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Hey everybody it's Tuesday.

today welcome to the giant bomb cast episode 900 june no july 22nd 2025 uh welcome i am your host gian show what joining me co -captain of the ship his special meter is filled so he's going to hit up down triangle to hit a sick grind chef bacalar oh i don't even know what i'm doing right now I am here co -captain of the ship he's wearing fun prints and he is a prince among men Jeff Grubb happy 900 years old speaking about 900 years old he sees through time because he exists past it it's going to be the last wait no that's not true forget the whole thing I was just going to say never mind okay what yeah Yeah.

You're getting a new face?

Well, no. I was going to talk about how after this, I'm getting my implant.

It's going to be the last one without the hold of my tooth.

But then I realized I'm just getting the screw put in my gums today.

It's going to be a few months.

So hold your excitement, folks.

I'll have a tooth in a few months.

Good work, Dan. Thank you.

Sit back down. Don't worry about it.

Yeah. He was lying.

Oh, okay. All right.

All right. Off to a brilliant start.

But we can't start without the bad boy of games media.

and we actually can't start streaming until he kills his stream that he accidentally left on for 15 hours Mike Minotti I'm bad I do bad things to good people that's how bad I am bad things to bad people like some kind of good bad people it's just pure bad, bad on good bad on good action all the time Mike Minotti can you please do a cover of Rikishi's theme song When he turned bad Called bad man I don't know how it goes Bad man Bad man No This is when he was wearing a lot of fat wear F -A -T -F -A -T -H We should start wearing fat wear That's offensive How is it offensive?

F -A -T -H F -A -T -H So it's like hip Pretty hot and tempting I'm not hip Start every podcast with a stink face A five way stink face Who am I going to stink face?

Penny? I don't think they'll like that Just shove my butt in the camera I mean Would it be the first camera this week Up in my butt?

Happy 900th Episode to the Giant Bombcast And I'm very overjoyed To be spending it with y 'all How's everyone doing?

I can't believe I've been here for 900 episodes I was waiting to see who would make the joke He's been here the whole time.

That was my intro? The mistake?

You made a mistake?

You got to go first, though, so it kind of balances out, right?

Yeah. My brain is just all over the place like the last couple of months.

I just feel like...

You wanted two intros back, Alar?

Let's do this again.

No, no, no. We're doing it again.

I'm not upset. No, no, no. He's upset.

We're doing it. We're doing it again.

This feels better. it feels right yeah man i can't believe we're already on episode 901 all right this is 900 hey everybody it's tuesday welcome to the giant bomb cast july 22nd 2025 i am your host jan and welcome to episode 900 that's right he is the master of prints because he's got printed shirts he's got blue prints he is a prince among men and he is our king but uh you know he's he's royalty up in this this this this house jeff that's right uh bow down kiss the ring speaking about kissing the ring uh he's all about smooches inside and outside the ring but only consensually and only if you

uh if he agrees as well because consent uh consent is a two -way street dan reichert i'm the smooch man dan that's what they say smooching around town good he's he's smooching around town uh and he is around town because he is the busiest man in games media he's also the busiest man of of the owners here uh mr busy he he comes from busy town that's right he drives an an apple around he's a little worm man jeff bacalar hey is that better that was better hey what's up that fan art better be done in like five minutes please i need to see is that the name of the worm mr busy no the richard scary thing

yeah i just remember busy town okay uh it might be but you won't catch this next man driving an apple around because he hates him because he's a bad boy of games media he won't even be driving any type of fruit automobile around here hot dog mobile the oscar meyer hot dog van only for a bad boy mike minotti i'll kill you what uh if there's any uh food vehicle that mike minotti is driving around it's got to be a roast roast beef mobile oh yeah or a giant uh mozzarella stick kind of like the oscar meyer weeder mobile totally a mayonnaise cake mobile yeah mike i've oh i i had a devil i had a bite

of a deviled egg this weekend for the first time oh wow congratulations good right yeah it was weird you wouldn't do that at that restaurant yeah yeah hey jan jan jan jan jan jan we're not doing it it again how do you feel about the fact that we are now currently existing in a k -pop demon hunters world okay i have a question folks before you say anything about it i'm probably going to watch it tonight yo this is the shit okay back on my music mary's making me watch it dibb dibb discovered it like three days ago he's probably the the one of the first 800 000 kids to watch it oh way more than that oh

my god it's so fucking good it's so good why is it so good why did they just toss it to netflix i don't understand this is the new netflix animated children's movie right that's popular i don't i think it's like i would call it like a tween movie a pre -tween you know no you You still might like it, Dan.

Okay. No, if you watch it, it means you're an immature piece -of -shit kid.

So you better watch out, dude.

I'd be careful. I mean, like, it's not just for kids.

Like, I haven't seen it all the way through.

He's watched it, like, front to back, like, three times in a row.

He was sick last week.

So he binged that. And he also binged this Gravity Falls show on Disney.

Yo! Gravity Falls is amazing.

Shout out to Tim. A friend of the site Tim who recommended it.

But, oh, my God. Oh, my Lord. support this movie and it's like it's the it's the same studio that does the spider -man thing is that what it is oh yeah oh i like those movies a lot yeah tremendous sony animation sony animation yeah okay i didn't know that all right i believe something yeah is it the same style it feels it's not the like comic book but it does seem like it has like a cap on the frame rate if that makes sense oh yeah in the way that those movies do if i know nothing about k -pop does that matter I don't think you don't you don't need to know anything about k -pop no but I've seen media that involves

why okay Mike Mike no you you late you you put the you put the uh the trap down what what is it Mike oh me yeah yeah do you know where k -pop's from Korea which one South North you can play North got it follow up this is how okay yes yes go on I was saying follow up which Korea Kim Jong Il invented K -pop in 1978 my grandfather fought to liberate Korea I know about Korea I don't know what the Korean War was but I assume I don't know Korea was involved I don't know you ever see MASH no is that what MASH is about yeah yeah i mean it's in korea yeah they are in korea cool korean conflict yeah um uh

that's any time i ordered a spicy tofu soup and it's too spicy um grain conflict down there yeah you know a little spicy down there um gang this is how we announce uh the five of us are going to the next black pink show together that's right yeah i would go to that i like some of your songs I guess that's the K -pop band Dan who's your favorite member of Blackpink Scary Well you know One of them is a little bit scary sure Richard scary Mike how many Spice Girls can you name Uh There's scary spice gosh I feel like Man if you had asked me I bet I could do okay And now we're here there's ginger Yeah

There's five right There's ginger Man I feel like I should be able to do better than this But nah there's baby baby baby spice i rented spice world for the place you should want i should be good at you could name all the dwarves you should name all the spice girls they were the dwarves the dwarves of the 90s yeah they are they are millennial yeah if you want to be mine i don't know if i can name three spice girl songs i mean okay wannabe was the obvious one then there was oh god what else i mean there i assume there's a song called spice world well there's a movie called your life there's a spice

up your life song right half the word spice in it it's a good maybe a good amount yeah um have you all seen that the backstreet boys are on a are doing a reunion show in the sphere right now yeah i have friends who just saw it it looked pretty good i would watch that that's the background they're all flying on a little ufo thing that looks cool how much money do you think we have to pay to just get like a minute of sphere time inside or outside what does that mean yeah inside but like we get to do the podcast but for like a minute a one minute yeah just go with the back door i think we have to

pay 25 and they'll give us a minute so there we go i mean it costs like 200 to go see a darren aronofsky thing when i went there so that's to view it so i can't imagine being there i would I just want to put the bomb logo on the outside.

Yeah, that would be cool.

Yeah. OK, folks, if you know anyone that works at the sphere, get in contact.

I want you guys. It's the Dolans, right?

Don't they? Who are the Dolans?

The water, the mix and rangers, I think.

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Gang, speaking about music and watching shows, I need to get this off my chest. And I know this is a video game podcast and we'll get to the video game soon enough.

But I went and saw New Jersey's own My Chemical Romance this weekend.

Hell yeah. Oh, the chemis.

We thank you for your business.

They had a whole elaborate story going on the whole time and I didn't understand shit about it.

Apparently, My Chemical Romance created their own, and I think this is mostly Gerard Way.

Well, Gerard's like a comic book writer, is he not?

He's a little comic book man, right?

And he made his own alphabet for the show.

Are they the ones that?

did the spider -man uh theme song for that cartoon recently that's a children's show why am i asking grown men i'll just google it you guys well i mean did they do the parade song that's them okay i've heard that one yeah oh my god stop it jan can we don't oh i think i've vaguely heard of my chemical romance i remember seeing somebody do that at karaoke and i was like oh i think i know that song yes no not a bad one jan i want to hear about your lovely experience thank you jan uh anyway uh i think it's been a hot minute since i've went and watched like a concert of a band or an artist that i know

like front to back most like maybe like 95 of their geography um and yo all the and i say this parentheses positive please sure all the fucking freaks came out oh good that you were you expecting well i don't know it's been so like last last time i saw like i i think i saw like the offspring and simple plan and then another band and it was a very wide variety of like bro dudes and like their partners bring you're gonna get people in their 50s yeah um but here there were like elder millennials elder millennials with their kids uh someone dressed up as like hatsune miku uh black parade there's always

someone dressed up as hatsune miku though come on yeah but then like you get you had your like white white folks, black folks, brown folks, miscellaneous Asian folks.

And I'm like, wow, look at all of us coming together because we're all kind of sad.

No, it's not a kind of sad.

What do you mean? It was like a celebration of sadness and not pathetic, not like a pathetic kind of sad.

Just like, yeah, emotional.

This is all parentheses positive.

Yeah. When my chem came out, I was a piece of shit.

Okay. It was like what's up did it fix you no no i have i have a delayed appreciation for my camp because when i came out i was like programmed by the scene to like reject this very popular and talented and very good band even though they were from my home state and they're they're excellent i i i really like they i think they've transcended that genre of music in a way that very few bands find a way to break out of they're amazing time right they're they are still relevant right and that that proves it i was thinking of fallout boy by the way that does the spidey and his amazing friends and that's

patrick stump um that piece of shit arc that you talked about bacalar yeah that happened with me with backstreet boys where like you know i was like a young teenager or teenager in black backstreet boys that's a boy band gross and then that uh i want it that way song came out it was like their big new single after a while and it was like this huge event on mtv and i was was just like i legitimately love this song and love this band in this moment it was like a hot week where i'm like backstreet boys are all right by me and i still love that song it's great i think my chemical romance and like

afi and fallout boy and that whole kind of i guess it's probably just emo i was just fully and i mean i was still not open to new music in general but them specifically i judged the book by the cover and i saw them and i was like oh this is not for me at all i don't like i put it on the box yeah i was a huge afl guy in the 90s two things before we move on one uh after seeing gerard way like shed the character when they went and did the encore because uh i guess these tours uh long live the black parade so they did the black parade album front to back uh that's sick they yeah it was very good uh

they did an encore about like like five or six songs of just miscellaneous mcr songs from time and whatever uh but when i saw him and i i was putting like the puzzle pieces together i'm like very theatrical guy very nerdy dude from new jersey and and like the theatrics and like singing well i'm like huh this is just alex bonniello in a different font it is bizarro alex bonniello is it not it is and i'm like like didn't didn't 9 -11 inspire my chem to become a man isn't that the thing i think so is that why it had to happen so he got my chemical romance so you're saying worth it is that what you're

saying i just wanted to clear i mean we also got that robert patsy right where it's like a surprise 9 -11 movie yeah right yeah surprise 9 -11 uh the lead singer of afi is my platonic idea of what a he should look like yes it's like that is what a he should look like my wife was still in love with davey havoc oh my lord just a strong look the only thing i said in the last like five minutes during all this band talk was my wife because bacalar said it you've had it a lot that's cool uh and then like the the last thing i'll say about the mcr concert and i know that uh uh welcome to the black parade

or the black parade song itself has been memed to death but there was a moment there and i may have been you know a little bit high out of my mind uh but uh i was just standing there and i'm like and i didn't realize i just started fucking bawling yeah uh so listen i'm with you there is something i've talked about this with my therapist there's something about seeing bands from my childhood and where i get emotional in a way that i don't understand like uh i remember seeing green day in like 2016 or something and i don't it was like the first time i'd seen them in like 10 years and i was it's

like i was just like overcome with something and i couldn't describe it and it happens with a lot of nostalgia and i i don't know what it is it's not a bad thing it's just a thing that i can't really explain it just sort of happens dan you wouldn't understand it's emotions but like i just feel like it's just you know what i mean like there's something there i don't know what it is but i would love to explore it more with you jan maybe offline i'd love to yeah it was uh maybe it's like the specific lyrics at the beginning of like the black parade uh and then i was like i was looking around and i'm

like oh no one could see me cry eye right now please put it away uh but then homegirl next to me um oh okay actually third all right when a concert is at a baseball park do you consider that a stadium show yeah yeah it's literally a stadium it's a stadium football i consider saying i mean by wrestling terms i think of those as stadium shows okay i guess for whatever reason in my head uh a ballpark is always a ballpark and not quite a stadium but okay okay it'll be stadiums or stadium show well if it's closed it's an arena is how i look at it you can have if it's closed and it seats 80 000 people

it's a stadium sure yeah okay so like there's plenty of football stadiums that are enclosed i think if it's hot if it's like basketball hockey it's arena yeah 20 000 people's an arena 80 000 it's like a stadium yeah got it okay okay i saw superman this weekend and i liked when they fought at the baseball field that i go to see the guardians that was nice oh they did yeah well the The whole movie was very filmed in Cleveland, so I'm just recognizing things from Cleveland.

It was like a Where's Waldo of Cleveland locations the entire time, so that was fun.

Jan, real quick. I want to hear more about that for a second.

Jan, did they play anything off of Three Cheers?

Oh, yeah. Their encore had at least two tracks from Three Cheers.

Awesome. I think they played Thank You for the Venom, and then obviously I'm Not Okay.

And then I think they did Helena.

Yeah, they did Helena.

But my qualm with Watching a concert In a stadium specifically a baseball park That sounds like shit It was okay actually There's not enough room to dance Alright The seats too small Homegirl next to me next to my partner and I Vaping the whole fucking time Not even cool vape I'm like what's the cool vape The weed Drugs dude And I'm like Like man like A lot of me Gandalf Ripping fat clouds But yeah your boy just wants to dance And like stadium seats cannot Was there general mission down on the Field was there like general mission down there Where you could have gone down had you bought the right

tickets But like well that's the problem Grub it's impossible to buy the right Tickets anymore with ticket master And it's also like if it's a Park you're not sure exactly what the seating is going to be like Who knows what the vibes are going to be like You're just kind of guessing Yeah but I guess Sometimes when you go watch a concert and you're seated somewhere, the vibes aren't right.

Thankfully, the vibes are right all around the park.

Also, 100 Gex opened for My Chemical Romance.

Oh, wow. 100 Gex? The lizard?

No, Tony Hawk. Yes.

I don't know if y 'all have ever heard 100 Gex. It's something.

It is like if you put Tumblr online into like...

If you translated the website of Tumblr onto a vinyl.

It was online. I'm sorry, I got me here.

What is that? Was it a zine?

The Tumblr zine? The Tumblr online?

I was like, where were you finding this?

Did you print it out?

Yeah, the book. You know?

They seem more like an art installation than maybe like an opening band.

Right? Yes. Yeah. They definitely seem like an art installation because, uh, one of the people of 100 Gex, there's only two of them, I think, uh, she, like, just wore flip -flops on stage Wait, there's only two people in 100 Gex?

Yeah, it's a duo. It's not 100 people, it's 100 Gex. Bullshit.

Yeah. It's a Gex. I don't know what the Gex is.

Mike, are we gonna be able to dance at our, the concert we're gonna go to?

The Hisaishi Joe concert?

I need to buy tickets, but almost certainly not.

Okay, shit. Yeah. Almost certainly not.

I was gonna say, like, i have not done general admission in many many years unless it's like a show where there are no seats which is only really like for like the summer at the the stone pony stage which is at the beach but like it's tough man i get it jan i i i'm with you like i i put me in a seat you know i'm there now stadium shows in general are not that appealing appealing to me because of this these reasons and i do yeah prefer the amphitheaters outside um because i remember like when I used to go see Iron Maiden, I was always in these amphitheaters and then lately they're always coming

around like winter, so it's got to just be at wherever the penguins play or wherever the Cavs play.

It's not as good. I don't like big loud metal shows inside of basketball arenas.

It gets kind of weird and hot and loud in there.

I feel like I haven't been to a concert in years, but I'm seeing Nine Inch Nails in a couple months here.

