you've got green apple.

It's just like all the different fruits translate very well to candy taste and grape is a fruit.

But to be clear, grape flavor tastes nothing like any grape I've ever had in my life.

I'm not about grape flavor.

I guess that's what they're getting at is that you know it's like our blue raspberry flavor right they said grape jelly okay that's jelly is like shoot grapes no it's not but it is made of shoot grapes yeah it doesn't taste like a grape does not taste like i know but like wine doesn't taste like like uh grape either so it's like i think you could make more of the argument in here but but no but i but i do do think there's a tangible difference also with like banana flavored candy right like banana flavor is different than grape flavor and how it's implemented i agree with that can't isn't the thing

though that like banana flavoring and candy is actually close to what bananas used to be like i think i'd heard this interesting i mean like bananas chew bananas used to taste like current candy banana is my understanding and we like bananas good sweeter and yeah i like them both God, I just imagine anytime Dan says shoot banana, I just imagine him pointing bananas at me like they're guns.

Banana guns can fire in spurts.

Menotti, green apple, the flavor, yay, nay?

Because green apple doesn't taste like apples.

And yet somehow still disgusting.

I'm just saying, maybe there's a loophole.

I don't know. Mikey, what if we roll up to a bar and we're all getting appletinis with the bitches?

Yeah, with the bitches.

Don't you want to be one of the bitches?

Girl. Girl. Girl. I'll take a scotch. I love green.

I love the candy flavor green apple.

I think of, like, in terms of color flavors, give me purple, number one, and then blue pretty good.

Grape flavor is more just purple flavor.

Have we done this where, like, I said a color and you guys told me what flavor you associate with it?

No, hit us. Okay, all right.

It should be obvious.

Yeah, yellow. Banana or lemon. i say banana even though i like lemon way more but banana comes in my mind first okay uh red cherry apple yeah i go strawberry oh strawberry i think i think a pink for strawberry because starburst style is i agree with cherry red is cherry because apple was green a lot of the time yes so yeah then green okay watermelon cherry oh yeah green oh green green is lime for me hopefully and it was bullshit when they changed the lime skittles for the apple one no it was It was way better than Green Apple.

Green Warheads were watermelon, right?

Yeah, sometimes they're watermelon.

I like it when Candy would do the green and red for watermelon.

Like Hubba Bubba would do that.

Taffy Taffy. Hubba Bubba.

Last one, I think it's the hardest, Blue.

Raspberry. Blue Raspberry, yeah.

Or Blueberry. Or Powerade.

Oh yeah. What is it with the Blue Powerade?

It's the standard. I guess like McDonald's had it, my dorm had it.

Like, Disney has it.

I think they were just trying to have their color the way, like, Gatorade is that, like, greenish, yellow.

Or, yeah, the orange, you're right.

Oh, I think a glacier freeze for Gatorade.

Sure, but that's not what's in the commercials.

Gatorade owns the color orange.

Oh, see, I don't know if I've ever bought an orange Gatorade, but I've had gallons and gallons of everything.

Yeah, but OG, the mix.

Yeah, I think OG, like, the Florida Gator's Gatorade was that yellowish color, right?

Yeah. That's what it was.

All right, gang. gang.

This now comes from Ross from Gig Harbor, soon to be Oval Player.

Hey, Bomberinos! I'm moving from Washington State to Wisconsin in a couple weeks for work in the fact that I've been priced out of my hometown.

Super nervous about it.

No friends or family out there.

I'm really glad I'll have you all to listen to as a form of stability.

I've been listening since 2014.

Wow, 10 years has flown by.

Thanks, Bob. Eleven, but who's counting?

It's alright, Beckler.

Don't correct it. Expressing gratitude.

If you had to move to a different state where would you move and why also my wife sold my ps4 two wheeze in my 360 skyrim smash brothers brawl titanfall 1 controllers and the works at our garage sale while i was at work can you guess how much i can because it's here well i don't know all those things for one price all of those things none of those are particularly expensive maybe uh 250 for all of it yeah i was gonna say something like that yeah that's wrench 70 dollars i mean sure that's low but like also none of those are super valuable right now yeah but that's why he's moving also no it was just

like divorce behind his back is that the implication that's weird yes i said while he was at work my mom sold all my happy meal toys yeah two wheeze should go for a hundred right two wheeze i think wheeze are real cheap yeah are The PS4 would go for more than the Wii.