Are they known to be good live?

I saw them once live, and I'll put it it this way i remember it and i don't remember a lot of concerts so i think that's a good sign it's a big crowd that's like the cell center but i was in an arena for it and i think i saw him with was it corn i think they might have it was like it was like a weird combo uh i can't remember exactly who it was it could have been something else but um i definitely remember them they played in an arena and they sounded phenomenal and i like went home and was like i am gonna get way more into nine inch nails i think that's where i'm at because like i have an appreciation for them

i definitely have grown to like like a lot of their stuff and really respect resner soundtracks they does with atticus ross right yeah that's the thing i've gotten respect for resner certainly over the years and uh you know bonk uh you know bonk loves concerts and shows she's the one that like you know she's usually doing you know like yeah underground metal shows and stuff that you know she knows aren't for me but she's like hey do you want to see nine -inch nails with me yeah i'll go with you for sure so i could see myself seeing them live and then being like i need to get way more into them

everyone should go to a metal show with bonk once in their life is what what i'll say is what i'll put out there that sounds like a good time uh my favorite anecdote about uh trent resner it popped up in that masters of doom book where they're like he had a like a pentium one or something or 486 maybe installed in his tour bus so he could play quake after every concert and that was how he partied and then that's why he was like or maybe it was doom and he did the soundtrack for quake i think that's how it went he's a special kind of hero for sure for sure yeah yeah they're doing go ahead go ahead

i was gonna say nigel is doing that tron aries music so you know i'll hear them there i'm sure and he's also doing the intergalactic right busy busy man i feel bad we we departed from your superman uh to be clear yeah i feel bad because i was i was derailing i know you want to contribute immediately so no it's fine uh no you don't like it right yeah i liked it a lot actually yeah i thought i'm thinking about trying it because uh james gunn i'm with you like even though i don't like comic book stuff and i really don't like superman i have found that james gunn has surprised me kind of every time

that like oh i think i like his sensibilities with this stuff so yeah lollipop chainsaw was sick and i'm here for that yeah big lollipop chainsaw fans right here uh no i just i I liked how kind Superman was.

That was nice about it.

Turns out, yeah. Does Superman have a no killing people rule like Batman?

He tries not to, but it's not as strict as Batman.

Do you guys... He's killed so many people, Superman.

For sure. Like he made the world go backwards.

You don't think that murdered a bunch of people by accident?

I think that probably sent some mountains into space.

Yeah. How do you guys handle it when like...

Does it bum you out?

I think this is a mature in my part.

When you go to a movie of people and they like have the opposite reaction to the movie and I don't know sometimes I'm like sometimes it puts me in a weird place I don't love it I guess because this time it's like you know I went with my family like including kids my brothers and they all liked it why was it like uh he's too woke no no not like that but like you know but like some of my other like friends like all high school friends they also went and they are generally more cynical about movies and there was a part where it's like maybe this one they'll like cause I'm kind of cynical about movies

too in some ways right I'm always like oh movies are mid but it's like okay this one I liked so like I went up to where they are seeing I was like haha what'd you guys think and they still hated it and thought it was lame and I was like eh I thought maybe this one I thought maybe this one would push through that rubs off on me for sure I'm at a point now where like even sports a thing you're supposed to watch communally I don't want to hear other people's opinions about what's happening in the game I want to watch it by myself because you're not the coach please say what you think should be happening

on the field it drives me crazy and I have a similar thing with movies where it's like I'm going to enjoy it in my silo because I just want to feel how I feel about it and your feelings about it probably aren't going to help me in that journey I had something happen to me when I saw children of men in the theater where I'd seen it with Stacey and we were when that came out I forget what what was it like oh 304 maybe later a little later maybe like 0607 yeah I obviously that movie like changes you it's a masterpiece it's and yeah one of my faves I remember coming coming out of it with her and we

were like very into our in our uh you know film brain mode back then and they were like it was it was a relatively empty theater we'd seen a really late showing and there was a group of people who came out just going off on like that was the most unwatchable trash i've ever seen oh yeah and i remember like looking at stacy and just being like i think we gotta leave this planet i think we gotta get out of here i think we gotta get out like we gotta go somewhere like this is i have a similar thing exactly like this with a relationship like i went with the girlfriend and her friends to see uh unbreakable

and i walked out of that being like oh this guy just got what he was going for he completely understood the like the assignment like that he came up with this on on his own to explore this idea of superhero mythology and it's brilliant and they they just couldn't stop making fun of it his name was mr glass i'm like oh they just don't even get it at all and it drove me crazy and that's like one of the three things i remember about that relationship is being pissed off that night because they didn't get the movie but then he kept making movies and who was the director m9 yes yes of course trap is a very

good movie though y 'all should know i heard like the meter started to tick back up in the last decade but he's got some fun movies recently it was a movie i feel like the village is the one that threw me like i'm not watching this shit ever again I have a friend who used to say that the village was probably him just getting back at everyone who made fun of him in high school.

Just like forcing them to go see this movie and then doing that.

I've seen two M. Night Shyamalan movies.

The six sets and The Last Airbender.

So a big disparity in quality between those two.

I was going to say I'm a big fan of M.

Night and then I forgot that I blocked out The Last Airbender out of my memory.

yeah sorry but yeah sorry he did that to you signs i think is like 90 90 percent a great movie yeah no i'm gonna i'm like at a point where i mostly accept like what he's going for and it's good or bad it's like okay yeah signs i'm like all right i enjoyed that movie so the 90 kind of clicks over it's like that's just an enjoyable movie yeah yeah like in the theater i remember being a super tense time like obviously in retrospect there were mistakes made with that movie but up until tell like the ends and everything it was a really tense memorable theater experience exactly yeah that's that's how

I feel yeah uh I'll tell you what Lex Luthor's a mean jerk oh yeah this is this is the one movie Nicolas Holt didn't get cucked in oh good for him is there a list of movies Nicolas do if I google Nicolas Holt cuck movies will I get a list yes all right what have I seen them in that was he in the Dracula one yeah cucked yeah oh I guess he gets cucked by Dracula yeah yeah I was trying to think of a pun there Of Cuck and Dracula Cuckula You used to be Hollywood's number one Cuck Now it's Nicholas Holt Alright I'm on Reddit now Alright We should get going with the podcast But real quick I think M.

Night Shyamalan I'll forgive him for creating The beach that makes you old Because in that movie Old, right that's what it's called yeah it's called yeah old yeah yeah yeah uh there is a character named mid -sized sedan and that's just that's just that's some fucking kojima shit i think do you guys remember anything about his uh what's the one where the lady's in the pool lady in the water in the water fish or something no that's the that's a different movie where someone fucks a fish this is an oscar yeah wait uh yeah this yeah the shape of water all right this is the one where a guy like does

by bicep curls on just one arm so he's got one giant ripped arm and a regular other arm and i remember seeing that being like well i'm not watching this shit that's gross i hate looking at this guy so uh there's there's uh maybe too many pool movies because that reminded me of the the movie night swim where the pool changes him that's the one bailey was telling us about right yes yes yes she was really in the night swim yeah i need to i need to watch nicholas was john arbuckle the garfield movie oh he is a car he drank he drank od sperm in that one comic strip yeah that's the most cock coded character

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Yeah, he's he's, okay, there's no way to transition Cux into Pokemon friends.

This is a new mobile game that launched this morning after the Pokemon Direct.

I showed up at 6am and no one was there on the Google me what the fuck guys well you couldn't have streamed anyhow because mike was still streaming so yeah i think everyone's just done with pokemon right like it's over i think it's done it i think it may be cooked and not in like the cool fun way uh well there's cooked is bad cooking is good you're either the chef or your thing being cooked pokemon go is still a big thing because i was just in wisconsin with my sister all weekend and she was cashing all sorts of talking about the gyms and the Pokemon. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Why do you still Pokemon going?

Do you think Nintendo gets mad at the Pokemon company when they do stuff like this because it's like a Pokemon Direct and people are like, wow, Direct suck and Nintendo's like, we didn't do this.

This is the Pokemon company.

Leave us alone. Did they call it a Direct?

Yeah. I think it's called a Pokemon Direct.

Is it Pokemon Direct or Pokemon Presents?

It might be Pokemon Presents.

I'll get to the bottom of this, Jeff.

Don't worry. Oh, shit.

All right. I'll have you in the Mayframe sucks I hate it you've got characters now like I feel like this we've unlocked you know a new level some people for 900 episodes brings in special guests and like a big fanfare we're trying to make the worst episode we've done it's presents damn it it's like a direction piece of shit I'd like to walk back everything I've said Pokemon friends is you know those those uh ads those mobile game ads that you'll get about like oh connect everything through one line or like just guide the character through there they basically did that but with pokemon and you

have a limited amount of puzzles you can do in a day um because it's supposed to be like stimulating brain puzzles for you brought to you by pokemon and i completed the six puzzles today and then i deleted the app afterwards because there's nothing else i could do until tomorrow and then I continued to race the Horse Girls but that's it that's all this game is I know that Pokemon is targeted towards children and I know that Pokemon Friends in the little trailer that they had during the Pokemon Presents this morning, it was a mother and son guiding her son through puzzles so sure, that's that another

thing that is not for me and I think I am continuing to walk away from Pokemon some of these puzzles look really Like barren they look like Really I don't know sauiceless Yes They're not dripping in Swagoo definitely Chef grub oh yeah look at this It's like oh my god they look like Flash games yes they are Equivalent to flash games very Very very bare bones Um so again I understand it is probably Targeted towards children And not towards no Jan let's make fun Of this this is embarrassing this sucks look this is not okay for this company to put out in 2025 as a representation of their brand the the pokemon company

does a lot of curious things to to maintain their brand um and you know at least in games media i notice a lot of our peers and friends are picking up the uh older digimon cyber sleuth game you know what i think it's fucking time i think it's fucking time for digimon to knock pokemon off its high horse it's time for agumon this game costs 34 it does does pokemon friends thing i'm looking at the puzzles right now no it's free it's free it's not free what's my talking about switching an extra 24 for the full game oh you could buy this on switch 34 you're playing on mobile oh and there's dlc is puzzle

puzzle on pack one okay yeah you can get puzzle packs one and two for $26 yes there are there is DLC if you want to keep playing the puzzles and as Grub said it is how much $26 $26 on top of the $10 for the base version on switch oh okay no that's bad don't do that that is three and a half Nintendo switch to welcome to which is looking pretty good awesome yeah yeah that's it's disappointing me I don't know if grub has the any of the pokemon stuff in today's news a tiny bit i was gonna ask you about it so okay well we'll talk about it later then um yeah so far the pokemon company is not doing much

to uh uh win me back especially we knew this we knew this presents would always be kind of lackluster uh that fans that are in the know sean was saying like these this one that happens at this time of year is always an update on stuff that no one here is going to care about and he was right so but still it kind of stinks that this is the game i had one thing uh that i cared about no i don't give a shit about mega evolutions um oh yeah god i i hate them oh my god oh my god the crazy look in his eye when he said that yeah oh my god uh but this this is gonna be another place for me to complain that my

my press credentials got turned down for pokemon worlds in nfm because you didn't you have not respected the companion pass it's because a lot of things are happening bad for jan since he disrespected that that's kind of true i hate that you shoot right i saw my buddy this weekend jan who's the big pokemon card freak and he was just like he's like you don't even know what's going on now and i was like they all talk that way whenever i talk to someone in that space they're always like it's true they just have like this show shell -shocked look on their face like yeah boy like they've always come

back from war right like they're always constantly facing the worst incident of pokemon retail cards they just can't reintegrate into society yeah they're constantly shook it's like it's insane uh but you know because he used to say like yeah i used to get a lot of boxes from pokemon center right and now even that is like in impenetrable in a way that they are all sort of like rudderless and lost and like they're always looking for someone who just has like sealed boxes from a from a from a series a couple you know years ago or whatever and he's talking he's talking to me he's like dude i think

i might have like 60k worth of sealed box i'm like what's happening are you jeopardizing like what's going on he's like i just don't he's like every time i leave it in the in the closet it just goes up and up and up and up and i'm just like i don't know what to tell you man you're like really invested deep in the like sealed wax i don't know what to do with you but oh have you ever seen the card section at a target uh like it always looks like it's been ransacked yeah it looks like the yeah it looks like some sort of tornado has ripped yes a tornado like card packs like all over the place on the floor uh

all of them mixed together just some mania behind bulletproof glass yeah it should be yeah it's crazy there's uh uh there's a Walmart near where I uh place I play hockey and every now and then Dib and I will go and just kind of like see what the card situation is and they've like they've buried it behind all of these massive like uh moving crates it like it's it's completely inaccessible and no one's telling you not to go there but like we sort of kind of do sometimes and you're just like Like, I got cut again.

Something cut me on the way while I was reaching for that box.

It's okay. You know how, like, some grocery stores, like, after, like, a storm or, like, a natural event will be like, hey, we're out of this.

There's no toilet paper.

There's no shampoo.

So many Barnes and Nobles, card stores, GameStops, and Target's in my area have put up signs at the front door saying, there's no Pokemon cards.

Stop. yeah go away uh it's it's weird it's a weird pandemic also hey what's the deal with all these in your area um the next to the scratcher machines at grocery stores yeah there's now also pokemon vending machines for cards uh and they're constantly sold out what oh oh like okay i was imagine like a pull tab things at bars again to buy to buy like loosies To buy loose packs Tell me about la boo boos What's the deal They're just these little like monkey freaks We did this before and it's beanie babies Oh They're in blind boxes And they're cooler I'm not judging their aesthetic I think you were for a second

I think beanie babies are great Guess who was really into beanie babies We know Believe it or not it's just Me Were you did you have the princess Diana one Oh I had princess Di I had better Once better than princess Di come on What's that mean like the challenger explosion Beanie baby For all the tragedies I have the super rare 9 -11 beanie baby that nobody knows About I'm glad that I'm a little bit younger Than Mike that beanie babies Missed me But that's not the only thing that missed me Yesterday Mike Minotti missed me me, and Grubb all over the place and finished his journey through the original,

well, not the original, but the first Myst game.

We beat the remake of Myst, and then I'm so glad this wasn't a false memory of a time that my older brother showed me how to beat Myst in like five minutes.

I was like, I think you could do that.

So it's like, yeah, once you find the solutions, you can't just beat the game right away.

So once we beat the remake, we just went to the original mist and played through it and saw the ending there um i really enjoyed playing through mist i thought yeah i had a great time i thought it was a very vibrant yeah just a smaller game than you're thinking yeah i tell you what i assume because you know it's an it's like an old one of these kind of point and click or puzzle games it's gonna be really obtuse and confusing it's actually one of the more logical and straightforward one of these that i have have played we were able to like honestly the one time we really needed help was when we

did a sort of bonus added on chapter later that was kind of just sequel bait and that's for we were just kind of like ready for the stream because you would be in the game we were kind of just doing that for fun yeah like the solution was just like we had to walk over there and see the colors and then we figured it out at that yeah basically it's like we're running up but get signed but yeah just like you know the actual game of mist through sh4 but still in a very satisfying way i loved all All the biomes, like the different ages slash the books you go into, each of them looked cool.

They all had a central theme, like the forest one.

And the one that was all based around sounds was actually really neat, even though it had one of the more confusing puzzles with the tunnel train thing.

Yeah, that's just a game that I always wanted to be able to beat, and I'm super glad we did.

I had a ton of fun playing on the site, and I'm very excited to jump into Riven, the sequel to Miss Sune.

I suggest folks check out that stream or all of Monday Morning's Mist with Mitch because it is a very fun time.

Mike is also very smart.

Never gets stunted.

It was fun to just watch him figure some stuff out.

It's a good time. Thank you.

At the tail end of yesterday's stream, we checked out the original Mist. Holy shit.

What the fuck? Yeah, Jan, it seemed like you really had no full concept of how the game worked.

I'll have to say it looked way shittier than I remember as well.

There was a time where that was the prettiest looking game ever.

It blew all this away.

It's so funny because, you know, I started it.

Yeah, like an original Miss, you're not walking around in space.

It's just you're clicking around and moving to different pre -rendered images.

At one point, Jan's like, so it's just pictures, huh?

Yep. Yeah, that's right.

I'll tell you what, though.

I'm such a sicko. That part of me was like, oh, maybe this is how we should have played it.

I was into it very quickly, yeah.

I think we should still do, for Riven, still do the remake.

That remake's supposed to be amazing for Riven.

I've heard very good things about it.

Exactly. Fantastic, fantastic.

I'm proud of you, Mike.

That's awesome. Thank you, Mr. Bakalar.