The 360s are pretty cheap, but like Skyrim, Smash Brawl, I mean, as far as Smash Brothers Brawl is the cheapest. Controllers?

Controllers, yeah. I mean...

It's more than 70. But it's not crazy.

It's not like a grand, you know?

No, it wasn't selling GameCube shit.

The PS4 alone is like 70...

Like, honestly, it might be much more than that.

Maybe a Pro, but a base PS4, I'm gonna guess 100, maybe.

maybe yeah i think like 150 i think i think wisconsin's a great state i uh yeah it's in milwaukee it's the question is what was the question move to another state and you know i i hear that florida siren call sometimes but there's things about florida that aren't great uh no it's what yeah yeah heat is one of them even in may it was a bit much how hot it was there among other things in florida yeah florida would maybe be my 50th state that i yeah yeah i I mean, and that includes, like, you know, Alaska.

Yeah, I understand.

Alaska would be my top ten, I think, yeah.

Oh, there's good fishing in Alaska, boy.

You'd have to fly so far to go anywhere if you live in Alaska, though.

That's the thing, right?

Yeah, but I'm not in Florida.

Like, I mean, that's it.

I understand Mulaney has a really good bit about why Florida is the punchline to everything.

Yeah, but Mulaney is also the punchline to a lot of things.

By the way, his new show is incredible, that Netflix show.

Oh, yeah? It's fun.

I'm shocked. It's like energy of old Conan and Letterman.

It's fantastic, yes.

I would, I mean, I have liked visiting Dan quite a lot in Minnesota.

I think I would be completely happy there, for sure.

I would go to Colorado.

Yeah, we would move back to Denver if we could afford it, for sure, yeah.

Southern California.

That's not a different state.

No, it feels like one.

Oh, Maine. I would live in Maine.

I'd consider Wisconsin.

I mean, it's like 10 minutes from me right now, and still get the Twin Cities.

I would definitely mostly just want to keep staying in Ohio until I die, I think.

I like Ohio quite a lot.

I would think about Hawaii, but that would make the time difference between me and y 'all terrible.

Impossible. I saw that Lilo and Stitch live -action remake talking about Hawaii.

I thought it was fine.

Yeah, fine is right.

A generous thing. Minari, be honest. If Disney wasn't in Florida, you'd have no place saying that, right?

Would Universal be there still?

No, they're both gone.

yeah it's one million percent about being close to the okay cool okay all the time yeah that's fine because even when you're there yeah you're not really in florida i know exactly right right like i would live like right by there and having just the weather you're just it's just the same for them can people still move into triumph florida what is this celebration celebration can people still move to disney's town yeah yeah and they have like an even fancier one like Actually, in Disney World, that's very expensive.

That's crazy. Celebration is still a thing.

My wife's boss has a place in Celebration.

You know what? I did really, really, really like Philadelphia when Dan and I were there.

That was a great time.

I like that a lot. Big Philly style.

We can all agree, no New Jersey, though, right?

Jersey gets a bad rap.

Jersey is fine. It's cool.

I'm pro -Jersey. Pennsylvania is another one where you do have to specify West Pennsylvania or East Pennsylvania.

It's a very big state.

I think you have to specify for Jersey too There you go Oh fuck I think yeah no one Well cause Philadelphia is essentially like Southwest New Jersey In a weird way Alright next Next email I will Next email comes from Cooper in San Jose Hey folks after hearing last week's episode Where y 'all talked about memes in brain rot I figured I would never have a better time than now to send this email I work as a high school English teacher and for their final projects I had my AP kids create presentations on any subject of their choosing one of my groups chose Italian brain rot as their oh my god that's

an actual thing you weren't just making a joke or anything no it's real I told you did came home and he's like dad sit down oh right and another chose teaching Mr. Cooper about the internet internet after you hang out with mr cooper that's awesome after hearing their presentations and learning uh about tra tra la la tra la la a three -legged shark with blue shoes bombardino crocodilio an air force bomber with a crocodile head note dan maybe this is a new antagonist for another air force gator book i will sue a fucking kid you gotta lawsuit on your child and ballerina cappuccina a ballerina wait

that's real that's italian brain rot yes that's insane fucking ballerina cappuccina to me for a hundred times today for the last week where do they learn this it's school it's it's just this mike's right it's the streets i was literally about to google is ballerina cappuccina italian brain rot yes 100 that is like on the encyclopedia entry that's That's what you get.