It was great. I really enjoy those streams, so I'm glad.

Let's just keep doing it.

Yeah, yeah, there's plenty more misgames.

Some people say I should play Uru, which was the online game, and then it was taken offline, but apparently somebody's still running a shard of it, and by someone, it might be Cyan.

like the people who made it there's like an official online server for uru still so i don't know i'll look into it uru what's this can we all play that together like it's online right it sounds close to uru as well baby steps we're like the first dude you meet goes yeah no this is ages beyond missed and i think later they called it missed online Timeline Uru or something.

I don't know. I think that's right.

I was looking at the timeline.

That sounds right. I'm not an Uru historian yet.

Yes. There we go. There we go.

Looking at the original Myst, it looked like it was pulled from a specific time, just like Y2Roll looks like it is pulled from a very, very specific time.

Grub. Yes. Y2Roll is a 3D platformer sort of roll -the -ball game.

game you'll be familiar with this concept if you've ever seen Super Monkey Ball it is Marvel Blast Ultra or Marvel Marvel Blast Ultra yes um it is uh very much just trying to be one of those and uh it feels pretty good now it's it's also like throwback visually it's got four by three it's got the the CRT fuzz on top of the filter and uh kind of a low polygon count uh and the The vibes kind of like go into the sound effects and the music as well.

It looks like it takes place in the Beetlejuice cartoon.

Yeah, a little bit.

Oh, hell yeah. Yeah.

Honestly, you kind of like stripped a lot of the monkey stuff out of Super Monkey Ball.

How dare you, Ball?

Yeah, well, that's what this is doing.

And I'm like, so I'm playing this.

I'm like, is the monkey stuff like kind of a big part of it?

And yeah, it is. But this is still really fun and controls great.

It feels really good.

but it's, and it's always fun to like get into the rhythm of it and being able to like do shortcuts.

Cause you're like, I think I can bounce the ball and kind of like make the whole stage flip up and knock the ball over there and get over that huge chasm, even though I'm not supposed to and get a really good time on this.

That still works. It's really cool.

And these games, they always work.

Like it feels like you're tilting the world, but apparently you're actually controlling gravity.

And once you realize that, that also kind of opens up some possibilities in the game, and being able to accommodate that just means that it's a really well -made one of these so yeah, if you're a Super Monkey Ball fan and you've played all those Y2Roll is there, it's not going to win over anyone new it's definitely for people who like these kinds of games for sure well let's keep the ball rolling to another game involving balls Golden Tee, Arcade Classics yes, so this is a new one of these classic game collections and it reminds me a lot of the sort of arcade archive games where it's like, hey,

these are just the arcade ROMS emulated.

We're not going to try to like recreate them for console.

There are a lot of quality of life stuff added.

So you don't have to, at least what I played so far in that first Golden Tee game, you just spam the coin game, the coins into the machine and you don't have to worry about it.

Like being like, hey, this could be your last shot unless you put more money in.

It's like, it's all good on that front.

And it's seamless. It's not going to get in your way and interrupt things.

so you're just playing it as a golf video game uh and then for the controls because golden t is a track ball game or track yeah track ball um they make it work so that your hand is the left stick and you can only put it on the ball when you hit hold down the b button so you hold down the b button and now your hand is actually on the track ball and then you could pull it back and at that point you can like let go of b if you want to sort of reorient and like go on your of your your fore swing and go in a different direction.

So they've accommodated for all of that.

It is pretty difficult to dial in like how much you should be hitting the stick because it's just, it translates to the ball in a kind of weird way.

I'm sure you can get used to it.

I was getting a little bit more used to it as I was playing overall though.

It's like, yeah, these are the golden tee arcade golf games.

And if you're like obsessed with that franchise, like there are people out there who are it, it's, it does the thing.

but if you're like coming to video games for a video game golf game there i think there's just better options um there's so many different golf games and a lot of them are built for consoles are built are built for steam deck that i was playing on and um trying to translate that to a controller wasn't the like the best experience necessarily i think they did a good job with it overall though go yeah see it's a that's a hard thing you know there aren't too many trackball games i think about the weird song the hedgehog trackball game all the time and i used to want to part of it so badly and then

when i played it finally when we were at galloping ghost i really liked it played it yep yeah but i was like oh i can see why they never reported this it kind of kind of need a trackball it's hard to do it without yeah uh we also played the super monkey ball game there with the banana controller oh that's fantastic uh yeah but i mean it's a really well done collection otherwise it has all the golden t games and they're up to a certain point at least i don't know if that's the latest one in there but there's a lot of them in there and the ports are really well done uh and like navigating like getting

around and having all the settings uh like easily available because again like you're going into these arcade port arcade roms all that stuff is really well presented so i think it's a decent collection um i'm at a point where i might even do a quick look of it so we'll see maybe that's on the site is there like one that the golden tea fans like oh that was the best golden i bet so yeah because because there's like people like playing leagues and stuff right and uh like it is their game that they go to their bar and they play it's like the equivalent of darts at a certain point i bet they have one

that they consider to be the one what's what's the street fighter three third strike of you know the other bar staple was always big buck hunter and i passed a machine uh in wisconsin this weekend and like they're just like crazy like piranha plants and tornadoes and stuff you're shooting now it's like when did it make the turn from like we're shooting elk to it's oh yeah yeah It gets the mobile game influence, right?

Because so many that audience is like playing mobile games.

I think they have to like there has to be more going on.

There is a competitive big buck hunter scene.

Actually, there was a documentary about it.

I think at one point they have a big competition.

I forget where it is, but it's in the US.

And it's like surprisingly very punk looking.

And I think we should go.

Yeah, we should definitely make the expedition one day.

if they're still doing that in the near future but in the past recent past jeff bacalar turns out you're the first person to finish expedition 33 i know i know i know i'm a really good gamer that's why i finished games first before anyone else we all say yeah yeah not the last one here to beat it still jeff uh grub i don't know i'm not being that i'm not gonna play that game i'm just joking i'm joking don't kill me i just have to preface this conversation with how good i am so that you'll all be able to understand we're impressed did you dodge did you die while you're playing the game did i dodge

yeah you mean was i not blindfolded the entire time is that what you mean he's trying he's trying to see he's trying to call you off for dodging instead of period person we've all ever met yes i'm weak and dodging yeah i mean for the majority so my My instinct is always to parry, but there's certain attacks where I'm just like, I'm a dodge boy for some of these attacks.

Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.

Like, you know, I wish there was a stat meter that, I would venture to bet my parry to dodge ratio is like, I don't know, four to one, five to one.

That's pretty good.

I mean, I always try to parry, but there's a lot of strings of attacks.

And once you miss the first parry, well, then you may as well dodge.

Oh, I didn't think of that.

that is smarter the dodge it's not smart it's the way you're supposed to play because you can't get the parry yeah counter attack yeah what's the point even hmm as soon as you said that i was like oh yeah what's the point in parrying if you don't get the counter exactly you still earn an ap point right like most of the time oh you do shit that was foolish because it's also an easier thing to recover from and perform the dodge is a faster mechanic objectively yes it's like wow i did not even consider that that would have been a lot easier when you beat it you'll understand what i'm talking about motherfucker

so uh you know i i guess i'm like honestly really surprised i finished this you know it's there's a lot of of people who i don't think would be fans of these kind of games that are into it and have seen it all the way through i mean dan reichert right uh it's you know my both of my brothers who don't normally play through rpgs on turn -based ones too often anymore both of them got through this it's funny how like the 35 hour play time i think is a big component of that because that's now suddenly very breezy for one of these games so here's my first question yeah my game clock says 22 hours 20

you're a good gamer again i i called that out yeah sounds like someone's skipping all that great side content but you don't have you might but my xbox counter the app on on pc says 1 .4 days and last time i checked those two are not the same amount of hours sounds more right that sounds Well no the in -game counter would be more accurate Right?

It would be but 22 Even like skipping a lot of side stuff That's really short for a first playthrough How much side stuff is like There's a lot There's a lot of optional dungeons you can do like Obviously things like The jumping puzzles Act 3 has a ton of Optional sides.

Just go with the 22 hour thing Mike cause that's gonna make it more likely that I actually will Play through this game.

Yes I bet he could have Beat it in 12 hours Jeff Oh, okay.

Now it's sounding pretty enticing.

A big reason I definitely went through is because I think Mike said, listen, this is going to be coming up at Game of the Year.

And I feel like it was the same way with Fireskin.

I was like, alright, people are going to be talking about this.

I'll give it a shot.

And now Grubb, I can pass that along.

It's definitely going to come up a lot at Game of the Year.

Like a lot, a lot. I mean, didn't you also say publicly that, Grubb, didn't you publicly say this is guaranteed to win Game of the Year somewhere?

Yes, he did. He promised me that.

You're muted. just audio is breaking I'll translate for him I did say that but now I played a game made by Nintendo that I really like and I'm not sure oh yeah it's not winning game of the year it's July 22nd boys we have a little bit of time left in the year last time I checked what did you obviously we don't want to talk about spoilers too much with the ending there's a lot of that um the ending is somewhat divisive i think most people like it but some people are yeah we're not by it i like it i think it's a very fresh take on doing the thing it did i think the the sort of like idea is not new

but it has a different approach at delivering that exposition which i found novel and enjoyable i i was not like moved in a tremendously powerful way i was like oh this is just like pretty solid storytelling i'm happy with how they did it uh and i enjoy the the ideas there i have a lot more questions i like whenever i complete something like this and i like the the parts that i'm over obsessing now are like some of the other minutiae of the storytelling of like but why the expeditions and like well you know what i mean like i understand the the big picture i think i do uh but i don't understand some

of the more granularities of like like why were they sending people out in this world like what i don't i the grammage i like kind of just don't also get i guess like on its face and we can't talk about too much but i'll tell you what that's spoiler cast now that you yeah we're not gonna i don't want to get into it Again, I feel like we're talking about it in a pretty broad way right now.

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, we'll do that spoiler cuts for sure.

But just like, you know, so what do you think?

You thought it was really good?

You liked it? It's excellent.

It's fucking awesome.

This game's fucking awesome.

Yeah, it is. 100%. What are you talking about?

Of course it is. It's so freaking good.

It's amazing. I even had like a normie friend of mine hit me up over the weekend, and he's like, I'm having dinner with some jackass who's telling me that Claire Obscure is the best game he's ever played in like a decade.

Is he full of shit?

And I'm just like, nah, he's legit.

this guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about like um yeah i just think uh i you know i think the whole paint stuff is like very just like that for whatever reason like that's what's sticking to me that like all just that aesthetic and that whole idea is a big splatoon you're a squid kid yourself well i don't know if i would call myself a squid kid certainly that but like like yeah i'm an ink boy you know you know i'm an inky man um and i thought i i think uh i think the characters the performances are all very very strong and well above average and well beyond what i was expecting who is your

main team um monoko oh you're monoko you like the feet yeah i just i just he reminded me of dan a lot dan doesn't like him that's funny like dan just seems like hunched over with a big face of hair and i'm just sort of like yeah that's that's monoka that's dan you might as well just put like you know a wooden plank on your face and you're cosplaying halfway there as monoko but right look at the shit about feet all right you know i i do think this game like is a lot more charitable than i was anticipating it was gonna be where you know i was like oh fuck the the the barrier to entry here and the sort

of like like attention to your loadout and your pictos and your luminous and all that stuff is going to really really uh sort of like barricade me in a way where i'm unable to progress and none of that turned out to be true like the the the the longest i spent on any fight you know was maybe like four times or five times and i just kind of like was able to persevere and get to where i needed to be without overly obsessing over uh spinning all those those plates uh so yeah i played verso luna and manoka were like my main three i'm a big fan of cl cl very good just want to put that out there and then

uh yeah and then my i was just like i'm like you're annoying was like my i was my my carry on my team i think most of my damage was coming from from Maeyo for large portions of the game.

Towards the end, something happens where, like, I feel like I did not see how powerful she, like, got for whatever reason.

Like, she started doing stuff that I did not do.

I feel like something happened.

I'm like, what? I also dressed her up real dumb.

Sure, you gave her a baguette.

I gave her, like, what are the little furry boys?

A beret? No, no, no. Oh, the gastrols.

i gave her like a gastral haircut and put her in like a dumb dress and i was just like look at this idiot running around um and i i yeah but but then at the end where you're like oh okay there's something she's doing special things now uh yeah i was sort of surprised by that because i did not i did not deliberately you know build out her her load out that way all the characters are great i love it i love sk i thought sk was awesome sk yeah uh very good boy i love the uh the the sort of energy of the curator and all that shit i thought that was cool as hell uh still you know the manner we can talk

about in um so the mansion whatever it's called in in the spoiler cast but yeah um i have very very few uh points of criticism that again we can get to uh in the spoiler cast if we if we ever wind up doing it i think like the whole like flag uh storytelling storytelling element like didn't fully land for me there's a couple of big audio tapes guy yeah i mean that some of that stuff's interesting some of that stuff is sort of like oh this kind of conflicts with like what the other you know narrative that's going on i just thought there was a lot of like mid -air collisions narratively speaking which is fine

it's this game's tremendous it's barely really anything to knock it uh yeah i really love it and now for me it's definitely the game to beat for this year that's for sure yeah yes well speaking about jrpgs and rpgs uh the master of all things role -playing games uh this seems like an interesting pick but dan i have on the list here you've been playing wizard quest i played i experienced wizard quest i don't know if anyone's heard of this uh one professor ticklebits told me about this uh it's in wisconsin Onsen Dells?

Have you ever been there?

No. Okay. So it's like a big -ass building that you go in, they give you basically a sheikah slate.

It's like an iPad thing.

And you go around and there are wizards that work there.

They're real people and you can talk to them and everything.

And there are four realms you can go to.

There's Earth, Air.

I went to Google Wizard Quest and look at how this is some labor of love shit.

Like sculptors and And like, it was like very impressive inside.

This is like an escape room?

Like, what did you do?

I mean, that's underselling it.

It is like an escape building with like a full lore and you're doing quests for these characters.

So you go up and you find this fucking turtle that's a shopkeeper.

And then he's telling you to go find these fire bats or this family of salamanders and stuff.

There's a big guy named Chart on Us.

And I thought like, wow, his name is Chart on Us.

He's a big troll guy that sits in a thing.

And I thought like, well, that's weird that his name is Chart on Us.

I had to go find like a hidden troll or something I had to crawl between his legs and then he starts farting on my fucking head so it's like it's cool cuz like you have to like you'll start quests on the iPad and to prove that you actually got to the thing you were supposed to find it could be on a different floor or a different realm you have to be like alright so the shopkeeper or this blacksmith you know what color is the the jewel or whatever that that he was working on or whatever and you type in you get credit for the quest and they'll be like all right well these you got to find these salamanders

and you have these torches which are like black light things and you'll have to like go around and look for like salamander footprints and things like that like in the actual environment like you're climbing under some it's awesome i thought it was gonna be some yeah i thought it was gonna be just this kind of like really corny thing or whatever or but it is so elaborate it was so much work went into it and by the end it's a two -hour experience and by the end we had done a ton of quests and everything and me and bonk and kayla we were just like let's just walk around and like look at this stuff

because like there's so many just little miniatures and giant statues and sculptures and stuff and like a whole like woods area and everything it's just a really really impressive thing i just have like a deep respect for what they pulled off there and i guess it started in like the early 2000s which would have been before ipads and stuff which makes me wonder if it was like a pen and paper thing or something or what's that did they use nintendo ds's like the loom or something sidekicks yeah i don't know how how they did it back then but it's like it is it is just a really tremendous thing if you

ever happen to find yourself in wisconsin dallas wisconsin on google maps right now looking up how long it is for me to get to the wisconsin dallas and then i was going to ask you dan yeah would this be appropriate from like age -wise in terms of enjoying it for my children i think it would be the worst person to ask i think it would be ideal for them because okay i saw a lot of families and kids and like them running around and being like surprised that they're like they found something it is like a lot of like decoding stuff it's like you're you're doing it's a it's a lot of video game stuff

going on there in a real you know kind of structure that's 10 hours for a drive we'd have to like well we go through chicago so we made a trip like stopping chicago hang out going through wisconsin dells and then make a trip back i will say in general wisconsin dells is an amazing vacation location for a million reasons there's a ripley's believe it or not a bunch of other stuff there's a fucking upside down replica of the white house that's guarded by transformers and the predator look up i'm not gonna look up are you on drugs no look up top secret wisconsin dells i think that's yeah it's just

a fucking upside down white house that's guarded by transformers it's fucking weird this whole city is it's gimmick city usa it's pyramids and ufos and it's the whole game the main thing is a billion water perks so i mean there's just so many fucking slides the most extreme water rides i've ever gone on a couple days ago um it is awesome i we had an absolute blast there people are saying it's like a better branson like it's like imagine branson with better gimmicks less of the country horse shit and more about just like fun gimmicky key vacation i don't know branson is oh wow that must be that that was like

the vacation destination in the midwest it's uh they said on the simpsons it's like las vegas if it was run by ned flanders so it's a lot of very hokey country buckets where silver dollar city is and stuff it's uh it's a very midwestern kind of conservative version of vegas it was definitely the only place i ever got to go on vacation to as a kid um it's fine it's lame though like wisconsin dells is a million billion times better.