Oh, okay. Ballerina Cappuccino. A ballerina with a cappuccino for a head.

I realize that it's effectively a new wave of Dadaism art.

Dadaism was a counterculture art style around the 1920s that utilized nonsensical noises and sounds, vibrant colors, loose shapes, random objects, and was essentially your great -grandparents' brain rot.

Yeah. Wait. Tum Tum.

Is that something? I don't know.

That I've not heard of.

Okay, because I think he's the other guy that hangs out with ballerina cappuccino. Essentially, when I told the kids about this, they were bored out of their minds and visibly upset I wasn't disgusted and repulsed by their nonsense.

Teenagers hate nothing more than adults accepting even using their culture and memes.

It's like a Pokemon episode of South Park.

My dad does it every holiday thing.

He asks me what are kids saying now?

I'm like, just say and i'll say that around my nieces and they will hate it so that's good uh all right fantastic thank you cooper and san jose for that uh informational uh dump there about ballerina cappuccino i think dan may have a legal case against yeah dino crocodilio yeah i don't like that tune tune tune suhr is an anthropomorphic wooden object resembling an indian club and bed bedug drum and holding a baseball bat yep that's him sounds problematic yes that's my kids have also been bringing up tung tung tung to be a bunch and i'm like okay do they like have the internet or like i think youtube

just sort of like fine does it for them yeah yeah yeah it's it's that is weird where like you would think there would be such diversity in slang but somehow there's There's enough of like a sort of overhead of connective tissue where everyone is on the same page about something with very little overlap.

It's very weird. It happened even like in our day, right, where a lot of these things would have spread from school to school across the country.

And you're like, how did that work without the – we had the early internet maybe.

Sure. But it wasn't through that.

It was just through like rec sports.

It would be like everyone who started going, not, because of like Wayne's World.

That's basically it.

from aladdin said that yes that's where it came from higher sword wants to know is like a bowl of spaghetti or something count as italian brain rot no it does now no i mean maybe we're too old to contribute to the brain rot yeah we can just be observers like yeah yeah tasteful observers like the man on mars okay yes uh bomb cast soup uh bombcast giant bomb .com is the email address and all of your emails too I love and appreciate all of them and I do read all of them if you didn't make it into the show sorry well we'll maybe catch you next week but that's not it Mike Minotti read some goddamn super

chats we're adding this to the email segment appending it here go yeah yeah at that point Jerry says where's our new gamer rep Mitch yeah look things got a little busy over here TGI F I I, Bermogia, says, pronounce my name like, secondly, would you rather play the first Turok or Doom 64?

I played both of those Night Dive remasters, and they're both good.

But Doom 64 is, like, noticeably a better video, like, a base better video game than Turok 1 is.

It's TGI Fibromyalgia.

Really? Oh, that's right.

My bad. Shit. We do this every time they Super Chat.

that hired sword says my niece and nephew call me uncle bobo it basically means dummy in portuguese but my sister started it and it stuck that's cute hell yeah same thing in tagalog yeah uh team money says i like mike minotti he is cool and he does not shoot dogs like his grandpa peanuts that's correct i have never shot a dog uh successfully yeah yeah yeah this is a terrible aim uh ria says well if i was a owner of giant bomb and a dog killing family wanted to nickname me bitch i'm worried uh jason vann이 says don't need to read this just supporting the boys well you can't tell me what to do jason can you

uh p buck says thoughts on hangman's body oh my gosh what what about his body specifically what yeah probably hurts yeah wait what are we talking about And Adam Page.

He's a wrestler. He had a killer match this week.

Are we asking if he's, like, hot or if he's banged up?

I would imagine it hurts.

He has a kid, so, you know, people find him hot, or at least a person.