But yeah, just look up any pictures of Wisconsin Dells.

It's a bunch of water slides, a bunch of gimmicks, but really, really cool stuff.

Really, really had a great weekend.

You got a Kalahari there.

All right. That's what I said.

I said a Kalahari. I didn't know it was that like a...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Water parks, yeah.

We have one here. I like Kalahari because it's very themed.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Kalahari Resorts.

It's an indoor water park resort thing.

I heard the word casino. The name of the city is Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin?

Well, I mean, there's Kansas City.

And their motto is, dude, you got Adele's.

Happy 900. It was the fucking first. I used to love water slides as a kid, but I haven't been to a water park in forever.

First time with this new water slide tech. Oh, my God.

It's the ones. What do you mean tech?

What do you mean? What's happening?

There's been tech. Where you fucking stand and like a vertical coffin.

And the bottom drops.

Yeah. yeah and i haven't been once again branson whitewater and branson in like 1994 when it was just like shitty slides that you get concussions on uh here it's like you stand on this thing and a voice is like three two one and then the floor is just gone and your body is just being sent way too fast and a dark tube and it's just you are fucking rattled by the end i loved it me and kayla did every single water slide and everything great great time went to a uh timbavati wildlife resort we got to you know pet giraffes and all sorts of shit and like a really good family vacation spot okay i'm yeah

but for adults like grub it's it seemed like a great great family spot for sure but also as a 41 year old man it was awesome if we went like in the fall and it was a little bit colder there's it sounds like there's plenty of like indoor water park a ton of them are so kalahari had a big outdoor one and they had a big indoor one and they're doing like a 75 000 square foot expansion of their indoor stuff so like be clear Jeff there is a Kalahari an hour from you No I know but like I want to do all this other stuff as well and we are looking to get out of town so yeah As someone that doesn't know

how to swim I've never really been able to enjoy a water park except the lazy river We lazy rivered, it was great There's lifeguards at the receptacle that will help assist you Let me tell you, I went to a water park because it was an altar server's field trip as a little reward and I went into the wave pool, I went a little bit too deep and then my friend had to pull me out i'll say jan the entire time all weekend i was in water that i could have drowned in really was just the wave pool like all the other stuff is yeah it's lazy river seven three feet when you get to the bottom of slides stuff

like that you could drown there but well i know but like you could also stand up you know sure yeah it's not like a risk if you can't swim you know okay uh thank you for that dan law may have to head over there also if you like cheese holy shit i ate so much cheese and drank a lot of beer this weekend it was a good good time uh you sound like you're lifting that you're living that drifter lifestyle uh just going to cheese and water parks uh just like mike minotti did last night on mega man uh he played not through but a little bit of the drifter yeah i played like two hours which i bet is you

know like about a third of the game maybe maybe a bit more than that jeff just recommended this to me earlier that day because it's very lucasarts point and click adventure game coded he knows how much i like those uh this is a newer game though but with that pixelated art style in a point and click interface with like the mouse cursor and the font of like a lucasarts game they aren't trying to hide anything there they're like we are making one of those right but it's also not nearly as obtuse or confusing as one of those where everything's context sensitive so it's pretty easy to find the things

that you should be clicking on um even like the dialogue dialogue systems. It's just, like, icons of things you might want to talk about.

So, pretty straightforward. But, I'm liking this quite a bit.

Yeah, like, the story here is that you are this kind of drifter who's back in his hometown for his mom's funeral.

So, he's got to see, you know, his sister and his ex -wife, and, you know, everything's kind of awkward. But, before all that happens, he gets caught up in something weird with a bunch of Sam Sam Fisher looking people abducting homeless and killing people, and he maybe gets framed for it.

And then they try to kill you, and you die.

It works. They do kill you.

They kill you, but time rewinds a bit.

If you ever played Ghost Trick Phantom Detective, it has sequences.

Yes. It has those sequences where you're in a situation, and you have to kind of solve a puzzle, or else you die.

But every time you die, you just go back.

So you kind of keep trying things until you finally figure out the situation.

So one of them, I was captured, and I'm in a hospital, and I'm handcuffed to the hospital bed, and I'm being interrogated.

Then a nurse comes in to refill my saline solution, right?

Then a few minutes later, I die.

So it's like, oh, she poisoned me.

So now you're kind of in this Groundhog's Day loop of trying to figure out how to get out of that situation.

So mixing those segments in with the more traditional point -and -click puzzles is really cool.

it's fully voice acted and the voice acting is good.

It seemed fun in those moments Mike like did you were you feel do you feel like okay we're going back to the beginning of the loop and now I have a good idea of what to do this time because that sounds exciting as opposed to the idea of like oh we're doing this again and I can't figure it out that could get frustrating but it felt like you always had a new idea of what to do next.

Yeah yeah and like again that's not you know that's part of the game right so and it's usually these pretty sequences short loops to where it happens and at a certain point you can you know skip a dialogue box so you can you know if it's something you heard already you get through that part pretty quickly so no i always thought those parts were pretty enthralling i was enjoying the story i kind of want to see uh where it's going so yeah so definitely something i'm going to continue playing on my own um i want to see this really again i love these games growing up and i know people are still making

these kinds of games i know uh wadjet games or wadjet games makes a ton of these and i haven't necessarily checked them out so you know probably shame on on me for not looking at the the the games inspired by the games that i loved in this modern age but i'm definitely enjoying this one and i think uh anybody who likes you know lucasarts venture games or you like to ghost trick fan of detective or you just kind of like an interesting uh kind of mystery story should look at the drifter i think you could be excused for missing that this one came out because it came out the same day as donkey kong

bonanza so yeah kind of easy to miss this one yeah pretty recent but uh really recommend it uh well that sounds bananas but you know what is more bananas than that mike minotti dan reicher jeff grubb no donkey kong bonanza oh right i'm a little jelly i'm a little jelly i haven't checked it out yet um it sounds like y 'all are having a ball with this it is i think maybe the fastest time to fun I've seen in a video game maybe ever just I guess I don't even know if you could call it a tutorial room because never does you know the action never stops and since that's like oh here's how you do this if anything

it's a little pop -up being like here's how you do a chunk jump yeah just puts you in a fucking room and you just go nuts and it's immediately fun there's like five seconds of just like here's the island they're on oops an asteroid all right go fucking nuts and that's all you're doing this entire game is just going fucking nuts and destroying everything like grub are you doing much like i find myself like i'll see a mountain or like a hill and i won't even have i'm not going towards the yellow exclamation point i don't even have a specific banana or anything i'm going for i just go up the hill

and i just start spamming just ah just up everything going up sideways down all the way through it turn into bonanza monkey just tearing up the whole mountain and along the way i'll get like you know 20 different things you know i'll get a bunch of gold i'll get some vanadium chips and bananas and all that but i'm just like are you doing it without direction too sometimes yeah in fact i'm kind of like yeah the spirit overtakes me for sure in this game more than a lot of other games and to the point where that is how i'm playing it overall where uh i am i am aware of the yellow thing the waypoint

telling me where to go next and i have that in mind but i am just sort of like playing it on a vibe level of i just feel like this thing in front of me needs to be be destroyed i'm gonna punch the hell out of it oh cool i did find a banandium uh thing uh i did find a bunch of other stuff uh but now that's destroyed i'm just gonna keep moving to that yellow thing now and oh another thing distracted me and i'm punching that and i'm not like worried about 100 100 of the game at all on this first playthrough just because it is such a get in the vibe of this game feel it out and and get on its level

and just go and it's made to be played that way it feels like and it's so good on that level that i'm having a great time and i'm also aware that i'm leaving all this stuff behind that i'm going to get to come back to later when it is time to be like i fully know everything about this game now i have all the abilities a fully upgraded donkey kong and now i can come back and really tear these levels apart and find every last thing and i love that uh it's really really good on that level that's exactly what i'm doing is like i'm just general in general senses i'm pointing donkey kong in a direction sometimes

sometimes towards an objective but i'm not doing like well i got to get 100 on this layer this sub layer before i move to the next i'm doing the exact same way where it's like i'm gonna move through at what feels like a natural pace and then there will definitely be a time it's very easy to fast travel around and go between the layers and all that i will 100 this game completely like it's so much fun there's no fucking way i'm not doing that and there are tools there where it's like it's easy enough to buy maps and stuff for like you know bananas you haven't found so So I think it's going to be

a very fun 100%. But it does something that almost reminded me of Breath of the Wild that I really appreciate where it's like, you know when you start Breath of the Wild and you get out of that first thing and it's like your first objective is kill Ganon.

And it's like, oh, okay.

Well, I'll just head out and see what happens with that.

The first objective here is find more bananas.

I fucking love that where it's like, all right, got my marching orders.

let's just go and see where this takes me um man it shifts later to get to the planet core and that's always there as well and it's like yes and i love the map screen of just you're going down and i just got the first part where it does kind of split like there's like do you want to go to the snowy area or the forest area and like there's the divide you know um oh man i'm just loving every second i've got like 130 bananas now um yeah keeps getting better dan like so you're at that that point uh i'm like i love this game and now i'm like oh boy it's all i can think about it's all i want to do it's

it's so it just keeps getting better and better each level and each power you unlock um i'm about to be a zebra yes yeah zebra is very i like zebra a lot one of the best songs too is the zebra song it's a musical yeah like that's a it really is kind of a musical where pauline is singing these songs about these characters or these special powers that you have you can activate that at any time and her singing powers are central to the game um and i like that that's like a really fun idea but more than a lot of other nintendo games this this one just kind of wears on its sleeve that it is taking

bits and pieces of every other game that nintendo's made and a bunch of other games like this is just mario odyssey and a lot of in a lot of the ways that it's structured and then they just like okay now let's put all the donkey kong stuff on top of that and build it in a different direction and it works really well you could tell that they're like hey we know this stuff already functions the way we need it to for one of these games why rebuild it let's focus on making a bunch of new fun stuff and that paid off because because it is so dense.

There is so much going on in every level.

So many things to discover to the point where, and like it also opens up the opportunity for you to play it how you want.

And the quick look, which I don't know if that's up yet, but people will see I'm playing it and I'm showing Mike some of the levels I'd already played.

And there's a point where it's like, oh, this is how you get to the next stage or get to the boss to get to the next stage.

And I did not do any of the sequence that the game says is required to get there.

I apparently had found my own way.

I'm like actually going through screenshots shots and movies trying to find like what did i even do how did i get here it's kind of breath of the wild in that way a little mario odyssey in that way i'm really deep to the game i think i'm beginning to brush up towards the ending what i love like you know just the base mechanics and all that stuff is so fun that i don't get tired of it but it does you know always build on that sometimes it's new abilities with the bonanzas a lot of times it's just oh i didn't think about interacting with the world yes with my abilities in this way or i didn't expect

terrain to react to it this way in this level now all these really fun and smart things yeah it's just it's absolutely incredible it's better than i was expecting and i love odyssey so much i was just already expecting the moon here uh yeah it's uh it's it's better than i imagine i can't believe how well executed this idea is I'm excited because like I feel like since I wasn't able to play this weekend since I was on the road like uh I'm pretty early right if I if I'm you're pretty you're relatively early still yeah like still first third I'd say yep oh good okay that's great uh Mike does the uh

there's small apples but then there are like big beautifully rendered apples yeah it's bullshit I was expecting a banana situation I knew what I signed up for What the fuck are all these apples doing in this game?

Because the bananas look like crystals, you know, so maybe you can make that separation.

The apples look like big -ass apples.

Just apples. What the hell is this?

Donkey Kong likes apples now, too?

Does he even grow in the jungle?

Apples? Yes. He's been to the city.

He's been to New Donk City before.

He's tried apples. Yeah, the big apple.

Yeah, yeah. I was upset about the apples, but it's okay.

I'll forgive it. Did you all flip the B and A buttons?

No. No, because don't.

oh because dan look it makes so much sense the way you know i understand down is down i get that but it's also very easy to wrap my head around well right is down and then the normal jump button is the normal jump button it took a second to get used to the jump button not being b that was weird i when i saw that setting i always go through the settings before i start a game and i saw the swap b and a and i remember from the preview being like uh a over here is kind of weird so i swapped it have not looked back it feels great that way that's fine i'm such a controller chameleon though if you you

can put the jump on wherever you want to i'll get used to it wherever you want to all right r3 is jump if the game was designed with that in a way that made sense they arbitrarily did it just a mess of me sure but if a game put r3 on jump i bet there'll be years i mean breath with the zelda games have jump on x and it's a little weird that is true it works i get it i like i need to look at the controller to figure out where x was i do too we've got yeah it's fucked up like everyone has the xbox thing burnt into their brain now yeah the thing you said Mike about like learning the systems and like

learning the material science of the game like there's a chemistry system also like Breath of the Wild this material material interacts with that material in a certain way that is I think the fundamental reason the game keeps getting better because I am there's so many systems to get used to and figure out how they work so now when I do go back to earlier levels the possibility space is opened up so much that it just really feels like the game is clicking in a way that it clicked immediately but Dan's right it is fun in the first half second you press that jump button you press the roll button into

a jump and i'm like oh man it's so good i love it just like relatively recently have i really had to sometimes think more about the structural integrity of the clumps of earth that i'm picking up sometimes dan have you heard about my jump tech no yeah he's got a good jump tech you're on the high so the highest jump you can do uh in the game does it spin no no so you do the double jump but whatever you're at the height of the jump please it's called a chunk jump chunk jump do a chunk jump but then do a down smash attack because when you do that he actually flips in the air a little bit so start

that animation then counts cancel out of that with a roll roll yeah that's your max height oh man that's some real like mario 3d world like do the butt stomps and dive type stuff like i love it i've been breaking some puzzles like there's been some where clearly what's going to do something and i'll do that and just skip it and it feels so good that's got to feel amazing the catch -22 chest is oh the sonic boom knuckles jump and And the director of this game is the director of Sonic Adventure Games.

So, yeah. Oh, wow, yeah.

Have you tried the co -op mode?

No. It was insane. I did it with the mouse version.

Did you do, like, the game share version?

No, I did it with Kayla sitting next to me.

Or I guess she was, yeah, she was on her Switch, too.

So, I guess I was doing local game share, yes.

Okay, yeah. So, what was that like?

Because we did it where Addy was on the controller, and then Emmy got the Joy -Cons, and was using the mouse, and was, like, sucking up the materials, and then shooting them out by making Pauline sing.

Is it the same thing when you do two switches?

Maybe there just might've been a Kayla factor going on of her just hitting as fast as possible and creating.

I couldn't see what was happening on the screen, the amount of shit she was doing.

Maybe that's the Kayla factor.

It seemed like too much. That is the thing about this game.

I bet sometimes it might be difficult to watch because Donkey Kong just gets in that ass of the level and gets surrounded by material and and dirt and stuff and the camera has to like look through it and see his silhouette but when i'm playing i fully understand what's going on i know where he is i never feel lost sometimes the camera does just feel a tiny bit wonky but for as much as as is happening it works shockingly well so i mean it kind of has to be that way the amount you can go into materials and so like there's no way the camera is going to be perfect right the fact that it works like

this well is shocking yeah i never feel lost or like i don't know where i am and sometimes like going underground helps you see things in a weird way it is still such a donkey kong game some people worry that this was some big reboots just because of the redesign there's still all these references and elements from donkey kong sticker sticker bush symphony played at one point oh yeah like there's a whole sticker bush symphony level right you know there's a minecart madness style level at one point and you have things like the barrels that are omnipresent everywhere oh it's just an absolute joy it

is is just the kind of Nintendo stuff that Nintendo does best. Obviously, our first great Switch 2 game.

And whenever this system is said and done, it will still be one of its best games.

Absolutely. Dan, every time you get to one of those blue crystal guys, do you rip off their faces because they don't care?

I do. I feel bad because I got trained early on because it's like I would hit the button with the Kongs and they would high five and it's like, oh, hell yeah.

I'm not going to accidentally hit these fun little monkeys to give them a high five and a thumbs up.

and all of a sudden those blue dudes with the eyes i'm just like punching off the bottom of their fucking face like a rickio kill and it's like yeah it's fucked up you could just grab them rip off their face and then use the chunk to destroy the rest of their body it's cool i didn't know you could rip them apart you rip them apart with your digits with your monkey fingers it's so good i'm not going in for a handshake with you anymore grub you're not thinking about ripping dripping off faces you're right jack's fatality it's good uh this sounds fantastic it feels like it i need to play this game

and maybe it'll fix me um yeah because i can tell that every time i see i'm scrolling through whatever and i see someone streaming this game um it's just smiling ear to ear it definitely happened to me like i felt myself going from like being in kind of a mood like something was happening and i was playing this game and i'm like i'm enjoying it of course course i'm enjoying it but uh you know i'm like overwhelmed with with with joy and then at a certain point i'm like felt myself physically smile and i didn't stop the rest of the time i was playing it is like like something is happening inside

my brain when i play it like i'm feeling fireworks go off yeah within neurons you know beautiful yeah all right folks we're well we're all gonna go watch the fireworks together uh we're gonna go gather in front of the carousel and then meet there and then afterwards jeff grubb is gonna deliver us the news and take quick I gotta leave, so see ya on the dump truck everyone, bye bye I love you I love you I think about the Challenger was really funny 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,

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episode 900 I think we need new music for the segments Specifically Let's get a new theme song is that sacrilege should i not say that we just got this theme song like a couple hundred episodes ago this was like 2022 we started doing this version of it see yeah but basically since i have been listening it's been that one i don't i'm over it all right well what if we had like a tambourine to this one will that just switch it up for you that'd be good you got a new game Game Miss Mornings music from Tom Manda.

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Well, it's time to get to the news.

this is Jeff Grubb with the news Jeff Grubb that's right hello everybody I have some news headlines for you FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that could release next year FromSoft is reportedly developing an unannounced multi -platform game the codename is FMC their codenames are rarely are they acronyms or something like that and they all seem to start with the letter F I don't know if someone's decoded that or whatever but um this is not the dusk bloods which is the from soft game that has already been confirmed for 2026 the switch to exclusive that is a multiplayer focused

or multiplayer heavy game i guess we don't really know yet we'll have to see for ourselves at that point when it comes out this is a different game that is also coming from from software and maybe even coming before the dust floods releases gang what what do you think it is or i guess what do you want it to be Oh.

Cooking cream. Here you go.

Yeah, sure. Sekiro.

Yeah, that's what I want.

I'll tell you what else.

I just beat Sekiro, and Miles Poros for that, for the best ending.

It's sequel bait. There's sequel bait at the end of that game.

Give me the sequel.

And now I know Activision published the first game, but my understanding is FromSoft just owns that IP.

I think that's right, yeah.

So they don't necessarily have to be involved.

involved i love sekiro so much it's my favorite from soft game even more than elder ring and i freaking love doubt and ring uh yeah i i just want sekiro too now maybe that's kind of lofty maybe something like um an armored core 6 expansion or definitive edition is more likely that'd be fine that's a good game too i i see here you said that one rumors is dark souls 3 remastered that's a little weird to me i played that game recently i don't know what the heck you would remaster that game already just looks as good as it possibly needs to in every way that's a 2016 game jeff i remember you said

this about doom 2016 like when it came out like oh this is as good as games need to look and i think we're kind of right i think 2016 games in general don't really need to be remastered yeah they don't need they you know they do it because they'll sell and make more money we get it but i'm with you like uh i don't feel an urge or need for this one in particular uh Fires of Rubicon expansion I would love that but I don't know I don't know if that's something that they want to do I would almost rather you just start working on another Armored Core than where I'm at did Armored Core 6 sell well?

it sold well like a couple million copies you know it didn't do you know Elden Ring numbers or probably even Sekiro it's the best selling Armored Core game by a lot for sure yeah I don't I don't think they're rushing back yeah that feels like it once every eight to ten years sort of game you know, maybe 10 years actually, you know I'm really glad they went back to it, it is one of my favorite games, it's so good but do we get another one this quickly or even an expansion, I don't know but this one probably will be a single player game because they have, they've already had Night Rain they have Duskbloods,

so people are craving that from From Soft, maybe this can deliver something along those lines, one thing for sure nothing along the lines of Elden Ring like, almost, yeah, so far away from that It's definitely not Elden Ring Yeah it's not Outer Ring 2 yet Especially because Miyazaki is Directing Duskblood so he is Busy with that So that's the thing that's the kind of thing Is he is directing that game so like what is this Other game could he possibly also directed it Because you wouldn't need him for a Sekiro 2 I assume Or for you know an Outer Ring 2 Yeah Wasn't there like rumors like a couple

months Ago that Miyazaki was experimenting Or thinking about making like a turn based Game or like an RPG RPG.

There was something about that or he said he wanted to, something like that.

Yeah, I think it was in interviews.

I think whenever developers say that kind of stuff in interviews, that's like the next thing after whatever they're working on now and whatever they're planning on.

But I don't know, maybe not.

We'll see. The new Pokemon game is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 hardware bundle.

Nintendo and the Pokemon company have announced a new Nintendo Switch 2 bundle featuring a download code for the Switch 2 version of Pokemon Legends ZA.

It will be priced at five hundred dollars and and it will be available on october 16th the same day that the game releases uh the bundle may replace the limited time mario kart world bundle so uh i i think i still think that mario kart bundle will be back every year for the rest of our goddamn lives because that's what they did with mario kart bundle on switch one and it worked really well but i think this sounds plausible and that maybe that's why they said it was limited um but already already bundling a pokemon legends game with with switch to you know at the somewhat discounted price uh you

know of where you get 10 20 off the game whatever it is um a little surprising but i think that means the switch 2 is gonna be massive this holiday this bundle is gonna be hard to find right and i think it really solidifies that yeah but you know it was it was kind of obvious i know some people thought there might be some other big holiday game maybe there's another holiday game but legend za is the game even though it's yeah even though it's also switch one game it is still the big switch to holiday game yeah i mean scarlet and violet sold gangbusters that game freak don't really need to do squat or take

anyone's constructive criticism into account anymore um but i don't know i think maybe this is a vote of confidence from nintendo other than knowing them knowing that this is going to be like a cash cow i mean sure it also like hits the quadrants right so we got uh we opened up with families with mario kart DK Bonanza's for the sickos they'll have a bunch of other updates of stuff like for Nintendo fans there's a Kirby game coming Kirby DLC and Mario Party's happening this week and stuff like that but it's like where is the game for kids and Pokemon is not just that it's the game for kids so it's

just going to hit that quadrant in a really hard way.

Switch 2 is already selling three times faster than the Switch 1 in Japan when this bundle comes comes out it's probably going to start selling even faster than that this is going to do very well for them have y 'all seen any like switch twos out in the wild like just like in stock at places oh not in stock so no i've been to target a couple times i've seen some switch ones some switch lights never a switch to okay now that makes sense people are still tracking those things down like they're not they're not so rare that like the the um secondhand market the scalper market it is blowing up but it's

still hard to find them uh all right playstation and arc system works marvel game will be will debut at evo marvel tokhan fighting souls will be available at evo las vegas from august 1st through the 3rd attendees like turbo sean and i think is jason finnelli going out there as well i think he was maybe uh maybe it was a maybe right uh can play a four character team from a roster of six marvel characters including captain america Iron Man, Storm, Star Lord, Ms. Marvel, and Dr. Doom, and receive a collectible pen.

I'm ready to hear what people think about this game.

I bet they're going to like it, because it looks pretty good.

Do we know when this game is coming out?

I think it's 2026, right?

I don't think it has anything more specific than that.

I definitely want to see some more characters, especially a 4v4 game.

They're going to need a lot of roster members, and I know we are going to get a bunch, and I want to start start seeing some of those I want to see Cyclops from our boy Jan for sure thank you Mike yeah you gotta have them there gotta have a good amount of excellent also I hope they have some fun weird pics I want to see some people I've never heard of right I always kind of like those characters in these games let's see here Saber Interactive is indeed working on a Hellraiser game and this is going to be for the PS5 Xbox and PC Saber and Boss Team Games are creating Clive Barker's Hellraiser revival

and it is not an asymmetrical multiplayer game it's a single player survival horror action game uh for those previously mentioned platforms uh this is what people were hoping for when this game was getting teased and and you know i think we were a little hopeful that saber would go that route um and they have i think a hellraiser survival horror game sounds interesting and i think saber's a little bit on a roll with being able to make these adaptations make sense on like like a and this is a not a pejorative b b game level where it's like hey no we're just making a video game we have this license

let's smash them together and just take the fun stuff and take the good stuff from the license like they did with that warhammer space marine 2 game uh so yeah and like what looks like what they're doing the jurassic park game they're making a ton of stuff they're also making turok they're making um they're making still making knights of the old republic 2 uh they have a night so republic 2 the knights of republic remake thank Thank you.

Knights of the Old Republic remake.

There already was a two.

So they're busy over there, but I'm I don't know.

I think that this sounds like a good fit for them as well.

And I don't know any Hellraiser super fans here.

I like that movie. Oh, yeah, me.

You're definitely pinhead coded for sure.

Oh, yeah. I know everything about Hellraiser.

I'm a Hellraiser myself.

That's what the fans call themselves.

What's your favorite centibite?

Oh, all of them equally.

I would have to say the first one, though.

You never forget your first synco bite.

Shout out to my synco bites out there.

Shout out to all the other fellow Hellraisers.

I've never liked Hellraiser.

It's not the first one.

I remember thinking there's some interesting bad guy designs and stuff like that.

Maybe I just saw it too old.

It would have more of an impact if I was a kid when I saw it.

Maybe. I only saw Hellraiser 1 4 years ago.

You do have to be a child to appreciate the psychosexual aspect of Hellraiser, I think.

Yeah, I didn't really appreciate it until my fifth viewing when I was much older.

All in one day, by the way.

Pokemon's upcoming theme park was inspired by isolation during the pandemic, says Junichi Masuda, chief creative fellow at the Pokemon Company, announced PokePark Kanto, if it's Kanto region, right?

Kanto? a new Pokemon theme park that will open next year as part of Japan's Yomiuri Land.

Developed in response to pandemic -induced isolation, the park aims to incentivize outdoor activity and foster communication among fans, fulfilling Masuda's long -held desire for a place where people can gather and interact through Pokemon. The park will feature a Pokemon Center, Pokemon Mart, and Pokemon Gym, with a strong emphasis on physical, tangible experience of the experience of Pokemon, unlike digital interactions of games like Pokemon Go.

So I'm gonna get to pet a Pikachu Right, and, like, they're just statues Oh, whatever Yeah, park is the key word here This is very much like a park Park, there's a couple rides Like, you know, Ferris wheel kind of things But I don't think you're going to Disneyland Or something like that So you mean, like, park as in, like, city park?

What's the distinction you're making here?

Well, not like a theme park, right?

Right, like going to a suburban park I think is actually the better thing Yeah, like with installations constellations.

I feel like Wizard Quest, the place where Dan went, may be more elaborately designed.

If a public park was Wizard Quest. This is mostly a place for social gathering and relaxing outdoors as opposed to a place to go on theme park rides.

Like it's like downtown Disney with just a couple of Pokemon stores maybe?

A lot more greenery.

Instead of a Jamba Juice.

But yeah, but more greenery.

Okay, right because it's a park.

I think there's like a Ghibli park in Japan that's also kind of like that.

It's really not very ride focused.

It's more vibes focused because universal uh in japan at least maybe also does have the theme park rights for pokemon right we're doing that more traditional kind of thing uh that being said pokemon company send us to the pokemon park yeah absolutely i want to see this it sounds really cute think of all the fun shenanigans i can film these three fuckos what doing yeah i'll pet the poke of the pikachu um ori developer moon studios explains why no rest for the wicked may skip xbox uh moon Moon Studios, the developer of the Ori series, is prioritizing PS5, PS5 Pro, and Switch 2 versions of its game,

No Rest for the Wicked, putting Xbox at the back of the queue due to, quote, market conditions.

CEO Thomas Mahler, who I think we've documented before, a little bit of a weirdo, stated that supporting both Xbox Series X and Series S takes more time and resources than a PS5 slash PS5 Pro port, and the studio wants to prioritize features like co -op and a full release sooner.

he dispelled the notions of a quote shakedown uh and the idea there is that he and his team were shaked doing a shakedown on xbox calling it common sense to focus on the platform with the most users moon studios recently secured publishing rights for no rest for the wicked from take two making them fully independent um i think the people the reason people might be thinking that this is the uh shakedown is that they're not putting on xbox because they want going to get better terms from microsoft so they're refusing to put it on there until microsoft comes to them i i don't know if that's right

only because i'm not sure how antsy xbox is to go talk to this guy anymore but that's just a hunch mike you're a big ori fan i know you've paid attention to the studio before do you have like any thoughts on this um well yes you know microsoft xbox did publish the two ori games and this was around a time where xbox was buying up everybody and they did not buy up Moon Studios.

Instead, they almost seemed kind of happy to let them go off and do their own thing, and that's where, you know, Moon Studios was with Take -Two instead, and then Take -Two And Take -Two seems done with them as well.

Weird. Yeah, so, right.

The scuttlebutt was that allegedly very difficult to work with.

Moon Studios specifically its leadership.

So, yeah, I think I agree with that, Jeff.

I don't think xbox is coming is is all that concerned about no rest for the wicked a game that i don't think is has that much buzz this was the game where he complained about being review bombed when it wasn't being review bomb it just got negative reviews because people didn't like the recent update um he's kind of involved himself into the cultural cultural war at different points right and you can guess what side he's on so yeah i don't know the whole thing is really weird um Look, honestly, I don't blame any studio for just skipping Xbox.

That's completely reasonable.

Yeah, if you only have so much money, I think it is definitely more important to get your game on PlayStation instead of that.

So, that aspect of it, that's fair.

Is No Rest for the Wicked one of the Hades -likes, Mike?

Yeah, it's a top -down action game.

It's much more Soulsborne -coded than Hades.

Is it the one with SpongeBob in it?

No, SpongeBob SquarePants Inside in this one, I'm afraid.

There is one of those though There's that Spongebob reference In Tony Hawk and I was like Is there a whole Spongebob stage Because I think that's what they're teasing and it turns out there's not It just like turns into Spongebob for a half second Alright Real quick I just want to talk about the Pokemon Presents From this morning just real real quick What happened there Because it doesn't seem like much other than I included a couple Of stories but beyond that what happened It opened with them talking about the pokemon worlds event in anaheim later this year um pokemon concierge um having another

season that's that uh very pleasant twee show on netflix i think they're also doing something with the walls and grommet people but then i blacked out for like a minute or two right you hate that stuff yeah it's concierge claymation it's stop motion okay which there's there's like a a difference for me uh i don't care if there's a defined similarity i don't fucking care um but pokemon champions is the thing that i wanted to talk about it is the competitive 1v1 or 2v2 pokemon mode um and this is going to come out on not only the switch switch to probably but also mobile and the interesting thing

about this is that they of course said there is the functionality to transfer your existing Pokemon from Pokemon Home so you could get your Pokemon that you've had for generations and the ones that you specifically trained up.

But there will also be, like, it seems like a streamlined kind of training for Pokemon where you just give them the stats you want them to have. And that, for me, is going to be insane because for as much as they have streamlined stuff with, like, bottle caps and all the different candies to get your IVs, your EVs correct and the natures correct Sound like a crazy person Exactly.