Yeah. Screaming Manon says, When will Dan get the crew to watch Love on a Leash?

And in return, can Mike make the crew watch We Wish You a Turtle's Christmas in December?

We Wish You a Turtle's Christmas is one delightful and, like, 17 minutes long.

long so i i will love on a leash is worse than noobs and so i am thinking about changing the noobs hole for this year it might play both might play both in there at the same time yes oh you can't adjust the volumes they're the same like they're both oh they're both oh yes dan if you figure it out you should have them like panned in opposite channels as well oh okay like noobs you're seeing on your left but hearing on your right and then love on a leash oh my god you You might need to fly out for extra life.

I might as well. Thank you everybody for sending Super Chats.

It was our first week with them on. I appreciate it.

But yeah, it's another way for people to support us.

So thank you very much. We love and appreciate all of you.

What do we got going on for the rest of the week, boys?

I'll do some Game -Ass Mornings.

Yeah, yeah. Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, we're going to have Chris Plant on the show tomorrow.

Hell yeah. Awesome.

it's got a new podcast he's uh he's launching actually the first episode episode is out we'll talk about that on the show tomorrow that's awesome i get to do bladekil tomorrow and i like unlike last time i'm desperate to get back in there because i realized well after the fact that when i beat a level i didn't save so i need to go back and play that stupid atlantis level again and that's been driving me crazy i didn't hear about that happening i think it's more complicated than that isn't it because didn't you know he he should be able to just go back and beat that level okay so he the timeline

he's on all the stuff he beat after that is still good he just needs to beat that initial level castle 2 is fine that's still beaten which was the easier level to be fair but i gotta go back to uh square pants atlantis or whatever that's better remember square pantus atlantis that's they made video games based off that special i believe it that's a very funny phrase i liked it a lot sure uh voicemail dump truck on thursday as well as an Unprofessional Fridays.

This Friday a bunch of quick looks have gone up in the last week.

I suggest you go check those out.

We'll also have a Despalote one dropping either later today or tomorrow.

Grub, that was a big ass file.

Yeah, I'm gonna fix that up.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there.

It was way too big.

45 gigabytes or some shit.

All good is we got anything else?

We got a touch base over?

No, just planning fucking next next week yeah yeah we'll be traveling next week at some point uh so things will get hectic from that point out but you know you'll have sgf gb at night to look forward to and we'll have plenty other things happening as well we'll get together we'll make some things yes uh some people been asking about when i'm gonna start playing uh mist it won't be until have they no people are clamoring like i know this is your thing i'm just busting your chops uh not too after sgf and like Like, we come home on a Monday, or the Mondays are the next day, so probably not that day.

So Monday the 16th of June is looking like a possibility for when Mist starts.

I'm looking forward to that.

I'm going to hang out with you.

Will you play that?

Oh, God, I'm worried, boys, but it'll be fun.

We're going to have a great time at Summer Game Fest. Lots of fun shenanigans inbound.

Until then, we'll see you next week, right?

Yes. Yeah, we will.

Yes. Okay. Am I? Maybe.

Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see you next week for another episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. He's been Mike.

He's been Jeff. He's been Jeff.

He's been Dan. I've been Jan. And you at home have been doing great lately.

The new skincare routine, I can see it.

It's doing wonders.

Your skin is glowing.

We'll see you next week.

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📋 Summary

Giant Bombcast Episode 892: A Deep Dive into Gaming Culture, Nostalgia, and 'Brain Rot'

Retro Gaming and Modern Revivals

Indie Gems and Mechanical Complexity

The Phenomenon of 'Italian Brain Rot'

Industry News: Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation

The 'Road Craft' Obsession

Final Thoughts on Adaptations

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[Giant Bombcast Episode 892: From Retro Doom to Future Tech and Italian Brain Rot]-[892: GURL]

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Giant Bombcast Episode 892: A Deep Dive into Gaming Culture, Nostalgia, and 'Brain Rot'

Retro Gaming and Modern Revivals

Indie Gems and Mechanical Complexity

The Phenomenon of 'Italian Brain Rot'

Industry News: Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation

The 'Road Craft' Obsession

Final Thoughts on Adaptations

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