I don't have the time for that Right So if I can just pick the specific Pokemon and give them the specific movesets and like the specific like stat spreads that I want and need for some of my zany ideas then by all means please give that to me I also hope that Game Freak or whoever is developing this game just puts in like a proper proper um spectator mode because it is kind of insane that you need like a hacked version of the game to like do like a proper like shout casting type of thing right because i'd love to dust off the dust and bring back pokemon day night combat to to the website uh i

just can't be asked to slog through scarlet and violet even though it does run better on the switch too i just don't want to do the whole breeding stuff yeah that's a lot that's a lot of time right that's like hundreds of hours right it's not just it's sped up for sure in comparison to how it used to be but like i just don't want to have to like breed like a chain of like three generations of pokemon to get one specific move onto someone um just to try out the tech see i thought you know i i have liked pokemon i used to like a lot more i've i've never been able to play it like that i've never

been able to care about the in -game competitive style is what you're saying it's has never been my thing i got a couple of breaking news things here oh please bring him uh ozzy osborne died whoa uh yeah just a little bit after that final concert thing he's the for kids to know he was the star of an mtv reality show oh dear yeah so uh yeah yeah yep ozzy osborne this some sky news somebody linked it in chat so i think that's i think that's legitimate oh yeah poor health for for years now yeah that's sad yeah uh vide back to video games splitgate 2 is uh going back to beta uh right you had a full

launch they were gonna make fps great again and now they've been cut so hard they're back to being betas they said it was fucking awesome got him grub yeah listen i only said it because he would hate it specifically oh so there you go there's a there's my interruptive breaking news break all right well uh good luck to the people that make that game uh and not that guy specifically some of them yeah yeah some of them um fuck that dude specifically yep just a dumb thing um man yeah i don't know man splicade 2 had nothing going on no one was talking about that uh nothing near what splicade 1 had

at its peak uh which we felt like it was going to turn into a thing and then that burned out really quickly so okay well good luck to them uh all right leaked battlefield pick confirms full name with a real reveal event allegedly close it's going to be called battlefield field six um and on july 29th according to a now deleted social media post uh they'll have some more to say about that about the game at that point or at least in that time frame there's going to be an event and it's going to be akin to those call of duty next events they have annually where they announce all the stuff happening

in the game so they're treating battlefield six like a really big deal equivalent to call of duty at least so far and they have big ideas about this game 100 hundred million players it sounds like there's going to be a free -to -play mode that is equivalent to war zone so a battle royale uh do you guys feel like battlefield's about to come back and take over the world or what i feel like i haven't heard people excited about battlefield since like three i'm sure that's going back too far but i just feel like it's not talked about the same it used to be like battlefield and call of duty head -to -head

november in the early 2010s and I just don't hear anyone excited about Battlefield anymore No, I say like 1 had a little bit going on But what did 1 have?

1 had like, alright, we're back It was not like this is the new 1942 or 3 or 4, it was Oh, at least we've got another good one It's not like established in the canon in a way where people are like, oh 1 is the new flag bearer for the franchise It was sort of like a reprieve from other worse games and then since then they've missed the mark mostly 2042 yeah five and 2042 were both pretty big misses it seems like that's two in a row and these days that's a decade right like basically um so yeah i just you know it can always work all of a sudden i guess i'm a i'm very curious to see what they got

because what do you do to suddenly make it stand out is it just a matter one oversaw that is being overseen by vince zampella who is the respawn call of duty guy and then the apex legends and uh titanfall yeah and and the guy who uh made grand theft auto just made a very exciting brand new uh video game recently it's called mind's eye did you hear about that yeah well okay you're right what you're saying is one guy can't necessarily change things i think you're right about that so we'll see uh i've never been a huge battlefield guy uh i've I've enjoyed playing them here or there, but I've always

been kind of waiting for them to reach a level where it's like, oh, here is, it's still Battlefield, but now it's clicking for all these people.

And of course it could get to 100 million players.

I haven't seen that happen.

Maybe this will be the one where they figure it out, but I don't know.

It's going to be set in modern times.

There's going to be a bunch of stuff kind of connecting it.

There's four developers working on it.

Like a modern warfare of sorts.

A modern warfare of sorts.

I do think it's actually been a bit since they did because you know there's slightly futuristic and then five was world war two again everyone's mad about one which was lady it was world war one that's why it was right so it has i guess it has been events they just done yeah modern warfare you know it's like you know they really position it as the sequel to battlefield four how many people are still thinking about battlefield four maybe some we'll see yeah i bet that community is like really thinking about it a a lot bad company bad company three oh that's what you were saying that ea was a bad

company yeah i was like wow bad company bad company uh someone someone please give me the iso of that um i was gonna say the only battlefield game i really have a lot of experience with isn't really a battlefield game it just has the dna of one but i really enjoyed the finals From like two years ago That was a fun month or two We played that That game is still going it turns out And yeah It was always very intimidating For me to have like the gigantic Battlefields with like A humungo 64 plus players Because I could just never get a Grasp on anything The finals is from Embark which is The guy that started

that Studio is the one that used to be in charge of Technology at EA EA and so he and dice he was actually the dice guy right right oh was the wasn't he like the Frost Engine guy yeah he's the guy that was like everyone's gonna use Frost Engine at EA and then he left and didn't have to use Frost Engine himself anymore so how about that and what about that you know what I do like about Battlefield is that's that song yeah every time I hear that yeah even like even like the new trailers right they'll always like play just that drum beat at the end I'll be like hell yeah actually I do care you Ubisoft

has been confronted on the stop -killing -games petition, and Yves Guimaud tried to, like, sound diplomatic.

He's like, yeah, I mean, this is something that we are aware of and we're trying to deal with, and it's a challenge.

And I think that's, like, him kind of putting on the honey while in the background, the industry groups that represent companies like Ubisoft are doing the vinegar, and they're like, this can't work.

This will destroy the industry.

history uh they're like lobbying politicians in europe hard i guess for a reminder the stop killing games initiative is a petition that has been signed by enough people that the european union regulators or lawmakers i'm not sure how it all works over there have to take it under consideration and it being the idea that video game companies have to provide some remedy when they sell you a video game so that if it goes offline there is some way for you to continue you enjoying it whether that is private servers or something else either by the eu has to consider it and i'll say i'm of like two minds

on this slightly i get that it's probably challenging for these companies and the other mind is i don't care and they should have to they should be forced to have to consider this i think and bringing in regulators to force them to do that to me sounds like a completely fair thing at this right and i mean if like you know consequent consequence of of that is that they make fewer live service games.

Oh, no. Right. Gosh, what are we gonna do, game?

Hardly a threat, even for people who like live service games.

They already have their live service games, so no one's gonna be freaking out about that.

Nintendo is bringing back its mysterious online playtest from last year.

We're in, boys! Let's go!

We're going to swing around and build things?

I thought we were going on the Red Lobster.

we're going to the lobster buddy a big lobster in the sky you know what i mean i don't know what you mean someday we're all going we're all going to the lobster all right castus wifi uh fantasy drafts with the boys cheddar bay all day let's go i'm on my deathbed i need whoever is with me to like get Mikey on the phone or get Mikey there and just be like don't worry buddy or smell you out and let you die in a red lobster but Mike Minotti has to be there to just say the coldest bruise you know how you can be efficient for someone's wedding we should offer a service for fans where it's like if you're

dying we will come and just stand around your bed and do bits we'll come treat you as you can have y 'all seen that clip of like a therapy mini horse and it's just you say yes I love that fucking horse and it does that little flourish at the end it's incredible what mini horse yeah it's a little fucking horse that like it wakes up patients from anesthesia and oh my god i just sent this to bonk like okay yeah uh oh oh wait no i just showed it to her i was sitting next to her it's just a horse with a keyboard and you wake up to a fucking horse going like running it's now all over the keys like a musical

keyboard yeah yeah and i hope they don't tell the people that that's going to to happen so as you come out of anesthesia what's that sound what the fuck is that horse nobody has a hotter ceo than the lobster the lobster or the red lobster the lobster we're in the test i don't know if we still can't talk about it even if let's say you were in it and played the video game a lot and you've been dying to talk about it for a long time and they just won't let you um but we're gonna get get into it again and all of us will play together and hopefully they'll let us talk about it this time it seems like

they're letting in a lot more people um it yeah seems interesting so we'll see i just posted an important link in the chat for those who want to see the horse thank you appreciate it that horse is going to town let's last story here netflix you said a horse this is a little sebastian yeah yeah yeah they said many tiny horse can you just is a mini horse different than a pony it's that's not a pony right that's just different i think this horse is different than a pony yeah god should not have given us these powers to make many horses this horse definitely needs to be in the room when i die you

gotta notice with the sound on the flourish at the end he does a mini horse for hires last story and really i just wanted to include this because of this incredible headline here netflix green lights assassin's creed series quote it's about power violence violence sex and greed oh shit guys they're finally making a show like that it's so different from every other prestige tv what are you talking about why would you say that that's so stupid it's a live action series uh helmed by emmy nominees roberto patino and david weiner wait is that the madman guy that can't be right um yeah they're making

one of these or allegedly they're gonna make one of these we'll see it i'll believe it when i see it um yeah whatever whatever i didn't have you heard it's about power violence sex and greed oh oh well okay it's wild they made an assassin's creed movie like 10 years ago with fast bender like a real movie star yeah yeah yeah you made a prince of persia yeah that that's not terrible it's not great but it's not saying that because disney made it oh god i was gonna ask you because you Have like fondness for Bubble Boy Because Jake Gyllenhaal is in it Oh he's a big Jake Gylle fan No Gyllenhaal's okay

Sometimes he's bad sometimes he's not great Nightcrawler's awesome Nightcrawler's amazing Nightcrawler wow I don't know if I Loved him as Mysterio He was having a great time As Mysterio Is he a Spider -Man as Mysterio He's Mysterio and I don't know I think I wanted Mysterio to be More of a goober okay yeah um oh go ahead is this a series or a movie or series series it's a series they don't make movies anymore no one likes those you gotta make your prestige tv show oh my god okay you gotta be a last of us yeah you you two were talking about this yesterday during uh gay miss mornings but electric

state the millie bobby brown chris pratt movie oh yeah the netflix bomb um yeah what the fuck was that shit it was terrible i couldn't even watch it it looked like dog shit like immediately looked like dog shit i i have like high tolerance for like really cheesy movies and like you know i'll watch whatever superhero movie and kind of walk away okay this was like oh oh we should do movie punishments sometimes where we force because i want to force you guys to watch the apple and uh you guys i can't get get you guys to do that i could tell you you're just not gonna do it unless i force you so okay

well punishment make that happen it is uh worse than the gray man uh that that was another one from the same directors right the avengers directors oh god yeah and they really did a good avengers movie and good community episodes what happened i don't know netflix is just kind of poison for good writing i don't know but is that where that show you all like is what's that Is it the K -pop show on Netflix?

Yes, it is. But I haven't seen it, so I don't know.

I'll see it tonight, I think.

That does it for the headlines.

Jan, I'm handing the show back over to you.

Fantastic. Well, right after this quick bricky break, we're going to read some emails and some YouTube super chats if they've come in.

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these are the emails for the show therapy horse uh giant bombcastagiantbomb .com is the email address to send your emails to and folks thank you so much for all the lovely emails that have been hitting the the mailbox legitimately for shoot actual emails i don't know what to do because we're getting so many they're they're rivaling that of the voicemail dump truck which gets an obscene amount of calls every week but now we're getting an obscene amount of emails so thank you listeners that have been listening for all 900 episodes that are sending some emails in or newer listeners hey you know what you

should also do give us a give us a good old cheeky thumbs up somewhere give us a review somewhere you know not just a shoot thumbs up like dan is giving us but like whatever platform you're listening or watching on to a friend burned an episode to his CD and hand it out to strangers on the subway make a giant bomb mixtape yes yes and if you would need an elevator pitch just be like hey if you've ever needed five friends to yell at you for two plus hours here you go there you are we cover the whole spectrum of friendship that's right we got the cute one we got the hot one we got the silly one we

got the smart one and we got the weird one who is who you at home decide they're all dipshits though I'm the hot one right i'm matt from atlanta writes in i will we all know who the bad boy is this fucking horse is just slobbering on those i love it so much i i hope that when i get the the implant thing done today i come to from the horse oh there's other videos there's so many okay yeah that's his whole gimmick how much do you think it would take to rent a therapy horse or just get our own horse mascot yeah okay you think like like emma probably knows someone with a therapist there was a period

where i was trying to do a thing with a monkey and emma's like i got a monkey guy so yeah yeah let's let's go um break in a horse let's find one in the wild would that be a good feature let's do a punishment race last one to break a horse breaking horses oh no the new funnish we are the funnishments evolve from playing a game than playing a movie now it's just like really wiring this new skill acquire a species have any of you started your funnishment games yet no we talked about this last week on the bomb i'm gonna keep asking i'm gonna keep asking and i'll probably tomorrow start playing outer

wilds on my personal find yoshi's island uh i've downloaded it grub everything or nothing i was waiting for my steam deck to arrive it's arrived and now i gotta reinstall the the you know the steam deck stuff to play old games but yes i'll start that this week also donkey kong's been distracting yeah okay first email comes from matt from atlanta why do people hate pop figures thanks matt from atlanta oh like funko pop i assume that's what matt it's a common issue they're popular and they look cheap uh because they all use the same fundamental thing so everyone's like Like, oh, and no one wants

their collectible to feel super common. And so it's easy to have a backlash to record that.

Of like, oh, like everyone has these.

And then that turns into the, like, your mind just immediately clicks into like, oh, I hate that.

Yeah. No, you first, Mike.

I've always been a mild Funko Pop defender.

I do think that for a lot of people like us, it has become a thing that friends and family like gift us, right?

Because they'll see like, oh, well, I know that Mike's a nerd who saw Guardians of the Galaxy so here's a Groot but you know I don't know I'm like I do like Groot so sure thank you I go back and forth on Funko Pops like I have like a set of the New Day Funko Pops that I really enjoy but then when I saw the customized one that Dan made I was all the way back on board of this would be a fun gift to give someone not a Funko Pop of themselves selves but of yourself that you give to someone yes that person who won the funko pop of me did not have any idea who i was that was yeah that's what i as possible

outcome yes that funko pop store in hollywood is actually kind of fun i like it they did a good job with that yeah uh the only thing i don't well i mean there's several things i don't like about funko pops uh other than like cheap plastic uh and then like they just litter store shelves like i don't know know how y 'all's local game stops are but it's held up it's held up by funko pops like bearing funko pops now that's more of an indictment on gamestop it does it's not a great look for funko pops either for sure there was there was that moment a couple months ago maybe years where i remember funko

pop was like oh shit we made too many of these uh we're gonna throw a bunch into a hole in the ground and start it again and it was like oh okay they're in an et situation um So, indictment of Funko Pop and GameStop, I think.

How did Funko Fusion do?

It's the biggest thing in the...

No, I'm joking. I don't think anyone cares.

MegaMan's in that game.

It's a secret MegaMan game.

God, not everything's a secret MegaMan game.

Dr. Light showed up in the drifter after you left. I saw it, actually.

I saw how excited you were.

You were in trouble, because that's a MegaMan game now.

No, it's not a MegaMan game.

Whoa. You did? i haven't beat the game yet i think i don't think it is dr light if i find out it is i'll report back and i will flog myself okay all right as long as you understand punishments in the future okay okay um i don't know if y 'all know about this but mike you probably do because they're disney adjacent but funko pop i think is owned by the same company that makes lounge fly backpacks oh that makes sense i can't believe that so like you know how there's funko pops about everything yeah there are these collectible little backpacks they're too small to be like very useful but there's launch

fly backpacks of virtually every media property oj simpson trial probably the challenger explosion yes that's a callback like i i see one right now online of like oh this is jason vorhees right that's great well that disney specifically has gotten really into them and they will have one for every disney ride a movie show it is yeah it's actually insane there's probably 50 lilo and stitch ones alone geez yeah it's it is insane um that being said maybe we should get backpacks on the website um next email comes from travis and fargo travis i've been ignoring some emails but i still read them hi jan of the gb

crew today is my 18th wedding anniversary i'd love to give a gigantic shout out to my amazing wonderful talented beautiful supportive kind do -gooder spouse whitney or winty yeah is is it winty or did he mistype his lovely wife's name i think we have to go with winty his lovely white wife winty you're lovely on the count of three let's say say congrats, Winty, okay?

One, two, three. Congrats, Winty.

Is that like that guy from Popeye who likes cheeseburgers?

That's Wimpy. That's Wimpy, yeah.

She's so nice. She even plays video games with me, even though she's not a big gamer.

And please tell her that, once again, I'm sorry for hoarding the loot in Borderlands 2 all those years ago.

Love is in the air, Travis and Fargo.

We got a lot of Fargo fans.

Yeah, a lot of Fargonauts.

Did they call themselves that?

They're going to call themselves Fargo Dots over there right?

That's too good Congrats Winty We're going to put on a shirt that says happy 18th anniversary Winty just for you Travis There you go It's $500 Next email comes from Sean from Denver, Colorado What's up everybody So UPS driver I'm a UPS driver and I'm out here every day.

One of the things that drives me nuts and grinds my gears is for some reason, when you're on the main road, everybody knows how to drive.

Everybody that knows how to drive, people stay on the left. People stay on the right because of the dotted lines.

As soon as I get in a residential area, everyone drives in the middle of the road.

Same rules, but nobody seems to follow it.

What is an everyday thing that makes you just want to tear Jan or Jeff's hair out?

Hey! P .S. I would say mine, but I don't have any hair either.

I'm part of the bald crew.

true i see i got one um and it is it's driving related and maybe you'll know this uh especially you're in denver and this really i noticed this when i was living in denver uh in ohio where i learned to drive there's a thing where the light is green and you're turning left and it's a real it's a big intersection and so it's green and so you can pull out into the intersection so that when it starts to turn yellow or goes red you're like well i'm already out here i gotta get out of the way and just go at that point because there's a second before it turns green for the The lane going in the other

direction, the perpendicular direction.

In Denver, no one did this.

They were all like, we're good little boys and girls.

We're going to sit way back at the line while it's green, even though I'm turning left so that we have to wait for an opportunity to turn left when a car like break.

So there was a break in the car line and that drove me crazy.

It's like, you should just pull out into the lane so that at least two or three cars can make that left turn at the end of the green light.

And they never did that.

Yeah. Drove me bananas.

i had one uh in wisconsin here where it's after wizard quest we went we really wanted ice cream and everything closes at 11 it seems and it was like 10 54 or something we're like all right that's a reasonable time you know we passed a couple ice cream places where people were sweeping because that's a universal sign of like hey we're trying to close this place to fuck up found a place there were people in there ordering had an open sign on we're like okay we're good to go here got in people in front of us it was like four or five adults and like five kids kids and it's good they start sweeping

it's like past 11 at this point we feel weird about being behind them in line all these fucking kids are taking samples of the ice cream and i don't want that one oh give me the superman one i want that one they're just taking fucking forever and you can tell these people are like actively getting annoyed and like one of the people's like asked us like hey can we do you know what you want can we get you started on what you want yeah yeah and then this fucking family with all these kids sits down to eat inside the place oh that's wild like oh these fucking assholes and you could tell everyone's

like we just want to go home i didn't even walk into a store the other night because i got there uh 15 minutes before they were going to close i'm like not not even going to go in yep that was my move at funko lane when i worked there it'd be like two minutes before i close and you see somebody walking across the parking lot with a giant cardboard thing of like old dirty nes games that we're gonna have to clean he's like oh you motherfuckers yep yeah uh i think i carry too much rage with me when i drive oh you are you do you rate road rager yeah i try and like rein it in but sometimes i i think

that is when i cuss the most sure he's just like boneheaded decisions on the road or in a parking lot i'm like you fucker like weather is obviously when you have a parking lot where all the cars are like um angled in a certain way to denote oh this is a one -way uh lane oh sure yeah parking lot and And then some dumbass comes careening the other way and makes a face at me for being in the middle.

And no, fuckface, it's your fault.

Yeah, it's supposed to be that way.

I don't have much road rage, even though someone almost hit me yesterday when I was going to Subway.

Because, like, I had to, like, turn off a tiny road to get on the main road and then immediately turn left to go into Subway.

And someone is leaving Subway and they wanted to go left, right?

But, you know, so, like, I turn right onto the road and then I'm going to immediately turn left. I know it's a little fast, my maneuver here.

here but still i'm turning off the subway this guy is still like i guess he thought i was gonna keep going he had room so he just started going onto the road and he looked like he was gonna hit me so i had to kind of like swerve into the grass and the thing a little bit that was a little scary even then i was like gosh darn it i'm pretty similar mike where it's like i'm just ah i usually let things go while driving you appall you're a very apologetic driver yeah i let especially when i'm at you you i remember like you were with me when i had it made a mess mess up and because i there was someone

was in you i don't i say you don't have a blind spot when you're driving but in my van it's got kind of one of those thick bars holding up in the windshield and there was a car right there and i didn't see them and i messed up and i almost like ran into them and i was like oh i fucked up please know that i know i fucked up i'm so sorry yeah very apologetic when that happens uh when someone cuts me off out of nowhere and you know no no signal or whatever uh just to speed through or they'll try and like cut through a couple lanes and then we all wind up at the same red light.

I always look over and just think to myself, are you happy with yourself?

Do you do that? They're not having any thoughts.

You know that. Simon from Saskatchewan writes in.

Hi, Bombcast. Quick NHL quiz for all of you.

Baklarn Grub. Better get the first question.

If you know the answers, don't shout them out, though, please, because I'd be interested to hear other people's answers.

We're going to do very well on this, especially because Baklar's not here.

Answers are further down the email.

First question, only question.

I'll skip the bonus question.

What are the original six hockey teams?

You need both the city and the team name.

Thanks for the content.

Simon from Saskatchewan.

New York Rangers. Yes.

Okay, I bet the Chicago Blackhawks.

Yes. Yeah, yeah. I knew those guys would be there.

Mighty Ducks. No, Disney made that after the movie.

Much later. Two more?

Three more. Four more.

Are the Pittsburgh Penguins that old?

No. I think they were second wave or third wave. Oh, it's got to be some Canadian stuff.

The Toronto Maple Leafs?

Yes. Yes. I know it sounds so stereotypical.

It can't be right. But nope, that's right.

Aren't there a Hitman now?

That's a minor league team.

No, I think that's a Canadian football league team.

um there's there's uh quebec's got to have one or montreal montreal probably has one the montreal screwed jobs uh the this one's even more stereotypical is it to moose no montreal canadiens okay interesting interesting um i think two more it works because it's french canada and so it's like yeah the Philadelphia Flyers negative I'll give you well no if I give the city I'll give it away let's see there's one more on the east coast and one more in the midwest the devils right that's a relatively newer team oh shit okay one more on the east coast one on the west midwest let's see Chicago I don't

know what Indianapolis is is there would be no hockey team in Indianapolis.

There's no hockey team in Minneapolis, Milwaukee.

Do they have a team?

No. St. Louis. They do have a hockey team.

It's the Blues and they're not an original six team.

New Orleans. No, no hockey team there.

A couple more guesses and we'll just give the answer.

Yeah, I think I might need it.

I think I'm toast. Okay, well, so the East Coast team is New England.

in the New England area.

We do Boston? No. We don't do Boston yet.

What's Boston's team?

What is Boston? That is a great question.

Bruins. There you go, dude.

There you go. Good job, dude.

And then the last one is my team, guys.

Oh, Detroit. Of course.

Detroit Red Wings. I should have got that.

My bad. Cool. Well done, guys.

Thank you, Simon from Saskatchewan.

I didn't know Oakland had a hockey team.

That was part of the bonus question.

Oakland has a hockey team?

Had. oh had oh okay had yes yeah yeah uh cal from but fuck nowhere western australia writes in hi terrorists parentheses positive that's thank you new one talking to me i think second time emailing hopefully first time being read on the pod i've recently become a gaming handheld sicko and currently own 15 unique handheld devices these include uh trim ui brick ambernick rg35xx retroid pocket 5 retroid pocket flip 2 retroid pocket classic steam deck lenovo legion go nintendo switch nintendo switch to nintendo 2ds xl gkd pixel 2 ambernick rg35xx cube cowkitty v90 that sounds fun um ardu boy miu mini

a30 as dealing with all uh with all the games and firmware was becoming slightly unruly and Windows sucks and wanted to format all the SD cards that I plugged into it, I decided to set up a Linux, Ubuntu, Partion and Dualboot into that whenever I need to mess around with anything retro gaming related.

Whilst I'm happy with all these little doodads, except the V90, my bank account is less happy and my time actually spent playing games has dropped drastically.

This time was filled mostly by tinkering and troubleshooting instead, which I found that I greedily enjoy, or greatly enjoy.

What, if any, gaming handheld hobbies have y 'all tripped and fallen into?

Love the pod, and if I ever complete it, and if you want to, I'd be happy to send you a spreadsheet layout and the Python script I've been writing that helps you analyze your very own gaming -related data to provide insight into your gaming -related habits.

Cal, from buttfuck nowhere, Western Australia.

Sure, why not? Send that to us when you have it.

Yeah, and he said gaming -adjacent hobbies uh that like like this that you've fallen into i definitely and this is me uh although i've i've made a concerted effort to be less uh worried about the tinkering um i am going to get these things to play games uh and and you know that's why i'm like focusing on mother three still and i have a little bit of free time and why i played rygar like yeah i'm like i'm just gonna play one of these games and instead of um just setting them up all the time although i think that's right that setting things up is enjoyable like it that is a hobby of people like that sort

of stuff but when things go wrong it can be in the most annoying way where it's like i finally got the like sd card image exactly how i want it where it's like okay for anything a 64 gigabyte card i can just clone this and it's got all my stuff and i cloned it for a million different things finally got it working after like weeks of like troubleshooting and stuff and i'm playing and for some reason i want to play vector man the other day and it's like why why isn't Vector Man on here?

Like in my Genesis thing.

Almost every Genesis game except for Vector Man.

And then I realized no Game Boy Color games past S were on there.

Which there aren't even any that I want to fucking play.

Not playing WWF Betrayal on Game Boy Color.

And if I want to, I can just do it a million other different ways.

But now it's like, oh, I need to reclone all these fucking cards to put on Vector Man and post -S Game Boy Color games.

Like, I have to get them perfect.

They all have to have box art and all the fucking hotkeys and everything.

But the tinkering is fun, but I do like once they're done and it's just like, all right, I just have magic little, you know, game machines in every room.

I definitely got more into physical collecting for old games and like getting into the portables, even though there is a convenience there.

There is something about actually owning them that I like more.

I feel like I'm actually much more likely to play these games.

Like someday when I finally play Skies of Arcadia, it's going to be because I put it in my Dreamcast, my GameCube and not because I get an emulator going.

right yeah meanwhile like mother three the translation or even earthbound one I will probably play on one of these little guys yeah yeah well yeah that one for sure there is no physical copy of that for us I definitely agree with people when they're like this hobby of collecting and getting emulators set up or getting the handhelds is not conducive to actually playing games but I'm like I'm just gonna push through that I don't care that is that's a weakness I just need to pick a game and play it and I've been getting better about that recently for sure uh yeah the analog pocket fucking great that's

all my pocket's amazing but it's so good that like i don't take it with me to travel just because it's like what am i back yeah keep it on it's uh not to stay on the dock yeah yeah like i'll play it if i'm home but like when i'm traveling i'm always just tossing one of these cheapo guys and there were these trim ui bricks were on sale for like 42 dollars with free shipping recently so i bought a bunch more uh these guys are the bricks are great i love these uh brick squad get bricked uh all right Next email comes from sorry I didn't write your name.

Here's a game. One.

Who was your favorite band slash artist when you were 16?

Probably Korn. Maybe the White Stripes.

That's a good choice.

Mine was Iron Maiden.

Okay. Funny you should say that.

Two. Are they still around today?

Still making music or touring in some capacity?

I don't know. I think so.

Jack White definitely.

Mine is although the drummer or Nico McBrain retired recently, but otherwise, yeah, they're still around.

Three. Are they still your favorite?

No. I think Jack White still does some really good stuff.

The last solo album was really good.

Mine is Iron Maiden.

Yes and yes, but not everyone has a good taste as me and Mike Minati.

There you go. Yeah.

It's just listening to some Seven Sun. Maiden's in Tony Hawk, right?

Yeah, they got one of their best songs, Two Minutes to Midnight in there.

Great stuff. When that came on, I was like, hell yeah.

Someone sent, uh, Rich had sent in a custom Rikert and the 99 Dragons action figure they had made.

Dan, I think I put this in our Discord. Somebody put that in and I immediately turned around in the car and showed it to Kayla and she was like, who made that?

And I was like, I don't know, I just saw it in the Discord. Rich, I need to give Rich the credit there.

Rich, incredible work.

That is unbelievable looking.

Yes. Uh, they do custom action figures, which is definitely a sentence I I just wrote.

So I made one for Rikert and the 99 Dragons.

I'm a big Bruce Tim fan, and your graphic designer did a great job with that art style.

Anyway, thanks for being good, guys.

Chuck is my new favorite after telling Dan to make a save on UPF.

Although if Mike sings Man O' War, Brothers of Metal, he is my favorite.

It's funny. As much as I love Iron Maiden, I'm not super well -versed in other metal of that ilk.

Oh, that's fun. If you want to see more of my work, it's on Instagram at sendhenchman21.

No pressure. sure i just have a bit of pride in it uh good good good shit on you rich uh that stuff looked really cool yeah um jacob from wichita writes in is it worse to be a jabroni or pukester please elaborate uh pukester is worse yeah yeah that's like a hulkster thing right yeah you could say jabroni in almost an endearing way oh i love jabroni yeah also i don't know why i'm sort of hearing jarbony more i think it's from maybe a sign that was misspelled that i heard about on deadlock or something but calling people jarbonies is very funny to me jarbonies pukesters little pukesters hulksters

yeah fuck them yeah never a whole kid don't get it never never fuck that guy he can go fall down some stairs uh kevin from west baltimore tennessee writes in i'm watching one of the sonic movies with my six and four year olds they really like knuckles voiced by Idris Elba.

This begs the question, when do I show them the wire?

How do I break it to them that Knuckles is in charge of slinging coke and dope in Baltimore for Avon Barksdale?

Love, Kevin from West Baltimore, Tennessee, sent from my iDroid.

Who is the Omar of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe?

Give me three personality traits and I'll help you.

Omar? Yeah. He lives by a code?

kills drug dealers with shotguns um scar on face i mean okay you're right bruce the bat is omar yeah okay yeah sure is rouge isn't in the movies right no not yet was there a tease at sonic at the end of sonic 3 right yeah no no that was amy tease at sonic 3 not amy really she's not in there there yet okay you're right i was saying you like sonic 3 sonic 3 is awesome i don't remember shit about i just remember like this is amazing god the wire is really good i watched it all again uh a couple years ago and it held up like 100 for you because i when i like re -watched breaking bad i was like it that's great but it's

not as good as i remembered i haven't done breaking bad in a while but um yeah the wire it's like it is an interesting time capsule because even just the The whole first season being like the payphone code and stuff like that is very just like, oh, this is not how it would be now.

But it just showed that feels very real in a way that shows back then did not feel.

This email comes from SCAD from Huntsville, Alabama.

Excluding accents. Are you guys self -aware of any words you have ever pronounced strangely either from the region you grew up in, the way a friend or family member said it, or because you've only ever read the word but have never said it aloud?

loud. P .S. Ask Grubb to say Grubb, do you have the emails in front of you?

Uh, yeah, yeah, hang on.

Let me get it right here.

Uh, I'm gonna control F.

Ask Grubb to say, okay, yeah.

Uh, I ran across Galileo Galilei at Summer Game Fest. Uh, I was saying Galilei -lo as a Galilei -lo -ly or something like that.

I added an extra uh, thing in there when I was saying his name one time and it definitely sounded very funny.

But I've never said any other word incorrectly ever so I can't relate to this PSS tell Dan to start making fun of Mary on Fire Escape anytime she also says across what will these Ohioans mess up next shaking my head you tell her Mary's scary go across oh god I do too go across the street across regional stuff I'd say that too.

Shit. I do always like, I can't think of examples but there are always times where if I'm reading something out for a show or something I come across a word. I'm like, well I've read that word a lot.

I know I read it in my mind but now I'm about to say it and here it goes.

The first time I said a finite, I said thin it.

I like finite. Finite's a good word. It's a good word to say, yeah.

Definitely. I like suffice.

Suffice is another good one.

People say I say epona wrong i totally uh disagree what what again eponising uh epona from zelda i have only said epona i've never said epona and this has come up on podcast for like 20 fucking years people always tell me i'm wrong but then people have told me actually i'm right uh there are like musicals and stuff like put out by the zelda people and everything and there's a part where they're singing epona song and it's like it's epona it's not i don't care you're wrong i'm right about this you are wrong no i do i was always a big hylian guy and when i was playing uh uh breath of the wild again someone

said no i i say yeah i say hylian someone said highly i say hylian and then some guy said highly in because you know what do you want to remember it now we have a fan for game mess and their name is highly intelligent so they're like oh it's a high highly intelligent but it's a high it's spelled like the zelda thing i'm like okay so now i can remember it i always I mispronounce a lot of words especially with the regional dialect thing and having my parents be immigrants there's a lot of English can be challenging sometimes I didn't get clibbered from them though there you go that's all me baby alright

final email for the podcast this comes from Jaren from Mississauga Ontario Canada canada um and also sometimes i just like to mispronounce words to fuck with people it's good engagement right because people want to correct you so bad that they write in so yeah yeah uh like i don't like saying arcanine the pod uh they eat and i was not podcast uh pokemon i say arcaninier wow that's the epic tome of hyperbowl right there hmm that i sold out to my brian regan i'm sorry oh oh i don't like it anymore you stole it the carlos mencia of giant bomb here oh god that is the worst thing you've ever said i

know it is i had it coming it's okay i had it coming wow oh man mind of minotti coming soon we could just be all like the shitty comedians from comedy central of that that yeah the one follow chapelle yeah can i be i'll be ron white sure man ron white's good i know that's kind of maybe why i picked him because he's one of the better ones of like that era of comedy going to be the puppet man oh dunham yeah that's bacalar oh man you're just being cruel this episode by the way dan speaking of puppets i heard somebody say that that you misinterpreted that doll man showering thing.

I saw somebody say that.

Yeah, what do you think?

I haven't played yet.

Do you think that perhaps it's not literally showering with that lady and instead he's being showered by her effects or whatever it is?

I mean, either way, he said she showers with him and the Corefall rain keeps him young, so I don't think.

I'll tell you what, when I play this game eventually, I'll get to the bottom of this shower fiasco.

I want to make clear, I don't care.

Yeah, it doesn't matter at all.

I don't care it's become Jeff Grubbs favorite phrase lately yeah it's good nihilist son of a bitch the problem is it makes Mike Minotti care more oh no I care so much about my friends about their well being this is the giant bomb don't match me challenge below are five questions that relate to giant bombs history everyone listening has five seconds to come up with an answer that doesn't match Jan's answer if you do you're out bonus hard mode for the listeners at home don't match any of the other answers as well that's a little bit difficult okay so I'm going to read the question and then I'll

go one two three and then you three will say your answer I'll say my answer wait so are we saying it in order are you going to queue us each up individually we'll go grub Dan Manati okay okay great okay so again if any of you match the answer that I have you're out for the game is it trivia?

no no it's just naming things okay number one name any Blight game Blight Club game you want me to go first should I just say it?

yes Batman Dark Tomorrow Superman 64 64.

Mortal Kombat Mythology Sub -Zero.

You're lucky because I thought in my head Bubsy.

Okay. I was almost going to say Bubsy.

Okay. Yeah, I was thinking of going the Batman Dark Tomorrow route, but then I felt in the ether that someone was going to try and go there.

All right. Name any giant bomb game of the year.

I have mine. I'm going to go for it.

Chicory. PUBG. tears of the kingdom and I'm sorry fuck PUBG you're out okay that's the game of the generation of course chicory comes to save me again were you on that grub can I blame you for that fuck no that would not have happened the fuck did that happen name any professional wrestler that has contributed or appeared on giant bomb content oh shit I have mine um okay I'm going to go with hmm now I'm blanking on names what's our friend the guy who wears the mask you got to say it okay can I google his name real quick because I'm just blanking on it I'll tell you that you're out then oh shit

god damn it thank you chat I'm sorry I'll go Jeff Jarrett Adam Cole all right number four I forgot about that that's like a fun notch on the belt number four name any giant bomb co -owner okay I'm gonna say Jeff Grubb current Dan Reichardt Jan Ochoa I was gonna say Jeff Bacalar all right number five name any giant bomb endurance run game I have one in my head Persona 4 Shenmue oh those are definitely the only two I know what else have they endurance ran they were doing like all Castlevania but that was Vinny Vania that's not like an endurance run okay so they did Persona 4 you could say any of those

too Mike does that count as an endurance run no no I mean you could say Persona 4 as well oh it's just like I'm hoping you didn't pick it but I bet you did no yeah you would have picked Shenmue look at you you don't like Shenmue I'm gonna say Shenmue Chrono Trigger there we go shouts out to Patrick and Ryan alright and congratulations on the independence and 900 episodes episodes of the bomb cast jaren from mississauga ontario canada i don't care if i'm mispronouncing mississauga uh mike benati we haven't hit me with absolutely i do want to do an endurance run at some point i think we should i

came up ben pack and i were cooking up this idea where he wanted to train for a marathon using video games to help train him and then i thought we should call it the endurance run yeah that's funny yes uh let's see uh uh qti pixel just sent super chat no message thank you wiley jeckin says i was disappointed enough with mario kart world that i was questioning buying my switch too donkey kong bonanza made me glad that i did yeah i think a lot that bonanza really is definitely the first amazing game for the switch shoe so i know that a must not difference but i wonder if it would have made some

people feel better if this was an actual launch game uh again maybe that's pedantic are you guys a little surprised that there is already as loud at least of a anti mario kart world contingent as there is it's weird it's fine people are gonna be playing it for 10 years it's it's gonna do yeah i i think it's it's just because it was the only thing at launch right so like a ton of focus was on it if it was not doing it for people you're gonna hear about it the other games people can ignore but when it's the one game for your 500 system it's kind of easy for people to you know be harsh on it yeah

i think it would have bothered me again i've never been a giant mario kart fan but you know i did have all sorts of switch one stuff to go back to i did spend a lot of time playing split two single player campaigns then replaying odyssey and breath of the wild stuff like that until we We got Donkey Kong.

And I feel like, you know, with Metroid Prime, Air Riders, other things, we're going to have a pretty good clip here now.

Boat Knight says, can I play Donkey Kong Bonanza if I've never seen the TV show?

How many Crystal Coconut references have you seen so far, Dan?

None. I haven't gotten to Blaster Kong yet.

He'll be there later.

It's wild that you thought that was a real picture.

I want to live in the beautiful world where that is possible, where Dan is at. Yeah, it looked real.

he was like in a completely different art style and graphics quality than everybody else did that's well they want to be accurate to bluster kong's aesthetics yes they redesigned donkey kong but bluster kong we can't touch that damn it cyber from saskatchewan says does it annoy you when people complain about sci -fi movies not being scientifically correct it pisses me off example dune sucks because the ecology biasology makes no sense yeah those uh that my friends who didn't like the superman movie they definitely like had some plot holes that they had problems with i hate that yeah i can't i'm

trying to remember what it was it was it was not smart i didn't like it uh yeah i i definitely uh usually dislike this because i think part of the fun is as a viewer you get to watch a movie and if something like that happens be creative yourself and come up with your own headcanon to explain why that's possible that's fun to me i enjoy doing that why don't you do it instead of being like nah that's not possible it just stinks specifically with dune yeah it's a world where like people gave up using computers because of what they would do so they just have someone very smart do the calculations

but they get them high as shit first yeah i remember what it was now it was like well how come no one cared that clark kent wasn't around the biggest news day of the a year i was like i want to be like just imagine there's a scene that you didn't see where he called in sick yeah exactly yeah like it's it's fine oh uh man you know who's hella fucking cool that i had no idea about uh in the superman movie mr terrific yeah he's kind of the uh breakout there everyone seems so cool that guy was in uh one of those x -men movies right um he played darwin who was supposed to be one of the most indestructible

x -men and they killed him yeah they treat him poorly in that i will say you know what my favorite thing about the superman movie was i think my brother brought this up was that kryptonite actually works and enfeebles him unless he thinks a way around it the worst thing about superman returns was the whole thing was lex luther made an island out of kryptonite to stop superman and then he just kind of grits his his teeth and pushes an island of kryptonite into the sun i was like well that ain't his weakness then yeah no if you could if i if something's my weakness i can't get out of bed i'm not pushing

yeah right now i don't want to see him grin and bear like no that's bullshit oh yeah so i'm reading these next one is well wiley jenkins you know it's bad news if dan walks into your hospital room with the doctor and a horse i'm gonna add now if it's just damn bad if it's damn and a horse there's a chance i'm gonna survive here magic yeah yeah uh to one free man says grub are you a red letter media fan they just did the apple yeah i saw people uh pointing this out that they talked about the apple on their uh the best of the worst or whatever yeah i was happy to see that i I am specifically someone

who says I don't get red letter media.

They're very popular and I'll watch the stuff and I don't I don't get I don't like it.

I I can like them. I love the Plinkett reviews back in the day.

And I like some. So, you know what I never love the Plinkett reviews.

Yeah. See, I used to I thought those are fun.

You know what I say about my friends, though?

It's like, oh, it kind of bums me out of like their opinion about movies very different from me, even with like things like I don't want to watch a video of people who don't like a movie that I like or like the movie I don't like.

And I think that's a failing.

Like, that's not a good thing.

and like obviously in the gaming world there's a lot of that also but yeah just watching people i don't know talk about why something sucks that i think doesn't suck uh i'm not you know there may be a little cynical in a way that i'm cynical about movies too that's fine you know what it is for me is like i was i watched uh their and or season one review i tried to and then they said something what's like oh we just watched different shows and they liked it i think they ended up liking it but it's like the the complaint you have here is this thing where it's like well i know why that happened and why

and you don't so we just are viewing things differently in our mind and so at a certain point why am i watching this if it's not gonna be able something i can match up against and have a mental conversation with yeah they just did something for back to the future and that i liked okay okay yeah just talk about why back to the future is great um that's what when it's like some universally panned movie i think i watch them talk about like that new mummy reboot before i even see it and yeah sometimes it's kind of fun to watch people slam a bad movie for sure um i get at it and I think they reinvested

themselves in wise ways right like I think the production quality is very good they're good at what they do for sure it's just not for me next up is from dubious foods his best wishes to Ozzy as he visits that great lobster in the sky all the coldest bats the hottest bats cheddar bat biscuit all day baby be more bats and of course fantasy Drafts with the boys fantasy bats come on Mike rest in peace audio listeners Mike Minotti is overcome with emotion he is not laughing it's a beautiful moment actually that we get to witness he popped himself so hard i'm sorry you made yourself so emotional that he's

crying i never had a harder time trying to get a sentence out you're supposed to laugh that hard when you say rest in peace okay now grug says does grub care that the detroit tigers are good i do yes i've been watching some games here there when i when i can i uh don't have a fan duel sports detroit right here in Cleveland.

But I find ways to watch it.

And yeah, I've been tracking the team.

They're in a little bit of a slump right now.

And that's always worrisome when they start hot and cool off in the middle of the season.

Like, oh, are they going to be able to get it back?

We'll see. It's a good team though.

I care because I'm mad.

Well, the Guardians had a real bad stretch there.

But now they're bouncing back a bit.

So they're back at second place, just below 500.

But the Tigers are 20 games above 500.

so that's going to be a tough hill to climb for them to win that division we're probably not going to win the division but there's a wild card maybe yeah but even then how they're like other divisions doing so much better than the Central I don't know I was feeling really good about the season for a while there now I'm feeling less good but we can keep this current momentum up we'll still have a chance we'll see alright next up here is from Kone Kusama says Jan did you get to open any Final Fantasy see cross magic to gathering cards and if not any plans to yes i got this moogles valor yesterday

uh and then i i opened all of them i i didn't do it on stream i couldn't wait i was trying to line up friends to do it with me and i i couldn't make the timing work but i do want to play like shoot magic hey if you play magic in san francisco get at me i don't know where to go because i experienced a little bit of social anxiety playing shoot card games with someone I guess I could just go to Rory's house.

There you go. I just remembered I have these commander decks.

I haven't opened yet.

Apparently, they each have, like, a good one of the special packs or something special in them.

Can I open one? Can I open a pack, guys?

Rip it. Yeah, we're not going to stop you.

Go for it, bud. Let it rip, baby.

Come on. Where's the good stuff?

I was told there was something good in here.

What the fuck? I don't see anything special.

I just see... I mean, here's the cards.

That's good. Is it in here?

There's a cool card. that's a cool card i don't know now i'm confused i don't know what i'm supposed to find in here never mind ignore me oh that is cool though i do like your story shout out to your stola that's a cat lady but like a minor cat save this podcast anything end it uh we uh the the kofi leader of the month is a three -way tie right now oh uh we have a little over a week left in the so i think there's gonna be a dark horse that comes out of nowhere and it could be be cody g drum kit 92 and jagger tied uh so if we get one of them pulling ahead or someone else you will get to choose the pre

-stream and break image for the month of august so we do if it is a tie at the end dan i guess three images oh okay yeah but uh but somebody can hop in and take it so yeah um folks have been emailing or messaging me about spell table and playing magic that way might explore means to do that.

What's in here? Of the website.

I found something. I found it.

Oh, God. There is something cool in here.

Collectible booster.

Well, what's going on with Mike today?

He's on one. I don't know.

I'm, like, a little bit worried.

He was weird that time last week, but he just had a camera up his ass, so I kind of, like, chalked it up to that.

Maybe that permanently ruined him or improved him.

I don't know. Did he leave something up there?

They left something in there.

He's not even on this podcast anymore.

No. That's kind of shitty.

Look, this is the deck that comes with that Y'shtola card, and then I also got that Y'shtola card. Great.

Oh, buddy, I'm so sorry.

Jan, please save us.

I got Siegfried, the famed swordman, Siegfried.

Just mute him. All right, folks.

Mike, is that it for Super Chats?

Yeah. You could have told me that a long time ago, and then it would have taken the show back.

I got two more of these if you want me to open just cut the mic cut the mic what do we got going on the rest of this week James, morning's popping off yeah and real quick I'm gonna stream a game that I'm gonna start this week and we'll try to play for at least the next couple of weeks and I have a pull up in premium general in the discord, what should I play through on the site everything or nothing well I'm gonna be playing that, don't worry about that but on this the options are Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger or Panzer Dragoon Saga and it's pretty close although Skies has a pretty early lead

I'd be open to all of those don't go for Panzer Dragoon Saga, I have a shoe copy I'll play it someday instead or Panzer Dragoon Saga or Chrono Trigger, but I lean towards Panzer Dragoon, so if you guys want to do that we'll see we're updating the Friday UPF plans, right?

yes we had something on the schedule that we have changed yeah, we're going to do mario party yeah come on then burst back into work and was like we're doing this and uh i guess we're gonna do it yeah i may uh give a hot tag to someone else that is well versed in mario party and i'll let you folks try to make that happen and it would probably be me not a foil to me is it no don't worry about that you know i'll just like that he is excited no i think it's bailey immediately fuck ding ding ding ding ding ding uh all right um oh god oh tomorrow gang not only does pimp my record continue what are you

doing mike put it away put it away we're not done with the podcast whistle what is it what is wrong with him it's just a little it's soft you'll barely notice keep going it's soft you won't be able to notice uh uh tomorrow pimp my record continues.

I'm noticing a lot.

As well as the Rocket League Dib -Vitational.

Oh yeah, the Dib -Vitational.

You guys should tune in for this.

Dib is going to go 1v1 against all of us.

And if he manages to beat Dan, Dib is going to design a shirt that Dan has to wear for a determined amount of days.

Did I agree to this?

I thought it was if he ran the table.

Nope, nope. Well, okay, maybe if he runs the table.

uh no i don't want it to be on me that like if i don't try hard dan has to do something he's going to kick my ass but the odds of one of us beating him are there and i think he has to run the table for him to get a prize you got to teach these kids i i i think if he beats you he should get it and we'll just make i say if he runs the table uh we can put up to an owner vote and see what we what the fuck is mike doing i i hate it i don't like any of this uh and then friday gay miss mornings and then uh we've called in audible and upf and we're going to do the new switch to mario party stuff oh boy

did they switch like the caffeine that they put in your drinks mike like what is going on here are you on new drugs no actually this should be completely normal right now should be man I woke up on Monday not feeling great and I don't know what I'm feeling now but folks thank you thank you thank you so much for a wonderful time I hope you've enjoyed this podcast somehow and I swear if they put me under for this fucking two thing and I come to and it's Mike with a whistle doing Lord of the Rings shit what if the horse is there I'm fine with the horse I'm fine with the horse I'd be thrilled I'd

do it with the horse Playing a keyboard yeah Thank you so much if you've been listening for all 900 Really it's more than 900 episodes But 900 plus episodes of the giant Bombcast or whether you've been A recent listener a lapsed listener I appreciate and I Love you We love you I love nothing Okay that does it We'll see you next week for another episode of The Giant Bomb Guest. Oh, next week is going to be a little bit funky because a lot of us are gone.

It's just me and Baklar.

We're scared. I'll be here Monday.

In fact, oh, so, Jan, you're not going to be here, right?

No. Now, we won't start Riven, but, Jeff, maybe me and you can look at Pissed on Monday.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll go get pissed with you.

We'll get pissed. I believe I'm sharing a hotel room with one Mike Minotti.

Yeah. I'll bring my tin whistle.

I swear to God, it's going up your ass if you do.

It's not the same buddy It's for other reasons He was Jeff He's Jeff He's dead He's been Mike I've been Jan Shouts out to you at home Thank you for listening We'll see you next week for another lovely episode of the Giant Bomb Cast Goodbye Stop it!

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The Emotional Power of Nostalgia

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